Chapter 0559 Advancing the Marriage Plan
Villas Tyrell is a cripple and has specialized wheelchairs, and many of the roads in High Court City have been modified to make it easier for Villas Tyrell to pass through.
When Queen Cersei arrived, Vilas gave up his wheelchair and used a cane to get himself up and walk.
Vilas usually uses crutches, and in order to show respect for the Queen Mother Cersei, when Her Majesty the Queen Mother arrived at the High Court, Vilas insisted on using crutches all the time. After all, there are many opportunities to meet Her Majesty the Queen Mother every day, and it is not appropriate for him to sit on a chair while Her Majesty the Queen Mother is standing.
Aegon the captain of the guard followed Velas, along with four knights of the family.
When the six of them arrived, a white-robed knight as tall as a little giant stood at the entrance of the spiral staircase, he was the queen mother's royal guard, Osmond Kate Black.
"Sir Osmond, I have asked to see Queen Cersei, and I have something important to tell her. Vilas stepped forward and said, "He is gentle and courteous, a model of aristocratic etiquette.
"Lord Vilas, please wait. Osmond said politely.
"Yes, Sir!"
Osmond motioned for one of the guards to go upstairs to greet Her Majesty the Queen Mother, and Vilas and his party stood in front of the spiral staircase and waited respectfully.
It was a long time before Cersei appeared at the top of the stairs, and in front of her was the Queen Mother's supervisor, Oswell, Kate Black, and behind her, the Iron Guard Baron Swain and the four red-robed guards of Her Majesty the Queen Mother.
The red robe is a symbol of the West!
Velas followed the courtesy to meet Her Majesty the Queen Mother, and the two sat down, their respective guards standing behind them.
"Your Majesty, the Iron Fleet of the Iron Islands is coming to invade, the navy of the River Bay is weak, and it is not their opponent, I will send a raven, and ask the Redwin family of Qingting Island to send a fleet to attack us inside and outside to defeat the Iron Islands fleet, before issuing the order, I have come to report to Her Majesty the Queen Mother, does Her Majesty the Queen Mother have anything to order?"
Vilas spoke humbly.
Cersei looked at Vilas with a playful look. Except for his lame legs, Villas was very good-looking, well-looking, erudite, and above all obedient and obedient. Vilas is the future Lord and Lord of the Riverlands, and the dynasty of Toman cannot do without his support.
"Lord Vilas, I would like to see a battle defeat against the Iron Islands fleet. ”
"Yes, Your Majesty the Queen Mother, we will definitely defeat the Iron Fleet. ”
Captain Aegon behind Villas has been looking at Cersei intently, of course, with the deference of the vassal's general, Cersei's beauty is worthy of her reputation, compared to Dorne's famous 'Little Rose' Margaery, Cersei's beauty is mature and dignified, very charming, and attracts the attention of men.
Such a woman, mixed with a unique supremacy temperament, makes it easier for men to conquer**.
Aegon couldn't understand why Villas was blind to Cersei's beauty, a woman Aegon thought was hard to come by.
The two Kingsguard guards behind Cersei were a nuisance, as were the red-robed guards of the Five Hundred Queens, but as long as Vilas wanted to, Cersei would have to be left in the High Court to bear children for the Tyrells.
It's time for Vilas to make up his mind, and if he doesn't make a move to eat Cersei, maybe Her Majesty the Queen Mother will leave one day, and in this way, the hard work of Lord Duke Metz and the Prime Minister will be in vain.
Aegon stood behind Vilas with a fluctuating heart, and he cared more about whether Cersei would stay and marry Vilas than Vilas himself.
Cersei and Velas were talking about the Iron Fleet in the Eldeb River, and Baron Sven, the Kingsguard behind her, noticed Aegon, and the Creeklands was always staring at Cersei with bad intentions, which was rude. Baron thinks it's time to cut out Aegon's tongue and poke Aegon out his eye. Obviously, Queen Mother Cersei failed to see the ambiguous gaze of the captain of the guard behind Vilas.
Aegon sensed Baron's gaze, and the two of them looked at each other, and Aegon saw the vigilance and disguised hostility in Baron's eyes.
Aegon lowered his gaze and chose a 'humble' response. He calculated in his heart that he couldn't let Villas's 'milkman' personality be, and he had to hold a meeting with the supervisor Garth, the head of the sect, Vortimo, and the bachelor Lomis, and hide from Lord Villas, and carefully formulate and promote the 'marriage' plan.
Due to the invasion of the Iron Islands' Iron Fleet, the nobles of the Riverlands gathered in the High Court to attend the 'Grand Wedding of Villas and Queen Cersei'.
Villas and Aegon bid farewell to Queen Cersei and returned to their Round Tower, where he ordered the Bachelor Lomis to be summoned and asked to send a raven to Earl Redwyn for support from the fleet.
Lomis soon arrived, Vilas dictated, Lomis wrote, and Raven released on the spot. According to Vilas's order, in half a month, the fleet of the vassal Redwyn will appear on the Shield Islands. The shield islands that fell into the hands of the Iron Fleet will be recaptured.
In the evening, the captain Aegon invited the bachelor, the chief manager, and the head of the coach, and the four of them gathered together for a meeting.
"Three adults, we have to carry out our marriage plan. Captain Aegon got straight to the point, "The arrival of the Iron Fleet also provides a perfect justification for us to gather the soldiers of the Riverlands, Balon Sven and Osmond Kate Black are two hard stubbles, and I don't think words can convince them by words, only by swords." “
"Lord Vilas's wedding must not be stained with blood. Bachelor Lomis objected.
"A few good bottles of wine can get Baron Sven and Osmond drunk, and by the time they wake up, they'll be tied up. Galls, the manager, said slowly.
"There are also five hundred Empress Dowager guards, all of them are elite!" the cautious tone of the sect leader Fotimo, his rough face, his gloomy gaze, and his bulging muscles.
"The five hundred queen mother's guards are the same, first the wine and the beautiful women wait, and then two people deal with one, and all of them are arrested. Garth said slowly.
"The nobles are gathered here, once the news comes out, will the vassals think that we are plotting against us?" Scholar Lomis is still cautious, "The soldiers of Her Majesty the Queen Mother have been controlled by coercive means, how do the vassals who don't know the truth think of the Tyrell family?
"We have been ordered by the Prime Minister and the Duke of Metz to leave Her Majesty the Queen Mother as the wife of the High Court, which in itself is indeed a bit unjustifiable. With Cersei behind, Duke Kevon and Lord Mace will take control of the dynasty, put an end to the chaos, and restore peace to the Seven Kingdoms, until King Tuman comes of age, when the transfer of power is complete. Garth said slowly.
Bachelor Lomis's eyes lit up: "Three Lords, we need the Prime Minister to publicly declare that he will marry his niece Cersei Lannister to Velas Tyrell as the 'Lannister Patriarch'. ”
The obese Garth was scheming and said slowly, "It is better to have a wedding gift from King Tuman." In this way, the Tyrells are rightfully married to the Queen Mother Cersei, and our lord Vilas is the stepfather of King Toman. Miss Margaery is also the queen of King Tommen, and the power, wealth, status, and military strength of the Riverlands will be the first of the Seven Kingdoms. ”
Once you have the power, you have the money. With money, you can raise professional soldiers. At present, there are not many professional soldiers in the Seven Kingdoms in general, and once the war starts, more than half of the soldiers come from all walks of life. The professional soldiers of a large nobleman were generally a thousand people, plus hundreds of mercenaries. The average nobleman, the professional soldier ranged from three hundred to five hundred. Once a war requires professional warriors, the nobles will pay for mercenaries. If it is a big war, the militia and reserves will be used. At the sound of an order, a legion of two thousand or three thousand was immediately formed.
There are many mercenary legions in this world, and they are a high-income professional warrior. The war was fought between the free trade city-states on the other side of the Narrow Sea, and most of the warriors were from mercenary regiments. Some city-states were all hired mercenaries to protect and fight.
Of the Seven Kingdoms, only one of the most private, loyal to a particular family, had more than 20,000 men: the Magic Mountain Gregor Kregan, a 'huge' private army that had developed unconsciously and invisibly, and was a behemoth compared to the thousands of family professional troops of any duke.
That night, Governor Garth, Maester Lomis, Sect Leader Photimo, and Captain Aegon made detailed plans for the wedding of Queen Cersei and Lord Vilas.
A few days later, Queen Mother Cersei was in her room.
It is said to be a guest room, but it is actually the main castle room of the Duke.
Queen Cersei came here as a distinguished person, and naturally lived in the most luxurious room in the main castle. The Duke's room was empty, as was the luxurious room of Lady Olena, Queen of Thorns. The queen was gone, and the bones were not brought back, but were placed in the Basilica of Baylor, a symbol of royal power.
Lady Olenna's granddaughter, Margaery, is the queen of thorns, who was murdered at the king's wedding, and she enjoys some honorable treatment that can better appease the hearts of the Tyrells and their vassals.
Queen Cersei moved into Lady Olenna's super large room, also at the request of Queen Cersei herself. She was not shy about Lady Olenna's death. In the royal palace, in many rooms, "the king, the queen, the iron throne, the Mai Ge Lou, the Queen Mother's ballroom, all of them have died, if it is taboo, the entire King's Landing Red Keep can no longer be inhabited." Even if it is the Iron Throne, everyone wants to sit on it, but there are many kings who die on the Iron Throne, and several of them are directly stabbed to death by the iron sword of the Iron Throne.
Cersei moved into Lady Olenna's room, and there was a strange excitement in her heart. Lady Olenna is the true king of the Riverlands, and her maiden family is Redwin of Qingting Island, the Redwin family, who is extremely rich and powerful because of the production of wines that sell all over the world, and has a fleet that is not inferior to that of the Iron Islands.
The Red Keep of King's Landing needs the support of House Tyrells to maintain the stability of King's Landing, while House Tyrells need the allegiance of House Redwin to maintain the rule of the Riverlands.
The river bay is connected to the sea by the Mandeb River, along the west coast, there are countless fishing villages and small towns on the seaside, which can be attacked and plundered by pirates or the fleets of the Iron Islands at any time, the Tyrell family relies on the strong naval power of Qingting Island to maintain the safety of the coastline for a generation, and the noble fleets on the four islands of the Shield Islands together are less than one-fifth of the fleet of Qingting Island, and the strength of the Redwin family can be seen.
The Redwyns have two twin brothers who serve as courtiers in King's Landing, and Cersei knows the twins. The royal family also intentionally or unintentionally treated the two twins as invisible hostages. If you want to control the Tyrells in Riverlands, you must first control the Redwin family on Qingting Island, and Olenna, the Queen of Thorns who controls Riverlands, is from the Redwin family.
When the Queen Mother Cersei moved into Lady Olenna's room, she felt a deep sense of accomplishment, and she could see in the air the face of Lady Olena with her head held high and her harsh words, and she often had a conversation with the invisible Lady Olena in the air, and the Queen Mother had a triumphant smile on her face.
When Velas and Lomis enter the former Queen of Thorns' large room, they see Cersei's trademark smirk.
Even with a smirk, Vilas had to admit that Cersei was beautiful and had a charming smile.
"Your Majesty, I recommend to you the great scholar of the family, Lomis, who is proficient in medicine, astronomy, history, geography, agriculture, gastronomy, mathematics, and so on...... The scholar is knowledgeable, humorous, and knows all aspects of the High Court, and I think that Her Majesty the Queen Mother should have such a scholar by his side to serve. ”
Cersei gladly accepted.
Cersei is a Queen Mother who enjoys pomp and circumstance, and she is used to pampering. With a Takaniwa University scholar who knows everything by his side, every aspect will be more convenient and comfortable.
Lomis was humble and deferential, and the old man with a good temperament bowed slightly: "Your Majesty the Queen Mother, Master Lomis serves Her Majesty the Queen Mother wholeheartedly, and I hope that Her Majesty the Queen Mother can have a good time in the palace." ”
"Scholar Lomis, you're also proficient in medicine?"
"Yes, Her Majesty the Queen Mother. ”
"I'm going to put you to the test to see if your erudition is as good as it is rumored to be. ”
"Her Majesty the Queen Mother, please ask for a question. "Lomis wanted to see how Her Majesty the Queen Mother deliberately embarrassed him. It's a very strange mentality, when you hear who the fortune teller is, you always want to see the other side of the master who won't. This is true for the vast majority of people.
"Master Lomis, have you heard of Master Coben?"
"Yes, Your Majesty the Queen Mother, Master Coben is now a great teacher in the palace. Lomis hated Coben for his viciousness in experimenting with living people, which led to the involvement of many scholars who really studied medical science, and the city also opened the strictest precepts, prohibiting any scholar from studying necromancy, forbidding any scholar to use a living human body for medical experiments, and wanted Corben all over the world.
"Before Cobain became a great teacher, he was still studying in the school city, did Master Lomis know Cobain at that time?"
"Yes, ma'am. ”
"Oh, there's something out of the ordinary about Coburn back then. “
"Your Majesty the Queen Mother, Koben is the banished person who deprived the school city of the bachelor's necklace. ”
Cersei disagreed: "Master Lomis, who is more powerful than your medical level compared to Coben?"
"Cobain!" Lomis said the answer that Queen Cersei wanted to hear.
It's about approaching Cersei, spying on her movements, and at the right time suggesting that Her Majesty the Queen Mother needs a new husband.
Cersei smiled when she heard the answer she wanted to hear.
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