"Frego Antalion did something wrong and was deposed from the position of Sea King in the vote at the Palace of Truth. He is now detained in the dungeon awaiting trial."
Tormo Frega's expression was slightly frightened when he heard Viserys's sudden change of tone, and then he hurriedly spoke.
Regardless of whether the original plan to steal the dragon was approved by them or not, at this time all the blame will be placed on the head of the former Sea King of Braavos.
Anyway, Ferregor Anttalion has become the person destined to be sacrificed, just in time to appease Viserys's anger.
However, it is a pity that just abolishing the previous Aquaman will not bring this matter to a successful conclusion.
After all, in this naked real world, whoever has the bigger fist is the last word, not to mention that Braavos is still unreasonable at the moment, so it can only lower its head and let others slaughter it.
The new Sea King has not selected his chief swordsman yet. Such an important position must be filled by someone who has both ability and political integrity and who can be absolutely trusted.
Now, in order to show his sincerity, he only brought a small number of soldiers to negotiate.
The soldiers of Braavos stood far away and did not listen to the conversation between the two people. The negotiation between Viserys and Tormo was very simple, and it looked like two people standing on the roadside having a family affair.
Although the new Sea King of Braavos is at a disadvantage and belongs to the side with smaller fists, he still argued hard on some issues raised by Viserys and did not let himself be slaughtered.
Viserys had recently seen the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms fall in the face of the wind, but he took a higher look at Tormo Frega.
The other party is capable of bending and stretching. He is not stubborn for the so-called observance of honor, and he is not weak enough to kneel when he sees others. It seems that he has a few skills to be elected as the next Sea King of Braavos.
With the progress of mankind and the leap of civilization, the national system has indeed become more and more important, but Viserys did not have the brains to change the monarchy on a whim, or to choose the king system as Tyrion proposed in the future.
Every era has its most suitable system. This is a historical inevitability. In the current era, even an incompetent king can maintain the country's rule and stability to the greatest extent and avoid war and division.
Especially for large countries with vast territories, the dispersion of power is more likely to breed rebellion.
There is only one city in Braavos, so of course you can build your own, but Viserys can't do that.
In the end, the ordinary negotiation between the two people has a result, and there is no need to sign any agreement. When one party is strong enough to fly over your head and shit, the agreement is no longer important, it is just a piece of waste paper.
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Braavos needs to publicly try the former Sea King Ferregor Antharion in the future and make his crimes public.
Including stealing the baby dragon, sending faceless men to assassinate him, contacting the Dothraki, and a series of other crimes.
There is no need for Viserys to mention this kind of thing. The new Sea King will naturally wipe out all the mistakes of the previous Sea King.
However, this act of announcing the guilt will undoubtedly cause a huge blow to the authority of Neptune among the people of Braavos.
However, this was the first request made by Viserys, and it was also the basis for negotiation, so Tormo had no choice but to agree.
Viserys then happened to take this opportunity to propose the abolition of the Iron Throne's loan from the Iron Bank during the Baratheon Dynasty.
He didn't borrow the money in the first place, and there was no need for him to pay it back on Robert Baratheon's behalf.
However, before that, Braavos had always been in a high position in the world's political situation.
The overlord clause of the Iron Bank is that regardless of the change of dynasty or the change of rights, all governors, princes or kings must respect the contract of the Iron Bank. That is, if they take this position, they must recognize the debts of their predecessors and repay them. Otherwise, the Iron Bank will
Launch a crazy act of revenge.
The people of Braavos even have a proud proverb about it.
‘The iron bank cannot be defaulted’.
But these are based on the fact that Braavos still has absolute strength, and the invincible fleet across the Shivering Sea, the Narrow Sea and even the Summer Sea is the capital to collect debts.
However, the situation turned around at this moment, Braavos fell from the altar, and Viserys had absolute power. Naturally, he would not accept such overbearing terms.
Not to mention Robert's extravagant spending in the past few years, and the amount of money he later borrowed to defeat the White Walkers was too much.
Viserys has not yet sat on the Iron Throne, but he has already begun to refuse to repay his debts...
Tormo Freygar naturally had troubles that he could not tell. After all, the Iron Bank was a terrifying force in Braavos that even the King of the Sea did not dare to provoke.
Fortunately, the keykeeper family and the manager of the Iron Bank already had a psychological expectation that Viserys would refuse the debt during the meeting in the basement of the Palace of Truth.
After all, people have to bow their heads under the roof, not to mention that as the power of the Targaryen family continues to expand, they have absorbed a large number of soldiers after defeating the White Walkers and the coalition forces. Even if the best are selected from the best, the total force is still close to one hundred thousand.
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A fleet of ships flying the three-headed fire dragon flag spans both sides of the Narrow Sea, and the shipyard in Pentos has a foundation not much worse than that of Braavos. It is still running at full power and is constantly pumping out new warships at a fast speed.
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In fact, even without this incident, the Iron Bank has already made plans to deal with the possibility of Viserys defaulting on his debt.
Whether it was revenge or silence, a unanimous opinion had not yet been discussed, but now Viserys helped them make a choice.
With the nod of the Keykeeper family and the manager of the Iron Bank, the huge deficit on the books will eventually be made up by many families.
But... Viserys's terms aren't over yet.
He then asked the new Sea King for the three dragon eggs that were stolen more than two hundred years ago.
This is already an old story. It happened around the 41st year of Aegon Calendar. Even Tormo Frega looked confused.
However, the three dragon eggs that once existed have long since disappeared in the long river of time, and now they are hiding somewhere unknown.
After all, even at that time, this was a highly confidential matter, and it was not widely circulated to the outside world. What's more, after so long, it was even difficult to distinguish the authenticity of this matter, and it was difficult for Viserys to confirm it.
Tormo Freygar denied the existence of the dragon egg, and Viserys threatened him with bluff, but to no avail. The new Sea King showed his ignorance and finally gave up.
In fact, he had great expectations for retrieving the dragon egg from two hundred years ago, but naturally he couldn't give up so easily if the dragon egg didn't exist.
Since Braavos cannot find the dragon eggs stolen from the Red Keep two hundred years ago, it needs to pay a large sum of gold dragons as compensation.
This is very reasonable.
Finally after some haggling...
Tormo Frega's face didn't look very good, even a little livid, but he gritted his teeth and agreed.