Chapter 478: Cleaning Up the Trash, I Want It All

Heavy rain fell from the sky.

The burning King's Landing was quickly extinguished by the fire. After the flames burned, King's Landing completely lost its resistance, and Daenerys' army quickly captured the city.

After occupying the city, Daenerys ordered a ban on looting the city. If it were any other army, it would basically be impossible to do this.

But Daenerys's army is different. This army is entirely promoted by her from slaves, and her prestige in the army is extremely high. At the same time, the army has military pay, strict military discipline, and does not rely on looting at all.

Daenerys ordered that after entering the city, looting, burning, looting, and raping women were prohibited. At the same time, she sent out military police to announce her order that no one should disturb the people.

At the same time, he ordered the clearing out of the city's rioters and ruffians who took the opportunity to burn, kill, loot, and rape women.

Daenerys ordered the soldiers to take control of the palace as soon as possible and occupy all important areas in the city. After everything was settled, Daenerys led the wizard group into the city.

The heavy rain washed away the bloody smell in the city, and eight hundred armored guards escorted Daenerys' carriage slowly into the city gate.

The iron hooves trampled the water, and the rumbling sound of horse hooves stepped on the stone slabs of the street. Civilians on both sides of the street secretly looked out through the cracks in the doors and windows.

I saw a luxurious carriage, escorted by a group of armored guards, slowly passing through the street and all the way to the palace.

Daenerys entered the palace surrounded by people. At this time, everyone in the palace was kneeling at the gate. Daenerys walked past these people and came to the meeting hall in the palace.

"Did Cersei and the nobles catch them?" Daenerys asked.

"Your Majesty, we found a passage. Cersei should have escaped through the passage, but the interior of the passage collapsed and we couldn't catch up with her." A general next to him said with some shame.

Daenerys nodded. "If they haven't been caught, then send people to search. Even if there is a secret passage in the city, they can't get far."

"Yes!"

"Order the soldiers to go to the barracks to rest, send people to buy cattle, sheep, wine and food from the merchants in the city, and issue three months' salary as a reward to all soldiers!" Daenerys said, and the political officer next to her quickly recorded.

"Oh, send someone to count the population of the city, and then distribute 20 kilograms of food and half a quarter of a kilogram of salt to all the civilians and poor people in the city."

Soon the residents of the city discovered that these soldiers not only did not harass the people, but they even took the initiative to maintain public order and killed all those who took advantage of the unrest to cause trouble.

Seeing these people's behavior, the residents in the city gradually put their minds at ease. They were very surprised at these unique soldiers.

Over the years, Westeros has been plagued by frequent wars, and many people in the city have fled here from other places, and they know the moral character of those disorderly soldiers very well.

Whether it is the regular army or other soldiers, there is no one who does not plunder.

Some armies were fine, just looting, but some were atrocious. This was the first time I had seen such an army.

Soon, when these people were confused, the soldiers began to knock on doors from house to house, and then delivered a bag of food and a small bag of salt to each family.

Looking at the food and salt in their hands, the residents were all shocked.

The people, who originally did not react much to Daenerys' arrival, this time directly recognized her as the queen here.

After Daenerys' training in the Bay of Dragons, she had enough experience in ruling a city. With just a few simple favors, she successfully won the hearts of the people of King's Landing.

At this time, Daenerys received more support in King's Landing than Cersei.

After occupying King's Landing, Daenerys did not become arrogant. She originally had some expectations in her heart, but after seeing the various fancy actions of Cersei and these nobles, she no longer had much sense of accomplishment in defeating these people.

Daenerys has no intention of letting the nobles in King's Landing go easily, nor does she intend to let the church that believes in the Seven Gods go.

Daenerys knew very well what kind of people these nobles were. The nobles who were loyal to their Targaryen family had either left or died. The current nobles were brought by Robert when he was king.

Daenerys was not polite to these nobles and directly sent people to take them away. Daenerys did not intend to let these nobles go. If she let them go, what would happen to the knights who followed her?
If she doesn't deal with these nobles, what can she use to benefit the knights?

Therefore, the fate of those nobles here has long been determined.

Daenerys quickly ordered people to deal with those nobles. Those who cooperated actively were given a chance to survive, while those who resisted to the end were killed along with their entire family.

In addition to these nobles, Daenerys also began to capture those religious groups. Originally, Daenerys was not very interested in religion, and this time, after seeing the ambitions of these religions, she naturally would not keep them.

Although the religion has its own armed forces due to Cersei's orders, how can these armed forces compare with Daenerys?
Cersei also has to estimate the influence of religion and the loyalty of his soldiers, but Daenerys has no such scruples. On the second day of occupying King's Landing, Daenerys directly ordered that the church must take over all its weapons and no weapons would be allowed in the future.

At the same time, the church was prohibited from collecting tithes from the people, and was prohibited from collecting taxes from the people in any form. Not only was it not allowed to collect taxes, but all lands, mines, and workshops occupied by the church were also required to pay taxes to the state in accordance with regulations.

From today on, churches no longer enjoy tax exemptions.

After Daenerys's decree was conveyed, the people in the city were very happy, after all, they paid less taxes.

However, due to the strength of their faith and the church, these civilians dared not express their dissatisfaction. On the other hand, the church was furious after seeing Daenerys's decree.

You know, the church put Cersei on trial not long ago.

This was the first time in hundreds of years that the church had overwhelmed the king with divine power. And after the church had armed forces, it was unwilling to lose them.

In their view, even if Daenerys occupied King's Landing, if she wanted to secure her position as the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, she must respect the church and be crowned by the Archbishop.

In the end, they didn't say a single thing about the conditions they wanted, and now Daenerys is actually starting to reduce their rights. How could the church agree?
As soon as Daenerys issued the decree, the church directly threw Daenerys's decree into the fire.

"Who does that woman think she is? How dare she give such an order!" said the cardinal angrily.

"She thinks that by defeating that loser Cersei, she can become the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms?"

"Arrogant woman, she will pay the price!"

"We must let her know the strength of the church!" a group of people said angrily. After experiencing the trial of Cersei, these people's awe of the royal power had completely dissipated.

Daenerys is just another Cersei to them.

"Let the people below give our Queen a little shock!" said the leading archbishop in a cold voice.

After issuing the decree, Daenerys did not relax her vigilance. She knew very well that those churches would never give up the power in their hands, and they would definitely try.

Next come the means of these religions.

Daenerys had been prepared for this. When she entered the city, she immediately ordered the distribution of food to the people in order to win their hearts.

She did not expect to be able to bring the people and the church on par in such a short period of time. She just needed to keep the people neutral for the time being.

Then take advantage of this time to clean up those churches.

As she expected, after she issued the decree, many people gathered near the church that afternoon, and a large number of believers gathered there.

The bishops of the church were also here, and soon the church meetings began to openly oppose Daenerys's decrees and denounce them as blasphemy.

At the same time, a large number of church members were constantly connecting with each other in various parts of the city, trying to win over the city's residents to join them in opposing.

After hearing the news, Daenerys immediately ordered martial law in the city and all the people returned home. At the same time, she ordered soldiers to patrol at all intersections.

Under the protection of a large number of soldiers, most of the people returned to their homes, but there were still many hardliners and fanatical believers gathered.

Even the church's armed forces were involved.

After identifying these people, Daenerys directly ordered a purge of the church. Daenerys was not afraid of the church's rebellion, but she was worried that the church's people would not fight against her, but would go underground and enter the poor to sabotage her.

As for the armed forces of the church, Daenerys didn't care at all. The strength of the church was at most a few thousand or tens of thousands of people. Although these forces looked powerful, they were not as good as the same number of soldiers from the seven countries in a real fight.

The main reason for this is that war is a large-scale battle, not a small-scale battle. These are two completely different things.

The armed forces of the church had no experience in major wars, only small-scale battles, and they did not understand legionary warfare at all.

After seeing these people gathering, Daenerys immediately ordered the army to attack on all fronts. She wanted to uproot these churches.

Daenerys didn't want to ban religion before, but after she became pregnant and had to hand over the empire to her son, she thought differently.

All churches must submit to the king.

Under her orders, a large number of troops began to gather in the city. Just as those people began to try to attack the outpost, Daenerys's attack order was issued. Tens of thousands of soldiers directly attacked the church from all directions.

At this time, the church was also ready to attack Daenerys, and the two sides began to fight in the city.

The knights under Daenerys led the soldiers to attack. All members of these knights had activated the seeds of life, and the strongest knight had become a great knight.

With these extraordinary knights leading the way, Daenerys doesn't have to worry about the power of the church at all.

One after another, the extraordinary knights rushed forward. These knights wearing heavy armor and with tyrannical strength were simply not something ordinary people could deal with. Even if the church knights were quite powerful, they could not withstand a few attacks from these people.

These extraordinary knights were like tanks, crushing all the enemies in their way. With the swing of the heavy sword, the church knights were directly killed, and the powerful force tore through the armor, leaving corpses everywhere.

The charge of the three hundred knights was unstoppable, and all the enemies that stood in their way were killed. The ground was littered with corpses.

Soon, a large number of church soldiers were scared by the knights under Daenerys. In their eyes, these knights wearing heavy armor and running fast were demons and monsters. They could wear heavy armor weighing dozens of kilograms and still run fast.

The heavily-armored knights among them tried to stop them, but were easily killed by these people.

Following Daenerys's announcement, soldiers launched attacks from all directions of the city, and those people in the church never expected that Daenerys would dare to take action first.

At the same time, their initial plan was to launch a demonstration, and then take the opportunity to attack the palace, capture Daenerys, and put her on trial. They never thought that they would be surrounded.

So these people didn't even think about defense.

As a result, when they encountered Daenerys' army, the churches were completely unprepared.

Soon, Daenerys' army advanced rapidly, and the armed forces loyal to the church were quickly slaughtered by the soldiers. Even those fanatics lost their former piety in front of the sword and wanted to flee.

But how could Daenerys possibly give them a chance?
From the beginning, Daenerys never thought of letting these people go, not only the nobles and the church, but also those fanatical believers.

Daenerys has no good feelings towards these fanatics. The last time those fanatics of the Son of the Banshee messed up Meereen.

If she had not received Richard's help in the end and had not issued the order to clear out the enemies firmly, Longwan would not have been unified until now.

These fanatical believers have no idea of ​​right and wrong. In their eyes, only the gods are right, and for this reason they will use various means to attack the army.

This time, Daenerys deliberately let the church gather all these fanatical believers in order to catch them all in one fell swoop.

Daenerys ordered the army to attack and kill all the people. This time the action against the church was very swift and decisive.

Daenerys has been coveting the church for a long time. The church owns a lot of land, mines, and workshops in various places, which is why they have the money to build an army.

Daenerys has coveted the church's assets for a long time.

In the past, the church controlled one-fifth of the land in the Seven Kingdoms. How could Daenerys continue to allow the church to control so much land?

Under Daenerys' attack, the armed forces of the church began to retreat, a large number of soldiers died, and soon these people captured the cathedral.

(End of this chapter)

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