Varys's heart skipped a pound - what if Stannis was burned to death in the Red Keep by a mouthful of dragon fire, Daenerys sat on the Iron Throne, and Aegon Jr. and the Golden Regiment?

They can't be allowed to carry out this program!

"Good plan, but unfortunately just taken for granted. Varys's tone was flat, but his words were not very merciful, "On a dark and windy night, although the defenders of King's Landing can't see the dragons flying on the sea, can Your Majesty cross Blackwater Bay and find the Red Keep accurately without seeing your fingers? Not to mention, since the day His Majesty returned to Westeros to take Dragonstone, Stannis and his royal ministers have quietly left the Red Keep and scattered and hidden in various temporary command posts in King's Landing. My little bird can rely on a variety of tracks to find and map most of these locations, but it is impossible to predict which of them Stannis will be on one day...... Even if he could, it would be tantamount to a fool's dream for His Majesty to ride a dragon to find these places that look no different from the dwellings from the air in the Great King's Landing, and then swoop down and breathe fire and burn them. ”

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Why was Varys able to serve two dynasties, yet he was always trusted by the rulers, and now he appeared in front of Daenerys as an uninvited guest, and was able to quickly integrate into his royal presence, and even Petyr, who was extremely defensive and disgusted with him, could not find evidence or a lever against him?

Because he is more clever, so clever that no one can grasp the specific evidence and handle of his crimes.

The pinky finger in front of him is the best example of contrast: Petyr Berish can be said to be brilliant in playing with power, and Varys is ashamed of himself, but even so...... He still calls him "the second smartest man in the Seven Kingdoms", why?

Because Petyr's play with power is still at the level of "art" - in layman's terms, it is to play all kinds of tricks.

And no matter how clever the tricks are, they will leave a trace...... Or rather, the evidence.

Varys, on the other hand, has always done one thing: to provide truthful, accurate, detailed, and often always useful information with immediate results.

That's right, it's that simple, but it's actually much more complicated to do: if Petyr's method is "seven points true and three points false", then Varys is "nine points true and one point left" - assuming that the information he obtains using the intelligence system is "1" or "100%", then Varys will use a series of carefully selected products that are so complex that ordinary people can never grasp that they can manipulate the authorities to act in the direction required by their own script Extract it and give it to the right person at the right time.

Yes, he hardly provides false information, and it is difficult for anyone to find evidence and traces of his falsification if anyone investigates the "90 percent" of the information he provides. But don't underestimate the 10% that has been intercepted and hidden: through clever editing, out-of-context quotes, and hidden cause and effect, Varys can portray a rebel who plans to rebel tomorrow into a loyal servant who will never be seen in a thousand years, can portray a virgin who is clean and self-righteous as a slut, and can orchestrate the most honest and upright man in the world to the point that anyone who hears it will want to hang him immediately......

What's even better is that if you don't lie, you will naturally save a lot of corroboration and aftermath work required for "round lies". That's why Varys was able to squeeze out more time, energy, and resources to build up a deeper momentum than Petil, and to design a grander and more sophisticated layout than Petil—as for those in power, they found out afterwards and asked why the "10%" of intelligence was missing? I'm sorry -- intelligence gathering is a heavy and laborious task, and there will inevitably be some mistakes!

And such an intelligence director who does not provide false information, once he mixes 1% of false information with almost completely true information, how keen and suspicious can he immediately detect the anomaly?

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"Forget it. Missandei blinked twice, and said quickly, "It's me who is not thinking well." ”

Stannis's caution has long been known, and it seems to be in his style to leave the Red Keep and hide in a hideout in order to win the war. Not to mention the little girl Missandei, even Petyr, who was arguing with Varys, didn't think twice about believing the eunuch's lies in an instant—he was thinking about how to convince Daenerys to attack King's Landing immediately, and he thought of a rhetoric.

"Letting the dragon go to war should be the last option. Petyr figured out how to break the sentence, and it was very simple - admit it, "But now is the time for you to make your final choice! Your Majesty, anyone can just find a Valylian boy of fifteen or sixteen years old, with silver hair and purple eyes, and claim that he is Aegon Targaryen, and push it to us in a vain attempt to reap the fruits of your sacrifice and adventure, I don't believe he is true!"

"Prince Aegon was indeed only a child when he was taken out of the king, and no one in Westeros could recognize him, and it was normal to question his identity. Varys swallowed quietly, glad that no one was present to continue to dwell on the plan to burn the Red Keep, "But Jon Clinton, who is now assisting him, is a well-known nobleman who served as Prime Minister of King Elise during the War of the Raiders, and there are not a few people who have seen him—far from mentioning, among the princes of the Narrow Sea Islands you have conquered, you will surely find nobles who recognize him." ”

Aegon Targaryen's identity is not afraid of any investigation.

This is the ultimate venture that Varys has planned for half his life to leverage the game of thrones and the ownership of the entire Westeros de jure theory, and it is also the most proud scam he has devised in his life: it is a scam, but everything in the game is true - the Golden Regiment is real, the Mentor Staff who groomed the prince to be the perfect ruler is real, Jon Clinton, the Hand of the Mad King, from the low-level soldiers to the prince's henchmen...... Even the prince himself believed that he was the real Aegon Targaryen.

With the exception of Illyrio, the governor of Pantos, and Varys himself, everyone in the world who knew that the prince was a fake was dead, and who could break down such a seamless deception?

"The Earl of the Vulten's Nest may be true, but what does that mean?" Petyr couldn't debunk this lie made up entirely of truth, but that didn't stop him from relying on the intuition of a good chess player to sniff out the conspiracy in it—he stared at Varys, feeling like he had found his opponent's exposed feet: "Allow me to say something heart-wrenching, Your Majesty." Even if that Aegon Targaryen is real, you can't wait for him to come. As the son of your brother Prince Rhaegar and the real Aegon Younger, if he lives, he will be ahead of you in line with the Targaryen Succession!

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It's honest, and it's the kind that's hard to get on the table. That is, Petyr relied on himself to be the "hand of the queen", a high position and trusted by Daenerys, so he dared to be so presumptuous...... But it was the big truth that really left Varys and his army speechless - after all, no one could refute the obvious truth.

He is worthy of being the second smartest person in the Seven Kingdoms, and he can think of the best way to speak to himself so quickly. Varys smiled bitterly, hiding his true inner activity, and he decided not to fight back, but to defend in a decent manner: "Your Majesty, you and your nephew are the only two Targaryens left in the world, in this case, do you still decide to engage in infighting?"

Petyr left no room in pursuit: "Your Majesty, if you recognize Aegon Targaryen as true, then your previous act of establishing yourself as king is a treason to usurp power. ”

"Your Majesty said that Aegon has not yet revealed his identity before the king, and it is understandable. I think Prince Aegon would be more than willing to forgive his aunt and marry her, and the two of them will rule the seven kingdoms together. ”

"Juji?" Petyr sneered, "Your Majesty, that Aegon is a man, and if you marry him, are ......you a queen or a queen? In addition, while I am personally aware of the marriage customs of Valyria, and understand that it is reasonable and legal for an aunt and nephew to marry within the dragon king's family, the people of Westeros are not all so reasonable! The Slave Legion's landing in Westeros has already aroused a strong sense of rebellion, and if you rush to practice the different ethics and laws of Valyria and Westeros before the great cause is completed, and prove that the Targaryens are different, it will greatly damage your career and reputation, and will make your path to unification much more difficult!"

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Daenerys Targaryen didn't say a word from start to finish.

This is the wisdom she has summed up in her short but tumultuous reign...... Before, whether it was with the assistance of Jorah Mormont or after Petyr Berishi found him and exposed the former's traitorous acts, there was only one person around him who could be called a leader. Now, at last, two people with wisdom, experience, and ability have gathered under his command to compete in front of the queen...... Rather than choosing to adopt one of the two opinions, Dani is more willing to understand and learn from the way of thinking of both by observing the process and patterns of their arguments, so as to enrich herself.

The first round was over, and both players were secretly gasping for breath and preparing more arguments and materials in their minds, but the sound of boots slamming on the floor could be heard outside the conference room.

"Your Majesty—Your Majesty!" reported a neo-freefolk soldier, dressed in full armor, with a slightly immature face and stammering in lingua franca, "fleets patrolling the open seas...... Intercepted a gray galleon coming from the north, with someone claiming to be guarding it...... The commander-in-chief of something, and a priestess of the Lord of Light. ”

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