Game of Thrones: I'm flying a dragon on your face, how do you respond?

In this world, the right to mint coins is a royal concession. Anyone who dares to mint coins privately must pray to the gods for protection and not be discovered by the tax officials sent to various places by the Iron Throne. The latter will not talk to him about human rights. Once discovered, he will be hanged directly.

He will not even be given the opportunity to wear black clothes and be tried by combat. This wave of beheading first and reporting later, the royal concession is indeed!

Moreover, coinage these days is not like Blue Star, where there are large-scale mechanical equipment such as rolling mills and stamping machines. Before Aegon's conquest war, the seven kingdoms minted coins by themselves, mostly by goldsmiths and silversmiths forging by hand, or by casting molds and melting.

This caused difficulties in the circulation of currencies in various kingdoms and the currency system was not unified.

After Aegon conquered the six kingdoms and "Wise King" Daeron II unified Dorne, he abolished the coinage rights of the seven kingdoms and organized three royal mints, which were managed by the Minister of Finance.

One of these three mints was established in White Harbor!

Compared with the manual forging by gold and silversmiths, the Royal Mint forges coins through molds and animal-powered forging presses, with uniform specifications and consistent quality. At the same time, through legislation, the unshakable status of the Royal Mint is determined, private currency is cracked down, and worn coins are recycled. Therefore, the Royal Mint has always been synonymous with legal currency and good currency, and even some extraterritorial places such as the Stone Steps Islands and the Disputed Lands are willing to use them.

In the Royal Mint, the most important coinage tools are molds and large animal-powered forging presses, and the molds have always been the core and most confidential part of the mint. There is no place to make them if you want to imitate them!

Whenever a new king ascends the throne, the Minister of Finance will ask the chief blacksmith of the Royal Family to start making new molds, engraving the new king's head, and adding anti-counterfeiting marks, while the old king's molds are generally collected in the treasury and destroyed uniformly.

But! This takes time!

After Robert came to power, due to the shortage of talents, the Prime Minister Jon Arryn also served as the Minister of Finance, but how could the old man have so much energy?

Just the rescue of the people of King's Landing, the appeasement of the nobles, the arrangement of the coronation ceremony, and the convening of the tournament were enough to exhaust him.

In the south, Dorne was even more excited because of the death of Princess Elia, and troops had been stationed in the Bone Road and Prince's Pass. If they were not handled carefully, the war would ignite again.

At this juncture, who would have the time to manage such trivial matters?

Moreover, White Harbor was far away at the mouth of the White Knife River in the North. Because it was far away from King's Landing, the political center of the Seven Kingdoms, it was still continuing to manufacture the golden dragons and silver deer of the old king Aerys II!

This gave Jaehaerys an opportunity! As the legitimate heir to the Iron Throne, it was not too much to cast the golden dragons of the old king Aerys's time, right?

The attack went very smoothly. The Manderlay family of White Harbor was caught without any defense. Then, 1,000 fully armed soldiers moved around, hijacked the head of the Royal Mint and a group of craftsmen, packed all the tools and equipment, and even luckily found a batch of gold and silver nuggets.

These are the raw materials behind the Royal Mint, all of which are cheap for Jaehaerys.

The loss of this trip was very small. Only a small warship had its sails burned when dealing with the White Harbor garrison fleet, and two sailors died.

The landing troops encountered almost no resistance except for two people who sprained their ankles because of the slippery road at night!

When the equipment and gold and silver nuggets were moved onto the ship, they saw torches from the Manderlay Castle in the distance, and a fat man under the torch was jumping and cursing!

That was the fattest person Jaehaerys had ever seen in the world. He sighed and said it was a pity for the rouge horse under his crotch! It was a good horse!

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"Old man, what are you doing here?"

On the southern sea, two fleets were facing each other, and one of them was not even a fleet.

The ship was tattered, and the sails looked like mosaics from a distance. When you look closer, you can see that the holes were filled with cloth of different colors. It's fashionable! It's a thousand years beyond the human aesthetics of this era!

But Sir Tretimont, an old-school knight, sneered at it. If it weren't for Prince Jaehaerys's order, he would rather lead his troops to attack White Harbor instead of dealing with these fleas and rats in the gutter.

But he couldn't stand the soft and hard nagging of His Highness Jaehaerys, and couldn't stand Prince Jaehaerys's high hat, saying that the old general was the pillar of the country... who else could take on such an important task?

The old man didn't like to joke around, but he liked to brag about his achievements. He hoped that his efforts would be recognized by the superiors. If he could earn a fiefdom, it would be even better!

It's a pity that his family is still in the king's territory. Alas, I hope they won't be implicated.

"The one on the other side is half a face? If you are not blind, you should see that I am here under the banner of peace!"

"Thanks to you, my eyes are still fine!" The pirate leader from Bloodstone Island replied, "Then what does the female dragon want to do? Is she trying to recruit us as her husband?"

"Hahahaha" A burst of laughter came from the opposite ship.

"Shut your stinky mouth! Dare to insult His Majesty, if I don't have a mission, I will kill you first!" The old general was angry, but still did not lose his power.

"I am ordered by the Queen of King Aerys II, the King of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, the Ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, to do a business with you worth millions of gold dragons!"

"Really?"

"Impossible, they have so much money?"

"It must be fake. The treasury of the Iron Throne has been occupied by the usurper!"

"What if it's true?"

Sir Tretimont was very satisfied with their reaction. His Highness Jaehaerys was right. We should take the initiative. Although we don't have millions of gold dragons, it doesn't prevent us from drawing a pie first... and then slowly CPU them later!

Drawing a pie is easy to understand, but what does CPU mean?

Although Sir Tretimont didn't quite understand, he knew it was definitely not a good word when he saw the smirk on Prince Jaehaerys's face!

"Sir, why should we believe you?" Half Face was surprised and happy. He didn't dare to believe it in his heart, but who dared to guarantee that it must be fake?

"Just based on the Targaryen family's rule of the Seven Kingdoms for 300 years, just based on the name of the Targaryen family, a few million gold dragons are not a small matter?"

"Could it be that you found a large number of dragon eggs in the Dragon Mountain?" Half Face tried. In addition to dragon eggs, he really didn't know what other treasures could be worth millions of gold dragons.

"Haha, I just want to ask you, do you have a lot of gold sand and silver?"

"So what? What does it have to do with you?"

"Is it difficult to handle? Now Dragonstone is willing to buy your spoils or stolen goods at a high price!"

Trettimon said calmly. He was not worried that the other party would refuse. The Stepstones are located between the Summer Sea and the Essos continent. There are countless smugglers, pirates, and criminals gathered in hundreds of islands of different sizes.

The big pirates have no subordinates, and their backgrounds are quite complicated. Those with connections will sell the stolen goods to free cities such as Milvlantis, or Dorne.

But most of the small pirates, such as Half Face, do not have this channel. They can only endure the exploitation of the big pirates. One pound of gold can only be exchanged for one gold dragon or the currency of the free trade city of equal value most of the time, while one pound of pure gold can make at least 2.9 gold dragons!

Do these small pirates have resentment in their hearts?

Of course there is, but there is no way, because the free trade cities of Westeros and Essos do not accept currencies issued by other countries or regions, not to mention gold products and gold that has not been melted!

And this is called seigniorage!