Stokworth Castle was located in the north and faced the south. The ground floor was a stone hall of two hundred square meters. There was a ten-meter-long wooden table, and two candle-filled chandeliers hung from the ceiling.
There was a row of five fireplaces on the wall to the left of the long table, and two of them were lit. On the wall to the right facing the garden, there were five huge arched windows with colorful mosaic glass that corresponded to the fireplaces.
Danny sat on the main seat at the table. Barristan, Perestan, Bronn, Loris, and Scholar Kandarll were on both sides.
Bronn tried his best to invite Her Majesty the Queen to visit his humble abode. He said that if Her Majesty the Queen spent the night in the forest beside his castle, he would be ashamed, unable to eat or sleep in peace …
The City of Knowledge already knew that she had come to the Westeros, so Danny did not care whether it was publicized or not.
As for whether Bronn would go to the City of Knowledge and violate the guest's rights to murder her?
Danny was not worried, because he did not have a chance. She would not stay in his castle for long.
The two dragons were gnawing on beef bones in the courtyard. When they were full, Danny would leave that night.
"Your Majesty, this is my son, Tyrion Cobbler," Bronn took a chubby baby from Loris' arms and said to Danny.
"Yiya, ahaha …" The chubby baby was wrapped into a ball in a leather jacket. He bit his finger, and his blue eyes rolled around. He was very cute.
Danny's mouth twitched. She removed the dagger embedded with rubies from the leather sheath at her waist and put it in the baby's arms.
She had bought the dagger from Valleglia's Iron Dagger from the Volantis Blacksmith Shop after she had mortgaged it to Lisbon. It cost fifteen gold radiance coins, and it was made by Master Blacksmith Khols.
"Hehehe …" Loris, who looked like a round bucket, smiled foolishly. "Thank you, Your Majesty."
"What's with the name?" Danny asked.
"Sigh, when Duke Tywin had just died, Lady Tanda suggested naming him Tywin to please Queen Cersei.
In the end, Queen Cersei was furious. She believed that the bastard was not worthy of her father's name.
Yes, two years ago, during the King's Landing riots, my wife Loris was raped by dozens of rioters in the backyard of the cobbler shop. That's why this bastard's surname is' cobbler '. "
Bronn said it casually, as if it was someone else's wife who had been raped. His wife, Loris, had been smiling like a fool. She only looked a little embarrassed when her worst past was mentioned in public.
Bronn continued, "I had no choice but to name my son Tyrion. I hoped that this would satisfy the Empress Dowager. Who would have thought that she thought that I missed my old master and was even in contact with Tyrion, so she arranged for Balmain to kill me … If you don't believe me, you can ask Scholar Kandarll. He was there at the time. "
Scholar Kandarll was a fat old man in his fifties. He had short, white hair. He kept looking at Professor Perestan as if he wanted to say something, but the old professor's eyelids were drooping. He did not react at all.
When he heard his lord's question, he nodded and sighed. "At that time, Count Bronn's knife was placed on Sir Balmain's neck. There should be no mistake."
When he spoke, he could not help but ask, "Your Majesty Danny Loris, why are you here? And Professor Perestan, you should be in Old Town right now. "
The red-nosed old professor glanced at Scholar Kandarll faintly and said nothing.
"Hehe, do you know about the Red Wedding?" Danny said with a smile.
"Waldfrey violated the guest's rights and murdered a Northerner?" Kan Bell asked in puzzlement.
Danny raised her chin at the old professor whose face had suddenly turned pale. "The City of Knowledge invited me as a guest. After discovering my identity, they poisoned me, ambushed me with axemen and crossbowmen. They even prepared more than a hundred Dragon Slayer crossbows."
"What?" Bronn and Kan Bell cried out in surprise at the same time. Their faces were filled with disbelief.
"Professor, is this true?" Scholar Kan Bell asked with a trembling voice.
The old professor did not answer, but from his increasingly miserable expression, everyone knew that Danny was not lying.
"I shouldn't have invited this scum into my living room." Bronn did not hide his disdain at all.
Scholar Kan Bell asked anxiously, "Why? Professor, did someone force you to do this? It must be Count Haithar! "
"Ah, you don't have to say anything. I'm willing to wear the black robe," the red-nosed old man said with a miserable expression.
Kan Bell slumped on the high-back wooden chair and said with a defeated expression, "The good reputation the City of Knowledge has accumulated for a thousand years has been destroyed by you."
"Bronn, you didn't invite me here just to talk nonsense, right?" Danny said with a faint smile.
"Your Majesty, when will your army arrive? I am willing to pledge my loyalty to you, "Bronn gritted his teeth and said firmly.
Danny smiled strangely. "I don't have an army. My White Knight told me that the proud Westeros will unite in the face of an invasion, so I don't plan to bring the army from Slaver's Bay. If you are willing to pledge your loyalty to me, you will be the first Westeros lord under my command. "
"Ugh …" Bronn's face turned green and white, as if he had eaten feces.
"Haha, don't worry, I won't force you to do something you don't want to do. Those small fries under your command won't even be able to withstand the dragon's flames. Stokworth Castle isn't a place that any military strategist will fight for. It's not worth it for me to force you." Dani smiled calmly.
He thought of the terrifying dragon flames, Cersei's inexplicable hatred for him, and how the City of Knowledge knew about his attempt to usurp Stokworth's title …
Bronn's hesitant expression became firm again. "Your Majesty, I am willing to be the first lord to pledge my loyalty to you."
Danny asked, "How many people do you trust?"
"Two hundred armored warriors, each with a horse. They may not be reliable, but I am confident that I can control them. "
"Are they all hired riders?" Danny frowned.
"Your Majesty, I won't hide it from you. The knights in my fief are not trustworthy, and the farmers who have just given up their hoes are not as useful as hired riders."
"I need you to give up Stokworth Castle for now. Are you willing?"
Bronn gritted his teeth and nodded. "Yes. This place is only a hundred miles away from the King's Landing. Once Queen Cersei leaves the Cathedral, she will not let me go."
He had spent a lot of effort in recruiting soldiers in the past year, and had gathered two hundred riders to deal with Cersei's army.
"But where should I go?" Bronn asked.
"Dragonstone Island."
"Dragonstone Island?"
"Winter is coming. For the next few years, I will not get involved in the disputes of the Westeros. However, Dragonstone Island belongs to the Targaryens, and it means a lot to me. With two hundred warriors and my two dragons, it will not be difficult to take down Dragonstone Island, which only has a hundred guards. "
Dragonstone Island was also a strategic location. It was easy to defend, but difficult to attack. Earl Redwin's hundred ships and nearly ten thousand men had besieged Dragonstone Island, which only had a hundred guards, for several months. He did not dare to attack, and only hoped to use the siege to exhaust the castle's food reserves.
In order to end the siege of Dragonstone Island as soon as possible so that Qingting Island's navy could return to the river and deal with Tiemin's invasion, the Knight of Flowers decided to personally lead the attack.
Although the castle was taken down in the end, he was doused with a pot of boiling oil. The beautiful man with the potential to be the number one crossdresser in "Game of Thrones" was disfigured and turned into a monster uglier and more ferocious than a hound …
The Knight of Flowers lost half of his life, and Cersei lost half of her forces. The troops that participated in the siege were all Lannister's elites, and Qingting Island's navy was only responsible for the siege on the sea.
Tywin had left two thousand elite soldiers at the King's Landing, but more than half of them were killed by the Knight of Flowers. The death toll was more than a thousand, and half of the survivors were crippled.
That was why the Iron Throne could not do anything about Cersei. Tywin had originally brought twenty thousand men to the King's Landing, but after the war ended, most of them returned home (the peasant soldiers that belonged to the vassals), and some were brought by Jaime to Hejian to quell the rebellion (Riverrun was still resisting).
It was because she understood the process and the cruel outcome of the siege of Dragonstone Island that Danny was confident that she could defend the Targaryen lands.
Well, she never doubted that she could take down Dragonstone Island. Bronn's men were mainly there to help her defend the island.
Bronn thought for a while and nodded. "When do I start?"
"Immediately prepare men and hire ships. I'll go to the Wall, and when I come back, we'll attack Dragonstone Island."
Although she had accepted Bronn's loyalty, Danny did not change her mind about leaving overnight. Standing in the wide stone corridor outside the hall, she looked down at the two dragons spreading their wings in the courtyard. She said to the mercenary beside her without hesitation, "Bronn, the Westeros at this time have lost their morals and ethics. I won't trust anyone easily. Please prove your loyalty with your actions."
"I understand." Bronn nodded gloomily.
"Now that there are only the two of us here, I can be more straightforward." Danny smiled faintly. "The Westeros at this time are rotten to the core. I don't want to play the game of power with those people in this stinking cesspool.
I'll completely destroy this old world and build a new one full of sunshine and hope. When I, the King's King, land in the Seven Kingdoms, the first thing I'll do is to convene the Great Council to judge all the injustice of the past 20 years.
The old world can be defeated, but the past must not be forgotten. Not only that, I'll write a book for the future so that the future generations will always remember how terrible their ancestors were … and use it as a warning. "
At this point, she tilted her head and looked at Bronn, whose eyes were flickering. She said meaningfully, "No one can escape the trial, including my father, 'Mad King' Eris.
If the City of Knowledge hands me your black file, I will not hesitate to abolish your title when the evidence is conclusive. Whether you live or die depends on whether you are willing to wear black clothes. "
"Your Majesty, I …"
Danny raised her hand and interrupted his eager explanation. She smiled and said, "Bronn, there are some things that should be covered up. If you can't cover it up and people find out, you should immediately think of a way to make up for it.
Obviously, you can't cover it up no matter what.
But you are very lucky. Just for two cows, you personally led a hunting dog into the forest in the middle of the night to search … I won't help you cover up your crime, but I will never wrong any meritorious subject.
As a reward for your loyalty to me, at the very least, you will keep the fief and castle of Stokworth Castle, and completely abolish the surname Stokworth. With your original name, you will be worthy of the title of Earl Bronn.
Of course, your wife, Loris, cannot have any more accidents like falling off a horse. I don't care how many lovers and illegitimate children you have in the future, but the heir can only be from her belly.
The highest limit … Haha, it will be determined by your merits. There is no upper limit! "
All the doubts in Bronn's heart were eliminated. He knelt on one knee and said solemnly, "Your subordinate will be loyal to the Queen."
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