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A few days later in the night.

King's Landing. Red Fort. Meggor House. The Queen Mother's Ballroom.

Cersei stood by the south wall, facing a large arched window. She held a golden wine glass in her hand, and looked out the window, which was dark and gloomy.

In the night, the White Sword Tower where the Kingsguard lives is like a white ghost sword, showing a confused white shadow, like a spear stuck in the sky.

The room was as bright as day.

Jaime stood in front of the north wall, which was covered with ornate wood carvings, rows of torches, and candles. The walls behind the candlesticks are fitted with smoothed silver mirrors, which triple the intensity of the light of the torches and candles.

The Queen Mother's Ballroom is not large, and dancing here has long ceased to exist.

"Jamie, I'm a man, and you're a woman. Cersei said lightly.

In the face of these humiliating words, Jaime fell silent. His face was covered in stubble, apparently untidy for a while, and his blonde hair looked disheveled, with occasional gray strands or two.

Cersei turned and stared at Jaime Lannister, who was overflowing with vicissitudes: "Have you read Dona Swift's letter?"

"Look!"

"The gold and jade of the Magic Mountain are piled up all over the castle, is his money conjured by magic?"

"He was supported by nobles and wealthy merchants. Donna said she believed the gold and jade were taken by wealthy merchants. “

"It is the support of the nobles and wealthy merchants of the Lannister family in the Westlands. ”

Jaime was silent again.

Cersei's words changed suddenly, "How long have you not been to my bedroom?" Her slender neck straightened and looked at Jaime like a white swan.

"It's been a while. ”

"Shave your beard, take a shower, change your clothes, don't bring armor and a sword, I want you to come to my bedroom tonight. ”

"I'm on patrol tonight. ”

"Leave it to Bolon, he's the captain of the Megaru Guard. ”

"I'm the captain of the Kingsguard. ”

"I am Her Majesty the Queen Mother, and I now order you not to patrol tonight. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty the Queen Mother. ”

"Call me Cersei. ”

“............”

Cersei stared at Jaime, a hint of annoyance in her eyes.

Once, after a passionate affair, the two talked, and Jaime asked about her affair with Lancer, the Kate Black brothers, and others, and she refused to explain it to him, and the two parted happily. After that night, Jaime stopped coming to the bedroom, and when he saw him as usual, he was silent when he didn't have to, and became less and less attentive to the edges. Cersei couldn't bear it anymore, and after drinking again, she called her former lover Osney Kate Black over for a secret meeting, only to have the news leak again.

In fact, as soon as Jaime returned, Cersei drove Osney Kate Black away from her side for Jaime's sake and arranged for him to go to the garrison to become a junior officer. But Jaime didn't seem to appreciate her intentions.

When Jaime learns that Cersei and Osney Kate Black have another secret meeting, the person is even more gloomy, and he doesn't even bother to shave his beard. This made Cersei feel more and more disgusted with him.

She longed for Jaime to put aside his relationship and be as strong as Duke Tywin, to take on the burden and rebuild the Lannisters' glory. She hoped that Jaime would not be the Kingsguard, but the Prime Minister, the Westward Guardian, and the Duke of Castle Rock, but he was unwilling to do anything, he still chose to be the Kingsguard, choosing to be by her side.

But that's not what Cersei wants! she'd rather be a man so she can be the hand of the king and rule the Seven Kingdoms.

The Magic Mountain was ordered to conquer the Vale, and the documents for the Vale's submission had arrived in King's Landing, and Prime Minister Mace's raven letter was also released, in which Mace invited the Petyrs to King's Landing as guests, of course, the real intention was to hope that Littlefinger would come back and take Lysa Tully as a hostage.

"Have you read Maester Pet's letter carefully?" Cersei softened.

"Yes. “

"The Demon Mountain passed through the Mingyue Mountain Range, and recruited more than 3,000 warriors from the mountain tribes, and 8,000 barbarian people migrated to the west again to become his people. The Demon Mountain is getting stronger and stronger, but fortunately, his people and soldiers are mostly barbarians. ”

"The warriors of the Takayama clan are fierce and loyal. Eight thousand warriors of the Gaoshan clan were recruited before and after the magic mountain, and I believe that they have reached the limit of more than forty tribes of the Gaoshan clan. ”

"Maybe the soldiers of the entire Gaoshan clan tribe have followed the Demon Mountain. However, Master Pate also said that this time, more than 100 silversmiths from White Harbor in the north also took the initiative to defect to the Magic Mountain. I was surprised by the news, why?"

Bachelor Pate is the tax bachelor of the Magic Mountain, and the court scholar sent by Kai Feng to the side of the Magic Mountain before his death.

"How did the silversmiths of the Stark family get from White Harbor to the lower ferry of the Trident? Jaime said. He could open his mouth to say it, and apparently he had thought about the strange news after reading the letter.

"Craftsmen live by their craft, and whoever is paid the most will go with whomever they want. Could it be?!" Cersei walked towards James.

"Magic Mountain Notoriety, why do you think the silversmiths of White Harbor will go?"

"The man who persuaded the silversmiths to leave in White Harbor may not have said that he was working for the Magic Mountain at all. When the silversmiths arrived at the crossing of the Trident River, they found the magic mountain waiting for them, and they couldn't regret it!"

Jaime nodded, acknowledging that Cersei's words made sense.

"Silversmith, what does the mountain want a silversmith for?" Cersei asked softly as she approached Jaime, her eyes wandering.

"The Magic Mountain issues paper money in the West, and in exchange for gold and silver in the West, his paper money will be printed more and more, and his reserve treasury will have more and more gold and silver. When there is more gold and silver, it can be turned into works of art and ornaments, which can be sold to the free trade city-states on the other side of the Narrow Sea. ”

"Well, it seems that this is the only explanation. Donna said she had turned down Mrs. Jenny's invitation to join the Bank's Gold Reserve Supervisory Board, which was set up by a fellow Bancroft University. She's stupid to do that. Contempt tugged at Cersei's lips.

"Jenny won't let Dona mind the real thing!"

"It's good to be honest and get a good idea of what they're doing. There will be more and more money in the coffers of the Magic Mountain, and we will have less and less money, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl Rosby, may have stopped breathing with a cough tonight, and we urgently need Littlefinger back. Cersei's eyes flickered, as if she had some ulterior motive.

"Then ask Prime Minister Metz to give the order. "James's sense of vicissitudes makes him actually more manly.

"Jaime, even if the Prime Minister ordered Littlefinger to come back, did you ever think that Littlefinger would not come back?"

"Didn't think about it!"

"I knew you wouldn't think about it. Cersei sneered, "What will happen to our treasury revenues if Littlefinger refuses to come back?" Count Rosby only counts his daily expenses on paper, and cannot grind one coin into two. The 3.6 million gold dragons we borrowed from the Magic Mountain and the Baylor Great Sanctuary have already spent more than one million, and the interest on the iron vault has to be repaid, and the principal has not yet been repaid. ”

"If you want to find the Chancellor of the Exchequer to replace Earl Rossby, you should consult with Prime Minister Mace. Jaime said.

"Didn't the bank in the Magic Mountain give you any inspiration?" Cersei walked to the bar, where the wine cabinet was filled with good wines from all over the world.

"Apocalypse, the Magic Mountain had told me about his plan to open a bank, and he invited me to join him, but I couldn't understand everything he said at the time, and he said that his goal was to go beyond the iron vaults of Braavos on the other side of the Narrow Sea, and to borrow money from the kings, dukes, governors, rich merchants, and princes of the world, and I laughed at him at the time. Iron vaults cannot be surpassed. ”

"If Magic Mountain is developing at the current rate of the bank, he may surpass the Iron Vault. “

"The wealth of the people of the Westlands is very limited, the loans are also very limited, and the interest is also very limited, the banks of the Magic Mountain are the Westlands and King's Landing, and the banks of the Iron Vault are worldly, and as far as the end of the Eastern World, the Iron Vault will not be surpassed. Jaime said lightly, "As soon as the banknotes of the Magic Mountain leave the Western Realm, no one will recognize them." The bank in the Magic Mountain is a small ant, and the bank in the Iron Vault is an elephant. ”

Cersei looked at Jaime, "You're stubborn, what if the Magic Mountain succeeds?"

"His bank notes can't even get out of the West, how can he succeed. ”

Cersei's words went in circles in her mind, and she decided not to say it for a while. She took a soft sip of her wine and changed the subject, "Jaime, what did the Magic Mountain ask you to join?" Cersei looked at Jaime with playful eyes.

"He asked me to give him half of the gold in Castle Rock. ”

"Oh, how much gold do we have in the underground vaults of Kaiyan City? No one dared to ask about his wealth when my father was here. ”

"Now it's less than a million golden dragons, maybe less, who knows!"

"Is there almost no money left?" Cersei's voice was startled. The golden cup in her hand was frozen in the air, and Cersei was really surprised.

"We've been fighting for three years, Cersei. It was not long before the Western Army returned from the Riverlands, and we had 40,000 of the best, and now there were less than 800 left. ”

"Yes, the main thing is defeat. Cersei sneered, her eyes gleaming.

There was a wounded look in James' eyes, and he looked even more vicissitudes.

In the year 298 of Aegon, the Civil War began, and Jaime led the elite of the Western Army to attack Riverlands, besiege Riverrun, and was captured by Robb Stark in the Whispering Forest on a moonlit night, and then imprisoned in Riverrun, and his father could not come to save him. Tyrion Lannister sent someone to rescue him, but he was captured by Edmuthulli on the street, Robb Stark led the army into the West, and won a hundred battles, the Westside army was defeated, the wealth of many nobles was looted, and the laity Kaiyan City was almost sacked, but the defeated Westside needed money and food to maintain, which consumed the huge wealth of the Lannister family.

The more defeated the battle, the faster the money was consumed! The soldier lost his life, and the nobles lost their wealth.

The money of war belongs only to the victorious side.

In the end, in order to survive, Jaime had to offer to be the night watchman, when the strangers and ghouls attacked, Jaime said that Eddard Stark was moved, and he was sent back to persuade the Iron Throne to send troops to the Great Wall of Desperation, and the others returned, money, food and soldiers, and Eddard Stark got nothing.

"I was impatient, and my father was underestimating. We didn't know that Eddard Stark was in Robb Stark's army. Jaime's voice was low.

"The Western Army has exhausted its own men, and the Stark in the North is our enemy, but you actually persuaded me to gather the Legion to support the Stark?"

"It's not for Stark, the Wraiths are our common enemies. ”

"We don't live in the north. ”

"If the Wraiths defeat Stark, they will go south, and then we will all be turned into ghouls by the Wraiths. On the Iron Throne, the Night King, with blue eyes and frost, will sit instead of Toman Baratheon I. ”

"Humph!" Cersei snorted, glancing at Jaime contemptuously, "I don't believe in strangers, and I don't believe in ghouls. ”

"Do you believe me?"

"I believe it. ”

"I didn't lie to you. ”

"I believe in you, and I believe that there are no strangers and ghouls. ”

Jaime looked at Cersei with a hint of strangeness in his eyes.

"Let's think about our treasury revenues. That's all that matters. Cersei shifted her words again, "Did the Magic Mountain tell you about the bank's plans, and did he tell you about the plans to implement paper money?"

"No!" Jaime replied.

"He told me!"

Jaime's dark eyes lit up.

"When?"

"When I was in Riverlands. Cersei said lightly, "I know you're upset that the Magic Mountain killed Uncle Kaivon, but I support him in killing Kaivon." Kevon is going to imprison me in the High Court, the capital of Riverlands, and forcibly marry me to a lame man, who will then become regent and take control of the palace and the kingdom, and he will commit treason. ”

"Uncle's approach is indeed inappropriate, but ......"

"The Magic Mountain shouldn't have killed him, should it?" Cersei sneered.

Jaime stopped talking, but chose to remain silent.

"Before the manager of the Iron Treasury came to King's Landing, the Magic Mountain had suggested to me that paper money be introduced in the Seven Kingdoms, and I couldn't understand what he was saying at the time. It wasn't until I was tricked by Uncle Kaivon into going to the Western Frontier that the Magic Mountain sent me a warning and once again proposed a plan to promote paper money, saying that if I was not interested, he could promote it to me in the Western Frontier first, and if it was successful in the Western Frontier, he would be able to promote it in the country. Think about it, Jaime, if we could print paper money for circulation in place of the metal coins of the Seven Kingdoms, would our royal family still lack money to spend? Will we worry that we will not be able to pay off the debt of the iron vault? Paper money is a gold mine, and the gold mine will be dug up, but the paper money can be printed in a steady stream, and our money will not be spent. ”

Jaime looked surprised.

"Magic Mountain wants the country to promote paper money, just like the West?"

"Yes!"

"The royal family is not the only one who can print paper. But gold is different, and no one can conjure it out of thin air. ”

"Magic Mountain once assured me that banknotes could be unique. A smile appeared on Cersei's face, and she looked radiant.

"No way!" said Jaime flatly.

Although Jaime is a tough guy hero, he is limited by the level of civilization and cannot believe that the world can promote paper money transactions. Although it seems that the implementation of paper money by military strength in a small place in Magic Mountain seems to have been successful, once it is implemented on a large scale, it will definitely not be possible. Even if the Red Keep unifies the Seven Kingdoms, Stark in the North, Tully in the Riverlands, Arryn in the Vale, Baratheon in the Stormlands, Tyrell in the Riverlands, and Martell in Dorne will all rise up against it, especially now that the kingdom is divided into several pieces.

"The Magic Mountain has succeeded in the West, and Donna has already said in the letter that when she goes to buy anything, she must first go to the bank to exchange it for paper money, otherwise, it will be impossible to buy even a box of rouge. ”

"The western border is small, and Lannisport is even smaller. ”

"I promised the Magic Mountain, as long as he succeeds in his attempt in the West, I will promise him to promote paper money in the King's Lands, and the Baylor Bank opened by the Magic Mountain and the Great Sanctuary of Baylor in King's Landing is responsible for the implementation of paper money in King's Landing, and our royal family will take a stake in Baylor Bank, no need to invest money, use the reputation and power of the royal family to invest in it, this is the way to sharpen one gold coin and turn it into two. ”

Jaime was stunned!

It turned out that the implementation of paper money in the western realm of Magic Mountain was just a small experiment, and his real ambition was to promote paper money in the seven countries, in this entire continent. It's just that, how is this possible? Exchanging Huang Cancan's gold coin for a piece of fluttering paper is impossible for anyone, as long as they are not stupid, to accept it.

"Cersei, you want me to exchange the gold of Castle Rock for the Clegane Bank's banknotes, I won't!" Jaime cut to the punch.

"I won't change either!" Cersei laughed, "Donna won't either, but she chooses to change anyway." ”

"The situation in the western realm is special, the legions of the Magic Mountain control the western realm, and no one dares to resist him. If it were to be implemented in the King's Land, I bet it would be a 100% failure. ”

"I'm not sure in my heart, but the magic mountain said that as long as I delegate power, if I succeed, our royal family will sit back and enjoy the benefits of the bank, and if it fails, the losses will be the magic mountain's. ”

"I'm afraid it's going to be confusing. “

"You're wrong, Jaime, Baylor Bank is opened in the name of Baylor Grand Sanctuary, and the reputation of Baylor Great Sanctuary is hundreds of times higher than that of our Lannister family. The Magic Mountain doesn't need to borrow the credibility of our Lannister family, he just wants the royal family to nod and he will do it. ”

"I'm afraid the Prime Minister won't agree!"

"Maybe. If this matter needs to be voted on by the Imperial Council, I want your vote to go to the Magic Mountain. Cersei said.

Jaime felt his body heat up, and his armor was so heavy.

"Cersei, the Magic Mountain is in the King's Territory to implement the paper money plan, if it succeeds, how much profit can our royal family get?"

"If you want a few percent, you don't have to invest a penny, you don't have to do any practical things, just nod your head and let the magic mountain do it. “

"Forty percent of the profits!" said Jaime.

"Baylor Grand Sanctuary accounts for forty percent, Magic Mountain accounts for forty percent, and we share two percent of the dividends. ”

"At least thirty percent. Jaime said, "Besides, who will keep the gold, silver, red and copper exchanged for paper money, and we are still the Magic Mountain?"