Margaery came back to Egger not to side with the Queen, but on the contrary.

Aegon Targaryen had already sent an emissary to the riverbend to propose marriage, and the headquarters of the two sides were only a few miles apart, so bargaining was quick and easy. After a brief consultation, Mace Tyrell had agreed to the marriage, began to happily consider herself a relative of the royal family, and began to prepare for the wartime wedding, canceling the original visit to Daenerys.

For her father's uncharacteristically eager behavior, Margaery actually hated iron and steel.

It's not that she's against the marriage, on the contrary, Margaery knows very well that going to Aegon's side is indeed a more advantageous choice, and the reason is very simple: since Daenerys refuses to marry Prince Aegon, it is clear that she does not want to be subordinate to her husband's family, and most of the men in the Tyrell family are not playful. And in the case of refusing to make marriage a condition of the alliance, the queen is almost ...... No, it's impossible to come up with any chips that would impress the Tyrells.

What made her angry was not her father's decision, but her father's weakness and short-sightedness in agreeing to the proposal without any attempt to fight for the greater good.

As the bride-to-be who is about to be promoted to queen, Margaery actually traveled without permission after leaving a message to explain the family members on this trip.

Of course, she didn't want to run away from marriage or elope, but wanted to come and shop around...... No, two.

Sandwiching the bowl but looking at the pot, this food is naturally ugly, but this is what little Aegon asked for himself.

Two years earlier, when the unwitting prince had suddenly landed in Westeros and preemptively swept through the Stormlands, the Tyrells had already proposed a marriage plan when Varys quietly came to negotiate an alliance. At that time, the Riverlands were ready to send a large army to send the little prince to the Iron Throne, and Margaery was determined to become the wife of the second generation of conquerors who was shrewd and capable of outperforming Visenya, virtuous and gentle, and worthy of the "Good Queen".

is so full of sincerity, who wants the other party to be above the top, he has to wait for the other dragon family's woman to return, and then after she ran into a wall and was rejected, he turned back and chose the Tyrell family.

What kind of woman can accept this kind of humiliation of treating herself as a spare piece?

Margaret can.

For the sake of the rise of the Tyrells and the interests of the Riverlands, she could swallow a thousand times more shame than this.

But, it must not be unconditional!

Prince Aegon would still have the support of Riverlands and the queen he wanted—even the wisdom and virtue of the queen—but as compensation for the mental humiliation he had inflicted on his wife, he would have paid more for his original marriage after a round trip.

This is not a sky-high asking price, nor is it a nonsense, but a reason.

As a naturally weak woman, she has to let her future husband know that she is not a bully before getting married, with this record of Ma Wei as a comparison, her docile and reasonable after marriage is valuable, so that she will not be considered weak by nature, in order to be grateful and respected!

Blindly being a good person will not end well!

This truth is so simple, but Margaery's soft-eared and good-faced father can't see through it, but resolutely forbids her to go back on her word and temporarily increase the price. The unreasonable daughter had no choice but to go out in person to earn the honor and political benefits she and the Tyrell family deserved!

In order to achieve her goal, she came up with a simple strategy: go into the enemy camp alone, use Little Aegon's marriage request to force the queen's side to pay a high price, and then use Egger's conditions to feedback to little Aegon to pressure him to make greater concessions.

The Tyrell family, on the basis of the original price of "queen's position", must also get at least one seat in the royal palace as spiritual compensation!

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"Miss Margaery, I haven't seen you for many years, and you are still so temperamental and radiant. Egger, who was approached by an uninvited guest, did not show any impatience at all, but immediately entered the state rather gentlemanly, "I am busy with chores during the day, and the hospitality is not good, please allow me to invite you to dinner as an atonement." ”

"Lord Egger is serious, and it is a great honor for me to dine at the same table with a hero like you. ”

Iger turned around and told Nina and the Snapping Turtle that their dinner had changed, and dismissed them temporarily. Then, under the guidance of the restaurant staff, he went to a table against the wall and sat down, and ordered the guards to sit down on the tables and chairs on three sides around the partition to create a suitable environment for the conversation between the two.

Since everyone is here, it is better to send her away with an early showdown, so that the Messira has to rack her brains and squeeze out another time in the tight schedule.

"Lord Commander-in-Chief, you and I are old acquaintances, don't talk nonsense, the Queen has ordered you to negotiate with the South on her behalf, and I will now formally inquire in my capacity as the envoy of the Riverlands—does Your Majesty have any arrangements for your marriage? If not, will you consider the male of the Tyrells?"

Even though she was completely inclined to become the queen of little Aegon in her heart, Margaery still had to ask such a question.

is also a relative of the emperor, and it is also the blood of the Tyrell family that is injected into the inheritance of the royal family, and she can still tell which is more important in the family tree than a king or a queen.

It's unlikely, but what if, Daenerys is really just unwilling to marry a Targaryen with a suspicious identity, and has little resistance to marrying the Tyrells?

That...... Even if Loras is allowed to join the royal family, and the child will have a Targaryen surname in the future, this marriage will never be lost.

Although she has dreamed of being a queen since she was a child, if Daenerys really wants to marry the Tyrell family, she is still happy to sacrifice herself to send Loras to the Iron Throne, and she will take a back seat as her brother's right-hand man.

When the time comes, the elder brother of the Tyrell siblings will be the king, and his sister will find a powerful person like Egger to marry, although the personal influence will be inferior to "being the queen", but the overall power and status of the family will instantly reach the peak - the three-headed dragon in the Targaryen coat of arms will most likely have roses in their mouths!

But Egger's answer was surprisingly concise: "No, Your Majesty has no idea of marriage in the short term. ”

(Marry the queen, don't even think about it!)

Well?

Margaery's suspicion flashed in her heart.

Strange, even if you want to reply in the negative, you should organize the language in a slightly more sleek, friendly and leeway way, so as to give a potential ally as powerful as Hewan some room to think and waver, right?

That's it, anyway, she didn't have much hope in this matter, so naturally she wouldn't be disappointed because she got bad news, pursed her lips and nodded, and Little Rose turned the discussion to the topic: "It's a pity, then I don't know what kind of arrangements and plans Your Majesty has made for Hewan's allegiance intentions?"

(I have the goods here, how much does the queen plan to buy them?)

"The Tyrells must have already received the declaration from His Majesty and me, Her Majesty, as the only remaining Targaryen in the world, the undisputed legitimate monarch of the Seven Kingdoms, shouldn't the Riverlands be loyal to her?

(It's supposed to be the queen's thing, and you still want to sell it?joke!)

The suspicion that had barely been suppressed came to the surface again, and Margaery frowned.

"Lord Commander-in-Chief, this kind of meaningless words, you can just tell the puppet king Stannis, how can it be used among friends like us!"

(Serious about you, no kidding!)

"Yes, I apologize. Egger saw the maid who had brought the food and drink away, picked up his knife and fork, first cut a steaming, tender and juicy steak and put it in his mouth, and continued to speak inarticulate as he chewed, "Then I will tell you what the queen thinks...... His Majesty was forced to go into exile on the other side of the Narrow Sea just after birth, so he was not very familiar with the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms, and naturally he was suspicious of the loyalty of the princes. She wants you to take action to prove the Riverlands' loyalty to the Targaryen family. ”

He swallowed the chewed meat puree, moistened his mouth with wine, and then raised his eyes to meet Margaery: "The specific method is to invite all the nobles of the Riverbend Land, young and old, to come to King's Landing for a year and a half, so as to give Your Majesty the opportunity to get acquainted with you, and to feel and experience your loyalty." ”

Margaery burst out laughing, and suddenly relieved herself—she had been a little uneasy before, but now she was sure that Egg was teasing her.

"The commander-in-chief laughed, the population of the river bay is tens of millions, and if the knights are also counted as nobles, then this must account for one percent. She tilted her head thoughtfully, pinched her fingers and calculated with the performance, and couldn't help but wonder, "If you count the old and young of the family, there must be hundreds of thousands of people, and there are so many people in King's Landing, could it be that Your Majesty is planning to expel all the original citizens and make room for pick-up?"

"There are so many?" Egger showed an undisguised expression of surprise, and then his face showed embarrassment and apology, "I'm sorry, I just said it was inaccurate, knights definitely don't count, only families that meet certain conditions can get Her Majesty's invitation." ”

He turned his head, "Maeve, find out the list we made earlier, and show it to Miss Margaery." ”

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