Some time has passed since the news came that winter was coming.
Eddard Stark, Duke of Winterfell, disbanded the northern army that had been assembled to join the war, and asked them to seize the time to return to their hometown to prepare against the coming cold winter.
Tens of thousands of northern troops disappeared in an instant, directly casting a thick shadow on the war that Robert wanted to organize this time.
Can't see the future clearly.
After all, the North has always been King Robert's strongest supporter. Now that the North has given up supporting the Iron Throne, it's hard to say how loyal the nobles in other places are.
During the subsequent meeting in the throne room, the hall was brightly lit.
The brocade symbolizing the "crown stag" emblem of House Baratheon was hung on the wall, and the fat King Robert sat on the cold Iron Throne.
And the dignitaries of King's Landing stood densely on both sides below.
Prime Minister Jon Arryn, Captain of the Kingsguard Barristan Selmy, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Minister of Justice, Stannis as Lord of the Sea, and Chief of Intelligence Varys were at the forefront of the crowd.
Then this time it was Jon Arryn's turn to say something.
There were nobles below who couldn't wait to stand up and persuade His Majesty the King to give up the idea of fighting across the sea.
The cost and price of fighting across the sea are too huge, and the gains are very few. Of course, these nobles are not willing to do it.
What's more, the news that winter is coming has already spread.
If it were a normal winter, except for the North and the Riverlands, the impact of winter might not be very serious in other places.
It's just that the number of grain harvests becomes less in a year. This problem can be solved by hoarding more grains. The most serious thing is to stop production and hide at home. The nobles will not freeze to death and starve to death.
The valley and the west have high mountains as a barrier, which can slightly isolate the cold air from going south, at least it is not that cold.
The northern border and the riverlands are also connected by endless plains. The cold air current can directly make this large area of land, including King's Landing, and even reach the riverlands to be shrouded in silver.
As for Dorne, there is nothing wrong with it. The mountains that cross it block the footsteps of winter, and it is also at the southernmost point of Westeros, so relatively speaking, it is only a breeze.
However, in the North and the Riverlands, where winter is the most serious problem, when winter comes, the people here may not be able to survive this long winter if they are not well prepared.
Jon Arryn kept silent. As the first Prime Minister after the war, his biggest responsibility was to bring the country out of the quagmire of war and restore the economy.
So he has been trying to avoid war, but reality does not allow him to do so.
He is also well aware that the threat of dragons must be eliminated, but the cold winter is approaching, and the current state of the country does not support him in fighting this battle.
The old prime minister doesn't know what to do now.
However, he kept silent, and the anti-war voices from below still came like a tide.
It makes sense that people don't want to fight in the winter.
Because no one wants to go out to fight and come back when their wife, children, and children have been frozen to death and starved to death in the cold wind.
Therefore, Eddard Stark, the Duke of Winterfell and His Majesty's good brother, wrote a letter and sent it to King's Landing to explain the matter clearly to Robert.
Although Robert was still very angry and smashed up the bedroom again, that night the beautiful blond queen moved into another room with a dark face, leaving Robert alone guarding the shabby bedroom.
However, after getting angry, Robert had to accept this reality.
Even if he is a king, he cannot ask the soldiers in the north to abandon their families and go to Andalus despite the coming of winter.
If he really does that, I'm afraid not only the soldiers will mutiny, but even his good brother Ed will fall out with him.
In the end, Robert could only endure this breath. Even if the northern army could not come, he could still kill that damn Targaryen remnant by gathering the power of the other six nations.
Now, whenever the name Viserys is mentioned, Robert's teeth itch with hatred and he wants to eat him alive.
However, the polarizing light was just hatred, and Robert had nothing to do with him.
He was hiding too far away. If Andalus and Westeros were bordering, Robert would have personally conquered them and spread their ashes for him.
But this sea that separates the two continents has become the most insurmountable barrier.
Just like when the Andals invaded Westeros, the Andals fought with the First Men and the Children of the Forest for nearly a thousand years before they completely gained the upper hand.
Now it is not that easy for Robert to cross the sea and deal with the enemies on the other side of the sea in a short time.
Now.
Robert sat on the cold Iron Throne, looking at the nobles below who opposed him like a wave, clenching his fists tightly, and his blood gradually rising.
If there were just one or two nobles, Robert would definitely not mind cutting off their heads and hanging them on the top of the Red Keep for public display.
However, there are too many people now, and almost no one wants to send the young men in their territory to fight at this time.
"enough!"
"You bunch of trash with a butt on your head!"
Then without any warning, King Robert suddenly became furious and threw down the cup in his hand.
Snapped--
The expensive glass cup broke into pieces, directly smashing the heads of the petitioning nobles below and causing bleeding.
But something unexpected happened suddenly, and the nobles below were trembling and dared not speak.
"dragon!"
"That guy Viserys already has a dragon!"
The fat Robert stood up from the Iron Throne, furious, his black beard like a steel ball, and his voice echoed in the throne room like thunder.
"If we don't strangle the dragon in its cradle before it grows up, are we going to wait until the dragon grows up and burn you sow-raised wastes in the castle?"
When Aegon led three dragons to conquer Westeros, he burned the so-called "impenetrable" Harrenhal into a furnace. Of course, the stone would not burn, but the dragon's flames burned the last Iron Islands and the river.
The King of Earth, 'Black Heart' Heron Hall, and his wife, children and children were roasted alive in the castle.
What Robert now mentioned in anger was the most famous tragedy more than 290 years ago.
The nobles below were trembling and did not dare to refute the angry King Robert.
In Robert's eyes, the nobles below who all shrank their heads and dared not say anything were like worms.
Once he reached King's Landing, these nobles who had sworn allegiance to the Targaryens immediately surrendered and began to praise the merits of the Baratheon family and denounce the sins of the Targaryens without even resisting.
At that time, Robert was still a little ecstatic, but now Robert has finally realized that if the Targaryens fight back to King's Landing one day, these people may have a different look on their faces.
But just as Robert was getting angry in the throne room.
Behind the Red Keep, Queen Cersei in Maegor's Tower suddenly received news from her maid.
"Father is here?"
Sitting in front of the dressing mirror, the elegant blond woman stood up from her seat, feeling a little weird.