Chapter 88 "Centaurs' Code"
"Yes, I raise horses for the Khals, I am loyal to you, Khaleesi, and I have made great contributions! Even though I am old and weak, and my military strength is not as good as theirs, I am far more qualified to be the leader of the Niulu."
Avanti murmured, and his eyes became brighter and brighter, as if he had discovered the truth that he had always ignored.
Dany saw their expressions and nodded secretly: the power structure of the centaurs began to change today.
Any stable political structure is in the shape of a pyramid, and what kind of foundation will pile up what kind of "top of the pyramid".
Dany wants the top of the centaur political pyramid to belong to "Emperor Dany" instead of "Dani Khaleesi", so the lower structure must change.
The new political structure will spontaneously pile up the throne she expects, and will also instinctively maintain this structure.
"From today on, merit, that is, the contribution to the Khals, will determine a person's position and status. Do you agree?" Dany shouted to her Niulu leader.
"Agree." They answered in unison without any hesitation.
Of course they agree!
Because in Dany's new political system, they may not be the strongest in terms of military power, but they must be the ones who have made the greatest contributions - the merits of following the dragon!
As time goes by, even if the Kars becomes larger and larger, and even unifies the Dothraki Sea, they can still guarantee their own rights and interests.
This is to protect their own interests. Anyone who disagrees is a fool.
"I always feel that Her Royal Highness has brought some... I don't know how to describe the huge changes to the centaurs."
Jorah saw the excited Dany and her centaurs on the deck, and felt that something big had happened, but he was not sure what it had happened.
"From now on, Her Royal Highness, the Dothraki of Kars will only recognize her, and her descendants will be hers after her death. As long as the dragon grows up, the Dothraki will change their surname to Targaryen." Whitebeard widened his eyes and trembled in shock. "She is indeed a Targaryen, a natural king, and perhaps the greatest king of the Targaryen family."
"More than Aegon the Conqueror?" Jorah said in disbelief.
"Perhaps, Aegon's mind is not as broad as hers." The old man murmured.
He actually wanted to say ambition, but the old man was not sure whether the princess did it intentionally or unintentionally.
Dany walked up to a centaur slave and asked in Dothraki: "Are you willing to join my khals and abide by my rules?"
"I" The centaur girl in her early 20s looked at her timidly, then immediately lowered her eyes and said in a mosquito-like voice: "I am willing to listen to Khaleesi."
"Lower your head!" Dany said.
The centaur girl lowered her head obediently, and Dany personally opened the copper collar on the back of her neck.
"Click!" The heavy collar slammed heavily on the wooden deck, and the centaur girl seemed to have unloaded the burden on her shoulders, and inexplicably felt much lighter.
"You are free, now, you are once again a rebellious horseman."
"Woo woo woo" For some reason, the centaur girl cried excitedly after hearing Khaleesi's light words.
Dany ignored her and walked to the next slave, asking: "Join my KaLS, I will give you freedom and dignity, but you must swear to abide by my rules. Are you willing?"
"I do, Khaleesi."
"Dongdongdong" collars were taken off one after another, and slaves became new members of the KaLS.
"My first rule is to reward for merit, you already know it. Now, I issue the second law to promote the marriage system."
Dany glanced at the centaurs and said loudly: "I swear in the name of Khaleesi that your marriage will be protected and blessed by the entire KaLS and my dragon.
Any act of robbing someone else's wife will be considered illegal.
Similarly, marriage is free, and the man and woman who are united must be willing, and must not be forced, otherwise their marriage will not only not be protected and blessed, but will also be punished.
Children born after the marriage have the right to inherit the horses, scimitars, bows and arrows and other property left by their parents."
There is no title among the centaurs now, but there will definitely be titles, or something similar to titles in the future, and then she will also list the title as an inheritable inheritance.
Small nobles inherit the title, and only the biggest nobles can inherit the throne!
Dany also said a lot. With her knowledge, she almost formulated the most advanced marriage system in this era.
But after she finished speaking, her heart began to beat. It was not that she was worried that the centaurs would not abide by her rules, but she doubted whether the centaurs could remember all her rules.
In addition, the centaurs have a language but no writing.
She couldn't even write a notice that everyone could understand.
However, Dany still found a roll of parchment and wrote the two laws of "Reward for Merit" and "Protection of Marriage" in black and white.
The High Valyrian language was used.
There is no essential difference between "High Valyrian" and "City-State Valyrian". The former is the writing and language used by the ancient Valyrians, and the latter adds local dialects and accents, and the writing also incorporates the writing of this civilization.
Just like French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. all belong to the Latin language family, but are different from Latin.
Of course, the differences between the Valyrian languages of various city-states are not as great as those of various countries, and are more similar to the dialects of the Celestial Empire.
Although Daenerys had not received a formal education, Viserys had.
It would be strange if Targaryen did not know the high Valyrian language, but Dany had wandered in many city-states in the western continent and knew a lot of dialects of Valyrian.
After writing, Dany signed her name on the back, and in the dragon spirit state, she encouraged Big Black to sign his name - drawing a simple but extremely vivid self-portrait.
This made people around her amazed, and it did increase the sacredness of the "Centaurs Code" invisibly.
Finally, Dany asked all the leaders of the Niulu to sign and seal: she wrote their names first, and the centaurs followed suit, and then pressed their handprints.
Well, the names are all transliterated, and almost lost the meaning in the Dothraki language.
For example, the "Go", many centaurs have a "Go" in their names, Drogo, Rhaego, Aggo, Jhogo, Hago.
"Go" means strong and brave in the Dothraki language, and the hidden meaning is lost after transliteration.
Although the centaurs are barbaric, they attach great importance to oaths, and now signing is almost equivalent to swearing.
The ones who signed at this time were only the captains of the ten-man team. In the future, they may grow up to be the Gushan or even the flag master.
In this way, Dany's law will be implemented in this generation. When the next generation grows up, the second generation will face the oppression from the "ancestral laws" of their parents.
When the second generation who grew up under the ancestral laws grow old, they will unconsciously oppress the third generation to follow the rules they have been accustomed to for a lifetime.
If this continues, as long as Dany's horse empire does not collapse in a short period of time (at least three generations), her rules will become "known to everyone" among the horsemen.
Dany is not sure whether she can establish the thousand-year empire of the Targaryen family, but she knows that the civilization of the Dothraki will surely advance by leaps and bounds.
This "LS rectification" is not a whim, and Dany decided to do something that will shock the world.
The rectification of the centaurs is just a practice in advance.
Rolling up the "Centaurs Code" and holding it in her hand, Dany continued, "Rewards for merit will be implemented immediately from now on, but the marriage system cannot be established overnight. Let's take it slowly and proceed in three steps.
The first step is to create a few pairs of "model couples" so that everyone can intuitively feel the benefits and operation of the marriage system.
The second step is to open up the marriage system to everyone. All the horsemen in this card can freely choose to get married, or whatever...
The third step is that all new horsemen must have clear parents, and children born out of wedlock are considered illegitimate children."
While the horsemen were digesting this information, Dany smiled and said to Jorah and others, "I have thought of a surname for the illegitimate children of the horsemen. According to the tradition of the Seven Kingdoms, how about 'Godzilla'?"
The most abundant and least valuable thing in the Dothraki Sea is grass. In theory, 'Grass' is more accurate than 'Godzilla', but the surnames of illegitimate children have certain changes.
For example, the correct name for Blackfire is blackfire, but the actual situation is blackfyre, and the water in Viwater has also become waters.
Dany's way of addressing them does not violate the tradition of the Seven Kingdoms.
"Ordinary centaurs don't have surnames, do they?" Whitebeard disagreed. "Even Khal Drogo doesn't have a surname, but the illegitimate son has a surname of Godzilla. Doesn't this encourage everyone to have illegitimate children?"
Dany smiled mysteriously at the old man, "You will find that they will gradually have surnames."
"How? Surnames are inherited from ancestors and have special meanings. You can't just give them one randomly, right?" Whitebeard shook his head.
Hehehe, you foreigners are still too shallow.
How did the surnames of the Great Celestial Empire come from?
Surnames first appeared among the nobles. Ordinary people didn't have surnames at all, so where did the surnames of the nobles come from?
Most of them evolved from the names of fiefs.
In the future, Dany will use surnames as a reward to bestow meritorious officials.
As for the common people who have no merit, just wait for the nobles to get their daughters and wives pregnant!
Well, it doesn't matter whether it is really their baby, at least let the nobles think it is their own baby.
Or, learn from the Japanese, and call a baby born while farming "Tanaka", a baby born by the bridge "Watanabe", and a baby born by the stream "Kawaguchi".
Whitebeard thought for a moment, and said to Dany hesitantly: "You shouldn't let the blood guards get married and have children."
"Do you mean to learn the 'Kingsguard' system?"
"Yes, only in this way can we ensure that their hearts are all with you." The old man said.
Dany didn't think Whitebeard's words were heresy. Hundreds of years of history have proved the correctness of the Kingsguard system.
In the three hundred years of Targaryen history, there have been hundreds of Kingsguards. Except for Jaime Lannister, they have at most moral flaws, and their loyalty to the monarch has never changed.
There are three well-known scum Kingsguards. One slept with the king's lover (not the queen), one secretly gave birth to a bunch of illegitimate children (the Kingsguard is abstinent and is not allowed to hold hands), and the last one is Jaime, who killed the king.
Compared with those who died in battle to protect their masters, the proportion of scum is too low.
It can be said that the Kingsguard is to the knight civilization of Westeros what the dragon is to the magic civilization of Valyria.
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