Game of Thrones: Kings in the North

Chapter 126 The Value of Cinnabar Stone (Monthly Pass Plus)
There are hot springs around Winterfell, and there are often rich mineral resources around the hot springs.

Today, minerals found around Winterfell include coal, realgar, quartz sand, iron, tin, and more.

With the help of the direwolf Sunshine, Ed even discovered the cinnabar stone.

In the pile of rocks next to the coal mine, Ed held a cinnabar stone in his hand, and excitedly said to Robb, Jon said: "Our northern border is full of treasures! We actually found such a good thing as a cinnabar stone."

Ed took Robb, Jon, Direwolf Night Walk and Sunshine back to Winterfell and went straight to the alchemist Gentle's laboratory.

"Robb, go tell Maester Farmer, Maester Norman, and Maester Luwin to come to the lab."

Maester Farmer is good at mineral research, Maester Norman is good at medicine, and Maester Luwin is Eddard's chief think tank.

Robb turns and leaves, and Jon leaves with Nightwalker and Sunshine.

When Ginter first came to Winterfell, he could only make wildfire, and he was a half-baked blacksmith, glassmaker, and candlemaker.Today, under Ed's tutelage, Gentle has shown promise as a chemist.

Together, Ed and Ginter added obsidian shards to the glass making experiment, and the efficiency and quality of the Winterfell glass workshop improved a lot. The glass master Ortega claimed that after adding obsidian, the quality of the glass improved. The glass made in Winterfell is better than it was in Myr and Braavos.

"This is a cinnabar stone." Ed put the cinnabar stone on the table, "The cinnabar stone can be used as a dye, can be used for writing, and has medicinal value. We found the cinnabar stone in the waste dump of the coal mine. "

Gentle stroked the cinnabar stone, "Master Ed, you can always find good things."

After a while, Maester Luwin, Maester Farmer, and Maester Norman arrived at the laboratory. Maester Luwin said, "Lord Ed, a raven has arrived in King's Landing today, it is Petyr Baelish, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was very dissatisfied with White Harbor's expulsion of the customs officers sent by King's Landing, and he had already lodged a protest at the imperial meeting, hoping that Lord Ed would give an explanation."

At the beginning, the salt village caused the price of salt in the northern border to skyrocket, and the customs officers in White Harbor colluded with smugglers to smuggle smuggled salt from the Three Sisters Islands, the Valley, the Royal Land, and even Braavos to the northern border.

The customs officers sent by King's Landing were all from Littlefinger, Ed took the opportunity to drive away these customs officers, and replaced them with people from White Harbor and Winterfell in charge of White Harbor Customs.Ed had expected that sooner or later Littlefinger would send a letter of protest.

"If Littlefinger wants to complain, he can go directly to Prime Minister Jon Arryn or King Robert. If the king or the Prime Minister has an order, Winterfell will obey it, and Littlefinger can't break Winterfell."

In fact, Ed wrote to Robert and Jon Arryn a long time ago, and Jon Arryn wrote back saying that King's Landing does not mind the personnel transfer of the White Harbor Customs as long as the White Harbor Customs pays taxes on time.

"Don't mention Little Finger." Ed pointed to the cinnabar stone, "I called you here to study the cinnabar stone with you."

The chubby Maester Farmer, the silver-haired Maester Norman and Maester Luwin immediately surrounded him.

Maester Farmer played with the cinnabar stone and raised an eyebrow, "Lord Ed, I admit that when I was in the Reach, I rarely encountered such blood-red stones, but I encountered quite a few near Winterfell." Little. You say this is cinnabar stone? What value can cinnabar stone have?"

"The cinnabar stone can be used to refine dyes." Ed told the bachelors, "I will start the experiment with the alchemist Gentel soon. The cinnabar stone can be used not only as a dye, but also as a cure."

This time it was Maester Norman's turn to be puzzled, "Lord Ed, what kind of disease can cinnabar stones cure? It seems more like a forest witch's trick to cure diseases with stones. What books have such records?"

Ed pretended to be mysterious and said: "When I was a child, I saw it in the ancient books in the library tower. I forgot which one. Bachelor Norman, you can trust me, cinnabar stone can be used to treat epilepsy. You can find it in Find a child with epilepsy in the winter town, or a nearby village, and use cinnabar to treat it experimentally, and remember to be careful with the dosage.”

Neither Maester Farmer, who is good at agriculture and minerals, Maester Norman, who is good at medicine, nor Maester Luwin, who is well-informed, don't understand the value of cinnabar stone.

However, as a time traveler, Ed is well aware of the value of cinnabar stone.Cinnabar stone is in Blue Star's Huaxia Kingdom, and it has been used since ancient times to refine elixirs, write official documents, and use it as a dye.Winterfell has unearthed a mine of cinnabar stone, which is equivalent to finding a treasure.

In the next few days, Ed and Gentle experimented in refining cinnabar stone in the laboratory, and quickly extracted cinnabar ink.

Bachelor Dost, who is good at occult science, has been writing the book "The Long Night and the Other Ghosts" dictated by Old Nan in Winterfell recently. Bachelor Dost has become the first person to use cinnabar ink.

"Master Ed, the cinnabar ink is eye-catching, high-definition, and the handwriting can be preserved for a longer time. The school city has been suffering from the lack of this kind of ink, and now Lord Ed has invented it."

Brother Chayer has served as the administrator of the library tower for a long time. He is responsible for transcribing books about the Seven Gods. Brother Chayer is also full of praise for the cinnabar ink.

"The church has a large number of precious books and teachings that need to be copied. Old books will be blurred due to the yellowing of the pages, and the writing in cinnabar ink can be preserved for a longer time. For this alone, I believe that monasteries everywhere are willing to spend money to buy cinnabar ink."

Maester Luwin, who is in charge of the ravens in Winterfell, used cinnabar ink for the first time in a letter to Mormont Bear, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch at Castle Black.

"The raven is the messenger of Westeros. I believe that in the future, the nobles in all the castles will use cinnabar ink to write. Lord Ed has completed a revolution of the raven. Even the doctor who is the master of the city, there is no such thing. feat."

Also happy, there is also the wool spinning workshop in Winterfell.Winterfell has always been an important production area for Westeros wool weaving.

However, due to the lack of dyes in the northern border, woolen clothes in the northern border can only be popular among civilians.Today, cinnabar stone can provide red dye for woolen clothes, and woolen fabrics in the north can be dyed, and sales have increased significantly.

Caitlin made two wool dresses for Sansa and Arya herself, both in red.

In front of the mirror, Caitlin said excitedly: "Braavos relies on purple snails as dyes, and Neptune's purple galley warships travel all over the world; Tyroshi discovered sea snails to make various dyes, and the Tyroshi people became very angry. Windfall, Ed, the cinnabar dye can make us a lot of money!"

(End of this chapter)