Chapter 140: Eventful
Winter has arrived, but in the warm south, everything is still running smoothly, perhaps not smoothly, but barely smoothly.
As a "serious" Night's Watch who has sworn an oath, guarded the Wall, and even killed a stranger, the Chief Logistics Officer has no idea what a thrilling adventure his brothers are going on in the north of the Great Wall, where wildlings are full of monsters...... He was in the safety of King's Landing's Night's Watch First Office, frustrated by a large number of things.
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First of all, there are a lot of affairs caused by a big business - bond sales, loan processing, account calculations, negotiations with customers, and even "security team" training, etc., which are so cumbersome that they are a mess, not to mention that they have to find new projects, open up markets and make money, so as to find a way out of the sudden injection of 4,000 gold dragon cash.
After spending a few days in King's Landing, Egg quickly understood why Tyrion had a high opinion of Nina: honestly, this girl was no better at getting things done than she could do it herself, but the point was that she could get things done on her own. Iger also assigns tasks to other men, but young men like Casey and others will come to him and ask him how to deal with problems when they encounter problems that need to be decided and solved, and he doesn't need to worry about anything else - just like the obsidian mine that was introduced to Tyrion in the first place, as long as the money is in place, it will run completely autonomously.
If in the modern society in which Iger lived, Nina was at best an office clerk, a boss secretary and the like, but in this world where there is no perfect education system and can be counted, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are all talents, isn't it the most valuable resource that can share the worries of an entrepreneur for herself?
After trying to find and promote other such "valuable resources" to no avail, Iger realizes that Nina is indeed someone who deserves to use any means and means to stay by his side.
In terms of knowing and employing people, Egger, who had never been a leader before the crossing, was really inferior to his partner.
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Then, a certain little she-wolf who sticks to him in the office all day is not worrying.
"A very talented little girl, if you train it well, you will be a good sword maker...... Of course, as Miss Stark, it's true that learning swords isn't useful except for fun. ”
This is Oberon's personal evaluation of Arya before leaving.
The prince said this with a rather serious expression, obviously not joking. The Dornites don't have the idea of squeezing into the core of power in the Bucks dynasty, and the prince naturally has no reason to slap the prime minister's youngest daughter. In this case, the high evaluation of such a martial artist is self-evident......
In addition, Oberon probably didn't know it himself, and he inadvertently did Egger another favor: after being completely discouraged by his amazing skills, Arya heard from her new "best friend" Margaery that Egger could fight the Red Viper dozens of times without being harmed—she had seen it so powerful, and her attitude towards her "master" became honest again.
To put it simply, it is to become well-behaved.
To Egg's relief, he was not going to be abused by his apprentice for the time being...... But he always ate the old book of Castle Black's training, and it didn't take a few months for him to be exposed. Prompted by a sense of crisis, he decided: no matter how busy he is, he will take time out every day to accompany Arya to practice swordsmanship a little.
Not only can you exercise your body to maintain your physical fitness, but you can also enhance the relationship between master and apprentice who are a little rusty because you haven't seen you for two months, consolidate your "authority", and maybe improve your swordsmanship level a little by the way - not to mention anything else, if you encounter Braavos's assassin in the future with the Dance of Water, at least you won't be blinded.
This is an alternative stealing master, but luckily Jaquin, who always looks dead, didn't poke through Egger - Arya, who often fights back and forth with the Night's Watch, naively thinks that the master is letting him.
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These two troubles can't be avoided, but the third one who came to the door was really a headache: Margaery Tyrell actually came to the office to "take a sword class".
This shrewd little rose was not like Arya's morning and evening—she was on point every day, and when Egg and Arya were about to have lunch, she pretended to study, had lunch together, and soon found all sorts of excuses to leave. Counting up, the time she spent lunch with everyone far exceeded the time of the swordsmanship class in earnest.
If it was twice, how could Egger not be able to see that learning swordsmanship was fake, and this little goblin was eyeing the opportunity to have lunch with Arya and extract information from the mouth of this little she-wolf!
First we talked about swordsmanship, then we talked about life, and finally we talked about family, Bran talked about Sansa, Sansa talked about Jon, and as we talked, the conversation came to Arya's father, Eddard Stark...... After greeting his physical condition, without any deliberate traces, he began to talk about the daily work of the prime minister, and before the meal was finished, the topic turned to "rumors" - that is, the current queen.
This trained cliché technique is not known to be higher than that of Egger. Margaery must now wish that Ed would find out the truth about Cersei and Jaime's adultery, and then Robert would depose the queen so that she could find a chance to ascend to the throne!
Egger could see that Margaery was talking, but he couldn't stop her, because—he himself wanted to know the information, and since someone was helping him with the talk for free, he who was sitting at the same table eating just listened!
In another way of thinking, the trouble of sending to the door becomes the cheapness of sending it to the door. The bad news is that, judging from Arya's unconcealed but still vague narrative, everyone's model prime minister seems to be really investigating the matter of Cersei and Jaime, and the stability of the Seven Kingdoms is in a precarious state!
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After Ed finds out something, will he make the same mistake of going to Cersei to let her escape with the child, and then let the queen seize the opportunity to kill Robert, causing chaos in the world?
Egger is concerned about the peace and stability of Westeros, but not everyone in the world is so ambitious, and some people only think about hanging.
On the fourth day after bringing someone to Nina to ask her for dinner and being blocked by Egger, the fourth day after the Chief Logistics Officer returned to King's Landing, the night watch was almost too busy to forget about Genos Slint, and the guy finally came out to do something.
King's Landing garrisons raid the Night's Watch Industries' paper mills in the city and capture Neil.
"Why?" Egger asked the workshop employee who had come to report the news with wide eyes, "What did they find?"
"No, they arrested people because Neil was obstructing them from conducting a search, and they left it down for the family to collect. ”
"Impossible, I specifically told my brother. Nina was anxious: "I asked him to hold back his temper when he met that Slint who came to find trouble, and don't give anyone a handle!"
Neil didn't do anything, just stood at the door and blocked it, trying to ask about the identity of the person who came, but was directly arrested by the two golden robes. It's obvious that you're looking for trouble!"
Listening to the debriefing, Iger scratched his head irritably. With what identity comes what responsibility, there is no free lunch in the world...... As a boss, while enjoying the treatment of leaders, you also have to carry things for the people below.
It's an old-fashioned way to make a fuss about your family...... Well, it's just right for this old-fashioned world.
It's good to come, only a thousand days to be a thief, there is no thousand days to prevent thieves, instead of worrying about how this greasy middle-aged man will find trouble all day long, he jumped out early, the two sides fight, and the winner is divided, and he saves himself from being scared in the future. Egger managed to save Eddard once, but now he's busy thinking about how to save Robert or Cersei, how can he play such a small role?
"Let's go to the female spies in the brothel and ask about the situation, and get a full picture of the background of this Genos Slint. I wonder what gave him a garrison captain, the capital of arrogance in a place like the capital of the Seven Nations. Egger's heart was on fire, but his mind was still racing. Nina is his own person, he will never let go, but if he can solve the problem in a peaceful way, it is better not to make a big fuss after all, and he should be more cautious when it is troublesome: "Inform Tyrion about this and see what he thinks." Also, get Nina's parents to live in the Night's Watch Industrial Park, and tell the security team to take care of them!"
"Yes, sir!"
"Wait!" Iger suddenly changed his mind.
The Night's Watch industry already has a lot of power and connections in King's Landing, but once these things are used, they will owe favors, and it is better to use them if they can not use them, so why not make full use of the resources sent to your door first?
He stopped the messenger: "Find a place to sit on the side for a while, and in a few moments, when we eat—that is, while I, Miss Stark, and Miss Tyrell sit together, and report again, pretend to be the first time, and then you will say so......"
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