Chapter 128: Plan Ahead
Iger felt a hard slap in the face.
Just now, he was still pointing out the country and scolding Fang Xuan, and he was full of ambition to plan the future of the Night's Watch Industry and the Logistics and Security Department, preparing to farm in peace and ease in this world, and to get promoted and raise his salary by learning from the Knights Templar, and reach the pinnacle of life...... Who knew that the next moment, I suddenly learned the news!
I know that it can't be so smooth, this is the world of Game of Thrones, and I am in the center of the storm, how can it be so good - other players tacitly give you time to comfortably engage in finance and build an army?
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The power of rumors, Iger has just finished teaching, and whoever wants to use this method will be learned by others in a blink of an eye. The last time he threw down a few notes, he finally forced the Chancellor of the Exchequer to defect and triggered a counterinsurgency war involving seven countries and nearly 1,000 casualties...... This time, the truth and explosiveness of the content of this "rumor" can greatly exceed the one I made up, what kind of consequences will it cause in the end?
Iger didn't dare to think about it.
Who put out these notes?
Littlefinger is already far away on the other side of the Narrow Sea, could it be Varys? But what good is it for him to mess up the Seven Kingdoms so quickly, the chaos starts early, and it will end early, what if the Targaryen family gathers an army to counterattack Westeros, and the internal fighting between the Seven Kingdoms has already been decided?
It can't be that there are other traversers doing something, right?
But soon, Egg discovers a more important question than his own farming plan or the identity of the rumor-monger: "Why are you still here, why don't you hurry back to Kaiyan City?"
"I can't bear it, it's the first time I've found such a fun thing as engaging in 'finance'. The dwarf grinned and said, "Of course, the real reason is that Robert is not there, and if he hadn't gone to the valley to quell the rebellion, my most precious head would have been hung on the gun by the wall of the Red Keep." ”
"That's nonsense, Robert is now waiting for Lysa Tully to come down the mountain, and the Eagle's Nest is running out of food, and he will get that madwoman back to King's Landing ......at any time!
"He's going to behead everyone in King's Landing with the Lannisters, you don't need to tell me. Luckily, I was able to find out who was spreading the rumors through my investigation......" Tyrion grinned, "After Petyr Berissie's defection, all of his assets were confiscated by Eddard Stark in the name of the Iron Throne, and some of them were auctioned off, and I just happened to buy the brothel he left behind at a low price with the idle golden dragon in the Night's Watch chain. And then...... The first time I went to inspect it, I found a lot of interesting things. ”
Iger breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the rumor-mongers had been identified, and a question suddenly popped into his mind - can a brothel belonging to the Night's Watch assets be called a Night's Watch brothel for short?Please, Tyrion, can you not be so good at playing, he rubbed his head, "For example?"
"This brothel is the tool he uses to gather intelligence, and there are all kinds of eavesdropping and surveillance holes in the wall, and the prostitutes are his spies. Tyrion said, "After picking up this small but well-equipped intelligence agency, I asked the prostitutes to help me find out who had thrown these notes around, and they told me that Littlefinger had returned to the brothel once before leaving King's Landing for Braavos, and had a few of his pimping men arrange for it." ”
But Littlefinger has always been careful in what he does, why is he so imprudent this time, by the way, he was in a hurry before leaving, and he had already decided not to come back, so naturally he didn't have time to think about it so much...... Egger gritted his teeth, and couldn't help but have a sentence in his head: If you don't die if you fight a tiger, you will leave a disaster, and you should have found a way to kill him in the first place.
Of course, this can only be thought about as an afterthought, not to mention that he had nothing when he first arrived at the king a few months ago, even today, with the fledgling night watch industry, can he kill a well-informed minister who lives in the Red Keep?
"Did you catch the people who threw the note?"
"Of course I caught it, otherwise you really think I'm stupid if I don't run?" Tyrion shrugged: "Obviously, those notes last time couldn't have been released by Littlefinger himself, but should have wanted to bring down one of his opponents, and this time he fought back in the same way, it should be-for-tat revenge, but I don't understand why he picked on my brother and sister...... My two brothers and sisters don't have the brains to do that, and besides, whoever Cersei and Jaime want to do will definitely die, and it is impossible to use this method. ”
The analysis was completely correct, and one of Tyrion's opponents smiled bitterly, not knowing how to answer for a moment.
"Anyway, as long as everyone sees a big person unlucky, they feel happy, who cares what the hell is going on. I have to say something, Egger thought about it and reluctantly answered: "Who did you give the person who caught it?"
"As the younger brother of the accused, of course I want to avoid suspicion, and after finding out the situation, I directly sent the news to an acquaintance in the capital garrison and asked him to lead troops to arrest him. After they caught the person, they handed it over to Ed...... Our conscientious and good prime minister was quick to spread the rumors, but unfortunately, most people didn't believe it. ”
The two walked and talked, and soon approached the small watchtower. Tyrion continued to complain about the predicament he was facing: "The same note appears twice in a row, and many people have the illusion that the same person is responsible for these two events, this guy is a chivalrous man who administers justice and exposes the absurdity and ugliness of the 'big men' in the Red Keep so that they can be punished...... Ed came out to refute the rumors and announced that Littlefinger was responsible, but everyone thought that the prime minister was covering up the scandal for the king and queen...... Alas. ”
Who has this kung fu, the initiator frowned: although the person who spread the note was caught, this matter is far from over, the Baratheon family has been black-haired for generations, and the three princes and princesses are all blonde-haired, just like breaking the blood gate can take a detour—not to mention that no one can afford it, once it is brought up, it will immediately be used as a talking point, and it will be talked about by King's Landing and even the people of the Seven Kingdoms.
The father is dark-haired, but the child is blonde, so it must be the product of the chaos between the mother and her own brother. Of course, this kind of judgment is not logical and scientific, and the problem is: such an erroneous judgment method has reached a correct conclusion!
In order to get revenge on Robert for marrying her, Cersei still thinks about Lyanna, so she decides to let him die - she calculates the sowing time to determine whether the child she conceives is likely to be Robert's, the cuckold king who loves to drink and pick wildflowers rarely touches the queen, and Cersei is good at satisfying her husband in ways other than 'inside'...... After more than ten years of marriage, Robert only succeeded in getting Cersei pregnant once, and this time, she was beaten by the queen with medicine...... Since Cersei concludes that Joffrey, Tomman, and Messira are all Jaime's children by counting time, there is a good chance that it is true!
Although the identity of the "rumor-monger" was discovered, Cersei and the Jaime siblings were unable to prove their innocence...... In case Ed or Robert is suspicious of this, go through the information to find the hair color of the descendants of the marriage of Baratheon and Lannister in the past generations, and several of the parties involved are all messy lords who do something ridiculous...... His own farming plan is affected by small things, and there is a civil strife in the Seven Kingdoms, and he is also involved in it, which is the real trouble!
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Although Tyrion walked slowly on his two short legs, the distance was not far, and the two of them finally approached the small watchtower, the building was newly built, and the contrast between the footprints and the wood on the staircase around the outer circle was so stark that it was estimated that no more than double digits of people walked by.
"Go upstairs, just listen to the rest of the words, don't say it. Tyrion took the first step and began to climb upstairs, "Although it has been proven that this rumor was maliciously fabricated by Littlefinger, ...... How to say, my brother and sister have always been close, and now that I think about it, even I feel a little abnormal. It's not really the truth of the note, it's the point, whether Ed and Robert will be affected by it?"
"It's hard to say. Iger said honestly, didn't he just want to stop him from continuing to induce Ed to investigate the matter, but now that this layer of paper has been pierced, in case Ed plans to investigate it himself...... I thought that after taking Petyr away, I could be safe to watch out for Varys, but who thought that in the end he would be put on the front foot, the night watchman took a deep breath: "My suggestion is that you go back to Castle Rock City to avoid the limelight." ”
"Agreed, but the fact now is that so much has happened in the two months you've been away, and the Night's Watch industry is now almost inseparable from me. Therefore, I am going to use this time now to hand over the resources and connections in my hands to you, and arrange everything properly...... In this case, if the wind is not right, I can pat my ass and go back to Kaiyan City immediately. ”
This is to take precautions and do the work handover in advance. Egger genuinely enjoyed the feeling of having a god teammate, but after all, this matter was related to Tyrion's life, and he couldn't keep him: "That's fine, you've paved the way for me, if I can't even keep the family business, then just go back to see the Great Wall." ”
"Haha, I think so too, but things are not so exaggerated, as long as you can use people, what you have to do is not as difficult and complicated as you imagined...... Without further ado, let's go to the top of the tower first, take a look at our family business, and then let's talk. Whew—it doesn't look tall, why are you so tired from getting up?"
The watchtower is not high, and it looks like a four- or five-story building by sight, and the height is no more than twenty meters...... But it wasn't easy for a dwarf to climb up, and it took a few minutes for Tyrion to start panting before the two of them finally reached the top.
In the east, the blood-colored comet still hangs high in the sky, bright red, and in the west, the sun is close to the horizon and is shining brightly...... Leaning on the railing and looking around, you can see everything in the Night's Watch Industrial Park.
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