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After entering King's Landing, most of the troops were assigned to guard the city walls nearby, and some of them were assigned to be stationed in the Red Keep. Stark.

The Prime Minister's Tower stands quietly not far from the Red Fort Megar Tower, the stone tower is tall and sturdy, and from the round windows inlaid with gold edges, you can clearly see the entire King's Landing City through the glass.

Patches of low-rise buildings are densely distributed in the uneven urban area, occasionally dotted with some brightly colored palaces and minarets, and the streets are crisscrossed by wide or narrow streets, and the crowd of ants looks like small black dots, moving slowly, living in this vast and narrow city.

In the distance, the soldiers of King's Landing were surging on the high city walls, which looked rather hazy here, but they could still be seen busy, and three huge catapults were quietly placed in the school field near the city wall, and the color seemed to be abnormal.

"Before the Lannisters left, they took everything they could, wealth, weapons, pyromancies, books, and the three courtesans of King's Landing."

"The Three Prostitutes of King's Landing?"

Hearing this, Charles turned his head to look at Ed, who was sitting in the prime minister's seat, and at this time he had grown a few inches of short dark and brown hair on his head, and his chin was also covered with a gray-black beard.

"It's the three catapults."

Ed said, put down the quill in his hand, raised his eyes to look at the young man standing at the window, and said, "The Blue Rite army will attack at any time, and the Red Fort has not stopped recently. During this time you will be staying in the Prime Minister's Tower, and if you are interested, you can also participate in the daily trials in the King's Hall, and perhaps I need some advice from someone I can trust. ”

"What about your courtiers?"

"It's a courtier of His Majesty Stannis." Ed corrected, and then snorted coldly: "Those courtiers were groveling to the Lannisters a moment ago, and they will kneel in front of His Majesty one by one, how can you let me trust them?" ”

"Actually, if possible, I'd like the Lannisters to take them with them, as well as the Council of Kings. I remember every single one of them that they have ever done. ”

"I stabbed you in the back, of course you remember it clearly."

"You mean Littlefinger?" Ed shook his head slightly, "He's a smart guy and he's long gone." ”

His tone was still flat, but the little bit of unhappiness hidden in it could still be heard, but he didn't bother to dig into the dirty things between this former "rival in love", but cared more about another matter.

"I don't think it's a good thing for you to sit." He said meaningfully.

Hearing this, Ed was silent for a moment, and then replied, "Because I have been the hand of the king for a while, your majesty has entrusted me with this important task. ”

"So you called out the military power so easily?"

"An army doesn't need two mouths to call the shots, and His Majesty Stannis's track record allows me to trust the army to him with confidence."

In response, Ed changed the subject and said, "You have made great contributions in Luanhe City, and Your Majesty intends to give you Harrenhal. ”

"Harrenhal?" Charles was stunned when he heard this, and then he was dumbfounded.

Harrenhal has a long history, it has existed since the founding monarch of the Seven Kingdoms rode a demon dragon across the sea, and its builder was one of the seven kings of Westeros, Heron the Blackheart, who relied on the tall and heavy walls of Harrenhal to not take the conqueror seriously, so he died under the dragon fire that fell from the sky.

As far as Charles knew, the castle seemed to be the largest and most heavily defended fortress in Westeros, with thick and steep walls, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and a large city with a single gatehouse larger than many of the main castle buildings.

This is an advantage, but it can also be said to be a disadvantage, the castle is too large to be maintained, and it can be quite damning, and the successive Earls of Harrenhal seem to have no good end

Its builders, the Blackheart Herons, died under the dragon fire of the invaders, and their bloodlines were cut off.

Later, the head of the Stron family and his two sons died in a bizarre fire, and the rest of the family also died in the kingdom's internal strife.

The Rothstein family, which then owned Harrenhal, lasted only a few decades before quietly dying out for unknown reasons.

The recent Harrenhal lord of the Ha'an family was once prominent, but there is only one widow in the present generation, who is lonely and lacks major generals. The Lannisters took a fancy to the military stronghold, expelled it from the territory, and their whereabouts were unknown.

Now the poor widow is also dead somewhere.

……

This information is in Luce. Bolton told him about it when he decided to attack Harrenhal, and Charles didn't think the castle was a treasure trove of feng shui, but now ......

"It was a thought-provoking decision." He shrugged, "But I'm not his vassal, and he doesn't really need to." ”

"Merit will be rewarded, Your Majesty insists on this." Ed said, "But this will have to wait until this war is over." ”

"Of course." Charles was not interested in this, in other words, even if he was given the fortress, he wouldn't necessarily be able to live there - how stupid would he be to run to that haunted place by himself to "eat bird" without money and soldiers?

He wouldn't be stupid enough to think that he could get rid of the protection of the army and "go it alone" now, otherwise he would have left the northern soldiers and wandered around by himself, how could he endure the exhaustion and run here?

"Hugging" Stark's thighs is the wisest choice right now.

After casually looking at Ed and the stack of letters on his desk, he thought for a moment and said, "The security in this city may not be very good, maybe you should prepare as soon as possible." ”

Charles didn't plan to get involved in this matter, but now that Ed has become the "prime minister" at this time, he has to give him a more or less wake-up call.

"I'm worried about it." Hearing his words, as if stirred up, Ed couldn't help but sigh.

"When I entered the city, I noticed that things were different, and now there was no unrest, only because King's Landing had just changed its master, and it had a good reputation. But if His Majesty behaves worse than the Lannisters during this period, then some things cannot be avoided. ”

"Your Majesty is going to do something terrible?"

"He won't." "But his enemies weren't going to let him go," Ed said. ”

"So ......"

"Since the Lannisters left so happily, it is impossible for us to occupy it safely." Ed frowned, "I've done a lot of preparations, hoping it will work." ”

As he said this, he shook his head again.

"Robert died, no descendants, his second brother Stannis was the first in line to the throne, I wrote to Robert's other brother, but Lan Li did not listen to the advice at all, and insisted on rebelling."

"Not only that, but he also related to his brother Robert who rebelled against the Targaryens, and the so-called power comes from plunder, which is a good fallacy and heresy."

"I think he has a point." Charles retorted secretly.

There is nothing wrong with the words that come out of the barrel of a gun; If you rob others, you are not allowed to rob you.

Ed admits death and thinks that the rebellion of his good friend Lao *** to become king is "destiny", but Charles does not think so.

Whoever has the big fist is the boss, this principle is common to the world.

But he didn't show this kind of thought, it was better to think more about spells with this kung fu, how idle would he be to get involved in such a mess?

"By the way, my wife Catelyn was going to thank you in person, but she couldn't worry about the children in the family, so she had to go back to Winterfell first, and didn't come to King's Landing with me."

"Thank you, I'm tired of hearing it."

"I still have to thank you."

……

During the small talk, Ed suddenly became slurred, and under Charles's strange gaze, he hesitated and said:

"While in Riverrun, Kate's father was critically ill and coughed ...... She wants me to mention this ...... to you."

His face was a little embarrassed when he said this, but the meaning was obvious, and Charles shrugged his shoulders accordingly: "I can only treat the wounded, and I can't increase the life of your father-in-law." ”

"Okay......" nodded, and Ed didn't look disappointed. Maybe he didn't have any hope for this, but he had to mention it because of "the mouth at home".

He then put the topic out of his mind and began to talk briefly about the current situation and what might happen next.

I haven't met him for a while, and it seems that Ed is much more "cheerful" than he was at the beginning. Charles nodded in agreement, secretly surprised.

"Maybe you figured something out?"

"Or get married to his wife, Xiao Biesheng, and the pressure can be released?"

……

Charles had no shortage of "maliciously" thoughts, and after chatting for a while about the distribution of the buildings of the Red Fort, he took his leave and left.

Walking out of the Prime Minister's Tower of the Red Keep, Charles was about to go to the underground area of his memory to look for the dragon bone, when suddenly someone visited him.

"This is the obsidian you need, because the situation is a bit unstable, so I'm sorry to deliver it now." At the entrance of the Prime Minister's Tower, a middle-aged and elderly man dressed plainly said this, putting the linen bag he was carrying at his feet as he spoke.

"Thank you, Sir Seaworth."

"No, I owe it to you, Sir Cranston."

"What?"

"I'm not sure, but when Lady Melisandre was on Dragonstone, His Majesty was ...... He's a bit ......."

As he spoke, the middle-aged and elderly man nicknamed The Onion Knight subconsciously shook the leather bag he was wearing on his chest, and his old face flashed hesitation and trouble, but in the end he just shrugged his shoulders.

"Anyway, we all have to thank you."