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Baylor Grand Chapel.

The archbishop's table was covered with brocade, and there was a tall seven-star holy crown inlaid with bright jade pearls.

This seven-star crown was instructed by the hemp to go to Silk Street and sell it to a wealthy merchant from across the narrow sea, but the rich merchant knew that this seven-star crown was not an ordinary treasure, it was a symbol of the highest faith of the seven gods, and it was not appropriate for a private collection.

For the purpose of protecting the Seven-Star Holy Crown, the wealthy merchant bought it. He is a figure among the powerful, and he also abhors the words and deeds of the sparrow in supporting the poor and oppressing the powerful. ，

After the sparrow was exterminated, the wealthy merchant did not bring the Seven-Star Crown to the other side of the Narrow Sea, but secretly came to the Basilica of Baylor on the night of the new archbishop's inauguration and presented it to the new archbishop.

This wealthy merchant came from Valantis, and he was very rich in silk cloth. His name is Reed Dylan. He owns his own villa in the Old Town, lives in King's Landing for about a few months of the year, and is familiar with the magnates of King's Landing.

Reed Dylan's name was written by the monks in the 'History of the Baelor Church', along with the names of the bishops.

Because of this relationship, Reed Dylan and the Archbishop became very good friends, and under the introduction of the Archbishop, Reed Dylan and the Magic Mountain established a friendship.

The Magic Mountain has come to see the Archbishop tonight, and Reed Dylan is here.

Reed Dylan is white and chubby, with blonde hair, a large beard, and a brown beard. The beard was carefully groomed and braided into small braids, and many small bells of pure gold were tied to it. Each little bell is smaller than the little finger, delicate and cute.

The wealthy merchants on the other side of the Narrow Sea liked to dress up and decorate their beards, go to meet dignitaries, and put oil on their beards to make them shiny.

The archbishop, Reed Dylan, the Magic Mountain, can be considered a close friend.

"Your Excellency, we have received a huge loan today. "Magic Mountain is in high spirits.

"Lord Duke, who is going to take out a loan, and how much?"

"The royal family's loan, the amount is three million six hundred thousand gold dragons. “

Reed Dylan was stunned. Three million six thousand golden dragons, this is a huge fortune.

The archbishop's face was obviously disappointed: "Lord Duke, the royal family can't afford to pay back this money at all. ”

"It's true that the royal family can't afford it, but the state can. ”

The archbishop was silent.

He looked at the Demon Mountain, not wanting to dampen the excitement of the Demon Mountain, but there were some things that should be said, and the archbishop was not very interested: "Lord Duke, what is the collateral? Who will guarantee it?"

In order to develop the Order's armament, the hemp sparrow exempted the royal family from the debt of more than one million gold dragons, which was very exciting to the monks. The poverty of the royal family was well known to the monks of the Great Basilica of Baylor.

They are all taboo to borrow from the royal family again, because there is definitely no return.

"How can the country pay it back?"

"Taxes. ”

"This year is the third year of the civil war, and neither the nobles nor the people have any extra money to pay taxes. ”

"Yes, Your Archbishop, we are not waiting for the treasurer of the kingdom to collect the taxes and pay us back, because we will never collect our money. I have applied to Her Majesty the Prime Minister, Her Majesty the Queen Mother, and Her Majesty the King for the right to collect our own taxes. ”

"Shall we collect taxes ourselves?" the archbishop was even more unoptimistic, "Lord Magic Mountain, whether it is you or me, we don't have the energy to go to the homes of nobles and commoners to collect taxes. ”

"Lord Archbishop, we only need to collect taxes from the lords. “

Riddick said with a smile: "Lord Duke, what if the lord has no money? After the war in the past few years, the people in many places have run out, the people have no money, and the lord is not rich. ”

"The Baivat family has iron ore mountains. Magic Mountain said.

"The Baivat family has money to pay taxes by selling iron ore, but other families have a hard time. The archbishop said, "Three million and six hundred thousand gold dragons, we can't get back the capital." Not to mention interest, which is time-consuming, laborious, and diligent. ”

"Your Excellency, we can levy heavy taxes on the Byvat family. ”

The archbishop looked at the magic mountain: "Lord Duke, are you going to lead your own troops to forcibly collect heavy taxes? How much can the Baivat family collect heavy taxes? The royal family owes us a lot of money, this is not appropriate. “

"Lord Archbishop, Count Baivat will not be willing to be heavily taxed by us, and he will want to have a good relationship with us, and it is better if we can exempt him from his taxes. ”

The archbishop didn't understand the words of the Magic Mountain, and he was exempted from taxes, so how could he recover the three million and six hundred thousand gold dragons?

Three million six thousand golden dragons, a huge amount of money!

Both the Archbishop and Riddick looked at the Magic Mountain with puzzled eyes.

Moshan smiled: "We can use this to establish a good relationship with the Baivat family and cooperate with him in the iron ore business, and the weapon masters of King's Landing Steel Street will spend a little more money to buy iron ore from us." We can also form a weapon master to smelt iron ore, craft weapons, and control swords, armor, chain mail, arrowheads, and all other iron-related goods. ”

"Lord Duke," said Riddick, "this is very difficult. First, you need the abundant Iron Ore Mountains, and second, King's Landing has a lot of iron ore, and even if you can convince the Byvat family to work together, there will be cheaper iron ore from the Riverlands, the Riverlands, and the other side of the Narrow Sea. “

"The power to collect taxes is the Seven Kingdoms, even Dorne and the Northern Frontier, which are under its jurisdiction. Iron ore from the other side of the Narrow Sea will be intercepted by the navy on the sea, and unless they cooperate with us, our taxes will be too high for him to come. The same goes for iron ore anywhere else. Mercenaries, warriors, inseparable from the purchase of weapons and armor, farmers, hunters, fishermen, who can live without the use of iron weapons? There are iron ore mountains on the Crab Claw Peninsula, just to make use of it, hire miners to mine, and blacksmiths to build weapons. Mining, smelting, casting weapons, and selling are called assembly line operations. ”

The archbishop was silent!

Magic Mountain's method is indeed very profitable, just like his Qingting Island wine. Only, is this a bank loan?

This way, to be honest, is not the right way.

The archbishop is a man of faith.

"Lord Duke, the Baelor Sanctuary can lend money to the royal family with you, but we will only earn the interest we deserve on the principal, and we will not send any monks to collect taxes with you. ”

The Archbishop is to ensure the sanctity of the Basilica and not to be 'in the same boat' with the Magic Mountain. The good things can be wanted, and the bad things can be done by the Magic Mountain.

Magic Mountain wants to take this huge loan from the royal family, this is indeed a big business, and the annual interest income is hundreds of thousands of gold dragons, which can easily feed tens of thousands of soldiers in Magic Mountain. The money in the Baelor Grand Church has accumulated a hundred years of great wealth, and it is also put away. Through the bank, borrow it, and with the cooperation of the Magic Mountain, the archbishop does not worry about collecting the principal interest.

On the market, Qingting Island wine has stopped flowing in ten days ago, and the price of wine is also rising, and Magic Mountain has hoarded Qingting Island wine on Longshi Island. His way of convincing Count Redwin was simple, but it gave him the sole right to sell Qingting Island wine.

This inside story is only known to a few people. As a close friend, Riddick didn't know that Qingting Island wine was controlled by the Magic Mountain. Three days ago, he was complaining about the high price of Qingting Island wine, but he was still willing to pay for it to drink. The first can show his identity, and the second is that he doesn't care about a few more silver deer than in the past, and the price of Qingting Island wine will be several times higher, and he will drink it casually without any pressure. It's just that compared to the previous price, he just talked about it.

Qingting Island wine, Magic Mountain will no longer be sold to ordinary people to drink.

"Your Excellency, if you agree, I'll do the rest. In addition to iron ore, there is also salt, wheat wine and fruit wine from the riverlands, and the freshwater fish of the Divine Eye Lake are popular in the free trade city-states on the other side of the Narrow Sea. The lords of these places, we will cooperate with them to do business, and collect a small amount of taxes. Take it easy. ”

The archbishop chuckled in his heart, the magic mountain was not in a hurry to rely on taxes to recover the capital. By borrowing, he tied the hands of the whole country.

Riddick listened with emotion.

"Lord Magic Mountain, White Harbor has a very fine variety of silverware sold to free trade city-states and Oriental cities, and I have long wanted to do a silver business in White Harbor. If we work together and become the only merchant of White Harbor silverware, it will be profitable. “

White Harbor is famous for its silverware in Shikikoku and is exported overseas. There used to be a silver coin mint in White Harbor, and the king later took back the power to mint silver coins. The Stark family was honest and closed the coin factory in a proper manner. Ed and the Magic Mountain can't be compared, the Magic Mountain is secretly going to open its own gold coin factory, and the seven gods can't stop it. Ed simply closed the silver coin factory and never started again.

"The North, Stark of the North has reigned, and my hands don't grow that long yet. Lord Reed, if you want to cooperate with me, we will cooperate with Salt and Snow Salt. ”

"Is the snow salt in the management of the adults? It's the special salt for the royal family, it's a good thing, I've only eaten snow salt in Earl Ode's noodle restaurant, and I can't buy it in King's Landing, no matter how much it costs. ”

Snow salt, exclusive to the royal family, limited supply, extremely high price, luxury goods in general, price but no market, but this situation is caused by the war.

Snow salt was invented in the western realm, but on the Crab Claw Peninsula, there are mountains that produce mineral salt, and as long as there are human hands, they can be mass-produced at any time. The Crab Claw Peninsula is self-sufficient, whether it is iron, salt, or cloth, it is all mined, woven and produced by the tribesmen themselves. It's just that the production technology is backward, but the resources of the peninsula are a treasure trove.

Different from the Iron Islands, the iron ore resources on the Iron Islands of Great Wick Island are abundant, and the iron people on the Iron Islands sell iron ore to the west, north, and river bays, and arbitrarily increase the price, and the price of selling to the west without iron ore depends on the mood rises and falls;

On the evening of the second day, the stone house of the Magic Mountain.

Prime Minister Kaivon arrived with red-robed guards.

On the second floor, Kaivon met the Magic Mountain.

The guards of the Demon Mountain are making preparations, and in the early hours of tomorrow morning, the Demon Mountain and his cavalry will leave the city and rush to the River City to end the battle in the Riverlands.

However, the royal loan matter, Magic Mountain did not reply.

The Prime Minister had to come and ask in person.

Even if the principal and interest of the iron treasury are not repaid, the treasury needs money to spend on a daily basis.

A large city with a population of more than one million people is a huge amount of money to maintain various operations every day.

After Petyr the Littlefinger left, it was like a well that was drying up, getting less and less every day. A slightly larger expenditure is overstretched.

"Your Excellency. Kevon's face grimened.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister. ”

"Did Baylor Bank agree to borrow money?"

The Magic Mountain stared at Kai Feng, who looked like iron, with the shadow of Tywin.

"Count Ode wants to go with me to Riverrun and then return to the West, and he says His Excellency doesn't agree. Magic Mountain said.

"King's Landing needs five hundred men from Earl Ord to increase King's Landing's security. ”

"Your Excellency, you have given me an executive order on the taxation of the seven countries, and Baylor Bank will give 600,000 gold dragons early tomorrow morning, another 1 million gold dragons a month later, and another 2 million gold dragons after half a year, for a total of 3.6 million gold dragons. The minimum tax rate is 15%, until it is paid off. ”

"Can't you give three million six hundred thousand gold dragons at once?"

"Can't!"

"I brought the executive order. "The Prime Minister took out the Executive Order document with the King's Seal and the King's Hand seal.

Moshan took the document: "Prime Minister, please also ask the great master to release ravens to the Seven Kingdoms and notify the lords of various places, so that I can bring people to collect taxes." “

"Lord Duke, you must have a court scholar present to collect your taxes. ”

"Then give me the court master, you must be able to ride a horse. ”

"Maester Peggy can ride a horse. ”

"Where's Maester Peggy?"

"He's in Megar House. ”

"I'll be out of town tomorrow morning, and he's going to have to come here now. ”

"Lord Duke, when you return from Riverrun, Maester Peggy will go with you to collect your taxes. ”

"I'm going to start collecting taxes along the way. Receive it wherever you go. The Magic Mountain raised the document in his hand.

Kevon was silent for a moment and said, "Okay. He whispered something to the guards beside him, and the guards bowed and left.

"Your Excellency, Count Ode wants to go home and have a look, please let him go. ”

Kevon said, "Now that the power of King's Landing is weak, and the Tyrell family is strong, Count Ode cannot leave. “

"What if the Raven's Eye of the Iron Isles attacks Lannisport and Castle Rock?"

"No way. Kevon said lightly.

"Oh!" Magic Mountain gave Kevon a sensitive look, "Prime Minister, did you make any agreement with Croweye?"

"Nope!"

"Raveneye won't keep any agreements, wealth and conquest are what he wants most. ”

"Lord Duke, when you surrender Riverrun, we'll free up our hands to fight Crow's Eye. ”

"Your agreement with Crow-Eye is to stabilize him first?"

"I don't have any agreement with Croweye. “

Magic Mountain glanced at Kaifeng again, and he knew that Kaifeng and Raveneye had an unknown deal.

If Kavon and Croweye make a deal, what deal will it be?

It's very simple, think about who Kevon wants to get rid of, and what is the thing he wants most?

The person Kevon wants to get rid of most is Cersei Lannister, the person he wants to get rid of most is the Magic Mountain, and the most he wants to get a huge fortune to keep the country running smoothly and solve the problems of the Iron Vault's debts.

The little devil wants to use the red viper to get rid of the Magic Mountain, and who does Kaivon want to use to get rid of the Magic Mountain?

Crow's Eyes?!

Moshan packed up his plate armor, and his plate armor, the combined strength of the two ordinary soldiers could not move. When he installed the plate armor, he secretly squinted at Kai Feng, thinking about the wine supply of Qingting Island, Prime Minister Kai Feng should have guessed that it was the magic mountain that was making trouble, but he calmed down and ignored it, is it because he already has a plan to deal with me?

The back of the Magic Mountain suddenly felt a little cold.

He was plotting to use the loans of the Baylor Bank to seize the country's resources and wealth in order to further recruit troops and expand his power, ignoring the secret actions of Seekyvon. Kaivon is as terrible as Tywin, and he must not be taken lightly.

In that case, Count Ode must be taken away!

Kaivon insisted on keeping Count Ode in King's Landing, and there must be some plan, so take Count Ode away, and do what is detrimental to Kaivon.

Count Odd is a Lannister, with him by his side, if Kaivon has any calculations, Count Odd has a bit of a bargaining chip to block the gun.

"Prime Minister, I am the Minister of War. Count Ode is a general, not a courtier, and I need Earl Ode's help to conquer Riverrun, the capital of the Riverlands. Magic Mountain put the plate armor into a large wooden box, stood up, and shouted out the door: "Captain Erin, pass my order, Count Ode and five hundred soldiers of Lannisport will all follow me on the expedition to Riverrun." ”

"Yes, Lord Duke. Captain Erin shouted yes.

Kai Feng's face froze!

The Magic Mountain is the Minister of War and has the power to transfer Count Ode. Count Ode is not a courtier, but a general of the West, and the Magic Mountain is the guardian of the West.

"Lord Duke......"

"Prime Minister, if you want to subdue Riverrun, take the entire Riverlands, restore production in the Riverlands as soon as possible, and let the more than 200,000 Riverlands refugees return, Count Ode must help me. Demon Mountain looked at Kai Feng condescendingly and said lightly.

Outside the stone house, the sound of horses' hooves sounded.

Captain Erin gave the order.

Kai Feng's face was like iron, and he said in a calm tone: "Okay, Lord Duke, I hope you will be victorious, and with the help of Count Ode, you will take Riverrun City and unify the Riverlands." ”

"I'll try my best. Magic Mountain said.

In the memories brought by the time travel, Crow's Eye will attack Lannisport, Castle Rock City, Fairy Island, Crag Rock City, and Chicken Hall...... and other places, these western castles are by the sea. There are more than 1,000 Crow-Eye warships, the strength is strong, and the seven countries of the sea are no longer invincible, what did Kaivon promise?

Magic Mountain doesn't know.

The original trajectory of the world has changed too much, but judging from Kaifeng's categorical assertion that Raven's Eye will not attack the West, Kaifeng has already made a move, and the Magic Mountain understands that he is being kept in the dark.

Kaivon's words are not credible!

No wonder Qingting Island wine was cut off, Magic Mountain didn't explain it to Kai Feng, and Kai Feng didn't ask. Kai Feng said that he would make money by cooperating with Magic Mountain.

There is no information about this from Bernie's intelligence, and Kaivon's connection with Raveneye seems to have been hidden from everyone.

One-line contact!

Kaivon is even better!

The Magic Mountain sensed the crisis, where this crisis was not yet figured out, but the crisis came, there is no doubt about it.

"Are you going to kill Kaivon?" Moshan asked himself in his heart.

A dead man, a knife, or a crossbow arrow.

The safest way for people who can't figure it out, people who feel dangerous, is to kill them.