Braavos, the city where the Iron Vault is located, is not on Westeros Road, but across the sea. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info This famous free trade city is very rich, and the iron vault is its money bag. The kings of Westeros often borrowed money from the Iron Vaults to survive famine years or to improve their armaments. The motto of the Iron Vault is "No Arrears", but they also accept all kinds of repayments, from cattle, sheep, rice, flour and even slaves, not only for gold coins. Backed by a trading city, these "repayments" can always be quickly cashed in and become huge profits for the iron vault.

The Iron Treasury has no armed forces, and if it encounters a king who is in arrears, it will immediately turn to support its opponents. If the king is too good, he will use money to create enemies to recoup his investment. Therefore, although it did not participate in the war in Westeros, its power of money was also entangled with this series of wars.

Westeros' biggest debtor is the royal family, Joffrey Baratheon. A troublesome king, a combination of stupidity, madness, brutality, and self-serving, the Iron Vault has always been skeptical about recovering the royal family's loans.

So the Iron Vault did one thing. When one of Joffrey Baratheon's enemies, his uncle Stannis Baratheon, borrowed money from the Iron Vault, the Iron Vault agreed, giving him a huge amount of money to arm himself so that he could bounce back from his previous defeat and charge the throne again!

Zhao Mai didn't care who would become the king, but he had to pay attention to Stannis Baratheon, because he didn't sail to the royal capital after borrowing the money, but went north to the Great Wall! Stannis is a superstitious person, and he cares very much about the words of Melisandre, the "priestess of fire". And when his beautiful red-robed priestess and Prime Minister Davos Seaworth pointed out to him at the same time a "terrible threat from the north", Stannis, believing himself to be the king and protector of Westeros, decided to put aside the struggle for the throne and "go and save all his subjects".

Without Stannis's army, the Night's Watch would have been defeated by the "Free People" army of the King of the Outer Gates, and none of the Night's Watch would have survived. Without the Night's Watch, the Wall is no longer a "desperate place", and the Wraiths can cross the south without hindrance and then sweep across Westeros. If that happens, the world of Westeros will really collapse.

It only took Zhao Mai half a minute to figure out the relationship in all this, so the key was "Did Stannis get the money?" He looked at Liu Su, who was carrying into the ambulance, and felt that he still had something to ask him, so he said to Zhong Jianbai: "Director Zhong, does the hospital have that kind of lamp that can bask in the sun? ”

Zhong Jianbai paused for a moment, and then understood what Zhao Mai meant: "Yes, it's good for you to go with Captain Liu." Do you have a badge with you? It doesn't matter if you don't bring it, just be with Team Liu. ”

"Hey, thanks. Zhao Mai beckoned, and the reserve grain also jumped into the ambulance with the flower pot on his back, and sat beside Zhao Mai honestly. Even though the doctor was reluctant, there was nothing he could do but ask the driver to drive as soon as possible.

"Team Liu, how did you bring down the Iron Vault? Did Stannis borrow any money?"

"I don't understand the economic aspect at all, that's Zhong Zhixiu's specialty. You don't have to ask Xu Yaning, she doesn't understand. Although what Zhong Zhixiu did was very sad, his ability was indeed very strong. I remember when the bank went bankrupt and there was a run, Stannis had just arrived in Braavos, so he probably didn't get the money. ”

"That is, he doesn't have the funds to form an army, and he can't go north to help the night watchmen defend against the wildlings?" Zhao Mai sighed: "So, there is no help?"

"If the Night's Watch is defeated, or Jon Snow is completely dead, then it's over. Liu Su moved his neck slightly, and turned his head to look at Zhao Mai with difficulty: "I didn't expect that world to be so unstable, and I didn't figure out what Zhong Zhixiu did. If you don't know yourself or your opponent, you will die in every battle. This is a lesson!"

"Is there any way to remedy this?" Zhao Mai asked.

"I don't know, and I wouldn't recommend you go there again. If the world collapses, it doesn't always have to be able to escape. I knew that one person didn't have time, and as a result, he was flattened with a certain planet. This time, it's the problem on the part of the relevant ministry, so it will definitely compensate you, and you don't need to take any more risks. And, thank you for saving us. Even if we don't know what happened next, we know that if it weren't for you, we would have been abandoned. ”

"Actually, Zhong Zhixiu kept asking me to send you back, and then lied that I had killed him, and then sent him to another world. He said that it was the origin of magic, that anything was possible, and you know what that place was?"

"Thanks, it makes me feel better to hear that he wasn't going to kill us in the end. I've only heard rumors about the origin of magic, and I don't have any definite information, but you can ask the old man. He squinted his eyes and glanced at the doctor who was in the car.

Got it. Zhao Mai snapped his fingers, and the doctor was stunned, tilted his head and fell asleep.

"Strong! I now know that Zhong Zhixiu must have been subdued by you, I had seen him deal with the Thousand Faces and the Wizard before, but I believed him that it was an integral part of the plan. He is quite proud in his heart, and he must be convinced to surrender obediently. Captain Liu lowered his voice and said, "The information that is open and reliable is that there are certain times and events that are critical to a particular capability and are protected in a focused manner. For example, the birth of the three Qings that opened the world, such as the Lich War, such as the gods and Journey to the West. These time periods are related to the old man, so no one can go without his approval, not even the other detached ones, do you understand?"

"I know, self-protection mechanisms are the foundation. ”

"Magic is a powerful power system, but what does magic come from? Although we are in the East, there are many people who specialize in it. Later, it was discovered that although the magic was powerful, it did not produce a person like an old man, which meant that its origin was not protected by the transcendent, and it should be a place that could be reached. On the one hand, everyone thinks that there is a possibility of a transcendent in magic, so they are all fighting, and on the other hand, there are those who stubbornly believe that the trio is a transcendent in magic, so the so-called origins that can be found now are all lies. ”

"I'm more convinced of the latter. Because all transcendents are not bound by time, even if they do not appear until tens of thousands of years later, they actually existed tens of thousands of years ago. But this creates a paradox that all the transcendents have and have been fully created, and no new ones can arise. I just don't understand it. And the old man is very secretive about this issue, he just says that he can't understand it, he can't understand it, he can't explain it to us. ”

"Going back to what I knew, once I went to see Zhong Zhixiu, and his room was not closed, so I went in. The origin of magic is a subject for many people, and I see that his notes have a time and coordinates. I know you're going to get the order, so I can make a request for you right now, and you'll get it right away. I'll cancel it, but you'll be able to record it. By the way, I need some gold. ”

Zhao Mai took out his gold coin and stuffed it into Liu Su's palm, and then quickly received the list and recorded the next address. "How could it be there? impossible, right?" Zhao Mai was a little stunned, but Liu Su said that this was the most reliable he knew.

"Zhong Zhixiu is too obsessed, too paranoid, and flawed in dealing with the world, but he is really smart. Alas, what a pity. (To be continued.) )