Last time we said that after the death of Inis I, Mege seized the throne of his nephew Prince Aegon and clashed violently with the church. In the first round of battle, Meg defeated the Church forces, but while Meg focused all his attention on the construction of the Red Keep, the Order armed forces and the disgruntled princes began to move again.
Game of Thrones Prequel: Family History of the Targaryen (5) – Cruel Meiger (Part I)
Although Meige temporarily focused on the construction of the royal city, the commotion of the kingdom did not escape his eyes, and his third queen, Tyana of the "Tower City", actually became the head of intelligence. This exotic beauty is said to be able to communicate with spider rats, so small movements in the dark corners inside and outside King's Landing reach her ears. People and things with different intentions throughout the country were quickly reported to King's Landing, and Meig, a magnanimous man, sent a summons to all the dubious princes to come to King's Landing to show their allegiance and hand over their hostages.
Meige had no intention of relieving the rival church, declaring the church's armed "Knights of the Holy Sword" and "Star Knights" an illegal organization, sentencing all members to death, and asking the archbishop to surrender to the Red Fort for a trial. The archbishop, who considered himself to be God's spokesman, could not easily admit it, but instead asked King Meig to go to the Starry Sanctuary to confess. The church responded to the common people, and the believers rose up to help him, and the princes, seeing such popular sentiment, dared not to go to the Red Fort to pledge allegiance.
The princes' fluke mentality did not last long, although the king did not have the energy to take care of them, but the Queen Mother of Visania could not sit still, and she drove Waghar to the river, and overnight Banshu, Tarek, Diddings and other opposing family forts were burned. After that, Meig personally rode Bellerion and copied her mother's operation in the West, and was even more cruel and cold. In the midst of fireworks, Waghar and Bellerien flew south, and the old town once again faced the fate of being burned.
The old town, which received the news, was completely in panic, and the whole city was engaged in a final struggle. Civilians either flee urgently or revel in the end of the world; The PhDs of the City of Schools convened the pivotal opportunity; The city garrison prepared countless sandbags, buckets, arrows and crossbow javelins; The sons of warriors surrounded the Starry Sanctuary to defend the archbishop; Count Hightower lit the miserable green beacon of the towering tower, and the entire old town was waiting for the dragon to appear.
At dawn, Waghar first landed outside the walls of the old town, and then Bellerion also appeared, but they were not baptized by a rain of arrows. The King and Queen Mother found the gates of the old town wide open, and the red dragon banner of the Targaryen family fluttered over the city. A dramatic event occurred: during the long night of waiting for the dragon, in the darkest hour before dawn, the tough archbishop died, and the Count of Hightower quickly chose to surrender.
There are different opinions about the sudden death of the archbishop: some say that he did not dare to face the dragon's wrath and committed suicide first; It is said that the gods conceited because of his pride and conceit, and sent heavenly punishment; Some people say that Count Hightower sent people to assassinate in order to avoid the slaughter of the city; It is also said that the doctor of Xuecheng took the overall situation into account and used black magic; What's more, it is said that the Queen Mother Sannia was originally a sorceress and used evil witchcraft.
Whatever the truth, it is interesting to note that as soon as the archbishop died, the Count of Hightower disarmed the son of the warrior and quickly raised the flag of Targaryen. The count's younger brother summoned a group of bishops overnight to immediately elect an archbishop under the spear. The monks tacitly elected the old and amiable Friar Pantel, who was nearly 90 years old. The new archbishop happily smeared Holy Oil on Meig's forehead and blessed him as King Meig Targaryen I.
The old and dim new bishop became a puppet of the royal family, officially dissolving the gathering of warrior sons and poor people, indicating that the Iron Throne would become the defender of the church in the future. King Meig issued an edict that the Order's armed forces would surrender themselves before the end of the year, and those who did not understand would be killed. Queen Cerassie Hightower also reconciled with the king, recognizing the status of the other two queens. Sure enough, blood and fire are the ultimate weapons of the Targaryen family, and under the dragon, the gods will also bow their heads, and the conflict between the church and the royal family will turn from official to civil.
While Meig stayed in the old town, Prince Aegon saw an opportunity, the "uncrowned" who was hiding in Cayrock City. He and his wife, Princess Rhaonia, sneak back to King's Landing in a mule cart, and at great risk, the princely couple stole back two dragons, Dream Fire and Flash Silver. Aegon and Rhaonia, knowing that they were on their own, that it was not yet time to take King's Landing, chose to return to the West to raise an army, which also deprived Aegon of the only chance of contaminating the throne.
The shrewd Lannisters were still at both ends of the ladder and did not dare to raise the prince's banner in public, and Aegon could only use the Pink City of the Piper family as a base (Count Piper's sister was a close friend of Queen Rhaonia). Aegon publicly declared his uncle Meiger I a usurper and called on the upright and loyal men of the world to raise troops and support his rightful position.
Most of the princes who responded to Aegon's call were the princes of the river and the western realm, not because of how loyal they were, but because their home fortresses were destroyed under the dragon flame, but the great princes did not dare to show a clear banner easily, and Meige treated the betrayers more cruelly than the cold winter. When Prince Aegon led an army of more than 10,000 people and tried to take advantage of his unpreparedness to capture the capital, Tyanna of the intelligence officer "Tower City" got the news early in the morning.
Tyanna sent a message to Meig, who was in the old town, reminding the king that once the prince won the first victory, the situation on both sides would change uncontrollably. Meige's war flair came in handy at this time, and he immediately arranged for his army to march on the prince's troops from Herrundburg, Rushing City, King's Landing, and Riverbend. Where had the young Prince Aegon seen such a scene, the approach of the enemy army made him overwhelmed, and the princes advised him to defeat each before the enemy forces closed, but the prince was bent on taking King's Landing, and refused to divide his troops, and the huge army moved slowly and lost the first-mover advantage.
Prince Aegon encountered the King's forces from King's Landing south of Lake of God's Eye, and the Scouts also approached the enemy forces on both the north and south. The prince realized the crisis of the situation at this time and ordered to charge immediately to avoid being surrounded. Prince Aegon rode on a flash silver volley to attack, but unexpectedly Meger drove Bellerion to arrive in time. The first dragon air battle on the continent of Westeros took place, but the scene was also extremely tragic.
The flash silver body is only a quarter of the Black Death, and it is far less fierce and good at war, and the pale fireball it spews out is not worth mentioning in front of the black flames of the Black Death. Within a few rounds, the Black Reaper bit Shining Silver's neck with his sharp teeth, and his claws tore off one of its wings. The young mother dragon fell with smoke in a series of screams, and Prince Aegon did not escape, and died before he could get out of the army.
The war after Dragonfall turned one-sided, with the king's army surrounding the rebels and slaughtering two thousand at the cost of a hundred. After the war, Meige continued his unforgiving character, and the trial of the rebels lasted for half a year, and the princes who raised the army paid a terrible price. Princess Rhaonia did not participate in the war with the prince but escaped, and the princess who learned the news did not have time to grieve, and the princess, who was full of fear of her uncle, quickly fled to Fairy Island with her child.
Surprisingly, Meg did not rush to exterminate, he spared his niece Princess Rhaonia and the child, while leaving Empress Alesha and her young son on Dragonstone to be cared for (under house arrest) by his mother, Empress Dowager Vesania. Prince Viserys, the second son of the most threatening Inis I, was summoned into the palace by Meig to become the king's attendant, closely guarding the beloved prince from rebelling like his brother.
And Meiger himself continued to build the Red Fort and worked hard to produce an heir. But as long as the "cruel" "regicide" Meige is in power, the smell of blood is indispensable in the air. The contradiction between the king and the church still exists, because the power of the church is in the faithful, not in the hands of the archbishop. The apparently wanted members of the Order did not give up their resistance, the high bounty did not exterminate them, and the brutal king pushed more people to the side of the Church.
In 44 AC, at the age of 32, Megor I finally saw hope of having an heir, and his second queen, Yali Haroway, announced her pregnancy. Meige cherished this child so much that she sent a scholar, a nun, a midwife, and even two queens to accompany Yali to give birth. However, before the child reached full term, Queen Yali suffered a miscarriage with uterine bleeding, and the baby was a deformed freak, and Meg killed almost all the companions in a rage. While he was holding the head of the university scholar to admire it, Tyana, the queen of the three houses, "of the tower", seized the opportunity and told Meige that the monster was the result of Queen Yali's fornication with others.
Tyanna then filed accusations against Queen Yali and her father, Prime Minister Lucas, of helping Queen Yali to cross the sea in order to help her daughter give birth to an heir, and attached a long list of 20 men, each of whom was known for their prosperous offspring. Meige immediately secretly arrested and tortured everyone on the list, "Tower City" Tyanna who is also a person, Meige's intelligence minister and interrogator, the means are naturally ruthless, and within a few clicks of the people on the list, they confessed one after another, and climbed out more people.
How can Meg swallow this breath, poor Queen Ali and the prime minister's father and daughter are still in the dark, the unknown Count of Haroway was thrown off the Prime Minister's tower, and the queen was dragged out of the bed and tortured to death in the dungeon, which is cruel in Tyana's methods need not be described. Megyou, who was known for his cruelty, was not enough, slaughtered all the children and nephews of the Harroway family in King's Landing, and then personally led the army to kill Herrenburg, completely cutting the roots of the Harowe family, and even the town of Count Haroway on the Trident River was not spared.
Herrenburg — This dark fortress shrouded in a curse has sent away another miserable owner, but it has also set off a new round of contention. The vast fertile land of Herrenberg attracted countless coveters, and the troublesome Meiger did not have the heart to ask for waves, but proposed to fight for the spoils of war by force. This is not the end of the point in the competition field, more than twenty knights fought to the end, and finally ushered in another unlucky master for Herrenburg.
And waiting for Meig in King's Landing at this time is the sad news of the death of the Queen Mother of Visannia. Although the Empress Dowager Visania has a cold personality and treats people harshly, she is fair and reasonable, she is Meige's strongest assistant and final constraint, and the death of the Empress Dowager makes Meige's cruelty more unrestrained. But to Meige's heart, Alesha, who was a hostage on Dragonstone, also took advantage of the chaos to escape with her children Jahris and Alisanne, and rode away Vomisol and Silver Wing, and by the way, even the "Dark Sisters" were stolen.
Unable to detect Alesha's trace, Meg took out her anger on Alesha's second son, Prince Viserys. Where did Prince Viserys, who was the king's attendant in King's Landing, know his mother's whereabouts? In the face of Taiana's inhuman torture, the prince, who had been tortured for nearly ten days, had no explanation. Meige simply exposed the prince's corpse courtyard as bait to lure Empress Alesha to collect the body. Alesha had escaped from Meige's clutches, how could she take her child and throw herself into the net, and Meige, who had no effect, had to incinerate the prince's body. Prince Viserys, the second son of the late Inis I, succeeded Aegon and removed his henchmen, but the death of the beloved prince also aroused more resentment.
In AC45, the Red Fort, which took 10 years and three dynasties, was finally completed, and Meige uncharacteristically invited craftsmen to a feast, but this was the real doomsday carnival, and after three days, they became the eternal wandering souls of the Red Keep, and the unknown secret passages of the Red Fort also covered their bones. After the completion of the Red Fort, Meiger continued to build a huge stone "dragon stable" on the Rhaenys hills, later known as the Dragon's Lair, as the dragon's roosting place in King's Landing. But with the example of craftsmen in the Red Keep, the conceivable difficulty of finding artisans forced Meiger to hire architects from Mill and Valantis.
The construction of the Dragon's Lair did not dampen Meige's bloodthirsty nature, and at the end of AC45 he launched a third encirclement and suppression of the Church forces. The king and the prime minister led men to sweep the royal forest where the poor were hiding, captured their leader "Numb-faced" Jenny, burned her alive on the banks of the Wende River, and used it as a trap to hunt down those who came to the rescue. But the gatherings of the poor wandering between the rivers and the riverbends were even more difficult to deal with, and they elected their archbishop, the Friar of the Moon, and began to wage a people's war, the members of the church preached sermons everywhere, aroused the people's resistance to the cruel rule of Meige, and the commoners and princes began to secretly help the church, so that the king's encircled army was frustrated at every turn.
Although Meg was unable to cut the grass and roots of the warriors' sons and poor people, he returned to King's Landing the following year with two thousand heads and piled them under the Iron Throne as trophies for his expeditions, most of whom were generally considered not warriors but unarmed commoners. This hill of bones has pressed the pause button for Meige's war, because he has one more problem to solve - giving birth to an heir. Although Queen Tyanna of "Tower City" is in power, Meige gradually distances herself from this ruthless "witch".
How does Meg solve this problem? Let's talk about Meg and his three "black brides" next time.
#Headline Creation Challenge##Game of Thrones##A Song of Ice and Fire##小说 #