The king on the Great Wall

"Yes, she is my aunt." Arya also blinked at Tyrion, a little embarrassed: "I don't even know what she looks like...I didn't expect her to be this kind of person!"

"It's just a rumor, and it's a characteristic of the mob to believe what you hear." Tyrion said in an educative tone, "As for the king's letter, it's useless...she will never come to King's Landing. If The rumors are true, Lysa can't leave her lair and run herself into the trap; and if the rumors are false, it means that someone wants to harm her, so she can't leave the safe Eagle's Nest City and come to this ghostly place like King's Landing gone."

"Indeed...in the Eagle's Nest in the Vale of Arryn, Lady Arryn is the queen, but if King's Landing comes, she is just the widow of the former Prime Minister, and I will not come." Iger nodded in agreement with Tyrion's analysis , and then pretended to be nonchalant and asked casually: "Well——Arya, my lord Prime Minister... what is your father doing these two days, what does he think about the rumors, or is he still running around with Lord Baelish? go?"

Arya said everything she knew without thinking about it: "No, according to Jory, Littlefinger has been ordered not to leave the Red Keep, and my father... seems to be investigating the source of the rumor."

Ordered not to leave the Red Keep?Isn't this the alien version of "restricting the freedom of life, waiting for the organization to investigate"!As for investigating the source of rumors... Iger subconsciously recalled the whole process of making and distributing notes: the ink is the most common ink, and the paper is also made of high-quality parchment that is common on the market, and the people who bought these things were Tyrion's attendants , and also have legitimate uses.No second person participated or knew about the whole process, unless Ed could deduce that he did it through the fingerprints left on the note, otherwise he would not be able to find out what he said.

Hey, I knew I would wear gloves when I was doing things!But it's okay, Westeros obviously doesn't have such technology.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly felt a strong sense of unreality: Could it be that Littlefinger, the chess player in the power game in the original plot and the biggest boss in King's Landing, was defeated by a small rumor of his own?

***

Nothing is impossible, this is the real world, Littlefinger's power comes from intrigue and the trust of those in power, without any foundation in reality.He is strongest when everyone ignores him; but once an opponent who knows everything and hides well targets him behind his back, forcing him to be exposed in front of everyone's eyes, his "power" will be reduced. Like spring snow in the sun, it vanishes in minutes.

Losing the trust of Ed and the king, and becoming a suspect in the murder of the Prime Minister, Petyr Baelish's ambitions are over.Admittedly, Eddard Stark will suspect that these rumors are a smoke bomb spread by the Lannisters to prevent him from investigating, and Petyr can also use other methods to allow Eddard to "discover" Cersei and Jaime's secrets as usual , but being disrupted by myself, even if the plot continues according to the inertia, the ending will have a huge deviation from the original!

No matter what, the situation will not be worse than what happened in the original plot.

……

Iger didn't immerse himself in the joy of easily defeating a big villain with his hands: Littlefinger is finished, but he is not dead after all, even if he dies, it still doesn't mean he wins.His opponent is not a conspirator, but Zhanluan—after the death of the last dragon of the Targaryen family, Westeros actually has no realistic basis for maintaining unity, but barely maintains it under the huge inertia of the wheel of history. It’s all about not splitting up... The Seven Kingdoms are too big, and they are at a dangerous historical juncture of "union will be divided for a long time". Both the rulers of Highgarden and the Western Region are no longer satisfied with the status quo, and are consciously or unconsciously preparing their troops... In fact, the war is bound to happen, it is only the difference between "when and why it broke out", "how big the fight is", and "whoever loses wins".

Littlefinger's ambition is over, but there is still Varys who is still playing tricks secretly, and he has won precious time for himself and Tyrion's money game. Get rid of the other shit-stirring stick, and at the same time grow enough to protect yourself and determine your own destiny.

***

"Arya performed well today. It's because the master is not good. She did other things too late and missed the swordsmanship class." Iger was in a good mood, and he tried to kill him again. He was keenly aware that the girl liked this.This little she-wolf has helped me a lot today, and I have to give him some sweetness: "As compensation and reward, master will accompany you all day tomorrow, whether it's practicing swords, adventure stories, or going to the paper mill, whatever you like ,OK?"

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Chapter 81 "Second Son" Disaster

Before crossing, Iger often wondered: how a family like the Stark family, which has been sold out in the plot, has survived for thousands of years in the North, and is competing with several other "Kings of the North" The one who won the family war?

Now, as an outsider in this world, he has to take the time to look at the problem more deeply and essentially.Then, he gradually discovered: Ed Stark's pedantic, crappy and childish performance in Game of Thrones is not actually the fault of the Stark family inheritance, but also related to his own "immature" or "stupid" It doesn't matter, but it was doomed from the very beginning-Ed Stark was not raised according to the template of Game of Thrones players at all.

He is not an heir, but a "second son" who grew up in the valley.

In this era, in order to prevent internal struggles within the family, many big families will choose different methods when cultivating the heir and his younger brothers: the eldest son and the future head of the family must not only learn how to rule and govern, but also need to know when to win. Be noble and honorable, when do you have to give up some morals to protect the interests of the family... the children who are not the eldest son, as long as they are brave, upright and loyal, they will be responsible for assisting the elder brother, not being alone in the future.

A simple summary is that the eldest son must be more cunning, and the rest of them should be more naive. If they are too powerful, they will not be good for the family.

Ed enjoyed the latter treatment.

At the age of eight, he was sent to the Eagle's Nest City as the adopted son of Jon Arryn to maintain the alliance between the North and the valley, and as the adoptive father, the upright and noble Duke Arryn did help his allies to cultivate him into a One—the same as the responsible Chief Ranger Benjen Stark that Iger was already quite familiar with—"qualified second son".

There is no problem with this in itself, the problem is that Ed's brother Brandon Stark was later killed by the Mad King.

……

The death of the heir is not uncommon in the backward and chaotic era. Usually, the parents will quickly pick out another child and immediately transform him according to the template of the heir—but the situation that Ed encountered was: his parent Rui Khadr Stark was killed by the Mad King on the same day that his eldest son died.

Therefore, an "adopted son and second son" suddenly lost his father and brother without a day's reformation and training, and became the Lord of the North and the patriarch of the Stark family.This in itself is quite a rare situation, and what's more terrible is that the war of snatchers was provoked by this tragedy and broke out directly - not only did Ai De not have his own elders to reform, nor did he have time to accept other people's elders Come teach.

Ed doesn't have any experience and wisdom to be the master of the house. Fortunately, he is not alone against Targaryen.In the hastily started War of the Reavers, he was commanded and assisted by the patriarch of his wife's family, the Duke of Riverrun, Horst Tully, and his adoptive father, Jon Arryn, the Duke of the Vale. Successful rebellion with Robert.

When the war is over and all the dust settles, Ed has already made great achievements in the war, he is the oldest and the highest-ranking member of the Stark family alive, and he is the actual ruler of the northern border who holds great power—— No one is qualified to dictate to him, tell him how to rule, and transform him according to the template of a qualified ruler.

……

Therefore, he completely retained the honor and integrity he had learned as the second son, and began to rule the north.It's lucky...the backcountry he ruled didn't have so many intrigues and power struggles, and the second son took charge of the house without causing major mistakes.So Ed Stark not only sticks to his own virtues, but also teaches all his children to be qualified "second sons" - and Robb Stark, who has not been educated by the eldest son, becomes the queen of the North Everyone has seen what kind of stupid things they have done.

After humiliating the important allies of the Frey family, they still don’t realize it, beheaded the general Karstark, participated in the bloody wedding without any precautions, etc... If Brandon Stark is still alive, how can the children he teaches Do these things without political common sense?

Therefore, some people still want to say that so and so is stupid, naive, and so on, so let it go-just like the president of the United States may not even be able to manage a village when he comes to China, and Ed Stark is run by Westeros society A qualified product was born, but it was misplaced by fate and his unknown king brother.

Everything is caused by the "second son" education.

What Iger is trying to do now is to secretly try to keep this pedantic and stubborn guy who came to the wrong place.There was no other reason—it was in his own best interest to have such an upright, respectful and respectful fellow of the Night's Watch as Prime Minister.

***

"That's a deal, don't cheat tomorrow!"

"Night watchmen don't tell lies!"

Sending away the elated Arya who got the promise, Iger let out a long sigh: It is undoubtedly a very hard work to support a Dou who cannot be supported.Luckily, he had a blind cat and a dead mouse in his first shot, and just a clever rumor ruined the plan of the first opponent, and he had time for other things before the next crisis.

Hmm... When I get back to the hotel today, let's write out the reply to the Great Wall first.Now, it's time to think about how to persuade Admiral Mormont to cancel or at least postpone the Ranger Expedition, and try to capture two ghouls and send them south, so as to open the eyes of these unbelievers.

He stretched his body, came to the outside room with Tyrion, and then found that his newly recruited employee - "Akun", the No.2 member of the Night Watch Office, was sitting upright behind the desk in the lobby of the office, pretending to be serious Carefully look at the door for yourself.

Iger rubbed his head, he couldn't think of how to deal with this guy who pretended to be garlic for a while.If he bids farewell to himself today, it will be easy to handle, but he is afraid that he will stay by his side in the open, and secretly sneak into the Red Castle to do things... If he gets into trouble for himself, that would be bad .

"It's closed, let's go." Iger said to Jaqen.He didn't dwell on it for long, since you're pretending, let's show off your acting skills. When it comes to killing people, I can't catch up with you, but when it comes to an actor's self-cultivation, he has a lot of personal experience.After saying this, he turned to look at Tyrion again: "Don't go to bed too early at night, I may ask you to write a letter for me."

"You should master writing as soon as possible," Tyrion naturally wouldn't refuse, but he still couldn't help complaining: "Pimping you all day is a lot of brain work."

"It's been hard work. Those who are capable will work harder."

……

Jeor Mormont was the Earl of Bear Island before he joined the Night's Watch, and he quickly became the Commander-in-Chief after he put on the black suit, and he has been in power until now.For the current Iger, this is undoubtedly a leader and a big man who can only be looked up to for the time being, but if he wants to persuade such an old guy to change his mind, he has to use some methods.

After all, the commander-in-chief has never seen the combat power of the Others, which is far superior to that of ordinary people. He wants to launch a ranger expedition to investigate northward. From a logical point of view, there is no problem...Since there is no problem from a logical point of view, then Iger naturally has no problem. The law dissuades by reasoning.

Tsk...how does this start.

Iger took Jaqen and Tyrion back to the Albatross Hotel. After thinking all the way, he finally came up with an idea: Since the reason is hard to explain, then simply think in reverse, start with an unreasonable beginning, and start with a He used unfair accusations to attract Mormont's attention, and then tried to achieve the goal of persuasion by using both hard and soft tactics.

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Chapter 82 Logistics Affecting the Frontline

"The duty of the night watchman is to guard the Great Wall, not to protect the Stark family. To organize a large-scale operation to find Benyan Stark is not only putting the cart before the horse, but also disregarding and disrespecting the lives of other brothers." Tilly Ang repeated Iger's words, raised his eyes and stared at him as if he saw a ghost, and his hand holding the pen did not move for a long time: "Are you sure you want to write like this? This is the following offense. Even if Mormont is reasonable, he can't... Besides, How do you know that your Lord Commander launched the Ranger Expedition to find Benjen Stark?"

"I don't know." Iger admitted frankly: "Maybe I misunderstood him. He is a dignified former Earl of Bear Island and the commander-in-chief of the Night Watchman. He must have a big belly. He will never accuse him of being 'out of misunderstanding' because of my subordinate. In a few words, call me back and punish me. Besides, he can count on me to provide supplies."

"Since you understand it in your heart, why use such an aggressive tone."

Iger spread his hands: "What do you think he will think if I try to persuade him not to carry out this large-scale investigation if I present the facts and make sense?"

"I don't know. I'm short, but I can't get into Mormont's belly."

"I think he will definitely think: 'Huh, a guy who is hiding in King's Landing to enjoy his fortune, and hypocritically persuades us not to take risks? Just provide your supplies well, don't worry about too many things!'" Iger said: "Then, he guessed I will not even read the arguments and arguments you wrote next about not taking this adventure, so I just wrote back and ordered me to prepare the supplies as soon as possible, otherwise I will be recalled."

"You are making malicious speculation."

"But you have to admit that it's possible. On the contrary, if I pretend to have a misunderstanding, and then stand up to be good for the Night Watchman and spray him..." Iger didn't argue, and just continued to explain why he did this: "Hey, You know, people have a weakness - when they hear or see someone saying that they are doing something wrong, they will focus their attention in a 'swish', and then instinctively try to refute the other party. Lord Mormont saw my accusation , no matter how disdainful, under this kind of thinking inertia, at least I will read the following content. If there is trouble, I will write another letter to appease me and explain to me the real purpose of organizing this operation... After all, He's counting on me to work hard and provide as much of the list as possible."

"You just have a lot of ideas." Tyrion snorted a few times, but felt that Iger's thoughts made sense, nodded and looked at the letter paper again: "Okay, say it again, I will write exactly as you said , when something happens, don't look for me."

***

And so, Iger said, Tyrion wrote, and about an hour later, this first official letter from the 1st Night's Watch "Chief Logistics Officer" to the 997th Commander-in-Chief, was thus written by Tyrion Lannis He specially wrote the pen, and roughly finished it meticulously with the correct and beautiful Western Region popular fonts.

The letter begins with a righteous accusation, aimed at attracting the attention of the readers; followed by Iger's guess and judgment on the current situation north of the Great Wall. ;Then, the Chief Logistics Officer threw out his own opinion—the Night Watchman is weak now and is not suitable for acting alone. The safest way is to stabilize and do a good job of defense first, and then present strong evidence to report The ruler of the Seven Kingdoms calls for help.

In the end, there were several specific plans designed by Iger—he used his imagination to think of several plans to catch ghouls alive in the safest possible way when the Night Watchman Corps only dispatched a small number of elites.Not only that, but also promised to provide all the weapons and equipment needed to carry out these plans.

……

"With all due respect to Iger, your plan is obviously idealistic. I am afraid that it can only achieve results when the conditions are perfect and the plan is carried out smoothly." Now, Tyrion does not want to question Iger's Great Wall. Whether those ghosts exist or not, just assume that the other party is not talking nonsense, and then discuss the matter: "I have also been to the Great Wall of Despair. The conditions and situation there are really bad and complicated, and the quality of the personnel is also uneven. The situation may change at any time."

"I don't want them to do exactly what I said, the key lies in what I have prepared for these plans." Iger explained: "As long as they have a little recognition of the idea of ​​'asking the rulers of the Seven Kingdoms', and then wait for me Send them the equipment for catching ghouls and dealing with aliens, and my goal will be achieved. It will take a month from King’s Landing to the Great Wall, even if it takes day and night by sea, and by then, the most dangerous moment will have passed.”

"What was the most dangerous moment?"

"Hey, military secret."

***

The part that Iger can’t tell Tyrion any more is: In the Ranger Expedition of the original plot, the reason why the Night Watchmen chose the Fist of the First Men to station was because the [-] wildlings who judged that this place was Mance Rayder came from the Frost and Snow Ya is the only way to attack the Great Wall along the Ruhe River, and the terrain is difficult to defend and difficult to attack. As long as you seize this high ground and hold it, a few hundred night watchmen can resist the attack of tens of thousands of savages and prevent them from going south.

There is nothing wrong with doing so in terms of strategy or tactics, but what they are waiting for is not savages, but ghouls all over the mountains and plains.

As long as the Night Watchman Legion is willing to delay their departure a little bit because they are waiting for the equipment and materials they promised, the army of wildlings will start from the assembly point and move southward, rushing across the Fist of the First Men in a mighty way, making the expeditionary force completely lose the favorable terrain it occupies. The "first opportunity".If they couldn't seize the Fist of the First Men, they wouldn't give the army of the dead a chance to surround them on the mountain, and naturally they wouldn't be nearly wiped out.

This is the best way for a logistics officer to influence the front line without command authority - to control the delivery time of supplies.

***

If the Night Watch Corps can catch the ghouls alive and send them to King's Landing according to their own suggestions, that would undoubtedly be the best ending. If not, it would be a good choice to save as many brothers in black as possible.

Unable to judge whether to save or not to save which is more in line with his own interests, Iger finally decided to follow his heart: this time be an emotional person-do nothing and watch the three hundred brothers go out of the wall to die, He can't do it.Although he wholeheartedly wanted to get rid of his identity as a night watchman, and he was dissatisfied with the many tasks that those leaders gave him, but in the final analysis-the hundreds of night watchman brothers in Castle Black had a relationship with him after all, and from a personal point of view , He also admires the high-level blackshirts, such as Commander Mormont and Maester Aemon, for their character and dedication.

"Cut...shit military secrets, I don't care about them." Tyrion made a gesture of disdain, picked up the letter paper and looked at it: "Well, that's it, do you want to add something?"

"Well, let me think about it... First help me get the official appointment certificate of 'Chief Logistics Officer' and write it on it-I don't need salary, and I can recruit subordinates by myself, as long as the Night Watchman officially recognizes my name. "

"Well, this is very important, is there any more?"

Iger thought about it, and it was not easy to send a letter to the Great Wall, so I just finished what I wanted to say in advance: "Write down the difficulties I encountered in recruiting, and tell them my idea of ​​​​consulting the 'temporary night watchman', See if Mormont agrees."

"Are you having trouble recruiting?" Tyrion raised his eyes and glanced at him again: "Why don't I know, have you started recruiting yet?"

"No, don't worry about it so much, I said, just write it."

"Um... okay."

Iger organized some language, modified and beautified his plan, and Tyrion wrote it into the letter.

"By the way, one more thing. If you find the body of the ranger brother who went north on patrol, don't burn it after bringing it back to Castle Black. Lock it up in a cage. If you come back alive, just send it to King's Landing."

What the hell is this tm?Tyrion frowned, but decided to give up thinking for the time being, and be at ease as a writing machine: "Anything else?"

"It's gone... Well, I will add another sentence to Jon Snow at the end, saying that Arya asked me to say hello for her. She is learning swordsmanship from me in King's Landing. She is having a good time. Let him take care of himself on the Great Wall. "

Tyrion rolled his eyes: "How dare you pretend to be Miss Stark?"

"Write it first, and I will talk to Arya tomorrow, and she will definitely agree."

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Volume III Chief Logistics Officer

Chapter 83

The letter to the Great Wall has been sent, thousands of miles away, Iger is powerless and unable to exert any influence on the Night Watchman in other ways.He is very clear: as he is not the only, or even the main source of logistics for the Night Watch Corps for the time being, the so-called "logistics impact on the front line" is likely to be extremely limited.All he could hope for now was that the letter would be delivered safely and quickly by the raven delivering the letter, and that those who read it would take its content to heart.

The days in King’s Landing will continue. After discovering that Arya can act as his ear at the core of power, Iger is more concerned about enticing her. Except for some things that she really can’t know, he is basically willing to go anywhere. Bring her along... It's good that the "teacher-student relationship" grows stronger, but it's also true that the relationship is too close to be often too much for her to pester.If it weren't for the girl who dresses up as a fairly beautiful noble lady, and bringing people by her side can make people enjoy the double~heavy~pleasure~feeling of "being a teacher" and "cultivating" , whether the gain outweighs the loss.

He somewhat misses the compulsory education in the world he came from—a brat without homework is really scary.

……

Although the bear child is troublesome, it is easy to find the right way to deal with it, and the other guy makes Iger's head big: Jaqen H'gar didn't hit it off with Arya, but he didn't hit it off as early as originally expected. Say goodbye and leave.Instead, he seemed to settle down in the residence arranged by Iger honestly and peacefully, commuting with himself in black clothes every day, obeying orders to do some light chores for the office, and taking on the responsibility of watching when he left the office from time to time. The task of the facade - even though Iger quickly recruited another local employee of King's Landing, he still never mentioned the matter of leaving.

Such a top spy and killer, who neither collects information nor kills for himself, what's the use of staying by his side?Iger decided to pinch him and Arya together—either to share some pressure on himself, or be forced away by the brat: "Akun, I don't have time today, you go practice sword with Miss Stark."

"Ah?" Arya suddenly became unhappy: "No, I only practice with the master, don't use others to perfuse me!"

"You're such a good guy. It's a waste of master's time to practice swords with you every day. When you can master what I have taught you and be able to beat the master's men, come to me again."

"Someone can't make a sword, my lord."

"You can enter the royal library, but you can't deal with a little girl?" Iger squinted at Jia Kun: "I don't ask you where you came from, and I don't restrict you to stay, please be a little more frank, don't treat everyone as a fool... If you don’t know how to use a sword, just teach her something else, your task is to not be defeated by her before I have time.”

Jia Kun hesitated, and finally agreed: "Someone understands."

In order to keep Jia Kun from being restrained, Iger did not watch him and Arya practice swords in the backyard. The girl was unhappy at first, but soon she was excited to compete with her new partner. Iger finally Breathe a sigh of relief: If Jaqen not only stays in King's Landing for unknown purposes, but also shamelessly pretends that he is powerless, then I really don't know how to deal with him.

***

After experiencing an accident in which a bond buyer came to his door but he was not there, Iger and Tyrion learned a lesson and formulated a bond sale schedule that was accurate to the day-on the agreed day, Iger would strictly stay at work from morning till night. Waiting for the latter to solicit customers at the door, and at other times, you can let the hired employees watch the office keep its door open while you rush around to do other things-such as going to the experimental work of the Neil and Nina brothers and sisters. The factory supervises the progress of papermaking and participates in the discussion of suggestions for improvement plans, urges the mining of obsidian mines, and purchases materials for the Night Watchman Corps.

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The summer in King’s Landing is as hot and flavorful as usual, but without Catelyn Tully’s tricks and Petyr Baelish’s troubles, the days in the capital of the Seven Kingdoms are a bit bland compared to the original plot— ——The king is eating, drinking and having fun sowing seeds everywhere, the queen is continuing to have an affair with her younger brother in fear, the prime minister is devastated by the mystery of the death of his adoptive father and predecessor and the rumors that are spreading in the city...

Beneath this ominous calm, the sale of the first Night's Watch bonds and the improvements in papermaking underpinned them proceeded quietly.The first batch of ore re-produced in the ancient obsidian mine of Dragonstone Island was loaded on the ship at the port of Dragonstone Island, crowded in the cabin together with a large number of auxiliary items purchased by Iger for the "ghoul capture plan", and staggered up to the ship. After the voyage of East Sea Watch, the first plant fiber paper with practical value was finally born in that small workshop in the continent of Westeros, and possibly the entire world of ice and fire.

This is an important historical moment, especially for the few parties who still want to rely on this thing to make a lot of money.

Iger and Tyrion came to the workshop where paper was born, and stood together with the papermaking brothers and sisters... Of course, Arya, who never misses any excitement, also followed.

Judging from the appearance alone, the paper in front of Iger... except for the grayish-yellow color and uneven edges, it already has the texture of the worst pirated book or ghost note he has ever seen before traveling.Try to fold or roll it up - the flexibility is acceptable; then pull it a little harder with your hands - it will only deform slightly without breaking... Now, as long as the ink is clear and does not bleed after writing on it with a pen, this is their Need something now.