This is a map that Count Stella is familiar with.

Map of the northern part of the West, full version.

From Tarbek Hall to Casterme, from Casterme to Crag Rock, it was sketched with a pen along the edges, and then, painted a pale green.

To the east of the map, the Branded City stands out.

Brand City is the castle of the Malbran family, the maiden home of Duke Tywin's mother. Earl Malbran was slain by Robb Stark in the North, and his heir, Adam Malbran, was killed by Sweetmouth Raff and Executioner Dunson during the Battle of the Magic Mountain in King's Landing.

The family has declined!

From Tabek Hall to Rock City, in addition to Castermei, there are more than a dozen other minor nobles in the middle.

There was not a single castle of these nobles, all of them were submerged in a pale green. In the territory belonging to the Ron family, Count Stella did not see his own town of Ron.

It was a revised map that upset Count Stella.

Any nobleman who cannot see his family's domains and castles on a map will be disturbed. The message is hard to think about.

"From here to here, it's all connected into one area, Lord Earl, what do you think?" Magic Mountain swiped his finger across the map, including Tabek Hall, Casterme, Crag Rock City, and the territories of more than a dozen minor nobles.

The Magic Mountain is going to annex the territories of all the minor nobles between the three big cities?

This is indeed in line with the domineering temperament of Magic Mountain!

Count Stella wondered in his heart whether he should say that he was very good, or did he not understand it, and hoped that Lord Magic Mountain would clear his doubts?

How to deal with it is the best, and it will not provoke the anger of the magic mountain.

The mountain was furious, and the count feared that his wife and daughter would be humiliated.

Count Stella decided to smile first, the smile was like water in a sponge, as long as he was willing to squeeze it, there was always it: "Lord Magic Mountain, this area is all painted pale green, what does this mean?"

"This is the future gold mine of our region. "Is there a more lucrative trade than digging for gold?"

Stella felt that his smile would not be too stiff, and he hoped that Lord Moshan would feel his deference rather than disobedience: "Lord Duke...... Belch...... You're humorous, but painting this map pale green doesn't make Crags, Ron, Alex, Div, Wilmo, ...... and other places where gold mines appear again. The gold mines in these places have been dug up. ”

It's true.

The father-in-law's family Westerling was because he had dug up the gold mine early, and the family plummeted, and was looked down upon by the great nobles in the West.

Flowers can only bloom more vividly when they are inserted in cow dung!

"The Earl is right, there are indeed no gold mines in these places, but when I say gold mines, of course, they are not real gold mines, but the most profitable things like gold mines. ”

"What is it?" Stella forced herself to listen humbly, smiling, "Lord Duke, since you have been blessed by the Seven Gods, I have great admiration for the wisdom and knowledge of your lordship, who invented snow salt, thermometers, and turned sick milk into healthy milk......

"Silk!" Magic Mountain interrupted the Count's nonsense compliment, "the next gold mine in the West is silk, and what is more valuable than silk?"

“............“

What are you kidding, silk comes from the other side of the Narrow Sea, all imported, expensive, a silk shawl or a long skirt, more expensive than gold.

Stella laughed awkwardly, laughing out of her mouth, not daring to casually answer the amazing words of the Magic Mountain.

He couldn't understand what the Magic Mountain was talking about.

Judging from the map, he saw that his family's Ron City and the castles of more than a dozen other minor nobles were all gone.

"Lord Earl, have you ever been to the courtyard of Count Ode in Lannisham?"

"Yes, Lord Duke, I have been there many times. ”

"Then have you ever seen two huge mulberry trees in the yard, you can eat the mulberry fruit on the mulberry tree four times a year, how many times have you eaten the mulberry fruit?" (There is a foreshadowing in front of it, which is specifically written about this mulberry tree, I can't remember where it is, is it very cute.) ）

"Well, several times. "Every time I went to Count Ode's courtyard, the Earl was fond of taking me to see his mulberry tree, which was Miss Rosamond Lannister's favourite, and I was impressed by the sweet, juicy, and delicious taste of the shiny black." ”

"Lord Earl, the mulberry tree is the most proud ornamental tree of Count Ode, and there are two in his courtyard in the whole western realm, and the mulberry tree comes from the Lorne River valley in Valantis, on the other side of the Narrow Sea. The captain of the Lanniport trade route, who often ran the trade routes, brought it from Valantis especially for him in order to curry favor with Count Ode. “

"Yes, Lord Duke, I have heard. ”

"If the Count of Ode's courtyard can feed the mulberry trees, then the rest of the Westside will naturally feed them as well. ”

"Yes, Lord Duke. Count Stella could only answer mechanically.

Can you feed mulberry trees, does it have anything to do with silk?

"The leaves of the mulberry tree feed a silkworm called a silkworm, and when this silkworm matures, it spits silk into cocoons, and the silk that comes out of us from the other side of the Narrow Sea is spit out by silkworms. ”

The first time Count Stella heard of filarial worms, his wife had silk clothes and silk shawls in his family, and his daughter also had several, which were expensive and were a symbol of the status of noble women, but they knew nothing about silk and filarial worms, silkworms, and cocoons.

Count Stella could only force himself to look at the Magic Mountain to show that he was listening.

"Remember when I was going to meet in Lannisport and ask the nobles from all over the world to send all the handsome men they had chosen to Lannisport?"

"Yes, Lord Duke. “

"We don't grow mulberry trees, we don't raise silkworms, we don't peel off cocoons, but some people do. The women of the Lorne Valley will. (Porter of a real historical story)

"............" The Earl looked at the Magic Mountain with a confused expression, and nodded mechanically.

"I will ask the captain from across the Narrow Sea to teach the beautiful men of the West the customs and language of the Lorne River in Lannisham, and then send them on a ship to the Lorne Valley in a month to buy local local produce, and then bring back hundreds of women who are proficient in silkworm farming. At the same time, I will spend a lot of money to buy mulberry seedlings and silkworm seeds, and as long as I give money, the captains who have been trading between the two continents for many years will compete to buy mulberry seedlings and silkworm seeds for us. ”

The Count kept nodding mechanically, and it was difficult to understand the ...... of this matter Viability.

"Those young men will be escorted by the naval warships of Dragonstone, which have been converted into merchant ships, and they will be all handsome, young and golden, pretending to be the children of nobles, and it will not be difficult for them to marry a young woman and come back. The women who can plant mulberry trees and raise silkworms are all from poor families. ”

Stella could only watch as Lord Magic Mountain swallowed his saliva secretly.

He didn't know if the story told by Lord Magic Mountain was true or false, it was the first time he had heard of it. But whether it's true or not, as long as you nod your head and support that the story of Lord Magic Mountain is wonderful, you will definitely not make a mistake.

"Lord Earl, the sericulture technology in the Lorne River valley is not native to the Lorne River, their sericulture technology comes from the farther east, the eastern continent farther away than Quells City, at the end of the world, there is an eastern country that is proficient in sericulture. The place where their first silk products arrived was Quells City, and as soon as the light and soft silk products arrived in Quells City, it caused a sensation in the whole city. ”

Stella felt like a child who hadn't grown up yet, and these stories he had never heard of! After all, it was a story on another continent, the city of Quells in the east, which was said to be thousands of miles away from the west.

Anyway, if you don't understand, then just make a careful listening appearance, and then nod your head frequently.

"The riverland and the riverbank land are granaries, the land is fertile, and the water resources are abundant, but our western territory is mountainous, hilly and sandy and gravelly where mulberry trees are grown, and we will vigorously develop sericulture, and it is in this area. The Magic Mountain's thick fingers pointed at the land he had sketched with his pen.

A land painted pale green on the map! from Tabek Hall to Castelme to Crag Rock.

"Count, will you help me?"

"I can't ask for it, Lord Duke. ”

"Well, I want you to convince Alex City, Div City, Wilmo City, Sala City, and Tersi City for me...... Wait for all the nobles of the small castle, let them come to Ron City, swear allegiance to me, their hills, mountains, sand and gravel areas, I need to plan them together, what should be leveled should be leveled, what should be cleared should be cleared, I will lead everyone in this area to see the harvest next year. A brand new gold mine. ”

Count Stella didn't hear the future prospect depicted by the Magic Mountain, he only heard the Lord tell him to persuade "Alex City, Div City, Wilmo City, Sara City, Tersy City...... Wait for all the nobles of the small castle to come to Ron City and swear allegiance to the Magic Mountain!

Swear allegiance!

They had previously sworn allegiance to the Lannisters.

It is actually very difficult to get these nobles to swear allegiance to the Magic Mountain.

Of course, if the Magic Mountain goes on its own, that's another matter.

But to go as Count Stella, with dozens of his own soldiers, one nobleman after another, to persuade the mobilization, this is a very difficult job to do!

Stella was tempted to ask why the Magic Mountain didn't go on his own, but asked him to run away. But it's best not to ask this question, put it in your stomach and think about it slowly, there will always be a day when you figure it out.

"Lord Duke, I am willing to do anything for Lord Duke, but I don't know what our future silk gold mine will be, can I ask them all to come to Ron City first, and then ask Lord Duke to talk about it for them?"

It's a good idea, and it's easy to find an excuse to trick the other nobles into coming to Ron City. For example, if you invite a guest to dinner, these nobles will gladly come to the party, or express their uneasiness about the magic mountain leading the army and the mountain people into the Tabek Hall and Casterme, it will easily arouse the common feeling of the nobles, and then those guys will come unguarded.

"You invite them to Ron City, and I'll show them how to dig for gold. "After the meeting, you must take the lead in kneeling down to me and swearing allegiance so that you can bring the others to join me in my Silk Gold Mine Project." “

“...... Uh......" Count Stella was eager to ask the Lannister family how they felt, but he was not confused about the situation in front of him, the Magic Mountain was in front of him, and the Lannisters were far away, "Lord Duke, I will do my best to get everyone to join Lord Duke's Silk Gold Mine Project, and I will also be the first to swear allegiance to Lord Duke at the meeting." ”