Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 140 Illyrio's Hole Card
Moreover, the final judgment difficulty of the other two missions released by the mercenary captain Dorian and Roll are also lower than the theoretical difficulty. Although the reduction is different, the direction is right.

This also supports the speculation that the low identity of the task issuer will have a negative impact on the difficulty determination.

Will it be the upper limit?Ian suddenly thought, for example, there is an item in the mechanism: the tasks issued by people below the level of Jazz can only be judged as [medium] at the highest?
This explains why the difficulty of the task released by Rolle and Dorian is judged as medium. But this does not explain why the task of [Red Robe Woman] is judged as easy.

So there must be other factors affecting the judgment mechanism. Ian thought about it for a long time, but finally shook his head.

Without more samples, he couldn't make any further judgments.

The next test is still needed. But after confirming that the [task issuer] is an influencing factor, the next test cannot be completed by Rolle.

Only by looking for a mission issuer with a higher status can the difficulty of judging the mission be increased.

Of course, for those people, I can't directly order them to cooperate, I can only find ways to guide and lure them.

Soon Ian had an idea, perhaps Prince Hazan would be a good subject for the experiment.

Early the next morning, Ian was invited to have breakfast with Illyrio in a restaurant in Drogo's palace.

"How about Ian, did you rest well last night?" Illyrio asked with a smile while spreading plum jam on the bread.

He seems to always have this expression, you can't see the joy and anger on his face.

"Not very good, actually," Ian laughed, "I wanted to tell you about this last night, His Majesty Viserys was deceived by Hazan, and he agreed to let the Water Dancer under Daeron I am afraid it will affect your neutrality in Pentos."

Seeing Ian's worried look, Illyrio laughed.

"You don't have to worry about that, as I said," Illyrio took a sip of his wine, the amber liquid dripping down his oily blond split beard, "when Oranto got me out of Wessey ahead of time." When Reese moved away, I already guessed Hazan's purpose."

"Then why didn't you stop him?" Ian asked puzzled, it wasn't an act, he really didn't know.

"This involves my neutral position." Illyrio asked after thinking for a while, "How do you understand my neutral position?"

"Not to participate in the dispute between the Volantene Party and the Braavos Party?" Ian said according to the information he 'supposedly' knew.

"On the surface, but in fact, the Volantene Party is not important." Illyrio paused, "Speaking of which, did Steward Mills tell you before that my position is biased toward Braavos? ?”

"No, but he should have expressed this meaning."

"Then you are not curious, why am I unwilling to form an alliance with Hazan?"

"I'm sorry," Ian pretended to be asked, "I haven't thought about these things. Does the factionalism in Pentos have anything to do with our restoration of the country?"

"Take him as a learning experience, Ian. You will need these abilities sooner or later. Westeros is far bigger and more complicated than Pentos.
Didn't Viserys make you his Hand of the King last night? "Illyrio's expression carried imperceptible sarcasm,
"As the Hand of the King, you need to know what everyone under your command is thinking, perceive their purpose, balance their interests, and control their positions. Only in this way can you manage a country well."

"Yeah." Ian nodded, suddenly there was an indescribable feeling in his heart.

It is obvious that Illyrio really trusts himself completely now, and is still cultivating himself for the purpose of cultivating the Hand of the King for 'Aegon VI', but he is always thinking about how to plot against him.

But what can I do if I don’t count?There is only one Iron Throne.

In Illyrio's plan, Daenerys will marry Aegon VI in the future, and then take back Westeros together. Could it be that he is really a vassal for them?

A real man was born between the heaven and the earth, how can he live under the people for a long time?

Wait, no, Illyrio couldn't have foreseen that Viserys and Drogo would die, that wasn't what he had planned in the first place.
So what was Illyrio's plan in the first place?
"Have you figured it out? If we figure it out, let's continue." Illyrio's words interrupted Ian.

This forced Ian to temporarily put aside his thinking about the question just now, and said respectfully to Illyrio: "Yes, sir, please teach me."

"Very good," Illyrio nodded in satisfaction, and then gave the answer, "I don't want to form an alliance with Hazan because... his uncle Tormo Frega is Uther Antalune's next A competitor in the Aquaman election, and the latter is the object of my sponsorship."

Sure enough, Ian secretly thought, but
"You sponsored Aquaman's campaign?" You have that money?Ian was skeptical.

"Do you think that all Aquaman's candidates are the keykeepers of the Iron Treasury? No, no, no," Illyrio read the suspicion in Ian's eyes, and waved his hands again and again, "Every citizen of Braavos has Qualified to run for Aquaman.

As for General Uther Antalune, he was my friend when he was still in despair, just like our king. Although he is now one of the three commanders of the Purple Ship Fleet, he still treats me well. Be grateful. "

Fuck!Ian's heart skipped a beat, Commander of the Purple Ship Fleet!No wonder Illyrio dared to have ambitions for the whole of Westeros. It turns out that he still has such a big hole card in Braavos!

If Illyrio's plans really all go well, Uther Antalune wins the Sea King election, Viserys gets the Horse King's army, plus the Golden Company, Dornishmen, and other Westeros speculation By.

With such a force, even if there is no civil war in Westeros because Littlefinger stirs up the situation, they will be enough to shake Robert Baratheon's rule.

"You seem surprised?" Illyrio interrupted Ian's thinking again.

"I see a bright future, Your Excellency Governor." Ian said immediately.

"Don't get too excited, things won't be that easy," Illyrio shook his head, "Based on the current situation, the person most likely to win the next sea king election is Prince Hazan's uncle Tormo Frega, No.2 is a keykeeper supported by the current Neptune, and General Uther Antalune can only be ranked third."

Ian thought that Illyrio was on the side of the current Aquaman, but he didn't expect that he would start a new life and support the third person.

"Then, if you were Uther, facing two such formidable opponents, what strategy would you adopt?" Illyrio suddenly raised a question.

Ian knew it was part of 'learning', it was just that the question was a little too easy.

"I don't know, No.3 should have a hard chance of winning, right?" Ian shook his head, saying that this question is too difficult.

"Think, Ian, think." Illyrio was not satisfied with the answer.

"Form an alliance with No.2 and deal with No.1 together?" Ian thought for a while and said the most traditional answer.

(End of this chapter)