Chapter 243 The Power of an Independent Kingdom

It had been more than ten days since I returned to Summer Hall from the Essos continent. It was only then that what happened in Kohol was spread to the Westeros continent through various channels.

People who heard these deeds began to become polarized. Some people believed these rumors. Most of them were believers of the Seven Gods and the Storm God. They thought this was Lind showing miracles, while some people thought it was just a miracle. It's just some little tricks that Linde did to make a name for himself.

Regardless of whether they believe these rumors or not, the vast majority of the lower-class people among them agree that the so-called cities whose names have not even been heard in the past, such as Kohol, Norvos, etc., are just some small towns that have never seen the world. Just towns, because only small towns would make a fuss about Lind's miraculous power. Lind's miraculous power is no longer a secret in Westeros.

Only the nobles, merchants and sailors who really understand the situation on the Essos continent know that the cities of the Free Trade City-State are each older, larger and more prosperous than King's Landing. The people there are West The people in any town in Luo are proud, and it is rumored that these cities are all impressed by Lind's power. Such a thing has never happened since the destruction of the Valyrian Free Fortress.

Some sensitive people even couldn't help but speculate, or predict, whether Linde Terra's Summer Hall would become the next Valyrian Free Fortress, and the person who had this idea was named the Great Lord of the Seven Kingdoms. Most of them.

For the major lords of the Seven Kingdoms, the truth or falsehood of these rumors is not the most important. The most important thing is that from these rumors they can clearly see that the power of Summer Hall has expanded to as deep as Qohor. In the inland areas of the Essos continent, it is also felt that Midsummer Hall has the potential to become an independent kingdom.

Because although Summer Hall is now nominally a subordinate vassal of Highgarden, in fact Highgarden's influence on Summer Hall is almost non-existent. On the contrary, Summer Hall has a profound influence on all aspects of Highgarden and even the entire Reach. impact, and this impact is irreversible.

In addition to Highgarden, Dorne, the Crown Land, the Riverlands and other places close to the Summer Hall territory have also been affected by this impact. Even if the lords of each territory promulgate various restrictions, this impact cannot be eliminated.

Among them, the situation in the Storm Land is the most prominent, because as the Rain Forest joins Linde's trade agreement system, the various lords of the Rain Forest have gained huge benefits from it, which directly leads to the greed of those in the Storm Land who have not joined the agreement, and then actively join one after another. In the Linde Trade Agreement, the lords of the Stormland, big and small, were completely bound to the trade network of the Summer Hall.

This also directly led to the weakening of the influence and power of Duke Renly of the Stormlands. Every time the lords, convened by Renly, went to Storm's End for a meeting, some decrees and issues of Summer Hall were not involved. Under the circumstances, all the lords will cooperate extremely well, but once the issue of Summer Hall is involved, the entire issue will be interrupted and shelved in various ways.

Renly also clearly felt the influence of Summer Hall, and he also hoped to weaken this influence, but he couldn't do anything, and he couldn't even file a complaint with King's Landing, because there was no trace of Summer Hall from beginning to end. Directly exerting influence on these lords, these lords' maintenance of Summer Hall is all voluntary.

And what makes Renly feel even more aggrieved is that even inside his Storm's End, many people prefer Summer Hall, because they can buy many goods from Essos at a cheaper price from the caravans in Summer Hall. Commodities from the mainland, many of which were only available to the wealthy nobles in the past.

It was precisely because of this sense of suffocation that Renly hated staying in his own territory so much that King's Landing invited him to serve as Minister of Justice and to be stationed in King's Landing permanently, and he agreed without hesitation.

In the entire Westeros, only the Valley, the West and the North were less affected, but the small impact was only relatively speaking. Taking the North as an example, with the opening of the Bear Island trade route, various lords in the North also started to This route has made considerable profits. For example, the Amber family in Last Hearth City, the Glover family in Deepwood Castle, and other remote areas have more than 90% of their income coming from this trade route.

In fact, this trade route is not a new thing. The Mandalay family of White Harbor had proposed a similar plan a long time ago. However, in the eyes of the people in the north, although the Mandalay family of White Harbor has settled here for nearly After thousands of years, they were still regarded as outsiders who could not be trusted, so the proposal came to nothing.

The person who made this proposal now is Daisy Mormont. This belongs to her own people in the North, so the treatment given is naturally different. What's more, Daisy's method of persuading various lords is also in line with their appetite, which is to go directly to Each lord's castle challenged the lord, and fought all the way, winning the recognition of the northern lords with his invincibility, and Daisy also got the title of the Northern Valkyrie.

However, with the increase in pirates in the Narrow Sea, the trade route in the north has also been greatly affected. Although the Mandalay family in White Harbor regularly patrols the nearby waters, they cannot provide every Miracle Chamber of Commerce with merchant ships to escort.

Therefore, after the Miracle Merchant Guild's ship encountered several pirate attacks, the escort agreement between the Miracle Fleet and the Free Trade City State also accelerated under Lind's instructions.

"Braavos only allows us to build docks on the islands in the outer sea, but does not allow our warships to enter the inner lakes of Braavos. Myr, Pentos and Lis have all allocated a part of docks for us to dock. warships, allowing us to establish a fleet liaison office in the city, but not allowing us to build a base. Volantis agreed to us buying the islands near the Orange Coast and part of the coast to establish a concession, and also agreed to have extraterritorial rights and other rights in the concession. But our fleet ships are not allowed to enter the waters off Volantis," Bert Fawell reported to Lin Dehui with the document just sent from the Stepstone Islands.

Bert has been transferred from Tengshi Town to Summer Hall for some time, and he has also begun to become familiar with the job in his hands. He and Moose serve as the general manager of Summer Hall, but one is specialized in handling the internal affairs of Summer Hall, and the other is specialized in external affairs, and now Bert's most important matter is the cruise agreement being negotiated between the Miracle Fleet and the Free Trade Cities.

"Where's Tyrosh?" Lind looked at the document in his hand and asked again.

Bert explained: "According to the previous compensation agreement, the docks in Tyrosi already belong to us, and we have also received an area in the city as a concession. The Tyrosi fleet is also under our control, so we do not need to fight with them. Sign another escort agreement.”

"That's it!" Lind nodded and said, "Let Sir Halls sign the escort agreement on behalf of the Miracle Fleet. Don't use the name of Summer Hall and use the Stone Steps Islands. In addition, give Tyrosh an additional escort agreement." Agreement, lest the people of Tyrosh feel that they are excluded."

"Yes, sir." Bert was stunned after hearing this, but he didn't ask any more questions and quickly took note of Linde's instructions.

After finishing the official business, Lind came to the garden. Nymeria was holding a practice ax and fighting with several redemption nuns. Not far away, his son Augustus was toddling on the grass under the care of servants. Stepping forward, silent monks stood around to protect him, while Glory lay quietly and rested out of Augustus' reach.

Linde's arrival was first noticed by Glory. It jumped down from the high platform where it was lying, walked to Linde's side, and gently rubbed Linde's shoulder. When Linde touched its head with his hand, its head... My eyes narrowed comfortably.

As Linde's strength continues to improve, the places where Glory can help him have become smaller and smaller. Like this time when he went to the Essos continent, he didn't bring Glory with him.

Because there was no Lind in the castle, Glory spent most of his time in the forest. He did not return to the castle until Lind came back.

However, after returning to the castle, it regretted it a little, because Augustus, who had learned to walk, would chase it and play with it every day, and it couldn't move much. If it was touched even slightly, the little guy would fall to the ground. On the ground, it was forced to climb to a higher place to avoid the entanglement of the little guy.

So after seeing Linde, it grunted a few times in aggrievedness and complained directly to Linde through spiritual contact.

After sensing Glory's thoughts, Linde couldn't help but smile and said, "Wouldn't you go to the forest to catch a few cubs to replace you?"

Hearing Linde's words, Glory's ears immediately stood up, and then he ran out of the garden without thinking and climbed directly from the balcony next to him.

At this time, Nymeria's side has already decided the winner. Although the five Sisters of Redemption have obtained physiques far beyond ordinary people through potions, their strength is obviously different when facing Nymeria, whose overall quality has been dehumanized. Not enough to pose a threat to her.

With a sweep and collision, the warhammer of the last Redemption Sister was knocked away, and she fell to the ground.

After calming her breathing for a while, Nymeria stretched out her hand to pull up the Redemption Sister in front of her, handed the battle ax in her hand to the servant beside her, took the handkerchief and wiped the sweat on her forehead, turned to look at Lind, and then He looked at Augustus who was running across the grass.

Because Linde often stayed outside, and Linde himself didn't like children very much, the relationship between Augustus and Linde was not very close. Even if he saw Linde coming to the garden, he would instinctively run away. Find Nymeria for support.

Nymeria smiled and picked up Augustus, kissed his cheek, then walked towards Lind, and said: "You should also play with Augustus more, he is looking at you now." It’s like looking at a stranger who won’t be close to you when you grow up.”

Linde smiled, reached out and grabbed Augustus by the back collar, threw him into the air, and then created a whirlwind, holding his body up and flying over the grass in the garden. .

Augustus seemed a little scared at first, but he soon returned to normal, dancing in the air and laughing happily.

After Lind controlled the whirlwind and let it fall on the grass, Augustus immediately got up again, ran up to Lind with his calves, hugged Lind's calves, and screamed.

"Look! It's that simple to get close to a child." Linde raised his eyebrows at Nymeria.

Nymeria rolled her eyes at Lind and said nothing more.

After playing in the garden with his wife and children for a while, Lind saw Sir Rossos and Gorman, the executive director of the Miracle Chamber of Commerce, walking across the square under the leadership of Mus.

Lind handed the little guy to the servant beside him, signaled to a few people, and then walked towards the study. Nymeria saw it and followed him.

More than ten days ago, after Lind returned to Miracle Port, he immediately summoned Rossos and Oberna, told them about Ge Duohe, and expressed that he wanted to let Lu The Blood River Orphans returned to the Rhoyne River to rebuild Gor Dohor, and Rossos would be the governor of Gor Dohor.

At that time, after hearing the proposal, Rossos was still hesitant, but Oberna felt that this was an opportunity and believed that Rossos should not give up.

Rossos hesitated because he knew very well that although most of the tribesmen believed in Mother Lorne and considered themselves to be orthodox Rhoynar people, they were now accustomed to the life here, allowing them to leave their hometowns and move to the ancient safe location. I’m afraid not many people would be willing to rebuild their homes from the ruins.

As for Oberna being so proactive, it was also because of her own considerations.

Although she is now the lord of Weir City, Weir City has also prospered rapidly due to the Miracle Port and the Bone Road Trading Road, bringing a lot of wealth to Weil City, but it is also too close to Shengxia Hall. She, as a lord, holds very little power, and now almost the entire city of Well is following the Summer Palace. She is a lord in name only, but can only get a large amount of tax money every month.

This situation is just like Blackport City and Green Valley City. If Oberna was a person without much ambition like Beric Dondarrion, she might be very happy, but she has great ambitions, otherwise , and would not agree to marry Rossos, a Green Blood River orphan of low origin, in order to preserve his inheritance rights as lord.

So when she heard Linde's plan to rebuild Ge Duohe, she immediately realized how great the benefits it contained. Moreover, because Ge Duohe was located in the inland area of ​​the Essos continent and was a bit far away from the Summer Hall, She felt that the governor basically had the greatest power in the entire territory and did not need to consider the ideas of Summer Hall in everything like the current Weir City.

The only disadvantage is that it is too far away from Shengxia Hall. If something happens, it will be difficult for Shengxia Hall to rescue them.

However, if you think carefully about the reverence that the Free Trade City has for Linde now, even if they are dissatisfied with Linde's rebuilding of Ge Duohe and occupying the ruins, they would not dare to do anything extraordinary even if they think about it. In terms of safety, there should be Guaranteed, the only ones to be careful about are the Dothraki.

So, wanting to understand the pros and cons, she couldn't wait to encourage her husband to agree to Linde's proposal. Rossos, who had been hesitant at first, also agreed to Linde's order under his wife's persuasion.

But it takes time to gather the Green Blood River orphans, and the number may not satisfy Lind.

Linde also expected this, and just asked Rossos to summon as many as he could. Anyway, he just needed a name.