Blood of the True Dragon

Chapter 36 Privateer License

"what!"

As soon as Aegon finished speaking, Harland yelled frantically.

The medicinal properties of the strangler were also brought into play, the toxin stimulated his muscles, causing the muscles in his throat to tighten.

Harland only felt that his throat was being choked. He desperately grabbed his throat and tried to breathe, but the air inhaled into his lungs was getting less and less.

The suffocation made his brain congest, his face turned dark purple, and his eyes stared terribly.

After a while, Harland stopped moving.

The pirates at the scene looked at Aegon in horror when they saw this scene.

"Now you have another chance to choose, either surrender, or I will kill you!"

Henry was not as tough as before this time, obviously Harland's betrayal made him a little shaken.

Seeing this, Aegon continued:

"I admire your courage, but sometimes, surrendering is not a shame, but you can save more people. At least your friends and subordinates can survive!"

Henry finally stopped being tough when he heard Aegon's half-threatening words: "Then what are you going to do with us?"

"I'll split you into two teams, train you into two navies, and I'll issue you a privateer license!"

"A privateer's license?"

Henry was a little puzzled when he heard this unfamiliar vocabulary.

"Yes, the privateer license is issued by the king, you can still plunder!"

"Ah, isn't that still a pirate?" the people below couldn't help muttering.

The king of this sunset country is different. How can an ordinary king let his navy be a pirate.

After all, pirates are not such a glorious thing!

Aegon smiled and shook his head:

"It's different from being a pirate, you can rob Volantis and Qarth's merchant ships after you have a privateer license.

If you are caught, you will not be hanged like pirates, but as prisoners of war, and the king will pay the ransom, but you will pay part of the money you robbed to the king!The money you loot will be overseen by the Unsullied.

To put it simply, I need a group of navies to help me rob Volantis and Qarth's merchant ships. Other than that, you can't rob other places! "

Both Volantis and Qarth were beneficiaries of the slave trade, and these people would stand against Aegon sooner or later, so Aegon planned to strike first and grab them before they could react.

Then take down the sea outlet of Slave Bay (New Ghis) and the Basilisk Islands, and strangle this sea trade channel from the middle, only in this way will you not be trapped to death in Slave Bay.

"Willing to obey His Majesty's orders!"

Henry immediately knelt on one knee in submission.

Anyway, I used to be pirates, but now I'm just a pirate with a license.

The guarantee of the latter is better, and you can even have honor, why not do it?
"Very well, you will be my admiral from now on! Get up now! There is still a battle to be fought."

Aegon returned to the city of Astapor with these people after speaking.

……

Dorne, Sunspear.

Princess Arianne Martell is following the guards ahead to the Watering Gardens of her father, Prince Doran Martell (Aegon's uncle).

Along the way, Arianne Martell seemed extremely undisciplined.

The source of her conflict with her father is still the same. Dorne can be inherited by the eldest daughter, but when she was a child, she saw her father write a letter promising to pass on the throne to his younger brother.

This made her extremely dissatisfied with her father's eccentricity.

After that, Prince Doran spared no effort to find different marriage partners for her, which made her feel that her father wanted to deprive her of her heir position, so she rejected all these marriages one by one.

After passing through several arches, Arianne finally saw her father, Prince Doran with white temples and very thin, sitting in a wheelchair on the balcony, calmly looking at the fountain below.

"Father!" Arianne greeted Doran.

Dao Lang pushed back the guards next to him, and then spoke slowly:
"Have you heard? Your aunt Elia's son, Aegon Targaryen, is still alive, and he defeated the pirates on the Stepstones in Lys!"

"I've heard, but if the liars want to swindle the crown, they'll have to make up some story!

If I were him, I shouldn't have stood up so early, but should have contacted the lords who opposed Robert! "

Prince Doran was noncommittal to his daughter's words.

"Father, do you mean that you want me to see if this Aegon is Elia's child?"

"Yes, I heard that Daenerys Targaryen was with him, and if he was fake, Daenerys would not believe him so easily.

This time, you have to arrange the marriage between Daenerys and your brother! "

Arianne couldn't bear it any longer when she heard this, and cried to her father:
"I am your child too! But you always think of my brother! I am the legal heir of Dorne!"

Prince Doran heard his daughter's cry, and his face, which had been quiet for many years, finally changed:
"Hey, Arianne, I meant to tell you later, but now that Aegon Targaryen has come out, I'll tell you the truth!
In fact, I have already made a marriage contract for you to Viserys Targaryen, just waiting for him to return to Westeros to seize the Iron Throne, and use your throne as a condition for the Dornish people to support him.

Your uncle and I have been plotting for many years to avenge Elijah. I swear to bring down the usurper from the Iron Throne. I swear to destroy the entire Lannister family and make them pay with blood. I have been careful not to choose to tell you the whole truth! "

Arianne was silent for a long time after hearing the whole truth.

"Father, I shouldn't, I should believe you!"

Arianne said and hugged Prince Doran, and Prince Doran touched Arianne's back.

"I never blamed you, Arianne. I should have told you earlier, but there is no impenetrable wall in this world. The less people know about this, the better. But now that I can say it, I also Finally, I don’t need to make you suffer any more!”

"Father, no need, needless to say, I will go and find that Aegon."

Maybe this time I will be queen, Arianne thought.

Although she knew of her betrothal to Viserys, she wanted more to be queen, or ruler of Dorne, than wife to a Prince of Dragonstone.

So, either kill Viserys or kill Aegon.

"Very well, you can bring a few more people there. If he's not the real Aegon..."

"I'll bring Daenerys back!"

"Well, you go!"

(End of this chapter)