Game of Thrones: The Red Dragon Lord.

Chapter 196 Situation

Time passed quietly, and Gavin had stayed in Astapor for more than a month.

Today, the war outside Astapor is raging, and the situation is in chaos. With the help of material aid and the Blood Dragon Guards, the fugitives and bandits who were once suppressed are like wild beasts that have escaped from their cages, and they have grown rapidly in a short period of time.

Afterwards, they attacked one village after another with unstoppable force, killed the good masters inside, liberated the imprisoned slaves, and called themselves the rebels under the banner of "kill all the good masters and liberate the slaves."

Faced with the rebels' butcher knives, the once benevolent ruler's rule outside the city completely collapsed at this moment.

Many slaves who learned the news escaped and joined the resistance, causing their power to snowball.

The number of slaves in the uprising once reached 50,000, until they successfully captured a town not long ago.

After the news reached Astapor, the benevolent leaders in the city fell into extreme panic and confusion. They did not understand why the riot, which was about to be extinguished, was now intensifying. Later, the countless benevolent leaders who fled to the city for refuge made them fully understand the seriousness of the matter.

So, in the most magnificent pyramid in Astapor, countless nobles and benevolent leaders gathered here, and an emergency meeting was being held.

In the luxurious yet tense palace, Kraznymonakros, who was sitting at the top seat, had a gloomy face. He was the current ruler of Astapor, and now that the slave rebellion happened during his reign, he could not shirk his responsibility at all.

Moreover, the scale of the riot was unprecedented, and many benefactors suffered losses. Some ordinary benefactors were fine, but the key was those benefactors with noble status, who might even need compensation from their Nakros family.

Kraznys looked around and saw that all the nobles had gathered. He stood up and said loudly: "Everyone, some of you may know the situation outside the city, and some of you may not. Now, those lowly slaves have grown to a considerable scale in just over a month. They constantly attack our villages, plunder supplies, kill good masters, and even broke through the town of Sand Scar not long ago, killing all the good masters in the city. Now these rioting slaves have threatened Astapor. If they are not curbed, the consequences will be disastrous."

As soon as these words were spoken, there was an uproar in the conference room and everyone was whispering to each other.

A young benefactor dressed in gorgeous robes and with an arrogant face frowned and questioned: "Isn't it just a slave riot? Those slaves are capable of attacking the city?"

Another elderly benefactor responded, "It's true. All my properties in Sandmark Town were lost. Besides, the town's walls were not very high, and there wasn't much defense, so it was normal for them to be breached."

The young master asked in confusion: "How come I heard that the riot was suppressed before? Did my servant lie to me?"

Hearing his question, the old good master nodded with a worried look on his face and said, "I heard that too. It's really strange. Those slaves suddenly became different. I heard that the slave soldiers outside the city suffered heavy losses."

At this moment, a fat, ferocious-looking man slammed the table and stood up.

The good masters all fell silent upon seeing this. The man who stood up was called Grazdanmo Urho, the patriarch of the Urho family.

His Urho family and Nakros family are both Gis noble families with a history of thousands of years, and the names of family members all contain the honorable title "Mo".

The two families have a high status and influence in the political system of Astapor. They have always taken turns to govern and manage Astapor, and Grazdan Mourho is the confirmed next ruler.

Grazdan stared at Kraznys coldly and shouted angrily: "It's all because of your poor governance! These slaves have taken advantage of the situation! Look at the current situation, it's a mess, you are absolutely to blame!" Another good master who had a good relationship with him also echoed: "That's right, you should have taken measures against these escaped slaves at the first time, instead of letting them grow stronger. You are irresponsible to our Astapor!"

Facing these accusations, Krazny Monakros's face became more and more ugly, but he just couldn't refute it. Finally, he suppressed his anger and said: "I have been paying attention to the movements of the escaped slaves and have continuously sent slave soldiers to encircle and suppress them, but the fighting power of those slaves is very strong. We have lost more than ten teams of slave soldiers. And I didn't expect their development speed to be so fast. I admit that I am responsible for this matter, but now is not the time to pursue these things. We should discuss how to deal with it."

As soon as Kraznys finished speaking, the calmer Aiel clan leader stood up and said, "Everyone, calm down. This is not Kraznys' fault. Every year there are slave riots outside Astapor. This is not uncommon because there will always be restless slaves. This is why we built the Punishment Square. What surprises me is that the scale of this incident is really too large. It seems that all the escaped slaves suddenly rose up overnight without any signs. Most importantly, all the bandits and escaped slaves started to act at the same time. We must find out if there is any conspiracy behind this."

"I suspect someone is supporting them from behind," said another good leader, "otherwise they wouldn't have been able to organize such a large team in such a short time. Perhaps other city-states want to take this opportunity to weaken our power."

"Whether there is a conspiracy or not, we can't just sit there and do nothing." Kraznys said loudly, "I suggest sending out the Unsullied to teach those escaped slaves a lesson!"

But then, his proposal was immediately opposed by everyone:

"It's just a slave uprising, there's no need to use the Unsullied."

"It takes too long to train the Unsullied. It's not worth losing any of them. There are still so many slave soldiers."

"I only have over a hundred Unsullied. It would be a huge loss if I lost any of them."

Grazdan stood up again and shouted angrily: "Kraznys, don't think I don't know that you have already sold your Unsullied. Your proposal is to let everyone pay for your stupidity."

Kraznys's expression became even uglier when he heard this. He loudly retorted, "That was a normal transaction, and I sold the Unsullied more than a month ago."

Grazdan sneered and said, "How ridiculous! You sold your Unsullied. No matter how you quell this rebellion, you won't lose anything."

After a pause, he looked at everyone and said, "Although the number of escaped slaves is not small, they are divided into many forces, the largest of which has no more than 5,000 people. Moreover, these slaves have never been trained, so an army of the same size can defeat them one by one. I propose that we gather the slave soldiers stationed in the northern towns and villages, so that we can form an army of 5,000 people to suppress the riot."

(End of this chapter)