"Huh-" Egger couldn't hold back, causing Asha to glare angrily.

Whatever the outcome of tonight's conversation, at least he'd found something to entertain - the story was wonderful, and I don't know how much time Asha spent conceiving and polishing. In order to get out of the current predicament, there is so much initiative in using one's imagination that Iger has almost forgotten the last time he laughed like this. Having given her a wonderful show to himself, Iger decided not to drive her away.

"You don't believe me?" Egger laughed, but the woman sitting across from him pulled her face down. Asha put down her upturned legs and sat up straight in her chair: "Do you also think that I am a woman, and I don't have the courage or ability to do such a big thing?" I used to think that the commander-in-chief was a broad-minded and eclectic person, but now it seems that I have mistaken you!"

"Ahem, sorry. ”

Egg smiled and apologized, he really wanted to be serious, but he couldn't. In any case, remind yourself in your mind that you are a time-traveler from the modern world, and you are ready to support a queen to ascend to the throne, and you should not engage in sexism...... However, if you don't believe it, you don't believe it, and the first feeling of the subconscious is that you can't rely on a few glamorous and beautiful slogans to reverse it. As a woman, half of Asha's prestige and influence comes from her blood and surname, and the other half is earned by her own actions - but it was her father who gave her the opportunity to perform first. In this hierarchical patriarchal world, it is extremely difficult for a child to create a lord's father, and it is even more difficult to replace him with a daughter.

Asha said that she was going to use a coup d'état to oust her father and become the lord of the Iron Islands, a story that was even more outrageous than Egger's "I am an adventurer from Caina".

Thinking of this, Egger was distracted, but he restrained his pleasure.

Of course, he couldn't forget: although the story of his coming from across the Sunset Sea was fake, the fact that a time-traveler came from another world was more mysterious than the story he made up. Who would have thought that when he was tied up and sent to Castle Black, he would become the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch four or five years later?

Asha's appointment as the lord of the Iron Islands is extremely difficult, but it is not completely impossible to achieve, he is only influenced by preconceived notions and prejudices, and he does not believe it when he hears it at the first ear.

"Then Miss Asha, can I tell me what your detailed plan was at the beginning?"

"Hmph, do you think I've lived twenty years and I'm playing with daggers, tomahawks, and men?" said Asha through gritted teeth, "Don't be a brainless robber and a fool who thinks with his lower body, I have far more friends and like-minded people in the archipelago than you think!Scholar Rodrik Hallo, the leader of Baylor Blackteth, and the Gubler family, the Merlin family...... Lots of captains and chieftains who lost loved ones in my father's first rebellion. Each family quietly hides three or five warriors and does not send them to the northern battlefield, but they can add up to a considerable elite, and then I, the heir of the Greyjoy family, will be the internal response, and it will be easy to blend into the weakly defended Pike City. By the time my father was subdued and forced to put on black to give way to me—before Abba's supporters could get the news that he had left the Yankees on the battlefield and returned to the Iron Islands, I had tied him to the Wall, recalled my loyalists, firmly controlled the islands, and prepared for a counterattack!"

(Your sister, why is it that everyone is planning to throw trouble at the night watch?)

Iger scolded in dissatisfaction, and now he really couldn't laugh. Resisting the urge to roll his eyes and think about it, he had to admit that this plan was only theoretically feasible, and he only intuitively didn't believe it, and because he didn't have a deep understanding of the factional composition and the balance of power within the Iron Islands, he couldn't find any obvious loopholes in Asha's words.

"Well, I'm sure you did have such a plan, but what about taking control of the Iron Isles, how are you going to clean up the mess of the already fought Northern Battlefield?"

"With peace. "I'll negotiate with Robb Stark, and if he cedes Cape and the Rocky Shores to me, the Iron Islands will have a truce with the North, and never again—"

"It can't be. Iger finally had something to say, and immediately interrupted the woman: "Even if you succeed in taking control of the Iron Islands through a coup d'état, you will have to deal with the internal worries of your father's supporters and the external threat of war in the north. If you can't sit in a stable position, you should be in a hurry to make peace, how can the north cut land and reach an agreement with you?"

"For the land that was taken away from the north is still from the north. Asha raised her head, "The terms of my negotiation for Robb are that I honor him as King of the North, and he recognizes me as the Baroness of the Iron Islands. Then I will bow to him and lead the Iron Islands under his rule as part of his Northern United Kingdom. If he has the prestige and connections he has been legendary, and most likely he can get the Riverlands and Vales to leave the Iron Throne and pledge allegiance to him, and if all goes well, the new northern kingdom will be born with more than half of the Seven Kingdoms, the most warlike army and the most powerful fleet. No one in the known world will be powerless to force him to change his decision!"

Egger raised his eyebrows in surprise, and just wanted to blurt out a nonsense, but immediately realized that it was actually himself who was wrong: Westeros was not the Celestial Empire, and there was no concept and consciousness of great unity, let alone the habitual thinking that "splitting is an unforgivable sin". The Stark family was already king, and was forced to become a vassal due to the strength of Aegon the Conqueror - and now the Iron Throne has no dragons to maintain its deterrent power, and the North has fought for Stannis repeatedly without getting any benefits, and even the family was almost wiped out by accident, and the upper and lower levels have long been dissatisfied......

Under these circumstances, independence from the Iron Throne makes perfect sense and does not conflict with Robb Stark's integrity, which is a constructive proposal for the "Northern Kingdom" and a voluntary requisition to facilitate the project...... Who can resist this temptation?

No one!

The Three Northern Kingdoms are neutral, and Stannis, who only controls the royal realm and the Stormlands, and has verbal support from the West, is simply unable to suppress the Riverbend to destroy the Golden Order, and it is equally difficult for little Aegon to destroy the good fighter without a dragon and even after losing the battle. If Daenerys doesn't show up, Westeros will probably split into three or even four parts, northern, central, and southern, and it will be stable for a long time......

And no matter how you count it, the Northern Kingdom, with Robb Stark as the king, will be the strongest of these three or four forces!

Looking at Egg's expression, Asha understood that she had finally shocked him, and immediately struck while the iron was hot, and continued to brainwash: "Although Hailongjiao has no resources, it has dense high-quality pine forests, which are excellent raw materials for shipbuilding, and the rocky coast has fertile black soil, but no one dares to cultivate it because it has been plundered by the iron people for thousands of years. These two pieces of land are just a sparsely populated and dispensable idle area for the North, but they are a treasure trove and granary of great value to the Iron Islands! With them, the Iron People can support themselves by shipbuilding, selling ships, fishing, and farming without having to plunder everywhere, and the Iron People who settle in this land are also the best hostages for the North - if the Islands change again, the Starks only need to send a large army to recover these two lands, and they will not even need a boat!"

"Yes, the sea monster's reputation for fickleness has long since spread throughout the Seven Kingdoms, and Robb will still doubt my sincerity. So, I'll be part of the bargain - an unmarried, childless, good-looking, young and healthy Baroness of the Iron Islands! With the rumored integrity of the Starks, Robb would probably not divorce his wife and marry again or accept my offer to be his lover, but it doesn't matter, I can accept the marriage he arranged for me...... I've even considered the candidates: isn't the current patriarch of the Glover family, Gabbert Glover, still unmarried? Stark carved out a piece of his family's territory for the Iron Islands, and it wouldn't be a disadvantage to him if he returned a wife!"

......

After a moment of silence, Egger came to his senses.

"Admittedly, it's going to appeal enough to anyone from the North. If I were Robb, I would definitely accept it. Iger reluctantly found a loophole in Asha's plan: "But here's the problem, you orchestrated a coup d'état to remove your own father from power and ascend to the throne yourself, just to bend your allegiance to the Stark family, and even marry yourself into the North? Will the inhabitants of the Iron Isle follow a kneeling man who bows to the king of the North, and accept the wife of a nobleman from the North to rule them? Also, what do you want to do with your big chase operation, and you don't get much benefit but fatten the North?"

"Inside the Iron Islands, I have my own way, and I don't need you to worry about it. As for the figure...... Do you think it's normal for everyone in the world to be greedy for power and status, and to be selfish and only think about themselves in everything they do? I don't care about the ladies of Iron Island, the lord of Pike City, the glory of the Iron People, and all that kind of bullshit, what I want is to free my people from the chaotic life of bandits, so that they can live and work in peace and contentment, and no longer have to run around the world in the wind and rain on the top of a long boat without a roof, and rely on the knife to lick the blood to fill their stomachs! As long as I can achieve this goal, I will not regret that the whole world thinks that I am a weak and bullying coward, a female cousin who can be ridden, and a bastard who has ruined my ancestral business!"

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Egg stared at Asha for a moment, almost reaching out to applaud.

Wonderful performance, he now fully understands the other party's whole flickering train of thought - this is a three-stage step by step, step by step:

The first step is to clarify her relationship with her father and the other iron people, and show that it is really helpless to raid and invade the north, and it is not what she wants—I am not an enemy;

The second step is to tell Egger that "I still have friends and influence in the Iron Islands" in a seemingly unintentional way, which is not useless—I am useful;

The third step is the same as Egger who made himself a "Comrade Geming" in front of Daenerys to gain trust - throwing out a grand and noble goal, telling him that he is actually a good young man with ideals and ambitions, in order to win trust and closeness on a subconscious level.

This set of operations is simple to say, but it can be executed so smoothly and clearly without any traces of deliberateness that it takes a lot of preparation to let Egg perform it. But once it was completed, the effect was quite obvious: with such a few layers of foreshadowing, it would be difficult for Egger to refuse whatever Asha asked for in the future.

He was just thinking about seeing what flowers could come out of Asha's mouth, but after chatting through the conversation, he was almost moved for a moment. The packaging advertises itself, and the most powerful thing about this trick is that the cost is extremely low, and it is easy to impress a specific group of people. And others want to overturn your role creation, but they have to really find evidence that your words and deeds are inconsistent or even relative, otherwise if you just say that you are hypocritical and that you are acting, it will fall in the eyes of onlookers, it is a dirty heart and a gentleman's belly with the heart of a villain.

Iger didn't care if those stinky, hard iron people lived or died, but he couldn't say it in the face, because he set himself up as a person like Daenerys - a man of all ideals who wanted to break the wheel for the benefit of all mankind.

He also scoffed at Asha's statement that "I don't care about personal honor and disgrace, I just want my people to be happy", but after a little recollection, he really couldn't find out what Asha had done that didn't conform to human design, and it was impossible to tear off his face and say bluntly, "I don't believe it, I think you're a female pirate leader......

Ben just wanted to find a pastime, who wanted to get it to the end, and was really caught by Asha.

What's next?

Familiar with flickering, it is naturally handy to flicker, and Egger was silent for only a moment before he had an idea.

He smiled, put down his arm on the arm of the chair, sat upright, looked completely persuaded by the persuasion, and asked the question he had already guessed the answer to: "Lofty ideals, Miss Asha." Excuse me, I can help you lead the Iron Islands to a better tomorrow...... Do something?"

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