Looking at the Master of Whisperers' bald head, the exhausted Secretary to the Hand found it particularly dazzling, but he quickly got up to welcome the other party.
"So it is Lord Varys. I wonder why you are looking for me?"
"Lord Jon, time is tight, please come with me first."
Hearing this, the Secretary to the Hand, who had just taken a step, stopped instantly, and then turned to the Spider.
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"That's right, just please accompany me for a walk outside."
At this time, with Varys's invitation, Jon was a little confused.
The last time this happened was because of Lady Catelyn, and this time God knows what the problem was.
However, after Jon stopped, he found that the two had actually just come to the noisy street.
Then, the Master of Whisperers stuffed a roll of paper into Jon's hand and signaled him to read it first before talking.
As for the record inside, it was far less optimistic than Jon thought, and could even be said to have exceeded everyone's expectations.
It turned out that after Jon issued the warning, the Imp quickly avoided Lady Catelyn and hid back in Casterly Rock.
However, no one expected that this instead caused the two Tully daughters to not reach an agreement on a strategic alliance after meeting, and lose the opportunity to trigger chaos.
Not only that, the crazy Lysa Tully rejected Lady Catelyn's proposal and declared that the gate of the Vale would be closed forever, and would not participate in any disputes in Westeros, obviously only wanting to ensure her son's stable growth.
After that, Lady Catelyn was treated rudely, and was even "politely escorted" out of the Vale by the Knights of the Vale.
Fortunately, as the Knight of the Bloody Gate and Catelyn's uncle, Ser Brynden the Blackfish couldn't sit by and watch Catelyn hit the road alone.
After all, when entering the Vale, they had already encountered attacks from the mountain clansmen, so from any angle, the Knight of the Bloody Gate had the necessity to protect his niece.
For this reason, he did not hesitate to use his authority and sent nearly a hundred soldiers to escort Catelyn until she returned to the North.
However, what was unexpected was that Catelyn chose to arrive at Riverrun first to visit her father.
Just shortly after that, Duke Hoster, who had always been in good health, suddenly fell ill with a fever, and then became bedridden and fell into a coma.
Seeing that her father was also about to return to the embrace of the Seven Gods, Catelyn, who had already learned the cause of Duke Jon Arryn's death from Lysa, decisively attributed it to the Lannisters again.
Of course, these all happened before Duke Ned was attacked.
When dark wings brought dark words, the Tully family, sandwiched between the North and the West, would eventually face unimaginable tribulations.
However, these things were actually the evil consequences brought by underestimating human nature, and would make the upright Duke Ned lose his head.
Compared with this point, Jon was more realistic and rational than any Stark.
At least, the reason why Ned didn't die under Jaime's sword was entirely due to the guards from White Harbor, and these guards were entirely due to Jon's deception and misleading of the Manderly family.
However, for the Lannisters who controlled the entire King's Landing, even with these people, there was nothing to fear at all.
Apart from adding some trouble to the other party, it couldn't play a decisive role.
Therefore, after mixing sand into the Gold Cloaks, Jon was obviously unable to be satisfied, and needed to speed up his pace to master the bargaining chips for saving his life. It would be best to unite all friends.
Making our people many, and making the enemies few, is the most reasonable choice at present.
Thinking of this, the transmigrator had to cast his eyes on Renly.
Although the Master of Laws did not bring soldiers from the Stormlands into King's Landing to show loyalty to his brother, based on Jon's understanding of him, this dog probably had hidden death squads in the city long ago.
With these people, plus the subordinates of the Knight of Flowers, the combat power possessed by this pair of passionate dogs was not even worse than the Hand at all.
Although Jon could also gather manpower from Tampa, mercenaries, this kind of thing, are always loyal only to Gold Dragons rather than someone, and will bring huge risks.
In case Littlefinger or Janos detected his little moves, God knows if they would sell him to the Lannisters in order to climb up.
Although judging from the current situation, he and Cersei were still in the same boat, and it was vaguely possible to form a more reliable alliance.
But the premise of all this was that his strength was far from enough to threaten the Lannisters, and he would rely on the Queen and her children for power.
Once Jon could also sit at the card table and become a participant in the game of thrones, the challenges he had to face would also change completely.
So before other players entered the venue, the key to solving the problem ultimately lay in who could win the support of the Gold Cloaks.
And the tricky guy among this City Watch was Janos, this shameless bastard!
In terms of buying with money alone, no one could compare with the Lannisters.
And in terms of power promises, whether it was Cersei or Joffrey, they were far more worth investing in than a Hand.
Combining these considerations, the only bargaining chip Jon could take out might be catching leverage.
However, wanting to completely take down Janos, who was already full of holes like a sieve, was obviously not an easy thing.
However, even Jon himself didn't realize that the way to handle the Commander of the City Watch, Janos, had actually always been in his hands.
As for why, everything was because he was still considering problems from the perspective of a bastard, rather than placing himself in a higher level of identity and status.
If it were Tyrion at this time, he would just need a random charge to strip the Commander of the City Watch of his position, and then send him to Castle Black to join the Night's Watch.
Of course, apart from striving for the Gold Cloaks, what Jon was more worried about was the Kingslayer.
According to the original plan, Robert's original intention was to let his brother-in-law manage the East.
However, after his disturbance, the Usurper also sensed something wrong.
Rather than letting the Lannisters fill the entire Westeros, it would be better to let that stupid woman Lysa continue to control the gate of the Vale.
However, this laissez-faire attitude allowed Jon to see an opportunity, and he chose to let more people join in to reconcile or intensify the complicated relationships in the city.
Of course, aside from these, Duke Ned was not idle here; instead, he constantly sent the captain of the guard to inquire everywhere, wanting to find a breakthrough point from Robert's bastards.
And the diligent Jory Cassel really lived up to expectations, finding many seeds planted by the Usurper in succession, except for Gendry who had already come of age.
During this period, there were no new things in King's Landing. Except for Ned recuperating from serious injuries, almost no one lost anything because of this.
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