Chapter 810
"You Stark have surpassed Lannister to become the richest man in Seven Kingdoms." Dany said complicatedly.
"Reach Highgarden has over 400,000 tons of grain. I can't compare." Jon shook his head.
"Sansa inherits Aegon's legacy, you know?" Dany said strangely.
"Could it be those two Wyverns?"
Dany took a closer look at Jon's expression and eyes to make sure that he really didn't know what his younger sister was doing and what he did.
"Strictly speaking, Illyrio's legacy, including but not limited to nearly half a million tons of wheat, butter and bacon."
Jon startled, "She did not Tell me."
"But she told me and told me that the 200,000 tons of food that Aegon left at Dragonstone was no longer needed, and all of them were given to me to help the people in the Three Rivers basin." Dany Look playful.
Dragonstone accepts that gift, and Sansa's inheritance from Illyrio is fully "legalized."
Not only can it be used just and honorable, but it can also be protected by Dany aunt to some extent.
Dany really admires his nephew's spirit now.
"200,000 tons..." Jon's expression changed.
Even if the inheritance is a surprise, he still has some heartache.
"It's not like you left the grain in Braavos, you won't be able to come back with the 100,000 tons of grain. I believe in what I say, and I won't be greedy for Aegon's things. If you can't bear it, let Sansa come with you.
" I said." Dany's face was laughed and his tone was very kind.
Jon glanced at her and suddenly understood what the younger sister meant.
Bright light flashed in his gray eyes behind his face armor, and said solemnly: "I'm not happy with what you said, the Braavos grain, I left it there on purpose."
Dany With a startled look, he said in surprise: "You deliberately left the food in Braavos and waited for them to snatch it? Could it be...
There are harsh breach clauses in the contract you signed with the Braavos people?"
Jon nods, proudly said with a smile: "It's not too harsh, it's just thirty times the penalty.
I know Long Night is coming, and I know it's within the world. All will be short of food, and I know that people can do anything if they are hungry.
So, even if I have the ability and enough time to transport all 370,000 tons of food to North, I deliberately keep it. The next batch is at Braavos."
Dany's eyes changed when he saw Jon, "didn't expect Iron Bank to be tricked by you this time."
Jon held back his smile, Bitterly said: "Do you know the loan contract I signed with Iron Bank?
All forests, mines, estates, and North's thousand years of taxes in Stark's territory are pledged...every year There are tens of thousands of Golden Dragon in interest.
According to normal methods, it will take at least two thousand years to fully pay off Iron Bank's arrears.
Two thousand years!
In the next 2,000 years, Stark will live less than ordinary businessmen.
If I don't use some means, if I don't pay off the debt while I'm alive, the future generations of Stark's descendants will probably be scolded to death. Me."
"Thirty times the liquidated damages, you can earn at least 30 million Golden Dragon, right? Your children and grandchildren should learn from Lannister and call you 'Golden Shit Jon'.
" p>
Maybe, a Stark named 'Jon' can surpass 'Brandon'." Dany sneered lightly.
"No," Jon blushed and waved his hands, "I didn't expect to get all the liquidated damages at all. I could pay off the loan, and then get millions of Golden Dragon compensation, for Long Night. It's enough for the surviving North people to rebuild their homes."
"Why?" Dany said curiously.
"After Ai, Long Night, the North must be broken and withered, while the other side of the Narrow Sea is untouched by the Others, and its strength is well preserved.
The Braavos of the House of Black and White Faceless Men have never been It's not good, they will pay a huge liquidated damages to a weak creditor?
I'll be satisfied if I can get some benefits." Jon helplessly said.
"Sell the breached contract to someone who has the ability to get Braavos to collect the bill, and you can split the bill 50 to 50."
Just like a country in South America owes a lot of debt, The country declares bankruptcy and intends to be a rascal. But when Wall Street villains have acquired a large number of debt contracts, the trick of rolling around will not work. People even dare to detain warships, how dare you not pay back the money?
"Sold to you?" Jon's eyes shined.
"I don't want that, I don't like that little money." Dany shook his head.
"Little money? It's more than 10 million for half a cent!" 囧 exclaimed.
“Do you know how much Iron Bank owes me?” Dany said indifferently.
Jon's heart moved. In retrospect, Dragon Queen and Iron Bank also had a contract of "50 million Golden Dragon to buy food".
“How many times the liquidated damages did you order at that time?” he trembled.
"Twenty times less than you!"
"Twenty times fifty million, how much is that? Iron Bank went bankrupt?" Jon said blankly.
"Not necessarily. No one but Iron Bank oneself knows how much gold Braavos has hidden.
And they are not fully liable.
After signing the contract with me, he changed hands and split the grain purchase contract into several parts, which were packaged and sold to major grain merchants in the world. The large grain merchants split the large contract into medium-sized contracts, and the medium-sized contracts into small contracts. ......"
Jon widened his eyes and looked at the Dragon Queen strangely: "Even if the world does not die in Long Night, 80% will be destroyed in this debt crisis."
Dany was about to say something when suddenly, she facial expression grave, the Dragonflame Fireball above her head rose rapidly, forcing the darkness further away.
On the snowy plains like white rags that have been used once, the embers of the corpses rose and scorched smoke.
As far as the eye can see, there are blackened bones and blackened snowdrifts, as dense as pockmarks on Ser Richard's face.
But no Others, no Wights.
It was at this time that Dany suddenly realized that oneself and Jon had been chatting in front of the gate for so long, and no enemy came to disturb them.
This is on the battlefield!
"Wights has withdrawn," she said sternly.
Jon also noticed the abnormality after the Dragonflame Fireball was raised, hearing this frowned: "Wights fierce and unafraid of death, boundless corpses, I thought they would never retreat."
Dany enters the Dreki state, Big Black circles the city wall, surprised to find that only her side of the battle has stopped, and the siege continues.
"They didn't retreat, just—"
Dany was about to guess that the Others army had changed tactics when a silhouette came slowly up ahead in the dark.
The dead horse was wrapped in a layer of White Frost, like frozen sweat, its black dead intestines dragged down from its split abdomen, and on its back sat a rider as pale as ice. .
But it doesn't have the sparse and fragile white hair that floats like seaweed. There is a circle of horn-shaped ice crystals on its wrinkled forehead.
Dany doesn't appreciate Others' "showing off talent", but Jon is skeptical.
The circle of ice crystal horns is very similar to the "Iron Sword King Crown" of King in the North Stark: a crown cast in bronze, engraved with the glyph of the First Men, and black iron spikes in the shape of nine long swords stand in it.
The "Iron Sword" crown has no gold, silver and any jewelry decoration, only steel and bronze, dark and hard, which is the metal against the cold winter.
Maybe, it's a coincidence...
For some reason, seeing the Others who came slowly with the Ice Sword on his back, Jon panicked, it seemed that something was very bad things are happening.
Others Knight's appearance is very different from that of the great sword messenger who was hacked to death by Dany before the war, but it is difficult for humans to see the essential difference based on appearance alone.
It's the same as the Chinese look at African Americans.
However, as it approached, Dany and Jon, and even the four Unsullied with shields, all looked solemn and felt great pressure.
Because the cold wind was cheering for it, the cries were almost piercing, and Jon's cape flew across, almost pulling him south.
Snowflakes surround it like a elf, and the frost seems to have life, stretching before the horse's hooves.
The fire star left on the scorched corpse on the ground quickly went out, and there was no smoke.
"huhuhu..." When Others approached the shield wall 30 meters, the Dragonflame Fireball above Dany's head was like an oil lamp burning out of kerosene in the wind, the flame shook violently, and then dimmed a little bit.
"Aiya, how did the torch go out!"
"The fire is so windy that the firewood can't burn?"
The city wall behind Dany , The torch and the brazier went out one by one from east to west, just like at 12 o'clock in the evening, the dormitory uncle pulled the switch, and the brightly lit bedroom went out of power from the bottom to the top.
Darkness is like a shroud on a funeral home mortuary, slowly pulling up to cover the entire Winterfell.
At this moment, except for the "shriveled" Dragonflame Fireball, which was slightly dimmed above the Dragon Queen's head, all of Winterfell's firelight disappeared.
Candles don't burn, torches don't burn, and firewood doesn't burn.
To put it more directly, within a radius of several kilometers, there is no longer a Fire Element between Heaven and Earth, and no Fire Element is allowed.
There was a terrified noise on the Winterfell city wall, the torch went out, but the Wights were still attacking the city.
The panic continued until Big Black roared: "Wildfire! Burn the wooden ladder!"
"pēng pēng pēng..."
The once arrogant and flirtatious Wildfire seems to have become a shy little girl to be married.
Others came to a stop 20 meters in front of the Valyrian Steel shield, the eyes of ice blue rays of light stayed on Jon's face for a moment, indifferently said: "I am the king of the White Walkers clan, you have proved oneself Qualified, I'm here."
There is no harshness like an ice lake bursting, just ordinary common language, except that the tone is too cold, there is no difference with the ordinary person.
Oh, no, at this time, the cold wind, Angry Roar, is like a thousand ghosts wailing in people's ears, but its sound is completely unaffected by the wind, and it is clearly transmitted to everyone's ears.
Dany can do it too, because she is the Wind God.
What about it?
"The Others King is here, it's the Others King." Jon said in a trembling voice.
"It's early!" Dany frowned.
Looking at the solitary ride, the pretty face behind the mask was tangled for a while: Do you want to yell "Let me verify your qualifications", and then the three dragons rush up together?
Or, shouting "Fortunately fortunate to meet", then invite the other party to enter the city for a detailed discussion, and then close the city gate and wait for five thousand swordsmen?
Or, call the city gate's Valyrian Steel Guard to come over, line up to welcome the Others King, and then take advantage of it, surround it, and crush it with forty Valyrian Steel shields?
Or, say to it "you wait a minute, I'll call a challenger in town", then slip out the back door and go around behind it...
Previously, everyone thought that the Others King would gather around, leading hundreds of Others little brothers and hundreds of thousands of Wights army to debut.
Now seeing it ride alone to the meeting, Dany is inevitably itchy, and all kinds of tricks pop up.
"I'm here to challenge you!" Just as she was thinking that the strategy was more foolproof, Second Stag's loud voice came from behind.