Chapter 280
2021-01-06
Chapter 280 at the crucial momentThe land-grant section of the Kingsroad goes north from the diversion to Castle Black Several dozen li have been renovated and compacted early, wide and straight, and some people regularly patrol and maintain it. Even the continuous heavy snow has not covered it and submerged it. The frozen solid dark road is very eye-catching in the vast white field. , as if Heavenly God had drawn a black line on the ground leading to the Wall.
“The round-trip time between Castle Black and Queenscrown has been successfully reduced from a full day to half a day, and we will continue to renovate the Queenscrown southward route for the foreseeable future...in the land grant. After the north-south artery is opened, I also plan to repair the east-west route that is close to the Wall and connects the nineteen fortresses along the route, so as to form a T-shaped high-quality traffic trunk road in the land grant.” Igor rode in parallel with Robb and Jon, facing the cold. Feng Xiang North explained his infrastructure plan: "In this way, in the future, whether it is the transportation of materials, food and grass, or the mobilization of troops in the event of an emergency military situation, the efficiency will be doubled."
Arya interjected with some dissatisfaction. : "It's just the road to the land grant. The road from Winterfell to the land grant is not very good. What is it called Kingsroad?" The younger sister, who couldn't sit still immediately, shook her head: "Speak, the lord, don't talk too much, little child, it's windy outside, go back to the carriage."
"No, I'm not cold, listen to master Hu Chuitai It's interesting!"
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Mummy, oneself's grand and long-term construction plan, when this girl talks about it, it becomes nonsense? Arya's words are really not blocked at all... Igor almost touched the back of his head in embarrassment, but resisted his embarrassment and smiled nodded: "If Lord Stark allows, it is absolutely necessary to renovate the Wolfswood section of Kingsroad in the North, this section of The road condition on the road is much better than that of the free lot, and the work to widen the flatten is not that big. If it is well repaired, if the Wall defense is in a hurry in the future, the speed of North Army support can also be greatly improved.”
Robb His lips moved, wanting to say "I haven't agreed to the land-grant scheme to go ahead," but the sight of Queenscrown changed his impression of the plan to contain and rule the wildling. He thought for a while, and in the end it was just nodded, motioning for Igor to continue to "blow nonsense".
“Apart from this, I have a new idea. In order to prevent wildling from harming North, the new land grantors accepted by the land grant resettlement plan are not evenly distributed throughout the land grant, but are Planning and distribution, living in a large triangle formed by the connection between Wall, Shadow Tower and Eastwatch and Queenscrown, and there is a large no-man’s land between the North and the North as a buffer.” Igor licked his lips and continued: “Wait for this T-shaped After the construction of the main road of the land is completed, I will also repair the straight sections of Queenscrown, Shadow Tower and Eastwatch - in this way, one T is matched with one V, and 99% of the population of the entire land grant is roughly surrounded and covered by this triangular route system. . On this basis, I hope to build a simple public transportation system."
"Public transportation system?" Robb had never heard such a combination of words.
"When the wildling passed the Wall, except for pure meat and livestock, all living things such as cattle and horses were confiscated and confiscated by the Night's Watch Legion... This gave the Wall defenders an unprecedented amount of animal power available. It's true, but it makes the new land givers fall into the predicament of no livestock available. They come to Queenscrown to buy food and grass, and they all have to walk on their legs and push human carts. It takes several days to buy food. "Igor said: "I hope to be able to After the road is repaired in the future, the carriage will be sent to and from the Shadow Tower and Eastwatch at both ends of Queenscrown and Wall on a fixed route, allowing any land-grant residents to drop by to improve the efficiency of livestock use. It is convenient for the people and avoids Castle Black to keep in vain. A bunch of cattle and horses, but they are idle."
"It sounds a little too idealistic." Robb laughed interestingly: "tens of thousands of people, you send a few carriages, do not take The wheel of the car would have to be crushed to death.”
“Of course, the number of passengers must be controlled, and the method is also simple-just get on the bus and pay a fee, and you can also collect money to control the new land grantors. The role of the amount of property. The land grant situation is special, it is only a pocket society, but the population is all gathered... All ideas can be boldly tried here, and even if something goes wrong, they can be stopped quickly, never What serious consequences and far-reaching consequences."
"Public transport!" Arya exclaimed excitedly, "Can I also get a round-trip carriage between Queenscrown and Winterfell, and I will stay at home in the future. If you're bored, you can drop by and hitch a ride on the land."
"How far is Winterfell to Queenscrown!" Robb glanced at Arya: "Also, I must remind you, dear younger sister— Now, I'm your parent, and I love you, so I can't do everything you want. You can't leave the castle without my escort or permission, I don't care who you go to! If you do it again, don't blame me for acting like mother and treating you like a prisoner!"
The girl understood that she couldn't raise objections on such a principled issue, she pouted and whispered: "I see. .”
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Although the weather is bad, there is still something to be thankful for: there is no snow overhead, and the wind is not blowing from north to south. Without blowing the crowd to the point of being unable to speak, a group of hundreds of people continued to march along the Great Way against the wind, while chatting to maintain their mental state, while trying to maintain their speed.
At noon, they found a sheltered place for a short stop. Not long after they returned to the road after lunch, a black spot suddenly appeared on the gray northern horizon, and it quickly emerged from the fog in the distance. Taking a silhouette, walking opposite the team, quickly approaching a naked eye recognizable distance—a black clothed person.
More recently, Jon was the first to recognize the identity of the person who came: "Grenn!"
Robb has seen very few Night's Watch, so he asked freshly: "Grenn!" Who is it?"
"A brother of a ranger, and I have a good relationship...but why did he come here?"
The visitor was riding a horse and saw For military use, it is likely that the pony was captured by the wildling, but the speed is not slow. He greeted the crowd within a few minutes of his appearance, and quickly recognized his oneself friend: "Jon!" Turning around again, he was surprised: "Lord Igor!"
"long time no see , Grenn. This is the guardian of North, Lord Robb Stark." Igor briefly introduced the identity of the person beside Grenn to Grenn, and quickly asked: "What happened to Castle Black, what are you doing here?"
"Castle Black ——" Grenn originally thought oneself had to drive until midnight to get to Queenscrown, didn't expect to ride less than ten miles before meeting the person he was looking for. When the surprise faded, he glanced at Robb with some unease, the legendary Jon's different mother brother, a man of the same age as oneself who had inherited the entire North, wondering if he should say it in front of him. After thinking for a while, he took out a folded piece of paper from the black clothed and handed it to Igor. "Sam he... let me bring this to you."
Igor took the note suspiciously and opened it.
Sam's handwriting is familiar and clear, and the content above is very simple and clear. Oneself can understand every word and all the information above, but he has no idea that Sam wrote these things for oneself to see at this time. What means.
This is by no means a guessing game, oneself does not understand the meaning must be missing some key information. An ominous premonition came to mind, and Igor apologized to Robb and took Grenn to the roadside a few meters away to ask him about the situation.
“Lord Ser Mallister and Cotter Pyke both dropped out of the election in favor of Lord Yohn Royce, who by the time I sneaked this old horse out of Castle Black had over five hundred Tickets!"
"What?!"
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A second later, Igor understood the content of the note that Sam wrote to oneself What's the use; ten seconds later, he decided what to do; half a minute later, he walked back to the oneself guest and apologized: "Lord Stark, I'm really sorry, Castle Black has an emergency, please Excuse me for not being able to accompany you any longer, let's go first!"
"master master, I'll go with you!"
"You dare?" Robb glared at Arya and turned his head Nodding towards Igor. "Okay, if you are in a hurry, you can go there first. You can almost see the Wall here. The road is so wide, you can't get lost."
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It's great that the road is so wide. Igor rode on the northernmost section of Kingsroad which oneself ordered to renovate, thankful for oneself's original decision.
The refurbishment of Kingsroad, from north to south from Castle Black, has shortened the time it takes for oneself to travel from Queenscrown to Castle Black by at least two hours... and now he is looking forward to these two. Hours are enough for oneself to save the day.
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With all his horsepower, Igor covered the last few miles in a split second, and appeared in sight of the Castle Black sentry.
"Master Igor is back!"
The door slammed open.
Even if the position was obtained by means of deception, there are not many Night's Watch brothers in the logistics department now, and their influence and prestige are far less than those of other people with the title of chief... But at least Igor There is no objection to being "at the top of Night's Watch", not even the adversary.
He didn't encounter any obstacles, and rode smoothly into the Castle Black yard, which had been unchanged for only two months. Turn over and dismount, hand the reins to oneself's subordinates, take off the windproof coat and throw it on the saddle, a series of actions in one go. Igor, who was standing in the middle of the courtyard, turned around and ordered loudly: "Go to each tower and shout, let all the brothers who are not on duty come to the hall, I have something to say!" He took off his gloves, straightened his collar and rolled up his sleeves, and walked towards the venue of the election.
Flicker, he has become very easy, but this time things can't be solved by flickering. This time, what he has to do is to tear up, slap in the face, and spray people;
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(end of this chapter)