The evening glow dyes Blackwater Bay red, and together with the seagulls shuttling under the sky, it is intertwined into a fluttering picture, which is extremely magnificent.

The lookout of the merchant ship shouted loudly on the ropes, and the captain walked back and forth on the deck, giving orders.

As King's Landing, the capital of the kingdom perched on three hills, came into view, all the crew members were immediately in a state of chaos.

At this time, there are already countless ships of all sizes anchored in the harbor.

Merchant ships from Braavos, Pantos and Reese on the other side of the Narrow Sea unloaded their cargo here.

The hull of the ship is covered with black tar, and the whaling ship with a deep draught brings whales that the princes and nobles liked to eat.

There are also more than a dozen narrow royal golden warships, shuttling back and forth, and the canvas is bulging high.

......

The war made King's Landing even more prosperous, and a large number of people fled the war in the capital, where the population had far exceeded one million in normal times.

Beyond the walls, you can see the city's markets, taverns, and brothels, one after the other.

Atop the Visennian hills, the marble walls of St. Belle Cathedral surround it, with seven crystal towers towering over it.

On the other side of the Rhaenys Hills, there are the charred ruins of the Dragon's Lair, where the flame-spitting dragons were once killed by the people of King's Landing.

Watching all of this is the Red Keep on the Hills of Aegon. It consists of seven drum towers, a large and cold fortress, domed halls, various bridges, secret passages, and heavy walls made of light red stone.

At this time, the banner of the Lannister's golden lion and the crown stag of the House of Baratheon flutter together on the city walls.

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Red Keep, Throne Room.

Seeing Petyr Berish the Littlefinger walking quickly, several guards hurriedly pushed open the more than six-meter-long, bronze inlaid oak door.

Littlefinger was short and ordinary, but he had a handsome appearance and a pair of sharp eyes with a smile, although he was only about thirty, and his dark hair was already mixed with a little gray, but he was meticulously combed.

As Chancellor of the Exchequer, Littlefinger walked the long red carpet of the Throne Room, which could accommodate more than a thousand people at once, and saw Joffrey sitting impatiently on the huge spiked Iron Throne.

It was created by the first monarch of the Seven Kingdoms, Aegon the Conqueror. He had the dragon Black Death melt away thousands of swords that his enemies had discarded when they surrendered, before forging the Iron Throne, a symbol of kingship.

Of course, the Targaryen dynasty had been overthrown, and now it was sitting on it, a big blonde boy with Lannister characteristics.

Joffrey Baratheon, though not very old, was very tall, and he had one foot cocked at will, shaking with impatience.

The Queen Regent, Cersei Lannister, sat next to the king on the high platform, with her long golden curls and beautiful blue eyes, and even though she was already a mother of three, she still had a slender figure like a young girl.

Cersei wore a sea-green silk robe with white Mill lace embroidered on the sides, and a gold ring the size of a pigeon's egg, but the decoration on her head was noticeably less than usual.

If you look closely, you can even see the redness of her eyes.

"How strange is this, who can make this woman cry?" Littlefinger thought curiously.

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"Sorry, I'm late," Littlefinger said, bowing.

"It's not your fault, it's my father who just got the news over today. Cersei struggled to restrain her trill, saying, "All three of you are loyal to the King, and your opinions are important to the King. ”

The scholar of the National Teacher Pai Xier had a kind face, and a few strands of white hair hung on either side of his already bald forehead.

As he listened, he bowed slightly, still sluggishly, and the heavy necklace made of every metal known to man clanged.

Littlefinger also bowed slightly and said, "My pleasure." ”

Then, the chief intelligence eunuch, Varys, with a smile like that of an innocent monk, handed the other two ministers a letter with the latest news on it with his delicate rouge-coated hand.

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Joffrey couldn't wait any longer, and abruptly jumped up from the Iron Throne, walked up and down on the high platform, embroidered the red satin cloak of the lion and the stag, and swayed back and forth with him.

Suddenly, he shouted angrily, "I am the king!"

The voice is sharp like a girl.

The three ministers stood on the red carpet in the middle of the hall, smiling as Joffrey jumped up and down, not saying a word.

"I am the king," repeated Joffrey, "that the traitor wants to negotiate with the king?"

"Negotiating with your grandfather, Duke Tywin, to be exact," Cersei reminded.

"Uncle Jaime is useless, being captured by a waste who dares only to use a wooden sword in front of me. ”

Joffrey once tried to compete with Robb when he went to Winterfell with King Robert, but at that time, Robb was ordered not to use real swords, only wooden swords, so he said that Robb was 'a waste who only dared to use wooden swords'.

"The traitor must have succeeded by trickery and deception," Cersei said with hatred, not believing that her Jaime would be defeated at the hands of a young man who had just come of age.

"The king will not succumb to trickery, and I will gather my army and go out myself, and cut off the heads of the Starks and the Tullys, and hang them on the walls. Joffer exclaimed with a hideous look, and drew the king's sword and slashed it into the air.

The ministers still did not speak, as if everything had nothing to do with them.

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"Little Joe, it's not time yet, your uncle is still in their hands, we must negotiate with them first. Cersei advised, "When Jaime returns, none of those people will be able to escape." ”

"Rubbish, it's all rubbish," cried Joffrey angrily, "Dog, I heard that your brother was beheaded by some black knight and planted on the flag, and you are also a white knight now, why don't you go and cut off the black knight's head?"

Sandor Clegane, the hound, stood at the foot of the steep, narrow steps of the throne, clad in the white cloak of the Kingsguard and gray chain mail, motionless as a statue.

"When I hear this, I wake up laughing in my sleep tonight, and I'm afraid I won't have a chance to think about anything else. The hound laughed, his voice hoarse, as uncomfortable as grinding sand.

The right half of his face has sharp cheekbones, thick eyebrows, and a large hooked nose, and his hair is long and combed to one side, because he has no hair on the other half of his face.

This was given to him when he was seven years old when he was pressed by his brother Gregor in a brazier.

The left half of his face was a mess, his ears were ablated, and only a hole remained, and his eyes, though not blind, were surrounded by large, twisted scars, and his burnt dark skin was as hard as leather, covered with pockmarks and pits, and when he pulled them, he showed red cracks.

As he spoke, he couldn't control his smile anymore, and his cheeks made him even more terrifying.

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Cersei glanced at the crowd and leaned back in disappointment, "Don't you have any suggestions?"

"Well, of course, the glory of the King is extremely important, but Lord Tywin's opinion is also very important, and I think both are important. Paiselle muttered, but it turned out to be a bunch of nonsense.

"According to the information I've gathered, Lord Tywin's situation is not good, and now that the Lord has returned to Harrenhal, and there are a large number of northerners stationed in Riverrun and Twin River City," Varys paused, and although he didn't give a specific opinion, the situation was already clear.

"Anyway, Eddard Stark is still in our hands, so let's pray he doesn't starve to death in the Black Cell," Littlefinger reminded with a smile, which calmed Cersei's restless thoughts in an instant.

"Let's ask our good girl Sansa to write another letter for us. Cersei finally added.