Chapter 298 Allegiance to the Golden Group

Aegon's year 292, a New Year's celebration.

"His Majesty."

"Your order is in the direction of the banner of the Golden Corps."

In the palace at the top of the nine pagodas.

The current leader of the Golden Corps, Myth Toin, fell to his knees in the center of the hall, expressing his submission to King Viserys.

The banner of the Golden Regiment is made from the boiled flesh of the skulls of successive commanders and plated with gold.

These golden skulls hang under the military flag. Whenever the Golden Corps fights, they must be in front of the battle. In the direction pointed by the golden flag, all the warriors of the Golden Corps take the lead.

The Golden Group actually got in touch with Illyrio before the Dothraki attacked Pantos half a year ago, and then got in touch with Jon Clinton and Viserys.

The Golden Corps wanted to join the Targaryen family, and like the Windblown Corps, it transformed from a mercenary to a regular army of the Targaryen family.

The Golden Corps has more than 10,000 soldiers, and it is natural that they want to join the Targaryen family. This is what they asked Illyrio and Jon Clinton to lobby.

Many of the commanders of the Golden Corps are actually descendants of survivors who participated in the "Blackfire Rebellion" during the Targaryen Dynasty.

Many of them are even "distant relatives" of Viserys, because Blackfire itself is a branch of the Targaryen family, and it belongs to the hidden danger left by Aegon IV's legalization of illegitimate children.

However, they do have the blood of Targaryen flowing in their bodies, but they are extremely thin.

The rest are the descendants of nobles and knights who once stood on the side of Daemon Blackfire.

Their fiefs, titles and properties in the country have long been confiscated, so they were forced to live in Essos, and they have been unable to return to their homeland for generations.

The Golden Company initially demanded from Viserys that the Golden Company pledged allegiance to House Targaryen and helped Viserys return to Westeros to regain the Iron Throne, and Viserys promised to restore the territories and titles of these nobles. .

However, this condition was categorically rejected by Viserys.

Although the loyalty of the 10,000 warriors of the Golden Corps is tempting, Viserys is not short of major generals today, and it is not just those who rely on the Golden Corps.

Now under the new political system, everyone starts over and has the opportunity to become a noble and climb to a high position.

The commanders of the Golden Corps were easily promised a high position, and it would cool the hearts of the soldiers who had been following Viserys on the expedition.

And it will also provide obstacles for those nobles who want to surrender when they attack Westeros in the future.

After Viserys rejected this offer from the Golden Company, another period of time passed.

The 80,000 Dothraki siege of Pantos failed, and the arrogant and arrogant Dothraki rode their horses and fled like lost dogs.

Afterwards, the fleeing Dothraki turned their horses around after escaping from the range of Pantos, and suddenly launched an attack to wash Mir's blood. Actively broke the contract and fled to Volantis.

The Golden Group's escape from the battle also indirectly caused Mir to be bloodbathed by the Dothraki without any resistance.

And not long after this incident, the messenger of the Golden Company came to Pantos again.

This time they no longer mention the previous conditions, but put their attitude very low.

This time, the Golden Company only asked Viserys to issue an edict in writing to absolve the descendants of the family who had participated in the "Black Fire Rebellion".

Let them participate in the promotion system with a fair attitude, and rely on military merit to retake the ancestral title and fief.

Viserys agreed without hesitation for this new condition offered by the Golden Corps.

If the people of the Golden Company are all descendants of the former "rebels", and the Targaryen family lost the Iron Throne, the nobles of Westeros who now swear allegiance to the usurper are all "rebels".

Viserys can forgive them, why can't they accept the Golden Company?

and.

The 'Black Fire Rebellion' that happened once had nothing to do with him.

Since he is not a real 'Targaryen', no one but himself knows about it.

And the country he wants to build is not a continuation of the Targaryen dynasty.

Rather, it is similar to the connection between the Western Han and Eastern Han, and there is not much connection other than the name.

In the future history, it is not that the great Targaryen dynasty experienced ten years of rebellion and turmoil, the Iron Throne was briefly stolen by the usurper, and then the great Viserys III revived on the other side of the Narrow Sea to retake the Iron Throne.

Viserys has now established a completely different system in both Andalos and Pentos.

He's not really 'Viserys', and he's not from this world, and that's one of his biggest secrets.

He was once fortunate to have received a good education, grew up in a peaceful and comfortable environment, no wars, no hunger, no poverty.

Therefore, when Viserys first came to this world as an adult, he seemed at a loss and trembling.

Even killing a person, which is considered commonplace in this world, requires courage.

Viserys knew what a more advanced political system would be in the future, with the people in charge, but he couldn't copy it.

Because things are too out of date, imposing them will only cause more trouble.

So Viserys has had a long time to think about it, and he's been thinking about it since Andalus was just established.

In the end, it took a few years, after learning and understanding, to sew on the basis of the original political aristocratic system in this world, and put on some patches that were useful to him.

For example, the power of the fief aristocrats was consolidated, the centralization of power was strengthened, the military and political divisions were separated, and the system of military merit promotion was strengthened.

Because of these various policies, the Targaryen family's army has maintained a high combat effectiveness.

These are not just acquired by training.

It is for these reasons that Viserys can say that the country he wants to build is not a continuation of the Targaryen dynasty, and that Oberyn sees Viserys as a very special person.

"History is a wheel that rolls forward, going down from one point and then back to the starting point in a circle, over and over again. ’

Oberon believes that Viserys will break the wheel of this cycle and let the times begin to change and change differently.

Viserys agreed to the conditions of the Golden Company, and accepted the descendants of these once sinful nobles and knights.

He personally issued an edict, and in the name of King Viserys III, pardoned the guilt on their heads in writing.

In fact, Viserys can also understand the descendants of these sinners.

There was an edict that reassured the commanders of the Golden Corps that they would not worry that Viserys would suddenly turn his back on him one day.