"I, Doss of the Hardfooted Hill Tribe, swear on behalf of all my people that I will strictly abide by the Tripartite Lease Agreement after entering the Great Wall.
I swear on my father's foot to all the southern kings that I will never bring anyone to plunder the North, and I will resolutely oppose and actively stop any free people who break the rules and sneak into the North. "
Under the gate of the Great Wall, there was a two-meter-high wooden platform with two wooden chairs on it. The Dragon Queen and Stannis sat side by side.
Next to them were Barristan, Melisandre, and the leaders of the Night's Watch. Under the wooden platform, the short chief of the Barefooted Tribe led his people to make a sacred oath with the king and the Night's Watch.
After returning to the Great Wall, Danny began to move the barbarians as soon as possible.
It was too dangerous outside the Great Wall. Deviants could attack the camp from time to time. Not to mention that the deviant ghosts would definitely try to kill the Dragon Queen and her dragon, just the casualty rate alone was much lower when defending against deviant ghosts on the Great Wall than when fighting outside the city.
Therefore, letting the barbarians into the Great Wall had become a necessary choice.
The only problem was whether the barbarians would abide by the sacred oath.
Danny did not act arbitrarily on this matter. She had to leave here soon. In the coming days, the Erlu Party would become the most powerful force on the Great Wall, and Erlu's army would also be able to suppress the barbarians who broke the oath.
She had to let Erlu participate in this matter.
Before seeing Ghost Child, Stannis was determined not to agree.
He did not trust Danny, did not trust the barbarians, did not want to see Danny take the barbarians in for her own use, and did not want to bear the infamy of letting the barbarians into the Great Wall. When the nobles and the people of the Seven Kingdoms knew about this, they would definitely curse because they did not feel the danger of deviants, but deeply hated the barbarians for eight thousand years.
But Ghost Child changed his mind.
Not to mention Erlu, any living person who saw Ghost Child, no matter how much they hated the barbarians before, would have to admit that keeping the barbarians outside the Great Wall was equivalent to providing soldiers for the deviants.
She could either accept the barbarians and use their power to deal with the deviants, or let the barbarians join the deviants.
How should he choose?
However, Stannis also had some demands. First, the barbarian warriors and powerful spearwomen had to stay at the Wall, become temporary Night Watchers, or work as farmers. They could not join the Dragon Queen and fight across the narrow sea with her. Second, the Dragon Queen had to swear a sacred oath that she would not recruit the barbarians to invade the Seven Kingdoms. Third, the Dragon Queen could not interfere with the barbarians changing their faith and joining the Light King.
To sum it up in one sentence: Restrict the barbarians from siding with the Dragon Queen, prevent the Dragon Queen from using the power of the barbarians to fight for the Iron Throne, encourage the barbarians to join the Deer Faction, and allow Stannis to use the power of the barbarians to participate in the game of thrones.
Uh, shameless.
Stannis himself was too embarrassed to say these words to the Dragon Queen. The negotiation was between Sir Asier Floren and the White Knight.
Yasir Florence is the uncle of Queen Selyse, a follower of the Lord of Light, and leader of the Latter Party. His elder brother was Count Allister of Brightwater, who was sacrificed to Lahlo because he advocated peace with Duke Tywin. He was burned alive.
To be honest, Stannis and his aides never thought that Danny would agree to such an unfair treaty.
Some of them were even rubbing their palms in anticipation. They had prepared many arguments and reasons, waiting for the Dragon Queen to object. Then, they would stand out and argue with the crowd.
But the Dragon Queen did not even think about it and directly agreed.
Danny did not intend to spend much time in the Westeros.
Once she had defeated, captured, and studied the deviant ghosts, she would leave the Northern Region.
In the Westeros, there was only one purpose for taking in the barbarians, and that was to conquer the North.
Stannis was so poor that he thought the Northern Lords were his hope of turning the tables in the game of thrones. Danny never had any expectations for the North, nor did she intend to win the hearts of the nobles and people.
Stark was not dead, and it was difficult for the people of the North to accept the leadership of a foreign king. Also, the North was the frontline against the Deviants, and there was an extreme shortage of food. The North almost did not store any food for winter.
The North was different from Hejian.
It was obvious that when she ascended the Iron Throne, the position of Hejian would no longer belong to the Tully family.
As the granary of the Seven Kingdoms, Hejian was extremely rich, had a large population, and was connected to the king's territory. Why did Danny not revoke the title of "Kingdom" of Hejian and merge it into the king's territory, making it a direct territory of the Targaryens?
Therefore, there was a need to help Hejian.
But the North was different. It was cold, barren, and sparsely populated. The North belonged to Stark, and would always belong to Stark. The people of the North did not recognize the Iron Throne, and they would not recognize the Dragon Queen. The ending of "Game of Thrones" explained everything.
If she had to intervene in the affairs of the Westeros, Danny might as well take back Dragonstone Island and focus on the Three Rivers Basin.
She did not want to occupy many cities, but she wanted to preserve the population and use it as her base in the Westeros.
She only had a cheap son, but 20 years later, she might have a dozen cheap grandsons. She did not care for the Iron Throne, but she could leave it for her grandsons!
Without a dozen thrones from a dozen countries, what kind of royal family would the Targaryens be?
Uh, Grandmother Danny was thinking too far ahead.
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"I, the commander of the Greenshell Tribe, Chiliarch Morona, on behalf of a thousand free people under my command, swear to the Gods that I will sign a sacred contract with Queen Danny Rize. After entering the Great Wall, I will never leave the old land."
After the hardlegged Doth led a thousand barbarians into the city gate, the white-masked Morona led a group of women and children to swear an oath with Danny.
Unlike the hardlegged Doth, Morona would not stay at the Great Wall. She would lead a thousand people under her command to the East Sea and cross the narrow sea by boat.
She only needed to sign a contract with Danny.
The Night Watchers and Stannis both thought that Danny should take away the barbarian women and children who did not have much combat power to reduce the burden on the Great Wall.
After Morona, there were chiliarchs like Wale, Sea Elephant, and Solon. Some of them stayed at the Great Wall, while others followed Danny to the West to seek food.
There were about 13,000 barbarians. Two thousand joined the Night Watchers, five thousand went to farm — if they could still farm, five thousand went to the East Sea.
Before the sky turned dark, all the barbarians passed through the city gate and entered the other side of the Great Wall.
Although resources were scarce, there was still a bonfire banquet tonight.
The mission of the suicide squad to capture captives was finally completed. One ghost child, three other ghosts, and more than a hundred ghouls.
What a great harvest!
There were too many barbarians. Dark Castle could not accommodate them. Other than arranging rooms for the old, young, and sick, the barbarians also set up a new camp on the east side of Dark Castle.
The banquet was held between Dark Castle and the camp.
Thousands of bonfires rose from the vast land. They were like stars in the dark sky, shining with a glimmer of hope.
The barbarians took out their home-brewed fruit wine and exchanged it with the ale of the Night Watchers. The aroma of roast lamb, roast pig, and roast beef spread between the sky and the earth.
Some people bragged loudly while drinking, some took out harps and wooden guitars to sing poems, some hugged each other in the cheers of the audience, some sang loudly, and some barbarian girls sang and danced. The barbarians temporarily forgot about the danger on the other side of the wall and began to party to their heart's content.
The Night Watchers built a straw shed on the side of Dark Castle to block out the cold wind. There were three long tables in the shed, forming a ten-meter-long main table.
Danny and Stannis sat at the same table. Among the twenty or thirty people at the same table, there were high-ranking members of the Night Watchers, important members of the Deer Party, and chiliarchs of the barbarians.
"I'll go back to the Shadow Tower tomorrow morning." Sir Mallister put a piece of roasted lamb chop into his mouth and said while chewing, "The Weeper is recruiting. Dark Castle better send me a hundred rangers."
"There are more than ten thousand freemen here," Red Pomegranate's Chief Steward looked at the barbarians who were drinking and eating and said awkwardly, "There are only three hundred and twenty night watchers left in Dark Castle. We can't manage them all!
Besides, Her Majesty Danny Rize is here. As long as the messenger crow comes, we can ride the dragon and go there in an hour. No amount of rafts will be enough. "
Old Yimont frowned and looked at Danny, as if to remind her, "Your Majesty can't stay at the Wall for long, right?"
"You're right. Don't blame me for shirking my responsibility. I'm different from some kings who live a leisurely life. I really have a lot of work to do every day! "
Danny smiled at the man who was grinding his teeth. "Now, the cities of Queers, Volantis, Lys, and other cities have formed the 'Alliance of Slavery Defenders'. They call it the 'Million-Man Army' and thousands of warships. A world war is waiting for me!"
"Million-Man Army?" A piece of dried apple fell from Yergret's lips. She looked at the Dragon Queen in a daze and said, "You're bluffing. Is there such a huge army in the world?"
Well, the red-haired girl also became a chiliarch.
First of all, all the barbarians who joined the suicide squad were free. She was no longer Danny's captive. Second, almost half of the twelve chiliarchs died last night, and Yergret was the only one among the barbarians who killed an Other Ghost (together with Jon). She had made a great contribution.
"In the summer, there were never more than two hundred thousand free people outside the Wall. How many are two million?" Vaner asked.
"The population of the Northern Territory has never exceeded five hundred thousand." Jon's mouth twitched.
Seeing that everyone had an expression of "Dragon Queen really knows how to boast," Danny smiled with a sense of superiority and said, "You guys are still too ignorant!
In the battle to conquer Slaver's Bay, I wiped out two hundred thousand soldiers of the Guise army. If you don't believe me, you can ask King Stannis or any merchant of the free cities. "
There were not even a hundred thousand regular soldiers, but if the slaves who served the Guise army were included, two hundred thousand was not too much.
"Wow, two hundred thousand?!" The barbarians and night watchers exclaimed. Even Scholar Yimont had a look of disbelief.
"Don't ask me, I don't know anything." Erlu said with a wooden face.
"Sigh, Westeros are too closed to information. You guys still don't know what the people of the world knew half a year ago. Think about it and you'll understand. Slaver's Bay has one and a half million people. With ten to one soldiers, twenty to thirty thousand mercenaries and ten to twenty thousand New Guise navy, two hundred thousand per person is not too much. "
"Those two hundred thousand people should have been defeated by you many times, right?" Sir Yasir Floren snorted. "No one in the world can gather a million soldiers at the same time, not even the Anti-Dragon Mother Alliance."
"Sigh, it's true that there are more than a thousand warships. If each warship has a hundred sailors, the navy will exceed a hundred thousand.
The army will not be less than the navy, at least a hundred thousand. Including the supply teams, the total military strength will be at least three to four hundred thousand. Is' a million 'an exaggeration? "
"Uh …" Everyone was silent. The barbarians and night watchers looked at the Dragon Queen in shock and admiration.
A million soldiers!
In comparison, deviant ghosts did not seem so scary.
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