Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 242 The God of Wealth

"That means there is still room for maneuver." Reg firmly said.

"It's not at all." Ian said for a while, as if he suddenly realized something, "Do you have any ideas?"

"We are not sure, that's why we need to come to you to discuss." Reg said, taking a deep breath, and prepared to be blackmailed in his heart. "What do you think is the biggest problem with the queen's rejection of your proposal?"

"She doesn't believe we can win, our army is too small." Ian raised the first question.

"New Ghis can provide you with reinforcements, and Reg is here for that." Mazdahan sold Reg without even thinking about it.

"I've already told Your Majesty this, but it doesn't impress her. The 6000 Iron Legion is far from enough to turn the tide of the war, and hiring the Iron Legion will be a huge expense, which will make our plan to build a fleet be suspended indefinitely. Shelving, which has also drawn strong opposition from Sea Secretary Darren and Chancellor Celia."

As soon as Ian finished speaking, Reg and Grazdan looked at Mazdahan in unison.

The meaning is very simple, you, Meereen, should show your sincerity.

"Perhaps Meereen can help pay the fee?" Mazdahan hesitated for a moment, but chose to agree.

"The cost is not the problem," Ian secretly pleased, but he didn't show it. "The problem is that we don't have enough troops."

"If you can give me a detailed battle plan, maybe I can persuade Your Excellency the Consul to send more iron legions." Reg was not in a hurry to tell the bottom line of the four legions, the negotiation had just begun.

"I don't think that's necessary. If you can't convince the queen, it's useless." Unexpectedly, Ian didn't want to talk about it at all, and directly rejected Reg's proposal.

"Maybe we can make up for the gap in strength by hiring some mercenary regiments." Mazdahan thought for a while and suggested.

"The mercenary group will run away like homeless dogs if they only look at the shadow of the Dothraki from a distance. It is a waste of money to hire them." Grazdan of Yunkai immediately refuted this stupid idea.

"Or like this, think about it, what conditions do you need to convince Her Majesty the Queen to agree to this operation?" Reg said bluntly.

"It doesn't make sense what I think." Ian knew that the other party wanted him to make an offer, but if he said it, it would be tantamount to confirming that he was blackmailing them. "The second reason why the Queen firmly refused to send troops is that I did not The decision was made by asking her for instructions in advance. So if you plan to impress her with greater sincerity, you'd better discuss the terms of the alliance with her in person."

"Your queen doesn't want to talk to us at all. She was very impatient when we were talking." Reg said helplessly.

"That's because she was in a fit of anger yesterday. If you go to see her in two days, the effect may be much better. As for how to persuade the queen, maybe you can go to see the other important ministers in the imperial council first, like Daeron. , Celia and 'Black Falcon' Dorian, if you can get their support in advance, it will be of great help to you to convince His Majesty." Ian suggested.

"Aren't you going to take part?" Grazdan asked.

"I can't participate. I must not let the queen think that I am behind this incident. This will make her feel that her power has been challenged. This is what I don't want to see."

"Thank you for your reminder, Lord Earl, we will go to convince the important ministers, and then convince Her Majesty the Queen." Reg quickly stood up and saluted, expressing his gratitude to Ian.

"You don't need to be polite, this is our common wish. If Slave Bay is destroyed by Ma Wang because of us, it will also be a stain on my honor."

After Ian greeted the three messengers a few more times, he sent them away.

He didn't make any request to them during the whole process. The weight of this blackmail is too great, and it is not appropriate for him to raise it alone.

But if the other party was blackmailed in the process of persuading Daeron, Celia, Dorian, and Queen Daenerys respectively, for them, the acceptable level would be much higher.

After everyone left, Ian came to the window and washed his face with cold water in the copper basin, returned to the desk and continued his previous work, picked up a piece of paper and started reading.

This is the work report submitted by engineer Adam on the issue of gunpowder. The general content of it is that he needs to conduct more experiments to find out the reason why gunpowder cannot detonate in this world.

Adam has two preliminary inferences, one is that one or several particles of sulfur, carbon, and nitrate are different from the earth, causing this problem, and the other is that the existence of magic in this world has affected this.

From his experience, the possibility of problems with sulfur and carbon is very low, because in the materials of this world, he can find many examples of various reactions of sulfur or carbon.If the inability to make gunpowder in this world is because the particles in the two worlds are different, then the most likely problem is nitrate.In another piece of bad news, plans for chemical nitrogen fertilizers have also come to a halt, which has dealt a major blow to agriculture.

Of course, the greater possibility is the influence of magic factors. Adam hopes to conduct further experiments just to rule out physical variables before starting to study magic.

After all, gunpowder has a crucial impact on his entire development plan.

The use of gunpowder in the field of warfare is substitutable, but all alternatives require metallurgical processes beyond this era. A deadlock is that without gunpowder, deep wells cannot be excavated, so it is difficult to obtain most non-ferrous metals, thus Let the development of the technology tree basically stop.

Adam's report was very long, and the above was only the part that Ian could barely understand, and he ignored the more professional things.

Ian's reply to Adam was to ask him to do other work first. It is impossible for the experimental materials he needs to be delivered to him within three months. After all, the threat of the Faceless Man has not been lifted. The first floor is still the solid eunuch line of defense. Even if Ian is relieved, it is impossible to send the materials up for the time being, because he gave the death order at that time.

After writing his reply letter to Adam, Ian sent his shape-changing falcon to Adam.

Then he processed the report submitted by Celia.

The content of the report covers the results of her work in the upper reaches of the Worm River. It can be said that the development of the entire river basin is very good and has been completely on the right track.

There are only two problems that Celia needs Ian to solve-the first is the cliché asking for money. This problem is simple, and Ian has just sent the God of Wealth to her.

The second problem is the corruption of the slave promotion system that Ian has been worried about from the beginning.

Ian needs to discuss this issue with Celia face to face.

(End of this chapter)