Chapter 141 Illyrio’s trump card (Part 2)
"Yes, a little bit," Illyrio nodded, "but it's not enough at all. In fact, General Uther has always hidden his intentions very well, and he has not shown any intention to stand for election until now.
Therefore, the top two candidates are seeking his support, and his attitude is very ambiguous. Although he vaguely reveals his intention to support the second place, it leaves room for the first place to win over," Illyrio continued introduced,
"Hazan and I had this kind of relationship before. He tried to win me over, but since he never succeeded, he seemed very dissatisfied with me."
"But in this case, why didn't you stop Prince Hazan yesterday? If Prince Hazan died in Pentos," Ian asked hurriedly.
"If Marianne Freyga's precious son dies in Pentos, and I prevent a master water dancer from becoming Hazan's proxy warrior, then in the eyes of the richest keykeeper in the Iron Bank, I am responsible for Hazan's death." Illyrio interrupted Ian.
"To the Neptune Palace, such a contest is simply an insignificant thing that happened in insignificant Pantos, but to Marian Frega, it is her son's life, which one is less important? What's more important?"
"Well" he is an old fox after all, I even ignored this, Ian sighed to himself.
But speaking of it, Illyrio seemed not to know that the Sea King Palace had already instigated the rebellion of the two water dancers who fought on behalf of Hazan, and was preparing to use Hazan's death to formally declare war on the Frega family.
I don’t know what Illyrio’s expression will be like after the competition is over when he discovers that he has destroyed the Neptune Palace.
"Before doing anything, you must weigh the pros and cons and the gains and losses. If the impact of something you do on the enemy is far less than the possible retaliation you will receive, then it should not be done." Illyrio continued. of teaching.
"I will remember it, Your Excellency." Ian certainly understood this truth, but he found that he sometimes lacked that sense of smell, that is, he might overlook something in the process of measurement. This sense of smell may need experience to make up for it.
"And Ambassador Oranto and I have a good personal relationship," Illyrio said again, "He has been trying to draw me into Marian Frega's camp. I wanted to take this opportunity to sell it to Oranto yesterday. It’s a favor, but I didn’t expect Hazan to find a way to convince Viserys himself, without giving Oranto the chance to ask me.”
Unexpectedly, that was my hint to Hazan. Ian touched his nose.
"But no matter what, you will always offend the Volantis Party, right? This still destroys your neutral status in Pentos." Ian suddenly wanted to take this opportunity to get more information about the internal strife in Pentos. So new questions were raised.
"Who are the Volantis Party?" Illyrio took another bite of bread, then tore off a quail leg, with a rare look of disdain on his face.
"Unless Volantis is returned to power by the Tiger Party, the so-called Volantis Party is just a fly. If I hadn't helped them secretly to let them fight against Hazan, they would have been eliminated long ago. Hazan was pressed to death.
Even Governor Tetrus, one of the two pillars of the Volantis Party, defected to the Volantis Party because the Iron Bank rejected his blackmail and retaliated against him. of. Would they dare to be dissatisfied with me? "
"But if Governor Tetrus loses his son in this contest."
"Governor Guerrero Tetrus has seven sons, not counting illegitimate ones."
Um. Ian suddenly wanted to laugh.
"Then since Suda Tetrus is so unimportant and the Volantis Party is so weak, why did Prince Hazan agree to Suda's invitation to a contest? He doesn't need to take this risk himself, right?" Ian Suddenly a new question came to mind.
Illyrio, who was eating, looked up at Ian and seemed a little surprised that Ian could think of this question.
"To be honest, I had my doubts at first. Hazan is a very smooth person. Logically speaking, he shouldn't agree to such an invitation, so I had someone investigate carefully for a long time."
"What's the conclusion?"
"The conclusion involves a woman. Have you met Hazan's fiancée Delif? How does she make you feel?"
"Shocking." Ian thought for a while and said, this is the truth.
"This is the answer. My little mouse collected a lot of clues, and finally I found that Hazan has always appeared irritable, irritable, and narrow-minded when it comes to issues involving that woman since he was with Delifu, and He is completely different from his usual self
In fact, this is normal. No matter how scary a man is, when the thing in his crotch seizes control of his head, he will become less understandable.
This reminds me of a friend of mine. He doesn't have such troubles, so he is always so wise. "
The thing in his crotch took control of his head. Ian inexplicably thought of his absurd idea last night.
There is Illyrio's intelligence network and private army inside the city of Pentos, and there are 40,000 roaring warriors of Khal Drogo outside. Moreover, the player Ander Poole has not been killed yet, and Gini Taime has not been found yet. He is in this kind of situation. Under such circumstances, the idea that the benefits were far lower than the risks was born.
Is this probably what Illyrio was talking about?
"Do you have any other questions?"
"No sir, since everything is according to your plan, I'm relieved." Ian complimented without any trace.
This is a great result, because in this way, I can help Hazan directly and openly without having to make up new excuses.
"Very good." For some reason, Illyrio became more and more satisfied with Ian as he looked at him. "But I didn't actually want to discuss this issue with you when I called you here today."
"Why are you looking for me?" You can't possibly want to adopt me as your adopted son, right?
"You have met Viserys, how do you feel about him?" Illyrio directly asked a question that was a bit treasonous for a courtier.
"Your Majesty?" Ian was stunned for a moment, then blurted out, "Aegon the Conqueror is reincarnated."
Illyrio didn't expect to get such an answer. He opened his mouth, closed it again, then blinked his eyes and tried hard to control the movements on his face. In the end, he couldn't hold back and laughed out loud.
"Aegon the Conqueror is born again! Hahahaha," Illyrio repeated loudly, "Aegon the Conqueror is born again!"
Seeing Illyrio's bewildered expression, Ian then explained: "Only the king has always evaluated his ministers, how can the ministers evaluate the king? If the king makes a mistake, it must be because his courtiers failed to give Correct advice."
"Very good, smooth. This is the most basic skill for a politician. This is what I taught you." Illyrio praised with satisfaction. He even forgot whether he had taught Ian this. "It seems that you are indeed Learned well.”
"But today," Illyrio changed the topic, "I hope to have an honest conversation with you. What do you think of Viserys?"
This time, from Illyrio's serious tone, Ian suddenly realized that this might be a prelude for Illyrio to tell him about the existence of 'Aegon VI'.
And his next answer will determine whether he can truly enter Illyrio's core plan.
Explain two questions:
1. Keep books. Many book friends are saying that updates are slow and they want to keep books. My suggestion is that you can keep books. This book uses a lot of tricks and reasoning in the writing method. The experience of reading a volume in one go is definitely better than chasing new books. Much better. Anyway, I have no desire for results anymore. Now I just want to write the story well.
2. Jump order. I found some book friends in the background who jumped to order. What should I say? I would like to remind you that it is easy to skip key clues, thus affecting the subsequent reading experience.