Ice and Fire: Reign of the Dragon.

Chapter 227: Braavos's Attitude
"I believe in the sincerity of Braavos, Your Majesty." Prince Aegon also smiled: "After all, I believe that Braavos will not allow a place like the Disputed Lands where slavery continues to go unpunished."

"What? There are still slaveholders in the disputed land?" Aquaman was shocked.

Prince Aegon secretly criticized the Sea King's foolishness. How could this guy not know that the warlords and mercenaries in the Disputed Lands were all holding slaves, and some of the big warlords even bought a whole army of slaves from the Slaver's Bay. The Dothraki would also sell some of the looted slaves to these warlords to train their private armies.

But where does the money come from?

The money naturally comes from the Iron Bank.

Prince Aegon immediately used his well-trained acting skills: "Yes, Your Majesty, the King of the Sea, so we are sending troops for the great cause of liberating slaves. You don't know that the wife and children of the noble who asked us for help were abducted and sold as slaves by the damn maggots and disgusting demons in the disputed land. This is also the reason why His Majesty the King is furious. He is unwilling to waste time on meaningless things, so our army is ready."

The handsome prince suddenly smiled. He picked up the wine glass from the waiter's tray and stood up to toast the Sea King. "His Majesty's request is very simple. He hopes to get the attitude of Braavos. We hope to get a loan from Braavos and naval support."

"Your Highness, you know that I am not the only one who has the final say in Braavos. His Majesty's request still needs to be discussed by the parliament." The Sea King sighed and said, "The loan requires the consent of the Keyholder. Although I have the leadership over the navy, I also need the approval of the parliament."

"Prince Longzel has promised to send the Silver Fleet to support us." Prince Aegon decisively released the message.

Aquaman's expression did change.

But the result did not change. The fact that the silver fleet of the Varese family could support the Targaryen dynasty's war was enough to explain a lot of problems. The Sea King could immediately guess that the naval forces of Westeros would probably come out in full force in this war.

Although the navy of Braavos is powerful, it is only the navy of a city-state after all. The Silver Fleet alone can hold it back, or even destroy the Purple Fleet of Braavos with the support of the dragon.

The Sea King sighed in his heart: "Prince Aegon, you don't need to ask me again. I have already told you that Braavos is different from Lys and Westeros. The major events of this city still need the decision of the parliament. But you can rest assured that as far as I am concerned, I support the fight against all the evil people who dare to hold slaves."

Everyone knows how to say nice things.

Aegon grumbled.

The Sea King watched the change in Prince Aegon's eyes. As an unlucky guy pushed out by the Governor and the Keykeeper, the Sea King was either a coward with no ability or an extremely shrewd and powerful man.

This sea king was the latter, and he could see what Aegon was thinking.

Humph, Aquaman also responded to Prince Aegon's criticism in his heart. The important source of business for the Iron Bank is these chaotic places. It is difficult for them to accept the loss of one of their long-term sources of income. So before Prince Aegon arrived, the keykeepers and bankers put pressure on Aquaman to either delay time or gain more benefits for them.

Aquaman just wants to say.

You can come if you can.

Prince Aegon has dragons, with more than thirty dragons behind him. Only two adult dragons are needed to destroy the entire purple fleet, and one more adult dragon is enough to turn the Secret City into a hellfire.

Where do they get the confidence to think they can make Targaryen soften and surrender?
But he couldn't disobey these guys who held real power in the city. The old guys were always overconfident, and the young guys were always ignorant. Perhaps only when the dragon flames came, they would understand why the Secret City had hidden itself for so many years, and why the Dragon Kings disdained this "illegitimate daughter".

This stubborn sea king ultimately failed to give Aegon the result he wanted.

"Your Highness, this is all I can tell you." The Sea King raised his glass and clinked it with Prince Aegon from a distance. "I will convene an emergency council and try to give you an answer as soon as possible. I have prepared a room for you in the Sea King's Palace. Please be patient and wait."

Aegon tilted his head indifferently. The Iron Throne had never expected Braavos to decisively support the Iron Throne's war. Although Daeron's intelligence was incomplete, his intuition was not lacking at all. He did not trust the bankers in Braavos, nor did he fully trust the intelligence he had.

Braavos is indeed worthy of its name. Even the renovated King's Landing looks like a small village in the countryside compared to Braavos, and even the Black Palace on the outskirts of King's Landing cannot compare with Neptune's Palace.

The palace that the Sea King prepared for Prince Aegon is second only to the Sea King's own bedroom in size in the entire Sea King's Palace. Not only is it fully equipped, there is even a pool of steaming hot spring water in the palace for Prince Aegon to bathe in.

Of course, there are beauties too.

Aegon looked helplessly at the girls lying on the beds, soaking in the hot springs, and standing on both sides of the palace.

As soon as he came in, two girls with silver hair and purple eyes came forward to undress him, and helped the prince walk slowly into the hot spring.

The prince looked at the girls surrounding the room with interest. These girls were all very beautiful without exception. Prince Aegon could even see colors from all over the world in them. There were people from the Summer Islanders with skin as deep as black jade, olive-skinned Myrs, fair-skinned Tall people, Ghiscari, Dothraki with almond-shaped eyes, and even quite a few Valyrians with silver hair and purple eyes and the Andals that Aegon was familiar with.

Unfortunately, after eating the moon candy, he has no interest in it at all.

"Alright, everyone." Prince Aegon soaked himself in the hot spring and allowed the girls to do whatever they wanted to him, but these girls from Braavos who were well versed in the art of sex soon realized that something was wrong.

But they dared not say anything.

"Rest early, everyone." Prince Aegon didn't hesitate, and hugged the two girls in the pool. "Tell the person who asked you to come here that there is no need for this. I came to Braavos just to understand Braavos' attitude."

Although his hands were naughty and kept touching the girls' smooth bodies, Aegon's body was unusually honest and did not react at all.

The girls knew that their task might not be completed, so they could only silently complete the bathing process for Aegon, serve him into the bedroom, and then slowly dispersed.

The girl who warmed his bed also noticed Prince Aegon's lack of interest, but she didn't dare say anything.

She could only silently leave the big bed after Prince Aegon fell asleep, and leave Aegon's bedroom with her sisters.

"The girls are set."

In fact, after Prince Aegon's meeting with the Sea King, the real people in power in Braavos, the keykeepers, bankers, wealthy businessmen, liaisons between the Black and White Houses, captains, and governors immediately gathered together to continue discussing the issue of the disputed land while waiting for the result from Aegon's palace.

It was not until the leader of the girls came to report the news that the most respected old spoon-keeper said with some regret: "Prince Aegon may not match the intelligence."

He gently turned the rusty iron key on his desk, letting it spin rapidly on the smooth glass tabletop. "He is not as hungry as the intelligence reports say. Instead, he is very calm. If I am not mistaken, he should have taken drugs similar to Moon Sugar before arriving in Braavos."

"We should punish the intelligence officer." A silver-haired, blue-eyed governor said somewhat frustratedly, "We wasted too many resources because of the wrong intelligence."

"Not much." The commander of the Sea King's fleet said calmly: "At least treating Prince Aegon well can let the Iron Throne know that we don't want to get too involved." He sighed. As a soldier, he knew the power of dragons. Although the purple fleet was strong, it was as fragile as paper in front of dragons. Without the navy, Braavos was nothing in front of the armored knights of Westeros with only the army.

What's more, there are dragons.

"But, the gold we get from the Disputed Lands every year is enough to guarantee tens of millions of iron coins." A banker said unwillingly, "Even if we provide loans to the Iron Throne, you will not forget the greed and short-sightedness of the Targaryens. Except for King Aegon II, no king can repay on time. Have you forgotten the sophistry of that damned monk?"

"And Luo Jiaer." Another banker looked at the contact of the Black and White Institute: "When will the Black and White Institute be able to deal with that damn dictator? He has caused a quarter of our market to malfunction."

"It will be soon. Don't worry." The contact person of the House of Black and White was a pale eunuch this time. He was tall and thin, and it seemed that there was no flesh on his face. "But everyone, don't forget that the Rogar family is backed by the Targaryens. We can only win in chaos."

"As soon as possible." The old man said in a deep voice, and he pressed the key that was turning. "Lysandra has lived too long. If he is allowed to appear in public again, the reputation of the Iron Bank will suffer an unprecedented blow. As for Rogal Bank." The old man's face changed, and he said gloomily, "It is protected by Westeros. We need to take it slowly."

The Iron Bank of Braavos' biggest partner in Westeros is the Vareses family, but neither Dragonzel nor Ringol wants to fall out with the Targaryens, while the other hot-tempered children love their fathers and brothers very much. The envoys of Braavos have never been able to convince the dragon king's family to truly stand on the side of Braavos.

Without Varese's support, Rogare Bank, which was rooted in King's Landing and Oldtown and protected by the Dragon Kings, would not have much effect with simple financial means. Especially with the good harvest brought by the long summer in Westeros, Rogare Bank was not short of cash.

"What about our people in the disputed lands?" The banker asked again: "Give up? Or let the Dragon King family return to the East Continent? What if they go crazy and want to restore Valyria?"

The banker stood up and said loudly, "I am a very direct person. Let me ask you all, it was you and your fathers who secretly paid for Prince Dragonzel and his men to arrive in Westeros. You cannot be unaware of the consequences of the dragon kings returning to Essos. Although the disputed land is devastated, it is the most fertile land along the coast. You cannot be unaware of the consequences of allowing the Targaryens to own it."

"Alright, alright, calm down." The old man waved his hand, motioning him to sit down and not be so excited: "No one said we have to give up the disputed land." The old man's eyes suddenly flashed with a cunning: "I believe you all know the story of Aegon's conquest. Three dragons conquered a continent. It's legendary, right? What was the result? When Aegon was alive, he could suppress the old nobles of Westeros. When Aegon died, the world was in chaos. Everyone, dragons can conquer, but dragons cannot rule. Do you understand what I mean?"

The old man gave a mysterious smile.

The same mysterious smile also appeared on the faces of other congressmen.

Only Aquaman had a sad look on his face, and no one knew what he was thinking.

"Your Highness, I still have to trouble you to comfort Prince Aegon and tell him that we are already discussing loan arrangements for the Iron Throne." The old man said with a smile.

The Sea King sighed inwardly and nodded. "I will follow the arrangements of the Council."

Daeron had never thought highly of Braavos from the beginning.

This was normal. After all, he had the dragon in his hand, so he thought every other force was weaklings. However, he was not blindly arrogant. It seemed that due to his natural sharpness and military intuition, his preliminary preparations were exceptionally good.

The food mobilized from the river areas and the river bends began to be transported to several designated ports, and the armies organized in various regions also began to gather at the corresponding ports one after another.

In the ports of Tidehead, King's Landing, Seagulltown, Silvercrown, and Sunspear, food and fodder had piled up like mountains, and the various armies had been gathering one after another over the past few months, cleaning their armor and sharpening their swords.

They are ready to go far away.

Chaotou Island.

It had been decades since, or since the Dance with the Dragons, there had been so many ships gathered in Tidehead's harbor. The entire Royal Fleet, three hundred longships of the Iron Fleet, and the entire Redwyne Fleet were under sail in Blackwater Bay, ready to go.

Dragons are flying over Climax City.

In order to protect the king, Lord Joffrey Velaryon decided to ride a dragon into battle, and his Tyrex became the new dragon in the army.

In fact, Daeron's original plan was to set out from Silvercrown, but he was dissuaded by Viserys. Although starting from Silvercrown saves time, in Viserys's view, Silvercrown is Vareses' territory. The king is leading the army in person, and the departure point must be a place directly under the king's jurisdiction, or a clear territory of the king's line, so that the people can be more aware of the king's achievements.

Although Daeron did not understand Viserys, his military intuition told him that his uncle was talking nonsense, but for the sake of his family's reputation, Daeron finally compromised, but not completely.

Jacaerys and Dan will lead the vanguard of the Marchers, Dorne, the Reach, and the Stormlands from Silvercrown, and after meeting up with Daeron at the Stepstones, they will march to the Disputed Lands together.

This elite vanguard had only 5,000 men, but each of them had exquisite armor and a sturdy warhorse. These nobles' second and youngest sons were eager to establish merit.

They thirst for blood.

April of the 169th year of the Conquest calendar.

The Great Crusade began with the long cries of Dreamfyre, Seasmoke, Vermax, Horntide and Terekshu.

And the people in the disputed areas have not yet been able to unite.

As the first ship from the disputed lands was sunk.

The war has begun.

This is the first update, combined with yesterday’s second update. There are two more updates today, a war drama.

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(End of this chapter)