It's easy to make room for a few hundred Unsullied, but it's a big job to meet two dragons. Fortunately, at the moment, both the guards and servants in Winterfell are all Egg's subordinates making cameos, and it is not their own home that they are not distressed, so they are naturally demolished and moved...... There is no in all things to cooperate, and there will be no disputes and conflicts. With a single transfer of men, horses, dragons, and supplies, even the clearing in the Sacred Wood Grove and the old Castle where Jaime and Cersei had cheated were packed to the brim.

As a result, Egger's previous reason for refusing to allow the Bolton army to enter the city turned out to be true, and not only did the elite of the Terrorist Fortress have to continue to camp outside the city, but even the land-giving army was forced to select thousands of unlucky people and muttered to camp outside the wall.

After a busy day, the Queen's Guard completed the operation of entering the castle, and Daenerys, who was finally free, held a simple informal meeting in the cubicle of the temporarily requisitioned hall of Winterfell to discuss the next course of action.

Based on a simple trust consideration, the meeting did not involve the two northern nobles who had just surrendered.

Sitting down in the second seat on the first queen's right hand, Iger glanced at the people present: Littlefinger, as the queen's hand, naturally sat in the number one seat to his left, and Varys, as the intelligence chief, sat alone opposite the old man who had joined him a year before him...... Missandei stood behind Daenerys, and the other half of the Queen's royal front was thousands of miles away on the front lines of Southern King's Landing. To be honest, even just half a year ago, he would never have imagined that one day he would sit down at the table with this group to discuss big things.

Politics is a very different field from guarding the Great Wall and fighting strangers, where the living are far more terrible than the dead. From the commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch to the Queen's vassal to one of the Queen's Ministers, Egger is like a little prince who skips matching exercises and goes straight to play in the professional league, saying that he is not nervous is false. But behind the small amount of negative emotions, there is more excitement and pride that wells up in my heart.

His ability to play power may not be as good as the other two veteran players, but he has a strong army, has the favor and trust of the queen after brainwashing her, and holds the hole cards that no one knows and difficult to grasp - these advantages are enough to make up for his own shortcomings in power struggle methods and experience.

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"What a skill, Commander-in-Chief. As soon as Varys' ass touched the surface of his chair, he said in an admiring tone, "The ability to take Winterfell in one night, and the success of forcing the most stubborn opponents to bring the northern realm to your majesty's allegiance, will be enough for future scholars to write your name repeatedly when compiling the Chronicles of the True Dragon Dynasty." ”

Despite the flattery and praise, these words made Iger extremely unhappy: whether intentionally or not, Varys was in fact reminding Daenerys that "the Starks are not voluntarily submitting, and their loyalty is questionable" - and each such hint of side-touching only adds to the Queen's dislike of the Wolves. This change in favorability will not have immediate consequences in the short term, but in the long run, it will accumulate and one day break a certain threshold, and eventually turn the situation in a direction that is not in your own interests or expectations when the fuse arises.

This kind of slander is much more clever and ingenious than telling Daenerys that "Stark can't be trusted", and even if you can hear it, there is no perfect way to deal with it.

"Master Varys has won the award, and I don't have any ability and brains, but I'm just good at 'convincing people with the truth'. Iger didn't understand what the eunuch was thinking for a moment, but he didn't dare to take Daenerys for a fool, so he didn't deny that the Starks didn't open the gates of the city—they just embellished the facts a little as usual: "Happily, Duke Stark is a very sensible man, which saves us a lot of effort." ”

A group of natives of this world certainly couldn't understand what kind of meme he had just played, and Egger really didn't bother to convince the Lord of Winterfell to surrender - the power of the thermal weapon and the persuasion of Catelyn as a mother were much better than the eloquence of his "traitor to the Night's Watch".

"Your Majesty has reason not to like the Starks, but I swear to the gods in heaven that the descendants of our ancestors have their bottom line on their oaths. As soon as the Night's Watch finished speaking, Petyr Berish jumped out in a hurry, "The good news is that Winterfell is in the hands of His Majesty right now, and you don't have to worry about whether you need to trust them, just be careful not to let the situation get out of hand, so that they don't have a chance to make an accident even if they have different intentions, and you can hold the entire North firmly in your hands...... When the world is calm, the people of the north will be reluctant, and they can only be honest and loyal to you!"

Egger's eyes narrowed, and his heart relaxed slightly: "Slander" has no perfect solution, and can only use diametrically opposed "good words" to carry out neutral confrontation...... In a situation where the purpose of wanting to protect the Stark family is clearly exposed, it is no longer suitable to say good things, it is really good to have someone speak on his behalf. Littlefinger had been an adopted son in the Tully family, and had a close relationship with Catelyn, now Mrs. Stark, for many years, and naturally wanted to keep the wolf family as Egger and use it as his own political resource in the future, which led to a very comical situation: although Egger had no personal friendship with him and was even hostile to him, he secretly stumbled on him, but now, they have a common interest without any communication, and have become natural allies.

It's really impermanent.

"Alright, stop talking about the Starks. Daenerys could certainly sense that her subordinates were trying to influence her thoughts on this matter, but she obviously wanted to get down to business first than whether the Starks were truly loyal to her or not—frowning, the queen said displeasedly, "The North has surrendered and openly supported me, and I can't ask for more from this group of people I once determined to be enemies, so let's discuss what to do next." ”

"Naturally, he reorganized his troops and ordered Stark to gather the army from the north, complete the preparations as soon as possible and march south. "I don't know when winter will end, but we are certain that the weather is slightly better than the previous days, and if we don't take advantage of this time window to quickly leave the northern zone, where winter is the harshest and harshest in winter, once the temperature turns cold again or even a snowstorm comes, we will definitely be trapped in the embarrassing situation of not being able to move." Winterfell has plenty of food and grass, although it is not worried about starvation, but it wastes time and energy, delays the lost precious warplanes, and is far away from the possible changes on the main battlefield during this period...... It's the most deadly threat!"

"What Lord Iger said is reasonable, time is precious, and we should cherish it. Varys nodded yes, then changed his words and said, "However, while hurrying up, you also have to take every step steadily." I have no doubt about how serious the Starks are about their oaths, but how many nobles are in the Great North, and who can guarantee that the vassals will also value honor as much as the vassals? Don't forget, during the War of the Retainers, every Northern nobleman contributed to the overthrow of His Majesty's father and brother's dynasty, and what if they still clinged to the idea that Your Majesty was crazy—your father's daughter, or for the sake of their own relatives who died during the war, and refused to answer the call?"

"We don't need or can get every Northern nobleman to raise an army to support us! As long as we have enough soldiers to hold Winterfell in the palm of our hands, and coerce Robb and Stark's army southward, and the Lord of the North openly supports us, even if his vassals do not respond to the call to send troops south, they will never rebel against the feudal lord and disturb their own territory. And that's enough!"

Iger closed his already open mouth and looked at Littlefinger in surprise—he had just wanted to answer that. I was used to being the head of the talk in the land gift, and suddenly came back to experience the taste of being robbed...... It's really weird. Seeing that Littlefinger's opposition to the eunuchs was so active and fast, it seemed that the two queen's important ministers were ...... The competition for "influencing Daenerys' ability to think" is still quite fierce.

I don't know, the two disagree with each other, is it really out of their own considerations, or is it just to go against each other more?

Without having time to think about it, Iger still searched his stomach as quickly as possible after the original lines were robbed, and pieced together some arguments, and put forward a clear position: "The north is fighting fiercely with the Iron Islands, and it is impossible to completely free up his hands, not to mention that it is a cold winter food shortage, and the huge army will turn logistics into a disaster." My suggestion is that as long as a few of the great nobles who are known in Westeros can symbolically send troops to support, plus the Stark army to gather two or three thousand to accompany them in the southern expedition, it will be more than enough. As Lord Varys has said, the North has a grudge against Your Majesty...... The Land-Granting Army, the Unsullied Army, and His Majesty's newly created Free Folk Legion are already quite a considerable army, and instead of forcing the northerners to recruit a large army with low morale to act as a burden, it is better to ask them to provide more food and grass and armaments!"

The soldiers and officers are not counted, and the other members of the royal front such as the gray bug are far away in the southern royal realm, in this Winterfell, Daenerys will listen and care about the only four people in this room - among them, Missandei is only loyal to the mistress and obviously has no intention of standing in line, so between himself + Littlefinger and Varys...... A 2-to-1 ratio has the upper hand. Seeing the Queen's thoughtful expression, for a moment, Iger felt that the topic of the North could be over.

But Varys was stunned for only two seconds, and then his eyes narrowed, and he had something to say.

"Indeed, if Your Majesty only wants to regain the throne, then he must quickly gather all his men and horses to kill King's Landing. But don't forget, your goal is to unify the Seven Kingdoms and bring a more stable and happy life to the people, and the northern border is also part of Your Majesty's Kingdom, as the first stop you have successfully won, if you rush to the next stop with just squeezing out supplies and forcing conscripts, will you be repeating the mistakes of Slave Bay?

Oops, let this old eunuch take the moral high ground first!

Iger himself was quite adept at this, and naturally saw through Varys's trick at a glance, but he had thought that this impromptu meeting was a private exchange between the queen and her loyal subjects on how to win the Seven Kingdoms, and that there was no need to be full of pretense of benevolence and morality, but only to be realistic...... Who would have thought that there was a troublemaker in the middle of the royal front, such a smart person as the octopus spider, and he would be so obvious that he didn't care about the stakes and just wanted to drag his feet, unprepared, and was caught off guard for a while!

What do the two places have in common with the North, and how can they be mixed up?Astapo and Yuankai became a mess after Daenerys left, because she eliminated the original ruling class and destroyed the original social structure without establishing new rules,[81 Chinese.com www.81zw.xyz] But no second nobleman perished in the North except for Amber's family falling to the mouth of the ghouls...... Robb, the head of the family, is safe and sound, and even if the several families loyal to him know that his allegiance to the queen is forced to be helpless, the most they can do is to shrink into the castle and refuse to fight for the restoration of the Targaryens—even if it is chaotic, where can it be?

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Egger and Petyr are bystanders, and it is effortless to figure this out, but Daenerys is the one who suffers from the inner torment...... In the moment when the two of them cleared their minds and began to organize their language to refute Varys, the Queen's mind had already replayed the two hells on earth caused by all the mistakes she had made in Slave Bay, and the tragedies of countless families were still vividly remembered as if they were right in front of her eyes, and a strong sense of guilt and guilt came together, making her objective reason and judgment all fly to the land of eternal winter.

"Your Majesty, these are two different things......"

"Alright!" Daenerys interrupted Littlefinger's anxious response, her gaze becoming resolute, "Varys is right, the North is also part of my kingdom, and I won't make the same mistake again, simply plundering supplies and recruiting troops and hurrying to the next stop." I will spend a little time here, listening to the voices of the nobles, learning about the sufferings of the people, and then conquering the next place when all the nobles and commoners of the North recognize my rule, recognize my identity, and are willing to support my ideals. ”

Then you guess it's going to be the beginning of spring or even summer...... Egger's eyes widened, he thought that 2 to 1 was enough for the minority to obey the majority, but he forgot that there was still a queen in this room, and he didn't expect that Varys only said lightly...... He made his monarch the biggest obstacle to his plans.

I wanted to argue again, but I thought that I had just joined the gang not long ago, and my qualifications were still young and the right to speak was not enough, and I had just used my "face" to get the queen to accept Stark's oath of allegiance...... is hesitating, and Daenerys has always done whatever comes to mind on a whim...... Even detailed orders have been given.

"Petyr, try to contact the Grey Bugs as soon as possible, and tell them to slow down and target King's Landing for the time being, and make preserving their strength the first priority. Varys and Egger, one of you who is well-informed and one who is familiar with the people of the North—the task of contacting the nobles and the natives, and reporting on their thoughts and mindsets, is entrusted to you. ”

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