Daenerys, riding Dreamfire, blasted open Earl Hightower's room directly with Dragonflame, then landed Dreamfire in the small garden outside his room.
The exquisite, luxurious small garden was instantly destroyed by Dreamfire's massive body.
Daenerys passed through the still burning window and entered Earl Hightower's room, while Miraxis followed closely behind Daenerys, guarding her side, but by this time, Earl Hightower had already fled with the protection of his few remaining guards.
Daenerys unhurriedly walked to Earl Hightower's study in the adjacent room.
"We should be able to find many Hightower Family secrets here!"
Earl Hightower's study had a vast collection of books, and many of them appeared to be very ancient.
Several old, carved cabinets were locked, so Daenerys had Miraxis simply slice them open with his dragon claws.
Since they were locked, the contents inside must be extraordinary.
These cabinets preserved exquisite wooden boxes of varying sizes.
Upon opening them, Daenerys found that they primarily contained land deeds, property deeds, and various partnership agreements.
Daenerys roughly calculated in her mind that the value of these items was already in the hundreds of millions of gold dragons.
The scope of these land deeds and property deeds was very wide, not only covering major cities in Westeros but also extending to the Free Trade Cities and the Summer Isles, where the Hightower family had acquired many estates and shops.
Their quantity and scale were even larger than those of the Targaryen Family.
Daenerys was quite familiar with the Targaryen Royal Family's assets; over the years, the Targaryen Family had also acquired many estates and shops in the Free Trade Cities.
Otherwise, how could the Targaryen Family have accumulated considerable wealth with the meager land and meager tax revenue from Dragonstone?
When the Targaryen Family became so impoverished during the period of power, it must be that their industries in the Free Trade Cities were completely lost.
The descendants of the mediocre Aegon IV's Blackfyre, who had the economic foundation to instigate multiple rebellions, must have a strong connection with the Targaryen Family's properties in the Free Trade Cities.
The mediocre King Aegon IV could even bestow the family sword Blackfyre upon his bastard son, let alone the Targaryen Family's properties in the Free Trade Cities.
Daenerys naturally moved all these items onto Dreamfire's back without hesitation, then took out the ropes prepared on the dragon saddle and firmly secured them behind the saddle.
For convenience during travel, Daenerys had the Dragon Guards install many items on Dreamfire's dragon saddle.
Large wicker baskets, ropes, and the like were naturally essential.
After all, Daenerys usually liked to use dragons to carry people, and without enough ropes, it would be difficult to ensure their safety.
Those large wicker baskets made it convenient for Daenerys to carry any good things she encountered when out and about.
Additionally, Daenerys also found many secret letters between successive Earls Hightower and other families, as well as the Faith and the Citadel.
She opened the letters and glanced at them, and the more she read, the brighter her mood became.
"It seems I really didn't wrong them; Princess Senira indeed escaped from Oldtown with the help of Earl Hightower."
"I didn't expect the Great Council to also be proposed by Wigg, the Dragonless, incited by the Hightower Family using the Citadel."
"No wonder Otto Hightower in history liked to use letters and ravens for combat during the Dance of the Dragons? So this is a family tradition!"
Daenerys contentedly put all these letters into her personal whale-hide satchel and then placed it on Dreamfire's dragon saddle.
Now that Daenerys had plundered a considerable amount of the Hightower Family's wealth and heritage, it was time to wrap things up.
At this time, at the Mysterious Inn, several Pentos spice merchants who had already written IOUs had also been "respectfully sent out."
Although their clothes had been returned to them, each person was only "rewarded" with one gold dragon as transportation fare for their return home.
Looking at Oldtown, which was engulfed in flames, the spice merchants were full of worry and for a moment did not know where to go.
Finally, the fat man was the first to regain his senses, and he looked bitterly at the distant Hightower and said,
"Hightower Family, truly excellent!"
"Oldtown is in chaos right now; let's temporarily hide in the pauper's district.
Once the situation stabilizes, we'll figure out a way to leave Oldtown.
Looking at this trend, it seems Oldtown is about to fall into great chaos, but the pauper's districts will be much safer."
"Good, good!"
The others immediately echoed him.
Then these Pentos merchants, who usually relied on slaves to carry them in palanquins, quickly disappeared into the night, supporting each other.
And after they left, people were continuously escorted to this inn by mercenaries, and the result was the same as those Pentos merchants: all of them had to "willingly" write IOUs and sign a series of unequal treaties.
For example, several merchants from the governor families of Myr not only "voluntarily" wrote IOUs for several million gold dragons but also had to sign an agreement to provide one thousand skilled craftsmen to the holder of the IOUs without compensation.
The masked woman also "benevolently" instructed that they could also use these craftsmen to pay off the interest on the debt each year.
Several princes from the Summer Isles, in addition to signing IOUs for millions of gold dragons, also signed contracts for the low-price supply of various rare resources from their region.
The Summer Isles are rich in precious stones, such as emeralds, rubies, and sapphires, and their pearls are especially famous.
The forestry there is well-developed, with hardwoods, bloodwood, ebony, mahogany, purpleheart, teak, burr wood, tigerwood, goldenheart, ivorywood, and other rare timbers welcomed by various countries.
However, goldenheart is banned from export throughout the island.
The Summer Isles have developed agriculture and abundant spices, possessing resources like nutmeg, cinnamon, and pepper.
They also sell monkeys, apes, leopard cubs, and parrots to nobles of various countries, and palm wine, fruits, and feathers are also popular.
With this contract, Daenerys's merchant fleet, when passing through the Summer Isles, would be able to obtain resources at a much lower price, at least within the territories of these princes.
Moreover, Daenerys was not afraid of them going back on their word; with the contract in place, if they dared to prevaricate, it would just give Daenerys a legitimate opportunity to act.
She even wished for it.
At Old Town Wharf, Rogge's team had grown larger and larger; two hours later, the number of his teammates had increased to over a thousand, which also greatly improved their speed in harvesting merchant ships.
Several three-masted ships at the wharf, flying golden flags with flaming Valyrian Steel, were rapidly approaching Daenerys's Holy Flame fleet.
Giovanni Rogare said to his eldest son, Lisandro Rogare, with a hint of worry,
"I received news that the reason for the riot in Oldtown today is because the Hightower Family is going to attack that Dragon Princess.
Isn't it too risky for us to seek help from the Dragon Princess's subordinates?!"
The 14-year-old Lisandro was already about one meter seventy-five tall, with long silver-gold hair and pale purple eyes.
Although young, he had a steady demeanor.
After the riot broke out at Old Town Wharf, he immediately persuaded his father to have their family's ships move towards Daenerys's Holy Flame fleet.
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