Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 190 Tyrosh

The "Kiss of the Breeze" headed south all the way, and after nearly a week's voyage, it finally crossed the Mir Sea and approached the northernmost island of the Stone Step Islands - Tyrosh, one of the nine free trade cities.

During this period, Ian lived a regular life of feeding dragons/learning foreign languages-practicing swordsmanship/shapechanger abilities-learning foreign languages ​​every day.

In addition, he also communicated with Celia and Roll respectively.

From the former, he learned that Celia's second main task was to become the senior priest of the Red God, which she had already completed when she was in Pentos.

And her main task three, like Ian, is also a set of series of tasks, mainly by acquiring a certain number of believers, probating (physically probating or converting) a certain number of senior heretics, and forming a certain number of religions with B-level quality or above The army consists of three indicators.

In addition, the epic victory in Ian's task group was replaced by destroying a religion with more than 50 believers in her task group (note: make the number of remaining believers not exceed 500), from her task group In terms of difficulty, Ian basically can't imagine what kind of battle can be evaluated as an epic victory by the system. Anyway, the standard cannot be as simple as in Total War.

In Ian's task group, ruling a city with a population of 50 has not changed in Celia's task. She also obtained this task in a direct way like the historical Papal State ruled Rome. Rule, not retaining the secular regime, which also makes Ian's hope of getting double points for every city with a population of 50 come to naught.

An interesting point is that although Celia's profession is a priest of the Red God, the task does not require her to obtain believers for the Red God. On the contrary, the standard for believers is to "regard Celia as the representative of that god" is enough.

In Ian's view, planning this is no longer implying players, but encouraging players to become gods and create their own religion.

Theoretically speaking, doing so is indeed far more difficult than preaching to the existing gods, after all, it means that the player cannot get any help from the church. But for Ian, this matter is not a big problem, because it is very important for the missionary work In other words, the support of the secular regime is the most important.

As we all know, physical preaching is the most effective way of preaching. As long as she wins in the military, all Celia's tasks will be easily solved.

This is probably the meaning of the player alliance. Collecting points through cooperation in different fields is far more efficient than lone wolf players who can only collect points in one field.

From Rolle, Ian has gained very little. Although Rolle led troops in the disputed area, it was already ten years ago. In recent years, he has been wandering in Westeros. This is also Ian's start. The reason why he and Case were 'in the zone'.

Rolle did have some friends in Myr and Tyrosh, but ten years later, whether these people can be found or not, Ian thinks that such friendship has no value.

In contrast, he hopes that his new captain, Kou Lu, can regain some power.

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Not long after Daeron told himself that he was about to reach Tylosi, Ian saw the shadow of the port city on the horizon.

As the coast approached, Ian gradually saw clearly the high wall protecting the city. From a distance, it looked like an indestructible fortress.

It is said that Tylosi's inner wall is made of fused black dragonstone. Ian doesn't know what the so-called dragonstone is, but his intuition tells him that it can't be dragon crystal obsidian anyway, and the city wall cannot be built.

Under the command of Daeron, the Kiss of the Breeze began to furl and slow down in an orderly manner, to meet the inspection of the Tyroshi customs boat.

Ian's ship was loaded with some lucrative groceries. This was what Celia had put on the ship when she bought it. The original owner had no background and could not get the profiteering goods monopolized by the powerful.

The situation was urgent at that time, so Ian did not make arrangements for the shipment and let it stay on the ship.

But that's good, compared to empty ships or transporting profiteering goods, casually pulling groceries is the least noticeable.

What Ian didn't expect was that the reality quickly slapped him in the face.

Just when the customs officers checked the groceries in the cabin, Ian thought that they would lose interest and just collect some favors and leave, but the other party actually asked for a bribe that would make the ship's voyage worthless.

It was only then that Ian remembered that it was written in the original book that the Tyroshis are famous for their greed.

Darren was negotiating with the customs officers, and Ian was always watching from a distance, not in a hurry to speak out.

A protection fee that is already sky-high for an ordinary captain is just a little change for Ian now, but the dilemma of this matter is that if they really give this money, it will inevitably make the other party Doubt, and if you are unwilling to give it, then the other party will definitely make trouble.

The solution must be to give, but how to give and how much to give, Ian has no idea about these issues, so he stood silently by the side, waiting for Daeron to solve them.

It is Ian's style to let professionals deal with professional issues. He is usually very humble in areas he is not familiar with.

Soon, Dai Lun finished talking with the customs officer, and Dai Lun finally paid half of the amount requested by the other party. Most of them were silver coins, only a few gold coins and copper coins.

It turned out that Darren had already prepared.

After the customs officers left Ian's boat and returned to their small boat, Ian came to Daeron's side.

"The amount of the customs clearance fee is much larger than I expected. I thought it would be enough to pay only a quarter to a third of their asking price. Our goods are not profitable. How could they charge such a high price? Come?" Ian asked in a low voice.

"It is precisely because our profits are not high that these little shrimps dare to blackmail us. The port will never lack ordinary captains like me," Dai Lun said helplessly, "For those ships with real backgrounds, they are honest Clear the customs and let them go. Otherwise, if the captain of the Illyrio Chamber of Commerce or someone else goes to the Maharaja of Tyroshi to complain about them, none of them will be able to eat and walk away."

It's really realistic. Ian laughed. He should have thought of this kind of thing, but for some reason, he just ignored it.

Is it because for me now, this kind of small shrimp is no longer eligible to be seen?

Ian's usual thinking habit is to bring himself into the perspective of each character he deals with, think about what he would do if he were him, and then speculate on all possibilities from the two factors of 'purpose' and 'condition'.

But just now he didn't do that, he just thought about the problem from his own perspective.

This incident did not cause any consequences, but it made Ian feel vigilant. He found that he seemed to be inevitably becoming arrogant as his power and status reminded him.

Arrogance is the dangerous twin brother.

Taking a deep breath, Ian readjusted his state. He saw that Daeron had left and went to the back of the deck to direct the work of furling the full sail and lowering the anchor, so he waved Bronn and Dorian to his side.

"When entering the port this time, your mercenary team and all the sailors on board are not allowed to disembark without my order." Ian ordered them.

"Can't get off the ship?" Bronn was the first to object. "Do you know what Tyrosh's most famous thing is?"

"Mercenaries, slaves and lust gardens." He then asked himself and answered.

(End of this chapter)