Chapter 221
Old Palace is very humble, almost the most... uh, unpretentious palace Dany has ever seen.
Two high towers, with a four-meter-high gray hall sandwiched between them, are gone.
“Look, the tower on the left has a slender body and a 10-meter-long gilded iron thorn at the top,” White Cloak pointed to the tall tower outside the window and introduced, “Spear Tower, representing the lance of House Martell.
The one on the right, the top floor is the golden vaulted and stained glass walled hall's exquisite tower, Tower of the Sun, representing Rhoynar's Sun.
The middle hall is the banquet hall, The place where Prince Martell officially entertains guests."
They have now entered a wooden restaurant opposite the Old Palace, sitting by the window on the second floor, drinking Dorne's specialty orange juice while observing the Old Palace opposite Palace.
Old Palace is called Old Palace because Maron Martell built a new palace, Water Gardens, 15 kilometers west of Sunspear in order to marry Daenerys Targaryen.
Well, that Daenerys from a hundred and thirty years ago.
I don't know if the previous generation Targaryen was too useless, or the Dorne people really added the "guerrilla behind enemy lines" skills to the Divine Grade.
In short, the other six kingdoms have long acknowledged allegiance to the Dragon Family, but Dorne led the rebellion today and rebellion tomorrow, from Aegon the Conqueror 300 years ago to Saint 150 years ago Baelor, for nearly two centuries, the Dorne leader has been rebelling against Targaryen.
The population is the least, the resources are the most desolate, but the Dragon Family and the dragon (Dynasty Early-Stage dragons are not yet extinct), but the Dorne people almost made Targaryen bleed.
Not to mention Targaryen who died at the hands of the Dorne people, even the dragon, Meraxes, who died in the hands of the Balerion, also died in this land.
To be honest, Dany's first thought when he saw the history of the conquest of Dorne was another "Three Thousand Unsullied to defend Qohor".
She didn't understand. It's true that the Dorne environment is harsh, it's true that there are many sandy hills with complex terrain, and it's true that the Dorne people are rebellious, but because of this, the land for people to live in is also true. less!
Don't say anything else, just take Sunspear - Sunspear has fallen into the hands of Targaryen many times, blocked the Greenblood route, and then sent dragons to burn crops and fruit forests on both sides of the river bank, and wait for ten or eight years, see Dorne How many people are left.
Among the Seven Kingdoms, Dorne has the smallest population, less than 500,000, and most of them are gathered in the Greenblood basin.
Just like the 3,000 Unsullied, the Dorne people also got hooked. Or, Targaryen and the other six countries were collectively put on the "stupid cunt" buff and fought back and forth for nearly two hundred years. If you lose, you can only end the war by marriage.
Let Dany deal with the Dorne people, she is sure to reduce the casualties to a thousand people, one dragon is enough.
Don't care about the castle, just clear crops, factories, docks and ships, it doesn't matter if the Dorne people still refuse to accept, she only insists on bringing Dorne back to the Stone Age within 20 years.
If you give her fifty years, she can even end the Dorne civilization, so that all Dorne people will not even write their own names, and they will be completely reduced to a group of Wildlings who devour raw meat and fowl.
Well, digressed.
Dany is not House Targaryen's first "Daenerys", a hundred years ago, Targaryen, who couldn't survive, married Martell in humiliation.
The two sides exchange sisters, you marry my princess, I marry your princess, and the princess married to Martell is called "Daenerys".
To put it bluntly, "Daenerys" is a variant of "Daenys", and even Daenys the Dreamer is not necessarily a first-generation head, the ghost knows how many "Dany" Old Ancestors Targaryen has produced in Valyria for more than 6,000 years.
"Want to meet Prince Martell?" White Cloak whispered.
"What are you seeing him for?"
"He's not House Targaryen's most loyal ally, but he must have a common enemy with you," Barristan spat out a name slowly, "Tywin Lannister!"
"Tywin is dead."
"I don't think Prince Martell is that easy to satisfy," White Cloak said.
"You also heard on the way here that his younger brother Oberyn died at the hands of The Mountain, but His Highness Prince locked up the rioting Sand Snake, intending to make peace." Dany shrugged said.
Speaking of Oberyn Martell, one can't help but sigh: Lancer's fate is really miserable!
The judicial system under the teachings of The Seven has a tradition that Dany thinks is extremely pitiful, trial by combat.
Any criminal, as long as he resolutely refuses to admit the crime of oneself during the trial - even if there are witnesses and physical evidence, he can challenge the plaintiff by martial arts as the defendant.
For example, Wang Wu strengthened Zhang San's wife. Afterwards, the village chief led the villagers to arrest Wang Wu and tried him for his crimes in public.
But Wang Wu quibbled, "The man who pressed Zhang San's wife was not me, but he looked a bit like me. If you don't believe me, let's try by combat, The Seven will prove my innocence", Zhang The three qi exploded his lungs, but he could only compete with Wang Wu duel.
If Zhang San wins, Wang Wu is a strong criminal, damn it; if he loses, not only will Zhang San's life not be saved, but Wang Wu will also completely cleanse his "stigma".
Of course, if the village chief is completely sure that Wang Wu is a strong criminal, he can also refuse his request for trial by combat, or help Zhang San find an awesome combat representative and kill Wang Wu directly.
Throughout the history of Westeros, almost no noble lords and members of the royal family have come forward to stop trial by combat.
Well, only the high lord and the Royal Family are qualified to stop it, and they are equivalent to Wang Wu and the "village chief" in Zhang San Village.
Like Tyrion in "Purple Wedding", he was accused of murdering kings, murder kin (poisoning his nephew Joffrey), and deservedly chopped up ten-thousand times by a thousand blades.
Queen Cersei hated this "Idol". When all the evidence was against Tyrion, he proposed trial by combat. Cersei couldn't refuse, she was the Queen Mother of Regent King!
Tyrion originally planned to find Bronn, a mercenary, as the representative. After all, he was old acquaintance. When he was in Eyrie, Bronn took the initiative to stand up to represent Imp and fight against Lysa's great Knight.
But the representative of the competition arranged by Cersei is The Mountain, the theoretically the first Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (Barristan is old, Arthur Dayne is dead, the post-Knight era with withered talents), and the conditions offered are not Not low - as long as Bronn rejected Tyrion, Queen Dowager Cersei helped him marry Earl Stokeworth's daughter.
Well, it's different from the Game of Thrones plot that Dany remembers.
The person who ultimately helped Imp in the fight was "Red Viper" Oberyn Martell, Dorne Prince's younger brother, and Dany's aunt Elia's younger brother.
The Mountain raped and killed Princess Dorne and killed her child, Oberyn wanted to avenge her oneself younger sister, nephew, and niece.
He almost succeeded, but he talked a lot, and also "lucky E" - who called him Lancer!
This is the same as the plot of "Game of Thrones" again. The Mountain, who was poisoned and had already died on the ground at High Level, suddenly grabbed Oberyn's leg and pulled him down, and then squeezed it with his hands. Broken the head of the Dorne.
Well, with this strength, you don't need walnut tongs to eat walnuts...
It is said that biological younger sister, nephew, and younger brother died in the hands of Lannister (The Mountain is Tywin's loyal dog, and is playing on behalf of Cersei), a little bloody, Prince Doran should rebel.
After all, he's Dorne Martell!
How hard was Martell's bones during Dragon Family?
Hundreds of thousands of armies can't be overwhelmed, True Dragon's anger can't be melted, all of them are fierce-men and fierce-girls, but when Prince Doran this generation, they have shrunk into tortoises.
So, Dany didn't have to ask about it at all, at this time Sunspear's streets were talking about the cowardly behavior of his own Prince.
Oberyn was very popular in Dorne, and when the news of his death came, the whole Sunspear was boiling, and he was able to quickly pull up an army with little to no mobilization.
In those days, Oberyn's group of illegitimate daughters was also very active, posting "revenge for my father" on the street every day.
Well, Dorne illegitimate child's surname is Sand (sand), and Oberyn has a bandit number of "Red Viper", and his many illegitimate daughters are collectively called "Sand Snake".
Well, Oberyn gave birth to at least eight Sand Snakes, but not a single son, which is weird.
But Sand Snake was noisy for a few days, and Prince Doran suddenly shot and locked up all the troublesome nieces. There were so many people muttering "Prince's spine is as bad as his legs" that Dany only walked around Sunspear when he heard seven or eight people talking about it.
To be honest, she was a little disappointed and a little shocked.
The reason why I stopped at Dorne is because Dany remembers very clearly that according to the plot of "Game of Thrones", Sand Snake has successfully rebelled at this time, poisoning Cersei's daughter Princess Myrcella, and stabbing "cowardly" to death. Deceptive" Prince Doran, ready to fight Iron Throne.
This major event is worth her time at Sunspear.
It was not the first time that the plot had gone wrong. She was disappointed but accepted, but through this incident, Dany discovered one thing: 'Coward' Doran's control over Sunspear and Dorne far exceeded her expectations.
Even though there are countless people who express their dissatisfaction with Prince Doran's practice of "quiet things", Sunspear is politically stable, economically prosperous, and people live and work in peace and contentment.
Dany can see that Prince Doran may not have the courage to enterprising, but he is not cowardly. He has made a more prudent choice for the people and Dorne.
——No matter how many Dorne people can fight in guerrilla warfare, their strength is always limited, their defense is very good, their offense is very insufficient, and they are no different from soldiers in other places outside the familiar environment of Dorne.
I can't even get past Highgarden and Stormlands, so how come King's Landing?
Well, Dorne is a long way from Crownlands, almost 2,000 kilometers, separated by part of Reach and part of Stormlands.
As a result, Dany wasn't interested in Barristan's proposal.
"Let's rest—"
The conversation stopped, Dany lifts the head, a red shadow flashed in the purple eyes, she was confused for a moment, she shook her head and lowered her voice Said: "Did you feel that? We are being followed."
Barristan stood up calmly and called to the second shop assistant standing by the corridor, "Here's a pepper-braised chicken."
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In one sentence, a few routine actions, he has inadvertently glanced in all directions, a few crows passed by the window, all around without exception.
"No one is watching us, do you feel wrong?" After sitting down, the old Knight wondered.
"This..." Dany hearing this, stood up and looked around, even the street outside the window, and found nothing.
At this time, it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was already past dinner time. Although there were not only the two of them in the hotel's second floor lobby, it was very empty. Only a few silk merchants were talking about business in a low voice.
"Leave immediately after dinner." Dany frowned.