Dominate the Game of Thrones with Mount and Blade

Chapter 194 The Duchess of the North

King's Landing, King's Gate.

Dusk fell quietly, and a dozen Crab Claw Peninsula ancestor soldiers wearing various types of armor, holding torches, stood guard at the still intact city gate.

This is the city gate in the southwest corner. Because people coming from Rose Avenue often enter the city through the Linhe Gate (Mud Gate) in the east after crossing the Blackwater River, there are not many people walking through the King's Gate in normal times, and even less at this time. .

The knight Yuri Urmis, wrapped in a black cloak, opened the lid of the cowhide bag, took a sip, and rode towards the city gate.

He was a knight from Little Doc, loyal to his lord, Lord Matus Rowan.

Little Doc is a location in the Reach near Fort Steadfast. During the reign of King Aerys I, Little Doc was sacked and destroyed by the Ironborn of King Dagon Greyjoy. It once belonged to the Osgrey family, but was later dispossessed and given to others.

When the soldiers on guard saw Yuri approaching, they were very alert and ordered him to stop.

"Tell me your name and the noble you are loyal to, then lift your cloak and let me see your family crest." The soldier captain shouted loudly.

Although the king has ordered that the King's Landing law enforcement team is not allowed to collect entry fees from civilians entering the city, it is still their duty to intercept suspicious characters.

A tall man like Yuri, riding a tall war horse and wearing armor is a suspicious person who should be intercepted at first glance.

"Parmen Crane, do you know Ser Fertimer Crane? He is the Master of Highgarden and my cousin."

Yuri casually assumed the identity of a Riverbend Knight, and then lifted up his big cloak, revealing the half-worn plate armor underneath.

The man he replaced was imprisoned in Highgarden for surrendering to Stannis. Not many people in the Reach knew this. Except for a few relevant people, few people could recognize his lies.

The soldier captain snorted coldly, "I thought he was some big shot, just the cousin of the instructor in a remote castle. Tell me your purpose of entering the city, or you will freeze at the city gate tonight!"

This group of First Men soldiers has always been proud of their status as loyal members of the Dragon Family, and they have a slight contempt for the people of the River Bend. In addition, Queen Margaery's female companions and the Tyrell family have recently done a lot of good deeds in the city to win over people's hearts. The First Men soldiers could only stand guard and patrol the city gates and streets, and they hated the Reach people even more.

Yuri originally thought that he could get in by reporting a moderate relationship, but the soldiers refused. He used his not-so-smart brain to work at the fastest speed since he was born, and made up another lie:

"Do you know the Klein family of Red Lake? Mrs. Melaya Klein, the wife of the former Earl of Brightwater City, Allister Florent, is from our family. Although the Florent family was deprived of their nobility status, Mrs. She is still a member of the Crane family and still belongs to the nobility. She is now staying in the old town of the Hightower family. However, in order to please Lord Garland, the new owner of Brightwater City, some unfair treatment was imposed on this relative of mine. . I came to King's Landing just to complain about this matter..."

While Yuri was talking nonsense, he was secretly glad that the Klein family was Little Doc's neighbor to the north. He knew a lot about this family, otherwise he would not have been able to make up these words.

The soldier captain came from the Crab Claw Peninsula, and he couldn't even tell the aristocratic relationships of several families in the king's territory, let alone the many scary families in the Reach.

"You talk so much, but you don't even have a recognizable coat of arms on your body, and you enter the city through the King's Gate, which no one passes by in the first place. I don't think you are a good person."

Maybe it was because Yuri had been riding on the horse that made the captain raise his head to speak, or maybe it was because Yuri's identity made the captain suspicious. In short, he decided to give the Riverbend man a hard time.

As soon as the captain waved his hand, his soldiers immediately pulled Sir Yuri Urmis off his horse, and then started punching and kicking him.

"Hey, what are you doing? Stop your stupid behavior. I will report this to Duke Tyrell."

Yuri was still unconvinced at first and still protested using the title of Duke of the Reach. After he understood that the soldiers came because of his identity as a Reacher, he wisely shut his mouth.

After the soldier captain stretched his neck, he finally breathed out, and then ordered the man to be locked up in the city gate room.

"Wait until the evening rotation and then send him to the dungeon."

…

Poor Yuri received a beating in vain at the city gate, and Daenerys Targaryen received a beating in the throne room.

To be precise, Arthur and the Mother of Dragons had a passionate fight, and the two sides were negotiating between the two sides to make peace.

"I will never give up the Iron Throne." Daenerys first told her bottom line, "My brother told me that only true dragon blood can ascend the Iron Throne."

She sat on Arthur and looked down with a proud look.

The Mother of Dragons' insistence on the Iron Throne made Arthur feel helpless. "I have a proposal. After our marriage, we can share some titles, such as the king of the Andals, the First Men and the Rhoynar."

Daenerys asked: "Then, who rules specifically? Do the subjects have to obey the orders of the two kings and accept the rule of the two kings?"

Arthur pretended to be generous and said: "You are overthinking. Just Westeros is not my goal. A large number of slaves are suffering in the southern part of the Free Trade City. I want to break these problems as the Emperor of Valyria." The shackles of slaves allowed the rule of the Valyrian Empire to be established on the continent of Essos once again."

"The borders of the empire are no longer the Free Trade City region, the Gurgis region, Qarth and other places as outposts, but the entire world, from the snow-covered land of eternal winter to the night-filled shadow land, from the island of Iban To Uros, from the Dothraki Sea to the Juggsnai Steppes east of the Bone Mountains, Yidi and Nigel, any place that people reach must accept my rule, and my empire will be full of justice. and justice…”

Arthur made his goal known to the people most likely to support it.

Although the productivity of this magical world is not high, and the living standards of nobles, wealthy businessmen, and common people are only equivalent to the mixture of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the previous life, it benefits from weird magic, such as the ability to transmit images across thousands of mountains and rivers. Glass candles and extremely fast-flying dragons allow information to flow quickly and high-end combat power to reach the battlefield quickly, so it is feasible to build an empire on which the sun never sets.

During the Valyrian Free Fortress period, the Dragon Kings only conducted three large-scale external expansions: five wars with the Ghiscari Empire, the Rhoyne War with the Rhoynar, and the conquest of freedom except Braavos. Trading city-state area.

After taking over the western part of the Essos continent, the Dragon Kings lost the motivation to expand. After all, there were already enough humans living on the Free Fortress. The Valyrian Peninsula could not even hold so many slaves, and gold, jewelry, silk, etc. They were sent continuously from the areas ruled by the Free Fortress.

For thousands of years, what the dragon kings did most was to ride giant dragons to spread their bloodline in Reese's courtyard. Occasionally, a few explorers would just ride dragons around the world.

For example, Geninara Belerys rode the adult dragon Terex and flew to the continent of Sothoros, and then spent a few years coming to the conclusion that Sothoros was larger than the continent of Essos. Then it was claimed that it was an endless land covered by forests, deserts, and mountains.

"Your ideas are as big as your brother's." Dany quite likes this proposal, which has no possibility of being realized yet. "I also support taking down Volantis, Lys and Tyrosh, and completely liberating these reservoirs." In the slave area, all the slave owners were nailed to the wooden frame."

After adjusting his posture, Arthur said in a brisk tone: "Then it's settled. Since we got married, we have exchanged some titles with each other. You will get the title of King of the Ancestors, Andals and Rhoynar from me. , who ruled the Iron Throne while I was away at war, and I received your titles as King of Slaver's Bay and Khal of the Steppes."

The Mother of Dragons was busy fighting, breathing out only through her nose, and seemed to agree to the proposal.

But she quickly added: "But the Unsullied army still has to obey my command. Your wives cannot have the same ruling titles as me, they are just your wives."

"There is no problem at all. You have three dragons, so of course you have the highest status."

Arthur also breathlessly replied, and at the same time made a final request: "In addition, now that we have reached a marriage covenant, you can no longer maintain an illegitimate relationship outside of marriage. The leader of the Stormcrows, Dario Na Harris must be executed in secret."

As far as he knew, although the sixteen-year-old Mother of Dragons had a chaotic private life, she only maintained an intimate relationship with one man during the same period. After the death of the horse king Khal Drogo, Daenerys' only lover was Daario. .

Although she was surprised at how the person behind her learned about this, Dany still half-promised: "As long as you can satisfy me, I will fulfill my duties. As for Daario, it's enough to exile him. This world is too big." , Ordinary people don’t have dragons to fly around on, and once they are exiled, they will be gone forever.”

But Arthur refused to give up and insisted that Daenerys add Daario's execution to the list.

The two started a new round of fighting around an issue.

…

At night, Queen Sansa's room in Maegor's Tower.

Arthur walked in refreshed after exercising, and then motioned to the several noble women surrounding Queen Sansa to get out.

"You go and have a rest. My husband and I have to discuss important matters in the kingdom." Sansa sent her female companions away in a serious manner.

Five or six young noble women left. Arthur glanced at them and recognized most of them: two married women from the Riverlands, Elano Mouton, the eldest daughter of Lord William Mouton, lord of Maidenpool, and a A noble lady from the Reach named Menedith Crane, and a very familiar slender woman with very large hips.

Except for Miss Menedith Klein, everyone else's appearance made sense.

"I want to discuss something with you." After Brienne, who was guarding the door, closed the door from the outside, Sansa, who was lying on the bed, stared at Arthur firmly and said.

The king was surprised by her seriousness, "I also want to tell you something big, so you go ahead and tell me."

After Sansa took a deep breath, she said in a clear voice: "I heard that you ordered my brother's wife Jeyne Westerling to no longer wear her crown. I want you to withdraw this order. It is just a gold tiara, she You can wear it casually.”

Arthur thought it was something big, but he didn't expect that what Sansa wanted to say was just this little thing.

After the Westlanders surrendered, basically all the slightly famous families were sent a core member as a hostage, and Westerling from Cliff City sent Jenny, a person with an embarrassing identity.

Since Robb's death in the battle, Gavin Westerling, who colluded with Tywin to marry off his daughter, not only was not punished, but was given a large fief, and Jeyne was also banned in Cliff City.

And this Miss Jeyne obviously misses her status as queen. Even though Robb died in the battle not long ago, she still wears the golden crown given to her by the King of the North.

No one criticized her for doing this in Cliff City, but after being taken as a hostage, Jane suffered ridicule from many people. Someone complained to the king, and Arthur ordered that she was not allowed to wear the crown.

Women really don’t understand politics, Arthur thought to himself, and then explained this matter to Sansa:

"From the perspective of the Iron Throne, all Robb's actions are illegal. Your ancestor, Torrhen Stark, has dedicated his crown to the Conqueror. You cannot condone it just because Robb is your brother. Something offside. You are my wife now and you have to protect my authority."

But Sansa obviously did not have this realization, "But she is the only relative I have left. Since you hate her so much, then let her rule Winterfell on my behalf after Winterfell is recaptured by the Vale people. After that, It’s none of your business what headgear she wears.”

The king reluctantly walked to the wooden table and poured himself a cup of sour drink always reserved for the pregnant queen.

"You have to know that she is not your relative. Your brother married her for some external reasons." Arthur organized his words and began to persuade Sansa, who was all about rational thinking.

Robb had been wounded in the battle against the Castle of the West, and the Northern Army was all rough men. The only two women, Maege Mormont and Daisy Mormont, were as strong as bears. He is also not gentle in his actions and clearly cannot take care of the Young Wolf Master.

So the Northerners selected Jeyne from among the captured noble ladies of the Westerlands to take care of Robb, who was wounded by an arrow.

The Young Wolf Lord was physically devastated, coupled with the news that Theon Greyjoy, who was a brother to Robb, had rebelled and his brother Bran was killed, he was also psychologically hit. Under this situation , Miss Jenny took advantage of the situation and took the initiative to climb into the King of the North's bed.

Robb had no choice but to take responsibility for his impulses and married Jeyne to protect her reputation.

"Miss Jane is a very vain woman. Half of her 'love' for your brother is out of overflowing kindness to take care of the wounded, and the other half is coveting his status as king."

Arthur summed it up this way.

But Sansa was obviously dissatisfied, "In the final analysis, you just don't agree with her wearing a gold headdress that looks like a crown."

She curled her lips, turned her eyes away from her husband, and protested silently with her actions.

"Not only do I disagree with letting her wear that crown, I also disagree with your idea of ​​letting her manage Winterfell. The people in the north have basically no recognition of the people in the south. You let a noble lady with zero strength to represent them. Your rule over Winterfell and the North is like letting a lamb become the king of wolves."

Arthur said as he let himself into Sansa's line of sight.

"This is also a big deal for me. After the Bolton family is eliminated, you will be the duchess of Winterfell, and one of your sons will inherit the Stark name and territory."

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