King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 563 "Chasing the Murder" (Part 1)
I was disappointed not to see Igor wake up immediately Yu, Daenerys had a slight urge to "wait for him to open his eyes" - just sitting in front of the bed to accompany him waiting, he woke up from a coma and raised his eyelids to see oneself at first glance, it must be very impressive and moving Bar?
For a moment, she really wanted to do it, but finally reason stopped Dany from doing it.

She is Queen, status and social expectations do not allow her to stay in front of a certain subject's hospital bed like a kind old mother, caring little wife or filial children and descendants... This is the recovery of the patient itself There is no practical significance to not mention it, and it will also lead to a sharp drop in its own coolness, which will make the viewer over-judgment about the importance of oneself to Igor, which will greatly damage the authority of her ruler.

After waiting for a while to confirm that the person on the bed would not wake up in a short time, she finally got up and left, and returned to the collapsed ground with the Unsullied Guards to deal with other more urgent matters.

In this regard, Igor, who was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, was greatly relaxed: Playing dead motionless was a hard work, and if Daenerys really didn't leave, he would be very uncomfortable. Now, everything can go as planned - not only will he not "wake up" tonight, but he will remain "in" a coma for the foreseeable two or three days. In addition to the fact that this move is the last part of the drama itself, which can make the poisoning appear more realistic, it is actually the same as asking Daenerys to bleed to save oneself before... It is subtly using the help of some psychological tricks to unnoticeable influence. Influence the mind that controls the Queen, so that oneself's next journey to help unify the Seven Kingdoms goes smoothly.

Asking for Queen's bleeding to save her is taking advantage of the Benjamin Franklin effect: people instinctively feel close to those who have been helped by oneself.

Leo Tolstoy described the phenomenon this way: "We do not love others for their goodness to us, but to oneself for their goodness to them."

Why does this strange phenomenon occur? Uncover the appearance and explore the essence. In fact, what people love is not the "other" itself, but the effort and energy cost of oneself's investment in the person they love... This kind of investment is like a bet on the gambling table, once you change your mind , all of the previously thrown in were watered and fed to the dog, which became a "loss".

The instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages can make people averse to losses, so it leads to: people who have helped or liked by oneself will tend to continue to help and always like.

This explanation seems a bit utilitarian and cold-blooded, but for an empirical summary rather than a scientific law, there is no need to argue whether it is "right or not", just admit the effect that seems a bit counter-intuitive It is indeed pervasive in interpersonal communication, and it is enough to learn how to use it.

Projected to the current situation, the effect is that after Daenerys saves Igor after being stabbed and bled, she devotes care and attention to the latter, and she subconsciously believes that Igor should be Will be grateful to oneself and thus be loyal to her - this subconscious concept seems invisible, but in fact invulnerable, indestructible and impregnable, it is more practical than saying how much loyalty you have, so that Igor will double when pretending to be loyal in the future. the results for half the effort , much easier.

Well...it's a bit of a "traitor" to pretend to be loyal, but the truth is: as long as Daenerys doesn't imitate her dad's madness, and doesn't do stupid things to make oneself jump, Igor doesn't mind it. Loyal to her.

And "pretending to be in a coma for a few more days" is using another very common emotional law: what is lost and found must be more cherished.

First let Daenerys experience the nervousness of losing important officials, losing all of his staff, and suffering heavy losses in the early stages of starting a business, savoring the panic of losing the Prime Minister, Master of Whisperers and land grants in an instant, and chewing on "Breakthrough". The lofty ideal of "Wheel" also encountered the bitterness of the dystocia and the brink of collapse... She began to consider giving up her lofty goals and pursued a nominal unity, accepting the conditions for joining Reach and Dorne to a greater extent, and even thinking about marrying Aegon. Feasibility...

Wait until the little Queen's suspicious hopes begin to fade away, and secretly prepares for a bad ending, oneself wakes up at the perfect time, sooner or later, and sends She felt the wonderful taste of a false alarm and a loss and recovery. In contrast, the previous unpleasantness will inevitably become insignificant, the relationship between the ruler and the subject can be restored without making up for it, and even after oneself shows gratitude, it can become more solid and harmonious!

Of course, it would be too much of a hassle to spend so much effort just trying to get some favorability: after taking down Varys and Petyr, Daenerys really has no choice but to rely on and reuse them. he. In this case, the difference between 70 and 75 favorability is not so big that it is worth his special preparation for this. The real reason why Igor decided to take this series of measures is that he has other plans to track down the culprit next.

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His oneself is the real murderer. The so-called investigation is naturally just a cutscene, a performance for Queen to vent his anger.

But even acting has to be a full set. Igor has spent a lot of time in the selection of "framed targets".

There are many suspects with poisoning motives: North nobles, Stannis, little Prince Aegon, a bunch of slave city-states across the Narrow Sea and Daenerys who are used to being enemies...and one he selfishly joined: Roose Bolton.

The last option was his favorite, for no other reason: Old Flayer was not only thoughtful, but also cunning and sleazy, which Igor feared, and he had just taken a hostile act toward the land grant— Trying to trick oneself being used as a tool, who else will you take if you don't use him?
But after thinking a little calmly, he rejected the idea. Oneself is now engaged in the major event of seeking the country, and can't play like a little child: seeking revenge for the slightest grievance if anyone is upset or offended, and has to die and then hurry - at least not until the fruit of victory is picked. ! Regardless of personal emotions and weighing the pros and cons, the facts are actually very clear: if you turn against the Terror Castle, you will lose 2,000 guns and shields in an instant, and in turn, you will have to destroy this elite first to avoid future troubles. , One hundred harm and one benefit, is it really only a happy one?
That's right, with the help of gunpowder, the Land Granters want to annihilate the Terror Fortress army with no difficulty ... But the idea is to put the cart before the horse at first: meet the Night's Watch Industrial Park on the outskirts of King's Landing and restart the tannery to get Before a large supply of raw materials was stabilized, gunpowder was a more precious resource than soldiers. It was worth a magnificent army with thousands of men and horses, so it couldn't be used on targets without strategic significance!
Beat Roose Bolton and force him to lead the army as cannon fodder during the war. After the war, use him as a pawn to check and balance the North forces headed by Stark, so that the north of The Neck cannot be twisted into a rope to fight against the royal government , is the wisest choice!

Without this option, all that's left are enemies that Daenerys has to deal with sooner or later, making it a lot easier to pick.

The North nobles are temporarily the targets of unity and struggle, so naturally they will be excluded first; and Stannis will send people to poison and murder the opponent's vassals - even Igor oneself can't believe it when you say it... Exclude these, then the final result , it is bound to be a choice between the little Prince Aegon and the slave city-state alliance headed by Volantis across the narrow sea.

Which one is better?
He thought about it for a long time, but the more he thought about it, the more he frowned.

What makes Igor embarrassed is not "which one to choose" - it's the same, anyway, it's not a good thing to be in a relationship, even if the Big Boss behind it is not the same person, they definitely know each other; it's not "how to frame the frame" ——Just kidding, why do you want to add guilt? As long as you are willing to use your brain, you can always fabricate evidence so black that you are speechless.

What he was worried about was that in this case, Daenerys wanted the "real culprit" rather than a "scapegoat", which made him have to be very careful. And the more in-depth thinking and long-term thinking, the more Igor found out that no matter what you do, you can't achieve 100% insurance.

What's the most important thing in framing?
Let those who are framed have no chance to prove their innocence.

As for how to ensure that the framed person will not overturn the verdict, killing a witness to silence them and dead men tell no tales are the safest and most thorough... But now the problem Igor faces is: whether it is Those few slave city-states, or the little Aegon supported by the Golden Corps, have their power roots far away, with a large number of troops guarding them, and a large number of staff surrounded and assisted. They're not dead, and once Daenerys makes a public charge of "poisoning his vassals," the gang will deny it and try to get out of it.

Fakes can't be true. Framing is framing. There are bound to be loopholes and blind corners of thinking that are hard to detect. No matter how flawless the design of perjury is, it will not become a fact...even more how Igor is still this time. Getting started in a rather rush and not having enough time to prepare?
Eliminate one group of obstructers and then give the pot to another group of obstructers... It seems to be an amazing show of killing two birds with one stone, but once there is a problem in any part, let the living " "The Murderer" became an unremarkable rollover point and a terrifying breakthrough in this perfect drama, causing everything carefully planned to fall short, and Igor would regret it.

At this time, Qyburn provided him with another way of thinking: In this world, there will never be anyone who speaks for oneself. In addition to the "dead" that everyone can think of, there is another kind.

People who don't exist!
Rather than throwing the blame on a specific hostile force to leave hidden dangers, it's better to follow the flow... and make it an unsolved case! Unjust, false and wrongful cases are still being overturned and rehabilitated, but unsolved cases... Once the test of time has passed, and some "lost" witnesses are "lost", and if you want to turn it over and crack it again, it will be as difficult as heavenly ascension!
The advantage of adopting this method is that it does not point to a specific force, there is no possibility of being refuted and overthrown, and the security is much improved in emergencies. And the shortcomings are equally obvious - Queen's two important officials were poisoned under his protection, and oneself has not yet found the murderer after the incident. Is this not incompetence?
This is the real reason why Igor will be "in a coma" for a few more days: if he neither participates nor directs the investigation, then whatever the final result will be, the damage to his image in the Queen's eyes will be much less!

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(end of this chapter)