Egger thought that after leaving King's Landing and returning to the Wall, relying on the financial resources of the Night's Watch industry and his position in the Legion, he would no longer have to bother with his brains and mouth cannon to settle problems or solve problems. Unfortunately, it backfired, and he met Commander Mormont again, and the first new task given to him by the old guy was to convince others to help.

Luckily, this time the target was quite easy to deal with.

The mountain clans and tribes rely on hunting and gathering in the mountains north of the wolf forest for their livelihood, and have always had a mutually beneficial relationship with the northern princes and night watchmen without conflicts of interest. Coupled with poverty, pride, sensitivity to honor and other characteristics - such a guy who has never seen the world and has a good face is actually the easiest object to deal with.

Egger's plan was to visit with respect, gifts, and bad checks.

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Like most of the Night's Watch, Mormont was basically satisfied with the "ransom" that Iger regularly sent to the Wall, and had no intention of recalling, let alone expecting the "Chief Logistics Officer" he had personally appointed to return to the Wall.

Therefore, when Egger reappeared at Castle Black with his men and horses unexpectedly, and immediately joined the battle as soon as he arrived, Mormonton, who did not know that he had actually come north to avoid trouble, felt that all his previous means of guarding and controlling seemed to have become the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain...... Egger is now one of his most important subordinates.

The idea of the northerners was simple: what reason was there not to trust such a nimble-minded subordinate, who was unrivaled in terms of his personal contribution to the Legion, and who was willing to return voluntarily at the most dangerous moment of the Wall?

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When Egg set out to visit the hill clans and asked Mormont to be accompanied by an escort from Jaime Lannister and some of his companions, Elder Bear agreed without hesitation - the reason for naming Jaime was not only because of the kingkiller's extraordinary skills, but also because of his instinctive habit of "tying himself to important plot figures".

Accompanied by twenty new rangers and ten guards directly under him, he first made his way to the southern part of the Shadow Tower, the closest to the Great Wall and the largest of the hill clans: the Flint clan.

The "Flint clan of the mountains". The reason for the prefix is that in the cold and long history of the north, some of the best people in this vast clan have gone out of the mountains to achieve success, and have obtained castles, fiefdoms, and earl titles, thus creating their own branch families—and in order to distinguish them from the two families with the same surname as the widow and the philinth, it is necessary to emphasize the "place of existence in the mountains".

The filints who remained in the mountains often preferred another title: "the original flint".

The hill clan's hospitality is well deserved, and gifts are being offered: a set of full-body armor donated by Tywin, a few new steel weapons that have just been fired, a small pile of obsidian artifacts, and a few knick-knacks from the south...... After reporting their names, Egg and Jaime were warmly welcomed. The people in the mountains were not as well-informed as Egger thought, and it was very unexpected - not only had they heard of their own name as "Stranger Slayer", but they could even tell Jaime's nickname, and the most interesting thing was that the news of the arrival of "the guy who killed two kings" also attracted a lot of young onlookers.

The leader of the clan, Togenhen Flinter, personally hosted a banquet to receive the visiting night watchman, and Egger had never eaten so much wild game in his life, and he was full of wine and food before he explained his intention to the other party.

"In the past six months, the Flint clan has also been raided by wild people many times...... Truth be told, we have a common enemy and would love to help the Night's Watch. ”

Old Flint was quite cheerful, and he didn't mean to refuse at all - the reason is very simple, the Flint clan in the mountains and the Amber family in the last Hearthh City are the two closest to the Great Wall in the north, and if there is anything wrong with the Great Wall, they are the first to be unlucky, they are grasshoppers on a rope: "But Lord Ned's son went to the south to fight the lions, and the clan sent thirty warriors to help, and there were not many men left...... If we go too far to help the Night's Watch, we'll be in trouble when we are attacked. ”

It's not an excuse to refuse to help, but the Flint clan does need the protection of the armed forces themselves - not every wild man who crosses the Grand Canyon to the south of the Great Wall is an elite sent by Mance Red, and after climbing over the wall, they will rush to the Night's Watch stronghold and the "ravens" desperately...... More of them just want to run south to escape the strange spirits and winter and survive.

In the process of going south, there is a lack of food and transportation, so they can only grab along the way.

"That's a real problem. Egger thought for a moment and asked, "How many people are there in the Flint Clan?"

"More than a thousand, maybe two thousand, I haven't counted. Flint is a large clan, but my people don't live all together, but hundreds of hundreds of people in a clump of five villages. Old Flint said: "How many people do you need to help the Great Wall? If there are dozens of them, I will not say anything about you, but no matter how many there are, there is really nothing you can do." ”

Even if there are dozens of more than forty clans, it is far from enough, not to mention that there are only a few hundred people in those small clans: "That's not enough, my lord, I hope the more the better." ”

The clan leader shrugged: "Unfortunately my friend, there must be enough warriors left, otherwise when the wild men come to my house, what will I do to protect the old man and the child?"

Old Flint was already very good, and as a guest and friend, it was impossible for Iger to make the other party give up such an unreasonable request to protect his own people. The Great Wall has to be guarded, and the old people and children of the clan tribe also need to be protected...... He took a few sips of the clan's own brewery, pondered for a while, and suddenly slammed the table: Move the old people and children in the clan tribe who need protection to the Great Wall that needs to be guarded, and the problem will be solved?

"Lord Flinter, if I proposed that your entire clan move out of the mountains and live against the Great Wall in the Grants, would you consider it?"

"To live in the grant?" Old Flint had never thought of this possibility, and blinked: "This is indeed a double win, but my clan depends on the mountains and eats the mountains, and depends on gathering and hunting for a living, and we do not farm...... What will we eat after we go to live in the donated land?"

"You've probably forgotten that sitting in front of you is the Chief Logistics Officer of the Night's Watch—and my greatest skill is to earn money to feed people. Egg raised his head and turned on the confidence mode: "I hereby make a solemn promise that even one of your clan will starve to death under the protection of the Night's Watch, and I will come to see you!"

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Egger made a simple calculation: no matter how equipped with weapons, if they were just "fed until they starved to death", the entire clan of Flint would not be able to eat a hundred gold dragons a month, and even if only one-tenth of them could fight, this cost performance would be countless times higher than that of mercenaries. With Stannis in King's Landing and the Night's Watch industry running well, he will be able to feed himself.

Money is not everything, but sometimes in the pocket, it is really so hard!

It was also the first time that the clan leader encountered such an offer, scratching his head, glaring at the clan members who were in turmoil on both sides, and didn't know how to reply for a while.

Iger struck while the iron was hot and continued to increase: "In addition to ensuring food supplies, the Night's Watch will also provide an abandoned fortress for members of the Flint clan who have moved out of the mountain to live in. With a little tidying, your clan members will be able to live in sturdy and warm stone houses for the rest of the winter, instead of having to dig holes in the ground to escape the cold wind!"

"Stone House!"

Old Flint hadn't said much, but many of his juniors were excited, many of them had visited Winterfell, the home of the king, and had long been yearning for that kind of tall and sturdy stone building, who wanted someone to put this opportunity in front of them now!

Just like the children in the countryside want to go to the city, how can the clan people not want to live in a stone house? The juniors who participated in the banquet turned their eyes to the patriarch one after another, and they just wanted to ask the old man to agree.

Old Flint had lived for more than forty years, and of course he would not be coaxed by such a condition.

Egger West's reputation he had heard of for a long time, and he had no doubts about the assurances of such a celebrity and night watchman officer...... And to ensure that a clan member will not starve to death, this is actually a difficult thing to do in the cold winter, and it is false to say that he is not impressed. However, when he was young, he had traveled to the north and visited and seen the lives of the people in various places—due to the widespread tradition of stockpiling grain and establishing "winter towns" in the north, the proportion of peasants living under the rule of the princes in the north freezing and starving to death in winter was indeed much smaller than that of the mountain clans, but in the long summer, when the climate was mild and there were no natural disasters, the living conditions of the Filint clan, who occupied a large area of rich mountain forests and lived by hunting and gathering, were actually more comfortable than most of the yeoman farmers in the Seven Kingdoms...... He couldn't have made such a decisive decision to give up such a large territory for the sake of a stone fortress.

Old Flint tapped the table with his red, rough, sausage-like fingers, and said in embarrassment, "Chief Logistics Officer, I believe in your promise, but what if our clan moves out of the mountains, if the territory is occupied by savages or other clans in the surrounding area?"

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After a year of searching in King's Landing, he came to the North, and the people he met were so straight and lovely that it didn't take Egg half a second to hear the subtext of the other party: he wanted a stone house and food for the winter, but he didn't want to give up the mountains and forests that he had survived in the times.

A very reasonable thirst, not even greed, Egg gritted his teeth and continued to release empty checks: "You can leave a village of people to watch your territory, if someone else takes advantage of your mountain to help the night watchman in the future, when the war is over, the night watch will be your solid backing, we will intervene, even send troops...... Defend your ownership of the territory at all costs!"

"Aren't the night watchmen impartial?"

"The Night's Watch is indeed impartial, but the Night's Watch industry is not. Iger said without hesitation, "Ten thousand steps back, to harm the interests of the Night's Watch's allies is to harm the Night's Watch's interests...... If someone bullies them, why not be impartial?"

One side has a lot of money, the other side has no excessive demands, the negotiation went smoothly beyond imagination, all the problems were solved, and a smile bloomed on old Flinter's face: "The chief logistics officer is really a real person, if so, then my answer is also very simple: I will leave a hundred people to watch the territory, and all the rest will go out of the mountain and move to the fortress provided by the Night's Watch, and in the next war with the wildlings or other things, we will all advance and retreat with the Night's Watch!"

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[100,000 recommended votes, plus one day of breaking, a total of three watches are owed. ] Recently, I've been busy, and I moved the update time to the day by taking the initiative to break the day, and I will make up for it when I have time in the future, I hope you understand.