He blessed his disciples to escape, blatantly violated the Iron Throne Order, and had never paid taxes for many years. As the first traitor to jump out, the Crab Claw Peninsula must be beaten.

But how to fight is a problem.

The reason why the Crab Claw Peninsula is called the Peninsula is that one end of it is connected to the Westeros continent, but the territory extends into the ocean. The special environment makes the peninsula very unique in geography.

Mountains and swamps are parallel, forests are covered with large areas, deserted and barren, and scarce.

The Crab Claw Peninsula is not powerful, but it is very difficult to attack. In the thousands of years of history, the Crab Claw Peninsula has never been compromised by anyone - whether it is the oldest Andal invasion era or the later era when hundreds of countries coexist.

It was not until the conqueror Aegon came to Westeros that the people of the Peninsula bowed their knees and surrendered when they saw the situation was not good, but the reason for their surrender was the dragon rather than the others.

However, Baratheon has no dragon.

"The open and dark swamps of Crab Claw Peninsula are everywhere, and if you want to attack, you will definitely pay a lot of price." The bald Duke Jon Ailin said to Renli: "But we cannot let it continue."

He shook his head as he said.

Lan Li knew a little about this. Although he had only participated in the imperial meeting once, he had heard a lot of rumors in living in the Red Fort during this period.

In fact, it is not worth the effort to attack the Crab Claw Peninsula, because even if it is defeated there, it is useless. It is a forest wasteland, with a small population, and there are no commendable resources.

Just by leaving the Iron Throne there for more than ten years, you can understand how unrespected that place is.

But now that things have come to this point, they have to fight if they don’t want to fight.

"I don't know much about military operations." After thinking about it, Renli said, "But maybe we can start from other aspects."

“Other aspects?”

The old prime minister asked: "Which side?"

"How many people can be there in the Crab Claw Peninsula?" Lan Li did not answer immediately, but asked a seemingly irrelevant question.

"We have no way to know this." Old Jon replied: "The peninsula people in the Targaryen era never paid taxes. I'm afraid they don't know how many people they have."

"Can it exceed 10,000 people?"

"It's impossible that there are so many ten thousand people." Old Jon shook his head.

"Even if we have 10,000 people," Lan Li said: "We will give out 10,000 golden dragons to offer a reward of 10,000 people, one person has a golden dragon. Lord Jon, what do you think of this method?"

"this……"

The old man was stunned when he heard this, and then fell into deep thought.

Westeros has a huge number of civil armed forces, but those employed knights, riders and mercenaries are all poor, and there is no job opportunity to talk about in non-war periods. Many of them can't even sleep in hotels. It is a good treatment to be able to sleep in stables and lay the floor.

So let alone a golden dragon in the head, even a silver moon in the head is very attractive to those people-

More than two hundred years ago, the famous tyrant of the Targaryen Dynasty, Meg, Targaryen, offered a reward of only one golden dragon to the Knights of the Sons of the Warriors.

This kind of reward is generous. If it is really announced, it will inevitably attract civilian militants from the entire Westeros continent to flock. If you think about it carefully, these scattered people can just target the special environment of the Crab Claw Peninsula!

Traps naturally formed in the Crab Claw Peninsula are everywhere, and large-scale military attacks are very unfavorable. However, if there are groups of three or five, or one or two mercenaries alone break in, the environmental restrictions on the Peninsula will not be that great.

Jon Elling even thought of more.

Are there really so many people on the Peninsula?

Even if there are ten thousand people, may they persist until they die until the last one still refuse to surrender?

"One ordinary civilian has a golden dragon, and the small nobles will increase appropriately, ten, dozens, and the lord class will be one hundred or even hundreds." Lan Li saw the old prime minister lowering his head and pondering, and added: "At the same time, we can spread news that the locals in the peninsula can also accept this kind of reward."

This is to make them fight in the internal struggles of their own people.

The old man became even more moved when he heard this, but he was worried.

"But how can we distinguish the identity of the bounty?"

"The lord class is relatively easy to identify, but it is not easy for ordinary people."

Lan Li thought for a while and said, "But we can make an idea on the mercenaries who come to receive the reward, for example, leave a little mark on their faces or ears, punch a hole in their ears, and so on, so that they don't worry about killing each other and pretending to receive the reward. At the same time, if we really want to do this, we must block the Crab Claw Peninsula, only in and not out, so as not to mercenaries who run to other places to kill innocent people."

"Maybe the people from the Crab Claw Peninsula will hide, or gather together to resist?"

"The bounty is calculated based on the head of the people. Our bounty can continue to exist, but the people of the Peninsula cannot always get together. They need to farm, fish, eat, drink, and urinate..."

...

Obviously, the old master was quite moved by this proposal, but Lan Li could see that he was worried, as if he thought this method was too violent and bloody behind it.

Lan Li refused to comment on this, because this trick was indeed not very decent, so he didn't persuade him. After a few simple conversations, he said goodbye and left.

In Lanli's opinion, the matter of the Crab Claw Peninsula is not a big deal at all, and it doesn't matter whether he can fight or not. Relatively speaking, he cares more about the situation in Westeros.

Earl Grafson of Seagull Town claimed that he would explain some families in the valley that were related to Targaryen, and then there would inevitably be a move to kill the chicken to scare the monkey. Lan Li thought this was an opportunity and even thought about whether he could use this to completely "solve" the valley.

As long as the valley is handled well, the only Hejian land in the seven kingdoms besides Dorn will be less stable... Maybe the Iron Islands must be included?

Thinking of this, Renli, who was walking towards the Throne Hall, frowned unconsciously.

Ten years ago he talked with the King of the Iron Islands about the many ways out of the Iron Islands, such as shipping, commerce, deepening the connection with the Westeros and becoming a sea coachman.

The profits of marine trade are huge. The Valerian family under Lanli used the reselling between the mainland more than a hundred years ago to become Westeros' richest man.

If more than 30 islands in the Iron Islands work together to develop here, it cannot be said that they will be like Valerian, but they will be better than being an inequality bandit. It is not that they have a better future for money, but that the so-called ancient road has lagged behind the times.

Unfortunately, it is not clear whether it is because of the influence of the ancient road or the original nature. Although the leader of Greyjoy has developed long-term voyage trade in recent years, he still cannot pay much attention to it. He always wants to restore the ancient road and lead the Iron Islands to burn, kill and plunder.

Because there are ancient road marks that can read the mind, Lanli knows this very well. He believes that Greyjoy is not an honest person and cannot be called loyal at all. If it is really profitable, he will stand on Targaryen's side in minutes.

Thinking of this, Renli suddenly stopped.

"Why didn't I see the son Greyjoy sent to be hostage?"

After the defeat in the war, Greyjoy lost two sons. One was sent to Junlin as a hostage and the other was sent to the north as an adopted son. However, it has not been a short time since he came to Junlin. Why didn’t he hear any news about the son who was a hostage?

Lan Li was a little puzzled by this and decided to ask later, but before he could walk to the throne hall, the person he saw on the road made him squint and he unconsciously squint his eyes.
Chapter completed!