As for the over-enthusiasm of the mountain clans for their guests, Egger had been greeted before he came, so he was not too surprised. Out of conformity and politeness, he and Jaime followed the reminder and left two late-night girls behind and shared their beds and blankets...... Among the clansmen, they are considered beautiful, but the two night watchmen are not close enough to play 4P without psychological barriers, so - "warm the bed" is really just a warm bed.

After bidding farewell to the Flint Clan, Iger visited the Vort Clan to the west, near the Cold Ice Bay. The terms negotiated with old Flint were already a typical agreement that was satisfactory to both parties, and half of the terms had not changed...... Iger also negotiated an agreement with the clan with the largest number of members in the entire northern realm to settle in the land grant.

With the promise of two castles and "rice management", Iger brought in two mountain clans and nearly 3,000 new residents for the land, and their addition made Iger aware of the feasibility of the plan. Even...... On the contrary, he now has to start thinking about beware of the situation of being too late - if he doesn't control the amount of foreign aid he pulls, and as a result, people move to the Great Wall and can't support himself, which is ridiculous.

There are sixteen castles along the Wall, and ideally each one is defended...... This meant that it would be better to have a similar cooperation with fourteen more clans, which Iger couldn't negotiate alone—whether or not he had time to do it, and as the chief logistics officer, he shouldn't waste his time and energy on such repetitive tasks. Now that it was determined that this series of conditions for moving into the land grant would impress the mountain clans, he decided not to go into battle in person, but to leave it to his subordinates to visit.

Ig singled out five soldiers who were fairly clear-headed, and after explaining the conditions and all the details, he sent them south to find the other clans that were nearer, escorted by the guides and warriors provided by the Vort clan, while he and Jaime and the others returned to Castle Black.

Reinforcements, he can bring in, but now he must first go back to make sure that there are two things: first, the terms he negotiated can be accepted by Mormont, and second, the reinforcements must be stationed before the savages officially attack the city.

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After a brief account of what had happened, Mormont nodded and agreed to Egg's plan, the Night's Watch now had no choice, as long as they could stop the wildlings, let alone sixteen abandoned fortresses, even if the clansmen wanted to live in Castle Black, it was not negotiable.

By the time Iger had finished telling him about the harvest of his trip, Elder Xiong had told him the latest state of the Great Wall's defenses and the good news: the savages stationed outside Castle Black had left one after another, apparently to carry out what Ygritte called "Mance's plan of attack". Although King Stannis took most of his forces to the south, he sent a dozen fast warships to support Donghai Wang—with the help of this sea, at least the line of smuggling from Seal Bay was cut off......

Now, the Night's Watch will only need to manage to intercept the two groups of men who have crossed the Great Wall and the Grand Canyon to stop the wildlings to the north of the Wall, and will be victorious in the largest wildling invasion in a thousand years.

After talking with the Commander-in-Chief about the allocation of the sixteen fortresses and the subsequent resettlement of the new residents, Iger received a letter from the Night's Watch property in King's Landing, in which Nina reported to him on the recent operation of King's Landing and the property.

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After the violent death of the Blue Rite and the bloodless recapture of the Iron Throne by Stannis, the Great Reform in King's Landing continued to suppress the Church of the Seven Gods, spread the belief in the Lord of Light, and begin to clean up the "unethical" industries...... Not only was the printing of the Seven Stars Bible and the Yellow Book forced to stop, but even the brothel that bought Littlefinger had no choice but to close.

The role of the egg basket was immediately apparent in this storm: fortunately, the industry was not supported by these few businesses, and although it was affected, other businesses, including obsidian, cosmetics, clothing, etc., not only quickly returned to normal, but even expanded—after Nina arranged for the prostitutes who had been forced to be dismissed to continue their intelligence gathering work in the restaurants and inns owned by the Night's Watch Logistics Department, and at the same time to take some other "legal" orders for printed materials...... Stannis's ascension to the Iron Throne had a negative impact on the Night's Watch industry that was minimized and quickly eliminated.

Besides, the guy who improved the lipstick and soap actually made the wildfire solid as Iger had requested. By adding a series of raw materials, the liquid wildfire was blended into a ointment-like state, and in addition to the change in physical properties, Nina also reported in the letter a change in its chemical properties: stability and ignition point were greatly improved, not only did it remove the disadvantages of possible deflagration due to disturbance, but even boiling water could not ignite it.

Liquid bombs weren't as good as they would have been, but wildfires are light oil, and you can't expect to turn them into explosives just by adding something...... Solidified wildfires can no longer explode, but they are still much more viscous and burning than regular lamp oil and asphalt - these characteristics represent a crucial change: Solidified wildfires are now a better fire-attack weapon than napalm and can be transported on a large scale!

Eventually, Iger learned from the end of the letter that he had not been able to sort out what he had heard at the Wall: in order to punish the royal families for their betrayal in supporting the Blue Rites in their fight for the Iron Throne, Stannis punished them severely, including arresting major family members for treason, forcing hostages, confiscating family property, and distributing fiefs to meritorious heroes.

Among them, "family property" naturally includes investment in the night watchman industry......

Several major investors, including the Buckvilles, had their share of the Night's Watch property confiscated by Stannis in the name of the Iron Throne, and the new king immediately returned the portion to the Night's Watch in support of the Night's Watch. Egger used to have to pay more than half of his income to the backers behind him every month, but now he ...... With the mistakes and loss of position of the large number of royal families, many of the bigwigs behind the industry were knocked down by Stannis, and now, nearly eighty percent of the industry's income is all allocated and used by Iger at will - it turned out that the Night's Watch industry was everyone's cash cow, and now it has become his own!

With Stannis unable to unify the Seven Kingdoms, the business of the Night's Watch industry was limited to the royal realm and the Three Rivers, but these two places alone were already able to provide Iger with a disposable profit of more than 1,000 gold dragons per month, and such a fortune was not too easy to feed the clansmen with very low requirements.

The source of funds is sufficient, and the land grant resident filling program can be implemented with confidence and boldness. Soon, however, Iger realizes a new problem: the speculative failures of the royal nobles will lead to their decline, but the vacant seats left by their fall will not be filled by Nina and people like himself who have no background, and King's Landing will soon have a group of families loyal to Stannis...... During this interval, the Night's Watch industry could be unstoppable in King's Landing, but when the new nobles gradually mastered the resources, competition and even suppression would inevitably form.

At this juncture, it is undoubtedly the most cost-effective policy and the best choice for the future development of the industry to invest in advance to win over those newly ascended hero families, and quickly pull in the Narrow Sea princes who support Stannis to build a new interest group...... But right now, I am at a critical moment when I need money the most.

Should we consider the development of the night watchman industry first, or should we immediately transfer the profits of the industry to the north to feed the Great Wall and irrigate our own huge plan? To put it simply, should we choose to cast a long line to catch big fish or kill chickens and eggs?

It was supposed to be a no-brainer question, but Iger now had to choose the latter option. The Night's Watch is the cornerstone of the game, and if you take a huge profit and don't get down to business, you can cling around the King's Landing Camp for speculation...... If something goes wrong with the Great Wall, even if he escapes alive, he will probably be unable to save his life in the face of Stannis, the rigid king.

Iger is now standing on the tuyere, at the fork in the road between "making more money" and "making big things", and is blown to the latter road by the strong wind.

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