Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 247 News of King Ma

After Ian talked to Celia and Dorian, the three Ghis messengers visited the two important ministers of Queen Daenerys again and successfully gained their support.

Then the three messengers began to contact their own cities and reported to them the conditions of the Westeros.

Finally, towards the end of May, Aegon 197, they obtained permission from the rulers of their respective cities and revisited Queen Daenerys.

The specific terms of the alliance are basically the requests made by the three important ministers.

It's just that the trade agreement proposed by Celia was basically cancelled, and it simply became a bargaining on various basic materials.And the number of horses Dorian asked for became [-] war horses, [-] marching horses and [-] pack horses. Compared with the amount he originally proposed, it has become worthless.

In addition, as the sincerity of New Ghis, Reg zo Emud proposed at the end that New Gith would provide two more Iron Legions than Ian requested, that is, a total of four Iron Legions would be dispatched to participate in the battle.

These conditions successfully impressed Queen Daenerys, allowing her to agree to the covenant of the four cities.

After the agreement was signed, the emissaries visited Ian again to express their thanks before heading back to their respective cities.

Not long after the emissaries of Ghis departed, a Volantene trader from Vaes Dothraki (the city of the horse king) came to Astapor and announced that he had brought the horse king.

Perhaps because of the preciousness of self-retaining information, Belissio, the great merchant of Volantis, asked to meet Queen Daenerys in person and tell her what he saw in person.

But his request was cut off when Ian was here, and then Ian sent someone to invite the businessman to meet him.

The name of Belissio is worthy of attention in itself. It is the name of a legendary consul in the history of Volantis. This person made great achievements in battle while in office, but was finally killed by giants.In Volantis only the noblest families were permitted to name their children that name.

Not long after, Bellicio was brought before Ian by the Unsullied.

The great businessman Belisio seemed a little dissatisfied when he found out that what he met was not the queen but only the queen's hand, but he still suppressed his emotions.

After all, Queen Daenerys today is quite different from the poor little girl who was exiled to Volantis with the Beggar King.

When Bericio walked through the Piazza Piazza to the Pyramids, he saw the Queen's army. Compared with them, Volantis' tiger-robed army looked like a mob.

"I am Bericio, a citizen of Volantis. It is a great honor to be received by you, my lord." Bericio was the first to salute Ian when he came to Ian's hall.

Because he had inquired in advance that the Prime Minister of the Queen of Westeros was proficient in using Valyrian, Belissio did not let his entourage and translator come forward to speak.

He calls himself a Volantene citizen, which doesn't mean he's just a freedman from Volantene.

In Volantene, citizens refer to nobles who live in the 'Black Wall', whose lineage can be traced back to Valyrian times, and who have the right to vote. election birth
It is worth mentioning that their classical electoral system enables every citizen to have the right to stand for election and be counted in the end, instead of having a representative from each of the two parties in a lighthouse country and then forcing the public to conduct a second election. choose one.

In short, without holding public office, citizenship is already the most noble status in Volantis.

"This is Earl Ian Darry, Hand of the Queen of Her Majesty Daenerys, Apostle of the Red God, Dragon Caller, War Commander of the Guise Alliance." Yada, the water dancer who played the role of Ian's attendant, said Ian called out.

Before Bellicio had time to think about the meaning of these titles, he heard the voice of the Queen's Hand.

"Thank you for coming all the way to Astapor to warn us of the danger, my friend," Ian waved his hand, and let the Unsullied bring a chair for Bericio, "please sit down, I I believe what you bring will be a long story."

Bellicio bowed slightly, then sat down.

"On the way to Astapor, I seem to have heard that the Gith formed a military alliance?" He didn't really believe these rumors at first, after all, for thousands of years, the Gith had never rallied to fight against the Dothraki. The courage to fight, but there seems to be something in Earl Darry's title just now. The War Commander of the Guise Alliance?
"Since the moment my queen left Pentos, we have been prepared to be hunted to the ends of the earth by Khal Drogo, and here," Ian spread his hand, and Bericio knew what he meant It's Slaver's Bay, "a good place for us to tackle this threat."

"Uh..." Belisio's curiosity made him want to ask what happened in Pentos back then, but his rationality prevented him from asking such stupid questions, and he turned the topic back to the business, "As you As expected, Khal Drogo may now be on his way to Slaver's Bay."

"Please explain in detail."

"More than two months ago, we had just finished our business in Wes Dothraki, and we were bringing our goods to Slaver's Bay in the south, about 200 leagues (about 960km) away from Wees Dothraki. where we met Drogo's Kalsa."

"They were returning to Vaes Dothraki?"

"Yeah, we exchanged gifts with them and talked to some of the Howler warriors, and in the conversation we found out what happened to Pentos and rumors of Queen Daenerys appearing in Slaver's Bay.

A 'Ko' (the lower leader of the Dothraki, the deputy of Khal) told me that Khal Drogo returned to Vaes Dothraki this time to ask for a prophecy from the 'Dosh Kalim', if the prophecy shows that war If all goes well, they will immediately move south and head towards Slaver's Bay. ’” Bellicio explained.

"Then what if the prophecy shows that the war will not go well?" Ian asked with a smile.

"Oh, my lord, you don't know, but whenever the Dothraki fought against the outside world, the 'Dosh Kalin' never predicted that the war would not go well." Bellicio paused for a while, and then added It sounds very unlucky, "In fact, they have never tasted defeat in foreign wars."

"Except for that time in Kehor." Ian reminded, "The one who defeated the centaurs in front of the gate of Kehor was the Unsullied that I had."

"That time in Kohor, according to the Dothraki, the Motekao suffered a fiasco because he didn't ask the 'Dosh Kalin' for the prophecy of war." Bericio thought for a while and said.

"Then did he ask Dosh Kalin for a prophecy?"

(End of this chapter)