According to the bachelor's observation records, it was late autumn and Westeros officially entered the third hundred years of Aegon's conquest, but the common people and nobles did not feel this deeply.
The reason is very simple. The long summers and long winters that last for several years and the spring and autumn that last for a year have seriously reduced ordinary people's ability to perceive seasonal changes.
The uncertainty of seasonal changes makes months disappear from ordinary people's concept. In fact, most people only remember the day of the month when their name day is, and the rest of their view of time is only the alternation of day and night and the repetition of weeks.
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But the top nobles would also find more important days to do some things, so that historians would record them with a layer of sacredness.
For example, now, on the first day of the 300th year of the Conquest, King Arthur I announced his next marriage.
"In order to comply with the Targaryen family tradition, to make the true dragon bloodline more pure, and to prevent the royal family from civil war, I, Arthur Targaryen, have decided to enter into a holy marriage with Daenerys Targaryen Stormborn."
God and all the adults present will witness our engagement ceremony."
Arthur, who was wearing a pure gold crown, stood on the high platform in front of the Iron Throne and announced the decision loudly to the six members of the Royal Council, more than forty nobles, and nearly a hundred selected wealthy businessmen and civilians in the throne room.
Behind him, the Dragon Queen in a white brocade robe sat proudly on the Iron Throne, looking carefully at the Red Castle and the throne room of her dreams.
The reason for this embarrassing situation is simple. Arthur arrived later than Daenerys, and it was difficult to pull up the Dragon Queen who was sitting on the Iron Throne, so he simply stood on a high platform to perform the ceremony.
"Let me correct you. Arthur's surname is not Targaryen. He can only take my family name after marrying me."
As if to compete, Dany spoke louder than Arthur.
Her statement also makes sense. Even if the king orders a surname change, it must be approved by the governor of the family with that surname.
After the Usurper's War, the only legitimate Targaryen members were Viserys and Dany.
After the Sleeping Dragon experienced the challenge of the Golden Bucket, even though Daenerys was a woman, she was still the well-deserved Targaryen Warden.
In other words, the process of changing Arthur's surname was a bit out of order, but at that time the people of the River were eager to have a king of the Seven Kingdoms, and the people of the River did not mind their king being upgraded to the King of the Seven Kingdoms, so the matter was passed in a muddle.
"My surname is recognized by all the nobles in the Seven Kingdoms, not by marrying you. If you have any objections, we can let the nobles vote in the Grand Council to discuss the correctness of this matter."
Arthur responded to the question without looking back.
While the two people on the high platform were arguing, hundreds of people in the hall listened quietly. Even the little devil, who was not very peaceful, behaved a lot.
Many people are keenly aware that this marriage is not so harmonious.
Daenerys was not to be outdone, "The nobles are just vassals of the king. What right do they have to express opinions on the royal family. If you insist on discussing this matter at the Grand Council, then the date of our wedding will be postponed until before the Grand Council."
Arthur thought about it and found that it was not unacceptable. At least at that time, representatives of all the families would come, so they had no reason not to send congratulatory gifts to the king's wedding.
"As you wish!"
The Great Council they were talking about was the result of discussions between Arthur, the queen, and several close ministers.
In the 101st year of the Conquest Calendar, in order to select a convincing heir from Viserys, the eldest son of Prince Baelron, and Lannino Velaryon, the son of the eldest daughter Rhaenys (the uncrowned queen), Renrui
King Jaehaerys I held the first great council at Harrenhal.
According to the records of Bachelor Galdan, it was the result of this meeting that allowed the nobles to reach a consensus that the succession order of women or male descendants of women was weaker than that of male descendants of the second son.
The Great Council in 136 was to elect a new regent, because the king Aegon III was underage at the time, and the old regents were fighting for power and making the kingdom a mess.
As for the Third Great Council, which was the Great Council in 233, the peasant king Aegon V was successfully elected as the new owner of the Iron Throne after many twists and turns.
These three great councils were all intended to resolve major issues in the kingdom at that time, and their essence was to determine the right to rule and inherit.
What Arthur wanted to discuss in the Great Council was not the inheritance rights, but the obligations that the nobles should fulfill.
The entire Targaryen conquest actually took three generations.
The first generation of the Conqueror Aegon I and his sisters only allowed the Six Kingdoms to formally merge into the Targaryen Dynasty. The second generation of Maegor rode his dragon Balerion to cripple the church armed forces that were extremely threatening at the time.
On this basis, the third generation of Jaehaerys reconciled with the church and took back the power of judgment from the monks and nuns.
But what Sandai did was far more than that. He and Queen "Good" Alexa pushed for the establishment of written laws and established circuit courts to limit the power of the nobles; five avenues were also built during his reign, which greatly strengthened the seventeenth century.
connections between countries.
For southerners, the meaning of the Five Avenues is just a spacious road, but for the north, which is short of food during the long winter, the King's Avenue is a life-saving road.
That is a magical heavenly road~ It brings happiness and health to us northerners!
Even during the Jae I period, the king was not the director of King's Landing, the largest toilet in the Seven Kingdoms. King Jaehaerys I vigorously reorganized King's Landing and actively built deep wells and sewers to maintain sanitation.
In the late Jie Yi period, the royal family's prestige reached its peak.
This Targaryen peak period lasted until the death of Viserys I. During the reign of Wei Yi from 103 to 229, dragons laid eggs steadily and hatched one after another, and the prosperity of Westeros reached its peak since the ancestors migrated westward.
After the Dance of the Dragons, the Targaryens lost most of their dragons, and the only remaining members were Aegon III and his two sisters (between Daemon Targaryen and Lanael Velaryon).
Daughter), his brother Viserys II was still the son-in-law of Lys.
The seven regents and bachelors selected by the nobles greatly fooled these children, so all the measures to strengthen the royal power implemented during the period of Jaehaerys I were abolished, and the national circuit courts disappeared from history.
By the time Aegon V was called the Peasant King, he wanted to follow the example of his ancestor Jay I, strengthen the royal power and weaken the power of the nobility to improve the rights of the common people, that is, to make the common people live a better life. However, this aroused the opposition of the nobles, and because
His experience of free love affected his children, so much so that most of his children fell in love freely and broke their marriage agreements with the great nobles, which further reduced the prestige of the royal family.
The decline of the royal power stems from the disappearance of the dragons, but now the royal family has a total of four growing dragons, and has obtained the support of the strongest river bend through marriage. Arthur decided to strengthen the power of the Iron Throne first.
Therefore, after unifying the Northern Territory and the Stormlands, it is urgent to convene a grand council that can unite the consensus of all parties.
In addition to restoring some of the practices of the Jay I period, Arthur and Daenerys also want to implement more measures that are beneficial to the royal family and the common people.
For example, during the transition period of the throne, no non-royal nobles are allowed to lead troops out of their own territory. Royal nobles and the royal standing army are not allowed to leave their territory or station without permission from the previous king without the decree of the previous king. Violators will be beheaded or exiled to the Great Wall.
Another example is the full implementation of the written laws enacted during the Jay 1 period: the penalty for betrayal and oath-breaking is death, poachers and thieves will lose a hand, the penalty for intentional injury is discretionary mutilation, and rapists will be castrated.
Many lesser offenses were punishable by caning.
Of course, Arthur also wanted to play a damaging trick: re-cast and issue golden dragon coins.
The main power of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to manage the entire kingdom's coinage system and collect seigniorage from it.
This process is accomplished through three mints outside King's Landing.
In Robert's later years, Petyr Baelish the Littlefinger began to tinker with the coinage.
A proverb spread in the Seven Kingdoms: Give Lord Baelish a golden dragon and he will snap his fingers and it will turn into two.
The secret here is very simple, that is, the old gold dragon coins with a gold content of more than 70% are melted into new gold dragon coins with a gold content of only about 30%.
The clever little finger turned one old gold dragon coin into two new gold dragon coins, and the remaining 20% gold went into his own pocket.
Thanks to the lack of education, only a few knowledgeable nobles on the Western Continent have guessed Baelish's trick, such as Lady Olenna, the Queen of Thorns, and Lord Tywin, the former Duke of Lannister.
The former actively hoards old gold dragon coins and trades them with gold hand coins stored in Highgarden - gold coins issued by the descendants of Garth Greenhand, which are only half the size of gold dragon coins. The latter owes the royal family to the Lannister family.
In the name of huge debt, no more gold will be sent to the mint, no more money will be sent to King's Landing.
Littlefinger acquired a large amount of property through this method, but because there was no formal provision of the Council of Kings, he could only do it secretly.
But Arthur is different. As the king, he can justly order nobles from all over the country to send all the gold coins stored in their cellars for hundreds or even thousands of years to the mint, and cast them into coins with the names of Arthur I or Arthur I.
Gold dragon coin with an upper body portrait of Daenerys III.
"One for two" sounds very profitable.
After the new marriage relationship was established, everyone invited to the scene began to applaud and celebrate, and uttered auspicious words.
"The glory of the Dragon Family will return!"
"King Arthur's happiness reaches another level."
"May the gods bless you."
Although people who believe in the Seven Gods account for the majority of them, most people cannot say anything about the blessings of the Seven Gods. After all, in the belief in the Seven Gods, marrying more wives is an act of blasphemy.
This is just a small detail. In fact, the party announcing the engagement was a success, and the selected civilian representatives rushed to express their support and support for the royal family's move with the nobles.
After all, those who don't support it won't be selected.
As for the aspect of the Archbishop's testimony, it was ignored by everyone. In addition to the king's obvious violation of the doctrine of the Seven Gods, the fact that there is currently no Archbishop in King's Landing is also a very important factor.
After the meeting, Arthur took the courtiers and guards back to the great meeting hall to continue discussing the war in the south.
Daenerys, who is passionate about the Iron Throne, is actively meeting with nobles and civilian representatives of King's Landing.
On the stairs leading from the throne room to the council chamber, new good news was delivered to the king.
Tristan, the commander of the King's Landing garrison who was temporarily in charge of the Crow's Nest, read this letter to the king and the rest of the people.
This is not because Arthur asked others to read letters, but because the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms have a tradition of asking bachelors to read letters sent by ravens.
Because the great aristocrats use words less frequently and receive less education, they may make mistakes when reading them by themselves.
"My eldest daughter, Arianne Nameros Martell, will marry King Arthur I... A vanguard force of five thousand people has assembled near Tianji City at the southern end of Prince's Pass. They will capture Nightsong first.
City, and then continue to attack the rebels northward... A follow-up force of 10,000 people is gathering, including the Evenwood family, the Dayne family of Fallen Star City, the Gergenles family of Salt Coast, the Santaga family of Spotted Wood, and the prison
The Uller family of Gate Castle and others will continue to fight for the Dragon family."
The content of the letter mainly has three points. First, Prince Doran agreed to the marriage between Arianne and Arthur, but the letter did not mention whether the next generation of Dorne's heirs would still be Arianne or Arianne's descendants.
Second, an army of 5,000 people has been assembled at the southern end of Prince's Pass, mainly including the Fowler family, the lords of Tianji City, the Manwoody family, the lords of Wangzhong City, the Blymond family of Blymond City, and the Gaoyin City.
The Dane family branch and other forces.
It is worth mentioning that the leader of this army is the knight of Gaoyin City, Gerald Dayne, also known as "Dark Star".
The third point is also related to military affairs. The armies of the families further away from the Prince's Pass are still gathering. They will be the second Dornish army to attack the Stormlands. Prince Doran promised that at least these ten thousand people will be defeated before the decisive battle with the main force of the Golden Company.
Will appear under Storm's End to participate in the battle.
"Your Majesty, the Dornish people are sincere enough. My brother's determination to support the Targaryens is no less determined than any northern noble."
It was rare for Prince Oberyn to speak out on such a matter.
It’s no wonder that by sending troops this time, Dorne will not only get the position of queen, but also the city of Nightsong, which has not been captured for thousands of years. This will greatly improve the offensive and defensive situation in the war between Dorne and the Stormlands.
The lord of Nightsong City is the Cullen family. The governor of this family often also has the title of Commander of the Stormlands. The former governor, Blaise Cullen, died fighting for Stannis outside King's Landing. There is only one left in the entire family.
An illegitimate son named Roland Storm.
Currently, Roland has been changed by Stannis to Cullen, and has taken over the position of Earl of Nightsong City.
As for Roland himself, he should be outside Storm's End Castle and surrendered to the Golden Company.
The situation of the Cullen family could completely allow a Dornish family to inherit the territory of Nightsong City.
"But you have gained a lot. Nightsong City alone is worth an expedition of 15,000 troops."
Arthur said as he walked into the large conference hall.
He thought about it and added a few more clauses, "You must also return the Valyrian crown that Daeron I brought to Dorne."
Daeron I was the eldest son of Aegon III and the eighth Targaryen king to ascend the Iron Throne. His most famous achievement was the expedition to Dorne.
During his expedition to Dorne, his crown, the only Valyrian ring ever worn by a Targaryen, was lost in Dorne.
If nothing unexpected happens, the crown is currently being kept in a castle in Dorne.
With the strength of the Martell family, it is not difficult to order the vassals to hand over the crown.
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