During the period when Robert sat on the Iron Throne, he not only squandered all the money accumulated by the Targaryen family over the generations.
At the same time, in the name of the royal family, it also owes a total of millions of gold dragons to the Lannister family, the Tyrell family, the church, the Braavos Iron Treasury, Tyrosh Trading Company, etc.
However, most of these creditors have been dealt with by Viserys, and the remaining Tyrosh Trading Company did not have the guts to come to collect debts.
At the trial meeting, public dissatisfaction boiled, and people cursed the extravagant King Robert. However, Robert Baratheon, who stood in the center, said nothing in the face of the people's accusations. He did not have any explanation and let himself go.
People insulted him and even threw things at him.
At one point, Golden Robes and Unsullied soldiers were even needed to maintain order.
"Protect the prisoners!"
"drink!"
The commander of the Unsullied Legion gave an order, and dozens of Unsullied soldiers held their shields high to form a round shield to protect Robert in the center, preventing him from being directly smashed to death.
Bang bang bang
However, there were constant sounds of things being thrown at the shields. The Unsullied soldiers held the shields in their hands with expressionless faces, like machines, without flinching at all.
"Everyone!"
"stop!"
"Back off! Back off!"
"Arrest anyone who dares to disrupt order again!"
The soldiers of the City Guard, under the command of Brynden Tully, drove the angry people away from the execution site, so that they would not disturb the normal order.
It then took a while to arrest several of the people who were leading the trouble, and finally the turmoil caused by the trial was quelled.
However, the last sympathy people had for King Robert was gone, and only anger towards him remained.
Robert himself remained silent throughout the whole process, because he knew that this was a mistake he had made. Since being imprisoned, Robert had been thinking about the reasons for his failure.
There was the reason for the war, there was the reason why Tywin usurped military power while he was unconscious, and there was also the reason for his extravagant spending.
If I had not spent so many gold dragons on enjoyment, but instead benefited the country and the people, developed national strength, increased the number of soldiers, and upgraded armaments, would I have been more relaxed in the war?
He would not be beaten by the White Walkers and run away, nor would he lose the final civil war, lose the Iron Throne, and become a prisoner.
However, now it is useless to reflect on the mistakes he made back then, and he has no chance to start over.
Perhaps if Robert was given another chance to travel back in time, he would not necessarily work hard to cure the problem, but would struggle for a few days, wait until the period of chicken blood is over, and then continue to do whatever he needs to do.
Robert did undergo some changes after he became king, but in the end his true nature was revealed.
Later, when all the commotion was calmed down and the scene returned to normal order, the Unsullied soldiers withdrew the shield formation and released Robert Baratheon, who was protected within it.
"Do it quickly, boy!"
Robert stood in the center of the venue, with heavy shackles on his hands and feet, and a messy beard on his face. He raised his head and looked at Viserys on the stage. He only had this silver-haired young man in his eyes, and his voice was a little impatient.
The ground spoke.
"Don't you just want my head?"
He was tired of the trial and just wanted to end it as soon as possible.
However, it was at this moment that the last witness was also ready to appear.
Sitting among the nobles below, Queen Cersei of the former dynasty was still wearing the clothes of a maid and chose to turn a blind eye to the curious eyes around her.
Her long golden hair was tied up with a beautiful hair accessory. Although she no longer had beautiful clothes, Cersei still dressed up today.
Cersei stood up from her seat, then knelt down and hugged her children.
"Joffrey."
"Mother."
The blond-haired boy still had panic and unwiped tears on his face. It was obvious that the chaotic scene just frightened him. He thought that these people were going to eat his father alive, and even brought him and Myrcella to death.
When he lost his rice seedlings, the angry people pointed at him and called him a "bastard".
"Protect your sister."
"Mom, where are you going?"
Joffrey asked in panic, reaching out to grab his mother's skirt, but Cersei didn't say anything. She just wiped the tears on Joffrey's face, then stood up with the hem of her skirt and walked toward the witness box.
Walked over.
On the other side, Robert, with his hands and feet shackled, was glaring angrily at Viserys on the trial stage, cursing incessantly, and just wanted to die quickly, but at this moment, he saw out of the corner of his eye.
The last witness came forward.
Robert turned his head and looked at Cersei with a pair of eyes as wide as copper bells. He did not expect that the last witness against him turned out to be his queen.
"Cersei, you"
"Why?"
The man with a gray beard that looked like an iron tower couldn't help but speak, his voice was low and hoarse, and full of confusion. He was already dead, so why did Cersei come up and give him the most fatal blow?
"Have you forgotten? Robert."
However, the maid with long golden hair raised her hand to flip her hair and raised her delicate chin. Her eye circles were slightly red, but she only held back to prevent tears from flowing down.
"I asked you if you have ever loved me? Even just once."
"But you said no."
When Robert was just escorted to King's Landing, Cersei visited him with her two children. However, before leaving, Cersei leaned against the door and asked one last question.
She asked Robert if he ever loved her, but Robert shook his head no.
From then on, Cersei completely gave up on Robert and had no thoughts about him.
Perhaps the former Westerland girl also longed for her husband when she first married into King's Landing. After all, her husband was a great hero who overthrew the tyrant. However, Robert was on the bed on their wedding night, making love to her and shouting
Another woman's name.
Then Cersei no longer looked at her husband, but turned her head to look at the trial seat, then straightened her expression and spoke.
"Your Majesty, gentlemen."
As a wife, she testified about some criminal evidence about her husband and revealed some royal secrets. However, many of the witnesses had already described these, and Cersei repeated them again, which made many nobles of the Seven Kingdoms in the audience
They looked at each other, wondering what the reason was for Cersei to come up.
But on the trial stand, some prominent nobles already knew the reason.
They looked at the top of Robert's head with sympathetic eyes, and then turned to look at the two children. In the final analysis, the children were innocent and were victims of the love and hatred of the adults.