#338 - Who would go against gold?

The warm rain finally stopped.

The Second Sons' camp was busy again, and the craftsmen began to build catapults in preparation for attacking Earl Craighe's castle.

"Sir, isn't this a bit too much?"

Damon looked vigilantly at the catapult position that had already taken shape. Four or five catapults had even prepared huge stones and ceramic jars filled with kerosene.

"After all, this castle also belongs to the kingdom. Are the Second Sons really not afraid of being attacked by the kingdom?"

Trystan Sand and Doran Sand looked at each other and then looked at Quentin Pol with the same curiosity.

"Kingdom crusade?" Quentin smiled. "Do you know what the Second Sons are?"

Damon shook his head.

In the past few years following Quentin Pole, they have been learning martial arts and aristocratic knowledge from Sir "Fireball" while following the footsteps of the Second Sons. They have witnessed the growth and development of the Second Sons, from the initial thousands of people to the current thousands of cavalrymen fighting on horseback.

"promise."

Quentin Ball tossed out a golden coin.

"Golden dragon? No, this is not a golden dragon."

Tristan Sand recognized the gold coin immediately, but immediately noticed something was wrong.

This is not a gold coin struck by the Royal Mint.

On the front of the golden dragon is the king's head, and on the back is the royal three-headed dragon emblem.

The reverse side of this gold coin features a fire dragon with only one head.

"This is Tyrosh gold," Quentin Bol replied. "The loans from the Silver Blood Bank will be paid with this kind of gold. In the conquered territories and free trade cities, as long as the gold is of sufficient quality, it can be used anywhere. After all, who would have a problem with gold? What's more..."

Quentin Pole did not go on.

Because King Aegon reduced the gold content of some gold dragons in order to increase revenue.

The gold dragons with Aegon's head, which were minted in large quantities by the Royal Mint in King's Landing, depreciated in the East Continent. Unfortunately, the Iron Throne did not have such great power to manipulate pricing.

Therefore, the major free trade cities prefer the golden dragons with the heads of King Daeron, King Aegon II, and King Jacaerys, while the golden dragon with the head of Aegon is rejected. However, in the noble market of the conquered lands, due to the royal order, the head of Aegon still has a good purchasing power.

The gold coins loaned out by the Silver Blood Bank in Tyrosh are of better quality than Aegon's Head.

The result was that anyone who accepted the loan, whether it was a lord or a high-ranking member of the Second Sons, would use these high-quality gold coins to obtain Aegon's Head, and then spend it on the noble market in the conquered lands.

As a result, the families close to Silver Dragon and the Second Sons Group, who borrowed money from somewhere, became the ones to make a fortune.

"Kid, this is reality."

Quentin Bol lowered his head and held Daemon Weir's head. "The land conquered by the previous king is large and complex. The silver dragon will not give up this piece of fat meat. Prince Longzel is upright and upright, but it does not mean that his descendants are still loyal and reliable. On the contrary, his descendants want more. That's why we see Tyrosh gold coins and the Second Sons in the conquered land."

"What does this have to do with the Kingdom Crusade?"

Damon asked doubtfully.

"Because both the king and the silver dragon are happy to see the Second Sons, an unstable factor, exist in the conquered land."

Damon suddenly realized.

Yes, the king needs to conquer the loyalty of the nobles, and the silver dragon needs to conquer the closeness of the nobles.

How can the fish in the water be moved without a disruptive catfish?

"Damon, this is your chance."

Quentin said with a smile. This battle will be Damon's first battle to become famous in the Second Sons.

"Did you know something, sir?"

Damon asked.

Quentin nodded, revealing the dead raven in his breastplate.

Austin "Mad-Eyes" Mullendaur was thinking about other things.

He was born into a great noble family in the Reach, the Mullendor family of the Highlands, and was once a vassal of the Hightower family. Before the Dance of the Dragons, the Mullendor family of the Highlands was the most noble and wealthy in the entire Reach. The blood of Garth Greenhand also flowed in his veins.

But everything ended the moment the Dance of the Blood Dragons was defeated and the Hightower family was destroyed.

Longzel rode Wormithor around the River Reach.

Among Hightower's vassals, except for the Cotoin family and the Bisbury family who betrayed Hightower and stood on the side of the Queen's Black Party, all of them were stripped of their titles and territories.

The Kui family suffered the heaviest losses and even all the male members died on the battlefield.

So he hated the dragon clan, hated the dragon clan, but also feared the dragon clan.

But he had to rely on the dragon clan.

"Maybe. Can we give it a try?"

Mad-Eye's thoughts didn't last long.

Because the construction of the catapult position is actually very fast, especially when there is no interference, it is even faster.

The Earl of Craig, who had suffered heavy casualties, could only hide in his own castle and watch helplessly as the Second Sons Regiment repaired the catapults and threw huge stones and pottery jars filled with kerosene at his castle.

If it hadn't just rained, the castle would have been on fire by now.

The infantry and peasant soldiers of the Second Sons, holding shields of varying degrees of sophistication or crudeness, pushed battering rams and slowly moved toward Crahe's castle, but there were not many arrows left shot from above the castle.

This shows one thing, that the previous battle has almost destroyed Earl Craig's ability to resist.

All he could do now was to hide in the castle and wait for death.

Many nobles have died in the conquered territories over the years. The Dothraki and the guys from the Free Trade Cities have no aristocratic etiquette and will not keep anyone alive for ransom.

The Second Sons would keep prisoners in exchange for ransom, but there were exceptions, such as when facing a hated enemy.

Unfortunately, this time the Second Sons came to attack Crakehall's castle.

There was a Hishan.

Hishan, the illegitimate son of the Crahey family, whose land was taken away by Earl Crahey.

Mad-Eye stood on the high ground, calmly watching the infantry slowly advancing towards the castle.

With only a few crossbows and perhaps a dozen archers left, it would be impossible for a castle on such flat ground to fight against an army with catapults.

unless

At this moment, William Seashan hurriedly rode his horse to the side of Mad-Eye.

"Mad-Eye, the kid that Quentin brought discovered the Boll family's cavalry!"

Mad-Eye's expression changed drastically.

The high ground on the other side.

Daemon looked at the cavalry advancing towards the Second Sons' base and calmly raised the flag he had prepared long ago.

Quentin Pole did not come to Mad-Eye's barracks alone with the three teenagers.

He also brought two hundred people with him.

Fifty of them had armor and twelve horses.

Fireball patted Damon encouragingly.

"Go ahead and show Mad-Eye what you're capable of."