Chapter 128
"If you don't have feelings, what's the point of being a god? If you become a god, you only know faith, and if you become a strong person, you only want to be strong and lose your emotions. Then such a god or person is nothing but a slave of faith and strength. Having the freedom of wanton emotions should be the real goal." These words were not only the answer to Arianne, but also Ye Ting's request for himself.
Hearing such an answer, Arianne smiled sweetly, looking at the eyes of the man in front of her as if water was about to drip.
In fact, Ye Ting also felt a little strange about such Arianne.
Most of the women in Dorne have hot personalities.
Arianne Martell, as the heir to Dorne, is even less likely to be like an ordinary lady.
In the original novel, in order to achieve her goals, she even dared to calculate her own father, and even dared to sacrifice her own body. If there is a person who is more similar to her from the history of the earth, it must be Cleopatra, Cleopatra.
Because of this, Ye Ting felt quite strange when he saw that the current Arianne looked sensible and soft-spoken.
Another point is the joy in Arianne's tone.
That kind of happy feeling is not at all like a person who was forced to become a saint.
In the original book, she even tried to escape from Sunspear City because of marital problems, and she also tried to seduce someone about her uncle's age. No matter how she looked, she didn't seem like the kind of woman who would be willing to go to church and become a nun.
In fact, Ye Ting himself did not understand women.
Originally, Arianne might have been very dissatisfied with such a fate. But the moment he saw Ye Ting's appearance, all dissatisfaction disappeared immediately.
Not to mention, in addition to possessing great power and unfathomable wisdom, Ye Ting is not a real envoy and generally has no emotions. From the dialogue between him and Arianne himself, as well as the Ye Ting witnessed by Arianne. Relationship with Daenerys. It has already made her twelve points satisfied.
In other words, the woman in front of her has already given it for nothing.
However, Ye Ting immediately understood the speed that this woman gave in vain.
Because, she has now pulled off the belt, and the loose robe on her body has slipped by her feet.
Immediately he enjoyed the exotic landscape.
A petite man, he does have a flamboyant figure.
How do you say that? Childlike big breasts.
Arianne came straight to Ye Ting and boldly straddled his lap.
At this time, Ye Ting was stunned. Are all women in this world like this?
Daenerys started giving it for free on the first night of meeting, Melisandre also gave it for free on the first night of meeting, and Arianne has only just met for a long time now.
However, Ye Ting no longer had the energy to think.
As soon as he reached out, he grabbed Arianne's arm under the armpit, and gently lifted her up like a kitten.
Dragons have never been passive creatures.
0179 Economic Invasion
After Arianne arrived at Pentos, Daenerys, who had formed an alliance with Dorne, completely lost her worries, so her power ushered in a rapid development.
She successively accepted the allegiance of many governors in the free trade city-states, and then, the Dragon God Church and the Dragon Blood Merchant from Pentos began to station in Lys, Kohor, Norvos, Myr, Tyrosh, and Valan. Tis and Loras, a large part of the governors of these city-states have joined the Dragon Blood Chamber of Commerce and converted to the Dragon God Church. In addition, the armies of these cities have also undergone a series of major blood changes and rebirths. Training, and more priests from the Dragon God Church are stationed in these troops.
At the same time, these cities also began to hire a newly formed Dothraki mercenary corps to help defend the city and escort the caravan. This mercenary corps was newly established, and all the soldiers in the corps were Doss who retired from Pantos. Lack soldiers, and are all fanatical Dragon God believers.
In this way, Daenerys secretly controlled eight free trade city-states, and the eight cities, whether economic, military or religious, are under the control of her and the Dragon God Cult, and it is only one step away from actual rule. away.
However, she did not directly declare her rule over these cities, not because she was unwilling, but because Ye Ting pointed out that the current political situation in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros has reached the point where it is on the verge of breaking out. Pushed to the level of dominoes, the situation of the unification of the seven countries collapsed.
At that time, the Seven Kingdoms, which are deep in the abyss of war, will be completely incapable of managing the situation on the Essos Continent. Once the war begins, the careerists of the Seven Kingdoms will be like riding bulls with lit tails. The direction of the Seven Kingdoms is completely out of control. After the entire Seven Kingdoms are smashed into mud and the war potential is greatly consumed, Daenerys will be able to enter the game from Dorne, swept the Seven Kingdoms with a devastating trend, and unite Wess in one fell swoop. Tello.
But now, she must lie dormant, not to show her fangs too much and make the Seven Kingdoms too vigilant. Once the Seven Kingdoms realize the threat of Daenerys before the chaos, then they will unite instead, and the internal conflicts will be transformed into External contradictions, in this case, she has to fight a tough battle outside her home court across the sea, and shake the entire army of the seven countries. Although she can win, it is likely to be a tragic victory. Moreover, it will also harvest the hatred of the people of the seven countries in the war, which is very detrimental to future rule.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang's strategy was very good. Build walls high, store grain widely, and slowly become king. Now. But you mean you have to adopt such a strategy.
Although King Lauber is now incompetent, the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms are not sensitive to the intelligence of Essos Continent. But once Daenerys unified the eight free trade city-states in one breath, and mastered a huge power that was almost equal to the Seven Kingdoms, then no matter how stupid Robert was, he would still have twelve points of vigilance. And those pretenders to the throne will definitely suspend their actions, otherwise it will only be cheaper for others.
So far, Daenerys's move has been quite successful. Although she took control of Pentos and became the reincarnation of Azor Ahai, she also hatched three dragons. But King's Landing's reaction to this incident was not that big. They only used a few assassinations, but Daenerys, who had the protection of magic, easily escaped.
On the other hand, Daenerys is also in action, and the Dragon God Church and his Chamber of Commerce are gradually infiltrating Westeros.
In terms of the Dragon God Church, although Westeros' belief in the Seven Gods is quite strong, the Dragon God Church quickly gained a firm foothold with the endless miracles. A large number of nobles have abandoned the Seven Gods and turned to the more effective Dragon God Church.
However, compared to the Dragon God Church, the harvest is more abundant, or the Chamber of Commerce under Daenerys.
In recent times, the Free Trade City-State has established a new organization called the Free Trade Bank.
This organization doesn't do any business and doesn't produce any goods, they have shops called banks in all the big cities. Any merchant can deposit his gold and silver wealth into a bank anywhere, and withdraw the wealth at any other outlet through the credentials given by the bank.
This greatly reduces the inconvenience and risks caused by carrying too many financial reports when businessmen are doing business.
Therefore, as soon as the Free Trade Bank appeared, it was greatly welcomed by businessmen.
Such a banking organization has just appeared, and it will inevitably be suspected by others, but the background of the Free Trade Bank is very unusual, and its shareholders include most of the governors of the entire Free Trade City-State. Each of these governors can be called rich and rival countries. If each of them puts out a sum of money, even if it is only one-tenth of their wealth, it will be a huge astronomical figure when all these wealth are combined.
Therefore, no one will believe that the Free Trade Bank will not give money.
In addition, the Free Trade Bank also serves as the loan business at the same time.
Anyone can lend a sum of money in a free trade bank with a certain amount of collateral, and the interest is far lower than that of ordinary usury. And his background in Free Trade Banking allows him to guarantee that in most cases the money owed will be recovered.
Of course, on the surface, Free Trade Bank has nothing to do with Daenerys.
But in fact, all the high-level executives in the Free Trade Bank are either Daenerys's subordinates, or her diehard or fanatical Dragon God followers.
In short, the Free Trade Bank is completely controlled by her, and even other governors have little right to speak as shareholders.
It is also a means by which Daenerys controls these governors.
At the same time, the bank has replaced the status of the "iron vault" with a larger amount of funds, a more advanced system and more outlets.
The Iron Vault is the most important bank in Braavos - these primitive banks, of course, can only be regarded as usurers. It was very wealthy and often lent money to outsiders, among its clients were the kings of the Seven Kingdoms.
While all Free Cities have their own banks, the Iron Vault is richer and more powerful than all the other banks combined. It has a terrible reputation for collecting debt. When princes or kings default on their debts, or are stupid enough to disrespect their contracts with the Iron Vault, new princes or kings (with financial assistance from the Iron Vault) spring up like mushrooms. These new princes or kings would then have to acknowledge the previous debts and repay the money they borrowed from the Iron Vault to win the throne, lest they suffer the same fate as their predecessors.
Today, of the nine free trade city-states, only Braavos is still independent. It is clear that it is going to fight against Daenerys, and Braavos, as the most powerful free trade city-state, its source of wealth is mainly from navigation and the "iron vault", and now the business of the iron vault is due to the free trade bank. It was a devastating blow, and in terms of sailing, it could only have a temporary advantage at best.
On the one hand, Ye Ting's knowledge enables Daenerys to build more powerful and advanced merchant ships and warships very quickly. , these wooden fleets are nothing. The dragon only needs to breathe dragon breath in the air, which is enough to wipe out any fleet.
Now the Free Trade Bank has become the creditor of a considerable number of nobles in the Seven Kingdoms, including King Robert himself.
In fact, the treasuries of the Seven Kingdoms were already heavily in debt under Robert's rule.
After becoming king, Robert did not want to worry about political affairs, left everything to the imperial council, and squandered the money left by Aerys II to satisfy his various material desires.
Just recently, his first "Hand of the King"—the Prime Minister—and his adoptive father, Jon Arryn, died unexpectedly, so Robert led a large royal team on a long journey, Go to Winterfell to meet the last man he can trust, the Guardian of the North, Eddard Stark, Jon Arryn's adopted son with Robert. Ned hadn't changed much since the last time they met nine years ago, but Robert had become emaciated from his addiction and was a different person altogether.
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