The Glory of the Seven Gods of Ice and Fire

Chapter 117 Military Camp Trivia
After the conversation with the king, the meeting between Hugo and Inis was over. Next, Robert walked down from the ruined tower and returned to his tent. As for Hugo and Inis, they were busy next. Let their troops enter this huge military camp.

The person responsible for contacting them was a person Hugo knew very well, Stannis Baratheon. This was the first time he met this serious Duke.

To be honest, Stannis is indeed a person who cannot make people feel relaxed. His rigid face alone made Hugo feel a little pressure, and the Duke of Dragonstone kept looking at the soldiers with the eyes of an officer. Love him - but he does this to everyone.

He finally understood why Stannis was so disliked. How many people would like him if he was stared at like this all the time?

But then, as Stannis arranged the camps of Hugo and Aenys' armies in an orderly manner, and ordered a series of related matters, Hugo's view of this person changed a lot. Yes, Stannis is like this It's quite annoying, but he is also very capable and very organized, and he arranges this army of 100,000 people so well.

Seeing this person, Hugo finally understood who was keeping the secrets for King Robert, who definitely didn't know how to deal with complicated military camp affairs. These tasks must have been completed by the Duke of Dragonstone.

This made Hugo want to be friends with Stannis. Hugo liked people who were capable, but unfortunately this man was just a stone in a pit, smelly and hard. Faced with Hugo's overtures, he was He didn't show any signs at all. After handing over the affairs, he left them with a stiff head and left.

"Lord Hugo, don't make friends with Lord Stannis. It's meaningless. This Lord King's brother can be said to be the most ruthless person in the entire army."

In front of the camping area assigned to them, Aenys Frey looked at Stannis and spoke. There was no ridicule in his words, only sincere persuasion.

Aenys has seen many people who want to have a relationship with that person, and the Frey family has also made efforts among them. After all, before Robert's descendants were born, he was the first heir to the Iron Throne.

While Hugo was thinking wildly, he subconsciously said to Inis. He thought that Inis was acting for his children, but he immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing, because then Inis's expression changed drastically and became very ugly. .

And Hu Ge couldn't help but think in a wicked way that Old Yu chewed Frey's tongue every day. In addition to the reason Lu Chen told him, he was probably jealous that Old Frey could have a baby. Hu Ge found that he liked him more and more. He thought down of Lao Yu, and the more he thought about it, the more unbearable his image became.

Marriage. Hu Ge couldn't help but think. This group of weasels already has a lot of marriages, and they want to expand. Are they really going to make Westeros full of your Frey relatives? However, this is also normal. Who told them that the Frey family has many children? It is normal for so many children to seek marriage.

Aenys's two sons are named Aegon and Rhaegar, but their reputations are obviously inversely proportional to their names: the eldest son Aegon became a bandit and robbed homes and houses, and was notorious in the riverlands. Even now, he doesn't know Robbery somewhere. The second son Rhaegar was relatively better, but he was also a waste - not only was he fat and pig-like, but he also had no achievements in other aspects, so much so that he was ridiculed as "a weasel with a real dragon name".

"No, no, Lord Hugo, it's nothing." Inis's expression was still very bad, but it was better than before, "This is not a taboo thing, let me tell you."

Inis's explanation made Hugo feel even more embarrassed. According to this, he had indeed stepped on Inis's most painful point unintentionally. Oops, he still didn't do enough information collection.

Inis spoke with strong reluctance in his tone, but driven by responsibility, these things must still be done.

The Frey family is a big family. Although the various heirs of Old Frey are united, they are always competing with each other. He raised Inis's son like this, so it is not surprising why Inis behaves like this when talking about his son. reaction.

Hu Ge is actually thinking of Frey maliciously. Their family is indeed troubled by the marriage problems of their descendants. The reason why Frey's elders are so enthusiastic about marrying everywhere is actually to give the younger generations a better future, and How can it be so easy to find a suitable marriage partner? No matter what Frey said, they are also the first-class nobles under the commanders, so Frey has naturally been troubled by this.

Afterwards, Inis told Hugo about his two sons. As Inis told Hugo, Hugo understood why Inis reacted that way.

"If you want to socialize, there are many suitable people in this military camp. Almost all the nobles of Westeros are gathered here. Everyone attaches great importance to this opportunity. This is a great opportunity to establish marriage and establish alliances. No, I don’t know how many marriages have been achieved in this military camp. Alas, it would be great if Steve Lun was here. I am not good at this kind of situation, but I still have to do it. Many juniors in the family are still here. We all need to work hard to find a suitable husband or wife.”

It's just that they all got a bad rap from Stannis, who responded to these overtures with a cynical attitude, scolding those who tried to win over him or even try to side with him. , the final result was that Stannis, who was supposed to form a heir faction around him, had no one around him.

"I'm sorry, Lord Innis, it seems I mentioned some bad things." Hugo said immediately upon seeing this. He didn't want to ruin his relationship with the person in charge of Eastern Frey just because of a word.

Fortunately, Inis didn't seem to care, because he then told Hugo his plans, "...Now I have completely given up on these two losers. I have decided to marry a wife in the East. I I have contacted a slave-free leader who can marry his daughter to me, and I plan to raise a few more children. "

"Lord Inis, I heard that you have two sons. Do you want to arrange marriages for them?"

Hugo nodded. He agreed with what Inis said. With the two accounts already useless, training a new account was undoubtedly the right choice. Inis's words were not over yet, and his chat box seemed to be open. , I plan to share my thoughts with others.

"However, marrying the daughter of a freed slave leader, alas, is not as good as the wealthy knights in our family, but they are indeed de facto great lords. Not just me, many young people from the Frey family will do it. Marrying someone of such a birth, that old bastard Hoster Tully will surely laugh at us nouveau riche again."

There was self-deprecation in Inis's tone, and he said what was inevitable. The character of Old Fish would definitely ridicule him even more after knowing this - but he did not have the courage to face Old Frey, after all, Old Frey could scold him bloody Shower head. And this situation is indeed unavoidable. The struggle on the Pentos side was too thorough. The people of Pentos were almost slaughtered, and the wealthy families ended one after another in a killing spree.

Not to mention that the Pantos people are highly mixed with the Andals, and the cultures of both sides are actually highly homogeneous. Therefore, the Pantos people are rapidly disappearing into the tide of Andals releasing slaves. Even in Pantos, In the towns outside Toss, Andal slaves also seized power.

Therefore, if Frey wants to consolidate his rule over Pentos through marriage, he can only marry these newly-emerged former slaves, and these newly-emerged slave-free leaders are no longer upstarts by Westeros standards. The problem is that even the nouveau riche cannot, it can only be said that it has half a foot in the circle.

"Don't worry about what Trout thinks, Lord Aenys, just let him die with his old ideas. He is just jealous."

Hugo's words relieved Inis a lot. Both of them understood that they could gain status, but Lao Yu would definitely not be able to gain it.

He and Frey both gained power by themselves. Old Fish relied on Robert's appointment, or it was a temporary appointment. Robert would never be able to hand over the commander-level territory to Horst in the future, because Old Fish would eventually It was a half-way marriage that got on the train to pay for the ticket - yes, even so, he was one of Baratheon's own people after the marriage, but after all, there was a layer of distrust.

Therefore, it is simply impossible for Lao Yu to obtain a large amount of land in the East. Lao Yu can only accept that the son of a wealthy knight whom he despises and the damn upstart weasel are on an equal footing with him.

After saying this, both sides laughed in unison. They had a great consensus on attacking the old fish, but the laughter did not last long because they still had to deal with a lot of things about setting up camp.

After settling the army, Hu Ge also began to observe the war. However, he did not expect that the first thing he would face would be a steady stream of nobles coming to visit.

Most of the nobles who came to visit were small and medium-sized nobles, or even wealthy knights. The reason why they came, apart from wanting to have a good relationship with Hugo, was to ask Hugo whether the Andas lords were of the right age. The children can be married.

Unlike the slave-free nobles who rose up in Pentos, Andas has a large number of Andal nobles with a long history. Their history is no less than that of their relatives in the West, and they all believe in the Seven Gods. So for the Westeros nobles For them, it is like a blue ocean market of marriage.

It is difficult for nobles to marry. In fact, an important reason is that nobles who are relatively close to each other have been married to each other for countless generations, and everyone has been related to them for many generations.

Marriage that is too close by blood is not accepted in Westeros, which is equivalent to incest, and the nobles have long understood that marriage that is too close by blood is extremely likely to produce deformed children.

Therefore, the nobles of Andas are an extremely important marriage market for the nobles of Westeros. They are not like Pentos, which is full of freed slave nobles who can only have half a foot in the circle. Unlike the three The Daughter Kingdom is full of unbelievers who believe in pagan religions, so it is a marriage resource that is naturally suitable to be divided up.

This made Hu Ge a little bit dumbfounded. He thought these people were after his reputation, but it turned out that most of them were interested in the marriage market behind him. But think about it, his legend of the Eastern Expedition has already begun with the fall of Pentos and King Robert's victory became bleak one after another, but even so, he still saw many young people full of enthusiasm, and the enthusiastic praise of the young people made him very satisfied.

Hugo agreed to the marriage request and would organize it after the current battle was over. During this period, Hugo also met Baron Uller Tolet, the head of their Tolet family - after all Their family is just a branch - the baron expressed his blessing to him, but what made Hugo very comfortable was that the main family did not express too strong a relationship-building attitude, and just asked Hugo to open an opening for them to let the Tollett family One can enter Hugo's court.

Lord Hugo agreed to this. He didn't mind opening an opening for his master's family, and it was easier to use people with the same surname. However, when Baron Uler was about to leave happily, Hugo made him a request. The baron was stunned by this request, but he agreed.

That was Hugo's request to send Eddie Tollett - although the child was only five years old at this time - this humorous night watchman left a lot of impressions on Hugo, so he decided to let this kid grow up Come and serve as your own servant.

After handling a series of things, Hugo also took a look at Frey's situation next door and found that Inis's place was much more lively than him. Although Frey was always scolded as a nouveau riche, their family relationship was indeed spread all over the world. Up and down Strollo, I don’t know how many people have desires for their family.

And Inis, who claimed that he was not good at facing this kind of situation, was like a duck in water. That way Hugo thought of Steve Lun - of course, his skills were not quite as good as Steve Lun's.

After reading this, Hugo naturally became concerned about the war, but there was nothing to care about. As guest troops coming from afar, Robert did not arrange any combat missions for them. Hugo said at a routine military meeting He just listened to Stannis's mechanical report. He forced himself to listen during the meeting because he knew that the decision of the battle was not in the hands of this person.

To be honest, this is all a bit boring, and the military camp has become more alive because of the long-term confrontation - after all, the military camp is essentially a mobile settlement.

As for the least boring person, the only person to be frightened is His Majesty the King himself - because he attacks almost every day these days.

And just when Hu Ge felt a little accustomed to this kind of military camp life, the time for war came unknowingly.

(End of this chapter)