Chapter 398
Barristan explained: "When Ser Kevan returned to King's Landing, the first thing he did was not to rescue Cersei, he first tried to become the Regent King, then resolved the direct conflict between Lannister and Tyrell, and Dragonstone, and then resolved Iron Throne and Church. The conflict.
Wait until he has fully secured his right to be the Regent King before trying to get Cersei out of the Great Sept.
Cersei is crazy, waiting for her to regain control of King's Landing , maybe not looking at the big picture like Ser Kevan, we have to be careful."
"hmph, how does Cersei compare to Braavos? No matter how crazy someone is, I can make her sober." Dany coldly said.
White Cloak said: "Maybe it won't get to that point. Cersei, like Queen Margaery, did not escape trial, but was released on bail, and then had to continue to face the Church trial. In addition, Queen Dowager Cersei admitted to being with, With..."
Speaking of this, White Cloak's face was full of shame and anger, and it seemed that the next words were difficult to say.
Finally, under Dany's curiosity, he murmured, "Cersei has an affair with White Cloak Osfryd Kettleblack ... three brothers."
" Ai, what a world!" White Cloak stomped and wailed.
Dany is focusing on the wrong point, three brothers...
Speaking of which, why didn't you see such exciting scenes on "Game of Thrones"? ?
Did she watch the abridged version of Game of Thrones?
I don't even remember the Kettleblack three brothers in the plot.
“Queen Dowager Cersei was charged with a total of four counts, 1. infidelity, with her cousin Lancel, with Kettleblack, with ... I don’t know who; 2. Blasphemy, she assigned Kettleblack Brother Murdered High Septon, who was High Sparrow's predecessor; 3. Murdered King Robert; 4. Had an incest with Jaime and occupied Iron Throne belonging to Baratheon with his son."
"Queen Dowager Cersei Very clever, she admitted the first crime of infidelity, but she refused to admit the last three. Infidelity could kill her, and Church only sentenced her to parade in the street. Any one of the last three may put her in the land of eternal damnation."
"But Lancel Lannister, who has converted to The Seven, was involved in the murder of King himself, and told High Septon all his secrets...Your Majesty , do you remember Lancel?"
The one-armed hero who gave Jaime a hat, how could she forget?
Dany nods, "The one-armed, linen-clad beggar army Commander is the High Sparrow he took me to see, a very religious and promising young man."
"Uh ..." The corners of Barristan's mouth twitched: It's the kind of disabled person who is only 18 years old, but aged and decadent like an 80-year-old, and has a ghostly future?
"The reason why the former High Septon was murdered was because Lancel went to Great Sept to find him to confess his guilt, Cersei kill a witness to silence them.
Obviously, Lancel also kept the secret I told High Sparrow, under normal circumstances, there are witnesses and evidence, Cersei hard to avoid calamity."
"Why does Cersei keep Lancel's loudspeaker and preach her bad things everywhere? Kill a witness to silence them, also kill Lancel, kill High Septon to cure the symptoms but not the root cause." Dany wondered.
"Maybe I can't find a chance, Lancel joined the poor people's meeting|group, and there is always a large group of beggar troops around."
"It's useless, even if there are a lot of human and material evidence, Cersei It's easy to escape the trial," Dany sighed.
"Oh, what do you say? The Church trial was held in Great Sept, and the nobles, Septon, and King's Landing people witnessed together, and Lancel would definitely serve as a witness to identify Cersei's crimes in public. In addition to the martial power subduing Church Forces, What else can Cersei do?"
"Ai, trial by combat!"
"Uh..." Barristan was also stunned.
trial by combat is almost the biggest loophole in the Westeros judicial system, or rather, it is a backdoor deliberately opened by the lawmakers for the nobles.
Don't say Lancel is an accomplice to identify Cersei, even if Robert is resurrected by Lord of Light, don't even think about convicting his wife - as long as Cersei wins the trial by combat.
trial by combat is the tradition of Andals. The Church of The Seven not only recognized it, but also created a more sacred "Trial of Seven" above trial by combat -- forming a seven-person team to conduct trial by combat. combat .
They think The Seven will decide who the real sinner is.
The funny thing is, in the Maegor I period, Maegor the Cruel rode a dragon to burn the Great Sept, and slaughtered Septon and Church Forces as pigs and dogs.
In the Trial of Seven between Maegor and Holy Sword Knights (Warrior's Sons), Maegor the Cruel actually won? !
The seven most powerful and devout Holy Sword Knight Commanders were all killed, and Maegor won the Trial of Seven.
This...
The Maegor did not ride a dragon, and was a horse-riding contestant, fully complying with the traditions under the teachings of The Seven.
I can't imagine how crazy Church of The Seven's High Septon must have been.
Obviously, Church will be slapped in the face again, but Cersei has a duel invincible existence: the complete The Mountain.
Not to mention High Sparrow, which is now scarce in talent, even Dany is not sure to kill the "True Magic" Mountain in one-on-one.
Thinking about it this way, Dany feels more and more that the plot of Cersei blowing up the Great Sept in Game of Thrones is a bit unreasonable.
Cersei is completely sure to clear her charges through "normal channels", why...
Bombing Sept and evading trial means that her charges have been fulfilled .
Like a person who can win the lawsuit, but "not guilty" absconded.
Did Cersei also awaken "Mad Blood"?
Mad Blood is not a gene, but a virus that hides on the Iron Throne and whoever sits on it will be infected?
Apparently, Targaryen had inherited at least six thousand years before becoming King of Westeros; and apparently, in Valyria's six thousand years, Targaryen was not crazy at all.
Facing the mighty Grand Sorcerer and Fourteen Flames family, who dares to go crazy?
But once on Iron Throne, almost every generation of Targaryen has awakened the Mad Blood gene. What is the reason?
"When is the Cersei parade?" Dany asked suddenly with interest.
"In the morning in three days, are you going to go see it?" Barristan asked strangely.
"Naked Queen Mother, you don't want to see it? Cersei was called Number One Beauty Under the Heavens back then!"
"No, no, I don't want to see it at all!" Barristan He waved eagerly.
"It's okay, you ride Little White, put on your glasses, and go quietly." Dany encouraged.
"I..." Old Knight blushed and quickly changed the subject: "Your Majesty, the first Dragonglass mine has been mined, do you want to take a look?"
As he spoke, he walked to the narrow window in the east and pointed to a windowless stone house below, "We captured more than 30 Lannister soldiers, and the price was too high. One soldier ten Golden Dragon, Kevan didn't redeem it.
Earl Bronn left them in the volcanic cave to dig the Dragonglass mine.
Earl Velaryon and Earl Celtigar brought five Smiths from the realm The master, more than thirty Smith's apprentices, worked around the clock to forge Dragonglass weapons."
Dany's body phantom disappeared from the map table throne and appeared beside White Cloak.
Dragonstone castle buildings are built in dragon style.
For example, the kitchen is a huddled dragon, with smoke and steam from the oven coming out of its nostrils, and the hall is a dragon lying close to the ground, and people enter through its huge open mouth. .
Stone Drum is built on Dragonmont, like a dragon with its head held high. room, warehouse.
At this time, the Smith shop on the left wing of Shilong was brightly lit, steaming hot, and there was a continuous sound of hammering, occasionally mixed with the scolding of the Smith master loudly scolding the apprentice.
On the opposite side of the giant dragon-shaped Stone Drum, there is a round stone tower more than ten meters high, like a coiled dragon around the stone pillar, which is the dungeon tower.
Between the Stone Drum and the Dungeon Tower, it is connected in the air by an arched high stone bridge.
The dungeon tower also has lights rising and sometimes the sound of metal wheels dragging on the rails.
Dragonstone Castle is built on a low volcano called Dragonmont.
There are passages in the dungeon towers that lead all the way to the interior of Dragonmont.
Targaryen's ancestors also built a full set of mining facilities, mines, rails, human-powered minecarts...
The entire Dragonstone castle was built using Valyria masonry technology , the mining equipment is also a full set of mines imitated from the Fourteen Flames.
It's a mess, and it still works well three hundred years later.
I don't know what Targaryen wants to dig in Dragonstone. After 100 years of digging, they all dig from Dragonmont to seabed.
The mountain below the castle is half empty.
Stone Drum is so named because every time a storm comes, the waves are violently surging, causing a rumbling echo in the castle, like a drum.
Because the bottom is empty, it's like putting a bowl upside down in a water basin, the water surface fluctuates, and there must be a dull sound in the bowl.
The waves are beating the stone drum.
Dany has also been to the bottom of the mine, which is mostly Dragonglass mine and iron ore, about six|four ratio, Dragonglass mine accounts for sixty percent.
Precious metal deposits such as gold and silver, with almost zero content.
She had absolutely no idea what Targaryen was trying to dig out of the mine, and asked old Aemon he didn't know either.
Dragonstone is completely worthless if you don't deal with Others.
“Are there enough miners?” Dany asked.
"Enough, Earl Velaryon also recruited 100 farmers in Driftmark. The key is that Dragonglass Mine does not need to be refined, and as much as you mine, you can make multiple Dragonglass weapons. Smith can't be too busy, otherwise he won't have to work overtime. .”
“What is the daily production of Dragonglass weapons?” Dany asked again.
"The standard mold you designed is perfect for making Dragonglass weapons. Dragonglass ore is fired and poured into the mold, cooled and formed very quickly.
If you go all out to build arrows, you will be able to at least one day. Produce 2,000 arrows; fully build weapons, about a hundred short swords."
"It's still a bit low, arrange for someone to go to King's Landing to recruit a group of Smiths and expand production."
Dragonglass weapons are brittle and hard, and the use of lifespan is very short. When it comes to Long Night, the consumption rate must be very fast.
"Right," Dany thought, remembering that King's Landing had a very awesome Smith who mastered the technique of reforging the Valyrian Steel Sword, "Do you remember the Oathkeeper in Brienne?"
"Well, House Stark's 'Ice' was reforged by Tywin into two longswords, Joffrey's 'Widow's Wail' and Brienne's 'Oathkeeper'."
"hehe, Widow's Wail, too Catelyn from Red Wedding, Cersei from Purple Wedding, they are both widows, and they all let out the most desperate and grief-stricken wailing as a mother.” Dany said strangely.
"Your Majesty, are you trying to get Smith Master Tobho Mott?" Barristan wondered.
"Tell Bronn, by whatever means, get Smith Tobho to Dragonstone, I need a set of Valyrian Steel armor too!" Dany said with a smile.