"Someone has become the king and has received the full support of the leaders of the other three places. A big war is about to begin!"
Trumbo·White believes that the future of the Reach is full of uncertainty. Instead of using his family's wealth to accompany the lord to attack, it is better to be perfunctory and start his own defense.
He curled his lips slightly and asked his brother, "Who knows what will happen next?"
"Here we go again----"
Sir Fred looked at the self-proclaimed defense expert in front of him with a headache, and raised his forehead helplessly.
"Haven't we already talked about this topic? Whitegrove's city wall cannot be raised rapidly in just a few days, and we don't have that Dorne time----Don't listen to the nonsense of those builders from Highgarden, they just want to make war fortune----"
Arthur White liked to play devil's advocate, so he intervened at this time. "Where are the businessmen who want to make war fortune? I'm afraid it's Trumbo who wants it yourself, right?"
After all, everyone knows that in the White family of Whitegrove, you Trumbo is the one who knows how to do business best. I heard that the businessmen have been visiting you a lot recently. How much did you charge them to speak for them? "
Trumbo was unhappy when he heard this.
He seemed even more angry that his brothers belittled his intelligence and sincerity. As he spoke, he made gestures habitually. "Fake news! It's all fake news! Everything I do is for our White family! I want to make the White family great again!"
Simply.
The other two White brothers rolled their eyes in unison.
The White family has never been more "great".
Receiving Whitegrove is already the pinnacle of their family!
Pretending not to see the eyes of the two brothers, Trumbo White was still there and said seriously, "----You don't understand me. You always like to think about something. Don't you think that defense is the most important thing right now?
Without building the city wall and guarding Whitegrove, do you, Arthur White, still plan to follow the Reach's army to fight to Stormlands and drive Robert·Baila Theon back to Storm's End?"
"If I really want to fight them back, what do you say?"
Arthur White, who had never fought in a battle before and was somewhat stumbling even in lance combat, got excited. He slapped the table and stood up, refuting his second brother like a bull.
The two seemed to be about to have a big quarrel. Sir Fred had a headache and pretended to be a peacemaker. "Oh, okay, okay, everyone is doing this for Whitegrove's good, no need to argue, no need to argue----"
Trumbo, who was usually responsible for managing Whitegrove's financial affairs, had a character that refused to suffer losses, and he looked down upon Arthur, his younger brother who was not good at writing or martial arts.
He was merciless, and first sneered at Arthur White: "If you really have that ability, I can go and watch your outstanding performance."
He then replied to Fred Earl who was trying to persuade the two of them hypocritically, "Everyone says it's for Whitegrove's own good", but do they mean it for themselves? What's the use of just saying it!
And beat them back to Storm's End----Ha, let's see if we can beat them at the Reach. I also want to step on the Eyrie!"
Before Arthur, who was pushed back, could reply, Trumbo kept sputtering and said quickly, "I have never received money, I don't like money, and I have never touched money! You don't understand that the security of your own family is really important. If you don't hold on to our castle, at such an old age, are you really going to go to the battlefield to fight with the barbarians of Stormlands------"
He was "a lot of age" and he also brought his boss, Fred, with him.
Whitegrove The volume of the "Big Three" gradually increased in the meeting hall of the White Palace, and a quarrel immediately broke out.
The main force in the quarrel gradually became Fred and Trumbo.
"That's enough, Trumbo! We're short of numbers," whether it's a golden dragon or a soldier, only fools would build a wall in front of a battle!"
"How much money our family has saved, do you think I don't know?"
I think you are stingy! Fred White, you are really a stingy and reckless knight. Only a reckless man would abandon his family fortune and fight a war that is destined to fail and win without any benefit!
"I have made a decision, don't act like a six-year-old child!"
"Yes, Trumbo, it's obvious that you are being unreasonable. We can obviously recruit a lot of soldiers to fight and let them go up and fight. Can't we just stay in the rear?"
As Arthur White and Sir Fred stood together to jointly denounce their family's financial officer, Trumbo, who could not quarrel with two people by himself, left angrily under the gaze of the two.
Before leaving, Trumbo White, who lost the quarrel, vowed. "Fred, you will regret it!"
Fred was angered by him just now, and he still hasn't recovered yet. He responded sternly, "It's none of your business if you don't regret it later! I am the Whitegrove knight!"
Door: "Touch!-
Looking at the tall back of Whitegrove's "backbone" Trump and White gradually fade away.
Sir Dirk, who was standing guard at the door and listened briefly to the quarrel inside, slowly withdrew his gaze.
He is the sworn knight of the White family.
No.
To be more precise, he was the descendant of the sworn knight House Peake.
When the previous generation White came to receive Whitegrove, his father did not leave with the others and go back to Dornish Marches where Starpike was. Instead, with a sense of mission, he stayed at Whitegrove and continued his "activities".
Dirk has a strong head, but unlike his father, he has not experienced the brainwashing training of House Peake, and does not have such a strong sense of loyalty.
But he can see, know how to think, and can distinguish simple forms.
Sir Dirk knows that the White family's bunch of trash can't support the resource-rich Whitegrove.
The past few decades have been peaceful, but nothing has happened yet.
As far as he knows, there are many "old and young" people up and down the Whitegrove who only agree with the rule of Peake.
Dirk thought carefully and thought again, and felt that with the war imminent, he needed to leave a way out for himself, so he followed the method left by his father and secretly contacted Starpike to try.
Trumbo·White There is a saying that Sir Dirk agrees with very much.
Someone put on a crown for themselves and actually directly gained the support of nearly half of the continent! No one knows what will happen next----
Highgarden a few days later.
Titus was sitting in the familiar banquet room, looking at the crooked melons and cracked dates in the table.
This time, the Reach princes' enthusiasm can be expressed as a serious lack of enthusiasm.
Highgarden There are only a few lord-level nobles like him who have been waiting for a long time, are in high spirits, and come as quickly as possible.
This moved Highgarden's Lord Mace so much.
Originally, the Duke seemed a little afraid of fighting, but after seeing the troops brought by Titus, whose equipment was exactly the same as that of Highgarden, he knew that Starpike's side was truly capable.
Mace regarded this as Starpike Earl's great trust in him, and even complained to the latter about Dornish Marches's other lord, Horn Hill Earl Randyll·Tarly's procrastination.
Currently present, except for the hardcore members of the Tyrell family, House Crane from Red Lake City, and Cider Hall's House Fossoway who helps Highgarden stationed in the east river, the rest are directly affiliated knight families that are close to each other.
It's no wonder that Lord Mace mistook Titus's "positive" attitude as an affirmation of him, and actually moved himself.
However, as Tyrell·Mace's candidate for the Reach army's forward, it is not that there are no strong ones among those who came first----
Robert I's crown: