Chapter 246
"Archmaester, are you against High Sparrow too?" Dany couldn't help asking.
Old Archmaester turned around and saw that the person who asked the question was "Wu Zhuangyuan". After nodding his head, he smiled wryly and shook his head, "We Citadel don't have the 'Maester Armed', how can we be qualified to participate in politics?
It's just that winter is coming, Citadel has warned the major lords four times, and I even wrote a few letters to King's Landing Most Devout myself, advising him to focus on the bigger picture, stabilize the situation first, and plant the last wave of winter wheat - If God's eyes open."
It seems that Citadel is not completely dereliction of duty, but it is a pity that the strength of one person determines his voice, Maester's voice is too small, and no one listens to what he says.
“What did High Sparrow say?” Garlan said curiously.
"He didn't talk to me at all, that's why I asked Devout Peter!" the old Archmaester said embarrassedly.
Dickon sighed then said, "I just got back from King's Landing and know better than you guys are. High Sparrow now...I don't know what's really on his mind, but King's Landing is indeed under Church control.
After the war-torn Riverlands and Crownlands, countless farmers went bankrupt and lost their jobs.
Oldtown is still warm, but Riverlands has been in two months There was a light snow before. For Reach, winter is coming, but for Riverlands, winter has come. Even if my father tries to clean up robbers and remnants, Riverlands will not be able to resume production within a year or two.
Poor farmers There is almost no way to go. Joining the Church and becoming a member of the Poor Fellows is their only hope of survival."
"The war is not over yet!" Earl Arstan of Harvest Hall said with a wry smile, " Dragonstone, Storm's End, Ironmen Rebellion, Iron Throne and Church conflict, Lord Stannis who doesn't know where he's going, I heard..."
Seeing him with a different expression, a man beside him Earl asked curiously, "What else?"
"This..." Arstan touched his nose and lowered his voice, "I don't believe you haven't heard from Daenerys."
"Hi--" The aristocrat who asked the question changed his face and looked around cautiously. Seeing that everyone was silent, he was relieved, but he made up his mind not to speak again.
"What are you afraid of? Mother of Dragons Daenerys." Dany rolled his eyes and shouted.
"You—" Dozens of pairs of eyes glared at her.
It seems that although Citadel deliberately concealed the information about the dragon and the Dragon Queen, the great nobles knew something.
Thinking about this, Dany deliberately asked: "What's the matter? Even if she can eat people, she is thousands of miles away. The anti-Mother of Dragons alliance is almost a major event in the world, how can it become a major event here? Taboo topic?"
"Miss Rhaella, what do you know?" Baelor asked with a frown.
"The point is that you don't know something."
"Since you're a Westeros, you understand why we're avoiding this topic."
"I really don't understand." Dany said honestly.
Baelor glanced at the expressionless Garlan and sighed: "Vale of Arryn, Riverlands, North, Lannister, Stormlands, the five kingdoms, the five Dukes, directly led to the destruction of the Targaryen Dynasty, and even the genocide.
Baelor glanced at the expressionless Garlan. p>
Highgarden originally belonged to Prince Rhaegar's partner and supporter, but at this time has been married to Lannister, Seven Kingdoms, and the Six Kingdoms have an irreconcilable conflict with her - blood feud.
This makes us How not to be afraid?
In legend, the last Targaryen seeking revenge for the slightest grievance, cruel and bloodthirsty, never spared an enemy, slaughtered nobles and slaughtered commoners.
Bathing with baby's blood, feeding dragons with bones, sacrificing oneself's relatives Dragon Hatching, practicing magic of shadow and blood, every night with...
Even if rumors are exaggerated, even if Exaggerated ten times, and the remaining one-tenth is true, she is also an inhuman being like a ghost!"
Dany's forehead throbbed, pressing his anger: "I thought it was near Citadel. Your nobles could be more sensible, Ser Baelor, you have disappointed me."
"Oh, am I right?" Baelor frowned.
“Who are the people who oppose Mother of Dragons?” Dany asked.
Baelor thought for a while and said, "The merchants and nobles of the Free Cities."
"What kind of people are they?"
Baelor hardly hesitated. , without the slightest reluctance, as it should be by rights: "A educated gentleman."
"This topic can't go on." Dany holds the forehead, moan said: "Mother of Dragons wants to abolish the slave system and liberate the oppressed slaves.
And slaves support the sea trade of today's world. Without slaves, the sea trade of Free City will shrink by three-quarters. It took billions of Golden Dragons to form the coalition."
"I see what you mean." Baelor looked thoughtful nodded, then turned to Archmaester Perestan, indifferently said: "Archmaester, Seven Kingdoms internals about Daenerys The rumors are all from Citadel, and it doesn't seem like the same person Miss Rhaella said about Mother of Dragons?"
"What, those comments about Mother of Dragons are from Citadel?" Dany was stunned.
She also thought that Baelor Gold Jade was caught in the middle, and was easily deceived by Free Cities' maritime merchants. How could she not expect that Citadel was spreading unfavorable rumors against her.
Thanks to her, she also praised Citadel's wisdom and responsibility in "Winter".
Archmaester Perestan pursed his lips and thought for a while, then sighed, "We're not lying, did any of the great Ghis nobles in Slaver's Bay survive? I mean Wise Masters, Great Masters, Good Masters."
"Almost dead." Dany nodded.
The old Archmaester shrugged and asked, "Good Masters equals Duke, can you imagine killing the Duke of Seven Kingdoms? Isn't that brutal enough?"
"Too brutal !" A nobleman shivered.
Dany ......
Old Archmaester asked again: "Does it mean that thousands of people saw her dragon eat people and eat hundreds of Second Sons mercenaries? Fake?"
"But what Ser Baelor said was a baby, and the Mother of Dragons bathed in baby blood and then fed the dragon with the baby's bones," Dany countered.
"Maybe it's a bit of an exaggeration, but it's basically true. Everyone thinks, dragons eat even adults, so how can children be spared? Our Citadel has records that dragons eating children is not new." Archmaester argues with the courage of one's convictions.
"Yes, before going to bed when I was a child, the old nurse told many times about the deeds of the dragon eating the child."
"Hey, my old nurse also told it."
"Me too."
"I..."
Many nobles were surprised to find that their old nurses had all told similar stories.
"Putting it that way, the dragon must have eaten the child," they concluded.
"Did your old nurse tell the story of Targaryen bathing in baby blood?" Dany asked with a sullen face.
"Not Targaryen, but one of Harrenhal's daughter Earl." Harvest Hall Earl mused.
"A female Earl can bathe in baby blood, why not Mother of Dragons?" Archmaester Perestan argues with the courage of one's convictions.
"According to your logic, dock thieves are stealing things, can't everyone here steal things too?" Dany's mouth twitched.
"I have a theory," said the old red-nosed Archmaester, "that the woman herself admits that Dragon Hatching requires the sacrifice of a loved one.
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
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It means she's a Maegi, Spawn of Shadows, and the evil Bloodmage! Isn't it as it should be by rights that Bloodmage bathes in baby blood?"
How did she offend Citadel, why? Want to black her out?
Preheating public opinion for the upcoming power struggle?
But isn't Citadel an academic institution that pursues knowledge and truth, why is it so politically biased?
By this point, Dany had a rough idea of Citadel's attitude.
Because the winter is coming, the war is endless, and the political situation is chaotic, the Maesters are truly heartbroken for the people of Seven Kingdoms, but they don't think Dragon Queen is the best candidate to end the troubled times, and even reject her extremely.
Dany did not try to correct the banquet nobles' view of oneself, but went straight to the point and asked: "If one day, the Dragon Queen returns to Westeros, intending to restore the Targaryen Dynasty, how will Citadel and the nobles deal with her? "
"I'm afraid she won't be able to pass the Allied level, right?" Old Archmaester looked disapproving.
"She has four dragons!" Dany reminded.
"Isn't it three?" Baelor wondered.
"I heard that another one hatched."
"Dragon, by no means invincible," the historian Archmaester shook his head and affirmed, "I study history and know that in regular warfare, How high is the damage rate of dragons.
In the era of no Scorpion, Valyrian attacked in the form of an army many times, one hundred dragons, two hundred dragons, three hundred dragons.
Even with such a strong Legion, there is still a loss of nearly 2%.
Especially in the battle with Rhoynar, the Dragonlord who died in the battle was as high as 60% (after the frontal war, the Spiritual God night sneak attack, died in the great flood), and nearly 10% of the dragons died.
Not to mention that the woman only had four dragons and could not withstand a few consumptions. Before Dance of the Dragons, Targaryen had twenty There are many dragons, why didn't they have the ambition to challenge the world?"
I am also very puzzled about the stupidity of the Targaryen ancestors.
Infighting for such a crappy place like Westeros, killing all the dragons to the death.
If you have the strength, it is better to conquer Slaver's Bay, conquer Volantis, conquer Qarth, and promote the Targaryen royal family to the world-class Imperial Family.
"Maybe the Dragon Queen can't get past the Allies, but when she's desperate, she'll have to succumb to the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, then—"
"Quit?" Baelor was unhappy.
Isn't Westeros the center of world civilization? Isn't King of the Seven Kingdoms the best profession in the world?
Dany sighed then said, helplessly said: "Everyone, I am also a Westeros person, but we have to face the reality.
In the eyes of everyone in the world, Westeros is a Barbarian Desolate Land, The culture is backward, the political system is not advanced enough, and it is very closed and very poor.”
“How come we are backward? We are still poor, who doesn’t know that Duke Tywin’s shit is made of gold?” Red Apple Earl retorted angrily.
Dany glanced at him and said indifferently: "It is said that the Dragon Queen has seized a fortune worth 50 million Golden Dragons in Slaver's Bay, which, in terms of weight, eats more than a hundred times as much as Tywin, and I will I don't believe that Lannister Duke pulled more than he ate."
"Hiss--" Everyone gasped, and there seemed to be an illusion in front of them, and countless golden cuties fell to oneself like a waterfall... ...
"Of course, the poverty of Westeros is not simply a lack of gold. In world trade, Westeros has three sea trade ports: King's Landing, Oldtown and White Harbor, but have you noticed?
The flagship product exported by Seven Kingdoms is actually wine, wine from Arbor and Dorne, what does this mean?"
"What?" The nobles asked Dany dumbly.
"Ai, Westeros import Yi Ti porcelain, Summer Isles furniture, Myr lace and glass, Pentos spices (transit station), Tyrosh crafts from sea trade."
Dany turns to Old Archmaester, "Even the poison used by Maester is imported from Lys, am I right?"
Well, in addition to cultivating bed slaves, Lys people are also world-renowned for their ability to make poisons.