Egger was pondering, but Petyr didn't wait for him to think about it, and revealed the answer to himself.

"What makes me wonder is the 'marriage' - what does Braavos have to do with that little Egon, as for the two million gold dragons plus the 'approval of the free trade city-state' as a bargaining chip to pressure the queen to try to bring about this union?" Littlefinger's tone was as cold as the weather, "My first reaction at that time was: the Iron Vault must have negotiated terms with little Aegon, and the queen would not agree to the conditions, and the 'prince' had already recognized them all, and only owed them to be honored when he became king." He overdrafted and betrayed Westeros' national interests in exchange for the support of the free trade city-states. ”

It's a normal train of thought, anyone with a little brain can think of it, Iger nodded silently, waiting for the next words.

"If that's all there is, then it's just that these money lenders are too treacherous to accuse the little prince of being shameless—after all, with his disadvantage, there is no way out without it. But another thought that followed gave me the creeps. He leaned close to Iger and whispered in a heavy tone, "I looked back at it at my leisure, and it occurred to me that only a father would be willing to bleed so much for his son's marriage. Is it possible...... The Iron Vault wasn't 'just negotiated with little Aegon on terms', but was his 'father' from the beginning? This 'prince' was just a boy with Valyrian blood who Braavos randomly picked out to be a puppet, or even the biological child of a powerful man? Did Varys and his companions hidden in the shadows want to swallow all of Westeros in one gulp in this way, and make the Seven Kingdoms a backyard for free-trade city-states to harvest resources and extract money? Could it be, this is the fact that little Aegon has never had any presence for more than ten years, but as soon as he appears, he can immediately leave and right...... What is the real reason why you have a lot of money to spare, and you have the help of a strong army like the Golden Regiment, and you have no trouble gaining the approval of the Free Trade Castle?"

"It seems, there is some truth ......"

A large number of rhetorical questions fell down, Egger's pupils dilated slightly, and the hairs on his body stood up. It's not because of Petyr's whimsical but terrifying speculation - in fact, he has long had similar suspicions, but because: the same idea, he can only be summed up by relying on the amount of information of the traveler and the advantage of the God's perspective of the original reader, but the little finger in front of him is forced to be the identity of the indigenous person of this world in the game, relying on some subtle clues, he deduced a seven, seven, eighty, eight!

What kind of intuition does this require?

......

What Iger didn't know was that even Petyr himself didn't quite believe in this extreme inference, and went out of his way to talk about it, more with the idea of "exaggerating the horror of the enemy in order to bring this 'anti-Varys alliance' closer together" than a reminder or warning.

But after saying that, seeing Egger stunned, Littlefinger said that the commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch was frightened by his own speculation, so he had to quickly add a few words of comfort: "Don't be overly nervous, the above is just my most extreme conjecture, and the actual situation is not necessarily that bad - even if there is, just remember this: you and I join forces, and there is no problem in the world that is not equal to the enemy." ”

Iger put away his surprise and nodded in approval, and was about to say something more, when several angry men passed by the two of them and the guards, and the scolding voices in their mouths were so loud that they could be heard clearly from several meters away. The Night's Watch closed his lips for the sake of secrecy, but when the small group passed, he suddenly realized two things: first, he seemed to have heard a few insulting words about Daenerys, and second, he did not recognize them from their clothing features.

"Who are those?"

He was alerted: Winterfell was either his own Blackcoat or Queen Daenerys' Unsullied, and he knew the rest of the Stark family, and there shouldn't be strangers—especially strange strangers.

Littlefinger apparently heard part of the content as well, and snorted coldly: "It's just a bunch of despicable pirates, don't mention it." ”

It turned out to be the Iron People, and now Egg remembered that Winterfell had recently received two groups of uninvited guests, one from the Braavos Iron Vault in the east, which he had seen, and the other from the Iron Islands in the west, who had come under the banner of peace and claimed to negotiate—but the Queen herself was not her royal ministers, and he didn't know what the hell he was trying to do.

If you have a question, you can ask, and it is the hand of the queen standing next to you.

"Why did they come to His Majesty, have you heard of it, Prime Minister?"

"If you don't ask, I'm going to tell you. Littlefinger put away the nervous expression on his face when discussing the Iron Treasury and Varys, and a look of obvious sarcasm and contempt appeared on his face, "It was a messenger sent by Euron who gave the queen some kind of gift, and His Majesty began to think that they had come to pay allegiance, and was quite happy until they made a request." ”

"Request?" Egger wondered.

"They have announced that as long as His Majesty is willing to marry Euron Greyjoy, King of the Iron Islands, the Islands will give up their legal status as Stannis and instead fight for the Queen with Westeros' strongest navy. Littlefinger shrugged: "After Your Majesty politely refused, the idiot who took the lead asked her to think about it...... There was a threat between the lines. The Queen was annoyed, and ordered them to leave Winterfell to-day—'If the people are still there tomorrow morning, they won't have to go,' Your Majesty's words. ”

"Ahh......h However, this is still their own fault.

How nice would it be if every enemy was so stupid?

With an iron word in the same name, the performance of the two groups of "Iron Islands" and "Iron Vault" is simply the difference between heaven and earth.

The Iron Vault's request is certainly unpleasant, but even a capable person like Petyr and a traverser like Egger have to think carefully, why do people have this capital! Braavos's own strength is already not to be underestimated, and through diplomacy and economics, it can also have a decisive influence and control ability on most of the known world, so to speak, the entire external environment of Westeros.

But what does Crow-Eyed Euron have?

The notoriety of a madman, and the strongest navy in Westeros?

It is true that the Iron Islands have the strongest water power of the Seven Kingdoms, but it is built up by numbers and human lives, and it has no gold content, and the reason why it can win many battles and make the major forces deflated is just because the former are busy with the civil war on the mainland and have no time to take care of it. Not to mention Egger's cross-era artillery ship planning, just any place in the river, the storm, or the west or even the north, if you are willing to leave other disputes and concentrate on developing the navy and it to the death, with the advantage of size, only the ships and weapons of the same era can fight with them......

is such a small place where there is nothing, instead of quickly standing in line and swearing allegiance to which side, the toad still wants to eat swan meat, in a vain attempt to pry the entire political situation in Westeros, and swallow the Seven Kingdoms in one bite...... Daenerys is not the Cersei who was trapped in King's Landing in the original story, she has a lot of good cards, and she has been brainwashed by herself and is ambitious to do something big, so it's no wonder that she can give them a good face.

But then again, no matter how unpopular the Iron Islands are, after all, they are also a force, even if the "King of the Iron Islands" is a pseudo-king to anyone, he is also an island owner, and he sends a negotiation envoy with a little cultivation and the city government to show his kindness and affection, even if Daenerys looks down on it, he will never directly order the expulsion like flipping the table. But...... Just by feeling the quality of the Emissary Regiment from a distance, Egger could imagine how this group of rough people provoked the Dragon Queen.

There is such a huge force behind the iron vault, and when you want to coerce and lure the queen, you still know to send professionals, through important ministers like herself and Petyr, and hide the threat in a bunch of subtexts, these guys are good, they don't even bring a bachelor, and stupidly go straight to the queen, so to die, not to be tied up to bathe in dragon fire, it is rare for Daenerys to keep her sanity.

After a brief period of relaxation, Iger quickly thought of another thing.

Since Euron was still able to send someone over to propose marriage, apparently not dead, what happened to Asha, who had led two of his subordinates earlier and brought a bunch of equipment and swore that he would kill him?

Did there be an accident on the way home, was he caught while implementing the plan, or did he suddenly feel like he didn't want to be a family killer when he walked halfway home......

Littlefinger didn't know that his allies had secretly "sent" the Assassins, so he took advantage of Egger's thoughts and took out a piece of something beside him, interrupting the other party's thoughts: "Whether it's the Iron Vault or the Iron Islands, these are all opponents that we need to worry about later, but there is a problem happening right now...... It needs to be addressed urgently. Petyr said as he handed the things in his hand to Egg, "This matter is of a special nature, and it is inconvenient for me to come forward myself, I am afraid that I will have to bother the commander-in-chief." ”

When Iger received it, he found that it was a piece of paper full of wrinkles, and when he opened it, it was densely filled with words, and he hadn't even started to read a word, but an inexplicable sense of familiarity came to his face.

He opened the piece of paper completely in front of him, beckoned the guard with the oil lamp to come closer, and began to look at the contents in the orange flames.

[My name is Xiufu, and I served as an attendant to the late Prime Minister Jon Arryn for many years, and when someone sees this note, I must be dead.]

......】

After reading the first line, Egger's heart almost went into shock.

He didn't need to read the rest of the content, he could memorize it all - for no other reason, every sentence and word on it was made up and written by himself, which was exactly what he did to protect the nascent Night's Watch industry from dying in war...... Crookedly, with the power of rumors, he successfully forced the Littlefinger of the then Chancellor of the Exchequer to escape from the props used in Westeros as a small soldier.

Years have passed, and after many twists and turns, how can Petyr still have this note in his hand?

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