The king on the Great Wall

It took place in the downtown area in broad daylight, and the assassination methods were extremely violent and brutal. At the end, the "Dragon Savior" drama was even more eye-catching.

With this layer of buffs, the news of Iger's assassination quickly spread across the country, shocking the entire Seven Kingdoms... The story of him killing two assassins with all his might also quickly deduced "killing several assassins" and "doing it alone" Turn over a dozen killers"... Wait for a version that is more outrageous than the other.With half the people in Old Town patted their chests and swore that "I saw it with my own eyes", this story is more true than rumors such as "Killed a White Walker outside the Great Wall" or "Repelled the army of the dead in the North" Much more believable.

Therefore, the setting of "Bravely crowning the world", which has been gradually forgotten, was once again taken out of the pile of old papers and strengthened on Iger, making the shining halo on his head one more circle.

However, Iger, who is the person involved, is not in the mood to deal with these boring gossips at the moment.

After learning that the queen had been warned in time to change the itinerary, and that there was no attack in King's Landing, he was relieved, and while commanding and tracking down the instigator of the assassination, he began to arrange and train an existence that had not yet been born in this world: Bomb dogs.

In this attack, he lost more than a dozen bodyguards with familiar faces and names—this number itself is not huge, but given the extremely small denominator, to some extent, his loss this time is bigger than The decisive battle outside Gaoting City was even bigger.However, while carefully selecting and replenishing his own soldiers, he, who has not recovered from his injuries, still gritted his teeth and persisted in his work, and started the next step of his transformation of the Seven Kingdoms according to the original plan and rhythm.

That is, Myrcella was curious about what was going on - the Reformation.

According to the previously negotiated conditions, he sent Luchen Frey, who had jumped back to his own camp, to the position of archbishop—to fulfill his promise to his allies, which is called keeping promises, but unlike most people think, he What came next had little to do with the archbishop.

With the purpose of "the Seven Gods are just one body and seven faces of R'hllor", Iger will manipulate the Red God Cult to annex the Seven God Cult, and fully eat the influence of the Seven God Faith in Westeros.Merge the two religions, and finally create a huge but obedient new religion controlled by yourself, an excellent tool for ruling.

In view of the disparity in the base and power ratio of the merged parties in the land under their feet, the first thing Iger has to do before the official start is to weaken—and to weaken the Seven Gods violently and to the death.

The whole plan can be summed up in one sentence: revolution first, then reform.

It is conceivable that the new archbishop, Luchen Frey, will never take the initiative to participate in this operation and weaken himself—even if he is willing, a new leader who is parachuted in halfway will never be able to order the entire Seven Gods to cut himself of meat.

Therefore, Iger's choice is to bypass the new archbishop first and directly set off this revolution.

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Two days after the gunpowder assassination, the old town court publicly tried the former archbishop on a series of charges of blasphemy and embezzlement of church property, and sentenced him to exile outside the Great Wall for reformation.

After the verdict was pronounced, and before the parties were taken away, Duke Mace Tyrell, who attended the public trial on behalf of the Queen, stepped onto the stage and announced a decision or order in public: to inform the Seven Kingdoms of the judgment result, to alert the world, and to Carry out "self-purification" across the country, search churches and monks' personal residences, take stock of the private property of clergy, conduct contests and liquidation for those whose property does not match their legitimate income, excommunicate the black sheep, return the Seven Kingdoms A clear and pious religious environment!

As soon as this remark came out, some citizens applauded and some doubted it, but the church representative jumped out of his seat in shock.

Except for those ascetic monks who were extremely pious and gave up all their private property, whoever has a little bit of position and status in the church is not worth it?What is legitimate income?If it simply refers to the living allowance issued by the church, all other income is illegal, and ninety-nine out of ten monks are guilty.As for dueling and liquidation, there is too much room for manipulation here. As long as someone with a heart is willing to fight a little bit... it will soon develop into an unstoppable prairie fire!

The so-called "self-purification" initiated by Mace Tyrell and Iger behind him clearly wanted the life of the Seven Gods!

After the two bishops whispered to each other, one trotted solemnly to try to persuade Mace Tyrell, while the other left the scene in a panic and returned directly to the Starry Cathedral—to inform the church.

But whether it is persuasion or warning, it is already too late. This is a kind of attack before the strike-the knife has already been swung: the punishment of the former archbishop and the order to "self-purify" the churches all over the world were passed on this morning. The letter crows were sent to various places in the same form and speed as military orders, and the public trial in the afternoon was just a formality and an announcement. No use.

The crushing and extermination of the religious power by the royal power will set off fierce backlash and resistance at any time in peacetime-only this: the severe winter and the continuous war have just ended, the population of the Seven Kingdoms has been cut down, and the Queen's tax exemption The favor has just been spilled to win the hearts of the people, everyone is not interested in fighting for anyone or any reason, and the archbishop has just smeared the Seven Gods... a perfect collection of all favorable factors Only when it is time can we carry it out without any worries.

In theory, it would be more appropriate after defeating the Anti-Dragon Mother Alliance and ending the war completely.

But Iger hesitated again and again, and decided to take advantage of its illness to kill it, and fight while the iron was still hot... Seize the opportunity of my time in Old Town, and don't leave the turmoil and troubles until tomorrow.

The direct purpose of this "Zongge" is to break the bones of the church, force it to kneel down, and then force it to accept the new thinking and new line of "seven in one" and the transformation of the fusion of the two religions.

But to go deeper into its essence, it is "eradicating vested interests and making way for upstarts and policies."The nature of its preemption of ecological niche and cake share determines that its process must not be a dinner party but full of blood, violence, and large-scale accidental injuries and entanglements.

The clergy who were harmed by this "religious revolution" may have a moral standard far above the average; but those who benefited from it may not necessarily be good people who represent justice and kindness.The difference in their fate may simply be due to their different positions in the transformation process of the Seven Kingdoms-whether they were lucky to sit in the carriage driven by Iger, or unlucky to lie on the road in the direction of the carriage.

This is the real "wheel of history", crushing everything, regardless of whether you like it or not, or beauty, ugliness, good and evil.

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Chapter 726 Junjie and Houfu

Those who know the current affairs are handsome.

The original meaning of this idiom is "a smart person who can recognize the trend of the times is a talented person and a hero", which is obviously completely commendatory... Unfortunately, because it often becomes the villain's persuasion line in literature and film and television works, the emotional tendency has been severely affected pollute.

Appreciation or contempt for "people who know current affairs" actually depends on where you stand.

In the eyes of the princes of the River Bend, the Tyrell family, who still held high the banner of rebellion and then took refuge in the queen, was of course a shameful traitor who broke his promise.

But for Iger, Gao Ting's sobriety and reason saved him countless thoughts and efforts.

The short family history, the long-term experience of being a loyal dog of the Dragon family, and the harsh environment in Hewan where there are always strong officials and challenges everywhere... These complex factors make the Tyrell family not have the inexplicable stubbornness and arrogance that the old nobles have.After surrendering and changing flags, Gao Ting did not show signs of coyness or pretentiousness at all. Instead, he threw his naked body into the Queen's arms. In the follow-up stage of trading name certificates, he also devoted himself unreservedly, and performed the duties and obligations of "loyal subordinates" very well.

The support staff with the rose emblem not only led the way for the queen's army who continued to crusade against the stubborn nobles, but also actively ran around to publicize the queen's tax-free and burden-reducing policy to stabilize the hearts of the people of the new dynasty, and even the raid launched by Iger The traditional "Zongge" still cooperated in providing manpower and material resources, and took the lead in setting off the first wave of liquidation and persecution of the clergy in various parts of the river bend.

This is exactly in Iger's arms.

Ignorant and simple townships, towns, and villagers often have respect for the clergy who are educated and represent the glory of the gods. If Iger simply issued instructions requiring people to "purify themselves" without any guidance, what he imagined The Great Religious Revolution either never got off the ground—or it came too late, giving the targets plenty of opportunity to move assets, fight back, and recruit.

Only the first group of people took the lead to set an example, successfully liquidating the property of the priesthood and fighting against public opinion in the public opinion, not only suppressing and destroying the sacred and inviolable image and status of the church, but also confiscating the confiscated monks’ property or Equal distribution has improved their own lives and formed a good example. Then there will be a second or third batch of people who are greedy or have long held resentment towards the monks. A little bit of holding into a prairie fire.

He had already directed the corresponding event script, but he didn't expect that before it was released, someone from Tyrell's family figured out his intention and started to do it first!

Needless to say, this "superior" is either Margaery, a vixen, or her wiser and wiser grandmother.

Eggben is also paying attention to the thoughts of the Tyrell family, ready to knock on the rose bush to remind them of their identities and roles. Who wants to observe after a period of time and find that they can be said to have cut themselves off from the aristocracy of the River Bend The break with him was quite thorough and decisive, and he was well versed in how to survive in troubled times...not only was he honest and well-behaved, he also knew how to draw inferences from one instance and took the initiative to please him.

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While the fire of "Zongge" was slowly burning in all directions from the old town, Iger, who was recuperating in the towering tower, gradually recovered from his trauma.

If one survives, there will be future fortunes.

This sentence is quite in line with Iger's current situation.

He was seriously injured in the assassination, and when he was carried back to the towering tower, there were still two poisonous crossbow bolts on his legs. Although he was not threatened by any real threat under the influence of R'hllor's gift, he still shocked everyone around him. Startled.

As a result, the expected surge of protests and opposition after the launch of the "Zongge" almost did not emerge - not because everyone had no opinion, but because no one dared to make trouble at this crucial moment when he was almost alive, to test him. His patient temper questioned his determination to suppress the religious authority.

The behind-the-scenes instigator who took hostile actions against him obviously surpassed the new Targaryen dynasty in terms of intelligence organization capabilities. Not only did his guards fail to catch any survivors at the assassination site, but the large-scale raids in King's Landing thousands of miles away also yielded very little: Except for the few low-level downlines captured who confessed that "the assassination order came from the other side of the Narrow Sea", there is almost no information that can point to the clear source of the assassination.

But this terrifying attack, which was so real and absolutely impossible to forge, immediately cleared Iger of his suspicion in the "Poisoning of Winterfell Incident", and also greatly diluted his incompetence in not being able to find out the real murderer.The queen expressed her sincere concern and condolences in her personal letter, and there was also a meaning between the lines: it's okay if the real culprit can't be found out, anyway, all the suspected city-states should be wiped out, that's right.

At the same time as the condolence letter, there was another piece of good news that made him wonder whether to be happy or worried: the Slave Owners Alliance assembled a fleet to launch a large-scale attack on Dragonstone Island at almost the same time as the assassination. Frustrated and repelled without any suspense, but the opponent also used artillery during the battle.It's just because the performance is too poor, and it's not useful at all.

"Alas—" Iger sighed a long time, and put down the letter.

"Why is your lord sighing?" Myrcella, who refused to take off the red dress after putting on the red dress, squatted at his feet and changed the gauze on his legs, asking curiously, "Isn't this good news? The east coast will be quiet for a long time, you don’t have to rush to lead the west coast fleet back to the King Qin, you can take a good rest for a while.”

"Good news is good news, of course, but have you ever thought that the biggest factor in the easy victory of this battle is that the opponent used counterfeit artillery?" Iger explained patiently this time that Myrcella was clever in the assassination incident. And the heroic action that almost saved his life completely won his trust, "This actually shows one point: the strategic deception I arranged earlier played a role, and the enemy relaxed the control of the real secret after stealing the fake blueprint." continue to infiltrate and steal."

"Hmm... is there a problem here?"

"The problem is that this trick can only be used once. And this is the only excellent fighter. Because the Dragonstone Island fleet did not receive the support of the River Bend and the Iron Islands fleet, it fought alone and failed to send the enemy who came to the door. All of them stayed. Most of the remnant enemies who ran away learned their lesson and realized that the slave owners who had obtained wrong information would never be so foolish as to send to their deaths with counterfeit firearms next time. They would either start again Start spying on the secrets of thermal weapons-this is difficult to prevent in the case of expanded production, or it will retreat back to its old nest, making the next battle difficult to fight."

"If you don't leave the nest, then the adults will kill them at the door of their house!" Myrcella said in a confident tone. After saying this, just after untying a circle of gauze, her eyes lit up, and she cried out in surprise, " Huh...the scar has healed!"

"It's all thanks to Melisandre's spell." Naturally, Iger would not tell the card that the Red God gave him such a card. He took away the girl's little hand that was groping around the wound, pulled the hem of his trousers to block his thigh, and moved towards the girl. Pointing at the table: "Bring the draft, today, we will continue to write the "Book of Truth."

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Chapter 727 "The Book of Truth" and "Small Goals"

A character as powerful as R'hllor is still inseparable from this world, and Iger has given up his fantasy and chose to manage his life in this world well.

In the absence of imperial ambitions, Iger, who is under one person and above ten thousand, is already close to the peak that the conventional route can reach.According to the hierarchy of needs theory, the only goal he can pursue at the moment is the top level "self-realization and transcendence".

And as a Game of Thrones player, the ultimate goal he can achieve and surpass will probably be immortalized forever.

To achieve this goal, the two most direct and broad paths are "to complete great achievements" and "to make the world a better place".

In the former item, he has accomplished a lot by repelling the White Walkers and helping the queen to unify the Seven Kingdoms; and in the latter item, he has made the world a better place... He didn't think about democracy unrealistically, Instead of "ideological solutions" such as freedom and equality, they became conservatives in an anti-radical style, and chose to carry out reform and transformation in a safe manner.

This change in route, in addition to becoming a vested interest after the butt decides the head, actually also has a lot of rational considerations.

Solution: The productivity reaches a certain level, but the social system is seriously backward, causing people to have advanced concepts in their minds but being restrained and suppressed. Only when there is a need to open and release can it be meaningful to proceed.

A group of serfs who thought they were doing well under the old aristocrats, opened their heads to get some air?

What the world lacks at the moment is not a qualitative change that can be broken at the first breakthrough, but a quantitative change that has a long way to go—whether it is productivity or ideological progress.

In terms of productivity, technological innovation and agricultural reform are already brewing;

As for the ideological aspect... What Iger chose was to create a Protestantism and use it as a tool and vessel to cultivate and store "advanced".

The "Truth" is the new source of doctrine and cultural spirit he prepared for Protestantism.

Its purpose and outline are roughly as follows.

[The universe was born in an explosion created by R'hllor, the king of light, in the chaos. After the big bang created the world, R'hllor also set up countless constraints and rules called "laws" in the new world that was born. , to prevent the universe from collapsing and returning to chaos.

In the process of operating according to the law, matter is gathered under the action of attraction to form worlds. R'hllor felt that it was too monotonous, so he added light and life into it; still felt something was missing, so he turned into worlds All kinds of images - to enlighten and guide the awakened wisdom and rationality of the most spiritual and longest part of the living beings, and infuse them with souls.

The existence meaning of the human soul is to explore the truth, know and understand the universe, for which all human beings need to form a community and work together.

All the gods in the world are the multi-faceted manifestation of R'hllor, and the purpose of their appearance is to urge people not to forget their original intentions and forge ahead—the more they understand the laws formulated by R'hllor, or the process of exploring the truth about the human community The purer and greater the contribution, the closer to the Creator God in soul.

The closer you are, the happier you will be, the farther away you are, and vice versa.

After a person's body dies, the soul will meet with R'hllor for a summary of his life.In the process of searching for the truth for human beings, those who have done more than their faults will be reincarnated and put into the material world again, while those who have done more than their merits will be left in the melting pot of their souls to use themselves as fuel to drive the movement of the universe, and suffer supreme pain until sin redeemed.

The only way for people to enjoy and worship R'hllor is to use their talents to promote the progress and development of civilization without slack and laziness.

To this end, religions should encourage people to abandon prejudice, curb disputes, reduce organizations and personnel as much as possible, simplify ceremonies and activities, and avoid unnecessary waste under the premise of maintaining transmission and operation.

To sum it up: there is only one true God, mankind is one, and progress together. 】

The above is the skeleton of the new creation myth. As for the flesh and blood, Iger will use his sentence expansion skills and imagination to slowly add supplements later.

His purpose is to absorb the strengths and advantages of various religions on the earth plane, eliminate their dross, and design this new religion born after kneading the two religions of the Seven Gods and the Red God into one: to eliminate and ease the contradiction between science and theology, which can both Supporting and motivating the ideological progress of enlightened people can also take care of and appease the needs of the general public for superstition and spiritual dependence, and can even be used as an excuse and an almighty tool for external expansion when necessary.

Doing so is much more achievable and beneficial than advocating materialism and atheism in a single-minded manner.

When the Sect of the Seven Gods is dying and unable to resist by "Zongge", and he will obediently agree to any conditions he asks, Iger will stop "self-purification" and announce the holding of a religious conference-the completed version of "The Truth" will be handed over to The supreme leader of the two religions asked both sides to make it public at the same time by "declaring it as an oracle", and formally merged the two religions by the way.

At that time, the "Book of Truth" will be above all the original classics and bibles that are not limited to the Red God Sect and the Seven God Sect.As for those old classics that have been trampled underfoot, the part that educates all living beings and guides people to be good will be kept, while the useless ones will be gradually harmonized...

Protestantism will not require the believers of the two religions to make any drastic changes in cognition and living habits, but will quietly devour all kinds of old religions in a gentle way that sneaks into the night with the wind, and completes them in the most stable and unwavering way. The changes in the field of belief have opened a new chapter in history.

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Even though her wrists were sore from writing so hard, Myrcella was still reluctant to stop even for a moment.She loves this job to death: every word she writes on the thick draft in her hand at this moment may have an incomparable and far-reaching impact on the world in the future, and will be printed and copied into millions of copies, no, yes Millions of copies of the supreme tome.

This feeling of not only witnessing, but further participating in and even creating history, made her so excited that she could hardly hold her legs.

"Okay, let's go here first today." Iger stopped dictating with a dry mouth, "Pour me a glass of water first, and then change to another draft. Last night R'hllor gave another revelation in my dream , I have to write it all down quickly.”

The "Book of Truth" is basically a thing that is customized and fabricated according to the needs, but Iger actually has many real and valuable treasures in his memory, and they cannot be brought into the coffin by rotting in his head.

Calculus, the various three laws, the four forces, general and special relativity, and even the uncertainty principle... These theories or tools that any college student in another world can talk about a lot of things, but in this world It is an inexhaustible huge treasure.

Perhaps not all of them apply to this world, and may even be proven wrong in the distant future of the original world.

They are holy books in the eyes of people in the world of ice and fire at the moment, but within three to five hundred years, they are highly consistent with the observation results of the real world and have the ability to predict accurately, which will definitely make anyone who believes in Protestantism and at the same time slightly curious and explores the laws of the world Those who wanted to be stunned and regarded as a standard by them.

Pushing all this knowledge to the gods in the same way as the gunpowder formula will not only further strengthen the credibility of one's own agent and prophet's identity, but also be used as the ballast stone of the new religion after being incorporated into the scriptures. Make it solid and believable for a long time.

Protestant management will not encounter the embarrassment that the Christian Holy See in the original world has to constantly reinterpret the Bible as technology advances.

One day in the future, the world of ice and fire will develop to the point where people can judge that the "Truth" is nonsense based on reason and logic alone.

But by that time, its historical mission must have been completed, and Iger's small goal of immortality... probably has been achieved for a long time.

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Chapter 728 Hot Spring Talk

With the full support of the four countries in the north and south, the army's artillery showing great power, and the local lord Tyrell's family leading the way to persuade them to surrender-the three-pronged approach, the recalcitrant forces in the river bend were quickly extinguished.The smart ones have been invited to King's Landing as "guests", those who vowed not to surrender neatly buried in the soil, while those who were captured and exiled outside the Great Wall embarked on a long journey north...

By entrusting the heroes who are directly loyal to the queen or simply appointing officials to manage the town, the actual border of the king's territory has been pushed southwestward to the Bitter Bridge area, gnawing off a third of the river in one bite; the Baratheon family has experienced rebellion, usurpation and extinction , the queen didn't even bother to find Robert's illegitimate son or find a successor, but canceled the duchy setting with a wave of her hand and merged it under the rule...

As a result, the king's collar expanded to more than twice its original size in one fell swoop.

Although it is smaller than the original goal of the Great King's Land Project, it is still an earth-shattering feat. Given that the Slave Owners Alliance made trouble halfway, it is completely acceptable to fail to achieve the expected results.

In addition, the river bend and the western region, the border between the rivers and Dorne also had more or less land ceded - after a piecemeal knife method, the river bend has shrunk by almost half.

The second half of this Western Expedition was able to proceed so smoothly. In addition to the decisive factor that the Western Expeditionary Army could fight, there was another point that played a considerable role, that is: Iger used enough benefits to buy off the troops of his own camp. The nobles, and strictly concealed the plan of the Great King's Land - packaged this struggle of "expanding the royal power and suppressing the localities" as "the four countries carve up the river bay", thus achieving more help.

Now, the only troubles worth mentioning in the Seven Kingdoms are the bandit gangs in the no-regarded area at the border between the original Stormland and Dorne, and the surrender negotiations for the valley that has not yet surrendered.

After simply weighing the priorities, Iger first shifted his energy focus to the Anti-Dragon Mother Alliance on the other side of the Narrow Sea.

Although the fledgling Targaryen dynasty was unparalleled on the frontal battlefield, victorious and victorious, it was already heavily in debt, highly leveraged, and its financial machine was operating at its limit.The amount of gold and silver left in the royal treasury seems to be quite large, but it all comes from Lannister's blood transfusion, compensation and fines from the nobles of the Riverbend, and proceeds from the sale of Targaryen bonds-even if there is no accident, it is only enough to last until the end of the war , and then we have to find another way when it comes to the gap between rewards for meritorious deeds and debt repayment.

Tyrion's ability alone is absolutely impossible to plug the huge loophole. In order to prevent the financial machine from running out of fuel, Iger must quickly defeat the slave owner alliance and develop the new dynasty's financial source by digesting and absorbing the enemy's nutrition.

The Targaryen Dynasty has a crushing military technology advantage, but just out of the cold winter, the physical strength is insufficient to succeed, and there is not enough financial and material resources to fight a protracted war with the entire free trade city-state system.In this case, Iger chose to use a sentence from the teacher to break the situation: It is better to cut off one finger than to hurt his ten fingers!

As for which one to break...

Open the map of the world of ice and fire, and it is easy to see the latitude correspondence between the major cities on both sides of the Narrow Sea: the northern end is Braavos-Valley Seagull Town; the central part is Pentos-King's Landing; the southern end is Sunspear - Lys and Volantis.

It is obvious: the combined fleet assembled by the Slave Owners Alliance wants to put pressure and threats on the queen, and must focus its attack on King's Landing - and this also means: most of the enemy navy can only gather at the seaport of Pentos and obtain supplies , using this as a springboard to attack Dragonstone Island.