Chapter 97

Chapter 97 The Red viper

  "The Tarly family... demands compensation of 96,000 golden dragons."

  Alf was too lazy to resist, he has already seen that the other party is determined to vacate the starfall city treasury.

  No, not only Starfall City, but also the treasury of High hermitage City.

  "Finally, it's Eagle Island." Samwell sighed and said, "I really suffered a heavy loss in this war!"

Natalie comforted him: "Don't worry, Sir Caesar, our Starfall City will definitely compensate you in full for your losses!"

  Samwell pretended to be grateful, and then said:

  "First of all, due to Urik Sand's invasion of Eagle Island, my dock was completely destroyed, so I request expropriate the pier of Starfall City as compensation, and the period is 99 years."

  Alf rolled his eyes, what kind of broken pier is in Eagle Island, and the pier of Starfall City needs to be requisitioned for compensation?

  Still 99 years?

  Why don't you grab it directly!

  But he also knew that his objection would have no effect, so he simply closed his eyes and pretended to be dead.

  "Secondly, my territory was burned in this war, so Starfall City must send 7,000 young men to Eagle Island to help me rebuild my territory.

In addition, my soldiers and citizens suffered heavy casualties in this war , plus the loss of property and materials, the Dayne family must compensate 80,000 golden dragons."

  "Wait a minute."

  Samwell thought that the old manager was going to question again, but when he looked up, he found that it was Horas Redwyne.

  "Sir Horas , what's your opinion?"

  Horace snorted softly, "I have no problem with taking so much money for the Florent family and the Tarly family, but how many soldiers did you have in Eagle Island in total that you need so much compensation ?"

  Samwell knew that this guy was purely jealous.

  "Hehe, I'm afraid you don't know. I almost used up all the brandy reserves that I had brewed for three months in this war. Calculated at ten silver coins per gallon, it is not a small amount. What's more , i mobilised almost all the young and strong people in Eagle island to participated in the war, and the construction of the territory, the brewing of brandy, and the mining of silver mines all stagnated. Do you know how psychologically traumatic it is to see your home being ruined and burned? and..." "

  "Stop, stop!" Horas was dizzy after being bombarded by Samwell. With no one else to support him, he had no choice but to give up.

  After all, the absolute main forces on the Reach side of this war are the Florens family and the Tarly family. Now these two families are obviously supporting Samwell, and Horas knows that he cannot get the right to speak.

  With eight thousand golden dragons, He can already explain to Earl Paxter.

  Looking around, Samwell continued, seeing no one objected,

  "Finally, in order to prevent conflicts between the two places in the future, I think the best way is to strengthen cultural, commercial and personnel exchanges. Therefore, Starfall City and High Hermitage City must fully exempt goods from Eagle Island, and at the same time, the Dayne family must not prevent their subjects from voluntarily going to Eagle Island to work, live, or even settle."

"This condition is very good." Natalie actually put on a show of nodding and said, "The jobs in Eagle Island are well paid and the food is good. I believe the citizens of the Dayne family will like it there.

  Steward Alf already started to roll his eyes after hearing this.

  Samwell patted the girl on the shoulder with a smile: "I have always been generous to those who work for me. It doesn't matter if they are people from the Reach, Dorne or wildlings."

After speaking, he handed the quill and parchment to Natalie and said:

  "Lady Natalie, if you don't have any objections to this list of war compensation, please sign it."

  "Oh." Natalie obediently signed it.

  Alf though of grabbing the quill several times and tear up the compensation list, but in the end, he still didn't dare to take action.

  After all, there's only one life , As for the belongings of the Dayne family... that young lady doesn't even cherish it herself, so why should he care so much about it as an outsider.

  Natalie's handwriting wasn't pretty. Although Ashara taught her to read and write, she didn't have many chances to write.

  But in Samwell's eyes, it was probably the most wonderful thing in the world at the moment.

  In fact, it's not that he insists on bullying the little girl and tricking her into signing so many war indemnities, but that he must weaken the Dayne family as much as possible, otherwise this powerful Starfall City will not be willing to be controlled by him and Natalie's position as the city lord will also be unstable.

  After signing, the faces of the Reach nobles present showed expressions of excitement, because it was finally time to harvest.

  But just as everyone was about to go to the Dayne family's vault and turn it upside down, a guard suddenly ran in outside the door and reported: "My lords, Prince Oberyn is

here . He is at the gate of the castle right now."

  The hall suddenly fell silent.

  After a while, Earl Randyll , who had been silent before, said, "The 'Red Viper' came quite quickly. I wonder how many soldiers and horses did he bring ? "

  At the sound of Prince Oberyn's name, the smiles on the faces of the Reach Noble disappeared.

  After all, the shadow of the famous warrior , "The Red Viper" Prince Oberyn was known as the most dangerous man in the Martell family, and even in the whole of Dorne.

  As the younger brother of Prince Doran, the ruler of Dorne, although Prince Oberyn was born noble, he has a violent and staunch personality. He often fights with others endlessly, and even resorts to poisoning, which seriously damages his reputation.

  Therefore, although most of the Knights of the Seven Kingdoms despise this person, they are also extremely vigilant and even secretly afraid of him.

  And the Knight's of the Reach hated him especially, because he had maimed Lord Mace's eldest son, heir to Highgarden, Willas Tyrell .

  Samwell put away the parchment and hid it close to his body. At this time, he was secretly glad that Natalie had signed it. Unless the Martell family broke their faces and refused to recognize her inheritance, the Dayne family had to pay these compensations.

  As for whether the Martell family will really tear their faces apart, Samwell thinks this possibility is very low.

  After this battle, it is unlikely that Dorne will be able to engage in another major conflict with the Reach in immediate future.

  What's more, that Prince Doran is famously tolerant. If his hot-tempered daughter hadn't jumped out to make trouble this time, the war would never have expanded to this scale.

  While thinking, Samwell saw a tall figure appearing at the door.

  It was a middle-aged man wearing an orange, yellow, and red silk robe, with a high nose bridge, a narrow forehead, short black shiny hair, and very light eyebrows , a pair of dark eyes like eternal night, shining with dangerous light all the time. , like a poisonous snake.

  "Knight's of Reach ." Prince Oberyn walked into the hall alone, but seemed to be carrying thousands of troops.

  His icy eyes swept across the faces of the reach nobles one by one, and asked in a questioning tone:

  "Where is my niece?"

  [END]