Chapter 49
The melodious sound of the harp sounded again.
A couple of men and women in the center of the hall were dancing to the music, showing off their most elegant dancing postures.
Samwell picked up the dinner plate again, and while eating the golden tail shrimp, he looked at Duke Renly and Margaery, the pair of golden figures , twirling on the dance floor, with a mysterious smile on his face.
He remembered that in the original book, Duke Renly took a portrait of Margaery and asked Duke Eddard Stark if the girl in the painting looked like his sister Lyanna Stark.
And this Miss Lyanna is the former fiancée of King Robert I.
At the same time, she was also the fuse of the famous Robert's rebellion !
At that time, Miss Lyanna had already engaged Robert, but she was kidnapped by the former prince Rhaegar Targaryen.
When Robert, who was still the Duke of Storm's End at that time, learned of this, he rebelled in a rage.
This was the immediate cause of the Robert's rebellion .
Although Robert had personally killed Rhaegar, overthrew the Targaryen dynasty, and avenged his wife, but Miss Lyanna had died in the war.
This has also become a wound in Robert's heart that never healed .
The reason why Duke Renly asked Duke Eddard whether Margaery looked like Lyanna was obviously to dedicate Margaery to King Robert to replace Cersei Lannister as queen.
But judging from the later development of the plot, this plan was not successful.
Think about it too. Although Robert has been unreliable after sitting on the Iron Throne, ignoring political affairs all day long, only focusing on drinking, prostitution, hunting, and his relationship with Queen Cersei was really bad, but he was not really brainless .
It is impossible to go all out to abolish the queen for a girl who looks a bit like his old lover.
You must know that Queen Cersei was not a background character . Her Lannister family is the richest family in Westeros, and her father, Duke Tywin, is also one of the most powerful figures in the Seven Kingdoms.
Unless you can grasp Cersei's real deadly handle-the three children she gave birth to the king are actually the product of her own brother Jaime Lannister's mess!
Otherwise, Cersei's queen status cannot be shaken by anyone.
It's a pity that although this secret in King's Landing should already be known, or at least suspected, but no one has been able to produce evidence.
This kind of thing is difficult to prove unless it can be caught in bed.
The fact that all three children have Lannister blond hair and not Baratheon black hair is not really proof.
After all, it is normal for the offspring to inherit the hair color of the mother.
In fact, in the eyes of most people, it is reasonable for the king's three children to be all blond.
After all, the Lannister family's blond hair has been inherited for more than six thousand years since the legendary "smart" Lann stole the sun's rays and dyed his hair golden (this is simply a genetic miracle ), and the Baratheon family has a total history of no more than 300 years. Therefore, "the golden color of the lion suppresses the carbon black of the stag" seems to be a matter of course.
So for so many years, King Robert has never doubted why his three children are all blond.
Duke Renly obviously had no evidence, so he wanted to use this roundabout way to abolish the queen.
The real ironclad proof of Queen Cersei's deadly handle will have to wait until Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, will discover it from the tome book "The Genealogy and History of the Major Nobles of the Seven Kingdoms". A certain conspirator upset the fulcrum of the situation and used it to officially kick off the prelude to this power game.
Of course, this is all for later.
At this time, Samwell looked at the handsome Duke Renly on the dance floor, guessing the motive of the other party's plan in his heart.
Judging from his later performance in the Five Kings Rebellion, the Duke of Renly may have long coveted the Iron Throne.
But as the king's youngest brother, he is in line of succession behind Cersei's three children and second brother Stannis Baratheon.
This time, he deliberately wanted to abolish his eldest brother's empress, probably because he wanted to abolish the inheritance rights of the three children.
In this way, the only heir to the throne ahead of him is his second brother Stannis.
From Duke Renly's point of view, the elder brother's dislike of the second brother is almost obvious.
During the War of the Reavers, Stannis risked his life to defend Storm's End, the old lair of the Baratheon family and he became the Duke of Storm's End, but threw the outstanding Stannis to Dragonstone Island.
Although it is said that the Duke of Dragonstone has always had the implied meaning of being the prince of the Iron Throne, but that is the practice of the Targaryen dynasty. What does it have to do with the current Baratheon dynasty?
Dragonstone Island is not the place where the Baratheon family lived.
The land of the storm is.
Renly, who stayed in Storm's End and enjoyed the service of the entire storm, and Stannis who could only enjoy the sea breeze on the barren Dragonstone Island, and so he probably had no doubts about his elder brother's preference for a long time in his heart.
Therefore, in Duke Renly's view, as long as Queen Cersei is abolished and her three children are deprived of the right to inherit, the first heir to the Iron Throne must be himself.
Samwell put down the knife and fork, and suddenly thought of another question—what role did the Tyrell family play in it?
Then, a playful smile appeared on his face.
When watching TV dramas in his previous life, he noticed that many characters who were considered to be the protagonists in the drama would often die suddenly soon. It seemed that the author deliberately showed the cruelty of power struggle and the impermanence of fate in this way.
However, if you think about it carefully, you can find that the death of these protagonists seems to be impermanent, but there are traces to follow, and they are even predestined.
This game of power is actually just a game played by a few conspirators. They hide behind the scenes, and their deeds and thoughts are almost invisible to the audience.
And those so-called "protagonists" are actually just puppets in the hands of these real players. They are pulled by the threads of honor, hatred, love, power... and fight, fight, and die in the center of the stage... They watched wonderful and soul-stirring dramas, but even until they died, they might not be able to figure out why they died.
Isn't the young, noble and charming Duke Renly in front of him just such a "protagonist"?
And the person holding the silk thread behind him at this time is probably one of the top players in this game—"Queen of Thorns" Lady Olenna.
Think about it carefully, how did Duke Renly know that Miss Margaery looks like King Robert's old lover?
Samwell guessed that the biggest possibility is that the "Knight of Flowers" Loras "inadvertently" mentioned this matter to Duke Renly when he was playing around.
Then, Duke Renly, who had coveted the Iron Throne for a long time, rushed to Highgarden—
no, not Highgarden, but to Hightower .
Would the wily Lady Olenna let Duke Renly go to Highgarden, that would show that the Tyrell family was also involved.
In the name of visiting relatives, Margaery and Duke Renly "encountered" in the Hightower , which is not so conspicuous.
In the future, if this plot to abolish the empress succeeds, the Tyrell family can pretend to be innocent and let Duke Renly bear the wrath of the Lannister family in the West.
And if it doesn't work... anyway, the Tyrell family didn't pay anything.
It was just an "accidental" mention of Loras and a portrait of Margaery, which made Duke Renly, go around and take all the risks for the queen of the Tyrell family.
Samwell felt more and more that this kind of subtle and smooth scheming method should be the handiwork of LadyOlenna, the "Queen of Thorns".
Moreover, he is sure that if Margaery succeeds in becoming queen, Lady Olenna will definitely abandon Duke Renly as soon as possible, whether he is used as a scapegoat to calm the anger of the West, or to be the Tyrell family pawn in the future , Duke Renly's tragic end is doomed.
Poor young Lord of Storm's End who can't see this clearly, and is still working here for nothing.
It seems that the blacksmith in King's Landing was quite accurate in his evaluation of the three Baratheon brothers -
the eldest Robert is real steel, which can withstand the fire; the second Stannis is pig iron, which is too hard and easy to break; Third Renli is bright copper, which looks beautiful, but it is not worth a lot of money.
When the song ended, the men and women on the dance floor stopped and walked outside.
Duke Renly took Miss Margery to the small room next to hall.
Seeing his "predetermined" wife being taken away, Samwell didn't panic at all.
Because he knew Renly's plan would never succeed.
If it was someone else, he might have to worry about the other person doing something other than painting, but Lord Renly.
Not only is this guy a "bright copper," he's gay.
If he say's he want's to paint, he really want's to paint.
Samwell chuckled, and lowered his head to get the goldentail shrimp, but he was surprised to find that the table was empty!
Damn, was it eaten up.
Should i ask Earl Layton for it again?
But would this be too much...
Sir Caesar, who knew everything, became distressed.
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