King of The Wall

2021-02-07

Chapter 631 Rich Businessman Magister
It was like a dream.

Sitting in the comfortable and gorgeous sedan chair, with his stout body swaying slightly with the steps of the strong men carrying the sedan chair, Illyrio Mopatis was both astonished and horrified.

His trip across the narrow sea to Westeros wasn't meant to come to see Dany...or not just to see Daenerys · Targaryen.

Nearly a month ago, when he heard the news of Varys' death in the spacious and luxurious mansion of Magister, a wealthy Pentos businessman, and learned that oneself's only friend and biggest partner, that time span of 20 years was a steal. The planner and planner of the big plan actually gave his life inexplicably in a cold place in the extreme north, or even in a castle that was not in the plan. When the murderer was still a follower sent to him by oneself... Illyrio thought that oneself had already felt what he could experience in this life. the greatest shock and horror.

But he was wrong.

It's also terribly wrong.

When he heard the bad news, his first reaction was not sadness or fear, but a sense of suffocating urgency: Varys' death meant that the two of them had planned this event for nearly two decades. The big drama, at the critical moment when the curtain is about to come to an end, there is no director who can control the plot in the center of the stage!
They have exhausted half their lives, spent or even overdrawn all the chips put on the gaming table by their entire net worth, and they have fallen into the risk of all in vain, and even work for others with no benefit to oneself!
How can this work! ?
Almost without the slightest hesitation, he ordered the preparation of the ship and the itinerary, and immediately set off from Pentos to Westeros, thinking that he should be there before Daenerys led the Night's Watch and North army south to King's Landing, and the plan appeared Grab the baton from Varys before the irreversible catastrophic accident, and complete the mission or mission he failed to complete: connect the two Targaryen, facilitate the marriage and alliance between Daenerys and little Aegon, and let the black and red share True Dragon bloodline Complete the historic fusion.

With this purpose in mind, it is conceivable that when Illyrio's fleet sailed into Blackwater Bay and was stopped by a patrol battleship, and then learned from the sailor on the opposite side: Daenerys has not only fallen out with little Aegon and Beating the latter and then running away, he won King's Landing in one fight - and how confused and dazed he was when he took the time to defeat Iron Fleet and slaughter the King of the Iron Islands in the middle.

The once grand but unbelievably subtle plan that made him breathless has been disrupted to the point of being close to... no, it has completely crossed the edge of being out of control and is on the verge of bankruptcy!
When did this bad runaway start?

Illyrio reflects coldly, muddleheaded.

Is Varys going to North to pick up Queen at risk? No, this trip is compelled by circumstances. It is a helpless move to bring things back to the main line. If Baelish goes to Varys but doesn't follow, the Queen will be completely controlled and controlled by Littlefinger.

Is it the Queen who suddenly released the pigeon of her "nephew" and left the two kings that had been arranged to meet and ride the dragon to the Wall? No, that's for dealing with the dead and Others again, and it's a reasonable choice, after all, no one wants to rule a undead kingdom full of dead people.

Pushing back in this chronological order to try to sort out the problem and get to the root of the problem, he soon discovered more actual deviations from the plan:

If Wessey Lys didn't provoke Khal Drogo, which led to the "golden body", if the latter hadn't been killed by a stupid wound infection in the unfathomable mystery, his huge Khalasar would have invaded Westeros across the sea as promised, becoming the little King The perfect cannon fodder before the return of the Aegon;

If the female relationship between the Lion Family's golden siblings was not exposed early, and the Six Nations siege the Westerlands ahead of time, then little Aegon and his golden group would not have to use it at all. Entering the market in a panic is only to balance the situation and lose the advantage of suddenness and late mover; or if the little Queen did not accidentally break out in Slaver's Bay, oneself can also send someone to pick her up Going back to her side, rightfully occupying her three little dragons, and marrying her with little Aegon before her ambitions expand with the expansion of power and experience in domination, so as to extract all her use value for her own use in one step.

Assume...

No, not right!

Illyrio suddenly raised his hand and fiercely pinched oneself's thick thigh.

The thick layer of fat made this pinch not painful, but it still managed to wake him up from his memories and fantasies—historical history cannot be assumed. There may be a direct factor for the planned bankruptcy, but oneself can never guess through analysis, and reason tells him that the cause of the current situation is by no means a single sudden accident, but a possibility closer to the truth-a time Another error and mishap, and finally accumulated a huge amount of errors and offsets that even Deity like Varys could not reverse, and eventually led to the bankruptcy of the plan.

Instead of finding the cause, it is more important to stop losses and try to recover costs.

......

Unlike Tywin Lannister, who can just admit it, put on black clothed and throw the stall to the family, Illyrio Mopatis has no way out: he has no relatives, and he is the second of his beloved. After his wife Serra died, he never remarried, and little Aegon was his only child. In order to complete the grand plan of "putting oneself's bloodline on Iron Throne", he has actually done everything he can to empty his savings and family property... Although on the surface is still the beautiful "Pentos rich businessman Magister", the entire Free The local tyrants in the Cities system are ranked first, but his wealth has long been exhausted in the various wandering series, conspiracy subversion operations that support Varys, as well as hiring, mobilizing and feeding the Golden Corps. In order to avoid capital When the chain broke, he had already mortgaged, overdrafted and consumed all of Oneself's assets, credit and contacts, and the shocking debt he owed was comparable to the annual revenue of the Iron Vault.

Such a terrifying debt cannot be repaid through normal channels anyway. If you can't send little Aegon to Iron Throne to fulfill his long-cherished wish, in exchange for the Master of Coin job Jon Connington promised him. , backed by the tax and royal assets of the entire Westeros to make creditors trust and allow him to defer repayment, he can go bankrupt fifteen or six times in an instant, hunted down by countless crazy creditors, and can't even spend his old age in peace. arrive!

The bad news is that the Iron Throne was actually melted by the little Queen, and even if he has great ability, he can no longer physically complete the operation of "sending the little Aegon on the Iron Throne".

The good news is that his child is still alive, and has a powerful Reach as an ally...and oneself has been a patron of Daenerys, using this relationship to ask the Queen, she must not openly Refuse. As long as you can manage to convince the Queen not to kill Aegon to the last one, and then do some micro-manipulation after the situation is stable - such as sending a killer through the secret passage underground in the Red Keep, or bribing the kitchen staff to poison the food in Daenerys...

The chance of a comeback is slim, but at least it still exists!
As he was rapidly turning his brain, thinking about whether oneself could still come up with any rhetoric and chips to persuade Queen to change her mind, the sedan chair suddenly stopped abruptly.

"Mr. Illyrio, it's here."

He poked his head out of the window with difficulty and found the sedan chair parked in front of a house at the foot of Aegon's High Hill.

Damn, that little Queen...doesn't live in the Red Keep? !

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(end of this chapter)