Doomsday, starting from a generation of masters

Chapter 157
"Lord Duke!"

Lin En turned his head and saw an old man in sackcloth standing tremblingly in the distance, looking at him in horror,
The old man was dressed in sackcloth, with a metal chain hanging around his neck. The chain was made of metals of different materials. At a glance, there were gold and black iron structures.
"Are you a bachelor here?" Lynn asked,
"Yes, Your Excellency the Duke! I am Peswain, the scholar of Storm's End." The old scholar replied with slightly trembling hands,

"It's just in time, find someone to clean this place, and then come to the lord's hall to find me!"

After Lynn finished speaking, he walked towards the tallest and largest tower.

Bachelor is a profession unique to Westeros,

They abandon their surnames and bloodlines, swear allegiance to the Academy City, learn all kinds of knowledge there, and create a chain every time they pass a knowledge test. When the chain is enough to form a necklace, it means that they have achieved their studies and officially become a bachelor. .

Most of the bachelors are sent back to the city or castle after completing their studies in the Academy City. No matter where they are sent, they will abide by their neutrality, serve the master there, and be loyal to the master there as a mentor, healer, and advisor.

In the event of a change of control of the sanctuary, the Maester should pledge his allegiance to the new owner.

So although Lynn doesn't like them, they are indeed talents that can be used, especially because they have mastered the method of training ravens, and most of the communication between cities in the mainland depends on them.

Pushing open the heavy gate of the tower, you can see a hall with a diameter of tens of meters, and the sound of footsteps echoes clearly in the hall.

This hall is bigger than the Iron Throne hall in King's Landing. If you guessed correctly, this should be the Bucks Hall!
There are almost no furnishings inside, only from the complicated patterns on the windows and the fine carvings on the top of the hall, a little of the original magnificence can be seen.

Probably originally, Renly was not a thrifty housekeeper, why is it gone now? You can see something by looking at the equipment of those guys outside. The soldiers who attacked King's Landing did not have such good equipment.

The light in the hall is a little dim, because of the frequent storms, the windows here are not as spacious and tall as in other castles.

Going up the stone steps, there are many rooms on each floor, servants, guards, lord's meeting room, office, and the bedroom on the top floor!
Only simple furniture remained in these rooms, and all valuable items were evacuated.
The more I think about it, the angrier I get,

"I knew I should have acted more lightly just now, at least those armors can get back their money!"

Turn around and go downstairs, turn around the other towers, the barn, the armory, all empty,
After wandering around, Perthwin found him,

"Your Excellency, it has been cleaned up, and all the armor and weapons have been received in the armory."

Lynn nodded,

"Very good bachelor, let's talk while walking, you can introduce the situation here to me on the way!"

On the way, Maester Pethwain introduced the recent situation of Storm's End for Lynn,

After Renly's death, the acting city lord who was loyal to Renly vowed not to surrender. He offered to compete with Stannis but was rejected. Soon after, he suddenly jumped off the city wall and committed suicide. Many people said it was done by the red robe witch, and some said no, because The walls of Storm's End can isolate the power of external magic, and neither faction can convince the other, but it doesn't matter, because the next deputy city lord quickly opened the door and surrendered.

Stannis accepted his surrender, but did not set foot in Storm's End.

This is his sad place, where he fought so hard, and his family almost starved to death, and Robert gave it to Renly, the little boy in the cloak who ran around calling himself a wizard, So he hated here, and he hated Robert,

Stannis quickly marched north with his men, leaving Gilbert and four hundred men behind,
"Where are the people in the castle?" Lynn couldn't help asking,

"After Renly died, a group left, and when Stannis came, another group left. When Stannis was defeated, everyone knew that there would be wars here, so another group left. Now it is almost an empty city. , only some old and young women and children and some mercenaries who hope to get rich are left."

Lynn is a little speechless, this is simply self-made!Nothing but a ghost city and a title!
But it's okay, it's good to paint on white paper.

"Bachelor Pethwain, count the population and the number of mercenaries in the city, I want to hire them,"

"My lord, there is no need to count. I have nothing to do these days. I have already counted. Now there are no more than 300 elderly people and women together in the city, and there are only 2000 people including children, and less than [-] mercenaries. Some of them claimed to be knights, but no one checked."

"And..." Pai Siwen hesitated to speak,

"And what?"

Pai Siwen organized his language and said cautiously:

"And the wind season is coming soon. The storm from the Narrow Sea passes through Cape Wrath and lands at Storm's End from Shipbreaker Bay. The storm will rage for many days. During these days, people cannot go out, and the temperature drops sharply. We can only rely on the reserves If the food is spent, many women and children in the city may not be able to make it through."

Lynn waved his hand and said, "Bring them all into the castle tomorrow, and tell them that I want to hire them all. The commission is food and gold coins!"

"Thank you for your kindness!"

Maester Perthwain's face was full of smiles, and it seemed that even a few wrinkles had disappeared.

Early the next morning,
Led by the old bachelor, many old people, women and children flooded into the castle, and the mercenaries crowded in the front.

As soon as Lin En came out, these mercenaries surrounded him immediately.
He stopped at a distance of seven or eight steps from Lin En, bowed stiffly and saluted:
"Lord Duke!"

These people all know that Lin En killed hundreds of defenders and recaptured the castle by himself yesterday. Such an exaggerated fact, which made each of them dare not look directly at Lin En, for fear that he would open his eyes. Breathe out dragon flames from its big mouth!
Lynn nodded, "You are all mercenaries, choose a leader to negotiate the price with Maester Perthwin, and the commission will be paid in gold."

"Yes, my lord!" They didn't even look up, and they didn't even dare to ask what Lynn hired them for,
"Do things well. If you faithfully complete our employment, I will consider choosing a few of you to become knights!"

As soon as Lin En said this, the group of mercenaries immediately went into an uproar. Regardless of their fear of him, they stared at him excitedly and even fanatically.

From a mercenary to a knight is from a commoner to an aristocrat!This can be said to be a class leap!
It is the dream of many civilian mercenaries, so they can't help being excited!
The wise among them thought more,

Lynn now bears the title of duke, but there is no one around him. It is the time when manpower is needed. If he performs well, let alone a knight, even a fief noble is not out of the question!
Thinking of this, they looked at Lin En more fanatically than their dearest lover!
Lynn's eyes turned to those women, children and old people,

Maester Pethwain came over and asked, "My lord, what do you want to hire these people for?"

"Repair the castle, clean up, do laundry and cook, in short, you can do anything, and the commission is paid with food and silver deer."

These civilians knew that the new Lord Duke was helping them, so they knelt down and saluted gratefully,
No one dared to bother Lynn, everyone surrounded Maester Pethwain,

In the afternoon, after the bachelor arranged his work, he found Lynn with the leader of the mercenaries.
"Bachelor, I found a dark warehouse with a lot of food in it, which should be enough for you to use for two or three months."

"My lord, are you going out?"

Maester Pethwain asked in surprise,
Lynn nodded, his eyes looked to the east, through the eighty-foot-thick city wall and the rough and rough sea,

Staring at the direction of the Eastern Continent,
"I heard that there is a slave soldier called the Unsullied for sale somewhere,"

"I need them now!"

PS: The next chapter is at noon tomorrow,

(End of this chapter)