"King Robert, who fought alongside the North many years ago, and who had always been generous during his lifetime, is understandably devoted to him. But when you think about it, Stannis has no marriage with the North, nor has he given any commendable benefits to the Northlanders, and he has only dragged you to fight in the east and the west, so that the North will not be able to protect itself even when it is invaded by the Iron People...... Even when the Great Wall was threatened by strange ghosts, he refused to give a drop of support. For such a king, who can neither protect his allegiance nor bring benefits to you, why should your lord risk his own life to defend the crown for him?"

Although Stannis did not personally lead the army north, it was definitely not that he had never given any support to the Night's Watch, so it was obviously suspected of having no conscience, but the ass decided the head, and now the position was relative, and it was too extravagant to preach morality before the success of the revolution.

"The Queen has never intended or had the time to conquer the northern realm of Notda, all she wants is for you to remain neutral, and after I have completed the Northern Expedition to eliminate the threat of the Strangers, I will let the Night's Watch go south, and repay her for riding the dragon and participating in the war between humans and ghosts. Iger slowed his tone and said calmly, "Your Excellency now has two choices, the first way is to follow the instinct of emotions and detain me and imprison me - not only to let all the soldiers in this castle accompany me and the two of us to be buried, but also to use the blood of the Karstark family to provoke the queen to start a war with the north, forcing the queen to abandon the south and let the north be filled with blood and fire first. ”

"The second way is to pretend to be stupid once and sell a favor to the queen. The Karstark Army silently withdrew from the Last Hearth, but if today's conversation had not happened, and the queen was not blind or hard-hearted, she would naturally remember the good ...... Closer to home, she can put pressure on the Stark family with the grace of saving her life and the deterrence of the two dragons, so that you can have the upper hand in the distribution of the land left by the Amber family, and further afield, when the queen takes King's Landing, submits the Seven Kingdoms, and sits on the Iron Throne, she can completely wave her hand and bypass the Northern Guardian to directly expand the territory of the Karstark family...... Didn't the Amber family originally have a large stretch of coastline in the southern part of Seal Bay, and I am here to pledge on behalf of the Queen that at least half of this coastline and the attached offshore land will be allocated to Kastark, so that the territory of Kahoe City, which has not been changed for hundreds of years, will be expanded by one-fifth in an instant!"

"It's just nonsense!Father, the land of the North, the people of the North are in charge, how can they get a foreigner who has never even heard of the place they came from?Even if Kahoe City really benefits from it temporarily, how can they continue to live with the rest of the Northern Princes in the future?" Seeing that his father really had the intention of continuing to talk to Egg, Harion almost immediately spoke out against it, "This is still the case that he didn't lie! I'm afraid that this kid is making such and such promises to stabilize you, and the moment we lead our army out of the last Hearth, the dragon in the sky will swoop down and burn us all to death in the wilderness without any resistance!"

Ricard's face twitched: this stupid son, with a long beard and short knowledge, is he brainless when he is a father - where is he really counting on the benefits promised by Egger? He is trying to save the lives of his two sons!

If it was Daenerys Targaryen himself who came to him today, then he would have killed the queen on the spot, and exchanged the father and son and more than 2,000 soldiers for the complete destruction of the Targaryen family.

But...... Egger West?

A nobody who came out of nowhere, with a little cleverness, became the commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch - take the lives of more than 2,000 elites from the Karstark family and his own and all his sons?

He also deserves it?

It's crazy to do this kind of loss-making business!

The army had come to deal with the strange spirits and the dead, and was unprepared for the enemies flying in the sky, and was bound to be unable to force the war, so they could only try to ensure their safety while trying to ...... I can retain some dignity and evacuate, and when I return to Kahoe City, I will discuss countermeasures with other nobles in the north and decide on the final direction.

But the son's worries are not unreasonable, what if the guy in front of him is full of nonsense made up to get out from beginning to end, and half of the sentence is not true?

After thinking about it for a while, Rickard Karstark exhausted his modest wisdom and came up with a tentative solution: "Hmph, the Karstark family retreats and gives up a castle, which is worth one-fifth of the territory?

......

Ha, this kind of obvious temptation, it would be a fool not to see it.

Ricard thinks he's smart, but Iger sees through his plans at a glance.

If you want to deceive people, the scam must be real enough, and the conditions you offer to the other party are the right and convincing price given after considering the ambitions and appetites of the Stark family itself and the contributions they can make. Even—if the Kastark family had been able to speak for the queen and vote for the neutrality of the North when the lords' assembly of the northern princes had decided to take sides, Iger would have managed to convince the queen that the price he had promised to play on the spot today would have been fulfilled.

When the queen rules the seven kingdoms, this is just a matter of one sentence.

"What an appetite, Lord Rickard. Egger smiled and shook his head, "Touch your chest and ask yourself, is it worth such a high reward just to give up a castle that is neither yours nor you can possibly defend? However, if you really have an idea, it's not that you don't have to talk about it - just like me, swear allegiance to the queen, fight for her with all your money, and with your support for the first of the northern princes, not to mention the last Fireplace City, it's not impossible to talk about being the guardian of the north!"

Ricard's eyes widened, and although he still looked vicious, he had begun to believe Egg's words in his heart, and now he was only one suitable word of agreement.

Seeing that his father was about to be deceived by the villain, Harion jumped to his feet in a hurry: "Wait a minute! He is now full of sincerity, so why didn't he mention the queen when he came to see you father before, and he had to wait for the dragon to fly over our heads, and we stopped him for questioning, and then he was willing to open his mouth to confess?"

Iger shrugged: "When I went to the city first, I only wanted to find out, and I planned to go back and report the situation to the queen before deciding on what to do." But now, probably because she didn't pay attention to the time, or maybe the queen made a quick decision, in short, by mistake, the situation became like this. Time waits for no one, if you don't let me go back, the queen will come for real!"

In his heart, Rickard Karstark had already made up his mind not to conflict with the Dragon Queen, but emotionally, he still couldn't trust Iger completely, so he let him go back and lost the only bargaining chip that could save his life at the moment.

"Send a message back to the woman, tell her that you are still safe, and tell her not to mess around! Let me see the wounded dragon, and I will believe that she has indeed participated in the decisive battle with the dragon, and immediately lead the army out of the last Hearthh City!"

The wounded dragon did exist, and Iger naturally didn't feel weak, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and called one of his most trusted guards: "Myron, you go out of the city now, inform the queen of the general situation here, and order the army to enter a state of alert, and pull the dragon sleigh carrying the black dragon into the castle's field of vision, don't get too close!"

The black-clothed soldier had to give the order to leave, and Rickard also had a cold face, pulling his eldest son aside, who was still unconvinced.

......

"Shut up, pick your best hand and find your brother - you two leave from the east gate immediately, take a shortcut and return to Kahoe City as soon as possible, remember to act separately, don't get together!"

"What...... Father, do you want to stay alone and deal with the dragons?

"What do I do with dragons?" Rickard patted his son's elm on the head and whispered in hatred, "Bring more people, send one every other mile to report safety when I leave the city, and when I make sure that there is no ambush on the way back to Cahoe City, and the queen has indeed injured the dragon in the battle with the strangers, she will lead her troops out of the castle." If not...... Hmph, even if I die, I won't make that woman comfortable. ”

"But what if that kid is lying to you, what if the queen chases you with a dragon and burns you after you exit the last Hearth?"

"So let you and Toruń go their separate ways! If all goes well, let's meet at home, and if you turn around on the road and see the dragon attacking the people on the ground, don't come back and die...... Don't go home, it's not safe, go south!Inform the rest of the nobles of Winterfell and the North, tell them what happened, and prepare them for war!"

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