King of The Wall

2021-01-31

Chapter 629 State Apparatus (middle)

It is easy to fight, but difficult to defend.

Igor's efforts to issue the "Targaryen Treasury Bonds" and to supervise the construction and commissioning of Arsenal took up most of Igor's energy, but there were far more things waiting for him, the Hand of the Queen, to deal with.

The Queen was scratched by an iron thorn on the day when the city was broken. Oneself suggested to melt the throne. The original intention was to show loyalty and love. Who wanted to convince the other party after a random chatter... small The Queen fluttered down and said "It's all up to you" and turned to leave, but he found several things for oneself at once.

Arranging for the Iron Throne to be cut and disassembled, transported to the industrial park outside the city and thrown into the blast furnace to be melted down is simple, but the difficulty lies in how to explain to the public that "Queen's backhand with Red Keep destroys the symbol of Seven Kingdoms power" "This unusual move. Intellectually speaking, the best time to do this kind of thing should be after the unification of the Seven Kingdoms and the Qingming at home... As for now, Igor can only blow oneself to force oneself to block, and personally end up guiding the public opinion work, choreographing a "The Queen destroys Iron Throne to show her resolve to build peace" to try to salvage the negative impact of this move.

The iron obtained by melting the throne can be used to cast cannons, but even he doesn't know about the tangled and complicated secret passage system under the Red Keep and the crowded and smelly streets of King's Landing. How to use it.

After some discussions with Daenerys, the two came to a rare and quick agreement that the Imperial Court couldn't be located in Red when no one knew when the assassin would come out from behind which wall. In Keep, the economic, political and cultural center of Seven Kingdoms in the future should not be such a dirty, messy, rundown city.

The Red Keep needs to be rebuilt, and it is imperative to carry out drastic sanitation and environmental governance of King's Landing. Although these should wait until the war is over and then free up resources, planning and design are not. It should start now anyway.

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More than "things to do", is to digest and reply to messages - they myriad, from all over the place, flying like snowflakes to Igor's table , so that he was so busy that he couldn't even find time to go to the industrial park to inspect the production progress of the new artillery, but this afternoon, a letter from the north made him feel refreshed.

This letter was sent by Nina, not Unsullied, with black stamped pads, and was not opened by Queen first - that is, it was a letter from Wall, addressed to "Lord" Commander of the Night's Watch" instead of "Hand of the Queen" letter.

After skillfully opening the stationery and scanning it, he was a little surprised to find that it was the Night's Watch reporting his work to him.

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The beginning part is the case of "beyond the wall expedition".

Before taking the 1st Step of the Southern Expedition, in order to paralyze the nerves of the Seven Kingdoms, especially North, he carried out a series of strategic deceptions, including falsely claiming that "the remaining Others fled beyond the wall, Night's Watch prepares for the expedition to hunt down" This is the most well-known one. This move not only allowed Robb and other North nobles to misjudge and have time to deal with the accident, but also created a reason to send the internal opposition of Legion to the north of the Wall.

Lie to liar, he is definitely impossible as the commander, because his subordinates may starve them to death in the north of the wall, so he also made some arrangements for the follow-up of the Saibei Expeditionary Force .

According to the "original plan" announced publicly, the three-way expeditionary force will pause for a while after establishing the advance base, and wait until the main force led by Igor arrives before continuing to go north to pursue the remnants that do not exist. Others. But they can never wait for Igor, they will only come with a team of old and weak who are not small but can't be called "main force" - send them enough logistics to support them on the wall for a few months Supplies, and a new command from the Lord Commander.

The gist of the order is as follows: I, Igor West, your eldest, have judged after careful consideration that the greatest threat to humanity lies in the south, not the north. For the benefit of all mankind, it is hereby decided to settle down before fighting the outside world, and then clean up Cold God after rebuilding the Targaryen Dynasty for the Queen's unification of the Seven Kingdoms. During my southern expedition, you stay in Saibei and don't run around, but don't be too idle. Except for Lands of Always Winter, don't go, use this time to visit Haunted Forest, draw beyond the wall map, and explore available resources ...to contribute to the expansion of the kingdom to the north, when the time comes will not treat you badly.

The expeditionary force pioneers who have reached beyond the wall will face a choice without a choice: either accept reality and obey orders to work; or refuse to execute, openly risk rebellion and be left behind by the Wall's oath brothers... Always be behind the wall.

Igor is relieved to learn that the pioneers of the three-way expedition force have all made wise choices. A rough Terrain Map of the forest to the east and south of Thenn Canyon has been drawn and simply traced to the reverse side of the stationery: mountains, rivers, and the settlement of the aboriginal beyond the wall people one after another are in the eye, and even marked that the aboriginal people have been inhabited. We discovered and rough-mined shallow copper deposits.

A piece of fertile soil is full of resources, just waiting for immigration and development!
What monarch would not like the power of expanding the territory? When Igor asks for the complete and detailed version of the map, mounts the hardcover and presents it to the Queen, telling Daenerys oneself that she has accomplished a feat for her that her countless ancestors have never achieved - including beyond the wall into the Seven Kingdoms territory, that should be What a surprise gift? The best thing is that with Wall's existence, the vast land in Saibei will be completely controlled by him, and he can't take it away from others... Queen has to remember him as a great contribution for a matter that obviously benefits him the most!
The following news is a bit surprising: human beings are really a kind of indomitable existence, even after years of sweeping by the Others, the expeditionary force still finds it beyond the wall, which is supposed to be a dead place. There are no traces of living people, not one or two!
First of all, Craster, an "old friend" of Night's Watch - I don't know if I should praise Cold God for having the spirit of contract, or praise that even Demon understands sustainable development: the largest "traitor" in the world of ice and fire, dedicated to sacrificing his son Wildling, who produced a new unit for the natural enemy, and his nineteen daughters and wives are still living in the original pocket fortress, unharmed, and even a baby girl was added to the family.

Then there is a certain stunner: James Lannister, who was in the Ice Gorge Harbor when the Others attacked and was unable to participate in the human-ghost battle, I wonder if it was because he failed to cut the Others who had been talking about it for a long time. But he was still brooding, and he led oneself, the expeditionary force, to go on a rampage beyond the wall to find remnants of enemies that didn't exist. The wildling, who cautiously stuck his head out through the winter, was beaten.

The ending is: Queen is still trying to conquer the Seven Kingdoms in the south, and her father-killing enemy has conquered beyond the wall firstly in the north, although the target is only dozens or hundreds of old, weak, sick and disabled.

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After reporting the news on the north side of the wall, the lower part is the current situation on the south side of the wall.

In the east, the ice layer frozen by Magic in the Bay of Seals has been shattered with the rise in temperature and the surging of the sea; in the west, the garrison of Ice Gap Harbor also worked hard to restore the Gorge. Patrols along the line... After the thorns and potential opponents were driven to beyond the wall in advance, and the young and strong were taken to the south, the entire land grant can be described as orderly, and the only external interference was a thief from the south. girl.

Arya Stark, after he announced that women would be allowed to join Legion, got his wish to become the first female Night's Watch and was named chief. Igor originally thought that she could not make any big waves as a bear child. Who would have thought that when she went to Queenscrown to take office, in addition to her family, she also brought Maester Luwin as her deputy!

This Little Lass cheat makes things complicated.

With the guidance and assistance of such an old Maester, coupled with the recognition and promise of oneself as the Lord Commander, Arya began to recruit women to join in the whole North, focusing on eating and living, trying to form and train. While obeying the pure female armed forces of oneself, they gradually began to reach out to Queenscrown and even the whole land, and actually wanted to intervene and interfere in the military, administrative and even economic aspects of the North of the North as the hostess!

Of course Arya's idea can't be realized so quickly. Igor's confidant in Queenscrown also has a way to suppress and deal with a little girl, but because he has not yet figured out Igor's position, he dare not act rashly. Only hastily reported the situation in the letter, in order to get further instructions and orders.

Tsk, youngsters now really don't talk about martial virtue. If Arya just wanted to fiddle with the land donation with her passion to make up for her sin of bringing wolves into the house for her family, then she would definitely give whatever she wanted when she was ashamed, and let her make trouble, but now she Actually pulled Maester Luwin to the land grant? The nature of this matter has changed in an instant!

Is it the little girl who did this alone, or is it House Stark's plan?

Is Maester Luwin worried about his young lady so he takes care of him for a while, or does he plan to stay in the land for a long time?

Should oneself order the left-behind officials and the little she-wolf open strife and veiled struggle to stay in line, or call Robb Stark in for a beating and stop him from infiltrating oneself's base camp?
If you don't understand the actual situation, you can't take random countermeasures, but the north and south are thousands of miles apart, and he will never have time to go back to the north.

While rubbing her brows with a headache, the door was pushed open. Myrcella nimbly entered the room with a small kettle in her hand, came to the table, and familiarly refilled the cup in front of Igor. After drinking the misty boiling water, he came to him again and wanted to rub his shoulders.

"Just in time, news from the north, take a look." Igor thanked the girl nodded, and casually handed her the letter in his hand.

Myrcella's emerald green eyes showed a look of surprise, but she quickly took the letter.

Taking advantage of this short free time, the man picked up the water glass, warmed his hands and took a sip, while watching the cute appearance of Little Princess reading the letter with his eyes down, it was also considered a momentary relief for the sore and tired eyes. a leave.

"One good news, one bad news." After a moment, Myrcella lifts the head, cautiously placing the letter back on Igor's table, "Your Excellency, arrange for the expedition beyond the wall to explore and record the Haunted Forest. Terrain, must have moved the idea of expanding the Seven Kingdoms territory northward?"

Huh? Igorself nodded, but couldn't help laughing: he showed Myella the letter, his original intention was to let her know that one's father was alive and well outside Wall, why did she start to analyze it as soon as she said a word.

Furious, but he still asked along the way: "Yes, what do you think?"

"It's useless to expand the territory, only the population counts as the land, and this is exactly the It is the most in short supply in the north. The land-grant residents are not enough to live along the Wall, and it is absolutely not enough to go beyond the wall, but the south is the opposite. The adults and Queen have decided to kill Reach, In future wars, there will inevitably be a large number of soldiers and prisoners of the rebel army. Instead of racking their brains to find excuses to kill, it is better to send the whole family to the north of the Wall to manage the people beyond the wall, which will not only fill the population, but also avoid Killing stigma, one move, two gains!"

Oh roar.

Igor raised his eyebrows: Is this little girl addicted to being a strategist? I'll just show you the letter, and you'll just cover your head, it's really interesting.

But after only a second of pondering, he suddenly shuddered.

Did Myrcella just say..."rather than racking my brains for excuses to kill"?
This doesn't seem to be a forward-looking judgment based on her background and what she has learned.

You should know that in this era, after the noble Knights surrendered or were captured in war, they usually paid ransoms in order to regain their freedom. Under normal circumstances, no one would rack their brains to find excuses to kill... Myrcella used to be a princess and a native of this world.

But she was right!

Igor is pushing the Daenerys into this war, determined to break the wheel and bring down the entire hierarchy of feudal lords. Therefore, the two rulers and ministers have already made a secret agreement: those who do not resist will be brought under house arrest in King's Landing, and those who resist will be eliminated as much as possible without leaving any survivors, which will not only make room for their own heroes, but also pave the way for the smooth advancement of the Greater Crownlands plan.

But this is only mentioned in the private conversation between oneself and Queen, how did Myrcella guess oneself's plan, and then persuaded oneself in advance before oneself raised the butcher's knife Don't be bloodthirsty?

Did she just say it casually, or did she vaguely perceive the existence of the Greater Crownlands Plan based on what she saw and heard?
"Good idea, you can consider it!"

Igor smiled nodded at Little Princess, but secretly muttered: This little girl is too smart, maybe she thinks she is In the case of "Myrcella Lannister" or "Maeve Snow", there is no guarantee that it is a Diaochan lurking around "Dong Zhuo". Oneself thinks that she is harmless to humans and animals to stay with her because she is well-behaved and looks pleasing to the eye, which is really inappropriate. Maybe, it's time to decide - whether to tell her what oneself and Queen really think, to straighten her ass into the new era, or to deal with her as soon as possible, so as not to become a hidden danger buried beside her.

He was nervously speculating and calculating, but Myrcella wasn't finished.

“Besides, there is another benefit of immigrant filling beyond the wall, and it can take advantage of the second bad news in this letter.” The girl frowned hesitantly. Feeling the pressure to deal with oneself's former little sister, "North is probably using your close relationship with Arya in a legal way of 'joining the Night's Watch' to retake the land grant and the Night's Watch Legion in a conspiracy. Influence and control. Just like the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch Legion in the past or one of the three giants must be Stark, they can't fault the means at all, and probably not malicious in purpose. You are the Lord Commander and Hand of the Queen, if they only want to think about how to take on the battle in person, although they have the advantage of crushing, they are not only inferior, but also waste precious time and energy. The better way is: borrowing the hands of others, Use checks and balances to solve this dilemma."

If it is an option that Igor has long considered to distribute sinners to beyond the wall to fill the uninhabited land, then how to solve Arya's riotous land grant Trouble, he was really interested.

Putting away his messy suspicions, he waved his hand and pointed to the chair opposite: "Sit, pour a glass of water for oneself and speak slowly."

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(end of this chapter)