"The Commander-in-Chief took a few of us to the village of the 'New Landholders' near the place where Miss Merallid was almost taken captive, and to investigate who had done it. The Rangers who accompanied Mormont at the time of the incident faced a group of high-ranking Night Watch officers, nervously recalling what had happened: "At first everything was normal, although the villagers would run out of their burrows and tents to watch, they would just stand at a distance and look at us coldly, and then answer nothing when the Commander asked...... But then, I don't know who shouted, 'The old crow who ordered the door to close is here,' and the scene changed dramatically. The villagers who had been watching from afar gathered around at once, shouting something like 'don't let him run' and 'pay for his life', and at that time, a few of us noticed that something was wrong, and we were ready to cover the commander to return to the Long Night Fort first, but who wanted to go back not far before a stone flew over......"

"It seems that it is our commander-in-chief who is not responsible for wearing a helmet. In the future, the Night's Watch will have to be fully armed and on the highest alert on their own territory, right, Chief Logistics Officer?"

Bovin Marsey's bizarre questioning made Iger completely unprepared to fight back, and the impact of Mormont's accident on the whole plan was almost devastating: his radical plan had far more opponents than supporters, and it was only because of Mormont's support that it was successfully implemented all the way...... Now, the leader of the legion who stood on the side of the radicals was killed by the savages he personally ordered to put in, how could he whitewash the savages?

How many conservative night watchmen would secretly scold Mormont as "deserved"? and how many night watchmen would use Mormont's death as material and weapon to attack their own land grant and resettlement plans?

"Pay for your life?" Egstrong suppressed his panic and asked expressionlessly, "Is the village where Commander Mormont went one of the last tribes to be put in on the day the ghouls attacked?"

"It seems like yes. ”

As soon as Egger asked, he remembered that he was present when the resettlement plan was carried out, and it was precisely because Mormont and he considered that on the day of the ghoul attack, there were people from each tribe who passed through the Great Wall who were locked out of the gate and sacrificed, and they were afraid that they would do something to disturb the order of the land grant because of their grief and anger, so they deliberately paid attention to them, and prioritized the placement of these tribes around the ten fortresses that had been activated, and placed them under the supervision of the Night's Watch and their reliable allies, the Mountain Clansmen...... Among them, the Flint clan stationed in the Long Night Fort has the largest number of people, so the surrounding area is naturally arranged with the most new land-givers from outside the fortress.

This resettlement plan itself is based on prudent considerations, but who would have thought that it would be these people who would end up in trouble? This is probably called lifting a stone and shooting yourself in the foot...... Eggner was stunned for a moment, and suddenly became angry: he had gone to great lengths to persuade Mormont to let the wildlings pass through the Wall, and racked his brains to try to feed them, and these damned barbarians were not only not grateful, but they had only lived for a few days, and they had set such a scene for themselves?!

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Although the land grant resettlement plan was entirely Iger's initiative, it was Jeo Mormont who made the final decision to implement it and issued a series of direct orders...... Leaders enjoy power at the same time as they take responsibility. And this time, the wild man who lost his family and friends in the attack of the ghouls obviously settled the account on the old bear.

Mormont, as the commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch, is such an important position, can't he go to the savage village that has just become a new landgiver to track down the murderer, and he can't take thirty or fifty guards with him!

Egger's heart was mixed with chagrin and resentment, and his feelings were extremely complicated. But suddenly, he remembered something else: "Wait, the Commander-in-Chief originally went to pick up the Reed siblings and Bran Stark, what about them?"

The Ranger shook his head: "I don't know...... Commander Mormont had summoned Prince Stark out of his residence that morning, and was going to take them back to Castle Black when the investigation was over and giving Miss Mera an explanation...... Who would have thought that this would happen before noon. Afterwards, we were so busy rescuing the Commander-in-Chief that we didn't care about the three children, and in a blink of an eye, they were gone, and we couldn't find them anywhere up and down the Long Night Castle. This is so strange, there are many guards of the mountain clan guarding the exit of the Long Night Fort that day, and there are no three children and a big man going out, and a fool with a cripple, can he still run over the wall. ”

Sure enough, the suspicion came true for the Ranger's words: if Mormont hadn't had happened, he would have brought Branstark back to Castle Black by now. Egger suddenly felt a chill in his back, this matter looked like an accident caused by the recklessness of a newly changed wildling, but if you think about it deeply, could it be the Green Prophet's hands and feet to prevent Mormont from preventing Bran from going out of the wall to meet him?

Although it's a conspiracy theory again, it makes sense no matter how you think about it, Egger himself was reluctant to intervene in this matter before, wasn't he afraid that this would happen?

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"We don't have time to take care of those three kids. The Chief Ranger didn't know what was going on in Egger's stomach, and he asked his subordinates with a solemn face, "Did the stone-thrower catch it?" ”

"No, if I didn't go fast at that time, I was afraid that the remaining Ranger brothers wouldn't be able to escape, how dare I stay longer?"

Egg also returned to reality from the fugue, and now it was too late to think about whether it was caused by a mysterious force. A large number of savages have not yet become accustomed to the status of the new land-grantees, and the Night's Watch and the hill clansmen are not yet fully familiar with the acceptance of the new entrants, and if the trouble is not resolved quickly and vigorously, it will eventually lead to chaos if it becomes the trigger for conflict between the land-grantees and even civil war, as was the case in Sarajevo...... Not to mention borrowing the hands of the newly gifted landholders to help expel the Iron People from the north, I am afraid that I will end up with a huge mess, and I will have to wait for Robb Stark to return from the south to clean up in person.

When the time comes, he will not be a hero, but will become a historical sinner, and many ambitions and new ideas will be ruined by the hands of a few stupid savages.

"The murderer must be caught and punished. If we fail to establish the status and identity of the 'ruling class' of the night watchmen in one fell swoop, and accumulate the dignity and deterrent effect of the land grant law, so that the remaining new land grantees will be jealous when they recall the outcome of this matter, the land grant will never be peaceful!"

"Do you still think those savages can be saved?" Sir Marcy snorted coldly: "In my opinion, since the food has already reached our hands, it is the best way to directly gather heavy troops and drive all these wicked people born and raised by the evil land back to the outside of the Great Wall, and kill each other with the strange ghosts!"

"Sir Marcy, I respect your right to have and to present your opinions, but I am afraid that the Commander-in-Chief has the right to do what you say in spite of differences. Iger said without flinching: "But for now, we have at least one disagreement about one thing, and the murderer of Commander Mormont must be severely punished first!"

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The first high-level meeting without the Commander-in-Chief was over, and as the Chief Logistics Officer, Egger seemed to be as steady as an old dog, but in fact he panicked: he had been focusing on the land grant and resettlement plan since he returned to the Wall, and since Mormont supported his plan, he didn't bother too much to enlist the rest of the Night's Watch. Now that this key leader has died unexpectedly, he has not yet established enough influence and prestige within the legion to continue his plan......

Once a conservative is finally elected commander-in-chief, overturning his previous plan, and even restricting the activities of the Night's Watch property in the land grant, all his previous efforts will be in vain.

In a panic, Iger still made the judgment that was most favorable to himself at the first time: the murder of Commander Mormont must be dealt with before the election of the commander-in-chief, the trouble that should be solved must be solved, and the credit for the robbery must be grabbed...... We must not allow this to become material for opponents to attack themselves.

The Chief Ranger did not take a clear side between the radical and conservative factions, and at Egger's strong recommendation, the higher-ups finally sent Sir Warner Beckwell to hunt down the murderer, and the new landgivers besieged and killed the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch was an extremely evil thing.

And to do this kind of thing, it takes a ruthless and decisive man to do this, and there is no more suitable man than Sir Buckwell, who took the Red Keep for Lan Li and won King's Landing in the Erlu rivalry, and even the king dared to betray him.

In addition, most of the defenders of the Wall did not know that Warner Buckwell actually had a personal relationship and agreement with him, and if he could settle the matter and gain credit and influence, it would be equivalent to Iger getting these things.

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"In addition to the Rangers, I will send you another hundred men from Houguan Town. In addition, you can borrow the warriors of the Flint Clan. The investigation of the real culprit will not go smoothly this time, if the people of this tribe dare to continue to resist the law, they must not show mercy to their subordinates......" Iger secretly found Warner Buckwell, and said with a serious expression: "A sentence 'No matter how many people die, I will carry it for you'." It doesn't matter if it's really murderous or not, the important thing is that the matter must be solved vigorously!"

Warner Boukwell was also a figure in King's Landing, and after a little thought, he understood Egger's way of thinking of killing chickens and making an example of monkeys. He nodded: "Understood, but I still have to warn you...... It will be very difficult for you to fulfill your promise to our King's Landing nobles not to take the position of Commander-in-Chief, or at least to put someone you can control into the throne. ”

Iger didn't understand this, but how easy was it to be commander-in-chief? He pretended to have a few more words with Warner, and after parting, he immediately went to another place, and found the son of destiny who was supposed to be the next commander-in-chief: Jon Snow. 2k reading web