The sea covered by the night was dark. Looking around, the hazy continent in the distance seemed like a dormant under the dark ocean, revealing only a huge monster above his head, silently, but with a deep sense of horror.

The cold wind blew on the thin linen shirt, bringing waves of shade. Standing on the bow of the deck of the Lucky Girl, Captain Turner, with a forked beard, was secretly anxious.

As a captain under a certain governor of Pantos, Captain Turner had another mission when he returned from Seagull Town this time, which was to arrive in the waters called the Crab Claw Peninsula and wait for someone to come and board the ship.

This mission has certain risks, because there are many ships coming and going in the nearby waters. If discovered, it will not be life-threatening, but there will be many future problems, so Captain Turner is very cautious about this.

However, I don’t know what happened. The agreed time has passed, but there is still no small boat in my sight. This makes Captain Turner unable to help pace back and forth on the deck, while cursing the stolen stowaways in his heart.

Yes, Captain Turner knows who the people he is going to smuggle. In fact, this is not the first time he has done such a smuggling thing. He also relies on his pretty good connections in Haiou Town. He also understands why those people are so embarrassed-

The whole of Westeros wanted them.

This involves the power struggle of the upper class of Westeros, which Turner is not interested in, but he is also paying attention to, because this struggle will directly affect their business dealings, and at the same time, he has always wondered why Pantos was involved in this battle.

Relying on his closest advantage to King's Landing, Pantos is very wealthy, but not strong among the nine trading city-

Many years ago, Pantos fought many wars with Bravos, also one of the free trade city-states, because of slavery. As a result, they suffered a series of defeats and had to sign a "peace agreement", which stipulated that the Pantos must not own more than 20 warships, hire mercenaries, and enter into contracts with the Free Mercenary Group, or retain any army beyond the city guards.

In this case, being at odds with each other is what the Pantos should do, rather than being in a hurry to confront some behemoth...

"Maybe it was those damn Bravos men who threatened?"

He speculated that in the years since the agreement was signed, Pantos had been subject to Bravos, a not-so-close neighbor. If Bravos really put pressure on the governors...

Captain Turner didn't think about it anymore, because in his sight, several small boats swaying in the dim sea suddenly appeared, and the direction of the boat was the crab claw peninsula.

He breathed a sigh of relief and then began to call on the boat to prepare, and returned immediately after the smugglers came up.

Things were going well at the beginning. More than a dozen stowaways wearing ordinary clothes but talking were ridiculous and boarded the ship without any surprise. However, just as the merchant ship sails were swelling and ready to set sail, Captain Turner suddenly found that more than a dozen huge warships appeared in the waters around his ship!

In the dark environment, Captain Turner could not see the sail signs of these warships, but judging from the posture they surrounded them, he obviously had the bad intentions of the visitor. Therefore, his expression changed drastically, but he did not signal the ship to escape. Instead, he hurriedly grabbed a confidant sailor and whispered: "Hold the people before, let them put on the crew's clothes, go!"

The sailor nodded quickly, while Captain Turner took a deep breath and waited silently.

His merchant ships are not as fast or combat capability as ships used in war. They will only be completely exposed when they move rashly. It is better to pretend and perhaps be able to get away with it.

Unfortunately, his plan did not succeed. Because after the ships surrounded him, he did not look at any negotiation, so he directly forcibly controlled Captain Turner's lucky daughter, and ignored their arguments and decisively seized all of them, including those disguisers who had boarded the ship before.

...

What happened outside the waters of the Crab Claw Peninsula was very hidden, but not long after a letter sent from Longshi Island to Junlin Red Fort completely exposed the matter.

When the letter arrived, the Grand Secretary Pai Shiel, who was responsible for sending and receiving the letter, was playing with a pet dog he loved recently in the room. After hearing the raven's ugly rattle, he couldn't help but tremble, and then hurriedly ran to check it out.

Then a trace of weirdness flashed across his rosy and healthy cheeks.

"The Hewan matter has just finished, so I am preparing to attack Gudi? This Duke Lanli..."

As he muttered, the Grand Secretary unconsciously thought of the annoying little boy ten years ago. He couldn't help but sigh and sigh, and then he took the letter and walked quickly to the bachelor's tower, preparing to hand it to the king.

Recently, King Robert had no intention of going to visit the brothel outside Red Fort again, so Grand Secretary Pissier easily learned the king's place from his servants and saw him in a garden.

"My brother has written another letter?"

Although King Robert was fat, his voice was very loud. After hearing this, a bald old man sitting opposite him couldn't help but look at the letter handed to the king by the Grand Secretary, secretly guessing what was inside.

A letter from the river beside a while ago was quite excited by the members of the imperial meeting, and also made the entire Red Fort discuss the Duke of Longshi Island who had disappeared for many years. The discussion has not stopped completely, but a second letter has been sent...

"Maybe it's another good news?" The bald old man, the Duke of the Valley and former Prime Minister Jon Ellin, silently looked forward.

He wouldn't have cared about the letter sent by a young guy who had just grown up before, but the fact that Hewan had done a pretty job before made it difficult for him to ignore the young Duke of Dragon Stone Island, or he had already taken it seriously enough.

However, then the bald old man suddenly found that King Robert, who was silently reading the letter, suddenly looked up and glanced at him, his expression seemed a little strange, which made the old man feel tremble.

"Bad news?" he asked hurriedly.

"You can see it yourself, Jon." The fat king said as he handed over the letter. The bald old man reached out to take it and then looked down. The solemn expression on his face gradually turned into a strange look.

The letter contains a lot of content, which is roughly divided into two parts. One part is the matter of the people from the Crab Claw Peninsula joining the Pantos ship to protect the smuggled disciples, and the other part is accusation of sharp pens.

In the letter, Duke Lanli claimed that after he discovered the smuggling of the Crab Claw Peninsula, he invited Count Grafson of Seagull Town to act together, but Count Grafson refused to send troops, so he seriously suspected that Count Grafson and his family had colluded with Pantos who were smuggling, or in other words, had colluded with the remnants of Targaryen behind Pantos.

He pointed out that during the uprising (the War of the Ultimate), Haiou Town was the gathering place for the Royalist Party in the valley. The Grafson family in Haiou Town was also the leader of the Royalist Party. Although they have surrendered now, they are bound to be desperate. It is very likely that they can collude with Targaryen to cooperate with the inside and outside...

"What do you think about this, Jon?"

Seeing that the expression on the bald old man's face changed, King Robert asked with a serious face: "I killed Mako Grafson, who was standing on Targaryen's side with his own hands. Maybe his nephew is resentful to me?"

He had no scruples about this, because if this was the case, it would mean that the Grafsons also betrayed Jon Ailing, the Duke of the Valley.

Just like when they raised an army to resist Targaryen in the valley, the former Seagull Town Earl raised troops to support Targaryen, she openly stood opposite to Jon Ailing, the prince.

"There is no evidence, and it is impossible to tell the truth or the false." The bald old man replied after hearing this.

"Didn't Lanli say in the letter that he caught the merchant ship of Pantos?"

"This can only prove that Pantos colluded with the people of the Crab Claw Peninsula and Targaryen, and it cannot even be fully proved, because those disciples did not completely represent Targaryen."
Chapter completed!