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The five major families are all here. It can be regarded as the Wuqi family, which has a total of six major families. It can be said that it is very rare for so many families to gather together at the same time.

In the meeting room, several major lords had already taken their seats, chatting with each other in low voices, waiting for the arrival of the leader of the meeting, Li Lingyi.

Among them, Robb and Catherine naturally sat beside Edmure, after all, the latter was Catherine's younger brother and Robb's uncle.The remaining three people ignored each other, had nothing in common with each other, and the atmosphere was quite heavy.

A moment later, the door opened and Li Lingyi arrived.

"Good morning, my lords." Li Ling said hello, and then sat down at the head of the long table. The strength is now indeed the leader.

"I won't talk nonsense. I invite you here today just to discuss the next actions." Li Lingyi said, "Now that the alliance has been established, we have sworn not to betray each other, so I hope everyone can speak freely and don't have any kept."

After the words fell, Robb was the first to speak.

"Take King's Landing and destroy Lannister." Robb said coldly. In fact, he was still a little angry with Li Lingyi, so he didn't look at him.

"Attacking King's Landing rashly will put us in a passive position." Ian of the Ayrin family analyzed, he is a general for many years, and naturally has a lot of combat experience, "We should destroy the enemy's vital forces first, and then consider capturing King's Landing."

After saying this, Edmure nodded in agreement, "General Ian is right, King's Landing is vast, and if we attack directly, we may be surrounded by the enemy."

"The premise is that the enemy has that many troops." Robb retorted.

The coalition forces of the six major families, if each family contributes [-], then there will be [-] troops, which is already a lot in Westeros, and certainly not to the point of being crushed.

Lannister, Rose, and King's Landing's Royal City Guard can almost make up this number. If there is a real fight, it is really hard to tell who will win or lose from the number of people.

Besides, there are many examples of using less to win more. Unless there is a force that is several times, or even ten times that of the enemy, then it is possible to win without thinking about any strategy.

"I heard that the Lannisters are also expanding their army crazily during this period, so their strength must not be underestimated." Luce added.

"The Rose family should not be underestimated either. The high court knights are very powerful in combat."

"Everyone!" At this time Stannis stood up suddenly, stopped the discussion loudly, looked around everyone, and then said slowly: "I think we should discuss first, if King's Landing is captured, who will be on the iron gate?" The question of the throne."

"..."

After saying this, everyone was speechless. Needless to say, Stannis definitely wanted this seat.

In fact, he also has this qualification, because he is a member of the Baratheon family, and the former king Robert is his own brother.

As for the others, Robb definitely doesn't want this throne. He said before that he would return to his northern border after defeating King's Landing. As for who the new king is, he didn't care.

Edmure and Ian also expressed that their families would not fight for the Iron Throne. Luce of the Bolton family hesitated and gave up.

In this way, Li Lingyi is the only one who has not explicitly supported Stannis.

"Lord Ivy, what do you mean?" Stannis looked at Li Lingyi, who chuckled and said, "Master Stannis, I don't think there is any need to discuss this right now, right?"

"No, I think this kind of thing needs to be settled before we can act more purposefully." Stannis said persistently, "Or is it that the House Without Banners is also interested in the seat of the Iron Throne?"

"Maybe." Li Lingyi did not deny it, "but I don't want to discuss this issue right now. Our most important thing right now is to defeat the coalition forces of the Lannister and Rose families. discuss."

Stannis was a little dissatisfied when he heard the words, and frowned, as if he wanted to say something, but sat down again after a while, and said no more.

In fact, Li Lingyi didn't want to be king, but he was dissatisfied with the system of the Iron Throne. Like Dragon Mother, he wanted to fundamentally destroy this system, but it was definitely not that simple.

So now he doesn't have a complete plan yet, and once he expresses this idea, everyone present will probably be stunned.Destroy the Iron Throne directly?It is estimated that no one has thought about it, and it is too shocking.

Therefore, for the sake of the stability of the alliance, Li Lingyi did not propose this idea for the time being, and could only let everyone think that he also had some ideas about this throne.

So everyone continued to discuss the military strategy.

If you want to fight, you have to do it as soon as possible. There is obviously no benefit in procrastinating.As for where to fight, everyone has their own opinions, and there is no way to unify for a while.

In the end, Li Lingyi came up with an idea that everyone temporarily accepted, that is, the coalition forces would press into the southern border, and then see how the enemy would react, and then make specific offensive plans based on the enemy's reaction.

This can be regarded as a move to stop with static, and it is quite a safe way of playing, and there will be no problems in the short term, and this is also one of the main points of the alliance army.

As an alliance army, it is not as easy to unify as a single family army. Once there is a big defeat, the alliance army will definitely be torn apart, and there will only be one failure at that time.

So everyone also approved of this proposal, then the next step is the specific matters about the army, that is, how many soldiers, horses, food and grass each family has contributed, and it is time to settle accounts.

Generally speaking, at such times, the major families would try their best to pay as little as possible, and then ask others to pay more, but Li Lingyi set the tone as soon as he opened his mouth.

That is, each family must send at least [-] soldiers and [-] horses.

As soon as the words came out, everyone was a little embarrassed, especially Luce of the Bolton family. He frowned. This figure was undoubtedly much higher than his budget, almost to an unacceptable level.

However, among several families, Robb was the first to speak. He asked Li Lingyi a little difficultly, "I don't know how much the Wuqi family plans to pay?"

Li Ling glanced at him and said calmly: "The Wuqi family will send out [-] soldiers and [-] horses."

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Chapter 495

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Twenty thousand soldiers and five thousand horses? !

The chiefs of the clan were all shocked when they heard the words. This number was beyond their expectation, and at the same time, they were also very surprised. They didn't expect that Li Lingyi could come up with so many people. So far, the Wuqi family has established less than three people. Where did so many people come from in the past month?

In fact, they still greatly underestimated the attractiveness of the Bannerless family to civilians and wandering mercenaries. Although the new family has many disadvantages, it also has an advantage, that is, it can be promoted quickly.

It's a bit like a modern company. An old family is equivalent to an established state-owned enterprise. No matter how talented young people you are, you don't have to work hard for a few years to gain qualifications and don't think about getting ahead. Stability is better.And the new family is like a start-up company. It may start with a small salary, but once it succeeds, it can reap huge benefits. There are many opportunities and motivation, which is equivalent to being your own boss.

Not to mention that Li Lingyi didn't keep money at all, and there was no so-called lord's treasury. All the money in the family was only used for three things, training soldiers and horses, providing relief to civilians, and economic construction.

In this case, civilians can get good benefits by working hard, and everyone will naturally try their best to do it.At the same time, Gao Fuli, who joined the army, also attracted a large number of young and middle-aged men to join the army, and even some mercenary regiments that were announced outside joined the Wuqi family, further strengthening the family's power.

As for where the money comes from, on the one hand, it sells grain, and on the other hand, it relies on the Twin Rivers City to collect tolls.Of course, these cannot be accumulated in the short term, and the biggest source is taxation.

Since the Wuqi family has actually controlled the Hejian land area, there is no need to pay taxes to King's Landing here, but to the Wuqi family.

For the common people, the tax rate is much lower than before, but for the nobleman Li Lingyi, the tax rate is directly doubled.This of course aroused the dissatisfaction of many nobles, but when Li Ling's soldiers ransacked some of the most noisy houses, the others did not dare to say anything.

Nobles would feel it was unfair, but Li Lingyi would not.These aristocrats have exploited so much from commoners over the years, let alone doubling it, even ten times it would not be an exaggeration.

Take a noble family he copied as an example. It was still a small nobleman. The place where he lived looked like a dilapidated small castle, but two 10,000+ golden dragons were found in the cellar!

It is estimated that 90.00% of them are derived from exploitation, because according to the investigation, this nobleman did not run any profitable business at all, and the family was eating, drinking and having fun all day long.Under such circumstances, how can you save such a huge sum of money?

And this is just a seemingly inconspicuous little nobleman. As for those slightly bigger ones, it is unknown how many golden dragons are hidden in the house.So after this incident happened, some nobles immediately wanted to flee to the south.

For these fleeing people, Li Lingyi also intercepted them depending on the situation. Some people with notorious crimes were detained, and those with good reputations were released.

So after such a toss, at least tens of millions of golden dragons were taken from these nobles, and Li Lingyi himself did not spend a single silver deer, all of which were spent on military expenses and people's livelihood.