Davos left and did not stay for lunch. The young count also went to the garden to pick strawberries. At this moment, only Danny and the dwarf were sitting at the table beside the cucumber vine.
Tyrion called out, "Danny ~ ~ ~"
"Hmm?" Danny raised her voice and looked at him from the corner of her eyes.
Is' Danny 'something you can call?
The dwarf understood. He rubbed his nose and smiled, "Your Majesty!"
Danny looked better.
"You intend to give up on the believers of King's Landing? If Stannis enters King's Landing, it will be a huge blow to the Church of Seven. "Tyrion said seriously.
"How many people are there in King's Landing now?" Danny asked.
"Maybe eight hundred thousand? Maybe even more. The people of Hejian, the royal domain, and the Stormlands are all moving to King's Landing. Since the War of the Four Kings, most of the areas of the three duchies have been destroyed.
Especially the area from the Three River Basin to the royal domain, the once fertile land is truly deserted. When the Valley Army goes south to King's Landing, Aegon and I have to ride on the dragon to deliver the army provisions. "The dwarf frowned as he pondered.
Even in the ancient Celestial Empire, where the government was the most efficient, there were still people who could not survive the winter and ran to the nearby cities to beg for food.
In the world of the Song of Ice and Fire, the tradition of going to the city to avoid the winter was carried to the extreme.
Ordinary farmers did not have the ability or the awareness to store food for several years of winter on their own. Even the nobles only received the 'seasonal forecast' from the City of Knowledge before winter, and then used the remaining one or two years to store food.
If the scholars of the City of Knowledge did not notice the change of seasons by observing the stars, the people of the Seven Kingdoms would not even know when winter was coming. By the time they felt the temperature drop, it was already too late to store food.
Every winter, not only the people of the Northern Territory gathered at the nobles' castles, but also the people of Hejian, the royal domain, and the Stormlands.
In summer, including the floating population, King's Landing had five hundred thousand people. In winter, the number would fluctuate between five hundred thousand and one million.
It was no longer winter, but a long night. The people of the royal domain were not the only ones flocking over. The people of several kingdoms could not survive.
"Have you ever seen a sardine barrel? King's Landing was now like a barrel full of people, a barrel of explosives, and no one could save them. Even I can't support so many people.
Moreover, King's Landing will definitely fall when the Deviant Ghost Army moves south. "Danny said helplessly.
"Why? The King's Landing is right next to Dragonstone Island. We can provide reinforcements at any time, "Tyrion exclaimed.
"How high are the walls of King's Landing?" Danny asked.
Tyrion thought for a while and said, "The side near the Black Water River is shorter. The standard height is eight meters, but the north side is more than twelve meters, and the highest is fifteen meters."
"You've been to Winterfell. Do you know how high the Winterfell Walls are? Why must your cultivation be so high? "Danny reminded.
Tyrion was shocked, but he understood what was going on.
King's Landing was a normal ancient city, and its walls were about the same height as the ancient Celestial Empire.
This was because King's Landing was located at the bay, which was closer to the south. In winter, the temperature was much higher than in the north, and there wasn't much snow.
In an ordinary winter in the north, even on the plains, there would be twelve meters of snow.
Because of the thick snow, the Night Watchers lived underground, using the Worm Tunnel to pass through various buildings.
"We can use the Dragon Flame to burn the snow," Tyrion said.
"Perhaps Stannis thought so, but King's Landing is too big." Danny sighed.
King's Landing included three large hills, with a total area of more than fifty square kilometers. Even if Aegon Hill faced the bay, there was still a forty-kilometer long wall to defend!
"Winterfell only has a one-and-a-half-kilometer wall, with more than five thousand soldiers taking turns to defend it, and more than eight thousand soldiers as reserves.
Even if King's Landing has a large population, and every citizen is a soldier in an emergency, King's Landing has no danger to rely on. The cost of defending it is very high, and it won't last long. "
Tyrion frowned and said, "If that's the case, do you have any plans? We can't just give up, right? There are hundreds of thousands of people in the city. "
"As for King's Landing, we've discussed it a few times in the Ghost Resistance United Front Committee.
My suggestion is to evacuate the people immediately. Tidehead Island can take in two hundred thousand old, weak, sick, and young, and the young and strong south to Storm's End Castle.
Storm's End Castle will have fifty thousand people, and the rest will be divided into two groups. One group will go to Britney's Taz Island, and the other group will go to Dorne along the Bone Road. "
"Sansa is so lucky." Danny had to sigh. "I didn't realize it before, but now I realize that Taz Island is the largest island in the narrow sea. It's two hundred kilometers long and a hundred kilometers wide. It's very close to Storm's End Castle, Dragonstone Island, and King's Landing. It's like Noah's Ark in the long night."
"The reason why I asked for Theon's Wind's End Castle as collateral is because of Taz Island's geographical advantage. Taz Island is the rear, and Storm's End Castle is the front line against the Other Ghost Army. We'll probably be the ones to survive until the end. "Tyrion smiled as he explained his plan.
"You?" Danny glanced at him. "Sansa seems to have rejected your proposal, and you're dating the Princess of Dorne. I heard that you're getting engaged soon."
"Sansa, she …" Tyrion's expression became very complicated. "Compared to when she married me, she's a completely different person now.
When she was in King's Landing, her life and freedom were controlled by others, and she understood the value of power. Even if she didn't experience it, she had seen how others used power to manipulate others, including her own fate.
In the valley, with Little Finger by her side, she began to learn how to seize and use power. Now, she's become a qualified power player.
She won't marry me, because as her husband, I'll be a strong contender for the Iron Throne. But as her Hand of the King, I'll never be able to surpass her!
It's very likely that the story between You Lun and my sister will make her wary.
She's better than Cersei in this aspect. She's good at learning. Cersei will definitely remember the lesson of being usurped by the King's Husband and learn from it. "
"You know her well," Danny said in surprise.
"I've seen her transform from a naive girl in the North to the current Lady Sansa. I've even participated in some of the processes. How can I not know her?"
Tyrion smiled bitterly and shook his head. He then asked curiously, "The plan to relocate the people of King's Landing is not bad. Why hasn't it been implemented yet?"
"I'm just one of the chairmen of the Ghost Resistance Committee," Danny said.
"Who disagrees?"
"Too many people disagreed. Forget about the others. I can make the decision and ask the committee to leave. But even the people of King's Landing aren't willing. What can I do? "Danny said calmly.
The Iron Throne and the Great Cathedral of Baylor had both received the Dragon Queen's "relocation plan." You Lun and the other ministers had immediately rejected it. This was expected. Leaving the Iron Throne of King's Landing was like leaving the Emperor of Han in Luoyang.
But the rejection of the people of King's Landing really surprised Danny.
Without the "Seal of the Holy Mother", she couldn't use Holy Healing. She didn't even have the face to become an archbishop. Therefore, every archbishop was a devout believer of the Seven Gods. In other words, the higher-ups of the Church of King's Landing (the archbishops) were all true believers.
In the face of the Pope's edict, the monks and bishops of the Great Cathedral of Baylor didn't hesitate. Even if they had other thoughts, they were willing to listen to "Saint Danny".
After all, there were only two children of the Seven Gods in the world. The Great Sparrow was dead, and only Saint Danny was left to represent the Holy Mother. If they didn't listen to the Holy Mother, would they betray the Church?
During this period of time, the Great Cathedral of Belle had been building fortifications. They sealed the main doors and small doors, smashed the mosaic glass windows on the lower floors, and covered them with thick bricks. In short, they wanted the Great Cathedral of Belle to become a one-way fortress.
The Church had priests and sons of warriors. Of course, they wouldn't leave the King's Landing.
In Danny's plan, the King's Landing could fall, but the Red Castle and the Great Cathedral of Baylor had to be defended. It was best to pin down a large number of ghouls in the King's Landing like a nail, so as to reduce the pressure on the defense of other areas.
Therefore, in Pope Danny's edict, a large number of bishops and the Church's armed forces stayed. Instead, the small monks and the old poor were responsible for leading the people to leave.
In Danny's opinion, she was selfless to the extreme by sacrificing the Church's elite forces to resist the ghouls.
But the people didn't think so. They felt that the Church's upper echelons were too "Westeros nobles". They hid in the King's Landing and enjoyed their lives, while the believers with no status fled thousands of miles and died in a foreign land.
Danny felt that it was inconceivable, but it was human nature.
In the hearts of the people of the Seven Kingdoms, the King's Landing was the capital of the Seven Kingdoms. The "most normal" thing for the Dragon Queen to do was to lead the five Megalosaurus and all the relief food to move the "nest" to the King's Landing. While sitting on the Iron Throne, she would also protect the hundreds of thousands of people in the capital.
Didn't you see that the King of the Red Gods was still standing outside the King's Landing gate, drooling?
Yes, during the Erlu siege, many bishops and nobles who believed in the Seven Gods wrote to Dragonstone Island, asking the Dragon Queen to move to the King's Landing and chase away You Lun and the pagan king outside the city, so that she could be the King of the Seven Kingdoms.
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"Stannis' attack on the King's Landing this time, I'm afraid that many people will die." Tyrion could not hide the worry on his face.
Danny stared at him and said, "I thought you didn't care about the lives of the people. Back at Slave's Bay, you were very cold, and never cared about how many slaves died in the war. "
Tyrion was stunned for a moment, then he smiled and said, "I'm a Westeros, isn't that normal? Just like the free cities on the other side of the narrow sea, they knew that the Long Night was coming, but not only did they not help, they even speculated with the Westeros and profited from the disaster. "
At this point, he remembered something that his sister-in-law Theresa had mentioned, so he said, "Do you know that the atonement scrolls are being sold? The merchants on the other side of the narrow sea are using food and wine to buy the atonement scrolls in the hands of the people at a low price, and then sell them to the free cities at a high price. "
"I know." Danny's lips curled into a strange smile.
"Why didn't you stop them? This is blasphemy against the Seven Gods, and it's also ruining your plan of 'fighting the deviants and going to heaven'. "Tyrion was puzzled.
"Did you notice that the wind has been very strong recently, and it's always the north wind?" Danny asked out of the blue.
"It's the Long Night, of course it's the north wind. The north wind brings the cold air from beyond the Great Wall to the south, this is what you told me."
"Then have you seen the huge windmill leaves above the Sea Dragon Tower?" Danny laughed.
The dwarf was at a loss for a moment, then he suddenly remembered the 'physics book' that he had been reading every night recently.
"You use the windmill to drive the printing press, and print the atonement scrolls day and night?" Tyrion was first enlightened, then his face was full of shock. "How does your brain work, even in the Long Night, you can still find something to exploit from the disadvantages."
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