Chapter 47 I'm sorry
A few days ago, Dany went to the Temple of Memory to read the history of Qarth.
From the thick parchment book, she got three important pieces of information: first, the world map centered on Qarth, so she knew the whole picture of this world; second, the speculation related to White Cloud City was confirmed.
Before Valyria was destroyed, there was the Valyrian Road connecting the major city-states of Valyria in Slaver's Bay.
The Valyrian Road is a stone road with an overall structure made of magic and magma smelting. It is wider and stronger than modern highways. Through it and the Norn River Basin in the western continent, almost all city-states are connected together.
If you want to be rich, you must build roads first.
There is no safer and faster passage than the Valyrian Road. At that time, merchants mostly took the route of "Far East - Jade Sea - Qarth - White Cloud City - Slaver's Bay - Valyrian Road - All over the world", so there was a desert miracle like White Cloud City.
Dany guessed wrong in one thing. The dry riverbed she saw was not natural, but an artificial river.
The Valyrians drove their slaves to dig an artificial river from the source of the Laza River, which was nearly a thousand kilometers long, passing through two white cities and ending at the third white city.
More than three hundred years ago, Valyria was destroyed in the Cataclysm, and the entire Long Summer Land was shrouded in a strange curse. The Valyrian Road from Slaver's Bay to Volantis became a demonic road that everyone feared.
In this way, the East-West 'Silk Road' that had been passed down for thousands of years came to an end, and merchants could only avoid the road from Volantis to Qarth by sea.
The White City had no value to exist, and the river channel that required a lot of manpower to repair every few years gradually dried up.
In less than a hundred years, the White City, which was extremely weak, was destroyed by the passing horsemen.
Well, back to the point, the third piece of information Dany got from the Temple of Memory was related to Valyria.
The Valyrian dragon king had captured slaves to the far east of the Jugsnai Plain, so how could he let go of Qarth beside him?
On the day when the dragon came to the city, the ancient royal family of Qarth perished, leaving only a princess who became the wife of a Valyrian dragon king. The two of them were the ancestors of the royal family before Dany.
Dany guessed that the royal family must have coveted her dragons and were extremely afraid of them.
As the mother of dragons, she has the ability to become the ancestor of the next royal family of Qarth, just as the dragon king did back then.
So Dany asked the royal family at the top: "Great rulers of the Eternal City of Qarth, I ask you to lend me a fleet so that I can return to my hometown that I miss day and night. The people of Westeros will be grateful to you for bringing back their queen."
At the end, she wiped her tears and cried sadly.
The onions of Qarth are really awesome!
It was a bit embarrassing. In the huge hall, her tiny sobs actually echoed. It was so empty and quiet that no one responded to her.
"Woo woo woo" Maybe the royal family also felt that such a cold scene was too embarrassing, and sobbing came from the high platform.
It was still that child.
Windroy received 777 gold coins from Dany.
"Daenerys, your words are so touching, and your emotions deeply touched me." He wiped his tears and said.
Dany opened her eyes wide, expecting him to continue. It would be great if he could give her dozens of warships.
"But I am obsessed with music and not interested in business. Unlike the Thirteen Lords, each of them has a huge fleet. Although I am rich enough to rival a country, I don't have the sea ships you need."
Dany's heart sank. You bastard, you said you are rich enough to rival a country, but you are still so stingy.
"Khaleesi, your clothes, your etiquette, and the way you speak all moved me." Another royal family who accepted the bribe, known as "Elegant Aegon", used a crying tone to politely refuse: "I am a royal family, but I am more of a poet. I would like to compose a poem about your experience."
After that, he recited the poem in the ups and downs of the ancient Valyrian language while crying.
The content of the poem roughly tells how the last princess of an ancient kingdom went through numerous hardships and dangers, but in the end, she was extremely lucky to be supported by many subjects, defeated the usurper, successfully married the handsome prince, and grew up to be a queen.
Although we can't send a fleet to send Dany back to restore her country, we can also use this method to fulfill her dream!
"Wow, it's so touching. I also wish you success, Your Majesty the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms." Many people spoke for the first time. Well, they refused.
Some people imitated Aegon and others and refused with euphemistic words, while others remained silent and refused silently.
At some point, the fat steward who had been standing quietly at the lower left corner of the steps with his hands hanging down suddenly moved a few steps to the middle, not disturbing the royal family on the five-meter-high platform, but also making Dany notice him.
Dany glanced at him and quietly gestured to her, indicating that today's petition activity was over.
What? It's over?
Even if she didn't send a few warships, she should have a return gift, right?
She had arranged more than 10,000 brilliant coins.
In order to raise money, she even sold most of the gifts given by visitors.
The royal family of Qarth is really a group of extreme people. They don't care about guest etiquette at all and are completely stingy!
Dany cursed the royal family's ancestors in her heart, but her face was still sad. She wiped her tears and expressed her gratitude to the royal family, and then politely asked to leave.
After leaving the palace, she waited for another hour in the martial arts field in the side hall. When it was getting dark, three dragons landed beside her. She put the chain rings on them again, and a team of people followed the path they came from and left the Hall of a Thousand Seats.
When she came here by ox cart at noon, because the sun was high in the sky and the weather was too hot, there were few pedestrians on the street. Now it was near dusk, and the spacious driveway was also blocked by the crowds of people.
Jhogo in the front had to whip the air so hard that it made a "crackling" sound while shouting loudly on horseback, "Make way, you milkmen, make way! Make way for the Mother of Dragons."
But his awkward Valyrian tongue could only attract countless people's curious gazes and had no effect on improving the congested environment at this time. The ox cart could only move forward step by step.
The big merchant Xaro seemed accustomed to this. He leaned leisurely on the backrest covered with cool mahjong mats, poured the ruby-red wine into a pair of matching emerald and gold goblets, and handed it steadily to Dany opposite him. "My light of love, I see your red and swollen eyes are filled with deep loss. Did they reject you?"
Dany took the wine glass and gulped down most of it. "You have a keen eye and see the truth of things. Yes, the royal family rejected me mercilessly.
Or rather, they never thought of helping me at all. They called me there purely out of curiosity about dragons and their own boredom."
Xaro's face showed no surprise when he heard this. While pouring himself a glass of wine, he casually asked, "What did they say?"
"Windro said he had no ship and couldn't help me. 'Elegant Aegon' cried and recited a poem for me. Mathos, who took 500 brilliant coins from me, didn't even bother to say no." Dany sighed and asked, "Can I ask Ser Jorah to ask him for the money back?"
"Alas, these Qartheens are really dishonest. People without credibility cannot survive in the business world, but Qartheens is the largest commercial capital, so the power of the royal family is getting lower and lower, and their reputation is getting worse and worse." Xaro sneered a few times, then looked at Dany seriously and warned her:
"Don't mention the matter of asking for the gift back - if you don't want the 'Regret Guest' to sneak into my palace one night and murder you while you are sleeping."
"Regret Guest" Dany nodded and stopped asking Mathos for money.
In addition to crying easily and considering crying as a sign of civilized people, the Qartheens have another characteristic: politeness.
When the Qarthes killers kill people, they also say "I am sorry" to the victims very politely. Therefore, the long-standing killer group is famous in the world as the "Regret Guest".
Well, self-righteous politeness. What happened in the Thousand Seats Hall this afternoon did not make Dany think that the Qartheens were polite.
"Oh, my love, don't be too sad. Your experience today is not unique." Xaro opened his arms and placed them on the back of the soft couch. He gently swayed the wine glass between the two fingers of his right hand. "There is a saying in Qarth that asking for money from the royal family is harder than milking the stone cow of Pharos.
Do you know Pharos? It is an island in the Jade Sea. The people there worship stone cows. Isn't it strange?
If you are willing to marry me, my luxury yacht can take you there to visit the local scenic spots. In fact, my caravans are all over the Jade Sea, and you can go anywhere you want.
We can travel to Yi Ti, and we can also look for the dream city mentioned by the poets. We can go to the plains of Jugosnai and sip the wine of wisdom with the heads of the dead."
"I want to sail to Westeros and drink the wine of revenge with the head of the usurper. Why don't you come with me to King's Landing? The scenery of the Sunset Continent is more beautiful and mysterious than the Jade Sea." Dany winked at him and said with a smile: "In addition to the shocking Wall, I heard that there are white walkers in the far north!
Do you know the white walkers? The terrible monsters that can bring eternal night to the world are much more interesting than those stone cows!"
"Let the white walkers come, eternal night is not as chilling as being rejected by you again." The fat man wiped his face and squeezed out a few tears from his eyes.
Sure enough, every Qarth person can cry in any situation.
"I have told you many times that I am a businessman. All businessmen are pacifists. War is the killer of stable trade. We may expect others to go to war, but we never participate in it ourselves.
Besides, I don't understand what's so good about that iron chair in King's Landing. I heard that it was made by your ancestors from thousands of swords. It is cold, hard and sharp. It is simply an iron monster.
Aren't you afraid that those jagged spikes will cut your toned buttocks?" The businessman rejected Dany again.
"Boom!"
On the street outside the car, countless citizens suddenly shouted together, and the huge sound wave seemed to overturn the oxcart under Dany.
"Creaky--" The oxcart also stopped suddenly at this time.
"What happened?" Dany asked loudly through the gauze curtain.
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