Chapter 116: 116
"Lord Tywin is back at King's Landing."
"It was a battle to decide who sits upon the Iron Throne, and several Free Cities along the coast were alerted, why wouldn't I know?"
Late night.
In Westeros, King's Landing, the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, in the Palace on Aegon's High Hill, the Red Keep.
Somewhere in the dark stone path underground in the Red Keep, sounds gradually came, and the light of the torch cast two twisted shadows on the walls.
As two people walked in, the torch can be seen held in the hands of a rough brawny man in an iron helmet.
His companion was more bloated than him, and on each of his ten thick fingers, he wore one or two gem-set rings, red, gold, silver, rubies, sapphires, large diamonds…
Although they were large, they both walked lightly. The man in the helmet seemed to be sliding on the ice without making a sound. The Lord with a yellow-forked beard was even more peculiar. He was on his heels and kept the state of Water Dancer walking when walking.
One can't judge a person by appearance, these two are brilliant Water Dancers!
"Why did you choose to come to me at such a terrible time, now that you know? Tyrion may have the wisdom of Lord Tywin, but Lord Tywin is far more able and more vicious than him.
When facing him, I must be careful and check every second of every minute, or things could go wrong with even the lightest words or slightest movements." The helmeted man said in a neutral voice.
The man in the steel helmet was wearing an old hard leather jacket with brown filth and rusted iron on it, with a dagger and a short sword tied around his waist.
He has a round face with scars, no upper lip hair, and a short black mustache on his lower lip. If he didn't have eyes that occasionally reflected a bright light, anyone would think of him as a flea street down-and-out warrior who can be seen everywhere.
The rich man sighed, "I did not want to come to King's Landing at this time either. Lord Stannis' fleet suffered heavy losses in the previous battle, so he hired Salladhor Saan's fleet.
The notorious pirate who proclaimed himself the Lord of Blackwater Bay, and almost blocked the sea route from the Narrow Sea to King's Landing.
Also, there was no ship left within the Sea Territories near King's Landing, and I was without. I didn't deign to dock my boat, so I had to wait until midnight, but the smugglers took advantage of the darkness to take me to the rapids at the bottom of the Red Keep."
"Then you came back?" The man in the iron helmet intoned.
"That little Queen from Slaver's Bay sent me a message." The rich man sighed.
He was sighing a lot tonight.
Hearing this solemnly, the man in the iron helmet asked: "Did she give you information, or have your people come to report information about her?"
"She specifically asked a merchant ship to bring me a letter."
"What is written?"
The rich man didn't want to sigh anymore, but when he heard this question, he still sighed heavily and said, "She was right first. I sent a fleet to pick her up to thank her, and then apologize for taking my cargo in exchange for the Unsullied.
After some courtesies, she promised me the loss of wealth for withholding my cargo and fleet and will double the compensation in the future.
Because Astapor is alone, and the sea is often patrolled by Meereen and New Ghis ships, she needs Blackbeard Groleo to control the navy…
Yes, she built a small navy, a dozen cargo ships, and two longships. Capitan Groleo became the little Queen's Master of Ships, and the crew also transformed into the Mother of Dragons' sea soldiers.
Alas, the terrified girl who was under my control has died in the Dothraki Sea and was reborn in blood and fire, the new Dragon Queen is a real Targaryen."
After a long silence, the man in the iron helmet said: "I know of what you say, within the past six months, New Ghis, Yunkai, and Meereen have all begun to stir, and they have also formed An 'Allied Forces Against the Evil Mother of Dragons', but they are concerned about the Queen's Thousands of Unsullied, and only push to send fleets to harass the coast of Astapor.
But she has Dragons, and even a young Dragon can quietly burn sails and ropes in the dark.
After losing four ships one after another, the coalition changed its strategy, no longer harassing the docks and coastal settlements, but have completely blocked Astapor's commercial activities.
But aside from the slave trade, does Astapor have any other attractive goods? Blocking the sea route has no effect on her."
If Dany was here, through the dialogue between the two, you can easily guess their identities, one is the Pentos trade Magister, House Targaryen's "old friend", Illyrio Mopatis.
The other is Varys, the Master of Whisperers of Westeros, known as The Spider.
After Jorah confesses to clemency, Dany had guessed that Illyrio holds a connection to Varys.
While hearing her conjecture, Barristan told her directly that Varys and Illyrio were friends and partners more than two decades ago.
Varys, as an intelligence monger, hiding in the dark and has been responsible for gathering information.
Illyrio came forward to help him find customers in need of information, and by helping those customers, he established a network of contacts in his business.
The two are a perfect match and have made much of their cooperation, even King Aerys on the other side of the Narrow Sea knows of it.
At this time, the two friends walked forward while talking, and soon came to the end of the passage.
Walking about two floors up the narrow staircase that spiraled upwards, the front view suddenly widened, and with the firelight, the hazy image in the dark revealed its true face: a huge cave, and between the stone pillars standing on the left and right sides, there is a row of huge Dragon bones with hideous visages.
"I don't know when the three Dragons of the Dragon Queen will grow to be so big."
Illyrio looked at the tall skull in the building in front of him – the legendary Balerion, and was full of trepidation, "she gave me a letter explaining in detail the reasons for not being able to come to Pentos.
First, she was too soft-hearted, she originally only planned to buy the Unsullied to protect herself, but after seeing the miserable appearance of the slaves, she decided to do what a Queen should do – make this world a better place."
Varys' frowned lightly, quietly saying: "I seem to recall that she doesn't hold any Royal education, and she has been surrounded only by cruel Dothraki, where has this idea come from?"
"Maybe it's the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard who is too upright? Barristan the Bold can be regarded as a legendary figure. He would hold more influence than Mormont."
"I kind of regret arranging for him to find her if that is to be true." Varys sighed.
"We originally thought that Barristan would help her gain momentum. He has a great reputation in Westeros and can influence the choices of many Knights." Illyrio shrugged and continued: "Second, she wants to wait for the Dragons to grow up." Varys nodded in admiration, and shook his head again, "But we don't need an Aegon with teats, she can be Rhaenys or Visenya, but not Aegon!
If those Dragons are controlled by only her, our plan…"
Varys' voice dropped, his eyes flickered, and he gradually frowned harder.
"Do not worry, my friend." Illyrio patted the Spider on the shoulder and smiled: "A Dragon with three heads, a Knight can only control one, the Dragon Queen is still asking me about the Targaryen's illegitimate child! "
"She thinks..." Varys' expression slackened, looking thoughtful, "I didn't get the news, looks like the little bird who went to Astapor is a little slack!"
"Maybe she never mentioned it to anyone else, your little bird can hear many secrets, but not all. She told me that she was in the House of the Undying and saw a prophecy, a Dragon has three heads, and her Dragons need three Dragonriders. If you don't have a bastard, you can also contact House Velaryon in Driftmark."
Speaking of this, Illyrio asked jokingly, "Should we take advantage of that six-year-old?"
Velaryon is to Targaryen what Mormont is to Stark.
Velaryon was House Targaryen's retainer during the time when Valyria ruled the world.
Targaryen later left Valyria for Dragonstone, and Velaryon followed, making a home in Driftmark, right next to Dragonstone.
In the early stages, the two held marriages so frequently that they can almost be regarded as family.
In the Dance of the Dragons period, in addition to Targaryen blood descendants, Velaryon also obtained the qualification to ride Dragons.
If House Velaryon knew that Dany hatched Dragons at this time, they would probably abandon their family and leave Westeros directly, and return to Dany's command, and Dany would definitely accept and reuse them.
It's a pity that they don't know, it's useless for them to know, and as such are powerless!
House Velaryon has been withering badly in recent years. The previous generation Lord Velaryon just died in the battles created by Lord Tyrion, leaving only a six-year-old son and an adult bastard brother.
Varys' mind whirled, and he suddenly guessed the purpose of Illyrio's visit to him this time, and pondered: "Do you want Young Griff to go to Astapor ahead of time?"
Illyrio full off smiled, nodded, and said: "I came to you because of this idea. It's only safe to talk about this kind of thing in person. What do you think?"
Varys' tightly wrinkled a frown as he inserted the torch between the sharp teeth of a dragon's skull, walking back and forth in the empty stone hall a little irritably.
The thick soles brought an irritable rubbing sound on the ground. Obviously, he lost the composure he had maintained before and walked out of the Water Dancer movements.
"The Horselord died unexpectedly, and she hatched dragon-like Wonders out of the three broken stones you gave… Our plans have changed and changed, the third revised plan is to let Young Griff slowly get in touch with her, contact the Dragons, and then reveal his identity after he has gained the Dragon's favor. Now… although he is unwilling, it seems that it is time to revise the plan for the fourth time."
Illyrio sighed then said, helplessly: "Astapor is not Pentos, and I can't arrange things."
"Continue." The Spider said.
"Continue what?"
"The third reason."
"Ah…" Illyrio nods, saying, "She thinks winter is coming, launching a war of conquest will cause a large number of commoner deaths. This reason is the same as our previous plan, but it is not to be concerned about the commoners, but the cost of launching a war in winter is too high, and there are too many uncertain factors. A sudden cold may ruin any army."
"Ai, the times are changing fast, and the rhythm is out of our control." Varys looked extremely helpless, the war between the lion and the wolf was a long time ago. The scheduled plot happened, but it happened too early.
A few years earlier, he had to pull Viserys and the Horselord to fill the hole, but those two people not only failed to fill the hole but also made a deeper hole…
"I have a feeling that in addition to me, there are more players hiding in the dark." The Spider sighed.
"The Dragon is a symbol of status, and it is also a force that determines the current situation. No matter how big the change is, it is so insignificant in front of the Dragons." Illyrio said firmly.
Varys nominates, agreeing with what he said.
In the Game of Thrones, the Dragon is enough to counteract any downsides, even turning the board over.
"You can let Young Griff pass, but not now." Varys gritted his teeth and said with some grumbling: "Since she has more than 10,000 Unsullied, why isn't she sweeping Slaver's Bay?
Now the Allied Forces Against the Evil Mother of Dragons is scouring the sellsword groups. In the past six months, the Second Sons, the Company of the Rose, and the Stormcrows have entered Yunkai one after another.
If the Bloody Mummers were not caught earlier and hired by Lord Tywin, that group of Bloody Mummers would also be on the opposite side of the Dragon Queen."
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