Game of Thrones: Kings in the North

Chapter 89 The Myr Glazier

A few days later, the salt price in the winter town returned to the normal level. Winterfell took out the salt in the warehouse so that the residents of the winter town and nearby villages could eat cheap salt. The Duke of De is full of praise for the ban on salt.

The Winterfell Watch caught saltmongers, black marketeers and money changers involved in smuggling almost every day.These smugglers relied on the hoarded salt to inflate the price of salt, pretending to be salt from Yantun, and selling it to Winterfell at the market price. Every day, Winterfell seized tens of thousands of copper coins from the smugglers, a large number of copper cents and even piles of them. silver stag.

Seven City, which is the closest to Winterfell, also captured the salt dealer.Seven City is only a one-day ride away from Winterfell. When Ed announced that private production and sale of smuggled salt were strictly prohibited, and he ordered his vassals to arrest the smugglers who hoarded and raised the price of salt, the news reached Seven City. Lord Seven took action immediately, caught some smugglers, and personally escorted them to Winterfell.

"Lord Ed, Seven City supports your ban on salt, and it's time to take action against these disgusting smugglers." When delivering the smugglers, Earl Mitch Seven told Ed.

Seven City is located within a day's ride from Winterfell, and the Seven and Stark families have always had a close relationship. Seven City always actively supports Stark's orders as kings. This is because Seven City is far away from Winterfell. If the city is too close, it would be unwise to disobey the order of the emperor.

The ban on salt has little effect on Seven City itself, because the territory of Seven City is an inland area, and there is no salt mine, salt farm or salt village in the territory.When Ed issued the ban on salt, he promised that Stark would always provide the vassals with free edible salt, and the vassals could get a share of the revenue from the salt village without having to bear the maintenance costs of the salt village. Wencheng even had some benefits.

Maester Luwin held two letters in his hand, "Lord Ed, the ravens from Dreadfort and White Harbor arrived almost at the same time, with letters from Lord Wyman and Lord Roose Bolton."

Ed frowned, "What did the letter say?"

"The Earl of Wyman claimed in his letter that he had found the key evidence that the Dreadfort mixed smuggled salt into the salt village. The letter from the Dreadfort stated that Roose Bolton found a smuggler from the Three Sisters Islands, who can prove that Earl Wyman colluded with the customs officers to let the salt from the Three Sisters Islands and even the Valley flow into White Harbor and mix into the salt village to defraud Winterfell of money."

Earl Seven was shocked, "Roose Bolton and Lord Eel are still arguing about Yantun? Don't they know about the salt ban?"

Ed smiled, "Their fief is far away from Winterfell, presumably the ravens haven't sent the news yet." The escalation of the war between Dreadfort and White Harbor is good for Ed's ban on salt.

Clare, the financial advisor, led a person over, "Lord Ed, this is Ortega the glassmaker. He was born as a slave in Mir. He helped his employer earn a lot of wealth by relying on his exquisite glass craftsmanship. After saving money for ransom, he runs a glass workshop in Braavos."

Ortega, a diminutive, gray-haired man with a goatee, was resplendent in an elaborate black velvet overcoat, a purple moleskin cloak, and a gilt belt that hung vertically from his waist.

"It's been a hard journey!" Ed brought Ortega to the study.

In the study, the servant serves Ortega ale, Ed sits opposite Ortega, and financial advisor Klar sits next to Ortega.

Ortega gulped down the ale, "Krall invited me to Winterfell to serve Lord Stark. I hesitated for a while, because the northern border has always been icy and snowy in my impression. You know, I was in Myr I've lived half my life and moved to Braavos, and I can bear the climate there, but Winterfell is farther north than Braavos."

"However, Winterfell is not as cold as I imagined. I always thought that Winterfell is also icy and snowy in summer!"

"It's not that exaggerated!" Ed took out the jug and filled Ortega's glass, "That's the way north of the Great Wall. The glass craftsmen of Mir are unparalleled in the world, and the glass garden of our Winterfell is Mir The craftsmanship of the glass craftsmen can bring vegetables to Winterfell every winter. If there is no glass from Myr, our winter in Winterfell will be even more difficult."

Ortega stroked a ruby ​​ring on his finger, "If Master Ed wants to buy glass, I have some in stock at the shop in Braavos. If you want to expand the glass farm, I can supply it now. Of course Yes, if Master Ed needs glass panes, I can also create the most perfect glass panes for you."

"In Braavos Sea King's palace, there is a glass pane depicting the destruction of Valyria, which is my work. Lord Ed, the glass pane is equivalent to painting on glass! This requires powerful craftsmanship, Of course, the price is not cheap, the normal price of the glass pane is equal to the weight of gold, but Lord Ed is my friend, I can give you a discount."

Ortega tried to sell his glass panes, Ed crossed his fingers and put them on his chest, "I believe in your craftsmanship, I need ordinary glass, and I need glass panes, but I don't want to buy from you , but for you to make glass for Winterfell."

Kral smiled at Ortega, "Ortega, I may not have written it clearly to you in the letter. We need glass, and more importantly, we need a glassmaker. Lord Ed will invest in you and build a glass workshop in Winterfell. You You can make more glass for the Starks than you can in Braavos."

Ortega smiled exaggeratedly, "I used to be a slave of Myr, and I was freed after being redeemed. I have my own glass workshop in Braavos, and my children are all skilled glassmakers. What about working in Winterfell? No, Lord Eddard, my business in Braavos is very good."

Ed smiled, "The financial advisor Clare and the guard Syrio are all Braavosians, and I often read books about Braavos. I heard that in the Braavos Craftsmen Guild, craft The most skilled craftsmen are easily excluded by their peers, Ortega, has this happened to you?"

Ortega sighed, "Those grandchildren are jealous of me! In Myr, when I was a slave, my glass panes and Myr lenses could be sold for a lot of money, because I am a Myr slave, Myr My glassware is unparalleled in the world."

"When at last I was freed and arrived in Braavos with my family, I lost my slavery to Myr, and my glass was reduced in price, and I joined the Glazer's Guild, where I was not allowed to What's the point of advertising myself as a glassmaker from Myr and not allowing my glass to outbid them? They say Braavos is a city of free men!"

Ed leaned forward, "Ortega, stay and serve me, I will reward you with several manors near Winterfell, and let you and your children become lords. You can become a lord and take root in Winterfell .”

Ortega's eyes widened, "Lord?"

For Ortega, who was born as a slave, there is nothing more attractive than the title of lord.Ortegar took a deep breath, "Lord Ed, I will write to the Braavos family and let them come to Winterfell."

(End of this chapter)