There were fifteen great sages in Meereen, who were in charge of Meereen's politics, economy, arenas, slave trade, and all the lands in and around the city.

The abode of the fifteen great sages, all of them are pyramids.

The pyramid is the equivalent of the family castle of the nobles of Westeros.

However, only the great sages and wealthy citizens could afford to live in the pyramids, and the slaves lived in simple wooden and stone houses.

Meereen, Yuankai, and Astapor were all centers of the slave trade, and slaves brought them great wealth, and the Maven made their families rich by the slave trade.

Meereen's army was made up of slaves, and the Maven were in charge of these slave armies.

There is a huge pyramid in the city of Meereen, the pyramid is 800 feet high, has 33 floors, and at the top is a bronze harpie statue.

The Harpy is the symbol of the Guise Empire, just as the dragon is the symbol of Valyria. In Westeros, the family crest of the nobles has its own symbol, the symbol of the Stark family in the north is the Icewolf, the family symbol of the Lannister in the west is the lion, and for a certain empire or a certain religion, there are similar symbols.

The symbol of the Red God Faith is the Fire Ornament, and the symbol of the Seven Gods is the seven-pointed star. In Meereen, Yuankai, and Astapor, the symbol of the Gise Empire established by the Gis people in the past has been retained: the Harpy.

The people of Meereen are the people of Guise.

The Harpy is a legendary female monster with a woman's torso, but where her arms should be the arms, she has a pair of bat wings, eagle legs, and a scorpion's curled poisonous tail.

On the walls of Meereen, defensive weapons are lined up in the form of a harpy structure, a hollow sculpture of a harpy that can make a fire underneath and hold oil in the middle. When there is no war, the bronze sculpture of this harpy is an aesthetic art, a decoration, and a belief of the Guise people, and in the event of an invasion by a foreign enemy, it is a defensive weapon that can spew hot boiling oil.

At the top of all the pyramids in Meereen stands a harpy, and the main motif is the ornament of the pyramid.

All the city-states of Slave Bay and the small independent nations on the islands are still architecturally adorned and emblematic of the Harpy as a symbol of faith. Although the Guise Empire has dissolved, Slave Bay still bears the Harpy emblem to this day. In many cities, in the center of many squares stands the bronze colossus of the Harpy.

At the top of Meereen's largest pyramid: there is a lightning bolt between each of the harpy's talons. This is slightly different from the Harpy of Yuankai, which holds a whip and an iron collar under its talons, and several iron chains hang from its claws. The whip was the main torture instrument for beating slaves, and the iron collar was a marker on the neck of each slave, and the iron collar would be engraved with information such as who the slave belonged to, who the Maven was, and what skills the slave could have.

Astapor's harpy talons hung a heavy chain, with an unclosed shackle at each end. This unclosed shackle represents that the trained survivor of the Unsullied will be given the opportunity to open the shackles and his life will continue. Astapo is a city that specializes in training slave armies, and the men here are subjected to brutal military training from the beginning, generally speaking, two out of every three children are trained to die, and the remaining one can survive the most difficult times and become an unsullied person with a bronze spiked helmet.

For all male ** subordinates who cannot pass military training, their only fate is death.

Daenerys led more than 200,000 Slavic cavalry to attack the first Slave Bay city: Meereen. And Yuankai and Astapo are in the south of Meereen City, and geographically speaking, they can only take Meereen first.

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The largest pyramid in Meereen is 800 feet high, with 33 floors, and even if you stand outside Meereen, you can see the top of this pyramid and the bronze statue of the harpy on the top of the tower. This is a symbol of the glory of the Gise Empire in the past, and it is also the pride of the Guise people.

Meereen was rich in copper, so the Unsullied armies and city garrisons, the Maven's personal armies were all bronze armor and helmets, and all the harpies in the squares and on the top of the pyramids were cast in bronze.

The Great Pyramid was owned by the fifteen nobles of Meereen, and was the highest center of power in the city of Meereen. It was here that all the decrees concerning Meereen were issued. The petitions of the people of the city-state were also fulfilled here. The Great Pyramid is the equivalent of the capital of a country, like the Red Keep of King's Landing on the continent of Westeros.

There is no king here, only the ruling Maven elected by the Maven's vote.

This year's ruling Maven is Yarman Daznak from the Daznak family.

The Daznak family was an ancient slave-owning family in Meereen, very powerful, Yarman had twelve sons, each of whom owned a gladiator arena, and this family owned four gladiator arenas, a dozen warships, and seventy merchant ships. The family had five hundred guardsmen, a thousand of the Unsullied army, and a hundred death squads of gladiators. And in wartime, this number will be doubled.

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It was the most complete meeting of the Magiens of the city since the beginning of the war, and it was chaired by Arman Daznak.

Yarman stood on a high staircase, flanked by two rows of chairs covered with golden blankets, filled with fifteen powerful figures of the Maven family of Meereen.

Yarman said, "The Sea King from Braavos was defeated by us, and the bronze statue of the Harpy on the wall gave them a lesson that they will never forget. The Braavos were against slaves and vowed to eradicate all slave owners from the world, and they had a big mouth and little power. No matter how hard they tried, they showed mercy, and they couldn't storm our walls. ”

Everyone burst out laughing.

"However, we will have a new and more powerful enemy, Daenerys Targaryen, with three dragons and a small dragon, who has conquered the entire Dothraki steppe and commanded all of Kao and his cavalry. They are coming from the north, and the Sea King is her ally. ”

The Maven were talking in disbelief.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the news I have received is very accurate, and it will be a month before the Dothraki will appear under our walls. The Dothraki did not dare to go on the boat, believing that the sea was the source of poisonous water, because the water that horses could not drink was poisonous water in their opinion. If on the sea, the Dothraki are vulnerable, but on land, everyone, the Dothraki are much more powerful than the Braavos. ”

"How many of them came?" asked a woman's voice. Grazdan Karale, the Green Lady of Meereen. He was dressed in a turquoise shirt, and his shirt was covered with green jade and jade. Her face was also adorned with jade ornaments that covered most of her face, and various jade treasures were worn with gold thread into a half-moon-shaped ornament, revealing only a pair of very beautiful large eyes.

"More than two hundred thousand Dothraki cavalry. ”

"Plus hundreds of thousands of cavalry family troops?"

"There is no contingent of dependents. ”

"The Dothraki come out to fight without their wives and children?" said Grazdan Karaal, puzzled, "Whenever the Dothraki end a war, it is the women who clean up the battlefield and the children who pick up the arrows. ”

"This time it's different, the team without children and wives can be faster. ”

"There are too many of them, and there are dragons, and our walls can't fight the dragons from the sky. The other Maven said. His name is Scaratz Mo Cantak and he is from the Cantac family. The family was also an ancient slave-owning family in Meereen, and its members were known for their simple and modest clothing. The family pyramid is also not decorated with any extravagant sculptures, and the color of the original stone maintains the most original simplicity. This family is in the middle of the second echelon in strength among the fifteen Maven families.

"Lord Scaratz Mo Cantac, what should we do in your opinion?" asked Yarman, coldly.

"Summation. "Daenerys' army is more than 200,000, and our army in the city is less than 30,000! ”

"No, Lord Scarats, this time is different. Daenerys is known as a slave liberator, and our wealth comes from slaves. The other Maven said.

"Yes, when I got up and opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was my maid slave, I ate, I served slaves, I went to the streets, I ran and practiced throwing guns, bows and arrows, I changed my clothes and bathed, I went to the arena to watch gladiator jousts, all depended on the service of my slaves. ”

"Our prosperity and civilization are built on slaves. The Maven said, "We should inform Yuankai and Astapor, and send someone to hire the Hurricane." ”

"Meereen, Yuankai, Astapor, and the Hurricane Mass combined, none of them can stop Daenerys. "She has too many warriors, and we have too much disparity in strength; The Dothraki method is to slaughter the city without submission, and if the gates are lost, we will all die without a place to bury. ”

"Lord Scarats, haven't you heard the story of two thousand Unsullied warriors holding back more than 20,000 Slavic cavalry with their backs to the walls?"

"I know the story, two thousand Unsullied warriors ended up with six hundred, and the enemy left thousands of corpses. Eventually, the Dothraki cavalry stepped forward and cut off their braids to give to the six hundred Unsullied, in the free trade city-state of Kohor or Norfos. ”

"Yes, Astapo also has twelve thousand Unsullied legions to be sold, and thirty thousand Unsullied reserves in training. So what are you afraid of?"

"If Daenerys attacks us from the sky on a dragon, how can we resist it, Maven?" said Scarats.

"It's easy to stop Daenerys' dragon. "Daenerys is known as the liberator of slaves, we only need to put slave women and children on the pyramid, if she rides a dragon to set fire to our pyramid, she will first burn the slave women and children." ”

"Good idea!" said the Maven, "if Daenerys comes to attack the walls on a dragon, we will tie up slaves, women, children, and old people to the walls and make them line up. The Dothraki cavalry were good at archery and siege, so we used slaves as shields. ”

"It's a clever idea, to turn Daenerys's name as a slave liberator into a slave slaughterer, and her reputation will be ruined. Aquaman will also part ways with her. Her efforts to free Slave Bay will come to naught. No slave would like a tyrant who slaughtered them. ”

"It's nothing. "Daenerys' army is coming, and if they don't take the siege, they won't have food, so what can she do but retreat?"

"That's right, the Dothraki people come out to fight, they never bring extra food, they all go all the way and rob all the way, the so-called war feeds the war. The Maven said.

"The villages and towns outside our city can't support the rations that Daenerys' army needs. ”

"I won't leave a single grain for Daenerys. Yarman said, "My Maven, why don't you go out of the city now, and take all the food, iron, people, and slaves from the nearby villages and towns within a hundred miles into the city?

"Yes, rob all the food and all the necessities of life, and drive all the people into the city of Meereen, and the men will serve as soldiers, and the women will cook. Then he burned all the villages and towns. ”

"Not only all the villages and towns, but also the crops, woods, and meadows in the fields within a radius of 100 miles, all of them were set on fire. Let Daenerys's horses have no grass to eat. Yarman said.

Coax!

There was a round of applause in the Great Pyramid.

"The grass that cannot be set on fire can be sprinkled with poisonous juice on the grass, so that the horses of the Dothraki can eat and be poisoned to death. "The Maven suggested.

"That's what I mean, my lord, what are you waiting for, let me arrange what you should do. ”

"Good!" said the Mavens, overjoyed.

*

Night.

Daenerys's middle army tent.

Nari and the other three gathered around Daenerys, who had a stomachache and began to bleed profusely between her legs. The three maids were shocked and at a loss. Jorah Mormont asks Main to take care of Daenerys here, and he goes to the doctor.

The doctor soon arrived, and drove Jorah Mormont and Main out of the tent, saying that Daenerys was going to give birth, because Daenerys had been on a long march, eating and living with the soldiers, riding horses with them, and had caused the baby to be born prematurely.

Jorah Mormont walked up and down outside the tent, her face haggard. In the last 20 days or so of rapid marching, everyone is too tired.

"She's in too much of a hurry. Mai Yin leaned against the tent door and said lazily, "Daenerys can't wait to lead the army to Meereen in one day, and she is really in a hurry for more than two thousand miles." ”

"She wanted to take Meereen a day earlier and free Slave Bay. Jorah Mormont replied.

"General, your responsibility is not so much to persuade Daenerys to march as to persuade her to slow down and not to be in a hurry. Aquaman is very experienced, I still have a certain understanding of him, Aquaman will not attack Meereen. Siege warfare, which he is not good at, he will not fight after defeat. But I believe he has cut off the trade in and out of Slave Bay at sea, and there is no need to worry about it. Actually, let's just go slowly. ”

"Water, hot water!" the doctor's voice came from the tent, and Daenerys snorted in suppressed pain!