"Is there anything wrong with this list?" Ian continued to pretend to be stupid.

"My Lord Earl, you may not understand this... Sir Celia's pricing and demand for these materials are unacceptable to Meereen. This will directly undermine the stability of Meereen's entire trade system." Mazdahan Explain quickly.

"The same goes for Yunkai," Grazdan added.

"I really don't know the prices of these things or anything else...but I believe the Chancellor of Finance has her own considerations." Ian blocked all the subsequent complaints prepared by the two envoys in one sentence.

"Third," Ian continued without giving the other party a chance to defend himself, "Meereen and Yunkai should jointly provide Her Majesty the Queen with a military expenditure of 400,000 gold coins."

"This condition. Lord Darry." Mazdahan's face turned the color of pig liver. He did not dare to directly comment on this condition because he was afraid that he would greet the other party's eighteen generations of ancestors once he opened his mouth.

"This condition is indeed a bit excessive," Ian also looked incredulous, and he yelled angrily, "Isn't this taking advantage of the situation? Does she still have any sense of honor?"

Seeing Ian's attitude, Mazdahan and Grazdan breathed a sigh of relief.

"However, after all, this is the condition proposed by the Chancellor of Finance," Ian then smiled bitterly. "Since I was publicly criticized by Her Majesty the Queen, these important ministers have begun to have a submissive attitude towards me. If I help you on this issue If you say anything, you may further damage my authority.”

"This" Mazdahan and Grazdan looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"How about this, let's go through all the conditions first, and then you can choose the most unacceptable conditions, and then I can help you think of a solution?" Ian suggested understandingly.

"Thank you, sir, you are really a good friend of the Gith." Reg nodded after asking for the consent of his two colleagues.

"Lord Daeron Grafson requested." Ian continued reading, "First, a total of 500 experienced slave shipwrights and a thousand senior apprentices will be provided to Her Majesty from Meereen, Yunkai and New Ghis. The term is two years.

Second, all existing and newly acquired slaves with shipbuilding skills in Meereen, Yunkai and New Gith must be sold to Her Majesty the Queen at market prices, and the three cities can be redeemed at the original price after two years.

Third, Her Majesty's slaves will be allowed to enter any high-quality forest area in Slaver's Bay for logging, and the city to which the forest area belongs should provide transportation facilities for the Queen's logging camps.

Fourth, each city of Meereen, Yunkai, and New Gith needs to provide Her Majesty with two ships, at least one of which should be an ocean-going galley, and the other should be a rowing ship with more than two hundred oars. All Ships were to be manned with a full complement of slave sailors. "

"Is there anything wrong with Darren's conditions?" Ian asked after reading.

"No," Grazdan of Yunkai shook his head quickly, "Count Grafson is a true knight, and his conditions are very noble. We have no objection."

After he finished speaking, the other two envoys nodded in agreement.

Ian smiled secretly in his heart. As for Darren Grafson's conditions, if he negotiated according to the way he asked them to cooperate at the beginning, it would be enough to make these profiteers shout blackmail.

But now it was up to them to seek help from Her Majesty the Queen, and with Celia's outrageous conditions of "jewels first", when they heard Daeron's conditions, they were simply moved by Daeron's nobility.

"Then there are the conditions of Dorian the Black Falcon," Ian said while seeing the envoys' faces fall again at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"First, Meereen and Yunkai should provide Her Majesty with two thousand war horses, four thousand marching horses, and ten thousand pack horses."

"This is simply impossible!" As soon as Ian finished reading the first article, Grazdan of Yunkai protested, "The terrain of Slaver's Bay is not suitable for raising horses. Even if all the stables in our two cities are emptied, we We can’t even raise so many horses.”

"Such a condition is indeed too much. I will find a way to make him reconsider." Ian nodded, understanding Grazdan's anxiety. "Among the important ministers, the ones with whom I have the best relationship are Dorian and Celie. I can’t guarantee that Ya can convince her, but Dorian can.”

"Thank you, Lord Earl." Grazdan expressed his gratitude to Ian again.

"But you need to understand the importance of this condition. In the entire Slaver's Bay, we only have the best cavalry in our hands now. You saw it when we were in Punishment Square that day." Ian did not give Grazdan a chance to be happy for a while. "Giving us enough horses is crucial to improving the combat effectiveness of our entire alliance, so I hope you can think more about this issue."

"We'll try our best." Grazdan knew that Ian was telling the truth, so he didn't make any excuses.

"Try your best, try your best." Mazda could only agree despite the situation.

"Second, Meereen and Yunkai also need to send troops to join the war. According to the size of the city, the number of troops sent by Yunkai should not be less than 4,000 people, and the number of troops sent by Meereen should not be less than 8,000. If the number of troops is insufficient, mercenaries can be used to make up for this condition. Is it okay?" Ian continued to ask.

"Of course, there is no trace of Khal Drogo's army yet. We have two or three months to find the mercenary group." Grazdan nodded, but then said, "But we cannot guarantee the mercenaries." The regiment’s combat effectiveness, based on our past experience, those mercenaries often choose to run away when facing the roaring Dothraki warriors.”

"Just leave it to me to restrain the mercenaries," Ian smiled. "Isn't it written in the third point? All armies in the entire alliance are under my unified command."

"This" Reg, who had been silent for a long time because the condition was never mentioned in New Gis, finally couldn't sit still. He wanted to say that this condition was the most unacceptable. How could the Free Citizen Iron Legion of New Gis accept the command of an outsider? ?

But seeing Ian's attitude of 'this matter is not negotiable, it will be settled', Reg didn't know how to speak and hesitated for a moment.

"Fourth," Ian took the opportunity to jump into the next condition without giving him a chance to speak, "the armor coverage rate of the soldiers in Meereen and Yunkai should exceed 60%."

There seems to be nothing wrong with this condition, but it is actually quite detrimental.

Because when Ian had just received the 8,000 Unsullied, and his armor workshop had not yet started operating, he had already purchased standard armor from the entire Slaver's Bay and replaced almost all the Unsullied's equipment.

As the half-body plate armors in Ian's armor workshop continued to be produced, the armors that were first equipped for the Unsullied began to be gradually replaced. How to deal with these armors became a problem.

Initially, Ian thought about giving them to the new troops, but considering that his new troops would be placed in relatively safe positions during the real war, he finally decided to give some of these armors to those who would be deployed in the most dangerous locations. 'Allies' in position to enhance their ability to resist the line.

As for this method of giving, Ian has already purchased almost all the armor from Slaver's Bay. Apart from buying it from themselves, what other methods can Meereen and Yunkai have to increase the army's armor rate to 60%?

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