Gao Bin finally waited for the arrival of Little Rose. Looking at the luxurious bicycle frame prepared by the Tyrell family for her, he knew how wealthy the Reach was.
Gao Bin was dressed in military uniform, sitting astride a black horse without a trace of hair, looking handsome and majestic.
Although Tony is still young, he has already shown the majesty of a wolf king under the horse. A pair of icy oil-green eyes glanced at him, making people shiver down the spine.
At least on first impression, Margaery thought it was pretty good. Although he was not as handsome as Renly, he was more masculine, and his strong male aura almost overflowed the screen.
Margery, who is in her twenties and eighties, no matter how calm and mature she is, is still yearning for love in her heart.
If possible, she would naturally choose a husband who she loves and who can also help the family.
"Miss Margery, you are indeed as beautiful as the legend says, just like a rose in full bloom."
Gao Bin took Margery's little hand and gently touched the back of it with the tip of his nose, looking very elegant and gentlemanly.
"Thank you, you are also very handsome, but you look more like a general than in the legend." Margaery was elegant and elegant, wearing a gauze dress as blue as the sky, elegant and gentle.
"Oh? What do I look like in the legend?"
"They said you were a playboy." Margery said bluntly.
"Haha, rumors stop with the wise."
When Margaery heard this, her eyes were clear:
"This is very philosophical."
"Haha, let's go. I'll take you to visit the military camp. I'm sorry that I can't entertain you in Winter City."
"It's okay, I'll go again when I have the chance."
The purpose of coming this time is to meet Gao Bin. It doesn’t matter where.
And she was even more curious as to why the troops from the north appeared here.
The camp stretches for nearly a kilometer, and the view from the hillside is extremely spectacular. All the tents seem to be stuck out by rulers, lying horizontally and vertically, which is definitely good news for obsessive-compulsive disorder.
What's more important is that the camp is not messy at all. Is this still the military camp in Margaery's impression?
Following closely beside Gao Bin, Margery was like an elegant white swan wandering in the mire. Although the environment was very poor, it still could not stop her from showing her beautiful and elegant temperament.
"This side is the camp of the combat troops, and behind it is the logistics support area, including kitchen, medical, etc."
Such a regular and novel layout was the first of its kind for Margery, and everything made her curious.
Of course, everything she was allowed to see was for her to see, and she had no idea of its existence at all.
After walking around in a circle, we returned to Gao Bin's general's tent.
The specifications are the same as the ones on the outside, to prevent others from recognizing them, but they are completely different on the inside.
Ordinary tents can accommodate dozens of people, but Gao Bin's tent only has himself, with a screen-like thing to separate the bedroom and office area.
Let me serve you a cup of tea. This is a kind of tea discovered by Gao Bin in the North. After being fried, it has a refreshing taste. Now it has become popular in the military camps in the North.
After all, the output is limited and it does not yet have the ability to promote it to the private sector.
"Try this tea, you can't get it anywhere else." Gao Bin poured a cup for Margaery.
The tea soup has a clear green color and a very charming color. The first feeling after entering the mouth is a strong floral aroma, which then turns to a refreshing sweetness. After swallowing, this taste still echoes in the mouth.
"It tastes good, what is this?"
"Ice tea, a drink I developed myself, isn't it good?"
"It's a very special texture and taste. Did you study it yourself?"
Margaery's first reaction was disbelief, but then she felt that there was no need for people to deceive her with such things, and admiration followed.
"If you like it, I'll prepare some for you to take away later, but the production is limited, so I'm afraid I won't be able to take too much."
"Thank you!" Margaery doesn't look like a girl of sixteen or seventeen years old. Instead, she has a maturity that transcends her age.
Of course, her manners and manners are impeccable.
This is the most perfect wife candidate in Gao Bin's mind.
If it was still taken for granted before, it is almost certain now.
Margaery did not give her preference so quickly, but her willingness to continue communicating with Gao Bin represented infinite possibilities.
The two chatted all over the world for a while, mainly to let Margery know more about Gao Bin.
As the laughter increased during the chat, Margaery finally asked her most curious question.
"Is the North going to send its troops south?"
Personality can be adjusted, but ability cannot be adjusted.
In terms of family background and origin, Gao Bin is far inferior to Renly. If he is not as good as military or political talent, no matter how handsome Gao Bin is, Margaery will dismiss him.
"The king died unexpectedly, and all forces in Westeros are ready to take action. All I have to do is to anticipate the enemy's opportunity and strike first."
Margaery's eyes lit up:
"You want to fight for the Iron Throne?"
Why did she come out this time? Isn't it just to see if this man can be a useful person? If the Tyrell family wants to become a hero of the dragon, they must support a man who can rise to the top.
The Tyrell family is more optimistic about Renly, after all, Renly has a good reputation.
But after receiving the letter from the Wolf family, Margery had an idea and thought of casting a wider net to catch more fish to see what the second son of the Wolf family was capable of.
In her opinion, the political benefits of the Tyrell family will be greater if they marry with the Wolf family. With Renly, it will be the icing on the cake, and with Gao Bin, it will be a help in times of need. It is clear which one is higher and which is lower.
"The Iron Throne is right there. Anyone can fight for it. The question is who can fight for it."
"Do you think you have such strength?"
"Haha, I hope you can witness it with your own eyes. If you are not in a hurry to leave, you can stay with the army for a while and then come up with the answer yourself."
Margaery hesitated for a moment and nodded slightly. She really wanted to see with her own eyes the strength of this man and whether he was someone she could trust for life.
Of course, she can only read. Gao Bin won't tell anything about military secrets. She'd better not pry, unless she decides to marry Gao Bin now, then that's a different matter.
The two chatted about the current political situation, which was actually not much different from the original situation before the War of Five Kings.
The War of the Five Kings in the original play, to put it simply, is that after the fall of the Targaryen dynasty, the irreconcilable contradiction between the political voice of the major families and their own inherent strength in the new dynasty led to the War of the Five Kings.
The root cause of the outbreak of war.
Littlefinger took advantage of the contradiction and intensified it through the "James Cersei affair with a female child", which was the direct cause of the outbreak of the War of the Five Kings.
The specific manifestations of the fundamental contradiction are mainly the following two points:
First, the Western Region, the Reach, which has the strongest comprehensive strength among the Seven Kingdoms, is excluded from the political center;
Secondly, the distribution of interests within the Baratheon family is extremely unreasonable.
If you carefully sort out the political situation in King's Landing, it is not difficult to find that conflicts have long been born.
First, Robert’s cabinet composition:
Grand Bachelor: Pycelle (former minister of the former dynasty, traitor of the Lion family)
Intelligence Chief: Varys (former minister of the former dynasty, traitor of the Long family)
Prime Minister: Jon Arryn (Wolfhawk)
Chancellor of the Exchequer: Littlefinger (a wolf-fish hawk, but actually only fights for himself)
Minister of Justice: Renly (Deer Family)
Sea Lord: Stannis (Deer Family)
Captain of the Kingsguard: Barristan Selmy (former minister of the former dynasty, not involved in the cabinet)
It can be seen that Pycelle and Varys are both old parties from the previous dynasty that should have been purged. On the surface, they have sworn allegiance to the king, but in fact, the former has always been a fan of Tywin, and the latter has been secretly helping the dragon.
Restoration of the family, pursuit of one's own great ideals.
Pycelle made it clear that if Cersei ordered it, even if he could save the lives of Jon Arryn and King Robert, he would choose to turn a blind eye;
Varys is an intelligence chief, and with his help, the little devil can do things smoothly. Through Varys' intelligence, all of Cersei's pigtails are in the hands of the little devil.
Such a person chooses to support the Long family and has been operating secretly in the cabinet. The damage caused to the Lu family dynasty is simply terrifying to think about.
Jon Arryn, Littlefinger apparently represents the interests of the Wolf and Fishhawks, a group of heroes who helped Robert conquer the country.
Moreover, the interests within this hero group are very closely intertwined. The Yu family, the Lang family, and the Ying family all have marriages, and these three families are closely linked.
Jon Arryn serves as prime minister in the cabinet on behalf of the Wolf-Osphawk faction, and brings his crony Littlefinger from the valley.
Seizing the state's administrative power with one hand and the state's financial power with the other, it can be said that we have great power.
After Jon Arryn's death, Ned of the Wolf and Fish Hawk faction took over as Prime Minister, and Ned's daughter Sansa was betrothed to Robert's son. This is also the guarantee that the Wolf and Fish Hawk faction will continue to control the power of the country in the future. p>
It can be seen that the composition of this cabinet is full of contradictions. The two former parties are secretly loyal to others, and Littlefinger is an exquisite egoist.
The most critical thing is that in the West, the Reach lent large sums of money to the Baratheon Dynasty, but it had no say in politics.
The productivity development level of the Northern Territory and the Valley is not as good as that of the Western Territory and the River Bend. Whether it is the population, agricultural development level, financial strength, or military potential, the River Bend is the best, and the Western Territory ranks among the best.
However, both of them have been excluded from the center of power, so both are trying every means to get involved in the center of power. The Lion family's bargaining chip is Cersei and her children, while the Rose family has embraced Renly's lap.
Let’s put aside the true life experiences of Cersei’s three children, and just talk about the political significance of these three children to the West.
Emperor Joe and Tommen are princes and the supreme leaders of the country after Robert's death.
Through them, the Lion family can return to the center of power.
And what did Ned's original actions mean to the Lion family?
It means denying Emperor Joe's inheritance rights. Losing the inheritance rights of the Lion family means losing the bargaining chip to gain power in the future. After Stannis succeeds to the throne, he will only support his cronies, such as his wife's family, Frolow of the Reach.
Lun family.
So it seems to be just a family matter, but behind the family matter is the fate of the big family, and the fate of the big family will determine the interests of the small lords. If it affects the whole body, the family matter becomes a national matter.
Ned's showdown with Cersei to force the palace may seem to him just to uphold the rule of law and uphold justice, but in Tywin's opinion, this is a coup d'etat by the Wolf and Fishhawk faction.
Therefore, they mobilized a large number of troops to try to defeat the Wolf Eagle Faction, maintain Emperor Qiao's rule, and thus safeguard their own rights and interests.
Later, everyone also saw that after the victory in the Battle of Blackwater, Tywin became Prime Minister again, his son Imp took over the financial power, and his son Jaime became the captain of the Kingsguard.
In addition, many retainers in the West were given cakes, such as Lancel who got Darry City, sister Gina’s husband who got Riverrun, etc.
Robert's other bomb was the uneven distribution of the Deer Family's territory. After the success of the uprising, the Deer Family's territory included the Stormlands, the King's Territory, and Dragonstone.
But for some unknown reason, perhaps just as he wanted, Robert assigned Stannis, who had great military exploits, to Dragonstone, and Renly to the Stormlands.
This is an extremely unreasonable allocation and has led to serious consequences.
The reason why the Lu family declared war on Joffrey was that Joffrey was an illegitimate child.
According to the legal system, Stannis is the heir, but because Robert divided the kingdoms at will, the legal heir Stannis only has 2,000 troops on Dragonstone.
But the third brother Renly sits in the Stormlands, has obtained the oath of allegiance from the vassals of the Stormlands, and has an army of 20,000.
The younger brother is strong and the younger brother is weak. Even in real history, many bloody events broke out due to this, such as the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
When choosing allies, the Rose family also has three choices: Joffrey, Stannis, and Renly. Of course, now they have the North.
Joffrey was already engaged to Sansa, and Sansa's father was the powerful Prime Minister at the time. If nothing unexpected happened, he could stay in office for a long time. By marrying Joffrey and entering the center of power, there was no way out at that time.
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Stannis is also married, but Stannis's army is too weak, and the Riverlands are separated from each other by the Stormlands, so the conditions for an alliance are obviously insufficient.
What's more, Stannis is mean and ungrateful. Even if he helps him ascend the Iron Throne, he may not get the benefits he deserves.
There is no doubt that Renly is the best choice. Firstly, Renly is single; secondly, Renly has an army of 20,000 men and is of sufficient strength; thirdly, Renly has made a tempting promise to the Reach.
In these three situations, who would choose Renly from the beginning, right?
This led to the irreconcilable conflict between Renly and Stannis.
Of course, if Melisandre hadn't opened the plug-in, Stannis's 2,000 people wouldn't have been a problem at all.
This conflict could have been avoided if Robert had granted Stannis the Stormwind Lands.
The conflict between Renly and Stannis of the Deer Family provides variables for the War of the Five Kings.
By mistake, the Lion family and the Rose family formed an alliance, and the two families finally joined forces to defeat their enemies and share the power of the cabinet.
Even if the war between the Wolf Fish and the Lion Family did not break out, the war in the south was inevitable.
Because there are irreconcilable conflicts of interests between various families, the redistribution of interests is not a dinner party, but a violent struggle in which one interest group overthrows another.
In the end, the Western Region and the Reach worked together to drive the Wolf Eagle Faction out of the center of power, and the entire country's ruling class completed a major change.
As for the north, the contradiction is actually not that big.
First of all, the pirates on the Iron Islands have always been far away from the civilized mainland.
Once war broke out on the mainland, this group of pirates began to take advantage of the situation, such as during the Dance of the Blood Dragons and shortly after the Usurper's War.
Once the mainland was unified, these pirates bowed their heads and surrendered obediently.
It was the outbreak of the Wolf-Lion War that gave this group of pirates an opportunity.
Tywin's taking the lead in sending troops to the Riverlands at the beginning of the war was not short-sighted, but far-sighted.
First, they attacked the Riverlands with a blitzkrieg, directly defeated the hastily organized army in the Riverlands, and surrounded Riverrun City.
The Wolf Fish Eagle Faction was the first to lose a fish. In addition, it also held Harrenhal next to the King's Road, cutting off the possible connection between the Wolf Fish Eagle Faction army and the Lu family's army, and could support King's Landing at any time.
Once again, I have three wolf hostages in my hands: Ned, Sansi, and Erya.
The threat of three hostages can prevent the northern army from acting rashly.
In addition, Ned was forced to plead guilty and admit that Joffrey was the legitimate king, which made the Northern Army's plan unknown.
In the end, allowing Joffrey and Sansa to continue their marriage is equivalent to a slap in the face and a piece of candy, allowing the power of the Wolf and Fishhawk faction to remain in King's Landing, and they can conduct political competition through peaceful struggle in the future. p>
However, Emperor Joe directly killed Ned... and the war that the north had hoped to avoid broke out instantly.
The stalemate in the northern war is related to Robb's military ability. This is an extremely accidental variable.
A young boy who participated in a war for the first time had to command an army of 20,000, and his opponent was the wily Tywin.
If nothing else goes wrong, Robb and Tywin will directly fight in the King's Road. If the Wolf family wins, they will go directly to King's Landing to rescue Ned and Sansa. Erya, if the Lion family wins, they will return to King's Landing to prepare to resist Stannis. Lan
Possible military threats.
But Robb chose to divide his forces, directly defeated Jaime who was besieging Riverrun, and also sent Roose Bolton to contain Tywin.
This turns a showdown that determines the outcome in one battle into a protracted quagmire of war.
As for why Rob failed?
First of all, it was extremely unwise to claim the throne in the north at that time and at that time.
Not to mention that since the Targaryen Dynasty, the political and economic ties between the seven countries have become closer and closer. They are no longer independent of each other and have their own systems like in ancient times.
No one party can exist independently of the whole.
The Northern Kingdom includes the Riverlands and the Northern Territory. The geographical structure of this kingdom is inherently deficient.
The Northern Territory has its own unique geographical isolation, and the Riverlands is the central square of Westeros. In any continental war, the Riverlands is the main battlefield.
Moreover, marching to the Riverlands from the King's Territory, Western Territory, Valley and other places is much faster than marching from the Northern Territory to the Riverlands.
Once a war breaks out in the Riverlands, the vast and sparsely populated North will take longer to summon vassals and lead the army south.
If you want long-term independence, you have to expand your territory and take over King's Landing based on the Riverlands and the North.
But that would mean creating more enemies.
This means that the possibility of reaching a formal alliance with the Southern Deer and Flower Army is lost.
The North and the South are fighting on their own, which gives Tywin an opportunity to make a comeback in the future.