Chapter 206
2021-01-06
Chapter 206 Meereen Knot, Meereen Solution"I don't have an army and a way to make a living." Daenerys candidly "But shouldn't these problems be solved by the parliament and the local liberated free people oneself."
"You broke the shackles of the slaves and overthrew the production operations of the slave city-states in the last ages. model, but thinking of promoting a few people at random, and expecting them to solve everything by themselves? If things are really that simple, then guess why there are tens of thousands of slaves... The free people don't live a stable life in Astapor and Yunkai, want to follow you Meereen?" Petyr chuckled, "I guess you think it's love?"
Isn't it? Daenerys opened her mouth, and she nearly uttered the word.
"I used to be a nobody, so I understand the mentality of the bottom. Let me tell you - as long as you live, people will never leave their homes in droves and follow...even more than you. People who are a hundred times more noble and beautiful go on adventures to strange places. The free people who follow in your footsteps are wise men who see that there is no safe life to stay, Astapor and Yunkai will meet when you leave In chaos one will immediately restore slave system, so at all costs also go through wasteland and insist on following you and your army!"
"This is only your judgment, as far as I know, Astapor and Yunkai is all right now. Besides, what does this have to do with Meereen?"
"Three sister-like slave city-states, why doesn't it matter? You just ordered the great lord to lead one hundred and sixty-three people Being nailed to a stake has already put the city on the brink of destruction!" Petyr looked at Daenerys said solemnly: "Please ask, Your Majesty really thinks - put those one hundred and sixty-three The slave child nailed your order to come to Meereen Road, was it approved by all slave-masters in Meereen after a meeting?"
Daenerys looked away, stared at Petyr for a while, Suddenly realized that oneself hadn't considered this issue. In the subconscious, slave-master is slave-master, what is the difference between them?
"Just to give you an example, Your Majesty will understand what a huge mistake the previous hasty decision was. Duke Tywin of House Lannister, Your Majesty should have heard about it... After he killed the two bannermen of Reyne and Tarbeck, Became the noblest with the strongest control over the feudal kingdom in all Westeros-at that time, there were many disrespectful families in the Westerlands. Why did Tywin only destroy two families instead of punishing all disrespectful families? Because he wanted to do What he wants is fear, not hatred." Petyr stared at Daenerys without flinching. He wanted to say that Mad King just didn't understand the difference between fear and hatred, and he lost Iron Throne again. The death of your family has caused you to live in a foreign country... But at the last minute, dive light flashed, decided not to seek death to take the father of Daenerys as an example, but replaced the negative teaching material with the successful case of Tywin.
"You want to kill and avenge those one hundred and sixty-three children, no problem - but please create fear, not hatred! Imagine if Tywin hadn't slaughtered two families, Instead, he singled out the heads of every disrespectful family in the Westerlands and beheaded... Could he still have a chance to be written into 'The Rains of Castamere' and be awed by all the Westeros? No, he'll be smitten in a few days The coalition of bannermen was overthrown, and they were pulled out of Casterly Rock and hanged!"
"I understand what you mean, the one who ordered the one hundred and sixty-three children to be nailed to the stake was not Meereen is all slave-masters, but a few families and even a few people in it." Daenerys frowned: "But I don't think anyone will come forward and admit it."
"You don't need anyone to admit it. , you just need to investigate which great master in Meereen has the most slaves and lives in the highest pyramid, and the answer will be revealed." Petyr shook his head: "It's easy, I'm even more curious now - Your Majesty, you...even if you sit down and calm down. For a while, I still just want to track down the great master who ordered those children to be nailed to death? Are you here for revenge or for liberation?"
"Is there a contradiction between liberation and revenge?"
"It's not contradictory." Petyr said, "If I were you, after occupying Meereen, there are at least three strategies to ensure its control. According to their own inferior to superior, they can be divided into the following: , the middle and the top three, Your Majesty suspects me as a liar, I understand. So next, I will only talk about the method - whether it is feasible or not, it is up to you to judge."
Facing Mad King's daughter , Petyr didn't dare to play tricks like cheating at all, he took a breath and immediately began to offer advice: "The worst strategy, as I said in public before - kill Meereen's slave-master cleanly, and then completely take over this Cities, re-establish a domination, just like you did in Astapor."
"But the worst case scenario has three problems: one, you don't have enough around you to help and do it for you. Talents to manage the city. Mercenaries and Unsullied can fight for you, but can't advise and create food resources, there are doctors, scholars, technicians, clerks, artisans or teachers in the freedmen, but they are servants, not the ruling class! The only one! Available Jorah Mormont, unfortunately King Robert's undercover. Kill all the slave-masters who belong to the ruling class, and the city will be thrown into chaos in no time!" Petyr slowed and continued: "No. The second point is: a city-state supported by slave trade, suddenly all the 'goods' have become free people... Then how can they support these free people? You can order everyone to plant the fields, but what to eat before the first round crops are ripe, and what about the invasion of foreign enemies before the first harvest, does Your Majesty have a mature solution? The third question - let the liberated slaves turn over as masters, do they have the ability and quality of self-management? Although the original great masters are abominable, their thousands of years of experience have made them clear that everything must be 'degree'... The free people who have turned themselves into the masters do not have this concept. People who have never been in contact with wealth and power suddenly master these two things. Kind of thing, eating only looks uglier than slave-master. Whether you admit it or not, there are always people in this world who have to be oppressed and enslaved to feed others! There must be nobles and slave-masters with fine clothes and jade food to engage in ideas, culture and art to build civilization! "
"Enough, stop talking." Daenerys frowned in disgust, and Petyr might be right, but she just didn't like the way the guy spoke: "I'm not going to take your cue, say two other ideas." "
"Okay. "Littlefinger agreed: "The central policy is - do not kill one, you rule the city and all the great masters as Queen of Meereen, and become the biggest slave-master." "
"It's impossible, I'm here to liberate, not join." "
"Well, even if you adopt this strategy, there are still problems to deal with. "Petyr voted in favor." As an outsider, you have no local roots, and until your dragons grow up, your power comes primarily from the Unsullied and freedmen you liberate. If you want to be a big slave-master, you will lose your greatest trust and be easily overthrown. Once ousted from power, the city will quickly return to its old life in a short period of time, as if you never lived in the future - so we have the ultimate strategy. "
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"You mentioned two methods that I can't possibly adopt. They are called the middle strategy and the lower strategy. I am afraid it is to elicit the best strategy." Daenerys narrowed his eyes and said unpleasantly, "Don't explain it all, generalize it. "
"Your Majesty To summarize, I'll just say it briefly." Petyr wasn't sure whether this Targaryen girl was crazy or not, but at least she wasn't stupid. He felt a little relieved: "Expel the most powerful lords, and let the middle-class nobles who were originally suppressed by them take the former's place. The general description is that the tiger and the wolf were originally one family, but the lion came and joined the wolf to drive the tiger away. Intruder - Your Majesty You are the lion. After driving away the tiger, use the wolf to rule and manage your freedmen and cities. "
"Eviction? What about the hatred of the one hundred and sixty-three children, to whom shall my anger be poured out? "
"You can kill some of the leaders of the Great Family, one or two, ten or twenty... as you please." "Petyr shrugged: "But you can't kill them all, you have to check and balance, you have to make sure that those new 'elites' and your people will not betray you, how can you ensure this? Simple, let them always feel that they need you and need you - expel the tiger, but let it live, so that the new nobles who are promoted by you as manager - that is, the wolves, will be afraid that the original boss will return in a swirl with foreign aid of dust recapture their pyramids and knock them back to their original shape; and the sheep - that is, your people, will also hold your thighs for fear of being eaten by wolves... In this way, you only need to aloof and remote, control delicious The method and speed of the sheep, appease both sides among your new nobles and the people, accept their worship and acknowledge allegiance, respond appropriately to their needs, what food...security...you don't have to worry about anything, the wolf takes the initiative Will do it for you, it's their home and they're so familiar. "
It makes sense, but why is the tone so unpleasant. Could it be...that's what you call good advice? Daenerys was silent, but Daario coldly snorted standing beside him: "Your Majesty It's the True Dragon, not the lion, her people love the Queen too, absolutely impossible to betray! "
"Haha, I'd love to believe it, but unfortunately it's a stupid statement whether it's true or not." Petyr smiled. "If there's one thing rulers must remember, it's this: Humans are inherently evil." The freemen of Your Majesty will call you 'Mhysa', 'mother', 'Dragon Queen' loudly as you break their shackles and free them from oppression, grateful for your kindness, as if ready to serve Go to hell. You can enjoy this kind of love, but don't indulge in it - because once you are in danger, or you don't have enough food or clothing, complaints, complaints and betrayals will come one after another, and some will even turn away. , despise, slander and even hurt you. To be loved is better for domination than to be feared, but remember that being loved costs a lot, but it is very cheap. Always hold such a mentality: your people are bad people, the new nobles under you are bad people, and the guards around you are also bad people...even me, who is talking to you, is also a bad person. "Petyr once won Eddard Stark's trust by speaking the other way, but this trust was quickly and completely destroyed by a note. This time, will the young Queen in front of him be tricked? He raised his mouth: "Always with the greatest malice To speculate on the motives of others, and leave oneself with a means to deal with it, the rule can be stable for a long time! "
"chi..." The handsome mercenary standing behind Daenerys couldn't bear Littlefinger's big words: "It's all nonsense, there are thousands of people around Queen who are willing to give everything for her, Only cunning villains are used to maliciously speculating on others! "
"I said 'all people are bad people' because I wanted Your Majesty to be wary, not a fact!" Maybe you're right, the Queen is surrounded by people who love her in the majority, but no matter how many people who love her, they can't stop an enemy who comes behind Your Majesty before showing his knife. Petyr glanced at the handsome mercenary, then continued to look at Daenerys with a slightly reproachful look: "Either kill them all, or not kill them, or kill the right people." You used your best strategy in Astapor and your middle strategy in Yunkai, I thought you'd be wiser in Meereen... Who would have thought that you were going to use what I would not think... Even foolish to describe An unreasonable last resort? "
Dare to say that the Queen is stupid? The mercenary was furious: "Be respectful, you little dwarf!" Want to taste the taste of the machete? "
How dare a mercenary keep interrupting the conversation between oneself and the Queen with such a tone? Petyr looked up at the speaker again, and couldn't help but suspect that this guy was Daenerys' lover, but it didn't matter, if Daenerys favors a knives-only mercenary over a sincere and capable counselor, and she will never return to Westeros, much less worth following. Oneself leaves this room and can just start thinking about running away.
Daenerys' expression gradually became solemn, he sat up straight on the sofa, put down his raised right leg, and lowered his head in deep thought. Human nature is evil, and he speculates about anyone around him with the greatest malice... What a harsh nonsense, But after going through all kinds of hardships and betrayal twice, she realized that Petyr was right. Maybe this skinny guy from Westeros with a worrying personality is the follower that oneself needs?
Queen breathes deeply, lifts The head comes: "Daario, go get a chair for Petyr Ser, Missandei, go get some drinks. I have a lot of questions to ask, and this conversation -- probably going on for a while. "
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Petyr gently relaxed.
The Targaryen girl in front of her is not crazy, she listened to oneself.
This should be good news, but why does my heart hurt so much? Yes... How much governance and political manipulation has oneself mastered by observing practice, reading history, and pondering hard? Originally planned to wait for oneself to sit on the Iron Throne day Only then did he show his skills... Who would have thought that the world is unpredictable, and he is full of political skills, but he was forced to run to Slaver's Bay, which is thousands of miles away. "The chance...that's pathetic.
All ambitions are out of the question before helping Daenerys retake Iron Throne, and even a successful restoration of the Targaryen Dynasty is just a return to the beginning, just thinking about it, He felt a little tired.
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(End of this chapter)