Game of Thrones: The Strongest Dragon Mother

Chapter 204 The Guise Mission in Action

In addition to the Volantis politicians pulling votes, Dany also easily found the Ghis Mission. They even imitated the way of consul candidates, using giant elephants to carry hot girls and delicate-skinned boys, and send them along the street for free. .

The long procession of at least fifty mammoths, two or three hundred slave boys and girls, was hard for Dany to ignore.

In addition to the slave bed slaves in the elephant-back tower, many giant elephants also have huge nanmu boxes and rattan baskets hanging beside them.

"Long live the Allied Forces, long live the United Nations, and the mother of dragons!" Toka, who was riding a camel in front of the elephant team, shouted loudly.

"Support the resolution of the Allied Expedition and the United Nations resolution to block trade in Slave Bay."

"Boycott the goods of the unscrupulous sea merchants who stole into Slaver's Bay, don't buy or sell white sugar, don't buy snowflake salt, don't buy liqueur with fruit juice, don't"

Both sides of the giant elephant have yellow silk cloaks on horses and camels, and they hold banners and wooden signs. A huge red cross is drawn on "white sugar", and a huge red cross is drawn on "snow salt"

Whenever a Volantene from the block stood up, showed his sea ship certificate, and swore never to sail into the slave bay, the Ghisian asked him to choose two slave bed-mates, and took them out of the basket. Throw handfuls of Jinhui coins to him.

There are seventy or eighty gold coins at least, mixed with colorful jewels such as rubies, green emeralds, tiger's eye stones, tourmalines, etc., which is a mess of boldness.

"Seven layers of hell!"

Danny's eyeballs almost bulged out from the Githman's coquettish manipulation.

In order to deal with her, the "Mother of Dragons", the slave traders really did their best.

But also because this group of people was too ostentatious, she and Barristan easily found the embassy's lair - the residence of Nexio Wisama, the governor of the Elephant Party.

Located in the east of the black wall, across a street, is a super big house covering an area of ​​two hectares.

Following the practice of the Gis people, Dany drew a huge red cross on the mansion in her heart, and the big blackness in the sky locked on this place at the same time.

After finding the residence of the Ghis envoy, Dany saw that it was still early, so she didn't go back immediately.

With a pure tourist mentality, the two began to visit this thousand-year-old city.

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The city is so big that it is a bit barren, or in other words, Volantis is now less than half of its heyday.

Walking around the black wall, the two of Dany have been to the north of the black wall.After passing through a prosperous area, they continued to look north, only to find a large area of ​​urban ruins between the northern city wall and the black wall of the eastern city of Volantis.

Well, Volantis, unlike Valyria or Oros, has walls.

Heiqiang is an inner city, like the Forbidden City in old Beijing, with a vast city outside, facing the river in the west, the sea in the south, and ten-meter-high city walls in the north and east.

When Dany and Barristan left the black wall and walked northward for half a mile, they found that the block in front of them was deserted, and some places even turned back into a swamp full of water and grass.

A large number of houses were abandoned, all the squares were empty, most of the fountains were drained, and the remaining pools were either dry or fetid stagnant pools.

Brown devil grass grows on the pavement, purple morning glory emerges from the cracks in the brick wall, and peach and sour date trees take root in the shop with the collapsed roof.

From the perspective of the dragon spirit, Dany saw far more than Barristan. Inside the huge Valyrian city walls, the abandoned city was far more than the one in front of her.

How many low-lying swampy areas.

Volantis is near the river and the sea. Except for the black wall located on a high hill, the rest of the city was originally a swamp and puddle.During the peak period of Valyria, with the development of the city, the city overflowed with black walls and expanded outward step by step. Puddles, small rivers, and tidal flats were transformed into streets and residential areas.

But the peak has passed, and hundreds of years of wind and rain have caused the sparsely populated and poorly maintained streets to degenerate into river beaches again.

"In the 400 years since the Valyrian Cataclysm, the population of this city has dropped by at least [-]%, which is terrifying," she murmured.

"A century of bloodshed!" Barristan spat out a word with a complicated expression.

Volantis used to be far more prosperous and powerful than it is now. The Queen of the Lorne River and the Mistress of the Summer Sea are not called for nothing. Its population, wealth, and territory are larger than the other eight trading city-states combined. .

It's a pity that the battle for hegemony in the bloody century drained the blood and vitality of Valyria's eldest daughter.

There was nothing to see in the desolate city ruins, so the two quickly turned their horses and headed towards the south city.

There is a wharf and a seaport in the south of the city, and the prosperity and vitality of the past have been maintained.

Looking carefully, most of the city buildings maintain the ancient Valyrian style, mostly round towers, the ground floor is the residence of servants, with few windows, but the upper floors have spacious balconies and small gardens extending three to four meters.

There is also the iconic black roofless Tongtian Tower, which is so high that it can be seen through the black wall.

It's a pity that the descendants of the Dragon King lost their dragons, so many Volantis nobles added a glass dome to the top of their towers. Under the sun at noon, the striped glass of different colors reflected blue, purple, green, red and other colored lights, like a dome. A rainbow that was twisted into a ball by people.

But the more common ones are the stone sculptures of consuls standing on the streets and beside the fountains in the squares. Most of the statues have their heads cut off.

For example, in the southeast block outside the black wall, there is a garden square covering an area of ​​half an hectare. There is a jacaranda plant about 30 meters high in the center. A huge white jade stone was carved off the neck.

Dany brushed the petals from her ear, and stared down at the inscription beside the stone carving.

The hero of Volantis in the bloody century, the Consul of Horonor, once commanded the Volantene army to occupy Myr, and collected the vast plain (the land of disputes) in the southwest corner of the continent of Essos as the Volantene colony .

After 40 consecutive years as Consul, he finally got tired of elections and proclaimed himself the Regent for Life.Who would have thought that the Volantenes would not buy it at all, and they tied him to two elephants and tore him in half.

"It's so miserable." Dani grinned, and she seemed to think: "In this way, the electoral system in Volantis is not useless, at least the people's awareness of the democratic system is very high."

"What do you think, ser?" she asked the knight beside her.

"The Volantenes are savage, and they are too mean and ungrateful. This Horonor has made outstanding achievements. He has served Volantis for 40 years, and finally ended in such a bleak end." The old man said with a complicated expression.

He seemed to see himself in this severed stone sculpture. He had been a white knight for nearly 40 years, but was deprived of his lifelong honor by a little ghost head.

"Uh, that's not bad, but you can look at this issue from another angle." Dany's mouth twitched.

"What angle?"

"The democratic consciousness of the Volantenes, the determination to protect their own rights and uphold the justice of the law, perhaps"

"My lord, you don't plan to learn from Volantis and hold consul elections, do you?" Whitebeard looked terrified, "I shudder to think of the Duke of the Seven Kingdoms leading a group of bed slaves to solicit votes in the streets and alleys of King's Landing."

Dani nodded and said with a smile: "You can try it. Anyway, I'm young and I can stand it. I still have a dragon. If I fail, no one can cut my head off."

But the Seven Kingdoms can't stand the toss!

Did you ride a dragon to hide in Slaver's Bay immediately after Westeros broke down?

The white knight thought anxiously for a while, and said solemnly: "My lord, you have seen that many statues of consuls on the street have lost their heads, and the decline of Volantis is all caused by factional struggles. The electoral system really has nothing to do with you Thinking so well."

This is also true.

Valyria ruled the entire world before its destruction, and when the apocalyptic catastrophe destroyed the empire's power center - the Land of Summer and its capital, Valyria - its colonies and conquered lands gained their independence.

What about after the city-states became independent?

Start grabbing territory!

After that, the western continent of Essos fell into a century-long melee until the Targaryen family took action.

As the "Eldest Daughter of Valyria", "Queen of the Lorne River", and "Mistress of the Summer Sea", Volantis has the largest number of pure-blooded Valyrians, ruling the vast Lorne River Basin. The strongest, dominates the trade of the Summer Sea, and also has the most powerful fleet in the world.

Of course, at the beginning of the Bloody Century, all Volantenes reached a consensus: they are the heirs of the Freedom Bastion and the legitimate rulers of the world.

Not to mention ruling the world, at least the remaining eight free trade city-states in the Western Continent should surrender to the Volantis.

But regarding how to conquer the western continent of Essos, the Volantis had huge differences, and the Tiger Party formed by the old nobles tended to use force.

The Elephant Party, made up of bankers and big merchants, supported trade conquest, or "economic control."

But in the Bloody Era, everyone is drawing their knives to cut people, and there is no doubt that the tiger party's proposition has the upper hand.

In a short time the fleet of Volantene conquered Lys, and the army took Myr.

Western Continent - Three-quarters of the area is controlled by the Volantis, and they almost really want to rule the world.

During this period, the Volantenes also sought out Aegon Targaryen, who was "watching the wind and clouds" on Dragonstone Island.

The "conqueror" had his own plan, not only rejected the "citizen"'s solicitation, but formed an "anti-Volantis" alliance with Tyrosh, Pentos, and Braavos—just like today's Like the Dragon Queen's allies.

Hundreds of thousands of troops, hundreds of thousands of warships, and a dragon, the southwest plain of Essos, which was once like a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, was destroyed by the war and turned into ruins, which is now the "land of disputes".

From the map, it seems that there are only a handful of nine city-states in the vast Western Continent of Essos, and the rest are empty spaces?

it's not true.

There used to be prosperous towns scattered all over this land, but now there are only ruins left.

Losing the awe of the Valyrian dragon, the Dothraki are galloping freely in the western continent. The town you rebuilt this year is just another bell for the horse king who will fight next year.

Also because the ancestor stabbed the Volantis, Dany never thought of recruiting and surrendering the black wall nobles under the banner of "everyone is an orthodox Valyrian".

Well, farther away.

Aegon had only one dragon (his two younger sisters did not participate), and could not fundamentally change the situation of the battle. If the Volantenes had united and worked together, the "Anti-Volantis Alliance" level would not have It is not difficult to get through.

After all, Volantis is so big, in terms of hard power, it is the strongest in the world, and the process of unifying the Western Continent is also very stable - after taking down Myr, Rhys and the Land of Discord, they spent half a century Digest the results of the battle, and then move northward when you are ready.

However, the consul of Volantis is elected once a year, and there are two parties with completely different political views. Once the war encounters a setback, the policy often changes accordingly.

After tossing back and forth for half a century, the Volantenes exhausted themselves and lost their country and land.

Not only did the previously occupied colonies become independent one after another, but even the inherent territory of the upper reaches of the Lorne River was invaded by Qohor and Braavos.

Later, the horsemen came from the Eastern Grassland, and the Lorne River Plain was harassed every year, and the "Queen of the Lorne River" even had no chance to regroup.

The Tiger Party completely lost power. In the 300 years after the bloody century, the Elephant Party has been controlling the government of Volantis, occupying at least two consul positions.

In order to completely negate the old aristocratic policy of conquering the world by force, in order to completely knock down the Tiger Party, after taking power, the Elephant Party blamed all the crimes of the defeat of the war on the Tiger Party, and also guided public opinion by cutting off all Tiger Party executives The head of the statue.

Well, Volantis will erect statues for every elected consul.

Knowing this period of history, Whitebeard thinks that the Tiger Elephants fight for Volantis.

The worst thing is that the Elephant Party won the election and implemented the 300-year policy of 'conquering the world by trade', but the real boss of the Western Continent became Braavos.

The Braavosi almost imitated the "financial control" tactics of the Elephant Party, indirectly controlling most of the western continent and even Westeros through the Iron Bank.

(End of this chapter)