Chapter 396 Imperial System

Volantis joining the Kingdom of Lorne did not surprise everyone. What really surprised everyone was that Volantis surrendered without resistance.

You must know that among the Free Trade City-states, Volantis is the strongest. At that time, it could even suppress three companies. Without the support of Pentos and Braavos, Lys, Myr and Tyrosh , together with the disputed land, had already been annexed by Volantis.

Although Volantis has been governed by the moderate Elephant Party over the years, this does not mean that the strength of Volantis has weakened. In fact, both the Tiger Party and the Elephant Party have always been in power. Accumulating strength, I want to find opportunities to capture the disputed land in the future. If Linde does not appear, maybe Volantis will launch another war against the disputed land and the three major city-states in the near future. war.

Such a powerful city-state actually chose to give up resistance and surrender to the Kingdom of Lorne after Braavos was conquered. This made many people waiting to watch the show feel extremely puzzled and surprised, such as the Xian of the three major city-states in Slaver's Bay. Lords, Good Lords and Great Lords.

Following Troos, Cedar Island successively surrendered to the Kingdom of Lorne. The army of the Kingdom of Lorne was stationed in the ruined city of Bahalasi on the north side of Slaver's Bay and west of Meereen. The Miracle Fleet was stationed on the island of Zeon on the south side of Slaver's Bay. The Queen's Qarth army and Dothraki cavalry entered Vaes Mehaye. Almost the children of the three major slave city-states knew what the Kingdom of Lorne and the Iron Throne were going to do next.

In order to avoid being annexed, Slaver's Bay naturally needs to find allies, and now the only ally that Slaver's Bay can find is Volantis, so when the two queens attacked Braavos, Slaver's Bay had already sent envoys Go to Volantis, and Volantis also expressed its willingness to form an alliance with Slaver's Bay. After the news of Braavos' conquest came out, they spent a lot of money to purchase the Unsullied, basically converting the three major players in Slaver's Bay. More than half of the Unsullied people in the city-state have bought it, and it feels like they are going to fight against the country of Lorne.

However, just after the Unsullied were bought, Volantis announced that it had surrendered to the Kingdom of Lorne and became a free trade city-state under the rule of the Kingdom of Lorne. This news completely confused the three major city-states of Slaver's Bay.

Some smart people realized that Volantis' purchase of the Unsullied had greatly weakened the combat power of the three major city-states in Slaver's Bay. The three major city-states now did not have enough Unsullied on hand to defend the city.

So in order to gather enough troops before the war, the slave owners of the three major city-states used more cruel methods to train their slaves. Every day, you can see a large number of slave corpses being pulled out of the city in carloads and thrown into the wild. Burning, countless scavengers gathered outside the city to participate in this feast. The howling of these scavengers outside the city made the three major city-states as eerie and scary as ghost lands.

While countless slaves in the three major city-states were silently enduring the disasters that befell them, the belief in the God of Natural Disasters spread silently among them, and soon became the core belief of the slaves.

There is also a prophecy spread at the same time as the belief. The prophecy is that the army of the god of natural disasters will inevitably descend on the three major slave city-states, and the slaves who have suffered will be liberated. When the sound of dragon roars is heard outside the city, , the day of liberation will come, when the time comes, pick up weapons and fight for the final liberation.

There were also some thoroughly domesticated traitors among the slaves. They immediately informed the slave owners of the prophecy, causing a large number of slaves to be killed again, and all the iron weapons in the hands of the slaves were confiscated and replaced with extremely lethal weapons. At the same time, the slave owners became suspicious, and even the Unsullied around them became untrustworthy. They were frightened all day long, almost crazy.

At the same time, Nymeria and Daenerys also returned to their armies, marching towards Meereen and Yunkai respectively, waiting on Jean Island under the leadership of the blood-armored leader Rosso Brun. The Chosen Legion marched towards Astapor.

Among the three armies, Daenerys took her three young dragons and set off first, crossing a mountainous area directly to the outside of Yunkai.

Nymeria was one step behind, because she brought Augustus and five other little guys from Na Sa and took them with her to participate in this battle. She needed to take care of the bodies of the five little guys, so the marching speed was slow. A little bit.

The reason why she brought Augustus and the others out was because in her opinion, this might be the last battle for the Kingdom of Lorne. It would be good for them in the future to let these little guys see the cruelty of war.

And Nymeria also brought out their young dragons. Although the young dragons of Augustus and others are much smaller than Daenerys's young dragons, they can already breathe out dragon flames and can Flying and participating in combat are no problem.

In addition, Lind also temporarily dispatched Neltharion from the ruins of Valyria to Rosso Brun through spiritual contact to assist in the attack on Astapor. When Daenerys began to attack Yunkai, Rosso ·Bren also arrived at the sea outside Astapor, and used the lava dragon to burn Astapor's fleet to pieces.

Just as the battle of Slaver's Bay was unfolding and the final battle of conquest began, Lynd had already returned to King's Landing on Deltos.

In the meeting hall of the Red Keep, Littlefinger couldn't wait to step forward and congratulate: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, you have captured Braavos. I believe that Slaver's Bay will be under your Majesty's possession soon."

As Littlefinger finished speaking, others stood up and congratulated Linde.

Linde raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said to the Red Viper: "Have the personnel and materials been sent to the Great Wall of Despair?"

"Yes, you were dispatched the day after you set out for the Great Wall of Despair. Calculating the time, you should have arrived at the Great Wall by now." Red Viper took out a list and handed it to Linde and said, "This is all List of personnel and supplies.”

Lind looked down at the contents on the list, frowned slightly, turned to look at the High Sparrow standing aside, and asked in a deep voice: "Why did the Great Temple of Baelor also send out the Star Knights and the Holy Sword Knights? What can a group of civilians without any training do to increase the strength of the White Walkers?"

As Linde finished speaking, everyone's eyes couldn't help but fall on the Archbishop of Baelor Cathedral, the High Sparrow.

The High Sparrow stood up and replied calmly: "This is a holy war, and the Church of the Seven Gods must participate."

Lin De frowned when he heard this and said, "Did you see the Red Temple sending support troops to the Great Wall of Despair?"

The High Sparrow didn't answer, but nodded slightly.

Linde said with a gloomy face: "The support army of the Red Temple is a real support army. They have been preparing for this war for thousands of years. The church armed forces they have trained are all against white ghosts and corpses. Up to If you can fight directly on the battlefield, can the Star Warriors and the Holy Sword Knights just formed by the Great Temple of Baylor be able to compare with them?"

The High Sparrow stood up straight and said: "We have unmatched faith and courage, even if it is..."

"Shut up!" Lind scolded the High Sparrow angrily and said, "You haven't even gone to the Great Wall to see the army of ghouls. You just rely on the disabled ghoul in the Great Temple of Baelor to think that there are ghouls." However, the White Walkers are nothing. You think that courage and belief can defeat everything. Your self-righteous approach is using the lives of devout believers of the Seven Gods to build your own prestige, and you want to make people think that you are the Church of the Seven Gods. A true leader.”

The High Sparrow had a panicked look on his face and quickly explained: "No! Your Majesty, I absolutely did not..."

Lind directly interrupted the High Sparrow and said: "You don't need to say anything! From today on, you will only be responsible for handling the internal academic affairs of the Great Temple of Baylor. I will leave the Star Knights and the Holy Sword Knights to others."

The High Sparrow's face instantly turned pale, and he said anxiously: "Your Majesty, the Star Knights and the Holy Sword Knights are the armed forces of the church, and I am the Archbishop of the Seven Gods..."

"I am the Chosen One of the Seven Gods." Linde looked at the High Sparrow coldly and said, "Do you have any objections to me taking over the Knights of the Holy Sword and the Knights of the Stars?"

The High Sparrow trembled slightly, and when he saw Linde's cold eyes, he couldn't help but lower his head, not daring to look at Linde, and whispered: "I have no objection, Your Majesty, it is very reasonable for you to control the weapons of the Church of the Seven Gods. "

Seeing that the High Sparrow was deprived of control over the church's armed forces, the surrounding Councilors and King's Landing officials all had expressions of gloating on their faces.

During this period, the High Sparrow was definitely the person they considered to be the most troublesome. With the restoration of the church's armed forces, the High Sparrow began to implement the Seven Gods' dogma in King's Landing, allowing people to live according to the dogma's code of conduct. Not only He went to a brothel to arrest people, and also tried to snatch some books that were going to be included in the King's Landing Library but had some anti-church content.

Fortunately, the Hand of the King, the Red Viper, the Captain of the Kingsguard, the Kingslayer, and the Chief of Intelligence, Balin, were extremely strong and suppressed some of the High Sparrow's excessive behaviors, so no major losses or chaos were caused.

However, even so, there are still many people who are disturbed by some of the High Sparrow's behaviors and practices, and they have already wanted to take action against the High Sparrow.

However, the High Sparrow's status as Archbishop was appointed by Linde. They were worried that attacking the High Sparrow might offend Linde, so they endured it. Now they saw that the High Sparrow was punished by Linde and deprived of the most important armed power of the church. , which naturally made everyone feel extremely happy, and also wiped away the resentment accumulated in everyone's hearts during this period.

Afterwards, under Linde's signal, everyone reported on the arrangements for various matters during this period, the progress of the project, etc.

After finishing these chores, Lind knocked on the table a few times to signal everyone in the meeting hall to quiet down, and then said very formally: "Now Nymeria and Daenerys are attacking Slaver's Bay, and soon there will be As a result, Qarth, the Kingdom of Lorne, the Free Trade Cities and the Seven Kingdoms will be integrated together to form the Tyranid Empire."

Although everyone had vaguely guessed that a huge empire would appear after learning about the conquest of Braavos and the active surrender of Volantis, but now they actually heard the news from Linde. They were still in shock and excitement.

There is no doubt that if the Tyran Empire is established, it will be a huge empire that has never been seen in human history. This hugeness is not only reflected in the size of the territory, but also in the strength of the city, population and comprehensive national strength. , this will definitely be recorded in the annals of history. An unprecedented sense of mission suddenly burst out in everyone's heart, and even ambitious people like Littlefinger turned red with excitement.

Linde said in a deep voice: "Establishing an empire is not just a change in title, the empire's system will also change accordingly. Now the Lorne Kingdom has begun to study and discuss the empire's system, and the Seven Kingdoms are also doing the same. To study and discuss, I have invited the bachelors from the Citadel and the Sphinx Academy to come to King's Landing. Then you will study and discuss the political structure of the empire together. You must put all plans together before I end the war with the White Walkers. When it is completed, I will select appropriate architectural plans and integrate them to form the political structure of the empire.”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Everyone stood up one after another, saying that they would contribute to the establishment of the empire's structure in the future.

Garland Tyrell suddenly asked: "Your Majesty, will the future empire system be organized according to the structure of Summer Hall?"

Linde looked at Garland, nodded, and said affirmatively: "Yes, the core structure will be organized according to the Summer Hall, but some systems may be slightly modified."

Everyone in the meeting hall immediately started talking after hearing this, because the political system of Summer Hall is not only unique among the Seven Kingdoms, but also very unique even in the continent of Essos.

As we all know, there are no lords in Midsummer Hall, and there is no lord in the land directly controlled by Linde. Even in the territories indirectly controlled, such as Black Harbor and other territories where lords originally existed, the rights of the lords have been greatly reduced. In addition to taxation, other Rights have basically been stripped away, especially the right to recruit troops.

If Linde wants to build the Tyran Empire according to the political system of Summer Hall, then there is no doubt that the rights in the hands of various lords will be affected. Now in this chamber, except for a few officials from Summer Hall such as Bahrain, The vast majority of officials are either lords or heirs to a certain territory. If the imperial system is implemented in the manner of the Summer Hall, it will inevitably affect their interests.

Undoubtedly, Garland raised this issue at this time and asked Linde to express his position directly. He wanted to use the lords of the Seven Kingdoms to put pressure on Linde. After all, among the lords or heirs of the lords present, no one had a comparable territory. The Tyrell family of Highgarden, once the imperial system is established in the manner of Summer Hall, Highgarden will definitely be the one most affected.

Although Garland and Linde have a very good relationship, Garland has to stand on the side of the family when faced with issues related to family interests.

Just when everyone was talking about the future structure of the empire in the form of the Summer Hall, the Red Viper smiled and said: "The system of the Summer Hall? I think it's very good. You don't need to worry about so many troubles. You can follow your own rules." If your Majesty needs it, I will reform the territory according to your Majesty’s ideas.”

Everyone fell silent and turned to look at the Red Viper.

The Red Viper then added: "Not just my territory, I think even Doran will agree."

At this moment, not only was Garland surprised by Red Viper's behavior, but even Linde had a surprised look on his face.

Linde then asked: "Have you received the news from the Lorne Kingdom?"

Red Viper smiled and nodded.