Chapter 239
2021-01-06
Chapter 239 The Pocket Realm"Then, I'll wait for your good news." Melisandre smiled at Igor , turned and walked towards the tower where she lived.
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This is really a demonic girl, molesting her is asking for trouble. Looking at Melisandre's retreating back, Igor couldn't help but think: If oneself wasn't nervous just now, but continued jokingly asking her to warm the bed for oneself at night, would she really come?
Although age and identity are a mystery, what does it matter? Men and women love, they do the flesh, not the soul!
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came back to his senses, Igor laughed at himself, and oneself was actually made to worry about gains and losses by a joke from Red Woman. I really don't know whether to say Wall is too lonely, or is the lower body really a man's weakness?
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Mance returns to Haunted Forest to gather the remaining wildlings alive. And Igor began to prepare for the new land-grant residents... The plan to relocate people to fill the land-grant was actually proposed as early as when Benjen Stark was still the chief ranger, and Night's Watch even asked North to guard the capital. This idea was formally proposed, but unfortunately... it was finally abandoned because it could not solve the problem of wildling invasion and harassment.
And this time, taking advantage of the re-emergence of Others, Igor took advantage of the bottom line to turn the original biggest threat of the land-givers into the land-givers themselves, trying to solve the problem once and for all.
This set of resettlement methods to tame wildling is actually to rebuild the land grant into a new pocket-sized country... The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel, although it is pocket-sized, it is an indispensable departmental institution Still not less. The wildling and the mountain clans are certainly the cheapest and most accessible people, but the shortcomings are equally obvious - these Barbarians without an education system have no suitable talents to participate in the management of the land-grant pocket state after its establishment. The relevant candidates can only be selected from the nobles who voluntarily join Night's Watch and the employees of the Night's Watch industry.
This is both a hassle and an opportunity—Night's Watch currently has nearly 1,000 members, including those who are literate and able to do calculations, but there are not as many industrial employees brought to the north by Igor from King's Landing.
This means that, in the event of land grants for construction in the future, no matter how much Mormont does not want Igor to further expand his influence and control, it will not be able to prevent industrial employees who are paid by the latter from entering the management level of the system. . Not to mention... Right now, Mormont doesn't have any intention of guarding against Igor.
After all, Night's Watch Logistics is nominally a subordinate organization of Night's Watch, and Igor is also one of Genuine's Night's Watch. No matter how much he tossed and expanded his power, the land grant that could not be self-sufficient in food eventually had to look up to North and couldn't jump to the sky.
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While the massive resettlement plan on the Zendi side was in full swing, something happened on the North side. Winterfell had just sent someone to bring back Arya, who had run away from home, to Winterfell, and Bran Stark ran away again - with him, as well as Meera, the Jiu Jian siblings, and the little Giant Hodor, everything was the same as the original plot.
The Chief Ranger who heard the news had a strange expression: "What the hell is going on with the Lord of House Stark? Can't even the oneself child look down on it, a crippled little boy who ran away from Winterfell. !"
Maester Aemon said tremblingly, holding the letter, "That's what we say, but we have no right to blame. The letter says...Bran Stark had expressed that he was going to the Wall before he ran away. With the intention of the north, Lady Catelyn asked Night's Watch to increase patrols, and if any trace of the child is found, immediately take it to Castle Black or send it to the last Hearth for protection."
"What about Winterfell's strength? A lame little boy can't catch up?"
"As far as I know, Winterfell's soldiers have been moved elsewhere to fend off Ironmen harassment, and the few remaining horses in Winterfell, He was released from the stables on the day Bran left. In the capital of the dignified North, even a few cavalrymen couldn't get together at a critical moment, and even asked the Night's Watch for help. At this juncture, how can I lend them someone!" Commander Mormont was helpless Shaking his head: "We are not responsible for the child's departure. We don't need to pay too much attention to it, just keep an eye on it. Igor, let your people in Queenscrown also pay attention to the whereabouts of those children."
Igor nods, it is a promise. Greenseer finally made his move. With his methods, to help Bran escape from Winterfell to beyond the wall, there are thousands of absolutely possible ways - if the people of Winterfell are not specially prepared to deal with it, they would like to be in the heart tree all over the North and so on. A near-full-picture presence with eyes is obviously impossible. As for the oneself...help Arya stop the younger brother? What a joke, he's already made a pair with Greenseer unknowingly and even got flagged. If you do something bad to him again and again, I'm afraid you won't know how to die.
For the sake of his own life, he decided not to care about this mess.
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The wildling gradually began to gather outside the gate of Castle Black, and Mormont also recruited soldiers from various fortresses along the Wall to prevent accidents from happening, as the headquarters of Night's Watch. After a hundred years, Castle Black finally gathered four-digit troops again. The Night's Watch, which was responsible for investigating the truth of Mance's claims, was dropped from the top of the Wall and entered into the wildling camp.
The survey results made Igor relaxed: at least for now, I have not found any falsehood in what Mance said, the number of wildlings is basically the same, and the food reserves are indeed a bit... the only thing is a bit more than What the Night's Watches had planned was that the number of Giants exceeded expectations, and even after the hardship and the downsizing in bad weather, there were still hundreds of them.
In order to ensure that these big guys pass the Wall without threatening the Night's Watch, the Wall defenders have a lot of discussions and plans, and finally moved a few ballistas from the top of the Wall, and made a plan. Only through special arrangements can this trouble be solved.
Giants are not as huge as people usually imagine when they hear this word. They are usually around three meters tall, move slowly and clumsily. Although they are a meter taller than the ordinary person, they are medium A ballista is absolutely dead. As long as the number of Giants passing through the Wall is controlled to no more than three at the same time, Night's Watches are fully capable of resolving problems in case of emergencies.
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"Buy all our food?" Mance, with the help of reading the law that Night's Watch had spent days crafting, only questioned this one: "The free people don't want your coins. If you are short of food, we will take the initiative to hand over one third. There is no need for you to force us like this!"
"A promise is a promise, if you don't agree, then through Wall's Let's put it aside for now."
"You..." Mance Rayder gritted his teeth and slumped his shoulders: "Can't we stay at all, so what will we eat when we arrive at the resettlement site?"
"After the freedmen have exchanged food for money, they can use the money to buy food again before leaving Castle Black, but they can only buy ten days' worth of food at most... In addition to food, clothing, daily necessities and other things , has everything, definitely much more than Wall." Igor shrugged: "If you don't mind, you can go back and explain to your people now. No problem, as long as you come back to Castle Black to be a hostage anytime. , let the freedmen go through the Wall's plan to resettle in the additional land, and you can start."
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(end of this chapter)