Chapter 306
Mance made a huge mistake that Dany and Night's Watch didn't see at the time.
In the morning, Magnar from the Wildlings tribe met with Night's Watch and Dany. At noon, Mance worked hard to promote the "Tripartite Leasing Agreement" in Wildlings on the premise of protecting himself.
Because of Tormund, Snow and many other Magnars...whether they are overwhelmed by Dany's Queen, or convinced by her personal charm, or seduced by her promised benefits, or their relationship with Mance Likewise, there is enough reason and wisdom to recognize the sincerity of Queen Your Majesty in making the treaty with her...
In short, those Magnars are mostly in favor of signing the Agreement.
Therefore, Mance's promotion effect is very good.
At least 1/4/2022 Wildlings were moved on the spot, another 1/4/2022 was firmly opposed, and the remaining half were at a loss, ready to follow the flow as a "big current" .
Therefore, Mance made a 'free choice' decision: Free Folk can freely choose whether to agree to Dragon Queen's conditions and go to the south for the winter; or rely on oneself's ability to cross the Wall and plunder North.
He is totally out of good intentions, splitting beyond the wall Wildlings, weeding out robbers who don't obey discipline, and letting more Wildlings survive.
This is also extremely beneficial to Queen and Night's Watch. Those who pass the Wall are "obedient to the people", which is more convenient to manage and reduces the probability of conflicts between Wildlings and North people in the future.
So when Tormund came under the city gate with this "revised clause" and told Dany and Night's Watch, they agreed immediately.
Then Jon and Barristan came to Wildlings camp with a parchment as representatives of Night's Watch and Targaryen respectively.
The parchment contains the full amount of the Tripartite Leasing Agreement, two formal treaties, and a revised treaty proposed by Mance - Wildlings can freely choose to become 'within the wall Wildlings' in batches, Dragon Queen and Night's Watch must comply with the first two articles of the Agreement and treat all Wildlings equally.
—This is Mance's effort to defuse the enmity between the Wildlings and the Southerners, his promise to the Wildlings at the noon Wildlings chiefs meeting: "It is all voluntary. . . Those who are in the beyond the wall can't stand it anymore, they can sign a contract with the Dragon Queen again."
Simply put, the Amendment Clause 3 of the "Agreement" changed the "one-time surrender of honors" into a Become an "immigrant", sign the surrender of the "Agreement", and become an immigrant visa.
Dany thought to himself: To transport nearly 100,000 people to the other side of the Narrow Sea at one time, it would take too many ships and the amount of work would be too large. If Wildlings came in batches and she delivered them in batches, then Definitely easier.
Night's Watch also thought: receiving tens of thousands of Wildlings at one time, what happened, hundreds of Night's Watch can't be managed completely, it's better to tame them in batches, if you encounter problems, you can also control them Work out slowly.
Mance thought: Instead of arguing and possibly even causing infighting among the Wildlings, it's better to split the Wildlings, willing to live, and the diehards to die. First of all, the divided Wildlings will reduce the Southerners' wariness of the oneself and the Wildlings. After all, the Wildlings united under the King-Beyond-the-Wall will be feared, and the scattered Wildlings tribe is never regarded as a threat by the southern lords; Secondly, he really can't think of a second way to survive other than surrendering the Dragon Queen, there are dragons!
But none of the three of them considered the idea of being a "trickster".
Wildlings are all bad guys.
Diao Min thought to himself: I don't know Dragon Queen, although the bosses all recognize her reputation, but in case... it's better to let others "immigrate" first, my family still has Food has been stored for several months, and there are still more than three months before the official end of autumn. After the first batch of "immigrants" are settled in the south, I will decide whether to "immigrate" according to the situation. After all, one's life is one's own, and there is only one life. If the life of "immigrants" is more difficult than it is now, then I... Anyway, the conditions offered by Dragon Queen are to move early | it's the same.
So, Jon, Barristan, Mance, who stood behind the wooden table in the open square of the Wildlings camp, waiting for the Wildlings tribe to come forward to sign and sign, are stupid.
Under the setting sun, the three of Jon stared blankly at the Wildlings. Hundreds of Wildlings were around, blue, gray, black, and brown eyes blinking, like one after another innocent little star Yes, staring blankly at the three of them.
Barristan glanced at Mance complainingly: How can I arrange several trustees? For this trick, you're still King-Beyond-the-Wall.
Seeing to understand the meaning in the eyes of the old Knight, Mance touched his nose and said embarrassedly: "Tormund, you were the most active before, and you have always recognized the "Three-Party Rental Agreement", come and sign it!"
>Tormund gave him an innocent look and replied: "I have four sons and one daughter, a large family, and Ruddy Hall, thousands of clansman..."
Barristan said angrily: "Your Majesty and Night's Watch promise your safety! And Your Majesty swore to The Seven and all the Old Gods in front of you, the Tripartite Leasing Agreement is a sacred oath, you should understand the sacred oath The meaning of it."
"Yes, we all understand the meaning of the sacred oath and the guest right." Sixskins stood on the white bear's back and taunted loudly: "King in the North Robb Stark has broken the sacred oath, The southern lord trampled on the guest right in the Red Wedding, and the Night's Watch killed the Craster who entertained them at the Craster's house.
hehe, King, the lord, and the Night's Watch are all dishonest people, why should we Do you want to believe you?"
Mance gave Skinchanger a blank look and said solemnly: "The day before yesterday, when we stormed the Wall city gate, that woman flew over our heads on a dragon, and could burn us. the tent, the people, the livestock, the food.
But she didn't, the dragon dropped the terrifying Dragonflame, but the mud, the snowdrifts, and the soldiers' trees in the woods.
Just down She can easily disintegrate our team and help Westeros solve the crisis of Free Folk's southern invasion.
But she chose to negotiate, the most complicated, time-consuming, energy-consuming and money-consuming one. Ways to help us through the cold winter and avoid the invasion of Others.
I think this behavior of hers can be called 'benevolence', Varamyr, what kind of person do you think she is?"
“Soft-hearted cowardly woman!” Sixskins laughed heartily.
Mance saw that many Wildlings were nodded to agree, and could not help but think of a question sadly again: is beyond the wall Free Folk really a civilization that should be eliminated?
Barristan twitches at the corners of his mouth, who has been said a lot by the Dragon Queen's enemies, but never "cowardly" and "soft-hearted."
"Ghis, Volantene, Lys, Qartheen...the overwhelming majority of the world will laugh when they hear your words." He said to Skinchanger with a blank face.
Mance said: "Varamyr, you at least admit she's 'soft hearted'. A soft hearted person wouldn't trick you into entering the Wall and let the dragon eat you, right?"
"hmph, Mance, have you forgotten that for Free Folk, being bound and enslaved is far more terrifying than death." Sixskins retorted.
"That's because you haven't experienced the terrifying of hunger and cold, you never worry about eating and drinking, but we all know that existing food can't feed all Wildlings..." Saying this, Mance stopped abruptly as some of the Wildlings robber looked towards him with a change in their eyes, full of suspicion and viciousness.
"Do whatever you want, it's all of your own free will."
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, and a Wildlings tribe who volunteered to be Little White rats did not appear, Tormund was anxious, and he took a few clan leaders to discuss it for a while.
Finally, a group of widows who lost their husbands but had young children to support were selected from their tribes, and together with orphans under ten years old, they formed a group of "orphans and widows", about 1,000. people.
These people are a complete burden to the Wildlings tribe, and they are not afraid to sacrifice. Likewise, Night's Watch can safely accept them.
Ten Spearwife holding the child as representatives, pressed the bloody handprint on the "Three-Party Rental Agreement".
Well, slashed the thumb with a knife, leaving a mark on the snow-white parchment roll, alongside the signatures of Dany and more than a dozen Night's Watch executives.
The Holy Covenant is fulfilled.
"within the wall Wildlings" left the camp beyond the wall Wildlings that night, and Spearwife pushed the sleigh and followed Night's Watch down the city wall.
The car was piled with moldy fur, tattered tents, dirty sleeping bags, a few meat bones, a small bag of barley, and one or a few babies crawling around.
There were also hundreds of blank-looking boys and girls in ragged clothes, holding hands, stretching the line very long.
"Woo-" This time, when the Wildlings came, the horn on the city wall representing the return of the Night's Watch brother, only sounded once.
But not all within the wall Wildlings go into the Wall.
Some people choose to rent oneself to Night's Watch, some are willing to rent Night's Watch's land for farming, and some people believe in Queen riding a fire-breathing dragon.
Tall boys are picked by Night's Watch to become new Night's Watch seeds, or to do chores for Night's Watch. Little girls without parents can't farm or stay in Castle Black, and can only follow "King-Within-the Wall" to the other side of the Narrow Sea to ask for a living.
Well, the Wildlings who are taking refuge with Dany can't get into the Wall, they'll go east along the Wall to Eastwatch, which is 250 kilometers away.
Because there are too many Wildlings, close to 140,000, there is no doubt that there are at least 100,000 people who follow Dany across the sea - Night's Watch can't wait for all Wildlings to follow her.
Night's Watch is too small to manage 100,000 people.
People are unpredictable. If Wildlings suddenly changes his mind after entering the Wall, he doesn't want to risk crossing the sea, and instead robs North - Dany can only kill, but he will definitely not finish.
Leave tens of thousands of remnants to rush into North, then she will turn from a hero to a sinner of Westeros through the ages.
"Sinners through the ages" or something, Dany is not afraid, anyway, the history books are written by her.
But she doesn't want to be a loser!
The best thing to do is not to test human nature and not give the Wildlings a chance to riot. Out of Wall, they couldn't have any disagreements.
As a result, the Wildlings who got the Essos account all camped under the Wall root. In the afternoon, the Wildlings cut down the forest and brought a large amount of wood to build the second Wildlings camp - "within the wall Wildlings". camp.
Wildlings live in the new camp first, and when the cumulative number reaches 5,000, they start their collective eastward journey.
Night's Watch was busy in the middle of the night, accepting a total of 147 boys who acted as little Night's Watch and 183 Spearwife with children.
Spearwife will take their baby to Night's Watch to farm and hunt.
Second day early in the morning, Jon and Barristan came to Wildlings camp again, guarding the table as immigration officers.
But not long after they sat down, the rushing charge horn suddenly sounded in the east...