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Chapter 149 Yanina Jaskis

town of heron.

Compared with the previous lakeside town with a permanent population of only 3000 to [-] people, Heron Town is now much more lively.

A large town stretching for more than one league began to take shape, and stone blockhouses were scattered around the town.Thousands of built wooden huts are filled with poor people whose homes were destroyed by the war, most of them are old people and children.In the slightly northerly area, more wooden houses of the same style are being built, and countless landless farmers work there.

The nobles in Harrenhal had promised that as long as they went to work every day, the peasants would have bread and pumpkin porridge, and every few days they could eat porridge with shredded meat or stew.

The elderly and children who can't work don't have to worry about starvation. The soldiers of King Hejian will provide two meals of wheat porridge every day, and the growing children can also get a small fish and two steamed buns every day.

When there are more people, all kinds of "idle people" will gather here, such as bards, businessmen pushing small carts, stepdaughters who still wear light clothes to show off their figures when the weather gets colder, monks and nuns in brown robes, and people from the Eastern Continent. Rich merchants, their guards, and even a circus came here to perform, but because they really didn't make any money, they slipped away after staying for a few days.

After obtaining the permission of the nobles and the two bachelors who presided over the construction of the town, dozens of taverns, restaurants, grain stores, wooden hotels, gourds and other shops have sprung up in the new town-in order to distinguish, the original Heron Town That little place is called Old Town.

This deformed society is maintained by a large amount of grain, and at least fifty carts of grain are transported from the Lute family fief in the north every day.

The food comes from Essos, and the trade route from Pentos to Maiden Springs has been opened. In order to reduce shipping costs as much as possible, the wealthy merchants and captains of Pentos only sent their goods to Maiden Springs, and William ·The fleet and convoy relay organized by Earl Mooton.

But not all the food will stay here. Willow City on the east side of God’s Eye Lake, Alan City in the southwest, and the Hedong area further west are more affected by the war. The local villages are also in urgent need of food, so some food I boarded the boat again, and sent it to the south by means of lake transportation, and then went ashore and entered the homes of starving farmers.

Harrenhal, Lord Keep Hall of the Hundred Hearths.

A fat giant merchant in a yellow loose brocade robe, with a beard dyed yellow and oiled and forked, was lying on a chair, negotiating a big business order with Miss Sansa Stark, who represented the King of the River.

"The currency we recognize is the old Golden Dragon Coin, and the new Golden Dragon Coin and the gold in your hands will not be accepted for the time being."

Yanina Jaskis, one of the governors of Pentos, smoothed her beautiful beard and pretended to be casual.

As one of the most powerful grain merchants in the entire Free Trade City-state region, he also heard that the Hejian people were buying a large amount of grain, so he immediately came over to discuss possible long-term cooperation.

Sansa, who was wearing a tight purple robe, was sitting on the main seat, looking helplessly at this fat businessman.

Before that, she swore that Willis Mandalay was the second fattest person she had ever seen in the world. The first was Willis Mandalay, the father of Willis. It is said that Wendell Mandalay, who was also bloated, could be ranked third. bit.

But in front of the Governor of Pentos, Willis and his son became slimmer.

The bucket-shaped Governor Yanina needs four burly men to carry it to move.

Sansa, who has gradually grown into a beautiful woman, said: "I just found out what the new gold dragon coins are today. My lord, they are also gold, why don't you accept them?"

Just a few minutes ago, a businessman from the continent of Essos had just explained the types of gold dragon coins on the western continent to the noble lady in Westeros.

This made Sansa feel very ashamed. Living here, she didn't know that the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Baelish Petyr, had done so many tricks.

Previously, because King Robert owed 300 million gold dragons to Lord Tywin of the Western Territory, and the speed of the Iron Throne's spending did not stop, the Western Territory began to reduce the amount of gold handed over to the mint outside King's Landing.

In order to ensure that the royal family still has money, and to enrich his own private pocket, Lord Baelish, who has many tricks, began to mint new gold dragon coins.

The new coins are basically the same as the old coins, except for the gold content.

Gold accounts for about [-]% of the old coins, which is enough gold and can be circulated in most free trade city-states.

The gold content of the new currency is only about [-]%, and the amount flowing into the market is not much, but it is already disrupting the order.

It is worth mentioning that beggars in Westeros have the ability to recognize the face value of coins with their eyes closed, but commoners don’t need the new Golden Dragon coins. There is basically no money spent on his own territory, so the response to the new policy of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is not great.

On the contrary, it was the wealthy businessmen from the Eastern Continent who were the first to discover Littlefinger's tricks.

Because the factory batches of new Jinlong coins are different, the gold content is also different.After being scammed several times, wealthy businessmen in Pantos and other places began to resist using the new Golden Dragon Coin for large transactions.

Previously, when the merchants in Maiquancheng and the Eastern Continent made transactions, they often used the money collected by the nobles of the Hejian Land. These golden dragons that have been lying in the castle for tens of hundreds of years are naturally old gold dragon coins, so there is no such thing.

"Since you don't recognize the new gold dragon coins, why don't you even recognize the gold dug out of the Golden Tooth City? Is it possible that gold can be counterfeited?" Sansa asked.

Governor Yanina raised his swollen right hand with difficulty, and slowly shook it, "It's not certain, who knows what you are doing."

Miss Stark was left speechless by this fat businessman, so she could only rub the center of her eyebrows with her fingers as delicate as white onions.

If Arthur was around, the fat man wouldn't dare to pester him like this, Sansa thought to herself.

She didn't like the behavior of her lover hammering people very much before, but now she has changed her mind.

Swing down with a hammer to see who dares to bark.

It may be because of the same mind, just when Sansa thought of her lover, King Hejian walked into the Hundred Fire Hall with several nobles.

"It looks like an incredible guest."

Arthur strode up to the main steps, nodding as he passed the fat man and his servants.

"This is His Majesty the King of Hejian, please forgive my rudeness, this body does not allow me to salute you."

Yanina saluted by stretching her neck.

King He Jian sat down on the seat that Sansa let out, and grabbed her slender waist, and kissed her hard.

"Damn it, there are so many people!" Miss Stark struggled to break free, covering her kissed lips with the back of her hand.

Although she blushed shyly, she didn't run out immediately because she wanted to introduce the situation to Arthur.

Sansa explained Yanina Jaskis' origin and appeal clearly in a few words.

King Hejian nodded, "I guess Governor Yanina still wants to make another deal with us?"

A giant businessman who has become so fat must have made a lot of money by running over thousands of miles.

As far as Arthur could think, apart from grain trading, gold should also be one of the goals of the Governor of Pentos.

The gold mines in the Free City-state area are far less abundant than those owned by the Lannister family, so the gold dragon coins in Westeros overflowed the western continent. In places such as Pentos, Myr, and Volantis, the gold dragon coins even Can circulate freely like local gold coins.

"As wise as you are, you can see my purpose at a glance, so I won't let you out of circles. May I ask if King Hejian has any idea of ​​selling slaves?"

Yanina spoke of his greatest purpose.

Near him, Karel Vance, Tristan Leger, Matus Rowan and other nobles stared at the governor of Pentos vigilantly. The people are considered one of the core assets of the nobles. Whether it was before Aegon's conquest, or during the reign of the Targaryen dynasty, or during Robert's reign, selling people was a great crime.

Jorah Mormont, Earl of Bear Island, was sentenced to death by Eddard Stark for trafficking in poachers.

The custom of strictly prohibiting human trafficking for thousands of years has basically eliminated the existence of slaves in Westeros, and guaranteed that the people of the territory will not be poached by slave traders in the east.

You know, near Volantis in the east is the largest slave-holding area in the entire world. It is said that every freeman has at least three slaves. car.

The entire Volantis maintains more than [-] slave soldiers all year round, and these slave soldiers are naturally composed of strong slaves who have been sold.

Pentos, not far from King's Landing City, although slaves are banned in name, there are still quite a few in private.

"I will never allow slave trading in my kingdom. Any slave trader who appears in the river kingdom will be greeted by my giant hammer." Arthur first expressed his attitude, "You have heard of my giant hammer. Hammer?"

The giant hammer and broadsword of the King of the Rivers are already considered signs, but any businessman who has studied the situation in Westeros knows this.

Yanina nodded hastily, and the fat around her neck made a wave of flesh.

"Since that's the case, I won't mention this. We can discuss food and gold..."

He didn't expect this young and handsome king to be so tough.

"But I have a question." Arthur interrupted him, "Why do you suddenly want to come to Westeros to trade slaves, have you ignored thousands of years of tradition?"

Yanina looked at King Hejian in surprise, "Don't you know what happened?"

"What's the big deal?"

Arthur was confused by him, did he ignore any important information?
Tristan and other nobles also shook their heads, expressing that they were not clear.

Seeing that King Hejian and these nobles really didn't understand, Yanina began to explain to them.

It turns out that Long Ma has already started her great cause of liberating slaves. The cities of Astapor and Yunkai have been conquered by Daenerys, and Meereen is also in danger.

This put the trade in the entire Slave Bay on hold, and the slave-holding area had no source of slaves.

"The whole of Volantis is eagerly waiting for the arrival of fresh slaves. I estimate that there are at least hundreds of thousands of old gold dragon coins in the market every month. People with ideas, such as the cheesemonger, have already started to act. Soon, His Majesty will be able to hear about the mercenaries of the Golden Company looting the peasants of the Stormlands."

King Hejian was keenly aware of the information revealed by the fat businessman.

Cheesemonger, of course, refers to Illyrio, another governor of Pentos, who made his fortune selling cheese, and was therefore scornfully nicknamed by some of his opponents.

According to Yanina, Illyrio supported Aegon VI and paid the sky-high salary of the Golden Company, and then the motivation for letting this mercenary group land in the storm was because of the slave trade.

"Is there any evidence for what you said?" Arthur asked.

Originally, it was absurd that the Golden Group supported the restoration of "Aegon VI".

The founder of the world's strongest mercenary group is Han Tie, who supports the Black Fire family, so the Golden Group has always supported Black Fire.

The Targaryen family is the red dragon, and the Blackfyre family is their branch, and the feud continued for several generations until the War of the Nine Copper Kings. Jazz kills.

"There is no proof, but you will understand later. By the way, the Faceless Men and Illyrio, Jon Connington and others have mixed together, and they have formed a loose alliance to restore slavery and Vale Leah tradition."

said the fat businessman with difficulty.

Although Arthur and the nobles were surprised by this statement, they chose not to believe it.

After all, the Faceless Man was born from the belief in the rebellion of slaves, and was born against slavery.

But it is clear that there is a conflict between the Neptune of Braavos and the House of Black and White where the Faceless Man is.

Arya Stark's swordsmanship teacher "Water Dancer" was appointed by the sea king as the chief swordsman because of his observation ability far beyond ordinary people, which can see through the disguise of the faceless man.

"We still continue to discuss gold and food."

Arthur brought the subject back.

In the following period of time, after the back and forth between the two sides, a treaty was finally reached that satisfied both Yanina and Hejian Wang.

The gold dug out of the gold mine must be purified to more than [-]% before it can be traded with the governor, and it does not need to be minted into a golden dragon coin. Correspondingly, Yanina can ensure that his food is continuously transported to Maiden Spring City, and the price is the same The continent of Sousse remains the same.

"I was going to compete with my peers for the right to operate the Pentos Mint, so I needed this unformed gold."

After the deal is concluded, the communication between the two parties is much more pleasant.

After sending Yanina away, Arthur began to arrange the battle for the next period of time.

Lothor Frey went to Raventree City with 500 people, and managed the castle and territory with his brother Jamos.

The Marquis of Innis took the remaining 4000 people from his family and the 1000 people from Maiden Springs, crossed the Trident River to the north, and stationed along the Green Fork River, guarding against the direction of the valley.

The remaining [-] soldiers and nearly [-] captives and servants stayed in Harrenhal to strengthen and renovate the city walls while guarding against attacks from King's Landing.

After arranging the affairs at hand, Arthur took the most honorable prisoner of this battle, Duke Mace Tyrell, to visit Alduin, who was 1.5 meters long and had a wingspan of nearly five meters.

(End of this chapter)