Chapter 123: Knife

Although Drogon was not injured, Ghis dared to use the dragon-killing weapon, the crossbow, which was a crime worthy of death. The three dragons were the reverse scale of Queen Daenerys, and having touched them, Ghis would not let them go easily.

"Let them give three times the amount written on the paper every year!"

As Daenerys's finance minister, Hizdahr's first consideration was to let Ghisdor pay tribute, which would not only increase the severity of their punishment but also relieve his own pressure.

There are so many newly freed people in Slave Bay who are waiting to eat, and there are also tens of thousands of troops who only eat and do not work and need to be fed.

When Hizdahr saw the list of property listed by the envoy of Ghis, he was secretly delighted. He did not expect that Daenerys would add more conditions for surrender. Hizdahr would naturally not miss the opportunity to add insult to injury.

Hearing Hizdahr's proposal, Daenerys nodded slightly. Double was obviously not enough to compensate for the damage they had caused to Slaver's Bay.

"Let them hand over the Harpy's mastermind in Ghis." As the temporary chief of intelligence, Jorah most wanted to eradicate the Harpy organization.

The surrender conditions proposed by Daenerys a few days ago did not intend to hold the Harpy of Ghis accountable. Since they did not choose to surrender at that time, it is certainly not excessive to hold them accountable again now.

"I think we should reduce the number of new and old Ghis soldiers, and disperse the remaining soldiers to add to our army." Tyrion said after thinking for a while.

When Tyrion finished speaking, Daenerys' eyes lit up.

This is a good proposal. It not only weakens the military strength of the city of Gis, but also allows their soldiers to fight for them.

"Let them offer dozens more warships." As the Minister of the Navy, Daario spared no effort to salvage ships for Daenerys.

After hearing Daario's proposal, Daenerys began to calculate in her mind how many ships would be needed.

The king and his ministers calculated the parts of the body where the new and old Gis would be attacked.

[It would be a good idea to ask them to hand over the remaining ballistae and use them to train those two stupid dragons! ]

Hearing Drogon's inner thoughts, Daenerys' face twitched. What if they were trained with a ballista?

Although she didn't dare to let people use the ballista to train Rhaegal and Viserion, she had to make them all hand over the ballista.

Daenerys remembered this matter after being reminded by Drogon, but she could only secretly let Jorah explain this matter to the envoy of Ghis, and let Jorah instruct Varys's little bird in Ghis to investigate the number of ballistas in Ghis.

She didn't want the Gith secretly aiming their ballistas at her three dragons.

After the discussion, Daenerys ordered the envoys from Ghis to be brought in to explain the new terms of surrender to them.

Upon hearing the new conditions, the envoy of Gis was a little surprised, but he did not dare to say much. After leaving the hall, he hurried to Gis.

Daenerys only gave them two days to respond, which was just enough for a round trip. If they were delayed on the way due to something and the black dragon flew to them again, there was no telling what the consequences would be.

After Drogon burned down New and Old Ghis, the nobles in the city were in chaos.

When Daenerys's terms of surrender were sent to Ghis a few days ago, the nobles were divided into two factions, advocating war or peace.

In the end, the war faction prevailed and refused to surrender. They strengthened the city wall defenses and military forces in preparation for the attack from Daenerys.

They didn't expect that instead of welcoming an army, they welcomed a mighty and domineering four-legged black dragon.

Just when they thought the Black Dragon was about to die at the hands of the Giss crossbow, something they never expected happened.

The four-legged black dragon that they had never heard of actually relied on its scales to resist the crossbow attack head-on, burning the crossbow, collapsing the city walls and pyramids, and turning the soldiers into ashes.

After the black dragon left, the pro-war faction stopped its activities, and the pro-peace faction quickly sent envoys to request submission to Queen Daenerys.

As the nobles of Ghis waited anxiously, the envoys finally returned to the new and old cities of Ghis.

However, they were completely dumbfounded when they saw Daenerys' new conditions of surrender.

The other three conditions are easy to agree on. Just pay more money and each family can present a few large ships to avoid disaster.

Even if they were asked to hand over half of their private soldiers to join the Slave Bay army, they could barely accept it.

After all, if they surrender to the Slave Bay, the new and old Giswane can turn to Queen Daenerys and ask for her support if they encounter foreign invasion in the future.

In addition to these conditions, asking them to hand over the Harpy Master is tantamount to handing over their own lives.

They had a general idea of ​​who the masterminds were; it was just a few people in the war faction, and not all harpies were in the war faction.

The original intention of the establishment of the Harpy was to safeguard the interests of some nobles and slave owners. Later, it gradually grew stronger and also gradually deteriorated.

It has become a powerful organization that relies on force to protect its own business interests, and is so powerful that it can bully the market and force purchases and sales.

They were used to being domineering, so naturally they were unwilling to be ruled by Daenerys, an outsider. What's more, this outsider abolished the slavery system on which they relied to make huge wealth, shaking their foundation.

They did not want to sit there and wait for death, so they launched several attacks against Daenerys's men and herself. Unexpectedly, almost all of the carefully planned attacks were destroyed by her little dragon.

What they didn't expect was that the black dragon that could change its size actually resisted the crossbow and brought a devastating blow to the city of Gis, forcing them to choose to surrender.

Looking at the new terms of surrender, none of the Gis nobles spoke first, but they were wary of each other.

The Harpy Lord who had launched the attack was afraid that he would be handed over, and the nobles of the non-Harpy organization who advocated peace were afraid that the Lord would become desperate and would not agree to the surrender conditions offered by Daenerys, or would kill them and replace the Harpy Lord.

Several civil wars broke out simultaneously in the new and old cities of Ghis that night, causing heavy casualties among nobles and soldiers. The next day, the surviving nobles urgently held a meeting to discuss the conditions for Daenerys' surrender.

The amount of money and property to be offered and the number of people to join Daenerys' army will be determined based on each family's strength and their performance last night.

In Meereen, the two-day deadline is about to expire, and the new and old envoys of Ghis arrive as promised. They all accept the terms of surrender and hand over two lists to Daenerys. On the lists are the names of the leaders of the Ghis harpys and the families behind them. Most of them have been killed or exterminated in the civil strife.

The tribute, the ships, the remaining ballistae, and the soldiers who would join the army would reach Meereen in three days.

Daenerys had expected that Ghis would agree to all the conditions. Two hours before the Ghis envoy arrived in Meereen, the spy sent by Jorah to Ghis reported everything that happened in the new and old Ghis cities last night.

Daenerys didn't expect that a condition of surrender would cause such a big internal strife in Ghis.

After this incident, she believed that the harpies that had caused her so much trouble and worry would no longer be able to cause any trouble, thus eliminating the biggest hidden danger and obstacle in her management of Slaver Bay.

Not only that, the surrender of Ghis also brought her a lot of wealth, which could at least cover two-thirds of the military expenses. The one hundred large ships and more than five thousand soldiers they presented were also a great help to her march into Westeros.

And all the credit for this goes to Drogon. If it weren't for Drogon, she might have died in the arena rebellion, not to mention gaining the submission of Ghis now.

After the envoy left, Daenerys couldn't help but hug Drogon and kiss him twice, thanking him for everything he had done for her.

Watching the intimate behavior of Daenerys and Drogon, Tyrion and others felt a sense of shame in their hearts to varying degrees.

As Queen Daenerys's chief minister, he failed to solve Daenerys' biggest problem and almost brought her to the grave of death in the arena.

All of them together are not as powerful as the queen's dragon. Although this dragon is unprecedentedly powerful and very unique, it cannot cover up the dereliction of duty of this group of ministers.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, on gaining the submission of Ghis. We will do our best to assist Your Majesty in seizing the Iron Throne!" Tyrion knelt on one knee, congratulated Daenerys and made a sincere promise.

"We will do our utmost to assist Your Majesty in seizing the Iron Throne!"

After Tyrion finished speaking, Jorah and the others also knelt on one knee, ashamed for not protecting Daenerys.

Yara, who was originally standing on the side of the hall, saw everyone kneeling down to make a promise, and she knelt down as well.

After witnessing Drogon's power and Ghis's submission, she no longer considers herself an ally of Daenerys, but willingly recognizes Daenerys as her queen.

Looking at the ministers kneeling in front of her and Yara who truly served her, Daenerys took a deep breath and looked up toward the northwest in the direction of Westeros.