Chapter 239: Pocket Country
"Well, I'm waiting for your good news. Melisandre smiled at Egger and turned to walk towards the tower where she lived.
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This is really a demon girl, and teasing her is simply asking for trouble. Looking at Melisandre's distant back, Iger couldn't help but think: if he hadn't been nervous just now, but continued to jokingly ask her to warm his bed at night, would she really come over?
Although age and identity are a mystery, what does it matter, men love women, what they do is **, not soul!
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Coming back to his senses, Egg smiled self-deprecatingly, he was actually made to lose by a joke from the red-robed woman. I really don't know whether to say that the Great Wall is too lonely, or if the lower body is really a man's weakness?
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Mance returns to the Shadow Forest to gather the remaining wildlings who are still alive. Egger, on the other hand, began to prepare for the new land-grantees...... The plan to relocate people to fill the land grant had already been put on the agenda when Bunyan Stark was still the Chief Ranger, and the Night's Watch had even officially proposed this idea to the Guardian of the North, but unfortunately...... In the end, he gave up because he couldn't solve the problem of the invasion and harassment of the savages.
This time, taking advantage of the reappearance of the stranger, Iger used the method of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, turning the original biggest threat to the land-giver into the land-giver itself, trying to solve the problem once and for all.
This method of resettlement and taming of the savages is actually to rebuild the land grant into a pocket-sized new country...... The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel, and although it is small, it is still indispensable to have a departmental organization. The savages and hill clansmen were certainly the cheapest and most accessible people, but the shortcomings were no less obvious: among the barbarians without an educational system, there were simply no suitable people to participate in the administration of the land-giving state after its establishment. In the end, the relevant candidates can only be selected from those nobles and employees of the Night's Watch industry who have volunteered to join the Night's Watch.
This is both a problem and an opportunity, and the Night's Watch has nearly a thousand members at the moment, among whom there are not as many people as Iger has brought from King's Landing to the north.
This means that in the event that the land grant is built in the future, no matter how much Mormont does not want Iger to further expand his influence and control, he will not be able to prevent the industrial employees who receive the latter's salary from entering the management base of the system. Not to mention...... For now, Mormont didn't mean to prevent Iger from doing so.
After all, the Night's Watch Logistics Department is nominally a subordinate organization of the Night's Watch after all, and Egger is one of the true Night's Watchmen. No matter how much he tosses and expands his power, the land that cannot be self-sufficient in food will eventually have to rely on the north to breathe and jump to the sky.
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The huge resettlement plan is in full swing on the Zengdi side, but something is wrong on the northern side. Winterfell had just sent someone to pick up Arya, who had run away from home, back to Winterfell, and Branstark had gone with him, along with Mera, the Nine Sisters and brothers, and the little giant Ado, all as in the original plot.
The Chief Ranger who heard the news had a strange expression: "What the hell is going on with the Stark family? Can't even look at their own children, a crippled little boy who ran away from Winterfell!"
Maester Aemon held the letter and said tremblingly, "That is what I said, but we have no right to accuse. The letter reads...... Before escaping, Branstark had expressed his intention to go north of the Wall, and Lady Caitlyn asked the Night's Watch to increase their patrols, and if they found any trace of the child, they would immediately take it to Castle Black or send it to the last Hearthplace City for protection. ”
"What about Winterfell's troops, not even a lame little boy can keep up?"
"As far as I know, the soldiers of Winterfell were redeployed to defend themselves against the Iron People, and the few remaining horses in Winterfell were released from the stables on the day Bran left. The dignified northern capital couldn't even muster a few cavalry at the critical moment, and even asked the night watchman for help. At this juncture, how can I lend someone to them!" Commander Mormont shook his head helplessly: "We are not responsible for that child's departure, we don't need to care too much, just keep an eye on it by the way." Egger, let the people in Houguan Town also pay attention to the whereabouts of those children. ”
Iger nodded, as promised. The Green Prophet finally made a move, with his means, to help Bran escape from Winterfell to the outside of the fortress, there are thousands of possible ways Winterfell people are not specially prepared to deal with it, it is obviously impossible to fight such a near-full-map eye-eyed being in the northern realm where the heart trees are everywhere. As for themselves...... Help Arya stop her brother?What are you kidding, he's already done a confrontation with the Green Prophet without knowing it, and he's even been marked. If you do bad things for him again and again, you won't know how to die.
For the sake of his life, he decided not to care about this.
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The wildlings began to assemble outside the gates of Castle Black, and Mormont drew soldiers from various fortresses along the Great Wall to prevent accidents, and Castle Black, the headquarters of the Night's Watch, finally gathered a four-figure force again after a hundred years. The Night's Watchman, who was tasked with investigating the truth of Mance's claims, was lowered from the top of the Wall and entered the camp of the savages.
The results of the investigation relieved Egger: for now, at least, there was no falsity in what Mance had claimed, the number of wildlings was almost the same, and the food stockpiles were indeed somewhat ...... The only thing that was a little beyond what the Night's Watch had planned was that the giants were outnumbered by the expected, and even after the bitter battles and the bad weather, there were still hundreds of them.
In order to ensure that the big guys passed through the Great Wall without threatening the night watch, the defenders of the Great Wall discussed and planned a lot, and finally moved a few ballistae off the top of the Great Wall, and made special arrangements for their passage, which solved this trouble.
Giants are not as huge as people usually think when they hear this word, they are usually about three meters tall, slow and clumsy, although they are more than a meter taller than ordinary people, but a ballista is definitely dead, as long as the number of giants passing through the Great Wall at the same time is not more than three, the night watchmen are fully capable of settling the problem in the event of an emergency.
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"Buy all our food?" Mance said with the help of reading the law that the night watchmen had spent days making, but questioned this one: "The freedmen don't want your copper plates, if you lack food, we will voluntarily pay a third, you don't need to force us like this!"
"An agreement is an agreement, if you don't agree, then the matter of passing through the Great Wall, let's put it on hold for a while. ”
"You ......" Mansred gritted his teeth and his shoulders collapsed, "Can't you stay at all, and what will we eat when we get to the settlement?"
"After the freedmen exchange their food for money, they can use the money to buy food again before they leave Castle Black, but only for a maximum of ten days...... In addition to food, clothing, daily necessities and other things, everything is available, which is definitely much more complete than outside the Great Wall. Iger shrugged: "If it's okay, you can go back and explain it to your people now." If that's fine, as long as you return to Castle Black as a hostage when you want, let the freedmen settle in the land through the Great Wall, and you can get started. 2k reading network