Chapter 864
Davos left and didn't stay for lunch, and little Earl went to the garden to pick strawberries. Dany and dwarf were at the table by the cucumber vine.
Tyrion exclaimed, "Dany"
"en?" Dany raised his voice and squinted at him.
——Is "Dany" something you can call?
dwarf understood, touched his nose, and said with a smile: "Queen Your Majesty!"
Dany's face looked better.
"Are you going to give up the King's Landing followers? If Stannis enters King's Landing, it must be a major blow to the Church of The Seven." Tyrion said resolutely.
“How many people are there at King's Landing now?” Dany asked.
"Perhaps 800,000? Maybe more, the people of Riverlands, Crownlands and even Stormlands are all moving to King's Landing, War of Four Kings, and now most of the three dukedoms have been crippled.
Especially from the Three Rivers to the Crownlands, the once plastered land is really uninhabited. So when the Vale army goes south to King's Landing, Aegon and I must ride a dragon to send rations there." Dwarf frowned and thought .
As well as the ancient celestial dynasties with the most efficient government of the times, there will also be the habit of ordinary people who cannot survive the winter and go to nearby cities to beg for a living.
The world of Song of Ice and Fire has carried forward the tradition of entering the city to escape the winter to the extreme.
Ordinary farmers have no ability or awareness to store grain for the winter that lasts for several years. Even the nobles only received the Citadel "seasonal forecast" before winter came, and then used the remaining one or two years to store grain.
Without Citadel Maester's early detection of seasonal changes by observing the stars, the Seven Kingdoms wouldn't even know when winter was coming, and by the time they felt the temperature was dropping, it was too late to stock up.
Every winter, not only the people of North gather to the castles of nobles, but also the people of Riverlands, Crownlands and Stormlands.
In Summer, plus the floating population, King's Landing has 500,000 people, and in winter, it will fluctuate between 500,000 and 1 million.
It's not winter, it's Long Night; it's not just the people of the Crownlands that are coming, and people from several kingdoms can't survive.
"Have you ever seen a Satin fish barrel? King's Landing now is like a barrel full of people, dynamite barrels, and no one can save them. Even me, I can't feed that many people.
And King's Landing must not be able to hold, and when the Others army goes south, it must fall." Dany helplessly said.
"Why? King's Landing is right next to Dragonstone, so you can support anytime." Tyrion exclaimed.
“How tall is the King's Landing wall?” Dany asked.
Tyrion thought about it and said, "The one on the side of Blackwater Rush is shorter, with a standard height of eight meters, but it is more than twelve meters on the north side, and the highest is fifteen meters."
“You have been to Winterfell, do you know how high the Winterfell city wall is? Why do you need to build it so high?” Dany reminded.
Tyrion was startled, and already understood.
King's Landing is a normal ancient city, and the height of the city wall is similar to that of the ancient Celestial Dynasty.
This is because King's Landing is located in the bay, closer to the south, the temperature in winter is much higher than the North, and there is not too thick snow.
A typical winter in North, even on the plains, has 12 meters of snow.
Because the snow was so thick, Night's Watch simply lived underground and walked through the buildings through Wormwalks.
“You can burn snow with Dragonflame,” Tyrion said.
"Maybe Stannis thought that, but King's Landing is too big." Dany sighed.
The entire King's Landing includes three large hills with a total area of more than 50 square kilometers (ps). Even considering that Aegon's High Hill faces the bay, there are nearly 40 kilometers of city walls that need to be defended!
“Winterfell only has a city wall of 1.5 kilometers, using more than 5,000 defenders to defend in turn, and more than 8,000 troops as reserves.
Even if King's Landing has a large population , in an emergency, all the people are soldiers, but King's Landing is safe, the cost of defense will be very high, and it won't last long."
Tyrion frowned: "In this case, what kind of arrangements do you have, you can't give up no matter what? Hundreds of thousands of people in the city."
"The issue of King's Landing was actually discussed several times at the United Front Committee meeting.
My The suggestion is to evacuate the people immediately, Driftmark can eat 200,000 old, weak, sick and young, young and strong and go south to Storm's End.
Storm's End will leave another 50,000 people, and the rest will be divided into two, and part of it will go to Storm's End. Part of Brienne's Tarth goes to Dorne along Boneway."
"Sansa is lucky." Speaking of which, Dany also had to sigh, "I didn't think that before, but now I found out that Tarth is Narrow Sea The largest island on the island - 200 kilometers long and 100 kilometers wide - is close to Storm's End, Dragonstone, King's Landing, and is called 'Noah's Ark' in Long Night."
"My So asking Baratheon's Storm's End as a mortgage is also because of Tarth's geographical advantage. Tarth is the rear, Storm's End is the front line to resist the Others army, and it is likely that we will endure in the end." Tyrion said oneself's plan with a smile.
"You guys?" Dany gave him a sidelong look, "Sansa seems to have rejected your proposal, and you're dating Princess Dorne, and I heard you're getting engaged."
"Sansa She..." The expression on Tyrion's face became extremely complicated, "she's a whole different person now than when she married me.
King's Landing was controlled to survive. The experience of freedom made her understand the value of power. Even if she didn't taste it, she had seen how other people used power to play with others, including her oneself's fate.
In Vale, in Littlefinger By her side, she began to learn how to grab and use power, and now she has become a qualified Game of Thrones player.
She won't marry me, because as her husband, I will be a strong contender for Iron Thrones , but as her Hand of the King, I can't get past her any more!
It's quite possible that the story of Euron and my old sister will also make her wary.
This is better than Cersei, she is good at learning. The lesson of Cersei being usurped by Royal Husband, she must keep in mind and take it as a warning."
"You know her well enough." Dany was surprised strangely said.
"I almost witnessed her change from a simple North silly girl to a current Lady Sansa step by step, and even personally participated in some processes, can you not understand?"
Wry smile Shaking his head, Tyrion said curiously again: "The plan to transfer the King's Landing population is good, why hasn't it been implemented yet?"
"I'm just one of the anti-ghost commissioners." Dany said.
"Who doesn't agree?"
"There are too many people who disagree. Forget the others, I can just say a word and let the committee go. But King's Landing is oneself I don't want to, what can I do?" Dany indifferently said.
Iron Throne and Great Sept of Baelor both received Dragon Queen's "relocation plan", Euron and a group of ministers immediately rejected it, as expected, leaving Iron Throne in King's Landing, and Like the Chinese God-Emperor who left Luoyang.
But Dany was surprised by the refusal of the people of King's Landing.
Now I don't get "Mother's Seal", I can't use Holy Heal, oneself doesn't have the face to be a Most Devout, so every Most Devout is a devout believer of The Seven. That is to say, now the top figures of King's Landing Church (Most Devout) are all true believers.
Faced with Pope's oracle, Septon and Devout of the Great Sept of Baelor did not hesitate much. Even if they had other thoughts in their hearts, they were willing to obey the arrangement of "Saint Dany".
After all, there are only two The Seven Holy Sons in the world, High Sparrow is dead, and only Saint Dany is left to represent Mother. If you don't listen to Mother, do you want to be apostate?
The Great Sept of Baelor has been building fortifications during this time—blocking the gates and doors, smashing the mosaic windows on the lower floors, laying thick masonry, in short, to Make the Great Sept of Baelor a war fortress with only one-way channels.
Church has Cleric and Warrior's Sons, and they certainly won't leave King's Landing.
In Dany's plan, King's Landing can fall, but the Red Keep and Great Sept of Baelor must hold. It's best to pin down a large number of Wights in King's Landing like nails to relieve the pressure on other areas' defenses.
Therefore, in Dany Pope's oracle, a large number of Devout and Church Forces stayed, but it was those poor Septons who were old and frail, who were responsible for leading the people to leave.
In Dany's view, she was extremely selfless by sacrificing Church's elite strength to resist the Others.
But the common people don't think so. They feel that the Church executives are too "Westeros aristocrats" and hide themselves in King's Landing living in ease and comfort, allowing them to travel thousands of miles and die in foreign countries.
Dany thinks it's unimaginable, but it's such is human nature.
In the hearts of the Seven Kingdoms people, King's Landing is the capital of the kingdom and the best place for the Seven Kingdoms. The "most normal" method of Dragon Queen is to lead five dragons and all the relief food to relocate the "old nest" to King's Landing. While sitting on the Iron Throne, it also protects the hundreds of thousands of people in the capital.
I didn't see Long Night coming, is the Red God King still standing drooling outside King's Landing?
Well, during the siege of Second Stag, many Devout and nobles who believed in The Seven wrote to Dragonstone, asking the Dragon Queen to move King's Landing, drive away the Euron in the city and the heathen King outside the city, oneself to be King of the Seven Kingdoms.
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"Stannis attacked King's Landing this time, I'm afraid a lot of people will die." Tyrion's face couldn't hide the worry.
Dany stared at him and said, "I thought you never cared about the lives of ordinary people. At Slaver's Bay, you were very indifferent and never cared how many slaves died in the war."
Tyrion was stunned for a while, then calmly said with a smile: "I'm from Westeros, isn't this normal? Just like Free City on the other side of the Narrow Sea, knowing that Long Night is coming, they not only don't help, but come to Westeros to speculate. , making a lot of money.”
Speaking of this, he remembered an incident when his sister-in-law Tyene Sand arrived, and said: “Indulgence is flowing out, you know? The merchants on the other side of the Narrow Sea use food and wine Buy the indulgence in the hands of the common people at a low price, and then sell it at a high price in Free Cities."
"I know." Dany's mouth evoked a strange smile.
"Why not stop it? This is a blasphemy against The Seven, and it is also sabotaging your plan to 'fight Others and go to Heaven'." Tyrion wondered.
"Have you noticed that the wind has been strong recently, and it has always been the north wind." Dany asked thoughtlessly.
"Long Night, of course, is the north wind. The north wind brings the cold beyond the wall to the south of the wall. This is what you told me."
"Then you Have you seen Leaf, the huge windmill above Sea Dragon Tower?" Dany said with a smile.
dwarf was at a loss for a while, and suddenly remembered the "physics book" he had to read every night recently.
"You use a windmill to drive the printing press, printing indulgence day and night?" Tyrion was stunned at first, then his face was shocked, "How long do you have a brain, in Long Night, you can also find good things from disadvantages. A place to use."