Chapter 240 Severe Punishment

Although the change of the commander of the capital garrison caused a slight turmoil in King's Landing, it was not a big deal in Westeros.

In recent times, the big news in the Seven Kingdoms is the Frey family in the Riverlands.

The Frey family, one of the most powerful families in the Riverlands, is now dead in name only!

In other words, the Twins where the Frey family lives is now deserted and completely abandoned, and no one from the Frey family has ever shown up again!

The news came from the Seafront, the closest city to the Twins, and the entire royal meeting was in an uproar because they had not heard any rumors before.

In other words, the rumors they heard were just the unclear death of the old Lord Frey, but they didn't expect that the second news was that the entire Frey family had disappeared!

Why is this happening?

No one knows, and Renly doesn't understand either, but he thinks there must be something special happening.

The Iron Throne could not interfere in this matter, because they could not rashly send people to investigate without the permission of the Tully family, the feudal lord of the Riverlands, but Renly himself did not have so many concerns, so he found this ancient man.

Although they were not completely loyal to Renly, the ancient groups at this time were basically tied to Renly, and they would naturally not refuse Renly's request.

So when the new commander of the capital guard, Samwell, took office, a group of more than a dozen civilian investigators left the flea pit in the King's Landing slums in twos and threes and headed towards the Riverlands.

A small chaos then broke out in King's Landing.

The new garrison commander, Samwell, originally cooperated with a group of wool agents in the city, but when he took office, he quickly cut off relations with those merchants. This alone was not a big deal, at most the wool merchants were secretly annoyed by this, but then the new commander issued an order that quickly caused turmoil in the entire garrison team-

The new commander decided to let all garrison members take turns for centralized training.

As an organization similar to the combination of police and city defense soldiers, the members of the capital garrison naturally need time for training, but in the past, because they belonged to different forces, they had always been trained separately by their respective captains in their "own territory".

Now that they are gathered together, it is not a question of whether there is any "conspiracy" in this, just some superficial things are enough to cause chaos.

The complex structure of forces makes the garrison not a monolithic entity, and many even have hatreds with each other. At the same time, the result of unified training is the uniformity of training intensity, which is simply unbearable for most people who just want to get by.

Therefore, on the day when the order was executed, many people expressed dissatisfaction and resistance, and even turned around and left regardless of the order.

In response, the new commander of the garrison, nicknamed the Barbarian, was not polite at all. All those who blatantly violated the order were removed from the garrison, regardless of which side or how many people.

This situation quickly caused a backlash. When the royal meeting was held the next day, there were so many documents "impeaching" the new commander of the garrison that they piled up.

Several important officials believed that the new commander of the garrison had started to mess around after taking office, which was extremely unqualified, and they believed that he must be replaced.

The loudest shouting belonged to the Minister of Finance Mace Tyrell. However, Renly, who had kept a low profile since taking office, did not give this "own man" any face. He directly spoke back and even claimed without scruples that the garrison was no longer the king's garrison, but a group of ambitious people's garrison.

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the entire royal meeting hall suddenly became very strange. No one obviously expected Renly to say such a direct "table-turning" word, and even the king himself was very troubled by this.

Obviously Robert was not unaware of this, or in other words, as a Baratheon dynasty established with the support of various forces, it was obviously different from the previous Targaryen dynasty.

However, Renly "won" in the end, because no matter what, it was a fact that those who were cleared out of the garrison team openly disobeyed the orders of their superiors, and at the same time, the new commander's order for centralized training was not so unreasonable.

But he was not really a winner, because Renly then secretly contacted those who were dissatisfied with him, including some middle and high-level officials, including wealthy businessmen in the city, and asked them to send people to fill their "vacancies" in the garrison.

In this way, many relationships that were tense because of this matter were eased. And the various forces no longer opposed the new commander's centralized training order.

So this order basically gained a foothold in King's Landing. In addition to taking turns to guard their respective posts, the team of nearly 6,000 people also had to take turns to concentrate in several areas for training.

Then, the real purpose of this order gradually became clear.

High-intensity training is nothing for some elites, but for most of the idlers in the garrison, it is simply the seventh level of hell.

So after a few days of training, some people began to protest again.

However, with the last incident as a foundation, these people's protests did not receive any support, or in other words, as long as Renly no longer touches the "cake" of various forces, then no one will interfere in this matter. After all, facts have proved that the young Minister of Justice is a guy who is not easy to mess with.

At the same time, most of the idlers who were paid for nothing actually had no one to back them up, or at most, the supporters were some of the management class in the garrison who were in cahoots with them. There were many such people, but Renly could basically ignore them.

However, he could ignore them, but the newly appointed barbarian Samwell could not ignore their existence, or in other words, some people who had long been accustomed to the corrupt life in the past had already been disgusted with the new commander to the extreme.

So on his way home, the barbarian was attacked by a large group of disguised personnel.

Despite his great skills and many direct descendants around him, the barbarian nicknamed him was still seriously injured when he was caught off guard. If it weren't for his subordinates' desperate protection, he would not have seen the sun the next day.

As soon as the incident appeared, it immediately shocked the entire royal meeting. This time, without Renly speaking, King Robert was furious. Later, with his support, Renly summoned all the management class of the capital garrison and personally took charge of the interrogation.

This process lasted for a whole week. No one knew how the young Minister of Justice interrogated him, but the results afterwards made everyone tremble with fear.

Under the watch of a large number of people in King's Landing, a full 137 conspirators were brutally hanged, and the densely packed corpses were hung on the wall of the Red Castle for three days and three nights for people to watch.

Such a large-scale execution inevitably caused an uproar and doubts, but then when Renly produced sufficient witnesses and evidence, all doubts disappeared.

Renly's reputation for cold-blooded cruelty was thus completely spread in King's Landing. Some people hated him, and some worshipped him, but no matter whether they hated or worshipped him, everyone could not help but remain in awe of him, and even feared him.

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