Iger confessed his plans, not because he was honest.

In addition to considering the need to maintain a fairly good mutual trust between himself and the red-robed woman, there was another point: after knowing that this was not an ordinary tile steel sword, he wavered.

Since the original sale plan is likely to fail, what if you say it?

The Valyrian steel sword, as an item with more symbolic meaning than use value, is largely out of circulation – priceless and marketable. If you have to forcibly estimate how much it is worth, be conservative, it will be about two or three hundred thousand gold dragons. At this critical juncture, make a discount of 100,000 gold dragons and sell them to Tywin...... It seems that there is a small loss, but in general, both parties are happy.

However, how should the value of a dragon king's sword be measured? The spells applied inside and outside the Dark Sisters' sword body are dozens of times more powerful than ordinary tile steel swords, does this mean that the price should also be dozens of times?

No, even the most uninitiated person should know that the difficulty and value of a magic item, as its performance increases, should increase exponentially - the value of the Dark Sisters is not too much to set to tens of millions of golden dragons!

But...... Just like the Great Wall: as the largest magical artifact in the world of Fire and Ice, its value is simply immeasurable. But no one would pay for it - all the Lannisters wanted was an ordinary brick-and-steel weapon that wouldn't rust and fade with the passage of time to support the "clan sword". The magical abilities possessed by the Dragonsteel Sword were meaningless to Tywin, to anyone who didn't fight the Strangers.

Egger is now the one who is about to fight the Stranger.

He could accept selling the tile steel sword worth hundreds of thousands of gold dragons for 100,000 gold dragons, but if he sold the Dark Sisters at one percent of its price...... The deal was so violent that Egger would wake up in his own dreams scolding himself for being a loser.

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"Well, I admit, this sword may indeed be extraordinary. Egg forced an explanation with a bitter face, "But...... What I think is, if a large amount of money can be used to buy ordnance and equipment to improve the overall combat effectiveness of the land-giving army, it is not much better than having an extra sword that can kill strange ghosts?"

Melisandre scoffed at Egger's claim: the Lightbringer of Light, whom countless Lord of Light followers had been looking for for so long without a trace, had finally been sent to the Children of Prophecy, and the person wanted to sell it, which was a joke, and not funny at all!

Her eyes were sharp: "Who are you looking for to buy?"

Although the question was short, it hit the nail on the head, and Iger was instantly speechless.

In a world where the productive forces are backward, what is lacking is not money, but commodities.

......

In the most peaceful times, a wandering knight could buy weapons, mounts, and even head-to-toe armor for only ten gold dragons, wrap himself and his horse like a tin can, and go to jousting and looking for an employer with dignity.

But if a big guy like Tywin Lannister suddenly makes a temporary decision to buy equipment to arm a 1,000-man Lannister Guard, will 10,000 gold dragons be enough?

Far from enough, 100,000 is enough. Because no supplier or craftsman can get so many weapons and equipment at once, once someone starts buying them in large quantities, the price of similar goods will skyrocket and quickly climb to prohibitive levels.

In fact, no matter where the lords were, they continued to buy weapons and equipment made by blacksmiths in advance at low prices in peacetime when prices were cheap, and hoarded arsenals for war.

Now, the four seas are full of wolf smoke, and no one from the Seven Kingdoms is involved in this great war caused by the infighting of the Baratheon family. Not to mention the few families who are fighting each other fiercely, even if they are not in a fighting state for the time being, they are still looking forward to someone's return, and they will also stay overnight and wait for the day...... The arsenal is guaranteed to be empty, and even the craftsmen and technicians who can make new equipment are most likely forcibly requisitioned by the lord to provide customization and maintenance services for the army for free.

Someone must ask, what about the other side of the Narrow Sea?

Thanks to Daenerys Targaryen, the "Freedom Fighter", and the Cult of the Red God, who is hyping up the blessings of apocalypse, the city-states of Essos, regardless of whether slavery has been abolished or not, are all at their own risk, and they are all armed and armed with the purpose of being prepared.

In the midst of the smoke everywhere, Iger realized that he was really ...... If you have money, you may not be able to buy armaments, so you can only give land and work with all your might, and you can do it with hot and cold weapons, and you can be armed as much as you can.

"Well, I probably can't buy much armament. Egg frankly admitted that he had not thought about it before, after all, it was an idea that came up in the blink of an eye, and it was normal to have a problem, "However, Houguan Town is developing a special weapon to deal with ghouls and strangers, which also requires money. ”

......

"How much money do you lack?" asked the red-robed woman sharply.

How much money am I missing?

After Iger calmed down and thought about it, he quickly came to a conclusion that surprised him: although the Night's Watch was now in debt, it was not short of money.

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The cost of building warships at Icegap Harbor, the land grant, and the food consumption of the Great Wall—the two major expenses were borne by the Northern Territory and the Iron Vault, respectively, while the Southern Branch of the Night's Watch Industries found saltpeter mines and researched the cost of making nitrate from the earth, and Nina and the Industrial Park found a way to support themselves.

This means that at this stage, Egger has to spend money only in Houguan Town: the salaries of hundreds of Night's Watch logistics employees, the purchase of various tools and daily necessities that cannot be produced by the land grants - 1,000 gold dragons per month, the remuneration of the smelting, casting, and forging experts required to study artillery and explosive bombs, and the cost of materials consumed by trial and error - currently amounting to 2,000 gold dragons per month, and will soon reach 3,000 as the scale expands and the program adapts.

Nearly 4,000 gold dragons per month...... It sounds like a lot of money, but you know, Tyrion has just granted the Night's Watch a loan: forty thousand dragons, cash.

Not only solves the urgent need, but also can last for a small while.

It is the same as buying armaments: in reality, climbing science and technology, especially in a world with backward productivity and lack of materials, in fact, the biggest problem facing is not the lack of money, but the lack of personnel, pre-basic technology and materials.

Personnel, Iger with the pyromancer as the core, supplemented by the talents discovered by the night watch industry itself, and the cronies who came from recruitment and education formed a team, which was barely enough; the basic technology, and the whole and bottom worked together to tackle the problem, and it was almost done; but the materials were more troublesome: the charcoal needed for gunpowder was self-burning, the sulfur was dug from Dragonstone Island, and the nitrate was temporarily let the night watchman Lang Crow, who was originally recruiting soldiers (abducting people) in various places, take the guys to the toilets, stables, and The shell required for the explosion and the cannon body are more complicated, and the material must be mined and smelted by themselves, the shape must be designed and improved by themselves, and the molds must be kneaded and cut by themselves......

It's like a hardcore gathering game with no top-up system and no built-in store: apart from some common tools and experienced masters, there aren't many parts that you can get for a direct fee.

Real technological progress can certainly be accelerated by investing large sums of money, but the most obvious difference from those web games is that the time required cannot be infinitely shortened by krypton or cheating.

The current volume of the research institute is insufficient, the scarcity of experience and other problems are there, and spending more than 2,000 gold dragons per month is already a figure close to the upper limit. Even if Iger forcibly increases the allocation, the researchers will not have much to spend except to eat better, dress better, and give out more bonuses.

In a nutshell: the Night's Watch Legion, despite its huge deficit at the moment, will never run out of money before the Great War begins. The song of ice and fire is about to play, and living to the end of the song is the first priority, so what's the use of rushing to stuff gold coins into the warehouse?

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"I know the Night's Watch has a lot of foreign debts right now, but now is not the time to think about how to pay them off! Bennero, the High Priest of the Red Temple of Valantis, is collecting money for the Night's Watch from the faithful, and the post-war debt is not as stressful as you might think. Seeing that Egg was deep in thought, Melisandre also slowed her tone, "In any case, the Lightbringer must be held by you personally, there is no need to discuss!"

It turned out that the red-robed woman asked how much money she lacked, not because she had foreseen the night's finances, but because she had other sources of funds!

Egg muttered secretly, but still reluctantly nodded in agreement: "Okay, you don't have to emphasize it anymore, I promise, I won't sell this sword." ”

Yes, yes, but the Dark Sisters, as a sword, have to be inserted into the body of the stranger to be useful...... This means that the sword-wielder must be given the opportunity to go head-to-head with the Stranger and even the Night King in order to exert the power of his "nemesis".

Iger has always been active in public as a warrior and a hero, which has a huge positive effect on morale raising and maintaining. As the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch, he really couldn't tell Melisandre that he really didn't want to fight these ghosts anymore after he had experienced fighting with the ghosts...... In particular, it may be the Night King's hand-to-hand combat.

Is this cowardice? Yes, of course. But Iger doesn't feel anything to be ashamed of: from the bottom of his heart, true warriors are not fearless, but can overcome fears.

If he is really forced to the point where he has to fight the Night King alone, I wonder if Rahlo, who may have chosen himself as his agent, will bless himself......? Even if it's a god, it's a difficult option to accept.

......

Melisandre, who had been reassured, breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to babble in a slow tone, while Egger's thoughts drifted to something else: ordinary tile steel swords can kill strangers, and the dragon king's sword contains dozens of times more homologous magic than the former, doesn't this mean that even if the Dark Sisters are divided into dozens of parts, each one can kill the strangers independently?

Egger hadn't forgotten that he was a time-traveler, how could he have lived in this world for more than four years, and instead limited his mind? The Dark Sisters are swords, but who said that the wielder must use it in the form of a sword?

"Sorry, Ms. Melisandre. Egg raised his hand to interrupt the witch again, "Allow me to interject, I want to ask, if I melt this sword and forge it into dozens of small pieces, will these small pieces still have the ability to kill the stranger?"

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