After listening to Margaery and the surrounding people's explanations, Arthur said loudly: "The city wall is built to protect the civilians, not to make you more tired. Miss Tyrell did the right thing, and that's all for today's work...
Today, there will be no need to build the city wall on such a large scale in the future until we get through this long winter."
When the king was at Harrenhal, the raven relayed to him the situation on the south bank of the Blackwater.
Since the death of Stannis, the great nobles of the Stormlands have changed their allegiances again.
The Earl of Harvest Hall, Astan Selmy, the Earl of All Seeing City, Hugh Granderson, the Earl of Hay Hall, Bastian Erroll, the Earl of Bronze Gate City, Ralph Buckler, and other leading nobles.
The soldiers returned to their own territory, and then sent messages to the Riverbend Army and King's Landing led by Balon Swann respectively to show their family's loyalty to the Iron Throne.
Most of the Stormlands nobles who were ready to surrender to King Arthur I had their territories north of Storm's End Castle, while the three or four earldoms occupied by the Golden Company were all in Cape Wrath, south of Storm's End Castle.
That is, the peninsula area north of the Dorne Sea and south of Shipbreaker Bay.
In addition, Dragonstone and the Throat are controlled by Redwine's fleet, Blackwater Bay is temporarily safe, and the only restless West is far enough away from King's Landing, making the situation in the capital no longer so dangerous.
In other words, until the situation on the mainland does not change drastically, the people of King's Landing do not need a too high wall for the time being.
The king's words immediately made this group of hardworking people cheer for joy. They had long since stopped doing this unpaid hard work.
Taking advantage of the high popularity, Arthur also learned from Margaery just now and began to communicate with the common people.
With characteristics such as being approachable, noble, and handsome, it is easy to be loved by the people of King's Landing. Rhaegar Targaryen and Renly Baratheon are all like this, and Arthur I is no exception.
Coupled with the lovely Queen Margaery by his side, the king received a lot of blessings in a very short period of time.
"Seven Gods, Your Majesty is truly the best king in decades!"
"Look, Queen Margaery and Arthur I are so well matched!"
"The new king will be able to be like the wise and powerful Aerys II, so that the kingdom will have long-term peace and stability, and the people will live and work in peace and contentment."
When Earl Tully arrived with his people, he saw this scene: Arthur I, wearing iron armor, was in close contact with his people, listening to their petitions and blessings.
When the surrounding Tully soldiers saw their lord coming, they told Lando exactly what happened.
Earl Tully nodded and did not disrupt the scene. He quietly waited for the end of the king's pro-people behavior.
Among the civilians, Arthur, who was touched and blessed by many hands, discovered a blue light curtain that suddenly flashed out.
[Mission: Open a free food supply point for the people of King's Landing who cannot eat]
[Task: Send medical personnel such as bachelors to treat sick civilians]
[Task: Improve the sewage and sewage system in King's Landing to reduce the odor in the capital]
[Task: Build a water purification plant]
[Task: Organize certain entertainment activities, such as martial arts tournaments or invite circuses to tour]
Five tasks in a row appeared on the system panel. The three tasks that appeared last time in Harrenhal have been completed, allowing Arthur to gain 3,000 experience points.
Coupled with the combat experience gained since the last upgrade, he only needs more than 4,000 points to upgrade.
In other words, the king will soon be promoted to level ten, and his riding skills will be improved to nine points.
It is only one level away from riding a dragon at ten points.
In the next period of time, in addition to gaining experience from the battles in the West and Stormlands, the royal standing army that will be formed will also provide Arthur with considerable experience points.
I can be a dragon knight soon!
Although Alduin, who is covered in spikes, looks difficult to ride, but who is he?
The man who has already ridden Sansa and Arianne, will soon ride Margaery, and will ride Daenerys in the future.
The worst he can do is pretend to be Arthur Morgan.
After contacting the common people, the king remembered the origin of the matter that Margaery told him.
"As for Officer Tully, since you love whipping people so much, I'll give you a whipping."
Arthur turned to his bodyguard, Podrick Payne, and ordered: "Wash him five times, using his own whip, and harder."
Not long after, with tens of thousands of people watching, Officer Tully accepted the king's flogging.
"Ah~"
Podrick is still very powerful!
As for the young man named Will, after the king asked him if he wanted to join the royal guard, Will readily agreed.
Arthur did this to prevent the young man from being retaliated by Officer Tully - after all, the king had too many things to do and could not pay attention to a civilian in Flea Bottom, so the best solution was to keep him close to him.
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As for whether Will's own force value is qualified for the role of guard, it is a small problem. There are basically no people who can defeat the king with force.
The most important thing that Arthur I's guards did was move giant hammers.
There is no way, the king can't carry the giant hammer all the time - it would be unsightly - so the servants Maydan, Podrick and others have to be responsible for transporting the giant hammer to various battlefields.
After Arthur's power gradually grew, Medan, Pod and others no longer did it themselves, but there were always unlucky ones carrying the giant hammer.
After letting the civilians near the city wall go back to their homes, the king, Margaery and others met Randyll Tully who came after hearing the news.
"Your Majesty, I think stopping the construction of the city wall is a very unwise choice. Not to mention what other nobles will think when they see the tatters of the capital city wall, that is..."
Although Arthur I had issued the royal decree, Earl Tully still expressed his thoughts.
In the opinion of this stubborn old lord, caring for the common people is a meaningless act.
So he urged the king to continue building high walls twenty or thirty feet high.
"It's just a city wall, what does it do to my face? Lord Randyll, as rulers, we must understand the principle of using the people according to the times. King's Landing has experienced several wars, and the common people have been starving for a long time.
Under these circumstances, if we still mobilize the people to carry out large-scale construction projects, I am afraid that my title will have a black heart. If so, in the records of historians, I will be the Black Heart King Arthur."
The king still insisted on his point of view.
Managing the people at the right time is a very metaphysical issue. Based on the knowledge of Arthur II, it is natural to know that quite a few rulers have failed at this point.
For example, in the previous life of Daxia, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was one of the Ten Philosophers of the Net Temple.
There is no doubt that this man was a complete tyrant, but what he did, such as digging the Grand Canal, opening up the Western Regions, rebuilding the Great Wall, initiating the imperial examination, and conquering Goguryeo three times, etc., if he accomplished anything, he would be remembered in history.
But Brother Guang, who had always wanted to be strong in his life, was not convinced. He had to accomplish so many things in his short life, which naturally ruined the amazing legacy left by his father.
Back to business.
Based on the situation in the Royal Territory and the Riverlands, what needs to be done now is not only to provide relief to the refugees, but also to slowly restore production in towns, workshops, etc.
Major repairs to city walls and large-scale construction projects cannot be done in a short period of time.
Arthur I discussed back and forth with Earl Tully for a long time, and he had a new idea.
"The simultaneous construction of tens of thousands of civilians must be stopped, but it is still possible for dozens or hundreds of masons and apprentices to slowly repair the city walls. This time it will not be carried out in the form of voluntary labor. The workers will be given copper plates and
Food, let those who are willing to work come.”
King's Landing and a large area nearby are the private property of the royal family. Before today, the city wall repair projects were all carried out in the form of voluntary labor.
That is to say, no money is paid and the people are forced to work.
This is also a way for lords to collect taxes, but it is not very common.
If the royal family gives money to hire civilians to work, the people's resistance to this project will be much smaller. Even many young people who can't find work to make money will be happy to join it and praise the king for providing them with a good job.
In today's world, the greatest wish of ordinary people is to have enough to eat.
The problem of the city wall was solved in this way. On the way into the city and back to the Red Keep, Arthur, who was riding a horse, discussed the situation in the Stormlands in detail with Earl Landau.
As for little Rose Margery, after she and her fiancé had a wedding ceremony, they got into the sedan chair. As a respectable noblewoman, it was unsightly to ride a horse, so southern ladies and ladies preferred to ride in a sedan chair.
Northerners are not so particular. Even Sansa, who is dedicated to being a lady, can ride a horse, and her riding skills are pretty good.
"Although most of the nobles in the northern part of the Stormlands sent ravens and claimed that they were always loyal to the Targaryen family, I think the loyalty of these families is worrying."
As Lord Landao spoke, he controlled his mount so that it was two or three steps behind Arthur I's giant red horse.
Except for the guards, no ministers could walk in front of the king.
"Why do you think so?" Arthur turned around and asked curiously.
The main branch of the Baratheon family no longer has an adult male, Robert's illegitimate son has not been legalized, and the Stormland nobles have no one to loyal to, so naturally they can only turn to Arthur, who is currently the most powerful.
"I will give you an example. The Grandson family in All Seeing City has sent a letter to its governor, Sir Husband, but another important member of the family, Sir Narbert Grandson, is still at Storm's End.
Loyal to Selyse Florent, many Stormland families bet on both sides like this." Earl Tully explained.
Arthur thought for a while and waved his hand gently, "This is a small problem. Didn't Storm's End send a messenger raven to say that Melisandre had set off and was about to come to tell the story of the Baratheon family, the Florentine family, and the original dragon?"
Are the vassals of Stone Island and other forces loyal? When Storm's End falls, the Stormlands nobles will no longer be a problem."
His main concern was the forces such as the Golden Company and Aegon VI.
This group of people is very likely to form an alliance with Volantis and other places, and then launch an attack on the Western Continent through the Stepstone Islands.
As for the Stormland family, they don't have the support of Essos forces, so they can't make any trouble.
Because he kept turning his head to talk to Landao, Arthur, who felt uncomfortable in his neck, ordered him to take two steps forward on his horse and walk side by side with him.
The pedantic Landao seemed a little flattered. After pretending to refuse, he gently pinched the horse's belly and took two steps forward to make the king's neck less uncomfortable.
As the two got closer, the topics they talked about became bolder.
"...As for the inheritance of Storm's End, I suggest that you marry your second or third son to Shireen Baratheon, and then let the prince inherit the castle and the position of Lord of the Stormlands."
Earl Tully made a bold suggestion.
Anyway, the king has plenty of wives, and the Tully bloodline inherited by Queen Sansa is the same as the Tyrell bloodline whose family motto is "life goes on", both of which are famous in the Seven Kingdoms for their fertility.
In the foreseeable future, His Majesty Arthur I will have quite a few children.
Although the Deer family was the main force in the Usurper's War, the royal family's newly appointed Lord of the Stormlands had to marry Shireen if he wanted to secure his territory. Just like during the War of Conquest, Aegon I's illegitimate brother Orys defeated the Storm King.
He obtained the territory and castle, but still married the Storm King's only daughter and inherited the woman's flag, coat of arms and motto.
"I remember that Shireen suffered from stone scale, and I don't know if she has the ability to have children?" Arthur asked curiously.
This method is considered a backup plan. There is no trace of his first child, so there is no need to think so far ahead for the time being.
As for the current Storm's End, stupid Selyse still has the support of two to three thousand soldiers, mainly soldiers from Florentine, Baratheon's family, and Dragonstone.
Arthur also didn't want to sit idle and compete with a strong castle that even an army of 60,000 soldiers could not defeat.
"I don't know either." Lord Landao shook his head.
His concern for soldiers far exceeds the gossip about noble women.
Arthur suddenly remembered something, "By the way, have the aborigines of the Crab Claw Peninsula arrived? They are the ancestors whose clothes are a bit ragged."
After he gave the order, the group of people headed south along Rossby Road from Maiden Springs. Counting the days, they should have arrived long ago.
"We arrived at King's Landing a week ago. Their equipment was really lagging behind, and their work was not very disciplined. I felt it was a bit embarrassing for the royal family, so I let them station themselves in the military camp north of the Lion Gate and refused to let them enter the city."
Earl Leigh replied.
That group of ancestors gave him a very bad impression. They looked even uglier than the Ironborn of the Iron Islands, so Lord Landau refused to let them enter the city.
"This is the main force that will form the King's Landing garrison in the future. How can it be abandoned outside the city?" Arthur I scolded, "Equipment and other things, just pick some off from the pile of dead people. At most, take off the family crest, coat of arms and so on.
Yes, it’s not like it can’t be used.”
Robert spent all the wealth accumulated by the Targaryen family for three hundred years and was in debt, leaving the Red Keep extremely poor.
In addition, Arthur himself does not have much money. The only huge sum of money is still in the Tyrell family, but the Duke of Mace said there is something wrong with this money. What Loras received in King's Landing was a new golden dragon with only 30% gold content.
currency.
The Knight of Flowers, who only had fencing in his mind, didn't know the difference between the old and new gold dragon coins, so he didn't indicate it in the letter.
Arthur didn't understand the difference between old and new gold dragon coins before, so he used them in a confused way. His previous transactions with the Rose family were calculated based on the value of the old coins, and the Duke of Metz, who insisted that his son-in-law settle the accounts clearly, planned to choose a time with him.
The king needs to make some calculations about this confusing situation.
This made the already poor king even worse.
Although the gold mines near Jinya City can produce gold, after buying food for farmers throughout Nanhejian, there is not much left.
And what's worse is that a lot of new golden dragon coins have flowed into circulation in the Western Continent, making the already chaotic currency system even more chaotic.
Thinking of this, Arthur's hatred for Littlefinger increased even more.
You said you had gone to the valley and dug such a big hole for me.
As for Robert's debts, Arthur is prepared to deny them all - what do the bad things done by the usurper have to do with me, Arthur I Targaryen?
Among the debts of six million gold dragon coins, the most outstanding ones are the three million from the Lannister family and the church's 930,000 gold dragon coins.
The heir of the former is Tyrion. After the king pacified the West, the little devil who benefited can't chase Arthur who has no money for money, right?
The church's money will be easier to deal with. The new Archbishop doesn't know where he has gone. The High Sparrow gang currently using Baelor's Cathedral doesn't even have an Archbishop, so they have no power to collect debts.
The rotation method of the Archbishop is also endless, so before the death of the current Brother Lu Chen, the High Sparrow's real name was not justified.
Thinking of this, Arthur was ready to pick a time to drive away the group of sparrow monks.
As for the debt owed to the Iron Bank of Braavos, Arthur I not only did not want to repay it, he even wanted to borrow another sum to form a royal standing army.
When I owe fifty thousand, I am my grandson; when I owe fifty million, the bank is my grandson.
The Tyrell family will pay most of the expenses for the subsequent coronation ceremony and Margaery's wedding, and the king will contribute a little symbolically.
Arthur even planned to use the wedding to earn some expensive gifts, and then see if he could fill the empty royal assets.
Alas! It would be nice to make a windfall someday.
What the king didn't know was that in the next two or three months, not only would he not be able to make a fortune, he would also have to continue to lose it.
Another wedding awaits him, and the person to marry him doesn't have much money in Westeros.
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