Gendry stared at Jon Clinton, and from the time he came in until now, no matter what he said, Jon Clinton's face never changed.

The only change was in Jon's eyes, when Gendry mentioned giving up the Iron Throne to the Magic Mountain.

Jon Clinton looked at Gendry lightly, his plain face was still as resolute as a rock: "Your Majesty, I am not familiar with Lord Petyr Berish, we have not worked together in the royal family. ”

"Then please judge him based on your impressions. ”

Jon Clinton was silent for a moment: "Lord Petyr Berliss is good at peeking into people's hearts, and he is quick and calculating. ”

"Can he be trusted?"

"Not credible. ”

Gendry looked out the window, and after a while, he said, "It was Littlefinger who always came to tell me that the farmer farms, the hunter hunts, the general leads the army, and the blacksmith strikes iron, and everyone should do things well in their place, and he thinks that I am not worthy to sit on the Iron Throne, and he thinks that my father is the only true king on the Iron Throne." ”

"Oh?" Jon's heart stirred. He felt unusual.

"He told me that if I refused to give up the Iron Throne, he would unite his courtiers to write to me, and if I still didn't listen, the generals of the Clegon would come and persuade me. ”

"What did Lord Petyr say to you personally?"

"Yes. When Littlefinger came back from Dragonstone, he came to tell me that my father wanted me to focus on iron. ”

Jon Clinton's heart jumped at the same time. : What does Gendry imply when the Magic Mountain wants Gendry to focus on striking iron? The answer seems obvious! But can a conspirator like Littlefinger be trusted?

"Your Majesty, do all the important ministers mean this?"

"I'm not sure, maybe!"

"What about the generals?"

"My father was very much loved by the generals. The navy and infantry cavalry, all obey him only by orders. I know the leaders of the more than forty tribes of the Bright Moon Mountains, the leaders of the eight tribes of the Crab Claw Peninsula, and they must have preferred my father to sit on the Iron Throne. ”

Jon Clinton's heart was moving again.

"Your Majesty, how many generals and courtiers of the Baratheon family are there around you?"

"Nope. "I was born out of wedlock, and I didn't know any of my relatives before. The nobles of Stormlands were killed and wounded in the civil war, and when Cersei was regent, the nobles of Stormlands were never used as courtiers and generals in the royal palace. She banished all the courtiers of the Stormlands, leaving only the loyal Sir Baron Swain. ”

"Your Majesty, the family of Baron Swain, the captain of the Kingsguard, has always been a force loyal to House Baratheon. Stonehelm is a vassal of Storm's End. ”

"Lord Jon, I don't know how to get close to the nobles of Stormlands, and I don't want to get close to them, I'm a complete stranger to them. Ever since I sat on the Iron Throne, I have not been able to sleep in the king's bedroom every night. I could only fall asleep after I was exhausted from forging weapons. ”

Jon Clinton looked at Gendry, and he remembered his adopted son, Aegon VI Targaryen.

Aegon didn't want to be king, it was Aegon kept his deepest secret, but Jon raised Aegon as Aegon's adoptive father, and he saw this deep in Aegon's heart. But he thinks it's just that Aegon is young and ignorant, and as long as he is given training, he thinks Aegon will mature.

Before Aegon knew his true identity, he had to learn many things every day, including theology, history, literature, customs, humanities, geography, swordsmanship, horsemanship, bows and arrows, writing, various languages, and many other knowledge. But at the time, Jon didn't know that Aegon had been living a depressed life, and he learned to say what Jon and other teachers liked to hear, and do what teachers liked him to do, in order to gain recognition, praise, and appreciation, and avoid severe punishment.

Later, when Aegon became king, he told Jon that he had been forced to study since he was a child, and that he had never been happy in his heart.

Jon remembered that when he told Aegon his true identity, the look in Aegon's eyes was one of shock and timidity. In the days that followed, he often suspected that he would be assassinated. Maybe it was providence, maybe Aegon had a premonition of his fate, and in the end Aegon actually died in an assassination.

Under the fervent expectations of Jon and others, little Griffin finally became king.

The Golden Regiment, along with Jon Clinton himself, as well as sword teacher Raleigh Duckfield, theology teacher Sister Lemore, and history and humanities teacher Halton, the Bachelor of Racing, all embraced him as king and crossed the Narrow Sea to fight for the Iron Throne.

Jon Clinton's painstaking 'plan' for more than ten years was finally realized, but it soon ushered in the final ending: the Golden Regiment was absorbed and disintegrated by the Magic Mountain, Aegon VI was killed by the Faceless One, and the four teachers who accompanied Aegon grew up, except for Jon Clinton himself, who was persuaded by the Magic Mountain to choose to live, the rest died one by one.

Jon Clinton looked at Gendry, the young blacksmith was an illegitimate child, penniless, uneducated, illiterate, but because of his blood, he was embraced as king by those who needed him, like Aegon VI.

"Your Majesty, you haven't been able to sleep since you became king?"

"Yes, sir. ”

"Does being king confuse you a lot?"

"I can't handle most of the things, and I can't breathe as long as my hammer hand picks up a quill and learns to write. I know that those great nobles also look down on me from the bottom of their bones, and although they are respectful in front of me, I know what is going on in their hearts. It made me irritable and anxious. I can't deal with hypocrites, but the palace is full of hypocritical nobles, shameless liars, flattering flatterers, and their contrivance makes me sick. ”

"Your Majesty, touch your beating heart, do you really want to be king, and if you really want to, then you should study hard and adapt to the people of the palace, instead of going to the blacksmith to forge weapons. ”

"Not really, sir. Gendry shrugged, "Of course, who wouldn't want to be king, I said no, no one would believe me." ”

"I believe it. ”

"Oh, that's how you're different from them. My father said to me that I was upright, honest, glorious, and full of wisdom. ”

"I'm a complete failure, Your Majesty. I have served two generations of kings, the first king was Elise Targaryen, who everyone called him the Mad King, who was killed by the kingkiller Jaime Lannister, and the second was Aegon VI Targaryen, who was my child, and I raised him, and he had another name, Little Griffin, and I was Old Griffin. He had been king for only two months before he died at the hands of the Faceless One. Being a king is indeed not an easy and comfortable thing, and without determination, talent and loyalty, the courtiers and generals must not do well, and even invite death. ”

"Loyal courtiers, I believe in my father. When he was Duke Tywin's general, he knew who I really was, and he took me to the West, making me one of his blacksmiths instead of killing me. When Queen Cersei sent people around to hunt me down, he didn't hand me over. ”

"The Prime Minister has long known that you are Robert's illegitimate child?"

"Yes. In the year 298 of Aegon, before the outbreak of the Civil War, my father knew the secret of my origins. He knew almost everything, and he was like a prophet. ”

Jon was surprised, but his face remained unchanged. The changes in life have long polished Jon Clinton to the point of being moody.

"How could the Prime Minister know the secret of your background before the outbreak of the civil war?"

"Father is the Chosen One, Your Excellency. Lady Melisandre said that her father was the reincarnation of Asoor Ahai. Father killed the Night King in Winterfell, and only the Lightbringer can kill the Night King. ”

Jon Clinton was silent for a long time, and when it came to the field of theology, Jon didn't know a lot, and he feared God and providence. But Littlefinger asked Gendry to abdicate the Iron Throne, and he thought that it was mostly man-made, and that it might be true that the Magic Mountain was the Chosen One, but the Chosen One had to sit on the Iron Throne? No, that's just a beautiful excuse.

Jon said slowly, "Your Majesty, if I were you, I would choose to be a blacksmith instead of a king. ”

“...... Oh......?"

"Your Majesty, I was a captive of Daenerys Targaryen before I returned to the court as a historian, and Her Majesty wanted me to be her prime minister, but I refused. In front of the prime minister, who is above ten thousand people under one person, and the small and insignificant historian, I chose the historian. Now it seems that I was right in my choice and judgment. ”

"I heard my father say that you want to stay in the palace and write the story of Aegon VI into the royal biography. Aegon may be in the blood of Prince Rhaeggar, but he is your only flesh and blood child, and he is your everything. Your life, your soul, your hope. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. However, I chose to be the Prime Minister of Daenerys Targaryen, and I could also write a biography of Aegon VI. I can also ask the bachelor of the old town to write it, and then collect the book in the school, and through the school, the book will be incorporated into the royal history and passed down from generation to generation. The collection of books in the palace is all from the school city. The bachelors in the palace are all in the school city, and they have the privilege of personnel appointment and dismissal. Only I, a historian and a great teacher, became an exception in the war. ”

Jon chose the Historian between the Prime Minister and the Historian, and he said that his choice and judgment were right. This made Gendry stunned!

Did Jon already know that his father could defeat Daenerys with a dragon and capture her?!, or, with Jon's wisdom, he didn't think Daenerys could win.

Gendry decided to tell Jon about his troubles, believing in Jon's integrity and wisdom, and this belief came from his gut feeling: "Lord Jon, I asked my father to sit on the Iron Throne, and he scolded me harshly. I didn't dare to mention it again in front of him, my father was already very angry. I was struck by his anger. ”

The popular saying that impresses me is timid, afraid, and afraid.

"Oh!"

"My lord, if I have to give up to my father, but my father will not accept it, what else can I do?

"Maybe there's a way, Your Majesty. ”

"Convene a meeting of the Imperial Ministers?"

"Your Majesty, the Prime Minister can refuse you to your face, scold you, and scold you, and there is no other important minister in the imperial front that he does not dare to scold. Who dares to stand up and mention this matter at the meeting of the imperial ministers? Who dares to put a crown on him? No one dares to do so, Your Majesty!"

Gendry stammered, who would dare to go against his father's wishes, who wouldn't dare, who would dare the Imperial Ministers, Littlefinger, Bernie Cregan, Rover Spicer, Wagner Garr, Captain Corben, or Baron Swain, the captain of the Kingsguard, who had traditionally revoked the privilege of the captain of the Iron Guard to make any proposal.

"Your Majesty, tonight, your father has warned you sternly, and I don't think you dare to put a crown on him, do you?"

Gendry shrugged his shoulders and smiled wryly, "Yes, sir." I will never again speak of him as king before my father. Father's anger, I don't think there is anyone who is not afraid. ”

"Your Majesty, there may be a way not to make your father angry, and he will never blame you, and at the same time, he will have to accept the crown. ”

"Oh, what's that way, sir!" said Gendry, surprised, with a faint bitterness in his mouth.

Jon Clinton, who was known for his integrity, fortitude and intelligence, was also inclined to give up the Iron Throne, which still gave Gendry a small sense of loss. He had sat on the Iron Throne, and it was very uncomfortable for him, and if he sat on it, he would accidentally cut his skin by the blade of the sword. The throne is full of swords with outward edges, and has also killed several kings who have fallen while walking. But there are also rumors that the kings who were killed by the Iron Throne did not fall, but were pushed down and pierced on the tip of the Iron Throne's sword.

Gendry did not like to sit on the Iron Throne, nor did he want to be king, and he preferred forging weapons to picking up a quill to write letters and issue orders, but the feeling that everyone agreed that he should step down was still not pleasant.

But he also understood that the throne away from the edge of the sword was the most correct choice for him. I understood what Jon told him, 'I chose to be a historian instead of Daenerys' prime minister.

Gendry is not stupid!

But as a king, in such a complicated and troubled world, when the courtiers want him to abdicate the throne, and when the prime minister wants him to strike iron, it is not enough to be just not stupid. Jon Clinton helped Gendry make his choice.

The two of them, in the small quiet room of the historian, talked all night about dawn. Many of these taboo words that cannot be known to outsiders are only known to the two of them, and will always be a secret.

In the dead of winter in 301 A.D., Gendry Baratheon I decided to abdicate the throne, and later history books recorded him as the shortest-reigning king of Westeros.

*

The civil war in Westeros began, and many people declared themselves the rightful kings, and their reigns were not long. Stannis Baratheon I (death), Ranley Baratheon I (death), Joffrey I (death), Shireen Baratheon I (death), King Baron of the Iron Islands (death), Crow-Eyed Eulun (death), Robb Stark I (death), Tomman I (exile), Aegon Targaryen I (death), Daenerys Targaryen I (prisoner of war), and now Gendry Baratheon I, they were kings for a short time.

Among them, only Tomman, Daenerys, and Gendry are still alive. Tomman I went into exile and the throne was gone, Daenerys was a prisoner of war and the throne was gone, and Gendry I was about to abdicate the throne...... The throne is still in jeopardy......

*

As soon as it was daybreak, Gendry left the Historian's Bookstore, and after a night of talking, he understood why he had to give way, and he learned what to do to make both father and son comfortable.