The first "witness" to appear was a young man, whom Iger did not recognize, but saw that he was dressed and looked upright, and he strode into the middle of the courtroom without going directly to the witness stand, but first stood under the high platform where the judge's seat was located, and saluted in front of Lan Li. After the judge nodded to him in the same way, he turned around and took out a note, and said in a loud voice: "Before the trial begins, by order of the king, an amnesty is hereby announced!"

A pardon decree!Schlint straightened up, and for a moment he thought that the king was still thinking of his old feelings and was going to pull him along, but the hope was quickly extinguished as soon as it was ignited—the pardon was not for himself who was being tried today. It is a great deal, but it can be summed up to the effect that, in the name of the king and the prime minister, pardon all the officers of the garrison who had bribed Slynt to retain their positions or be promoted. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, only Genos Slint will be dealt with, and no one will be implicated, as long as he will abide by the law and serve the king wholeheartedly to protect the safety of King's Landing.

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After the pardon was read, Slint collapsed on the trial table amid the relieved comments of the onlookers. Wandering around the top circles of power for many years, he naturally understood what this amnesty meant, and the king had given up on himself...... This trial is over before it has begun, he is finished, and the next trial and Lan Li's final verdict can only affect the "degree" of his end.

Now, all he can hope for is to save a small life, and with the small fortune he hid outside King's Landing, he will live the rest of his life in peace.

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From the sidelines, Egger was so approving that his eyes lit up: a beautiful move, in this eventful autumn when chaos loomed, this pardon order was like Cao Cao burning a letter, which could quickly stabilize the situation in King's Landing and appease people's hearts. It not only realizes justice and justice to a certain extent, but also gives an explanation to the people, and takes into account the overall situation to avoid chaos, which is simply an excellent operation at the textbook level. As long as you get rid of Littlefinger and don't let him mess with, and give Ed the space and leeway to play freely, the political ability of this northerner should not be underestimated.

I just don't know...... Varys, another big-stirring stick, is planning and calculating something at this moment?

After reading the king's pardon, the first witness walked to the witness stand, took out another paper-like thing, and began to "testify" as soon as his role changed.

Seconds later, Iger knew what it was: the results of the official investigation into Genos Slint by the legal department.

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The former commander of the garrison was a real man through and through, and from the several residences he lived in and around King's Landing, and bought for his family and lovers, searchers stole countless amounts of money.

That's right, no jewelry, gold and silver utensils, or works of art. In the chest, under the bed, in the cellar...... Except for money and money. It is all stacked on top of each other in a stack of coins arranged separately according to the golden dragon, silver deer and currency, forming a fantastic airtight metal wall. When the soldiers of the garrison who were carrying the stolen money stepped in, they almost suspected that they had entered the treasury - in fact, because of the huge amount of money owed, the taxes of King's Landing and the King's Lords were generally sent to the creditors to pay off the principal and interest after a short stay in the treasury, and even if there was not necessarily so much cash in the treasury all year round!

In the end, the inventory was calculated by converting the silver deer into a golden dragon, totaling about 12,600 gold dragons, plus real estate and a small amount of other assets, converted into more than 15,000 gold dragons only by investigating the assets of Genos Slint.

This figure made everyone who came to sit in on the auditors gasp: not counting the fixed assets such as land and castles, ordinary earls would not be able to come up with so much money! Compared to this, the three lovers and two illegitimate children announced immediately afterwards were simply a piece of cake.

This young man who appeared first was not a "witness" at all, but a different version of the "prosecutor"! It was only in Westeros that he did not have this concept and vocabulary, so Lan Li would call him the first witness.

As for Slint...... is simply Zhao Dehan in the world of ice and fire, how terrifying it is for people with no bottom line to accumulate wealth, and they will never know if they don't copy their homes.

Iger couldn't help but sigh and be afraid—you know, it took several months for the Night's Watch industry to grow and develop before it could "pay off its debts". Even today, if the part of net worth that belongs to investors is removed, it may not be more than a thousand gold dragons that are completely owned by the night watchman...... Slynt had more than ten times as much cash, but he didn't know how to use it, and he was forced to overthrow by the Night's Watch industry that Tyrion had built with money and the community of interests created by the funds raised!

If Slint had known to use the money to build connections and find allies, even if Tyrion had the Lannister surname, the outcome of the fight would have been unknown.

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After reading the results of the investigation, the "prosecutor" retired to Lan Li and walked down the witness stand.

Genos Slint was dead-faced, he knew how much money he had in his family, and he had nothing to say in the face of real money evidence.

The second witness was an officer of the East Battalion of the garrison. Aral Tim, Slint's most loyal subordinate. In front of Lan Li and all the observers, he exclusively exposed the "procedures" and a series of "rules" for Genos Slynt to sell the official mantle and withhold military salaries as a participant, and also confessed that the former paid for the murder of the soldiers of the garrison who intended to accuse him, and the fact that he secretly used crossbows and garrison soldiers on the eve of the civil unrest in the Red Keep to try to forcibly destroy the chief logistics officer of the Night's Watch, Egger West, and presented physical evidence.

The rebellion of his own people finally gave the lifeless Slint a reaction, and he suddenly realized that the enemy did not intend to let him go, but pursued him to the court. Before Al could finish speaking, he scolded with a hideous face, accusing Al of betrayal, shouting that he also had a ...... in this matter Attempts to retaliate by biting the henchmen, but it is clear that Aral is determined to surrender the petition to the forces that brought down his former boss, and is free to enjoy the protection of the pardon. After Lan Li ordered the guards to shut up Slint, a third witness came on.

It was a businessman with some of Egger's face, accused of Slint collecting protection money and disrupting business if he didn't pay it. Slint's explanation for this is that all of this was paid voluntarily by the merchants...... The pale rebuttal drew boos.

Fourth ...... When it was finally Nina's turn, Egger watched with interest as his clever girl walked up to the witness stand, and with tears in her eyes and horror on her face, she told her that Slint had forced her to go home with him, and that she would not obey and signaled to her men to use force.

"If it weren't for Lord Egger coming back from the valley and stopping this, I'd ...... I don't even know what's going to happen......" Tears rolled in the girl's big bright eyes, and even as she stood in the courtroom and testified, she was too timid to look at Slint squarely. Egger had never realized that the girl who blushed at the sight of him was also a dramatist, and if he hadn't known that this testimony was obviously exaggerated, he would have almost had the same urge as most of the men in the throne room to rush forward and take Nina into his arms to comfort and care.

Iger still remembers what happened on the day he returned to King's Landing, he just defended Nina with a tough attitude, how did it come to her mouth now, as if he had arrived in time and used force to stop Slynt from robbing the people's daughter?

(This exaggerated and highly subjective testimony is clearly intended to put Slint to death, was it Nina's own idea, or was it Tyrion's instructions before leaving?)

"Fart! I've never had the idea of using force, I'm very polite to invite! It's you stinky girl who is shameless!"

robbed the people's daughters, and scolded people for being stinky girls, even if they were not full, the throne hall was still boiling slightly.

"Quiet!" Lan Li patted the arm of his chair and shouted loudly in the judge's seat: "Genos Slint, you are not allowed to speak without permission, if you do this again, I will have to have someone take something to plug your mouth! Witness, in the name of the Minister of Justice and the Duke of Stormlands, I guarantee your safety, continue!"

"Under the protection of Lord Egger, he failed to conceive of anything wrong with me, and then came up with other ideas. Nina looked frightened by Slint and glanced at Lan Li gratefully, tears rolling down her eyes and slowly sliding down her pale and tender cheeks. She shuddered and said, "He caught my brother...... Neil, find someone to tell me - if I don't realize that night...... After washing and going to him, I was going to hang my brother, and what happened afterwards was ...... You know that, Lord Lanli. ”

"Fart, when am I going to hang your brother......"

"Slint!" Lan Li was furious, and stopped the prisoner from speaking with a snort. He did know what happened later, if he remembered correctly, it was Loras who came to him and let the young girl's brother in front of him be released through his own hands. At the time, I only thought that someone from the Tyrells family had broken the law, but I didn't expect it to be like this. As the Minister of Justice, someone under his nose dared to be so presumptuous, and he didn't know about it for a long time, and he suddenly felt that his face was dull, and he became more and more annoyed: "Okay, please let the witnesses go down and rest, who is next?"

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That's what happens to the loser.

Like an elite heavily armed Ranger encountering an ordinary savage, the trial was a one-sided slaughter—no turnaround, no highlights or brilliance. One witness after another came to the stage to expose and indict Slint's appalling arrogance and madness...... Tyrion may have run away, but the plans and nets he had laid are still functioning. How many of these witnesses were arranged by the Night's Watch and their allies, and how many exaggerated Slint's crimes at the behest of Tyrion and the royal nobles who invested in the Night's Watch?

Iger didn't dare to judge randomly, but Nina wasn't the only one. What he wondered most was whether the allies of the Night's Watch industry themselves wanted to kill him, or simply wanted to take out their anger on himself when he was injured in the assassination.

Capital is really a beast, and Slint, the unlucky man who doesn't know what power is, unfortunately became the first victim to be devoured by this beast.

The trial continues, but the outcome is no longer in doubt. Slint would defend himself at first, but soon found out ...... Each of the accusations against himself was proved by human and material evidence, and everything was indeed committed by himself, but without exception, he exaggerated the real situation by three points, and in the end. He was already in the dock as if he was dead, resigned to his fate.

(This trial has nothing to do with itself.) Looking at the enemy's embarrassed appearance, Iger thought. After not showering for a few days, and feeling very uncomfortable, he decided to leave the scene early and go home to rest after all the witnesses of the Night's Watch had finished testifying.

But just as he had the idea of leaving, Slint in the dock suddenly raised his head and interrupted the testimony of an officer of the Linhemen garrison: "Lord Lanli...... Enough, enough, let him stop talking about it, and don't call the next witness, I plead guilty...... I plead guilty!"

"Oh?" As the king's younger brother, Lan Li, who has been busy making friends with nobles and courting political allies all year round, may be one of the most unmanageable ministers of justice in the history of the Seven Kingdoms, and he is having a rare time as a judge, but he didn't expect the defendant to collapse so quickly, and he was a little disappointed but also happy to save effort, so he looked down at Slint in the audience with interest: "There are still a few witnesses to the charges that have not yet appeared in court, are you going to admit all the charges?"

"Recognize, recognize. I was so confused that I would commit so many crimes...... "If this trial continues, he will definitely die, and Slint knows that he can't sit still, and he thinks of his old acquaintance, Alyssa Thorne: "I ...... Ask to put on black clothes and serve the kingdom to wash away your sins!

As long as you live, you have hope, and in your own position, you will automatically become an officer when you arrive at the Great Wall. After the end of the War, many royal nobles and garrison officers were forced to wear black, and they knew far more than Alyssa Thorne...... When he arrived at the Great Wall, he made friends and built a team from scratch with his own means and skills, and after three or five years, he was the commander of the Night's Watch Legion, and by that time, he had to get all his debts back!

"Well, you probably didn't see the ghouls sent by Ser Alyssa in your cell. The corners of Lan Li's mouth curled, remembering the thing that Eddard Stark had summoned to see with many other important ministers, and he had nightmares for two days before he got out of the shadows. If that thing is really tens of thousands outside the fortress, it is not necessarily much better to go there to defend the Great Wall than to die: "The defenders of the Great Wall are short of manpower, and if you decide, I have no reason to dismiss it." ”

"Wait a minute!" Just when everyone thought that the trial was about to end early, and the case finally ended with Slint dressed in black, there was a voice from the spectator, and a man in black stood up: "I have something to say!"

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