"Something has happened to Dragonstone, Prime Minister. Ser Tyrion volunteered to resign and go back to Dragonstone to take care of business. Allister said.

"What's going on?"

"Subsidence. Littlefinger said, "Dragonstone Fort, the Stone Drum Tower have all begun to sink, and it was originally a city wall. “

"What about the mines?"

"A section of the main road in the mine has collapsed, and I heard that hundreds of miners are buried in it. Littlefinger said.

"Okay, I'll go to Dragonstone to have a look. "Dragonstone is Will's domain, but he doesn't want to take Dragonstone as his personal property, but for Dragonstone: Obsidian!

Tyrion had told him that if he continued to dig, Dragonstone would most likely sink underwater, because the ground of Dragonstone had been hollowed out and there was sea water all around, leaving him with only one way to collapse.

Will didn't expect Dragonstone to have problems so soon.

Thousands of people are digging crypts on Dragonstone Island, and there are thousands of professional miners in the West, and it is actually doomed to hollow out an island.

Now that Tyrion has resigned as Minister of Intelligence, he presumably wants to keep Dragonstone for Will. If a duke's fortress is gone, what kind of duke is he? Except for Dragonstone, Will doesn't have a decent territory of his own. And Dragonstone Island is not a decent territory, just a small island in the sea. Farmland is scarce, there are few people, and the villagers are fishermen.

*

On the sea, a naval fleet sailed north, one of which included Will's personal bodyguards, Resso, Podrick, and Ash, ten members of the Ash team, and a hundred commanders of the Desperate Wall.

Both Resso and Podrick possess Valyrian steel swords.

The two Ash Captains: Black Girl Ash and Able Ash, as well as ten Ash Guards, with two Valyrian steel swords, are basically exclusive to the captain at the moment. It's a topic of discontent that the brothers bring up when they're drinking.

The Commander of the Hundred Desperate Great Wall is a guard that is a mixture of Night's Watchmen, Freedmen, Warriors of Skagus, and children of nobles, and belongs to Will's personal guard.

The cavalry of Taryn Ash and General Wooden Shield was also on the ship, and the two cavalry teams were four thousand men, all elite.

Zheng!

The griffon's cry came from the sky, and the soldiers on the ship were familiar with the sound, and when they looked up together, a flying beast covered in emerald feathers appeared in the sky, and on the back of the griffin was a person, it was Arya Stark.

The soldiers cheered in unison, and the cheers of tens of thousands of soldiers overwhelmed the sound of the waves of the sea.

Hundreds of warships, large and small, sail on the sea, which is spectacular. The deck was crowded with soldiers and generals.

The griffin lowered its altitude, and Arya didn't intend to let the griffin go down, she was on the griffin's back, gliding, and moving forward with the flagship, maintaining a constant speed.

"Lord Mance Red, Lord Will has an order, and your lord's guard has landed in Blackwater. ”

"Yes, Mistress Arya. ”

"Your Excellency has requisitioned the cavalry of Tyrann Ashes and the cavalry of General Wooden Shield, and entered King's Landing with his guards. ”

"Yes, Mistress Arya. ”

Asha was dressed in tight leather, with two daggers stuck in her combat boots, a short knife on her waist, a long sword on her sword belt, and two short axes dancing with her fingers, and she was heroic: "Lord Arya, is Lord Will in trouble in King's Landing?"

"Mistress Arya, the Freedfolk Harloon is at the disposal of Lord Will at any time, do you need our five thousand infantry?" The Kobold wanted to follow Tyron Ash into King's Landing. Her belly was a little bigger, and she was pregnant with Tyron's baby.

Mance Rader said, "General Harry, I give you permission to lead two thousand freedfolk infantry to King's Landing with General Tyranny. ”

If it weren't for the necessity, Lord Will wouldn't have mobilized his troops. Mance Red didn't want Will to slip through in at King's Landing. Will was the commander of the Night's Watch who allowed the Freedmen to enter the south side of the Wall for the first time in Desperation, the first man in 8,000 years. He was a great benefactor to the entire free people of the North.

"Thank you, General!"

Several of her brothers around her laughed maliciously.

This fleet sails in the waters of Storm's Rest and will soon enter the waters of the Crown.

*

In King's Landing's throne hall, Will returned to the Iron Throne for the long time and acted on Her Majesty's behalf. His position as regent has not been relieved, although the atmosphere is now somewhat delicate.

Today's Iron Throne does not accept the petitions of the people of the city, and the throne hall is crowded with civil and military generals, and all the nobles and ladies in the city have also come. The nominee manager of the Iron Vault, who had been allowed to open a bank in King's Landing, also sat beside Littlefinger.

According to the agreement, the bankers of the Iron Treasury had the right to send a manager into the throne hall to become a financial officer under the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The Iron Throne Bank was also set up in King's Landing, lending money to the civilians of King's Landing to pay for their living expenses and accepting deposits from some mercenaries.

The Iron Vault has a great reputation on the other side of the Narrow Sea, and its reputation among the mercenary organizations is extremely high, and many of the leaders of the mercenary organizations are willing to deposit their money in the banks of the Iron Vault. And the nobles of King's Landing are waiting and watching, and they can't accept giving the money to someone they don't know.

In all the banks of the Iron Vault in Westeros, Will has a very secret one-third of the shares.

Although the throne room was crowded with people, it was silent.

On both sides of the corridor, two teams of pikemen lined up in a garrison. Under the high windows on the left and right sides of the throne hall, there were also soldiers of the garrison with long swords and round shields, and on either side of the gate, were two high-ranking officers, wearing black iron helmets, their masks lowered, revealing only a narrow slit to observe the outside.

The atmosphere was solemn.

Bran Stark, commander-in-chief of the garrison, stood on the seven steps, to the right of Lord Will, standing with his sword at his finger.

To Will's right, the fearless Lord Barristan Selmy, the leader of the Kingsguard, stood at the foot of the seven steps, lined up in a zigzag pattern.

In the back of Will's side, Jaime Lannister, dressed in plain leather armor, also wore a helmet, but did not put down the mask, and too many people felt uncomfortable with him.

Last night, Bran and Arya had convinced Jaime that he should put down his mask on a sensitive occasion like today, where there were many old Lannisters and some well-connected vassals in today's meeting in the throne hall.

Whether it is an old enemy or a vassal, they all have a bad feeling and hostility towards Jaime as a 'kingkiller'. But Will told him today that they didn't have to put down their masks, that they didn't have to please and fear anyone.

*

The throne hall was full of nobles, representing the interests of all nobles, and Will was in Dorne, canceling the existence of nobles, which made the aristocratic class all uneasy.

Will knew this, which is why no one knew about Will and Mance Raed's true military plans before this military operation. It is also the reason why the information that the Martell family keeps getting is based on falsehood.

It was a political advance, but it touched the interests of all the nobility. Martell asserted that when the news of Dorne spread throughout the Seven Kingdoms, the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms would rise up against Will.

Will didn't want to go around in circles, so he simply picked it out at the beginning, and he didn't have time to pull any other circles. His change, as if Daenerys had abolished slavery on the other side of the Narrow Sea, would naturally meet with all opposition from the slave owners.

Daenerys cleansed the slave owners with blood, destroyed the will and army of the slave owners with dragons and armies, and forcibly implemented a new political system, while Will, instead of flipping the table, he used gentle transitional means, as for the result, he made two plans, one hand is politics, the other is a sword!

Will said: "Today I am free to speak, I promise that no one will be guilty, I will make it clear, the political change in Dorne, the advantage is that Dorne is really in the hands of the king, not the Martell family." From then on, the appointment of the governor of Dorne, the taxes, the army, the culture, the trade, the direction of development, everything is in the hands of our royal family, and we no longer have to worry about Dorne's rebellion. ”

"What if Dorne's men rebel again?" said one nobleman coldly.

"Then there's only one question that will make them rebel again?"

"What's the problem?"

"Oppression and exploitation have made it impossible for the people of Dorne to live. ”

The nobleman was speechless and shut his mouth.

*

Chapter 0983-2

"Prime Minister, why don't you kill all the nobles of Dorne?" asked a nobleman.

"I want to leave room for people to kill if they agree with us and are willing to surrender. ”

This nobleman is from Storm's End.

"If it were me, I would rather be killed than be reduced to civilianism. “

"If you oppose Her Majesty Shireen, disobey the royal decree, and commit treason, I am willing to fulfill your good wishes. Will said coldly, "I will definitely kill your entire clan without hesitation, and try treason." ”

The nobleman's original intention was that Will should not abolish the aristocracy, and the real nobleman, who would rather die, would not agree to Will's change. But Will's rebuttal was more powerful, directly blocking the other party's subsequent steady stream of questions. Will's words are aggressive, with a blade, and those who do not obey orders will be killed. But he cleverly avoided the hierarchical contradictions between the nobles and the commoners, and only relied on royal orders.

The nobleman was like a teapot full of things, but the spout was blocked and the contents could not be poured out.

Will comes from the earth civilization, several levels higher than the half-farming and half-animal turtles of this world, when it comes to the political system, he knows the development trajectory of human primitive, slave, feudal and capital, he is a real giant.

These people wanted to talk to him about the hierarchy of nobles and commoners, and he talked to them about royal power.

No matter how powerful the nobles are, they are also under the royal power.

The continent of Westeros is different, and the existing nobles who support Will, such as Robb of House Stark, Robert Royce of the Vale, the five new noble families of the West, the Tully family of the Riverlands, the Arryn family of the Vale, and Petyr the Littlefinger, these people are all nobles.

But there are also freedmen: the Tyranid Ash Tribe, the Wooden Shield Tribe, all the Freedfolk tribes of the North, the unicorn tribes of the Isles of Skaggs, the commoners of Dorne, and some truly subservient nobles, such as the Bright family, and so on.

The situation he faces is more complicated than that of the continent of Essos.

Daenerys unified the continent of Essos, pushed all the way, killed all those who did not obey, and burned the entire slavery system to ashes. She was able to do this, first of all, by hanging the dragon, and the dragon represented the divine power.

The divine power is supreme and above the royal power.

And Will, who rules the continent of Westeros, for the nobility, is mainly the royal power.

With the power of the royal power over the aristocracy, the nobles either surrendered or rebelled, and if the name of the rebellion was not justified, then it would be pushed horizontally.

Will didn't want to push sideways, winter has arrived on the continent of Westeros, and the enemy is in the north, and it is an undead intelligent creature: a strange ghost!

"Prime Minister, I have heard that you have decreed that Lord Randolph Tully and Lord Mace Tyrell should not leave King's Landing, and on the first day of your return, you removed Lord Lando's post of Minister of War, and also removed Lord Mace from his position as State Advisor. A nobleman in the Riverlands stood up and said.

"Yes, what's the problem?" asked Will.

"The two lords who passed together with the king and the imperial ministers were dismissed as soon as you returned, is it because Lord Landome and Lord Mace are not under the power system of adults, or did the two of them enter the Imperial Council and hinder your ambition to control the entire kingdom?"

"What do you think?"

"I don't know, that's why I'll ask you to explain it in public in the throne hall. ”

The whispers in the hall gradually sounded, and finally there was a lot of discussion, and they exchanged ears.

Will glanced at Littlefinger, who was also looking at him, and didn't intend to help. Littlefinger is only true to himself, this is his eternal principle. That's a tiny finger!

"Speaking of the dismissal of Lord Lan Dao and Lord Mace, I would like to state first of all that the dismissal of them was voted by the Council of Ministers, and this point is that the important ministers of the Council are here, and you can verify it. Of course, you must have asked them a long time ago. So let me talk about the second point, why Mace was dismissed. ”

"In the past, there was no official position of state adviser in the Imperial Council, and I am the regent, and I have the right to veto the appointment and dismissal of official positions that I do not know. ”

"But Her Majesty has signed the Order. ”

"Yes, that's Her Majesty's power, and now that I'm back, I'm still the regent, and I have the right to use the veto. Who has a doubt about that?"

Everyone looked at each other.

Although the Prime Minister has the right to use the veto, it does not mean that he is doing the right thing. That's what everyone cares about.

But Will must first make a name for himself, and then he will be right.

Will said lightly: "Since everyone has no objections, and Her Majesty the Queen is the same as everyone, there is no objection, then I will talk about why it is not allowed to set up state advisers, first, the king, the prime minister, the finance minister, the finance minister, the justice minister, the sea minister, the intelligence minister, the captain of the royal guard, the commander of the garrison, the military minister, the royal council formed by them, has the ability to solve the affairs of the state." There is no need to set up a State Adviser. Not before, I won't allow it now, and I won't have it in the future. ”

"Second, Lord Mace was able to sit in the position of State Adviser because of coercion, not because of Her Majesty's heartfelt appointment. Due to the civil war and the burning of King's Landing, the nobles and commoners of King's Landing were left without food. The riverbend was the granary of the Seven Kingdoms, and the king and the royal council had to agree to Lord Mace's unreasonable demands against their will, under the threat that Lord Mace would not give food. ”

"I went to war in Dorne, the royal family was short of troops, and the troops of the other nobles were all on the Great Wall, but only the Riverlands did not send troops to the north, they were well fed and strong, and no one could overpower them. Now that I'm back, I'll never let any of the great nobles be above the royal power. Anyone, not just Lord Mace, but all of you, every single one of you. “

There was silence in the throne hall.

Will believes that his blade has made everyone feel sharp!

Will said lightly, "I dismissed Lord Mace from his position in accordance with the law, Lord Landau is a vassal of Lord Mace, he stood up to protect the Lord and took the initiative to resign, wanting to blackmail me with this. Naturally, I will meet the request of Lord Randolph. I have ordered yesterday that Lord Mace be to carry two thousand carts of grain from the River Bend to King's Landing, and that if I do not see the food for a month, Lord Mace's head will fall to the ground and be put on the tip of the Red Keep's spear for public display. That's what I decided. He glanced at the audience and said slowly, "Who is against it?"