The old palace was very simple and crude. It was the most … unadorned palace Danny had ever seen.
There were two tall towers with a four-meter-tall grey hall sandwiched between them.
"Look, the tower on the left has a slender body and a ten-meter-long gold-plated spike at the top." White Knight pointed at the tower outside the window and introduced, "The Spear Tower represents the spear of the Martell family.
The one on the right has a golden dome and a beautiful hall with stained glass walls. The Sun Tower represents the sun of Loynar.
The hall in the middle is the banquet hall, where Prince Martell formally entertains his guests. "
They had already entered a wooden restaurant opposite the old palace. They sat by the window on the second floor and observed the old palace while drinking Dornish orange juice.
The reason why the Old Palace was called that was because Marlon Martell had built a new palace 15 kilometers west of Sun Halberd City to marry Daenerys Targaryen. It was called the Flowing Water Garden.
Oh, the Danny Liz from 130 years ago.
It was unknown whether the previous generation of Targaryen was too useless or if the Dornishmen really added points to their "guerrilla warfare" skill to Divine Level.
In short, the other six kingdoms had already submitted to the Long family. However, the Dornishmen rebelled today and tomorrow. From Aegon the Conqueror 300 years ago to Saint Bailey 150 years ago, the Dornishmen had been rebelling against the Targaryens for almost two centuries.
The Dornishmen had the least population and the most resources. However, the Long family had the Megalosaurus (dragons were not extinct in the early days of the dynasty). However, the Dornishmen almost made the Targaryens bleed dry.
Not to mention the Targaryens who died at the hands of the Dornishmen, even the Megalosaurus, Miracis, died on this land.
To be honest, when Danny saw the history of Dornishmen conquering Dornishmen, her first thought was that it was another "Three Thousand Unsullied Men Defending Kholor".
She did not understand. While it was true that Dorne's environment was harsh, with lots of sand and complicated hills, and the Dornishmen were unruly, it was precisely because of this that there was very little land for people to live in!
Everything else aside, he only needed to take down Sun Halberd City. Sun Halberd City had fallen into the hands of the Targaryens many times, seal off the route of the Green Blood River, and then send the Megalosaurus to burn the crops and fruit groves on both sides of the river. After eight to ten years, let's see how many Dornish people would be left.
Among the Seven Kingdoms, Dorne had the smallest population, less than 500,000. Most of them were still gathered at the Green Blood River. Ignoring the other places, as long as the Green Blood River was controlled, how could the Dornishmen survive?
Yet, just like the three thousand Unsullied, the Dornishmen also cheated. Or perhaps, Targaryen and the other six countries were collectively given the "idiot" buff. After fighting for nearly two hundred years, they lost and could only rely on marriage to end the war.
If Danny were to deal with the Dornishmen, she was confident that she could reduce the casualties to less than a thousand. One dragon would be enough.
There was no need to care about the castle. She only needed to clear out the crops, factories, docks, and ships. It didn't matter if the Dornishmen were convinced or not. She only needed to insist on beating Dorne back to the Stone Age within twenty years.
If she was given fifty years, she could even end the Dornishmen's civilization and make all the Dornishmen unable to even write their own names. They would completely become a group of primitive savages.
Alright, I digressed.
Danny wasn't the first "Danny Lith" of the Targaryen family. A hundred years ago, the Targaryen family couldn't endure anymore and married Martell in humiliation.
Both parties exchanged sisters. You marry my princess, I marry your princess. The princess who married Martell was called "Danny Lith".
To put it bluntly, "Danny Lith" was a variant of "Danny Si". Even "Dreamwalker" Danny Si might not necessarily be the first generation. Who knows how many "Danny" ancestors the Targaryens had in Valleglia in the past six thousand years?
"Do you want to meet Prince Martell?" White Knight asked softly.
"Meet him for what?"
"He isn't the most loyal ally of the Targaryen family, but he must have a common enemy with you." Barristan slowly spat out a name. "Tywin Lannister!"
"Tywin is dead."
"I don't think Prince Martell is that easily satisfied," White Knight said.
"You heard it on the way here. His younger brother, Aubron, died at the hands of the Arcane Mountain. His Highness the Prince locked up the rioting Sand Snakes in an attempt to keep the peace." Danny spread her hands.
Speaking of Aubron Martell, one couldn't help but sigh. The fate of the spearmen was truly tragic!
The judicial system under the Seven Gods Doctrine had a tradition that Danny felt was abnormally deceitful. It was a trial by martial arts.
Any criminal, as long as he resolutely refused to admit his crime during the trial, even if there were witnesses and material evidence, he could challenge the plaintiff in a martial arts contest as the defendant.
For example, Wang Wu raped Zhangsan's wife. After that, the village chief led the villagers to arrest Wang Wu and tried his crimes in public.
However, Wang Wu quibbled, "The man who was on top of Zhangsan's wife wasn't me. He just looked a little like me. If you don't believe me, let's have a trial by martial arts. The Seven Gods will prove my innocence." Zhangsan was so angry that his lungs were about to explode, but he could only challenge Wang Wu to a duel.
If Zhangsan won, Wang Wu would be a rapist and deserved to die. If he lost, not only would Zhangsan lose his life, Wang Wu would also completely wash away the "stain" on him.
Of course, if the village chief was completely sure that Wang Wu was a rapist, he could also reject his request for a trial by martial arts. Or, he could help Zhangsan find an awesome representative to kill Wang Wu.
However, looking at the history of Westeros, there were almost no nobles or members of the royal family who came forward to stop the trial by martial arts.
Yes, only the great lords and the royal family had the right to stop it. They were equivalent to the "village chief" of Wang Wu and Zhangsan's village.
For example, Tyrion in the "Purple Wedding" was accused of regicide and kinslaying (for poisoning his nephew Joffrey). He was guilty of the most heinous crimes and deserved to be cut into pieces.
Queen Cersei hated this "idol" to the core. When all the evidence was against Tyrion, he proposed a trial by martial arts. Cersei couldn't reject him. She was the queen regent!
Tyrion originally wanted to find the mercenary Bronn to represent him. After all, they were old acquaintances. Bronn stood out to represent the imps in a duel with Lyssa's grand knights in the Eagle Nest.
However, Cersei arranged for the Magic Mountain to represent him. In theory, he was the current number one knight in the Seven Kingdoms (Barristan was old, Arthur Dane was dead, and talents were declining after the Knight Era). Furthermore, the conditions were not low. As long as Bronn rejected Tyrion, Queen Cersei would help him marry Earl Stokworth's daughter.
Oh, this was different from the plot of "Game of Thrones" in Danny's memory.
In the end, the person who represented the imps was the "Red Viper" Aubron Martell. He was the younger brother of Prince Dorne and the brother of Danny's sister-in-law Illya.
The Magic Mountain killed the princess of Dorne and her child. Aubron wanted to take revenge for his sister, nephew, and niece.
He almost succeeded. However, he talked too much and even had "Luck E". After all, he was a spearman!
This was the same as the plot of "Game of Thrones". The poisoned Magic Mountain, who was lying on the ground waiting for his death, suddenly grabbed Aubron's leg and pulled him down. Then, he used his bare hands to crush the Dornishman's skull.
Oh, with such strength, he didn't even need a pair of walnut pliers to eat walnuts …
Logically speaking, with his sister, nephew, and brother dying consecutively in the hands of Lannister (the Magic Mountain was Tywin's loyal hound and represented Cersei in the duel), Prince Daolang would have rebelled if he had even a little bit of courage.
After all, he was Prince Martell of Dorne!
How hard was Martell's bone when he was in the house of the Dragon?
He couldn't crush an army of a hundred thousand and the wrath of the True Dragon couldn't melt him. He was a fierce man and a fierce woman. However, when it came to Prince Daolang's generation, he shrank back like a tortoise.
Thus, Danny didn't even need to ask around. At this moment, everyone in the streets of Yang Halberd City was talking about the cowardly actions of their prince.
Aubron was very popular in Dorne. When the news of his death spread, the entire Yang Halberd City was in an uproar. They didn't even need to mobilize a large army.
During that period of time, Aubron's illegitimate daughters were also very active. Every day, they would post nonsense about "taking revenge for their father" on the streets.
Yes, Dorne's illegitimate son's surname was Sand, and Aubron had the bandit title of "Red Viper". Thus, his many illegitimate daughters were collectively known as "Sand Vipers".
Uh, Aubron had at least eight Sand Vipers, but he didn't have a single son. It was very strange.
However, after a few days of the Sand Vipers' ruckus, Prince Daolang suddenly took action and locked up his nieces who were causing trouble. The entire Yang Halberd City instantly fell silent … Silence was impossible. There were more and more people who whispered behind his back that "the prince's spine is as useless as his legs". It was to the extent that Danny only walked around Yang Halberd City once before she heard seven or eight people talking about this matter.
To be honest, she was a little disappointed and also a little shocked.
The reason why she stopped in Dorne was because Danny remembered very clearly that according to the plot in "Game of Power", the Sand Vipers had already successfully rebelled. They had poisoned Cersei's daughter, Princess Myrcella, and stabbed the "cowardly and easily bullied" Prince Daolang to death. They were preparing to launch an attack on the Iron Throne.
Only such a big event was worthy of her staying in Yang Halberd City for a while.
It wasn't the first time that the plot had deviated. Although she was disappointed, she could still accept it. However, through this incident, Danny discovered one thing: the "coward" Daolang's control over Yang Halberd City and Dorne was far beyond her expectations.
Even if countless people secretly expressed their dissatisfaction with Prince Daolang's "pacification", Yang Halberd City's politics were stable, the economy was prosperous, and the people lived and worked in peace. There wasn't even any undercurrent, let alone a major upheaval.
Danny could see that Prince Daolang might not have the courage to forge ahead, but he wasn't cowardly. He had made a safer choice for the people and Dorne.
No matter how good the people of Dorne were at guerrilla warfare, their strength was limited. They had more than enough defense, but they were lacking in offense. Leaving the familiar environment of Dorne, they were no different from soldiers in other places.
If they couldn't even get past the Highlands and the Stormlands, how could they deal with the King's Landing?
Well, Dorne was very far from the King's Landing, about two thousand kilometers away. There was a part of the River Bend and part of the Stormlands in between.
Because of this, Danny wasn't interested in Barristan's suggestion.
"Let's rest —"
Danny stopped talking and looked up. A red shadow flashed across her purple eyes. She was confused for a moment. She shook her head and said in a low voice, "Did you feel it? We are being watched. "
Barristan got up quietly and called out to the waiter standing by the corridor, "One pepper stewed chicken, please."
With a few words and a few routine actions, he had already inadvertently scanned his surroundings. A few crows flew past the window, but there was nothing unusual.
"No one is watching us. Are you sure you are not mistaken?" The old knight sat down and asked doubtfully.
"This …" Danny heard him and stood up to look around. She didn't even miss the street outside the window, but she didn't find anything.
It was close to two in the afternoon, long past the meal time. Although they weren't the only two people in the lobby, it was very empty. There were only a few silk merchants discussing business in low voices.
"Leave immediately after we finish eating." Danny frowned.
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