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"how to say?"

Zhang Cheng stroked his chin and organized his language a little, followed by a casual explanation: "Leaving the great nobles to have unlimited rights in their own territories means that they are actually independent kingdoms one after another. The relationship is not so much a monarch and a subject, but rather a collaborator, sharing rights and ruling the entire country. As a queen, your rights at hand are actually restricted, and you cannot really intervene in the affairs of the major territories. Although on the surface It seems that doing so can greatly reduce the cost and difficulty of ruling, but it has led to an increase in the risk of rebellion. Remember how your father lost the throne? Robert Baratheon took the initiative to mobilize for personal reasons A war! If he wasn't the lord of Storm's End, and he didn't have an army completely loyal to him, would this situation still happen?"

"So you think that I should weaken the rights of traditional great nobles like Martell and Ayrin, so that they cannot establish a strong prestige and power in the territory as before?" Daenerys is obviously not stupid. The son realized the key to the problem.

Zhang Cheng nodded lightly: "That's right! Although so far, from a political point of view, you have not been able to take back all the rights, but it is okay to cause them some trouble. Especially the entire Seven Kingdoms just now After a war, famous families like Stark, Tyrell, Lannister, and Tully have been hit hard, or simply died out, which is a good opportunity to redistribute benefits. Promote some new nobles among them, let them fight against the old nobles, and act as an arbitrator to ensure that the two sides form a weak balance. Over time, they will gradually form awe of the royal power, and there is no way to do it like before. You can easily raise an army and start a rebellion."

"So that's it! I understand! That's why you eliminated the two oldest and most influential nobles in the River Bend area, and at the same time promoted the mercenary leaders under you, making them new nobles." Daenerys suddenly had an expression of enlightenment on her face.

After so many days of study, she has gradually begun to deeply understand the nature of politics and royal power, and also understands how many conflicts of interests are hidden behind many phenomena that she could not understand before.

"Yes! It's very effective, isn't it? Look at the current river bend. There is no powerful family that can truly dominate the entire area. Everyone must obey me, otherwise what awaits them is death." Zhang Cheng smiled Then he revealed his real intention to massacre the traditional nobles in the River Bend area.

Never let your subordinates grow bigger, and then get out of control, and have undue ambitions. This is the essence of domination and power games.

But it is a pity that the natives of Westeros obviously do not understand such a simple and easy-to-understand truth, including Aegon the Conqueror.

They always entrust nobles again and again, handing over all the ruling power in a huge area to a certain family for hereditary rule. They believe that they can rely on oaths and good personal relationships to ensure that loyalty can last forever.

Not surprisingly, the civil strife has never stopped from the beginning to the end. Whether it is the battle for the succession to the throne, or the counterattack launched by the subordinates after the decline of the royal family, they all show how ridiculous this kind of child's play politics is.

Daenerys sat on the Iron Throne with a solemn face and meditated for more than ten minutes, then raised her head and said: "Cut the seven kingdoms that were previously divided into smaller lands, and then distribute them to more nobles. Giving any family the right to administer the region, to swear allegiance directly to King's Landing, is what you're suggesting, isn't it?"

"Totally correct! I admit that doing so will greatly increase the pressure on management, so I also suggest that you set up a college, just like a ruined school city, to train corresponding management talents for the royal family and give them corresponding rights, but do not give them the title of nobility, making it a new political force that can compete with the aristocratic group. In this way, the royal power, the old and new nobles and bureaucrats will form a stable and competing power system , before this system loses balance, you will never have to worry about the power in your hands slipping." Zhang Cheng said as he picked up his glass and took a sip of the slightly sour wine.

There is no doubt that it is very interesting to train a young and beautiful queen from scratch, and it even makes him feel like playing a nurturing game.

"I understand! Mason, you are indeed a genius. You can actually build a new ruling structure from scratch. But now, there is a more serious problem between us that needs to be resolved."

After all, Daenerys stood up, walked towards Zhang Cheng with graceful steps, and whispered in Zhang Cheng's ear: "Honey, I think you should perform your duties as a husband immediately. As a queen, I need A healthy heir, otherwise all this is but a bubble of beauty."

"Of course! Your Majesty! It's my honor..." Zhang Cheng raised his mouth slightly, put down his wine glass and began to untie the opponent's belt.

After a while, a seductive voice sounded in the conference room with the door closed.

The guards guarding the door exchanged glances with each other, and quickly pretended not to hear anything, continuing to perform their duties.

But no one knew that Zhang Cheng had already lost the ability to bear offspring, even this cloned body.

fortunately!

For a Titan who is proficient in magical powers, creating life is not difficult.

While Daenerys was immersed in her primitive instincts and desires and couldn't extricate herself, he quietly injected the seeds of life into her body, which quickly condensed into a healthy embryo.

It won't be long before this embryo will slowly grow into a healthy fetus, becoming the legal heir of the iron net, and also the only hero who can fight against the army of undead in the extreme north in the future.

In the written script, Zhang Cheng has arranged roles for everyone, just waiting for Volunte to make up his mind to stay in this world...

Chapter 989 Encounter

The bitter cold wind from the extreme north will always be a lingering nightmare for the night watchmen.

Especially recently, many people have discovered an incredible phenomenon, that is, the daytime is getting shorter and shorter, while the nighttime is getting longer and longer, and the temperature of the surrounding environment is getting lower and lower day by day.

It seems that everything is indicating that the long summer is coming to an end, and the terrible winter is coming.

You need to know the seasons of A Song of Ice and Fire, but you don't want to think that the three months on the earth are the dividing line, and they will alternate after a short time.

The season here usually lasts for a long time, especially after the long summer that lasts for several years is over, it is often accompanied by two or three consecutive years, or even more than four or five years of cold winter.

During this process, food production will be severely reduced due to environmental temperature and insufficient light, and a large number of civilians will starve to death or freeze to death due to insufficient food, or lack of clothing or fuel to keep out the cold.

For the residents of Westeros, especially the northern region, winter is like a white death, without the beauty described by any poet, and every time it appears, it will be accompanied by terrible disasters.

However, as an outsider, Volent was not as worried about the coming of winter as other night watchmen, but instead devoted himself to finding traces of the White Walkers.

Because he understands that as he wastes more and more time in this world, there are fewer and fewer choices left.

Although he still held some urgently needed information, he didn't dare to use it as a threat at all.

But unfortunately, this poor guy didn't realize that from the moment he proposed the terms of exchange, he was already on Zhang Cheng's blacklist.

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"Damn it! I hate this damn weather! These white snowflakes have been drifting since two days ago, and I don't know when it will stop." A young night watchman was struggling in the snow that touched his knees. Trek, swearing under his breath while gritting his teeth.

"Stop complaining! If I were you, save your energy! Try to return to Castle Black before dark, or who knows what will happen to you." Another night watchman breathed out angrily.

The terrifying low temperature caused chilblains to appear on the faces of everyone in the patrol team, and their beards and eyebrows were densely covered with white frost.

In such a terrifying low temperature, not to mention eating and drinking, even excreting can only be done in the pants, otherwise once the pants are taken off, people can be frozen to death in just a blink of an eye.

Watching the clumsy movements of these night watchmen, Volent took a deep breath, and carefully hid his whole body behind a huge rock wall, and did not continue to move forward with them.

Because his ability can already clearly feel that the danger is quietly approaching.

Among them, the night watchman who was walking at the forefront, the strong death energy emanating from his body was already strong enough to become real.

Under such circumstances, unless the gods came to the world, it was absolutely impossible to change their fate of imminent death.

Just when this unaware young man was about to turn around and say something to his companions, hundreds of dense figures suddenly appeared in the canyon ahead.

Due to the heavy snowfall, the visibility is not too high, so the appearance of these people is not clear for the time being.

However, according to the experience of the night watchmen, apart from the wildlings to the north of the Impassable Great Wall, it is impossible for there to be a large number of residents of the Seven Kingdoms.

So without saying a word, they immediately drew out their long swords and shouted loudly: "Stop! Don't come any closer! We are the night watchmen! If you don't want to die, back away immediately!"

quiet!

Silence!

The other party obviously didn't intend to respond at all, just swayed and moved forward slowly, without paying attention to the warning at all.

"Damn it! Looks like we're in trouble! Matt! Get on your horse and report back!" the leader shouted at the young man who kept complaining.

But before the latter got back on his horse, a spear made entirely of solid ice directly pierced the air, piercing the poor guy's chest with a bang, and nailing him to the ground.

The location of the hit was very precise, piercing one of the most important organs in the human body, the heart.

"No!!!! Matt was killed!" The older night watchman next to him glanced at the corpse and immediately shouted nervously.

If it weren't for the rules of the Night Watchman Legion, all those who escaped would be sentenced to death without exception. He would definitely rush to climb on the horse and flee directly to the land of the Seven Kingdoms. Even being a free and easy robber is better than dying. .

"Get ready for battle! There is no coward in the Night Watch! Even if it is death! We have to bring a few savages with us!"

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