After more than ten years, I saw Baron again. When Greyjoy, the king of the Iron Islands who had rebelled, Lan Li noticed that the other party was obviously too old.

Dressed in a simple black seal fur suit, with long gray hair and wrinkles on his rough cheeks, he looked like he had worked all day.

"I apologize for my ignorance, great son of the drowning gods, and I beg your forgiveness."

He also knelt on the ground, his head bowed deeply in front of Lan Li.

Baron didn't say the specific reason, and seemed to think that Lan Li could know without explanation, and Lan Li did guess some, but he didn't know the specific situation.

But at the moment, he didn't debunk his thoughts.

"All men are ignorant and small in the sight of God." Lan Li replied pretendingly, "So I don't care about your ignorance and offense, get up, let's get down to business." ”

Being in the other party's territory, sitting in the other party's house, he was like a master meeting a slave, which made Lan Li feel a little awkward-

Unlike ten years ago, this Baron has to be too respectful at this time.

However, there have been a lot of awkward things during this time, and he has actually adapted to it, and the person in front of him also did not show anything abnormal, but stood up.

"When do you want us to send troops?" Baron asked straight to the point.

"The sooner nature is, the better."

Baron pursed his lips when he heard this, and did not say anything against it, but mentioned another thing, "Mortals cannot fathom the wisdom of the gods, but with all due respect, Lord Miko, where is the way out for the Iron Islands?" ”

"The way out has already been told to you." Lan Li replied.

The other party smiled bitterly when he heard this, "Is that really the way out?" Our Ancient Path—"

"The ancient way is just the way to die." Lan Li interrupted him, "There will be a day when the chaos will end, Westeros has been unified, and the survival soil of the ancient path will become less and less, and eventually dissipate completely." ”

Baron didn't speak, but fell silent.

"The Iron Islands are very strong at sea, and there are many points you can take advantage of."

Lan Li said patiently: "For example, there is a lot of timber in the north, but there is a lack of food in winter. The Iron Islands are not far from the North, and you can trade fish for timber, or buy and sell the resources you want in the North. For example, if you buy food in Old Town and sell it to the North, the price can be doubled, and if you can make up your mind to trade on a long voyage, you can get ten times as much money. But if you don't seize this opportunity now, it will be gone by the time Westeros' sea power surpasses that of the Iron Isles. ”

Baron sighed.

Ten years ago, the man in front of him said something similar, and he felt that it made sense at that time, but when it was actually implemented, it didn't have much effect.

Without him, the "popularity" of the Iron Islands is very poor.

Whether it is the north, the riverlands, or the west and the river bays, the territories across the sea from the Iron Islands belong to the feud of the Iron Islands, and that hatred has been accumulated over thousands of years, and it cannot be resolved in a short time.

The Iron Min's reputation has become stinky, and no matter what they say or do, the first reaction of the people of Westeros when they see the Iron People is a bandit, not a kind.

There are even more hundred disbeliefs about Tiemin's words about doing business.

Baron's father's goal was to fit into the "big family" of Westeros, and to do so, he hired a bachelor and responded positively to the Iron Throne, but it didn't work much.

This is also the reason why Baron has been thinking about restoring the ancient road all day long, because the Iron Islands have long been excluded from Westeros, and the two sides are already at odds with each other.

So when he found that it didn't work, he simply stopped doing this kind of useless work, and instead began to accumulate strength, ready to take advantage of the next turmoil in Westeros.

However, the appearance of the person in front of him completely disrupted his thoughts. Baron was helpless about this, but he couldn't afford to resist at all.

Lan Li could feel the other party's complicated feelings, but he was very unimpressed with this.

The person in front of him is actually very smart, but Lan Li found that he had been too affected by the seed of the ancient road, and he had no other ideas in his mind except the ancient road, and he was also impatient, so he wanted to make quick money by robbing him, but he didn't want to engage in "infrastructure" in a down-to-earth manner.

This made Lan Li wonder if he was talking nonsense by saying so much now.

But it doesn't matter, at least, he has completed the mission of this trip to the Iron Islands, and the other party is very reluctant, but he has no intention of resisting.

"The current war conflict site is the interriver land, and the interriver land has the Sancha River, if the Iron Islands participate in the war, using the Sancha River to swim between the rivers is the best choice." Lan Li changed the subject.

"The lords of the Riverlands won't let us come closer." Baron shook his head.

"I'll negotiate with them." Lan Li replied, "Whether to make the Iron Islands an ally, or to wait for the territory to be swallowed up by outsiders, I think they will make a wise choice." ”

Three hundred years ago, the Iron People ruled the Riverlands, and their rule relied on the Sancha River in the Riverlands, which spread across the entire river, and at that time, the Iron People's longships came and went freely, and the knight army on the shore was completely helpless against them.

There are now two main battlefields, one is between the rivers and the other is the sea east of Westeros. The Iron Folk are located in the West Sea of Westeros, and they can't afford to go around the entire continent to fight a naval battle after entering the war, so going into the hinterland and wandering through the rivers is their best choice.

This kind of play will make many people scruples, after all, the iron people used to rely on the Sancha River to control the entire river, in case they don't leave after this battle, it will be a headache for many people.

However, Lan Li doesn't have any concerns about this, he doesn't care what happens in the future, the most important thing at the moment is to win this battle, and even if the Iron Islands "can't fall off" after the war, it's just a matter of the riverland-

The Tully family already had a weak grip on the Riverlands, so why not replace them with the Iron Islands, which were more supportive of him?

Of course, there are many problems in this, such as the marriage relationship between the Tully family and the Vale and the North, such as the poor popularity of the Iron People, etc., and if you think about it deeply, it is impossible for the entire Westeros to let the Iron People reoccupy the River.

But apparently Baron was very interested in Lan Li's proposal, he had thought that this man wanted to let the fleet of the Iron Islands travel a long way to fight a naval battle, but he didn't think that Lan Li would "lure the wolf into the room", and he was really surprised by this.

However, the matter has only been lip service so far, and it is difficult for anyone to say what the specific situation will be, but Lan Li believes that the people of the Riverlands will choose to accept the aid of the Iron Islands, just because they have been crippled there.

After a long conversation, Baron bowed and retired.

After a while, Lan Lifu talked with the lords of the Iron Islands a few more times, and finally finalized the plan of the expedition.

Less than a month after arriving in the Iron Islands, the Iron Folk swarmed in the direction of Westeros with a large number of ships.