Game of Thrones: The Strongest Guoguang

Chapter 34 The Flute in the Wind

There are still people coming and going in King's Landing, and there is a vague fishy smell coming from the fish market. The source of this fishy smell is the rich catch brought into the city by fishermen on the north bank of the Heishui River estuary. The mother river they depend on for survival is still As before, a gift was given.

The seven gates symbolizing the seven gods have been standing since the conquerors landed on the mainland, and the passengers and carriages are noisy.

The Aegon Hills where the Red Keep was located showed a trace of tranquility alone.

A little gloomy sky, the rain will not fall.

Rhaenyla was standing on the terrace overlooking the Blackwater Bend, until a melodious bagpipe sounded.

In the leisurely afternoon, this was a harmonious scene, but goosebumps appeared on Ranila's body.

The tranquil Red Castle is like an oil painting, but it hides murderous intentions for the tourist who is watching the painting, Ranila.

Because the sound of the flute reminded Rhaenila of a medieval story: the piper played the bagpipe in his hand and led countless rats out of the city.

In fact, this swarm of rats is the plague, the Black Death, and children die to the sound of the flute.

Such an incident happened during the time of the great-grandfather King Rui. The name of the plague was tremors, and it took away most of the nobles and commoners. Bath, the hand of the king, died because of this disease. The invading Targaryen royal family was also recruited. It was a little princess. She said that she was a little cold when she was still young, and she died of illness shortly before her bed. The cold wave took her away, and her name , which happens to be Daenerys!
Whether this is a metaphor for the story of later generations, Rhaenyla does not know, but the rat swarm and the plague are indeed big bombs in King's Landing, so the first step when she is in charge of King's Landing is to relieve the city's population saturation pressure as much as possible, and the White Walkers will know next time When will the plague come? Fortunately, the results during this period are also good.

The vigorously supported handicraft industry and commerce have attracted some redundant labor, and a group of newcomers have entered the Golden Robe—mostly from commoners, and the court has also attracted some nobles to join. People who come to the princess mansion to do some hard work within their ability can receive some food for subsistence... Of course, the refugees in the slums will not all disappear, but Ranila has tried her best to help them get rid of the current situation of starving to death.

Everything is going well, and Rhaenila is glad that she can change the status quo at this point in time. If King's Landing explodes at any time and the unscrupulous people pull the whole family to fight with you, Rhenila feels that she can only rely on Syracuse flew to the other side of the Narrow Sea together.

Then go the old way of the younger Dany, be a foreign queen, and never come back-whoever loves to be king can go, Hightower has the final say.

The maid Yili was a little worried when she saw that Rhaenila was in a daze on the balcony, and wanted to remind her.

Ye Pu on the side grabbed her and shook her head slightly.

"The princess is thinking about something, and she will recover after a while." From Ye Pu's eyes, Yili got this message.

Rhaenilla's two closest maids, Yepu is reticent and reserved, while Yili is cheerful, generous and loves to laugh. Their personalities are related to their backgrounds.

Ye Pu is a girl from a commoner family. Because her family believes in the seven gods very devoutly, the nuns in the church specially selected her, and later she came to serve the little princess Ranila.

Regarding this, Ranila commented, "A young girl from a devout family is worth ten golden dragons." Ye Pu had never seen her parents since she was six or seven years old, and when she entered the Red Castle that day, her father had never seen her. Mammy received ten golden dragons from there.

Rhaenila once lamented her experience and asked her if she wanted to go home. Ye Pu didn't hesitate at all. She felt that the Red Castle where she grew up was her home. Rhaenila didn't force her, so Ye Pu stayed , is now one of the confidant maids.

Yili is the second daughter of an aristocratic knight family. The family specially sent her to the Red Castle, but they usually love her very much. Originally, Yili was the most marginal one around Rhaenila. The maid Vivienne often The small group secretly squeezed out maids like Yepu and Yili, and in the end Yili was beyond everyone's expectations, Xianyu turned around, Vivian KO!

Yili's elder brother is the second son who has no inheritance rights, so Rhaenila called him to King's Landing long ago, and now she helps Rhaenila manage her own private property, that is, her own small treasury, with grain stores, hotels, and A couple of cement factories... Sir Harold runs them, and Ely's brother collects the bills.

The cement factory has made a lot of money, and the hard texture is not rotten. Some neighboring nobles have come to King's Landing to buy - some want to strengthen the city wall of the fief, some want to rebuild the family tomb, and some want to build a new house... Leni La Pai went down to negotiate, and the income was getting higher and higher, and the raw materials from the Blackwater River continued to flow. At the beginning, Ranila asked the nobles for information on the good opportunity of the succession ceremony, and the move to buy ore is now bearing fruit.

It's not that no one is jealous of this business. Facing the lucrative benefits, they certainly dare to take the risk of offending the royal family to intervene.

For example, Sir Owen on the Blackwater River, this person sees money openly. When there was a suspicious case in King’s Landing City a few days ago, he secretly sent a butler to recruit artisans and workers. However, the artisans and workers signed a confidentiality agreement with the royal family. Rhaenyla also gave generous bonuses and the positions of officials in the princess mansion who belonged to skilled workers, so Sir Owen and other nobles who secretly attacked were in vain, and occasionally recruited a few lazy, idle, and Harold who was in charge of the cement factory Call out the peripheral employees who have been dismissed.

Owen easily got the information from those employees: as long as the black stone is burned to ashes, it will become white cement powder!
It is said that Sir Owen was so angry that he beat his housekeeper... Of course he would not beat himself, and workers are the treasures of making money, so only the housekeeper is the punching bag.

The proceeds from the cement factory did not go into the national treasury, and Ranila stingily counted all the wealth and expenditures generated during this period in the national treasury, such as resettling refugees, building water conservancy, and tidying up streets, all went to the public account.

The minister in charge of the treasury, Bisbury, gritted his teeth. Some time ago, it was useless to thank the guests behind closed doors. When he opened his eyes, the young officials in the princess mansion were urging the accounts. Rhaenira apologized slightly for this, but she still had a heart of stone—the treasury doesn’t care. I just want to get in but not out.

Linman Bisbury has accepted his fate to join the Princess Party, and he has troubled him so many times. If he continues to trouble him, he will become a hard-core member of his own. Linman originally took Rhaenyla's side at the imperial meeting, but now he is right I already feel a little regretful now, but this time Rhaenila will still value this old minister and will not let him be killed by the Green Party.

Here Sir Owen is still fighting with Harold in the cement factory, and there Rhaenyla has woken up from the wind—frozen.

"Okay, Yili and Yepu, you two, look at me in a daze for so long and don't call me!"

Yepu didn't speak, went to the warm room and took a plush warm blanket to cover Ranila's body, while Yili said awkwardly: "Your Highness, we have already called you once, but it didn't take long for you to be in a daze again. , still talking about rats, what's so scary, do you want the rat catchers to catch the rats in the Red Castle?"

"Well, I just asked him to come in from outside the Red Castle, I have something to ask him!"

Not long after, a middle-aged man with a beard and black hands came in, holding a piece of charcoal and a mousetrap.

"Good day, Your Royal Highness"

"Good day, Your Highness"

A young man who was following him also followed suit and saluted Rhaenila.

The ones who came were, of course, Butter, the Ratcatcher of the Red Castle, and his son, Cheese.

(End of this chapter)