Chapter 43: Settling In

Having said this, the two night watchmen stopped talking, and followed the three Lannisters along the main road of King's Landing, passing through Shoemaker's Square and Central Square, and then marching to the left front, and riding along the gentle slope of Nun Street, gradually approaching the lowest of the three hills surrounded by the walls of King's Landing.

As the terrain increased, the surrounding landscape soon began to change, the streets became wider and cleaner, the pedestrians became more leisurely and well-dressed, and even shops began to appear on both sides of the road selling non-necessities – i.e. luxury goods.

Iger soon realizes that this is the wealthy area of King's Landing, and that the permanent residence of outsiders here is probably another expense that he can never afford. Eventually, they stopped in front of an inn called "Albatross". Dismounting with Tyrion, Egg looked into the distance and found himself standing above the walls of King's Landing, a few dozen meters higher than the lowest point in the city, and beneath the top of the Rhaenys Hill where the Dragon's Lair stood—just high enough to reduce the stench without interfering too much with the residents' travel and daily activities.

"Boss, open four rooms, one for me and my two black-clothed friends, one for my two attendants, and one for my two attendants, to be connected. Tyrion stepped through the door of the inn and said loudly, the decoration of the inn was better than the halls of Winterfell, and the boss obviously knew the little devil too, and kindly beckoned his men to lead the horses and carry their luggage for them, and led the group to the second floor.

"You're the Night's Watch now, and you have to be careful when you go out, and there are many shops on Nun Street, some selling ready-to-wear and some made-to-order, so I'd suggest you get some outfits when you have time. Before entering their respective rooms, the last words of Tyrion and the two night watchmen were: "Also, go out and turn right, and when you can see the hole in the dragon's den, turn left again, and you will reach Silk Street, half of the brothels in King's Landing are there, just report my name, you can be chic if you don't have money, if you don't dare to go, I can take you another day, but today, I want to relax my ass first - it may be a good idea to sleep on my stomach, see you later." ”

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To be honest, Egger is really a little excited, he is a normal adult man, and he also has his own needs. It's been a year and a half since he crossed into this world, and he hasn't touched a woman...... He really can't hang the prostitutes in the Mole Village next to the Black Castle, who are actually part-time job as village girls, maybe King's Landing will make a difference?

The thought flashed by, and he quickly snuffed it out, owing Tyrion a favor and a heavy responsibility, where did he get the interest and courage to use someone else's money as a prostitute?

Push the door into the single room, put away the clothes and luggage, and then go out to the front desk to ask the boss for a pen and paper, Egger sat down at the small table by the window. King's Landing is a dangerous place, but if he doesn't get involved in Game of Thrones, at least he will be a night watchman for the time being, but if he doesn't want to go back to the hellish place of the Wall, then he has to plan his future.

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After watching the people on the street and adjusting his condition for a few minutes, he first wrote down his four tasks on a piece of paper: collecting supplies, recruiting people, mining dragon crystals, and improving the image of the night watchman.

Compared to the fact that he didn't know where to start when he first received these tasks, after more than a month of thinking about the road and discussing with Tyrion, he already had some ideas and plans in his heart, and now all he had to do was to write down the plans before he was so busy that he forgot them.

First of all, both Egger and Tyrion agree that the task of "improving the image of the Night's Watch" is not different from not existing: in this era of underdeveloped communications, the Southerners have a good or bad impression of the Night's Watch, can the Night's Watch still send a large number of people to the South to do surveys?

Whether he is interested in this task or not, only he is psychologically clear, and the quality of completion is completely up to people. To put it bluntly, the only reason for the existence of this mission is actually to have an excuse in case he completes the other three tasks well, but the Night's Watch still wants to tear his face and forcibly recall himself for special reasons.

As long as the worst doesn't happen, no one will talk about it at all.

Iger crossed out the last task with a pen.

There are three tasks left, but you have to do it in a down-to-earth manner.

But how is it done? There's a lot of room for movement, and the next time Yolun comes from the Wall to find his dignitaries, he can't hand over any of them, he hasn't delivered any supplies to the Wall for months, and the Night's Watch ships arrive on Dragonstone before the obsidian mining has yet to begin...... Naturally, these three situations must not occur, otherwise it will definitely be recalled without negotiation, but how many people to hand over, how many materials and obsidian can be provided, there are many ways to do this.

It can't be too little, at least not too little for a long time - if you can't pay the ransom, who can keep you out and about?

But too much is not enough, the appetite of the people will grow, and the same will be true for the organization of people - the new recruits recruited by themselves will make the Night's Watch legion bigger and bigger, and the larger the legion, it will inevitably need more and more supplies to feed, not to mention that as winter approaches, the provisions that the northern princes can provide to the Great Wall will inevitably shrink. Due to a number of factors, the supply gap will inevitably grow larger and wider—it would be miserable if you gave the Night's Watch the impression that they could provide as many supplies as they wanted.

The level of productivity in this world is there, and there are basically no particularly rich resources except air, water, and land. Even if he could really talk about the rich aristocrats of King's Landing, he would not be able to fill the bottomless pit.

Ideally, the supplies they provide, the recruits, and the obsidian are all at a low level that the Night's Watch higher-ups are "not very happy with, but not so bad that they turn around and recall themselves", so that if the Wall asks for more supplies and personnel one day, it will start to increase at a lower starting line.

But where exactly this safety level is, you have to figure it out for yourself.

Iger identified the core idea of the work and planned his itinerary: he would arrange for Tyrion's "funding", his own "ransom", to be sent to the Great Wall, and then rush to Dragonstone to survey and start the obsidian mining. After these two things are done, return to King's Landing to recruit people and "collect" the follow-up supplies and equipment.

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When the itinerary was completed, he hesitated, and at the bottom of this piece of paper, he added two more items in Chinese that people in this world absolutely cannot understand:

Take off your black clothes.

Thoughts go home.

Trying to accomplish the task given to him by Mormont is the means—the means of delaying time. And the purpose of delaying time is to find a way to get out of the night watch. He had expected Tyrion to do this, but later found that just leaving the Wall would have to overcome many difficulties, as for the removal of his status...... No one has the power at all, and he has to figure it out for himself in the end.

Not only that, but he will never forget that he is not from this world. If possible, he hopes to find out why he traveled into this world, and wants to travel back.

There is a saying that "it is better to be a peaceful dog than to be a troubled person". For Egger, even being a king in this hellish world of ice and fire is not as good as being a middle-class person in the original world, in a strong and stable country.

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