Chapter 228: Public Opinion (Part II)

King's Residence, Milan comes to report to Lynn.

"My lord, the identity of the cult leader Sparrow has been checked. ”

Lynn sat comfortably on a wicker chair and flipped through an old King's Landing book that Milan had sent to turn over, which recorded a large number of little-known secrets of most of the Targaryen families from Dragonstone to the establishment of King's Landing and the rule of Westeros for 300 years, which is an encyclopedia of the Old Kingdom.

Not long after his orders arrived in the north, the Gripen Legion still needed to make final adjustments to change its guard before organizing the south, and Lynn had nothing to do in the past two days, and he was very good at reading.

Holding this old book, carefully licking her thumb, and slowly turning a page of parchment strung together by needles and threads, Lynn raised her eyes to look at Milan, and found that this time the beauty Brienne also came, and the burly woman figure almost covered Milan.

Lynn chuckled, "Oh? ”

"I took the men to the muddy waterways to observe the sparrow from afar, and the sparrow looked ordinary, and was very inconspicuous among the poor, and it was Brienne who first recognized him, and when he was escorting Jaime Lannister in the Riverlands, he met the Sparrow leading a group of sparrow companions, pulling carts of the corpses of monks and nuns who had been slain in the Battle of the Five Kings. “

Lynn glanced at the expressionless female knight beauty Brienne, "Britney, have you ever seen a sparrow, have you ever crossed paths with that person?"

"There was a fateful sentence that the team of the Sparrows was carrying the corpses of six large carts, and I was stopped when I wanted to ask for the way to Riverrun. Britney replied candidly.

Lynn closed the book, interested, "Oh, and how do you answer?"

"I saw that the bodies of the dead soldiers had been stripped of their valuables, their armor and weapons, and even their valuable coats had been stripped away, and I was not interested in guessing that the gang was plundering money in the name of the Christians. ”

Lynn asked, "How did you answer him?"

Brienne's face paused, and when she finally found a lord who could be loyal to her and asked her personally, she could only answer very seriously and honestly: "I said, I'm not your mother, do I need to guide you to the future?"

Lynn laughed.

After laughing, he pointed at Milan and said, "You found the sparrow, but what happened later?"

"Later, we found out that after the previous archbishop was killed, the archbishops entered the election process to see who could be elected as the new archbishop. During the election of the archbishops, the Sparrow and his followers rushed into the meeting with axes and countless pieces of gold and silver on their shoulders, and asked the other bishops to either choose themselves with gold and silver deer, or they would be killed, so the frightened archbishops gave in and chose the Sparrow as the new archbishop. “

Milan looked up at Lynn as she spoke, and found that the lord didn't react much to this, so she continued: "After the Sparrow took office, he began to sell all the gold tiaras (including the archbishop's crystal crown) and ornate costumes, and looted the treasures accumulated by the church for hundreds of years, ostensibly publicizing that the money was used to buy food for the sparrows and the poor. Even he himself wore only a plain woollen robe, and asked the other monks to do the same.

In fact, his little handouts were not worth a few dollars at all, and the hemp sparrow arranged for his henchmen to hoard a large amount of treasure, and it was speculated that the total amount might have reached hundreds of thousands of golden dragons. And this does not include the nearly 1 million gold dragon debts owed by the royal family of King's Landing to the church over the years. “

Lynn narrowed his eyes, and for a moment there was a look of disgust and fierceness in his eyes, but it was only for a moment that his face returned to normal.

"You're doing a good job, Milan, now go and investigate where this sparrow has hidden this golden dragon, I think it's not normal for a bishop to have so much money, he might do something big with it. ”

"My lord, now the sparrows have begun to attack the former bishops of the Church of the Seven Gods, many bishops are paraded naked on the charge of prostituting and visiting brothels and even raising male pets, and now the old bishops of the Church of the Seven Gods are all frightened, afraid that the crazy sparrows will find themselves, and this time is just to break through from the inside. ”

Lynn nodded, "Go ahead, catch the sparrow's sore feet, but don't act rashly, we're going to have to find something to do for the big guys in King's Landing from within while the Gripen Legion is heading south." ”

Inside the Red Fort.

Cersei Lannister and the Lannister family came out of the drawbridge north of Meggor House with the guards of the Lannister family, and soon met Marin's party, who had been ordered to escort the Sparrows.

Seeing the Queen Mother greet her, the guards jumped off their horses, and the guards in white cloaks quickly stepped aside and let out the thin old man who was wrapped in the center of the team.

Cersei waved the Kingsguard back, leaving only the red-cloaked Lannister guard by her side, and she slowly stepped forward and glanced the old man up and down.

"You're the sparrow?"

"This is the name my enemies have choreographed for me, and I am not called a sparrow. ”

Cersei didn't say a word, she looked at the sparrow for a moment, she didn't want to ask about the old man's name, and even felt that the name of the sparrow was very suitable for the old fellow.

Looking at the indifferent sparrow, without any intention of giving a gift, Cersei continued to ask unhappily, "Why don't you wear shoes?"

"Shoes have been given to those who need them more, and the poor lack everything. ”

Cersei frowned, "Don't tell me, just because you gave those poor people shoes, they had the courage to corroborate the gates of the Red Keep. ”

Sparrow didn't answer, chuckling and asking, "Are you coming to yourself because of the recent rumors of King's Landing?"

Cersei looked at the old man calmly and calmly, angry, her eyes almost spewed flames, she tried to restrain her emotions, now she doesn't have much willful capital in King's Landing, her father Tywin has no eye for herself, and even plans to let her marry the junior of the Tyrell family in order to squeeze the last trace of value from her.

Cersei's face was cold and silent as she watched the bronze gate of the Red Fort in front of the royal road slowly close, although the bronze gate was strong, there were thousands of crazy poor people outside the door.

She still has a little bit of sanity.

"What the hell do you want to do?" Cersei asked with a cold lash of anger.

"Quite simply, the church can not only push public opinion but also make it disappear in an instant, and even the church can openly declare its support for the Queen Mother, your son Tomman I, and at the same time cancel the royal family's debt to the church of nearly one million gold dragons...... As long as you allow the archbishop to rearm the order. “

"You dare to threaten me!?" Cersei, who has always been sensitive to ambition, saw a subtle madness in the eyes of the sparrow, and immediately scolded the sparrow in front of her.