Game of Thrones: The Strongest Dragon Mother

Chapter 250 The Country of Beasts

In the end, Dr. Wargrave was helped out of the conference room by Pater, and the old man in this state was completely unable to communicate.

Dany also breathed a sigh of relief. The old man clamored to meet Princess Lei Lei for a while, and pulled "Cresen" to salute Queen Leila for a while.

She had thought about the similarity of mother and daughter before, but Barristan told her clearly that Queen Leila was not similar to her, especially her temperament, and he could not see the shadow of a queen in her.

As the White Knight said, no one had ever doubted her identity until she met Dr. Wargrave.

"Sorry, Dr. Wargrave is old and his memory is confused. As you can see, he can't even remember his assistant who has served him for three years." Dr. Perestan apologized with embarrassment.

"It's okay." Dany waved her hand and sat down on the right side of the old doctor.

After everyone sat down, Perestan announced the start of the meeting, and first handed Dany a piece of parchment, which contained the income and expenditure of maritime trade for the past 50 years.

"After returning to the City of Learning last night, 25 economics bachelors and I sorted out the trade data of the six major trading seaports of Lannisterport, Oldtown, Sunspear, King's Landing, Seagulltown, and White Harbor, and finally counted Westeros The last 40 years of trade deficits."

Dani took a closer look. During the period of "Mad King" Aerys, there were surpluses and deficits. Taking the years of trade deficits separately, it was almost a horizontal line, about 20 gold dragons per year.

Well, there are even a few years of small surpluses in the middle of summer, and then large deficits after winter.

But everything changed after Robert came to power. Not only was the deficit year-on-year, but the magnitude of the deficit was also climbing wildly, from 80 golden dragons in the second year of Robert's succession to 200 million golden dragons in the year before his death.

Well, the data after the War of the Four Kings has dropped, and the deficit has hovered around 50 gold dragons in the last two years.

You must know that during the 14 years of Robert's reign, ten of them were summers!

"This is crazy. In the 16 years after the Usurper War, Westeros lost 600 million golden dragons?!" Dany said in disbelief.

Perestan rubbed the dark circles under his eyes, and said with a wry smile, "We didn't expect it to be so scary. I was so scared that I didn't sleep all night."

"We have to restore the stone statue of King Aerys. Compared to Robert I, he did a good job during his tenure." A doctor named Moras joked.

"It's mainly due to Duke Tywin," Dr. Nemos beside him shook his head.

"Actually, apart from being obsessed with wildfires and making the nobles sleepless and restless, Aerys has almost no major evil deeds. At least he is not only not extravagant, but also very frugal. Robert inherited at least 400 million golden dragons from him." Haha Dr. East India said.

"Hey, why is it so difficult to find a good king? A frugal king is crazy, and a heroic and good man is extravagant." Dr. Nemos lamented while holding his head.

Dani's eyes flashed, and she tentatively suggested: "It is indeed time for reform in Westeros. The Academy City can initiate a 'Grand Council', learn from the advanced experience of the trading city-state, and limit the king's power."

"Don't even think about it. The Academy City is just a service organization, and it is not qualified to initiate a big council, nor is it qualified to participate in the game of power." All the doctors shook their heads together.

What's going on here?

There is no need to lie at this time, and it doesn't look like they are perfunctory from their expressions.So, why does the school city that does not participate in Quanyou target itself?

Dani had more and more doubts in her mind.

"Ahem, let's get back to the topic," Dr. Perestan coughed a few times, reminding everyone, "The most pressing issue now is how to reduce the trade deficit."

Dany frowned and said, "To solve this problem, we have to figure out where Westeros spends his money."

"We have statistics," Perestan said, and handed over another parchment, "During the time of King Aerys, the witch lens experiments in the Academy City accounted for one-tenth of the country's external financial expenditures. [-]% of luxury goods such as iron, Kohor refined iron, Yidi spices, and ivory accounted for [-]%, and the other [-]% were daily necessities such as grain, linen, salt, whale oil, and sugar.

But we also export wood, furs, and wine to the trading city-states, especially Arbor Isle wine, making Oldtown the second largest port after King's Landing. "

Dani looked down at the parchment, and asked casually, "How far have you researched the witch lens?"

"Miss Leila also knows the witch lens?"

"Well, I saw it in a book."

"Hey, witchcraft is needed to create a witch lens, but we have studied it for many years and proved that magic is a deceptive thing, and more than 150 million golden dragons were wasted." Dr. Perestan shook his head.

"Magic?" Dany paused while flipping through the parchment, and looked up at the old doctor, "Are you sure you want to use magic?"

"Of course, we have all the information to create a witch lens," he said, pulling his necklace, revealing a dark iron chain link, "Did you see it? Valyrian steel, I have been studying magic for 20 years, and I am still a A master of magic!"

Dany stared at his brown eyes for a long time. Apart from firmness and pride, there were also two lumps of yellow-white eyeballs in the corners of his eyes, and he didn't find half of the meditation runes.

Purely a Muggle!

"Doctor, how do you study magic?" Dany asked tentatively.

"Recite the basic rune table, study the composition of spell runes, first disassemble it into hundreds of single runes, and then use the specific functions of witchcraft to compare the commonalities and differences of runes, and analyze the meaning of various combinations of single runes. "

Dani's eyes widened, and she said in disbelief: "Gods of the Seven, your process of learning magic is very formal and very systematic."

Yes, formal, like studying a major in college.

This was completely beyond Dani's expectations. The bachelor of the academy learned magic very professionally. If she didn't know that the other party was a Muggle, she would have thought that the old doctor had graduated from a wizarding academy.

"Fake." The old man shook his head with a look of disapproval.

"Really," Dany said sternly, "the way you learn magic is not wrong, but there are two prerequisites that have been ignored."

"Miss Layla even knows about the occult?" Dr. Nemos asked curiously.

"I don't know much about it, I only know some basic common sense. To learn magic, there must be two prerequisites: first, the learner has the talent to become an extraordinary person; second, there is a magic tide, that is, there are dragons in the world, or in the A place where gods and gods radiate power."

After finishing speaking, Dani also became puzzled, "You guys even know the orthodox way of practicing magic, so there's no reason why you don't know these basics, right? Other than that, just go to the pier and find a fire mage or a priest of the Red God. The news."

"This..." the faces of the doctors changed from cloudy to cloudy.

"Miss Layla, fire mages are liars," Dr. Perestan said in a tone of sentencing.

"You are all wise men who grasp the truth. Think about it and you will understand that the witch lens was invented by the Valyrians, and the Valyrians are famous for their magical skills. It is absolutely true.

Without real magic, how can we create a witch lens?

In fact, the reason why you cannot imitate the witch lens is mainly because dragons have died out in the past century or so, and the world has entered an era without magic.

You can't learn magic no matter what, and runes without magic power are the same as patterns on armor, which have no practical effect. "

"Is that so?" Some doctors looked stunned, but most of them didn't take it seriously, and even looked disgusted at this topic.

Dany observed her words, changed the subject immediately, and said: "I understand that King Robert is extravagant, and other nobles have followed suit. The wind of extravagance is spreading around King's Landing, and the consumption of luxury goods in the Seven Kingdoms is too high. The deficit will naturally increase.

As long as the next king manages his household diligently and properly raises tariffs on imported goods, the deficit can be easily resolved. "

"Here, Miss Leila, your suggestion is very good, but it is very difficult to implement," Perestan paused, and explained with a wry smile, "The king's taxes on the lords of the Seven Kingdoms are divided into two types, land tax and commercial tax.

Land tax is related to the population and land under the lord's command, and it is generally difficult to increase it.

However, the business tax is different. If the old town's business is prosperous, the tax paid by His Majesty the King will naturally increase accordingly.

That is to say, the more luxury goods the nobles buy, the higher the consumption, and the higher the income of the Iron Throne.The tariffs set by Littlefinger when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer almost maximized the prosperity of commerce and made the most money for the King.

Tariffs are also related to the purchasing power of nobles, high tariffs and rising prices.As you can imagine, they were used to spices and finery.

Raising tariffs offended the king and nobles almost at the same time, but there was no obvious profit side. "

"Since we can't endure poverty and suffering, there are only two ways left." Dani thought for a while and said.

"There are still two paths?" All the doctors were surprised.

"Well, I mentioned the first one before, defrauding money from the Iron Bank."

Perestan frowned, "Reputable—"

Dany waved her hand and interrupted him: "No reputation, Westeros completely abandons international reputation."

"Uh, what do you mean?" Seventeen pairs of blank eyes looked over at the same time.

"Obviously, Iron Bank can only cheat once, isn't it?"

"Yes."

"The people of Westeros will lose all credibility after cheating, right?"

"Yes."

"Then let's just keep doing one thing and just be a rogue country." Dany waved her hand and said boldly: "I said before that the warriors of the Seven Kingdoms are unparalleled in the world. Let's build hundreds of pirate ships and learn how to walk like the iron people." 'Ancient Road', block the Narrow Sea, collect tolls."

""

This suggestion is so crazy that the eyeballs of all the doctors almost fell off the table.

After a while, Dr. Perestan shook his head regretfully, "It is feasible to some extent, but it does not conform to the teachings of the Seven Gods and the traditions of the Seven Kingdoms!"

"This is simple, take off the knight armor, pretend to be a foreigner, the foreigner forms a group to occupy the narrow sea, and do that business without money."

"Well, what's the difference?" Perestan looked bewildered.

"Please feel better! You don't even believe in magic, do you think the Seven Gods are real? Since even the Seven Gods are fake, why can't you be a fake foreigner?"

The doctors opened and closed their mouths, their faces were tangled, but they didn't know how to refute.

"Furthermore, the Seven Kingdoms are now in a state of devastation. Killing relatives, killing kings, violating the rights of guests, and violating sacred oaths have happened one after another. Let's break the cans and smash them. Let's completely become a country of beasts!" Dani waved her hand. , Said proudly.

Hearing this, Perestan and other doctors almost collapsed.

"Maybe the king can set things right, let's talk about the second method." The old doctor groaned and said.

(End of this chapter)