Chapter 281: Angry Heroes (I)
The chief logistics officer, who had been away for two months, suddenly returned, and as soon as he arrived, he stripped his shirts and sleeves, looked like he was about to fight, and ordered the brethren to come and watch! The news quickly spread among the towers and under the eaves of Castle Black, and countless night watchmen who had been, had not yet voted, or were preparing to vote came out of their houses and gathered into the hall and the election hall.
Time was urgent, Egger didn't deliberately wait for the audience to arrive, and walked straight to the "battlefield" with his own people. The news of his arrival was half a step into the house before the others, and the cellar, which had been quiet after a long day of buffering, was again lively: talking, swearing, laughing, mingling with the sound of banging on the table and stomping feet converged into a symphony of welcome.
Iger walks into the cellar and is the first to be seen by Piper, who is staring intently at the door, who puts two fingers in his mouth and whistles—a skill he has learned since he was a child in the theater class. The scream was like a sword cutting through the noise, and the hundreds of brothers who were still in the hall fell silent, and the silence spread through the room as quickly as the chill that poured into the room, until at last only the sound of Egger's footsteps as he walked down the stairs, his breathing, and the slight crackling of wood in the furnace.
Everyone held their breath and watched this upcoming clash between the bigwigs and the bigwigs.
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"Your Excellency, Chief Logistics Officer, you're back. Even though he understood that the visitor was not good, Sir Mellister greeted him with a smile, and politeness and politeness had become his instinct: "You have done a lot on this trip to the North. ”
"The logistics department is hindered from performing its duties, so I naturally have to come forward to solve it, and the call of duty is just nothing. Iger understood, and following the old man's freak words, the other party would accuse himself of interfering in the war between the North and the Iron Isles. He couldn't take the call, but had to strike first: "I'm so busy, but what the hell are you guys doing, I left for two months and didn't elect a commander-in-chief, and finally quit one after another to support a recruit who has only been a year with the Night's Watch?"
Carter Pike was not as polite as Sir Mellister, he snorted coldly, and his two little eyes glared at Iger viciously: "It's our own business who we want to support, you don't care." ”
"I don't care? you are choosing the commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch Legion, and I and the future leader of all the brethren in black will lead the strong shield of the Seven Kingdoms against the natural enemies of mankind, and it is a matter of life and death for everyone, why can't I care?!" Egg said word by word, slowly walking through countless long tables until he stopped in the front row, and raised his hand to Jon Royce from a distance of two meters: "You tossed for two months, and finally put out such a guy, what qualifications does he have to run for the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch?"
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After crossing into this world, Iger will try to be friendly no matter when, where, or to whomever he is addressed - in addition to the simple reasons of "making money with harmony" and "many friends and many paths", the more important reason is that his fortune is almost by fooling or "persuading" along the way. And if you want to get support and help from others through a mouth, you first need to be willing to stop and listen and think about what you are saying, and you obviously can't do this without being polite.
But Jon Royce is ...... He first "killed" one of his sons, and then took the initiative to show his face in front of King Robert in the Valley Counterinsurgency War and took the initiative to trap him on the Great Wall. The other party deliberately came to Castle Black with Carter Pike on this trip, just to snipe himself and find trouble for himself. It's just that he avoided his edge, hid out before the other party attacked, and suddenly returned at the moment when he was most caught off guard.
Since the two sides are destined to become friends, Iger simply does not spare any mercy.
He has to strike first, and a round of attack will spray him without the power to fight back.
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When someone pointed at him and said "not qualified", the clay man would also be angry, not to mention the old Royce, who had already regarded Iger as an enemy?
Emotionally, Jon Royce would love to punch the vile and shameless villain in front of him in the face and interrupt his rambling nonsense. But reason prevented him from doing so, and in the halls of Castle Black, the crowd of high-ranking officers and skeptics would make the situation out of control - the Night's Watch was a military organization, after all, and it was more disciplined than anywhere else in Westeros: quarrel, quarrel, but whoever made the first move would lose.
Jon Royce was tall, but he was getting older, and standing in front of Egger, he still looked a little shorter than him, which frustrated the old man's plans to win back the game.
"I'm not qualified? And what qualifications do you have—to say that others are not qualified?"
"You have to know how to cook to judge a chef's craft? I'm not running, I'm just questioning your abilities, what qualifications do you need?, but since you've asked this question, I'd be happy to talk about my qualifications!" But he can't take it lightly, the other party has already obtained more than half of the votes, and he must win a big victory to prevent him from becoming the commander-in-chief: "Since I became the chief logistics officer of the Night's Watch, I have brought more than a hundred recruits to the legion, provided more than five hundred gold dragons in cash, transported thousands of gold dragons worth of food, and no less than ten thousand catties of various meats, enough dragon crystal weapons to fill this hall!"
"One-tenth of the members of the Night's Watch Legion are now the Great Wall that I personally or sent to the Great Wall, and for the past two years, every brother in the Legion has been able to eat at least one extra meal a week with meat oil that I pay for, and even the lowest soldiers now have more than one change of clothes and shoes, as well as warm coats, thickened bedding, gloves, and boots...... These things, unlined and embroidered with the logo of the Night's Watch Logistics Department, not to mention the wildfires that I hauled from King's Landing and Backcrown to hoard in each fortress - my contribution to the Night's Watch is my qualification!" Egger stared at Royce's face, leaving no room for counterattack and roared, "Compared to the thousands of years of offerings from the North and the land-givers, what I have provided is only a small contribution, nothing to boast about. But all this I did, the Legion did not provide a single manpower, half a copper plate of support, everything was done by me alone. I am the Night's Watch Logistics, and the Night's Watch Logistics Department is me! I am the most qualified of the Living Night's Watch brethren!"
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The note Sam gave to Iger was a list of all the supplies that Egg had provided to the Legion after leaving the Wall for King's Landing, detailing every dragon, every pound of food and meat, every piece of clothing and weapons, and reminding Iger that he was going to shut everyone out with these irrefutable contributions.
If you count the elite of the Westlands who accompanied Jaime to the Wall, Iger did bring more than a hundred recruits to the Wall. Aside from the fact that this is exaggerated, all the data that follows is genuine, only a little more.
Jon Royce had planned to take the position of commander-in-chief today, so as to be invincible, and to wait for work, and how to do it. Although Sam's public knockdown in the morning ruined his best chance of winning the election, by the time Iger walked through the cellar door, there were still 800 votes for the winner, of which nearly 600 had been voted for him...... According to this trend, if the remaining 200 votes are not all cast for someone else, even if he abstains from voting, he will be elected commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch by the time the election is finished after dark.
Royce didn't expect Egger to return to Castle Black today, let alone make the slightest preparation to debate and quarrel with him, but the latter came prepared and specifically aimed at him, where could he parry in a hurry? He didn't know the authenticity of these data, he was speechless for a moment, and subconsciously looked at Carter Pike, the chief affairs officer who managed the warehouse of Castle Black and the commander of the East Sea Lookout, and saw that both of them were silent, and understood that most of them were true, so he was silent for a moment and thought about countermeasures, and then spoke again after a while.
"Your contribution to the Night's Watch cannot be overshadowed, but as Chief Logistics Officer, logistics is your duty, and while you provide logistical support to the brethren in the rear, we are fighting the front lines. Every brother who risked his life to guard the Great Wall has contributed no less than you!"
"The contribution of the brothers on the front line is not less than logistics, I do not refute this point of view. Iger shrugged, "But...... I would like to ask, Lord Royce, as a Ranger, how many patrols you have participated in outside the walls, killed a few wild raiders, how many Wraiths?
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(Iger used to be a Ranger too!)
Jon Royce was so annoyed that he had forgotten about it because he had been so dazed by a storm of verbal attacks that he had forgotten about it.
When he was sent to the Great Wall by King Robert for his "failed rebellion", the night watchman had already stopped his routine patrol north, how could he have a chance to brush up his qualifications? As for the strange ghost, how could such a wise magical creature be as stupid as a wild animal and wait for someone to kill him? In addition to the one that Iger killed, the following large-scale operations of the night watchman were only one of which was when the blind cat ran into a dead mouse and killed the second one by ambush.
After that, the ghosts rarely even showed their faces.
Strictly speaking, there are only two people alive in the world who have killed this, and zero has killed more than Egger.
Egger's contribution to the Night's Watch is immense, and no one can deny it. After leaving Castle Black for two months to avoid the limelight, most of the brethren had gradually subsided their resentment against the murder of Commander Mormont, and when they came back to talk about "contributions", everyone remembered him after being reminded of it.
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(Egger's sudden return caught everyone off guard, and no one could win this argument about contributions, let alone Royce.) Sir Mellister quickly realized this, and when he saw the Night's Watch of Castle Black coming in through the door, all of them to watch the show, he stood up and said, "Lord Royce has not been with the Night's Watch for long, and he has not yet been able to accumulate his achievements, but give him a chance to show his abilities, and he will be able to prove that he is a worthy commander-in-chief." ”
Usually, when it comes to this, people with a little sense and self-control are ...... will choose to go down the stairs and end the quarrel. But Iger is not going to stop, this is a winnable and defeated struggle, you live and die, you must not let a person who hates and hates him become the commander-in-chief of the night watch, there is no way back for himself.
"Will it be proven?" Iger looked away and returned to Sir Dennis Mellister, sneering: "Interesting, I'm curious, what great achievements has our Lord Yorne Royce done that makes you have so much confidence in him?" 'Bronze Yoon' is indeed famous in the Vale and the South, but how much of this nickname is out of respect for the second largest family in the Vale, and how much is a compliment to Lord Royce's own ability and ability?"
Sir Mellister remained unmoved: "This title is a testament to Lord Royce's loyalty and tenacity, as well as his martial prowess. ”
"Loyalty and tenacity, even if it is, but to put it mildly, I know many people from the North, and the most important thing in this icy and snowy ghost land is loyalty and tenacity. As for the martial arts...... Hmph, I've heard that the Royce family has an ancestral set of bronze armor that is thousands of years old, engraved with magical charms to protect the wearer from harm. Iger unceremoniously turned his head and continued to stare at Royce, walking to the front of the podium as he spoke, turning to face the growing number of black-clad brothers in the hall so that everyone could hear him: "I can't help but suspect that the so-called 'bronze Jon' may mean that he has such a set of bronze armor!"
Jon Royce's face was already flushed, and the veins on his neck were bulging, and one couldn't help but suspect that he was going to have a heart attack in the next moment. It is a pity that he is not Egger's opponent at all, and he struggled for a long time about how to fight back, and finally Sir Mellister stood up and criticized the speaker: "Lord Egger, it is extremely rude to make fun of other people's nicknames and speculations!"
"I apologize!" Egger did not hesitate to admit his mistake, which made the other party a little stunned, but he continued to pursue without stopping for a second: "But just such an ordinary lord who inherited Rune City as the eldest son, even relying on the blood gate to rebel, can fail and be exiled to the Great Wall, bringing the former second largest family in the valley to the declining old man, I really find it difficult to have confidence in his ability, believe that 'he will be able to prove himself to be a qualified commander-in-chief' nonsense!"
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"What's more!" he didn't give Sir Mellister a chance to dismantle, but turned to the hundreds of brothers in the hall and asked in a loud voice, "In the face of a crisis of great magnitude not seen in thousands of years, what we need now is just a 'qualified commander'?"
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