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Chapter 133 The Great Council of Nobles

The main hall of the Golden Tooth Castle.

After intense discussions and negotiations, the northern nobles agreed to take only half of the gold and leave the other half to the Hejian people.

According to the laws prevailing in the continent of Westeros, all precious metals such as gold, silver and copper mined by lords at all levels must be handed over to Junlin City, and the mint under the jurisdiction of the Chancellor of the Exchequer will mint gold dragon coins, silver stag coins and copper plates and return them to the city. lords.

During this process, a lot of gold and silver will be taken away by the mint and handed over to the royal family in the name of seigniorage.

This seigniorage can also be called fire consumption.

As far as Arthur knows, the income and expenditure of the royal family and the entire kingdom are billed, that is, the Iron Throne has no concept of internal funds and internal treasury.

Since the royal family owed 300 million gold dragons to the West during Robert's reign, the West did not hand over the mined gold and silver to King's Landing for a period of time.

This is why there is so much gold in Golden Tooth City.

"After we go home, unite all families loyal to the King in the North, and kill the Dreadfort and the Bolton family first."

After the gold was distributed, Greatjon's mood improved a lot, he yelled at the northerners.

Many Yankees nodded in agreement with him.

Although their full-time soldiers and conscripted farmers died in battle, it also means that there will be fewer mouths to eat when the long winter comes.

In addition, so much gold has been obtained, and the gold can buy food on the other side of the narrow sea, so this winter will be much easier than before.

Although there are still big problems such as ironmen and Bolton in the north, after the Yankees return home, they only need to lock up Carlin Bay and White Harbor, and they can live a simple life as far as the eye can see:
Eat, sleep and play Bolton.

Arthur, who hadn't slept all night, discussed with many nobles in the river, and everyone agreed to go to Riverrun first, and then make plans.

So after simply cleaning up, the nobles of the two realms led their own family's soldiers to the north.

As for the Golden Tooth City, it will be managed by Olifa Frey.

This is an enthusiastic and nervous young man, now 17 years old, judging from his selection as Robb's squire, his personal strength and military accomplishment are not bad.

Olifa was originally loyal to the young wolf lord, but now he should be loyal to his family and friendly to the northern and river nobles.

Anyway, his allegiance will definitely not be Stannis who occupies the Iron Throne. Without the order of House Governor Frey, it is impossible for him to serve the Lion House in the west.

Five hundred soldiers from various families in Hejian stayed behind to defend the city with him, plus the 200-man team of the Frey family and the strength of the Golden Tooth City itself, no army of several thousand could not defeat this fortress.

As for the [-] captives in the mines outside the city, their hands were still tied, and they went north with the [-] coalition troops. They were an excellent labor force.

Three days later, Riverrun appeared in the eyes of this group of people.

Here, the Yankees got even worse news:
Winterfell was burnt, leaving probably only a piece of ruins, and the two remaining Starks, Brandon and Rickon, also died.

It is rumored that Theon Greyjoy burned Winterfell, the castle where he grew up, in order to escape the counterattack of the northerners, and two Starks also died in his hands.

There are also rumors that Roose Bolton's illegitimate son, Ramsay Snow, nicknamed "Little Skin", burned Winterfell, and he took people back to Winterfell, and then killed Theon and Stark them.

In the hall of Riverrun, all the northern nobles who went south gathered around the "only remaining" Stark, and the group of heroes angrily expressed that they would wipe out the Bolton family and the ironborn.

Before Arthur and others returned to Riverrun, a tall female knight brought the news of Mrs. Stark's death.

After Renly's death, she and Catelyn fled the barracks outside Storm's End, and they headed north together.

Near the Blackwater River, a group of western cavalry attacked the two women. Although the female knights were powerful, they were no match for dozens of adult men with a single sword. Therefore, they easily killed Caitlin and took the body to Go, don't know where to go.

The female knight was so ashamed that she ran to Riverrun alone and reported the matter to the nobles in the city.

Many male nobles ridiculed the female knight, believing that she was one of the reasons for Lady Stark's tragic death.

At that time, Sansa, who was already crying half to death, excused the female knight, thinking that the death of her mother was the fault of the lion family, which moved Brienne Tass so much that she swore an oath to Sansa Stark on the spot allegiance.

At that time, the news of Robb's death in battle had already spread to Riverrun, so Sansa was left with Arya as a sister in name.

And the Brotherhood Without Banners couldn't find Arya, so Sansa decided to send her only ally, Brienne Knight, to find her sister.

Arthur struggled to squeeze into the Yankee circle, and saw Sansa whose eyes were already red and swollen.

This poor girl has lost her father, mother, elder brother, and two younger brothers in the past half a year since she went south.

The surviving sister doesn't know where in the countryside, if there are thicker clothes to keep her warm, and if she can eat enough every day.

"I... have no family anymore~" Sansa cried even louder after seeing her sweetheart in her eyes wet with tears.

"It's okay, it's okay, you still have me." Arthur patted her on the back lightly.

If it weren't for the large number of people present, he still wanted to hug Sansa in his arms to comfort her, so that she would have a solid support.

Many Yankees formed a circle and swore to Sansa that they would kill the ironmen, Bolton and the lions.

Then Heiyu appeared and loudly asked the people from the northern border to spread out, so that he could help his nephew and granddaughter who was almost unable to hold on to an empty chair and sit down.

Due to the problems of Winterfell and the iron people, the leading nobles such as Greatjon, Maggie Mormont, Robin Flint, Owen Norey, and Rona Stout strongly advocated going north quickly and cleaning up the iron people first. People, and then went to war with the Bolton family.

Lord Leech and his army are still in the western region. Since the City of the Golden Tooth and other places are in the hands of the people from the river, and Riverrun is the territory of Uncle Robb's family, Bolton's army must first go east along the Golden Road before going north. The other side of the Trident River went around.

This will greatly delay the arrival of the Bolton army in the north, and therefore make it possible for the Yankees to recover the lost ground from the Ironmen before meeting the Bolton army returning north.

Heiyu and other river generals also supported this idea, and Earl Jason Mallister even promised to make peace with the neighbors Frey's family and let the Twins allow the northerners to pass.

"I will also ask Edmure to write a letter to his father-in-law, telling Twin River City not to embarrass the people of the northern border." Heiyu said.

Now the relationship between the Tully family and the Frey family is not bad, even if the Frey is neutral because Robb broke the engagement, but now that the young wolf master is gone, old Walder is not easy to embarrass the Yankees.

"Sansa stays in Riverrun. No army of tens of thousands can't take down this floating city. It's much safer for her to stay here than to go to the northern border with you to fight." Heiyu, who has always cared for his relatives, told the Yankees own ideas.

"No problem. The bastard son of the old skinner is very troublesome at present. After we get rid of him and the leech, and welcome Lord Jon Stark as the king of the North, Miss Sansa will be able to go home conveniently."

Winterfell has been burned, so bringing Sansa is also troublesome, so the nervous Great Jon agreed to this on behalf of the northern nobles.

Little Jon suddenly suggested: "It is said that Ramsay has his own group of people, we can send the uncles to harass the territory of the Dreadfort first, maybe it will have a miraculous effect."

Lord Jon Umber's two uncles, Morse Umber and Heather Umber, are representing Last Hearth, and their titles are "Crow Eater" and "Whore Nightmare" respectively.

The Amber family is the most famous warrior family in the entire northern border, almost every member is a well-known warrior, and the force of Crow Eater and Whore Nightmare is naturally not bad.

Having these two people go to the Bolton family's territory to harass the guerrillas will bring convenience to the pro-wolf family forces' operations, and Bolton's forces will also suffer a heavy blow.

The Greatjon repeatedly praised his son for being as clever as he was, and then went to the maester at Riverrun to write a letter to Last Hearth.

Time was running out, and after receiving the support of dozens of carts of food from Riverrun, the northern nobles headed by Greatjon led more than [-] soldiers to the north.

Among them, 1000 people survived the battle outside Casterly Rock, 300 people were from the part of Arthur who left in the Golden Tooth City, and 500 people came from the Stark infantry who stayed at Riverrun.

The remaining two hundred Stark infantry stayed in Riverrun in the name of protecting Miss Sansa.

It took a day for the Yankees to leave, and at night, another incident made the nobles in the river unhappy:

Duke Hoster is dead.

It is said that before the death of Lord Tully, the name Lysa was on his lips.

In the War of the Usurper, Horst was injured by Jon Connington, who was then the Hand of the King, at the Battle of the Bell, and he became ill.

Since about four years ago, in the year 295 of the Conquest, the Duke of Hoster has been bedridden.

Since Edmure was also injured, Heiyu began to take care of his brother's funeral.

Two days later, the river burial ceremony officially began.

Coincidentally, the Freys also sent someone to the funeral.

To be precise, it was the new lord of the Ferry, Ines the Lord of the Freys, who came to the Tullys to confirm his position as the Lord - now that the situation was in turmoil, it was impossible for him to go to King's Landing to get Stannis to recognize him as a marquis.

According to the Freys, one member went insane and stormed into North Keep, killing the people there.

There are two castles in the north and south of the Twin River City. Old Walder and his eldest son, Stevron, and dozens of people with higher status live in the North Castle, while the rest of his sons and daughters live in the South Castle. The illegitimate children lived mostly in towns and mills outside the castle.

This mad member killed his grandfather and the eldest son's line, and old Walder and son Ammon were enemies, so the third Aenys became the lord of the river's crossing according to the law of succession.

With the new Lord Frey came two thousand Frey soldiers.

At the ferry where the river burial is about to take place, Arthur and the others see the bald-headed Innis.

It has to be admitted that power is the best stimulant.

Innis, who used to be quite calm, now started to walk with wind, his hands were swinging left and right, and his head was even higher.

If Robert Glover was still in Riverrun, the two could compare the angles of their heads.

What made Arthur even more amused was the way Innis walked.

He looks very much like the ufc player in his previous life, the talkative Connor.

Fortunately, Ines is now the most powerful prince in the riverland, so there is no need to worry that someone will take a bad look at him and beat him up.

All the nobles were present, and Edmure was carried to the river burial ceremony. After the prayer was finished, the boat that housed Duke Hoster's body was released.

The boat drifted down the warm water of the Red Fork River and drifted into the distance.

When the boat was about the size of a palm in everyone's eyes, Heiyu, who glanced at the wind direction, lit the arrow, and then drew the bow to shoot.

Edmure was still struggling to stretch his head to see if he had hit the shot, but Heiyu had already thrown the bow to the guards around him, and regardless of the result, he turned and left gracefully.

After a few breaths, the boat started to burn, and black smoke soon floated up.

Edmure lay flat in relief.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Innis leaned over to Arthur, and whispered in his ear, "I brought you 2000 people. While there are all of them, shall we..."

Sansa also stood aside, still staring at her with red and swollen eyes, wondering what this man had done with Bracken.

Arthur put his hand in front of the bald head's mouth in time, "It's not urgent, I'll talk to you sometime."

The result of his discussions with Tristan and Claremont was a showdown among the nobles of Harrenhal and the Riverlands.

Before the showdown, several influential earl-level nobles had to be recruited, such as the two governors of Vance, William Mutton of Maiden Spring City, Jason Mallister of Sea Frontier City and others.

With the support of these people, Arthur was able to convene a great meeting of nobles throughout the riverlands, trying to establish himself as king.

Of course, Raventree City, which had a grudge against Bracken, and Riverrun City, which was managed by Blackfish, would not be invited to participate.

The soldiers of these two families were also taken to the western region by Robb, and they were almost exhausted, so they were allowed to play by themselves.

It is not an impulsive idea to become a king on his own. After the city of King's Landing was defeated by Stannis, the riverlands already had a buffer space.

Looking at the entire continent, only the Vale and the Reach are still strong. The former has been standing still, while the latter continues to compete with Storm's End.

Although Mr. Inflatable Fish is very mediocre, he has a group of smart people, so staying near Storm's End, which only has a few hundred people, is in the best interest of the nobles of the river, and it is also the best way to preserve their strength.

Without Lord Tywin personally supervising the battle, there is a high probability that these 6 people will not go north to attack King's Landing City, let alone bypass King's Landing City to fight the Hejian people near Harrenhal.

Because the latter means that his food line is exposed to Stannis' attack range, and the riverlands have already fought a round, and there is not much food to be collected, so the Riverbend Army can only transport food from the south.

After the river burial, Heiyu invited the nobles in the river to discuss the next move, and Edmure, who had recovered somewhat, was also carried to participate in the meeting.

……

Outside Mugu City, in a farmhouse.

Varys lifted his hood, revealing his shiny head to Illyrio's eyes.

Illyrio, also dressed in an unremarkable gray robe, complained in a low voice: "Why did you call me here in such a hurry? Although most of Stannis' fleet has sailed to Port King's Landing, the blockade of Blackwater Bay is still on." Go ahead, I'm taking a big risk this trip."

The octospider ignored the cheesemonger's words, and said seriously: "A black dragon appeared in Harrenhal, the Baratheon family occupied King's Landing again, the wolf was killed in battle, and the situation in the entire continent has gone far beyond our plan. .”

Illyrio touched his huge belly, "I thought the rumors about the dragon were false, it's outrageous, the dragon that the Targaryens haven't made since Aegon III has reappeared in the world, Four of them came out at once."

Word has spread that dragons also appeared on the red wastelands of Essos to the east.

"So that has to be done quickly, or the lion will have an absolute advantage, which will make the valley go to the lion's family." Varys warned.

Governor Pantos had a bitter face, "I will try my best, the price of the gold group is not cheap, even I can't afford so much gold at once."

"One more thing." Varys patted his old buddy lightly, "I need more little birds. Since I escaped from King's Landing, my intelligence system has almost failed."

The little bird is the name of the spies and spies under Varys. It is basically a little boy and a little girl from Essos, and has received extremely strict special training.

"You're about to pass the last time, how did you consume it so quickly!" the cheesemonger said dissatisfied.

Buying a little bird also requires money, and the gold in his hands is very tight now, and every point must be spent where it should be spent.

Varys ignored his old friend's complaints and continued to order several things.

Illyrio also raised his own difficulties and showed how far he could meet the old buddy's request.

The two talked for nearly an hour before saying goodbye to each other and leaving.

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(End of this chapter)