Chapter 163: The increasingly clear situation in the North

June, 302 AC.

After Jack returned Deepwood Motte to the Glover family, Jack successfully won the allegiance of some northern nobles.

Jack also brought Mrs. Glover to Last Hearth and chose a new husband for her.

This matter was agreed to by Mrs. Glover because it was Mrs. Glover who took the initiative to bring up the matter.

She knew that she, a woman with a daughter less than one year old, was like fat meat in the eyes of others and could not defend Deepwood Motte at all.

Not every woman can have extraordinary political talent like Lyanna Mormont. Most women are still bound by tradition and hope to find a man they can rely on. This is the shackles that the times have placed on women.

So she took the initiative to ask Jack to help her choose a husband, so that she would have a man to rely on and feel a little safe.

For this purpose, Jack gathered all the single men at Hearth Castle. When they learned that a countess was choosing a husband, they were all very excited.

This is a good thing of getting a castle for free, the only drawback is that Ina Glover has been canonized as the Countess of Deepwood Motte.

But even so, there are still many people eager to try, especially some knights and barons.

But what no one expected was that Mrs. Glover actually chose Casa to be her man.

This made Jack suddenly realize that the Countess didn't seem to be a naive lady.

Naturally, Kasa accepted this with pleasure. No one would refuse such a good thing, especially Kasa, a savage leader who longed to become a noble.

As long as he becomes Mrs. Glover's husband, Casa will be able to exercise the power of the earl and make all the tribal leaders who had previously surrendered to him nobles.

The two held a simple wedding in Hearth City. Casa changed his name to Casa Glover. He didn't have a surname, so he simply used Glover as his surname.

In the following period, the situation in the North became increasingly clear, and most of the nobles in the southeastern region of the North chose to join Roose Bolton.

The nobles in the northwest chose Jack Poseidon, and the two sides began to confront each other with frequent actions.

In terms of military strength alone, Roose Bolton had the advantage. At this time, Roose Bolton had 13,000 men under his command. It can be said that a considerable number of nobles chose Roose Bolton.

Jack had only 8,000 men under his command at this time, of which 5,500 were the Sons of Winter composed of savages, and the next was the 1,000 Dragon Knights led by Hecarim.

Because Hecarim thought Koracshu was very powerful and beautiful, he dyed his armor red and changed the name to the Order of the Scarlet Dragon.

The second largest group was the noble army of 1,500 men. Most of these 1,500 men were small nobles below the rank of earl, with barons and knights making up the vast majority.

They all felt that it would be difficult to get through the long night that was coming, so they wanted to give it a try with Jack.

However, there are very few earls. Only the Earl of Bear Island, the Earl of Deepwood Motte and the Earl of Kaho Castle are willing to be loyal to Jack Poseidon.

Among the three earls, Bear Island provided thirty people, and Deepwood Motte made Jack provide two hundred people and several carts of food.

Although Kaho was captured at the same time as Deepwood Motte, Alys Karstark's uncle, Alwen Karstark, took away all the food and soldiers.

So, like Deepwood Motte, Kaho City not only did not provide any help to Jack, but instead made Jack pay for another 300 men and ten wagons of food.

However, these three hundred people were the three hundred Thenns that Saigon had gathered from the newly added land. In addition to these three hundred Thenns, there were also thousands of Thenns, old and young, women and children, who were migrating to the city of Kaho.

Apparently, Saigon was ready to relocate all the Sen tribes to Kaho. To this end, Saigon recruited some literate people in Kaho and built a small school to teach the Sen people the common language.

This will not only make up for the loss of male labor in Kaho City, but also prevent the population ratio of Kaho City from being completely unbalanced.

And I don't know if this kid Segun did it on purpose to anger Tormund or what, but after arriving at Kaho and becoming the Earl of Kaho, he directly reduced the land rent tax in the territory to 40%.

They also abolished a variety of messy window taxes, well water taxes, firewood taxes, etc., retaining only commercial taxes, head taxes and land rent taxes.

For this reason, Segun even asked his steward Davan Tharn to write a letter to mock Tormund, saying that Tormund was undeservedly called "Tormund the Kind" by the residents of Hearth City.

This made Tormund so angry that he couldn't sleep all night. The next day, Tormund announced that the land rent tax in Hearth City would be reduced to 40%. At the same time, he abolished the right of first night and messy taxes of the nobles in the territory, and only retained commercial taxes, head taxes and land rent taxes.

The peasants in the two men's territories were happy, but their vassals, viscounts and barons were not, and they expressed their dissatisfaction to the two men.

But this time was different from the past. After their subjects learned the news, they thanked Tormund and Segun one after another.

Moreover, Tormund and Segun's people were all migrating. They did not go through the War of the Five Kings, and the Battle of Castle Black ended abruptly because of Jack's appearance.

Therefore, the combat troops in the hands of the two were enough to wipe out these barons and viscounts and replace them with obedient people.

So even if the vassals protested, it would be useless. The two men even directly killed several vassals who were the leaders of the trouble. For them, there was no such thing as beating around the bush. If they didn't obey, they would just kill them.

No one could stop the two from competing with each other out of vanity. They were not hereditary aristocrats, so naturally they would not think about how to deprive the peasants.

On the contrary, because they have lived outside the Great Wall for many years, they have a better understanding of the importance of unity and are proud to allow their people to live a better life.

In the eyes of Tormund and Segun, once they became earls, the peasants in these territories became their own people and they naturally could not oppress and exploit them.

Especially Saigon. The Sen people under this guy had laws and lord consciousness, and everyone was like a berserker, so they directly killed all the vassals who came to Kaho City to cause trouble, leaving no one alive.

Then Saigon moved all the farmers who could migrate to the vicinity of the city of Kaho, and for those who could not migrate, he sent literate people in the castle to manage the territory.

Due to Saigon's policy of light taxation and enriching the people, many farmers were willing to migrate to live near the city of Kaho, and were also happy to be directly managed by the city of Kaho.

In this regard, Jack saw something in Saigon that other nobles did not have, that is, a flexible mind. Especially with the various policies adopted by Saigon, Jack even suspected that this guy would complete centralization in his own territory.

As for Tormund, he didn't think as much as Segoon did. He was just imitating Segoon.

This fool simply didn't want to be ridiculed by Saigon, and in the end he only killed the two viscounts who started the riot.