Dominate the Game of Thrones with Mount and Blade

After marrying Lady Lysa Arryn, Baelish obtained the title of Guardian of the Vale. With the two identities of the adoptive father of Lord Robin Arryn and the husband of Lady Lysa, Littlefinger could barely mobilize the army of the Arryn family.

Fortunately, Arthur ordered all the Vale families to send troops north, either to recapture Winterfell or to assist the Night's Watch to resist the wildling army, so the strength of the Vale families has dropped by several levels.

For the Vale, which has the strongest defense in the Seven Kingdoms, and Littlefinger who hides in the Eyrie, Arthur really doesn't have many powerful means to deal with it.

So he can only use the unpresentable method of "sending a guest to assassinate him".

The reason for using the reckless man Aegon the Bloody is that if there is any problem later, the Frey family can also take over.

The meeting with the eldest son of Aenys was arranged in the North Drum Tower Weapon Exhibition Room of the Red Castle.

The North Drum Tower is one of the seven iron-roofed drum towers of the Red Keep. From the observation port of the drum tower, you can also see the Rhaenys Hill and the ruins of the Dragon Cave on the northwest side.

After Lord Frey finished communicating with his son, all irrelevant people left the small room, leaving the king and Bloody Aegon who secretly entered King's Landing.

"I know that you don't think much of your father, and you don't want to inherit his title and territory."

Arthur first talked about family matters, and then changed the subject, "But if you want to get what you deserve as the eldest son, I can order your father to make a decision in accordance with the laws of the kingdom..."

"Just maintain the status quo, Your Majesty." Bloody Aegon snorted coldly and rejected the king's kindness.

He also knew that he would never get the Crossing Territory and the Twins from his father as he was charged with patricide.

And his father also preferred his younger brother, Rhaegar Frey, known as "Bug".

Arthur smiled slightly, "Aenys also told you where we were going this time, right?"

It was late at night, so it was better to cut to the chase and go back to spend time with the women.

Aegon the Bloody nodded to show that he understood.

"Heartsleigh, the territory of the Corbray family. As far as I know, the old widower Lyonor Corbray fell in love, and Lord Petyr Baelish introduced the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Seagull Town to the old Earl Corbray."

Arthur briefly introduced the background, and then explained the mission in detail: "When the old Corbray marries the daughter of the wealthy merchant, Baelish and several nobles who support him will appear in Heartsleigh, and your cousin Black Walder will also appear there. What you have to do is to kill Black Walder and Petyr Baelish."

Heartsleigh is near the bay south of the Five Fingers Peninsula, not far from the Eyrie.

Bloody Aegon nodded, "I understand. This time, either I die or Black Walder dies."

Black Walder's death is the greatest benefit to his family, so Bloody Aegon responded like this.

But Arthur didn't think so. Killing Littlefinger was the biggest purpose of this trip, and Black Walder was just a bonus, so the king emphasized again:

"Petyr Baelish is the most important target. Even if he escapes to the Eyrie, you have to kill him and chop off his head."

It's not okay to just let people work without giving any benefits. Arthur used a "carrot" hanging over his head to tempt Bloody Aegon to work hard:

"As long as you complete the task, I will order you to be exempted from all guilt and let you walk in the world with innocence."

For people like Bloody Aegon, he doesn't look down on worldly things, so the king made such a promise.

"I will complete the task, not only for you, but also for my father."

Aegon, who was born to do dirty work, responded like this.

The king was very satisfied with this, patted him on the shoulder and left.

Arthur I, who brought Ange Bracken, Podrick, Will and a large number of other guards, did not want to return to Maegor's Holdfast in such a swagger. In order to conceal his presence, he led his men to go around the walls of the Red Keep and went to the South Drum Tower where Blackwater Bay could be seen. Then he took the opportunity to visit Queen Margaery in the Tower of the Prime Minister.

As a royal bedroom, the number of floors of Maegor's Holdfast did not follow the Red Keep's characteristic of seven. The reason was very simple. After King Maegor, who built this building, came to power, he fought against the armed forces of the Seven Gods, such as the "Poor Assembly", for six years. How could he abide by the rules of the Seven Gods?

In fact, Maegor's Holdfast had a total of nine floors. Except for the first and second floors, which were the "Queen's Ballroom", the remaining seven floors had master bedrooms for the royal family to live in.

Since they were here, Arthur decided to persuade Margaery to move into the master bedroom on the fifth floor of Maegor's Holdfast.

After climbing the steps of the Tower of the Prime Minister, the guards on duty reported the king's arrival to the nobles inside.

Hopper Redwyne was the first to come to the "small hall" of the Prime Minister's Tower.

"Your Majesty, it's so late, why are you here in person?"

Although his father, Earl Paxter Redwyne, had already taken office as the new King's Hand, Paxter did not live in the Prime Minister's Tower because of rumors from someone.

"I suddenly want to see my wife and the baby in her belly. Where is your father?"

Earl Redwyne should be living in a small courtyard near the Godswood Forest of the Red Castle, but Arthur asked knowingly.

Hopper scratched his head and smiled awkwardly, "He listened to a gossiping servant who said that there was a Prime Minister's curse in the Prime Minister's Tower, so he still lives in the courtyard of the Lord Admiral."

Counting from Jon Arryn, to Lord Eddard Stark, to Lord Tywin Lannister, and Cersei's short-lived Hand Harish Swyver, and then Mace Tyrell , in just over two years, five kings died abnormally at their hands.

This made Lord Paxter suspicious, and after hearing something from a certain servant, he refused to move into the Tower.

"He can live wherever he wants, but the Prime Minister's Tower cannot be wasted. After Queen Margaery moves into Maegor's House, all the nobles and ladies of the Reach who are not relatives of members of the Royal Council will move in here for me. Come."

Arthur ordered.

There are really too many people in the River Bend in the Red Keep, and the purpose of centralizing their residences is to facilitate management.

Hopper agreed. Where the people of the Reach lived was not his concern. The other meaning of the king's words was the important point.

"Is Queen Margaery moving into Maegor's House?"

The two of them talked as they walked and arrived at the door of Margaery's room.

A member of the queen's female companions had already opened the door for the king.

After seeing his wife in loose robes, Arthur I answered Hopper's question.

"Yes, my wife, Margaret, has to move into the master bedroom on the fifth floor of Maegor's House. It is the dormitory of the Targaryen family. It is better than the Hand's Tower in terms of safety and room splendor. "

Nowadays, Margery has not yet reached the stage of showing her pregnancy. Apart from her loose clothes, it is basically impossible to tell that she is pregnant.

"Your Majesty, your late-night visit made me feel unusual..." The queen of the Tyrell family looked a little happy, but I don't know if she was pretending or sincere.

Arthur held her arm and walked her to the bedside to sit down. "You are in good condition now. Don't be like Sansa who eats lemon cake all day long. Move around appropriately and eat more meat and vegetables."

Queen Margaery nodded heavily, seeming to be very concerned about her husband.

Just as these words were being said, five members of the female companion group had already poured into the room. These women piled up near the king and his wife. Although they did not interrupt, standing there gave Arthur a headache.

"Can't you ladies from the river bend go and rest?"

"Your Majesty, being able to accompany the Queen will give us enough energy."

The person who said this was a middle-aged woman, and Arthur guessed that this person was Jaina Tyrell, one of Margaery's two aunts.

"When you are energetic, you have to do something." The king looked around at these noble ladies and suddenly came up with a great idea.

These aristocratic ladies received education from nuns and bachelors since childhood. In addition to their own knowledge, they often have certain management abilities.

"Dear Margaery, do you remember that I once mentioned things related to vocational education to you?"

Arthur asked.

Margaery nodded lightly. Of course she remembered what Arthur, a young nobleman, said to her outside High Court.

But she didn't understand why Arthur, who had become her husband, was talking about this at this time tonight.

"Now is a good time to start vocational education. In the next year or two, the Targaryens will break the shackles of all the slaves in the Free Trade Cities. And these slaves often don't know what to do after they are freed. It doesn’t matter what the meaning of life is.”

Arthur looked at the bewildered ladies from the river bay and explained in depth:

"The task I give you is to open schools in the monasteries and chapels in King's Landing to train a group of teachers who are eloquent and have some livelihood skills. In the future, we will help millions of slaves find a new direction in life. ”

The three cities of Slaver's Bay, including Meereen, Astapor, and Yunkai, have revealed the problems of the new freedmen, and Arthur, who has been warned, will never make the same mistake.

Daenerys, who is also keen on breaking slave shackles, is also very concerned about this issue. Arthur decides to continue to discuss this issue with the Dragon Queen in depth after going back tonight.

Jaina Tyrell, Lady Alexa Bulwer and others stared at each other, not knowing what this was.

Fortunately, Queen Margaery responded quickly. She said in a beautiful voice like a warbler: "There is no problem. You all must obey the king's order. From tomorrow on, you will go to conspicuous places in the city. Declared the king’s law and order, and began to train teachers who meet His Majesty’s requirements.”

Although she also felt that her husband's proposal was outrageous. After all, the Targaryen family had only conquered the Stepstone Islands in history, and they had not managed it well. It was almost impossible to conquer the Free Trade City, but supporting the king was what the queen should do, not to mention This sounds like it would be a great benefit to House Tyrell's reputation, and it would not be in vain.

Under the reminder of Queen Margaery, all the ladies and ladies of the River Bend began to agree to the king's request.

This is of the same nature as when they sent clothes and food rations to homeless children in the monastery. The Tyrell family is very happy to use this method to increase their influence in King's Landing.

After finding something to do for the people of the Reach, Arthur felt much better. He finally told Queen Margaery to take a good rest and move into Maegor's Tower someday.

The night after this, the king returned to the bedroom and had an in-depth and detailed discussion with Daenerys for half the night on the issue of career training after the slaves were emancipated.

…

The preparations for the war in the south were much smoother than Arthur thought.

Under the call of Loras, the Knight of Flowers, a nearly 10,000-strong army, mainly conscripted soldiers, gathered in Turbulent Town, Bitterbridge, and Long Table Hall in the eastern part of the Reach. The second Dornish army also gathered near the Bone Road and would soon head north to the Stormlands.

There were also nearly 10,000 troops near King's Landing, but apart from sending Randyll and the Tully Army away, there were not many that could be mobilized, and they had to guard against other forces stealing their homes, so Arthur decided to take only a small part of the army and customized crossbows south.

According to Prince Oberyn, the Golden Company had two dozen war elephants, which was 24 adult elephants.

So the difficulty of this battle was to deal with these huge monsters with a shoulder height of ten to fifteen feet, or three to four and a half meters.

If it were an adult dragon, the dragon flame would scare away any warhorse or elephant, but whether it was Alduin or Drogon, they were all in their infancy and could not resist the attack of large crossbows or the sharp arrows of the dragon hunting crossbow.

During the Dance of the Dragons, some non-adult dragons were killed by the mob.

In the last month of the 130th year of the Conquest Era, under the leadership of a mad prophet of the Seven Gods, "Shepherd", tens of thousands of King's Landing mobs rushed into the dragon cave and killed three non-adult dragons, Tyrexu, Slycos, and Mogul.

An adult dragon, Dreamfire, died because of hitting the dome of the dragon cave, and Guoguang's dragon Syrax was also killed by the mob.

So the dragons can only be used as a deterrent and cannot fight on the front line. To deal with war elephants, they still have to fight on the ground.

Arthur's plan is to use flaming bows and arrows to limit the charge of the war elephants, and then find a way to besiege the war elephants, but the Golden Group is not all reckless, they will also have corresponding methods.

So how to fight, and get to the bottom of the Storm's End to discuss.

On the day when the king was preparing for the southern expedition, a large merchant fleet arrived at Dragonstone. For safety reasons, the Redwyne Fleet stationed on Dragonstone did not agree to allow all merchant ships to enter Blackwater Bay, and only allowed representatives to go to King's Landing to meet the king.

"Dear King Arthur Targaryen I, as an old friend of the dragon family, we Myr have sent a belated wedding gift."

In the throne room, the envoy from Myr, Uras Adrian, presented the gift to the Targaryen royal family in an exaggerated tone:

One hundred thousand old gold dragon coins.

Arthur, wearing the golden plate armor sent by Margaery, waved his hand to let people accept the five large boxes full of gold coins, and then asked:

"Tell me, what do you want us to do?"

There have been rumors that since the Golden Group broke the employment agreement with Myr, the city-state would ask for help from the West Continent. Arthur thought this would happen around his wedding with Margaery, but he didn't expect the Myr people to come so late.

When Uras Adrian saw the master of the Iron Throne accept the gift calmly, he knew that the matter was settled, so he recalled the friendly relationship between the two sides:

"Your Majesty, you know that during the Bloody Century, Volantis occupied our Myr for two generations. Fortunately, your ancestor, Aegon the Conqueror, rode a dragon to help us regain control of our homeland... Now Volantis is restless again, and the Dothraki appear in the east of Myr, so we ask for the help of the Targaryen family."

The Myr envoy ignored the hatred between the two sides during the Kingdom of the Three Daughters, and only talked about the friendly relationship between the two sides.

Of course, Arthur would not mention it either, because he had been thinking about the big fat piece of Myr for a long time.

"I swear in the name of the orthodox Targaryen bloodline that I will send people to protect Myr."

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