96 The duty, commands

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here is the chapter that was supposed to be on sunday but I moved it to put the extra chapters.

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POV of Friedrich von Roon seventh moon 284 AC

The work does not stop, only now finally after a little investment in educating the barbarian westerosis, we had finally been able to delegate minor functions to the new administrators, but not very complex, since the westerosis we chose to help us in the arduous administrative work knew how to read, write and repeat actions in a reiterating way, nothing else.

Which finally caused that many tasks in which I played an important role were finally delegated to other members of the administration, leading to the creation of the ministries, to concentrate the administrative efforts.

The ministry of finance, to control taxes, the ministry of infrastructure, in charge of carrying out all the constructions that are necessary to turn the reach into a civilized place, besides that, I managed to create a secretariat for military infrastructure where I placed one of my men in the post, the ministry of the interior and public defense to maintain public order and control the police forces.

Again, a nobleman I recommended was chosen for the position, who seemed to be a promising officer, skilled with numbers and quite charismatic, so far, although his men are very novice and quite scarce, he has managed to increase our control in the reach significantly.

As well as the ministries, mining, agriculture, education and science, all of them occupied by expert people chosen for their knowledge among the engineers to obtain the best results in the most important areas of the kingdom because what would be of the reach without agriculture?, or what would be of the army if we do not start working in the mines that we find within our territory, depending on all the iron being imported is not good if at some point we must make the war machine work again.

Education is important to show the Westerosis the weaknesses of their barbaric culture and the virtues of the Prussians we bring with us and science, the engine of progress, always seeking to be better and more productive through invention.

But undoubtedly the most important of all these ministries is the war ministry, which I, personally, manage... although it really happened again as before, the work is so little that it is boring, besides making preventive plans of invasion against the other territories or defense plans in various circumstances there is not much to do

The police are now more numerous than the Prussian army which only numbers a little more than six thousand men and as with the recent recruitments to fill those posts, all possible candidates for conscription now belong to another administrative branch, and as there are no future plans for a conscription, idleness is killing me because where the efforts are now is in the navy

And I understand little or nothing of naval tactics like most of the army, I have never been on a ship in all my life, I lack the experience to make good decisions, we should have placed a nobleman who had some experience handling a galley as admiral of the whole fleet, it made me incredibly angry to give such a great promotion to someone with so little experience, but within the world of the navy he was the best, since Johann von Rügen is the one-eyed man in a world of blind men.

Because we are not going to trust the Westerosi by giving them control of a fleet in production, especially that we were producing galleons that surpassed in every possible way the Westerosi war galleys, both in size, crew capacity and cargo capacity

Giving us control of the sea temporarily until any of our competitors attempt to produce the same types of ships, although producing each galleon is expensive and requires more advanced techniques than the one they possess, the security of the arsenal that builds them must be high and we requested that they place the best Finns to protect our secrets.

The redwyne may be competent admirals and navigators, but Helmuth says they are not to be trusted, too loyal to the tyrell, also the lords of the shield islands, the only westerosi that can be trusted is that Tarly, he has served our interests loyally and efficiently, you can see in his actions that he was born more Prussian than westerosi, he just needed the push to guide him, ensuring that there are many fights between the westerosi nobility, but unfortunately, he does not know naval tactics either.

That's why I gave Johann complete freedom on how to train his sailors and the delegation of ranks in the navy.

But finally, there was something to get out of this boredom due to lack of work, although not very pleasant, we have to go to the capital, there will be a tournament that will be used as propaganda of the Prussian virtues to the barbarian Westerosi where they will be presented to tournaments that we handpicked where it is absolutely certain that we will win.

The Teutons will tear anyone to shreds in personal combat, decades of dueling experience will not be surpassed by the short-lived Westerosi.

While other tournaments that require more technique than strength such as wrestling will easily be surpassed by my men, whom I have always trained with all kinds of training to strengthen their muscles and why not? earn some coins for my pocket, since I have rewarded many of my men from my own pocket with their retirement, I have been pretty tight with my budget. 

Because of that for days we traveled to the capital verifying the progress in infrastructure, we had created a long and wide road throughout our territory for the mobilization of troops as well as for trade, plus a system of inns for traders can rest with a roof over their heads and not depend on whether they find a town with houses available or sleep in the open

Since it is known that a happy trader is one who will return to trade, supporting the local economy and giving us their taxes to continue to fund our huge expenses, we only need five years and we can establish a tax system that is permanent and allows us to make long-term spending stipulations.

The change of the road was quite abrupt because we purposely did not pave all the way to the capital to clearly mark where civilization begins and where the barbaric lands of the Westeroses were. 

Our journey was fairly quick and uneventful, as our party was too heavily armed for any of the bands of thieves that proliferated because of the rebellion to attack us or worse still the most terrible practice of the nobility, the Raubritter, but no one so desperate would try an escort of four thousand men in plate armor.

A few days later we could see the king's landing, that damned and corrupt city, we were several kilometers away when the nauseating smell began to hit us, apparently they still do not repair their sewage system or educate their population about doing their needs where they want to.

''Majestät, we have arrived in the city, shall we wait for the retinue to be received or shall we just enter?'', I asked my king who was in his carriage accompanied by his betrothed

''We must wait. I am a guest of honor and I must be received according to protocol because of my rank It would look very bad for both sides if we simply enter without the authorization of king Robert or his hand''  said my king with his serene tone giving a slight smile.

''Understood let's hope we don't have to wait too long we have plenty of things to prepare for the end of this day, with your Majestät's permission'' I replied while placing my perfumed glove on my nose.

''So you finally bought that perfumed leather suit, ha, ha, ha, ha how much did it cost you?...I don't think it was easy for klaus to work with such thick leather'' said my king observing my clothes with a smile.

''About four hundred dragons, but it will be worth it, according to the information my men in the garrison of the city gave me, the smell has only gotten worse due to the great amount of people that abandoned the fields of the lords of the crown lands to look for work due to all the destruction caused by the victors in their plundering'' I answered keeping close to the carriage where my king was traveling

''Well, it means that Lord Arryn has not been able to clean the tunnels, from what I understand, the sewer plans were lost, nobody knows how far the sewer extends... only certain people'' said the king with a smile.

''How much longer?'', Janna asked me with a broken German as she kept a firm grip on her future husband's arm.

''It depends on the agility of the one who is to receive us, my lady'', I answered kindly.

''Please let me know when I must go out to greet'' my monarch ordered me to return to converse with his betrothed.

I made my horse to bow and enlisted for my mission.

Finally, Lord Arryn came to greet us and my king stepped out of the carriage and mounted his steed to accept the courtesy and enter the city, the moment we were given permission we began to enter the city and every step we took the rot increased in power.

I had some hope that the changes I tried to make in the city during my rule of the city, but apparently they disappeared as quickly as we left the city.

People were again urinating on the walls as if they were animals and there were human shit in the streets, which made it obvious that people had once more started to throw their waste out of the window and nobody did anything to stop it, this city was just a mess, very different from the clean streets of the cities in our territory.

But finally remembered what we were coming to do, the king was to give his greetings to that Robert, but I had to talk to some people to start a small propaganda campaign to clean up some of the aggressive propaganda that the faith of the seven has raised to try to discredit us for the punishments that they forced us to do to their rebellious fanatics.

During my short control over the city gave me a lot of knowledge of how it worked and at the same time what to do to deliver information to the illiterate small folks, propaganda through images made by the printing press would not work, since only the merchants can read, but there are the heralds a group of people who are dedicated to shout the news in the city paid by the crown, if we place pamphlets and give them some coins we could change the opinion a little bit.

While the Teutonic would return to their post near the castle where they would do their charity as before, delivering meals and clothes to the poor of the city and act as physicians to those who cannot afford the care of a local Maester or a healer

I helped Charles' men while he accompanied the king and set up the tent where the Teutons placed their coat of arms.

Helfen, Wehren, Heilen

Apparently the Westerosi remembered those who helped them before and quickly the people arrived to seek food and treatment for the hundreds of diseases that the city's inhabitants have due to their poor sanitation, which must be identified and brought to the attention of the king's council of physicians for further study and treatment.

Followed by my guards I began to look for the heralds to give them some images and coins so that they begin to speak well of us, at least for a few days that we will be in this damned city.

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