After officially becoming a political ally with Tyrion, Zhang Cheng completely let go and ordered Blanco to expand the mercenary team without restriction.

In just one month or so, the number of mercenaries has expanded from two or three hundred to eight hundred.

In addition, the 1500 newly recruited urban defense forces, which ostensibly belong to King joffrey, but in fact the military power is in his hands, actually have more than 2200 troops in his hands.

Don\'t underestimate this. You should know that these 2200 people are not a mob put together temporarily, nor are they farmers who go to the battlefield with pitchfork, but an out and out professional army. Almost every soldier has several lives.

Perhaps many people don\'t think much of the military power in the world of the song of ice and fire. They think that a continent equivalent to the area of South America on earth has only tens of thousands of people in a battle, which is weaker than the battles of hundreds of thousands and millions of people in ancient China.

In fact, behind this phenomenon, on the one hand, there is a huge gap in the mobilization ability between the feudal system and the centralized regime, on the other hand, there is a difference between the professional army and the non professional army.

The soldiers in Westeros army often do not need to engage in productive labor. Since joining a family, they have been engaged in all kinds of training and combat. Both experience and psychological quality are far better than those temporarily recruited farmers.

So, like rob stark, who led 20000 troops south, these 20000 people were not temporarily recruited farmers, but fully armed professional soldiers.

It can be said that the war on Westeros is closer to the duel between elite rather than an all-out war.

Once the main force of a family is devastated, it is basically difficult to recruit an army of the same quality in a short time.

At present, what does Zhang Cheng mean by holding this army with a total of more than 2000 people?

To take the simplest example, the Florent family of Liangshui City, an important and famous family in the river bay area, can also afford a professional army of more than 2000 people. With this army, they even dare to publicly complain and question the ruling position of the tiller family in the river bay area many times.

Unfortunately, however, the family obviously did not learn the skill of the Tyrell family.

According to the development of the plot, when lanli dies, the economic queen olena redwin will immediately choose to join hands with the Lannister family, and they choose to take refuge in Stannis. Finally, they are defined as traitors and lose their territory and noble title.

More unfortunately, Zhang Cheng took a fancy to this and reached an agreement with tywin Lannister in advance. As long as he made enough efforts in the battle of defending King\'s landing City, he will become the new count of Liangshui city after winning.

Interestingly, this secret transaction has not been approved by the Florent family, the owner of Liangshui city

With Tyrion\'s appointment as the former prime minister, he began to exercise his rights and obligations, racing against time to build the defense system of King\'s landing City, hoping to turn this chaotic city into an unbreakable fortress before the war.

However, he obviously ignored one point. There, when the shadow of war shrouded, the prices of various necessities began to soar.

In particular, the food for survival is refreshing people\'s understanding of price almost every day.

After all, when lanli married Margaret tiller, the tiller family turned to the young man who was self-supporting as king. Naturally, they would not continue to provide all kinds of cheap food, fruits and vegetables to Junlin city.

"Damn it! This is the fourth poor riot this week! We must find a way to get them something to eat! Otherwise we will be in a hurry before the enemy calls." Tyrion sat in his chair and gritted his teeth.

"Don\'t worry, they\'re just a bunch of unarmed poor people. I\'ve suppressed them for you. But seriously, you really should get them something to eat, even if it\'s just a bowl of batter." after that, bolon raised the bottle and took a sip of wine regardless of the large amount of blood on his armor.

Just when the little devil wanted to say something, Zhang Cheng suddenly opened the door and burst in. He greeted with a smile: "good morning, dear prime minister, I just got a good news and a bad news. Which one are you going to listen to first?"

"Good morning, sir Mason. I\'m going to be in a mess. Don\'t talk about it and just tell me what happened." Tyrion rubbed his dry eyes and mocked himself.

Judging from the tired expression on his face, he hasn\'t slept well for days.

"Hehe, the good news is that Baron grejoy of the iron islands once again established himself as king and began to sweep the whole north along the sea route. Our invincible rob stark will face a difficult choice next, whether to return to the army to protect his nest or continue to approach Junlin south." Zhang Cheng was acutely aware of each other\'s fatigue, So he said the first news directly.

After hearing this, Tyrion\'s eyes immediately lit up, laughed and clapped his hands: "ha ha! Great! This is the first good news I\'ve heard since I became prime minister! It\'s worth a drink! Bolon! Come on, pour me a glass of wine!"

"As you wish, my Lord." the mercenary leader smiled, raised the wine bottle and filled the empty glass on the table.

Without saying a word, the little devil took it up and poured it clean, and then wiped his mouth. His expression quickly became very dignified: "come on, what\'s the bad news? I\'m ready."

Zhang Cheng raised his mouth slightly and replied in a slightly low tone: "the bad news is that lanli was assassinated in his tent and died on the spot. Now his brother Stannis baratheon has accepted almost all his subordinates and is leading an army of nearly 100000 people towards King\'s landing. My dear friend, a strong opponent is coming..."

"One hundred... One hundred thousand?!"

Knowing the exact number of enemies, bolon\'s whole face became distorted.

There is no way not to distort. You know, the whole King\'s landing city has a population of only about 500000 men, women, old and young.

"Is your source accurate?" Tyrion was more calm than his panic, except that his legs trembled a little uncontrollably.

"100% accurate! And I can tell you! Lanli\'s death was done by a priestess with magical power around Stannis, so you\'d better be careful."

After saying this, Zhang Cheng ignored whether the other party understood it or not, turned around and left the room and disappeared at the end of the messy Street