The years in King's Landing are fleeting, and apart from some major military and national issues, there are only some trivial matters.
The Night's Watch, which was nominally absorbed into the Kingdom's military system as the fifth legion, finally passed through the Twin River City of the Bracken family and arrived at the Neck after a long journey.
The kingdom's current military deployment mostly focuses on important cities and strongholds. Ordinary castles and villages rely on the private soldiers of local nobles and the villagers themselves to protect their homes.
For example, Oberyn's Second Legion is stationed on the side of King's Landing to defend the capital.
As the third legion, the Golden Regiment moved and was stationed on the shores of the Neck Swamp after the war, building solid fortifications and semi-permanent camps.
This is related to the strategic direction of the country in the future. The White Walkers will come back sooner or later. By then, the Night's Watch will be the first line of defense, and the second line of defense will be the Golden Company at the southern end of the Neck. The third line of defense will be in King's Landing. If the capital
If you can't defend it, you can escape to the Essos continent as soon as possible.
As for Oldtown, Lannisport, Seagull Town and other densely populated and important cities in Westeros, they now rely on the city garrison to guard them, and they have become the royal family's private residence like Highgarden.
Viserys plans to set up the position of governor in these important cities in the future. Those who are capable will be promoted and those who are incompetent will be removed. They will become cities under the direct jurisdiction of the king and the engine of the national economy, instead of missing out on good development opportunities and having to settle for the same as in the past.
Resting on one's laurels may even mean resting on one's laurels.
Of course, Viserys's plan is not just to simply open the ports, but also to focus on commerce. In today's environment where internal productivity is backward and the outside world is full of wealthy businessmen, opening the ports is tantamount to plundering wealth. The road is taken step by step, and the food is eaten one bite at a time.
After crossing the Neck, the Night's Watch Corps began to fight steadily. The Kingdom's fleet navy, led by Lord Geoffrey Bracken, landed at White Harbor to clean up the remaining ghouls here.
White Harbor was once raided by the Dothraki, so now the kingdom's navy did not spend much effort cleaning up the ghouls after successfully landing at White Harbor, and quickly established a foothold here, but it is cold north of the Neck.
The wind and frost have still become a great hindrance.
The cold didn't seem to leave with the retreat of the dead army. The human army crossed the Neck, but it was still a land of ice and snow, and everything was dead and silent.
"I don't think humans can survive in such an environment?"
In the Night Watch, a knight in a black cloak looked worriedly at the falling snowflakes in the sky, then turned to Ed Stark beside him and said.
Although those who join the Night Watch are all sinners and should not retain the family crest, after all, there is always some psychological sustenance when you are thousands of miles away from home. This is a knight from the south. He has never seen such a world of ice and snow.
Terrible looking, these white snowflakes looked like white devils to him.
"In fact, the environment north of the Great Wall is like this all year round, and it's even much colder than here."
Eddard Stark was wearing a black cloak, with the direwolf emblem also embroidered on his chest, and a weather-beaten cheek.
"If the savages can survive, so can we."
He also raised his head and looked at the darkening sky, and then looked around at the flat land, which was a suitable place for camping.
Ed knew that today's trip was coming to an end, so he turned over and dismounted, stepped on the snow on the ground, and exhaled a long white breath.
As night gradually fell, the march of the Night Watch Legion came to an end.
"Stop!"
"Stop!"
“Set up camp!”
A messenger on a war horse passed through the military formation, shouting loudly, conveying the orders of Lord Commander Mormont.
squeak
The army gradually began to stop, and the subsequent supplies came up, including fur tents to keep out the cold, kerosene for fires, and today's dinner.
But of course it’s not enough to have kerosene without combustion aids. A clever woman can’t make a living without rice. Although the cold climate has eliminated a large number of naturally growing species, of course there are still cold-resistant plants and animals that have survived. The soldiers of the Night’s Watch army have received the information to set up camp.
After the order, he began to collect firewood everywhere to burn for warmth.
"Let's go."
"Sir Clifton."
Eddard Stark abandoned his status as a duke and is now just an ordinary soldier with no meritorious service. He does not have as high an official position as his brother Bunyan, so he naturally has to collect firewood himself.
But despite this, no one dared to come forward and humiliate him. After all, there are only more than a thousand real Night Watch soldiers now, and the tens of thousands of northern soldiers on the periphery are only Night Watch soldiers in name. They have returned after completing their service.
You can go back to your hometown.
The Stark family is still the same Stark family. The direwolf's rule in the North is deeply rooted. Although his son is no longer the Guardian of the North, he is also the future Governor of the North with a different name. He is only temporarily staying in King's Landing as a hostage.
That's all.
And Ed’s sword at the moment is no longer the family’s ancestral two-handed sword ‘Ice’.
The Valyrian steel two-handed greatsword Ice was captured after the Battle of Riverrun, and is now stored in the treasury to gather dust and has not been returned to the Stark family, perhaps as punishment for the battle.
Also put into the treasury was the 'Heartbreaker' of the Tarly family. Randyll Tarly disappeared during the Battle of Riverrun. He was neither alive nor dead. Only his sword 'Heartbreaker' was stolen.
Found it, and then it was also collected into the treasury and collected dust.
People are willing to believe that the best general in Westeros, the tough Lord Hornhill, was melted on the battlefield by dragon flames, but they are also unwilling to believe that he may be hiding in a corner of the world, trying to come back for revenge.
Click
Eddard Stark chopped off the last piece of firewood with a sword, then exhaled a little white mist, bent down to pick them all up, and threw them into the bonfire.
At this time, the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch, Jeor Mormont, and the newly arrived Maester Pycelle, who was shivering from the cold, and Colin Halfhand and others came over.
"Lord Eddard Stark."
Ed heard the voice and raised his head to see the people walking towards him, then stood up straight and bowed his head slightly to Jeor Mormont in salute.
"Your Majesty, Commander-in-Chief."
"There is something we want to ask you, Lord Stark."
The serious look on the old Commander-in-Chief Mormont's face made Eddard feel a little nervous.