In addition to the Volantis politicians seeking votes, Danny also easily found the Gith delegation. They actually followed the way of the consul candidates, using giant elephants to carry hot girls and delicate boys, and sent them for free along the street.
A long team of at least 50 giant elephants, two to three hundred slave boys and girls, Danny could not ignore it even if she wanted to.
In addition to the slaves in the towers on the elephant's back, many giant elephants also had huge nanmu boxes and rattan baskets hanging on their sides.
"Long live the Alliance, long live the United Nations, God slays the Mother Of Dragons!" The Toka robe riding a camel in front of the elephant team shouted loudly.
"Support the Alliance's resolution of the Eastern Expedition, support the United Nations' resolution to block the trade in Slaver's Bay."
"Boycott the illegal sea merchants who steal into Slaver's Bay, don't buy white sand sugar, don't buy snow salt, don't buy fruit juice sweet wine, don't …"
On both sides of the giant elephants, there were yellow silk capes riding horses and camels, they held banners and wooden signs, a huge red cross on "white sand sugar", a huge red cross on "snow salt" …
Every time a Volantis man in the neighborhood stood up, showed his sea boat certificate, and swore that he would never sail into Slaver's Bay, the Gith people let him choose two slave bed partners, and grabbed a lot of gold coins from the basket and threw it to him.
There were at least 70 to 80 gold coins, mixed with rubies, emeralds, tiger's eyes, jade stones, and other colorful jewelry, it was a mess.
"Seven levels of hell!"
Danny's eyes almost popped out of their sockets when she saw the Gith's actions.
In order to deal with her, the "Evil Mother Of Dragons", the slave traders really went all out.
But also because this group of people was too ostentatious, she and Barristan easily found the base of the delegation, the mansion of the elephant party consul, Nessisor Visama.
Located in the east of the black wall, across the street, there was a super mansion that covered an area of two hectares.
Learning from the Gith people, Danny drew a huge red cross on the mansion in her heart, and Blackie in the sky also locked on to this place at the same time.
After finding the residence of the Gith envoy, Danny saw that it was still early, so she did not go back immediately.
With a pure tourist mentality, the two began to tour the thousand-year-old ancient city.
How should I put it …
The city was so big that it was a little barren. In other words, Volantis was not even half of what it was at its peak.
Walking around the black wall, Danny and Gu Jun had been to the north of the black wall. After passing through a bustling area, they continued to look towards the north. Between the northern city wall and the black wall of Volantis, there was a large piece of city ruins.
Well, Volantis is different from Valleglia and Orloss. It has walls.
The Black Wall was an inner city, like the Forbidden City in old Beijing. Outside of it, there was a vast urban area. The west side was facing the river, the south side was facing the sea, and the north and east side were ten meters high walls.
When Danny and Barristan left the black wall and walked half a mile north, they realized that the street in front of them was barren. Some places had even turned back into swamps filled with aquatic plants.
A large number of houses had been abandoned, and all the plazas were empty. Most of the fountains had run out of water, and the remaining ponds had either dried up or become stagnant pools.
Brown Devil's Grass grew on the roads, purple morning glories grew out from the cracks in the brick walls, and peach trees and jujube trees grew roots in the shops with collapsed roofs …
Danny saw more than Barristan through the dragon spirit's perspective. Within the huge walls of Valleglia, there were more abandoned areas than the one in front of them.
There were many low-lying swamps.
Volantis was bordered by the river and the sea. Other than the black wall on the high hills, the rest of the city was originally swamps and puddles. During the peak of Valleglia, as the city developed, the city overflowed the black wall and expanded outwards step by step. The puddles, rivers, and mudflats were transformed into streets and residential areas.
But after the peak, hundreds of years of wind and rain, the sparse population and unmaintained streets degenerated into riverbanks.
"In the four hundred years after the Great Cataclysm of Valleglia, the population of this city decreased by at least sixty percent. It's terrifying." She muttered.
"The Century of Blood!" Barristan spat out a word with a complicated expression.
In the past, Volantis was far more prosperous and powerful than it was now. The title of the Queen of the Loen River and the mistress of the Summer Sea was not just for show. Its population, wealth, and land area were more than the other eight trading cities combined.
Unfortunately, the war of the Century of Blood had drained the blood and life of Valleglia's eldest daughter.
There was nothing to see in the desolate city ruins. The two quickly turned their horses around and headed towards the south of the city.
There was a pier and a harbor in the south of the city. The prosperity and life of the past were maintained.
Upon closer inspection, the buildings in the city were mostly in the style of the ancient Valleglia. Most of them were circular towers. The bottom floor was the residence of the servants. There were few windows, but the upper floors had spacious balconies and small gardens that extended out three to four meters.
There was also the iconic black roofless tower. The tower was so tall that it could be seen even through the black wall.
Unfortunately, the descendants of the Dragon King had lost their dragons. Many Volantis nobles added a layer of glass dome on top of their towers. Under the noon sun, the different colored striped glass reflected blue, purple, green, red, and other colors. It looked like a twisted rainbow.
However, the more common ones were the archon statues on the streets and beside the fountains in the square. Most of the statues had their heads chopped off.
For example, in the southeast street outside the black wall, there was a garden square that covered half a hectare. In the middle of it was a 30-meter tall jacaranda tree. The pinkish-purple petals looked like snow from heaven. They fell on the hair, shoulders, and the broken neck of the huge white jade statue.
Danny brushed away the petals that were hanging by her ear. She looked down at the inscription beside the statue.
The hero of Volantis in the Century of Blood, Archon Horono. He had once led the Volantis army to occupy Myr and the vast plains in the southwest corner of the Ursos continent (the Land of Strife) became the Volantis colony.
He had been an archon for forty years. In the end, he got tired of the elections and proclaimed himself as the ruler for life. However, the Volantis did not buy it. They tied him to two elephants and tore him in half.
"How tragic …" Danny grimaced. Then she thought, "Looks like the election system of Volantis is not completely useless. At least the people have a very high awareness of the democratic system …"
"Sir, what do you think?" She asked the knight beside her.
"The people of Volantis are barbaric and ungrateful. This Horono had made great contributions and served Volantis for forty years. In the end, he ended up in such a miserable state, "the old man said with a complicated expression.
He seemed to see himself in the broken stone statue. He had been a white knight for almost forty years. In the end, he was stripped of his lifelong honor by a little brat.
"Uh, you are right. But you can look at the problem from another angle." Danny's mouth twitched.
"What angle?"
"The democratic consciousness of the Volantis, the determination to protect their rights and uphold the justice of the law. Maybe …"
"Sir, you are not planning to learn from Volantis and hold an election for the archon, are you?" Whitebeard looked panicked. "I shudder when I think of the Seven Dukes with a group of bed slaves canvassing for votes in the streets of King's Landing."
Danny nodded and smiled. "I can try. After all, I am young and can withstand the torment. I also have a dragon. Even if I fail, no one can chop my head off."
But the Seven Dukes cannot withstand the torment!
Are you going to ride your dragon back to Slaver's Bay and hide after the Westeros are done?
White Knight thought anxiously for a while and said, "My Lord, as you can see, many of the archon statues on the streets are headless, and the decline of Volantis is all because of the conflict between the parties. The election system is not as good as you think."
That was the truth.
Before Valleglia was destroyed, it ruled the entire world. When the apocalypse destroyed the center of power of the empire — the Land of Long Summer and the capital of Valleglia — its colonies and conquered territories gained independence.
What happened after the cities gained independence?
They began to fight for territory!
After that, the western continent of Ursos fell into a century of chaos until the Targaryen family intervened …
As the "Eldest Daughter of Valleglia", "Queen of the Lorne", and "Mistress of the Summer Sea", the pure-blooded Valleglia of Volantis had the largest population. They ruled the vast Lorne River basin, were the strongest, dominated the trade of the Summer Sea, and had the most powerful fleet in the world.
Of course, at the beginning of the Bloody Age, all Volantis came to a consensus: they were the heirs of the Free Citadel and the rightful rulers of the world.
Not to mention ruling the world, at least the other eight free trade cities in the western continent should submit to the Volantis.
But on how to conquer the western continent of Ursos, the Volantis had a huge disagreement. The Tigers, formed by the old nobles, favored the use of force.
The Elephants, formed by the bankers and the big sea merchants, supported trade conquest, or "economic control".
But in the Bloody Age, everyone pulled out their swords to kill, and the Tigers' position undoubtedly prevailed.
In a short time, the Volantis fleet conquered Lys, and the army conquered Myr.
Three-quarters of the western continent was controlled by the Volantis. They were almost ruling the world.
During this time, the Volantis even went to Aegon Targaryen, who was "idling" on Dragonstone Island.
The "conqueror" had his own plans. Not only did he refuse the invitation of his "fellow countrymen", he formed an "anti-Volantis" alliance with Tyrosh, Pentos, and Braavos, just like the alliance against the Dragon Queen today.
Hundreds of thousands of troops, hundreds of thousands of warships, and a dragon. The plains southwest of Ursos, which used to be like a water town in the south of Jiangnan, was destroyed by the flames of war. It was now the "Land of Strife".
From the map, the vast western continent of Ursos seemed to have only nine cities, and the rest was empty land?
Not so.
There used to be bustling towns scattered all over the land, but now only ruins were left.
Without the deterrence of the Megalosaurus in Valleglia, the Dothraki could roam freely in the western continent. The towns rebuilt this year were just another bell for the Horse King to attack next year.
Also, because the old ancestor had stabbed the Volantis, Danny did not think of using the banner of "all of us are orthodox Valleglia" to recruit and recruit the Blackwall nobles.
Well, that was a digression.
Aegon was only a dragon (his two sisters did not participate), and could not fundamentally change the situation. If the Volantis had united and worked together, the "anti-Volantis alliance" would not have been difficult to overcome.
After all, Volantis was so large, and in terms of raw power, it was the strongest in the world, and the process of unifying the western continent was very stable. After the surprise attack on Myr, Lys, and the Land of Strife, they took half a century to digest the results, and after they were ready, they sent their army north.
But the governor of Volantis was elected once a year, and there were two parties with completely different political views. When the war suffered a setback, the policies would often change.
After going back and forth for half a century, the Volantis people had exhausted themselves and lost their country and land.
Not only were the former colonies independent, but even the original territories on the upper reaches of the Lorne River were invaded by Kholor and Braavos.
Later, the Centaurs came from the Eastern Plains, and the Lorne River plains were harassed every year, and the "Queen of the Lorne River" did not even have a chance to regroup.
The Tigers completely lost their power, and in the three hundred years after the bloody century, the Elephants had been in control of the government of Volantis, occupying at least two governor positions.
In order to completely negate the policy of the old nobles of conquering the world by force, and to completely defeat the Tigers, the Elephants, after taking power, put all the blame for the loss of the war on the Tigers, and led the public to cut off the heads of all the statues of the Tigers.
Well, Volantis will erect statues of every elected consul.
Because of this history, Whitebeard thought that the Tigers and Elephants had cheated Volantis badly.
The worst thing was that the Elephants won the election and implemented the policy of "conquering the world by trade" for three hundred years, but the real boss of the western continent was Braavos.
The Braavos almost imitated the "financial control" tactics of the Elephants, and through the iron treasury, they indirectly controlled most of the western continent, and even Westeros.
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