Game of Thrones: The Strongest Guoguang

Chapter 66 How to Solve "The Shepherd"

Many people don't know that King's Landing has built a complete sewer and water supply system as early as the time of King Jaehaerys, just like Paris or London in the Middle Ages.

The Blackwater River is naturally like the Thames River, and the Red Castle has set up many officials related to water supply and sanitation.

This is the achievements of Bath, the King's Hand, and Queen Alysanne also contributed a lot. After all, she brought a glass of dirty water to the King and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and asked them whether to repair it or not when they hesitated!

This is also the confidence for Ranila to build public toilets for residents and reopen the water supply system after she gained governance power.

Otherwise, she would not have the strength and confidence to carry out infrastructure construction for a city with such a large population.

Just the first step alone made her scalp tingle. This is a project that will take a long time to complete, and it may have little effect.

The descendants of the Targaryen, or the Baratheon and Lannister who occupied King's Landing, did not set their sights on this place at all, because it was already hard to return.

Just like the Longxugou in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, is there water in the ditch?But why don't those people in the slums use it!

It is because the rancidity is unstoppable, and the only water that can be used is clean water from the water delivery people, called sweet water, which is delivered monthly or sporadically.

Water porters at that time was also an ancient profession, just like the Targaryen family set up in King's Landing.

In fact, every capital city is similar. The capital city also built a very complete sewer and groundwater supply system as early as the Yuan and Ming dynasties. King's Landing also planned the infrastructure of the royal city in the early days of the dynasty after Targaryen won the Seven Kingdoms.

It's still the same problem as every capital city, the population is increasing!
You must know that in the early days when King's Landing was built, there were only a few small villages on the land here!

The development of the royal realm is inseparable from the efforts of several generations of the Targaryen family. Those people, such as Bath, Alysanne, Rhaenys, and Visenya, did not ignore King's Landing when they were in high power. Do not ask.

Everyone in the Seven Kingdoms understands that the king's territory is Targaryen's legitimacy!But during the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion, because of the decline of Targaryen, King's Landing declared bankruptcy, and the right of ownership was obtained by the winner of the struggle.

Until the ruler Cersei Lannister couldn't bear these pariahs and noisy sparrows, and burned them all.

Why does Cersei hate King’s Landing so much, and doesn’t let the ministers think of a way? The first point is that political wisdom is very poor, and like all nobles in this era, the number of civilians killed is just a cold number, and the heart cannot be touched. .

The second point is that the population of King's Landing is about to explode, and there is no room for so many refugees. Food, drink, and lax are all in the city, and hygiene cannot be managed at all. It is too late for you to use the basic measures of the very distant Renrui era. up.

But Cersei still has a chance!As we all know, the Lannister house was built on a gold mine, and Tywin's wealth can allow Cersei to obey King's Landing regulations. Little Rose Tyrell has no chance to be the second-generation "good queen".

But it would be great if Cersei was so smart and benevolent, like the real "Queen of Good". She was immersed in the pain of fear, political struggle, and love, and she did what the original Rhaenyla did during the Dragon's Lair riot. The essence of history is an infinite loop.

This is also the point that Rhaenila is determined to change, she has completely learned the lesson on her face.

And the early stage of Blood Dragon Dance can be saved!
What is the difference between the uncrowned king, the big sparrow, and the "shepherd" who led tens of thousands of mobs to slay dragons?

Their base strength is also hungry, desperate refugees and nobles and commoners who are dissatisfied with the ruling class.

So Rhaenyra and Cersei are facing the same enemy, the Shepherd and the second generation of the Shepherd, the High Sparrow.

The High Sparrow must also be the Sparrows who lead under the inspiration of the shepherd's successful experience.

It even went a step further and was able to lure members of the royal family into churches and torture them!
After all, your royal family does not have a core weapon at this time - the dragon!
The shepherd went to the dragon's lair to slaughter the dragon first!For this reason, both the mob and the royal family suffered.

The process by which the Great Sparrow gained political power was so simple that shepherds shed tears of envy.

The only thing you can fight against the High Sparrow is the military power in your hand, those noble knights or fief soldiers.

Cersei's order was to make the gold robes raise their butcher knives and face the civilians. (An order not even a Targaryen gave, but a Lannister's golden cloak did.)
Ranila's solution to this is to make it impossible for the shepherds to mobilize refugees, because she is already gradually solving the source of the riots and developing the kingdom.

Moreover, Rhaenyra has another way.

She has made up her mind to replace the Strong family's fiefdom.

Either seal Harrenhal to the Academy City, or seal it to the Starry Church.

Magic can only be defeated with magic!
Didn't your school city ban magic and then secretly study magic?Then Harrenhal is for you, you go and solve it!

Cursed?Do you want to hear what you are saying!Didn't Xuecheng say that magic is a lie?

Similarly, your church is always against Targaryen, so this fief is for you.Taking people's hands shortly, wouldn't those fat-headed archbishops praise the royal family's generosity loudly?
And the Seven Gods bless the pious believers, not to mention the bishops.

Presumably the curse will not fall on the believers, probably.

Moreover, there are two wonderful points in doing this, which made Rhaenyla smile involuntarily.

The first point is the shepherd and the high sparrow.

You know, their religious leadership has no financial resources. How did the big sparrow support the people under it?In addition to the generosity of some nobles, they secretly organized manual mining of the royal forest!

The royal forest is a treasured place in the king's territory, it has always been under the Targaryen, and has never been touched by others, it is the king's private property.

Moreover, the utilization rate of it by the royal family is also very low, and at most a hunting conference will be held to meet social needs.

The animal and plant resources in the imperial forest must be able to feed a large number of sparrows!

In this regard, Cersei, who knew about this in the Red Castle, was furious!

Without him, the royal forest is the private property of the royal family, and it is the property of her and her son. They didn't have time to hold any hunting and tournaments, but the sparrow secretly exploited it and devoured the resources belonging to the royal family. It's no wonder Cersei was angry Woolen cloth.

Since both the High Sparrow and the Shepherd lacked financial resources, they definitely wanted to have Harrenhal, a fief owned by the church.

Although Harrenhal is eerie, the land developed by the nobles of the territory and Westeros, the largest noble castle, are very valuable.

Let the bishops of the church who love to play with little boys and the schemers and shepherds and sparrows fight for Harrenhal, and Rhaenyla had better watch the fun from the sidelines, that's the best!

The second point is that Rhaenyla's reputation will be extremely good.

There is no Targaryen who donated a fief to a church or a school city in history! (The fiefs donated by King Renrui and Alysanne are for the night watchman)
Either Rhaenyla will earn a reputation for being kind and encouraging to maesters, or all the Seven Kingdoms will recognize her "merciful" and "pious" names!The Church will promote her as a "Holy Princess"!
The nobles are also very happy!Especially Hightower.

Back then, King Renrui was tricked by them into calling a big council, and for the first time, the nobles could hold a meeting to decide on the candidate for the lord.

Now the heir to the kingdom is so pious again! (Targaryen was limped by the church again, and even gave a direct fief to the church that shouldn't be involved in politics).

Whether it is given to the church or to the school city, they will only have fun secretly!
Without realizing it, this is a poisoned pie.

Delicious, but deadly!

Rhaenila had no intention of giving the fief to the master behind it.

The road has to be taken step by step, and Haitouer will only be an enemy!

They are not a power like church or school city, but a clan!

For them, the curse of Harrenhal is only a means to consume some of the population in the clan.

Without Otto Hightower before the Iron Throne, there will be other Hightowers.

Old Town is not as simple as imagined, and Hightower will not relocate the clan easily!

Seven Kingdoms is a system of enfeoffment!Every local great nobleman has taken root here since the beginning of unknown era.

The Lords of the North are the Starks, the Lords of the Valley are the Arryns, and the Lannisters of the West...without exception, Aegon the Conqueror only accepted these families as vassals instead of expelling them!
In several other examples, the gardener family in the River Bend was exterminated by Targaryen, but in order to rule the land, Targaryen sent the steward of the gardener family, Tyrell.As the governor of the land of the Reach, Tyrell also has the blood of Qingshou.

Storm's End is the fiefdom of the Durandon family. The Baratheon family began when Aegon's illegitimate younger brother, Orys Baratheon, married the daughter of the last Storm King. This is how they ruled. jurisprudence.

And Hightower in Old Town, perhaps even older than these families, has been entrenched in this place for thousands of years, and even built a spectacle - the towering tower.

The towering tower is comparable to Valyria's magic lighthouse, and people still don't know why it was built.

It is said that there was once a Hightower who borrowed the wisdom of the Valyrians and invited Valyrian craftsmen from somewhere...

All in all, Hightower would not change fiefs easily, and only a side branch of a certain family would be sent to Harrenhal, even if it was the main branch, it would die if it died.

With so many people in Hightower, the curse of Harrenhal must last for several generations before it can be wiped out, so it would be better for the dragon to burn the city!

Therefore, this kind of soft knife should either be given to the school city or the church. This is the best consideration.

Moreover, even if Hightower is cursed, there may be a way to get rid of the curse.

Don't forget, during the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion, the old man Hightower and his crazy daughter were among the few who studied magic. That Hightower had been studying magic in Oldtown for decades, similar to him Of people estimated to be countless in history, they also have glass candles from Valyria!
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