Whoosh, whoosh!
On the evening of Jacaerys's coronation day, a blood-red dragon shadow flew from the direction of Blackwater Bay towards the Red Keep situated on Aegon's High Hill.
Womax, who was dozing in the Red Keep's Royal Garden, sensed the anomaly and immediately spread his wings to ascend, while also transmitting a thought to Jacaerys.
After the previous events, Jacaerys felt that the Dragonpit was too far from the Red Keep, and dragons like Silverwing and Seasmoke could reside in the Dragonpit.
But Womax had to stay by his side, so he directly ordered the Royal Guards to level the entire garden, piling up rocks to create a simple nest.
On the goose-down bed in the King's bedchamber, Jacaerys suddenly sat up, also waking up Baela beside him.
"Jie, what's wrong?"
"Daemon is here!"
Waking up a bit, Jacaerys directly answered.
There are currently three dragons roaming outside: Grey Ghost, Syrax, and Caraxes.
The former two are now wild dragons without riders; they will only stay on Dragonstone or other volcanoes and will definitely not come to King's Landing.
After quickly putting on their clothes, Jacaerys and Baela walked out of the bedchamber together.
"Your Majesty!"
The four White Knights standing guard outside the door saw Jacaerys and Baela open the door and immediately bowed in greeting.
One of the young White Knights, who was muscular and had brown hair, immediately asked after greeting: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, are you going to the dining hall or..."
The young White Knight who asked was named Dario, originally one of Stone's personal guards, and was just promoted to White Knight Captain today.
Jacaerys was frowning in thought and didn't answer, while Baela glanced at Jacaerys, a bright smile appearing on her face.
She answered: "Ser Dario, we are going to the Royal Garden. Please arrange the guard duty!"
Baela was so happy because she hadn't officially married Jacaerys yet, and logically shouldn't be called Your Majesty.
Dario was able to stand out among the twelve personal guards besides Stone and Rudy, which naturally meant he had high emotional intelligence.
"As you command, I will arrange it immediately."
Dario took the order and turned to leave, while the other three White Knights protected Jacaerys and Baela as they walked towards the Royal Garden.
In fact, Jacaerys, who was like a humanoid dragon, didn't need guards at all, but just like that long string of titles, it was the basic pomp and circumstance of being the King of the Seven Kingdoms.
Moreover, he didn't need it, but his relatives like Baela, Lucerys, and Joffrey still did.
When the two of them arrived at the Royal Garden, nearly a hundred Royal Guards were scattered around, their faces tense.
The scorpion crossbows on the inner city wall were aimed at Caraxes, who was hovering in the sky.
Bang!
Perhaps because he had waited for Jacaerys and Baela, Caraxes landed heavily in the Royal Garden.
Tap, tap, tap!
Three figures, one tall and two short, jumped off the dragon's back.
The two short figures ran towards Jacaerys at the fastest speed.
Plop, plop!
Jacaerys wrapped his arms around his two sensible and obedient younger brothers, one in each arm.
Baela reached out from the periphery and hugged the three brothers, then questioned Jacaerys with her eyes.
Seeing him nod in agreement, Baela immediately ran towards her father.
Jacaerys had been waiting for Daemon to bring his two younger brothers back for the past three or four days.
Calculating according to this world, they were probably sent to Essos by Daemon before.
After simply asking his two younger brothers, the answer was indeed so.
They had been living in the luxurious courtyard of a governor in Pentos during this time, with plenty of food and clothing, and were tempted by many exotic beauties every day.
After all, the true dragon bloodline of the Targaryen was still very popular in this free city established by the Valyrians.
After experiencing the Blood Dragon Dance, Lucerys and Joffrey were not as naive as before.
They had already sensed that Rhaenys and Daemon were acting strange at the time, especially not letting them bring Arrax.
But out of trust in the two of them, and also trust that their older brother would definitely find them no matter what happened, they did not rashly expose them and resist.
The result was good; the three brothers were indeed safely reunited.
On the other side, Baela conveyed Jacaerys's intentions to Daemon.
She specifically emphasized that the one in the Dragonpit was not Little Aegon at all.
And she gave him a clue to investigate the Faceless Ones in the Black and White House in Braavos.
Daemon had no objection to Jacaerys's suggestion that they leave the Seven Kingdoms.
Three days ago, when Daemon sent Ricinus and the other back to Driftmark, Rhaenys had woken up from her coma.
Her confidence had been completely shattered by that almost one-sided dragon battle.
To prevent Driftmark and House Velaryon from disappearing from the Seven Kingdoms like Oldtown.
She immediately told Daemon that she was willing to bear all responsibility alone and yield the power of the Velaryons to Lucerys.
The current result was actually a little better than they had expected.
After explaining the many matters of Driftmark to Baela, Daemon stepped forward and hugged his daughter.
Whoosh, whoosh!
Caraxes's dragon wing, which had been melted through before, had begun to recover, and he carried Daemon quickly into the air and left the Red Keep.
Jacaerys silently watched the blood-red dragon shadow quickly disappear into the night sky.
After today's farewell, he didn't know if they would have a chance to meet again in the future.
After settling his two younger brothers in Maegor's Holdfast and assigning White Knights and Royal Guards for close protection, Jacaerys and Baela returned to their bedchamber.
With such an interruption, Jacaerys suddenly lost his sleepiness.
Although he was interested in discussing life, Baela had only recently broken through, and her body had not yet recovered. Too many times would be counterproductive.
And this little girl Baela is also quite sensible!
After these three days, she had realized that she couldn't completely handle Jacaerys's demands alone.
So, in her words, she indicated that she didn't mind him establishing a harem, and of course, she very smartly placed herself directly in the position of Your Majesty.
Since Baela had such thoughts, Jacaerys naturally did even more so.
Which Chinese man in his previous life didn't want to be like the ancient emperors, establish a harem, and keep three thousand beauties of various shapes and sizes, each with their own charm?
What's more, he now possessed the highest power in Westeros and the physical quality of a humanoid dragon.
Of course, establishing a harem was not the most important thing at the moment.
After letting Baela rest first, Jacaerys sat at the large nanmu desk and began writing in Chinese.
Being vigilant in times of peace, the first thing to sort out was the forces that could pose a threat to him.
Currently, two extraordinary forces have actively attacked Jacaerys, and he is also a person who repays grudges, so they must be settled one by one.
First is the Green Seer, an enemy capable of probing the past and future within a certain range.
'He' or rather 'they' are definitely the most dangerous.
But their weakness is also very obvious: they have no overt power or manpower and can only use various strange methods to make things difficult.
And as long as all the Heart Trees in the Seven Kingdoms are destroyed, they will be like hackers with their network cable pulled out, only able to play single-player games Beyond the Wall.
Therefore, Jacaerys planned to prioritize solving this hidden danger closest to him.
Second are the religious fanatics of Essos who worship gods like R'hllor and the Many-Faced God.
Because of the influence of the attribute panel, Jacaerys now seems to have become an enemy of the gods.
Coupled with his atrocities in Tyrosh and Myr.
All the religious fanatics in Essos have now put aside their mutual prejudices and want to work together to kill him first.
However, with the Narrow Sea as a barrier, the power of Essos cannot temporarily invade Westeros on a large scale.
And small-scale Faceless One assassinations are basically ineffective against Jacaerys, but he must guard against them harming his relatives around him.
Fortunately, all of Jacaerys's relatives have dragons. As long as they can be made to grow up as quickly as possible, their safety can be greatly improved.
As for completely solving this external threat, that will have to wait until Jacaerys completely controls the Seven Kingdoms.
The third slightly threatening force is the Martell Family and Hobart Hightower, who fled to Dorne with a large military force.
Judging from the results of the four Dornish Wars, the Dorne have completely understood how to fight dragons on their own territory.
But in Jacaerys's opinion, the reason for the Targaryen royal family's four failures all stemmed from insufficient firepower!
Jacaerys now has four dragons, and when Baela's and Joffrey's dragons grow up.
There will be seven dragons to conduct a carpet bombing of Dracarys on Dorne.
Even if Prince Corren and Hobart and others hide in caves,
As long as Jacaerys can determine the approximate location, he can have Womax spew a column of black Dracarys to melt through the mountain and kill them.
Of course, if they can be made to voluntarily leave the Dorne region, the battle will be even easier.
So the Dorne are like turtles, strong in defense but weak in offense.
When Jacaerys has enough firepower, he can solve them in one fell swoop.
The fourth threat is the Night King and the Others, who may or may not come south in his lifetime.
Because of their uncertainty, Jacaerys only listed them last.
If it really happens, the solution is the same as with Dorne: just wash the ground with Dracarys!
After sorting out the dangerous forces, Jacaerys's next step was to simply plan what to do next.
He wanted to control the entire Seven Kingdoms, and first, he had to establish his own Small Council.
Jacaerys had been reading the information collected by Stone for the past few days. Combined with the actual situation, he had almost made up his mind.
He just needed to announce it in the Throne Room tomorrow.
Then it was the real control of the six kingdoms. The Crownlands seemed the simplest for now.
After the previous batch of Crownlands lords were hanged, their successors were extremely in awe of Jacaerys.
On the second day of the Dragonpit civil war, they came before him and swore allegiance.
Then there was the North. Duke Cregan kept his promise and oath and stood in Jacaerys's camp from beginning to end.
His heart was on The Wall, and he had already gone north with his personal guards and three hundred direct Stark Family soldiers when he received the news from Daemon.
And the three thousand six hundred Northern Soldiers he brought south this time were originally people abandoned by the North, so they are all stationed outside King's Landing, waiting for Jacaerys's deployment.
The Vale, due to the fall of the Eyrie, the direct bloodline of House Arryn is almost extinct.
There are currently two collateral members of House Arryn that Jacaerys can choose from: one is Edric Arryn, a knight with ordinary property,
The other is Earl Eysenbar Arryn, who owns the richest port in the Vale, Gulltown, and is nicknamed 'Golden Eagle'.
When Eysenbar proactively offered fifty thousand golden dragons as a gift for Jacaerys's coronation, he had already decided to appoint Eysenbar as the new Warden of the East.
As for the Riverlands, it has been said before that Jacaerys will support the Frey Family to replace House Tully as the new ruling family.
He believes that the Frey Family will be loyal to him in the future until the last person in their family fights.
And House Tyrell of The Reach has also sworn allegiance to him.
Because in this era, House Tyrell and House Hightower have always been in a state of weak lord and strong vassal.
Now that this powerful vassal, who made his liege look sideways, has been eliminated by Jacaerys, they have a strong good feeling towards Jacaerys.
Next is the Stormlands. Jacaerys plans to directly control it himself first.
Then he will enfeoff his third brother Joffrey as Duke of Storm's End, and when he grows up a bit, he will be sent out to branch out and expand.
At that time, King's Landing, Driftmark, and Storm's End will be controlled by the three brothers, forming a triangular force that is both offensive and defensive.
Finally, there is the Westerlands, which has not yet expressed its stance. Ser Rolland House Lannister, who was previously amputated, is still recovering in the Red Keep dungeon.
Although House House Lannister replied that they would compensate according to Jacaerys's requirements, neither the war reparations nor the second batch of messengers have arrived in King's Landing yet.
After sorting through this, Jacaerys drew a circle directly around the name of House Lannister.
He was prepared to issue a final ultimatum. If House Lannister still didn't show any indication.
Then, Casterly Rock would face a three-dragon incineration like Oldtown.
By the time Jacaerys had finished sorting all of this out, Baela had already fallen into a deep sleep.
Still wide awake, he went out alone and, accompanied by Dario, went to find Stone, who lived in the Tower of the Hand, by connecting through Maegor's Holdfast.
Yes, Jacaerys was planning to appoint Stone as the Hand of the King!
As his left and right hand, Stone would definitely be competent for this position.
Even if he was lacking in some areas, he had enough ability to cultivate Stone.
The most important thing is that no matter what absurd order Jacaerys gives, Stone will obey unconditionally.
For example, now, after hearing Dario announce the King's arrival, Stone, who had hastily put on his clothes, immediately bowed in greeting.
Upon entering the room, Jacaerys asked Stone to find some ordinary things that seemed very strange at the moment.
Without any intention of asking, Stone immediately took the order and left the Tower of the Hand.
After a while, he came back carrying items such as charcoal, iron racks, iron spoons, and iron pots.
Jacaerys then instructed him to set up the pot and light a fire, and poured more than half a pot of clear water into the iron pot.
Crackling, crackling!
Gurgle! Gurgle!
Under the roaring flames, the clear water in the large iron pot quickly boiled.
Seeing that it was almost ready, Jacaerys instructed Stone to extinguish the fire, and then personally poured the large basin filled with large white particles directly into the boiling hot water.
The white particles immediately melted upon entering the boiling water. Jacaerys felt that the melting speed was not fast enough, so he continuously stirred it with the iron spoon.
In the increasingly cold deep night, the boiling water quickly cooled down.
Because there were too many white particles, some still remained at the bottom of the water, never melting.
Jacaerys had Stone pour the white water from the iron pot into that large basin.
After completing all the procedures according to the order, Stone finally asked: "Your Majesty, what kind of water is this?"
"You taste it."
Upon receiving the order, Stone immediately took a large gulp very directly.
Then...
Pfft! Cough, cough, cough!
After spitting out the water in his mouth, Stone coughed continuously.
While coughing, he said: "Cough, Your Majesty, I'm sorry, cough, I couldn't help it.
Salty, cough, this water is too salty!"
That's right, those white particles were salt, and this water was a supersaturated, high-concentration salt solution.
This was Jacaerys's plan, a brilliant move to silently solve the problem of all the Heart Trees in Westeros!
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PS: Several hundred words were deleted from the previous chapter, all of which were about driving in circles.
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