Chapter 530
2021-01-06
Chapter 530 IntrigueIt is easy to make room for hundreds of Unsullied, but it is big to meet two dragons project. Fortunately, the guards and servants in Winterfell are all guest appearances by Igor's men. It's not oneself's home that doesn't feel distressed. . Once the people, horses, dragons and supplies were settled in place, even the open space in Godswood and the old castle where James and Cersei had an affair were packed.
As a result, the reason Igor used to refuse Bolton's army to enter the city "lack of space" turned out to be true. Not only did the elite of Terror Fort continue to be stationed outside the city, but even the land-grant army was forced to select thousands of unlucky people. Egg, whisperingly headed to camp outside the wall.
After a long busy day, the Queen's Guards completed the operation of entering the castle, and finally freed up Daenerys to hold a simple informal meeting in the temporarily requisitioned Winterfell hall compartment to discuss next course of action.
Based on simple trust considerations, the meeting did not involve the two North nobles who had just surrendered.
Taking the second seat on the right hand of the first Queen, Igor glanced at the people present: Littlefinger, as the Hand of the Queen, naturally sat on the first seat to his left, and Varys as the Master of Whisperers and the old man who joined him for a year sat alone opposite... Missandei stood behind Daenerys, and the other half of Queen's royal front was thousands of miles away on the southern front of King's Landing. To be honest, even only half a year ago, he never imagined that oneself would one day sit at the same table with this group to discuss the major event.
Politics, this is a completely different field than Wall and Others, where the living are far more terrifying than the dead. From Lord Commander of the Night's Watch suddenly turned into one of the Queen's vassals and one of the frontiers, Igor is like a man-machine little Prince who skips the matching practice and goes straight to the professional league. It is false to say that he is not nervous. But behind a small amount of negative emotions, there is more excitement and pride in the rise in the mind.
He may not have the same skills as the other two veteran players, but he has a strong army, and after brainwashing the Queen, she has the trust and reliance of her, and he also holds things that no one understands and is difficult to grasp. The trump card - these major advantages are completely enough to make up for their own shortcomings in power struggle methods and experience.
......
"Good ability, Lord Commander." As soon as Varys's butt touched the seat, he said with admiration in a tone of admiration, "I won Winterfell overnight. , and successfully forced the most stubborn opponents to bring North to profess allegiance to Your Majesty. The ability, brains and eloquence displayed by these two things are enough for Maester to write repeatedly when compiling the "True Dragon Dynasty Chronicle" in the future. I'll give you your name."
Although flattering and complimenting, this remark made Igor extremely upset: whether it was intended or not, Varys was actually reminding Daenerys: "House Stark is not acknowledging allegiance. , dubious loyalty”—and every hint of this side-scrolling adds to Queen’s distaste for the Wolf Family. This kind of change in favorability will not have immediate consequences in a short period of time, but in the long run, a certain threshold of breakthrough will be accumulated one day, and finally when the fuse appears, the situation will change to one that is not in line with oneself's interests or expectations. direction development.
This kind of slander is much more brilliant than telling Daenerys "Stark untrustworthy" directly, and even if you can hear it, there is no perfect way to deal with it.
"Lord Varys has won the prize. I can't talk about my ability and brain. I'm just good at 'using truth to persuade people'." Igor didn't understand what eunuch was thinking for a while, but he didn't dare to put it. Daenerys, being a fool, doesn't deny that House Stark didn't take the initiative to open the city gates - just, as usual, slightly embellished the facts: "Happily, Duke Stark is a very reasonable person, This saves us a lot of effort."
Of course, a group of natives of this world couldn't hear what kind of meme he was playing just now, and Igor really didn't spend much saliva in persuading Winterfell to surrender and become a vassal. ——The formidable power of not recognizing one's family and Catelyn's persuasion as mother is much better than his "Night's Watch traitor" eloquence.
"Your Majesty has reasons to dislike House Stark, but I swear to Gods in the sky that the descendants of the First Men have their bottom line on their oath." Night's Watch tone barely fell, and Petyr Baelish jumped in a hurry. "The good news is that Winterfell is in Your Majesty's hands right now, you don't have to worry about trusting them, you just need to be careful not to let things get out of hand, so that they don't have a chance to act even if they don't want to, you can take the entire North Hold it firmly in your hand... When the world is at peace, no matter how reluctant the North people are, they can only be your loyal ministers obediently and honestly!"
Igor narrowed his eyes, slightly in his heart. Relax: There is no perfect solution to "slandering", and it can only be neutralized with diametrically opposed "beautiful words"... In the case that oneself wants to protect House Stark, it is no longer suitable to say good words. , it would be nice to have someone speak on their behalf. Littlefinger was an adopted son in the Tully family and had a close relationship with Catelyn who is now Lady Stark for many years. Naturally, like Igor, he hopes to keep the Wolf Family and use it as his own political resource in the future, which leads to a very funny situation: although Igor Rather than have no personal friendship or even hostility to him, they secretly stumbled upon him, but now, they have common interests without any communication and become natural allies.
It's really Impermanence.
"Okay, stop talking about House Stark." Daenerys can certainly feel that oneself's subordinates are trying to sway oneself's thoughts on this matter, but compared to House Stark's treatment of her in the end Whether she is loyal or not, she obviously wants to do business first - frowned, Queen said with displeasure: "North has acknowledged allegiance and publicly supported me, and I can't expect more from this group of people who I once decided must be the enemy. , let's discuss and discuss what to do next."
"Naturally, it is to rectify the troops and order Stark to convene the North army to complete the preparations as soon as possible and march south." Igor answered quickly, "Winter I don't know when it will end, but what is certain is that the weather is slightly better now than a few days ago. If you don't take advantage of this time window to quickly leave the northern region where the winter is the most severe and harsh, once the temperature turns cold again, you will even come to the next game. In the snowstorm, we are bound to be trapped in the embarrassing situation of unable to move even a little bit. Winterfell has enough food and grass to worry about starvation. ...is the most deadly threat!"
"Lord Igor's words are reasonable, time is precious, and you should cherish it." Varys nodded and said yes, but then he said again: "But, hurry up and hurry up. , but you have to take each step steadily. I have no doubts about the seriousness of House Stark's oath, but how many nobles in the North, who can guarantee that bannermen can also attach importance to honor like a monarch? During the war, every North noble helped to overthrow Your Majesty's father and brother's dynasty, if they still insisted that Your Majesty was insane - your father's daughter, or for their relatives who died during the war What about Your Majesty?"
"We don't need, and are impossible, every North noble to raise troops to support us! Just leave enough soldiers to hold Winterfell in the palm of your hand. , encircling Robb and House Stark's army south, the Lord of North has openly supported us, even if his bannermen do not respond to the call to send troops south, they will never raise troops to rebel against the emperor and disrupt their own territory. And that's enough!"
Igor closed his open mouth and looked at Littlefinger in surprise - he had also I want to answer like this. I was used to being the head of stand by one's word in the land-grant, and suddenly came back to experience the taste of being robbed... It's really weird. Seeing that Littlefinger's opposition to eunuch's views was so active and rapid, it seems that the competition between the two Queen's important ministers ... for "influencing Daenerys' ability to think" is still quite fierce.
I don't know if the two have different opinions. Is it really out of their own considerations, or is it just to oppose each other and want more?
Before I could think about it, Igor scoured his stomach as fast as he could after the original lines were robbed, and put together some arguments, and took a clear stand: "North is at a fierce battle with the Iron Islands, and I can't fully spare my hands. , even more how in the winter when food is tight, a huge army will make logistics a disaster. My suggestion is that as long as a few big nobles who can be named in Westeros can symbolically send troops to support, plus the Stark army to make up Two or three thousand to accompany you to join the southern expedition is more than enough. As Lord Varys said, North has a grudge against Your Majesty... The Land Granters, Unsullied and Your Majesty's newly built freemen Legion are quite impressive. Instead of forcing the northerners to recruit troops with low morale as a burden, it is better to ask them to provide more food, grass and armaments!"
The soldiers and officers are not counting the number of soldiers and officers, and Grey Worm and other members of the imperial army are far away. In the southern Crownlands, in this Winterfell, Daenerys will listen and care only about the four people in this house - among them Missandei is only loyal to the hostess and obviously has no intention of standing in line, that oneself + Littlefinger and Varys... The ratio of 2 to 1 is appropriate. Take the upper hand. Seeing Queen's looked thoughtful expression, for a moment, Igor felt that the topic about North could come to an end.
But Varys was only stunned for two seconds, then narrowed his eyes and had something to say.
"Indeed, if Your Majesty just wants to take back the throne, then of course you have to hurry up and kill the King's Landing. But don't forget, your goal is to unify the Seven Kingdoms and bring benefits to the people. A more stable and happier life, North is also a part of Your Majesty kingdom. As your first stop, if you just squeeze out supplies and force recruiters to rush to the next stop, wouldn't you be repeating Slaver's What happened at Bay? Your Majesty forgot what kind of chaos Astapor and Yunkai were in after you left, and what kind of suffering and torture the people suffered?"
Oops, let this old eunuch get the moral first High ground!
Igor himself is quite good at this, and naturally saw through Varys' trick at a glance, but he originally thought that this impromptu meeting was a private exchange between the Queen and her loyal subjects to discuss how to win the Seven Kingdoms , they don't need to be hypocritical to each other with benevolence, righteousness, and morality, but only need to seek truth from facts... Who would have thought that there would be a troublemaker in the front, The Spider, such a smart person, would have such an obvious stake. , was beaten completely unprepared by accident!
North and Slaver's Bay, what do they have in common and how can they be confused? Astapor and Yunkai became a mess after Daenerys left, because she wiped out the original ruling class and destroyed the original social structure without establishing new rules, but North is no second except the Umber family collapsed by the ghouls. The aristocratic family perishes... Robb, the head of the family, is safe and sound. Even if several families who are loyal to him know that his allegiance to the Queen is forced, they will at most hide in the castle and refuse to fight for the restoration of Targaryen - even if there is chaos , where can the mess go?
…
Igor and Petyr are bystanders and want to understand this effortless, but Daenerys is the party who suffers from the inner torment. In the moment of refuting Varys, Queen's mind has replayed the two hells created by her mistakes in Slaver's Bay. The tragedy of countless family broken and people lost is still vivid in my mind. In front of her eyes, a strong sense of guilt and guilt converged, and all her objective reason and judgment ability flew to the Lands of Always Winter.
"Your Majesty, it's two different things..."
"Okay!" Daenerys interrupted Littlefinger's anxious response, his eyes suddenly hardened, "Varys said nothing. Wrong, North is also a part of my kingdom, I will not make the same mistake again, simply plundering supplies and recruiting troops and rushing to the next station. I will spend a little time here, listening to the voices of the nobles and understanding the suffering of the people, When all the nobles and commoners in the North recognize my rule, recognize my identity, and are willing to support my ideals, then go to conquer the next place."
Then you probably have to spring or even summer. ...Is there a mistake, you are also caught in this low-level moral kidnapping! ? Igor stared wide-eyed, he originally thought that 2 to 1 was enough for the minority to obey the majority, but he forgot that the Queen itself existed in this room, and even more unexpected: Varys only had a light word...and made his monarch become The biggest obstacle to the oneself plan.
I wanted to argue again, but I thought that oneself had just joined the company for a long time, and the qualifications were not enough to speak, and just used oneself's "face" to make Queen accept Stark's pledge of allegiance...
He was hesitant and embarrassed, always doing whatever he thought of on a whim, Daenerys... Even the detailed order has been issued.
"Petyr, you try to get in touch with Grey Worm as soon as possible and tell them to slow down and target King's Landing for now, to preserve strength as a priority. Varys and Igor, one of you is well informed, the other with North Familiar people - contact the nobles and local residents, and report in detail their thoughts and mentality of the mission, and I will give it to you."
——
(this chapter end)