The king on the Great Wall

"No problem, I will write tonight." Robb nodded: "In addition, I will send you a hundred soldiers to ensure that you and the Kingslayer reach the Great Wall smoothly."

"That would be great. If there is nothing else, then I - I will take my leave first. I haven't seen you brothers and sisters for a long time, so let's have a good chat."

"Ah."

Iger walked towards the door and was about to leave. Arya complained behind her: "Why me, Sansa! She is older than me, and she likes to marry this and that! Can't she be the Duchess of the Valley? !"

"She is still Joffrey's fiancée now. It is disrespectful for him to promise her to Harry without going through procedures to dissolve the engagement. Only when Joffrey puts on black clothes and the marriage contract between the two is recognized as invalid can we have another marriage." make arrangements..."

"What!" Iger was startled, and immediately turned around: "Joffrey also wants to put on black clothes... You let him reunite with Kingslayer... Father and son on the Great Wall, aren't you afraid of accidents?"

"The three illegitimate children are all on Dragonstone Island now. Stannis said it was my father's intention... Hey, these things, after I rescue my father from King's Landing, let him decide." Robb also said With a helpless look on his face, despite his confident and stable appearance at the meeting, he is still a teenage boy.It was the first time to take the lead in independent affairs, and I was actually panicked.After thinking about it for a while, I suddenly stopped Iger: "Wait a minute, I remembered, I'm going to lead the army to King's Landing soon, it's not safe for Arya to follow me, and I don't feel at ease if I leave it to someone else... Since you want to go back Great Wall, why don't you take Arya back to Winterfell on the way, and save me sending another group of soldiers to escort her."

"No, he just spanked me!"

"Stop messing around, Arya!" After being pestered by his sister for a long time, Robb now doesn't believe her words at all, and his expression becomes serious: "Either go back to Winterfell with Iger, or I will hand you over to your fiancé, let him To protect you during the march and fight, you choose one yourself!"

Arya pouted and groaned and stared at Robb for a while, seeing that he had no intention of giving in, she glanced at Iger aggrievedly, and gave in helplessly: "Okay, then I will choose to go home."

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Chapter 204 The Volunteer Army in the Western Territory

Sending Arya home?Iger didn't want to take the job at all, so he made a serious protest to Robb on the spot.But after the latter offered that "the one hundred soldiers returning to the north can be dispatched by Iger for a long time until the wildlings and ghosts are repelled", he let go.

One hundred soldiers who have received some training, this is a considerable boost to the Night Watch Corps. For this reason, it is not a loss to be patient for a few more days.

……

Arya and Robb spend the day together.Iger didn't know whether she went to see her "fiancé" during this period. Anyway, when he led the logistics team to start north from Harrenhal again early the next morning, Hot Potato was accompanied by a hundred Starmen. The soldiers of the Ke family returned to him, which was really helpless.

The hundred northern soldiers were not from Winterfell, and they couldn't recognize their own lady. Arya's identity was still Iger's personal attendant, so there was little risk of leaking secrets during this trip.Departing from the noisy assembly point of Harrenhal, where an unknown number of soldiers and logistics men lived, Iger took another two days to arrive at the town of Earl Harroway.

Time flies, and Iger still remembers the scene when he first came to this small town at the intersection of River Avenue and King's Avenue.At that time, he was on his way south to King’s Landing, and he was still an unknown person. The only one who knew and admired him outside of the Night’s Watch was Tyrion. Half of his worries were how to solve the entanglement of a bunch of problems Mormont had posed for himself.

When he came for the second time, he had already become Robert's "night watchman with the army", and was about to go east to the entrance and exit of the valley to participate in the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms' suppression of the alliance of the righteous.At that time, the Night Watchman industry began to flourish under Tyrion's management, and history also showed a dramatic butterfly effect due to the existence of him, an outsider. Everything began to develop in a completely different direction...

But this time, he was called to go west to Golden Tooth City to pick up Duke Tywin's son, the famous kingslayer, to be the night watchman.Whether he admits it or not, Iger is now an influential celebrity in the entire Westeros, and he has been caught in the magnificent historical tide with difficulty.

Even... from a bystander to one of the promoters.

Sentiments return to emotion, time cannot be wasted. After staying in the familiar hotel in the town for one night, Iger ordered the convoy to stay in place and wait, and took most of the soldiers from the logistics department and a hundred men from the northern border, and set off along the Hejian Avenue to Go west.

The war was over and the weather was fine. It took him four days to reach Riverrun, let Arya wait at his mother's natal house, and lead a group of men to the west.

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The land that has just escaped from the war is full of devastation, such as Hejian, and the Westland is even worse.Going west along the Hejian Avenue, the road obviously began to widen. The rich and powerful rulers of the Western Region were obviously not stingy in traffic construction, but the scenery along the way was not pleasant. New graves, fields that were turned into scorched earth, and villages that were looted... The Stark family is undoubtedly a positive role in the story of Quan You, but this does not mean that it and its allies' armies are It will be more gentle and more qualified than any of the Seven Kingdoms... In addition to being sad and sighing, the accompanying northern soldiers told Iger a news that surprised him: Most of these scorched fields are from the Western Army I burned it myself.

"Strengthen the wall and clear the field", in the hands of any ruler in any era, is a tactic that can only be adopted when facing a strong enemy and at a huge disadvantage.When the Battle of the West was in progress, Iger was busy filling the huge management vacuum created by Tyrion's departure. I don't know the specific situation, but the family of my god teammate and best partner has just survived such a huge crisis of survival. Only from this scorched black It can be seen in the fields.Even if he was not the person involved, Iger felt a little cold behind his back and was secretly afraid.

More than a hundred soldiers followed, and the road was smooth.Five days after leaving Riverrun, Iger arrived at the fortified city of Golden Tooth.On the walls and gate towers, the battle marks of Robb Stark's breach of the city are still clearly visible, but the golden lion banner has been inserted back on the wall.Having just experienced a series of major defeats and almost looting their entire homes, the mental state of the western soldiers is much better than expected... A hundred soldiers from the northern border were asked to wait outside the city. The soldiers entered the Golden Tooth City Fortress.

Originally thinking that Tyrion would be waiting for him here, Iger was even ready to talk with him about topics such as "land-grant stronghold construction", "post-war recovery in the Western Territory", and "the future trend of the Seven Kingdoms", but leading the way But the red robe told him that his dwarf son did not come to the Golden Tooth City, but was in Lannisport, working day and night for the operation and financial status of the Lannister Bank.

The little lion was gone, but the old lion was already waiting in the hall.Led by a red-robed officer, Iger soon met the legendary Tywin Lannister.

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"Chief logistics officer." Tywin sat at one end of the long table, looking at Iger who walked into the room expressionlessly: "Even in the far west, I have heard of your legendary experience and heroic deeds from time to time. Here, I On behalf of House Lannister, welcome to Your Excellency, thank you for coming so quickly, please take a seat."

"You are too polite, Lord Duke." As expected of a well-known iron-blooded figure in the Seven Kingdoms, he is so cold when speaking of polite words.Fortunately, the current situation is that the other party wants something from him. Iger calmly opened a chair and sat down: "Thank you for your welcome and hospitality, but I still have official business. Please make a long story short, please come out as soon as possible." Sir James, follow me north to the Great Wall to complete the agreement."

"He will go with you." Tywin tapped his fingers on the table: "But before that, I hope to learn as much as possible about the current situation of the Impassable Great Wall and what my son will get when he joins the Night Watchman Corps." treatment."

"Although adults ask questions, I know everything."

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It was about the rest of his son's life and the future of the family, so Tai Wen was not polite.The problem couldn't stop from the beginning, the servants brought wine and snacks, and the two chatted for a while.

Iger truthfully informed the situation of Tywin's Great Wall and his own judgment: There is a high probability that Jaime Lannister will directly become a Ranger Captain and start life on the Great Wall as an intermediate officer of the Night Watch... As for life, he also As the chief logistics officer, he told the other party that at least he would not let James live worse than himself.

"Do the rangers need to go out of the city to patrol frequently?" Tywin asked with a frown: "The news of the undead and white ghosts appearing outside the Wall, is it a rumor spread by the Night Watch Legion, or is it true?"

"It's true, because the rangers suffered too many casualties in the past year, and the savages have arrived under the Great Wall... Generally speaking, the probability of the rangers going out to patrol the fortress has almost dropped to zero, so you don't need to worry about it."

Although it was well hidden, Iger could still feel that for a proud and powerful figure like the Duke of Casterly Rock, being forced to send his son into the Night Watch Corps with his own hands made him very uncomfortable... As a father, he said The time still reveals the meaning of "I hope my son can live well in the Great Wall".After understanding the general situation, the old lion asked about the possibility of "using means" to get James to take off his black clothes in a very cryptic way in the future.

It’s okay not to mention it. Speaking of this matter, Iger recalled what Tyrion had said to him the day he persuaded the senior leaders of the Night Watch to let him go south for business.

As early as nearly a year ago, the far-sighted dwarf asserted: If someone wants to take the ranger Jaime Lannister away, he may not be able to pay the ransom if he sells Casterly Rock.

When he said this at the beginning, Tyrion wanted Iger to be happy that he was "worthless". If he knew that he had accidentally made a prophecy, what would he think?

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"There has never been a precedent in history for a night watchman to take off his black clothes, and in the current environment of the Seven Kingdoms, the possibility of taking someone like James out of the night watchman army safely and without consequences is almost zero. " Iger said without concealment, "As for the future... who can predict what will happen in the future?"

After getting the expected negative answer, Tywin's face remained unchanged, and he turned to ask another question: "What do you mean by that team of Stark family soldiers outside the city?"

"Sent by Robb Stark, to see that Ser Jaime's journey across the River and the King's Road to the Wall is safe."

Tywin was silent for a few seconds, staring at Iger, as if he wanted to see the evidence of his lying from his expression, and then spoke again after a long while: "The Stark kid... I mean Robbs Tucker, do you really agree that James should wear black?"

"The night watchman is impartial, Lord Tywin." Iger fully understood the old lion's worries, looked up and said seriously: "If I didn't get a definite answer from Robb Stark, I would never have come here today."

"Can you guarantee that James will reach the Great Wall safely?"

"No, in this troubled world, I'm not even 100% sure whether I can reach the Great Wall safely. But my lord, I can guarantee that I will never be attacked by Robb Stark along the way. Ordinary bandits Bandits, the logistics team is also fully capable of fighting." Iger never said too much: "If you are really worried, you can let Sir James stay by your side until the two kings provide written guarantees, but forgive me To put it bluntly, once the two deer fight to determine the winner, the winner may change his mind."

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Tywin sighed, shook his head, and stood up from the chair: "Wait, this disaster was caused by James himself, and the risk on the road to redemption should be borne by himself, not the family. If anyone dares to It's James' order to do anything to my son, I won't talk nonsense, I'll just use my actions to prove that the Lannister family must pay their debts."

Seeing his master standing up, Iger had no choice but to leave his seat, but he didn't wait for James Lannister to appear, but another news that surprised him: "There are many good boys in the western region who have heard about the crisis that the Great Wall is facing. Volunteer to join the Night's Watch and defend the northern frontiers of the Seven Kingdoms... Since you are here, take these people back to the Great Wall along the way."

Volunteer?With the appearance of the ghouls in King's Landing, there are really volunteers, and there are a few of Iger's team on this trip... But how can such a thing be handled by a prince like Tywin himself?

With doubts, I followed the master to the courtyard behind the hall, and Iger was shocked by the scene in front of him: dozens of soldiers all in black stood in the courtyard, neatly lined up, with firm expressions, and the uniform full-body armor on their bodies gave way to the Lannister guards. Egerton, who had been with him before, felt a sense of familiarity. It was clearly the Lannister family's unique standard armor, which was made by grinding away the family emblem and red paint, and then painting it with black dye.

Looking at the well-trained and murderous looks of this group of people, Iger has no doubts: they can torture the hundred soldiers sent to him by Robb outside the city under any circumstances... What is this "volunteering" Good boy", he is clearly the bodyguard arranged by Tywin for his son!

"They will also join the Night's Watch?"

"Well, just like James, put on black clothes and swear an oath to become a genuine night watchman just like you."

(What a big deal.)

Iger couldn't help admiring secretly, how much talk and benefits did he spend to recruit a similar number of security guards to go north with him?Moreover, their identities are still the "foreign aid" of the Night Watchman's logistics department, and they can withdraw at any time without taking an oath... As for Tywin, with a wave of his hand, there will be the same number or even more elite soldiers accompanying James to go north to the frozen man He made that bullshit oath, and he will be fettered for the rest of his life.

In terms of popularity, I have already competed with the great nobles...but in terms of layout and actual resources at my disposal, I am still far behind.I don't know how long it will take to have the strength of the old lion in front of me after the base of Houguan Town is established?

"In addition to these young men, I will also donate a small batch of weapons and armor, horses and food to the Great Wall. My logistics officer is counting. Your Excellency will stay in the city tonight. When we leave tomorrow, James and these volunteers will You will be joined by a convoy full of donations."

Chapter 205 Dragon Queen

In addition to her suffocating beauty, Daenerys also has a special power that makes her hair stand on end, and she can't help but want to kneel and obey.Only those who have been close to the experience will understand: In this world, there really is such a thing as "the breath of the king".

Looking at her not far away, Petyr Baelish realized that the young Targaryen girl in front of him could cross half of Essos in just one year, from a barbarian vassal to Having an army, three dragons, and countless legendary titles today is not just by chance and luck.

Even though it was not the first time seeing the queen, Petyr would still get goosebumps when he got close to the queen. It was the queen, not any other woman, who immediately enjoyed the applause.

***

After Braavos sold the remaining family property, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer disguised himself and went south. He arrived in Pentos through Andas, where he purchased some daily necessities. The west coast of Essos that might be recognized... Go to Norvos or Qohor, hide your identity, and start the rest of your life that may be boring.

However, only two days after he left the city, he was caught in his sleep by some unidentified men while he was sleeping out at night, and he was brought back to Pentos and put on a ship.

At first Petyr thought it was King Robert's bounty hunter who had caught him and wanted to take him back for trial. He lost all thoughts for a while, and almost wanted to commit suicide... But his keen observation ability made him quickly discover: His ships were not crossing the narrow sea, but sailing south along the west coast of Essos, and quickly turned around to turn east.

Not long after, the mysterious figure who caught him explained to Petyr the destination of the trip—the ship was going to Slaver's Bay, and he, after landing, was going to find Daenerys Targaryen and go to the She assisted the descendant of the true dragon, and at the most suitable time, led the queen to counterattack Westeros and restore the Targaryen dynasty.

The feeling of being manipulated by others is undoubtedly terrible, but as a small man, he left his long-established territory and came to a strange foreign continent, and his last bit of wealth was confiscated... No power, no power, no brains, no place Even now, if he left the group of people who captured him, he might not be able to survive for a week.

In desperation, he decided to temporarily endure the arrangements of the mysterious manipulator behind the scenes.

The ship docked at Yunkai, but Daenerys and her army had already left for Meereen. Petyr drove slowly in the desert for half a month under the "protection" of the strong Belwas Finally, he found the target person of this trip under the city of Meereen, and expressed his intention to defect to her.

It was not a pleasant meeting for the first time. As a gift and for his own safety, Petyr immediately revealed Jorah Mormont's undercover identity after completing his self-introduction.This made Daenerys furious, and the queen's closest and trusted knight fell out of favor in an instant, and was sent from her personal guards and staff to drill the sewers of Meereen...to complete the cooperation between the inside and the outside.

Unfortunately, apart from winning them the right to stay and enjoy tents and food, this denunciation did not immediately gain Petyr's trust. In Daenerys's own words, it was to expose a liar The man, may be the greater liar.

Then a miracle happened. In front of Petyr, the dragon queen who was hanging all the way made another miracle without saying a word: with a group of minions who drilled the gutter and a wooden stake, she captured many people in one night. Meereen may be taken.And when the sun just rises, the ceremony of entering the city begins.

In the square in front of the Great Pyramid, the slave owners who had been dragged out of bed in their sleep huddled together in despair.In the morning light, the "Great Masters" didn't look like they were tall. They looked so humble and ugly without their jewelry and robes. They huddled together like a group of shaved monkeys.

"I want your leader," the Dragon Queen stopped in front of the square on horseback and ordered loudly to the captives, "Hand them over, and the rest will forgive you."

"How much?" asked an old woman sobbing, "How many people would it take before you will forgive us?"

"One hundred and sixty three," she answered, "all nailed to the stakes that go round the square, making sure that each points to the next, like the children you saw on the road to Meereen!"

The captives screamed and shoved, but the heavily armed Unsullied rushed into them without emotion, pulled out the core members of each family surrounded by the crowd, counted 160 people and threw them aside ... Some of them cursed loudly, some begged for mercy loudly, and some of them collapsed into mud, incontinent to urinate...

Petyr frowned.

What is this doing?Two days ago, the shock when he saw three dragons as big as a human being and thousands of well-trained Unsullied, and the surprise of seeing Daenerys easily take Meereen, made Petyr's original My resistance has been somewhat loosened: maybe following and assisting the last Targaryen according to the arrangement of catching my mysterious man, I can really counterattack Westeros in my lifetime, and sit back at the table of the Imperial Council, or even the Iron Throne?

What the hell is, I just thought this queen was a bit reliable, and was trying to get her to think of a way, but this girl is going to perform "doing stupid things to push myself to a dead end" in public?

"Your Majesty." Petyr couldn't bear to watch, and shouted loudly in the crowd of followers: "I have heard about the scene you saw on the way to Meereen, and I fully understand that your heart is full of blazing rage at this moment. Wrath of the True Dragon, but I still have to tell the truth—every time you nail a great master to the stake, you are one step closer to being staked!"

The Unsullied, the mercenaries, and the mass of freed slaves stepped aside so that Daenerys could get a better view of the speaker.The Dragon Queen was pretty dimpled, and stared coldly at the former chancellor who had defected across the narrow sea: "This is punishment, life for life, you came all the way from Westeros, is it just to replace these people?" Slave master pleading?"

"No, I don't mean to say any nonsense for these people who are not related to me. On the contrary, I think-you should not forgive any of these slave owners. They are all damned, not just three!"

As soon as this remark came out, not only the great master who was pulled out of the crowd by the Unsullied, but also the rest of them rioted.Even among Daenerys' followers there were voices of opposition. The young Dragon Queen originally thought that she had encountered dissuaders, but who would have thought that she would be a more radical liberator, which made her a little at a loss for a while.

"No, there must be innocent people among these people. What I want is just revenge, not brutal massacres."

"Since the opinions differ, Your Majesty, are you willing to imprison these slave owners for now, and make a decision after listening to your deduction!"

"Hmph." An extremely handsome mercenary stood up beside the queen: "What is the status of the queen, how can I have time to listen to the words of treacherous people like you?"

"That's right, there are indeed some bad news about me in Westeros across the narrow sea, but those are malicious slanders." Littlefinger didn't know the talking mercenaries, so he just stood upright in the crowd, without changing his face. He raised his head and looked at Daenerys: "Even if those rumors are all true, so what? The person who is said to be poisoned by me is Jon Arryn who helped Robert the Predator overthrow Targaryen back then. It is Your Majesty's enemy! Faced with defectors who have traveled thousands of miles, does Her Majesty the Queen not even have the time and patience to sit down and listen to my point of view and see if they are speculating on each other?"

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The aggressive method, Daenerys hates this kind of trick, she doesn't want to pay any attention to a guy who seduces other people's wives and conspires with him to take his life and property... Her own enemies will not change her senses in the slightest. The phrase "the enemy of an enemy is a friend" cannot be used everywhere. I am a person first, and then a Targaryen.

She was displeased, but she looked around at the soldiers and the newly liberated slaves who were all focused on her, and she decided to give the guy in front of her a chance to express her opinion, but no matter what he said, the 160 She will take the lives of the three slave owners.

"Prison them all, and separate the 160 three from the others!" Daenerys made a gesture on the little silver horse, and the subordinates immediately cleared the way to the Great Pyramid in the center of the city. "Petyr Baelish? Come, let me hear your discourse."

***

After a long while, in the reception hall of the Great Pyramid of Meereen, Daenerys sat in the soft chair of the most powerful Lord of Meereen, and looked at Petyr Baelish: "Okay, your Excellency the ex-Chancellor of the Exorcist, if you have any opinion on how I should deal with those slave owners, please tell me."

Petyr looked around, but couldn't find a place to sit. Instead, he asked Daenerys' guards to stare at him vigilantly. He had no choice but to resist his discomfort and stood up and replied, "Your Majesty, in the slave camp you are dragging... ..."

"They're not slaves, they're free people."

"Well, I've lived in His Majesty's Free People's Legion for two days, and I already know a little about what you did in Astapor and Yunkai... Let me first say admiration, at your Majesty's age, you can already Use virtue and kindness so skillfully to mobilize the lowest slaves to serve you."

After liberating the slaves, why did this person say "using virtue and kindness to mobilize the slaves to serve him"?Daenerys was displeased, but she didn't think of a way to refute, so she just stared at the other party silently.

"Unfortunately, you seized the two slave city-states by the same means, but you ran to Meereen in a hurry without giving the people in them a way to live..."

"No way out?" Daenerys shifted her body in displeasure, so she could sit more comfortably. "I established a council for Astapor and Yunkai."

"You created a parliament, but you left them no army and no means of earning a living."

The respect in Petyr's tone gradually disappeared. He prepared a set of rhetoric to impress the Queen when he was in the camp for the past two days, but the reckless order of "160 three" when he met Daenerys for the second time just now made him uneasy. ——It is wonderful to assist Daenerys to return to Westeros, but before betting on yourself as a chip, there is an important point to be clear: Is Daenerys a queen worthy of assistance, or is she just relying on her beauty and three things? The arrogant and arrogant person who came to the world, the female version of the mad king?

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Chapter 206 Meereen Knot, Meereen Unravel

"I don't have an army or a way to make a living." Daenerys admitted frankly, "But shouldn't these issues be resolved by the parliament and the local freed people themselves."

"You broke the shackles of the slaves and overthrew the production and operation mode of the slave city-state for thousands of years, but you thought about promoting a few people at random and expecting them to solve everything by themselves? If things are really that simple, then guess why there are tens of thousands of people? Your slave... the free folk don't live a peaceful life in Astapor and Yunkai, so they want to follow you to Meereen?" Petyr chuckled, "I guess, you may think it's because of love?"

Is not it?Daenerys opened her mouth, and she almost said the word.

"I used to be a small person, so I understand the mentality of the bottom people. Let me tell you - as long as they can survive, people will never leave their hometowns in batches to follow...even if you are a hundred times nobler and more beautiful than you People go on adventures in strange lands. The free folk who follow in your footsteps are wise men. They see that it is impossible to stay safe. When you go, Astapor and Yunkai will be in chaos and the other will be at once. Restoring slavery, that's why I'm going through the wasteland at all costs, sticking with you and your army!"

"This is only your judgment. As far as I know, Astapor and Yunkai are all right. Besides, what does it have to do with Meereen?"

"Three sister-like slave city-states, why is it okay? You just ordered the three leaders of Great Master 160 to be crucified on wooden stakes, and you have already brought this city to the brink of destruction!" Petyr looked at Dan. Nellis said in a deep voice: "Please allow me to ask, Your Majesty really thinks that the order to crucify those 160 three slave children by the side of the road you came to Meereen came from the meeting of all the slave owners in Meereen. Passed unanimously?"

Daenerys looked away, stared at Petyr for a while, and suddenly realized that she hadn't considered this question.Subconsciously, a slave owner is a slave owner, what difference can there be between them?