Chapter 275
2021-01-06
Chapter 275 Wolf Lord's Northern TourRelying on "Sell the food originally belonging to the wildling to the wildling in exchange for Labor" is a whimsical and despicable operation, Igor has completed the deployment and construction of an unknown number of Lord Commander of the Night's Watch yearn for something even in dreams along the Wall and land grants: reactivating all abandoned fortresses , repairing land-grant roads, turning Queenscrown from a ruin into a new town...
But the food for the people of beyond the wall is not endless, and for the game to continue, there must be outside forces Keeping the land-grant resettlement program alive - North's aid was crucial before food aid from the Braavos people across the Narrow Sea arrived.
It is for this reason that after completing all the above missions, Igor still draws out 2,000 young men and goes south with oneself to relieve the siege of North, which not only makes the northerners owe the land gift, but also It also opened up the channel for North grain to be shipped to land grants.
In the last two days of my stay in Winterfell, Igor divided the people brought by oneself into several hundred, organized several teams of different sizes, and carried funds to each Fiefdom in the North, as much as possible. Buy food and grass materials that cannot be produced on the land grant.
And then, the North guardian brought more than a hundred elite soldiers, and together with the Northland-grant troops led by Igor... grandiosely set foot on the Kingsroad leading to Castle Black.
The other four Robb decided to invite were busy bringing the spoils home and disbanding their respective armies, unable to return to Winterfell to join the patrol team in just two days, so they simply agreed to meet at Castle Black. . What I have to mention is that I don't know what Arya did, but in a word, he persuaded the big brother and the current parents of House Stark to bring her. The latter's explanation for this is that his little sister's mood has been very low since father's death, so she took her out to relax.
The men of the Wolf Family are always soft on their female members, and Igor has also experienced Arya's ability to entangle people. Although this is a bit surprising, it is not surprising when you think about it. Let this girl follow, maybe even help oneself speak at the critical moment.
The North expelled the Ironmen, and the land-grant digested the wildling. The northern section of Kingsroad has never been so safe, and the northbound line of thousands had no trouble making the journey, and after several days of non-stop rushing, they approached the first important fork in the road to Wall.
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"Don't you mean to keep going north along the road, you won't get lost if you close your eyes, how come there is a fork in this place, or both? North?"
Robb rode at the intersection and looked at the road divided into two and asked Igor a question - the Kingsroad marked on the map that was supposed to go straight north to Castle Black, now It has been covered with residual snow and mud, and it is replaced by a rammed earth road that is slightly deviated to the west by a dozen degrees, obviously newly built, about one inch above the ground next to it, and wide enough for four horses to ride.
"The one on the left leads to Queenscrown." Igor replied, "The original village was located a few miles west of Kingsroad. To reach it, you have to follow the original Kingsroad for about ten miles north and turn left...
In this case, if the traveler wants to pass the Night's Watch logistics base on the way to and from Castle Black and Winterfell, he has to leave the main road and take a branch trail to reach the town, and then return to Kingsroad on the second day to continue the journey. Go closer to Shili Road. After discussion, the logistics department made a decision to divert the original trunk route, abandon a section about 30 miles long, and build a new bend line section with a small angle to allow the transformed Kingsroad to cross Queenscrown .”
The section of Kingsroad to the north of Winterfell is just a thin path stepped in the wasteland, and the part in the grant land is not much different from the grass next to it, and it is completely stepped out by the Night's Watch. , talk is better than nothing... The difference in material and manpower between repair and reconstruction is not big. It is great news for someone to care, and there is no "relevant department" jumping out to point out Igor's change, so he dared to make such a bold move. an order.
The main road was originally a straight line from north to south, and Queenscrown was located at the end of the word "Bu", and the diversion plan changed the straight line from "丨" to "丿", quietly. Integrate Queenscrown into Kingsroad, and in about a year, everyone will forget what the road originally looked like.
The comparison of this new route with the original road is a bit like the ramp leading to the service area on the side of the highway... except that the "service area" of Queenscrown is a little further away from the main road, leading to the "ramp". "It's also a lot longer, and it simply replaced the original main road. The so-called "decision made by the logistics department after discussion" actually doesn't exist at all. Everything was ordered by Igor alone. He just didn't want to give North the impression that oneself was acting arbitrarily in granting land, so he added a little rhetoric.
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Robb couldn't do his own research to verify what Night's Watch said, and after listening to the explanation, he could only nodded: "It's a good idea, but you didn't consider those who don't plan to pass by. The guys from Queenscrown...you diverted the route and the route is no longer straight, they will have to travel a few more miles than the original straight. Besides, why not set up the base of the Night's Watch logistics department along Castle Black or Wall Other fortresses, but to choose a new town?"
"Castle Black to Queenscrown is exactly about a day's ride on horseback, whether travelers go south from Night's Watch's fortress or north to Wall. I have to spend the night at about this location on Kingsroad - anyway, I have to stop and sleep in a hotel room in Queenscrown, is it much better than sleeping in the wilderness?" Igor replied eloquently: "As for why not choose Castle Black or other fortresses, the function of the logistics base is completely different from that of the fortresses along the Wall. It is a material distribution center and needs to provide supplies to the land-grant residents without interruption, thus requiring a certain scale of storage space and maintaining a considerable degree of openness... …and that’s something Castle Black couldn’t achieve, or shouldn’t have.”
“Well, you always have a reason!” Robb laughed.
The site selection of Queenscrown was not a random selection at first, as long as you use your brain at the critical moment, the reason will be found naturally. But the above is really just one of the many benefits of diverting to Kingsroad, a "effect" rather than a "cause". The real purpose of Igor's original diversion order was to strengthen Queenscrown's presence - as an outsider, no matter how hard he tried, he would be impossible to influence the Wall like those Sers who have both noble status and have been in the Wall for many years. The power is ingrained.
Compared to trying to control an old Night's Watch fortress like Castle Black without a foundation, it is undoubtedly much easier and more reliable to build a new, completely oneself base from scratch.
And a "place", whether it is a town or a military fortress, can only really develop if it is in an important or key position.
"Stopping for what?" Arya rode her little mare to the front of the line and interjected, "What's there to think about, I'm sure I won't be able to reach the Wall today, go to Queenscrown...that place... It's interesting, the scenery is good, there is a lake, and you can fish by opening the door!"
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Arya only stayed in Queenscrown for a few days, but regarded oneself as oneself. I have a landlord, and I want to entertain my oneself big brother. However, it is true that this place is a day's journey from Wall, but it is no longer what the girl remembered.
Inside the stone wall, which is much taller and stronger than before, the infrastructure of the town is more complete... and outside the wall, countless tents, simple wood houses and small houses have also been erected, with a passage in the middle. There are also quite a few stalls lining the sides that look like a replica of the winter town that surrounds Winterfell.
But it's much busier than the North's capital, for no other reason: the winter town of Winterfell is only for short-term living, hiding and keeping warm during the coldest seasons, and in principle only provides places, The necessities of life still have to be brought by oneself, not to mention that it is not yet winter. Outside the walls of Queenscrown, it is the key to the survival of the nearly 30,000 "new land-grantees" who donated the land. The wildling family or clan must follow the rules set by Igor: send prime-aged men and women here to seek work from the Night's Watch logistics department, receive wages after hard work and labor, and quickly exchange the required goods to maintain the family or clan members' survival.
To this day, the food that the wildlings brought into the Wall has not been exhausted... With the deliberate manipulation of prices and supplies of various commodities to prevent them from stockpiling food, no tribe has been able to run for ten consecutive years. Heaven does not send anyone to Queenscrown, which is always full of new land-givers who come from the surrounding settlements to provide labor, or buy and sell things.
Nowadays, in order to cope with the inspection of the leaders, the arrangement has been made early, and the relevant people have also undergone simple instructions and rehearsals, just waiting for North to watch.
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(end of this chapter)