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Chapter 138 You will be my queen

(The assassination target in the previous chapter was Hendry Bracken, not Gendry, a typo, please forgive me)
"Why are you talking about this all of a sudden?" Arthur took Sansa's little hand, turning his back on the guest.

He knew that Sansa was very cautious, but he didn't expect to ask himself to make a promise at this time.

But it makes sense when you think about it carefully. The only man in the Stark family is Jon Snow who is still in the Night's Watch. bay.

The Tully family in Riverrun that she can rely on, her uncle looks like he is about to die, Uncle Heiyu is very old, and there are only a few years left, and the Frey family of the aunt is not a kind person, wait until the men of the Tully family It's hard to say who will fall into the hands of Riverrun City.

Sansa withdrew her hand from Arthur, then turned her back to him, her voice trembling slightly:
"If you marry me, Harrenhal will be your justifiable home castle. At that time, the city of Riverrun controlled by my uncle will support you. Lord Titus of Raventree City will follow the Tully family, so that your river kingdom It will be unified. It is in your best interest to let me be your queen."

Judging from Sansa's slightly nervous look, she should have thought twice before saying this.

Arthur took her by the shoulders so that she was facing him.

"Between you and me, it's vulgar to talk about interests. You will be my queen, the first queen to be married under the witness of the gods. If I become the emperor of Valyria in the future, you will be my queen. Swear to the Valyrian gods."

In order to reassure Sansa, Arthur made a less strict oath.

The Valyrian gods have no requirements for marriage. Brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, uncles and nieces can all marry, and more marriages are not a big deal.

If Arthur restores the Guardian of the Seven Realms, the long series of king titles of the Andals, and believes in the Seven Gods, he really cannot marry multiple wives at the same time.

This is because during the Targaryen dynasty, the church rebelled in various places because Maegor I married more. Later, Jaehaerys I, the "King of Renrui", reached a settlement with the church, promising that the Dragon family would not marry more in the future, and the church also allowed They are consanguineous.

Of course, the superficial reason for that rebellion was that Maegord married more, but in fact it was because the royal family harmed the interests of the Hightower family in Oldtown.

The situation at that time was that the Hightower family controlled the Academy City and could influence the election of the Archbishop. The old town under its jurisdiction was the cultural center, religious center, the largest city, and the largest port in the mainland.

And the Long family is busy building King's Landing City, which makes Old Town's status as the largest city unsafe. The strong woman Visenia and her son Maegor are even trying to take the control of the church and the school city from the Hightower family. And Maegor's first wife came from the Hightower family, and the lord of Oldtown was ashamed to marry more.

After the conflict intensified, the Church of the Seven Gods, under the instructions of the Hightowers, began to organize armed rebellions. The wealth accumulated in the old town for thousands of years was used to fund the armed religious groups and the minor nobles who followed the rebellion.

After Visenia and Maegor died one after another, the rebellion continued, but the "King Renrui" who came to power later was much more flexible. He wooed great nobles from all over the world and dealt a heavy blow to the forces that supported the church. Although the Hightower family was extremely rich , but could not withstand decades of war costs, so the two sides reconciled.

King Renrui took the opportunity to choose a monk "Afin" who supported him as the archbishop, completely held the teaching power in his hands, and began to intervene in the affairs of the academy city. For example, the Iron Throne can change the granting of bachelor's necklaces.

The Hightowers had no choice but to bear with it. When Jaehaerys I passed away, they began to divide the dragon family and set off a bloody dragon dance, causing most of the dragons to die at that time.

To sum it up in one sentence, Haitoer is the most insidious family on the Western Continent. Their towering castle hides the secret of the legendary race "Huanlong Clan" before the Dawn Era.

To be honest, if Arthur wanted to bring the whole continent into his kingdom, there would be quite a lot of marriage partners, so he had to get around the shackles of the Seven Gods doctrine and marry a few more wives.

In this regard, his idea is to marry the second wife and change the title of the king to the Valyrian emperor, and claim that he believes in the Valyrian gods such as "Belerion" and "Vaghar".

In this case, the nobles who believed in the Seven Gods and the Old Gods should not have much objection.

Moreover, the current Archbishop of "Fat Man" was burned by Stannis and the Scarlet Witch, Melisandre. It's still a pile of sand.

(Because people believe that the archbishop is the spokesperson of the gods in the sky, so he is no longer a person, so he has no secular name. In order to distinguish easily, he is often prefixed with fat man, stonemason, etc.)

"My real dragon, I'm beginning to believe in love." Sansa's eyes were slightly red, and she couldn't help but leaned on Arthur's left shoulder.

With this vow, her hanging heart was relieved.

The River King hugged Miss Stark tightly, and whispered, "If I hadn't had to defend against the attacks of the Westlanders and restore order to the countryside on the south bank, I would have prepared your wedding immediately, in Riverrun or Harron. Fort, take your pick."

This is the truth, Arthur has long wanted to stick with Sansa.

"Since you're busy managing the country, you don't have to worry about getting married." Sansa rubbed her forehead against her sweetheart's neck, "I'll arrange our wedding."

The two people's affection was strong, and they began to talk about the earth-flavored love words, and hugged each other from time to time.

Until a servant knocked at the door, it was announced that Sir Brynden invited the two of them to dinner.

Only then did King Hejian walk out of the room with Sansa who had tidied up her appearance, and went to the hall to have dinner.

It was already night, and a whole afternoon had passed since Arthur arrived at Riverrun.

He also didn't know that he could talk about local love for three or four hours, such as "you are my blue moon", "from now on I can only call you you, because you are in my heart", "face to face" For you, I am considerate of other people's clothes" and so on.

Of course, Sansa didn't understand the "you are you in my heart" stalk, but she was still very moved.

The nobles who dined together included Blackfish, Roslin Tully and her half-brother Benfrey Frey, Brynden Blackwood, the eldest son of the Earl of Raventree, Hendry Bracken, Jay Sister Ern Bracken, and Lyman Darry, Claremont Piper and others brought by Arthur.

Edmure couldn't get out of bed all the time, so dinner was settled in the bedroom.

Everyone could see that Sansa was blushing all the time, and her eyes had been staring at Arthur, which made Heiyu look at Arthur like a father-in-law looking at a son-in-law, getting angrier the more he looked at him.

Except for Sansa, many people in the hall were at odds with Arthur, so he buried himself in his meal, and planned to find another opportunity tomorrow to discuss with Heiyu about the Tully family's assistance in defending the territory of Pink City.

It's just that after the meal, Heiyu came to him first.

"Sansa asked me to help you, tell me, what do you want to do in Riverrun?"

After the servants cleaned up the hall, Blackfish, along with Desmond Greer and other sworn knights of Riverrun, negotiated with the River King and his nobles.

"I would like to ask the Tully family to help Earl Bo guard his territory. Pink City has been burned to ruins, and Claremont has no troops."

Hearing about Sansa's intercession, Arthur went straight to the point.

With Golden Tooth City in the hands of the Hejian people, as long as the narrow valley between the Red Fork River and the mountains in the Western Region is blocked, the Western Region Army can only run along the Golden Road to the upper reaches of the Blackwater River, and then go north into the river. in between.

So Arthur brought Earl Piper to Riverrun, hoping that the Tully family could borrow some soldiers, and the Pink City territory could also recruit some recruits, so there should be no problem in defending the valley.

Heiyu's blue eyes revealed a hint of doubt, "Do you know what's going on at the Lion's house?"

Arthur shook his head.

These days, he, Claremont, Tristan and others are busy sending people to spread the rumors of "Dragon Bearers" in the villages and towns of the Riverlands, and summon some powerful minor nobles to participate in the Great Council, but it is not true for other people. Not much is known about the situation in each territory.

So Heiyu and several sworn knights explained the basic situation of the western region and the mainland to him.

In the west, in order to seize the opportunity, Tywin has sent merchant ships to send 4000 people from the Bolton army along the coast to the Red Wave River in the north. After landing there, they can reach Cailin Bay not far eastward.

"Toman has officially appointed Roose Bolton as the Guardian of the North. It is said that Mrs. Dustin sent 500 people to join Bolton's counter-rebel army." Desmond said.

"After the White Harbor Cavalry captured Hornwood City, they have also gone south. Lord Manderly sent a lot of infantry to take over Cailin Bay from the Ironborn. If this is the case, the northerners will launch a war around there. In the decisive battle, the strength of both sides is around 7000, and it is difficult to judge the outcome."

Heiyu pointed to the map and expressed his opinion.

But the civil war of the northerners cannot affect the situation on the mainland.

After the decisive battle outside Kaiyan City, the main force of the Lion Family rested for a period of time until Dusken Valley City was in a hurry, so Taiwen sent Kai Feng who returned north to lead the main force of the Lion Family with 1 people along the golden road to King's Landing City.

Desmond said: "Since James was snatched back again, Tywin has grounded him in Casterly Rock City. I heard that the old lion is dying, and Tommen has also ordered Sir James to be released from the status of the Kingsguard. It seems old The Lion wants the eldest son to inherit the Guardianship of the West."

In the decisive battle, Tywin sent people to snatch his son back first, and then sent cavalry to attack the northern army from behind.

As for the identity of the Kingsguard, although the oath of the white robes is also to be broken until death, but since Emperor Joffrey fired the "fearless" Barristan and successfully reformed the ancestral system, Tywin also learned a lot and let Tommen save him. "Uncle" James' white robe identity.

As for King's Landing, after Stannis burned an archbishop, in order to appease the believers of the Seven Gods, he imprisoned the archbishops, and the Great Sept of Baylor was also closed. He stopped hard.

In fact, Erlu is not a fanatical religious believer, but his wife is.

Stannis' attitude towards the Lord of Light has always been that he can be used for me if he can use it for me, and stay away temporarily if he can't use it.

Hearing this, Arthur asked: "Did the Erlu curse someone after burning the fat archbishop?"

The identity of the archbishop is similar to that of a wizard, and it may also have magical powers. After burning, it can still curse people, but the effect is not as obvious as the king's blood and dragon's blood.

"Of course it's Tommen, the false king that Stannis thinks." Desmond said.

Arthur nodded, indicating that he understood.

The next step is to verify whether the archbishop has magic power. If Tommen dies suddenly in the next period of time, then the seven gods are the real gods. If not, then the seven gods may be false gods made up by the bishops, or they have already fallen up.

After stabilizing the dispute between the two religions, Stannis began to attack Duskendale City northward.

"I heard that the River Bay Army has also gone north, and their cavalry has already entered the imperial forest, and it will only take five or six days to reach King's Landing City." A strange knight said.

"In this case, the Hejian land can be calmed down for a while, and I have time to deal with the Hejian affairs." Arthur sighed from the bottom of his heart.

Several earldoms in the Hedong region have been ravaged by the Western Region Army. Quite a few of the property knights who followed the superior lords died in battle. Dozens of castles of minor nobles were ransacked by Amory Lodge, which made the Hedong region The rural order began to crumble.

You must know that the basic order at the village level is maintained by the village head, property knights, and baron-level nobles. The higher-level viscounts have circuit courts (actually tax collectors), and they do not personally solve the trivial matters of the common people.

There are no people who directly maintain order, and the long winter is about to enter, and food is scarce, so some rural areas are already in the jungle state of the jungle.

"The Hejian land will not stop. It may be to contain you. The western border has sent another army. It has already passed the Deep Cave Fort. It seems that they will repeat what they did in the West River in the South River." Heiyu said ruthlessly. Shattered Arthur's fantasy.

Earl Claremont was shocked, "How many of them are there, and where are they planning to enter the riverland?"

This is what Arthur wanted to ask, and a knight answered the question for them.

After the decisive battle with the Northern Territory, Tywin sent people to recruit soldiers in the more populous Crake Hall, Corn City, Red Lake and other places, and got another 500 soldiers, plus [-] new soldiers from Lannister Port. The army, and Janos Bracken's [-] men, a total of [-] troops, are preparing to attack the Riverlands from near the town of Stone Hall on the upper reaches of the Blackwater River.

Desmond said: "Their commander is very familiar to you, it is Genos who was recently appointed as the guardian of the river, and Tywin also knew that Stafford was a waste, so he only let his cousin supervise the army, and coordinated with Genos Si and the officers of the West Territory."

It's one trouble after another.

"I can bring over the peasant army from Harrenhal, plus the Frey army in Willow City, and soldiers from various minor nobles, and we can gather 7000 to [-] people. It seems that we will have to fight hard. "

Dickon, sharpshooter Angai, Dorne spearman Daqi and others have participated in the training of more than 3000 new troops. Although the soldiers who joined later have not received much training and their combat effectiveness is a bit low, the enemy army also has the same strength. problem, so we can fight.

The Freys had [-] soldiers active in the east and lake areas. If the war broke out a little later, Twin River City could send more soldiers.

This part of the enemy is still very easy to deal with.

"Our Riverrun City can also send... 500 people, and I will personally lead them to participate in this battle." Heiyu said.

After the decisive battle at Casterly Rock, there were only 2000 people left in the Fish and Wolves Alliance, about 1000 people from the northern border, and the rest were Hejian soldiers.

At that time in the Golden Tooth City, Arthur ordered 500 people who did not belong to the Tully family and the Blackwood family to stay and guard the city, and more than [-] people from these two families returned to Riverrun.

Since Blackfish took over here, a new round of conscription has started in the entire territory to deal with the upcoming struggle. With the addition of 500 Stark infantry, Riverrun has much more troops than [-].

But the Tully family doesn't recognize Arthur, the self-appointed king, and it's already a great honor for Sansa Stark to send people to fight.

Arthur is not easy to force anything.

"My heartfelt thanks to Sir Brynden, the people of the river will not forget your contribution."

"I heard that the vicinity of Shitang Town has been very lively recently. Some units of the Brotherhood Without Banners could not contact their Earl Beric and ran there. A dog and a little boy appeared in Shitang Town, and the female knight also went to join in the fun. The ghost of the noble heart also came out to act." Desmond said a lot, and finally made his own request, "Or I will take someone there, and Sir Brynden will stay and defend the city."

Heiyu glanced at his coach with his blue eyes, "That's fine, I have to take care of my nephew, and keep an eye on Sansa to prevent someone from abducting Miss Stark."

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