King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 338 Slaver's Bay (Part 1)
The 800-foot-tall pyramid from its majestic square base It rises from the ground, straight into the clouds. The Queen's courtyard sits on top of it, all around tree-lined, floral-scented, shimmering... From here you can see the whole city: narrow, crooked alleys and wide brick streets, temples and barns, huts and palaces , brothels and baths, gardens and fountains, and the red-brick stands of the Colosseum. Outside the city wall is the ash sea, the meandering Skazadan River, dry brown hills, burnt orchards, and charred fields.

The Queen's residence of aloof and remote is like the top of Holy Mountain, but unfortunately there is no Queen, only a worried and anxious Hand of the Queen.

Even Petyr Baelish has to admit that oneself has limited brain power.

He appeared before Daenerys and defected to Daenerys on the day Daenerys took Meereen, when Yunkai and Astapor, who had followed the Queen so far, rushed into the largest city of Slaver's Bay before it fell. The chaos of time unbridled looting and slaughter. The majestic Step Pyramid of the nobles escaped the disaster, but the civilian area was severely damaged. Although Unsullied eventually stabilized the situation, Petyr took a hard time restoring order, and managed to get oneself's plan to repel the tiger and stalk the wolf to work and establish dominance.

It's not easy, in Westeros he can be like a fish back in water, except for the smart brain, careful thinking and can use any means to achieve the goal without bottom line... Actually He also has a key role in his understanding of the nobles and the contempt for the "Littlefinger" of oneself by the people around him.

And in Meereen, the poisonous snake's nest, he has no greatest cover of his humble background, and he is in the light and in plain sight, and the enemy in the dark can even be more by fair means or foul than him. He had to tighten the string of struggle, running government affairs during the day and sleeping with one eye open at night. In this environment, Petyr, for the first time since his "awakening", has no spare energy for crafty plots and machinations, but devotes all his experience and mind to safeguarding the interests of the House Head son.

What supports his belief is the burning anger in his heart, and it is the help Daenerys · Targaryen fight back to Westeros, to Tully, to Arryn, to Lannister... to once despised him, laughed at him, Judge him and all those who have betrayed him for vengeance. One day, he will sit on Iron Throne's predecessor Queen to rule the Seven Kingdoms, and he will find out the "note incident" that ruined oneself and had to flee overseas, and cut off the heads of everyone involved. , on the bamboo pole at the top of the Red Keep wall!
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That is the distant future, and now, he has to be the Hand of the Queen conscientiously.

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Meereen's new nobles soon succumbed to the pressure of both soft and hard, and the whole city began to operate under the True Dragon flag, constantly producing and accumulating its own defense. The supplies and armaments needed to counter-attack Westeros with Daenerys...Unfortunately, this is probably the only good news after Petyr got on the "Last Targaryen" pirate ship.

The willful and young Queen went all the way and captured Astapor and Yunkai successively before arriving at Meereen, but because of the wrong way of handling, a mess was left behind, and in the end, only oneself could take over.

Astapor: Daenerys left behind a three-person council of doctors, scholar, and Cleric, without considering whether these three had the ability and experience to rule, let alone leave them enough to protect themselves of the armed forces. Sure enough, the council was quickly subverted and wiped out by a butcher named Cleon. This former slave with unparalleled speed in slaughtering pigs apparently abolished the slave system, but in fact oneself became the new slave-master. The butcher king grabbed all the children of the original nobles and began to train the new Unsullied. Every pyramid in Astapor has been turned into a barracks, death and lies are circulating in the streets, there is little food in the store but full of slaves, and it is more like Hell than before Daenerys passed by.

Yunkai: Relying on a few simple but ingenious tricks and a rebellion, the Queen took the city easily, but presumably the victory came too easily to be cherished - Daenerys has never After draining its resources, no new order was established, and even the slave-master in power did not deal with it, only adding countless "freemen" to the team to feed, and hurried to the next stop. To make matters worse, as soon as Daenerys walked away from Yunkai's slave-masters, they immediately regained their old rule and even considered her their greatest threat - they sent envoys to Volantis, Qarth and other Free Cities to spread rumors about Daenerys and After gathering more allies, wage a war against the Queen.

Being cruel when it shouldn't be cruel and being kind when it shouldn't - typical of political naivety, but considering Daenerys is really a newbie Queen too, Petyr really doesn't have much to complain about .

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After a lot of planning and arrangement, the newly born Dragonmother regime reluctantly gained a firm foothold with the support of oneself and passed the most dangerous first birth. stage.

But the real challenge soon came. After Yunkai regrouped slaves and mercenaries to capture Astapor with the Legion of New Ghis, Meereen ushered in the armed intervention of the former combined with the Volantis fleet. Petyr integrates all the resources inside and outside the city, establishes an alliance with the Lazarin people called "sheep people" by the Dothraki outside the ring-shaped sandstone mountain range, and adapts to follow the Unsullied, mercenaries and hungry people of the Mother of Dragons to form a new Meereen army , and sent troops to prevent the influx of more hungry people in the south to bring starvation and plague...

Although they tried their best, the strength of the enemy and the enemy was still disparate. In the end, Daenerys accepted his suggestion, and shook hands with the opponents that oneself had a chance to completely resolve by negotiating compromises and concessions.

Therefore, Astapor and Yunkai, who have reverted to slavery, "respect" the results of Daenerys' liberation of Meereen. In return, Meereen also - respects the system of the former two; allows the departure of those who voluntarily become slaves in the city; opens the port and allows free entry and transit of trade ships from major Free Cities and Slaver's Bay; -masters compensate accordingly...

In this case, a fragile peace was made. With Hand of the Queen, Yunkai got rid of the two rivals and became the monopoly of the Slaver's Bay population trade, the biggest winner of this farce slave liberation.

But it seems that in order to beware of Daenerys go back on one's word, Yunkai's army is still stationed in the south of Meereen, and the battleship is still parked in the port. Whether out of necessity or out of humiliation, slave-masters also built slave fences and auction stands outside the city wall, in front of one's eyes of the Meereen defenders, and reopened the slave market.

There are two worlds separated by a wall!

"They mocked me face to face and showed the world that I was powerless to stop them."

Outside the city wall, slave-masters densely packed yellow tents at the end of the field of vision, digging in the slaves The New Ghis Iron Legion, Ghiscari Legion and more free mercenary groups camped under the protection of the trenches of , completely crush the slave system.

Logically speaking, this is not difficult: after all, Queen has the most famous and most powerful biological weapon in the world - three Demon Dragons. And they do grow up, but the problem is, Daenerys doesn't know how to steer her dragons.

The three dragons have grown from the size of kittens to more than ten feet long, and as their physique has grown, so has their appetite. I don't know when Daenerys can no longer use her slender fingers to whip up pieces of meat to easily feed her "child", and I don't know when they start to forage on their own... Sheep, cattle grazing in the wild... It is said that There are people.

In order to prevent the three increasingly feral dragons from causing more trouble, Daenerys decides to keep them imprisoned for now. Viserion was the first dragon to be chained, and his mother himself led him down the pit to stay with several bulls. When he was fed and drowsy, the soldiers rushed in and locked him. Rhaegal took more labor, and the soldiers had to cover him with a large mesh of heavy chains while he was sunning on the Queen's terrace, and it took three days to stumblingly move him down the servant ladder. Six people were burned as a result.

And Drogon, the winged shadow, the tallest, fiercest, and wildest of the three dragons, the one with night-scale scales and purgatory eyes... by the Queen's order The soldiers tried to capture him three times but failed. On the twilight of its last and catastrophic failed attempt, it finally spread its wings and flew north over the Skazadhan, all the way to the Dothraki steppe.

Three dragons, two imprisoned and one missing... This kind of treatment made Petyr frown: If the Demon Dragon, which has not been in existence for a hundred years, becomes a burden instead of being a helper, does Daenerys really have to rely on Unsullied To take back the entire Westeros? In the name of Hand of the Queen, he issued a new order: to collect information and knowledge about "Dragon Control" from all possible channels for the Queen's reference and learning, to control the three great killing tools as soon as possible, and to clear the way for all obstacles. .

It was all well-intentioned, with no personal thoughts at all, and Petyr even took command of the operation himself. It is a pity that the skill of taming and controlling dragons has long since been lost with the demise of Valyria. After a lot of bounties and inquiries, he did not collect the legendary dragon mastery, and only came to one result: There are only three places left in this world. ...it is possible to find systematic knowledge about dragons.

First of all, it is naturally in the ruins of the ruined Valyria. The doomsday catastrophe killed all the Valyrians in the affected area, but did not completely destroy the peninsula. Maybe there is a complete set of information in the corner of the ruins, waiting for the destined person 's excavation.

And then there's Dragonstone at Westeros and the library at King's Landing... As the last Valyria family to breed and control dragons, there are likely clues left where House Targaryen has long lived. Provided, of course, that it was not ordered to be destroyed by Robert Baratheon.

Finally, a gossip from nowhere: Asshai, located in the far southeast of the known world, known as the Land of Shadows, not only preserves the complete knowledge of dragon control, but even has living dragons exist.

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The ruins of Valyria are said to be infested with monsters and devils, and dangerous; and King's Landing and Dragonstone are under enemy control. The willful and impulsive Queen is probably a hot brain. When Black Dragon accidentally returned from the disappearance, despite the exclamations and dissuasion of others, she jumped on Drogon's back in front of everyone's eyes, and flew eastward on the dragon to find it. And learn the real dragon mastery.

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(end of this chapter)