Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 151 Hazan's Purpose

"Great warrior, you surprised me again. What Jorah just killed was a slave warrior I bought in Rhys before. I had high hopes for him." Hazan also joined many noble youths in the arena Applauded.

He also gave me a surprise, Ian slandered, and then said as a matter of course: "If it is not the strongest fighter, how can I recommend it to you?"

"Okay," Ian shrugged, not giving Hazan a chance to continue chatting, "Since my friend has passed the assessment, please allow me to leave first, I can't wait to convince His Excellency Illyrio, Then we officially married Lingmei."

"Of course, please," Hazan said, and handed Ian an invitation letter, "Bring this, you and your companions can freely enter and leave the Prince's Palace with this, and the match the day after tomorrow morning will be held in the Prince's Palace .”

"I'll be there as scheduled." Ian nodded in agreement, then got up to leave.

"Wait for Ian," Celia, who was silent for a long time, also called out to herself, "Don't forget to come to the Red Temple to find me tomorrow, you promised."

"Okay, beautiful lady." Ian took Celia's little hand in front of him, and gently printed a kiss on the pale fingertips.

Afterwards, he left the underground arena with Dai Lun and others.

"What do you think of his performance just now?" Hazan said in a low voice after Ian left, "Will he stand by our side after our plan is implemented?"

"I don't think people are as accurate as you, but no matter what, it is in his best interest to cooperate with us, as long as he is smart enough." Delive smiled and said, "He has no reason to refuse us."

"I agree with me," Hazan nodded, and then said to Celia, "To be on the safe side, try to take him down tomorrow."

"Okay, dear brother." Celia nodded obediently, and then asked, "What if he doesn't recognize anyone when he pulls up his pants?"

"Then detain him after the martial arts tournament. When all the dust settles, he will have no choice." Hazan paused, "But I really don't want that kind of thing to happen. The cooperation is always different.”

After returning to the room, Ian took out a piece of paper and began to list in detail any people and things he could think of related to Hazan on it, and then connected the parts that could be connected with lines.

He was thinking about what kind of plan Hazan had behind his abnormal enthusiasm for him.

First of all, and most importantly, this conspiracy is not aimed at myself. At least I will not be in danger because of this conspiracy.

Because I have already used the optional mission bug test before, Celia is not hostile to me, and she is Hazan's sister, their plans should be the same
Suddenly, Ian raised his head. Is it possible that Hazan didn't tell Celia the part of the plan aimed at him, which caused the system's settlement error?
Thinking of this, Ian called Luo Er in to be on the safe side, designed a [Hazan's Conspiracy] script with exactly the same logic as [The Conspiracy of the Red Robe Woman], and then tested it.

Originally, Ian wanted to use Hazan to try to clear [difficult] level tasks, but Hazan's excessive enthusiasm and many other factors prevented Ian from finding the opportunity.

And the number of optional missions he saved this month just came in handy at this moment.

The results of the test came out quickly. As before, the task was settled immediately, and the difficulty judgment was still [easy].

Not caring about the loss of rewards, Ian breathed a sigh of relief, because it meant that Hazan really had no hostility towards him.

Then, the next question becomes, what value does he have for Hazan that he can't wait to marry.

First rule out the possibility that he wants to win Illyrio by himself, because Hazan's attitude clearly shows that he doesn't care about winning Illyrio.

In other words, after excluding the factor of Illyrio, he still has great use value for Hazan.

Has he shown any strength worthy of Hazan at this moment?Ian didn't think he had. Before Viserys gave him his surname, he was just a 'bastard son of a declining family wandering in a foreign land'.

And at this moment, although he became what Viserys called 'Hand of the King', he had no real power.

Except for a few thugs and Viserys' trust, Ian has nothing, but what's the use of Viserys' trust?
What's his trust worth when he'll be poured with gold by Khal Drogo for offending Daenerys shortly after arriving in Vaes Dothraki?
Thinking of this, Ian was taken aback suddenly, and his hand holding the feather pen hovered in mid-air.

What if the stupid dragon didn't die?Ian suddenly thought.

I have no ability to stop Dany from marrying the horse king, but I am fully capable of stopping Viserys from provoking Daenerys. As long as I stabilize this violent stupid dragon, what will happen next?

As long as Viserys doesn't die, he will get Khal Drogo's 'return' sooner or later--the iron chair on the other side of the narrow sea!
And the Dothraki are going to attack Westeros, where is the most suitable place to be their forward base?
Pentos!
value!Ian suddenly figured out his own value, that he had been doubting and looking for, Prince Hazan was eager to make his own value, and this value was in Viserys.

Ian found himself preconceived earlier, thinking that Viserys was worthless because he knew Viserys would die.

But Hazan doesn't think so. From Hazan's point of view, it is inevitable for Viserys to obtain a powerful army, and it is not impossible to counterattack Westeros.

Then, it would be of great significance to make friends with himself, the future star of Westeros, in advance.

In a way, this makes sense.

But adding Hazan's attitude towards Illyrio... it doesn't make sense again, Ian thought, shaking his head again.

Hazan's several subconscious performances have shown that he is not interested or hopeful in wooing Illyrio, but there is a set of paradoxes here.

First of all, it is theoretically impossible for Hazan not to be interested in this, because getting Illyrio's support is equivalent to making his uncle a sure winner in the next Aquaman election, which is their core interest.

But giving up hope is also problematic, because when I told Hazan 'I will marry your sister after I persuade Illyrio', Hazan agreed very readily.

If Harzan was convinced that he couldn't persuade Illyrio to join his side, wouldn't making this promise mean that his marriage with his sister fell through?
Then why is he so passionately looking for a marriage with himself?Is it fun?impossible.

In this way, all of Hazan's actions appear inexplicable, unless .
He wants to deal with Illyrio!Even kill Illyrio!A thunderstorm exploded in Ian's mind.

If Illyrio is going to become a dead man in Hazan's plan, it makes sense if he is not interested in wooing Illyrio. Who would be interested in a dead man?

At the same time, because of Illyrio's disappearance, my promise about 'marrying Illyrio's sister after I successfully win over him' will automatically become invalid, and this promise needs to expire before I leave Pentos, so Only then can he marry his sister.That said, Hazan's hands-on time may be right before Mawang's wedding.

The point is, in this way, Hazan added the most important reason for his wooing - he needs someone to stabilize Daenerys after he kills Illyrio, so as to prevent Daenerys from becoming Illyrio Thoughts of revenge.

You must know that once Daenerys marries Drogo, her will will have extremely terrible destructive power for Pentos. At this time, Hazan needs someone who can gain Daenerys' trust to stop her possible anger.

And for this reason, it is more reasonable that Hazan is willing to marry his sister to him to gain his own understanding and support. After all, he is still Illyrio's subordinate. If Hazan refuses to spend all his money, how can he be sure that he will support him? What about him?

Looking at the relationship diagram in his hand, Ian calmed down.

Although this reasoning sounds too bold, it perfectly explained Hazan's logical chain from purpose to behavior, which made Ian have to believe that this might be the truth.

And this truth raises two sets of questions.

First, it is related to the players - in the original book, nothing happened to Illyrio during the horse king's wedding, so if Hazan really has a plan to deal with Illyrio, then there must be some players who have exerted influence on it.

Who is that player?How did he do it?What is his purpose?Since he can exert so much influence on Ha-zan, why doesn't he use Ha-zan's hand to kill himself?
Second, how will Hazan deal with Illyrio?

Assassination is impossible, Illyrio's guard level will not leave such a gap at all, unless it is done by a faceless man, but even Hazan's mother may not be able to kill a figure of Illyrio's level Can afford to pay for a faceless man.

A storm is even more impossible. Butler Mills said before that most of the city guards in Pentos City are in the hands of an old governor who 'sticks to order'. That old governor would not allow an open attack on a governor. such behavior.

As for the rest of the Guard, the Braavos Party, the Volantene Party and the Illyrio Party have basically the same number of officers.

As for the 2000 mercenaries that Pantos added this time to guard against the Dothraki, the command power was evenly assigned to the three parties. It can be said that Hazan has no advantage in terms of strength.

He wanted to succeed unless it was an ambush or a sneak attack, but Illyrio had a background in intelligence.

The streets and alleys of Pentos are full of Illyrio's eyeliner. As long as Hazan takes action against Illyrio, Illyrio will get the news immediately, so ambushes, sneak attacks, etc. are impossible.

More importantly, Hazan is still facing a life-and-death battle with Suda Tetrus. Their conflict with the Volantis Party has reached a fever pitch. Why would he dare to fight Illyri? O's attention?
This is a one-to-three match. Unless the Purple Ship Fleet lands directly at the port of Pentos, Hazan's chances of winning are basically zero.

But the problem is that the Purple Ship Fleet belongs to the commander supported by Sea King and Illyrio in the factional struggle in Braavos. These two are also Hazan's opponents...

Ian thought for a long time and walked out of the room.

He has a rough guess, but still needs to confirm something.

(End of this chapter)