Game of Thrones: Dragonborn Comes

Chapter 260 Eight Golden Robes

"The Commander-in-Chief is dead?"

"The Commander-in-Chief is dead!"

The steel gate to the west of King's Landing City has been closed, and the golden robes who fled back to the city quickly spread the news of the commander-in-chief's death.

"The king is not here, and the commander-in-chief is dead. How much money do I have for a month? Do I need to work hard?" The fleeing gold robes began to comfort themselves.

Officers who got the news gathered from all over to the military camp in the east to discuss the aftermath.

The first thing to do is to censor, at least to block the news of the failure of the arrest to ordinary people.As for how to explain to the king, all the responsibility for the failure should be attributed to the dead commander-in-chief, and the dead will also use it again.

Two hours later, the steel door opened again, and a small group of people ran to the place where the fighting took place to investigate. At this time, the enemy had already disappeared, so they called other people to collect the bodies of the brothers. The blood-soaked dirt was shoveled into the sea.

The next morning, King's Landing City was as usual, as if nothing had happened.And the letter crow flying from High Court brought good news to the golden robes, and also arrested an important criminal, the opportunity to save face and make meritorious deeds came!

After Maester Aemon returned to King's Landing from Castle Black on the Great Wall, he participated in the revision of a large number of historical books and left behind many manuscripts of knowledge he had accumulated.After discussion, the Cardinal of Xuecheng in Old Town promoted the hundred-year-old man to a doctor of history, and gave Aemon a red copper ring, scepter and mask representing history, which was regarded as a great contribution to his history. Knowledge recognition.

However, Aemon was too old, and it was a burden to carry these heavy items on him. He usually put them in the dormitory provided by the school city.Besides, except for the people in Academy City who changed their name to Doctor, Imon still asked others to call him Bachelor. This name has been called him for more than 60 years, and he was not used to changing it for a while.

The king and ministers went out for a parade, and the Red Castle was sealed off under martial law. No one was allowed to enter or leave except the assistant bachelor who took care of the ravens. People from the magic school also went to Tylosi, and now it is a big construction site.

Aemon only went to these two places except the dormitory, but he couldn't enter them now. After waking up from a nap after writing some manuscripts, an assistant bachelor accompanied him to wander around the city.

The two passed by an alley, and laughter and applause came from the alley. Emon La held the assistant bachelor's hand, motioning him to take him in to have a look.

There is a small open space in the alley, a mobile theater troupe has fenced the place, and a temporary wooden stage is showing the favorite dramas of the common people. A copper star can have a seat to watch for an afternoon, or throw a copper coin to the boss to stand Look from a distance.

Imon watched this kind of drama when he was a child, and each drama was only ten minutes long but full of joy. After seeing many people at the scene, Emon became interested. After asking the price, he and his assistant sat on the wooden bench in the back row.

The actors on the stage had just finished a play and left to change their costumes, and several half-grown children ran to the stage to arrange props.

Aemon turned around and asked a middle-aged commoner beside him, "What's the next play?"

"Haha, this old gentleman came just in time, and the next one is their troupe's most popular show, Duke Werther and his lovers!"

Aemon was confused: "As far as I know, Duke Werther has only one public lover, and that is his wife's sister, Tyene Sand. What's the point of that?"

....

The middle-aged man said to Aemon mysteriously: "I got news that Duke Werther has at least a dozen lovers! Believe it or not, you are in the stands."

The stage props are very simple and have already been arranged, and now the actors have walked on the stage.

"My name is Werther, and I'm a deer!" A man dressed in fancy clothes, a deer head hat, and heavy white makeup came onto the stage and shouted to the audience with open arms.

"Hahaha." The audience in the audience applauded when they saw him.They dare not use their full names for fear of being accused of slander, but they all know who he is, and Werther is still very popular.

"I came all the way from Asshai to find you, you are the love of my life!" An extremely obese actress in a black robe and a red mask followed onto the stage.

"Her name is Quaili, one of Werther's lovers." The middle-aged man introduced it to Aemon solemnly.

"I know, she is also a magician." Aemon also smiled watching the dialogue of the actors on the stage.He knows that watching this kind of drama is just for fun, and there is no need to be serious, just like the drama about his brothers he watched when he was a child.

"No! All of us women in Rhys City love Werther!" Another actress appeared on the stage, her white dress was yellowed from washing, and she was wearing a platinum wig.

"Which lover is Werther?" Aemon asked.

"It seems to be a banker from Rhys City. I heard that he is very close to Werther and often goes in and out of Tyrosh's castle."

Aemon didn't believe that this woman had anything to do with Werther: "Going in and out of the castle is a lover? Could it be a job?"

"Can these nobles and elders come out of their homes intact?" The middle-aged commoner didn't believe what Aemon said. He firmly believed that all nobles treated beautiful women one by one.

"You don't deserve Werther, and I'm of noble blood, and I'm pregnant!" Another woman stepped onto the stage.

The face of the platinum-blonde wig was covered with powder, and the clothes were embroidered with three-headed snakes. If it wasn't Daenerys, whoever it was, the actress still had a big belly!

Aemon: "That's outrageous!"

Middle-aged man: "She is most likely to be real. According to the announcement from the king, Daenerys and Werther have indeed lived in Meereen for a month."

Aemon told him the truth: "There were tens of thousands of people living in Meereen back then!"

The middle-aged man talked to him about cognition: "But they are the only ones in the bedroom of the Great Pyramid. Something must have happened to them!"

"I! Will give birth to a dragon knight!"

The actress who played Daenerys finished her lines and fumbled under her skirt.

"I gave birth! I gave birth to a dragon knight!" She yelled after touching for a while, her stomach was already suffocated, the actress tore out the thing stuffed into her stomach from under her skirt and held it in her hand, it was a dragon A plucked dead chicken.

"Witt" carefully took the dead chicken with both hands, looked left and right, held the head of the chicken with his right hand, and showed the dead chicken to the audience: "This is a real dragon!"

"Hahaha!" The audience stood up and applauded.

"Hey!" Aemon also got up and was about to leave. The older he got, the more he liked to delve into it. This kind of drama can no longer be watched.

"He's here!"

A young man came to the performance place with a golden robe, and dozens of golden robes came one after another in the alley behind.

....

Aemon got old and dwarfed and couldn't see far away. He only heard someone around him saying that the golden robe was coming, so he asked the assistant maester beside him, "Is this to catch criminals?"

"It should be, there are a lot of people here!" After the assistant maester finished speaking, he supported Aemon and pulled him to the side of the road, fearing that these rough people would knock Amon down.

"Aemon Targaryen! You are under arrest!" Aemon looked recognizable, and a group of gold robes found him and went straight to him.

"What are you doing? This is Dr. Aemon of the Academy!"

The assistant bachelor reached out to block it, but was stabbed in the stomach by the golden robe.

"Daenerys murdered the king, the evidence is solid and has been tried in the high court, and you, Aemon, are one of the masterminds behind it, you have been deprived of the title of doctor by the city, and the king has sentenced you to hang! The person beside you Young people are also accomplices!"

"What! Daenerys murdered the king?" Aemon didn't care about his doctorate title, and immediately asked about his only descendant.

"Ask in the cell if you have any questions, and arrest him!" Several gold robes grabbed Aemon roughly and took him away.

Aemon's walking was very slow and couldn't keep up with their footsteps. The gold robes did not give preferential treatment to the criminals who murdered the king. They just walked on Aemon's arms. Aemon's feet were dragged on the ground. It was worn out, and there was dust mixed with blood on both feet.

The gold robes were extremely efficient this time. It took less than an hour to complete the process of verifying, signing, drawing and depositing. Aemon, who had taken off his school city robe and changed into linen clothes, was dragged to the gallows.

The gallows are all ready-made, and they can be erected on the square in the city by a few people.When Aemon was dragged, many women in the entertainment industry had already been hanged on other gallows.

The copper ring, scepter, and mask belonging to his doctorate were thrown into the brazier.

Aemon's cloudy eyes looked at the brazier, and his wrinkled face was full of sadness, until the noose was tied around his neck, and he was suspended in the air, and he kept saying, "Daenerys! Dany! Liz!"

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The news of King's Landing reached Highgarden through the intelligence network of "Octospider" Varys.

After Werther saw the news of Aemon's death, he asked the Kingsguard to bring the news to Daenerys who was under house arrest, and told him to help him: Daenerys killed Aemon!

At the conference table, the king and the ministers of the imperial council were very angry after seeing the information about the golden robe.

"Robert, in today's capital garrison, most of the officers rely on bribes to get to the top, and the soldiers at the grassroots level also lack training. It's okay to bully some unarmed civilians in the city. When they encounter regular troops, they escape faster than mice!"

Werther said to Robert after reading the note full of events, and handed the note to the Minister of Finance, Duke Mace, who was sitting beside him.

The previous commander-in-chief of the capital garrison, who was investigated by Werther, sold his official titles for corruption and accepted bribes. When he went to the Great Wall, "Iron Hand" became the commander-in-chief, and Jon was promoted to the deputy commander. The atmosphere of the team was a little better.

Because of Robert's laissez-faire, mainly because he could make some money, the commander-in-chief who was arrested earlier worked from Robert's enthronement to last year, and in the past ten years or so, he had corrupted the capital defense team to the point of being riddled with holes.

The duty of the Capital Guard is to defend King's Landing and maintain law and order in the city. They have hardly participated in any wars for more than ten years, and they also followed Robert's side during the crusade against Greyjoy.

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Almost all officers were bought in with money. When the former commander was investigated, those who accepted bribes were investigated, but those who gave bribes were not investigated, because once investigated, the entire capital garrison would have no officers.

The total quota is only [-], and it costs money to be an officer, so the quota of soldiers at the bottom will also have a corresponding price tag. From top to bottom, they are thinking about how to bribe the officers above.In this kind of atmosphere, daily training is naturally enough. It is really a problem that this kind of team can have combat effectiveness.

Cersei was rescued, and Robert was furious: "Send a warrant for the liar who pretends to be the late queen and prince."

"It costs a lot of pensions for things that are easy to get, and there is another bounty. Although it is all paid out of the treasury, this money should not have been there!" This is legal, but Werther does not support it. Every time this happens, those people will be less motivated to do things.

Robert: "Renly! According to the law, the City Watch is managed by your Minister of Justice. Now tell me what to do!"

Suddenly called by Robert's name, Renly wanted to scold him directly, what business do their golden robes have to do with me?

Although Robert did not make major revisions to the laws of the previous dynasty after he came to the throne, various positions were almost completely copied from the previous dynasty.But the positions of several ministers were vacant for a few years. When Renly became the Minister of Justice, the person who actually managed the capital guard had become the king, and the prison was turned into a place for storing sundries by Robert. The chancellor has become an empty title pension post.

Seeing that the ministers present were all looking at him, Renly thought for a while, and then said something: "Everyone here knows what happened, but the gold robes only got an order of less than a hundred words. I think The death of the iron hand should be treated as an honorable death in the line of duty, and all the officers who delayed the information will be dismissed and investigated!"

"What about after the investigation? Who will be the new commander-in-chief?" The Duke of Mace wondered if he could take this opportunity to install someone from the Reach.

Werther: "Who else is there? The gold-cloaked deputy commander is still alive and well. If the commander-in-chief is dead, he will be on top."

"Jon Snow? But he is only 17 years old this year, too young to control these people." Robert recognized Jon's personal strength and his identity background, but Jon, who manages 2000 people in the city defense army, is now Not too far.It was originally planned to train him well, but the death of the commander-in-chief due to an unexpected situation can also backfire and encourage Jon to take over.

"What's wrong with being 17 years old? When I was 17 years old, I was already killing all directions in Braavos! He is young and capable, and he can be trained according to our ideas. It is better than dying and replacing in a few years." Witt asked Fight for apprentice Jon.

Varys: "Duke Werther, the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms are gathered in King's Landing, but there are also hooligans, hooligans, and even mercenaries and fugitives. Jon is too young."

Werther put his hands on the table and looked around the crowd: "Everyone here, think about what I have been doing these past few years?"

Hearing what Werther said, everyone began to sort out what Werther had done in the past few years in their minds, killing people, killing people, conquering cities, and fighting. Before they knew it, Werther became the person with the most combat experience in the Seven Kingdoms.

Werther: "Except for drunken riots and fights, serious crimes are almost extinct in the Stepstone Islands, which proves that the management of the Stepstone Islands is very useful! Jon Snow took a half-year vacation and is now in Tyrosh. It just so happened that I could have someone teach him."

That's you, there are few Tyroshis!Duke of Metz thought so in his heart but didn't say it out loud.

Robert looked at Werther: "I remember that the commander of your city defense army in Tyrosh is 'Dawn Sword, Ashara Dayne, didn't she go to fight in Dorne? How to teach Jon?"

Werther smiled: "There is no commander of the city defense army, I am still here! And Tyrosh also has mercenaries from the Windblown Group. They have been in the trading city-state for a long time, wandering among various forces and living today. The city defense army is poor."

"Hey, I have a headache. Let's talk about it after Jon returns to King's Landing. Then he will have to take a school test." Robert covered his face with his hands.

"The headache is not over." Rowan, the King's Hand, took out another note to Robert: "The grand maester who will replace Pycelle will not arrive for a while, and the assistant maester sent the raven The letter got to me. This is news from Winterfell in the north. When the night watchmen went out of the Great Wall to patrol north, they clashed with wildlings, and more than a dozen night watchmen died.”

"It's normal to kill more than a dozen people in a conflict with wildlings, isn't it necessary for Duke Eddard to send a special message to the king?" Duke Mace's question was also what Varys, Barristan and others wanted to ask.

Prime Minister Rowan: "Under normal circumstances, it is not necessary, but according to the rules of the night watchmen, people are sent to find the bodies of the dead compatriots and bring them back to the Great Wall. However, more than a dozen night watchmen, together with the wildlings killed by them, are all missing. , and there were no traces of wild animals at the scene, because this is how the letter was sent to the king.”

Cheng Wang Hei

Chapter 260 IX Discussing the North

There were two absentees at the High Court meeting.

One was a grand maester who served as an advisor to the king, Pycelle was executed, and a new one has not yet come.One is Stannis who is busy transporting wildlings outside the Great Wall to Tyrosh. Since the voyage runs through the entire Westeros continent from north to south, the deployment of the Royal Fleet requires him, the Sea Minister, to coordinate. He never returned to King's Landing City.

Daenerys poisoned the king, the City Watch was corrupt, two crooks were rescued, Maester Aemon was implicated in his death, these are all bad things.Rowan, the Hand of the King, wanted to use an unimportant matter on the Great Wall to ease everyone's emotions, but Robert, Renly, and Werther were even more annoyed when they heard it, and the expressions on the faces of the three began to become tense.

Seeing the expressions of the three of them, Luo Wan knew that something was not right.

Robert slammed his palm on the table, "It must be the White Walkers!"

Matus Rowan, as the King's Hand, only knew that many criminals were dispatched to the Great Wall under Werther's promotion, and he also asked King Robert to regularly send supplies that had been suspended for many years.As for the White Ghosts in the north, he had seen the Children of the Forest in King's Landing, so he believed there were some of them, but he thought there were only a dozen of them at most, and they were not a threat to the Seven Kingdoms at all. No matter how powerful they were, there were still magicians ahead , no matter how bad it is, there are Werther and the dragon.

Among the ministers of the imperial council, only the four Baratheon brothers and the dead Grand Maester Pycelle knew the extent of the threat from the White Walkers.

There are a large number of records about the ghosts and wars in the Academy City. After the revival of magic, the ancient books that were regarded as myths and legends were re-researched and sorted out by the Academy City. In addition, they confronted the children of the forest who wandered around. The magic race of the White Walkers knows it very well, but they don't know when the next war between humans and the White Walkers will come.

The three members of the Baratheon family, of course, Werther had been talking to them since they were young, and even summoned a zombie and a skeleton to scare them, and they believed it after a long time.

And only Renly has a real understanding of the strength of the White Walkers.He also knows how to conjure himself, and he swears that he never wants to face to face with the ghosts, which can control hundreds or thousands of ghouls.

"Werther!" Robert had already called several times.

"Vert!" Renly's dragon Petvarha, who was also in the conference room, followed suit in Draconic.

Seeing that there was no response, a small ice puck condensed from Renly's hand and bounced towards Werther.

Immediately alerted to an attack, Werther came back to his senses and raised his hand to catch the puck. Seeing that everyone on the conference table was looking at him, he explained, "I was thinking about the White Walkers."

Robert: "You are the chief archmage of the Seven Kingdoms, and now the magical creature White Walker threatens the country, you have to think of a way."

Barristan interjected at this moment: "Duke Witt, can you first explain to everyone what the real White Walkers in the north look like? Most of us have seen them from stories. We really have no idea if we really want to fight this kind of thing." to the gate."

Several other Royal Guards also had expressions of seeking knowledge.

Duke of Mace, Chancellor of the Exchequer: "Yes, let's talk about what the White Walker is!"

Prime Minister Rowan and Intelligence Chief Varys are also curious.

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Seeing this, Werther recounted the things about the White Walkers, including going to the north to kill a few White Walkers before going to the Eastern Continent, and meeting the Green Prophet.

After listening to the narration, Varys sighed: "Our intelligence outside the Great Wall is almost zero except for the wildlings."