Chapter 227: Public Opinion (I)
The public opinion of King's Landing continues to ferment, in addition to the discussion of the high-ranking people in the Red Keep, the people of the capital of the Seven Kingdoms have added new talking points these days, and the flying monsters have reappeared in the sky over King's Landing, and the huge monsters with wings are always in the dead of night under the moonlight, suddenly descending on the sky of King's Landing, with a comfortable and melancholy posture to cut through the sky.
Although no one was sure what the flying giant beast was, it reminded the people of King's Landing of the scene of the True Dragon Pancheng in the past.
The sound of horses' hooves hurried, passing through the cobblestone square.
The golden-robed guards guarding the gates of the Red Keep hurriedly opened the heavy bronze gates, leaving the Imperial Iron Guards to gallop out.
In the face of increasingly surging public resentment, Cersei finally couldn't sit still.
Fifty Kingsguard Knights made a beeline for the Church of the Seven.
Marin Tran, the current captain of the Kingsguard, rode into the church gate on horseback and smashed several ancient stone candlesticks and potted plants in the church hall.
He looked around, but he couldn't see a single son of the Seven Gods in the church hall, Marin had a fierce look on his face, and yelled at the empty church, "Dog, what about people? Get out of here." ”
After shouting for a long time, no one paid attention, and Marin was even more angry.
At this time, a janitor wearing a church robe dodged in from outside the door, and when he saw the knight in the church hall, he was immediately frightened, and stepped forward to persuade: "This Lord of the Royal Guard, this is the holy place of the church, you should get off your horse quickly." ”
Marin, who was dressed in a white robe, glared at the old priest who appeared, pointed at his nose with a horsewhip and asked, "What about the head of your church? ”
"The archbishop has not been to the church in person since he took office, and he and his congregants have been preaching and giving soup in the muddy way. ”
"Hey, what? The bishop of the Church of the Seven is not in the church? Is there any other person in charge here, what about your other bishops?"
"The deputy archbishop is now being dragged out of the streets by the sparrows, and the other bishops have rarely come to church lately, and now everything is sold here, and few faithful come to the church to pray. ”
Marin scolded, "You can't take me for a fool, your deputy archbishop has been caught by sparrows and paraded in the streets?"
"This ...... The sparrows considered the extravagant life of the vicar to be a desecration of the faith. ”
Marin Tran turned around and looked at Osmond Kate Black in the team in some surprise, he is a member of the mercenary family Kate Black family, promoted by Cersei Lannister to become the Kingsguard, and is now Cersei's henchman, although the career level in the Kingsguard is very low, but in the Red Keep he is the closest Iron Guard to the powerful people, and today he went out to find the order that the Seven Gods Bishop brought to the Red Keep was conveyed by him for Cersei.
Osmond Kate Black had a scar on his face, and he was mixed in with the Iron Guard Knights, looking at the gatekeeper in front of him at the moment, he muttered for a moment and then said politely to Marin: "Captain, the queen mother's will is to arrest their bishop and go back for questioning, since people are in the muddy road, then we will go to the muddy road to arrest people." ”
Marin Tran has a cruel personality but average martial arts, and he is a little resistant to Osmond's proposal to take thirty brothers to the mud road to arrest people, "Osmond, haven't you heard of it lately? The Golden Robe has been attacked there more than a dozen times in a row recently, it is a famous slum area, the place where the people's anger is most concentrated, and those poor ghosts who only have one rotten life will not care about the identity of our Kingsguard. In this way, let's go back to the Red Fort first and ask for instructions, let the golden-robed guards assist in the capture, without a team of 100 people, it is easy to startle the snake when we go to that dirty, smelly and complex terrain. ”
Osmond Kate Black's face twitched, and he was startled, "Do you think it's cautious for us to rush into the Church of the Seven Gods temple with such a swagger?"
The Imperial Guard, who had swooped into the air, was deliberating, but when he came back to his senses, he found a barefoot, thin old man appearing in front of him.
Marin Tran frowned and looked at the old man in coarse linen clothes, who was looking at himself with a calm face, and couldn't help but reprimand angrily: "Hey, old guy, why are you looking at Lao Tzu, who let you enter the church hall?"
The old man stood barefoot in the center of the bluestone church hall, and after hearing this, he turned his head and looked around, and seemed to be sure that he was the only old man present, before he smiled slightly: "This is my church, I don't need other people's consent to come in, right?"
"Damn, this old guy is stupid, you're a missionary of the Church of the Seven Gods, and I've never seen a missionary without shoes. ”
The old man with cold eyes, gray hair, and obvious wrinkles on his face shook his head slightly, and glanced down at the simple and monotonous wool tunic on his body, "All beings under the seven gods are equal, no matter what believers or missionaries are wearing, as long as the belief in the seven gods is extremely devout, then it will be fine." ”
Marin, the captain of the Kingsguard, raised his horsewhip and was about to fall into the old man's face, but Osmond Kate Black on the side hurriedly stopped him, looked the old man up and down, and asked, "Who are you?"
"Nameless and unnamed, the most devout believer of the Seven Gods, who is now barely appointed by the king's will as the current archbishop of the Church. ”
When Marin heard this, he shook the whip in his hand and looked at Osmond Kate Black, and a trace of surprise flashed on their faces.
There is also the Lord who throws himself into the net, which is convenient.
The horses of the Kingsguard quickly left the church, and the sound of horses' hooves hurried through the cobblestone square again. The guards on the wall of the Meg Tower watched the Kingsguard rush into the Red Castle, but their eyes were surprised to find that behind the Kingsguard outside the castle, thousands of civilians quickly gathered, all of them were scorched and thin, and there were many men who were barefoot and wearing a single wool coarse cloth robe.
The Red Keep, the core of power in the Seven Kingdoms, is built on the high hills of Aegon. To the south and east are cliffs, with the river avenue at the bottom of the high cliffs and the Heishui River beyond the avenue. The terrain of the Red Fort built according to the high hill is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but also because of the geographical restrictions of the high hill, the area of the Red Fort is not large, smaller than that of Winterfell.
The tower in the Red Keep is a high tower where the king and queen lived, guarded by a dry moat and a four-foot-thick wall, and is located in the very center of the Red Keep, a square, a city within a city in the Red Keep.
The dry moat was not wide, and there were drawbridges on all sides, which made it easy for the king to travel, whether it was to pray at the back of the sanctuary in the south, or to the White Sword Tower where the Kingsguard lived in the east, overlooking the entire Blackwater Bay.
The bottom of the dry moat was sprinkled with iron nails.
Standing on the four walls of the Meg Tower, you can see the entire Red Castle's large and small buildings and the roads and gardens on the ground. In addition to the gold-robed guards guarding the walls day and night, there are usually two of the king's royal guards guarding the drawbridge.
At this moment, the Queen Mother Cersei took a few loyal Red Cloak Guards of the Lannisters, on the wall of Meggor Tower, looking at the corridor below, and drove into the Royal Guards in the Red Keep like a lightning speed.
He looked at the civilians who had almost surrounded the front door of the Red Keep, and a look of disgust and anger flashed across his face.