King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 543 Expert tricks (Part 1)

Heavenly Dao is really good reincarnation, who the sky will spare.

Igor never imagined that oneself would one day have to worry about controlling the influence of the rumors he once spread with his own hands.

The "suicide notes" he wrote in King's Landing in the name of the late Hugh Ser, although the method is completely fake, the content of which is 80 to 90% authentic... Take away the Prime Minister Lady's first night is not an explosive scandal, and maintaining a long-term lover relationship can only be regarded as a moral flaw. However, instructing a wife to poison her husband, the act is so appalling that even the beyond who lived in the north of the Wall and followed the jungle principle. The wall people felt terrified. To forcibly prohibit people from talking about such a bad thing is like a flood, but instead of channeling it, it is blocked.

The mouth of the people is better than that of the Sichuan, but fortunately - the land-grant army is not a "civilian", but a "soldier", and it is a profession that has been trained in obedience and execution for a long time. The army; Igor asked them not to forget or forgive it outright, but not to speak up in public, run stupidly and slap Littlefinger or spit at him. As long as these two points can be achieved, with Petyr's current status and vision as the Hand of the Queen, he probably doesn't care or even bother to consider whether the ordinary person likes him or not.

Relying on the hero's halo and the authority of the Lord Commander, his orders were quickly conveyed and executed, and the second wave caused by the same note was silently suppressed. - at least on the surface.

The next step is to trace the source. The first result of the feedback exceeded Igor's expectations: Harvey and Myron led their subordinates around the army, and they collected and confiscated ten more. Several copies of "Hugh's Last Words" of the same model - the actual number is definitely larger, considering that there must be some hidden in memory as a souvenir. So many notes are impossible all true, but Igor opened his eyes and looked around, and found that the level of workmanship and details was so high that even his original author could not tell the truth from the fake.

The authenticity of the notes doesn't matter, Igor only cares how they came in - holders generally say they picked it up, and Varys wisely opted for the same on this matter. The non-contact information transmission method to ensure safety, but this does not mean that the matter is completely impossible to investigate: with the high position and recognition of The Spider's "Queen Master of Whisperers", it is difficult for him to be as quiet as Igor back then. Do it yourself quietly... If you want to avoid risks, you will inevitably use subordinates, and as long as there are more participants in anything, the amount of clues and traces left will explode exponentially. After a large number of visits and investigations, in the end, the soldiers' testimony pointed to an unexpected but reasonable object.

On the day when a large number of notes appeared in Winterfell, the terrifying Castle Lord entered the castle for an excuse, and several of his followers were later seen hanging out where the notes appeared, one of whom was even caught by Igor's The subordinates recognized it: Keli Snow, who was instructed by Roose Bolton to go to Queenscrown only a month ago to "leak" North's intelligence against Night's Watch to Igor, and try to win over the informant who overthrew House Stark.

At that time, in order to avoid the leakage of the news of the land-grant army's surprise attack on Winterfell, Igor sent his men to put the entire group under house arrest, and ordered the land-grant army to be released three days after the land-grant army officially began to march south. Now that this person reappears in Winterfell, and the timing is so accurate, what happened, it becomes easy to infer and restore: Varys, who also has no military power and has insufficient subordinates, wants to complete oneself and Petyr. , slowed down their efforts to win over the North princes to prepare for the southern expedition, and could not let Unsullied take action, so they went to Roose Bolton, his newly recruited ally. As a big landowner in the far north, the Dread Fortress is estimated to have fewer people than the Land Granters, so the Old Flayer gave the mission to the illegalimate child Igor had seen.

This makes sense, but even if the guess is true, Igor can't react to it: after all, this is just a public opinion attack, and the material used is not even made up, even if the murderer is caught and sent. When it comes to the Queen, Daenerys will probably just frowned and ask Varys and Roose Bolton to stop attacking her Prime Minister with the bigger picture in mind. Such an innocuous result was not what he wanted, so Igor told Littlefinger the truth of the investigation, and then began to look forward to: how the latter would respond.

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Littlefinger's movements are very fast, and the land-grant army with experience in efficient communication chains and public opinion control soon began to popularize a less terrifying, but more attractive The rumors of the eyeballs are roughly as follows:
[Queen's Master of Whisperers Varys was also a lover. He had a wife when he was young. Although the two are not husband and wife, they have a very magical relationship. It is a pity that love does not have the real difficulty of missing the "important parts" of the body. The couple could not conceive a child, so they asked for a child with a lot of money, found the Captain-General of the Golden Company, and gave birth to a baby boy by "borrowing seed". Unfortunately, the mother died due to dystocia, so the boy who had no mother since he was a child was raised by two fathers who were "nominal" and "biological", and took the name of Aegon Targaryen at the right time near adulthood. The identity re-landed Westeros, trying to impersonate and become the king of the Seven Kingdoms. ]

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Igor was stunned for a few seconds after listening to the story first, and his admiration for Petyr grew even more: this rumor seemed obscene and obscene, but it was actually quite cleverly conceived. Not only did it divert everyone's attention through fight poison with poison, but also blacked out opponents and potential enemies in one breath: Prince Aegon is a fake, Varys, as a castrat, is the boy's mother's husband, and Captain- The General of the Golden Company is throwing his blood for a son who doesn't recognize him and doesn't take his surname!

This new story, which includes physical disabilities, psychological distortions and crazy ambitions, integrates ethics, politics, love and hatred, and many other explosive elements. The heat was completely overshadowed, and fiercely also emphasized some of Varys' physical defects and made a big fuss about it.

Just as people living outside the Wall haven't heard of the Littlefinger scandal, the beyond the wall folks also don't know that Queen's Master of Whisperers Varys is an eunuch, but as soon as the rumor came out, Igor was blown away. I can imagine the repeated conversations between the Land Granters in Winterfell for the past two days:

A: "Why can't Varys and his wife have children?"

B: " Because he has no eggs."

A: "Ah? Why?"

B: "Why are there so many, they were cut off."

The full-bodied mockery and slander intentions are just side dishes. What's even more terrifying is that if you accept the setting of this story, then the true origin of Prince Aegon, the purpose of eunuch's efforts to persuade Queen to marry his nephew, the willingness of the Golden Group The motives of taking the risk to support Prince's takeover...everything suddenly makes sense - two big men...no, a man and a eunuch, just trying to create good living conditions for their "common son" !

It is true that both Daenerys and little Aegon himself can quickly understand that this news is completely talk nonsense with a little research. But the great thing about a rumor is that it has completed its mission the moment it spreads, and even if the rumor is refuted afterwards, the impact it has already caused cannot be undone.

The world loves exciting stories, but has little interest in clarification and explanation. It is conceivable: once this story spreads from Winterfell, it is estimated that it will be difficult for Prince Aegon to look directly at Varys, the number one hero who silently supports him.

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With a more powerful and vicious rumor, Littlefinger recovered the decline in the first round of public opinion war. But the reality is not a turn-based game where you hit me, and Hand of the Queen has no intention of waiting to see the opponent's reaction - the discussion in the city about something missing between Varys' legs has not subsided, and Petyr has already directed the Borrowed from Igor, started the second round with a retaliatory active attack.

This time, the "battlefield" was outside the city, and the target also changed - there was a sudden explosion in the "quiet and peaceful" winter town town: several soldiers from the Terror Fort broke in In the home of a House Stark resident, an attempt to rape the owner's wife was stopped and captured on the spot by the Land Granters and the patrolling Unsullied.

The above is the storyline from the perspective of a third party without knowing it, but because of the reason why I borrowed it for Petyr, Igor can actually grasp the whole sequence of things completely and clearly from the perspective of the first party... of events.

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(end of this chapter)