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the court was silent at torhen question everyone was waiting for the many merchants gathered to provide an answer, they wanted to know how and where did the merchants get the funds from for the loans and investment, the capital nobles with gleaming eyes asked the merchants to give an answer though most of them stayed silent, with a few stealing occasional glances towards peter baelsih, who just stayed silent most of the time with seeing no way out a few merchants made stories about business with the summer isles and slave cities, some even talked about volantis, of course, all these were lies made by them these were the business strategies they made before which failed. torhen argued with them asking what was it they sold to them, this question shut them up because there was not much they could do they had nothing to sell at this moment everyone in the court was finding their suspicious, its seemed vague which was odd for a merchant considering their station as merchants who traded all over the world, even peter baelsih was profusely sweating at this moment he was afraid all he wanted to do and all he did will go to wain.

at this moment torhen started to laugh loudly everyone in the court was astounded to see the calm and collected young man laughing like that at this moment torhen asked john aryyn about how much did the starks donated to the crown john aryyn swiftly answered that the starks donated a, million gold coins and 2 million silver coins along with 1 million gold coins as taxes, the entire court was surprised no one believed that information. how did the starks have that kind of money? this almost gave peter baelsih a heart attack he was aware of how much the starks donated but he kept the real amount from john arryn, he was now regretting not killing torhen early his situation now was precarious the merchants he hired could not present a believable story and now everyone was suspicious.

seeing how the situation was many were looking at baelish with suspicious eyes these included tywin Lannister and olenna Tyrell, for they had already connected the dots. before the chaos could take over the throne room torhen looked over at a merchant who was silent till now and told him to do it, at torhens command the merchant came forward and presented the papers which showed transactions made by baelsih to the merchants he explained their entire evil plan and how torhen stark had told him to be a part of this group.

the other merchants were glaring swords at this man who blew away their plan, peter baelsih was standing still but he was not calm he was enraged and frightened at how a small boy did this to him, how his years of planning to control the realm came to an end Robert was enraged and commanded the kings guard the to bring peter forward, Jamie Lannister went up to peter and held him from his collar and dragged him in front of the iron throne where the king was looking down on him. Roberts's eyes were red now with anger he yelled at john arryn and told him to explain how he could let this happen. john arryn explained to him that he was forced to give money to the faith of the seven so that they could make new septs and stop anymore civil unrest. he told him how Peter paid them large amounts of money to keep problems from happening in kings landing.

he also told him how Peter paid money to Randall tarly to maintain the new royal army he was making but the ledgers he showed were different from what the starks sent tole me about their letter. later on, with a large explanation, it was found out that the starks were aware that their newfound wealth was creating a problem in the south as such they gave taxes and even donated so that the realm could maintain peace, but it was because of people like peter baelish that this could not happen. the court once again fell silent