Chapter 305
"Hahaha, North is so monotonous, I want to go to Free City too!" King-Beyond-the-Wall jerked up from the bed and laughed loudly.
"Dalla, you're about to give birth. You'll be lying down in peace in the past few days. What kind of work is there for Val to do?" Mance rubbed the back of his wife's cold and cracked red and swollen hands pitifully. , said softly, "I'm going to convene the tribal leaders for a meeting. After entering the Wall, I'll have more time to accompany you."
As King-Beyond-the-Wall's wife, Dalla Compared with the other women in the camp, there are not many privileges, and they are about to give birth. She has to milk the goat herself, feed the animals, cook for her husband and the Wildlings chief who comes to visit, and even starch the laundry.
A servant?
There are no 'professional servants', Free Folks are not 'Kneelers' and will not kneel before any lord or King.
Val is not a servant either, she is Mance's sister-in-law, biological younger sister of Wildlings Queen Dalla.
But Dalla is still a privileged class, and the other Wildlings struggle every day to fill their stomachs. The Mance family neither farms nor herds and hunts, but they never lack food or drink. They have enough wine and meat, and they just cook by themselves.
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Just as the Night's Watch surrounds the three Jon and asks about the negotiation process, Wildlings robber and Spearwife also surround the dozen or so Magnars to ask all sorts of questions.
Mance Rayder did not drive away the idle people and others, but instead made people clean up an empty muddy field, set up a dozen fires, sat on the ground and stood in the middle of the crowd to explain the "lease agreement".
At the end, he goes back to the predicament Wildlings is currently facing: "I won't lie, that woman is too smart to be tricked. There are two dragons guarding the Wall, trying to break through the Wall almost Impossible.
Even if a group of able-bodied Free Folk taking advantage of the night is lucky enough to enter the North, the vast land will make it difficult for people to escape the pursuit of dragon.
Take ten thousand steps back and say, Some people escaped by hiding in the woods, but there are too few people to take down Lord North's tall castle."
"Mance, do you mean to accept the agreement of the female Dragonlord?" One of the Wildlings asked loudly.
“No,” Mance shook his head in disapproval, “As King-Beyond-the-Wall, my primary responsibility is to lead everyone toward a common goal.
Like this time— —Take the Wall and plunder the North.
If you decide to resist to the end, I will firmly stand on the side of Free Folk and try to lead everyone to find a way to survive.”
One seated The little man on the back of the giant Great White Bear shouted, "Then reject the deal, we will not work with the Queen of the Kneelers."
A large number of Wildlings immediately echoed: "Free Folk does not work with the Southerner lords. Collaborate.”
Mance had expected this to happen.
Ninety-nine percent of Wildlings can only see the scene of a day, and only feel the pain and the horror of life and death when the sword is cut into the flesh.
At this time, the food can last for a few months, and the large forest is enough for logging and heating, so there is no need to worry about keeping warm; although the scene of dragon spewing fire is terrifying, it does not burn people to death. Wildlings has conjectures about the power of dragon, but No deep experience.
As for the Others...Wildlings are indeed afraid of them, but the Others have been with them for more than ten years, even several decades, and the nerves that control pain and fear have long been numb.
Therefore, the full sincerity in Dragon Queen's "Agreement" is completely invisible to the overwhelming majority Wildlings.
Mance looked up at the Wall in the south, and seemed to see the Silver Queen of the Ice Crystal Wall High Level waiting for the final result in the afternoon sun: Actually, you should have let the dragon burn the camp the day before yesterday. In that case, there is no need to change it. The famous "Lend-Lease Agreement" directly proposed the most stringent "Unconditional Surrender Clause", and we will immediately agree.
Then he shook his head and smiled wryly. It was because he saw her benevolence that his determination to resist was so fragile, and he reported her civilized theory and the "Three-Point Loan Agreement" promised to her. with complete trust.
At this point even decided to instigate Wildlings to surrender to her...
"cough cough, Varamyr, you haven't seen Dragon Queen..." paused, Mance pointed to Tormund and other Wildlings Commanders, and said to Sixskins: "You can first listen to the views of the leaders, they all participated in the negotiation in person.
I believe that with the amazing wisdom and rich experience of the brothers , you must be able to distinguish right from wrong."
"Tormund, you say it first."
Tormund hesitated for a moment, then said to Wildlings who looked over: "The Agreement seems to be very good, we have Great bargain."
Cave Dwellers Commander agreed: "You think about it, what if you take North? North has no food! How can you really go to the next continent...beyond the wall Free Folk can live at least half of her life."
Frowned, the leader of Hornfoots: "Only one thing, she offers too good conditions. It seems that she has surrendered to us, she has two dragons! It can't help but feel Makes me wonder, is Essos continent really that rich?"
Uh, the topic slowly shifted from whether to cooperate to how to sign a cooperation agreement.
"There is no doubt about this. I have been to Lys and Pentos when I was young. The other side of the Narrow Sea is sparsely populated and has a warm climate. It is absolutely a good place." road.
He is the seamen tribe of Commander Frozen Shore, who lives across the door from Bear Island in Mormont. He once went to sea with foreign merchants who bought fur, and is considered as an experienced and knowledgeable 'wise man' in Wildlings.
"Did the Essos allow us to take refuge there?" the leader of the Cannibal Tribes wondered.
"Dragon Queen said, she made arrangements," Thenn's Magnar said nonchalantly, "and she has two dragons, our invincible Warrior is not to be trifled with, who dares to refuse? What about refusing?"
"The key lies in the tying of interests!"
Thenn's Magnar slapped and solemnly concluded: "The Treaty is so unfair, we Free Folk took too much advantage, and if one day she suddenly found out that oneself suffered a big loss, ran away on the dragon, and left us floating in the sea, what would be good?"
"Snow, what do you say?" Tormund looked towards him together.
As all Wildlings know, the Thenn are closest to the Southern aristocracy, they have hereditary lords and laws, know how to smelt bronze, and have a refined and disciplined army.
For this reason, Wildlings Commanders agree that Thenn Snow is the most politically intelligent.
Well, speaking of this Thenn man Snow, he actually has a blood feud with Dany!
The Wildlings general who led the Wildlings commando to escape Wall and sneak attack Castle Black that day was the most military-minded Magnar Thenn Styr, Snow's big brother.
Styr didn't die in the rebellion when Dany descended on his dragon.
But when the Queen used the power of dragon to recruit and surrender, Styr was the first to charge over with an axe... uh, the one who was slashed in half by Big Black's tail Unlucky egg.
Because the captive who sent the negotiation letter to Mance knew that Styr was dead, Snow succeeded only yesterday afternoon and became the new Magnar Thenn.
But Snow doesn't plan to seek revenge on Dragon Queen, big brother doesn't die, can he take the throne?
If Dragon Queen didn't have a dragon, he would have shouted a few slogans of "revenge for big brother" in order to win people's hearts. But it's obvious that there is a dragon in the family, and the power of the family can't do anything about her, so it's better to let it go. After all, Styr died on the battlefield, not a conspiracy like Red Wedding.
Thenn Snow glanced at the Wildlings King and said bluntly: "Mance's mission has been completed, maybe, we can choose a new king."
Tormund was furious: "What did you say, just like you, you still want to be king?"
Mance Rayder's eyes pupil shrank, and the cold glow flashed in his eyes.
"It's not that I want to be king!" Snow quickly waved his hand and explained, "It's Dragon Queen...By the way, how many names does that Daenerys have?"
Mance Rayder's mouth curled into a smile, his eyes became gentle again, and he said thoughtfully: "Princess of Dragonstone, Stormborn, Silver Queen, Mother of Dragons, Slaver's Bay Queen, Khaleesi, Dragon Queen, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men - she oneself denied this."
Snow's eyes flashed, and he said with a low smile: "With so many names, it's better to have one more 'King-Within-the Wall'."
"King-Within-the Wall? What?" said the old seaman blankly.
"Whether we agree to the "Agreement" or not, Free Folk wants to escape beyond the wall, so we become within the wall Free Folk, right?"
"Uh ..."
"King-Beyond-the-Wall is Mance, that won't change. But when it comes to within the wall, it's better to invite the Dragon Queen to be the within the wall Wildlings King."
"How is this possible? Free Folk is never a slave!" the Wildlings exclaimed.
Varamyr Sixskins was extremely angry, and said sharply: "I don't agree with the "Agreement", and I will not support a southerner as our king."
"Don't get excited, we have to Compensate Dragon Queen!" Thenn Snow glanced at Sixskins and said proudly: "Varamyr, we only go south for winter. But when winter is over, we all return to our hometown beyond the wall, what's the point of King-Within-the Wall? "
"This..." Tormund's cheek muscles twisted. "Wouldn't this be too shameless?"
"We are Wildlings!" Thenn Snow as it should be by rights.
"I don't work with the Queen of the South, and I don't agree with the "Protocol"." Sixskins stubbornly said, stubbornly.
A group of Wildlings robbers followed yelled: "Yes, we are robbers, we don't farm, we don't keep Wall, we're going to rob the weak in the south."
Tormund glared They glanced at Sixskins: "Varamyr, you're a Skinchanger, a powerful animal companion who doesn't worry about food and who can run away before the Others come.
You have no family, no clan. People, one person is alive, the whole family is alive, but we are different from you.
You go to the camp, how many old and weak women and children, are they deprived of their last chance to survive because of the unfathomable mystery?"
The noisy Wildlings fell silent, some were at a loss, some became hesitant, and some began to think about the future of the oneself tribe.
"Is there really no way to take the Wall?" Some Wildlings asked reluctantly.
Mance pointed at Varamyr and said, "In Free Folk, he is the strongest person, and he should answer this question."
"I..." Sixskins grayed out A look of embarrassment flashed across his old face, "I, I don't know."
"It's better than this," Mance thought for a while, "We based on the principle of voluntariness, Free Folks with families can form a large group. Tribe, sign a "lease agreement" with Dragon Queen; those who feel that they can support oneself and their families can continue to stay in beyond the wall.
Those who stay in beyond the wall can't survive, they can look for more The Dragon Queen signs a contract, and can also turn over the Wall and go to the North to plunder for a living according to oneself's ideas."
"You want to split Free Folk?" Varamyr said incredulously.
"We never unified." Mance smiled wryly.