Maans had made a huge mistake, and Danny and the Night Watchers did not notice it at the time.
In the morning, the Magna of the barbarian tribe had a three-way meeting with the Night Watchers and Danny. In the afternoon, Maans tried his best to promote the Tripartite Lease Agreement among the barbarians while protecting himself.
Because Tormond, Snow, and the rest of the Magna … whether they were subdued by Dani's dominance as a queen, or by her personal charm, or by her promises of benefits, or perhaps they were like Maans, who had enough reason and wisdom to recognize the sincerity of the queen's offer of a treaty …
In short, the majority of the Magna supported the signing of the agreement.
Therefore, Maans' promotion was effective.
At least a quarter of the barbarians were moved on the spot, another quarter were resolutely against it, and the remaining half were at a loss, ready to go with the flow as the majority.
Therefore, Maans made the decision of "free choice": free people could freely choose whether to accept the Dragon Queen's conditions and go to the south for the winter, or cross the Great Wall with their own abilities and plunder the Northern Territory.
He was doing it out of kindness, dividing the barbarians beyond the Great Wall, eliminating the unruly plunderers, and allowing more barbarians to survive.
This was also very beneficial to the queen and the Night Watchers. Those who crossed the Great Wall were "obedient people", easier to manage, and lower the chances of conflict between the barbarians and the Northerners in the future.
Therefore, when Tormond brought the "revised terms" to the city gate and told Danny and the Night Watchers, they immediately agreed.
Then, Jon and Barristan, as the representatives of the Night Watchers and Targaryen respectively, brought a parchment scroll to the barbarian camp.
The parchment scroll contained the full amount of the Tripartite Lease Agreement, two official terms, one of which was proposed by Maans — the barbarians could freely choose to become the "barbarians of the Great Wall" in batches, and the Dragon Queen and the Night Watchers had to abide by the first two terms of the agreement, treating all barbarians equally.
This was Maans' effort to resolve the hostility between the barbarians and the Southerners. At the barbarian leaders' meeting at noon, he promised the barbarians, "It's all voluntary … those who can't stay beyond the Great Wall can find the Dragon Queen to sign another contract."
To put it simply, the third revised clause of the agreement changed the "one-time surrender activity to retain honor" into "immigration", and the surrender that signed the agreement became an immigration visa.
Danny thought to herself: Transporting nearly a hundred thousand people to the other side of the narrow sea would require too many ships and a huge amount of work. If the barbarians came in batches and she sent them in batches, it would definitely be easier.
The night watchers also thought that if they took in tens of thousands of savages at once and something happened, the hundreds of night watchers would not be able to manage them all. It was better to tame them batch by batch. If they encountered any problems, they could slowly solve them under control.
Mance thought to himself, 'Instead of arguing endlessly and even causing internal strife among the savages, it's better to divide the savages. Those who are willing to live can live, and those who are die-hard can die.' First of all, the divided barbarians would lower the Southerners' wariness of him and the barbarians. After all, only the barbarians who were united under the King of Beyond the Great Wall would be feared. The scattered barbarian tribes would never be seen as a threat by the Southerners. Secondly, he really couldn't think of a second way to survive other than surrendering to the Dragon Queen. She had a dragon!
However, none of the three parties had ever considered the thoughts of the "unruly people".
The savages were all unruly people.
The unruly people thought to themselves, 'I don't know the Dragon Queen. Although the big shots all acknowledge her reputation, what if … Why don't I let the others "migrate" first? My family still has a few months of food storage, and there are still more than three months before the end of autumn officially ends. After the first batch of "migrants" is settled in the South, I will decide whether to "migrate" them based on the situation. After all, my life is mine, and I only have one life. If the life of the "migrants" is harder than it is now, then I … Anyway, I'll migrate sooner or later. The conditions that the Dragon Queen offers are the same. '
Therefore, in the spacious square of the barbarians' camp, Jon, Barristan and Mance who were standing behind the wooden table and waiting for the barbarians to come forward to sign their names were dumbfounded.
Under the setting sun, Jon and the other two scanned the barbarians in a daze. Hundreds and thousands of barbarians surrounded them. Their blue, gray, black and brown eyes blinked like innocent little stars as they stared at the three of them in a daze.
Barristan looked at Mance resentfully, 'Why don't you even know how to arrange a few support staff? Such petty tricks, and you call yourself the King of the Beyond the Great Wall. '
Mance seemed to understand the meaning of the old knight's gaze. He rubbed his nose and said awkwardly, "Tormond, you were the most enthusiastic before, and you have always been very supportive of the Tripartite Lease Agreement. Come and sign it!"
Tormond gave him an innocent look and replied, "I have four sons and a daughter, a big family, and thousands of people in the Red Hall …"
Barristan said angrily, "His Majesty and the Night Watchers have promised your safety! His Majesty has also sworn to the Seven Gods and all the old gods in front of you. The Tripartite Lease Agreement is a sacred oath. You should understand the meaning of the sacred oath. "
"Yes, we all understand the meaning of the sacred oath and the rights of the guests." The Six Forms People stood on the back of the white bear and sneered loudly, "The King of the North, Robb Stark, has violated the sacred oath, the Southern Feudal Lord has trampled on the rights of the guests in the Blood Wedding, and the Night Watchers have killed Karst who was serving them in Karst's house.
Hehe, the King, the Feudal Lord, and the Night Watchers are all untrustworthy people. Why should we believe you? "
Mance looked at the shapeshifter expressionlessly and said in a low voice, "The day before yesterday, when we were charging at the gate of the Great Wall, that woman rode on a dragon and flew over our heads. She could have burned our tents, people, livestock, and food.
But she didn't. The Megalosaurus' terrifying dragon flames burned the mud, snow, and soldiers in the forest.
She could have easily disintegrated our troops and helped the Westeros to solve the crisis of the freemen invading the South.
But she chose to negotiate. She chose the most complicated, time-consuming, and money-consuming method to help us survive the winter and avoid the invasion of the Other Ghosts.
I think her actions can be called 'benevolence'. Valamere, what kind of person do you think she is? "
"A soft-hearted, cowardly woman!" The Six Forms People laughed.
Mance saw that many of the barbarians were nodding in agreement. He could not help but think of a sad question. Were the freemen beyond the Great Wall really a civilization that should be eliminated?
The corner of Barristan's mouth twitched. The Dragon Queen's enemies had made many comments about her, but they had never said that she was "cowardly" or "soft-hearted".
"The Gith, the Volantis, the Lisi, the Quils … Most people in the world would laugh their heads off if they heard what you said," he said to the shapeshifter with a straight face.
Mance said, "Valamere, you should at least admit that she is' soft-hearted '. A soft-hearted person would not trick you into entering the Great Wall and let the dragon eat you, right?"
"Hmph, Mance, have you forgotten? To the freemen, being bound and enslaved is far more terrifying than death," the Six Forms People retorted.
"That's because you've never experienced the horrors of hunger and cold. You've never worried about food and water, but we all know that the food we have now is not enough to feed all the savages …" Maans suddenly stopped talking because the way some of the savages looked at him had changed. They were filled with suspicion and malice.
"Do as you wish. It's all up to you." He said this and lay down on the chair without saying anything else.
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, and that a tribe of barbarians who were willing to be the guinea pigs did not appear, Tormond became anxious. He pulled a few of the tribe leaders to discuss for a while.
In the end, a group of widows who had lost their husbands but had children to support were selected from their tribes. They formed a group of about a thousand orphans and widows with orphans under the age of ten.
These people were a complete burden to the barbarians, and they were not afraid of sacrificing them. Similarly, the Night Watchers could accept them without worry.
Ten spear-wielding women with children were the representatives. They pressed their bloody fingerprints on the Tripartite Lease Agreement.
Yes, they used a knife to cut their thumbs and left a mark on the snow-white sheepskin scroll. Beside it were the signatures of Danny and more than ten high-ranking members of the Night Watchers.
The sacred contract was signed.
That night, the barbarians of the Great Wall left the camp of the barbarians beyond the Great Wall. The spear-wielding women pushed the sleigh and followed the Night Watchers down the city wall.
Piled on the sleigh were moldy furs, tattered tents, dirty sleeping bags, a few meat bones, a small bag of barley, and one or several children who were crawling around.
There were also hundreds of boys and girls in ragged clothes with blank expressions on their faces. They held hands and stretched the line very, very long.
"Woo …" This time, when the barbarians arrived, the horn that represented the return of the Night Watchers only sounded once.
However, not all of the barbarians in the Great Wall wanted to enter.
Some chose to rent themselves to the Night Watchers, some were willing to rent the land gifted by the Night Watchers to farm, and some were more willing to trust the queen who rode the fire-breathing Megalosaurus.
Tall boys were selected by the Night Watchers to become the new Night Watchers or to do chores for the Night Watchers. Little girls without parents could not farm or stay in Dark Castle. They could only follow the "King of the Great Wall" to the other side of the narrow sea to make a living.
Well, the barbarians who joined Danny could not enter the Great Wall. They had to go east along the Great Wall until they reached the East Sea, which was 250 kilometers away.
There were almost 140,000 barbarians. There was no doubt that there were at least 100,000 barbarians who followed Danny across the sea. The Night Watchers wanted all the barbarians to follow her.
The Night Watchers were too few to manage 100,000 barbarians.
People's minds were unpredictable. If the barbarians suddenly changed their minds after entering the Great Wall and did not want to risk crossing the sea again, Danny would have to kill them all, but she would not be able to kill them all.
If she left tens of thousands of barbarians behind and rushed into the North, she would turn from a great hero to a sinner in the history of Westeros.
Danny was not afraid of being a sinner in the history of Westeros. After all, she was the one who wrote the history books.
But she did not want to be a failure!
The best way was not to test people's humanity and not to give the barbarians a chance to riot. As long as they were outside the Great Wall, they would not be able to rebel.
Therefore, the barbarians who had obtained Ursos' residence had set up camp at the foot of the Great Wall. In the afternoon, some barbarians cut down the forest and transported a large amount of wood to build a second barbarian camp — the camp of the "Savages of the Great Wall".
The barbarians lived in the new camp for the first time. When the number of barbarians reached 5,000, they began to move east together.
The Night Watchers were busy for most of the night. In total, they accepted 147 young Night Watchers and 183 spear-wielding women with children.
The spear-wielding women would take their children to the land given by the Night Watchers to farm and hunt.
The next morning, Jon and Barristan came to the barbarian camp again and sat at the table as immigration officials.
But not long after they sat down, the urgent bugle call suddenly sounded in the east.
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