Chapter 329 Game of Thrones(2/2)
To use a word that may be a little too harsh to describe it, it is courageous and foolhardy.
Robb is Ned's eldest son. He inherited Ned's sense of honor, upright temperament and character.
Indeed, he is also very similar to Ned in some aspects, or in other words, neither Robb nor Ned can escape the common character of men in the Stark family.
This is their humanity and their tradition.
This kind of character is also related to the general environment. They live in the North. This is the general environment. The North is cold and vast. The six major territories of Westeros combined are not as large as the North.
The environment gave Robb a righteous and awe-inspiring temperament, but also gave him an open mind.
But unlike Ned, Robb has lived in Winter City since he was a child. Before the war, he did not experience many twists and turns. This is a small environment, and it is this small environment that really determines his temperament.
Because there are always various characters in this small environment, he lives in such an environment every day and receives more influence than the larger environment gives him.
He has been living beside his father Ned, able to accept Ned's teachings and change himself like Ned.
This is a very powerful force. If Robb were in another environment, he would not have such a character.
What kind of person a person will eventually become and what a person will eventually achieve are largely due to education.
Who did Robb receive his education from?
Of course it's his father, Ned.
So Robb, like Ned, is upright, just, and has a sense of honor.
These characters and images were already formed in Winter City.
After leaving Winter City, he still acted according to the thinking and rules he learned in Winter City, what should be done and what should not be done. He had already learned this set of principles during his education in Winter City.<
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However, all this is the key to pushing him into the abyss.
He wants to become the wolf master so much, but this becomes a drag on him.
There is no doubt that Robb Stark is an excellent and qualified eldest son. He has a very good relationship with his brothers and sisters, including Gao Bin and Jon.
Snow and his adopted son Theon﹒
Greyjoy.
Since he is a qualified eldest son, he will definitely be able to take charge of the entire family.
Therefore, after Ned was killed, he summoned the lords of the various families in the north, and with their support, he became the king of the north and went south to avenge his father.
In the process of going south, he won every victory, singing triumphantly all the way south, almost forming a sweeping trend.
And captured the best knight in Westeros, Jaime the Kingslayer.
Lannister.
His success is partly due to his mind and partly due to his mother.
However, success is also a failure. He made the wrong decision when he should least have made it.
Whether it's letting go of Jaime or killing Karstark.
Just because of these two points, Gao Bin couldn't let him become the Young Wolf Lord. Because of the good relationship between the two in the past, Gao Bin decided to make him a general and stay and fly with the little doctor girl.
Listening to Rob chattering in his ears, Gao Bin gradually made up his mind.
Over the next week, he worked hard to recover and gradually adapted to life in Winter City.
The northern border is very poor, so poor that Gao Bin can't help but feel sad.
In this world, if a kingdom wants to become strong, it cannot do without two things: population and environment.
The North was crushed by almost all kingdoms on these two points.
The cold climate and poor soil in the north prevent the land here from growing enough food to sustain a large population. Even many old people will leave their homes in the name of "hunting" in winter to save food.
During the Dance of the Blood Dragons, when winter was approaching, Duke Cregan Stark summoned an army composed of people to fight south "in order to give the kin north of the Neck a few less mouths to feed."
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The number of people in this team reached 30,000.
But even though so many people left, the winter in the north was still difficult.
Looking at the history of Winter City, there are very vivid records.
That winter, there were so many hungry people outside the city of Barrowton that Earl Dustin had to close the city gates tightly. In the far end of White Harbor, the price of food soared to the sky.
Upright people had to sell themselves to slave traders in order to obtain their wives and children, while those who were not so upright had to sell their wives and children to them in order to provide for themselves.
The territory does not have as dense a population as the south, and the land is not as productive as the south. Naturally, the north has become one of the poorest kingdoms among the seven kingdoms.
And poverty means falling behind!
Let's put it this way, the armies in the north are still wearing mail armor, while the armies of those families in the south can already fight in plate armor, plate armor clothes, and chain plate armor.
In other words, if there is no tactical bonus, in a head-on battle with almost the same number of people, the North has almost no chance of defeating the opponent.
Equipment disadvantages cannot be reversed by relying on strange tricks alone.
In Gao Bin's view, Rob's victory while leading his troops south had the effect of the protagonist's aura bonus. Otherwise, half of the people he led would have died before King's Landing!
On this day, Gao Bin was studying maps in Ned's study. Two maps were spread out on the floor, one of which was a map of the entire continent of Westeros, and the other was a map of Winter City.
He marked two places, one of which was Carlin Bay.
Carlin Bay is the gateway to the north from the land. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it can be called a natural danger.
Theoretically, only two hundred archers can stop all enemies heading north.
This is also the key to the northerners resisting invading enemies for thousands of years.
Another location is White Harbor.
Baigang is located at the mouth of the Bairen River and is an important town in the northern border defense second only to Jingze.
Before the establishment of White Harbor, the defense problem of White Edge River could not be properly solved.
The Stark family once built the Wolf's Lair here, but the castle has been used as a pirate hideout several times.
The pirates plundered the North along the White Knife River, causing Winterfell to suffer miserably.
In addition to pirates, the Arryn family also makes the Starks powerless.
Thinking of the Aylin family, Gao Bin's heart sank again. If this family cannot be handled properly, sooner or later it will become a sharp blade that stabs him in the back!
Except for these two places, most of the vast northern border is undefendable.
For a long time, the Rock Coast, Kraken Point east of the Neck and other places have been fiercely contested territory between the Ironborn and the Northerners.
Here, the Northerners are not as dangerous as in Neck and White Harbor, so they are often passive.
Fortunately, the size of the Iron Islands and the style of the Ironborn prevent them from going deep into the North, so the gains and losses of these marginal territories will not pose a great threat to the safety of the Northern Kingdom.
Among the seven kingdoms of Westeros, the places with the strongest comprehensive strength and the best location are the Riverlands and the Westerlands.
The strength of the valley can probably be ranked third. It is a powerful and wealthy kingdom.
The valley is mountainous, but in the long and narrow valleys between the mountains, there is fertile soil everywhere.
Barley, wheat, and corn thrive here. The pumpkins in the valley are bigger than those in Highgarden, and the fruits produced here are said to be sweeter.
Chapter completed!