Game of Thrones: The Strongest Dragon Mother

Chapter 247 We Are Not Poor

"That is to say, apart from wine, Westeros has almost no goods available. Isn't that poor?"

"This..." Baylor was stunned, and said: "This is not poor, right? It can only be said that the specialties of different places are different, and the golden wine of Qingting Island is unique to the world, and the supply is almost in short supply."

"Does Sir know about the trade deficit?" Dany asked strangely.

"What is that?" Baylor was at a loss.

"Taking Westeros as a whole, the gold dragons that come in every year minus the gold dragons that go out, if there is a surplus, it means that the seven countries have made money in the world sea trade, which is a trade surplus; if it is negative, it means that the king is losing money. , which I call the 'trade deficit'."

"Well"

Except for those grass-headed nobles, Garland, Baylor, Garth, Perestan and others who understood her words all looked at Dany in surprise.

"I didn't expect that Miss Leila not only has superb martial arts skills, but also has such profound knowledge." Earl Garland admired sincerely.

Westeros also has customs, and Littlefinger Petyr rose to prominence by increasing customs revenue, and was even promoted to the chancellor of the exchequer.

However, the customs in this world have only one mission - collecting taxes, fighting smugglers, and increasing taxes for the king as much as possible.

Adjusting tariffs, controlling the trade deficit, and adjusting the domestic industrial structure are not the tasks of the Minister of Finance at all. In other words, the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms have no such awareness at all.

"How does the trade deficit affect Westeros?" the old doctor asked nervously.

"There is almost no impact in the short term. Sea trade commodities are luxury items that ordinary people cannot use, and the gold and silver accumulated by nobles for thousands of years are not of much value. Pile them in the cellar to moldy, and take them out to exchange for high-end goods, which is not good for the country. What a difference."

"This woman is crazy, she said that gold and silver are worthless." Someone laughed.

Not to mention, there are still many people who agree with him, even Baylor and the old doctor are puzzled.

"Winter is coming, I believe that with the riches of the Tyrell family, 200 million golden dragons should be able to get it?" Dany looked at Earl Garland.

"This..." Garland is a little embarrassed. Let alone 200 million, his family can also raise 400 million golden dragons, but everyone knows that the person on the Iron Throne is having a hard time and lacks money. If he knows that his family has

"Okay." He suddenly figured it out again. The richest man in Highgarden, the number one in the Seven Kingdoms, even Tywin lent 300 million gold dragons to the Iron Throne. If he said that Tyrell didn't even have 200 million gold dragons, who would believe it?

Dani nodded, and asked again: "According to the price of wheat in Old Town at this time, 200 million golden dragons can almost buy 200 million people's food for ten years."

One golden dragon = 23520 copper plates, two copper plates sell a grilled sausage (pure sausage) and a dime of ale-converted to ten yuan, not expensive, right?

(Original setting)

The price difference between meat and food in this world is not as exaggerated as in modern society, but under normal circumstances, a golden dragon should be able to buy ten tons of wheat.

"How can Lannister take out another 200 million gold dragons? Calculated in five years in winter, can this money easily save the people of Westeros?"

"No," Baylor shook his head. "If you buy so much food, the price will probably increase tenfold."

Dani nodded, glanced at everyone and asked, "Now everyone understands? The difference between ten times the normal price and the normal price represents the depreciation of the gold in your hands.

Just buying and selling wheat once can depreciate the value of gold by a tenth, or even a few tenths of its original value. Do you still think gold and silver are valuable now? "

"This" people were at a loss, and wanted to refute in their hearts, but they couldn't find a reason to refute in their minds.

The old doctor was also a little confused, but he quickly came back to his senses, changed the subject and asked, "What exactly are you trying to say? Didn't you say that Westeros is poor?"

"Okay, let's continue."

"The trade deficit has no effect on Westeros in a short period of time, but over the past few hundred years, the cumulative loss of gold from the Seven Kingdoms is so large that the Iron Throne has to borrow money from the Iron Bank of Braavos, and borrow money from Myr, Pan Bankers of city-states such as Toth made loans.

The lack of money on the Iron Throne is certainly due to King Robert’s extravagance, but he spent nearly ten million gold dragons in 14 years (in addition to the 600 million foreign debts, there is also the inheritance of millions of gold dragons left by the mad king, and the treasury itself also has income).

Then, may I ask my lords, the batch of real tens of millions of golden dragons spent by King Robert, have they entered your family's treasury? "

"No, my family has been sending out money for more than ten years, and there is no income at all." Earl Green Apple asked doubtfully.

"Hey, my family is the same. It costs money to fight repeatedly and participate in martial arts tournaments!" The Earl of Highland City nodded.

"It's been a lot of expenses in the past few years. Although my family didn't lose money, it didn't make money either." Dickon said puzzled.

"Really, my family can't make ends meet, and I borrowed a sum of money from the Iron Bank three years ago. What's going on?" the Earl of Nightsong City asked in surprise.

"I'm in debt too."

"I also"

"You all borrowed it? Now I can relax, hahaha"

"This..." Baylor was also at a loss, "Everyone is spending money, but Miss Leila is right. King Robert definitely spent 14 million gold dragons in the past 1000 years. Where did such a large amount of money go?"

"Who is secretly making a fortune? Does the doctor know what's going on?" Involuntarily, the nobles turned their eyes to the only expert present.

Dr. Perestan was quietly pulling the long necklace around his neck, trying to hide the gold link representing economics in the collar of his neck, and this action happened to be watched by everyone.

Embarrassed, the scene fell into a suffocating silence.

"Uh..." The old man's cheeks were flushed, and he almost shed tears from shame.

"Dr. Perestan mainly studies history." Baylor touched his nose to help the doctor. "Maybe it's just like what Miss Leila said, the trade deficit has left the country abroad?"

"We lost more than 14 million yuan in 1000? Counting all of us, how much money did we lose?"

"Hehe, now you know why I said Westeros is poor?" Dany smiled lightly, and it had nothing to do with her.

To be honest, when rebuilding the commercial system of Slave Bay, she guessed that Westeros might have been in a state of trade deficit, and also guessed that the extravagance brought about by Robert would speed up the loss of gold, but she had no idea that most of the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms The foundation is almost hollowed out.

Involuntarily, Dani thought of the era when a group of Jews headed by Rothschild controlled the lifeline of the European economy.

Maybe the Braavosi moneylenders are the Jewish equivalent of another world?

"Then what should we do? Closing the customs can only benefit smugglers, but it can't cut off the trade deficit you mentioned at all." Garland said solemnly.

"I have a solution that can solve this problem once and for all, do you want to know?" Dany said mysteriously.

"What plan?" Everyone looked over together.

"Everyone borrows from the Braavos Iron Bank together, borrowing the maximum amount, and the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms borrow together."

"What do you mean?"

"Damn it!" Dany smiled wickedly, "Westeros also has specialties, knights! It can be said that the knights of the Seven Kingdoms are the most powerful in the world. More than 2 Sraki roaring warriors can't take Qohor, but [-] The mercenaries of the Golden Regiment have occupied Kohor one after another, do you understand?"

Well, Qohor has fallen.

The story of three thousand Unsullied defending Kohor has been passed down for hundreds of years, and it seems that the nobles of Kohor have an illusion: as long as there are Unsullied to protect, no one can touch a hair of us.

Decades ago, the exiled knights of Westeros formed the Golden Company, and Quohor hired them to grab territory on the Rhone Plain.The gold group asked for a high price, but they had real skills and completed the task easily.

As a result, the Kohor nobles wanted to renege on their debts and refused to pay the final payment—similar to what some unscrupulous businessmen did to migrant workers.

It's a pity that the Golden Group is not a migrant worker, so they directly overthrew the Kehor Iron Cavalry and thousands of Unsullied, and took Kehor City in just one day and one night.

It's just that the founder of the Golden Group, "Cold Iron" Yige Hewen (one of the illegitimate sons of the Long family who launched the Black Fire Rebellion), was very upright, and in order to gain fame, he did not loot and burn the city to get their commission and money. After receiving the compensation, he voluntarily left Kohor.

Well, the motto of the Golden Group is "Words are like gold", they never break their contracts, and their reputation and combat power are world-renowned.

Not counting ordinary cavalry, the Golden Regiment only had 500 real knights equipped with three horses and one attendant.

Not to mention the entire Seven Kingdoms, only Gaoting can gather a thousand or eight hundred real knights.Thousands of real knights lead tens of thousands of cavalry in formation, who dares to come and demand money?

"This, isn't it too honorable?" Garland opened his mouth wide, dumbfounded.

Just looking at the outside, this woman is beautiful and gentle; but inside she is not like the outside at all, her muscles and bones are strong, her martial arts skills are superb, even men are not as good as her; looking deeper into her heart, although she is extremely intelligent, she is also shameless and cunning.

It's kind of scary!

"Yes, if you do that, the reputation of Westeros will inevitably collapse, and even the local bankers will no longer dare to lend money to the nobles." Bishop Peter was so nervous that his nose was sweating.

The church bank has still put millions of gold dragons outside (only the Iron Throne borrowed 100 million gold dragons). How can everyone follow suit and not go bankrupt?

"I'll just say, it's up to you to choose your own affairs." Dani waved her hand and said casually.

"However," then she turned back to the previous topic, "you should understand, right? The Dragon Queen occupies the wealthy Slave Bay, where there is almost no winter, the land is fertile, and the seasons are like summer, and it is also close to the great navigation trade line. There is agriculture and there is commerce.

Especially in the hearts of the people, the newly liberated free people call her 'Misha'.

Do you know what is 'Misha'?

'Mother' in Old Ghiskali, which shows how popular she was in Slaver's Bay.

If it were you, would you be willing to leave such a rich and friendly blessed land and return to this poor, cold, dilapidated country where the people do not support her? "

"That makes sense!" Even the stupid knight with turnips on his shoulders understood and agreed.

"Is she really not coming back?" Perestan murmured.

"That's not necessarily the case," Dani shook her head and said uncertainly, "When she defeats the coalition forces, not to mention unifying the continent of Essos, she will at least take down the city-states such as Lys and Tyrosi that declared war on her.

At that time, she was strong and strong, and there was only a narrow sea left from Westeros. It is normal for her to lead a million troops back to show off her power and make you envious and jealous. "

"Millions of troops, showing off their might?" The corners of the mouths of the nobles twitched, their expressions extremely complicated.

(End of this chapter)