Chapter 222
2021-01-06
Chapter 222 Land-Grant New ResidentsIgor originally thought: leave King's Landing and return After Wall, relying on the financial resources of the Night's Watch industry and his position in the Legion, he no longer has to smack his brains and rely on his mouth to settle troubles or solve problems. Unfortunately, things backfired, and he met Commander Mormont again. The first new mission that Old Guy gave him was to convince others to help.
Fortunately, this time the target is fairly easy to deal with.
The mountain clan tribe, relying on hunting and gathering in the mountain range north of Wolfswood for a living, has always had a mutually beneficial relationship with the North princes and Night's Watch without conflict of interest. is a positive value. Coupled with the characteristics of poverty, arrogance, and sensitivity to honor - such a guy who has never seen the world and has a good face is actually the easiest object to deal with.
Igor's plan was to visit with respect, gifts, and a bad check.
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Like most Night's Watches, Mormont is basically satisfied with the "ransom" Igor sends to Wall regularly, and has no plans to recall it, let alone expect this oneself to personally The appointed "Chief Logistics Officer" can voluntarily return to the Wall.
So, when Igor unexpectedly reappeared at Castle Black with his men and horses, and joined the battle as soon as he arrived, Mormont, who did not know that he was actually coming north to avoid disaster, suddenly felt this way: All the precautions and control methods before oneself seem to have become the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain... Igor has now become one of his most important subordinates.
The idea of the northerners is very simple: such a man with a flexible mind, unrivaled in terms of personal contribution to Legion, and willing to take the initiative to return at Wall's most dangerous moment, why not trust him?
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Old Bear didn't hesitate when Igor set off to visit the Hill Clan tribe and asked Mormont to be escorted by Jaime Lannister and some of his companions He agreed to name James, in addition to considering Kingslayer's extraordinary skills, he also had the instinctive habit of "tying oneself with important plot characters".
Accompanied by twenty new rangers and ten bodyguards directly under oneself, he first came to the south of Shadow Tower, closest to the Wall, and the largest of the mountain clan tribes: the residence of the Flint clan .
The Flint clan "in the mountains". The reason why the prefix is added is because in the cold and long history of North, some capable people in this huge clan walked out of the mountains, made great achievements, won the title of castle, Fiefdom and count, thus creating their own branch families—— In order to distinguish it from the two families with the same surname as Widow's Watch and Flint's Finger, it is necessary to emphasize the living place "in the mountains".
While the Flints who stay in the mountains tend to prefer another title: "the original Flint".
The hospitable name of the mountain clan is not in vain, offering gifts: a set of full body armor donated by Tywin, a few brand new steel weapons that have just been opened, a small pile of obsidian artifacts and some from the south. After bauble...and reporting their names, Igor and James were warmly welcomed. This group of people in the mountains are not as closed as Igor thought, which is very unexpected - not only have they heard the name of oneself "Others Killer", but they can even say James' nickname, the most interesting Yes: the news of "the guy who killed two kings" also attracted a lot of youngsters to watch.
The clan leader Togenheng Flint personally hosted a banquet to receive the visiting Night's Watch. Igor had never eaten so much wild game in his life and was full before explaining his intention to the other party.
"In the past six months, the Flint clan has also encountered wildling raids many times... To be honest, we have a common enemy and are very willing to help Night's Watch."
Old Flint It's quite refreshing, and it doesn't mean to reject it at all - the reason is very simple, the Flint clan in the mountains and the Umber family in Hearth are the two closest to Wall in North, what's wrong with Wall, they are the first to be unlucky, they are like locusts tied to one rope: "But Lord Ned's son went to the south to fight the lions, and the tribe sent thirty warriors to help out, and the remaining men were not many... If we go too much to help the Night's Watch, we will be attacked by oneself. It's going to be trouble."
Not an excuse for refusing to help, but the Flint clan really needs the protection of their own armed forces - not every wildling that crosses from Gorge to the south of the Wall is sent by Mance Rayder The elites, after they climbed over the wall, they will rush to the Night's Watch stronghold and the "crows" desperately... More of them just want to run to the south to avoid the Others and the winter, and survive.
And in the process of going south, lack of food and transportation, you can only grab it along the way.
"This is indeed a question." Igor thought about it and asked, "How many people are there in the Flint clan?"
"A thousand or so, maybe two thousand, no count. Yes. Flint is a big clan, but my clansman don't all live in one block, but hundreds of hundreds of places in a group, a total of five villages." The old Flint said: "How many people does the Wall need to help? If there are any, I'll let you choose, but no matter how many, there's really nothing I can do."
Dozens? Even if there are dozens of more than 40 clans, it is far from enough, not to mention that there are only a few hundred members of the small clans: "That's not enough, my lord, I hope the more the better."
The clan leader shrugged: "It's a pity my friend, there must be enough Warriors to stay, otherwise when the wildling comes to my house, what can I do to protect the old man and the child?"
The attitude of the old Flint is already very good. As a guest and friend, Igor Impossible proposed to let the other party give up the unreasonable request of protecting oneself. Wall needs to be guarded, and the old man child of the clan tribe also needs protection... He drank a few sips of the clan's home-brewed wine, pondered for a while, and suddenly thumped the table: Move the old man child who needs protection from the clan tribe to the Wall that needs guarding, Isn't the problem solved?
"Lord Flint, if I proposed to move your entire clan out of the mountains and live next to Wall in the land grant, would you consider it?"
"Live in the land grant?" Old Flint never thought of this possibility, and blinked: "This is indeed one move, two gains, but my clan relies on gathering and hunting for a living, and we don't farm... we go to grant land. After we go to live, what shall we eat?"
"You probably forgot, the chief logistics officer of Night's Watch is sitting in front of you - and my greatest ability is to earn money to support people." Igor Raise your head and turn on confidence mode: "I hereby make a solemn promise that even if your clan starves to death under the protection of Night's Watch, I will raise my head to see you!"
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Igor made a simple calculation: no matter what weapons are equipped, if you just "feed until you starve", the entire Flint clan will not be able to eat 100 Golden Dragons a month, even if only one-tenth of them can In combat, the price/performance ratio is countless times higher than that of mercenaries. As long as Stannis enters Lord Pro, and the Night's Watch industry works well, oneself can survive.
Money is not everything, but sometimes it's just so tough!
This is the first time the clan leader has encountered such a proposal. He scratched his head and glanced at the commotional clan members on both sides. He didn't know how to reply for a while.
Igor strikes while the iron is hot and continues to add weight: "In addition to ensuring food supplies, Night's Watch Legion will also provide an abandoned fortress for members of the Flint clan who have moved out of the mountain. Just a little cleaning, in the next Throughout the winter, members of your clan will be able to live in sturdy and warm stone houses, instead of relying on burrows to escape the cold wind!"
"Stone houses!"
The old Flint didn't say much, but many of his juniors became excited. Many of the youngsters visited Winterfell, Fengjun's home, and longed for that kind of tall and sturdy stone building. Who would have thought? There are people now, put this opportunity in front of them!
Just like every child in the countryside wants to go to the city, how can any clan people not want to live in a stone house? The juniors who participated in the banquet turned their attention to patriarch, and could not wait to ask the old man to agree.
Old Flint has lived for more than 40 years, and of course he will not be coaxed by such a condition.
Igor West's reputation had long been heard, and he had no doubts about the promise of such a celebrity and Night's Watch officer...and promise not to starve a member of the clan, which in the winter In fact, it is a very difficult thing to do, and it would be a lie to say that you are not excited. However, when he was young, he traveled to the North and visited and saw the lives of people from all over the world-due to the widespread tradition of stockpiling grain and establishing "winter towns" in the North, farmers living under the rule of the North princes died of freezing and starvation in winter. The proportion is indeed much smaller than that of the mountain clan, but in Long Summer, where the climate is mild and there is no natural disaster, the Flint clan, which occupies a large area of resource-rich mountain forests and relies on hunting and gathering for a living, living conditions are actually more relaxed and comfortable than most of the seven Kingdoms homesteaders. ... to give up such a large territory for a stone fortress, he really couldn't make such a decisive and important decision.
Old Flint tapped the table with his red, rough, sausage-like fingers, and said embarrassingly: "Chief Logistics Officer, I believe in your promise, but after our clan moves out of the mountains, in case the territory is destroyed. Wildling or other surrounding clans occupy it, so what should I do?"
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After a year of fighting in King's Landing, I came to North and met People are so cute and honest, Igor didn't take half a second to hear the other party's subtext: he wanted a stone house and food for the winter, but he didn't want to give up the mountains and forests that lived in the times.
A very reasonable desire, not even greed, Igor gritted his teeth and continued to give out empty promises: "You can leave a village to watch over oneself's territory, and if someone else comes out to help you in the future. Night's Watch occupied your territory, and when the war is over, Night's Watch will be your solid backing, we will come forward, even send troops...at all costs, to defend your ownership of the territory!"
"Isn't Night's Watch impartial?"
"Night's Watch is impartial, but the Night's Watch industry is not." Igor said without hesitation: "Take a ten thousand steps back and damage Night's The interests of Watch's allies are harming the interests of Night's Watch... When someone bullies them, how can they be impartial?"
One side was rich and imposing, while the other side didn't ask too much, and the negotiation went smoothly beyond imagination , all the problems were solved, and a smile broke out on the face of old Flint: "The chief logistics officer is really a real person, if this is the case, then my answer is also very simple: I will leave a hundred people to watch the territory, and the rest will all come out. Move to the fort provided by Night's Watch, and in the next war with wildling or whatever, we will all advance and retreat with Night's Watch!"
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[100,000 recommended votes, plus one day of interruption, owes a total of three shifts. I have been busy recently, so I moved the update time to the daytime by taking the initiative to cut off the update for one day, and I will make up later when I have time. I hope for understanding]
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