After the new "Hand of the King" Ed Stark arrived in King's Landing, the first royal meeting was held quickly.

King Robert's royal council consisted of four important ministers.

The first is the eunuch Varys, who serves as the intelligence chief in the Imperial Council and is actually the spy chief. He collects secrets through a network of intelligence woven by his "little birds."

Before Varys started his career, he had a good relationship with Illyrio Mopatis, the Governor of Pentos who invested in Viserys and Daenerys. After he became a famous intelligence dealer in the Free Trade City, He was invited to the court by the suspicious Mad King Aerys II, and from then on he served as the chief intelligence officer. Later, Robert overthrew Aerys II, and he began to serve King Robert again.

However, he seems to still have some loyalty to the Targaryen family, because he is part of Illyrio's plan to support Viserys. After Illyrio was burned to death and Daenerys established her rule in Pentos, under Ye Ting's prompting, Daenerys contacted the spy chief and cooperated with him. From this point of view, , he still deserves some trust.

But he actually knew nothing about Ye Ting's arrival.

The second is Lord Renly, who is Robert's younger brother. He looks very similar to the young King Robert. He is tall and handsome. His black hair reaches his shoulders and is always neatly combed. He knows how to do it very well. The importance of his charm, his taste and devotion in dressing are enough to put any important minister of the kingdom to shame.

The third person is Petyr Baelish, the king's finance minister, nicknamed "Littlefinger". He was once a minor nobleman from the Five Fingers Peninsula and was adopted by Lord Hoster Tully of Riverrun. Ed Stark's wife, Hoster's daughter, Catherine Tully's childhood sweetheart, and has always been in love with her, but in the end Catherine married Ed. In addition, Catelyn's sister Lysa Tully was very obsessed with him, and she had an affair with him and became pregnant. In the end, Lord Hoster broke them up and married Lysa, who had lost her virginity, to the old and heirless Vale. Duke Jon Arryn - the former "Hand of the King" and the adoptive father of Robert and Ed.

The fourth is Grand Maester Pycelle. His bald head is covered with age spots, and a few sparse white hair hangs on both sides of his forehead. His bachelor's necklace is made of twenty-four kinds of metal pieces and hangs heavily from his neck to his chest. His snow-white beard flows down to his chest. In this era, bachelors shouldered various important responsibilities, including but not limited to pharmacists, magicians, diviners, stargazers, military and political advisors, and even played the roles of midwives and babysitters.

However, Pycelle is not a national advisor who conscientiously abides by his oath. From time to time, he will secretly do some unruly things according to his own needs, such as causing a biased influence in political events. He has a special admiration for Lord Tywin.

There are so many factions in just a royal council, which is enough to show how neglectful and unpopular Robert's rule was - he was surrounded by either idiots, conspirators, or sycophants, but everyone had their own little calculations. .

After Ed arrived, Robert's first task was to hold a grand jousting tournament to celebrate the new prime minister's taking office.

King Robert announced that the winner would be rewarded with 40,000 gold dragon coins, and the second place would be rewarded with 20,000 gold dragon coins. The winner of team close combat is also worth 20,000, and the winner of archery is worth 10,000.

The bonus alone cost 90,000 gold dragon coins, and a large sum of money was also spent on banqueting guests, organizing martial arts competitions, etc. You know, one gold dragon coin is a soldier's military pay for a whole year, and A good set of armor costs four or five gold dragon coins.

This incident made Ed very anxious. In addition, he also had to spend time investigating the death of his adoptive father Jon Arryn and dealing with his belongings. He believed that Jon's death contained a major conspiracy.

In addition, he had to deal with the conflicts between her two daughters. He came to King's Landing on this trip and brought two of his five children, Sansa and Arya. The eldest daughter Sansa is engaged to Robert's son Prince Joffrey. This trip is to complete the marriage, while the second daughter is purely here to join in the fun.

Sansa has been educated as a lady since she was a child. She has traditional feminine charm consistent with her noble origin, and has a strong interest in music, poetry, singing, dancing, and other "female leisure activities" such as embroidery. When she was young, she had an innocent romantic fantasy about handsome princes, noble knights and love, and often dreamed of the love stories described in stories and songs.

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However, Arya is a lively and energetic girl who likes fighting and exploring. This is the exact opposite of her well-behaved sister Sansa Stark, which puts the two sisters at odds.

Ed once unexpectedly harvested a litter of five young direwolves while hunting. Since Stark's family crest is the direwolf, he asked each of his five children to adopt one. After they came from Winterfell On the way to King's Landing, Arya's direwolf injured Prince Joffrey and fled, so the vicious Queen Cersei demanded that Sansa's direwolf be used as the blame, and they lost their pet. The relationship between Sansa and Arya continued to be tense. She placed all the blame for the direwolf's death on Arya.

During Ed's subsequent investigation, he discovered that his adoptive father, who died suddenly of illness, had been studying a book "The Genealogy and History of the Main Nobles of the Seven Kingdoms" (which included many descriptions of the Countess and their children) before his death and had secretly interviewed him. He had passed Robert's eldest brother, Stannis Baratheon, and had planned to send his son to Stannis' fiefdom, Dragonstone, to be adopted by Stannis. As far as Ed knew, Jon and Stannis had never had a close relationship in the past, and these seemingly abnormal actions aroused his curiosity.

In addition, Jon and Stannis once investigated the king's illegitimate son. Even so, he still did not figure out why Jon's desire to see the king's illegitimate son would cause his death.

Even under such circumstances, the tournament was still held. For this reason, the national treasury had to borrow a large amount of gold dragon coins from the Free Trade Bank - this emerging big bank currently has the most ability to lend to the king and also requires the smallest interest. party. As a result, knights from all over the country came to King's Landing one after another, and the entire city fell into unprecedented crowding and chaos.

Ye Ting arrived at Junlin City at such an opportunity.

If you think about it carefully, the conspiracies and relationships in A Song of Ice and Fire are indeed very complicated, and it is still a bit reluctant to write them in a short length.

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