Chapter 277
2021-01-06
Chapter 277 Campaign ChangesRobb found out long ago - Igor this guy always takes it easy Just saying what Chase sounded reasonable, he was more interested in the details of the "education" part than thinking about the logic and thoughts in these words. Intuition tells the young new North Guardian: This is an important skill related to "domination", and if you can master it, it will be beneficial and harmless.
"Ha, that's a bit unfortunate. Queenscrown has only been built not long ago, and the basic 'support' function has not been implemented for a long time. Everything else is just a preliminary idea and has not yet started to be practiced." Igor laughed, this is not a lie, "If adults are really interested in the specific operation of the idea of 'education', during our tour of North, we had some time to chat slowly. Starting from Winterfell for so many days in a row, everyone If you are tired and tired, you might as well go to the city to enjoy the hospitality, and then talk about this after you have eaten, drank, bathed, and changed your clothes.”
“Alright.”
The people and horses passed slowly. The gate of Queenscrown, entering the interior of the land-grant capital, in stark contrast to the lively outside, the world inside the wall instantly quieted down, and all you see are square and tall buildings made of wood and stone structures, except for the guards. In addition, there are almost no people walking around in the house... This confirms Igor's description of the Queenscrown admission permit just now, and also makes Robb and a group of Winterfell people relax.
In this small town, at least you don't have to be on high alert all the time, worrying that a stone will suddenly fly out of nowhere.
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It is very different from a typical castle. Queenscrown has no obvious inner and outer ring structure and center. The buildings look the same, as if there are two types in total: storage. warehouses and dwelling houses. Igor is the builder of this place and the controller not just in name only, but also in reality, but not the legal lord. In order to avoid gossip and improve space utilization, he ordered that no obvious "main fort" should be designed during construction. , "halls" or similar structures reserved for ruling families, but with a more practical block-like layout.
Yam faithfully carried out Igor's instructions, and this "completely planned before construction" building complex brings a neat and uniform "well" style road, showing a kind of distinctiveness as a whole. Such a sense of regularity and modern glamour. This made Igor feel comfortable, but it made the House Stark people who were used to the big maze of Winterfell a little hesitant - the structure was simple and clear, but if no one led the way, they might really get lost.
After walking 100 meters and turning a corner, they arrived at the area that is not the geometric center of Queenscrown, but is indeed the core building complex. Here, Igor sees waiting for oneself, Humfrey Hisham...and Jon Snow, whom oneself met in prison and is now a logistics officer in Queenscrown.
What's going on? Igor frowned suspiciously and looked towards Yam.
He went north with Robb Stark to donate land on this trip, intending to let the new head of North "seeing is believing", and a series of arrangements did not include playing the family card this move. The release of wildlings into the land grant is related to the safety of North, and is a first-class major event. Even if he values his brother's friendship, Robb is unlikely to be influenced by Jon's opinion. Let this young man who is not good at speaking as a lobbyist may be self-defeating.
Yam saw the doubts of the oneself Boss, and shook his head quietly at Igor, indicating that Jon was not arranged here by oneself.
"Joan-Jon!" Before Igor could react, Arya ran over first, jumped up and hugged oneself's favorite illegalitimate child brother.
Robb also hugged oneself's brother, and after saying hello, he asked: "Jon, aren't you supposed to be at Castle Black, what are you doing here?"
"Castle Black The election of the new Lord Commander is going on over there, and there is no one to care about, so I'm here to see if there is anything Queenscrown can help with."
Robb shook his head with a smile: "You bastard. , always so warmhearted...but be sure to do your job well."
"What Master Stark taught me."
The two brothers joked cordially, while eating Igor, who was shocked, quickly calmed down: Jon must have an emergency to report, otherwise he would never risk running to find oneself when oneself made arrangements. Although the answer didn't reveal any weak spot, but they can't let them talk like this: "It's cold outside, let's go to the house, unload things and relax and take care of the body, and sometimes it's time to catch up."
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p>The dinner is sumptuous but not extravagant. Although the bath service and accommodation are not as comfortable as Winterfell with hot springs, everything that can be considered has been arranged. After receiving the wind, the reception staff took the entire group from Winterfell to their subterranean ground, while Igor sat in the office and listened to the reports of the two Queenscrown managers.
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The report contains a lot of content, which can be summed up in one sentence: Queenscrown's reserves are running out.
The wildling took all the food he could bring when he attacked the Wall south, but the reserve food was water without a source after all. King-Beyond-the-Wall's original plan was to "obtain" supplies from the North and further south after breaking the Wall, to support the war, and to escape the winter all the way south... As a result, Igor introduced foreign aid and strong defense. Passing the 1st Step of Wall was forcibly forced to surrender and settle down in the land grant.
Without the vast Haunted Forest as a source of supply, the new land-granters simply cannot survive the winter with only the food brought into the land grant, even more how half of the food is stored in Castle Black was charged by the Chief Affairs Officer for refusing to hand over to support the wildling?
With less than half of the entire land grant food, to support nearly 80% of the new land grantors and logistics employees, this is an impossible mission to complete, Queenscrown's warehouse is using Empty with astonishing speed. Just in order not to cause panic, Humfrey and Yam just followed Igor's instructions to continue to put food normally...
"We did everything possible to delay the arrival of the last minute: reduce the intensity of the work and even Suspension of projects to slow down food consumption; slow-paced and small price increases while increasing the variety and quantity of other daily commodities to divert funds for new land grantors to buy food; encourage residents to hunt and gather in the wilderness and forests of land grants... ...even quietly hooking up with those mountain clans to get Castle Black's reserves of food through their changing hands, etc." Yam ended his report with a sad face: "But Castle Black's control of food is also very strict. , we tried every means, but we could only slightly delay the time for the granary to be completely empty..."
"To be honest, you brought two thousand people south to North for more than a month, it really helped Very busy. If you need two thousand more mouths, the granary may be empty." Humfrey also shrugged, "Now we only need a certain number, when will it all be finished?"
"Thanks for the hard work. ." Igor knew the general situation of the land grant and Queenscrown, and understood that the two subordinates were not nonsense. Insufficient food means lack of food. Even if you change oneself and stay in the town, there is a high probability that you will not be able to do better than them: "Now the passage of land grants to North has been sorted out, and the first batch of aid food will arrive in the near future. , do the work for the last period of time, and wait for the arrival of the aid materials from Braavos."
"very good."
"It's really reassuring to be an adult! Can you tell us about your trip south to fight the fire?"
The two actual managers of Queenscrown were overjoyed and asked for details. Igor briefly talked about a few hot potatoes that Robb Stark threw to oneself, and explained how oneself had initially envisaged for these troublesome characters... I haven't seen each other for a long time between superiors and subordinates. The handover communication took a long time, and after about an hour or two, Jon Snow knocked on the door and walked in.
This young man came specially from Castle Black, and what he wants to tell or discuss with oneself is definitely much more urgent than this bunch of errands in Queenscrown. Igor stopped the trivial instructions he was making and looked towards the visitor.
I checked my eyes, I have something to say.
Igor turned his head and nodded to the other two: "Let's talk about it today, more things, wait for me to think about it before making arrangements. Go back to rest early - um, right , before going to bed, go to the reception and turn around and ask the guests from Winterfell what else they need."
"Yes, then we will go back first." Can be seen by Igor The people who came to manage Queenscrown naturally had good basic eyesight. Humfrey and Yam quickly said goodbye to Igor and left the room together.
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"Jon, long time no see." Igor nodded to Jon with a smile, "Did you chat with Robb for a while, or was Arya entangled?"
"It's all right... The death of Sir Father makes my little sister very sad. She is just pretending to come out of her grief, and she still blames herself very much in her heart. I comforted her for a while, So it's late."
"Is that so." Igor didn't want to discuss a little girl's mind, and when the door was closed again, he changed the conversation straight to the point: "Sit down, Castle Black is over there. What's the situation, let's talk about it."
Jon also sat down unequivocally and reported the situation on Castle Black's side: "While you were away from Castle Black, the plan to prevent the birth of the next commander went well. Quite smoothly, Ser Denys Mallister's votes fluctuated around 400, and Cotter Pyke followed closely from behind, but it was always in the early 300s, and some of them were arranged by us. After half a month of stalemate, Ranked 3rd Our chief craftsman, Osail Yawick, withdrew from the election."
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Igor relaxed, he left Castle Black at a critical moment because he wanted to be oneself The two opponents relaxed their vigilance and fell into a fight with each other, gaining time and space to operate. This is a risky plan: if Denys and Cotter agree to choose Lord Commander for some unexpected reason, and oneself comes back and finds that the land grant has changed, then there is really no other way to turn around other than bringing wildling to rebel. .
And North impossible sits and watches anyone armed to seize control of the land grant. If it really reaches that point, it will have to turn against House Stark - it is not enough to control Robb alone, and the other four will visit the land grant Great Family. members also had to be placed under house arrest. Relying on the tens of thousands of new land-grant people in the land-grant, this step is theoretically possible, but wildling is by no means a loyal and reliable subordinate of oneself. If it really gets to that point...
oneself will have to guard against wildling's backlash, bear the wrath of the Night's Watch brothers, and continue to operate the land grant under the sanctions of King's Landing. And once the Night's Watch industry is confiscated by Iron Throne, even Braavos' aid is likely to fall through... no way.
Igor prefers to abscond to the other side of the narrow sea with money rather than seeking death.
Fortunately, the worst didn't happen in the end. Osell's withdrawal from the election is expected. No matter his ability or qualifications, he is far under the commander of Shadow Tower and Eastwatch. He withdrew decisively when there was no hope of winning the election, freeing up about 200 votes for oneself. , is to hope that these 200 people will make the election win or lose.
“How did the situation change after he quit?”
“After the third place quit the race, the top two sides jumped up and down in Castle Black, trying every means to get the chief craftsman out of the race. The original supporters pulled into the oneself camp... After the election the day before yesterday, Denys Mallister's votes reached 450, and Cotter Pyke was close to 400, but the gap narrowed."
As soon as Igor passed the numbers in his mind, he quickly realized that it was abnormal: "It only adds up to more than 800, of which about 60 votes were arranged by us, and the remaining nearly 200 votes."
"Warner Ser Buckwell got more than 100 votes," Jon replied. "During your absence, Sam and I were not idle. We were secretly communicating with the brothers in Castle Black and patiently explaining the land grant placement to them. The benefits and viability of the plan... and wildling, no, the new land grantors have been keeping their feet in these two months, and your move to raise food for the land grant battle in the North has also won more and more for the reformers The more support. After Osell dropped out of the election, many of the Castle Black brothers who had voted for him voted for your supporters, and if you ran in person, there would be more votes."
so that's how it is, the nearly 200 Castle Black brothers who originally voted for Orsell did so because they believed that everyone's chief craftsman would also become a qualified Lord Commander, but those who "supported him" did not Don't obey him. Ossel can withdraw from the election, but cannot order the person who originally voted for oneself to vote for another person who made it... So, in the big change of the third-place withdrawal from the election, dozens of votes from the conservative camp Lost, and went to the reformists—that is, Igor's side.
"Very good." Igor nodded with satisfaction, Jon and Sam, especially the latter's mind, was one of the reasons why he was relieved to leave Castle Black and go to North to find a way out and turnaround, two youngsters And did not let oneself down.
But soon he realized something was wrong: this is all good news, Jon came to Queenscrown on purpose, did he just want oneself to know one day in advance, so that he could rest assured one day earlier?
"But the other party is aware of your plan." Jon quickly solved Igor's doubts: "The Land Granters took back Deepwood Motte, persuaded the surrender of Moat Cailin, helped the North people regain control of their homeland, and Robb's upcoming After a series of news reached Castle Black as you went north to visit the land grant, Denys Mallister and Cotter Pyke must have realized that you were not planning to give up, and they began to send people to meet each other frequently, probably planning what to do with your victory and return ”
“How many votes can we influence now?”
“The Westerlands people’s votes are definitely yours, and to be more optimistic, Castle Black’s original There are 200 people in brother who are willing to vote for you, and the total is less than 260 votes."
Not one third of the number of Night's Watch members, in other words, conservatives still have more than 2/3/2022 strength control of the votes...as long as either Ser Mallister or Cotter Pyke figured out to vote for oneself's old foe, Igor there's no resistance.
Jon shook his head: "Sam thinks this probability is almost zero, but he doesn't rule out the possibility of other forms of compromise within the conservatives. We don't know what they will do for the time being - but anyway, I Think you need to be aware of this situation ahead of time and be prepared for it.”
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(end of chapter)