Relying on the whimsical and despicable operation of "selling the grain that originally belonged to the wildlings to the wildlings in exchange for labor", Iger has completed the deployment and construction along the Great Wall and the land grant that many Night's Watch commanders have dreamed of: reactivating all abandoned fortresses, repairing the roads of the land grants, and turning Houguan from a ruin into a new town......

But the food supply for the Cypriot foreigners is not endless after all, and for the game to continue, there must be an outside force to continue the land-grant resettlement program - until the Braavos people on the other side of the Narrow Sea receive food, the northern aid will become a vital link.

It is for this reason that after completing all the above tasks, Egger still took out 2,000 young men and went south with him to relieve the siege of the northern border, which not only made the northerners owe the land grant, but also opened up the channel for the northern grain to be transported to the land grant.

During his last two days in Winterfell, Egg divided the men he had brought with him into several hundreds, organized them into several teams of various sizes, and carried the funds to each fiefdom in the north to buy as much grain and grass as he could that could not be produced by the donated land.

Then, the Northern Guardian brought more than 100 elite soldiers with them, together with the troops who returned to the north led by Egger...... Embark on the King's Road leading to Castle Black.

The other four families Robb decided to invite were busy bringing the loot home and disbanding their armies, and they couldn't return to Winterfell to join the patrol in just two days, so they simply agreed to meet at Castle Black. I have to mention that I don't know what Arya thought of, but in short, she persuaded the eldest brother and the current head of the Stark family to bring her. The latter's explanation for this is: his father's death made his little sister very depressed, so he took her out for a walk.

The men of the wolf family are always soft on the female members of their family, and Egger has also learned Arya's pestering skills, which is a bit surprising, but there is nothing surprising to think about it. Let this girl follow, and maybe she will help herself speak at a critical time.

The Ironfolk were expelled from the North, and the land grants digested the Wildlings. The northern section of the King's Road has never been safer, and the northbound procession of thousands of people has not encountered any trouble along the way, and after several days of non-stop travel, they have approached the first major fork in the road to the Great Wall.

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"Didn't you say that you can't get lost if you keep your eyes closed and go north along the road, how can there be a fork in the road in this place, or are both going north?"

Robb rode at the junction and looked at the road that split in two ahead of him and asked Egger - the King's Road, which was marked on the map and was supposed to lead straight north to Castle Black, was now covered in snow and mud, and was replaced by a rammed earth road slightly more than a dozen degrees to the west, clearly newly built and an inch above the ground next to it, wide enough for four horses to ride.

"The one on the left leads to Houguan Town. "Originally, the village was a few miles west of the King's Road, and to reach it you had to follow the original King's Road for about ten miles and turn left...... In this case, if a traveler wishes to pass through the Night's Watch stronghold on their way back to Castle Black and Winterfell, they will have to leave the main road and take the branch path to the town, and then return to the King's Road the next day to continue their journey, which will take them another ten miles. After discussion, the Logistics Department made a decision to divert the original main route, abandon a section about 30 miles long, and build a new section of the twist line with a small angle, so that the renovated King's Avenue can pass through Houguan Town. ”

The section of King's Road north of Winterfell is just a small path out of the heath, and the part of the land is not much different from the meadow next to it, and it is completely trodden by the night watchman, which is better than nothing...... There is not much difference in the material resources and manpower spent on repairing and rebuilding, and it is already great news that someone cares, and there will be no "relevant departments" jumping out to point fingers at Egger's diversion, so he dares to make this order boldly.

The main road was originally a straight line leading to the north and south, and Houguan Town was located at the end of the word "Bu", and the diversion plan changed the straight line from "丨" to "丿", quietly integrating Houguan Town into the King's Road, only a year and a half, everyone will forget what the road originally looked like.

The contrast between the new route and the original road is a bit like a ramp to the service area on the side of the highway...... It's just that the "service area" of Houguan Town is a little farther away from the main road, resulting in a much longer "ramp", and it simply replaces the original main road. And the so-called "logistics department made a decision after discussion", in fact, does not exist at all, everything is ordered by Egger alone, he just doesn't want to give the northern guardian the impression that he is arbitrary in the land grant, so he just added a little rhetoric.

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Robb couldn't personally study what the Night's Watch had said, so he could only nod after listening to the explanation: "That's a great idea, but you didn't consider those who don't plan to pass through Houguan Town...... With your reroute, the route is no longer straight, and they will have to travel several miles longer than they did on the original straight road. Besides, why don't the Night's Watch Logistics Department base be set up in Castle Black or some other fortress along the Wall, and pick a new town?"

"Castle Black is about a day's ride from Houguan Town, and whether a traveler is heading south from the Night's Watch Fortress or north to the Great Wall, they must spend the night at about this location on King's Road—it is better to stop and sleep in an inn room in Houguan than to sleep in the wilderness, right?" replied Egger. As for why not choose the Black Castle or other fortresses, the logistics base has a very different function than the fortresses along the Great Wall, it is a distribution center for supplies, which needs to provide uninterrupted supplies to the residents of the land grant, so it needs a certain amount of storage space and a considerable degree of openness...... And these are all things that Castle Black can't achieve, or shouldn't be carrying. ”

"Well, you can get a reason!" Robb smiled.

The original location of Houguan Town was not randomly selected, as long as you use your brain at a critical time, the reason can be found naturally. But the above is really just one of the many benefits of diverting the King's Road, which is the "effect" rather than the "cause". Egger's real purpose in the original diversion order was to strengthen the presence of Houguan Town—as an outsider, no matter how hard he tried, he could not have been as deeply influential in the Wall as the knights who were both nobles and had spent many years at the Wall.

It's much easier and more reliable to build a new, entirely your own base from scratch than trying to take control of an established Night's Watch fortress like Castle Black.

And a "place", whether it is a town where people live or a military fortress, can only be truly developed if it is in a key road or a key position.

"What are you stopping for?" Arya rode her little mare to the front of the group, and interjected, "What is there to think, I will definitely not be able to go to the Great Wall today, go to Houguan Town...... It's an interesting place, nice view, and a lake, you can fish when you open the door!"

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Arya had only been in Houguan Town for a few days, but she had become a landlord and wanted to entertain her brother. However, it is true that this place is a day's journey from the Great Wall, but it is no longer what the girl remembers.

Inside the stone walls, which are much taller and stronger than before, the town's infrastructure is much better...... Beyond the walls, tents, cottages, and small houses have been erected, and the middle passage is lined with stalls, which look like a replica of the winter town that surrounds Winterfell.

But it's much more lively than the northern capital, and for no other reason: the winter towns of Winterfell are only used for temporary shelter, shelter, and warmth during the coldest seasons, and in principle only provide a place to live, and you still have to bring your own necessities, not to mention that it is not yet the depths of winter. Outside the walls of Houguan Town, however, is the key to the survival of the nearly 30,000 "new donors" of the entire land grant - the resettlement fee in exchange for grain and grass when passing through the Great Wall has long been exhausted, and if they want to survive, every savage family or tribe must follow the rules set by Egger: send middle-aged men and women to seek work from the Night's Watch Logistics Department, and after hard work and labor, they will receive wages, and quickly exchange them for the goods they need to maintain the survival of their families or clan members.

To this day, the food that the savages brought into the Great Wall has not been exhausted...... Having deliberately manipulated the prices and supplies of various commodities to prevent them from stockpiling food, no tribe could not send people to Houguan Town for ten days in a row, and it was always full of new land-givers who came from various settlements around them to provide labor or buy and sell things.

Now, in order to cope with the leader's inspection, the arrangement here has been made early, and the relevant people have also undergone simple instructions and rehearsals, just waiting for the northern border to be watched.

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