The Magic Mountain looked at Daenerys and then at Alene, who was very strong and had been competing with Daenerys. But she's pregnant now, which is important because the child is his.

"Prince Arlene, you go back to Dorne, responsible for mobilizing all the soldiers of Dorne, leaving the necessary garrison patrol soldiers, the rest of the soldiers, must be ready to go on the expedition, the preparation time of two months will be very rushed, the messengers of the six major trading city-states, let Queen Daenerys have a hard trip. ”

Rather than having both of them be messengers, one in charge of four city-states and one in charge of two, which seems to favor one over the other, it is better to let Daenerys go alone and leave Arlene behind, so that there will be no comparison.

"Your Majesty, the minister is from Westeros, and Dorne wants to make a meritorious contribution and open up a territory in Essos. ”

"Prince Arlene, I will give you the closest places to Dorne, such as Telosi, the Stone Steps, Rees, and the city-state of Mill, and extend the waters of Dorne across the Narrow Sea to the coastline on the other side, and all the seas of the Stone Steps Islands will belong to the territorial waters of Dorne in the future. ”

Arlene's beautiful face immediately smiled like a flower.

The city-state of Tylosi is located in the easternmost part of the Stone Steps, and the territory of the city-states of Rees and Mill extends to the interior of the continent of Essos, which is a very large territory.

The Stone Steps Islands and Telosi are the hideouts of the world's pirates, who come from all over the world, and because of the dense islands and dangerous waters, they are excellent hiding places, and the pirates from the east, west, north and south gather to have the strength to slaughter a medium-sized country.

The continent of Westeros has been invaded by the world pirates for many years, and it is unspeakably miserable, in order to fight against the world pirates of the Stone Steps Islands, a few decades ago, the whole country mobilized the power of the country, launched the famous battle of the Nine Bronze Plate Kings, and in the end, the world pirates suffered heavy losses, and did not dare to use force against the Westeros continent easily, and the Westeros continent was also greatly injured because of this, and it took more than 20 years to recover.

In order to appease Arrene Martell, who was pleasing Dorne, the Magic Mountain promised to reward Dorne with the Stone Steps Islands, which ran through the entire sea, which means that the Magic Mountain will eliminate the pirates of the Stone Steps Islands.

The world's pirates are entrenched in the Stone Steps Islands, and although they have converged a lot, they have always been the most troublesome cancer on the two continents.

And Dorne obtained the Stone Steps Islands, and he controlled the entire sea area extending from the Dorne Sea, and the sea area of the coastline on the other side will belong to Dorn.

The Magic Mountain is not only about conquering Essos, but also about mastering the Narrow Sea.

Alen said: "Your Majesty, the ministers obey the order, and tomorrow they will go back to Dorne, gather the vassals, train the soldiers, prepare military supplies, and cross the Narrow Sea early next year." ”

Magic Mountain nodded.

The child in Arlene's womb is his, and according to the laws and traditions of Dorne, both boys and girls have the right to inherit as long as they land.

The princes of Dorne, both male and female, are young and old. The eldest son or eldest daughter naturally has the right of inheritance in Dorne.

Anyway, in the end, Dorne and the Stone Steps Islands, Mill, Reese, and Telosi are all sons or daughters of the Magic Mountain.

The Magic Mountain, which had never been included in the military and trade jurisdiction of the Iron Throne, incorporated Dorne into its territory through marriage. In the past, Dorne was completely independent in terms of military, trade, and taxation. Only the nominal political submission to the Iron Throne, and all the rest of the power is in the hands of Prince Dorne.

Marriage is indeed the best strategy that the great nobles have tried and tested for thousands of years. For political purposes, even kings, princes, and princesses are forced to live with people they may never have feelings for for the rest of their lives.

The Magic Mountain is pleased with Arlene's beauty, loyalty, and love!

Of course, Daenerys isn't bad either.

That's another kind of beauty that has the air of a queen. Even without the queen's imposingness, Daenerys is still beautiful, delicate and addictive.

Next, the Magic Mountain arranged all the affairs of the expedition one by one, in an orderly manner, he was the Minister of War, in charge of all the military affairs of the kingdom. In fact, His Majesty the King himself is the supreme commander of the kingdom, and there is overlap with the nature of the Minister of War, but the Demon Mountain refuses to arrange anyone to be the Minister of War, and he himself takes on the same role, firmly controlling the military power of the Seven Kingdoms in his own hands.

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In October of Aegon 301 A.D., Petyr Berry the Littlefinger travels to Braavos, Daenerys rides the dragon to the six free trade city-states on the other side of the Narrow Sea, Martell, Prince of Dorne, returns to Dorne to gather his vassals and prepare to cross the sea, Duke Renard of Riverlands, Duke Gendry of Stormlands, Duke Edmure of Riverlands, the families of the Vale, Duke Eddard Stark of the North, the families of the West, the nobles of the Iron Islands, The nobles of the royal realm all gathered vassals, trained new and old soldiers, mobilized ships, and prepared to go to the continent of Essos......

In the steel street of King's Landing, hundreds of blacksmiths and thousands of apprentices worked day and night to build weapons and cast artillery, and hundreds of wise men of the Gunmancers Guild refined gunpowder and led thousands of newly recruited apprentices to cast cannonballs......

Food from the Bends was brought into King's Landing......

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November. Braavos Sea.

A northbound merchant ship, protected by ten patrol warships, headed for Seal Bay.

The ship's destination was the port of Donghaiwang on the Great Wall, where it anchored its supplies and continued north to the mouth of the Seon River, where there was a market built by the freemen for foreign trade.

The supplies of the night watchmen in the East Sea Lookout, most of the supplies of the night watchmen, were delivered through the ports of White Harbor or Braavos.

Far away in the Thorn Mountains outside the Ghost Forest, the free people tribes living in it, their exchange of goods with the outside world is also through the waterway, at the mouth of the Thorn River, there is a gathering fortress built by the free people, there is a free market for exchanging materials with the outside world, which has been running for hundreds of years.

The supplies of the Free Bazaar were all transported by sea trading ships.

More than sixty percent of these trading ships came from the port of Braavos.

They brought iron tools, salt, cloth, wheat, and wine from Braavos, and brought back bearskins, lion skins, animal meat, and oil.

Recently, because of the rise of a pirate in Seal Bay, Braavos's merchant ships have been escorted by warships. Pirates are elusive, no one knows where they will appear, and there are so many merchant ships that Braavos' navy can only be protected separately, but it is mainly patrolled. Generally speaking, it is safe to escort a trade ship into Seal Bay.

Those pirate ships generally don't raid ships heading to the East China Sea in Seal Bay.

The pirates seem to be open to the Night's Watch's supply net, but they are merciless to the ships that carry the bazaar to the mouth of the Seon River.

On the other waterway, the water routes of Braavos and Loras were also raided by pirates. Rolls' seafood such as pickled cod, walrus ivory, seal skin, whale oil and more are the main exports, which are exported to the rest of the world via trading ships.

The pirate leader was skilled in swordsmanship, having killed several Braavos admirals and stole more than a dozen Braavos ships.

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The merchant ships heading north hoisted the Night's Watch: the back of a man in black on horseback under the Great Wall of Desperation. It is said that such a night watchman flag can protect merchant ships from being plundered. These experiences, all learned by the captains in the Tokai Lookout and the Night's Watch deal, soon spread to the harbor of Braavos.

Almost overnight, all the trading ships heading north hoisted the night watchman's flag.

As the trading ship moved forward and saw that it was about to enter the entrance to Seal Bay, the patrol warship began to turn around, and as a rule of thumb, once inside Seal Bay, it was basically safe.

The pirates of Seal Bay have some inexplicable rules.

But there are exceptions.

When the merchant ship entered Seal Bay, several small boats appeared in front of it.

It was a fishing boat.

Fishing boats in Seal Bay come from fishing villages along the northern coast, and there's Casgus Island, once a friendly neighbour and now a gathering place for pirates.

The sailors, captains, and mercenaries on the merchant ships were nervous.

The leader of the mercenary squad was bald, his face twitched, and his right eye was blinking, and he stood at the bow of the boat with his hand on the hilt of his sword, staring at the approaching small fishing boat.

Fortunately, there was no danger, and the fishermen on several small fishing boats sang and went over without incident.

On the deck, there was also a noblely dressed man with an indifferent expression—Petyr Berish, the little finger.

He had come by order of His Majesty the King to persuade the pirate chieftain, Sandor Clegane, the hound.

The captain of the bald face is a cavalry general from the West, the artist Polivier Clegane.

Polliver thinks it's hard for them to meet the elusive hounds, but Littlefinger bets that they do.

This puzzled Polivier.

Littlefinger had not long been in Braavos, and he would have met the Hound on this trading ship today, and he would definitely meet him.

There's something strange about that.

But what was so strange, Polivier couldn't figure out.

He stood on the deck, his eyes widened, after a few fishing boats passed, there was no shadow of any ship on the sea, except for the wind and waves.

The pirate ship he expected to see didn't show up.

By the end of dark, the merchant ship had been able to see the pier of Donghaiwang, and had not encountered the legendary invincible pirate leader Hound Dog.

The merchant ship anchored at the small port wharf in the East Sea and did not have any trouble for the night, and the next morning the merchant ship set sail and continued northward towards the Free Folk Bazaar, next to the mouth of the Seon River.

This time, in order to keep the merchant ship safe, it was replaced with the flag of the real night watchman, and there was a royal flag with the new family crest of the Clegane family.

Since the Night Watch system was abolished by the Magic Mountain, the Night Watch Legion is no longer independent, and belongs to the direct line of the Royal Legion, and their banner naturally has a royal flag.

The merchant ship left the East China Sea and headed north, with a tailwind, and without accident, it would take two days to reach the Free Folk Bazaar.

The merchant ship travels on the side of the Ghost Forest, so that if you encounter pirates, you can dock in time and jump ashore to save your life.

Around noon, several large ships appeared ahead, flying a flag with a dog helmet.

The pirates known for this area of the sea have indeed appeared.

On the bow of the ship, Polivier Clegane looked at Littlefinger with a narrow smile on his face: "My lord, how did you know that the hounds would definitely appear?"

"Quite simply, analyze the characteristics of the merchant ships he robbed. ”

"What are the characteristics?"

"Anyone who goes north to deliver supplies to the wildlings will basically be looted. Anyone who is not inferior in words and fierce in the port and dares to take the mercenaries to claim that they are tough will basically be killed. ”

Polivier looked at Littlefinger with devilish eyes, "My lord, how do you know this?"

Littlefinger smiled slightly.

The Hound was not a prophet, so how could he know which merchant ship would go north? Why would all the brave knights and mercenaries who were ready to kill pirates be killed by the Hound in a targeted manner? Unless the Hound had an internal presence in the harbor.

Or, in Vincennes' navy, there are allies of the hounds.

After all, Braavos is a city-state defeated by the Magic Mountain, and it is not surprising that some of them are unwilling to really submit their hearts. It is not new to unite some people from outside to disrupt Braavos' trade and upset the management of Braavos.

Before the ship departed, Littlefinger deliberately spread the news that the ship's cargo was intended for the savages of the Sean Mountains, and claimed that if the pirate leader dared to appear, he would kill the man with the dog's helmet.

Littlefinger's identity was naturally disguised, and with the cooperation of Commander-in-Chief Vincent, no one knew about Littlefinger's operation.

Polivier Clegane, on the other hand, also appeared after the merchant ship went to sea.

Even if there were hounds on the patrolling battleship, they were too far away to see Polivier Clegane on deck. As soon as a battleship approached, Littlefinger turned Polivo's face sideways.

Even if these measures are useless, it is not easy to get the message across the sea. Ravens are a luxury for ordinary generals or soldiers. In Westeros, only the nobles can raise ravens.

What's more, the hound is arrogant, and he will not let go of the ship that went north to deliver supplies to the wild man because of the appearance of a suspected Polyvier, not to mention that the mercenary on this ship claimed to kill the hound.

When a merchant ship encounters pirates, it is impossible to escape.

Pirate ships are faster.

The merchant ship and the pirate ship gradually approached, a merchant ship that had been bought by Littlefinger and did not escape as planned.

In fact, many captains are not willing to give up their boats.

Polivier lowered his mask and prepared for battle.

The soldiers behind him were all elite from the cavalry battalion.

Two of the soldiers were burly, and one soldier wore only a single coat, not even armor.

On the flagship opposite, sure enough, there was a guy wearing a dog helmet.

Behind the guy, there was a unicorn.

A black unicorn with shiny black fur that undulates like waves in the sea breeze.

A unicorn that can swim in the sea.

Originating from the island of Casgus, the unicorn itself is a water-savvy beast. Unicorns, like dragons, are high-level magical creatures.

Littlefinger said: "General Polivier, General Ian, General Steven, Commander-in-Chief Vinson, I will order the captain to surrender first, and I will come forward to talk to the hounds, and when you get on the ship, you will see that I will act with my eyes, and capture the hounds alive without blood." He is the younger brother of His Majesty the King, the only blood relative of the family, so don't hurt him. ”