Chapter 219: Evil thoughts and trivial matters

The round-faced young man half-kneeling on the ground kept complaining about what happened to his old father on the Crab Claw Peninsula. All the guards were killed, leaving him alone to flee back in a hurry. All the people on the Crab Claw Peninsula were almost gone. They are a group of lunatics with no sense at all. This is not the first time they have been attacked...

The last sentence solved one of Renly's previous doubts, which was why the people of Crab Claw Peninsula were so bold——

He originally thought there might be some special situation, but now it sounds like this has always been the style?

The thoughts in his mind did not affect his actions. Renly took the initiative to help the round-faced young man stand up. As a result, the young man looked like he was crying and had no strength. He couldn't help him up, so Renly simply didn't Pay attention to this guy, lead the team around this figure and continue on their way.

This made the other party quite dumbfounded, but he hurriedly stood up and followed him. He didn't look as "weak" as before.

"Sir, you must make the decision for my father! He is not young, but he was so frightened that he is still bedridden... Those damn Crab Claw Peninsula people are really too presumptuous!"

The majestic castle is already in front of you. Looking closer, the outer city wall seems to be a giant dragon curling up and standing. The gate of the castle is the mouth of the giant dragon, and the opened gate is the fangs of the giant dragon.

Following the fangs and entering the castle, a large number of dark buildings came into view. Renly looked at it while answering the round-faced young man's words seemingly casually.

"Count Celtija clearly knew that sending people to collect taxes would be in danger, so why did he commit the crime himself?"

"Father, I think that your imminent return is enough to scare those barbaric peninsula people." The round-faced young man said indignantly after hearing this: "He thought that under your protection, he would be safe and secure, but it turned out that those people were really They are too arrogant. They don’t care about King Robert’s reputation at all, and they don’t take your lord in their eyes. They——”

"Did you go there on purpose?"

The sudden words made the angry young man stunned for a moment. Then facing Renly's glance, he shuddered unconsciously and said with a sneer: "Going on purpose? What do you mean, sir? I mean. Of course, tax collection requires——"

"The Crab Claw Peninsula is unruly and has not been able to collect taxes for many years. Your father is a little worried." Renly said to himself: "Then he heard that a young Duke like me was about to return, so he made plans for me. Come. The purpose is to use this matter to anger me, and then let me ask the king to solve the matter? "

Cold sweat quietly overflowed from his forehead. The round-faced young man obviously did not expect that the thoughts hidden in his heart would be exposed so easily, and he was actually a little panicked. However, he did not lose his composure, but said with a slight guilty conscience: "Sir, you Just kidding, how could my father be joking with his own life, and you are his lord, how could he do something like this-"

"A lord has the obligation to protect his vassals, but he does not have the responsibility to handle the security of his territory for his vassals." Regardless of what the other party said, Renly said casually: "Tell your father if he really is unable to handle his territory well. If there is chaos inside, then I can choose to take over the Crab Claw Peninsula.”

Naturally, the round-faced young man could not fail to hear the difference between taking over the matter instead of helping with it, so he laughed twice and hurriedly left without daring to linger any longer.

Renly didn't care what this guy would think next, and then turned his eyes back to the castle.

Compared to the vassals who had ghost ideas, he was more interested in this castle, because he suddenly thought that this place was the Targaryen's headquarters for countless years. Could there be any copy media in it?

With this idea in mind, he did not go directly to the main hall of the castle to rest. Instead, he walked around the castle in a large circle under the leadership of the acting city lord Andrew.

From the outside, the castle looks like a giant black dragon coiled around several smaller black dragons, and the interior style features remain the same.

The mouth of the dragon is the city gate, the body of the dragon is the city wall, the blacksmith shop and armory are contained under the dragon's wings, and the dragon's tail forms arches, bridges, and outdoor stairs.

There are many towers in the castle, and each tower looks like a black dragon that is either crouching or spreading its wings. The only difference is the main stone drum tower of the castle. It is a towering cylindrical building. When you look up, there is a stone on the top. An arch bridge connects the main castle with another tower in mid-air.

On the side of the main castle is a small black dragon curled up in the corner. At this time, the nostrils of the "little black dragon" are constantly emitting smoke and steam. Renly walked in and took a look and found that it was a kitchen.

The building standing in front of the main castle is the reception hall. It also looks like a black dragon, but it is just a dragon lying on the ground. The dragon's mouth is the entrance to the hall. After walking inside, its interior space is vast and full of angular and exotic lands. Style, the ground is flat and paved with black stone bricks, and the black stone walls on the left and right are inlaid with tall windows. A large amount of light flows in through the windows, illuminating the hall here brightly.

Stepping deeper into the stairs, Renly finally sat on the lord's chair that looked like a dragon stone at the end of the hall. Then he looked down and found that because of the rows of high windows on both sides, this hall was completely dark. There is no sense of darkness at all, but rather it appears to be quite vast and majestic.

“It’s a pity that the medium doesn’t exist.”

He sighed secretly.

The style of this castle is simply unique to Westeros. Even the torches that can be seen everywhere look like dragon claws. The various fantastic and exaggerated shapes seem to be completely different from the ordinary medieval fortresses. The architecture of the world - it is rumored that this castle is indeed not built with ordinary craftsmanship, but mixed with Valyrian magic.

However, the majestic appearance did not bring many substantial benefits. After walking around for a long time, Renly didn't smell anything special. He even found that the castle was very empty and he didn't see any precious items.

Thinking about it, this is normal. During the war, people from the Targaryen family fled to this castle. After the war, it was raided by other armies. If there were any good things in it, they would have been raided long ago. There was no way to wait. It was up to him, the lord who was later granted a title, to reach out.

Renly stopped thinking about this. After feeling the hardness of the lord's chair, he walked down as if he lost interest and began to stare at the servants and soldiers who followed him to transport his gifts to the hall. In the final residence of the main castle——

These were not Renly's personal possessions, but were provided by House Tyrell for his use on the road, but now that they had reached their destination, they would return to Highgarden soon.

Apart from himself, the only people Renly brought back were a fat squire from the Tully family and a commoner named Tob.

"I will continue to assist you on Dragonstone for a while, my lord."

When Renly stood at the door of the hall and lamented that he seemed a little poor, the former acting city lord Andrew Ismond said beside him: "After this, I will go to King's Landing to report on my duties."

The acting city lord is a temporary substitute who manages the territory for the lord. Now that Renly, the real lord, is back, he naturally has no reason to stay any longer.

At the same time, he was appointed by the king and was not a subordinate of Renly - the Ismon family was actually a noble under the jurisdiction of the Stormlands.

"During this period, you'd better promote a general manager." Andrew suggested: "Manage the personnel dispatch and property status in the castle for you."

Renly nodded when he heard this. Needless to say, he could think of all this. After all, he couldn't waste his time on managing all kinds of trivial things, but there were still one or two things to consider about the specific candidates, mainly because he had paid attention to them before. They were some intelligence personnel, but I really hadn't thought about this person like the general manager, or in other words, he didn't care much about this territory at all.

Apparently Andrew also noticed that Renly seemed unprepared, so he began to carefully explain all the things that needed to be paid attention to in managing the territory. However, his words did not last long before he was interrupted, because it was said that he was going out to stand in for someone. Kans, the maester of Dragonstone who was seeing a doctor, hurried back.

Then Renly suddenly discovered that the true identity of the kind-hearted man who came to him was not simple.

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