King of The Wall

2021-03-04

Chapter 637 The Dangerous Race

The temperature finally rises to the point where even the most sluggish are starting to feel warm, In the narrow and crowded streets and sewers of King's Landing, in the shadows of corners where there is no sunlight all day long, the filthy winter ice begins to melt, along with the wet and muddy shoes, it's been a long time since we "Breath of King's Landing" from the last met year.

The stench that pervades the air is unnerving, but the other troubles before Illyrio are far bigger and more dangerous than the bad smell.

The first is that the identity of the killers who poisoned Varys and Petyr is still in the dark: Illyrio knows almost nothing about the details of the whole thing, other than confirming that it was definitely not Yizedan...and motivated to attack There are too many people: the slave-masters of Reach, the Westerlands, and even the city-states, who can't get any clues by guessing, and want to check... It's even worse: he can't check.

One is not afraid.

Mi Zedan is a warrior, he resolutely fulfilled his promise in this incident: when there is a situation that may threaten or expose the person behind the oneself, at all costs cut off the information chain, Stop things from getting worse. Although there is no accurate information for Illyrio to know what happened in Winterfell that forced Mizedan to commit suicide and bear the name of the murderer, but now that the person is dead, Illyrio can at least be sure that the "insurance mechanism" has played a role. There is no danger of burning oneself.

At least temporarily.

Not being able to avenge a partner is frustrating, but giving up sunk costs can at least make the loss certain. Queen has lost two of her aides, and she must be doing her best to track down the murderer. Oneself, as Pentos Magister, a suspected "outsider", if you rashly intervene in the investigation and get close to the vortex center, even if she just asks about something that shouldn't be asked at all. Things may also arouse Daenerys' suspicion, cause trouble, and make the development of things uncontrollable!

Uncontrollable, in Illyrio's philosophy of life, is equivalent to danger!
The second is not.

Varys has already arranged a bottom-up plan in the event of an accident, ensuring that his partner can still take over his resources in Westeros in the event of an accident, and stop losses as much as possible. Those countless informants and little birds, even if they were only half successful in recovering and reorganizing, were quite a powerful intelligence organization.

It's just that it now has a more important mission than avenging its previous owner.

Meeting with the Queen didn't turn out as expected, and Illyrio realized that the westward expedition of the Targaryen Dynasty was unstoppable. After returning to the hotel, he immediately began to look for a way to save his son.

If you can't solve the problem, then solve the person who caused the problem - this kind of ordinary person will think it is a joke and will not take it seriously, but it is indeed one of the options for the superior who can mobilize resources . As a decisive killer of rigid schemes and deep foresight, this is the first thing he thought of after the flickering failure: assassinating Daenerys is the most once and for all solution, killing her radical black clothed Prime Minister can also To a large extent alleviate the crisis of small Aegon. Sadly, following the assassinations of Varys and Petyr, the level of security around both targets was raised to an outrageous level. Under the circumstances that Unsullied could not buy it and the Land Grant Army could not infiltrate in advance, this most easy-to-think solution was also the first to be ruled out.

The second plan is to lobby the North, Riverlands and Westerlands, Dorne and other forces around the Queen, to disintegrate the Queen's group's military logistics system and make the war unsustainable. Political tactics are his forte as one of the Pentos Leaders, and he should have been able to do so, but after a short investigation, he found that North and Riverlands had been broken up by Igor, and their interiors had also been broken up into several small groups, not only Without the courage to resist, he also lost the cohesion of advancing and retreating together as a single force; Dorne was firmly tied to the war chariot with unknown but apparently quite rich benefits and promises of victory, and had no desire to engage with any third-party force. Talking about other conditions, he didn't even meet Prince Oberyn or Princess Arianne; as for the Westerlands, Duke Tywin was expelled to the Wall, the command of the Lannister Army was temporarily seized and held in the Queen's hands, and the new House Head Tyrion Lannister is on his way to King's Landing to be the Master of Coin, but he can't see him...

Although it is difficult to intervene, it does not mean that the goal is monolithic, even if it is a solid stone with the right method Open a seam, however, it takes time to brew and take effect no matter how subtle a trick of power is. A slow remedy does not address the current emergency. This westward expedition on the string cannot be stopped by the wrist in any way.

Failed to meet one after another, Illyrio finally turned his attention to the last way: since the enemy is temporarily unstoppable and difficult to weaken, then... try to strengthen the friendly forces, that is, the "anti-Dragonmother of the Golden Company, Reach Land and the Nine Free Cities" "Isn't the battle strength of the forces good?
Whether it was the complete subduing of North and Riverlands, the complete victory of several battles around King's Landing, or the obedient kneeling of Tywin Lannister, or even the full confidence of the Queen's army in the westward expedition, it seems to be all rooted in the root cause. From a new long-range weapon called the "Cannon" already in the hands of the Land Granters.

He naturally couldn't convince the Queen to give up this useful and powerful new weapon, but if he could steal the secret of its principle and provide it to his friends, so that the anti-Dragonmother forces could imitate the same kind, wouldn't it? Can it offset the absolute superiority of the Daenerys army to a certain extent, and use the method of reciprocal deterrence to make peace talks and truce possible again, and buy buffer time for the first two paths that cannot be achieved in the short term?
The weapons that have been used on the big battlefield cannot be hidden again. Through the information of the little birds, Illyrio can easily judge the flow and concentration of steel, charcoal and manpower around King's Landing. Coming out: In the Night's Watch Industrial Park, which has just undergone a large-scale expansion and renovation, this weapon is undergoing a new round of improvements and increased production.

Through generous security, the Queen may be able to protect the oneself and the Prime Minister, but there are many people in the industrial park, and there is not a single person who can contact the construction of new weapons. There are eight hundred in a thousand, and Illyrio can't believe that they can keep so many participants under the highest standard of protection and surveillance. As long as a gap can be opened in this Arsenal, whether it is to steal information or acquire technical personnel, the goal of stealing the secrets of new weapons can be achieved.

The strategy is determined and only needs to be implemented, but as soon as the mission is arranged, Illyrio welcomes back a lot of bad news: Night's Watch Arsenal is under closed management, and the core technicians who hold secrets and their families all live and eat In the industrial park, they do not go out at all unless there are special circumstances, and all the eyeliners can contact are the peripheral workers who are responsible for the rough work; at the same time, King's Landing has also begun to collect refugees, register the homeless and raise orphans. In the management operation, many "little birds" trained by Varys were caught and sent to the orphanage for centralized care and education, which made the spy operation more and more difficult; in addition, the exchange of information between the two sides of the narrow sea became more and more difficult with the navigation. Starting to recover, Queen will soon discover that the city-state complex that opposes her is not as strong and powerful as oneself said...

The above bad news can only make the wealthy businessman Magister feel a little troubled and distressed. The following made his fat body break into a cold sweat: According to the reports of the subordinates and crew members who accompanied oneself from Pentos, they were generally questioned and investigated by Queen soldiers or staff these days.

"Ask what?"

"They held a very detailed portrait and asked if we knew or had seen the person painted on it. Listening to the conversation, it seemed that The murderer who killed the two ministers of Queen."

He can guess without asking for details, those people are investigating Yizedan! The investigation itself is normal, but how could oneself be found as a guest? In the end, it was the Queen's people who carried out investigations in the whole city and did not let them go, so it was inevitable that they found someone who was oneself, or...

Illyrio's self-protection awareness has always been strong, and ordinary subordinates are not Know about his relationship with Mizedan. What scares him is not the event itself, but the danger signal behind it: someone is probably staring at oneself, and it's not good.

What's more terrifying is that this time, it's oneself in the light and the enemy in the dark!

No one can understand more than a thief how difficult it is to "defend a thief for a thousand days". If someone insists on looking for trouble with oneself, even if Mi Zedan really has nothing to do with oneself, the opponent can probably forcibly create a relationship Evidence comes. Illyrio, who smelled the danger, had all his hair standing on end, and his instinct to seek profit and avoid harm made him want to board the ship and return to Pentos immediately... But the love for oneself child, the disgust for the loss of blood and the failure of the plan made him brave oneself to do Decision: stay, a dangerous race against hidden enemies and time!

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(end of this chapter)