Game of Thrones: Dragonborn Comes
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The king and ministers are gone, the nobles on the streets have become fewer, and the common people have increased, and it is still prosperous.
On Steel Street, where land prices are the highest in the city and where nobles and wealthy merchants gather, Werther, Stannis, and Renly did not put on their dukes' guards of honor, and did not have golden robes to open the way. Only some close officials followed, and a group of people walked slowly on the street chatting .
Renly and Stannis walked together, talking business.
After Robert secretly took over Littlefinger's entertainment place, he invested a sum of money to expand the store.With the king behind them, those beautiful ladies ignored the advice of the priests of the Seven Gods, and dared to solicit customers blatantly on the Street of Steel during the day.And the young nobles said that they would not go here, but they often wandered around the door of the shop. Even the most popular way for young people to bet privately was to see who left the most lip marks on their faces when they passed by.
Stannis has opened a shop on Steel Street for nearly ten years. The shop has all kinds of high-end facilities, as well as fine wine and food from all over the world.Since the interior is full of soundproof small private rooms, it has now become the top choice for nobles and businessmen from all walks of life to discuss business. In the secret private room, no one can find a reason to prosecute and bribe through bribery.This is also the place where priests of the Seven Gods often come to protest.
Renly also recently opened a shop in Steel Street.He saw that the business of the alchemy shop in Gaoting was very good, and he had a lot of resources and connections, so he had no reason not to do this business, so he dragged his connections to set up a shop in this street where the nobles gathered, and started selling alchemy potions.Because of what Robert and Stannis had done in the street, the priests of the Seven had visited Renly's shop a few times while it was still being renovated.
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"Don't you want to open a shop here?" Margaret asked, who was holding Werther's arm.
The two wore noble robes and their respective Valyrian steel long swords hung from their waists. Werther held nothing in his hand. Since Margaery and Werther were walking together, Loras Tyrell could only honestly Followed behind Werther, holding on to the hilt of his sword, pretending to be a dedicated captain of the personal guard.
"I am different from them. Tyroshi's products are sold to merchants. Except for high-priced customized models, we will not directly sell them to nobles or ordinary people. For example, the suit on your body is custom-made." Right arm quilt Geli hugged her tightly to her chest, and Werther could only use his left hand to point at Margaery from head to toe.
Margery's long brown hair was coiled in a fancy pattern on the top of her head, and some slightly curly hair fell to the back of her neck.She was wearing a long green dress with intricate gold thread embroidery, holding Werther in her left hand, and holding a green lace parasol made by Tylosi in her right hand.Her chest was bigger than before she had the baby, too, allowing the Valyrian steel rosette pendant around her neck to sit right in the gully.
Margaret smiled slightly, tiptoed and put her mouth next to Werther's ear, and said, "Want to eat?"
Werther turned his head to look left and right. There were still many pedestrians on the road, and his eyes returned to Margaret's chest: "Cough! It's not suitable for a public place."
Margaery bumped Werther with the shoulder: "Nymeria and Tyene let you sleep on the sofa again? You're full of thoughts! I'm talking about that restaurant, Tyrosh's Grill!"
Werther followed her line of sight and saw a luxury restaurant with the sign of Tylosi Barbecue.There are a lot of guests inside, and there are still a lot of food at the door for the servants to buy and take home to eat. It seems that the business is very good.
"The barbecue in this store is different from other stores. It is very popular in King's Landing. I heard it from the merchants in Storm's End. Go buy some and try." Margaery wanted to pull Werther to the store, but Werther tried his best Pull her back.
"Didn't you also live in Tyrosh for half a year? We Tyrosh seldom eat barbecue and mostly eat seafood. There are only a few hotels in Tylosh that sell roasted pigeons." Werther didn't want Margaery to be deceived, Popularize knowledge to her very seriously.
"But.
’ Margaery pursed her lips in displeasure.
"Look at the fat man in the store who looks like a dog, the one who is greeting the customers should be the owner of the store." Werther took a closer look and said, "I'll go, isn't this the owner who delivered pork to me?" What! This guy has never been to Tyroshi, and he still sells Tyroshi barbecue!"
Margaery laughed again when she heard this: "Are you going to tear down his signboard?"
Witt thought for a while: "Forget it! Anyway, I know the supplier. I haven't been to King's Landing City this year. His pork business is probably not going to be easy, and he has a way out by buying this store. "
"How much money did he earn from you to open such a big store on Steel Street?" Margaery began to think in her heart.
Werther tightened Margaery's hand and said, "Hehe, when your two dragons grow up, you will know how much they can eat! They can eat up the wealth of little nobles and sell them to castles."
The group of people came to a large shop with three small buildings connected to each other. Renly stood in front of them and said, "This is my shop, the largest alchemy shop in the Seven Kingdoms!"
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"Go in and have a look." Stannis said little, and strode into the shop.
The store has been renovated for a long time, and it has only opened recently.Naturally, Stannis also had a lot of wildfire, healing potions, and water walking potions prepared by the Royal Fleet, all of which were directly supplied by Tyrosh. It was also his first time visiting the alchemy potion shop, and wanted to see what was on sale.
Renly smiled and called Werther to go in together. Margaery let go of Werther's arm and handed the umbrella to his brother. Loras put the umbrella away and held it in his hand and followed into the shop.The knight held the umbrella for the noble lady, but I don't know who started it. The boys rushed to imitate it, and now it has become a standard etiquette.
"The shops connected by three small buildings have a total of three floors. The top floor is where the warehouses, guys and guards live. The second floor sells raw materials, and the first floor sells finished medicines."
Renly explained as he walked, with a look of pride on his face:
"Here are all known alchemy potions, including experimental potions whose formulas have not been verified by the Magic Management Committee!"
The shop is very large, several times larger than the shop Werther saw in High Court last time, and there is indeed ample supply if there are connections.
The shelves were full of colorful glass potions, and there were a few nobles and businessmen in the store who were negotiating business with the shop assistants. Everyone walked to the first floor, where family crests were hung on the top of several shelves.
"This is Master Soros' counter, this is the counter shared by Qyburn and Moloya, and this is mine!" Renly pointed to himself and smiled.
All three are veterans of the magic school. They were the first people to learn magic from Werther except Renly, and they each made contributions to the popularization of magic.Now the three of them will be honored as His Excellency the Archmage wherever they go in the magic world.
The special counters sell their own potions. This model is a business method that Werther taught Renly a long time ago, and it existed when selling high-end pocket watches.
These special counters are not like the big counters outside. The colorful medicines here are not marked with names and prices, and the properties of the medicines cannot be distinguished with the eyes. Witt walked to the cabinet, raised his hand through the glass and sensed the medicine inside with magic power: "Soros's The counter also sells alchemy poisons! Robert's special approval?"
[In view of the general environment,
Renly nodded. "Yes! He's the only one who has the king's warrant."
"Qyburn and Moloya shared a counter, and Soros took one alone. How short of money is he?" Margaret also often went to magic schools because of Renly's relationship, and now she is more familiar with the three of them.
Werther: "He is a man who is nearly forty years old and still unmarried. He earns a lot and spends a lot. You should know where the money is spent."
Margaery smiled, walked to Renly's side and took his arm, looked up at Renly's face: "Wertte taught Soros magic, Soros made alchemy potions and sold them from you to make money, then go to the side where you My second brother, Stannis, took the money, and finally took the money to your elder brother Robert's entertainment venue across the street. You Baratheon brothers eat others to death."
"That's true, hahaha."
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Renly and Werther both laughed, and the corners of Stannis' mouth twitched.
Maybe all the people present were family members. After a long time, their vigilance was relaxed. Margaery first returned to Renly's side with Werther.Others couldn't distinguish Renly and Werther, who had similar looks, hairstyles, and clothes, but Stannis could recognize them at a glance, and he vaguely guessed something.
After bypassing several counters, Werther walked to the innermost floor of the first floor: "Why is there still a special counter for Tyene here?"
Werther pointed to the counter and said to Renly.
"Haha, this is a business between Master Tyene and me, it's normal if you don't know."
Renly gloated over and put his arm on Werther's shoulder: "Treny's alchemy is recognized as the number one in the mainland. You created magic, but alchemy, you can't be ranked!"
Witt opened the locked counter with the hands of a mage, took out a bottle of red potion and held it in his hand, and felt it. It was the magic recovery potion he had drunk before.The wine-like red potion in the transparent glass bottle, because of the material, has not been able to find a replacement formula after so many years. Werther is sure that the skin will turn red after drinking this bottle.
"How is her potion doing?"
"Ordinary people can't afford the potions made by the master, but the potions made by Tyene are bought by magicians. The magic recovery potions in your hands are the best-selling products."
Werther shook the potion in his hand: "How much do you sell this bottle for?"
"Ten Golden Dragons, no bargaining."
"How much private money has this little girl saved!"
Alchemy is a technical job. With the same raw materials, techniques, and equipment, two magicians can produce different effects. One may be like a waste product and the other has an excellent effect.
Werther and Tyene are in a partnership business on alchemy products. Werther produces raw materials and Tyene processes them, and Werther shares [-]% and Tyene takes [-]%.Before the castle was built, Tyene had too much money and had no place to put it. When he was sleeping, Werther often took out a few golden dragons from Tyene's pocket.Since the bottom three floors of the castle were built, Werther doesn't know where Tyene hid the money.
"Hehehe, Nymeria and Tyene told me that even without you, the two of them can still support children and women." Margaery covered her mouth and laughed.
Renly patted Werther on the shoulder: "Hey, with you or without you! Go, go, go to Stannis!"
A group of people walked out of the alchemy shop and came to Stannis' shop on the same street, which was different from the strong commercial and magical atmosphere before.
At various intersections outside the shop, groups of young people gathered together, some squatted on the ground, some chewed nuts in their mouths, and threw the shells on the ground casually.The civilians who were hired to clean the streets did not have any dissatisfaction with this. They seemed to be very familiar with these young people, and they would greet each other while cleaning.
Werther also saw a few young people at an intersection, pulling each other with a person wearing a linen robe of the Seven Gods. After a few moments, a strong young man lay on the ground, clutching his stomach and began to howl. The person wearing a linen robe Then spread his hands, and kept talking to several other young people with an innocent face.
At the gate, two tall, menacing-looking but well-dressed attendants carefully checked the small cards in the hands of every guest who wanted to enter. When they saw Stannis approaching, they immediately stood up straight and saluted him.
Seeing the temperament of the two, Werther should be the navy that retired from the Royal Fleet.
The door was opened by two squires, Stannis at the front leading the crowd through the hall.There are no facilities for any activities in the hall, the floor is covered with thick carpets, luxurious sofa seats, table after table of nobles and businessmen sitting together, and beautiful waitresses shuttle among them to deliver exquisite food to the guests and wine.
Stannis didn't say a word after entering the door, and walked straight to the stairs leading to the second floor with a straight face. After seeing him, many male attendants in different clothes offered to make way for him and stood up straight to salute him .
And Werther noticed that all the attendants had hidden weapons under their clothes, some with daggers strapped to their calves, some strapped to their waists, and some strapped to their forearms.
Cheng Wang Hei
Chapter 310 Finding the Mastermind
Since the end of the Tyrosh War, the demand for escorts on the east coast of Westeros and the long-distance voyages to the nine major trading city-states has been increasing. In recent years, Stannis has been doing escort missions with the Royal Fleet for a long time.sip
The Royal Fleet is directly under the jurisdiction of the royal family, and it is not uncommon for Robert to wait for military expenditures to be delayed for several months and half a year.If they hadn't received a large number of escort missions and earned enough money to maintain the ships and distribute military pay, the Royal Fleet, most of which came from the Iron Islands, would have mutinied long ago.
After being wounded and retired from the navy, those whose families are in various parts of the mainland returned home with severance pay, while the ironmen of the Iron Islands were not easy to manage, and it was not bad to follow Stannis in this line of work, which suited the character of the ironmen very well.
The second floor of the store is a small private room, which is enough for four or five people to entertain comfortably, and the large private room on the third floor allows more people to get together for social activities.There is a room here that belongs to Stannisville himself, and his subordinates usually work in it. When he comes here in his spare time, it belongs to Stannis.
A group of people entered the luxurious room, and Werther saw a few acquaintances who were sorting out the accounts on the table.
"Lord Davos of the rainforest, I haven't seen you for a long time, and you are still so energetic!"
The Onion Knight looked up and saw Werther and the others, and immediately got up: "Thank you Duke Werther for your concern."
After Davos finished speaking, he still looked at Werther. Seeing that he hesitated to speak, Werther said, "Say something."
"It's been rumored that Tyrosh is having trouble with vampires. Is Allard okay?" Davos hadn't seen his second son for a long time.
Werther: "Your son's Stormhaven is all right, but his planned wedding has been postponed."
Davos nodded when he heard it.Now the "Onion Knight" with a stable position and a lot of money is thinking about his grandson every day.
Davos had seven sons. His eldest son, Ser Dale, had been married for many years, but had no children with his wife.The second son lived a prosperous life with Werther in the Stone Step Islands. Some time ago, he wrote to him that he was planning to marry a noble blonde girl from Rees City. things.
Davos, who didn't talk much, began to tidy up the books, and Werther greeted the other two: "Master Cressen, Maester Pylos, you two are here too?"
This is the professional industry, and bachelors generally don't come here.
Maester Cressen served Stannis, Duke of Dragonstone for many years. As he got older, various diseases began to plague him, especially the joint pain in his legs made it difficult for him to walk.At Stannis' request, the Citadel sent Maester Ross to assist Cressen, and took over from Maester Cressen on the day he was unable to work.sip
Cressen smiled at Werther with a wrinkled face: "Grand Maester Werther, as consultants, it is our job to help Duke Stannis sort out the accounts. If we don't come to sort it out, it will be a violation of the oath of the Academy, and it will be a dereliction of duty."
Witte gave him a thumbs up.Cressen is different from other maesters, he is very flexible in order to better serve Stannis, and dared to poison Melisandre in the original world!
"Margaery, Ser Loras, you rest here first, I have something to discuss with Renly and Werther." Stannis finished speaking without waiting for their consent, and directly opened the small door in the inner room beside the private room. ....
"Let's go to the first and second floors." Knowing that the content of the conversation between the three was very important, Margaret took her brother Loras to avoid it.
As long as Margaret can think of things to do watertightly, it is not necessary at all. As soon as Werther entered the inner room, he activated the silent magic, tapped his toes lightly on the floor, and the purple magic spread from his toes to the floor, turning into a complex The magic pattern disappeared after that.
The interior is still very luxurious, there is no office furniture here, only a few cabinets, a resting bed and a large sofa for receiving guests.
"Your sweet wine, your golden Arbor grapes." Stannis poured two glasses from his wine rack for Werther and Renly.sip
Werther on the sofa picked up the pure gold wine glass and drank it in one gulp: "You still remember that I love sweet wine!"
"No one drank the rum in Storm's End back then. The empty bottles were all in your room." Stannis put the bottle in front of Werther. "How is Shireen doing?"
Werther: "In addition to receiving education in the castle, she runs around the city after Alia every day."
Stannis thought for a while and looked up at Werther: "Alia? Duke Eddard's youngest daughter, she and Shireen are both 12 years old this year, is it okay to run around the city?"
Werther put the wine glass on the tea table: "Don't worry, having vampires is an unexpected incident. Magicians and ordinary people have ways to deal with them. My castle is the safest place. Before leaving, Shirene said that she wanted to follow Ya Shara learned how to cut people with a sword."
Shirin received the most traditional education on Dragonstone Island. Apart from literacy and learning history, she was about how to be a virtuous lady.Shirin, who was cured of greyscale by Werther when she was a child, grew up healthy and free from pain, but her personality was too introverted.sip
After she arrived in Tyrosh, she seemed to have discovered a new world, where there was a majestic Dornish princess with a large group of followers.There is Ashara who manages the local ruffians so submissively that she punches them if they disagree with each other.There was Triene, a master alchemist in the wizarding world, and Sansa Stark, a beautiful female sorcerer who often didn't see her in the castle for a few days. This completely opened Shirin's horizons.
Shireen is a girl, and Nymeria manages education and life issues. Werther is only responsible for teaching her knowledge, and he doesn't know what kind of character Shirene will be taught by Nymeria in the future.
"I hope she is happy." Stannis had no objection to Werther's education methods. Countless people who wanted to send their children to Werther's education or sent them to magic schools were not qualified.
Reassuring his daughter, Stannis rubbed his cheeks with both hands in relief.Werther noticed that he had a lot of gray hair on his temples. Stannis was only 37 years old, and there was no record of gray hair in the Baratheon family. When he met him last year, his hair was not like this.
"Are there a lot of troubles lately?" Werther started the topic.The three people present all knew what was going on, but none of them could open their mouths.
Stannis usually doesn't talk much, but now that the three of them are here, he sighed after pondering for a while before slowly saying:
"Someone wants to swallow my property behind my back. My vassals analyzed that it was because of the king's succession. Werther, Renly, do you have anything to say?" Xia...
Just as Renly was about to speak, Werther sat up straight and took the conversation first: "Let's sort things out one by one! Someone wants to swallow your property, is it about the death compensation in the Dornish War?"
Stannis nodded, and talked more about his favorite jargon: "There is no other way but the mortal Lord Yronwood. They have tampered with the damned and the undeserved! Even Werther, you tell me The few people who promised not to die are now only bones. Yronwood's daughter, Tristan, and the Gogenlus family are all dead. These people have high odds of death, and they could have made a fortune I lost a lot of money."
Renly: "How many?"
"It's as if they knew that the target of the bet would die soon. They bought quickly when the odds were the highest. Before I had time to adjust the odds, the target would definitely die, and I lost all my five-year profits."
At the beginning, Stannis opened the death bet on both sides of the Dorne Civil War, in order to suppress the Yronwood side in public opinion, and to let the nobles of the Reach and the Stormland feel at ease and not send troops to meddle in the war.
Now that someone has used him to lose money, Werther also wants to help him solve it: "When you paid, did you check the identity of the person who took the money?"
"It's useless. They were bought by itinerant merchants. After checking their details, they are indeed well-known merchants." Stannis sighed.sip
You have to pay for lottery tickets "legally" bought by others. This is the foundation of Stannis' business. He can't arrest people for interrogation without reason. .
Itinerant merchants are a special group in this society. They do not swear allegiance to any lord and have no fiefs. They carry their own goods between towns to do business, and they can also order or deliver goods for others. The comprehensive business of passenger transportation and logistics, after earning money, buy a big house in a certain city or country to enjoy life.
Those who dare to do this are bright minds, anyone can ask them for money to bring goods or do things, maybe the person who told them to do things has been silenced by a higher level.
"It's really troublesome. As long as the clues are disconnected, even if Renly and I pass the magic interrogation, killing them will not result." Werther tapped his fingers on the table rhythmically. The anger that can't be vented until the Lord is right makes Werther very upset.
Since Werther and Renly have magic and dragons, the small conspiracy against the Baratheon family has disappeared, but once it happens, the means are more secretive, making it impossible to find out.If a few people make random guesses and find the "mastermind" for interrogation, they will fall into the scheme of the people behind it.
Werther: "The War of Dorne involved both of us. I think it started because of your Stannis succession. Someone didn't want you to be king!"
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