Game of Thrones: I loaded the witcher system.

Chapter 48 King's Landing
Just when Clay took the sailboat of the Old Man of White Harbor from the mouth of the White Knife River into Bite Bay, and sailed southward through the wind and waves, Ed Stark, the guardian of the north and now the former Prime Minister of the Royal Empire, fell into a quagmire in King's Landing.

Sitting on the high wooden platform, Prime Minister Ed looked at King Robert who was yelling in the biggest tent on the platform, but the expression on his face was so cold that the surrounding air could be frozen.

The tournament held in his name actually cost nearly [-] gold dragons. Although this is not a big expense for a huge country, the problem is that the treasury is out of money.

Not only is there no money, but the royal family’s foreign debts have exceeded 200 million gold dragons, including the debt owed by Braavos’ Iron Bank and the hundreds of thousands of gold dragons owed by Duke Tywin Lannister of the Western Territory.

Even the cost of holding the tournament and the final bounty were borrowed from the king's father-in-law, Duke Tywin. When he heard the news, Ed Stark wished he could stop the tournament immediately!

But helplessly, this was organized for him by his former brother, the current king, and he couldn't stop it even if he wanted to.

In the arena, two knights in heavy armor charged each other round, and the two long spears snapped. This kind of specially treated contest spears are easy to break, and the cost is relatively high.

Seeing the two attendants standing aside handing over two new spears to their master, Prime Minister Ed's heart was bleeding...

Without money, how can he manage the country as a prime minister?The daily expenses of the royal family, the maintenance of the royal fleet, etc. all need the shining golden dragon. Where did he get the money? He has no intention of asking the old lion for money.

Sometimes, he admired the current Chancellor of the Exchequer, Petyr, for being able to maintain the royal family's finances for so many years without any mistakes under such a large deficit.

But Ned also knew very well that Duke Tywin did not support his son-in-law for free. The Iron Throne owed Casterly Rock a large debt. Tywin did not pursue it, but in exchange, a large number of Lannisters entered Red Fort.

And Robert, as the king, still didn't care about these things after the former Prime Minister Jon Arryn reminded him many times.

When Ed Stark arrived in King's Landing for a while, he found that the smell of lions in the Red Castle was much stronger than that of stags.

He didn't want to participate in this kind of meaningless game of stabbing with spears in his opinion. Real force is practiced on the battlefield. Besides their screams, what's the point?
But his daughter was also in the stands of this martial arts tournament. Thinking of his sister Lyanna, Ed Stark's perception of the martial arts tournament was even worse, but this also made him put down his work and came to the scene .

Joffrey, his dauphin, was betrothed to Sansa, Robert told himself.

However, what he was afraid of, when Loras Tyrell dedicated a flower to his daughter Sansa, Ed's breathing stopped for a moment.

His face was ugly, but Ed Stark thought about it again, this "Knight of Flowers" didn't seem to have any engagement, and the Tyrell family didn't have a close relationship with him.

Staring at this young boy in bright armor, Prime Minister Ed, who is experienced in the battlefield, can tell at a glance that the boy from the Tyrell family is probably a guy with a glamorous surface.

I just heard what the master of ceremonies said. This kid's opponent this round is the notorious "Magic Mountain". Heh, Tyrell, who knows nothing about the sky and the earth, let the Lannister dog give you a hard time.

Thinking of this, Duke Ed, who was sitting in the corner, straightened his body slightly and focused on the playing field.

The two sides are on both sides of the field, with a distance of less than 200 meters between them. This is a fairly safe distance. No matter how good the horse is, it is impossible to completely rush this distance.

The speed of the horse is not fast enough, and the impact is not strong enough. At least to some extent, it can protect these fallen noblemen of the southern border.

Duke Ed looked to the other side, and Sir Clegane, who was sitting on the horse like a hill, had a great sense of oppression with his huge body.

Compared with Loras Tyrell's thin body, Duke Eddard estimated that in a round of confrontation, the "Knight of Flowers" would have to be shot down from his horse.

After finishing the equipment, the attendants left, and the horses on both sides began to speed up, but this distance could not speed up the horses at all, no matter how superb their equestrian skills were.

The opposing sides approached quickly, but to Duke Ed's surprise, it seemed that there was something wrong with the horse under the "Magic Mountain", and it didn't listen to his command at all.

The two sides approached suddenly, and Loras's spear was sent forward by his thin arm, and the horse on the "Magic Mountain" was completely out of his control at this time.

So, in the eyes of Duke Ed, a mass of steel-wrapped human flesh smashed directly to the ground with his horse, causing exclamations from the audience.

Duke Ed frowned. He was actually quite happy with the failure of the "Magic Mountain". After all, he didn't have any affection for this Lannister dog.

Leading the Lannister army to massacre the Targaryen family, the daughter-in-law killed Rhaegar Targaryen's wife, Prince Oberon's sister Elia, the evil deeds done by the "Magic Mountain" in the fall of King's Landing, let Eddard Stark is deeply disgusted.

But behind him stood Duke Tywin, and Ed had no choice but to let the "Magic Mountain" show off its power in King's Landing, even if he had become the prime minister now.

As the winner, Loras held up his fancy long sword and enjoyed the applause from the women around him, but the next moment, the "Magic Mountain" who climbed up from the ground furiously pulled out the long sword from the hand of the attendant standing by. The sword roared.

The blade swung down, directly cutting off the neck of the horse that caused him to lose the game.

Dazzling bright red plasma spewed out from the broken artery, covering the ground full of horseshoe prints, and the cheers of the audience seemed to be paused.

Everyone stared blankly at this loser who suddenly became angry for some reason, and soon, the first female scream sounded from the auditorium, followed by a burst of sound.

Eddard Stark didn't like this situation at all, not because of blood, how could he be afraid of blood?

Since he came to King's Landing, the city has always exceeded his expectations in various things. For no reason, the words that Prime Minister Jon Arryn kept chanting before his death rang in his mind :

"Seed is strong!"

He still can't figure out what this sentence refers to, but he is very clear that when a person is about to die, what he keeps saying must be extremely important to this person.

The strong smell of blood rushed into his nose, making him feel extremely uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)