"What demons to be afraid of! I can summon two real demons by raising my hand!" Renly said without cutting.

Thinking of the demon Renly summoned, Margaery felt relieved: "The name those two people yelled in the dream is called Ah." The voice was so small that Renly and Loras could barely hear it.

"Not as nice as Lionel." Renly had already chosen a name in his mind, but he was going to record the name Margaery said later, so he didn't need it now, in case future generations would take a fancy to this name.

Renly's son was officially named: Lionel Baratheon.Werther finally felt relieved after receiving the letter in King's Landing.The right to name the child belongs to Renly, and Werther will not compete with him, but he never said that Margaery is not allowed to blow the pillow.

The next content of the letter almost made Werther vomit blood, and his son's name almost became a harmonious monster.

Werther reused the magic circle arranged under Margaret's bed in the magic school.The magic circle is an illusion system, and the caster must set it up in advance if he wants to achieve the effect.Werther needs to copy the scenes he imagined into the magic circle in advance to see which scenes appear in Margaery's dream, and this is where the problem arises.

The two scenes are somewhat similar. When Werther copied the scene, a few fragments flashed in his mind. At this time, the magic was going on, and these fragments were also copied into the illusion, becoming those discordant people in the square. people.

Having found the problem, I decided not to use this magic circle for a short time, and to study it later, lest something really go wrong.

The Magic Management Committee is formally established.There are many rooms in the Red Castle, but the magicians who can join the committee are all very powerful in their own right. It is inevitable that they will exchange magic when they gather together, and they may blow a big hole in the Red Castle at any time. ....

Werther also thought of this, but the houses around the Red Castle were already densely packed. He planned to buy one for office work but was politely persuaded by the surrounding nobles, who were afraid that the magicians would blow up their houses.

Werther understands their mentality. They usually make friends with magicians, and it is no problem to hire magicians to work.But magicians are human beings, and it is inevitable that when they experiment with magic, they will sometimes fail, and even burn their own bed when they get drunk. Soros has done this kind of thing.

In the end, there was no other way. With the funds from the national treasury, Werther drew a piece of land next to the magic school to build a house. Now there is only a large open space in the ruins of the dragon's lair in the city.The Magic Council plans to build two small three-story buildings first, with the first floor being the living room, dining room, kitchen and rooms for clerical staff.The second floor is the study room for storing documents and the offices of the committee members, and the third floor is the living place.Fortunately, there are not many people on the committee right now.

Another small building is for ordinary people to work and live in, and there is a raven nest on the top floor.The magic committee has to produce a lot of letters. These things cannot be done by magicians, and some ordinary people without magic power will be hired to help them.

Werther came to Maegor's Tower in the Red Castle, met Robert in the drawing room outside the king's bedroom, and gave the enchanted Valyrian steel necklace to Robert and his daughter, Princess Jocelyn Baratheon.

Robert played with the deer head pendant: "Is it so magical? It can improve the resistance to toxins and diseases, so can I drink a thousand cups without getting drunk?"

When Werther heard it, he came to the wine cabinet, poured Robert a glass of the strongest wine and handed it to him: "You will know if you try it, Renly was drunk and passed out with the necklace on."

Robert sniffed the wine, tilted his head back and poured a whole glass into his mouth: "Ah! Comfortable!"

"It's just a psychological effect! Alcohol is made of food, not a toxin. The magic on the necklace is almost useless. But if you eat moldy food, you will definitely not have diarrhea!" Werther briefly explained to him.

Robert: "I probably understand. Will there be many such magic items in the future? Look at my room, it seems that there are many things missing."

Werther really wanted to give Robert a kick: "Do you think magic items grow out of the ground? To make a magic item requires years of accumulated magic knowledge, and it also depends on the qualifications of the magician. A magician with poor qualifications cannot make it." High-level items, Renly can’t make this stuff at the moment, only I can make it, you want to exhaust me to death?”

Robert patted Werther on the back: "Ahahaha, absolutely impossible!"

Werther does not want to make this kind of item made with enchantment on a large scale.There are relatively few magicians on the mainland now, and their own strength and related forces are not very strong. People have a greedy side. If they have no strength, holding these items may lead to death.

The two chatted for a while, and Robert suddenly asked: "Why has there been no movement outside the Great Wall in the north? The royal family spent so much money to mine obsidian from Dragonstone Island and transport it to King's Landing. Now the Dungeon of the Red Keep and the Lord Baelor It’s almost too big to hold in the hall!”

Werther: "I asked Leaf to contact the Green Prophet, and there was nothing wrong with him. But we believe that once the White Walkers appear, the war will be extremely tragic."….

The White Walkers were far away in the extremely cold area, and Werther couldn't find them there, and the Green Prophet didn't dare to spy on them. Through a translator, he even asked the wildlings who arrived in the disputed place, and they had never seen any White Walker ghouls.

Werther himself is very clear that the movements of the White Walkers have deviated from the original historical trend and become elusive, and all they can do now is to make adequate preparations.

Robert: "So what else can we do?"

Werther: "Store more food for the winter. This winter will be very long. If the White Walkers don't appear, we will starve to death a bunch of people first. That will be a big joke that will be written into history."

Robert: "The royal area is doing well. Many lords have already started hoarding grain and bacon, but other areas are not doing so well. So I am going to conduct a national campaign, and I will urge all regions to hoard grain!"

"I support you!" Werther said his support, but he knew what Robert thought in his heart.

Robert wasn't so clever to think of this, he was getting impatient after living in the Red Keep for so long.Queen Doris Rowan was beautiful, but when she met someone like Robert who always thought about the forest, no matter how beautiful she was, she couldn't keep Robert by her side for too long.

The queen drives away Robert's lovers from the Red Keep.She also discovered the secret passages of the Red Castle recently, and she also blamed Robert for forgetting to close the door after drinking too much wine, and the secret passages everywhere were also blocked with stones by the Queen's order.So Robert has been holding back for a long time and hasn't touched other women. He wants to go on a parade for the reason of urging food stockpiles everywhere, but the real reason is actually for his own lower body.

Robert then asked again, "Don't you really need help with Donne?"

"This time it can only be the Dornish benefactors. Once other forces intervene, the nature will change." Then Werther shrugged: "Look, I am ready to take the children at home and let Nymeria go to war, so The kingdom doesn't care about this either."

Robert: "Well, I'll write to the other nobles."

Werther thought of another point: "It also includes the mercenary regiment of the Seven Kingdoms. You have to order that the mercenary regiment cannot accept employment from Dorne during the Dorne War."

"Why? The mercenary group that takes money to do things also care about them?" Robert didn't quite understand, and asked Werther.

Werther: "There are many nobles who have enmity with Dorne, and no one can guarantee who is in the mercenary regiment! In case any nobleman changes his army into a mercenary regiment to take Dorne's business, win or lose Who is to blame for this?"

Robert thought for a while, and it was the same reason: "Most nobles still care about honor very much, but there are always those who are a little unreasonable, or who are dazzled by hatred, will do this kind of thing. Then I will listen to you. Issue another decree."

The mercenary group in the Seven Kingdoms roamed around, and every income had to pay taxes to the kingdom and local lords, and the kingdom's decrees could manage them.If you don't pay taxes or don't obey the king's orders, no matter how heroic and righteous the mercenary group is, the next day it will become a gang of robbers and be wanted by the whole country.

Cheng Wang Hei

Chapter 240 Power and Economic Benefits

The Magic Management Council is empowered by King Robert to manage all magical affairs in the kingdom.The conferment of the title of mage, the entry and exit of foreign magicians, the unification of alchemy formulas, the management of magic books, and the statistics and summary of magic school apprentices.

The establishment of the committee marks that magicians have formed a force that cannot be ignored in the Westeros continent. It also concentrates all the power that was previously dispersed in the Imperial Council to the Magic Committee. Ordinary people's instructions on magical affairs will also end on this day. , From now on, the magician has the final say on magic matters!In addition to the king, Witte, who is the chief great magician, has also changed from a half-empty position to a real power faction, officially leading the country's mages in his position.

Matus Rowan, the Hand of the King, was divided of power, so he invited Werther to the tavern for a big drink that night, and began to complain to Werther when he was dizzy.

"Duke Werther, go and persuade Robert. If he continues to play with women like this, he will have problems sooner or later."

Werther was also drinking a little too much: "Master Rowan, you know, when Robert was 23 years old and led troops to fight and became king, I was only 5 years old when I was riding a horse. I can't control him!"

Matus held the wine glass in both hands and took a sip: "Although my daughter is the queen, Robert still keeps looking for women. Some time ago, three of the five girls in the Bracken family were pregnant. Count how many illegitimate children he has! Now Fortunately, when Robert is old and these children grow up, no one can tell if something similar to the Blackfyre Rebellion will happen."

Werther slapped on the table: "They dare! As long as I am still alive, if any younger generation wants to do something to my family, I will throw him on Skull Island to shovel dragon shit!"

Matus was much older than Robert, and his hair was black before he became Prime Minister, but now his temples were graying.Seeing his hair, Werther thought he would be wise not to be prime minister.The two raised their glasses and clinked, and drank the wine in the glass.

"Bartender! Come on!" Werther prefers people like Matus. After being deprived of his power, he came directly to Werther to drink a lot of wine to ease the relationship.There must be some selfishness in him, who wouldn't seek some development for his own family after taking office!As long as he didn't kill Robert, Werther didn't care how he messed with his own interests.

The bartender left the bar immediately after filling up the drinks for the two of them.In this high-end tavern, there were only Werther and Matus at the entire bar counter, and the other guests tactfully sat in far seats so as not to disturb these two big men.In fact, Werther's magic has been turned on, and the two can hear the voice in the tavern, but their own voice cannot be heard.

"Matus, you descendants of Green Garth, how much dissatisfaction do you have with the Tyrell family?" The atmosphere was still harmonious just now, and after hearing Werther's question, Matus was half sober after hearing .

"Duke Werther, what do you mean?" Matus was thinking about who had revealed this information to Werther, but after thinking about it, he was relieved that it was probably Robert.

When Aegon conquered the Reach 300 years ago, the last king of the Gardener family, Menn Gardener, and his family members were burned to death by dragons during the battle.No matter where the legal theory is, the power should be inherited by the collateral, but Aegon gave the title of duke to Harlan Tyrell, the steward who opened the gate of Highgarden. ....

Even if they were defeated, Kaesong's surrender would be despised by others, not to mention that Harlan Tyrell was just a steward, not even a nobleman.And at that time, the families with the collateral succession rights of the Gardener's family were all over the Reach.

Greenhand Garth has too many children. The eldest son Garth is the ancestor of the gardener family and the first king of the Reach.

He had many brothers and sisters. When Aegon conquered, the descendants of the families were all the powerful nobles of the Reach, and it was because of these blood that the Reach was originally firmly united.

North of the Reach: Rowan the "Golden Tree", ancestor of the Rowan family in Goldentree City.Rose of Red Lake, the ancestor of the Crane family in Red Lake City. "Oak" John, the ancestor of the Oakheart family in the ancient city of Oak.

South of the Reach: Gilbert "The Vine", ancestor of House Redwyne on Arbor Isle. "Girl" Maris, the ancestor of the Hightower family in Old Town. "Destroyer" Boros, the ancestor of the Bulwe family in Black Crown City.

Central Reach: Harlon the Hunter and Halledon the Horn, together founded House Tully of Horn Hill. "Sweetest" Ellen, the ancestor of the Bisbury family in the hive city.

"Shooter" Fosso continued two families, Fossoway of the Fruit Wine Hall and Fossoway of Xintong City.

And "Fox" Flores even found three different husbands. Her descendants have bred three families, the Florens family in Brightwater City and the Peke family in Star Shuttle City are still there.

These families occupy a large piece of land with the richest water and grass in the Reach. Back then, the Tyrell family was duke. If it weren't for the mighty Aegon, any family could send troops to wipe out the Tyrell family.

Therefore, the Tyrell family lived extremely cautiously, fearing to offend these powerful nobles.After making several contributions with the Targaryen royal family, he also began to seek marriages with these families.Little Rose Margaery, counting only those kinship relations she is still alive, has the blood of Redwin and Hightower.

Originally, Werther didn't care about the affairs of the Reach, and anyone could replace him as an ally in business.But Little Rose just gave birth to her own nephew, so now she has to take care of these matters.

Werther: "Count Matus, you descendants of Green Garth, you won't say that you are dissatisfied with the Tyrell family on the surface, but which nobleman in the whole country doesn't know?"

Matus smiled awkwardly: "Haha, Duke Witt, these are old things, my grandfather mentioned it, my father mentioned it, the title of earl has been passed down to my generation, and I don't say that I am ashamed of my ancestors in private." !"

Werther: "Is this an old tradition in your Reach?"

"That's right, Duke Werther will take it as a joke." Matus pushed the fruit plate between the two of them.

"I'm not interested in what you did before, but now the Tyrell family is my important business partner, and the Seven Kingdoms are also peaceful under Robert's rule, so it is impossible to physically eliminate the Tyrell family."

It can’t just be a threat, which will lead to dissatisfaction and even rebellious psychology. The more threatening, some people will do it. Werther doesn’t know what kind of character they are, so we have to give them a sweetener. Werther continued:

"Now everyone is fighting over who has the money! The Duke of Mace is in business with me, look at the gems he wears."...

Matus is also a sensible person. He has carefully studied the characters of each of the four Baratheon brothers. Werther is considered the most fair one. Now he knows the benefits.He didn't answer the matter of physically destroying the Tyrell family, and directly talked to Werther about the money, which is regarded as taking Werther's advice:

"Yes, the raw materials grown on our land are taken away by him at a low price, we can only earn some hard money, but he is the Duke, what can we do?"

Witte: "Now you are planting a large amount of sugar cane. I, Tylosi, have given you a big order. Next season, you will use part of the land to replant corn. There is an orderly competition in business, and no one can find your fault."

"Growing corn?" Matus knew that Werther was rich, so he wasn't worried that Werther couldn't afford the large amount of goods planted by several lords, but he didn't know why Werther needed so much corn.

"The land in the Stone Step Islands is precious. The vast land in your bay provides me with raw materials. Corn can be used as food or for processing. The Duke of Metz's industry is mainly in sugarcane sugar and paper making. He can't touch the corn industry. ,this is a good chance?"

Corn is a good thing, and there are many things that can be made. Werther raised his glass to Matus.

"Okay! Next season, Jinshucheng will take out half of the mountain area to plant corn, and the rest will be planted with wheat and sugar cane." Matus raised his glass and touched Werther.

Power and economic interests always have the same share. Werther keeps them away from the power in the Reach and wins them over with economic interests. At least temporarily, these dissident nobles can be stabilized. How long it may last depends on the future situation.

The Reach was settled for the time being, and after sobering up the next day, Werther started to deal with other things.

Within the Magic Committee, Witt issued a charter, the chairman of the Seven Kingdoms will automatically be the Chief Archmage, and another vice-chairman will be appointed to complement the work, and Ren Li will be the chairman.The number of committee members will always remain an odd number, and now there are five people: Cobain, Soros, Moroya, Dr. Marwin, and one position is reserved for Tyene.In the future, it will increase according to the number of magicians in the country.

The five also represent the current three magic schools.Since the magic school in King's Landing City was established first, many books also came from here, and there was no objection to a school occupying three seats.

Tyene Sand's accomplishments in alchemy have been recognized by all mages.Due to Werther's laziness, all the books on alchemy in the Seven Kingdoms are now written by Tyene. Some mages even think that Alchemy was taught by Trienne.

Moroya Hightower, as the librarian of King's Landing School of Magic, is responsible for sorting out magic books and transcribing the copies. There are no mages of the Seven Kingdoms who don't know her.Moroya is also an excellent teacher. Her own magic level is only elementary, but her theoretical knowledge is very rich.Coupled with the nature department brought by the child of the forest, she is proficient in the theory of six departments of magic, and can guide others to learn even advanced magic that she cannot use.

Cobain himself knows the destruction system, but he specializes in the summoning system.The subdivided elemental summoning and undead summoning in the summoning department are very proficient.As the school's logistics manager, he also undertakes teaching tasks. The young students love and fear him, because he often summons skeletons to scare those bachelors who make trouble in class.Cobain is now known as the number one summoner in the Seven Kingdoms. When magicians discuss the rankings, they will automatically ignore Werther and Renly. ....

Soros, the Field Chief of the Magic School, teaches the Department of Destruction and Combat on a daily basis.From time to time, he also hangs out with the mercenary regiment, and communicates with all kinds of people from all walks of life. He is also a drinking buddy with King Robert.The combat courses taught are also unique. He greets the apprentices with wildfire, nails, and lime powder, and is known as the most ruthless person.

Dr. Marwin had a very good relationship with Werther. After Werther taught the correct basic theory of magic, he immediately promoted the restructuring of the Academy City and became the founder of the Academy of Magic School.His own theory is also very solid. Relying on the huge knowledge reserve of the academy and the network of relationships all over the country, countless civilians with average qualifications have been admitted to the academy. He is the most respected elder of civilian magicians.

The office site is under construction, and Werther ordered the magic school to be expanded, and the dragon's lair hill was full of smoke. Werther suggested that all the staff go to Tyrosh to avoid it.

After the letter sent from the Red Castle reached the nobles of Dorne, the reply came soon.Most expressed their support for King Robert, and believed that the Dornish people's affairs should be settled by the Dornish people themselves.The few nobles who wanted Robert to intervene were ignored, and Robert let Prime Minister Rowan continue to chat with these people.

The Stormlands and the Reach will not send troops to Dorne, but the two places have already begun to organize a small number of troops to defend important intersections in the Crimson Mountains.

Troops from the Stormlands will set up checkpoints at the Boneway, and troops from the Reach will set up checkpoints at Prince's Pass.There are not many troops, but the meaning is obvious. The two places will not participate in the war in Dorne, but you should not even think about coming here when the Dornish people are fighting.

The nobles of Westeros did not participate in the Dorne War. The purpose of Werther's trip was basically completed, and he began to prepare to return to Tyrosh.

Going back this time, Werther didn't plan to ride a dragon, but took a boat with the people from the magic school.There is plenty of time, and Werther plans to teach them more when he is on the boat, so as not to be ashamed when he is in time.

Tylosi also has magicians from the continent of Essos and Assia. These people often work with Werther. Magic is not orthodox, but they are all self-contained. In some respects, they even surpass people in magic schools.

The guarding of the magic school is taken over by the city's golden cloaks.Because of the expansion, the school's defensive magic circle was removed, and only the most important library was set up by Werther with a lot of magic circles, and no one could enter.

Jon Snow, the gold-cloaked deputy commander, after arranging defense tasks for his colleagues, brought his wolf to the port with a large leather bag on his back.

There were three large ships moored at the port of the Blackwater River, one for people, one for food, and one for luggage. Werther didn't understand what these noble children were doing with so many things.

Seeing Jon coming, Werther touched Bai Ling's head at his feet. The direwolf had grown so fast that its shoulders were now as high as Jon's legs.

When other people reached out to touch the direwolf, most of their hands were bitten off.Bai Ling and a few direwolves have lived with the people of the magic school for a long time. They won't bite but will avoid them when they touch them. Werther raised his head instead of daring to hide when he stretched out his hand.

After touching its hairy head, he patted it lightly: "Go up!"

As soon as Werther let go, Bai Ling jumped out immediately, leaped over the boards and ran to the boat, and went to play with his brothers and sisters.

"That's all you have?" Werther saw that Jon was only wearing a noble robe with a long sword, and only a leather bag on his back.

Jon asked back, "Huh? What more?"

People who are used to hard life really don't enjoy it, Witte patted him on the shoulder: "Let's go, get on the boat, count the number of people, and set sail while the wind is blowing."

Cheng Wang Hei

Chapter 240 Five: The Eve of the War

Werther and Jon walked through the boards to the deck of the ship. Jon looked at the people who had already boarded the boat, and turned around and asked, "Aren't Teacher Ye and the others coming?"

Werther: "They wrote back and told me to come to Tyrosh when they are free. The children of the forest can live for a long time, and their concept of time is different from ours. They have plenty of time, and they will not be in a hurry like us. You go to the cabin and put your luggage away first. .”

The wide deck is filled with dining tables and chairs.With so many magicians together, they don't worry about the rain at all, and they regard this place as a place for dinner.

Except for the busy sailors, the people on board were roughly divided into three groups.

The table was filled with all kinds of high-end delicacies, and a few people were sitting on the ground eating and chatting. They were older magicians such as Cobain and Dr. Marwin.

Jon walked over to say hello to some teenagers, Sansa, Jojen, Menedith Clane, Jenny Poole, and several other apprentices, all of whom had grown up or were about to grow up. Talking with the appearance of an adult, in fact, the heart is still a child who has not experienced wind and rain.

Jojen Reed has been granted the official title of Sorcerer.His family is good at hunting, and the ancestral hunting skills are very good, and the Green Prophet is behind him, so Werther also tailored a learning plan for him.Majoring in magic stealth and archery, and minoring in various hidden weapons, axes, warhammers and swordsmanship, there is a black crow standing on his shoulder.

Jojen is tall and thin and has a baby face. Although he usually puts his hands in his pockets and doesn’t carry anything, once the battle starts, all the weapons can be summoned immediately. The dark purple magic equipment is better than the usual ones. Steel weapons are even sharper.Through the visual connection with the crow for detection, the long-range vision of the eagle eye, his summoning bow can easily hit the head of the enemy 500 meters away, and then he can retreat calmly with the help of stealth and stealth magic, and he is also absent in melee combat. Next.

Jenny Poole, originally the daughter of the steward of Winterfell, accompanied Sansa as a maid.When he arrived at the magic school, Werther could not let the apprentices enjoy it, so he hired her as a school handyman.

As the school expanded, more and more students came in. The second batch of apprentices were noble children. When they came to the school, many of them couldn't even wear their own clothes. Jenny also became Cobain's helper and became a life teacher.Now Jenny is a terrifying existence in front of the little apprentice who will throw the quilt if she doesn't listen to her.

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