Margery cooperated with her cousins' bragging and expressed surprise and admiration from time to time.
Even though she knew little about knights and military matters, she still had basic common sense.
Judging from his combat power of killing hundreds of enemies in one battle, this handsome Bracken may be the most powerful warrior in the history of Westeros.
When she heard that Arthur was only fighting against Crowstree City because of three villagers who died tragically, including a pregnant woman, her impression of Arthur became even better.
"Evil Crowtree City and Brynden!" Little Rose sighed.
Arthur felt that the way she looked at him was different.
"So in order to prevent the Blackwood family from retaliating, I have tried every means possible to expand my army. In addition to purchasing weapons and armor, I also hope to hire a group of brave Riverside warriors when I go to the River Bend this time."
"It's just that my uncle doesn't support Mr. Arthur very much." Hopper said.
The Duke of Metz is his uncle.
Horace added: "I think it may have been Randyll Tarly. He and his second cousin have always been on good terms."
"Why?" Margaery asked curiously.
She couldn't understand how Arthur, who had only been to Highgarden for half a day, could offend the Earl of Horn Hill in the south.
"It should be that I came here with a dozen Dornishmen, and then let Randyll Tarly, who was here to visit, know about it, so he stopped it on the pretext that the Blood Troupe was hired by me," Arthur explained.
Hopper followed suit: "No matter how bad the reputation of the Blood Troupe is, and no matter how annoying the Dornish people are, they still go to defend Mr. Arthur's territory. Lord Horn Hill is really a bit of a bully."
He placed the blame entirely on Randyll Tarly, without mentioning that it was his cousin Garlan Tyrell who had spoken to stop him.
Helping relatives but not helping others.
"My father sometimes can't tell right from wrong." Although Margery felt that her father had gone too far, she kept her grace on the lips.
After all, with Arthur as an outsider around, she couldn't freely express her contempt for her father.
"After you go home and wait for me in the afternoon, Mr. Arthur can follow me to see my father, and I will convince him."
"This couldn't be better." Arthur didn't expect that this matter could turn around.
To be honest, for the Reach Land feudal family, which has more than 10,000 professional soldiers under its command, three hundred sets of weapons and armor is not a problem at all.
But for Arthur, these equipment are still considerable.
The fragrant food was brought to the table by the tavern boy, and the group quickly solved their hunger problem.
Then Little Rose continued to go to the school she ran to teach children how to read, while Arthur and the twins went to the town center to recruit soldiers.
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"The blood troupe's mercenaries are priced at twenty gold dragons each. The warriors in the Reach are stronger and more capable. I suggest Mr. Arthur price them at thirty gold dragons."
Hopper suggested.
"Let's divide the people. Those who bring their own weapons and armor can be given more, and those without equipment can be given less." His brother Horace gave his own opinion.
Several people were standing in the center of the town, and the mayor who came after hearing the news was responsible for maintaining order at the scene.
As one of the three top nobles in the Reach, the twins of the Redwin family are still very important. Attracted by the blue grape logo of their family, twenty or thirty mercenaries have already arrived.
Among them, most of them were stragglers, and there were only two groups at most.
To be honest, Arthur has some psychological resistance to stragglers.
Because these people are not easy to pay, nor are they easy to direct.
One of the most important reasons why mercenaries form a mercenary group is that they are afraid that they will be devastated by their employers, losing their people and losing their money.
But there are still a considerable number of people who choose to work alone, such as Bronn, the luckiest mercenary in the world of Game of Thrones.
He went to the Eyrie with Lady Stark for the bounty. After the bounty from the Starks and the Arryns failed to satisfy him, he immediately jumped to the side of the little devil.
Arthur felt that he should avoid this situation.
"Besides the price, what I need now is loyalty and obedience."
Wagg, the leader of the Blood Troupe, followed Arthur and helped with the screening.
He has a goatee and wears a black plate armor that is different from the Westeros warriors, making him look very gloomy.
As the leader of a hundred-man mercenary group, his strength is how to select from ordinary mercenaries those who dare to fight and are not afraid of death.
Less than half of the twenty or thirty people in front of him passed, and only eleven people were selected by Arthur.
Anyone with a little glance could see Arthur's dissatisfaction.
The quantity is really too small.
"I think you can issue an order to recruit soldiers...so that people who are not here can..." a somewhat stuttering Wag suggested.
But he sounded very uncomfortable when he stumbled.
One of his assistants stepped forward and explained quickly:
"Mercenaries often have their own circles, and news circulates quickly. You can issue a recruitment order, and you can get a few silver deer when you come to the interview. This will quickly attract powerful warriors hundreds of miles away.
"
"Yes, in just one or two days, the number of mercenaries arriving will double, and it won't waste much of your time," the mayor said with a smile.
This is also a method.
Arthur agreed.
Anyway, he now has more than 50,000 golden dragons, and one golden dragon can be exchanged for 210 silver deer.
Spending a few gold dragons can get a large number of mercenaries to come for interviews, which is quite cost-effective.
Arthur ordered: "Then all mercenaries who come for the interview will have two silver deer. They must be those with regular weapons. They will be valid within two days. Please help the mayor spread the news."
Then he threw a golden dragon to the mayor as a reward for him.
"No problem, I'll do it right away. The letter crow is very fast. A large number of armored warriors will come to you tomorrow morning."
The mayor was about to turn around and go do something when he was stopped by Arthur again.
"You can help me find a convoy, a large convoy that can transport hundreds of sets of armor, to the north bank of the Red Fork River in the Hejian Land. The price is easy to negotiate."
Seeing the bounty of a golden dragon, the mayor agreed: "There is no problem. When you come to interview the mercenaries tomorrow, you can see such a convoy."
Arthur nodded and waved him away.
It looks like I have to stay here for one more day.
The Second Son Regiment, a well-known mercenary group on the eastern continent of Essos, can earn one hundred gold dragons for each ordinary soldier on a mission. The average price of mercenaries in the Reach is about twenty gold dragons.
Although this is related to the fact that mercenaries have no work to do due to the nearly ten years of peace in Westeros, it is indeed cheap and it is always good to hire more people.
Next, Arthur and the twins went to Margaery's school to wait, and in the afternoon they would go to Highgarden together.
Arthur needs to settle the payment for weapons and armor with Count Paxter, and Margaery promises to help get her father, the Duke of Metz.
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