Game of Thrones: Battle Royale Game

Varys, who was standing next to Robert, was very satisfied with this situation. He had already guessed the purpose of the Tyrell family's visit, but he never reminded Robert, just to wait for this moment.

If the Tyrell family really reaches a marriage alliance with the Iron Throne, then their own Aegon and the Golden Company will no longer have any chance.

"Lord Tyrell," Varys said, still pretending to help, "the country is at war, so it seems inappropriate to talk about marriage now, right?"

"The king's marriage and heirs are the key to the country's stability and cannot be delayed for a long time," Metz refused on the spot. He was not stupid. If he didn't raise conditions now before the war was over, why not mention it after the war was over? "The royal wedding can naturally be postponed until after victory, but the engagement can be made in advance."

"Hahaha." Just when Robert didn't know how to deal with it, a discordant laughter sounded in the throne room.

Everyone looked for the source of the laughter and found Oberyn Martell leaning under a pillar.

"Lord Tyrell, I advise you not to waste your efforts. You don't know yet, right? Your Majesty brought back a winter snow rose from the north this time, and the position of queen has been reserved for her."

"A Stark?" The Duke of Metz was confused for a moment. The reason why he could confidently propose a marriage request was because he knew that there was no marriageable woman in the Stark family.

"No, that's just the daughter of a small noble family in the north." Oberyn sneered. Dorne and the Reach were old enemies, and he would not let go of such an opportunity to humiliate the Tyrell family. "That's right. , her brother is Ser Lorraine of the Kingsguard who stands before you."

Hearing this, the expressions of all the nobles in the Reach instantly turned extremely ugly.

It was a scandal to refuse Tyrell's marriage request for the sake of a minor noble.

Then, everyone looked at Robert on the Iron Throne.

"Your Majesty, you have agreed to my request in advance," Mace said. "I hope you can clarify this malicious rumor." When he spoke, he glared at Oberyn.

But it was the Duke of Metz's words that instantly angered Robert, who had originally planned to hide the matter.

"I promised you in advance because I didn't know you would make such a request, my lord," Robert did not use extreme words. He knew that he still needed to rely on the people in front of him to fight the war, but his tone already contained the dignity of a king. Majesty, "I can only regret to tell you that what Prince Oberyn said is not a rumor.

As early as in the north, I had already given the position of queen to someone else. Although I personally look forward to marrying the Tyrell family, I don't want to mention it again. "

Public rejection, public rejection in front of the entire royal territory, the Southern Territory and all the great nobles in the Stormlands.

The public humiliation, the humiliation of preferring to fulfill a promise to an unknown little nobleman rather than marrying into the Tyrell family, seems to be mocking the fact that the Tyrell family was once just the "Grand Steward" of the Gardener family of the "King of the Reach". fact.

People always like to ridicule the Frey family of the Twins as a nouveau riche with a history of only 800 years, but the Tyrell family has truly been prosperous for less than 300 years!

After the Targaryen family conquered Westeros, they saw that the Tyrell family had little influence as stewards of the old king, so they were made the guardians of the South.

They are the real nouveau riche.

If Robert's new queen is really Eddard Stark's sister or daughter Mace Tyrell, she would admit it, but what is that 'winter snow rose'? A minor noble from the north?

Are minor aristocrats considered aristocrats?

The bloody wound was torn open, and almost all of Duke Mace Tyrell was trembling.

I brought an army of 100,000 to serve the king. Is this the answer you, Robert Baratheon, gave me?

The Duke of Metz was vain and lacked political skills, and was often called the 'Lord Inflatable Fish' behind his back. At this moment, he was so humiliated that he forgot the most basic etiquette of a monarch and his ministers, and walked away directly.

What made him even more humiliated was that the only people who followed him away from the scene were his two sons and members of the Redwyne family to which his mother belonged. The other great nobles of the South stayed behind.

At this moment, the weakness of the Tyrell family's influence was undoubtedly exposed.

Astapor

"Send these centaurs into the military camp to learn formations?" Unsullied instructor Lyxix asked doubtfully, "I don't quite understand what you mean, sir. Dothraki are not good at fighting on foot, and they are all savage, unruly, and unruly. There is no point in subjecting them to githification training if they do not obey discipline.”

Since hearing the praise of the city lord Fermor for Ian on the coast of Astapo and witnessing the 'miracle' of Ian's taming of the centaur slaves, Lysix has also been impressed by Ian. A strong feeling of admiration arose.

He didn't dare to refute Ian's words loudly, so he could only raise his objections tactfully.

"Slaves who are savage, unruly, and disobedient are not qualified to be my cavalry. What I want you to practice is their obedience." Ian explained.

"Practice obedience?"

"Yes, I want you to organize them into teams of ten and centurions, select captains of ten and centurions from them, and then start training the array.

You have to tell them that whichever centurion is the first to obey the orders and prohibitions, they will get the purifying water I provide, and then gain the right to fight on horseback. "What I need is not Dothraki barbarians, what I need is Mongolian cavalry.

"If that's the case," Lysix thought of the previous scene of the centaur slaves shouting 'miracle,' "if it's to gain the power to ride horses, then I think their resistance will be much smaller."

"Do it, my friend."

"You speak Valyrian so fluently. I can't believe you only started learning this language after arriving in Astapor." Lysix accepted the order and said before leaving.

"I have always been very talented in learning." Ian smiled. Unexpectedly, I started learning half a year ago.

Watching Lysix walking to the training ground and starting to organize the Dothraki, Ian lay on the guardrail of the high platform and sighed softly.

Training horse people for obedience in this way was not his first choice, and he did it simply because he was running out of money.

Although Ian brought more than 100,000 gold dragons with him when he came to Astapor, and seized property worth 50,000 to 60,000 gold dragons during the operation in Worm River, he later hinted at the Holy Grace Temple in Astapor and several major The family donated 70,000 to 80,000 gold coins (light gold coins cast in Meereen, weighing about one-third of the golden dragon) to themselves.

But the money still bottomed out in just two months.

According to Ian's plan, a formal cavalryman needs at least a group of war horses and two marching horses. If there is enough money, then it is best to have two pack horses.

Ian does not need to equip the cavalry with pack horses for the time being, but just to equip the 2,700 centaur slaves he has purchased, the budget will reach more than 40,000 gold dragons, not including their weapons and armor. and subsequent maintenance costs.

Ian, who was busy 'farming', would never be able to afford such a large amount of expenditure. Even if he could afford it, it would not have such a high priority.

Instead of spending a lot of money to buy qualified war horses, it is better to find a way to steal a few small Dothraki casas and get horses from them.

After all, for such large expenditures, only free prostitution is the way to go.