242 Severe punishment
In fact, while the change of commander of the capital garrison caused a slight upheaval in King's Landing, it wasn't a big deal in Westeros as a whole.
Recently, the Seven Kingdoms, if you want to talk about big news, it must be the Frey family in the Riverlands-
The Frey family, one of the most powerful families in the Riverlands, is now dead in name!
In other words, the Twin Rivers City, where the Frey family lives, is currently empty and completely deserted, and none of the Frey family members have ever shown up again!
The news came from Haijiang City, the closest city to Twin River City, and the entire Imperial Council was in an uproar because they hadn't heard anything about it before.
In other words, the news I heard was just the unclear death of the old Marquis Frey, but I didn't want this second news to be that the entire Frey family had disappeared!
Why is this happening?
No one could know, neither did Lan Li, but he thought there must be something special going on.
This matter could not be mixed with the Iron Throne, because they could not cross the feudal monarch of the Riverlands and the Tuli family rashly sent people to investigate, but Lan Li personally did not have so many concerns, so he found this ancient man.
And although they were not completely loyal to Lan Li, the ancients at this time were basically tied to Lan Li, and Lan Li made such a request, and they naturally would not refuse.
So when the new commander of the capital garrison took office, a group of more than a dozen civilian investigators broke away from the flea nest in the slums of King's Landing and hurried towards the river.
King's Landing ensued, and chaos ensued.
Samwell, the new commander of the garrison, had been working with a group of wool agents in the city, but when he took office, he quickly dissociated himself from the merchants, which was nothing on his own, at most the wool merchants were secretly annoyed by it, but then an order issued by the new commander quickly caused turmoil in the entire garrison -
The new commander decided to make the members of the entire garrison take turns to train intensively.
As an organization similar to the combination of police and city defense soldiers, the members of the capital garrison naturally need to train for a long time, but in the past, because they belonged to different forces, they had always been trained separately by their respective captains on their "own turf".
Now that we are gathered together, don't we say whether there is any "conspiracy" in it, and just a few things on the surface are enough to bring chaos.
The intricate composition of forces makes the garrison not monolithic, and even many have mutual grudges, and the result of unified training is the unity of training intensity, which is simply unbearable for most people who are messing around.
Therefore, on the day of the execution of this order, many people expressed dissatisfaction and resistance, and even turned around and left despite the order.
In this regard, the new commander of the garrison, nicknamed the Barbarian, was not polite in the slightest, and all those who flagrantly disobeyed the order were cleared from the garrison, regardless of the force or number of people.
This quickly provoked a backlash, and when the Imperial Council convened the next day, there were so many papers for "impeachment" of the new commander of the garrison that there was a large stack.
Several important ministers thought that it was extremely unqualified for the new commander of the garrison to start fooling around after taking office, and they thought that it was necessary to replace him.
The loudest shouting was that of Chancellor of the Exchequer Mays. Tyrrell, however, Lan Li, who has kept a low profile since taking office, did not give this "own person" the slightest face, and directly scolded him back, and even claimed that the garrison was no longer the king's garrison, but the garrison of a group of careerists.
As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the entire Imperial Council Hall became very silent, and everyone obviously did not expect Lan Li to say such a direct "table-lifting" speech, and even the king himself was very troubled by this.
Apparently Robert was not unaware of this, or rather, as a Baratheon dynasty founded on the support of various forces, it was clearly different from the previous Targaryens.
However, in the end, it was Lan Li's "victory", because in any case, it was true that those who had been cleared out of the garrison had openly disobeyed the orders of their superiors, and at the same time, the order of the new commander to concentrate on training was not so unreasonable.
But he was not really a victory, because Lan Li then secretly contacted those who were dissatisfied with him, including some middle and high-ranking officials, including wealthy merchants in the city, and asked them to send men to fill their "vacancies" in the garrison.
In this way, many of the tense relationships that were strained by this incident eased somewhat. And the forces of all sides no longer oppose the new commander's centralized training directive.
As a result, this order basically gained a foothold in King's Landing, and the team of nearly 6,000 people took turns to be on duty at their respective posts, and they also had to take turns to concentrate on several areas to train.
Then the true purpose of this directive was revealed.
High-intensity training is nothing for some elites, but for most of the bastards in the garrison, it's like seven layers of hell.
So after a few days of training, there were protests.
However, based on the last incident, these people's protests did not gain any support, or in other words, as long as Lan Li no longer touched the "cake" of various forces, then no one would mix this kind of thing again, after all, the facts have proven that the young Minister of Justice is a guy who is not easy to mess with.
At the same time, most of the bastards who eat empty salaries actually have no backing behind them, or at most the support is just some management class in the garrison, which exists a lot, but it can basically be ignored for Lan Li.
However, he could ignore the fact that the new barbarian Samwell could not ignore their existence, or rather, some people who had long been accustomed to the corrupt life of the past had long since become extremely disgusted with the new commander.
So on one of their way home, the barbarians were attacked by a large group of disguised men.
Despite his skills, despite having many descendants by his side, he was still seriously injured by the existence of this nicknamed barbarian, and even if it wasn't for the desperate protection of his subordinates, he wouldn't have seen the sun the next day.
As soon as the matter appeared, it immediately shook the entire imperial council, and this time King Robert was already furious without Lan Li opening his mouth, and then with his support, Lan Li summoned all the management classes of the capital garrison and personally took charge of the interrogation.
The process lasted for a whole week, and no one knew how the young Minister of Justice interrogated him, but what happened in the aftermath made everyone tremble.
Under the watchful eyes of a large number of people in King's Landing, a full 137 conspirators were brutally hanged, and the dense corpses hung at the head of the Red Keep wall for three days and three nights for onlookers.
Such a large-scale death penalty inevitably caused an uproar and doubts, but then when Lan Li produced sufficient human and material evidence, all doubts disappeared.
The name of the Blue Rite thus spread throughout King's Landing, with some loathing him and others worshipping him, but no matter whether they were disgusted or filled, all of them were inevitably in awe and even fear.