The king on the Great Wall

Judging by Harry Strickland's determined and calm performance, it is estimated that there will be no flaws for the Queen to see that he arranged the tragedy... Daenerys has the identity of "legal ruler of the Seven Kingdoms" to play at this moment, and she cannot Acting willfully like a tyrant, and this also means that as long as the mercenaries insist that this is an accident, no matter how angry and suspicious she is, she can only grit her teeth to implement the agreement in the peace agreement and accept the gold. surrender of the regiment and let them safely leave Westeros.

And by that time, Harry Strickland, who feels that he has done dirty work for the Queen and is not getting paid, is bound to spread the word about his secret meeting with "Iger" and show the fake pardon whenever he sees anyone Not only will it tarnish the Queen's reputation and the legitimacy of her rule, but it will also create estrangement and suspicion between him and Dany.

And such an ending was absolutely unacceptable to him.

This matter must come to an end today, right here, and the best ending is to let the Queen take the initiative to silence her—and to achieve this goal, she must find a way to get the head of the Golden Troupe to admit that she directed the incident. tragedy.

Harry Strickland is certainly not stupid, he is even smarter than 99% of people.

And it's hard to imagine how difficult it is for such a smart person to do such a stupid thing to kill himself.

Fortunately, Iger is no longer an ordinary person.

He has power in the government and the public, and he has won the trust of the queen.

Although he didn't think of any coups, he still has one last stupid solution, which is: use his power to drop ten meetings at once, and forcibly disrupt the situation.

……

He left his position with a sullen face, and walked towards the direction of the carriage, the queen, and the head of the golden regiment.

As the only person walking around at the scene at the moment, he naturally attracted everyone's attention. Even Harry Strickland, who was explaining to Daenerys, subconsciously rolled his eyes to look at him, and then turned his body slightly He froze imperceptibly.

Harry felt as if a tiger was slowly approaching him, and the goosebumps all over his body suddenly rose.No, no, this metaphor still cannot accurately describe his feelings at the moment—as a well-informed mercenary captain, even if Harry Strickland encounters a real tiger, he will never have such a violent reaction. reaction.

The black-clothed prime minister in front of him seemed a little different from the one he had met that day?

No, it is quite different!

"As the most powerful and famous mercenary organization in Essos, the Golden Group is just this loyal and disciplined?" Iger didn't stop until he walked up to the queen. He didn't even look at the corpse of the young man in the car, "Aegon As the object of your allegiance, the prince was supposed to be protected by you to the death, but in the end he died at your hands. As the head of the regiment, you must bear the blame for this matter! Come, take this man down for me, and take him back to King’s Landing In the dungeon, strict interrogation and investigation!"

As the Hand of the Queen, Iger can certainly command the Unsullied, but the problem is: the Queen herself is present.

No soldier moved arbitrarily, and in an instant, everyone's inquiring, questioning or confused eyes focused on Daenerys.

"Your Majesty... this..." Harry Strickland was completely caught off guard. He was taken aback for a moment, and he forgot what he said in an instant. He could only look at the Queen in a panic, "My Majesty Yan, the responsibility for poor management cannot be shirked. But, since I have already executed the murderer and brought back the prince's body intact...Your Majesty, please forgive me!"

Daenerys was also a little confused. The first reaction was that Iger was overreacting and unnecessary: ​​After questioning, she didn't hear any obvious flaws or loopholes in Harry's answer. It seemed that Aegon died for no reason. In a stupid mercenary riot.The whole world is watching her every move. In any case, she cannot and should not throw a surrendered enemy general into prison without a good reason.

However, years of experience in leadership also let her know clearly: It is fine to communicate and quarrel in private, but denying the order of the Queen's Hand in public...is a downright stupid behavior.

"There are still many doubts about this matter, Captain Strickland, I will trouble you... bow down and accept some investigations and inquiries." Daenerys said coldly without any fluctuations, and turned to the Unsullied who was looking at her. The commander nodded, as he recognized Iger's order.

So more than a dozen Unsullied soldiers approached Harry like a closed circle, about to collect his weapons.

Strickland's reaction was surprisingly big. He jumped back to hide among his mercenary generals with an agility that didn't match his fat figure at all. Er's mercenary followed him and took out the guy.

Hundreds of Unsullied rushed to the queen with their spears in hand. Mace Tyrell hurriedly took the guards back a few steps to clear the relationship, and the scene became tense in an instant.

"Your Majesty, please think again!" Strickland didn't understand what happened at all, but decided to give Daenerys one last chance, "I have come to accept your agreement and surrender to you!"

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Chapter 707

Think twice?

As a defeated man, why should he think twice about confronting the victor with swords in a surrender ceremony?

Daenerys couldn't understand, she didn't know whether she had a brain problem or the world was so ridiculous, but one thing was certain: her true dragon's wrath was ignited.

Ben just wanted to make a mistake and follow Iger's order to let Strickland go to jail and suffer a little, in order to repay his revenge for not protecting his blood relatives...

But now, she has killing intent.

Drogon, who was flying in the air, sensed the emotional change of the Dragon Rider bound to him. He slightly lowered his altitude and glides over the heads of the Golden Group. Intimidation has a better deterrent effect.

After tens of seconds of silence to exert the pressure, the Queen swept the officers of the Golden Army surrounded by the Unsullied with her cold and ruthless eyes.

"What about you, you think the same thing, do you want me to...'think twice'?!"

Except for Mace Tyrell and his bodyguards who had already avoided far away, the rest of the officers of the Golden Regiment slowly put away their weapons after looking at each other. The fighting habit that has been developed since then is a subconscious reaction of muscle memory.But after calming down, the group of mercenaries, who were smarter than the last, quickly reached a consensus.

A good-for-nothing leader who can't lead everyone to victory, who can't even manage the pensions of the fallen soldiers, and who can even make waves in a surrender ceremony, is not worth their lives to protect, even against one... No, two Where is the dragon?

Seeing the subordinates sheathing their swords one by one, they even looked at him with reproachful and contemptuous eyes, as if they were urging him to quickly put down their weapons and surrender to the Queen... Harry Strickland's body was full of fat. trembling.

He was cold all over, sweat broke out on his back, and he felt that he had fallen into a nightmare from which he could not wake up.

He couldn't understand it at all: Why did a transaction that was clearly agreed to be mutually beneficial turned into the current situation inexplicably?

Should I gamble that there is still a chance to get out of the dungeon alive after being captured, or should I tear myself apart and fight to the death?

Still not wanting to die, Harry Strickland looked at Iger, who was talking directly with him, with the last sliver of luck, trying to see any clues from his expression or body movements—even if it was just a comforting look or gesture, he would immediately Give up resistance.

But the prime minister in black glared at him coldly and hostilely. This time, the frightening and oppressive force in the legend appeared on his body, but how could he still have half of the easy-going when they met?

While the heart was beating violently, a rush of hot blood rushed to his head and face.

You are unkind, I am unrighteous!

"Master Prime Minister! This is all arranged according to your needs. How can you go back on your word and accuse us of our loyalty and discipline?" The head of the golden regiment threw down the gold-encrusted sword that probably had no chance of being used. , suppressed the trembling of his hands and took out the exquisitely crafted pardon from the bag.

He was on the top, but the remaining rationality finally knew: once the content of the transaction was mentioned in public, he would surely die.

He didn't say that the volume in his hand was a pardon, he just held it in his hand and waved it around as a threat.

However, things still did not suddenly improve as he expected.

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Iger's indifference turned into confusion and annoyance, but the hostility remained undiminished. "What is my need?"

"It was you who asked me to arrange the chaos last night!" Seeing that Iger was still pretending to be stupid, Harry, who was forced to the corner, gave it up completely. The people around them let them see, "The queen pardoned me yesterday, how can I be arrested and imprisoned today? The pardon order of the dignified True Dragon Dynasty is valid for less than half a day?!"

There was chaos around him. Before, everyone just disliked him, but now they are afraid of avoiding him like seeing a plague god.

Although they had long guessed that "killing Prince Aegon" might be a deal between their captain and the queen, none of them wanted to read Harry's evidence.

Just kidding, although everyone has a heart for gossip, but this melon - if you eat it, you will die!

The reactions of the subordinates were expected, but what frightened Harry even more was that the two opposites—whether it was the queen or Iger—still had bewildered expressions.

A great sense of foreboding began to settle over Harry Strickland: something was wrong.

Daenerys and Iger have no reason to pretend to be stupid like this. If they want to keep the world from knowing about this dirty deal, they have only two choices: paying for the performance of the contract or killing themselves, and even the latter option should be in the After the war is over, everyone relaxes and proceeds quietly—in fact, Harry has already figured out how to deal with it and protect himself.

And now, something completely unexpected happened: they, it seemed, really didn't know what they were holding!

"Bring that thing here." Daenerys ordered, frowning tightly.

Several Unsullied men charged towards the mercenaries with their long guns in a murderous spirit. Harry was hesitating whether to give it, but the commander of the archers standing beside him, Hei Bach, had already snatched the pardon and handed it to the mercenaries. the nearest Unsullied.

"Hei Baqu, you!"

"Boss leader, just be honest, do you want everyone to die with you!"

At the same time that the betrayal and quarrel among the mercenaries began, the pardon came to Daenerys.

She didn't even need to look at the content to know it was fake - although it was beautifully done and formal, her Targaryen dynasty had never issued any document in this format and carrier, let alone a pardon.

However, in order to be serious and understand the ins and outs of the matter, she still read the "pardon order" word for word from beginning to end.

The content of the text is not standardized, let’s ignore that, but the seal is fake—even the most basic circle or square is wrong. The person who made this must have never seen the internal documents of the Queen’s government.

As for the handprint at the bottom...

Seeing that Iger also leaned over to look at it, Daenerys simply handed him the things.

Iger showed a deeper puzzled expression. After taking a breath, he raised his head and asked sharply, "Who is this, and when did you give it to you?"

"Still pretending to be stupid?" Harry Strickland stretched out his hand and pointed at him under the push and push of several subordinates, "It was you who handed it to me before sunset yesterday afternoon! Even if the pardon is false, the bottom line But you pressed the fingerprints in front of me—Your Majesty, if you don’t believe me, let him press the fingerprints for you to see on the spot!”

Fingerprint?

do you need?

Daenerys sneered, and her doubts about Iger's weakness disappeared immediately.

If Harry had said midnight, there was still a slight possibility that Iger was up to something, but he said it was before sunset.

She is very sure: her prime minister was with her all day yesterday except sleeping.

The queen didn't say anything, but Iger shook his head with a smile back in anger: "Bring the ink pad, I'll let you... die to understand!"

An Unsullied and Myrcella trotted towards Iger's carriage where the ink pads were stored, while Harry Strickland, feeling bad, began to call out the names of the nine people who had an appointment with him yesterday, and put them Became a lifesaver.

But no one is willing to stand up and say a word for him.

"That is to say, Your Majesty." Iger ignored the noise over there, but whispered to Daenerys, "Someone pretended to be me and instilled the lie of 'the queen wants him to kill the prince' to this fool, and then He really believed it and implemented it! I just said it casually before, but the nature of the matter is different now... We must investigate this matter strictly!"

Daenerys clenched her fists without saying a word, only gritted her teeth and nodded slightly.She suddenly had an intuition that the person who sent someone pretending to be Iger to pass on her decree this time was probably the same murderer behind the scenes who poisoned Winterfell and almost wiped out her imperial group.

Not only did he design to kill his last blood relative, but he also wanted to plant the name of a kinslayer on himself. This malice and hatred... It's hard to dispel if it's not skinned and boned and then burnt into flames!

After a while, the ink pad was trotted and brought to Iger.

"Which finger of which hand?"

"Right thumb!"

Iger didn't say a word of nonsense, rolled up his sleeves, dipped in the ink pad, and pressed his right thumb next to the bottom handprint of the pardon order, which belonged to him.

No two people's fingerprints are the same, and this kind of big talk is not even necessary at the moment-his and Leon's fingerprints are one bucket-shaped and the other dustpan-shaped, so blind people can't tell the difference.

After confirming that Daenerys saw that the two handprints were different, Iger handed the "pardon" to the Unsullied soldier who had just brought it: "Go and return it to Captain Strickland——no, give the gold before that." Everyone in the regiment has read it, including Lord Mace Tyrell. Please everyone—be sure to read it from top to bottom, and see how the leader of the first mercenary regiment of Essos has been played by others! "

The Prime Minister issued an order, and now everyone can finally look at this "evidence" with peace of mind. The pardon order was passed on one by one among the generals of the Golden Company and Duke Tyrell in the form of a relay, and finally returned to Harry. .

Although he had vaguely understood the situation from the expressions of everyone who had seen the pardon order, when he really saw the two obviously different handprints, one new and the other old, Harry still had a lack of oxygen in his brain for a while and felt dizzy. .

He was played!

From beginning to end, not a single word or even half a symbol of this pardon order that he kept close to him as a talisman all night was true!

"That Iger is fake..." Something finally emerged in his blank brain, he reacted, and shouted hysterically, "That Iger is fake! This must be the witchcraft of the red-robed woman! It's you Send someone to use witchcraft to change into Iger's appearance to deceive me, and in the end turn around and deny it, and put all the blame on me! Despicable and shameless liar!"

If the "you" in this sentence were changed to "Iger", it would be almost entirely true, but it is a pity that the wrong subject of the accusation ends up completely pissing off Daenerys.

Her face was livid: "Take him down!"

Fearing that the mercenaries who would be implicated would rush away, only Harry was left alone on the spot facing more than a dozen Unsullied soldiers rushing towards him. Knowing that he was doomed, he cursed in despair. This group of cowards tore up the pardon in their hands, turned around and ran towards the large army of the golden regiment not far away.

"Don't chase!"

Daenerys called back to the Unsullied.

She was so angry that she wanted to kill this bastard on the spot, but she didn't order him to be executed directly because Iger and others were watching, but Harry still refused to capture him obediently, so don't blame her for being cruel and bloodthirsty!

The huge body of the black dragon made a flexible turn above their heads, swooped over the queen's head and flew to the west.

Daenerys called out the only words that could calm her down at the moment.

"Dracarys!"

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Chapter 708 Traditional Arts

The orange-yellow dragon's breath spewed out from Drogon's mouth, licking the ground like a long tongue of flame, precisely sweeping across Harry Strickland's escape route, and immediately engulfing the leader of the golden regiment who ran only a hundred meters away.

The hot wind is blowing in the face, and it can make people feel their cheeks are burning from a long distance. No one dares to imagine what kind of purgatory the person wrapped in the dragon flames is in... The screams sounded only a few seconds before suddenly At the end, Harry's chubby body fell forward to the ground like a burning garbage bag under the action of inertia, leaving only a small pile of small fires that barely formed the outline of a human body, and the disgusting smoke that drifted out. Burnt taste of protein and fat.

The operation is so impressive that it will never be forgotten. The death sentence, execution and cremation are completed in an instant. Daenerys is worthy of being a hero among queens.

The sound of air-conditioning and swallowing saliva sounded from the remaining officers of the Golden Regiment. It took them a long time to take their eyes off the regiment leader—to be precise, the cremation ceremony of the deceased commander, and looked back tremblingly. To the still frosty queen and Iger with a serious face.

The Golden Regiment has a custom that has lasted for nearly 70 years: after the death of each head of the regiment, the skull will be boiled to remove flesh and blood, plated with gold, and hung on the top of the military flag, so that when Westeros is "recovered" across the narrow sea in the future Take it and put it in front of the army, let them "witness" the final victory.

Iger didn't know if Harry Strickland, who was ashesed by the queen with dragon flames in full view, could still get this treatment, and he didn't care.

He has more important things to worry about.

From the perspective of the mastermind behind the scenes, the plan to use the Queen's hand to kill the news is naturally a great success beyond expectations;

But starting from the official identity of the Queen's Hand, Daenerys lost her mind and made a mess.

Iger set up a series of plans to kill Aegon, Clinton, and Harry Strickland. After all, the purpose was to maintain the stability and stability of the Hu Dynasty, not to demolish the Queen and create a rebellion against the Queen.Now that the goal has been achieved, how to deal with the aftermath and how to reduce the subsequent impact of this incident has become his next priority.

The most urgent task is to shut up the mouth of the Golden Group, so as to prevent the spread of bad rumors about Daenerys' "Kisslaughter".

Iger's plan for this is: recruiting and incorporating the Golden Group.

This first mercenary regiment of the Free Trade City-State does not count the missing, separated and captured personnel, and the strength that is still preserved in front of him is 4000 people. With such a huge number, it is not only a stupid choice but also impossible to kill them all. Completed tasks, and if they are allowed to return to Essos as agreed in the peace agreement...

It is estimated that in a few days, they will become the witnesses of the slave owners "the queen who bought the murder and murdered her relatives and killed her relatives" to slander the rumors.