Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 122 The Loras Merchant

"Dear Hand of Sheila, my old friend:
After all this time, I have found the perfect candidate to be our eyes - Jorah Mormont, Bear Isle sentenced to death by Eddard Stark for selling poachers to slave traders count.

Robert promised him amnesty, and I promised him other things that are more important to him, and you don't have to worry about him being bad for Viserys and the others.

In short, after sending Jorah, Robert should not send other assassins for a short time, which is enough for us to delay the time until the wedding of the horse king.

And after Her Royal Highness married Khal Drogo, the new assassin sent by Robert, whether successful or not, would anger Khal Drogo and make Drogo firm in his belief in sending troops to Westeros.

As for the other thing you said—immediately introduce Ian River to Little Griff [the pseudonym of Rhaegar's son (pseudo) Aegon VI], let him directly follow Griff (Jon Connington, who was Hand of the Mad King, Rhaegar's confidant, and is now in charge of teaching 'Aegon VI') operations.

I do not agree with this plan.

Although having this young man whom you admired so much befriended young Griffin early on would be a great benefit to our plans.

But now it was known that the descendants of House Darry and House Grafson had gone to Pentos to join Viserys.

At this time you prevent them from coming to Viserys, and instead send them elsewhere, it will inevitably raise suspicion.

Besides, you know Viserys' character, and anyone who sees him in person is bound to be disappointed.

As long as that Sir Ian is really smart enough, even if he has followed Viserys for a while, after we put the young Griff on the bright side, he will definitely switch to the Lord without hesitation.

I hope you will seriously consider my suggestion.

- pendant box"

After writing the letter, Varys cut off a small piece of wax, put it on a candle with a spoon and baked it, then poured it on the envelope, and stamped the seal with the octopus spider on it.

The Hand of Sheila and the Locket are secret terms for the correspondence between Illyrio and Varys.

Its source was Illyrio's dead wife, a Lys prostitute named Sheila.

After Sheila's death, Illyrio kept one of her hands in memory of his lost love, and contained her likeness in an elaborate locket.

These two items have been kept by Illyrio's side.

"Jorah, you take the boat to Pentos now, and hand him over to Governor Illyrio," Varys handed the sealed letter to Jorah Mormont, "and then Illyrio will tell Your specific arrangements."

The tall knight took the envelope and responded with a nasal voice. On his haughty face, Varys could clearly see his disdain for him.

But Varys didn't care, and just smiled and said: "By the way, if your assassination has not progressed, Robert may try to send other assassins. Remember, the Targaryen brothers and sisters must have nothing to do."

"You also remember our agreement." Mormont didn't answer Varys, just reminded him, and left in a hurry.

"That's all." The big mouse Hazru handed over a thick stack of letters to Ian, "It took us a long time to collect this, and it only arrived in Pentos in the last two months , but the information of people whose influence is developing rapidly.”

"One hundred and six people?" Ian's mouth twitched, why don't you add two to make up one hundred and eight heroes?

"We have tried our best." Hazru said helplessly, he thought Ian was too little.

"Of course, I can see it." Ian sneered, the list was too outrageous, as if they had found out anyone who slightly matched the characteristics he said.

It is indeed Illyrio's intelligence network in Pentos. Ian is basically sure that there are definitely players or agents pushed by the players to the surface.

But if there are so many people, the difficulty for him to verify also increases, and this list does not include those players who may exist and try to replace a certain player who was originally from Pentos.

"Share with me the interesting things that happened in Pentos recently." Ian found that Hazru was sitting there alone and bored while reading the materials, so he said.

As soon as Hazru heard it, he immediately began to speak incessantly.

Most of the anecdotes are about Pentos's new City Guard, the mercenaries who flood into Pentos smelling of money and make the city run wild.

This made Ian feel ridiculous, because the addition of city guards is a superficial self-consolation. If Drogo's card LS is hostile to Pentos, even if Pentos increases the guards by 10 times, it will not help.

Of course, this does not mean that Drogo can break into the city of Pentos.

On the contrary, the Dothraki do not have any siege weapons and experience in siege operations. Even if there is no increase in the number of guards in Pentos, Drogo will never want to capture the walls of Pentos.

But unlike the normal country with many cities and castles in Ian's previous life, the free trade city-state, a power that developed from a large area of ​​land to support a huge city, faced the Dothraki who were "incapable of attacking the city" , also powerless to resist.

Only when a country has enough cities and military towns, nomads will be cautious about in-depth destruction and plunder, and they need to worry that the defenders of cities that have not been captured behind them will come out to stab their ass.

There are few cities or castles outside the Free Cities, so Drogo can easily unleash his wrath on the villages and towns of the vast lands east of Pentos, and he can take the villages south of the Velvet Mountains and west of the Little Rhone The land turned to scorched earth.

And Pentos, without the support of the millions of farmers on the great plains, would have fallen into chaos and decay even without Drogo's siege.

Therefore, the Pentos had only two choices in front of the Dothraki, defeating the Dothraki through field battles or paying the protection fee honestly.

It is pointless to increase the city defense army, because there will be no siege at all.

While thinking about it, Ian continued to flip through the documents in his hand.

Suddenly, the appearance of a name almost made Ian bounce from his chair.

[Gini Taime, a Loras businessman, came to Pentos two and a half months ago, and together with his small gang, made a small fortune at the port through some shady means.

Soon, they made a bigger fortune with this money, and even formed a large mercenary team.

Suspicious things: Several Westeros who tried to visit Governor Illyrio died mysteriously after being driven away, and the merchant and his companions were always near the scene of the death.

Current location: Unknown. The last time this person appeared in public was half a month ago. The location is the Red Temple on the top of Mount Pentos. 】

Isn't this resume a proper player?Moreover, Ian, a player from the same country as himself, pulled out this piece of paper from a stack of materials.

But, what the hell is this little blackie so arrogant?And he didn't take me with him, ah, isn't he afraid of the critical attack of my true fan?

(End of this chapter)