227 Situations, plans, accidents
The conversation in the garden of Dragonstone Castle continued for a long time, and at the end of dusk, the silver-haired "man" hurriedly took his leave and prepared to carry out the plan of the Blue Rite Theory.
Looking at the back of the other party leaving, Lan Li unconsciously squinted.
Driven by a common enemy, he persuaded the other party to succeed and do it for himself, but in fact there was no need to do it in his original thoughts.
Lan Li thought that even if there was no such thing as finding a door, the cooperation between the heretics and the Targaryens was enough to arouse the suspicious eyes of the church, but Lan Li found that they had already revealed the cooperation between the disciples and the Targaryens for several months, and there was no reaction from the church.
Or rather, the archbishop of the church did not see any reaction.
Lan Li did not think that the church side would budge on this issue of faith, and he believed that there were two reasons for the lack of reaction.
First, unlike the church in its heyday, which had armed forces and could call on believers across the continent to rebel against the tyrant Meg with a single piece of paper, the Church of the Seven Gods at this time had become too loosely organized, like a disintegrated behemoth.
Second, the archbishop of the current church is a straw bale.
This also made him think more about the deal with the Seven Gods that had not yet been reached, but the most important thing at this time was not to think about this deal, but how to make the church recognize the problem and then mobilize.
A behemoth is a behemoth after all, although it has no power of its own, but its influence is comparable to an invincible army, commoners, knights, nobles, except for Dorne and the North, basically everyone in Westeros believes in the Seven Gods.
So if the church is really to be dragged out and called for hostility to the Targaryens and the pagan disciples, then even if many lords of Westeros have different intentions, they must think about the consequences of such a choice-
Some lords and nobles may not pay much attention to faith, but most of the ordinary people are very religious, so for an ordinary farmer, is it the lord of his own family that is important, or is faith important?
This question is yet to be examined, but when the time comes, it is impossible for the lords themselves not to think about it.
As a result, Lan Li considered the cooperation between the Targaryens and the infidels to be a failure.
In other words, the moment they cooperated, they were already naturally on the opposite side of the people of Westeros.
Lan Li didn't know why the Targaryens had made this choice, maybe they didn't have a choice, maybe they were short-sighted, or they didn't feel like a big deal.
But whatever the Targaryens thought, when they found out about their cooperation, it was naturally impossible for Lan Li not to take advantage of it.
Originally, his idea was to wait and see, and he thought that without doing anything himself, the church would definitely be aware of this invasion of faith. It's just that for now, he seems to be overestimating the people in the church.
Thousands of years have passed since the last time the Church of the Seven launched a war of faith, and the rivalry between the ancient Seven Gods and the beliefs of the Old Gods has long since become an ancient history that has been sealed in the dust on paper for a long time and no one has paid attention to, and the "invincible" situation for countless years has made the church seem a little slow to react.
So Lan Li thought it necessary to remind them.
But he didn't want to end up in person, or negotiate with the church through Baratheon, that would be a bit deliberate, and the church might take advantage of the opportunity to get involved with the royal family, so he hoped to achieve this through Meg in front of him and the team behind him.
It's not that hard, just get them around and spread the word about it, and then make the church aware of it.
This is a way for him to be inside, but Lan Li didn't completely put his hope on this, because this kind of thing is still a bit illusory, and no one knows what the specific effect can be before it is really achieved, so in addition to this, he has other plans.
For the valleys, for the riverlands.
The overthrow of the Targaryens, the birth of the royal family of Baratheon benefited from the four alliances of fish, wolf, eagle and deer, but these four alliances were not so strong. In other words, the dukes who have formed an alliance with Baratheon do not necessarily have much control over their vassals.
Take the Tully family in the Riverland as an example, there are many thorns in the Riverland, and many lords don't take the Tully family as a feudal lord in their eyes-
Although the duke and the king have reached an alliance, the duke's vassals are not puppets who say whatever they say, they have their own ideas and interests, not what the feudal lord says, they are just fools and.
Lan Li believes that the Riverlands is the most chaotic place, and he should also pay attention to the lords there. Secondly, in this alliance of fish, wolves, eagles and deer, the second unstable is the valley.
Without him, Jon, Duke of Vale, who supported King Robert. Arryn is very old, and he may burp suddenly one day, and that's it, but the Duke of Vale's only current heir is a sick kid, maybe better than Jon. Arryn may have died sooner.
This is a very serious problem.
Even though the Arryn family is deeply rooted and influential in the Vale, when the heir crisis arises, the Vale Lords will inevitably have all kinds of careful thoughts.
At the same time, following Jon. The Duke of the Vale after Arryn may not always be on Baratheon's side.
That's why Lan Li followed the river bend and looked at the valley.
In addition, the Deer family, that is, the Lan Li family, is not so complicated, and the lords of the Stormlands do not treat their new lord Stannis very much, but they love King Robert very much, and they are also descendants, so there will be basically no chaos.
The wolf family in the north, that is, the Stark family, Lan Li also thinks that it is relatively stable.
The present-day Duke Stark is in the prime of life, and already has two sons and two daughters, and it is said that Mrs. Stark is now pregnant again, and may have a son.
There is no heir problem, and in terms of family prestige, Stark is much stronger than the Tully family in the Riverlands-
The Tully family in the Riverlands has only been on the throne for three hundred years, and the Stark family claims to be nine thousand years old, I don't know if it's true or not, at least the Stark family will rule the north for no less than a thousand years.
For so long, they've infiltrated the idea that House Stark is the leader of the North. Therefore, even though the Stark family's direct domain and conscripted soldiers are not necessarily strong, their prestige among the northerners is irreplaceable, and their rule is very stable.
So as long as Stark doesn't get seriously killed, they're fine.
The problems within the alliance are roughly the same, and in the other areas outside the alliance, Lan Li thinks that it is more safe, after all, he has personally met with all the main lords of the riverbend, and has a clear control over there, he thinks that if nothing else, in the battle between Targaryen and Baratheon, there will be no chaos in the riverlands.
Not to mention the West, the Lannisters have a very strong control over the West, and the Lannisters captured King's Landing and slaughtered the Targaryens' number one executioner, not to mention that the next generation of kings of the Baratheon dynasty are connected to their blood, even if there is no such thing, it is impossible for the Lannisters to run to the Targaryens' side-
In a sense, the Lannisters were Baratheon's strongest allies.
The most problematic is the Dorne area.
The Church of the Seven had little influence in Dorne, and Dorne was married to the Targaryens, and the royal family slaughtered by the Lannisters included Princess Dorne and her two children.
This has basically pushed Dorne into the opposite side of Baratheon.
If it weren't for the Targaryens, Dorne might not have been in too much trouble, but at this time, the Targaryens had already made a comeback, so it was definitely impossible for them to continue to be honest.
Lan Li believes that the reason why it is so quiet over there is very simple, the Targaryens, who are in exile overseas, are not ready for a real counterattack at the moment, they can only continue to choose to hibernate, but when the day when the Targaryens are ready comes, they will inevitably be the first to respond.
Of course, all of this is still his speculation, and it is possible that Dorne will actually be a courtier of Baratheon, but this is very unlikely.
Therefore, during this time, in addition to studying the valley and the riverlands, he also focused on thinking about how to solve the problem of Dorne before the war broke out.
Lan Li didn't think of a way for the time being, after all, Dorne people are notoriously difficult, but he didn't rush this matter, after all, it was useless to be in a hurry about this kind of thing, and at the same time, he didn't have much to think about Dorne, the destined enemy.
For the time being, his main concern was how the Seagull Town Earl in the Vale reacted to it and stimulated the church.
However, Lan Li didn't have the heart to think about Dorne, and Dorne set his sights on him.
Just as the Earl of Seagull Town was summoned and set out on his way to King's Landing, Lan Li, who was in Dragonstone, received a letter from King's Landing-
The Martell family, who ruled Dorne, wanted to marry the Rites, and King Robert summoned them to King's Landing to discuss the matter.