With the most important evidence in hand, Werther doesn't have to be as anxious on his return trip as he did when he came here. Let Audaweiying try to fly in a straight line, over the Mingyue Mountains, and fly over the Three Forks River directly to King's Landing.
What kind of mountain is the Mingyue Mountain Range? Stone Mountain! Except for some trees at the top, only wild grass can grow on the mountain, so many lords in the valley raise goats in large numbers.
When Audaweiying is flying at low altitude, he will attack whenever he finds a goat, eating it all the way. It has a large appetite, and ordinary small lords cannot feed such a big meat-eating machine.
Flying over Antler Castle, this is the fiefdom that Werther had when he was a child. After Werther was promoted to Duke of Tyroshi on the Stepstone Islands, this place was granted to a royal noble who made meritorious service on the Stepstone Islands.
The tournament in King's Landing to celebrate the victory on the Stepstone Islands has ended, and the nobles from distant lands have set out to return. Only the local King's Landing and valley nobles remain here.
It was night again when Werther arrived at King's Landing. He didn't jump off the dragon's head and float to the Red Keep. Robert was the king after all, and he had to abide by the etiquette that should be expected in peacetime. Werther had to go through the gate.
After the dragon landed, a group of soldiers led more than a dozen blindfolded pigs to satisfy Oda Weiying's appetite. When several butchers saw Werther coming, they came to Werther with their account books with smiles on their faces. Werther checked them.
Sign after everything is correct
"I will be returning to the Stone Steps Islands soon. Don't send away these pigs and sheep that I have killed for the time being. Send me some breeding pigs and breeding sheep!"
"No problem, Mr. Witte, how much quantity do you need?" Witte always pays the exact price and pays quickly. He is very popular with the butchers in King's Landing. These butchers are also happy to deliver the goods in person. If they are lucky, they can even feed the dragon themselves. "Just go to the port and find Lord Garland Tyrell."
Vert threw away the cloth bag and walked struttingly through the streets of King's Landing towards the Red Keep with the Arryn family tree in his arms.
Robert was receiving guests. When he learned that Werther had returned with something, he immediately sent the Kingsguard to take Werther to the drawing room of Maegor's House.
This is the living room outside the king's palace. It is small with only a dozen seats, a fireplace, a sofa, a wine cabinet and a round table. The furniture is all gold from the Baratheon family and is mainly for comfort.
Robert rarely drank today and was very clear-headed. As soon as Werther entered the drawing room, Robert spoke
"Have you got the genealogy of the Aylin family? What is my adoptive father's hair color?"
Werther smiled and put the book on the table, turned to the page of Jon Arryn and said
"Blue eyes, blond hair and a hooked nose! The assistant maester of the Eagle's Nest City also confirmed that the family tree has no trace of modification."
Robert quickly came over to check, stroking the text introducing Jon Arryn's appearance information with his fingers, "Hahaha! I knew it!"
Robert laughed first, then immediately looked angry
"Lysa Tully is a bitch! I'm going to behead her and that bastard!"
Werther didn't answer his words and let him vent for a while. He didn't even take a sip of water when he came back, so he went to the wine cabinet to look for water. "Robert! You don't even have water here!"
"Maid, bring water in!"
Robert was also distracted by Werther's question
"The only water available in the queen's palace is water, but my reception room is full of wine!"
Two maids opened the door and came in. One was holding a pure gold kettle, and the other was holding two pure gold wine glasses. They came to Robert and Robert and poured water before exiting the room.
Witte took off the hand badge on his chest and threw it to Robert. "By the way, has the new prime minister been elected? My term ends tomorrow."
Robert took the badge, touched it in his hand, and exclaimed, "There was no election, I appointed him directly!"
Werther was a little surprised. There were already three candidates before he left, and it stands to reason that there would be more. In the past few days, it has been directly appointed by the king. Something must have happened.
"Oh! Who is it?"
Robert walked to sit on the sofa opposite Werther and looked at Werther "Mattus Rowan!"
"Your father-in-law! Well~~ With his current ability, if he doesn't seek great development and maintains the stability and economy of the royal family, he can barely do it." Witte still knows something about Matus Rowan.
Robert "It was he and several nobles from the Reach who came to me on their own initiative. I will tell you in detail."
On the day after Veidt left King's Landing, Duke Mace Tyrell's invitation to banquets and build relationships was indeed very effective, so good that it had the opposite effect.
The king's father-in-law and the queen's father, Earl Matus Rowan, led four other Reach nobles to find Robert one evening.
I was also in this living room at that time.
Robert "Mattus, what do you want to see me for so late?"
Among the people sitting on the sofa, the oldest one is Lady Egwene Oakheart from Ancient Oak City in the Reach. Although she is slender and petite, she has many children. One son is still the current Kingsguard.
He stood up and saluted the king
"Your Majesty the King, the five of us, representing the five families, would like to send our sincere words to the King regarding the candidates for the King's Hand!"
"Oh! What do you think of Lady Egwene Oakheart?"
Alys Oakheart, one of the current Kingsguards, is the son of this lady. Her husband has died, and she is now in charge of the Oakheart family.
She solemnly said, "Our five families jointly proposed that the king directly appoint Count Matus Rowan as Hand of the King!"
Robert asked Grand Maester Pycelle and learned that he could appoint him directly instead of being elected by the Royal Council, but he didn't have any good candidates.
In order to compete for the position of Prime Minister, Mace Tyrell went on a public relations spree in King's Landing. There was no law prohibiting this and he was allowed to do it. Robert was already prepared. The speech when appointing him as Prime Minister was written by the maester.
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Now the four nobles of the Reach do not support their lord, the Duke, but instead support their father-in-law! Robert felt that there must be something wrong. He had been king for almost twenty years and did not directly express his position. He sat on the sofa and said calmly, "Reason!"
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The person involved, Matus Rowan, stood up and bowed first before speaking.
"Your Majesty, my appointment as Hand of the King is also the conclusion we reached after our discussion. There is only one reason. The Tyrell family is too powerful!"
Robert said nothing, looked at the five people, waved to him, indicating to continue talking.
Matus Rowan "Duke Mace Tyrell's mother came from the Redwyne family, his wife came from the Hightower family, and his daughter married the Duke of Storm's End. Even though the Riverlands suffered a defeat on the Stepstones, now
The fleets of Redwin and Hightower are still the most powerful in the south. The army has the Tyrell family, and the Hightowers are not weak, not to mention that the Hightowers also have the Citadel and the forces of the Seven Gods. They
The power of the three families also extends to the Stepped Stone Islands. They are almost connected to the entire south!"
Matus Rowan emphasized again, "Once the Duke of the Reach becomes the King's Hand, their strength will grow again, and no one in the Seven Kingdoms can check them."
Robert looked at the five people and said, "Renly and Werther can't check them?"
Matus Rowan "The economies of the Stormlands and the Reach are closely linked, and the two parties are already married. If a child is born in the future, Lord Renly is afraid that he will not dare to take action, so he can only choose neutrality.
Duke Werther's territory is now desolate, and it will take at least five years for the battleships and troops to be formed. There are three important vassal families on the Stepstone Islands, and it is located in a strategic military location on the east and west continents. Duke Werther's army is not good either.
Mobilizing and dispatching the dragon alone will only make the king's brothers bear the reputation of cruelty."
Robert broke into a cold sweat on his back after hearing the analysis. The three closely connected families in the southern part of the Reach had unknowingly become so powerful. He raised his head and stared fiercely at his father-in-law, Matus Law.
Wan
"Then after you became king, didn't your power also expand?"
The five noble lords looked at each other and said at the same time, "We are all descendants of Garth the Green Hand! We are also staunch supporters of the Baratheon family."
Robert understood as soon as he heard it. There were many rumors that the people in the Reach had always been dissatisfied with the rule of the Tyrell family, and this time they really put the matter before their eyes.
Matus Rowan "The Rowan family of Golden Tree City is the descendant of "Golden Tree", the daughter of Gars "Greenhand"! These are my two vassals, the Osgrey family of Stronghold and the Coldmoat Castle
The Webb family."
He went on to introduce the "Crane family of Red Lake," descendants of "Rose of the Red Lake", the daughter of Garth "Greenhand"! Their family's Ser Parmen Crane now serves as Lord Renly's bodyguard, and the other
A female member of the family, Menedith Crane, has just entered the wizarding school and is Lord Renly’s mage apprentice."
Introducing the last person, "The Oakheart family of Ancient Oak City, descendants of John "Oak", son of Garth "Greenhand"! Arys Oakheart of their family is one of His Majesty's Kingsguard.
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Matus Rowan and the other four family heads stood up. "Years ago, the Tyrell family was just the stewards of the Gardener family! We, the descendants of the Gardener family, were not extinct yet, and we betrayed our allegiance to the Gardener family without waiting for our support."
Open the gates of Highgarden, they are the Seizers family!"
Lady Egwene Oakheart "Our five families are loyal to the king, and we are loyal to the Baratheon family. We control the entire northern land of the Reach."
Robert thought again and again. The Reach has a powerful navy. The largest army can even recruit ten thousand people, and they are all equipped with well-equipped plate armor. Agriculture and economy have also developed greatly in recent years. The Tyrell family has unknowingly been ahead of others.
Region, if there are no checks and balances, it will really become uncontrollable.
As for the Rowan family, no matter how much it develops, it is still just an earl, with the Tyrell family suppressing it.
"That's it, I agreed to Matus Rowan's request to be Prime Minister, and the appointment was officially made at yesterday's court meeting." Robert said to Witte.
Werther, "You know the situation in my place. Once something happens, I will really be the only one riding a dragon to provide support in the past few years. Okay, let's let the north and south of the Reach check and balance, and let him be the hand of the king. The Duke of Metz and
How is Renly doing now?"
When you are a duke and you have the thoughts of a duke, you just need to win over allies to develop yourself. When you are a king and you have the thoughts of a king, you cannot let one side become too powerful and you have to balance it.
Robert frowned, "Renly was a little depressed. I had a drink with him. Mace Tyrell didn't speak at the royal council in the past two days."
Witte stood up and left, "Okay, I should leave. I will go back to Tyrosh tomorrow. It seems that brother, you have made progress as a king and you are no longer a reckless man."
"A reckless man? Who said I am a reckless man!" Robert yelled in the room.
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Early the next morning, Veidt took Nymeria and Tyene, and the three of them left King's Landing on Aldaviying and returned to the Stepstone Islands.
Except for Gonthor Hightower, who stayed behind, and Ashara Dayne, who went north, other important high-level officials of the Stepstones were in King's Landing. They later returned to the Stepstones by ship with supplies.<
/p>
On the back of the dragon, Werther took out paper and pen to record this harvest: apprentices and books from the Alchemist Guild, a large amount of construction materials for building blacksmith shops and private houses, food for residents, looking at empty wooden barrels, hundreds of criminals and more than 3,000 people.
New civilian immigrants, breeding pigs and sheep, etc.
I don't care about other islands, but the current population of Tyrosh is more than 10,000 people in the first batch of immigrants after the war
The newly ordered warships are still in King's Landing's shipyard, and hundreds of existing sailors are undergoing training in the Royal Fleet. After the warships are built, Navy Commander Orion Velaryon will lead the navy to sail back.
Werther shouted "I have no money again!"
Nymeria "Didn't you say there is investment property in Braavos?"
"Yes! I'll ask Neptune for it after I send you back!"
Nymeria "Who is the current Sea King?"
Witte "It seems his name is Tormo Frega or something, the new Aquaman who was elected after we left that year."
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In the afternoon of the same day, Robert once again convened the nobles of the valley to discuss the issue of the successor in the conference hall of the Prime Minister's Tower. All members of the Royal Council except Werther were present. This was also the first major matter that Matus Rowan had to deal with after becoming Prime Minister. p>
Robert "Yesterday Duke Werther brought back the genealogy of the Arryn family. I have already read it. My adoptive father, Jon Arryn, is blond!"
Coax~~~
The valley nobles below exploded.
Edmure Tully and Catelyn Tully looked pale. Now Lysa Tully might be found guilty. Because the family is so powerful, beheading would not be a problem. Going to the church to become a silent sister in the rest of her life would be her end.
But the child Robert Arryn could not escape death.
"Quiet!" Matus Rowan shouted.
"Your Majesty the King! Can you show me the family tree?" a valley noble shouted.
"Yes, yes!"
"We also need to confirm."
Robert asked two Kingsguards to go to Maegor's House to get the book, and then shouted to the nobles of the Vale, "Lysa Tully gave birth to an illegitimate son, and her son lost the qualification to inherit the Duke of the Vale."
Catelyn Tully quickly added, "Your Majesty, it's better to show the family tree first and then discuss it."
Robert didn't care anymore, leaned back on the chair, picked up the wine glass and drank slowly.
Two Kingsguards hurried over holding a book, put the family tree in front of Robert and whispered to him. Robert was shocked when he heard it, and quickly opened the family tree. Robert's hands began to tremble.
The cover of the Arryn family tree is made of solid cowhide, and the parchment used for the inner pages has been on the table in the drawing room of Maegor's House yesterday. Now the page of Jon Arryn has been wet with wine, and the words and patterns
There are traces of wiping, but they are all invisible!
Robert stood up angrily, "Barlistan! Seal the Red Keep! Take all the attendants into the dungeon! Torture them!"
Barristan left a member of the Kingsguard behind and rushed out of the meeting hall with his soldiers.
Prime Minister Matus Rowan left his seat and ran over, holding the pages of the book and frowning, "How could this happen?"
When the nobles in the valley saw the king's anger, they all stood up. Those standing in the front row saw the blurred family tree. The buzzing sound started again. Some people were very happy, while others began to worry. No one could leave now.
Not long after, Barristan came back with a small cloth bag stained with dried blood. In front of the king, he poured the contents of the bag on the ground, including four human fingers of different sizes.
Robert glanced at his finger and ignored it. He patted the table and asked directly, "Have you found out?"
Barristan "was made by the maid of Maegor's House. She said that someone brought this bag to her last night. It was the fingers of her father, mother and two brothers. The man threatened her that he could kill her family at any time.
As long as she erases the information on the family tree, her family will be spared."
Robert was furious. If he could bribe the maid around him, then he had to ask "Who is it?"
Barristan "The maid said that the other person had his face covered and could only identify him as a man."
Robert looked at the eight-clawed spider Varys. Varys now also had a surprised expression on his face, and then turned to look at the valley nobles present. Everyone was suspicious!
Barristan continued, "The maid was very scared. She said she would not harm the king and would not break the oath she made when she entered the Red Keep. The maid was illiterate and did not know how important it was. She thought that damaging a book would be enough.
To save her family, she committed this crime this morning."
Renly "Bring her here immediately."
Barristan waved his hand, and two Kingsguards outside dragged a woman covered in blood in. She was not breathing and dead.