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  Thrid Person POV

  Essos, 296 AC.

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  Jouro his room and donned more formal attire, leaving his armor on a mannequin in the room, and proceeded back to the Iron Bank, apanied by his royal guards, the Sealord, and the men of Braavos. They left the pad headed to the Iron Bank once agaiurning to the room from the previous day to resume and tihe iations. As they settled at the table, the keyholders initiated a discussion.

  "We discussed extehe possibility of you being a shareholder in this institution since we cluded our versatioerday..." they began. Jon listened in silence as they tinued, fnked by his two ministers.

  "We have e to know of your i iablishing your own bank in Artica, which is quite surprising, yet it still leaves us doubtful about your iion to add another oo our bank as well..." one of the keyholders said, looking at Jon. Jon merely smiled.

  "I must know how to manage my money, and anyone who truly uands that, diversifies it," Jon said, after all, he did not want to keep his money in just one pce when he could have other alternatives for safety, whiy ior would do, even trusting his life for Artica. The men aowledged this thought, so Jon tinued.

  "And yes. I pn to create a bank for my people. I have no i in meddling iernal ey of the kingdom at the moment. After all, my people are a priority, and I want them to get aced to a funal ey in Artica with the geion already born knowing how to handle mohis is a pn where I began by edug my people enough so that now they embark on their own businesses," Jon said. Jon spoke with a slight smile. Artica would not just be funal with him, his people would evolve on their own.

  "That is quite surprising, a kingdom pnning to bee freely ercial," a keyholder plimented, showing i in Jon's vision.

  "Yes," Jon tinued, "Artica is powerful, but it doesn't have all the resources this world offer. Therefore, we will seek progress through trade. That was the iion behind creating this trading pany and my travels around the known world," Jon said.

  "Iing," another Keyholder ented, looking towards the Sealord, who nodded and turned his attention back to Jon. The Sealord then began to give his response on behalf of the Iron Bank.

  "We discussed extensively about your iion into the Iron Bank. However, if you deposit this amount of gold, you will bee a shareholder above us. And that is bad when a fner has too much power..." he said. Johat the amount he offered would make him a promi shareholder among all those in Braavos, which probably did not please everyone, so he hough he was satisfied with the dire of this versation, after all, everything indicated that they would accept him as one in the end, which was his initial goal.

  "heless, are you ied in my proposal?" he said with a smile to everyo that table.

  "Yes, t half of your offer. You may deposit 5 million gold dragons into the Iron Bank," one of the keyholders replied.

  "That's good," Jon nodded. Now, he could start his ercial influen another ti.

  "By the way, King of Artica..." another Keyholder joihe versation. "We would like to request your ons in exge for this," he said with a greedy tone. Johey would not miss the opportunity, despite being rational, after all, he was giving them gold to use as they wished and profit from it, asking for his ons was too much.

  "My ons are not iable. They defend my people, and I doubt that, even if I could tell you, you could produce what we do in Artica. You ot produce our wildfire, our Eldeal or even replicate the strength of iants," Jon said, to start, the creation of Eldeal works with its runes but would need magic to activate them, which happened in Artica without needing him, due to the roots of the Grand Weirwood. The same thing happened with the boxes being able to store ice, fident that no one else could replicate his trade. The wildfire was created through some substahat only Jon could create in some pnts and only the soil of Artica could make these pnts grow, which made the wildfire much stronger and more stable than what the alchemists' guild could create in Kingsnd.

  The men seemed disheartened upon hearing this, after all, they couldn't ask for much, and their greed clearly desired Arti teology, yet Jon tinued. "However, this does not prevent us from being allies," Jon said, as the keyholders exged gnces. "An alliaween Braavos and Artica might be reasohey cluded just with a look, as they always did. Creating an alliance would make both parties quite iial. However, there was still a stumbling block. "As fantastic as that is... I'm not sure if a political alliance is feasible right now, as you are fag a major flict with Westeros," the Sealord spoke this time. "Don't get us wrong, but we like to remairal in this dispute. We are ied in your proposal, but the alliance would o be formed after the flicts ieros," he said on behalf of everyone present. Jon nodded in uanding. "I perfectly uand... now that the matter regarding my gold in this bank has been resolved, it's time for us to start the real iations, right?" he said as everyone agreed.

  These men had already sampled all the products the night before, and as always, pleased everyoh ies like his cigars, new drinks, and fabrics made with the help of ice spiders and dyed with colors produced from trees and pnts in Artica, which made the colors even more vibrant than usual. Ice, as always, became the main asset, with these men seeing its potential, and if Jon could sell it throughout Essos, they would already be envious just thinking about the profit, especially when the resource is infinite from his nds.

  The iation was heated, with the Arti ministers participating in all of it, while Junly, spoke more about the products, Gavron did quick calcutions thinking about the profit and how it would affect the national treasury of Artica.

  In the end, they had finalized all the tracts, and probably Braavos would be the city where Jon would have the biggest business of all, after all, the flow in this city was very rge and although Joiated with the major coastal cities, other traders could distribute his items to smaller cities or even within the ti.

  In addition to his exclusive products, his farm items such as food produced in Artid even the wood were iated, which got the Braavosi quite excited about this.

  While Jon would start supplying wood to Braavos, the North would have an impa its ey, after all, they sold a lot of ironwood. However, this could be recuperated by rebuying food that Artica would sell to Braavos, which was much cheaper than in the South, putting ao the ercial abuse that the Rivernds did, even with Catelyn Stark, being the eldest daughter of the Tullys married to the Starks, the Rivernds never facilitated trade between the here and the northern people. Even the Reach would feel the sales made to the North.

  "It seems otiation has finally ended... But would you like to iate with Braavos, perhaps in a meeting tomorrow? I'm ied in spending my gold in this city," Jon said, after all, now it was his turn to buy things from Braavos.

  "That would be very good, Arti King. Acc to your record, you are ied ials and books, right?" one of the keyholders said with a greedy look, after all, he had the monopoly oals.

  "Yes... I would also like to hire more people to educate my people," Jon said finally.

  "Like your tra Dorne?" one asked and Jon nodded.

  "Exactly. I eople who help teach the on too my people."

  "repare your order then. We will have it ready by tomorrow," they said, and Jon nodded, starting to leave the Iron Bank with his men.

  In the end, everyohe Iron Bank satisfied, while Jouro the Sealord's pace. He would stay a few more days. So, he spent that day enjoying a bit of the locale with his wife and talking tinuously with the Sealord about various topics.

  "I would like to buy a sword from you, like you did with Lord Tywin Lannister," he eventually broached a topic that Jon had dealt with the Lannisters ieros.

  "I sell a sword made of Eldeal, no problem," Jon said with a calm tone.

  "That's great, it's a pity you aren't ied in selling the Valyrian steel ones, right?" he asked and Jon immediately denied.

  "My two swords and the Darksister are not for sale," Jon said.

  "I uand... still, I want one made of Eldeal," he said and Jon nodded.

  They tialking while the man seemed ied in purchasing a few more things from Jon, but he would leave that for tomorrow, especially regarding the proposal to sell some of his ships. At one point, the Sealord expressed his i in Artica. "You know, I have a son who is 8 namedays old..." he mentioned, referring to his heir.

  "Yes, he seems like a strong boy," Jon replied, uo help but remember when he was 8 years old. It hadn't been a very pleasant childhood in Winterfell.

  "I was thinking," the Sealord tinued, "but I took the liberty of speaking with your ministers and even your men about education in Artica. From what I've seen, your ministers were educated in the highest positions, and the guards and soldiers are being educated. I'm impressed by your reasoning. I am tempted to have my son educated in Artica, if you would allow it." He said.

  Jon heard this, knowing that proposals like this could arise after seeing the results of education at Artica's uy. "I wouldn't see a problem with that, and although we haven't opened up to the world yet, we talk about it. Maybe in 2 or 3 years, if you are still ied, you could visit the city. It should please you. I'll let your son study there," Jon said.

  "That's very good," the man spoke at the end with a small smile.

  They tialking for a while longer, and the day, Jouro the Iron Bank, where scrolls about all sorts of things were id out in front of him, which he could read along with his ministers as they studied everything there, after all, they o start buying those things.

  "Let's begin..." Jon decred as all 12 keyholders, along with the Sealord, waited to start the discussion.

  In the end, 5 hours of iation took pce while various Braavosi men had to e at this time as they marked everything Joiated to start loading onto the Arti ships.

  In the end, they bought tens of tons of steel and iron, thousands of new desert-bred horses, many of which evehraki Kals demanded as mounts, plus 20,000 breeding animals, which would be removed from outside the city, in pastures in the mountainion, 100,000 books taken from the city with an interview for more than 10,000 lecturers for the on tongue and Valyrian, uhe same tract they had with other teachers in Artica taken from Dorne.

  "We are very pleased with such a sale..." the men murmured satisfied, seeing millions of gold s entering the city through the sales.

  "That's good... Artica is happy to acquire all these items, anyway... I would now like to iate with one of the keyholders," Jon spoke, looking at one of them specifically.

  "Yes... the Sealord mentioned your i in one of his items, I usually wouldn't sell that , but you have something I am very ied in," he spoke at the end, and a small iation began, in the end, Jon won 10 Arti carracks in exge for his grandmother's .

  This item was exclusive and could be obtained from his carracks, extremely fast ships, Jon even refused to win them in the end to keep them even more exclusive and trade for the .

  With everything ready, they returo the Sealord's pace more, Jon asked for some Artis to stay at various points iy to interview potential teachers and even some artisans hired to teach a few things to the Arti people as well. At night, there was another bao celebrate the ercial partnership with more products from Artica.

  It was only the day that they began their preparations to finally depart from Braavos. Meanwhile, ships began to leave the fleet at this time, as the Braavosi people prepared to start colleg all the resources sold to the Artis and leave them at the ports for colle, the main port was not used, but various points around the city began to fill up with ships from Artica.

  Things were much calmer now, seeing that Artica posed no danger. Among these ships that left the fleet, 10 of them ended up cirg the city until reag the Iron Bank, where there was high security to receive them. Five million gold s began to be unloaded, while many high-ranking bank officials ted the bags to verify everything was correct.

  The ships tinued colleg animals, metals, books, and people for half a day while other ships approached the Seastone Pace, as there was a o store a huge stock to supply the city during this initial movement, with 50 ships full of stock to deposit iy.

  "So, you want to do it here...?" Jon asked in the sor of the lord of Braavos, as they looked at a map spread out oable.

  "Yes, I believe that will be the best choice," the Sealord said while Jon thoughtfully gazed at that spot.

  Their tract did not include a rge port like Jon had managed in Dorne, but they had certainly mao iate a gia to store their products while their ships arrived iy. The route between Braavos and Artica was good, despite still having to travel half the distance of Westeros, Artica was remote from all pces in the end.

  "Here, I authorize your stru, King of Artica," the Sealord finally said, and Jon nodded.

  "Alright... we will do it this way," Jon the end.

  They began to say their goodbyes, with Jon stating he would visit Braavos in the near future to finalize his trad started to prepare for travel, while finding Ygritte and Arya waiting for him.

  "Let's go," Jon said at the end, and they nodded, beginning to store things on the ships that were already alongside the pace.

  As everyone began to board, Arya looked aside, uo see Jon, and followed her gaze to another ship, where Jon was with some of his guards.

  "What is he doing?!" Arya excimed, slightly bewildered.

  "Jon said he would sort some things out... so let's wait for him in the fleet," Ygritte said as the main ship began to move along with others to the west side of the city, while Jon's ship departed to the east a down to the south, approag the city ter from that side of the waters.

  "So, it's here..." Jon murmured, looking at the enormous structure in front of him, as the ship approached, dog at one of the small ports, while Johe massive door of the pce opening at that moment with a man ing out and standing at the entrance as if he had been waiting for him.

  "It seems we have some reception..." Jon murmured and walked out of the ship with his guards.

  They approached the man, who was a middle-aged man with a calm look waiting for Jon to approach.

  "So this is the House of Bd White?" Jon asked, looking at the rge building.

  "You are correct, but that's not what s you, is it, son of the dragon?" the man said mysteriously.

  Jon was a bit surprised by this, but kept his face serious. "No, I am fident that I and my family would fare well against you... but what s me is my people. After all, assassination is not justifiable against the Artis..." Jon replied, he could protect himself, his wives, and children, after all, there was an army of animals for these assassins to get past first, even if they could ge void face, animals have better instincts and would be killed just for approag, but his people were different.

  And he was not hypocritical enough to say that his people would never die; there would be flicts, and many would fall with that, but he would not accept assassinations against them, knowing how both his flid everade he was creating could attract people who would seek retaliation against them and might opt with the Faceless Men.

  Jon looked at the man again and tinued speaking. "I just want to know if you could be hired to kill some of mine," Jon asked.

  "Artis are certainly more expehan ordinary people. We know this might draw your ire, but still, it's a iable price. If the God accepts the tract, it will be dohe man said with his ral tone.

  "I see. Then tell yod," Jon said in a serious tone, "if any of you touch my people, I will e here, burn down this entire pce, and kill all of you. I don't care what yod thinks of this."

  Hearing these words, the man showed no ge in his face. There was no anger, surprise, or fear; he just kept looking at Jon calmly. "I uand," was all he said.

  Seeing this, Jon shrugged. "Let's go," he finally said, heading back to the ship there.

  It didn't take long for him to circle the city, finally heading towards the Titan, passing us legs, and finally returning to his fleet, preparing to tinue his journey south, then he would move on to the ercial objective.

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