Game of Thrones: Holy Sword of Light

Chapter 14 Northern Specialty Ice Cream

A month later.

"My lord, the money you gave me is no longer enough..." Shita came forward to report to Jon with a bitter face.

He gritted his teeth and said seriously: "Actually, you don't need to equip every warrior with shields, iron swords, and boats. We only have more than 200 people here. Isn't buying a boat too..."

The old man Shita served as an attendant to a certain jazz in Winterfell when he was young, and he knew a little bit of writing. Now his status is similar to that of a housekeeper, and he takes care of food, clothing, housing and transportation for more than 200 soldiers.

Although Jon gave him more than a dozen gems, those gems are worth about three thousand gold dragons. Of course, it is enough to eat and raise ordinary soldiers, but Jon not only equips every soldier in the first battalion of the Bright Regiment. Iron swords, shields, uniform white cloaks, and a huge sum of money to buy a sampan boat from White Harbor that can carry hundreds of people, named the Bright.

Moreover, these two hundred fighters of the Bright Regiment are almost completely full-time professional fighters!

Do nothing every day, just practice the formation, formation, shields, archers, and spearmen.

You know, there are so many families in the northern border, although many families can recruit one or two thousand warriors, or even three to four thousand people, but most of them are farmers, hunters, or grooms, not like Jon, who practice formation every day , combat skills, meat, salt, and honey are open to eat.

With such a configuration, only Winterfell can afford the entire Northern Territory, but Duke Stark of Winterfell is the guardian of the Northern Territory, and he has the tax support of the Northern Territory...

"Got it, all their shields have to be painted with white and yellow paint to make them look radiant, remember!?"

"Remember, Lord Jon..."

The stone tower hesitated to speak, he almost watched Jon grow up, and wanted to persuade the young pioneer knight to save some money, and he could even buy a smaller castle with more than a dozen gems to buy supplies. On the body of the mountain clan warrior... what if it is an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf! ?
"Don't worry about money, I'll give you five more gems. One of the rubies is worth at least five hundred gold dragons, and the others are worth at least fifty gold dragons. Be sure to equip them with all their equipment."

"My lord, we have basically bought the iron sword and shield of White Harbor..."

"Then please ask the merchant ship of White Harbor to go to the south, go to King's Landing to buy and bring it back, I will give you ten days to settle this matter, and borrow the raven of East Watch to send a message to the merchant of White Harbor. See uniforms and weapons, shields!"

"Yes, Lord Jon!"

After Jon finished his explanation, he couldn't help sighing that it was too expensive to raise soldiers. No wonder there are only about 200 knights in such a large scale in the northern border.

A professional soldier who is completely out of production is simply a bottomless pit, burning money like running water. Jon has the power of a druid, and can rely on small animals and crows to help him find gems, gold, and silver. The finished meat and fish, that's all, I can't stand it...

Jon also wants to set up a cavalry battalion for his Light Corps...

Knights ride war horses, not ordinary horses that can be ridden. War horses also need to be armored. When ordinary horses are frightened or unable to run on the battlefield, it is a fatal blow to the knight.

Don't you see, in the original book, Jon and the Bolton family fought. Jon's side is all infantry, and he has no horses himself.

"We have to find a way to make more money!"

"Actively engage in production to save yourself!"

"The gifts of small animals and nature are limited after all, and there are many places to spend money in the future. To build Guangming Fort, at least tens of thousands of gold dragons will be needed. In addition, there are ports, and thousands of gems will be exchanged. Thanks to the North It may have been a crater before, and there are a lot of gemstones buried underground, otherwise..."

Jon looked at the soldiers of the Light Corps who were training. These half-grown men are very convinced of Jon now. The method of training is actually very simple. Sufficient food, military pay on time, and lofty ideals.
Soldiers are dissatisfied with their wages, and they are invincible when they are fully paid.

Jon would give the soldiers a salary of one hundred coppers every month, which was already a lot, and made the night watchmen next door Eastwatch covetously. In the mountain clan, it was a profession that could wake up with laughter in dreams, warrior of the Light Corps!
Now every soldier in the Bright Corps has grown a circle, their mental outlook is completely different, and their morale is very strong.

Because there are soldiers stationed, wandering merchants have also come. Most of these wandering merchants come from the Hejian land. The Hewan people in the Hejian land have a tradition of doing business. They use horse-drawn carts to pull all kinds of strange goods. Pretending to be an abducted woman, she wandered around the northern border, exchanging salt, honey, wine, and night watchmen and mountain clans for furs and mountain goods...

Jon's eyes suddenly lit up when he saw the vagabonds selling all kinds of gadgets to the soldiers of the rest.

"Salt!?"

This thing suddenly flashed in Jon's mind. There are several salt mines and salt wells in the north. In Jon's view, many, many years ago, most of the geological movements in the north had volcanic eruptions, but the craters are now covered by eternal winter. The land is frozen.

That's why there are salt wells here. Salt needs to pay taxes to King's Landing, but this is not a problem for Jon. The catch is that the new land grant is strictly the land of the Night's Watch, and the Night's Watch doesn't have to pay taxes.

That is to say, without clear legal rules, Jon can make some salt in the newly gifted land to make money, and the endless seawater happens to be the natural raw material for the salt cooking method, which is inexhaustible and inexhaustible...

"Shuton!"

Jon called another centurion from the first battalion of the Light Regiment. He was a personal soldier assigned to Jon by Black Nose, the patriarch of the Flint clan in the forest. Together with Ayton, he is now Jon's right-hand man.

"You bring thirty soldiers to follow me. I need you to dig a few pits and pick up some wood to build some pots and stoves. Damn, this place doesn't have such a big pot...build me a stove first!"

"Uh, it's my lord!"

Shu Dun's eyes were a little puzzled about what this thing was going to be used for, but he had already learned to obey orders and execute them immediately.

Jon turned his head to look at the apprentice Fina, who was trying to cast spells with his wand, and communicated with the small animals intimately: "Fina, I need you to find a messenger owl, yes, it's not a raven, it's an owl, for Black Nose The elder sent a letter, telling him that I have a way to get rich, and asked him to come over quickly to discuss."

"Booker!"

Jon looked at his first attendant, Booker, who was studying herbal medicine seriously: "I need you to borrow the raven of Eastwatch, and ask the bachelor of Eastwatch to send a letter to Duke Eddard Stark , tell him that I need a business license, and besides, I want to form a traveling caravan to sell some small things in the northern border..."

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The Flint clan is not far from Jon's temporary stronghold "Fort Dawn", because the first ray of sunlight on the sea can be seen here in the early morning, so Jon named his temporary stronghold "Dawn".

Black Nose originally had bad legs and feet, but when Jon took out the oriental mysterious magic steam to help his old cold legs get rid of moisture, applied hot compresses every day, and arranged meals for him reasonably, the main thing was that he was not allowed to drink anymore. After being able to drink hot water, the former strongest fighter of the Flint clan found that he could stand up again, and his mobility was recovering.

This made the black nose very pleasantly surprised, repeatedly calling out the light, it's amazing, it's amazing!

Lord Jon Wright is truly a holy messenger sent by God!
In fact, this is just a simple treatment for his old cold legs...

After receiving the letter from Jon, when he immediately rode to Seal Bay, dozens of soldiers from the Light Regiment were boiling sea water in clay pots, and some were frying acorns, pine nuts, hazelnuts, and others. Several soldiers used the collected blueberries and raspberries to mash them into a sauce, which is said to be used to make wine...

And Jon used great auk eggs to spread the egg rolls on a flat stone, and at the same time used the egg rolls to dig a few balls on the white, jam-like cheese-like food in the jar, and licked them with his tongue. Nod slightly from time to time.

"Master Jon!"

When Black Nose approached Jon, whether it was Fina, Booker, or the warriors Ayton and Shuten, they all held the egg roll white ball and licked it with their eyes closed, full of satisfaction.

"Elder Black Nose, you are here."

With a smile, Jon also used an egg roll to dig a pile of ice cream for the black-nosed elder. The northern border is full of ice and snow, and the ice and snow near the Great Wall are everywhere. It will not melt in midsummer, so it is suitable for making ice cream.

"Northern specialty, great auk omelet hazelnut blueberry jam ice cream, try it..."

"I want to form a caravan to sell this ice cream, as well as salt, fried acorns, fried pine nuts, blueberry fruit wine... I invite your clan to join my caravan, believe me, this is a golden mountain!"

Elder Hei-nosed took the thing that was just enough to be grasped with a full grip in doubt, and said to himself, why would there be a fool willing to eat ice, I, Hei-nos, do this kind of business! ?
Eat ice! ?The dogs raised by the savages beyond the Great Wall don't even eat them!
Hehe, even if our Flint clan is begging for food and snatching food from wild boars in the forest, we won't eat it... Huh! ?
The cold taste melts in the mouth, the ripe aroma brought by the fried hazelnuts, mixed with the sweet and sour blueberry jam, this taste is simply...

"Yes, I will!"

"We would like to join your caravan!"

Black Nose said loudly.

(End of this chapter)