Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 329 Acting School

On the third day and night of the suspension of offerings, in the southern part of Meereen
"Master Jun, please do me a favor, give me some food, just a little, my son will starve to death soon!"

"Master, please do me a favor."

"Give us some food."

The cries of the hungry people came one after another, and the centurion led by the reorganized new army centurion Geenz to deliver supplies to the Great Pyramid had just entered the city when it was surrounded by hungry people coming from all directions.

Facing the continuous flood of victims, Geenz first ordered them to be expelled, then pretended to be invincible, led the people to abandon the grain trucks and started running.Seeing this, the hungry people frantically snatched up the food on the grain carts.

Originally, these civilians should not have starved during this turmoil. When the Acting Minister of Finance, Hominas, provided logistical support for Ian, he did not include civilians in the scope of food purchases.And because these civilians lack food sources, most of them did not dare to take advantage of the soaring food prices to buy the food stored at home for money.

According to Ian's plan, the turmoil in Meereen would last at most four to five days, and most of the civilians had enough food to survive this period.In order to ensure that the Great Lords of Meereen would not plunder civilians on a large scale, Ian also deliberately asked Hominas to store a certain amount of food in the warehouse of the City Guards belonging to the Holy Lord faction, and let Carlo, who was reorganizing the new army, The general opened the channel of 'smuggling military food' to the city.

But Ian still underestimated the shamelessness of the 'Holy Lord' Hizdahr and his group after all.Before their own food was in trouble, they even directly lied that the city guards had mutinied and ordered the city guards to loot nearly a quarter of Meereen.

The purpose of Ian to set off this riot was to deal with the sea raiders in the port and the Great Master of the Holy Lord of Meereen. If these civilians were starved and the population of the city was halved in the end, it would be a bit of a loss. .

Therefore, shortly after these victims were forced to take to the streets, Ian ordered the reorganized new army outside the city to organize four centurions to transport a large amount of food into the city from different directions.They lied that they were sending supplies to the Great Pyramid, but in fact the food was prepared for the hungry.

Although providing food to the starving people in this form will still cause a large number of casualties in the competition, Ian is now in a state of 'fleeing after defeat', and it is impossible for the army to go to the city to set up tents in an orderly manner. Give porridge to the hungry.

Sending supplies to the Great Pyramid was the only reason for the new army to bring food into the city that would not be suspected.

Moreover, the reorganized new army hurriedly delivered food to the Great Pyramid, and after the news spread that the food was halfway robbed, it was still possible to convey the message to everyone that the Great Pyramid was about to run out of food.

In this way, the tens of thousands of mercenaries and sailors in the port will not place the first looting target on the Great Pyramid, which has 'no more food', but will take the lead in targeting and taking away the City Guards The great masters of the Holy Lord of the granary.

In fact, Ian didn't want to cut off these great masters with his own hands. The killing of nobles is not good in this world.

In Slaver's Bay, everyone may know that it was the Holy Lord who rebelled first, and Ian suppressed them.

But after the story spreads to Volantis, Qarth, and even Westeros, it is hard to guarantee that it will not become "Ian killed the donkey as soon as he won the battle, and massacred the heroes of the nobles." '

It is best to let these great masters die at the hands of those sea raiders, which is why Ian asked Hominas to win over the Qarth merchant Xaro Xhoan Daxos before.

In the middle of the night on the third day of the suspension of offerings, the Great Pyramid
"Your Majesty, please see Reznak." Chief Intelligence Officer Mita walked up to the top of the Great Pyramid and reported to Ian Hui who was overlooking the city.

A lot happened tonight, and Ian hasn't slept yet.

"Reznak?" Ian was a little surprised, "Why is he coming to see me at this time?"

Just in the middle of the night, Ian's owl saw Reznak going to the Holy Lord's Lorak Pyramid to join the rebel party.At this time, the people of the 'Holy Lord' Hizdahr have already found the person in charge of Volantis in the port area.

Tomorrow at the latest, the Holy Master's rebellion will no longer be a secret.

And now, Reznak suddenly begged to see him?

"Perhaps he wanted to find out if you are still alive?" Meda guessed, "Now there are many rumors that you have been murdered by Grazdan or Hominas, and the person in charge of Meereen is They, maybe Reznak just wanted to confirm this, so he came."

"No," Ian shook his head lightly, "if they really think that as long as I live I will be a threat to them, then he should come to me in the afternoon. Now that they have contacted the Volantenes, it means To them, I am dead or alive."

"Then." Mita thought for a while, "Then I can't think of other possibilities."

"It's okay, if you can't guess, let him say it himself?" Ian shrugged, "Let him come up."

"Yes." Mi Da bowed his head slightly, and stepped back from the big terrace.

Looking at the intelligence chief who left, Ian sighed softly.

Mi Da's loyalty is enough. This person was born as a fugitive and experienced various hardships in his early years. Everything he has now is bestowed by Ian, and he is also very grateful for it.Ian can be sure that Medah's loyalty to himself is higher than that of Grazdan zo Eraz, and even Fermor, almost equal to the level of 'Onion Knight' Davos to Stannis.

But in terms of ability, if he only manages a Meereen intelligence station, it's okay, but if he wants to be the intelligence chief of the entire empire, Mi Dai, who is not well educated, is somewhat lacking.

Thinking of this, the image of a bald eunuch could not help appearing in Ian's mind.

Varys.

"It's a pity." Ian shook his head immediately. He killed Illyrio himself, and he might kill 'Bron' Aegon and the old griffin in Volantis. That eunuch is destined to be impossible for him to use. .

"Lord Darry!" Reznak's crying voice interrupted Ian's thinking.

Ian turned his head to look at the door of the terrace, and saw that Reznak fell to his knees as soon as he rushed in, and then quickly crawled towards himself with his palms and knees.

Reznak wanted to hug Ian's thigh, but Ian kicked him out subconsciously. Reznak rolled on the ground a few times, and after stopping, he quickly got up and knelt down.

"Lord Darry! I'm guilty!" Reznak bowed his head and burst into tears.

"Oh? What's your crime?" Ian couldn't help being interested.

"It's like this. In fact, two months ago, I discovered a major event. The 'Holy Lord' Hizdahr and the 'Green Maiden' Grazdan are actually plotting against you," Reznak said. As he spoke, he took two steps forward.

"Then why didn't you report it to me?" Ian didn't want to understand why the other party suddenly came to say this at this time, so he asked cooperatively.

"Hizdahr and Grazdan are my old friends for many years. I didn't report the first time when I was soft-hearted, of course!" Reznak raised his hand immediately and said, "At that time, they only had such I didn’t take any substantial action, so I was moved with compassion, and I wanted to persuade them to come back before they really went astray.”

"Oh? So you attended their secret meetings many times after that, just to persuade them?" Ian hadn't heard such an interesting sophistry for a long time, and he almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

Reznak thumped in his heart, as expected, he had been under Ian's surveillance all along!
"Of course, I've been trying to persuade them to calm down." Reznak still bit the bullet and said before coming here, he had already decided that no matter what Ian said, he would kill him and would not admit that he participated in the rebellion Secret thing.

Others don't know what is going on with Ian's "God's Vision", but Reznak knows it well. When they and Daznak (the player) conspired together to wipe out Ian's Astapor army in Yunkai Daznak had shown them the ability to gain vision through animals.

So each of their plots was carried out in the secret basement of the Lorak Pyramid, where even a bug could not fly in. Reznak firmly believed that Ian had not heard the specific content of their plot.

In addition, all the preparations for the rebellion were done by the Holy Lord and the Green Saintess, and he was only responsible for making ideas, so Reznak will bite himself to death now and not participate in the rebellion, and the rest will be left to God up.

"I have been trying to tell them that staying loyal to you will give them greater benefits," Reznak continued to quibble, "When a complete Ghis Empire is rebuilt, as the noblest Ghis nobles, They are sure to hold high positions in your empire.

But Hizdahr is so short-sighted for some reason, he can't let go of his greed for the authority of Meereen, and the Green Maiden also complains about your move to make the Red God the state religion.This makes every meeting I have with them end in an argument. "

"Until tonight, I suddenly received an invitation from Hizdahr," Reznak observed Ian's expression, while vividly telling the lies he had already made up, "Considering the current situation in Meereen Nervous, I was worried that he would do something to aggravate the chaos, so I went to his appointment.

Unexpectedly, he told me that he had already contacted the Volantis, and planned to use the Volantis and other sea raiders to attack the Great Pyramid and the camp of the new army, and then use the City Guards to recapture the city. control of the city.He invited me to join him as his chief steward when he was done."

"You refused?" Ian continued to cooperate.

"I agreed." Reznak shook his head, and then quickly explained, "If I refuse, he will lock me up immediately, so how could I have the opportunity to report this to you?

I can only pretend to agree and win his trust before I can secretly come to you!They'll be moving by tomorrow morning at the latest!I must tell you the news immediately. "

"Act tomorrow? Then what should I do now? The Great Pyramid is not strong enough, and it will definitely not be able to defend it." Ian suddenly became 'panic'.

"Mobilize and reorganize the new army into the city! Abandon all other urban areas, concentrate our forces on the Harpy Square outside the Great Pyramid, control the four avenues, and hold on until the reinforcements arrive!" Reznak said subconsciously.

"Reinforcements?" Ian sneered in his heart, but did not show it. "Where did the reinforcements come from? All my army has been wiped out by Drogo, and the reorganized new army has lost control. Now the only ones still obeying my command are left." Then several centuries, they were attacked when they were transporting food to the Great Pyramid, and suffered heavy losses."

"Now I don't have any troops at all! What should I do? What should I do now?" Ian asked Reznak's hand.

"This..." Seeing Ian's reaction, Reznak was stunned.

The fear in Ian's eyes did not seem to be fake, which made Reznak wonder if he really made a wrong bet this time.

He didn't suspect that Ian was acting. Ian's image in Slaver's Bay has always been arrogant, indifferent, confident, and sure of winning. Is the supreme leader of the people still an acting school?
"We." Reznak opened his mouth, but couldn't make a sound. The fear of being in the wrong team made him shiver.

"Okay, tell me, how did you know that I had won the war?" Ian's indifferent voice sounded again, interrupting Reznak's thinking, and he quickly looked up at Ian.

Arrogant, indifferent, confident, and sure of winning, he turned back to the same him.

All this made Reznak wonder if the scene he just saw was a hallucination, because he was too afraid of the hallucination caused by choosing the wrong team.

Ian was standing in front of him, and Reznak didn't dare to ask, so he could only answer Ian's question honestly, expressing his previous speculation.This time he didn't dare to lie anymore, his intuition told him that all lies in front of Ian were futile.

He can only pray now, pray that the young Huang can forgive him and let himself survive.

"Is it really a matter of food shortage?" Ian pursed his mouth after hearing this, but Reznak buried his head very low and didn't see it.

It is normal for the plan to have omissions, because this plan was originally thought up by Ian after he arrived in Meereen.

At the beginning, Ian's ideas were not so radical.At that time, what he thought was to truthfully pass the victory back to Meereen, and at the same time began to raise the price of food in Meereen for various reasons, and used the time when the captives were transported back to Meereen to drag the captains and consume their food reserves. Let them exchange ships for sky-high prices of food.

However, he changed his mind after he heard that the great masters of the Holy Master Sect used food to make a fortune in war and colluded with the captains in the port to secretly rebel.

"Okay, stand up," Ian raised his hand, "I forgive your crime."

"Your Majesty? You?" Reznak looked up in disbelief.

"No matter what your considerations are, if you chose loyalty at the last moment, I will not disappoint your choice," Ian said after a pause, "but remember clearly, there is only one chance like this."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Reznak's whole body trembled with excitement. Just a moment ago, he thought he was doomed.

"I plan to establish a formal intelligence station in Volantis. There is a lack of a person in charge. Do you have any good candidates to recommend?"

"I'll go! Your Majesty, please give me this chance to redeem myself!" How could Reznak fail to understand that Ian's purpose of asking this was to transfer himself away from Slaver's Bay.In Volantis, he doesn't have such deep contacts and roots as in Slave Bay. If he wants to maintain his status, he can only do things for Ian wholeheartedly.

But Reznak didn't feel dissatisfied, he knew very well that Ian didn't directly order him to be thrown from the big terrace, it was already a big favor.Besides, the upper limit of the position of the person in charge of the intelligence station is very high, and it is directly responsible to Ian. If he does well enough, it will not be difficult to obtain a position like Mita's by Ian's side in the future.

"I want to rest now, you can go to Meda and Hominas now, and help them arrange this operation," Ian said to Reznak as he walked towards the stairs, "Before I get up, purify this place." City."

(End of this chapter)