The next morning, Egg and Tyrion woke up early, took the certificate signed by Eddard Stark and the letter of authorization provided by Mormont, and quickly began their first shopping spree after entering this world.

For the first time since its establishment, the Night's Watch office was closed in the morning: all the office staff, including Jacun, went with their own officials to the distribution center of Steel Street in King's Landing and the port of Blackwater River outside the city to make purchases.

The task of the henchmen is simple: carry the money and protect it.

With a few Black-clad and armed Night's Watch men, two heavily armed Lannister guards in dark red armor, and a dwarf who few people in the city didn't know, well, such a strange and intimidating combination, it's no surprise that someone in King's Landing would dare to use their brains.

They brought out half of the total amount of money, more than a thousand golden dragons, and when the sun rose, they found the most abundant supplies and supplies of the great merchants, and generously bought grain, grass and armaments worth nearly ten times the amount of cash they had carried: enough food for the entire Night's Watch to feed all the men and horses for several months, hundreds of horses, steel swords, bows, and a large number of arrows for seventy or eighty men to be armed to the teeth in minutes......

Not only did the two not struggle to bargain, but they also paid one-tenth of the purchase price on the spot at a price slightly higher than the market price as a deposit. The requirement is: to sign an agreement.

The agreement stipulates that these materials must be counted as soon as possible and concentrated in the port warehouse, and will be loaded into ships and sent to Donghaiwang within two weeks. After arriving at the Great Wall and delivering it to the Night's Watch, the Deliverer went to the Night's Watch office in King's Landing to claim the remaining ninety percent of the payment with the receipt of the goods obtained from the Night's Watch Legion in the East China Sea.

The liquidated damages for both parties shall be one-tenth of the total purchase price, which shall be the same as the amount of the deposit.

To put it simply, if Iger suddenly decides not to want the goods, he loses all the deposits he has paid, which is equivalent to giving them to the owner of the goods for free, and if the owner of the goods suddenly decides to terminate the transaction before the goods are shipped, he needs to return double the deposit.

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It seems that the terms are reasonable, and the price is fine, but in fact: the funds in Egger's hands can't actually pay the remaining ninety percent of the price, and he is obtaining the "temporary ownership" of these grain, grass and armaments worth ten times the deposit and five times the net worth of the Night's Watch Office in the form of an empty glove white wolf.

When the news of the drastic changes in the valley reached the ears of these merchants, the price of these grains, grasses and armaments would inevitably rise, and the direction of the situation that Tyrion could analyze, and those merchants who made a living from it could naturally analyze it, at most a little slower. Before Robert summoned the armies of the Seven Nations to the north of the Arryn Valley, the price of grain and grass would rise by far more than 10%.

What Egger and Tyrion want to earn is not the difference in the price of the increase, but liquidated damages.

The reason is very simple, it is risk-free to earn liquidated damages, but if you want to earn that difference, it is a tiger's mouth and a tooth extraction, which is dangerous and abnormal. A large supplier who can provide so much grain and grass materials, even if he does not have a title, must have a background behind him, and Iger wants to resell the things that are still in the hands of the owner to the subsequent buyers at a higher price without taking out the remaining ninety percent of the payment with the Prime Minister's paperwork, which is simply impossible to achieve.

If the deposit is Egger and Tyrion's own money, and the two are not afraid of death, then they can agree on a higher proportion of liquidated damages and then spend it with the owner of the goods for greater benefits, but in fact, as the creditors come to the door to demand the redemption of the bonds, the capital chain will quickly go through the tension - break these two steps, and at that time, everything will be over.

Take the initiative to make concessions, accept liquidated damages and become the "victim" of the other party's treachery, it seems that he has given up the bulk of his interests, but in fact he has made a lot of money, and the best thing is that he has also avoided possible subsequent accusations and troubles - things have never reached our hands, and the night watchman is also a victim of the increase in the price of grain and grass and armaments, so how can he make war money?

Don't forget who the current Prime Minister is, the pedantic Eddard Stark, who is bent on helping Robert manage the Seven Kingdoms, will not sit idly by and watch this counterinsurgency war against the Vale degenerate into a carnival of arms and grain merchants to extract the wealth of the Iron Throne, and sanctions may have fallen from the sky before the number of people who have pumped the price have all the money.

After that, it is the "background" behind these merchants and the future king's father-in-law, the current king's hand. It is conceivable that while Robert is still alive and Eddard is actually invincible, whether this strong dragon can hold down the ground snake, and how much compromise this northern man will eventually make to the local interest groups in King's Landing, as well as the market itself: how much to allow the supply suppliers to raise prices...... It depends on the final outcome of the battle between him and the nobles and rich people of King's Landing.

No matter who wins or loses, the Night's Watch industry has already received liquidated damages at that time, repaid the debt for redemption, and with the advantage of being the first to obtain information, it has narrowly and dangerously passed the most dangerous initial test of fund-raising and entrepreneurship, and embarked on a bright road of expansion and development!

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These were the assumptions of Egger and Tyrion, and in the plan, these steps were likely to be completed slowly over a period of days to a week, and if a diligent cargo owner finished counting the goods early and was ready to load them on the ship to the desperate Wall, he, the chief logistics officer, might have to find some excuse to delay - after all, as soon as the ship departed, he would have to worry about the remaining ninety percent of the payment.

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But in reality, everything went by an astonishing rate.

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Egger is not the only one who has ears and eyes in the court.

Since news of the civil unrest in the Vale was sent to King's Landing on the initiative of the party that initiated the mutiny, Warris's intelligence network did spread throughout the Seven Kingdoms, but this change happened too suddenly, and his "little birds" were pervasive, but they were not able to outfly the ravens of Runestone City.

So, this upheaval was first learned of by Maester Paishel, who was in charge of the ravens, from the official declaration letter of the League of the Righteous One, and the second person to learn about it was Queen Cersei, but the old lady with zero political points didn't think or think about whether this matter had anything to do with her—and then Varys, but the great eunuch's cooperation and support were far away across the Narrow Sea, and he had no intention or way of making war money in King's Landing, who intended the Iron Throne...... The fourth to hear the news was the Hand of the King, and it was not until he convened the Council of the Crown and informed Robert that the news finally reached the ears of the remaining ministers and the King.

In the end, it was the spies in the Red Keep who pricked up their ears.

These spies will try to secretly pass the news on to their masters, and when they realize what the civil unrest means, they will send people to the market and inform the merchants of their interest groups to keep the goods that are about to increase in price.

Each of these steps takes time: the ears and internal responses of interest groups in the palace, as well as the errands that convey information, are generally maids and servants, and these low-status people will be strictly controlled in and out of the Red Fort, and they can only pass through the gate at a fixed time in the morning and evening every day.

Even if you go out of the gate, you still have to find ways to get the information to the masters, but the masters can't stay in a fixed place all day waiting for their eyes and ears to send the information - in this era without telephones, it takes too much time to pass on information.

But what about Arya, who overheard her father Eddard and his staff discussing the civil unrest in the Vale and the exact timing of the emergency imperial council to be held in the afternoon. After that, the girl followed her guards out of the Red Keep and rode all the way to the Night's Watch office, where she met with Egger and chatted a few words, and before the sword lesson had even begun, she told Egg this information as if it were a story.

The idea in the girl's head was very simple: Egger always told her adventure stories, and in return, such exciting and interesting news as "his aunt who he had never met was besieged in Eagle's Nest City" should naturally be told to the master as soon as possible.

In the midst of this thrilling messaging race, Littlefinger, who was more likely to be the winner, was placed under house arrest in the Chancellor's residence at the Red Fort because of the rumours...... So, Iger became the champion of the race in a vague, fortunate and inevitable way.

With the purchase done and the sun already overhead, Egg and Tyrion returned to the office. By noon, all the things on the market that might be useful in the war had stopped being sold at a clear price, and before sunset, the first six hundred gold dragons plus the penalty for breach of contract had been sent to the Night's Watch office and placed on Egger's desk, and the man who brought in the money brought a message from their master to Egger and Tyrion: You can cooperate next time you have inside information, don't play this trick.

Looking at the large bag of gold coins on the table, both Egg and Tirion fell into deep thought.

The Chief Logistics Officer of the Night's Watch was in a cold sweat and was terrified: if it weren't for Arya's first-hand information this time, wouldn't his own business in Westeros not yet begin...... Stillborn?!

The dwarf of the Lannister family frowned and thought deeper: if even a royal residence like the Red Keep was so flawed in terms of information secrecy, was the peace and stability of the Seven Kingdoms completely false?

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