"I can issue a pardon, but does it really work?" Stannis said skeptically, a small piece of paper could make an enemy who had been eager to stab himself a few days ago surrender.

But Sir Charles seemed to be sure that the city had been besieged for a whole week, but the Garcia family had not come to the rescue at all, and he was afraid that he had given up his southern allies, so he deduced that his cousin must have fallen into deep despair now, and without foreign help, it was only a matter of time before even the strongest castle fell, and Charlie, who knew him best, decisively deduced that he must be busy trying to preserve his family and position now, since Snake could take the lead in betraying the previous duke for the sake of profit, who could guarantee that he would not betray the current duke for his power again？

"I know my brother too well, the status and power of the guardian of the southern realm are what he values the most, as for who will be the duke, as long as he can keep his position, he actually doesn't care. ”

I see! Stennis suddenly realized, it turned out that Charlie asked him to sign the pardon decree is not just a pardon for the duke he once betrayed the previous duke, when Stannis issued this edict, it means that the new regime will recognize the current status and power of the Snake family, as long as he can continue to be the guardian of the southern border and divide one side, Earl Snake does not care about the righteousness of the country, and the blood is orthodox.

Although he was very disdainful of his character, Stannis knew that this was indeed the best way to get the enemy to surrender without blood, and not only that, but he would also gain a strong ally who could help him command the South, and in case of any rebellion, Snake alone could easily deal with it.

"That's a good suggestion...... But I'm going to talk to someone......"

From a personal standpoint, of course, Stannis is very much in favor of this method without bloodshed and sweat, although through co-optation, he can only make the princes under his command nominally submit to him, and he can only formally unify the principality like the chairman, but now the biggest enemy is Garcia, and then consider cutting the feudal domain when he really rules the whole country.

However, this matter is not just the consent of Stannis alone, for example, the current duke's descendants have a blood feud with Earl Snake, if he hadn't fabricated the affair between the duchess and the stables in the first place, maybe all this chaos would not have happened.

Charlie understood what he was thinking, and after another complicated set of etiquette, he retreated.

Stanis was left alone in deep thought.

He maintained this contemplative look until the regular meeting in the evening.

Now this command post was originally the holiday villa of Earl Snake, but before the arrival of Zivinie's army, the servants and guards here fled back to the city with their masters, and at the beginning Stannis originally wanted to enjoy this luxurious manor alone, and find some beautiful maids to sleep in by the way, but he did not expect all his men to be cheeky and squeezed in, and finally two dozen people were crammed into a room, which was more crowded than the university dormitory.

In the end, even the combat meeting could only be squeezed to the balcony on the roof of the building.

At first, Robert first proudly asked Stannis for credit, he sneaked into the city today, killed two Snake soldiers and captured one alive and escaped, through the interrogation of the captive to learn that the food in the city was only enough to eat for two months, everyone couldn't help but cheer after getting the news, compared to the average siege of the West Continent for at least half a year, now it is considered to have seen the dawn of victory.

Under Cortana's adoring gaze, Robert talked about how he heroically infiltrated the city through the castle gutter to spy on intelligence, but Stannis, who had always liked to dismantle his platform, did not make a sound, which made Robert, who was originally in high spirits, more and more bored, and finally had to stop.

"Boss, without your ridicule over there, people are very passionate!"

At this time, the others realized that Stannis was indeed surprisingly few words today, which once made Advisor Romon think that there was another person in that shell.

"Everybody go out for a while, Robert, you stay. Finally, Stannis said the first thing he said at this meeting.

Everyone went downstairs and left, and at last only the current king and the future duke were left on the roof.

"Boss, what's the matter with you leaving me down!" Robert immediately revealed his true nature as soon as he saw that no one was there, put his legs on the table, scratched his crotch and sniffed it by the way.

Looking at the brother who was still so heartless, Stannis didn't know how to say the following words, but for the sake of the overall situation, he could only say ruthlessly.

"Charlie asked me to sign a pardon. ”

"Pardon whom, forgive! I hope it's not your soldiers, Cortana passed in front of them today, and several of them whistled with squints!" Robert laughed happily.

"Snake and his whole family. ”

Without warning, Stannis uttered the name of the blood feud with Robert.

Sure enough, Robert's smile stiffened at the first hearing the name, and then his eyes began to turn red as if they were bloodshot, and he had been running away from it all these years, and he still remembered the scene of his mother being dragged away from him by Snake's men.

"Forgive them. ”

Although his tone was calm, Stannis could still hear the anger within.

"Yes. Although he knew very well that he was sorry for him, Stannis, as the king, could only give up his conscience, even if everyone hated him, he could only go step by step for the next road.

"Now that you've made up your mind, you're going to ask me what I'm doing!" Robert, with a bruise on his neck, asked angrily.

"Not to ask, just to inform you. Stannis's tone hardened, and he still had a hint of luck that if Robert could give up everything for Sasha, maybe he might have let go of her mother's hatred.

But things don't always go as he thinks, and maybe Robert, as a civilian, might let it go, but once he becomes a golden griffin again, some things have to be done.

"I don't care if you want to pardon them or not, I don't care about anyone else, but I must take Snake's head off!" Sure enough, hatred won't be forgotten so easily.

Stannis directly drew his sword and threw it on the table, "My pardon has been issued, if you want to kill Snake, kill me first, or I will kill you!"

Stannis trembled all over, and he knew it was destined to be a lonely path.