Game of Thrones: The Strongest Dragon Mother

Chapter 30 Who dares to be worse than me

"Free riders are a type of mercenaries. They don't have knight status, but they have horses and know a little fighting skills on horseback. The only difference from ordinary mercenaries is that they have horses."

Dani nodded. A good horse is more than a golden dragon. Counting the harness, daily feeding and care, ordinary mercenaries can't afford it.

"Knights are more troublesome. Under normal circumstances, a child who aspires to become a knight will be sent to a knight when he is about seven years old to serve as a page boy. He will do some easy things such as pouring wine and running errands but can establish an intimate relationship with the knight. manual labor.

Of course, this process is not without martial arts teaching. There are swordsmanship instructors who are responsible for helping children lay the foundation.

When they are older, over 12 years old, probably at puberty, the servant boy is promoted to a servant.The knight will personally teach the servants the skills of using weapons and horses, and impart their survival experience on the battlefield.

Well, chivalry is also a very important teaching item.

Attendants also have the obligation and right to accompany the knight on the battlefield.

In the process of preparing horse armor for the knight and fighting side by side with it, the squire can learn more war skills from the knight-if the knight really has such a thing.

Many squires remain squires all their lives because they have no money to buy horses and armor for themselves. "

Dany clicked her tongue, "Can't his knight give a suit of armor and a horse?"

Knight Jorah took a deep look at Dany, and laughed at himself: "Because I have repeatedly lost my armor and horse to my opponents in the tournament, it didn't take long for me to spend the last of my savings, and I had to go to the Braavos treasury for help." Borrowing huge debts. I am a landed earl, and the Mormont family has been passed down for thousands of years."

"I heard that the Lannister family borrowed millions of gold coins from the Usurper," Dany said again.

"Is there that much?" Jorah was puzzled. After a while, he shook his head and sighed: "There is a saying in Westeros that the shit that Duke Tywin shits is gold. Nobles are different from nobles. There are many mountains in the western region. , and inexhaustible gold and silver mines are buried under many mountains.”

It turns out there is a mine at home!

"You continue." Dany raised her chin as a signal.

"Continue what? The knight or my story?" Jorah licked his lips, feeling that he had said so much that his mouth was dry.

"Let's talk about knights first."

"Any knight can canonize another knight. So if a knight thinks a squire is eligible to be a knight when he comes of age, he will put his sword on the shoulder of the squire who is kneeling on one knee, and announce the name and family of the squire aloud

The process is more complicated than what I have described, and the newly appointed knight will also receive holy oil from the monks and have to go to the church to spend the night.It was a process of converting to the Seven Gods, so people from the north who believed in the old gods rarely became knights. "

"Then you're a false knight?" Dany tilted her head at him.

The knight blushed, and argued: "There is no fake, and the nobles of the northern border will be recognized as knights without being granted a title."

Soon he went on to say: "I am one of the few baptized knights in the northern border. Apart from the formal method mentioned above, there is a faster way to become a knight.

If he made meritorious service in the war, the emperor can directly canonize him as a knight. This is how my knighthood came about. "

"Helping the Usurper's war against the Targaryen dynasty?" Dany asked, raising an eyebrow.

"No, it's not." He quickly denied, "It was the time to quell King Balon's rebellion."

He didn't know that Dany, who had changed her core, didn't care about Targaryen's usurper's battle when she lost her throne.Immediately changed the subject, saying: "In addition to free riders, there are also hedge knights and sworn knights.

Oath knights are knights who shelter under other nobles. They swear an oath to serve them, so they are called oath knights.Most of them are minor nobles with the title of knight but no fief.

Well, I was your brother Viserys' sworn knight before, and then he and I became your sworn knight, until you bestowed upon me a higher honor and made me the Queen's Guard. "

Listening to his emotional narration, Dany complained in her heart: At the beginning, you "licked your face" and came to the door to become a Viserys sworn knight. You asked for it when you became my Kingsguard. Trying to make Jhogo and the others my bloodriders

Knight Jorah didn't know that someone was acting good when he got cheap, and continued: "Great nobles often hire some free riders to patrol their territories. Compared with the lifelong loyalty of sworn knights, hired knights are more flexible and cheaper.

Bear Island is not too small, I can't afford to support the sworn knights, and I also have a few free riders who patrol the forest. "

Speaking of this, he sighed with emotion, and said in a low voice: "I'm bankrupt, and I can't even pay the salaries of the cook and the harpist, and as soon as Linice heard that I had the idea of ​​pawning those jewelry,

For the money, to keep Linice's jewelry, the singer, the chef, I

My hired riders caught a few poached civilians, and according to tradition, they had to choose between having their hands chopped off, or sent to join the Night's Watch on the Wall, but for the money, I finally gave up my honor completely.

I sold them to Tyroshi slave traders, against the laws of the Seven Kingdoms - slaves are not allowed under the Faith of the Seven. "

"You were exiled? It's a bit harsh. You can fine it first to make an example of others, and warn you if you don't go down as an example." Dany said.

"It is more honorable than exile, and it is also more cruel than exile. I have committed a capital crime and will be beheaded."

"Uh"

"According to the tradition of the ancestors, Eddard Stark will judge me himself, and after listening to my dying confession, he must also cut off my head with ice."

(Ice: The family sword of the Stark family, Valyrian steel, used by the duke to execute criminals - no matter the high or the low, everyone can enjoy the edge of the ice equally)

Dany looked at the sketch of Westeros that Jorah had just carved on the slate, and said, "Winterfell is a bit far from Bear Island. You escaped?"

"It's about a thousand kilometers. I'm changing horses and galloping non-stop. I can reach the beach in two days at the fastest, and I can land on Bear Island on the third day. But three days is enough for me to escape with Linice and her jewels." .”

"If I remember correctly, you are the only son of House Mormont."

Jorah nodded, "Yes, my father is only my son, and I have a biological aunt, but her five children are all daughters."

"Your father is wearing a black robe?"

"Ah."

"You once served as Eddard Stark's guard and participated in the Battle of the Usurper?" Dany asked again.

"I also participated in the Battle of the Trident River." He said softly, his voice was like the breeze blowing through his temples, with caution and faint pride.

"You have lived and died for Winterfell for so many years, accompanied him as a traitor, and accompanied him to quell the rebellion, but because of a few poachers, he wanted to behead the only male of the Mormont family?!" Dany said in a complicated tone, Although it is a question, it is straightforward.

"Stark is such a person," Jorah said now, still resentful, obviously he also felt that his own king was too harsh on him.

After a while, the knight sighed again: "This is also one of his rare charms. He is fair and just, strict with himself and others."

Hehe, it should be "strict to self-interest, lenient to others" that counts as personality charm, right?

What happened to Jorah is unimaginable in any dynasty of the Great Heavenly Dynasty.

This has gone beyond the scope of being selfless. Bao Qingtian still has moments of extrajudicial harmony. Otherwise, how could the Seven Heroes and Five Justices survive?It can only be said that Ed Stark lived too comfortably and was too brainy.

Danni couldn't help thinking: Is it so easy to defend the country in this world?With the Stark family doing this, the position of the King in the North is still as safe as a mountain.

But how did Targaryen lose his country?Could it be that the father of this body, the "mad king" Iris, can still act than Ed?

It's a pity that they, who are so incompetent, can maintain the kingdom for hundreds or thousands of years while working hard.After the last kings of the Great Heavenly Dynasty knew about this, they probably would have salivated with envy.

In fact, only the northerners were rigid-minded. Families like Lannister, Tyrell, and Martell were no less strategic than any famous Chinese monarch.

"Okay, you continue." She felt that she still had a lot to learn, and the gap between this world and the oriental survival rules she was familiar with was too great.

She can only adapt. To change, at least the dragon must be too strong to be shot with a crossbow arrow—the dragon that seems to be unkillable yet?

Do you want the dragon to learn from the knights of Westeros and wear a full body armor?

If they were singled out naked, the little khalasar would be able to find ten centaur warriors who hacked Jorah to death.But if she put on armor, none of her bloodriders could match him.

Dany was thinking wildly, and Jorah continued, "I told myself, only Linis and I really love each other, honor, identity, hometown, title, relatives, etc., everything is not important. I took her and fled to Rhys, That big boat was worth a little money, and we lived a prosperous life for half a year."

As soon as she heard the word "true love", Dany knew that Jorah was going to be tragic.

Sure enough, his ferocious bear-like eyes turned red, and his eyes were watery, and his bearded face twisted into one word - "bitterness".

"I can only be a mercenary. I don't have any survival skills other than helping people fight wars. That day, I received a mission to leave Rhys and go to the Norn River thousands of miles away to fight against the Braavos. site, she"

His tone became inexplicably sad, "I will give her the deposit, and she will take the gold coins and her own jewels and move into the bedroom of the trade prince Trigg O'Moron the day after I leave."

So miserable!

Looking at Jorah now, Dany felt that the word "bitter" on his big face had changed into the word "miserable".

In the original plot, Danni, who was loved by him and dedicated the rest of her life, also kept sending him good person cards.

If Jorah Mormont stood up and yelled: Who dares to be worse than me? !

Dani thought about it hard, and it seemed that only the future Sean could say, "Maybe, I can reach your trouser legs."

In fact, she was a fan of the authorities, forgetting that there was a man ten times worse than Jorah Mormont.

That, is herself.

(End of this chapter)