It's really a good reincarnation of heaven, who does the sky forgive.

Iger never imagined that he would one day have to bother with controlling the influence of the rumors he had spread with his own hands.

The "suicide notes" he wrote in King's Landing in the name of the late Sir Sir Xiu were completely forged in terms of means, but their contents were eighty or ninety percent authentic...... Taking away the prime minister's wife on the first night was not an explosive scandal, and maintaining a long-term relationship with lovers could only be regarded as a moral defect, but the horrific level of instructing a wife to poison her husband was so appalling that even the Cypriot foreigners who once lived on the north side of the Great Wall and practiced the law of the jungle were horrified. To forcibly prohibit people from talking about such a bad thing, just like when there is a flood but do not clear it but block it, not only is the effect difficult to say, but it is often regarded as an accomplice to protect the bad guys, and they will be attacked together.

Defending the people is more important than defending the Sichuan, but fortunately - the land-giving army is not a "people", but a "soldier", a professional army that has long been trained in obedience and execution, and Egger's request to them is not to completely forget or forgive the matter, but not to talk loudly in public, stupidly run to slap the little finger or spit on him. As long as he can do these two things, with Petyr's status and vision as the queen now, he must not care or bother to consider whether ordinary people like him or not.

Relying on the aura of a hero and the authority of the commander-in-chief, his orders were quickly conveyed and executed, and the second wave set off by the same note was silently suppressed - at least on the surface.

The next step was to trace back to the source, and the first result that came back was beyond Egger's expectations: Harvey and Myron led their subordinates around the army, and they actually collected and confiscated more than a dozen copies of the same "Xiufu's Last Words" - considering that some of them must have been hidden as a souvenir, the actual number was definitely larger. It is impossible for all of them to be true, but Egger's eyes widened and he found that the workmanship and attention to detail were so high that even he, the original author, could not tell the truth from the fake.

The authenticity of the notes didn't matter, Iger only cared about how they got in - the holders generally reported that they were picked up, and Varys was clever enough to choose this contactless messaging method to ensure safety, but that didn't mean that the matter was completely impossible to investigate: with the octopus's "Queen's intelligence chief" and recognition, it was difficult for him to do it as quietly as Iger did back then...... If you want to avoid risks, you will inevitably use subordinates, and as long as the number of participants in anything is large, the number of clues left behind will explode and increase exponentially. After a lot of interviews and investigations, in the end, the testimony of the soldiers pointed to an unexpected but reasonable object.

On the day that a large number of notes popped up in Winterfell, the Master of the Dreadborehold had entered the castle under the pretext of an excuse, and several of his henchmen were later seen wandering around where the notes appeared, and one of them was even recognized by Egger's subordinates: Corey Snow, who had only been instructed by Luce Bolton to go to Backcrown a month earlier to "leak" information to Iger about the preparations for the Night's Watch in the North, and try to win him over the Stark whistleblower.

At that time, in order to prevent the news of the land-grant's surprise attack on Winterfell leaked, Egg's men placed the group under house arrest and ordered the release of the land-granting army three days after it officially began its march south. Now that this person has reappeared in Winterfell, and the timing is so accurate, it is easy to deduce what happened: Varys, who also has no military power and therefore has insufficient troops, wants to reorganize himself and Petyr, slow down their pace of drawing the northern princes to prepare for the southern expedition, and cannot let the Unsullied intervene, so he went to his newly recruited ally Luce Burton. As a large landowner in the remote north, the Horror Fortress is estimated to have fewer people available than the land-giving army, so the old skinning gave the task to Egger to meet the bastard boy.

That makes sense, but even if the speculation is true, Iger can't react to it: after all, this is just a public opinion attack, and the materials used are not even made up, and even if the murderer is caught and sent to the queen, Daenerys will most likely only frown and ask Varys and Luce Bolton to stop attacking her prime minister for the sake of the big picture. The result was not what he wanted, so Egger told Littlefinger the truth about the findings, and then began to wonder what the latter would be.

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Littlefinger's movements were very fast, and a less terrifying, but more eye-catching rumor soon began to circulate in the land-giving army, which had experience in efficient communication links and public opinion control, as follows:

[The Queen's intelligence chief, Varys, was also a lover, he had a wife when he was young, and although the two were not husband and wife, they had a very magical relationship. It's a pity that love can't overcome the practical difficulties of the mutilation of the "important parts" of the body, and the couple can't conceive an heir, so they ask for a child, find the head of the golden group, and "borrow" to give birth to a baby boy. Unfortunately, his mother died in childbirth, so the boy, who had no mother since he was a child, was raised by two fathers, "nominally" and "biologically", and re-landed in Westeros as Aegon Targaryen at the right time to become the king of the Seven Kingdoms at the right time to reach adulthood. 】

This special code is too good to be written, right?

Iger listened to the story for a few seconds, and the more he admired Petyr: the rumor seemed obscene and obscene, but in fact it was quite cleverly conceived. Not only did he divert everyone's attention by attacking poison with poison, but he also blacked out all his opponents and potential enemies in one go: Prince Aegon was an impostor, Varys, as a eunuch, was the husband of the boy's mother, and the head of the Golden Regiment was shedding blood for a son who didn't recognize him and didn't follow his surname!

This new story, which includes physical disabilities, psychological distortions, and crazy ambitions, combines many powerful elements such as ethics, politics, and love and hatred, and not only completely overshadows the public opinion caused by the previous note, but also highlights Varys's physical defects and makes a big fuss about it.

Just as the people living outside the Great Wall had never heard of Littlefinger's scandal, the Cypriots didn't know that the Queen's intelligence chief, Varys, was a eunuch, but as soon as this rumor broke, Iger could imagine the recurring conversation that the Landgrant Army would have in Winterfell for the past two days:

A: "Why can't Varys and his wife have children?"

B: "Because he has no eggs." ”

A: "Ah? ”

B: "How can there be so many whys, they have been cut off." ”

The mockery and slander that is almost overflowing is just a piece of cake, and what is even more terrifying is that if you accept the setting of this story, then the true origin of Prince Aegon, the eunuch's purpose of persuading the queen to marry his nephew, and the motives of the Golden Regiment willing to take risks to support the prince's seizure of the throne...... Everything suddenly made sense - two big men...... No, a man and a eunuch are just trying to create good living conditions for their "common son"!

Admittedly, both Daenerys and little Aegon himself could quickly understand that this was complete nonsense with a little bit of investigation. But the power of the rumor lies in the fact that it has completed its mission the moment it spreads, and even if it is debunked afterwards, the impact it has caused cannot be reversed.

People love exciting stories, but they are not interested in clarification and explanation. It is conceivable that once this story spreads from Winterfell, it will be difficult for Prince Aegon to look directly at Varys, the number one hero who silently supports him.

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Relying on a more vigorous and vicious rumor, Littlefinger recovered his decline in the counterattack of the first round of public opinion warfare. But reality isn't a turn-based game, and the Queen's Hand doesn't have the slightest intention of waiting to see how the opponent reacts - before the discussion in the city about something missing between Varys' legs has subsided, Petyr has already commanded the men borrowed from Egger to embark on a second round of retaliatory active attacks.

This time, the "battlefield" is outside the city, and the object has also changed - the "quiet and peaceful" winter town suddenly broke into the breaking news: several soldiers from the Castle of Terror broke into the home of a Stark family and tried to rape the wife of the householder, but were stopped and captured red-handed by the land-givers and patrolling unsullied people, and sent to the queen with a lot of money.

The above is the storyline from the perspective of an uninformed third party, but because of the reason for borrowing it to Petyr, Iger can actually ...... from a first-party perspective Get a complete and clear grasp of what's going on.

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