Chapter 42: Confrontations and Losses
The royal guard knew that if I and the others wanted to attack they would not make it out alive.
I approached and kneeled slightly: Your Majesty, I answer the call made and ask for justice for my men, My voice was colder than usual, strong and powerful that resonated throughout the room
Robert was surprised and said: Stand up kid, we've known each other for years and unfortunately I can't give you the justice you deserve.
Dulan behind me clenched the handle of the hammer, Ashen the hilts of his swords, Mauren adjusted his position with the trident and Elentary approached me, I stand up and say, putting my hand in the middle
Adrián: I understand your majesty, I see that you are not willing to dispense justice.
Robert was a little tense, he saw several people who fought with him in the rebellion quite tense, he knew their abilities if they fought no one would get out of this room alive.
Robert: Boy, it's not that I don't want to impart Justice, I can't because it was the Faith of the seven in carrying out such an act, not common murderers, if I manage to move my hands we will have a bigger problem.
Adrián: I see, then I will take the bodies of my men, they will receive burial in the crypts of the Heroes, and their families will be rewarded with the same honors.
All the people present in the room were sweating cold, the young man in front of them gave the most terrifying look they had seen in the world, his green eyes no longer showed any warmth, they were deadly green eyes
Robert: I'm sorry kid, I can't do anything, I want to do justice, but we can't.
Adrián: Calm down your majesty if this is all we will leave after taking our people, he knelt in greeting and prepared to leave, but before he said.
Adrián: If I forgot, I have a gift for you, Dulan, would you please pass me the record books?
Dulan: Sure take Boy. I passed the large chest between three men, with one hand, I carried it and threw it where Jon was, he looked at this suspiciously and opened the chest revealing dozens of books with clear titles on the spine
Adrian: A present for you Lord Arryn will find interesting. Elentary please pick up our Men it's time for them to go home, I turned and walked down the hall, before leaving I turned and said raising a finger
One more thing House Trant will no longer send relief supplies to Flea Bottom or any other house in distress, my kindness lasted until my people were touched
Everyone was shocked at my last words, my house was known for giving away food to the poor along with clothes or coats, even jobs.
Surprised Jon argued: Adrián stop and think about it, a simple anger does not make you lose your honor, this can be fixed.
Adrián with disdain in his eyes: It's late Lord Arryn, I can allow them to insult me and attack me, after all, I suffered several assassination attempts, one especially from the Faceless Men and I know in particular who were the ones who hired them and I would love to kill them, but I didn't move a finger because I'm better than them and I didn't say anything, Then the Sorrofull Man kill every killer and keep quiet
but now they messed with my people and that is something that I cannot forgive, but have these books as my last gift, enjoy reading them.
He took the finest book that said Accounts of the crown and payments made and humanitarian aid which when he opens and reads a little his eyes are startled.
Account book
The total food delivered since taking the king's landing was full of numbers crossed out, reaching an exorbitant figure of 600 tons of grain per year.
Total number of people served per year: 670,000 people
Complaints made to the Golden Layers for attacks: more than 7 thousand complaints.
Most Impressive were the payments to the Iron Bank by House Trant to pay off the debt: 3 million gold dragons since Robert's inauguration. Each payment was certified by Tycho Nestoris with its respective payment certificate.
Jon wanted to collapse in the middle of the room, his face turned pale white and he passed the book to Ser Barristan who read it briefly and his mouth fell open in surprise, he looked where the boy came out.
Robert took the book and asked Jon to explain what these Numbers were.
Jon: Robert is the total aid that the Trant house supported after the sacking of the city by the Lannisters, 600 Tons of grain per year, that's why King's Landing did not suffer famines. Everyone in the room was surprised they had never considered all the food that was distributed
What follows is the people that the Trant house cured that kept people from dying and the city was so healthy.
Then he lists the complaints made to the Gold cloaks for different reasons all ignored by the gold cloaks, which shows a great corruption in the guards. And finally the worst The boy paid 3 Million to the iron bank over time to pay off the debt, quietly Robert your debt was not 6 Million it was 9 million the boy assumed 1/3 of that debt in secret.
Robert was furious that he had screwed up his relationship with a hugely important house that had secretly supported him, all because of a fat damn septum.
Robert: Jon calls a council meeting we have to see what to do we screwed up big
Jon nodded and quickly summoned everyone and cleared the throne room.
Stannis: Robert that is the book that Lord Trant gave you, to be so upset after reading it.
Renly: Truly it was a mistake to let the boy go, we probably lost a considerable fighting force, Robert take the lordship from him and give him to someone else, it's your time
Furious Robert shouted: Are you Idiot Renly, if I take away his lordship, the whole island will riot and separate, his fighting force is elite among the elite, to assault that island, you would need the power of all the kingdoms attacking together.
Amused Varys added: Added to the fact that he has relations with Dorne, the North, Bravoss, and God knows how many more powers each one more terrible than the other, nobody is crazy enough to attack him head-on
Stannis briefly read the accounts and said, Since we never noticed this.
Varys saw the book and sighed, then said: My little birds don't whisper so much on the islands, but here I knew about the delivery of food and medical aid every month, I commented on it at a meeting the boy brought his soldiers once a month where he distributed food, clothes and healed them.
My little birds on landing whispered that if it wasn't for him the whole landing would have rioted after the looting, his actions alone kept everyone happy and appeased, which His Majesty the boy did in his name, but everyone at FleaBottom knows that, if you see a green cape with a gold tree, it's people from house Trant and quite frankly.
Nobody wants them out of that place because they try to change it, they teach people to do different jobs and help them survive, if the Faith attacked them it was because someone incited the supreme septon.
They all looked at Varys, he had told them several times about Adrián's acts, it was not a lie to say that Varys had preferences for him for being a Lord Dedicated to the people.
Renly: The most worrying thing, Robert, is that the payment of a large part of the Debt we had, that is, of the 6 Million dragons, the debt with the Iron bank was paid off, and their taxes are extremely low, you could squeeze more of their coffers
Jon: On the contrary, Lord Renly, our Original debt was much higher after seeing the Tycho Nestoris Book, it describes each loan, we originally owed 9 million gold dragons, which Adrian secretly paid 3 million when we were asking for small loans He paid them and they were canceled, so we could continue asking for larger quantities whenever we needed.
Petyr: So the Debt is split between the Iron Bank, the Faith, the Lannisters, and El.
Jon: No the one in the book says nothing is owed to the Trant house, the last token of my Honor. He said showing the small note neatly written and signed by him and a representative of the iron bank and 10 more signatures
Robert was surprised and spoke: when the Trant house became so rich and powerful.
Stannis: Robert you may not know, but the boy has a keen mind for business, his ships are fast and functional for trade, they have contracts with several free cities for protection, and the iron bank hires them as lookouts or their ships for navigation. In addition, the food, alcohol, fabric, and clothing trade is very famous, then it trades medicines and spices added to hundreds of other businesses.
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