Chapter 268
"You're smart." Dany sneered.
The Old Man of Oldtown knelt down on the polished redwood floor, obediently and honestly: "Archmaester Marwyn told me that Mage Thequai was a young lady with some inheritance of Valyria sorcery.
While the Fireball fell last night, very similar to the spell that Valyria Grand Sorcerer controls in the form of Dragonflame, Oldtown has never had many transcendents...
And, this evening we were at the pier After waiting for a long time for Mage Thequai to arrive, this series of coincidences only shows one thing, Your Majesty, you are Thequai."
"Don't call me Your Majesty, no noble will violate Guest right, the King who assassinated oneself."
"This..." The Old Man of Oldtown looked around and said to his daughter: "Malora, take the two guests downstairs for a drink. Tea, I'm going to chat with Your Majesty alone for a while."
He then looked at Marwyn and Alleras.
Marwyn glanced at Dany with a slight frown before leaving with Malora the Mad Maid with Acolyte.
"Your Majesty, I'm wrong!" Whitebeard old man wailed as soon as the three of Marwyn entered the stairwell.
"Don't take me for a fool, this is Oldtown, without the permission of House Hightower, Citadel can find more than 100 Scorpions and nearly 500 elite soldiers?"
"Your Majesty, it's true that Citadel is in Oldtown, and it's true that I am Citadel Guardian, but Citadel has grown to this day, just like the Church of The Seven, and it is no longer within the control of House Hightower."
" Okay, if that's all you want to talk about, then we don't need to talk anymore." Dany said impatiently.
There is no doubt that Citadel must be the mastermind, and House Hightower never established the idea of "real world", otherwise Old Man of Oldtown and Malora the Mad Maid would not be so obsessed with Magic.
But House Hightower must have participated in the assassination, and the degree of participation is still very deep. If Dany kicked the bucket at that time, 80% of the old man will hold a celebration banquet and entertain the Citadel Archmaester and the generals of the dragon, but Not a single tear will be shed for "Dany Your Majesty".
Only, if the thorn dragon fails, it will suffer the dragon's wrath.
Old Man of Oldtown was afraid of Dany's revenge - which Dany promises, there will be - so he said "Your Majesty", begging and quibbling.
"Your Majesty, House Hightower is willing to saddle your horses for you, as long as you give an order, I will immediately take someone to wash the Citadel with blood." The old man gritted his teeth and said sullenly.
Dany indifferently said: "Earl, I have to say, you miscalculated and underestimated me. I won't kill any of those Maesters and Archmaesters who tried to kill me, neither will Citadel It will be destroyed, they will be punished, but I will not destroy the largest and most formal academic organization in the world."
The old man also sighed in relief, shouting: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty is majestic!"
It has nothing to do with kindness!
The group of Maesters with firm beliefs, each with a rigid head, are not afraid of death at all for the sake of their ideas.
If Dany had let go last night and burned the Citadel to the ground with a fire, Maesters would have only thought that oneself had sacrificed his life and killed himself. Not only will I not feel pain and regret, but I can confidently say: Look, this is why we pursue the "real world", the power of transcendent is not good for the country and the people except to distort the temperament.
The real revenge is to destroy the things that the enemy cherishes most.
For Maester, it is the concept of "real world" that they have insisted on for hundreds of years, and have worked hard, fought and proudly for it.
And it's not too simple to destroy this idea. In the face of Others, who dares to say that dragon is a scourge, and Magic is harmful to human beings?
Dany is looking forward to Others coming to Oldtown, when Maester's world view, outlook on life, philosophy, belief, all collapse.
So, she wants them to live until Long Night comes.
But these words cannot be said to anyone, much less the Old Man of Oldtown.
"hehe, Citadel is good for human civilization, so I have several points of love for it, but you Hightower...Oldtown maybe it's time to change owners." Dany said with a sneer.
This is also true.
For the great nobles with thousands of years of history, depriving them of their Fiefdom and destroying their families is the real punishment.
She's not without a temper.
"Your Majesty, this assassination is really..." Whitebeard old man panicked, slammed the floor and shouted, "Your Majesty, let me tell you the truth!
Citadel discovered your identity the day before yesterday afternoon and asked my son Baelor to send troops to hang you, but Baelor refused them without the slightest hesitation.
But long before the Hightower was reported, Maester has released Raven and notified Highgarden Lady Olenna in full.
Yesterday morning, Archmaester Theobald found me with Lady Olenna's letter, hoping that the Oldtown guards will cooperate with Citadel to assassinate you ."
As if worried that Dany won't believe it, the old man said as he pulled out an origami from his sleeve with the Highgarden rose seal on it.
Only one line: Highgarden is not involved in this matter and does not restrict Citadel's actions.
It's a simple sentence.
"Did you see clearly?" The old man raised the letter high, as if afraid that she wouldn't see it.
"The meaning of Lady Olenna's words can't be more obvious when you hear the string song and know the elegant meaning." old man helplessly said.
“Why did the Queen of Thorns assassinate me? A Queen Margaery is not worth enough?” Dany wondered.
"Of course not enough, ten queens are not worth the risk of offending the Dragon Queen, but Iron Throne is worth it!"
"Tyrell Duke wants Iron Throne?"
"No, it's Lady Olenna."
"She's an old lady who is about to have a great grandson, how can she have such big ambitions?" Dany doubted.
"She certainly didn't think that way before, but after War of Four Kings ended, Highgarden became Seven Kingdoms strongest Great Influence. Now that Robert Baratheon can ride Iron Throne, House Lannister's bastard can ride Iron Throne , why can't Tyrell?"
"Hehe, you're just guessing." Dany still didn't believe it.
"Your Majesty, in Game of Thrones, everyone wants to be a winner, and they must be a winner! Lady Olenna is not a wild ambition. The reason why she agreed to Duke Tywin's request to form an alliance, Also just wanted to be on the winner's side in Chaos of Four Kings.
Of course, it's better to take the family to the next level.
But the Game of Thrones never stops, After sweeping the Quartet Rebellion, Lannister took Highgarden as her opponent in a new round of games, and Lady Olenna just didn't want to lose."
"Be more specific, except Cersei mental disorder, doing something stupid, Lannister Didn't seem to target Highgarden?" Dany frowned.
"Ai, Duke Tywin has already made a move on Highgarden. First, to cut off Willas (Highgarden's heir, Garlan's big brother) and Sansa Stark's marriage; then, to seal Brightwater to Garlan ... ...Your Majesty know what's so special about Brightwater House Florent?"
"Sowing Hightower, Tarly and Highgarden?"
"It's not just me and the Tarlys. "
Dany saw the old man support his back while talking, and was very pitiful, so he said: "You get up and talk."
"many thanks Your Majesty," the old man crawled with joy Get up, explain more carefully. "Most of the bloodline of the Reach nobles can be traced back to the Legendary heroes of the First Men period - Garth Greenhand, including Brightwater's Florent."
Dany looked thoughtful.
Like Stark has an awesome Old Ancestor, Brandon the Builder.
Age of Heroes, Reach also has a Legendary character, Garth Greenhand, also known as Green Garth - it is said that his hair and skin are green.
Garth is particularly capable of breeding, in addition to cultivating high-quality grains for the farmland, he also helps women sow seeds. It is said that with just one touch, an infertile woman can become pregnant, and Crone, who is not menstruating, can give birth again.
mother is pregnant with twins and even triplets under his blessing, little girl turns into a menstrual Maiden under his smile.
Wherever Garth went, local nobles and common people were happy to offer him their chaste daughters.
In the coming year, their crops will have a good harvest, the Fruit Tree will also be fruitful, and Maiden, who was raped by Garth, will also be pregnant with a strong son or a beautiful daughter.
Uh, no wonder it's called Green Garth...
——Speaking of the question|external|word, it was because of knowing Garth's story that Dany was born to engage in hybrid rice idea. Obviously, the green Garth is 99% a Sorcerer, and she even suspected that the green-haired and green-skinned Garth was a hybrid of Children of the Forest and First Men, Druid?
In short, Garth is a hero who is particularly able to "farm the land". He has many children. The elder son Garth Gardener started the Reach Royal Family - similar to North Stark. The second son and daughter are the ancestors of many nobles in Reach.
And Tyrell's ancestor was an Andals adventurer who swore allegiance to the House Gardener during the Andals Invasion and later became the hereditary High Steward of Highgarden.
In the next few thousand years, Tyrell also had Garth's bloodline in the intergenerational marriage with the Highgarden nobles. Compared with the Reach nobles that have been passed down since the First Men, their identity and background are always worse. Then a little.
Three hundred years ago, Aegon killed all the men of House Gardener in the battle of "Field of Fire". As the Highgarden Steward's Tyrell, he directly opened the master's city gate and surrendered to Conqueror.
Aegon reciprocated, letting steward succeed the master and become King of the Reach.
This incident itself made other Reach nobles secretly resented, but Aegon has a dragon, and he has to hold back his dissatisfaction.
Fortunately, House Tyrell is smart enough to marry the big "Greenhand" blood descendant families while holding Targaryen's thick dragon legs. Three hundred years later, Reach's rule was finally stabilized.
But they have taken the Highgarden and King of the Reach titles in House Gardener, and now strip Florent of the title and Fiefdom...
Other "Greenhand" families What would you think?
I have to say, Tywin made a second move.
House Florent's Brightwater is one of Reach's most fertile territories, and the bait is so fragrant that Highgarden Tyrell knows it's a poisoned apple, but he can't help swallowing it.
Maybe Tyrell thought that he could digest this big piece of fat slowly with the deterrence of time and martial power as he did three hundred years ago.
Old Man of Oldtown continues: "Your Majesty, Randyll Tarly and Paxter Redwyne, known as 'Reach's Two Heroes', are the two core pillars of Highgarden's voice in King's Landing.
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As for Duke Mace... alas, that 'Puff Fish', my son-in-law, is a low-eyed crap.
Lady Olenna from House Redwyne is Earl Paxter His aunt is also his mother-in-law.
In other words, Redwyne and Tyrell have a close relationship and cannot be separated.
But Tarly...
Tarly is Florent's in-law and has no relationship with Tyrell other than a monarch.
Duke Tywin caught this weak spot.
In addition to the Brightwater incident, he also deliberately took the Reach army Divided into two , Duke Mace led Highgarden south to Storm's End, and no contribution was achieved; Earl Tarly led oneself Fiefdom's troops north to the Three Rivers Basin, cleaned up bandits, stabilized law and order, and made great achievements.
But Mace is still a little jealous, Little belly chicken intestines..."
At the end, the long-bearded old man said with a complicated expression: "Fortunately, Tywin died early, otherwise I don't know how he will toss Reach!"
Thinking of Randyll's rescue of Little Rose this afternoon, Dany frowned and asked, "Will Earl Tarly be swayed?"
"No, he's a true soldier, upright, wise, Loyal and brave." The old man shook his head and affirmed, "If Tywin is still alive and continues to use his means to split the relationship between the Reach monarch and his subjects, perhaps Earl Tarly will be drawn over by Iron Throne, but at this time Lannister...
Lannister has two lions, one dog, one pig, one tiger, Tywin Lannister is a very ruthless old lion, Tyrion is the inexperienced young lion.
Tywin's younger brother, Ser Kevan, is House Lannister's most loyal Old Dog, while Cersei is a pig, and Jaime is fierce as a tiger but not resourceful.
So, Your Majesty, you see?
The old lion and the young lion kill each other, the stupid pig can only make trouble, the tiger has broken its claws, and Lannister has only one left to maintain stability, the Old Dog.
This is a great opportunity for Lady Olenna, and God is to blame! "