Of course, Egger himself knows that saying that a certain king is "slapping a swollen face and making a fat man" is his own comment with strong subjective emotions. Robert Baratheon is now a real fat man, not to mention, but more importantly: he was born the eldest son of the family, and his education was completely different from Eddard since he was a child. If Ed's personality is "receiving", then Robert is "attacking" - then again, if both of them have strong personalities, they are unlikely to become close friends.

The supreme ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, this time he gathered his army and came to the valley, to say that it was ugly, he wanted to pretend to be a force, but from a political-political point of view, he wanted to take this opportunity to let the vassals fulfill their long-unfulfilled obligations, so as to clarify the relationship between the monarch and the minister in this not very peaceful era, and consider everyone's loyalty by the way...... It's just a matter of consolidating the rule.

After letting you nobles get away with it for so long, it's time to do some work.

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In the social structure of feudal lords, the relationship between feudal lords and vassals can be explained simply by a set of mutual obligations.

The feudal lord has an obligation to protect and maintain his vassals - the so-called "protection" is easy to understand, and Robert is fulfilling this obligation by gathering a large army to quell the rebellion in the valley, not only to rescue Lysa Tully from the siege of several counts, but also to give her justice (if it exists), and to "maintain" is to give the vassals a large enough fief and a large enough number of subordinate people to be able to support themselves by collecting grain and taxes.

What about vassals vs. vassals? There are two things to summarize briefly:

1. The vassal shall not harm the interests of the vassal - life, honor, property...... Interests in all senses, there is no room for word games here, unless you admonish in person, even if you just say a bad word about the feudal monarch behind your back, it is illegal;

2. The vassals must respond positively when the vassal encounters a difficult situation or danger and thus issues an appointment and a conscription, and Ed accepts the appointment to become the prime minister of King's Landing, and the princes respond to the mobilization order to gather a large army to quell the rebellion, all of which are fulfilling their obligations.

It's easy to summarize, but I can't write a book about how to implement it. One of the most important rules in this set of rules was Robert's reason for daring to launch this large-scale counterinsurgency even when the treasury was empty: the princes, when they responded to the military call to lead their troops to participate in the assembly, were to take responsibility for the weapons and equipment and food and grass of the troops they had gathered.

In other words—for the time being, Robert only had to bear the cost of bringing the army himself from King's Landing, and the remaining 30,000 men, and many more troops that would soon arrive, who brought them to feed them! It didn't matter if the king didn't have any money himself, as long as his vassals had money and were willing to answer the call.

This is not a scoundrel, this is how the society of feudal lords works, and as the eldest son of an aristocrat who was educated from an early age, Robert Baratheon was quite aware of the legitimate rights of a feudal lord - he was qualified to do so. Even if it is clear that the problem can be solved by means other than war, as long as you choose to fight, no matter how dissatisfied the vassals are in their hearts, they have to obediently answer the call, and whoever ignores the order will commit the great crime of disobeying the feudal king, and when the guy on this side of the valley is settled, he can go to the other side to ask for the guilt.

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Interestingly, the rebellion of several nobles of the League of the Righteous was also under the banner of "protecting the feudal", and in the statements of the founders of the League, they only recognized Jon Arryn's son Robert Arryn as the feudal, and now the feudal is staying with his mother, who is suspected of murdering her husband, and is in danger and needs to be rescued - it seems to make sense, the point of conflict between the mutiny and the rebellion is that Robert Baratheon believes that Lysa Tully, as the mother and guardian of the young Duke of the Vale, belongs to him and needs to be protected"Vassals", and the nobles of the Vale, such as Jon Royce, refuse to admit that the woman hiding in the Eagle's Nest has the status of "equal to a vassal".

The phenomenon of the public saying that the public is justified and the mother saying that the mother is reasonable can be seen everywhere in life...... In the end, who is right and who is wrong, it will be a good debate, but since one side has chosen war, then things become violent and simple - whoever wins is right.

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The Riverlands-Kings were stationed at the mouth of the valley in the Vale of Arryn, and both armies were encamped in their own line of sight, cutting down trees to clear their views, not crowding to prevent the possibility of surprise attacks or burning of the company's camp, and to ensure that they could take care of each other if the rebels came out of the valley to harass each other, if the other side dared.

In addition, Robert also arranged the hoarding of grain and grass near the intersection dozens of miles behind the battlefield, and divided thousands of troops to protect it, and this army could also be used as a reserve at critical moments.

No matter how much he despises Robert, the cuckold king, this guy born as the Duke and commander of Storm's End has a good idea of all kinds of basic strategic and tactical arrangements, at least Iger can't find any faults, of course, this is also the reason why he was not a military enthusiast before he crossed over.

Once the army had gained a foothold, they began to send scout messengers, on the one hand, to reconnoiter the battlefield and issue a document ordering the Alliance of the Righteous to surrender obediently to avoid being attacked by the sword, and on the other hand, to order the rest of the Vale families who had not participated in the mutiny to send troops to rescue the feudal monarch. Many families responded to the call, but instead of letting them join the coalition, Robert ordered them to go to the family territories of the core members of the League of the Righteous to surround and attack the rebel towns.

Although he did not directly participate in the "rebellion", the relationship between a bunch of nobles in the valley has always been complicated, breaking bones and connecting tendons, who knows if there are any traitors in this......? At this point, the beautiful arrangement of the cuckold king impressed Egger again, how could such an excellent general with troops become a king, another good part that was misplaced by fate!

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Although the Six Kingdoms had only arrived in two countries, Egger had already resolutely begun plans to visit the royal realm and many nobles in the Riverlands, most of whom had no interest in the chief logistics officer of the Night's Watch, only because Robert was in the army, and the Son of Heaven was not too arrogant to meet politely, and after a few words, he began to evict the guest eviction order. Over the course of a few days, only a handful of nobles were willing to delve into the Night's Watch estate depicted by Egger, and verbally agreed to visit King's Landing "if they had the chance" to visit it in the future.

Egger felt like a salesman running into a wall, but he wasn't discouraged - it was impossible to quickly build a deep bond with a host of nobles at first sight. As long as people are willing to meet themselves in front of the special identity of "night watchman with the army" and chat a few words, and they can recognize him when they meet him again in the future, the prototype of this "connection" will be initially established. And in this regard, he actually has many advantages: for example, he is probably the first night watchman that most nobles have seen in their lives, for example, he has an Asian appearance that is significantly different from the ancestors, Andals and Loynas, such as the rare plant fiber printed books in his hands, and a large number of new words and concepts in his mouth.

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The third force to join the coalition came from the north, numbering nearly 10,000 and was led by Robb Stark. The vast and sparsely populated northern frontier of Qianli was able to quickly gather 10,000 men for a small counterinsurgency and rushed thousands of miles away, and Robert himself appeared and rode several miles to meet his friend's son. Then there is the Western Army, led by Kaivon Lannister, the second in command of the Lion family, although the strength is also only 10,000, but it dwarfs the rest of the army in terms of its equipment and bright armor, and Iger has heard that more than a third of the soldiers of this 10,000 people are not temporary conscripts, but reserve troops who are trained in Lannisport on weekdays, which is a bit powerful.

Followed by the king's own family, the 10,000 troops of the Baratheon family in the storm, the commander is theoretically Lanli Baratheon, but as one of the king's own brothers, he is always by his brother's side, and the work of army gathering is all consciously completed by his vassals, so there is no need to repeat it.

There were 5,000 people in the Bend - as the only feudal state in the Seven Kingdoms with a population of more than 10 million, it was obviously disrespectful to have such a few people, but fortunately, these 5,000 were all genuine cavalry, and Randolph Tully, who led the troops, also explained that he did not send too many people because of the long distance, and he took the initiative to provide all the food and grass for the coalition army, so Robert finally accepted this statement...... As for the hanging place of Dorne, they were willing to send Prince Oberon Martell with a few thousand spearmen to save face, you know, even Aegon didn't conquer people when he rode a dragon!

The Iron Islands sent hundreds of ships, large and small, and more than a thousand sailors, and Iger only vaguely heard that the leader was a woman—and after thinking about it, it could only be the heir to the madman's mind, his daughter Asha Greyjoy. The soldiers who had seen her around said that she was a very attractive woman...... It didn't matter to the Night's Watch, though, and the only interesting thing was that the ships of the Iron Isles had taken the thousands of spearmen with them as they passed through Doon, allowing Dorne's army to arrive before the cavalry of the Riverlands without being fully equipped.

Counting the Dragonstone fleet and the Narrow Sea Lords' armies led by Stannis Baratheon, who had already arrived in Crab Bay, controlled Seagull Town, and surrounded Runestone...... Nearly a month after Egger left the king, the armies and nobles of the Seven Kingdoms were finally almost united. Now, the whole valley has been surrounded by sea and land troops loyal to Robert, and the entrance of the Arryn Valley is even more full of troops, more than 80,000 princes and soldiers are camped outside the valley mouth, and the flag flutters like a colorful forest.

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