Disappointment at not being able to see Egg wake up immediately, Daenerys had the urge to "wait here for him to open his eyes" - he sat in front of the bed and waited with him, and he woke up from a coma and raised his eyelids to see himself for the first time.

For a moment, she wanted to do this, but reason finally stopped Dani from doing it.

She is the queen, and her status and social expectations do not allow her to stay at the bedside of a vassal like a kind old mother, a caring little wife, or a filial child...... This does not have any practical significance in the recovery of the patient itself, and will also lead to a significant reduction in one's own qualifications, causing the viewer to overjudge the importance of oneself to Iger, and greatly undermining the authority of her ruler.

After waiting for a moment to make sure that the person in bed would not wake up anytime soon, she finally got up and left, and returned to the Collapse with the Unsullied Guards to attend to other more pressing matters.

In this regard, Egg, who was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, was greatly relieved: it was a hard job to play dead without moving, and if Daenerys really didn't leave, then he would be uncomfortable. Now, everything is going according to plan - not only will he not "wake up" tonight, but he will remain in a coma for the foreseeable next two or three days. In addition to being the final link in this drama and making the poisoning more realistic, it is actually the same as asking Daenerys to bled to save herself...... With the help of some psychological tips, he subtly influenced and controlled the queen's thinking, so that he could assist her in her journey to unify the Seven Kingdoms more smoothly.

Asking the queen to come to her rescue is taking advantage of the Benjamin Franklin effect: people instinctively feel close to the people they have helped.

Leo Tolstoy described this phenomenon this way: "We do not love others because they are good to us, but because we love them because we are good to them." ”

Why does this strange phenomenon occur? Uncover the surface and explore the essence, in fact, what people love is not the "other" itself, but the cost of their own efforts and energy invested in the person they love...... This kind of investment is like a bet on the table, once you change your mind, all the things you threw in before are fed to the dog, and it becomes a "loss".

The instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm makes people averse to loss, so it leads to the tendency of people to continue to help and like people who they have helped or liked.

This explanation may seem a bit utilitarian and cold-blooded, but there is no need to argue whether it is "right" or not a rule of thumb rather than science, just to acknowledge that this seemingly counterintuitive effect is indeed prevalent in interpersonal interactions, and to learn how to use it.

Projected into the current situation, this effect is manifested as follows: after Daenerys was bled to save Egg, she invested care and attention in the latter, and she would subconsciously think that Egg should be grateful to herself and therefore loyal to her - this subconscious level of the concept seems to be formless, but in fact it is indestructible, but it is more practical than saying good words and showing how much loyalty, which can make Egger twice as effective and much easier when pretending to be loyal in the future.

Well...... To say that it is a bit of a "mole" to say that it is loyal, the truth is: as long as Daenerys does not learn from her dad to go crazy and does not brainstorm and make herself go back, Iger does not mind being really loyal to her.

And "pretending to be in a coma for a few more days" is using another very common emotional law: if you lose and regain, you must cherish it more.

Let Daenerys first experience the tension of the annihilation of important ministers, the loss of staff, and the heavy loss of entrepreneurship, taste the panic of losing the support of the prime minister, the intelligence director and the land grant in an instant, and chew on the bitterness of the lofty ideal of "breaking the wheel" and the verge of collapse in childbirth...... Let her begin to consider giving up her lofty goals, retreating to the second best thing and pursuing nominal unity, accepting Riverbend and Dorne's entry conditions to a greater extent, and even thinking about the feasibility of marrying Aegon......

When the little queen's paranoia began to fade away, and she was secretly mentally prepared for a bad ending, she woke up at the perfect time no sooner or later, and sent her to feel the wonderful taste of a false alarm and a lost recovery. In contrast, the previous unpleasantness will become insignificant, and the relationship between the monarch and the minister will be restored without making up for it, and even after showing his gratitude, he will become stronger and more harmonious!

Of course, it would be too much trouble to spend all this effort just to gain some favorability: after taking out Varys and Petyr, Daenerys actually had no choice but to rely on and reuse him. In this case, the difference between 70 and 75 is not so big that it is worth his special preparation for this. The real reason why Iger decided to take this series of measures was that he had other arrangements to track down the culprit.

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He himself is the real murderer, and the so-called investigation is naturally just a show to vent the queen's anger.

But even if you act, you have to play a full set, and Egger has a lot of brains in the selection of "planting targets".

There are many suspects who have been motivated to poison: the nobles of the North, Stannis, Prince Aegon Jr., and a bunch of slave city-states across the Narrow Sea that Daenerys is used to being opposed...... and one of his selfish additions: Luce Burton.

The last one was his favorite choice, for no other reason: the old skinning man was not only thoughtful, but also cunning and spicy, which made Iger jealous, and he had just taken hostile behavior towards the land grant - trying to play a trick to use himself as a gunman, who else would he take if he didn't take the knife?

But after a little calm thought, he rejected the idea. Now that he is doing the great things of seeking the country, he can't play like a child: if he sees who is unhappy or provoked by someone, he will be punished and will have to be put to death and then quickly-at least not before the fruits of victory are picked! And putting aside personal emotions and weighing the pros and cons, the facts are actually very clear and clear: if you turn your face with the Fortress of Terror, not to mention the loss of 2,000 guns and shields in an instant, in turn, you have to destroy this elite army first to prevent future troubles, and force against your own forces before the great cause is accomplished, and do all kinds of harm and benefit, is it really just a pleasure?

That's right, with the help of gunpowder, it would be easy for the land-givers to annihilate the army of the Terror Fortress...... But the idea was reversed from the start: before reaching the outskirts of King's Landing to join the Night's Watch Industrial Park and restart the nitrate-making plant to obtain a stable supply of raw materials, gunpowder was a more precious resource than soldiers, worth thousands of troops, so it could not be used on a target with no strategic significance!

It is the wisest choice to beat Luce Bolton, force him to lead the army to become cannon fodder during the war, and then use him as a pawn to balance the northern forces led by Stark after the war, so that the north of the neck cannot be twisted into a rope to fight against the royal government!

And without this option, all that is left is Daenerys will have to deal with enemies sooner or later, and it will be much easier to choose.

The nobles of the North were the object of unity for the time being, so they were naturally excluded first, and Stannis would send someone to poison and murder his opponent's vassals, which even Egg himself did not believe...... Excluding these, the final result will inevitably be a choice between Prince Aegon the Younger and the alliance of slave city-states led by Valantis on the other side of the Narrow Sea.

Which one is better?

He pondered about this for a long time, but the more he thought about it, the more he frowned.

What makes Iger embarrassed is not "which one to choose" - all of them are the same, anyway, collusion is not a good thing, and the big bosses behind it absolutely know each other even if they are not the same person; it is not "how to frame and plant false accusations" - just kidding, what is the trouble of wanting to add to the crime? As long as you are willing to use your brain, you can always forge evidence and make you speechless.

What worries him is that in this matter, Daenerys wants the "real murderer" rather than a random "scapegoat", which makes him have to be extremely careful. And the more he thinks about it and thinks about it in the long run, the more Iger realizes that no matter what he does, he can't achieve 100% insurance.

What is the most important thing in framing?

Let the framed person have no chance to prove his innocence.

And how to ensure that the framed person will not overturn the case, it is the safest and most thorough to kill people and die without proof...... But the problem Iger is facing now is that whether it is the slave city-states or the little Aegon with the support of the Golden Regiment, the foundation of power is far away, with a large number of troops guarding and a large number of staff surrounding and assisting. They weren't dead, and if Daenerys made a public accusation of "poisoning his vassals," the gang would deny it and try to get away with it.

If it is false, it cannot be true, and framing is framing and framing, and there will inevitably be loopholes and imperceptible blind spots, and no matter how seamlessly the design of perjury is, it will not become a fact...... What's more, Iger did it in a rather hasty manner this time and didn't have enough time to prepare?

Remove one group of obstructors and then transfer the pot to another group of obstructors...... It seems to be an amazing operation that kills two birds with one stone, but once something goes wrong in any link, the living "murderer" becomes an inconspicuous overturning point and a fatal breakthrough in this perfect drama, which leads to the failure of all the carefully planned, and it will be beyond Egger's remorse.

At this time, Cobain provided him with another line of thought: In this world, there is no one who will never open his mouth to cry out for himself, except for the "dead man" that everyone can think of.

People who don't exist!

Rather than throwing the blame on a particular hostile force and leaving a hidden danger, it is better to go with the flow...... Make it an unsolved case! Unjust, false and wrongly decided cases are still sometimes overturned and rehabilitated, but the cases are ...... Once the test of time washes away, it is difficult to "lose" some evidence and witnesses, and then try to turn it out and recrack it again!

The advantage of adopting this method is that it does not point to a specific force, there is no possibility of being refuted and overthrown, and the security is much improved in an emergency. And the shortcomings are equally obvious - the queen's two important ministers were poisoned under his protection, and he didn't find out the murderer afterwards, isn't this incompetence?

This is the real reason why Iger will be in a "coma" for a few more days: if he has neither participated nor directed the investigation, then no matter what the final outcome is, the damage to his image in the eyes of the queen will be much less!

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