Chapter 180: Worries
Food is short at any time, this is certain, even if the north has a bumper potato harvest today, but it is just that the nobles have more food than in previous years, and there is still a phenomenon of hunger among the commoners, and it is almost impossible to want all the people in the north not to go hungry and not be freezing.
It is impossible to survive the harsh winter by relying on storage, and only development can cope with the difficulties.
It is still not enough to use the savings of the Mandalay family over the years to use the funds that are too late to carry on development and construction, and the huge northern territory needs to run well, buy people's hearts and treat merchants well, which is what a wise leader must do, and it is also the best period for the caravan to establish a mutually beneficial relationship.
It is said that when the real winter comes, the sea will freeze and merchant ships will not be able to sail.
Lynn needs to be fully prepared for the arrival of winter, and as for the Iron Throne and the crusade against Westeros, in fact, he has no such urgent desire in his heart.
Or rather, Lynn's goal was never just to ascend to the Iron Throne, and since ruling Westeros was a transition, not the end, who cared much about a transitional goal?
When the northern land solves his worries, the strength he has there will not be much difficulty in ruling this small continent.
Lynn was going to release all the seized Riverland merchants from the prison, and she didn't have a grain of her own, but all the things that the merchants came could be exchanged for expensive iron farming tools in White Harbor.
However, iron is actually a semi-embargoed material in Westeros, you can buy some iron pots in the past, if you boast of selling weapons and wrought iron in the territory, and being caught by the lord of the territory, it is definitely the best excuse to plunder the entire caravan.
There are also inferior horses and livestock, which are very much needed for the rapid development of agriculture in the north, but unfortunately there are not a few good horse ranches in the entire continent, and the folk horses have long been crossbred into ugly mules, and the war horses have not been able to find a few decent ones at all.
This matter can be discussed with Kompany, who is now the largest maritime merchant in the fishing village port, and I heard that he is planning to develop in White Harbor City recently.
Since he was an old acquaintance, Lynn could naturally give him the green light, there were ships in the outer harbor that had no business, and since the opening of the maritime trade between the north and Dorne, Kompany had suspended the maritime trade business of Essos and turned his attention to Dorne.
This guy has asked the thin monkey several times to pass the message to meet him, but unfortunately Lynn has been busy lately and can't spare time.
With the matter of the vassal conference out of the way, Lynn felt that today would be a good day to catch up.
Presumably knowing that Lynn needed food that could be stored for a long time, and that he also needed to open up the sales of his breweries on the Three Sisters Islands, Kompany even hired Old Hill Bachelor to be a lobbyist, so that he could pass the word in, hoping to obtain a permit from the Dorne Sea Trade.
Lynn thought about how he established a maritime trade with Dorne on the spot, but after pondering for a long time, he didn't seem to have any clue, and there was no cause and effect, and he just felt that Dorne in the south was sparsely populated and fertile, so it must be rich in products.
The lack of iron ore and hides in the Dorn was the strength of the North, so a few White Harbor merchants tried to make a steady trade relationship along the east coast to see if they could build a stable trade relationship.
It is precisely because things are very simple that Lynn needs to strictly control this route, if every merchant ship can go south to Dorne, then the iron ore, animal skins, and now potatoes, spirits and other things in the north are worthless.
"Kompany wants to build a maritime business empire, damn it, a man from a small fishing village, so ambitious, I heard that he has built a freight station in several free trade cities in Essos following the previous model, and now he wants to get his hands on Dorne, if he really has him, let's meet him, give him an account, who was the lord of this city who pointed him to Essos?
The thin monkey listened to the lord sitting in the courtyard, moaning and muttering innocently, and disappeared in the darkness.
Lyanna on the side couldn't help but hear this, her brain instantly failed, she suddenly reached out to cover her forehead and eyes tightly, and muttered and repeated: "Oh no, the application officer seems to know even about sea trade, and I haven't found anyone to understand this aspect yet——"
I never thought of taking all the benefits into my pocket in private, since I came to this world, Lynn is alive here, my identity as a native of the north of Westeros cannot be erased from head to toe, he can't turn himself into a flower planter, in this case, taking care of his own people, treating the aborigines here peacefully is a natural thing, you can't just because your soul belongs to an outsider, you can put yourself in the perspective of a bystander to look at the people here, fight the whole world with your own person and a system, and mix yourself into an outlier, and the end will almost come。
Now that Skinny Monkey had already arranged a meeting with Kompany, Lynn didn't have to worry about anything, when and where.
Lynn, who had nothing to do, planned to continue to investigate, the assassination incident that happened in the bath of the lord's mansion before, and since that time, Lynn almost suffered from hydrophobia, not the kind in his previous life.
He didn't reject the river, but he didn't dare to approach the place where there was a lot of water, and even if the river and lake were the sea in White Harbor City, he tried to stay away from it as much as possible now.
However, I heard that the soldiers stationed there did a large-scale investigation according to the clues left by the thin monkey at the beginning, and finally found some clues.
Contrary to Lynn's prediction, this matter is related to the believers of the drowning gods.
What's going on?,At first, it was the three-eyed crow.,Then the resurrected Dani has signs of being invaded by the Lord of Light.,Now the assassination case involves the drowning god.,I feel that I am not rejected by the people of Westeros.,But I was remembered by these gods who are high above without a trace.。
Riding on a big green horse, with a fully armed guard regiment, a smoke out of the White Harbor City to the south of the fishing village port castle, this is Lynn's original territory, but also the most common place for the golden pig to stay, if Lynn did not subconsciously summon it, the golden pig will spend half an hour every day out of eating, flying over the southern border of White Harbor, to the fishing village he is more familiar with.
Lyanna rode a pony around the fishing village and the village, a maid from the lord's mansion watched, and the two of them had a very happy time, and now Lyanna lived more and more like an ordinary girl in the north, rather than just a matriarch of the Mormont family.
This is actually a good phenomenon, the little bear girl is actually very miserable in the original plot, because her mother and sister, the patriarch of the Mormont family, died in Twin Cities with the young wolf lord Robb, and she was forced to control a strong family at a young age, and the barren bear island family is not allowed to have a weak patriarch, so she used to always force her strongest side to show in front of others.
And now, with the temporary comfort, Lyanna finally has a chance to show her lively side.
Lyanna rode a Dorne horse, small and muscular, suitable for a thin, small woman, but surprisingly fast, no less than the horses of the North.
Lyanna the Bear Girl had never ridden such an interesting horse, giggling with laughter on the back of a pony.
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