King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 127 Lessons from History
The Temple Knights of Medieval Europe, Growing in Banking and Commerce Assets, wealth to rival a nation, are the biggest creditors of many kings and dukes, but they were eventually wiped out by a national arrest warrant from the biggest customer, the king of France, who wanted to rely on the Holy See to turn the tables and became a victim of the struggle between religion and kingship. Once invincible, but was kicked off the stage of history in an instant after a black Friday, why?
Igor summed up the reasons for them:
First, there is no oneself base.

After the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Knights of the Temple had actually become a stray dog, and they still held a huge amount of wealth under the circumstance of being surrounded by others. They committed the mistake of an innocent man treasuring a jade ring becoming a criminal. Even forgetting the main responsibility of oneself: "guaranteeing the safety of the pilgrimage road", putting the cart before the horse as the main activity of playing with finance.

There is no oneself site, but it is richer than anyone else. When faced with the master's turn over, there is no strategic depth, and there is no chance to turn over.

Second, lend usury to people who are far more powerful than oneself.

Needless to say, lending money to oneself is already a risk, and the Knights of the Temple is actually lending money to the owner of the oneself, or is it a loan shark... Fighting back and forth, the Knights are reaping the benefits, who can't be jealous?
When the owner can't pay back the money and covets the wealth of the Knights, the result is doomed.

Third, there is no strong enough independent armed force to back it up.

The Knights of the Temple was originally a military organization, but after being defeated and returned to Europe from Jerusalem, it relied on finance and commerce to establish a huge network of contacts and relationships, and it was "shrouded" by the Holy See... So , they thought they were safe, forgetting that the bank had loosened its grip on the barrel of the gun.

Facts have finally proved that no matter how many people you know and how big your protective umbrella is, it is not as useful as your own strength.

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Taking history as a mirror, Igor is determined to follow the path of the Temple Knights to make a fortune by relying on finance, but does not want the Night's Watch industry to fall into the general demise of the former. Make some changes while imitating.

The base area, The Wall and the grant of land are the natural and legal bases of Night's Watch, as long as you are careful not to offend a mad dog-type opponent like Cersei... As a serious Night's Watch who has sworn, no matter how noisy Igor is , if you screw up, you are just forced to hide back to Castle Black, and there is no fear of life.

But this is the site of "Night's Watch Legion", not the "Night's Watch Industry". The two have the same prefix and seem to be one, but in fact are completely independent of each other - except that the latter has In addition to providing materials and manpower to the former, for the time being, there are two forces that are almost completely non-interfering with each other.

Igor hopes this temporary will become forever.

People are unsatisfied...to put it nicely, they are self-motivated. At first, oneself was just a little Ranger who just wanted to leave Wall, but today, with resources and contacts in hand, ambitions have quietly begun to brew.

While the fake drama is real, Igor did not forget that oneself is not really a loyal Night's Watch soldier, he wants to get rid of the Night's Watch identity in the future - how to turn the Night's Watch site into a The site of the Night's Watch industry will be decided in the future.

He had already made a plan for the random lending: as long as Night's Watch was not allowed to participate in the internal affairs of Seven Kingdoms, he justly refused to lend money to Seven Kingdoms nobles and Iron Throne, from the very Beginning has set a bottom line, and it is not easy to offend people if it does not treat this head equally.

The first two points are just plans, but the last point is the only thing Igor can really touch and exert a direct influence on right now - the armed force, that is, the logistics security guard wearing the "Night's Watch". The private army with the name of "Ministry".

Surrounded by a bunch of subordinates, Igor was led to the northwest corner of the industrial park, next to the security department of the fence.

In the open space in front of a row of buildings that are slightly different from the staff quarters, dozens of youngsters in dark horse armor are holding training swords and practicing in pairs. The three House Stark guards were watching, one moment pointing out the man's wrong posture, and another moment stopping the other's dangerous moves, looking much harder than Castle Black's Instructor Ser Alliser.

It's hard work, of course, they're not like Ser Alliser...no bonus for good teaching, no punishment for bad teaching. Wait, why three House Stark's bodyguards?
Igor took a look and saw that the three of them were still acquainted by oneself.

"Haihua, Oden, David!" Igor shouted loudly: "It's nothing, just say hello, you guys go on, it's hard work!"

Except for Haihua The other two sword technique instructors outside China were the help Igor asked the Prime Minister for when he first came to King's Landing. Oneself sent them to escort the first batch of supplies to Eastwatch, and didn't come back until the Vale chaos happened, who thought goodbye would be in this situation?
Tyrion laughed: "The two of them, take your things After it was delivered to Eastwatch, the captain refused to come back empty, so he turned around the North coast for half a circle, and only returned after receiving a delivery order for King's Landing. I went to the office to find you and ask if there is any other place to help. When I was brought in to work, it was also 'hard work'."

"so that's how it is."

Igor was relieved, and the two were taken by the Prime Minister. When assigned to oneself, Ed did not stipulate how much time to assist oneself - as long as oneself needed, these two people could always be dispatched by oneself, and Tyrion brought them here to practice "Night's Watch recruits", even if Ed knew, won't say anything. But he immediately had new doubts: House Lannister had ten times as many soldiers in King's Landing as House Stark, and Tyrion wanted to find an instructor for the Night's Watch logistics department, instead of oneself, why did he choose from his opponent's house? The North's fighting is indeed fierce, but oneself can't believe that the sword technique is higher than that of the other six countries.

Is it possible - except for Jyck and Morris, who are actually nannies, the other House Lannister forces in King's Landing only follow the dispatch of their own Queen Lady and Kingsguard Young Master , don't hang on to the dwarf Young Master of oneself's house at all?

Recalling the plot carefully, Igor found that it was really possible, Tywin did not hide his contempt and disdain for the disabled son of oneself... In this case, which retainer who served House Lannister would give his loyalty to him. To a dwarf who has no hope of being House Head at all?

It doesn't matter whether it's true or false in the end, it's more likely to reveal Tyrion's scars if you ask it out, so don't think about it.

Igor turned his head and asked Nina: "There aren't many people, don't you say it's almost a hundred?"

Chief-In-Charge of the security department, named Gerolds The big man took the initiative to stand up and answer: "Half guarding and patrolling the factory area, half training, two shifts take turns, adults."

"Well, is that so." Igor turned his head and looked towards logistics Chief-In-Charge: "The security team's accommodation and meals are higher than ordinary employees, have you done it?"

"According to Miss Nina's instructions, the accommodation is full of beds and quilts. Everyday all have at least one meal."

"Well, very good."

In order to cultivate a normal strong army, the treatment should not be low first, the ordinary person in this world can be Without the high consciousness of a certain army that millet and rifles can win the war, unless oneself plans to practice an Unsullied, otherwise, it is at least a minimum to eat well, wear warm clothes, and be treated better than ordinary people. Material is not given preferential treatment, where does the sense of honor and motivation come from?

"Is there any other training program? Should only three teachers teach sword techniques?"

"This...not yet." Gerold replied honestly, "This is Don't wait for the adults to arrange it."

"Very good, then I will arrange it, you remember it!"

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(this chapter end)