Chapter 0506 Take Control of the Industry
The Great Sanctuary of Baylor, the Temple of the Seven Gods.
The royal courtiers were all in the hall, and Queen Cersei, wearing a jeweled crown, stood Queen Margaret Tyrell beside her, holding Prince Toman Baratheon in her left hand.
In the year 291 of Aegon Calendar, Toman Baratheon was born in King's Landing, at the age of 9.
Standing behind the Queen Mother in the first row of courtiers were the Magic Mountain, the Shadow Lion Kaivon, the Duke of Inflatable Metz, the Great Master Coben, the Minister of the Sea Wagnergar, the Commander-in-Chief of the Garrison, Ben Ronte Bron, and the Captain of the Kingsguard, Loras Tyrell......
On the altar in front of them, barefoot, gray-robed, split-hair, and piercing-eyed sparrows were singing a message of blessing to the seven gods for the new king, Toman Baratheon.
The young bishop, representing purity, and the new warrior bishop, representing courage, and the blacksmith bishop, representing skill, stood beside the archbishop with the crown in their hands.
Hundreds of white-robed nuns echoed the archbishop's message, and they sang hymns in the space between the archbishop's messages. Opposite the nuns are hundreds of monks, who are also white-robed, with a deep voice and a soft rhythm to match the nuns' hymns.
Magic Mountain participates in the coronation of the king for the second time!
The first time he participated in the coronation of a king was eighteen years ago, when King Robert ascended the throne. That year, he was 'evil' to the world because of his execution of Duke Tywin's massacre order.
In the year 266 of Aegon, Magic Mountain was born in Kleganeburg in the west, and is 34 years old this year, which is the best age for the prime of life. By the time he was sixteen years old, the Magic Mountain had become famous in seven countries.
The ceremony of the king's coronation was long and tasteless, and the only thing that interested the Magic Mountain was that Lancel was wearing a cyan armor, a long sword hanging from his waist, and a cyan helmet on his head, blocking the blue seven stars on his forehead.
It seems that Lancel has been promoted by the archbishop constantly, and he has become the son of a warrior with command and attendants, and seeing that he is now commanding the other sons of warriors, and personally leading a team of clubs and sparrows to maintain order in front of the altar, it is clear that he belongs to the great leader of the assembly of the poor.
A group of heavily armed knights lined up in front of the stairs to ascend the altar, armed with the sword of the Sparrow.
Once the nobles believed in the Seven Gods and became monks, they would donate all their wealth, territory, and castle to the Templars, which was one of the reasons why the Templars became richer and richer over the years.
The Demon Mountain is mainly armed with the Holy Sword, and there are a total of three squads, one team is at the gate of the Sanctuary, and two squads are in the Seven Temples of the Sanctuary.
The members of the Poor Man's Assembly doubled in a short period of time, and the refugees of King's Landing were willing to join the Poor Man's Assembly for a piece of golden bread, and then participate in various rituals and doctrinal studies, or within a few days, they became the most determined Star Warriors in the Poor Man's Assembly.
Their fighting skills are nothing to worry about, but their inspired iron will and fanatical pursuit are their most fearsome weapons.
It won't be long before almost everyone in King's Landing and refugees will be members of the Poor People's Assembly, which will admit any poor person, male or female.
It's a very terrifying force that is developing at a rapid pace. The Empress Dowager Cersei gave them the right to legally buy weapons and organize armed training skills, and to put an end to this, a new prime minister would need to come to power after the coronation of a new king before they could be eligible to issue new government decrees.
In a short period of time, both the Poor People's Assembly and the Holy Sword Armament of the Sparrow developed rapidly. In the civil war, it was not only the commoners who were traumatized, but also the poor, and many nobles were also ruined. When these people were frustrated, without exception, they would come to the sanctuary to pray and ask for guidance, so many of them became new monks under the guidance of the monks, and joined the Holy Sword Armament of the Sparrow.
This is the most threatening force, super strong in combat, not afraid of death, proficient in martial arts and battle formations.
The combat power of the Poor People's Assembly cannot be compared with the Holy Sword Armament, but the Poor People's Assembly has more people, more than ten times the number of the Holy Sword Armament. Once these people go crazy, it is also a very terrible thing. Historically, there was a ramp in the Dragon's Lair, where members of the Poor People's Rally poured into the Dragon's Lair and killed three dragons.
While the Mountain was celebrating the coronation of Prince Toman Baratheon as king, the Mountain's guards were busy in King's Landing.
Led by Langdengarh and supplemented by Comwarner, they led the strongest warriors of their tribe on the most powerful horses of the Peninsula purebred, and the first place to arrive was a two-story wooden building rebuilt on the banks of the Blackwater River.
The owner of this wooden building was the Imperial Retainer Littlefinger Petyrberg. After he left King's Landing before King Joffrey's wedding, he was in charge of the hundreds of brothels in King's Landing, each of which was in charge of the brothel.
King's Landing now has a population of over a million, and the war has brought benefits to King's Landing. In King's Landing, there are two types of business that are hardly affected in time of war or peace, and more often than not, the trauma of war can make them even more popular.
These two types of businesses that make a lot of money, one is an underground casino, and the other is a brothel.
The brothel in King's Landing, during the war, was at least twice as good as usual. Mercenaries and soldiers were paid more than usual, and the pressure and blood of war made soldiers more willing to spend money, and brothels became their favorite places to go.
The business of the brothel exploded, and the owner made a lot of money.
The brothels run by Littlefinger are known for their numbers. The biggest, best and most famous brothel in King's Landing is Sataya's brothel, but Sataya also has one of the most upscale brothels in the Old City, and Littlefinger's brothel covers three levels: high, medium and low.
Whether it's an island prince or a governor from a free city-state, a duke or a national teacher, Littlefinger's luxurious brothel will definitely make these people want to leave. For the blood-licking mercenaries and noble warriors, a mid-level brothel awaits them. As for the common people, low-class brothels were everywhere, at least one on every street.
Littlefinger is very business-minded, he has not received marketing studies, nor has he learned the positioning of market target customers, he is born with it.
Littlefinger went to be the Duke of Harrenhal, and the brothel he stayed in King's Landing, in the eyes of the Magic Mountain, was a high-end form of chain business, and every day, the money flowed like a rattling of money.
Magic Mountain decided to take over Littlefinger's brothel chain, and his current army was scattered among three locations approaching 20,000 men: the West, the Crab Claw Peninsula, and Dragonstone. Counting my father-in-law's soldiers and the 3,000 recruits on the Crab Claw Peninsula, the total number is about 20,000, which is equivalent to the total number of Stark's troops in the north.
With such a powerful army, there is a huge problem: food and salaries!
The Magic Mountain has food and military salaries, and it can support it for a while, but you can't wait until there is no money and food to think about money and food, and you have to solve the problem of money and food now.
King's Landing Littlefinger's chain brothels, when they take over, are a sum of living money, and every day when the door is opened, the money flows in. After taking over, the money went to the wallet of the Magic Mountain.
Erica was still asleep.
Outside, the sound of horses' hooves came from a dense distance, waking her up.
The brothel business in Blackwater Bay is particularly hot, and the first and best place for captains and sailors to come and go is the two-story wooden building here.
The sisters thought that they had come to the benefactor, and they received sailors and captains in the majority, and the sound of horses' hooves like this came cavalry warriors, preferably not mercenaries, but noble knights.
The knights were elegant and courteous, and the mercenaries were rude and brutal, and difficult to serve. The sisters all went to the corridor on the second floor to look, and saw a group of cavalry, twelve people, led by two teenagers, one of whom still had a faint childishness. The sisters shouted, giggling.
The cavalry paid no heed to the women's shouts, and they all ran to the gate, where one of the fierce men jumped off his horse, took out a small flag, and ran to the second floor.
Along the way, the girls talked to him, but the man was silent, and he came to the corridor on the second floor, took out a small hammer, and nailed the little flag to the railing on the second floor.
The small flag unfurled, fluttering in the wind, and the banner on it was the Red Smoke Beast Ice Sword.
"Who's in charge here?" the man shouted, his face unkind.
The laughing girls couldn't laugh anymore.
The cavalrymen who had come were not here to take care of their business, but to look for trouble.
Erica stepped forward: "I'm my lord, this is Petyr......"
"Tonight, come to the Red Fort Stone House, report your income and expenses to Lord Magic Mountain, and bring your account books and surplus coins, from today onwards, this place will be taken over by Lord Magic Mountain. ”
Erica stammered, she saw that the other party would not give her any explanations and excuses at all, as long as she didn't agree, it would be a big problem.
“...... Yes, my lord...... But if Lord Petyrberry returns, we should ......."
"Remember, it's best to come early after dinner. The man said viciously. He was also impatient to go down the stairs from the second floor, jumping directly from the corridor on the second floor over the railing, just on his warhorse.
This little skill is easy for the cavalry of the Crab Claw Peninsula. Riding on a galloping horse, the Peninsula Cavalry was able to grab a golden dragon from the ground.
In the stunned eyes of the sisters, a teenager shouted upstairs: "Whoever dares to touch the banner of Lord Demon Mountain will cut off his hands and be sentenced to death." There is a benefactor who is making trouble and looking for trouble, mentioning the name of Lord Magic Mountain. ”
With the sound of horses' hooves, the cavalry galloped forward and stopped at a wooden building not far away.
The wooden building was not the property of Lord Petyrberg, but it was a brothel. The brothel business along the Blackwater River is booming, targeting sailors from all over the world.
One of the horsemen, as he had done last time, took out his flag, nailed it to a conspicuous place in the wooden building, and then ordered the boss to bring the account books and surplus coins to the Red Fort in the evening to find the Magic Mountain.
The boss was a middle-aged man, a native of the Reign of Lords, who watched the cavalry leave in full force.
The cavalry of the Magic Mountain, the banner of the Magic Mountain, the order of the Magic Mountain.
Who would dare to disobey?
But he is just a small business, earning food, and he is going to be squeezed by the Magic Mountain?
In case of injustice, the boss has two places to go to, the first is to find the garrison, and the second is to petition in the throne hall.
The throne hall is dedicated to the daily councils of the people of King's Landing.
But not today, the new king is crowned today, and the people who have time to go to the square of the Great Church of Baylor to watch the various coronation ceremonies. There is no petition from the people in the throne hall today, and the council has been cancelled.
Then the only way to go is to go to the captain of the garrison!
The supreme commander of the garrison was Commander-in-Chief Ben Long Teblonn from the West.
In one day, all the brothels in King's Landing, large and small, were planted by this group of cavalry with the small Clegon flag: the Red Smoke Beast Ice Sword Banner.
All the people in charge or the bosses were told to go to the Red Fort in the evening, bring the account books and the coins they earned, and the Lord of the Magic Mountain summoned them.
Who wouldn't dare not go?
No one dare!
The brothel with the most powerful and background in King's Landing, the first place that Divine Arrow Angai went to after winning the national archery championship, and the place where he spent his 10,000 gold dragons, was Shataya's brothel.
In the Old Town, a three-storey extravagant place. To the east of the third floor is an annex tower, which is seven stories high. This is the only place where the richest princes, governors, and tycoons from other countries and islands like to have fun, and the most lucrative brothel in King's Landing, the owner is named Sataya, her daughter is called Barbara, and the mother and daughter are from an archipelago in the southern sea: the Midsummer Islands.
Shataya's brothel was also planted by the cavalry with the banner of the Magic Mountain. Sataya has a lot of connections, the great nobles of the royal realm are all her acquaintances, and the former King Robert I is still her personal good friend, but it is a pity that King Robert has passed away, and the current king is crowned in the Templar today, at the age of only nine years......
When Cersei ordered the arrest of King Robert's illegitimate son, Shataya had already upset Queen Cersei by protecting King Robert's illegitimate son and the illegitimate son's mother.
Among the Imperial Ministers, Shataya had an old friend, a talkative minister: the Great Master Piexiel, but he was killed by Varys with a crossbow arrow.
When the banner of the Magic Mountain was planted in Shataya's brothel, Sataya's mother and daughter were stunned. In the old city, it is the villa area of the whole city, all the powerful people live in this area, and the kings, governors and rich captains of the outside world have bought their own villas in this old city, a place where the power is like clouds, but Sataya finds that she seems to have no one who can speak for herself......
Magic Mountain!
It's the Magic Mountain that is looking for trouble!
The Demon Mountain, who beheaded Stannis during the Battle of the Blackwater River, attacked King's Landing at night, defeated the Western Army, and captured Tywin alive, the Magic Mountain is coming!
In the evening, there was a long queue in front of the stone house in the Magic Mountain, and when Shataya and her daughter Barbara arrived, there were already many people in front of them.
The captain of the patrolling guard, Erin, saw that the mother and daughter of Sataya had no account books or gold coins, and with their bare hands, Erin went to Sataya's brothel and met the mother and daughter when they were serving as Prime Minister Ed's bodyguard.
"Lady Sataya, please come with me!" said Captain Erin.