The King

Chapter Twelve

Jon was between a sword and a wall, or rather a Wolf and a Lion, a fortnight ago he stole the shipment of ten million gold dragons he borrowed from the iron bank, a loan of much gold that never arrived in King's Landing, as was to be expected from someone desperate he sent notes to every lord he had as a friend so they could lend him even a Gold Dragon, but some of his letters were never answered as in the case of the Tyrells, Martell, Tully.

He could pay the kingdom's bill using his gold, the Arryns were a wealthy house, but he did not wish to spend the gold his house produced if he could ask the other houses that wanted a little power, because a loan to the crown generated just that, power.

Something that Jon did not realize, perhaps by magic or idiocy, since the Arryns, especially Jon, always showed or appeared to be honorable people. And as a last resort, he asked the Starks and Lannisters for gold, and as if both houses colluded with him, the Starks were going to pay the gold to the Iron Bank, while the Lannisters were going to lend him the ten million gold dragons he asked. Indebting the crown with a total of twenty million gold dragons.

This gave the North and West an amount of power that even he could not imagine, for now, anything he said could be damaging since they saved the crown from the lack of gold, and now the crown was indebted to those two houses.

That they were not going to hesitate to take up arms, no matter that the North had some degree of respect for Robert, they respected him but were not loyal to him, a great point in the story, for if Eddard was the ruler in the North, they were all going to be loyal to Robert.

Whereas Tywin wasn't going to overlook that his daughter was queen, they owed him gold, and if they insulted him, he will attack them with the return of said gold or an attack was as simple as that. So simple that it made him angry, to think how the fuck he was going to pay that kind of money to those houses. They currently had considerable power, any request they made had to be listened to because of the debt they owed to these houses. No doubt he was in real trouble, although he was the only one affected as Robert didn't give a damn what happened to the kingdom, as long as he could fuck whores and drink wine he didn't care.

At that moment he thought, why not support Eddard to be king of the seven kingdoms, he saw how Ned looked at the throne, he even sat on it, but he thought that at any moment Eddard could be manipulated by someone other than him, and that did not suit him.

Now he realized his mistake, the North was out of control, the realm had no balance and his wards were no help to him.

Ned was completely loyal to his cousin, he didn't answer his letters, and even more so now with the small conflict that was brewing between the Greyjoys and the Starks, he was going to put a great distance between the crown and the North, but he wasn't going to do anything as he saw a great possibility of weakening the North. It also didn't help that Ned's in-law parents wouldn't do shit to control the Greyjoys, the Tullys didn't realize that the North would be able to attack them quietly, but I didn't think Harry would have the balls to invade the Riverlands, even though next to that land was the Vale. And both the Vale and the North were not very good friends, the tension was simmering, and at any moment it could wake up.

- "Lord Hand, thinking too much will only lead to the wrong decision" - Varys made an appearance in Jon's chambers, who was sitting at his desk thinking about how to get out of this mess, of course, a problem that Varys would benefit from, with the crown weak, several kingdoms would want the crown and a new rebellion would take place, which would weaken Westeros - "Things are thought calmly... and solved with the same calm... that's my humble advice."

- "Wise advice if we were dealing with weak houses, lions and wolves are not easy to deal with and even more so knowing who the lords of those houses are" - Jon was not an idiot, he could not trust Varys, he knew he was up to something, even if he hides it that his actions were for the good of the realm, he did not believe that at all, only an idiot will believe a person who gets information and can quietly modify it to his liking, that was Varys the spider - "The Starks became rich in the blink of an eye, and with that, the North became rich and powerful.... the only one in the North who rules is Harry Stark, no one will go against him... in the West the Lannisters, led by Tywin Lannister, no one disobeys... houses from different kingdoms, but with leaders who are practically idiots who will stand against them."