Chapter 0954 - It's easy to attack the city, it's hard to defend it
Arrene Martell was not as polite as the Magic Mountain, and she had little patience: "Father, His Majesty and I are going to Pantos on the other side of the Narrow Sea. His Majesty the King is waging a war of conquest against the continent of Essos, we have conquered the nine free trade city-states, the Stonesteps Islands, Mill, Rees, Telosi and the Midsummer Islands will all be included in our territory in Dorne, I need help, would you like to come out and help me?"
Doran Martell's eyes lit up, and then he regained his composure.
He looked at the Magic Mountain: "Your Majesty, where has the army of the Eastern Expedition advanced at present?"
"Quells. β
"It's a city in the East that's far away from us. β
"Yes. β
Michiro looked away, looked at the ceiling, and sighed: "Your Majesty, in my humble opinion, I do not approve of Your Majesty's Eastern Crusade. β
"Oh? Why?"
"Please forgive my rudeness and forgive my sins. β
"Please speak, Your Highness"
"I think it's very difficult for us to consolidate our rule by might in someone else's land. It may be easier to defeat the city, but the real difficulty is the next rule. β
"Your Royal Highness, perhaps I have found a solution to your concerns. β
Doran Martell's gaze on the ceiling suddenly turned to the Demon Mountain.
"Oh!" he said.
His eyes and tone were full of disbelief.
He thinks it's an unsolvable problem and no one can solve it.
Different nationalities, different beliefs, different customs, different skin colors, voices and cultures, if they are forcibly pinched together, it is an irreconcilable contradiction. In the end, it was easy to conquer a city and conquer a land, but it was impossible to rule it and pass it on from generation to generation. Bloodshed and conflict will live on forever.
"Your Royal Highness, you don't believe it?"
β...... Now that Your Majesty has thought about this issue, perhaps Your Majesty has his own way of governing......"
"One currency, one lingua franca, one law, one system, one school, all the teachers are the bachelors of the old town. β
"Money is the implementation of the Klegane banknotes?"
"Yes. β
"It is difficult to unify the lingua franca and the law. The Dothraki would not go to school and would not learn the lingua franca of Westeros. They also did not respect and obey the laws of Westeros, and from birth Dothraki could walk, men learned to ride and shoot arrows, and girls learned to cook and make arrows and raise horses. No Dothraki will go to school. When they had no food or cloth, they went out and plundered. β
"Your Royal Highness, the next generation of children will go to school. Only children who speak the lingua franca of Westeros and can count are eligible to become magistrates. After the magistrate is introduced, there will be no more Kao among the Dothraki. I will train many officials in agriculture, animal husbandry, trade, military and politics on the steppe. I will also build a city on the Dothraki steppe. Horses and cattle and sheep will go around because of grazing, but the city will no longer move. β
β...... I can't imagine ......."
"Father, the Dothraki have sworn allegiance to His Majesty the King, and the land attack against Quells is the cavalry of the Dothraki. Arrene Martell said impatiently.
"Arlene, I don't think the Dothraki who like to fight will like the politics, agriculture, and city construction that His Majesty has promoted in the steppes. They can't accept that in their blood there is only the tradition of grazing and looting everywhere. β
"Your Royal Highness, when the continent of Essos is united, the Dothraki will no longer be able to rob the surrounding city-states and any country. β
"What, then, will the large number of Dothraki cavalry do, and how will Your Majesty place them?"
"Most people learn to build cities, acquire land, develop animal husbandry, and develop agriculture at designated points, and some of the soldiers will become professional cavalry, garrisoned in cities farther east, and some will become urban cavalry regiments to maintain peace and order in the grasslands. β
Dao Lang looked at the magic mountain, and he was silent.
He couldn't believe that the Demon Mountain in front of him was such a wise person, and he had such a complete set of ideas. Although he did not know how effective the implementation of these ideas was, in fact he thought that it might not be useful at all, and perhaps every time the king's plan was pushed, the Dothraki would come out to fight, and the Dothraki would fight, and that was the battleβbut nevertheless, the king's idea of governance still shook his heart.
His Majesty's words were beyond all his imagination, and every point was something he had never thought of before. He was well-read in poetry and books, erudite, and politically far-sighted and precise, but the words spoken by Moshan were still something he had never heard before.
"Your Majesty, I have always believed that it is easy to storm a city, but it is difficult to defend it. It's even harder to do better than the original Archon. Listening to your plan, I felt my own shallowness and ignorance. I never knew there could be any different way. β
"Your Royal Highness, I am ashamed of your words, I am a rough man. But I think that everywhere you go, if you are good enough for the people at the bottom, you will have a solid foundation of rule, and you will not have to cater to the interests of the aristocracy. βγ
Doran Martell was a very humble and introspective man. Perhaps it was years of leg ailments that made his personality characteristically resilient and calm.
When Oberon was killed by the Magic Mountain in a tournament, and when the Nine Families of Dorne were ambushed and killed by Jenny Westerling on the border of the King's Lands, he was calm and refused to send troops to take revenge, believing that if the Dorne Legion left Dorne to fight outside, it would inevitably be defeated.
The Dorne Legion, which had lost its geographical advantage and people's base, became a source of water when it went outside.
It also led to a coup d'Γ©tat in Halberd City, where he was captured and placed under house arrest by his heirs, Aliane Martell and Ellaria.
During the years he was under house arrest, what he thought about the most was the fate of Yang Halberd City and the Iron Throne.
For now, Arlene was wrong, and she had a disgraceful marriage with His Majesty, but she also kept Dorne and the Martell family in the process. Faced with Arlene's ambition to be the Grand Lord of Rees, Mill, Telosi and the Midsummer Isles, he was resistant in his heart.
He just wanted the Martell family to hold on to Dorne.
Reese, Mill, Telosi and the Midsummer Isles, each of them is not easy to manage.
"Arlene, with your and my talents, we can't manage Reese, Mill, Telosi and the Midsummer Isles. It's good that we can manage Dorne well. β
"Father, why are we going to rule over Rees, Mill, Telosi, and the Midsummer Isles?" said Arryne coldly.
"Oh?" said Dolph glared at Arlene.
"I will let Reece and other city-states manage themselves, I am only responsible for collecting taxes every year, arranging for scholars to go to the city to be assistants to the governor, and arranging for the patriarch or heir of the nine families to be the commander-in-chief of the legion in the city-state, and whoever rebels, I will kill him and his family. All those involved in the rebellion were killed. β
Doran Martell looked at his eldest daughter and was speechless for a while.
Arrene was no longer patient: "Father, would you like to come out and help me manage Dorne, Reese, Mill, Telosi and the Midsummer Isles? β