Chapter 232
2021-01-06
Chapter 232 Old acquaintancesIt’s not good to talk to a sage — a chat with Melisandre After the chat, Igor seemed to get a lot of useful information, but he couldn't tell how much of it was induced by oneself. Leaving from the reception dinner, Igor decided to do some planned and practical things first.
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Returning Arya to the arranged room, he ran to the hostel to meet the prisoners who came with Melisandre and his followers. Queenscrown has not yet built a dungeon, and even if there is, it will not put political prisoners who are already "Night's Watch recruits" in it - in the dormitory prepared for ordinary residents, Igor and oneself meet the name of the two people. face.
Warner Buckwell, former city gate guard Captain, nephew of Antlers count. That day Renly broke through King's Landing, and it was he who first led his cronies to give up the city gate he was guarding and turned back and took the Red Keep, which made Stannis have nowhere to go, and reluctantly handed Iron Throne over to younger brother Renly.
It's a pity...I only enjoyed the hero treatment for a month. With Renly's sudden death, this guy fell into Hell from Heaven and was sent to Night's Watch.
Benefits and risks are always proportional, and anyone must accept to lose if you agree to bet you.
As one of the important members and heirs of the family, if the Crownlands army who went to the Westerlands to destroy lions "does not return to the King of Diligence" as a premise, as well as the acquiescence and support of the family, Warner is impossible to dare to betray and sit in Iron. The king on the Throne mutiny... It stands to reason that Earl Buckwell, who knows Igor better, should have put on black clothed. But these old Crownlands families do things like this, not one drop of water can leak out: no matter how Stannis' Master of Laws checks, there is absolutely no evidence that Earl Buckwell "instructed his nephew to betray the king"; The return was "really" due to all kinds of troubles along the way; plus the fact that after Renly's death changed his face and turned back to Stannis was decisive and quick...
In short, House Buckwell, by breaking his wrist, Just like the wrong team last time - after paying a heavy price, the fate of being pulled up by the roots was avoided.
Jarman Buckwell didn't fish out, and another Warner was sent in. Buckwell's family is really unfavorable... And the lord of Antlers has the same situation, and there are a bunch of other Crownlands lords.
Another acquaintance...is Igor's cellmate when he was arrested for helping Tyrion run away, Humfrey Hisham, an illegitimate child from the Westerlands, the accountant who ran the King's Landing business for House Lannister.
Inversely proportional to the state of Crownlands: the Westerlands escaped from the vortex by declaring neutrality before and after being besieged and returned to liberation... After Renly's death, Tywin personally wrote to Stannis, Ask to pay a lot of money to redeem the nobles of the Westerlands who were captured by Eddard during the King's Landing Rebellion.
Stannis, who was planning to lead an army south to deal with the Golden Corps and the Tyrells, agreed to the deal under enormous pressure of military pay.
Judging from the apparently higher ransom amount than normal, Tywin is actually courting Stannis in disguise and paying the protection fee. However, only those with aristocratic backgrounds are lucky enough to be able to return to the Westerlands, and illegitimate children like Humfrey or commoners are not so lucky.
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"Who said 'The Wall is a hellish place, who likes to go to'?" Igor said with a smile to Humfrey, "Why? Have you changed your mind and decided to join Night's Watch?"
"Damn, everyone with a certain status has been redeemed by Tywin, and Stannis doesn't want to support us prisoners, so he actually decided to let us go to Dragonstone to mine. "I grew up in Lanisport, too. Is it okay to be a miner? Dragonstone can't even run away from this place - rather than drilling in an all black, no daylight mine. Work to the death, and then I don’t know which day I will be exhausted and buried in the barren mountains... It is better to gamble to the Wall, even if you die, you can have a good time.” He shrugged and admitted: “Of course—I heard that Your return to Wall is the most important reason, brother, I'm here to defect, it's up to you."
"Haha...don't worry, of course I won't treat the old brothers and sisters badly. I'll look back. Just ask Mormont for someone, and you have to get someone like you to the logistics department.”
“If you don’t dare to be a talented person, I will manage the accounts.”
Granted land, especially Queenscrown, is there a shortage of people who can manage accounts now? Although Yam is also smart, he was born in a miner's family after all and has no professional training. Let him take care of many matters of Queenscrown by himself, and he has to do this and that for oneself. Igor can see how hard it is. I just wanted to find someone to take care of him. Now that the right person can be delivered to your door, it is better.
"Lord Igor is really good-looking." Warner said sourly, "I hugged the thigh of House Stark, with their support, and now I am here to call the wind and summon the rain, Like a land-grant king...you knew Stannis was going to win, so why didn't you tell us?"
"Night's Watch is impartial, I don't understand Ser Buckwell. "
"Stop pretending, you ran into the Red Keep that day and took that little squire away in front of me, what is it called 'Aili'? I really can't guess who it is!" Warners snorted: "I didn't recognize it at first, but then Renly and Margaery came to King's Landing to find Ed Duke's youngest daughter, and I was suspicious and wanted to report it...but talk to our Old Master first. I said hello, but he spoke in person, and let me pretend that this never happened, otherwise..."
And these inside stories?
Igor froze behind his back, but immediately reacted: Who knows what the other party is telling the truth? If this is the case, King's Landing should have used this as a pretext to coerce oneself to give up more profits from the Night's Watch industry, why should it be delayed until today? It's more likely that Warner didn't recognize Arya who ran away from home until two days ago in the land grant, and then remembered the events of that day, and deliberately made up stories to make oneself owe favor.
There are really no impervious walls in the world, but if it weren't for the stinky girl Arya running around, she should have been able to hide it for a longer time... Now, oneself doesn't even dare to deal with Reach. . Thinking of this, the fire in Igor's stomach rekindled.
"What are you talking about?" Humfrey Hisham was confused.
These things are useless to say, Igor is now trying to win over oneself's future oath brother, he shook his head: "Okay, don't mention these messy things, everyone knows each other, since you came to Wall , I will take care of everything. Ser Buckwell...you are already a Knight when you put on black clothed, and most likely you will join the Rangers or be the commander of this Ren new fortress. I can't control that. But living in Wall If you encounter any difficulties in the process, you can come to me, and I will definitely help you if you can solve it.”
Warner sighed, he did grab a handle on Igor, but now that Renly is dead, the Tyrell family is powerless to Defend himself, what if he stabs himself out, King Stannis can forgive oneself for this? Not to mention that oneself is now on someone else's territory. I'm afraid I'll have to rely on the other party for how I live in the future... Thinking of this, his shoulders slumped: "Then many thanks first."
"Don't be discouraged, this room is full of oneself people, I might as well give some information to the two of you." Igor did not forget the main purpose of oneself's trip: "I was shipwrecked at sea two years ago, and I was drifting along the ocean. When I got to Westeros, I just stole two potatoes because I was hungry and was sent to the Wall. Since I put on black clothed, I have been thinking about how to leave the Wall in a proper way and get rid of my Night's Watch status.”
"Didn't you already achieve the previous goal, but you still ran back."
"Yes, I have already achieved the first goal. Ordinary people may be satisfied with it. The chief logistics officer of Night's Watch enjoys a comfortable life in King's Landing for a lifetime. But I am not an ordinary person, I have ambitions, unfulfilled dreams, parents and close relatives waiting for me at home...I am not satisfied with this. I hope to be dignified one day Just take off the black clothed, and get a new, sturdy, ocean-going ship that belongs to me, and sail westward under the sunset sea, returning to my hometown!" Igor ran the train with a blushing face and his mouth full of excitement: "And through hard work, I'm now getting closer to my goal, and I'm confident that one day, I'll be able to achieve it."
"Wow." Humfrey exclaimed, "what does this have to do with us? ."
"What I hope is to establish a complete and universally applicable exit mechanism for Night's Watch. Once this mechanism is established, it means that every Night's Watch forced to put on black clothed Have the opportunity to enjoy..." Igor glanced at Ser Buckwell's expression and continued: "And this, it is impossible not to solve the current defense crisis facing Wall... And I have a lot of ideas about how to deal with this crisis. It's a plan, but it needs support and cooperation - only when everyone cooperates sincerely and tides over the difficulties together can the final goal be achieved."
Humfrey shrugs: "I have nowhere to go. Those who defected to you, of course, will support and cooperate with you in everything."
Igor nodded towards oneself's old inmate, but turned his head and looked towards Ser Buckwell - although Humfrey is a manager who is in short supply of land He is a talent in management, but his attitude can only represent him personally, and Warner Buckwell can influence all the Crownlands nobles who are forced to put on black clothed...more than a dozen future Night's Watch mid-level commanders.
Warner Buckwell frowned at Igor, who had also been in the mudflats of King's Landing, and of course noticed something unusual - they would swear to join the Night's Watch Legion in the future, once they became the "Oath Brother". ”, it is only natural for them to support each other and take care of each other. There is no need to come over and say a lot, and then deliberately raise this point.
(Igor is recruiting oneself, and when the "Chief Logistics Officer" is already one of the top members of Legion, he has to cross the Lord Commander to form a gang and deal directly with future middle and lower-level officers. The picture is not small!)
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"Establish a Night's Watch exit mechanism, it is easy to say, how to do it? We unlucky bastards who offended the king, There is also a chance to enjoy it?"
"Secret for the time being." In fact, there is no clue at all for the time being, but it is not a bad thing to continue to expand and increase influence. One thing Igor learned from Melisandre - being mysterious and profound when the time is right can often work wonders: "But I promise you, this mechanic will work perfectly on any Night's Watch, and I, right now, step by step Getting closer."
Having watched Igor build the Night's Watch business from scratch in King's Landing, Warner couldn't question his confidence: "Got it...I, and those who suffer with me. Friends who have been exiled here will be your staunch secret supporters, the Chief Logistics Officer of Night's Watch."
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Those with desires are best dealt with , thankfully: not everyone was as determined to be a good Night's Watch as James was, so the oil and salt didn't come in... Both Humfrey and Warner took Igor's pie and agreed to distribute it to the same batch The rest of the Crownlands nobles and Westerlands people in distress.
So far, Igor's voice and influence in Night's Watch has just caught up with several other top officers, and he is finally worthy of the word "chief". He doesn't want to be satisfied and stop there. Today, he's off to a great start to build a oneself group.
I finished an important task, Igor relaxed, said goodbye to two old acquaintances, opened the door and stepped into the icy night of granting land, walked quickly back to the oneself room in the cold wind, took off his coat, gave the fireplace I added a few pieces of firewood and got ready to go to bed.
"Master, where have you been and why did you come back."
Igor was startled by Arya's voice, turned around, but found no one, and finally found the girl He actually got into the bed, only showing his head, rubbing his sleepy eyes, as if he had just been woken up.
Want to come and sleep with oneself again? Igor's eyes widened in annoyance: "Don't tell me the stomach doesn't hurt, so what are you doing?"
"I...the fire in the room is about to go out, it's so cold."
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"When the fire is about to go out, oneself will add firewood, and others will do everything?"
"But I can't find firewood in the house."
"Oh Okay." Igor opened his mouth, apparently Yam hadn't arranged things. But with so much to do, it's hard to blame the mayor of Queenscrown for such a small thing. He walked to the bed and tucked the quilt for Arya, reminding oneself that there was a little girl who had just lost her father, don't be angry, be gentle: "Is it warm in the bed?"
"Warm."
"Okay, you can sleep here tonight." Igor rubbed the girl's head: "But there are some things we have to talk about now."
"en. "Arya His nose and mouth were buried under the covers, only half of his head was exposed, and a pair of bright big eyes stared at Igor.
"It's really dangerous to run away from home. You are so happy for a while, and the people who care and love you are so anxious that you can't sleep through the night. I'm so angry that I want you to promise now that you will never do it again. No matter what. You must tell your family where you are going, who you are going to see, and what you are doing, and it is best to send someone to accompany you to protect it, just like taking a sword technique class at King's Landing, okay?"
Arya also knows what oneself does. It's too much, obediently nodded: "I promise."
"Okay, there's the second point. You're a girl, don't go to me...or anything else for the sake of a major event. Drilling in people's rooms and blankets, you are not only dangerous to oneself, but also really easy to cause trouble to others - it's really trouble, not a joke, understand?"
"Oh... ...I'm sorry, master, I understand."
"Well, if I commit this again, don't call me master again." Igor didn't know how long this bear child could remember, so he could only hope that threats would work. She also really understood: "You can sleep here tonight, I'll find another room."
"Huh?" Arya stuck her whole head out of the bed, as if to occupy herself for oneself Magpie's nest felt sorry: "Don't be so troublesome, let's sleep together for the last night."
It is undoubtedly a charming experience to have a noble Maiden warm the bed, but now Queenscrown has many people, Igor can Don't want oneself's career to be ruined for such a funny reason: "Don't you say the last night last time? Just lie down if you are afraid of the cold." He walked to the door, put on his coat again, and turned around to say goodbye: "Good night. .”
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[Da Zhang, repay the debt in chronological order, make up for the break from the previous few days, and still owe three chapters]
(This chapter end)