Chapter 74: Lazar seeks students

In the evening, the blood-red setting sun enveloped the free city-state of Meereen, and the main streets in the city were filled with free people returning home from get off work.

Suddenly there was a commotion and many onlookers looked in the direction of the sound.

It turned out that Barristan had returned with the "Lazar exchange student".

As early as a few days ago, Dany announced that she would form a knighthood of fifty people.

Excluding the twenty Lazar students, there are still thirty places left to be selected from the commoners and nobles of Meereen. Anyone under the age of 18 can participate in the selection.

At that time, some neutral Meereen nobles sent all their second sons over, and even more free people participated in the selection.

When the final selection results came out, only six freemen were selected, and the remaining 24 places were all for nobles.

This incident caused a lot of discussion among the free people at the time, and they suspected that there was some shady deal going on.

But the fact is that the physical constitution of noble boys is better than that of free citizens. They are well-nourished and do not lack the most basic education.

Giving twenty places to the Lazar people at that time also caused dissatisfaction among some nobles and civilians.

Many nobles whose second sons were not chosen believed that the lowly Laza people did not deserve the opportunity to be knighted by Her Majesty the Queen herself.

Therefore, as soon as the twenty Lazar boys entered the city, they attracted a crowd of onlookers. They wanted to see whether these Lazar people had supernatural powers and could directly get the twenty places!

The Lazar people finally seized this opportunity and naturally sent out their twenty most outstanding young men.

Borhaci looked at this group of somewhat excited passers-by and couldn't help but ask Barristan curiously whether they were too popular.

Barristan raised his eyebrows. He had never seen such a confident Lazar person. In his impression, Lazar people were always timid.

"Of course not. They want to beat you up. If they hadn't considered that littering would result in fines from the Ministry of Health set up by the Prime Minister's Tower, they would have thrown away rotten leaves and feces long ago."

Borhaci was stunned and a little confused.

"Sir, may I ask why they are so hostile to us? Didn't Her Majesty the Queen form an alliance with our Laza tribe?"

Barristan was in a good mood, so he explained, "It is precisely because of the alliance that His Majesty showed great sincerity and gave you Lazar people twenty places."

Seeing that Borhaci still had some sense, Barristan gave him some more advice:

"Don't underestimate me for only appointing you as the most basic knights, but the significance of this is very important.

Once you have made great contributions in the process of liberating the entire Slave Bay, His Majesty will naturally confer titles on you.

In other words, you are the candidates for the future dukes, marquises, and earls of Slaver Bay."

There was a gleam in Borhaci's eyes.

He is 18 years old, and in these short 18 years, the town built by his family has suffered hundreds of attacks.

Every time the town had just accumulated some savings, the centaurs would come to plunder, the livestock would be swept away, and people would be sold to slave owners like livestock.

When he was nine years old, a Dothraki broke into his room, but he attacked him with a dagger and died on the spot.

From that day on, he understood that centaurs could also die. Centaurs were not invincible devils. They would die even if their throats were pierced by a dagger!

Therefore, Borhaci was determined to change the situation of the Lazar people. He believed that if this continued, the Lazar people would sooner or later be wiped out by other races.

For the next nine years, he persuaded his father to rise up in resistance.

But his father always said that for the survival and continuation of the tribe, they must not resist.

Just when Borhaci was about to accept his fate, Daenerys's messenger arrived.

The messenger stated that the Dragon Queen was willing to form an alliance with the Laza people and send the Unsullied to provide shelter for the Laza towns.

Borhaci was ecstatic at the time. With the protection of the Unsullied, he no longer had to fear the looting of the centaurs.

But later Borhaci discovered that the Dragon Queen's Unsullied only provided shelter for towns, and many small tribes did not have the strength to build towns, so they could only continue to endure looting.

Until recently, the Dragon Queen was preparing to select 20 people from the Laza people to be appointed as knights and teach them how to lead troops in battle and govern the country.

So the twenty strongest Lhaza tribes all sent their best second sons to Meereen.

Borhaci even gave up his right to inherit the tribe and volunteered.

Although the Laza people are gentle, even cowardly, they are not stupid and naturally have their own thoughts.

The population of the Lhasa people has dropped from more than 10 million at the beginning to less than 2 million now.

The five largest tribes knew that if they continued in this way, their race might really be extinct.

If you want your race to remain immortal, there are only two ways: find someone to rely on or resist on your own.

It is not realistic to seek asylum from someone, as this would offend the fierce Dothraki or even the Gis people of Slaver's Bay.

If they rise up in resistance, no one will be willing to form an alliance with the cowardly Laza people.

Just as the Lazar leaders were racking their brains, a Dragon Queen suddenly emerged in Slave Bay and liberated the slaves.

What made the Laza people even more ecstatic was that when they were still hesitating whether the Mother of Dragons was willing to form an alliance with the Laza people, the other side's envoys had already arrived at the Laza Plain.

And the conditions offered are very sincere.

Not only did he have the protection of the Unsullied, but he was also willing to purchase food at a high price, and finally promised to help the Laza people build the city in the future.

So the Laza people also showed their sincerity.

That is to lower food prices.

If the Lazars have anything to offer, it must be food.

The horse people were not good at cooking carbohydrate staples, so they mostly plundered livestock and people, so the Laza people still had a lot of food.

Borhaci clenched his fists and made up his mind to become the greatest duke. Once he was strong enough, he would kill all the Dothraki and destroy their nation and race!

Barristan did not notice the change in Borhaci's expression, and continued to talk incessantly about the etiquette he should observe when he met His Majesty.

Soon Barristan brought everyone to the bottom of the True Dragon Pyramid.

Borhaci looked at the current True Dragon Pyramid with shock.

A huge black dragon is carved on the entrance gate, with the three large characters "True Dragon Hall" cast in gold above it.

Borhaci once saw the Great Pyramid when he followed his father to sell grain. At that time, the bronze statue of the harpy above the pyramid was replaced by a statue of a giant dragon.

And not only above the pyramid, almost all the portraits and sculptures of the Sons of the Harpy in Meereen were replaced with black dragons.

Barristan looked at the twenty people behind him and reminded them again not to offend Her Majesty the Queen before leading them into the Dragon Hall.