1. The wise kings are all similar, and the tyrannical kings are different
Before becoming king, Robert, like Ned, hated King Elis II sitting on the Iron Throne, thinking the guy was old, faint and tyrannical.
In order to rebel against the tyranny of the Tangrian dynasty, Robert Baratheon, in his early twenties, led an uprising against the Mad King and soon became the leader of the rebel army.
Many of the major events in Westeros are caused by young offspring, objectively speaking, they did not have any lofty ideals when they made trouble, it was entirely because of the surging blood, and the achievement of meritorious service was the result of the trouble, not the cause.
Li Yunlong's original intention in attacking Ping'an County was to save Xiuqin; Robert's original intention to overthrow the Dragon Dynasty was to rob Lyanna.
They are all angry at the crown and are red-faced.
But a man's anger alone is obviously not enough, and anger without strength is worthless.
If Li Yunlong had two divisions in his hands, he dared to fight Taiyuan; Robert had the alliance of the three kingdoms in his hands, so naturally he did not take King's Landing in his eyes.
However, the process of Robert's revolt to overthrow the Dragon Dynasty was not smooth sailing, the Tangrian Dynasty was like a hundred-footed worm dead but not stiff, still had a strong army organization ability, Wang Shi twice defeated the rebel army, and once almost caught Robert himself.
Robert hid under the skirt of a little sister before escaping the pursuit, and finally reversed the tide, killing Prince Rhaegar in the Battle of trident, capturing the fearless Balistan, and achieving a decisive victory in the uprising.
In 283 years after the conquest, the rebel army entered King's Landing, the Deer Dynasty replaced the Dragon Dynasty, and Robert replaced the Mad King.
A blacksmith familiar with Robert recalled that from the day Robert became king, this man changed, he was no longer the majestic and heroic teenager he had been, no longer surging with blood, but the kind of king he hated.
Even in the eyes of many people, Robert is not as good as the Mad King.
The boy who originally slayed the dragon eventually became a dragon himself.
2, once Lu Taizu, Robert is the hope of the Seven Kingdoms
The Stormlands are rich in military experts, not to mention the ancestors of the Baratheon family, who originally shed dragon blood. For three hundred years, the Baratheon family has been close to the dragon family, married several times, and I even think that the baratheon family also has a talent for driving dragons.
Compared with the youthful and hot-blooded Robert, the adolescent Ned Stark was docile like a small sheep.
Robert is only a year older than Ned, but in front of Ned, Robert has always been the eldest brother, he is bold and talkative, very charismatic, always surrounded by a group of small fans.
Even the fearless Ballistan bent down in front of Robert's powerful aura and reneged on his vows before the Iron Throne.
At that time, Robert's whole body was emitting light, and people could feel hope everywhere he went. When people see Robert, they can immediately understand what is the king's spirit, and those who are familiar with the history of Westeros even compare Robert with the conqueror Yi Geng, thinking that Lu Taizu will become another generation of founding monarchs after Long Taizu.
3. The king has supreme power, but he is also bound by power
When he first ascended to the Iron Throne, Robert also had a period of freshness, trying to integrate into the new life and adapt to the new identity.
With the assistance of Jon Erin, he rearranged the deer dynasty, demarcated their respective spheres of influence, and allowed the seven kingdoms to balance each other, laying the foundation for a stable and united political situation for the next fifteen years.
But soon after, Robert found that his nature was incompatible with his identity as a king.
Robert was a man of freedom and force, he did not like the open strife in front of the Iron Throne, nor did he like to disturb the king's trivial things, he wanted to go to the woods to breathe fresh air, he wanted to go to the other side of the Narrow Sea to expand the territory.
But the Iron Throne was like a cage, and with countless invisible ropes, Robert was bound so strong that whatever he wanted to do, he could not do as he did as he had before.
Everyone thinks that the king has supreme power and can do whatever he wants, but only when he really sits in the king's position can he realize that the king is just a puppet who looks more imposing.
The king sat in that position not because of how powerful the king was, but simply because he could represent the interests of all nobles and was the spokesman for everyone's interests.
What was even more ridiculous was that the king had to work hard every day to keep the puppet's place.
In order to curry favor with the various forces, Robert needs to often show kindness to the nobles in the court, and even return to the harem without being careless, playing a trick on Cersei's bitter melon face.
It was a terrible thing for Robert, who felt that he had been strangled by the repressed air, and he felt that his life was being wasted every day.
His charisma, radiated by nature, slowly converged on the king's duty and honor, and finally disappeared one day. In its place are the gradually blessed body and the cloudy eyes.
4. Robert's wanton behavior has sown the seeds of chaos in the world
Those who aspire to be mingjun need to manage their emotions, restrain their preferences, and focus on the national society.
And Robert obviously can't do it, after he understands his situation, not only is it not good to be a king, but he is also passive and sluggish, and begins to fight against fate in his own way.
He began to go to the court frequently, throwing all the important affairs of the country to the responsible cabinet, and ran to the kiln of King's Landing to find flowers and willows, drink and have fun, and sow seeds everywhere.
He organized all kinds of extravagant tournaments, spending a lot of money each time, until he spent all the money in the treasury, and he was not willing to borrow 3 million golden dragons from the Lannister family, 3 million golden dragons from the iron treasury, and 900,000 golden dragons to the Church of the Seven Gods.
To know that at that time, 1 silver deer could make a good wine dish on the table, and a golden dragon could be exchanged for 210 silver deer.
Robert's debt is an astronomical amount.
The grace of rising rice, the revenge of fighting rice. Looking at it this way, we can see why Robert wished Tywin had died quickly.
In order to satisfy his arrogance and extravagance, Robert hollowed out the treasury of the Deer Dynasty, which eventually overwhelmed the Lu Dynasty economy and sowed the seeds of the chaos in the world.
After Ned became prime minister, he was dumbfounded as soon as he opened the treasury, because Ned remembered that after the death of the Mad King Iris II, there was still a lot of money left in the treasury!
Fifteen years of hard work, Robert spent the deer dynasty's people's fat people's anointing, clean. He had more luxury than all the kings in the history of Westeros.
The light and the light are only between the king's thoughts.
Being a downright dimwitted was Robert's own choice. For the sake of his wealth and freedom, he did not care about the national economy and the people's livelihood at all, nor did he care about future generations, and he was selfish to the point of heinousness.
5, behind Robert, there is a powerful person to maintain the situation for him
In the fifteen years since Robert, he has not done anything to act arbitrarily, but why did the Seven Kingdoms not fight during Robert's reign?
This is because behind Robert, there stands a powerful person who has been quietly rubbing PG for him. This man was none other than Robert and Ned's righteous father, Jon Airing, who had been king for fifteen years.
In the series, old Jon appeared as a corpse, so the achievements of old Jon are easily overlooked.
In fact, Robert has ignored the government for a long time, and the one who has really maintained the rule of the Seven Kingdoms for more than ten years is Jon the Elder. Jon the Elder himself was the Duke of Eagle's Nest, his father-in-law Horst was the Duke of Rush, the righteous son Ned was the Duke of Winterfell, and the righteous son Robert was the king, and his very existence was the cornerstone of the stability of the Deer Dynasty.
Prince Dorang of Dorne, because of the tragic death of his sister at the hands of the Magic Mountain, has always denied the king of the Deer Dynasty, but he is willing to formally surrender to the face of old Jon.
With old Jon there, even if he was fierce and cunning like the Duke of Tywin, he did not dare to make a mistake.
It can be said that if Jon the Elder himself had the idea of becoming king, then it would not have been Robert's turn.
The tragedy of old Jon is also in this, obviously he has the ability to be a king, but he gave the opportunity to be a king to Robert, making both father and son awkward, and even once created a gap that was difficult to bridge.
Robert's wanton behavior, in a way, is directed against his righteous father.
Poor old Jon bowed down and worked hard for the deer, but the effort was not flattering, and King Robert did not appreciate it.
Littlefinger wants to do things, to stir up chaos in the world, and old Jon is his biggest stumbling block, so he has to collude with Lysa and have to put old Jon to death.
Sure enough, as soon as old Jon died, Robert had a premonition that something was wrong, and the persecution from Kaiyan City made him difficult all night, and the king himself could not take care of the aftermath, so he had to run to the north to ask Ned for help.
In fact, Robert himself knew in his heart that Ned was not Tywin's opponent at all, but at least he could use Ned as a meat shield to temporarily resist the pressure for himself.
6) Does Robert know that Cersei and Jaime have an affair?
In 298 years after the conquest, Robert Baratheon was 36 years old, but it looked like he was 63 years old.
As an adult, Robert left behind 19 children, an average of one a year. Of these, 3 are Cersei and Jaime's wild breeds, and 16 are Robert's illegitimate children.
Ironically, Robert's true seeds have nothing to do with the Iron Throne.
But then again, Joffrey and Tommen, who inherited Robert's career, both died early and tragically, but they did not live as well as those illegitimate children.
Personally, I don't think Robert is as confused as he seems, Cersei and Jaime have been messing around in the harem for more than a decade, and even a straight man of steel like Stannis knows that Robert can't be unheard of.
Littlefinger will do everything he can to let Robert know that Cersei and Jaime are having an affair, and make Robert suspect Joffrey and Tomman's origins. In fact, Stannis has already passed through the classics and hammered the origin of Joffrey's three brothers and sisters.
But paradoxically, Robert did not pursue the matter, but instead drove Stannis, who was pursuing the matter, back to Dragonstone Island.
On the surface, Robert did not care very much about Cersei wearing a green hat for himself, and he preferred to pretend not to know, maintain a superficial conjugal relationship with Cersei, and do his own thing.
This would help King Robert to continue to borrow money from Lord Tywin, and the king was not prepared to pay it back anyway.
Every day in King's Landing, for Robert, is torture, he frantically resists the various constraints brought to him by power, but when he comes, he finds that his heart is more and more empty, and his body is more and more tired.
The more people I know, the more I like wild boars. ----- Robert
It was Robert's voice, and he was tired of the noise of King's Landing and didn't want to see everyone before and after the Iron Throne. So, he'd rather go to the forest and fight a wild boar than have a word with anyone.
On that day, the wild boar pounced on the king, and Robert felt relieved.