The king on the Great Wall

"Master!" The girl was not at all frustrated, "Where are you going, I will go too!"

"No, I'm going to send my brothers in black and the recruits back to the Great Wall, a bunch of scum and rapists, nothing to see, you can either wait here or go back to the Red Castle." Iger shook his head and promised to go north Take one of the prisoners who joined the Night's Watch, and the Starks can't see it.

"I'm going to send it too!"

Iger raised his eyebrows: "Don't make trouble, be obedient."

The girl looked at the man angrily for a few seconds, then softened: "Well... well, then I'll wait for you in the room, how long will you be back?"

"Before the sun sets." The night watchman's expression softened: "Look at the store for the master, and there will be rewards when you come back."

"uh-huh!"

Iger nodded with satisfaction, and the first step of training Arya went smoothly.

Human beings are actually just animals. Compared with adults, the animal nature of children is obviously stronger than human nature, and the younger they are, the more so.And smart "animals" are extremely malleable.As long as you use various reward and punishment mechanisms to consciously guide her to form corresponding habits from the beginning, let her form a conditioned reflex, know when to make a request, she will agree, and when it is useless to act coquettishly, getting along with her will be much easier in the future ——The girl had already seen Iger's expression just now, and knew that his appearance meant that there was no need to discuss it, so she didn't continue to make noise.

Of course, these principles are easy to say, but it is still a bit difficult to do at the beginning. Iger also took advantage of the triple advantages of Arya's not bad personality and thinking that he is a master, and he is not afraid of offending her. The arrogance of the little princess of the Stark family has achieved such amazing results in a short period of time.And this obviously surprised the guards of Winterfell who were in charge of picking up Arya to and from school. The gray-robed soldier's eyes almost fell out: My arrogant lady, when did you become so obedient?

***

The night watchman’s first stronghold in the south is located in one of the two major “police stations” in King’s Landing, opposite to the East Camp of the garrison. There is no valuable or important thing in the office yet. After a brief explanation, Iger is relieved. Leaving Arya and the open door behind, rode to the northwest of King's Landing.

Riding out of the Gate of the Gods, he walked along the beginning of the King's Road for a few miles, and he quickly found Yoren and his party waiting for him here.

Two carriages were parked in the shade by the side of the road, one was pulling the wooden cages for the criminals, and the other was pulling some condiments, medicines, and spices that Yoren had just bought, the ones that Tyrion and Egger had provided for the Wall. The ship supplies greatly relieved Yoren's pressure, otherwise he might have spent a few days running around to make purchases and take care of the entire convoy.

In addition to the two carriages and the horses pulling the carts, there were five or six donkeys and a dozen people under the shade of the tree. The few orphans who came here squatted or stood on the side of the road boredly, watching curiously with the criminals who were forced to join the night watchman. The one coming over is obviously much more imposing, maybe this is the officer of the Night Watchman?

The shrewd man had already started thinking about how to please his future bosses, but Iger didn't give them a chance to waste his energy. He went straight to Yoren and said hello, and the latter jumped off the car.

"Did you change your mind?"

"Why change your mind?" Iger snorted and looked at the three people in the wooden cage.

Yoren was right to be afraid of these three people. One of the three in the wooden cage had no nose and only a dimple in his face; It looked like a ferocious beast; as for the last one with neat facial features and clean clothes, but with a gentle face and the first two, it seemed to be unscathed, and the sense of disobedience was so strong that it exploded.

Very ordinary, not at all the chic and handsome actors in TV dramas, Iger thought.If he hadn't been locked in this wooden cage, he wouldn't have been able to recognize Jaqen H'ghar from the crowd if he killed himself.As a spy and killer, the other party has achieved the "popular appearance".

But having said that, God knows if Jia Kun's current appearance is his true face?Does the faceless man change his appearance by relying more on the human skin mask, or is there magic involved?

He didn't let his eyes rest on the target for too long, and after deliberately looking around, he said loudly: "The Night Watchman's office needs help from someone who can read and write. Are any of you literate?"

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Chapter 78 Night Watchman Akun

In order to avoid the attention of the gold robes, Iger and Yoren deliberately chose a place outside the city wall to carry out this ulterior transaction.As soon as the problem came out, the surroundings were suddenly silent—in this era of single-digit literacy rates, "people who can read and write" are not a scarce but not abundant resource. If we meet again on this basis If you do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, you will be included in the "talent" category.The eligible members of the Great Wall garrison are either Benyan Stark and Jon Snow who voluntarily joined, or those who were forced to wear black because they stood on the wrong side in the war like Alliser Thorne Bad luck.But now is the era of peace, how could there be similar characters appearing here, led by a wave to the Great Wall?

Of the dozen or so recruits to the Night's Watch here, absolutely none can read - except Jaqen H'ghar.

Without any suspense, after a few seconds of silence, a gentle male voice sounded slowly.

"Someone happens to know some of the writings of Westeros."

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Can't someone say "I" properly?

Although he couldn't help complaining secretly, Iger knew in his heart that Jaqen was not pretending to be coercive, but was hiding his identity from Braavos: he was King's Landing disguised as a Lorras nobleman, and in Lorras, The upper classes consider calling themselves "I" extremely vulgar, and only use "someone" instead.

Although he was unhappy, Iger, who was also pretending to be a nobleman who "taken" him, could only pretend not to know about the faceless man's pretentiousness—since Jia Kun spoke, it proved that his mission was not in the Great Wall. I don't want to go to the north of the northern border and turn around before returning.

"Are you literate?" Iger West was also playing his role professionally. He took out a note and moved it to the edge of the cage: "What is written on it?"

"Office... Night Watchman?" Jia Kun squinted his eyes and gave the correct answer: "Night Watchman Office."

"Very good," Iger put away the note, turned to look at Yoren: "What crime did this person commit?"

Don't you know, Yoren rolled his eyes at Iger, but after all, he took the opponent's golden dragon, and it's not too much to cooperate with him.As a raven, he is much smarter than most of the night watchmen: "Sneak a peek at the king's book."

"Peeping the king's book?" Iger raised his eyebrows and looked at Jia Kun: "What book?"

"A book about dragons. Someone has been curious about this powerful magical creature since he was a child. Valyria has been destroyed, and only Westeros may have relevant information about dragons."

This answer is too broad, and it is unclear whether it is true or false: "Just because of this, he will be sent to the Great Wall?"

Yoren didn't know how to respond, so he shook his head: "Who knows, it's not my decision."

"Since it's not a murderer, it's you." Iger made a satisfied expression. God knows how many people Jia Kun has killed, probably more than all the people here combined.But as long as you don’t want to hurt yourself, no one cares, everyone just wants a step down: "But before I let you out, I want you to make some promises-I think the book itself is for people to read, you It's not a heinous thing to do, and if one day you want to leave and go home, fine. But you'll have to be a serious helper in the office for a while before I get someone else available... besides, before you're planning to leave Before that, you must tell me and pay a suitable ransom, do you agree?"

"Someone agrees."

"Very well, I swear."

"Someone with Gods Old and New—"

"Stop, I'm not from Westeros, and I don't believe in old and new gods." Iger suddenly had an idea, "There is only one real god in the world, and that is death. I swear to the god of death by your name. In addition to the above, you must Add one, and it will never harm the interests of the night watchman."

Under Iger's gaze, Jaqen hesitated obviously, and then slowly said: "A certain person - Jaqen H'ghar, swears to the god of death that he will never harm the interests of the night watchman in this life. Before leaving, someone will serve the Night's Watch to the fullest, and promise to inform the Night's Watch and pay the ransom before leaving."

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(Good guy, so this kid is thinking about ransom? How cunning, compared with dozens or even hundreds of ransoms, a golden dragon is nothing!) Yoren suddenly realized that he was slandering, but he understood that the money would be worthless no matter what. It wasn't his turn to get it, so he tried his best not to turn his face.

Iger didn't know what his black-clothed brother was thinking, he only noticed that Jia Kun quietly changed his oath - "Before I have to leave"?God knows if Jaqen will have to leave immediately to carry out that mysterious mission?Maybe he'd find himself before nightfall, tell himself he had to go, put down the money and walk away.

However, the other party's tricks on the details of the oath showed that at least he didn't intend to treat it as nothing. Iger didn't intend to keep him at all. He didn't have high expectations, so he naturally turned a blind eye to his cleverness.Of course, I can force Jaqen to swear eternal allegiance to the Night Watchman, but it's just like I made the same oath at the beginning but now I want to leave: when you are forced to make an obviously unreasonable oath, you will have a betrayal. reason for the oath.

And for this high-ranking spy from Braavos, changing his name and claiming that Jaqen was dead would break his oath.

***

"Okay, let him out."

How do you make it look like I'm your subordinate?Yoren rolled Iger's eyes and handed him the key. "Go by myself, I have to watch the other two guys." After finishing speaking, Lang Ya pulled out a sword: "I will kill whoever dares to run away, swords don't have eyes!"

If you drive it yourself, you can drive it by yourself. Before crossing, the other two guys in the cage may indeed scare Iger, but now he is a night watchman warrior who has sent a sentry on the Great Wall of Immortality and killed the White Walker in the Ghost Forest. His Rangers career has changed his physical and mental qualities drastically.With a sword-wielding colleague beside him, if you are afraid of two prisoners who are firmly controlled by the shackles, then it is really a waste of time to be a soldier.

Looking directly at the three people in the cage, Iger walked to the door calmly, unlocked the lock neatly, and opened the cage door.

Jaqen bent down and got out of the cage, jumped to the ground and stood firmly. The other two prisoners roared from the depths of their throats and were about to rush out, but they were finally forced back by Yoren's shining sword. In the corner of the cage, Iger locked the door with a calm expression, released the shackles that bound Jaqen's hands and feet, threw the key back to Yoren who put the sword into its sheath, and clapped his hands.

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"Put on black clothes." Iger took out the package he had prepared and threw it to Jia Kun: "From now until you leave, you are a member of the Night Watchman. You are lucky that you don't have to guard the Great Wall to deal with those ghosts in Saibei. But it's better to change the name you used when you entered the cell... um... let's call it Akun, how about it."

"Someone has no opinion."

"It's fine if you don't have an opinion... Then, Yoren, and other future sworn brothers, I wish you a smooth journey." Iger looked at the remaining dozen people, said goodbye loudly, got on his horse, and prepared to return .

"My lord, do you need any other helpers? I can do anything except I can't read!" Someone among the remaining recruits shouted. Although everyone still didn't know what the Great Wall looked like, they knew it with their toes. , life must be much more difficult than King's Landing.

I can do anything... Sweeping the floor of the office or something, wouldn't it be better to hire someone from King's Landing with a clean family background, why bother picking you sneaky people?Iger smiled and declined the speaker's proposal: "Let's go, Akun."

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Iger didn't prepare another horse for Jaqen, so the two had to ride back to the city on the same horse.It is undoubtedly a special experience to ride with a faceless man like this: Even if you know that the other party is not a threat, you still can't help but wonder if the man behind you will find a dagger from nowhere to stab you in the stomach... It's hard to come back When I got off the horse at the office in the east of the city, Iger found that his legs were tingling.

He re-entered the office with his newly hired subordinates who didn't know how long they would last, and he found that there were quite a few people waiting for him.

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Chapter 79 Rumors Show Power

"You are so slow, master!" Arya jumped up when she saw Iger, yelling dissatisfiedly.

"Where did you go?" Tyrion also frowned and stared at Iger: "Let Miss Stark show you the shop, and let the customers who want to buy bonds wait for you, heh - what a chief logistics officer of the Night Watchman! "

No, Iger immediately realized who the other two people were in the room, and immediately apologized repeatedly.He had previously told Tyrion that he would stay in the office all the time, but it was almost a bad thing to inexplicably break the promise for the idle move of "fishing Jaqen out". I feel unforgivable, no wonder even Tyrion, who has always been good-tempered, has a bad tone.

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"It's okay, it's a pleasure chatting with Miss Stark." A man pulled by Tyrion said with a smile. He was only here to save face for the Lannister family. Who would expect to see him here? The current prime minister's daughter——given their fiefdom status and class, they had nothing to do with the Stark family, so it's not worthwhile to wait for a while.

"This is Sir Lean Brun, and this is Sir Roger Hogg, two noblemen of the Crown Land."

"Hello, both of you, I apologize again for my lateness." Iger said hello to the two of them, and hurriedly straightened his clothes: "Please come inside."

***

Borrowing other people's money has to make others wait. If the two guests put on a face or shook their heads and left today, Iger could only laugh with no temper at all.Fortunately, because of Arya's presence, both of them were still polite—Iger was relieved happily, and spent two or three hours a day dealing with the little wolf, and took the trouble to get close to her, and finally came Some use.

Instruct the "newly recruited" office employee, Akun, to watch the door outside, and Iger invites the guests into the interior for a detailed discussion.After the introduction and explanation process was over, both of them bought a hundred gold dragons each out of intention. After the signing process was over, and after a while of politeness, the night watchman sent them out of the office.

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"I can understand that you are busy, but let me know beforehand, or simply make an appointment and tell me which days you will definitely be there and which days I don't need to bring people over, okay?"

Iger was wronged, so he naturally agreed.For many considerations, he can find someone to watch the gate for him, but the power to finally sign valid bonds must never be transferred to the outside.But it is true that he might want to do other things from time to time... Thinking about it carefully, he had to determine the arrangement of a working day and a rest day.

"I have some new ideas, and I have to discuss them with you." Tyrion didn't intend to hold on to Iger's mistakes, and quickly returned to his usual expression: "As you can see, I can pull people over, it's easy. I know Those who have spare money will give me face, and I can see who are easy to be persuaded-but even if they are dragged in, they will only buy the minimum amount of one hundred gold dragons...you can't see it If you show them something that you can touch, it is impossible to make them spend their money just by fooling around."

"Indeed, but as the first and second batch of people successfully got their rewards..."

"That will take time." Tyrion waved his hand and interrupted Iger's words: "My idea is that since we want to cooperate with people in the future, why not get something like a bond and write the relevant agreements on investment, cooperation and dividends on it. As evidence?"

"You mean, a new bond product?" Iger understood what Tyrion meant at once: "We can make an 'investment coupon' and calculate the funds needed to establish a series of industrial chains such as paper making and printing. Then, this coupon will be It represents the owner's future ownership of our physical industries such as papermaking, printing factories and even bookstores."

"That's right, that's what I mean. This bond can complement bonds. Bonds have a low return, but they can be withdrawn with interest at any time. And this... investment bond's return depends on the business situation, which may be extremely high , but the principal has become a part of the workshop and factory, which can only be transferred to others and cannot be withdrawn!" Tyrion said: "In this way, we can take care of two kinds of customers: those who have some spare money but may need to use them at any time, buy night watchmen Bonds; and the funds are strong, but there is nowhere to go, directly investing thousands of dollars!"

"It's a very good idea. When the product comes out, you can get some high-quality samples to attract investment." Iger felt a little uneasy for some reason, "I leave this to you. Business and management are in your charge. I'm in charge of ideas and technology. I will often go to Nina's side recently to make sure their improvements are completed as soon as possible."

"Ah."

After taking a breath, Iger quickly understood where the vague sense of unease came from: everything was going too fast, and at first he just wanted to set up a Ponzi scheme to gain a foothold. The interest on the wall has not been paid yet, and financing, shares and other things have also popped up?With my own identity and ability, can I control the beast of capital?

He is not good at these things, but there is no way out, unless he cheats Tyrion and absconds across the narrow sea to hide his name until he dies of old age, otherwise he can only move forward. After the mental journey.

Fortunately, he has few rivals in this world, along with the help of a resourceful Lannister.

***

"Have you finished discussing, are you still practicing today!?" Arya hates hearing about these bonds, shares, and the like-except that they are all about money, she can't understand at all, she only knows that she is Today I spent all day waiting and did nothing: "Those two guys just now... grabbed me and kept asking this and that, and at the end they asked me if I was married and if there was someone I liked, so fuck them thing!"

"Actually, it's none of their business." Tyrion was amused by Arya. He just brought in two rich knights from the king's realm. As Arya Stark, even if he wants to marry How could it be the turn of these low-level nobles to ask for a powerful Earl and Marquis?But it is not without reason that they care about this matter: "Your sister Sansa is already engaged to Prince Joffrey, and Stark will be one of the most powerful families in the Seven Kingdoms for at least 100 years in the future. Marriage affects the nerves of the people of the Seven Kingdoms!"

"Tch, Sansa is a big fool, marrying that big liar Joffrey is a perfect match, I don't want to be like her!"

Iger cheered in his heart, but after all, she couldn't be allowed to continue to speak the truth, so she could only stop quickly: "Where is my little lady apprentice? Don't speak foul words!"

"Hmph." Arya thought of the butcher boy who practiced sword with her again, tears rolled in her eyes, sniffed her nose, pouted her mouth and stopped talking.

***

Yes, Sansa is already engaged to Joffrey, and Ed Stark is not only the current Prime Minister and the king's good brother, but will also be the future king's father-in-law, I am afraid that even Ed himself did not realize: In fact, this It was his confidence that he still dared to come here despite knowing that King's Landing was extremely dangerous.It's a pity that in the original plot, under the temptation of Littlefinger, he quickly discovered the secrets of Cersei and James, and his original confidence turned into the biggest threat.With this guy's arrogance, it is naturally impossible for his precious daughter to marry a product of chaos—especially the illegitimate son of the king-slayer he despises the most; but "honor" does not allow him to harm children. Under the circumstances, everything that followed happened like this.

Thinking of this, Iger suddenly remembered the rumors he personally spread a few days ago. Out of the principle of prudence, he didn't even tentatively mention it to anyone before and after he did it... It is conceivable that in the future, it will be quite a long time He himself will be busy with other things, if he forgets about "dealing with Littlefinger and preventing the war from happening" and the War of the Five Kings still happens out of nowhere, then it will be troublesome.

He had to know now whether the rumors had played a role, to determine whether he had to find another way to disrupt the situation next.

"By the way." He pretended to remember and said, "I heard a terrible rumor these two days, I don't know you..."

"You mean that Littlefinger murdered the former Prime Minister Jon Arryn?" Tyrion curled his lips: "It's been rumored all over the city, but I just heard about it, every day... I don't know what you are doing."

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Chapter 80 Rumors Show Power

"The city is full of wind and rain?" Iger raised his eyebrows, trying not to make his tone look too abnormal. He realized that he might have underestimated the lethality of high-level gossip that the chancellor of the exchequer and the wife of the prime minister had an affair.However, after all, his purpose of spreading rumors is not just to disgust others, he urgently needs to know whether his behavior has already, or will be able to cause enough damage to Littlefinger's plan in the future: "Well... the person involved has What response?"

"It's none of my business." Tyrion snorted disdainfully: "That Hugher is just a little servant, and those notes are probably not his last words. But the people who wrote these things are very cunning, and the content on them is not Death without testimony is a fact that has been distorted and exaggerated, and there are no loopholes... But Baelish is the Chancellor of the Exchequer after all, a "pillar of the country", how could a rumor kill him? Hmm... But I haven't seen it for a few days Others, I only know that his brothel is still open."

"Really." Iger concealed his helplessness. Smart people generally don't gossip too much. Tyrion doesn't care about these things, which is completely in line with his character.Fortunately, now that this rumor has spread, there is no need to worry that if you inquire about this information, it will attract the attention of interested people.But then, who should I turn to to find out whether my goals have been achieved?

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After thinking about it, he decided to take the time to "chat" with the Stark guard who sent Arya to class every day. After all, his direct purpose was to prevent Littlefinger from gaining Eddard Stark's trust. To obtain this information, is there a more suitable target than the subordinates of the parties involved?

He soon discovered that there really were.

"That rumor..." Arya sniffed again, and the two adults in front of her finally talked about something she knew. She didn't miss the opportunity to interject, showing off what she knew like a treasure: "My father said , the king has written a letter requesting Madam Arryn to return to King's Landing to explain the rumors and prove her innocence."

Iger also came back to his senses at this time, yes, I was really stupid, Ed's precious daughter was right in front of me, why bother to look for the guard outside the door?I habitually regard Arya as a child who doesn't know anything, but in fact—a ten-year-old child, the smarter ones already understand everything, but they don't have enough experience and experience to analyze what they hear Things have meaning.Arya is Ed's daughter and also his "apprentice". She can get close to Ed every day, and at the same time, she trusts herself purely. If she uses it well, isn't she her best "ear"?

After thinking about the key points, he was secretly delighted, and the benefits of being in a relationship with a Stark were far more than what he thought at first.

But don't get carried away, Arya may tell herself everything, but she will also tell her father Ed Stark everything.I can get a lot of key first-hand information from her, but if I accidentally let Ed know that I ask this and that all day long and become suspicious, then I will shoot myself in the foot.

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Tyrion winked at Arya: "Lady Arryn? That's your aunt, if I remember correctly."