Chapter 374
Wall, Castle Black.
Just had lunch.
On the square in front of the castle, several instructors were training the little Night's Watch, and further out, Giant and Wildlings were busy on the construction site.
Dragon Queen has been away from the Wall for more than a week. The arc-shaped city wall surrounding Castle Black has been rammed and half-meter-high wall stacks have been built.
Although Stannis had requested to suspend the project when the Queen had just left to help him repair Nightfort, both Night's Watch and Wildlings refused without the slightest hesitation.
"We swore to the Dragon Queen that the sacred oath, the Night's Watch is strictly neutral, and helping other Kings to build castles is completely different from building a city wall for Castle Black."
Lord Steward Bowen Marsh's voice trembled, but his tone was firm.
"No, some of us are Dragon Queen's captives, and the rest have a Lend-Lease Agreement with Dragon Queen, and won't work for the Other of the flaming red heart." Wildlings roared at Second Stag.
At that moment, Stannis contorted his face, his hands on the hilt of the sword.
"Fuck--"
A dragon cry suddenly came from the gray-blue sky.
In the construction site, the Wildlings and Night's Watch on the top of the Wall, the little Night's Watch training in the drill field, and some Stag Party Knights who followed the training put their hands on their foreheads to block the direct sunlight at noon. Look up to the sky.
"It's the Dragon, Black Dragon, Dragon Queen is here!"
Ser Alliser and a few Dragon Parties ran happily, waving their arms wildly towards the sky.
"You're back so soon, don't you worry about Wildlings from Dongdu?" Second Stag walked out of King's Tower, his teeth clenched and his eyes unpredictable.
A few "anti-Dragon Party" Knights around him looked at each other, and a sinister smile appeared on the corner of their mouths.
Well, Second Stag has moved into King's Tower.
Lord Commander's Tower belongs to Night's Watch. When Lord Commander is elected, he must live in Lord Commander's Tower.
Nightfort is too broken, and it will take half a year to repair it.
At this time, the faction of the Stag Party has also quietly changed. According to the attitude towards the Dragon Queen: "Alliance Dragon Party" composed of Crownlands nobles, Stormlands, Reach Queen's Party (Red God believers)-based "Alliance Dragon Party" Dragon Biting Party”.
Alliance Dragon Party had already given up the fantasy of marriage between dragon and deer at this time-Dragon Queen completely looked down on own lord, self-proclaimed True Dragon, but regarded King Stannis as a grasshopper on the ground-now, they advocated with Mother of Dragons united, fully abiding by the covenant of "the one who ends Long Night is king".
Success is king, and if you lose, you can feel at ease as a servant of the Dragon Queen—they have been for hundreds of years anyway.
The Dragon Eater Party turned the unspeakable conspiracy into a practical plan. They planned to find an opportunity to attack the Dragon Queen and clear the way to Iron Throne for King Stannis, who had entrusted his entire future and future. Biggest hurdle - as Aemon worries.
Dragon Queen simply left neatly, which was a big blow to the Dragon Devourer party - everyone is gone, how can crafty plots and machinations be done?
At this point, see Black Dragon coming to the Wall again, they begin to stir again.
dragon At an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, Ygritte's bright and intelligent blue eyes widened, and he was the first to notice the abnormality: "No, there is no one on the dragon, you see, Black Dragon's claws are carrying a black . .....Sacks?"
"Sigh--" Black Dragon quickly descended to altitude, from fifteen hundred meters to three hundred meters, more than two hundred meters ...
It really is a sack, and everyone gradually sees it clearly.
But Big Black didn't land in the yard. He just swept across the aisle at the top of the Wall at a low altitude and threw two big | sacks connected together on the top of the Wall.
"Sigh--" Big Black lowered his head and called in the direction of Castle Black, with a humane glint flashing in his eyes, he quickly turned around and flew towards the south-east direction.
Watching Black Dragon fly higher and higher and disappear into the clouds, Jon felt inexplicably lost, turned his head towards Wall, and said, "It came to Wall to deliver supplies, I don't know what's in the sack."
"Gold coins, Seven Hells, it's all gold coins!" Todder was lying on the wall, holding a handful of gold coins in his hand, blushing, and waving frantically to everyone below, yelled: "I can't count. gold coins, gold coins that cannot be lifted, hundreds of catties, thousands of catties."
"Gold coins?" Night's Watch was shocked and stunned.
"Dragon Queen delivers on her promise to deliver supplies to Wall! With Golden Dragon, there's food." Bowen Marsh shuddered with excitement.
"Not the Golden Dragon, a gold coin I don't know, smaller than the Golden Dragon, seems to be the popular Honor in Free City." Todder exclaimed above.
"Gold Honor?" Stannis blurted out, looking at the Knight beside him in shock, muttered: "Black Dragon came from the other side of the Narrow Sea, she's back at Slaver's Bay."
"Did she take Dragonstone then?" Godry Farring wondered.
"Definitely won, don't forget, she has dragons." Stannis said gloomily.
"But..." Florent glanced at a few anti-Dragon Party Ser, both at a loss and in a low mood, "She really left Westeros? Didn't summon the old Crownlands ministers at Dragonstone? ?"
It took a long time for Night's Watch to deliver two sacks of gold coins to Castle Black, where Giant, Wildlings, Night's Watch and some Stag Party Knights all gathered around.
The sack stood tall and thicker than a wooden barrel, the mouth of the sack was untied, and the golden rays of light dazzled the flower's face.
"It's Honor, there are several kinds, Qarth, Volantis, and Slaver's Bay Honor. But the face value is the same, about three Honors worth a Golden Dragon." A woman who is more than a looks woman Night's Watch said.
His name is Satin, from a brothel in Oldtown, male prostitute.
Smith Donal tried to lift it, blushing with a thick neck, but the sack shook only a few times.
"It's so heavy, it might add up to a thousand kilograms, or tens of thousands of Golden Dragons." He clicked his tongue.
"There is one more letter." Todder handed over a roll of snow-white paper.
Perestan squeezed the paper before opening it, wondering, "This is not a parchment, it's thinner, cleaner, whiter..."
"Look at what's written on it," Ser Alliser urged.
"Oh..." Perestan temporarily put aside his doubts about the material of the stationery, cut open the five-headed dragon pattern on the stationery, opened the folded stationery, and said: " More than 1,000 catties of gold, about 250,000 Gold Honor (ps), 100,000 is reserved for Night's Watch, which can be used at will.
150,000 is half a year's food expenses for 'within the wall Wildlings', as well as transportation |The starting fee for the Narrow Sea is negotiated by Night's Watch and Thousand Man Leaders such as Val and Morna.
In two months, Targaryen's fleet will go to Eastwatch to pick up people. At that time, there will be a second A batch of supplies will be delivered.
——Remember, Slaver's Bay is too far from the Wall, and it is difficult to transport Astapor with gold coins, so don't waste it."
"We have a share of the gold coins, Long live the Dragon Queen!" cried Ygritte.
"hmph, don't say we're free food, Dragon Queen has already paid for us." Val said loudly in the direction of Stag Party Knight.
"Long live the True Dragon Queen!" shouted the Wildlings.
"And..." Perestan pressed down with his right hand and said to Night's Watch: "Queen also asked Lord Commander to choose, if there is Lord Commander, use Lord Commander with me. In the name of the Earl and above, explain the sacred oath of 'the united front against ghosts' and 'the one who ends Long Night is king'."
Pomegranate Lord Steward sighed then said: "Queen Your Majesty had a point, the Lord Commander had to be picked early."
...
It took just over twenty hours for Big Black to return to Astapor. At this point, it was only three days before the Dragon Queen returned to Slaver's Bay.
Having a dragon is just that convenient.
Especially after devouring Rat Cook, Big Black's physique has not changed much, and his strength, speed, and endurance have almost doubled.
In the past, Big Black could only carry five hundred kilograms, and any more would seriously affect his flying posture. Now he has carried half a ton of gold, and he is still flexible and fast.
Without weight, his top speed reached 450 kilometers per hour.
Gliding at a speed of 250 kilometers, can last three days and three nights without rest.
In fact, from the time he left the Great Pyramid with the sack to the Wall, dropped the gold coins, and flew back, he had neither landed nor eaten in two and a half days.
Three days back in Astapor, Dany had only one thing to do, the custody of Earl Chainbreaker Cleon.
Uh, Maester Lai is in jail...
Maester Lai is so awesome, in the month that Dany left Slaver's Bay, he turned Meereen 80% into Ghis nobles, merchants Extermination of the family... No murder, but all were sentenced to death, or permanent labor (life imprisonment).
According to the "legal code" formulated by Dany, the result of the trial involving the death penalty must be approved by the Queen or the Hand of the King before the final execution.
At this time, there was no Hand of the King in Slaver's Bay - according to the original plan, after returning from traveling in Westeros, Barristan did it - the Queen was also out, so the death sentence has not been executed.
When the news of the Queen's return spread, Astapor's Green Graces Galazzi immediately came over with seven or eight terrified Tokar robe Ghis men.
At that time, Dany had just watched Big Black fly away with gold coins, wearing loose silk pants, lying by the pool in the shade of cool persimmon trees, chatting with old Aemon and Jorah about Westeros junk Son.
Well, Missandei was listening.
"Your Majesty, you're back."
The old woman Ghis, wrapped in a flowing green gauze, ran to the Dragon Queen with tears, prostrate at her feet, hugging her. Grabbing her strong, shapely legs, she whimpered, "Earl Chainbreaker is crazy, Queen, that butcher is crazy."
"Uh, Lord Green Graces, you get up first," Dany helped old Saintess to On the soft couch opposite, he pretended to be puzzled and asked, "What's so urgent, can't we talk about it at the banquet tonight?"
Well, Dany is going to hold a party at Great Pyramid tonight, and he invited All high-level officials and big businessmen in the city.
To celebrate the return of oneself and to introduce old Aemon to everyone.
Green Graces, as one of the ministers, is naturally also invited.
"Queen Your Majesty, you can't be in a hurry, the good home in Meereen City, now ten rooms are empty, all of them were raided and detained by Earl Chainbreaker, and sentenced to death, more than 20,000 people Ah!"
"What do you mean? Why do you just raid your house and get sentenced to death? There are more than 20,000 people, what's the matter?" Dragon Queen was anxious and angry, and her face was blank .
While covering her face and crying, she squinted and secretly observed every expression of Dragon Queen. Green Graces was greatly sighed in relief: Fortunately, with the ability to observe words and expressions trained by several decades, I can be 100% sure. , Dragon Queen didn't know about it, butcher Cleon didn't get hint from Queen, he made his own decisions.
Too hateful!
Having cursed Cleon a few hundred times in secret, Green Graces wiped away the tears and sweat from Goosebump's face with a soft green scarf, and cried out to the Dragon Queen: "Your Majesty, Earl Chainbreaker abused his authority. , framing Zhongliang, oppressing the common people, corrupting money and perverting the law, seizing the people's daughters, being lawless, and disrupting the court..."
Green Graces, without repetition, contacted Cleon for hundreds of charges, Hearing Dany's head getting big, he had to interrupt her and said, "Just keep it simple, to the point, what the hell did Cleon Chainbreaker do?"