Game of Thrones: Knight of Glory - Chapter 399

c397 Margaery’s reminder

Seeing Linde riding that weird four-winged dragon flying up from the platform of the dragon’s lair and flying towards the Midsummer Hall, the officials and dignitaries who had just come out of the Red Fort meeting hall couldn’t help but have all kinds of envy and admiration in their eyes. look.

“If one day I can also…” Some people couldn’t help but fantasize.

Someone interrupted the other person’s fantasy and said: “Stop dreaming, you can’t do it.”

The man said unconvinced: “How is it impossible? The Velaryon family has also been married to my family ancestors, and my family’s bloodline also has Valyrian blood.”

Someone immediately joked: “If you go by what you said, then those prostitutes in Lys are more qualified to ride dragons than you are, and their Valyrian blood is much purer than yours.”

“Shut up, you guys! Don’t ask for trouble.” When Garland heard that they were getting more and more exaggerated, he immediately scolded them, and then turned to look at Bahrain, who was not far away, and Bahrain seemed to sense him. He turned his head to look at Garland, with a somewhat ugly smile on his face.

Before working with Balin in King’s Landing, Garland had been in contact with Balin more than once. In his impression, Balin was both a mercenary and a knight, but he didn’t look like a person engaged in intelligence work, at least. There is no special temperament like Wallis in Bahrain.

But now Bahrain makes him feel like a different person. The whole person gives him the feeling that he has no feeling. Yes, he can’t feel the breath of any living person in Bahrain, even if he is standing next to him, As long as you don’t see each other with your eyes, you can’t feel Bahrain’s presence.

This makes Bahrain very scary. If you stay with him for a long time, you will feel like there is a pair of eyes staring at you behind you at any time.

Garland learned from Margery that Balin seemed to have made a mistake and was punished by Linde and sent to the Salvation Temple to undergo trials. After completing the trial in the Redemption Temple, Balin became what he is now.

This made Garland extremely curious about the Temple of Redemption. What kind of trials are there that can make a person change completely, such as Bahrain or Cersei. Unfortunately, the Temple of Redemption is very mysterious and tightly guarded. There is no trial at all. There is a way to get in touch with the secrets. Margaery may know something, but Margaery will not reveal any relevant content and tells him not to inquire randomly.

While Garland was thinking about something, Prince Oberon of the Red Viper was leading his men out of the Red Castle and heading to the construction site of the Great Library. It seemed that he was going to the construction site to check the progress of the project to avoid the same situation as before. I was asked by the king like that at the meeting, but couldn’t answer anything. It makes people feel embarrassed just thinking about it.

Garland also saw the Red Viper leaving. He thought for a moment and signaled to his colleagues, asking them to wait for him at the mansion first, while he quickly caught up with the Red Viper.

“Lord Oberon, please wait a moment.” Garland shouted loudly behind the Red Viper.

The Red Viper hesitated for a moment, stopped, turned to look at Garland thoughtfully, and then smiled and said: “Lord Garland, you must be talking about the imperial system issues mentioned in the previous meeting, right?”

Seeing Red Viper’s direct inquiry, Garland hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said: “The conversation between you and His Majesty the King is confusing. Obviously you will spare no effort to support His Majesty the King’s idea of ​​reducing the rights of the lords entirely because Regarding the news from the Loen Kingdom, I wonder if the prince is willing to explain it to me? What kind of news could make you and Prince Daolang make such an abnormal decision?”

“Haha!” The Red Viper looked at Garland and couldn’t help laughing, and said: “To be honest, when you took the initiative to question His Majesty the King’s thoughts just now, I found it very strange. Logically speaking, your High Court should be the best. You shouldn’t question the king’s decision, you should be most willing to cooperate with his plan. I didn’t expect you to know nothing.”

“What do you mean by this?” Garland looked at the Red Viper in confusion and asked.

“It means that you have great resources but don’t know how to use them.” Red Viper shook his head slightly and said: “Your Margaery has won the trust of His Majesty the King. He has entrusted him with the important task of Speaker and holds the power of the kingdom. I think She should know a lot more than I do, so you should ask your little rose!”

Red Viper had no intention of continuing the conversation with Garland, and turned around and continued walking towards the library construction site with the others.

Garland hesitated after hearing the words, and immediately realized that he seemed to be a little far away from the near. Just as the Red Viper said, Margaery was indeed their best source of information.

Just to avoid suspicion, after Lind became king and established the Tyranids, he deliberately avoided Margaery to avoid being thought that the Tyrell family wanted to monopolize power in the new dynasty. Thinking about it now, his approach seems a bit Being too deliberate not only failed to achieve the desired effect, but also lost one of the best sources of information, leaving him completely clueless in an important meeting like just now.

Thinking of this, Garland immediately turned around and returned to the Red Keep. At this moment, Margaery should be holding a meeting with members of the Council in the Queen Mother’s Hall in Maegor’s House to formulate various plans and plans.

Originally, Margery, as the Kingdom Speaker, was supposed to attend the impromptu meeting just held by Linde. However, the parliament was having a closed-door discussion on an important food purchase plan, so she was not alerted. Now count the time and discuss the meeting. It should be over, and the regular voting by councilors will begin to decide whether the plan is passed or whether it needs to be modified.

When Garland arrived at the door of the Queen Mother’s Hall, a burst of fierce applause coincidentally came from the door. Apparently, the grain purchase plan should have been passed smoothly.

Immediately afterwards, the door of the Queen Mother’s Hall opened, and the members of the Kingdom filed out of the door. After seeing Garland, they all saluted Garland.

When everyone was almost gone, Garland walked in and saw Margaery signing the minutes of the meeting and the approved plan, and then handed it over to the attendant for record.

Seeing Margaery on the speaker’s seat, carefully signing every document, Garland couldn’t help but lament that his sister had grown up without knowing it.

“Brother Garland, why do you have time to come to my place? Why don’t you plan to avoid suspicion now?” After signing the last document, Margery raised her head and saw Garland. She couldn’t help but feel cold, and then she became slightly resentful. said.

Garland walked over and explained with a smile: “You should know that our family has now become the top family in the Tyran Dynasty. If we don’t know how to restrain ourselves, then our family’s strength cannot continue.”

“Okay, I can’t tell you anything,” Margery waved her hand disapprovingly and said, “I guess you’re not here to preach. Tell me! What difficulties have you encountered?”

Looking at Margaery now, Garland couldn’t help but smile bitterly. He began to miss the cute and well-behaved sister in the past.

“I did encounter a problem. You should be able to answer my question.” Garland told Margaery what happened in the previous meeting.

“Your Majesty is back?” However, after Margery heard that Linde was back, she temporarily stopped Garland, turned to look at the affairs officer aside, and asked, “Why didn’t anyone come to inform me?”

The clerk quickly replied: “Your Majesty knew that you were having an important meeting, so he did not disturb you.”

“Where is your Majesty now?” Margaery asked again.

The clerk added: “I just left, I think I’m going back to Shengxia Hall.”

Margaery curled her lips in displeasure, then looked at Garland with a bored expression and said, “Go on! Brother Garland.”

Garland continued to describe in detail what happened at the imperial meeting. When he spoke about asking Linde on behalf of other lords whether the imperial system after the establishment of the Lindeland Empire was still established according to the system of the Summer Hall, Margaery relied on The body sitting on the chair couldn’t help but sit up straight, and the expression on his face became serious.

Later, when the Red Viper unexpectedly expressed its support for the establishment of the Midsummer Hall system and was willing to actively cooperate with the empire in reducing the rights of the lords, Margaery stood up directly and asked Garland anxiously: “I wrote two days ago Didn’t you read the letter to you?”

Garland was stunned and said: “I haven’t been home these days. I am supervising the affairs of the Circuit Court. Your letter should be placed in the study at home.”

Margaery couldn’t help but hold her forehead and said with an annoyed look: “Damn it! How come you didn’t see that letter by chance?”

“Is that letter important?” Garland asked, “What did you write in it?”

Margery did not answer Garland’s question immediately. Instead, she stood up and handed the unfinished documents to her clerk, asking him to sort them out before giving them to her to sign.

Then, she took Garland out of the Queen’s Hall, passed through the porch and courtyard, and came to the Maiden’s House behind the chapel of the Red Castle.

This was the place where Baelor I imprisoned his sisters. It was now transformed into her own residence by Margaery. Because some confidential documents were stored here, Lind arranged for silent monks and nuns of redemption in the sanctuary in front of the residence. Responsible for protecting the virgin home.

After entering the maiden house, Margery asked Garland to stay in the living room. Then she went up to the second floor, searched on the second floor, came down with a piece of letterhead, handed it to Garland, and said, “This is After His Majesty the King went to the land of eternal winter beyond the Great Wall, he returned to the Great Wall and wrote me a letter. The news Prince Oberon received from the Kingdom of Lorne should also be the content of this letter. His Majesty the King did not know Name Queen Leia captured Braavos, thinking that Queen Nymeria was still on Na Sa, so she sent the letter back to Na Sa for Ellaria Sand, who was staying behind, to see it. , Ellaria Sand is Red Viper’s mistress, so she will naturally write to inform him.”

Listening to Margaery’s analysis, Garland picked up the letter and looked down at it carefully. His expression gradually became frightened and panicked according to what he saw. After reading it, he was stunned for a long time, and then Chao Margaery confirmed: “What is written here is true. The long night is approaching and eternal winter is coming. Will the entire continent of Westeros become as cold as outside the Wall?”

Margaery shook her head and said in a deep voice: “I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I know that His Majesty Linde treats this matter very carefully. The proposal at today’s meeting was made in accordance with His Majesty Linde’s request. There will be more than a dozen similar proposals in the future. In the next few years, the plans of the kingdom, no, the empire will be related to these dozen proposals. It seems that it is not only the seven kingdoms, but also the Kingdom of Lorne and the Free Trade City-state on the Essos continent. and Qarth will implement plans based on similar proposals.”

Although Garland very much hoped that the content on the letter was false, when he thought about some of the current policies and plans of the kingdom and the attitude of the Red Viper, he knew that the legendary extreme climate of Long Night and Everwinter was likely to be as described on the letter. That’s coming soon.

Once the extreme climate of the land of eternal winter appears on the continent of Westeros, no matter how fertile the land is, it will be impossible to grow food. By then, food will become the biggest problem, and then there will be the problem of survival in the extreme climate. .

Although there are also savage tribes living outside the Great Wall, and it seems that it will not have much impact, in fact, the reason why the savage tribes are able to survive beyond the Great Wall is that they have been trained in the cold climate for thousands of years. They have adapted to that climate. Except for the people in the Seven Kingdoms, who are slightly more resistant to cold in the north, it is impossible for people in other kingdoms to adapt to such extreme climates. By then, not only the common people, but also the nobles will fall ill and die in large numbers due to the extreme cold weather. , their territory will naturally become deserted.

Therefore, what the lords of the Seven Kingdoms hold on to will become worthless. Regardless of whether they are willing to do so in the end, once the extreme cold weather arrives, a large number of territories will be vacated, and the empire will inevitably develop under the system of the Summer Hall.

Garland was silent for a long time before asking: “Does your Majesty have any plan to deal with this?”

Margery sighed, shook her head, and said, “The response plan has always been in front of you, haven’t you seen it?”

Garland hesitated for a moment, and soon realized what Margaery was talking about, and confirmed: “Are you talking about the continent of Sothoros?”

“Yeah.” Margaery nodded.

Linde formed a pioneering group, built a naval base on the remote Big Mok Island, sent people to garrison in the mysterious Yashai, and other behaviors and policies that everyone thought were very weird, all in order to develop the original continent of Sothoryos.

For the dignitaries in King’s Landing, Lind’s behavior is a bit puzzling, because a lot of money, manpower and material resources are spent to develop the continent of Sothoros and build settlements on that primitive continent. Some of the gains outweigh the losses, so many people They all believe that this is Linde’s background that has affected his policies. They believe that Linde has an almost paranoid desire for territory. He has been continuously expanding territory since the Summer Hall, so that now he is aiming to expand territory in the direction of Soth. Ross continent.

Garland also agreed with this view in the past, but now he realizes that he was wrong, and how wrong he was. Lind opened up the continent of Sothoryos not to satisfy his paranoid desire for territory, but to In the future, when the long night and eternal winter freeze the continent of Westeros, the entire Westeros continent will be migrated to the continent of Sothoros.

If you think about it this way, many of the seemingly incomprehensible policies currently implemented by Linde become reasonable.

Garland thought for a while and asked: “Should I support His Majesty’s imperial system like Prince Oberon now?”

“You’d better write a letter back to Highgarden and ask your father and grandma.” Margaery gave advice: “After all, you are not the Lord of Highgarden, just the heir of Highgarden. You are not qualified for such an important matter. Make a decision.”

After hearing this, Garland was not angry because of Margaery’s overly direct words. Instead, he nodded seriously and listened to Margaery’s suggestion.