Game of Thrones: Overlord of the Deep Sea

Chapter 163 The increasingly clear situation in the northern border

June 302AC.

After Jack returned Deepwood Motte to the Glover family, Jack managed to win the allegiance of some northern nobles.

And Jack also took Mrs. Glover to the Last Hearth City, and then re-selected a husband for Mrs. Glover.

This matter was agreed by Mrs. Glover, because it was Mrs. Glover who brought it up on her own initiative.

She understood that a woman with a daughter under one year old was like fat in the eyes of others, and she couldn't hold Deepwood Castle at all.

Not any woman can have extraordinary political talents like Lyanna Mormont. Most women are still bound by tradition and expect to find a man they can rely on. This is the shackles that the times have placed on women.

So she took the initiative to ask Jack to help her choose a husband, so that having a man she could rely on would also give her a sense of security.

For this reason, Jack directly gathered all the single men in Hearth Castle. When they learned that a countess wanted to choose a husband, they were all very excited.

This is a good thing to get a castle for nothing. The only fly in the ointment is that Ina Glover has been canonized as the Countess of Deepwood Castle.

But even so, many people are eager to try, especially some knights and barons.

But to everyone's surprise, Mrs. Glover actually chose Casa to be her man.

This made Jack suddenly realize that the countess did not seem to be some silly and sweet lady.

Naturally, Kasa readily accepted this, and no one would refuse such a good deed, let alone Kasa, a savage leader who aspired to become a nobleman.

As long as he becomes Mrs. Glover's husband, Casa can exercise the power of the earl and make all the tribal leaders who had taken refuge in him nobles.

The two held a simple wedding directly in Hearth City, and Casa changed his name to Casa Glover. He didn't have a surname, so he directly took Glover as his surname.

In the following period of time, the situation in the northern border became increasingly clear, and most of the nobles in the southeastern region of the northern border chose to join Roose Bolton.

However, the nobles in the northwest region chose Jack Poseidon, and the two sides began to confront each other with frequent actions.

Roose Bolton had the upper hand in terms of military strength alone. At this time, Roose Bolton already had 13000 people under his command. It can be said that a considerable part of the great nobles chose Roose Bolton.

At this time, Jack had only 8000 people, of which [-] were the Sons of Winter composed of wildlings, followed by the [-] Dragon Knights led by Hecarim.

Hecarim dyed his armor red and renamed it the Knights of the Scarlet Dragon because Hecarim felt that Corax was very powerful and beautiful.

The second is the noble army of 500 people. Most of the noble army of 1500 people are small nobles below the earl, and barons and knights account for the vast majority.

They all feel that it is difficult to survive the coming long night, so they want to fight with Jack.

Earls are very rare. Only the Earls of Bear Island, Deepwood Castle, and Cahoe City are willing to serve Jack Poseidon.

Among the three earls, there were 200 people from Bear Island, and Deepwood Castle asked Jack to pay for [-] people and several carriages.

Although Kahuo City was captured at the same time as Deepwood Castle, Arleigh Karstark's uncle, Alvin Karstark, took all the food and soldiers.

So Kahuo City, like Deepwood Castle, not only did not provide help to Jack, but instead made Jack pay for food for 300 people and ten carriages.

However, these 300 people are the [-] Thenns gathered by Saigon in the new land. In addition to these [-] Thenns, there are thousands of Thenns, old and young, women and children who are migrating to Kahuo City.

Apparently, Saigon was already planning to move all the Thenn tribe to Kahuo City. For this reason, Saigon also recruited some people who could read and write in Kahuo City, and also built a small school to teach the Thenn people the common language.

In this way, it can not only make up for the male labor force lost in Cahoe City, but also keep the population ratio of Cahoe City from completely losing balance.

And Saigon didn't know if he was deliberately angry with Tormund or what. After arriving in Kahuo City and becoming the Earl of Kahuo City, he directly reduced the land rent tax in the territory to [-]%.

What messy window tax, well water tax, firewood tax, etc. were also abolished, and only commercial tax, poll tax and land rent tax were retained.

For this reason, Saigon also specially asked the housekeeper Dwan Thurn to write a letter to mock Tormund, saying that Tormund was called "Benevolent Tormund" by the residents of Hearth City.

This made Tormund so angry that he couldn't sleep all night. The next day, Tormund announced that the land rent tax in Hearth City would be reduced to [-]%. Merchant tax, poll tax and ground rent tax.

Now the peasants in the territory of the two were happy, but their vassals, viscounts and barons were not happy, and expressed their dissatisfaction to the two.

But this time was different from the past, and their leaders thanked Tormund and Saigon after hearing the news.

Moreover, the clansmen of Tormund and Saigon were on the move. They hadn't gone through the War of the Five Kings, and the Battle of Castle Black ended hastily because of Jack's appearance.

Therefore, the combatable soldiers in the hands of the two are enough to wipe out these barons and viscounts, and then replace them with obedient people.

So even if the vassals protested, it was useless. Even the two directly killed a few vassals who took the lead in making trouble.

No one can stop the vanity comparison between the two. They are not nobles inherited from generation to generation, so naturally they will not think about how to deprive the peasants.

On the contrary, because of living outside the Great Wall all year round, he understands the importance of unity better, and takes pride in helping his people live a better life.

From the perspective of Tormund and Saigon, after becoming an earl, the peasants in these territories became their own clansmen, and naturally they could not squeeze and exploit them.

Especially Saigon, because the Thenns in this guy's hands had the consciousness of law and lordship, and everyone was like a berserker, he directly killed all the vassals who came to Kahuo City to make trouble, leaving none behind.

Then Saigon moved all the farmers who could migrate to the vicinity of Kahuo City, and sent the literate people in the castle to manage the territory if they could not migrate.

Due to Saigon's policy of light taxation and rich people, many farmers are willing to migrate to live near Kahuo City, and they are also willing to be directly managed by Kahuo City.

In this regard, Jack saw something in Saigon that other nobles did not have, that is, a flexible mind, especially the various policies adopted by Saigon, Jack even suspected that this guy would complete the centralization of power in his own territory.

As for Tormund, he didn't think as much as Saigon at all, he was just imitating Saigon.

This fool simply didn't want to be ridiculed by Saigon, and in the end he just killed the two viscounts who took the lead in making trouble.

(End of this chapter)