In the middle of the night, burn the fourth floor of King Tower.
Arthur, Tristan Legg, William Mouton, and Lyman Darry gathered around a small table to discuss matters concerning these families.
The grand meeting of the nobles during the day came to an end. Under the strong advocacy of Clement Piper and others, some lords agreed to elect a Bracken as the King of the River.
There are also some nobles who advocate that the title of the "Dragon Holder" be the Warden of the Seven Realms and the King of the Andals, the First Men and the Rhoynar, and then march to King's Landing to retake the Iron Throne.
In this regard, Arthur said that he should be more stable first, work hard to reorganize the river army, and wait until the dragon Alduin grows up.
Since the ancestors invaded the Western Continent, there have been six river kingdoms established by the river people themselves, namely: Fisher Dynasty, Blackwood Dynasty, Bracken Dynasty, Mulder Dynasty, Fairmen Dynasty, Teague Dynasty
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Among them, although Blackwood came from the Wolfwood area in the north, he only became king after establishing a foothold in the Riverlands, so he is also considered the Riverlanders' own dynasty.
The last rivermen dynasty was ended by the Storm King Alain Durrandon III. He married the daughter of the then lord of Raventree City, and then defeated the last five of the Teague dynasty at Twin Peaks on the north bank of the Red Fork River.
A king.
To commemorate the end of the Teague dynasty, the battle is also known as the War of the Six Kings, although several Teague kings only reigned for a few minutes.
Since then, the Riverlands has been ruled by others, first the Stormlanders, then the Ironborn of the Iron Islands, and then the Targaryen dynasty established by King Aegon I.
The Stark family in the north also surrendered to the Dragon family, but after Robb became independent at Riverrun, he chose to restore the ancient title of King of the North.
Therefore, Arthur's title of King of the River did not come out of thin air, it has historical evidence.
With the support of several earls including Vance, Piper, and Mallister, as well as the most powerful Marquis Aenys Frey, there is no objection to this for the time being.
Only a few Dragon Party families had more in-depth ideas, so after the Grand Council, Arthur personally discussed their demands with these families.
"If you can restore your surname to Targaryen and prepare to take back the Iron Throne, Female Spring can provide more support." William Mouton's point of view has always been clear.
According to him, if Arthur's title had always been King of the Rivers, his support for the new Bracken dynasty would be equal to his support for House Tully, the Kings of the North and the Three Rivers.
In the early days of the War of the Five Kings, Maidenpool only provided 500 soldiers to help guard the town's ferry on the Trident River. After that, it did not provide any soldiers, money or food to the Fish and Wolf Alliance.
"I already have a dragon, and Earl William is too stingy." Arthur looked at the timid lord of Maidenpool.
According to his assumptions, the Mouton family would have to make great efforts.
Although the territory of Maidenpool was cut off by Robert, it did not weaken its position as a trade hub in Crab Bay. The Moutons only relied on the taxes collected from the port and Maidenpool to support an earl.
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Therefore, the number of retired soldiers in Nuive Spring City has not decreased with the reduction of the territory, and has remained at around 2,000.
Moreover, so far, the war there has basically not been affected, and it is rare that even the people leading the country have fled to escape.
The current Mouton family's financial resources, military strength and potential strength can rank among the top three in the entire Riverlands.
"If I promise to attack King's Landing within two years and restore the long list of kings who guard the Seven Realms, can you fully preside over me from now on?"
Arthur gave a relatively unreal goal.
Let’s deceive the soldiers, money and food first. Who knows what the situation on the mainland will be like in two years’ time?
William Morton looked at this face that was as handsome as any Targaryen and nodded in agreement.
"In this case, you will have the full loyalty of Maidenpool and the Mouton family."
Lyman Darry, Raymond's son also made his own request:
"We in Darry City and the original territory are also absolute supporters of Targaryen. As long as you restore our territory, a steady stream of Darry City soldiers will join your army."
Arthur thought for a while and said: "The most I can do is restore your title of earl. The original territory of Darry City will temporarily belong to the small nobles who were rewarded by Robert."
The fiefdoms of families like Root near the crossing of the Trident River were the original territory of Darui City.
This group of people also supports the new King of the River. If Arthur reduces the fiefdom for no reason, I am afraid that the hearts of the people will slip through his fingers before he can grasp it.
Moreover, although the Hejian people have low combat prowess, their demands on the monarch are extremely high.
The Fairmen dynasty in the history of the Riverlands was because its founder, Benedick, was fair and righteous, and the world called him "Just" Dick, which won over the Brackens, Blackwoods, the two Vans and other families.
With his support, he unified the Riverlands and expanded the territory of the River Kingdom to its largest extent, reaching the Neck in the north, Nvquan in the east, Golden Teeth in the west, and the Blackwater River in the south.
It is worth mentioning that the Duskendale City, Rosby City and Blackwater River Mouth in the royal territory were included in the territory of the River Kingdom during the Fairmen Dynasty.
With such an example ahead of him, if Arthur did something unfair, a group of families might rebel.
Anyway, there are many kings now, and the nobles have enough loyal subjects.
Lyman Darry was obviously unhappy. He was still a fourteen-year-old child, and he couldn't hide his happiness and anger very well.
At Arthur's signal, William Mouton, who had a gentler personality, comforted little Darry with a few words.
Tristan solved the problem easily. He promised that everything in his territory could be handed over to the King of the River.
As long as Arthur helps him take back his family castle and territory from the remaining Western soldiers.
Currently, most of the Western Border Army has withdrawn from Xihejian, but one to two hundred soldiers are still stationed in some important castles.
The City of Travel's Rest was close to Riverrun, so it was recaptured by the combined forces of the Fish and Wolf, while Willowwood City was still in the hands of the Westerners.
"This is not a problem. With the soldiers of the Frey family and the Mouton family here, all the castles in the south of the river will be recovered."
After the decisive battle outside Casterly Rock, only about 10,000 of the Lions' main force was left. They still had to deal with Stannis in King's Landing, and were temporarily unable to launch a new round of attack on the Riverlands.
Although Erlu obtained the Stormlands, Dragonstone Island, King's Landing City and other territories, the River Reach Army also attacked Storm's End Castle, and Dragonstone Island did not have many resources. The war between the two religions in King's Landing City, and the extended relationship between
The dispute between the party and the rear party made Stannis even more troubled.
Therefore, he had no intention of conquering the other "false kings". What's more, Duskendale was closer to King's Landing. If the two deer wanted to attack, they would attack Cersei and Tommen first.
The problem of the Dragon Party family was basically solved. After Arthur asked them to leave, he recruited Aenys Frey, Simon Frey, Merry Frey and others.
He has to deal with this greedy family well.
Innis, who swaggered in, returned to his original honest appearance as soon as he saw Arthur. After bowing first, he sat down properly.
The reason why the Marquis of New Frey did this is very simple. The King of the River is wearing plate armor, and the giant hammer is also at hand.
After asking Podrick to close the door, Arthur took the lead and asked, "What's going on with Lotso and Golden Tooth City?"
According to the news from the raven, Lame Rosso led a thousand Frey soldiers to the Golden Tooth City with a high profile and prepared to reopen the gold mine.
Olifa, the acting city lord left behind by Arthur, was kidnapped by his brothers again.
The last time he was kidnapped was because he still wanted to follow the Young Wolf Lord after Robb regretted his marriage.
The bald man stared at the small table without speaking, and Arthur was sure that his peripheral vision was always staring at the giant hammer.
Meili, the youngest member of the Frey family, is more honest and answered this question.
"Rosso said that the Golden Tooth City has also entered the rule of the Riverlands, and Earl Leo Leford has died. Basically all members of the Leford family have been wiped out. Only Lady Alexa is left in the enemy camp, so according to the
According to the inheritance law, his wife Leona Leford has the inheritance rights of Golden Teeth City, so..."
Arthur flicked Inis's bald head hard with his right index finger, causing the area where the bullet was hit to become red and swollen immediately.
"What is our agreement?"
Marquis Frey covered his bald head and argued nervously: "Your Majesty, our oath did not include the Golden Tooth City, and Rosso's actions are also in compliance with the law..."
"In compliance with the law? Don't think that you are completely safe with the oath to protect you. Gold can be produced in Golden Teeth City, and gold can buy food. The Riverlands are short of food now, and I need to use food to win the hearts and minds of the people. You
If you don't understand the truth behind this, I will use all the wealth in Twin River City to help the starving farmers."
Arthur pointed at Aenys' nose and shouted.
Stonehedge is his largest direct territory now, but his loyalty is not very high. The territory at Moulin Rouge is too small. Harrenhal nominally belongs to Lady River and will belong to Sansa in the future, so he has to consider direct territory.
thing.
Coincidentally, Golden Tooth City is currently ownerless.
So the King of Hejian wanted to turn the fortress and the nearby gold mine into his own direct territory.
Simon Frey hurriedly smoothed things over, "Your Majesty, we understand the rules. Rosso is just helping you to garrison the castle and resist the attacks of the Westerners. We have no other ideas."
This is Old Walder's seventh son. His mother is Alyssa from Crakehall in the West.
Like many people with the blood of Krech, Simon is extremely tall and strong, even compared to his sixth brother, Hosteen, who has the same mother.
Arthur changed his tone to a more soothing tone: "Golden Tooth City will be one of my direct territories in the future. You should give up the idea of taking it there as soon as possible. I will send other people to take over Golden Tooth City. Rosso's men will go to the east for me."
We have come to fight on the front lines. And your butts have not been wiped clean, Black Walder has escaped."
Black Walder is the great-grandson of Old Walder, the grandson of Stevron, and the second son of Lyman Frey.
This is a non-marriage person who loves to applaud his cousins. During the Twin River Castle Incident, he was fooling around with his cousins in a mill somewhere, so he escaped the disaster.
After realizing that something was wrong, Black Walder fled on the spot and was now roughly in the area between the Green Fork River and the Blue Fork River. He also gathered a mini army of dozens of people and prepared to counterattack the Twins.
According to the law of inheritance, he, the only remaining eldest son in the line, is indeed the legal lord of Twins City.
"That's a clown. Aegon the Bloody has gone after him. To the outside world, we will say that Aegon has become a bandit, but in fact he is the killer of His Majesty and our Frey family. Anyway, he loves killing the most."
Simon introduced his nephew like this.
Arthur nodded, "He'd better deal with it."
Both parties knew very well that "Aegon the Blood" had another mission: to completely eradicate Blackwood from Raventree City.
Bald-headed Inis fawned and said: "No problem at all, because I offended you about the Golden Teeth City issue, so I will give you a small gift."
"Little gift, what is that?" Arthur asked curiously.
"You will know in two days. In short, it will be beneficial to your rule." Simon replied.
Hosteen's half-brother has his elder brother's recklessness, but without the stupidity.
He is also a Frey who needs to be vigilant, Arthur secretly marked him.
After another round of thinking, Arthur revealed the last issue that needed to be dealt with by the Frey family:
"The food you sell to the people in the north must be consistent with the peacetime market price, and the river crossing fee should be the same as usual. The extra money you made will be refunded."
Robert Glover, Herman Talha and others once led 2,300 northern soldiers north to regain the Gulf of Cailin. However, because White Harbor was competing with Little Skinny for the city of Horwood, there were no soldiers from the north.
Reinforcements.
The three towers in Carlin Bay defend against attacks from the south, west and east.
Although the Ironborn were small in number, the Northern Army had no choice but to station itself south of Moat Cailin and wait for the White Harbor cavalry to move south.
The army was extremely hungry for food, so Herman Taoha and others bought food from the nearest Twin River City.
At that time, Old Wade was still in charge, so he sold grain to the northerners at five times the usual price.
Although the Great Jon, Meggie Mormont, Owen Nory and others brought a group of Northern Army soldiers home again, and there were still several carts of gold in their hands, if the Frey family had collected a higher amount of money to cross the river,
After paying the bills and paying off the high-priced grain, the Yankees may not have much money left.
"Your Majesty, this goes beyond the scope of our agreement." Innis did not explicitly refuse, but he did not want to implement it.
Arthur thought for a while and said: "You execute it first. I know that the strength of the Frey family is far more than four thousand soldiers. Take some time and we will discuss a new agreement. When the time comes, you will provide no less than six thousand soldiers."
Army, I will also give you the rewards you deserve."
The Twin River City has not been affected by the war at all, and the territory at the river crossing is fertile and anointed, and the Frey family can still squeeze out some soldiers.
"Should we make it clear first before doing anything?" Inis was very torn now. He wanted to reject the King of the River's request, but he was also afraid that the giant hammer would hit him.
"I'll make you an offer you can't refuse. This is the deal with military rations and river crossing fees first. I also have to deal with the matters in King's Landing and Duskendale. Please step back first!"
Arthur waved his hand and asked these people to leave.
Then, Jason Mallister and his son Patrick were called.
The latter obtained eighty carts of food from the Reach, and took out the ten thousand golden dragons that Arthur had stored in Highgarden.
Although the Rose family has now invested in Tommen and the Lion family, Arthur does not want to withdraw all the remaining golden dragons.
If the Duke of Metz refuses to give these gold dragon coins in the future, this will be a perfect reason to let Highgarden change its owner.
There are many families in the Reach who have the blood of the original gardener family of the Reach King, but the Tyrell steward family does not.
Therefore, some Reach nobles have always had thoughts about Highgarden. For example, the Florent family of Brightwater City. A certain governor of his family married the daughter of the last Reach King. Therefore, the inheritance rights of Highgarden are the highest among all Reach nobles.
Front.
But Aegon I allowed the House of Rose, who offered Highgarden, to get the huge white castle.
This is the source of instability within the Reach.
If we could dig a few tunnels here, we might be able to dig down the entire wall.
Strong Earl Jason and his nymphomaniac son walked in.
Arthur motioned for them to sit down.
The earl observed the etiquette, and his son sat down calmly.
This caused Jason to scold his son, but Arthur waved it off and said it was okay.
"Lord Jason was called here because of Dorne's affairs."
The master of Haijiang City touched his beard and asked in confusion: "Are we, Mallisters, related to Dorne?"
Indeed, these two places are inaccessible, one is to the north of the west coast of Westeros, and the other is to the far south.
"It's just because it doesn't matter that I'm sending you to Sunspear and Water Gardens."
Arthur thought for a while and added: "You bring the head of Amory Lodge and the rotten head of the Magic Mountain. These two are the main culprits who killed Princess Ilia. This will allow us to obtain Ober
The friendship of Prince Lun.”
The difference between Dorne and the other six realms is that their leader is honored as prince or princess, and the leader's brothers and sisters share the same title.
Therefore, the brother of Prince Doran, the actual leader of Dorne, Oberon the Red Viper also has the title of prince.
"If you continue to praise my dragon and say how fast Alduin has grown, it is now one meter long and has a wingspan of four to five meters. This will make Prince Doran support us."
Although Dorne has the smallest population among the Seven Kingdoms, the people of Dorne are extremely united, so the Martell family is also a big help.
What's more, Targaryen has been in business for hundreds of years and has a very good relationship with the Martell family.
These two points alone were not enough for Dorne to send troops to contain the Reach, so Arthur came up with a trump card: "Tell the two princes that if Dorne sends troops to the Reach, I will permanently cede Nightsong City to Dorne.
Grace."
The 60,000 troops from the Reach are outside Storm's End Castle. If nothing unexpected happens, in the next period of time, these 60,000 troops from the Reach will move north and join forces with the Lion family's army to attack Stannis and Hejian successively.
The local "rebel" forces.
This gave the Dornish people an opportunity.
The significance of Night Song City is equivalent to the significance of Golden Tooth City to the people of Hejian.
With the Golden Teeth City, the Riverlands can guard the exits of the mountains, allowing the Westerlanders' attack to slow down in the valley paths.
With Nightsong City, the Dornish people no longer have to guard the Prince's Pass. They directly have a geographical advantage. They can attack, retreat or defend the Reach and the Storm.
After Earl Jason recited the conditions silently, he nodded in agreement.
Patrick's task was much simpler. He was sent to take over the Golden Tooth City and let the greedy lame Rosso come to the Eastern Front.
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