Game of Thrones: I loaded the witcher system.

Chapter 285 What the hell do you want to do?
This is a very taboo topic.

It's not that no one is allowed to say a word on it. In fact, what every nobleman likes to talk about most may be the king himself and how every order of the king is.

They love to express their opinions on these matters, as if they also have the power of kings.

But these cannot be put on the table and placed under the sun.

In the eyes of Lord Tytos Blackwood, it was actually very unexpected for someone like Clay to ask directly.

Because in Earl Blackwood's view, the two sides have different positions on this issue.

He himself is a great nobleman of Hejian who is well-rooted, that is to say, no matter what his personal preferences are, his interests are deeply tied to the land of Hejian, so he has to speak for Hejian.

And the current king, and the future king, will be an out-and-out northerner. As a Hejian native, they naturally don't like such a king very much.

Because they are not their own people.

As for the Mandalay family that Clay belonged to, although the Frey family did not know what to do, the current Twin River City and a large area nearby have become the land of the Mandalay family.

It seemed as if they were also branded with the riverland brand.

But who can say that they are nobles in the river?

Mandalay, which had been a northern surname for the past millennium, is the same now.

No, the current leader of Mandalay, the Clay Manderly in front of him, the current theoretical co-lord of the riverland, Edmure Tully of the Tully family, and the current Duke of Riverrun, one day Calling and drinking at night, training like a grandson.

Lord Tytos Blackwood wasn't sure whether Clay had said this unintentionally, or whether he was asking about his attitude on purpose.

But when he saw Klein's calm eyes looking at him calmly, he knew that he must answer this question today.

No way, he could only bite the bullet and answer:

"Master Clay, we people in Hejian... still respect His Majesty Robb very much..."

"is it?"

Clay smiled and asked back.

Tytos Blackwood simply stopped answering, knowing that Clay's question would not be in vain.

Clay also stopped embarrassing him, and directly said what he wanted to say.

"Let me make it clear, Lord Blackwood, you people of the river have no intention of saving Robb Stark at all. If I hadn't pressed you hard and the military power is in my hands, you wouldn't have wanted to fight Harrenhal at all." A battle, right?"

This sentence directly made Lord Tytos Blackwood stunned on the spot. He didn't expect that Clay would be the first to mention this to himself at this time. It's just something that can't be said.

For the sake of the battle, in fact, more and more voices have emerged from the Hejian Land.

They are asking, why does Hejian Land have to follow the northern border to go to the dark?
Obviously, from the time when Ed Stark overturned his car in King's Landing and the war broke out, until now at the Battle of Harrenhal, the nobles in the Riverlands increasingly found that their core interests were completely inconsistent with those in the North.

Especially after Clay's first battle at Riverrun and the North's complete victory, what did the Northmen do?
All the people withdrew to the northern border, took the spoils, returned to the north of the neck, and went to live their own lives.

Then, the rest of the nobles in Hejian were left staring wide-eyed.

At this time, they realized that the northerners could not protect them at all.

Suppose... suppose.

If Robb Stark doesn't go south with an army, to avenge his father.

The people of the valley had planned to join the war for a long time. Then, the army of the river land would be rushed into the interior by the powerful cavalry of the valley without any defense, and they would be massacred.

At this time, Jaime Lannister, the lion cub of the western region, rushed out of the Golden Tooth City again, and the entire riverland might be at risk of overturning.

Counting on Robb Stark of Winterfell to slowly gather soldiers, and then go south after a thousand miles, the day lily is cold.

Even this time, relying on Clay Manderly's brave performance, he won the Battle of Harrenhal and settled all the opposition in the West or Westeros. Have you had a happy birthday?
Obviously, impossible.

As I said before, Stark and Tully can't come up with a crown that can claim the whole country.

Therefore, if the Blood Gate is not controlled in the east, the Golden Tooth City is not controlled in the west, and there is a flat river in the south, as long as the Hejian Land is a little weaker, anyone can come in and grab a hand.

If the Hejian land is going to follow the northern border all the way to the dark, then the future war pattern will become as follows.

Hejian was beaten!

Call North Daddy!

Hejian continued to be beaten!
Beijing Dad began to mobilize slowly...

Then, Hejiandi was almost beaten to death.

Dad Beijing finally arrived at the battlefield, and then, on Hejiandi's body, he had a ping-pong fight with the incoming enemy.

The last one to be injured was the Hejian Land.

When the war is over, assume the North has won.

What will happen?
Do you expect the northerners to garrison troops in Hejian to help them guard their homes?
impossible!

People from the northern border will go back to their hometown in the northern border.

Did you find it?

If this mode continues, Hejiandi can only spread his hands. Why is it always me who gets hurt?
This is not bullshit.

The North and Dorne are the birthplaces of Westeros separatism, but not the Riverlands.

It is in the place of the Four Wars and its own strength is not strong. In fact, it is the one that most wants to be tied to the Iron Throne.

Now boarding the boat in the northern border is purely caused by the complicated marriage relationship back then.

May I ask, which king sitting on the Iron Throne in the future will tolerate such a big lump of land not obeying the Iron Throne?
If there is no Hejian land, among other things, the only way to go to the west is to go to the south, which is a very long detour.

It would be even more outrageous to go to the valley, and you can only go by boat.

And if the traffic between these two places and the Iron Throne is as bad as this, then something that some people love to see will happen again:

Before long, these two places should become independent, because the cost of communication is too high.

Therefore, no king would allow the land of Hejian not to belong to the Iron Throne. As long as they have a little bit of ability, they will tirelessly pursue to take this land.

As for the northern border and Dorne, you can take a break for now.

At this time, if you bring in the logic just now, you will find that the Hejian land can live a good life is a ghost.

People and ghosts are all showing off, only Hejiandi is being beaten, this thing can't be done!
The nobles in Hejian are all human spirits, how could they fail to understand this truth?

Even if there are some stupid ones, they will quickly understand under the explanation of others.

That is to say, before, the old lion and the valley people beat them too hard, and they couldn't get rid of this face when they surrendered, so they brought in Clay Mandler. .

But the future is visible to the naked eye, so it is no problem for the nobles in the river to fight off the people of the valley, and it is no problem at all to support him in Clay Mandalay's war.

However, as soon as the people in the valley were finished, for example, there was an incident of winter clothes like last time.

Some people in the river are not very willing to throw their family property into the meat grinder of Harrenhal, and continue to fight for the king Rob Stark.

So Brynden Tully had already arrived on the battlefield, but he took a small bench and ate melons from the sidelines, watching Krissen fight to the death with the old lion's army inside.

Edmure Tully might be a fool, but Brynden Tully is definitely not.

As long as he wants to fight, can he find a breakthrough and rush in to help Krissen fight?
impossible!

Undoubtedly, even Brynden Tully now has such similar considerations in his heart.

Catelyn Tully is a Tully, but Robb is a Stark, Ser Bryndon can still tell the difference.

It was because he was aware of this that Clay chose to ask Tytos Blackwood, a person he was fairly familiar with, at this moment when he had no choice but to ask.

Because, from a certain point of view, his ideas and even the interests of these river nobles are intertwined.

After all, Mandalay was a northerner before, and he will certainly not be in the future.

The river land must not be Clay's enemy, but must become Clay's most loyal support.

He chose to discuss this matter with Earl Blackwood. It was indeed just a temptation, but he believed that the day of the showdown was not far away.

Maybe it's really tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)