Chapter 269 The early stage of the curtain

The past few years have been very peaceful for Linde. He has participated in very few wars and conflicts. The war between Lorne and the Dothraki was already the biggest war he participated in. The result was that in Name Leah was just a foil at her request, and the rest of the war wasn't even a war, at best it was just a small conflict.

I don’t know if God thought he was living too comfortably. First, there was a conflict of faith within the God’s Chosen Corps in the Calamity Holy City, and then blight was discovered in the farmland of Tengshi Town. The food in the past two years may have been destroyed. The production is reduced, and what's worse is that the blight is not local to Tengshi Town, but has been transmitted from other places in the Reach, which means that the entire Reach's food production will be reduced in the past two years.

It's not that Linde doesn't pay attention to the battles over faith within the corps. He convened a meeting with officers above the corps commander level to express his attitude that he attaches great importance to this matter. But now comparing the seriousness of the matter, it is obvious that the reduction in grain production will take a long time. More serious.

"It looks like we need to open up another grain-producing area, but where should we choose?" Linde quickly made a decision in his mind, but he had some difficulties in choosing a location.

According to Linde's idea, the new grain-producing land should be as close as possible, and in the entire area under his control, he has already taken advantage of all the places suitable for growing grain.

Even the locals in Midsummer Hall are a bit puzzled by his persistence in food, because the food output in Midsummer Hall is seriously surplus. Except for the lord's farmland, which still grows food, other private farmers' fields no longer grow food. The farmers who grew grain all went to work in nearby castle towns.

Faced with the doubts of his subordinates, Linde did not explain too much because he could not explain clearly and could not tell his subordinates that he knew that after the long summer this time, the weather would enter the long winter or even forever. In winter, if preparations are not made in advance for eternal winter to appear, food production will inevitably be greatly reduced, and then there will be a great famine.

Once he says such words, it will definitely cause huge commotion in the entire continent of Westeros and even the continent of Essos. Because he is the Chosen of the Seven Gods and the incarnation of many gods, his words are almost 100% achievable. language.

In this way, the panic caused will have unpredictable chain reactions and even affect his plans, so he can't say anything and can only find a way to solve the problem by himself.

To this end, he planted food in all the places where food could be grown in the territory. In addition to selling part of the food produced, most of it was stored in underground caves using the frozen dragon runes for reserve. The memory of the unknown king brought The magic metal just makes up for the vacancy of Varea steel, allowing him to create dragon runes or other runic artifacts as much as he wants.

In addition, he also asked Heiku to develop cold-resistant grain species that can grow in winter, or methods to allow ordinary grains to grow normally in winter, such as asking craftsmen to restore the greenhouse technology of previous lives, etc.

Linde quickly came up with two options in his mind, and said to himself: "Since there is none in Westeros, then we can only look for it on the continent of Essos. It is the Golden Fields. ? Or a place of controversy?”

"Sir, what are the Golden Fields and the Controversial Land?" Jon, who was responsible for taking the minutes of the meeting, looked at Linde blankly and asked in confusion.

Lind didn't answer Jon's question, but reached out and knocked on the table. After hearing the sound of the table, everyone fell silent, as if a stop button was pressed on their throats.

Linde was silent for a moment and then directly made a decision: "All the believers of the Seven Gods in the God's Chosen Corps in the Calamity Holy City will be transferred back to the Midsummer Hall. The Corps will recruit soldiers on the spot and reorganize the God's Chosen Corps. After that, the God's Chosen Corps in the Midsummer Hall It’s called the Seven Gods’ Chosen Corps, and the God’s Chosen Corps in the Calamity Holy City is called the Scourge God’s Chosen Corps. The Scourge God’s Chosen Corps is divided into five sub-corps, each of which is also a standing army of 5,000 people, and their names are: Natural Disaster, Death, and War, famine and plague. All the Scourge Divine Chosen Corps must undergo training in the Summer Hall, and all officers must undergo loyalty trials. Before completing the training, the Seven Gods Divine Chosen Corps are responsible for guarding the Scourge Holy City. "

Upon hearing Linde's decision, everyone was stunned and looked at each other.

"What? Do you have any objections?" Linde frowned and asked in a deep voice.

"No." Everyone responded quickly.

"In that case, let's get ready!" Linde signaled that they could leave.

After the Chosen Corps members left one after another, Jon couldn't help but feel worried and asked: "Sir, such a large-scale military movement may cause some..."

"It doesn't matter." Lind shook his head, dispelling Jon's doubts, and said: "There have been no major wars in the past few years. All minor conflicts have been resolved by the garrison teams in various places. Although the corps has training every day, , but training cannot replace actual combat. There are enough things on the Essos continent, and it would be better for the Divine Chosen Corps to conduct actual combat training there. As for other people’s opinions, we don’t need to pay attention.”

Seeing what Lind said, Jon didn't need to say anything else. He then took out a piece of information from a pile of documents, handed it to Lind, and said, "Sir, you may need to take a look at this information. ”

Lind took the information and looked at it. The content above mainly stated that someone discovered that Euron secretly sneaked into the Iron Islands and met the lords who were dissatisfied with the various reforms of the Iron Islands. From the lords' dispatch of various supplies, Judging by their actions, they should be planning a rebellion against Asha.

"Does Asha know about this?" Lind asked after putting down the information.

"She knew, but she didn't take action immediately. Instead, she planned to wait for them to gather together and then catch them all." Jon took out another document sent from the Stepstone Islands, handed it to Lind, and said: "Dagon applied for a fleet to go to the Iron Islands to replace the Bellard fleet some time ago. It should be for this matter. Now the fleets of the three sea monsters should be near the Iron Islands."

Linde looked at the file and was very satisfied with Asha's cautious character. When he put the file down and was about to deal with other things, he suddenly thought of something. He picked up the file again, looked at it, and said, "This is true. What a great opportunity!”

"What good opportunity?" Jon asked puzzledly.

Linde didn't speak, he just picked up the documents on the table and continued to read, review and give instructions.

After a while, after he finished processing all the official documents on the table, he signed another order and handed it to Jon, saying: "Give this order to the political cabinet, let them pass it immediately, and send it to the Holy City of Scourge as soon as possible. ”

Jon took the order and looked at it. He was stunned for a moment and asked, "The grain production is now saturated. Even if blight occurs and production is reduced, the overall grain output will still not be small. Now let the Calamity Saint The city is responsible for opening up farmland for planting in the surrounding area, will it be a bit..."

"Just do it." Lind ordered directly without intending to explain it to Jon.

"Yes, sir." Although Jon didn't understand why Linde had such a deep obsession with food, he felt that Linde must have a deep meaning in doing this, and thought that he should send a letter to his Black Crown City to let Nuo Maester Mander also stocked up on some food.

"What year is this in Aegon's calendar?" Linde suddenly asked.

Jon thought for a while and said, "It should be the two hundred and ninety-seventh year of Aegon's calendar."

"Is it already two hundred and ninety-seven years?" The memory in Lind's mind was awakened by this year. If he remembers correctly, this year should be the origin of the start of the series in the previous life, and the White Walkers have begun to move forward. Nan infiltrated and attacked the Night's Watch rangers.

"Find out the reports from the Great Wall and Beyond the Wall in recent times. I want to read them." Linde said solemnly.

Jon quickly found the relevant information compiled in the temporary information room next to the study.

Linde has always attached great importance to the Great Wall and matters beyond the Great Wall. For this purpose, he sent a team of people to the Great Wall to collect all kinds of intelligence. He also asked Daisy to collect the information beyond the Great Wall and compile it into a book.

Linde took the latest information book, flipped it through and quickly scanned it, and soon discovered what he wanted to know.

The first thing is that a few months ago, the Earl of Runestone City in the Valley, Bronze Yohn Royce, sent his youngest son, Weimar Royce, to the Great Wall of Despair to serve as a night watchman.

If nothing changes, this Wayma Royce will die at the hands of a White Walker during a routine patrol soon.

The second thing came from the walrus people who had trading relationships with Daisy. They discovered that there were traces of ghoul activity on the edge of the Land of Eternal Winter upstream of the Frozen River.

After Daisy returned to Bear Island, she followed Lind's instructions and began to contact the savage tribe north of the Great Wall. And because of Lind's reputation outside the wall, she quickly established a relationship with the walrus people on the frozen coast. A series of trade transactions were launched.

Also because Daisy provided armor and weapons to the walrus people, the walrus people's village repeatedly won the war with the cannibal tribe, which in turn made the relationship between the walrus people and Bear Island very good, and Daisy even hired a team of walruses. The white bear soldiers of the people joined his army.

The Night's Watch was also dissatisfied with the transaction between Daisy and the wildlings beyond the wall, but they could only express their dissatisfaction, because everyone knew that although Daisy was nominally under the jurisdiction of Winterfell, her actual target was Lind Terra.

Not to mention Linde's friendship and help to the Wall, Linde's own strength alone is enough for the night watchmen of the Wall to treat him with caution.

Therefore, the Great Wall turned a blind eye to Daisy's actions. Even the Night Watchmen saw that Daisy had made a lot of money from various trades with the savages. They were also very jealous and tried to contact the savage tribe, hoping that They were able to get a piece of the pie, but due to the bad reputation of the Night Watchmen among the savages in the past, their contact with the savage tribes was never ideal.

The third thing came from the Great Wall of Despair. Vilas discovered a hidden cave in Ice Mark City. The cave penetrated deep into the Great Wall and formed a huge cave altar inside the Great Wall. Ice Mark City more than a hundred years ago The bodies of the three hundred missing Night Watchmen were all found at the altar. After that, Vilas lived in the altar and never left the altar again. There was also chaos within the Night Watch organization.

After joining the Night Watch organization, Vilas quickly became the number two figure in the Night Watch after Mr. Xiong due to his identity and various past support and help to the Night Watch. Even in terms of influence, He is still above Mr. Xiong.

And with the expansion of the Night Watch's personnel and the reactivation of various stations, Mr. Xiong's ability is no longer enough to cope with the daily affairs of the Night Watch, so Vilas became the Shadow Commander of the Night Watch, presiding over the affairs of the Night Watch for Mr. Xiong. Various matters.

Because of this, when Vilas sealed himself inside the altar and no longer dealt with other matters outside, it was reasonable for the Night Watch organization to lose an important backbone and fall into management chaos.

Elder Xiong now has no way to manage the huge Night Watch organization, which has expanded to 50,000 people. He can only delegate power to the commanders at each station and let them manage it on their own.

After reading the intelligence information, Lind closed his eyes and meditated for a moment, and then wrote three letters for Jon to send to the Great Wall and Bear Island respectively.

The letter sent to Bear Island mainly asked Daisy to pay attention to the situation on the frozen coast and be ready to transfer the walrus people to Bear Island at any time.

The letters sent to the Great Wall of Despair were given to Mr. Xiong and Vilas respectively. The content of the letter given to Mr. Xiong was very simple, which was to inform that the corpses in the north of Bear Island had moved south, while the letter to Mr. Vilas was Ask him directly what he plans to do.

In the past few years, Linde has been in contact with Vilas, but he has never asked Vilas about the purpose of going to the Great Wall, but now he feels it is necessary to ask, to avoid Vilas' actions and Conflict with own plans.

After writing three letters, Lind asked Jon for information about King's Landing.

Regarding the war that may occur in the future, Linde has no intention to directly prevent it. Now he needs a large-scale war to break the system that has been passed down for thousands of years in the Seven Kingdoms, but the premise is that the development of this war must be controlled. In your own hands.

Soon the latest information from King's Landing fell into Lind's hands. There were two pieces of this information, one was sent by Varys and the other was sent by his own intelligence personnel stationed in King's Landing.

In the information sent by Varys, it was mentioned that Prime Minister Jon Arryn secretly went to meet several of King Robert's illegitimate children in King's Landing, and then went to Storm's End to meet the public illegitimate son Ai who was fostered there. Derek Storm and Jon Arryn have obviously begun to suspect that Joffrey and others are not Robert's biological children.

In addition, Lysa Tully had another miscarriage not long ago. This was her fourth miscarriage, and there are signs that the fetuses in the two miscarriages after Lysa Tully gave birth to Robert were likely to be small children. It refers to Petyr Baelish, and the person who caused his miscarriage is most likely Jon Arryn.

As for the intelligence information sent by his own intelligence personnel, it did not involve things in the Red Keep, but information about King's Landing. Among them, the one that caught Lind's most attention was that the High Sparrow settled in Flea Bottom and preached there.

Lind has always been paying attention to the High Sparrow. This person's real name is no longer known. He first appeared in the Starry Temple in Old Town and only traveled around the Seven Kingdoms as a preaching monk.

Now that the High Sparrow has settled in King's Landing, it should be because of the special nature of the Great Sept of Baelor. The Church of the Seven Gods in the entire Seven Kingdoms is led by Lin De, but only the Great Sept of Baelor is in the hands of the Red Keep. Lin De Germany has not penetrated it.

If the High Sparrow wants to make a difference in the church, the Great Sept of Baelor is his only chance.