The steel gate to the west of King's Landing has been closed, and the golden robes who fled back to the city quickly spread the news of the Commander-in-Chief's death.
"The king is not here and the commander-in-chief is dead. How much money do I have per month? Do I need to risk my life?" The fleeing golden robes began to comfort themselves.
Officers who received the news gathered from all over the military camp in the east to discuss the aftermath.
First, the news must be blocked, at least from ordinary people. As for how to explain to the king, all the responsibility for the failure should be placed on the dead commander-in-chief, and the dead must be used again.
Two hours later, the steel door opened again. A small group of people ran to the place where the battle took place to investigate. By this time, the enemy had disappeared. Only then did they call for others to come over and collect the bodies of the brothers. There were also a large number of people holding shovels to remove the seepage.
Bloody soil is shoveled into the sea.
The next morning in King's Landing, it was as if nothing had happened. The messenger crow flying from Highgarden brought good news to the golden robes. They also wanted to capture an important criminal and have the opportunity to save their face and make meritorious deeds.
Got it!
After Maester Aemon returned to King's Landing from Castle Black on the Great Wall, he participated in the revision of a large number of historical books and left behind many manuscripts of the knowledge he had accumulated. The Cardinal of Old Town will, after discussion, transfer the hundred-year-old
The old man was promoted to a doctor of history and gave Eamon a copper ring, scepter and mask representing history, which was regarded as recognition of his historical knowledge.
However, Aemon is too old, and these heavy items are a burden to carry around. They are usually kept in the dormitories provided by the city. And except for the people in the city who changed their name to doctor, Aemon still let others call him bachelor.
He has had this name for more than sixty years, and he was not used to the sudden change.
The king and ministers went on a tour, and the Red Castle was sealed off and no one was allowed in or out except the assistant maester who took care of the raven. People from the magic school also went to Tyrosh, which is now a large construction site.
Apart from the dormitory, Eamonn only went to these two places, but now he couldn't enter either. After he woke up from a nap after writing some manuscripts, an assistant maester accompanied him to wander around the city.
The two of them passed by an alley, and laughter and cheers came from the alley. Aemon pulled the assistant maester's hand and motioned for him to take him in for a look.
There is a small open space in the alley. A mobile theater group has fenced the place, and a temporary wooden stage is performing the common people's favorite plays. A copper star can get you a seat to watch for an afternoon, or you can throw a copper plate to the boss to stand.
Watch from a distance.
Eamonn watched this type of play when he was a child. Each play only lasted for ten minutes but was full of joy. When he saw a lot of people at the scene, Eamonn became interested. After asking the price, he and his assistant sat on the wooden benches in the back row. The actors on the stage had just finished a play and came off the stage to change their costumes. Several half-year-old children ran to the stage to arrange props.
Eamonn turned around and asked a middle-aged commoner next to him: "What will be performed in the next play?"
"Haha, this old gentleman came just in time. Next is their troupe's most popular show, Duke Werther and His Lovers!"
Aemon was confused: "As far as I know, Duke Werther has only one public lover, his wife's sister, Terene Sand. What's so interesting about this?"
The middle-aged man said to Eamonn mysteriously: "I got the news that Duke Werther has at least a dozen lovers! If you don't believe it, you are in the stands."
The props on the stage are very simple and have been arranged long ago. Now the actors have walked onto the stage.
"My name is Werther, and I am a deer!" A man dressed in fine clothes, a deer's head hat, and heavy white makeup on his face walked onto the stage, opened his arms and shouted loudly to the audience.
"Hahaha." The audience in the audience began to applaud when they saw his appearance. They did not dare to use his full name for fear of being accused of slander, but everyone knew who he was by his appearance, and Werther was still very popular.
"I have come all the way from Asia to find you. You are the love of my life!" An unusually fat actress wearing a black robe and a red mask followed her to the stage.
"Her name is Quili, one of Werther's lovers." The middle-aged man introduced to Eamonn seriously.
"I know, she is also a magician." Eamonn smiled while watching the dialogue between the actors on the stage. He knew that watching this kind of play was just for fun, and there was no need to take it seriously, just like the play about his brothers when he was a child.
Same.
"No! All of us women in Lys City love Werther!" Another actress came on the stage, her white dress had turned yellow without being washed, and she was wearing a platinum wig.
"Which Werther's lover is this?" Eamonn asked.
"It seems that he is a banker from Lys City. I heard that he is very close to Werther and often goes in and out of Tyrosh's castle."
Eamonn didn't believe that this woman was related to Werther: "Going in and out of the castle is a lover? Or maybe it's a job?"
"Can these noble lords come out of their homes intact?" The middle-aged commoner did not believe what Aemon said. He firmly believed that all nobles treat beautiful women one after another.
"You don't deserve Werther, and I have noble blood, and I'm pregnant!" Another woman walked onto the stage.
The platinum wig has her face covered in powder, and her clothes are embroidered with a three-headed snake. Who is it if it’s not Daenerys? The actress actually has a big belly!
Eamonn: "That's outrageous!"
Middle-aged man: "She is most likely true. According to the announcement issued by the king, Daenerys did live with Werther in Meereen for a month."
Aemon told him the facts: "There were tens of thousands of people living in Meereen back then!"
The middle-aged man talked to him about cognition: "But they are the only ones in the bedroom of the Great Pyramid. Something must have happened between them!"
"I! Will give birth to a dragon knight!"
After the actress who played Daenerys finished her lines, she reached under her skirt and dug around.
"I'm giving birth! I gave birth to a dragon knight!" she shouted after touching for a while. Her stomach was already full. The actress pulled out the thing stuffed on her stomach from under her skirt and held it in her hand. It was a baby.
A dead chicken with its feathers plucked.
"Witt" carefully took the dead chicken with both hands, looked around, held the head of the chicken in his right hand and showed the dead chicken to the audience: "This is a real dragon!"
"Hahaha!" The audience stood up and applauded.
"Hey!" Eamonn also stood up and prepared to leave. The older he gets, the more he loves to delve deeper. He can no longer stand this kind of drama.
"He's here!"
A young man came to the performance place with a golden robe, and dozens of golden robes came one after another in the alley behind.
Aemon grew shorter and shorter and could not see far away. He only heard someone around him saying that the golden robe was coming, so he asked the assistant maester next to him: "Are you trying to catch criminals?"
"It should be, there are a lot of people here!" After the assistant maester said this, he supported Aemon and pulled him to the side of the road, fearing that these rough guys would knock Aemon down.
"Aemon Targaryen! You are under arrest!" Aemon's appearance was easy to recognize, and a group of golden robes spotted him and ran straight towards him.
"What are you doing? This is Dr. Eamonn from the Citadel!"
The assistant bachelor stretched out his hand to stop him, but was stabbed in the stomach by the golden robe.
"Daenerys has conspired to murder the king. The conclusive evidence has been tried in the High Court, and you, Aemon, are one of the masterminds behind it. You have been stripped of your doctorate by the city, and the king has sentenced you to hanging! This person beside you
Young people are also accomplices!"
"What! Daenerys plotted to kill the king?" Aemon didn't care about his doctorate title and immediately asked the only descendant of his tribe.
"If there is a problem, ask him in the cell and arrest him!" Several men in gold robes roughly grabbed Aemon and took him away.
Aemon walked very slowly and could not keep up with their pace. The gold robes did not give preferential treatment to the criminals who murdered the king. They just held Aemon's arm and walked. Aemon's feet were dragged on the ground. By the time they reached the barracks cell, his shoes were already gone.
They were worn out, and their feet were covered in dust mixed with blood.
The efficiency of the golden robes was extremely high this time. It took less than an hour to complete the process of identifying, signing, and stamping. Aemon, who had taken off his castle robes and changed into linen clothes, was dragged to the gallows.
The gallows are all ready-made and can be erected in the city square by a few people. When Imon was dragged here, many women in the entertainment industry were already hanging on other gallows.
The copper ring, scepter and mask belonging to his doctorate were thrown into the brazier.
Aemon looked at the brazier with his cloudy eyes, and his wrinkled face was full of sadness. Until the noose was tied around his neck and he was suspended in the air, he kept saying: "Daenerys! Dany!"
Liz!"
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News of King's Landing reached Highgarden through Varys' intelligence network.
After Werther saw the news of Aemon's death, he asked the Kingsguard to bring the news to Daenerys, who was under house arrest, and told him to say something to him: Daenerys killed Aemon!
At the conference table, the king and the ministers of the Imperial Council were very angry after seeing the information about the golden robe.
"Robert, in today's capital garrison, most of the officers rely on bribes to get their positions, and the soldiers at the grassroots level also lack training. It's okay to bully some civilians who have no weapons in the city, but when they encounter regular troops, they run away faster than rats!"
After reading the note full of what happened, Werther said to Robert, and handed the note to the Duke of Metz, the finance minister sitting next to him.
The previous Commander-in-Chief of the City Guard, who was investigated and punished by Witte, sold his official position and took bribes. When he went to the Great Wall, "Iron Hand" became Commander-in-Chief, and Jon was promoted to Deputy Commander, the atmosphere of the team became slightly better.
Due to Robert's laissez-faire, mainly because he could make some money, the commander-in-chief who was arrested earlier worked from Robert's accession to the throne until last year, and in these more than ten years, he had corrupted the capital garrison.
The duty of the City Guard is to defend King's Landing and maintain public order in the city. It has hardly participated in any wars for more than ten years. During the crusade against Greyjoy, they also followed Robert for a formality.
Officers are almost all bought with money. When the former commander was investigated, he investigated and punished those who accepted bribes, but not those who gave bribes, because once they were investigated, there would be no officers in the entire capital garrison.
The total quota is only 2,000. Being an officer costs money, so the quota for soldiers at the bottom will also have a corresponding price tag. Everyone from top to bottom is considering how to bribe the superior officers. In this atmosphere, daily training is also a matter of course.
Come on, there is a real problem if this kind of team can have combat effectiveness.
Cersei was actually rescued, and Robert was furious: "Issuing a wanted order for the liar who pretended to be the late queen and prince."
"It's easy to get something now, but now the pension costs a lot, and there is also a bounty. Although it comes from the treasury, this money should not be there in the first place!" This is legal, but Witte does not support it.
Every time this happens, those people will have less motivation to do anything.
Robert: "Renly! According to the law, the City Guard is managed by your Minister of Justice. Now tell me what to do!"
Renly was suddenly called out by Robert, and Renly wanted to scold him directly. What does their golden robes have to do with me?
Although Robert did not make major changes to the laws of the previous dynasty after he came to the throne, all the positions were almost completely copied from the previous dynasty. However, the positions of several ministers were vacant for a few years. When Renly became the minister of justice, he actually managed the capital garrison.
The man has become a king, the prison has been turned into a place for storing debris by Robert, and the Minister of Justice has become a pension position with no title.
Seeing that the ministers present were looking at him, Renly thought for a while and finally said something: "Everyone here knows what happened, but the golden robes only got an order of less than a hundred words. I think
, Iron Hand's death should be treated as an honorable death in the line of duty, and those officers who delayed the intelligence will all be dismissed and investigated!"
"What happens after the investigation? Who will be the new commander-in-chief?" The Duke of Metz wondered if he could take this opportunity to appoint someone from the Reach.
Wirth: "Who else can there be? The deputy commander in gold robe is still alive and well. If the commander-in-chief dies, he can take over."
"Jon Snow? But he is only seventeen years old this year, and he is too young to control these people." Robert recognized Jon's personal strength and his identity and background, but Jon managed a city defense army of two thousand people.
Well, he's still a little behind now. I originally planned to train him well, but due to an unexpected situation, the Commander-in-Chief died, and he was in a hurry to let Jon take over.
"What's wrong with being seventeen? When I was seventeen, I was already killing everyone in Braavos! If he is young and capable, he can be trained according to our ideas. It is better than dying and replacing him in a few years."
Werther wants to help his apprentice Jon fight for it.
Varys: "Duke Werther, King's Landing brings together nobles from the seven countries, but there are also rogues, gangsters, and even mercenaries and fugitives. Jon is too young."
Werther put his hands on the table and looked around at everyone: "Everyone here, think about what I have been doing in the past few years?"
After hearing what Witte said, everyone began to sort out what Witte had done in the past few years, including killing people, attacking cities, and fighting wars. Before they knew it, Witte had become the person with the most combat experience in the Seven Kingdoms. p>
Witte: "Except for drunken riots and fights, serious crimes have almost disappeared on the Stepstone Islands. This proves that the management method of the Stepstone Islands is very effective! Jon Snow took a half-year vacation and is now in Tyrosh.
It just so happens that I can have someone teach him."
That’s because you have few people in Tyrosh! The Duke of Metz thought so in his heart but didn’t say it out loud.
Robert looked at Werther: "I remember that the commander of your city defense army in Tyrosh is Ashara Dayne, the Sword of the Dawn. Didn't she go to Dorne to fight? How to teach Jon?"
Witte smiled: "There is no commander of the city defense army, but I am still there! Moreover, there are mercenaries from the Wind Blowing Regiment in Tyrosh. They have been in the trading city-state for a long time, wandering among various forces and surviving to this day. They are no match for dealing with people from all religions and nine streams.
City defense troops."
"Hey, I have a headache. Let's wait until Jon returns to King's Landing. We will have to give him a test at school then." Robert covered his face with his hands.
"The headache is not over yet." Hand of the King Rowan took out another note and gave it to Robert: "The grand maester who will replace Pycelle will not arrive for a while, so the assistant maester sent the messenger crow.
The letter came to me. This is news from Winterfell in the north. When the Night's Watch went north to patrol the Great Wall, they clashed with the wildlings, and more than a dozen Night's Watch died."
"Isn't it normal for more than a dozen people to die in a conflict with savages? Does Duke Ed need to send a special message to the king?" Duke Metz's question is also what Varys, Barristan and others want to ask.
Prime Minister Luo Wan: "It is not necessary under normal circumstances, but according to the rules of the Night Watch, people must be sent to find the bodies of the dead compatriots and bring them back to the Great Wall. However, the bodies of more than a dozen Night Watchmen, together with the savages they killed, are all missing.
, and there were no traces of wild beasts at the scene, so the letter was sent to the king."