Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 315 The Lorne River Pirate and the Bloody Flower

"Find it out so quickly?" Duke Kolu under the control of Ian enjoyed the food on the table, and looked in surprise at Manius Wisama who suddenly asked for a meeting with him, "It's just over In less than a day."

"Yes, my lord, I have basically figured out the situation of the group who kidnapped your friend." Manius nodded.

"It's amazing efficiency. You make me wonder if the intelligence officers under me are not working hard."

"I really want to accept this compliment, that's right, my lord," Manius sneered, "However, I have to be honest, I didn't find out these news in one day. In fact, I have been watching them for half a year. .”

"Oh? Tell me in detail?" Ian felt that he was full, so he put down the tableware and beckoned the servant to remove the remaining food.

"Have I mentioned to you before that I hope you can write to your master and ask him to detain our family's ship in Slaver's Bay?"

"There is this matter." Ian nodded, "You said that this will get your elder brother who is in charge of the family business into big trouble."

"Then I just need to get rid of my second brother, and I can become the only strong candidate for successor to the position of Patriarch," Manius said, "The organization you want to investigate is related to this matter."

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"The reason why I have the confidence to take down my second brother is because I have the evidence that he colluded with the Lorne River pirates, and used his public equipment for private use for personal gain. The Lorne River pirates he colluded with are the people you are looking for this time." Marnius said excitedly.

"The Lorne River Pirates have such a wide range of business that they have come to the city of Volantis?" Are you so sure you don't want to use my hand to eradicate dissidents?

"No," Marnius probably understood Ian's expression, and quickly continued to explain, "They didn't appear in Volantis as river pirates, but in the name of a chamber of commerce. It must be familiar, it is the Volantis guild that sedged the rebellion in Yunkai not long ago - the Bloodflower."

The power of that player?Sure enough, he has allies in Volantis!Ian's eyes narrowed in an instant, and he immediately believed a little more in what Marnius said.

"The Bloody Flower Merchant Guild is a new trade guild that appeared on the west bank of Volantis more than half a year ago. When it first appeared, almost no one noticed it, but it completed the first round with a means worthy of the name 'Bloody Blood'. A bloody expansion made a name for itself on the west coast of Volantis."

It should be a player conflict, Ian guessed in his heart.

"After they completed their expansion, they immediately established a mercenary group called 'Blood Hands' while the iron was hot, and they specially undertook escort missions to the upper reaches of the Lorne River. At that time, many people laughed at them as crazy, after all, the merchant ships going out to sea encountered The probability of pirates is extremely low, but the probability of merchant ships going up the river encountering river pirates is more than [-]%, taking this escort mission, it will not take long for the entire army to be wiped out." Manius continued to introduce,

"The river pirates mainly gather between A Noi and the Sad Land. The river above Ah Noi belongs to the Kohors, and the river below the Sad Land belongs to Volantis, but this is a two-way zone in the middle. land of the Lord.

Any ship that wants to cross that river to the north for trade will be severely blackmailed by river pirates. They don't plunder a ship like pirates and completely kill people and rob goods, but more like charging tolls The proportional commission reduces the profits of the ship owners to an extremely low but still profitable level.

In this way, although there are not many ships willing to continue to walk this river to continue trading, they will not disappear completely. With the few passing ships, the river pirates will not starve to death.

So when the Bloody Hand Mercenary Group proposed this business, not only no mercenary dared to join them, but no captain dared to take the risk of completely angering the river pirates to hire them. Except for one person. "

"Who?"

"Docis Chihda, he is the youngest son of the candidate consul Elios Chihda, who is old enough to enter the Grand Council to become a member. But considering that the Chihda family has already had a Candidates for the Archon, a Senator, and two Councilors, Docis Chiheda's proposal to enter the Grand Council was rejected.

He desperately needs a meritorious feat to become a stepping stone for him to enter the Great Council, but he doesn't have any power to rely on. The situation of Docis in the Ziheda family is somewhat similar to that of me in the Wisama family. Similarly, he could expect little support from his brothers, although the relationship between them was not as tense as ours because they came from the same mother.

Therefore, Dorsey, who had only money but no power, took a fancy to the Bloody Flower Chamber of Commerce who dared to challenge the Lorne River Pirates, and reached a cooperation with them.To everyone's surprise, they achieved great results in their first action. They destroyed a river bandit group and captured the most notorious river bandit on the Lorne River, Uho the Unwashed. Lantis is on trial.

Docis Ziheda and the Bloody Hand Mercenary Group became famous in the first battle. Docis entered the Great Council as he wished, and the Bloody Hand Mercenary Group grew rapidly. The Bloody Flower Chamber of Commerce they belonged to Soon he bought a ship and acquired many properties in the XC area of ​​Volantis.

But not long afterward, many gangs of river robbers on the Lorne River retaliated. A large number of Volantis merchant ships were looted, and a large number of sailors were killed.

At this time, Dorsey introduced the president of the Bloody Flower Chamber of Commerce, Georis, to my second brother. I should have said before that my second brother is married to the Qiheda family, and his wife is Dorsey. Sister.

At the beginning, my second brother actually didn't want to wade into this muddy water. After all, the Lorne River pirates in the north of the Sad Leader had existed for hundreds of years and had never been solved.

We Volantenes call the Lorne the mother, and there is not a river in your Seven Kingdoms of Westeros that is half as wide as hers, and there are many small islands in the middle reaches of the Lorne, where the river pirates hide caves or hidden fortresses.Every time the Volantene navy tried to kill them, they would hide, and when we were gone, they would come out again. "

After talking so much in one breath, Manius stopped and took a sip of water to moisten his throat.

"You must be wondering why we don't have a permanent navy there, don't you?" Marnius continued.

Actually no, Ian just wanted to say that when he heard Marnius' explanation, and he didn't interrupt at all.

"To enter the region of the River Pirates, we must first cross the Land of the Heartbroken, which was once called Chajorn or the Capital of Festivals, and was once the greatest city of the Rhoen Valley, the capital of the Rhoynar.

The city was destroyed by the Dragonlords of Valyria. At that time Valyrian Freehold and the Rhoynar were at war, and the Rhoynar killed the three Dragonlords and their dragons with water magic.Freedom Fortress was furious because of this, and they dispatched 300 giant dragons at one time to fight a decisive battle with the 25 army led by Prince Rhoyna Gaelin, and successfully destroyed the Rhoyna army.

It is said that after the Dragonlords defeated the Rhoynar, they hanged Prince Garin in a golden cage, and that Prince Garin summoned the Mother of the Rhoen with a spell before dying to curse his enemies.That night, the Lorne River swelled and flooded all the dragon kings who were still in Chayorn.

The dragon kings turned into stones and sank to the bottom of the water, and their icy breath floated up from the bottom of the river into a white mist, and all who came into contact with the white mist would contract greyscale, a deadly disease. .Its symptoms are hardening of the patient's skin, covered with black and gray spots, and it is as hard as stone to the touch, so the infected people are also called stone people.

This kind of mist has shrouded the sad collar so far. Whenever the east wind blows, the white mist will dissipate from the Lorne River and spread to the Laluru River and the Golden Fields. This is our boat going north through the Lorne River. , all merchant ships can only take advantage of the east wind blowing to and from the river section near the sad collar.

When there is no wind or the westerly wind blows, the white mist will cover the surface of the Lorne River near Sadland again. The patrol boats of Volantis will always only go to the south of Sadland, and the river pirates will only go to the south of Sadland. Activities to the north.The direction of the wind near Sadness is irregular. If we want to station a water army to fight against river pirates north of Sadness, we will not be able to deliver supplies to them if there is a long period of westerly wind or no wind.Moreover, their existence may attract fear and even attack from the Kohor people.

So when Dorsey brought the president of the bloody flower to visit my second brother for the first time, my second brother found a reason and refused. He didn't want to get involved in this matter, and he couldn't see it. prospect.

It's a pity that although my second brother is cruel and stubborn, he really likes his wife. After my second sister-in-law's constant persuasion, he finally agreed to meet the president of Bloody Flower, and then...quickly Conquered by the eloquence of the other party.

On the same day, he joined the Bloody Flower Chamber of Commerce's plan and provided them with four boats and 500 elite slave warriors. His investment quickly paid off. Two months later, his second brother announced in a high-profile manner that the Lorne River banditry had ended. solved by him.

Later, more and more news also proved this point. All the captains who crossed the middle reaches of the Lorne River said that they had never encountered the harassment of river pirates again, and they went back and forth between Volantis and Kehor for a while. Merchant ships proliferated.

The second brother took advantage of the opportunity and asked his cronies who were the governor in Sehoru Town to set up a card on the river, and added a high tariff. Compared with the tolls they once had to pay to the river pirates, it was only one-third of the tax. This tax did not affect the enthusiasm of the captains to join this 'new sea route' at all. "

"Charging 60.00% for three ships, the income is definitely far less than charging 20.00% for [-] ships, isn't it?" Ian immediately understood the meaning of this operation, "That's why you doubted Are they in collusion with the river pirates?"

"No," Manius shook his head, "The river pirates on the Lorne River belong to countless forces, and it is impossible to seek cooperation with them. Some people have tried to do this before, but without exception. All failed.

So now that they have achieved this step, the Bloody Flower Merchant Guild either really eliminated all the river pirate forces, or unified the river pirate forces and became the only river pirate king. "

(End of this chapter)