Chapter 163 The Situation in the North Is Becoming Clearer

June 302AC.

After Jack returned Deepwood Motte to the Glover family, Jack successfully won the loyalty of some northern nobles.

Jack also took Lady Glover to the Last Hearth and chose a new husband for her.

This matter was agreed by Lady Glover because it was Lady Glover who took the initiative to bring it up.

She knew that she, a woman with a daughter less than one year old, was like fat meat in the eyes of others and could not defend Deepwood Motte at all.

Not every woman can have extraordinary political talents like Lyanna Mormont. Most women are still bound by tradition and hope to find a man they can rely on. This is the shackles that the times have brought to women.

So she took the initiative to ask Jack to help her choose a husband, so that having a man she can rely on can also make her feel a little safe.

For this reason, Jack directly gathered all the single men in Hearth Motte. When they learned that a countess was going to choose a husband, they were all excited.

This is a good thing to get a castle for free. The only flaw is that Aina Glover has been canonized as the Countess of Deepwood Castle.

But even so, there are still many people eager to try, especially some knights and barons.

But what no one expected was that Mrs. Glover actually chose Kasa to be her man.

This made Jack suddenly realize that this countess did not seem to be a naive lady.

Kasa naturally accepted it with pleasure. No one would refuse such a good thing, let alone Kasa, a wild leader who was eager to become a noble.

As long as he became Mrs. Glover's husband, Kasa could exercise the power of the earl and make all the tribal leaders who had surrendered to him noble.

The two held a simple wedding directly in Hearth City. Kasa changed his name to Kasa Glover. He did not have a surname, so he directly took Glover as his surname.

In the following period of time, the situation in the North became clearer and clearer, and most of the nobles in the southeastern part of the North chose to surrender to Roose Bolton.

The nobles in the northwest chose Jack Poseidon, and the two sides began to confront each other and made frequent moves.

In terms of military strength, Roose Bolton still had the advantage. At this time, Roose Bolton had 13,000 men under his command. It can be said that a considerable number of nobles chose Roose Bolton.

Jack only had 8,000 men at this time, of which 5,500 were the Sons of Winter composed of wildlings, and the second was the 1,000 Dragon Knights led by Hecarim.

Because Hecarim thought that Korachou was very powerful and beautiful, Hecarim dyed his armor red and changed his name to the Scarlet Dragon Knights.

The second was the noble army of 1,500 people. Most of the 1,500 noble army were small nobles below the earl, and barons and knights accounted for the vast majority.

They all felt that it was difficult to survive the upcoming long night, so they wanted to fight with Jack.

And the earls were very rare. Only the Earls of Bear Island, Deepwood Castle, and Kaho City were willing to be loyal to Jack Poseidon.

Among the three earls, Bear Island sent thirty people, and Deepwood Motte made Jack pay for two hundred people and several carts of food.

Although Kaho City and Deepwood Motte were taken at the same time, Arwen Karstark, the uncle of Ali Karstark, took away all the food and soldiers.

So Kaho City, like Deepwood Motte, not only did not provide help to Jack, but also made Jack pay for three hundred people and ten carts of food.

However, these three hundred people were the three hundred Than people that Saigon summoned in the newly added land. In addition to these three hundred Than people, there were thousands of Than people, old and young, women and children who were migrating to Kaho City.

Obviously, Saigon was ready to migrate all the Than tribes to Kaho City. For this reason, Saigon also recruited some literate people in Kaho City and built a small school to teach the Than people the common language.

In this way, not only can the loss of male labor in Kaho City be compensated, but the population ratio of Kaho City will not be completely unbalanced.

Moreover, I don't know if this kid Segun deliberately angered Tormund or what. After arriving in Kaho and becoming the Earl of Kaho, he directly reduced the land rent tax in the territory to 40%.

He also abolished the messy window tax, well water tax, firewood tax, etc., and only retained the business tax, head tax and land rent tax.

For this reason, Segun specially asked the butler Davan Than to write a letter to mock Tormund, saying that Tormund was called "Kind Tormund" by the residents of Hearth City.

This made Tormund so angry that he couldn't sleep all night. The next day, Tormund announced that the land rent tax in Hearth City would be reduced to 40%. At the same time, he abolished the nobles' first night rights and messy taxes in the territory, and only retained the business tax, head tax and land rent tax.

The farmers in the two people's territories were happy, but their vassals, viscounts and barons were not happy, and they expressed their dissatisfaction to the two people.

But this time was different from the past. Their subjects thanked Tormund and Segun after hearing the news.

Moreover, Tormund and Segun's people were all migrating. They had not experienced the War of the Five Kings, and the Battle of Castle Black ended hastily because of Jack's appearance.

Therefore, the combat troops in the hands of the two were enough to clear out these barons and viscounts, and then replace them with obedient people.

So even if the vassal protested, it was useless. The two even killed several vassal leaders who led the riot. For them, there was no twists and turns. If they didn't obey, they would just kill them.

No one could stop the two from competing with each other in vanity. They were not hereditary nobles, so they naturally wouldn't think about how to deprive the peasants.

On the contrary, because they lived outside the Wall for many years, they understood the importance of unity and were proud to let their people live a better life.

In the eyes of Tormund and Segun, after becoming an earl, the peasants in these territories became their own people, and they naturally couldn't oppress and exploit them.

Especially Segun, the Thun people in his hands had laws and lord consciousness, and everyone was like a berserker, so they directly killed all the vassal leaders who came to Kaho City to make trouble, leaving no one behind.

Then Segun moved all the peasants who could be relocated to the vicinity of Kaho City, and those who could not be relocated were sent to manage the territory by the literate people in the castle.

Due to Saigon's policy of light taxation and enriching the people, many farmers are willing to migrate to live near Kaho City and are willing to be directly managed by Kaho City.

In this regard, Jack saw something in Saigon that other nobles did not have, that is, a flexible mind. Especially with the various policies adopted by Saigon, Jack even suspected that this guy would complete centralization in his territory.

As for Tormund, he did not think as much as Saigon did, but just imitated Saigon.

This fool simply did not want to be compared with Saigon and ridiculed, and in the end he only killed the two viscounts who led the trouble.