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seeing the way the young stark completely obliterated the reach lords in front of the king made the corners of tywins eye twitch, he had planned to take advantage of the young boy but that seemed difficult now he considered taking a more objectional approach towards him making things difficult for him int the court but he chose against it, it was unwise. he saw how torhen looked at the many nobles and merchants from the capital and smiled at them, this small little gesture made him realize how much of a danger the boy is.

much like tywin the princely couple from dorne was seeing the spectacle produced in front of them the dornish had a long-standing feud with the reach lords, seeing them being torn apart by a little boy of 11 was truly a funny and interesting thing to see prince oberyn was one of the only few people who did not even try to hide his smile when mace Tyrell was being humiliated. a few who joined him in this category included the king and the queen, peter baelish and the spider as well

torhen on the other hand was relieved to see that the reach men took his gamble, truthfully there was no possible way that his armies large production units and the diet of his soldiers could be maintained through just rice from the river lords he had a few decades-long winters ahead of him and a large dead army walking towards to him, the biggest help he needed was from his grandfather hoster Tully a man of sharp wit in order to buy his support he offered gold a few small ventures and a standing force of 10000 stark soldiers stationed in his lands in the name of military training, these soldiers would cement the authority of house Tully in the Riverlands and also provide torhen with a base to command immediate armies against enemies in the south, all in all, he was happy with how the situation turned out.

the merchants with the nobles were now afraid of the stark boy the problem being they tried to gain influence in Westeros through peter baelsih. the plan was once they succeded in obtaining the secret of the starks they could start a business which will help them command authority not only in Westeros but even the essos they could become larger than the iron bank itself, though the idea seemed farfetched it was not impossible, but how the stark boy brought out so many comprehensive shreds of evidence against the reach lords, of they really had something like this against them they will lose everything they have.

peter baelish was also insecure after seeing the amount of evidence the stark managed to find and that too from so long ago in the past, while he was sure that he hid his steps properly and fabricated many fake pieces of evidence as well for the many scapegoats he prepared to take his blame from guards to whores, from farmers to lesser nobles and knights he had done many wrong things to them as well he had killed children, imprisoned family members, sold slaves, and broke many more laws he was insecure but he was also confident that he won't be found.

after some time torhen stark asked the nobles in the capital to once again present their problems and their demands and just as he predicted the foolish simpleton nobles blatantly berated their tales believing that they are in the right and must be compensated by the starks, they said that the starks withhold information from the realm for personal profit and allowed the realm to descend into disbalance their actions lead to large scale migrations which destroyed the working population in the capital and lead to a tax hike if the merchants from essos didn't invest in their lands or didn't loan them any money their livelihood would have been destroyed

torhen smiled at the foolishness of the noble lords and asked the nobles how many people worked in the capital or under them in the entire crownlands, the nobles got flustered at that and could not present a proper answer, hence it was already established that that had no proper evidence to prove that what they were saying, one of the idiots among them went ahead and said that all of them did this brought out loads of laughter from the king who could not understand the stupidity of these many lords serving him, torhen also laughed and asked them once again that did the children and elderly worked for them as well, this took them back they had completely ruled out the elderly the just assumed that all poor children worked and most people died of diseases before they could be called elderly

torhen soon ordered for the other chest to open up as well and left and brought out a load of papers, and presented them to the court he announced that these are the names of all the people who came to the north from the crownlands a total of 300000 people and half of them worked miscellaneous jobs and one-fourth of this half were ever employed by a noble directly or for their cause only once these papers completely made the allegations of the nobles baseless, one of the nobles said that the smallfolk were lying to which torhen simply argued that it was his words against 300000, he went on their allegation which said that the starks withholding their knowledge brought disbalance to the realm to which he simply said that disbalance to the reach came for their own mistakes, leaving that he announced that stepstones were added to the realm the Riverlands are doing business there is no h from the outside world and the capital stinks less than before so how exactly did the realm descend into chaos and disblance and from what he knew the revenue made in the last 3 years is twice of what was made during the tagryan rule

leaving these matters he also asked that the many merchants who were in the room right now that many them lost their business recently and that there are many places more profitable in the realm than the capital then why here and where did they get the funds to invest