"Has Zaro done it?" Ian raised his head and glanced at Hominus.

In fact, Ian had already returned to Meereen last night, but without any announcement. He only summoned the intelligence chief Mi Da and Hominus, a traitor from the Iron Bank, and deployed the first phase of his plan to them. .

"He didn't promise us anything," Hominas said matter-of-factly. "What exactly are you going to let Grazdan announce to the captains? Why are you so sure that Xaro will do what we ask."

"Starting tomorrow, the food supply in Meereen's market will be cut off."

"What did you say?" Hominas was shocked when he first heard the news. "Under my temptation to purchase grain at a high price some time ago, almost all the nobles and grain merchants in Meereen have sold their grain. This city is now There is almost no food in stock, and it is maintained entirely by the food ships from Volantis that arrive in Meereen every day, as well as food from Astapor and the Skarhazaban Valley."

"Food from Astapor?" Ian didn't remember it for a moment.

"Have you forgotten? After you captured Astapor, you ordered to stop the cultivation of all cash crops and long-cycle crops, and devoted all manpower and land suitable for wheat growth to wheat cultivation."

"You're ready so quickly?"

"In Slaver's Bay, a batch of wheat can be harvested every three months in the summer, and it takes a year or even more in the winter." After taking over the job from Celia, Hominas studied it carefully. He noticed these things that he usually didn’t pay much attention to.

"Now is not the time to talk about this," Hominus shook his head and said urgently, "In short, if Meereen is cut off from food, it will soon cause a large-scale famine, and everything will be ruined! And although our food supply is tight now, the situation will soon ease after the new wheat harvest in the Astapor Worm River Basin is completed. I can assure you that at least in the next three months, the army and the city will There will be no problem with the food supply.”

"Or" Hominus looked at Ian who still had no expression on his face, and his heart twitched, and he came up with the worst guess, "Why are you driving the dragon back to Meereen at this time, and also stopping the food supply to Meereen? Didn't something happen on the battlefield ahead?

You failed to defeat Drogo, and you need to rely on the Kaiser Mountain Pass to fight a protracted battle with him, so you came up with the idea of ​​building a warehouse to the west of the mountain pass to store grain? Or is it that Drogo divided his forces in the river valley and attacked Meereen's largest grain-producing area. You saw this through your 'vision' and rushed back to deal with it? "

"It's normal to think like you do, right?" Ian nodded with satisfaction when he saw Hominas's reaction.

"You confused me," Hominas felt that Ian's confidence had not changed, and he felt a little calmer, "Isn't this a good thing? This will not only shake the nobles' confidence in you, but may even induce those captains to ambition. I can’t guess your thoughts, you must tell me everything I need to know so that I can serve you better.”

"Since I called you here, it means that I have no plans to hide it from you. You are the core and most important executor of my entire plan." Ian stood up, came to the edge of the terrace, and asked the big crowd. View from below the pyramid.

Hominus is a trustworthy person. After betraying the Iron Bank, he will begin to be exposed to the threat of the Faceless Men in up to a year, and the only person in the world who can help him deal with the Faceless Men is Ian ( At least that's what Hominas himself thinks), then his fate is completely tied to Ian.

"The battle of Kesai Pass has been won. Just five days ago, I destroyed Drogo's army, killed Khal Drogo, captured 20,000 centaurs, and hatched three new dragons." En directly said everything the other party wanted to know most.

Hominas's expression became very wonderful in an instant. After a few seconds, he suddenly raised his head and laughed, his whole body trembling with excitement, "Then now, should I call you Your Majesty?"

"You are so excited and uninformed that you probably thought that I would have to call you His Majesty from now on." Ian complained casually.

"Your Majesty, calm down." Hominas' laughter stopped abruptly and he knelt down quickly.

"I was just joking, get up." Ian was a little helpless. The higher he was, the less he could complain as he pleased before. Every word he said would be magnified countless times in the eyes of others.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Hominas stood up again. He didn't know if he was in a hurry to turn over the page just now, but he immediately re-entered the work mode, "So your Majesty is suspending the supply of food and grass to Meereen this time. Because there are a large number of centaur prisoners on the front line who need to be supported? This is not enough."

"No," Ian directly interrupted the other party's wrong guess, "I want everyone in Meereen to have the thoughts you just had."

"What I just said," Hominas recalled quickly and took a breath, "you hope that the captains in the port of Meereen will mistakenly think that you have been defeated and start attacking Meereen to plunder this place. The wealth of one city? To be precise, the three cities of Meereen, Yunkai and Astapor will be attacked.”

As Ian's acting finance minister, Hominas guessed what Ian was thinking this time.

Your Majesty wants to lure those captains and mercenaries to attack the three cities of Slaver's Bay!

The captains who really bet on Ian winning, even those who were undecided about the outcome of the war, had temporarily joined the Meereen fleet to provide transportation services for Ian for the high bounty they had previously offered.

Most of these ships that have been staying in the port of Meereen are waiting for Ian to be defeated so that they can sack Meereen. Ian deliberately tried to release the news of his defeat at this moment, just to lure these people into taking the bait. As long as the other party makes the first move, then after Ian annihilates them, he can reasonably capture the hundreds of ships in the port, and require the cities and countries behind these ships to provide explanations to the Gith Empire, but...

"But will it be too difficult to control time?" Hominas questioned, "It was already five days ago that you defeated Khal Drogo. It will take another week at most to drive through Skahazar. The ships on the River Ban will bring the news back to Meereen, but your army will not be able to return within this time. Without your army, I fear that the strength of the three cities of Slaver's Bay will not be enough to withstand the attack of these sea raiders. .”

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