Chapter 204

Chapter 204

In addition to the Volantis politicians who are soliciting votes, Dany also easily found the Ghis Mission, who actually learned the way of the Triarch candidates, using huge elephants to carry hot-hot girls and delicate-skinned boys and send them for free along the street.

A long procession of at least fifty huge elephants, two or three hundred slave boys and girls, was hard for Dany to ignore.

In addition to the slave bed slave in the elephant's back tower, many huge elephants also have huge nanmu boxes and rattan baskets hanging beside them.

"Long live the Allies, Long live the United Nations, Mother of Demon Dragons!" shouted the Tokar robes on camels in front of the elephant team.

"Support the Allied Expeditions resolution, support the United Nations resolution to block Slaver's Bay trade."

"Resist goods from non-Fahai merchants who sneak into Slaver's Bay, do not buy and sell white sand Sugar, don't buy snow salt, don't buy mulled wine, don't..."

huge elephants with yellow silk cloaks on horses and camels on both sides, they held banners and wooden tokens , "White Sugar" has a huge red cross, "Snow Salt" has a huge red cross...

Whenever there is Volantene in the block, it will show the proof of oneself's sea boat , and vowed never to drive the boat into Slaver's Bay, the Ghis asked him to choose two slave bed-mates, and also grabbed a lot of Gold Honor from the basket and threw it at him.

At least there are seventy or eighty gold coins, mixed with multi-colored jewelry such as ruby, green Emerald, tiger's eye, tourmaline, etc., which is a mess.

"Seven Hells!"

Dany's eyes were bulging out of the Ghis man's act.

In order to deal with her "evil Mother of Dragons", the slave dealers really tried their best.

But also because these people are too ostentatious, she and Barristan can easily find the residence of the mission's home - Elephants Triarch Nyessos Vhassar's mansion.

Located on the east of Black Wall, across a street, a super large mansion covering an area of two hectares.

Learning the practice of the Ghis people, Dany drew a huge red cross on this mansion in his heart, and Big Black in the sky locked this place at the same time.

After finding the Ghis envoy's station, Dany didn't go back immediately, seeing that it was still early.

With a pure tourist mentality, the two began to visit this thousand-year-old ancient city.

How to say...

The city is a bit deserted, or rather, the current Volantis decayed to less than half of the flourishing period.

Walking around the Black Wall, the two Dany have been to the north of the Black Wall. After a prosperous area, I continued to look north, but found a large city ruin between the city wall and Black Wall on the east Northern Part of City side of Volantis.

Well, Volantis is different from Valyria and Oros, it has a city wall.

Black Wall is an inner city, like the Forbidden City in old Beijing, with a vast urban area outside, facing the river in the west, the sea in the south, and a ten-meter-high city wall in the north and east.

When Dany and Barristan left the Black Wall and walked north for half a mile, they found that the neighborhood in front of them was deserted, and some places even turned back into swamp land overgrown with water plants.

A lot of houses were abandoned, all squares were empty, most of the fountains ran out of water, and the remaining pools either dried up or became stinking stagnant pools.

Brown Devilgrass grows on the pavement, purple morning glory emerges from cracks in brick walls, peach and sour jujube trees take root in a shop with a collapsed roof...

Dany uses Dreki's perspective to see far more than Barristan. In the huge Valyria city wall, the abandoned city is far more than the one in front of him.

How many low-lying marsh areas.

Volantis is close to the river and the sea. Except for Black Wall, which is located on a high hill, the rest of the urban area was originally a marsh and puddle area. During the Valyria Peak period, with the development of the city, the urban area overflowed the Black Wall and expanded outward step by step. The puddles, small river channels, and tidal flats were transformed into streets and residential areas.

But Peak's past, hundreds of years of wind and rain, sparsely populated and unmaintained streets have re-degraded to floodland.

"In the four hundred years after the Valyria cataclysm, the population of this city has dropped by at least 60%, which is terrifying," she murmured.

"Century of Blood!" Barristan spit out a word with a complex expression.

The former Volantis was far more prosperous and powerful than now. The name of Rhoyne Queen and the hostess of Summer Sea is not for nothing. Its population, wealth, and territory are more than the other eight Free Cities combined. many.

It's a pity that the Battle of Supremacy of Century of Blood scrambled to drain the blood and life force of Valyria eldest daughter.

There is nothing to see in the desolate city ruins, and the two quickly turned their horses and headed for the southern city.

There is a wharf and a harbor in the south of the city, and the prosperity and vitality of the past have been maintained.

A closer look shows that the urban buildings mostly maintain the Old Valyria style, mostly round towers, the ground floor is the servant's residence, few windows are opened, but the upper floors have spacious balconies and small gardens extending three or four meters.

There is also the iconic black roofless Heavenspan Pagoda, which is so high that it can be seen across the Black Wall.

It's a pity that the descendants of Dragonlord lost their dragons. Many Volantis nobles added a glass dome to the top of their towers. Under the noon sun, the striped glass of different colors reflects blue, purple, green, red and other colors. , like a rainbow twisted into a ball.

However, more common are the Triarch stone sculptures standing on the streets and by the fountains in the square, most of which have had their heads severed.

For example, in the southeast block outside the Black Wall, a half-hectare garden square has a jacaranda tree about 30 meters high in the center. The petals of the pink purple are like snow from Heaven, falling to tourists below. The ends of the hair, the shoulders, fell on the broken neck of the huge White Jade stone carving.

Dany brushed off the petals hanging from his ears and stared down at the inscription on the edge of the stone carving.

Century of Blood's Volantis hero, Triarch Horonno, once commanded the Volantis army and occupied Myr, taking the Disputed Lands in the southwest corner of the Essos continent as a Volantis colony.

After 40 years of continuous Triarch, he finally got tired of elections and proclaimed himself the ruler for life. Who would have thought that Volantene didn't buy it at all, they tied him to two elephants and ripped him in half.

"It's so miserable..." Dany grinned, and thoughtful thought: "In this case, Volantis' electoral system is not useless, at least the public's awareness of the Democratic System is very high. ....."

"Ser, what do you think?" she asked Knight next to her.

"Volantene is savage, and too mean and unkind. This Horonno has made great achievements and served Volantis for 40 years, and finally ended up with such a bleak ending." The old man looked complicated.

He seems to have seen his oneself from this dead stone sculpture. He has been a White Cloak for almost forty years, and was deprived of his lifelong honor by a little devil.

"Well, that's good, but you can look at it from a different angle." Dany twitched at the corners of his mouth.

"What angle?"

"Volantene's democratic consciousness, determination to protect oneself rights, safeguard legal justice, maybe..."

"My lord, you're not going to study Volantis and run the Triarch election, are you?" Whitebeard looked panicked. "I shudder to think of the Seven Kingdoms Duke with a group of bed slaves canvassing votes on King's Landing Streets and alleys."

Dany nodded and said with a smile: "You can try, anyway, I'm young, I can stand the toss, I still have a dragon, and if I fail, no one can cut my head."

But Seven Kingdoms can't stand the toss!

Did you ride a dragon to hide back to Slaver's Bay immediately after Westeros broke?

White Cloak thought anxiously for a while, then said resolutely: "Lord, you see, there are many Triarch statues on the street without their heads, and the decline of Volantis, all because of partisan fighting, the electoral system. It's not as good as you think."

this can be considered truth.

Valyria ruled the world before its destruction, and when Doomsday destroyed the empire's center of power - the Lands of Long Summer and capital Valyria - its colonies and conquered lands gained independence.

What about the independence of the city-states?

Start grabbing turf!

Essos West Continent was plunged into a century-long melee until House Targaryen shot...

As "First Daughter of Valyria", "Queen of Rhoyne" ", "The Mistress of the Summer Sea", Volantis has the largest number of pure blood Valyrians, dominates the vast Rhoyne River Valley, is the strongest, dominates the trade of the Summer Sea, and has the most powerful fleet in the world.

as it should be by rights, in the Century of Blood Early-Stage, all Volantene have reached a consensus: they are the heirs of Freehold and the orthodox rulers of the world.

Let's not talk about ruling the world, at least the other eight Free Cities in the western continent should acknowledge allegiance to Volantene.

But Volantene disagreed greatly about how to conquer the western continent of Essos, and the Tigers formed by Old Blood tended to use martial power.

And the Elephants, formed by bankers and sea merchants, supported trade conquest, or "economic control."

But in Years of Blood, everyone is drawing knives and slashing people, and there is no doubt that the Tigers' proposition has prevailed.

In a short time, Volantis' fleet conquered Lys and the army captured Myr.

West Continent - Three-quarters of the area is dominated by the Volantene, who almost literally rule the world.

Volantene also found a nest at Dragonstone during the period, "watching the situation" Aegon Targaryen.

The "Conqueror" has a plan of oneself, not only rejected the "compatriots" to win over, but formed an "anti-Volantis" alliance with Tyrosh, Pentos, Braavos - just like today's alliance against Dragon Queen Same as the army.

Hundreds of thousands of armies, hundreds of thousands of battleships, one dragon, the southwestern plain of Essos, which was once a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, was devastated by the war, which is now the "Disputed Lands".

From the map, it seems that there are only nine city-states in the huge western continent of Essos, and the rest are open spaces?

Not so.

There used to be prosperous towns dotted all over this land, but now there are only ruins left.

Losing the shock of the Valyria dragon, the Dothraki gallops freely in the western continent, the town you rebuild this year is just another bell for the Horselord who will call next year.

Also because Old Ancestor stabbed Volantene, Dany never thought of recruiting and surrendering Black Wall nobles under the banner of "everyone is orthodox Valyrian".

Well, digressed.

Aegon had only one dragon (his two younger sisters did not participate), and could not fundamentally change the situation of the war. If Volantene had united and worked together at that time, the "anti-Volantis alliance" would not be a problem. Not difficult to get through.

After all, Volantis is so big. In terms of hard power, the world is the strongest, and the process of unifying the western continent is also very stable. After raiding and winning Myr, Lys and Disputed Lands, it took them half a century. Come to digest the results of the battle, and only then will the army march north when you are ready.

However, Volantis Triarch holds elections every year, and there are two parties with completely different political views. Once the war encounters setbacks, policies often change accordingly.

After tossing back and forth for half a century, Volantene tossed oneself to the point of exhaustion and lost his country.

Not only did the previously occupied colonies become independent, but even the inherent territory upstream of Rhoyne was occupied by Qohor and Braavos.

Later horse men came from the eastern grasslands again, and the Rhoyne plains were harassed every year, and the "Rhoyne Queen" didn't even have the chance to regroup.

Tigers lost ground completely, and for three hundred years after Century of Blood, Elephants had been in control of Volantis' government, occupying at least two Triarch positions.

In order to completely deny the Old Blood martial power's policy of conquering the world, and in order to completely knock the Tigers out of the dust, the Elephants, who came to power, pinned all the sins of the war defeat on the Tigers' heads, and also guided public opinion and cut them off. The heads of all Tigers Triarch statues.

Well, Volantis will erect statues for every elected Triarch.

Because of this history, Whitebeard thinks that the tiger Elephants fought badly for Volantis.

The most pitiful thing is that the Elephants won the election and implemented the policy of 'trade conquering the world' for three hundred years, but the real boss of the western continent became Braavos.

Braavos imitated Elephants' "financial control" tactics almost completely, and indirectly controlled most of the western continent and even Westeros through Iron Bank.