Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon

Viserys found that the judgment and reward were actually the biggest problems he was facing at the moment.

In politics, according to normal practices, it is always the fastest to win over one faction and fight against another. First establish prestige, then slowly try to win over more friends, so as to rule.

But the problem is that Stannis almost won this battle alone. Viserys had few meritorious people on his side, so there was a situation where no one could be rewarded.

But in contrast, there were many people to be punished.

The Faring family, the Flad family, the Hope family, the Song family, the Whitewater family, the Merrill family, etc., who followed Stannis to death, will be deprived of their titles, lands and territories and taken back into the hands of the king.

In addition, there are people like Lomas Estermont of the Estermont family. His son Andrew Estermont and several knights chose to die for Stannis. Therefore, even though the earl himself surrendered, he still had to be dealt with accordingly, including fines, deprivation of some land, and recovery of some knighthoods. Some people even suggested that this noble family be demoted to a knight family - just like Robert did to the Clinton family. Moreover, the Greenstone Castle of the Estermont family had been captured by the Golden Group and presented to Viserys.

Another point is that the Estermont family is the cousin family of King Robert. It was through the War of the Usurper that they were promoted from third-tier nobles to second-tier nobles in the Stormlands.

Viserys finally decided to deprive his family of the land and titles granted during Robert's reign, as well as the knights who served Stannis, in the name of the heirs of the Estermont family rebelling against Stannis and being obsessed with fighting the king. He also had to pay a large tribute to take back the family castle Greenstone from Viserys. This was not Viserys robbing money, but was based on the ancestral law of Westeros. Their castle had actually been captured by the Golden Group and given to the king. The king only needed a tribute to return the castle to them, which was an honorable act. Because according to the time, when they surrendered, Greenstone had already been captured. When they surrendered, they were completely exiled nobles who had lost their land.

Correspondingly, the Wilder family of Rainhouse and the Morrigan family of Crow's Nest should also be dealt with in the same way.

The most troublesome one was Griffin's Roost, which was Jon Connington's hometown. Before it was captured, his nephew "Red Roland" was the owner of the castle. After being driven away, he fled all the way to Storm's End. Now Jon Connington is in an awkward situation because the identity of "Aegon" has not been determined, so Viserys has to put it aside. Anyway, the Clinton family is now just a knight family. Viserys first let them negotiate on their own. In the end, Jon Connington asked Viserys to leave Griffin's Roost for him to return from the Wall. As for the land and knighthood, they can be given to "Red Roland", and "Red Roland" can be temporarily the lord of the city. Anyway, Jon Connington has no heirs at the moment, so this matter is put on hold.

The rest of the Stormland families, such as Carron, Goyle, Buccle, Granderson, and Fell, surrendered with their entire armies. They had fought for Stannis before and had never confronted Viserys head-on, so they were forgiven for their past and pardoned for their rebellion with Renly and Stannis. There are also people who suggest that some of these families are new nobles who were conferred titles by Robert during the War of the Usurper. Viserys can take the opportunity to restore their land and titles to the period of King Aerys. This is reasonable.

Viserys did not adopt this suggestion in the end. Once the punishment was extended to the War of the Usurper, it would be unclear. Viserys finally had to make a statement that the reason for this judgment and reward was only for this war and would not be expanded.

Although Shireen was named Duke of Storm's End and ruled the Stormlands, it was also a fact that Stannis was obsessed with fighting the king. Although Viserys has now become Shireen's guardian and actually ruled the Stormlands - according to the feudal system of this era, during the guardianship period, until Shireen comes of age, all politics, military, economy, etc. in the Stormlands will be directly under Viserys, including taxes. Because of this system, every time there is a war, the guardianship of the children of the nobles after the war is also a part of the pie.

But as a punishment, Viserys still divided the land in the Stormlands, and assigned Felwood Castle, Hay Hall, Wend River, Summer Hall, a large plain east of Hay Hall and the entire Cape Marseille to the crown. In addition, there was a large fine that Shireen had to pay for Stannis.

Because almost no one made merit in this battle, Viserys could only reward the first batch of people who were loyal to him. The Lambton brothers were knights who had not been granted land before, and Viserys granted them the fertile land along the Wend River.

In addition, he granted his knight Grole the Wend River estuary. Viserys hoped that Grole would expand on the basis of the small docks of several fishing villages at the Wend River estuary in the future and build a new port at the Wend River estuary. This is certainly not a matter of one day or one night, and it may take several generations to develop slowly.

There is also Arthur, the younger brother of Earl Gunther. Earl Gunther has no heirs, so Viserys can only extend the reward to his younger brother and grant Arthur a piece of land.

There is also guardianship.

Although the Selmy family of Barristan's Harvest Hall did nothing in the war, they were granted land and the custody of several young noble children because of Barristan. In addition, there are more.

Before Viserys came to the Stormlands, Stannis suffered heavy losses in the Battle of the Blackwater. There were already a large number of noble castles with only orphans and widows, and knights and knights were extinct - their towers and lands in the towns became no one's land.

These are all troublesome to deal with.

But the benefits are really considerable. No wonder people in Westeros always think that war is an economic account. The winner will get a lot of castles, villages, land, rivers, forests and the right to raise the children of minor nobles. The fruits left by each war are very rich, with a large number of castles and orphans waiting to be distributed.

Even including the fruits of the Stormlands in the Battle of the Blackwater River, the lands of dozens of lords and hundreds of knights who died in the Stormlands fell into Viserys' hands. King's Landing declared these people traitors, and their children's inheritance rights were deprived, and the land and castles were waiting to be distributed.

Now that the Stormlands were in Viserys' hands, he could ignore the King's Landing Deprivation Order. He only needed to order the castles with heirs to be returned to these orphans and widows, and he could win over a large number of minor nobles, in addition to a large number of ownerless knights.

Viserys discovered for the first time that it was a hassle not to have enough people to reward a war, because in this way many orphans and knights would be directly handed over to the feudal lords and the king, and neither the king nor Shireen could take up so much land or raise so many orphans.

Viserys summoned the heirs of many families to Storm's End and arranged them to serve as attendants for several of his loyal knights.

In addition, the first group of people who were loyal to Shireen also had a share. A group of knights of the Florent family headed by Arend Florent and several knights of the Stormlands who were rescued in Blackwater Bay headed by the Onion Knight Davos became the recipients of the pie in the sky. They were loyal to Stannis and guarded Dragonstone or fought Blackwater Bay for him, but were later captured by the king. In order to support Shireen, Viserys asked these people to switch to Shireen's command, and thus they became the first group of people that Viserys needed to support.

Arend Florent and other knights who originally had no fiefdoms were assigned the unowned knights of the Stormlands by Viserys. Arend was made a small noble of the Stormlands and separated from the Florent family. The Onion Knight Davos was promoted to the Earl of Rainwood in the name of Shireen just because he served as a representative of the Stormlands knights among the captives on Dragonstone and offered advice to Shireen. He also became a small noble from a knight.

Viserys was determined to support the new nobles. He planned to let Ser Davos be the steward of Storm's End - in charge of land and corvée, and Ser Arland be the treasury manager - in charge of finance, taxes and accounts. Anyway, the managers were just in name only, so Viserys planned to send a group of officials to start trying to promote the tax-related official system in Stormlands.

After holding the two lifelines, the acting lord used the Cullen family. Although it was said that it would not be expanded, it was still because during the War of the Usurper, Earl Bryce Cullen insisted on kneeling and swearing allegiance until Robert sat on the Iron Throne. Therefore, the current Earl of Nightsong, Roland Storm, who was the illegitimate son of the previous Earl of Nightsong, but Bryce Cullen died in the Blackwater River, and the illegitimate son was made legitimate by his brother's will - was appointed as the acting lord of Storm's End.

The magistrate was handed over to Bruce Buckler - it can be said that this is the king's willfulness. The reason why he chose Sir Bruce as the magistrate of the Stormlands is purely because Viserys felt that the name Bruce was very suitable for the magistrate.

Then there is the military.

Because the appearance of the Golden Company was unexpected, Viserys had to arrange most of their troops to station in Midsummer Hall and pay them as mercenaries. Midsummer Hall is located in the plains, and behind it are the Red Mountains of the Dorne Borderland, which can connect the Stormlands and Dorne, and can attack or defend.

Arranging a large army to be stationed there, whether it is King's Landing or the Reach, it must not be easy.

To everyone's surprise, Viserys actually did not intend to directly attack King's Landing with the remaining momentum of recovering the Stormlands. Instead, he really did as he said before, dismissing most of the peasant armies that were recruited by the various lords, and only retaining the guard army with salaries and the knights and sergeants who were freed from work as a reserve force to prevent emergencies - this was a team of only more than 3,000 soldiers, of which more than 1,000 were from the Florent family who could not return to Brightwater in the River Reach.

And just as Viserys' political propaganda, he began to recall the peasants who were displaced by war and the Stormlands Brotherhood who became "bandits" because they had no way to make a living, and began to work on the restoration and construction of the Stormlands, looking like he didn't want to fight in the near future.

In addition, the most outrageous thing is that Viserys issued an order in the name of the king to the entire territory he ruled, namely Dragonstone, Stormlands, and even the Dornish princes. Each family's castle and walled town must build a granary specifically for storing the king's grain, and each castle must arrange a special person to manage it - the salary will be paid by the king to deal with emergencies.

The king stipulated that a part of the local taxes payable would be converted into grain at a certain ratio and stored in the granary.

Moreover, what is even more unexpected is that Viserys is really planning to send people to Tyrosh to purchase grain with merchant ships - although there was no major war in the recovery of Stormlands this time, Viserys's treasury received a large amount of funds for a while, and the finance minister who borrowed money will soon return, although it will take time to receive the money.

Viserys plans to fill the purchased grain into the granaries of several large castles in stages, such as Dragonstone, Storm's End, and Sunspear City in the first stage, and then the granaries in the castles of the second-tier nobles are the second stage.

This is really beyond everyone's expectations, because now, even though it has entered autumn, hoarding food has no benefit at all in the eyes of the world after ten years of summer, especially in the entire territory of Dorne, the rainforests of the Stormlands, and the Windfury. Places like Cape are located in the south and have never been greatly affected by winter.

However, the king only required each castle to build granaries, and the king would spend his own money to purchase grain and hire managers. This order was not troublesome to implement, so no one objected. Except for the financial affairs officer, no one would have a headache, so the policy was implemented according to the king's plan.

Government affairs are always the most troublesome. At Storm's End, Viserys only issued orders and arranged policies, but he didn't know what would happen during the actual implementation stage. He could only wait for his policies to bear fruit.

Dealing with various matters was just the beginning. Seeing that it was almost the wedding date of Viserys and Daenerys, Viserys didn't even have time to explore the 'Poseidon' cult in the Stormlands. He had to bring a large number of Stormland nobles with him first. Return to Dragonstone for his wedding.

Speaking of which, there is a report from the Golden Company that they had two troop transports that were originally used for sea attack when they planned to siege Storm's End Castle. They set off from Rainhouse City and rushed from Shipbreaker Bay to Storm's End Castle. But today, the two troop ships There was still no news from the ship.

There are also many rumors that there have been frequent storms and turbulence at Shipbreaker Bay recently, which are frequent and violent, and many merchant ships have been wrecked at sea.

The northern part of the rainforest, the eastern part of Storm's End, and the northeastern part of Eagle's Nest. It is said that this area has been raining continuously since the beginning of autumn. Many areas have been completely destroyed by floods and mudslides caused by days of rain, and local people have been killed or injured. countless.

With the nobles busy fighting and no one to manage them, many survivors had to move to inland villages and towns.

As the rainy season continued, more and more villages and towns were affected. As refugees poured into the interior and unspoilt towns, more and more places began to become chaotic. Crime incidents emerged one after another. It was even said that slave ships secretly bought slaves. Human trafficking to Essos

Viserys secretly felt that the autumn rainy season in the Stormlands was unusual, and the affected areas in the Stormlands would be the focus of his inspections.

He had a vague feeling that his thunder and lightning power might fall on this place.