Game of Thrones: Joffrey the Chosen

Joffrey was well aware of his own capabilities.

His entire battlefield experience consisted of dragging Wang Ling and his bunch of oddballs around Eagle's Nest.

Aside from teaching the crab farmers a lesson, they didn't fight a single decent battle throughout the entire process.

Ed was in charge of defending the city; he only led a few hundred knights in a few final charges.

But all he did was lead the charge against some archers, launch a surprise attack from behind, and chase down a group of deserters.

What's more, James is there to help organize the team, and he's leading a group of elite players.

Looking at the vast sea of ​​over 100,000 people outside the city, Joffrey couldn't bring himself to say that the more the merrier.

Micro-management skills, such as moving the crossbowmen's position five meters to the left, are even more difficult to execute.

The emperor personally led the expedition to boost the morale of the army.

Leave professional matters to professionals; the Prime Minister is the true leader of the coalition.

The Starks really did their best.

Before setting out on the expedition, the affairs of King's Landing must be properly arranged.

The most important thing is logistics. Joffrey has thoroughly sorted out the personnel to ensure that Cersei can't cause any trouble.

The position of acting prime minister was also handed over to the little devil.

In his mind, Joffrey had completely become someone who was on par with James.

Soldiers from all over the country were stationed outside the city and then poured into King's Landing, making merchants and taverns rich.

After Edmure took over as Lord of the Sea, the Tully family gained more weight on paper, and the lords of the Riverlands became much more proactive.

Now, without Joffrey even having to say a word, cartloads of grain are already being transported to King's Landing.

With the northern cavalry returning to reinforce, the western cavalry were completely wiped out, and the allied forces' current mobile forces rely entirely on the Valley Knights.

Because Robert chose Eddard as Hand of the King, he had to compensate the Lannisters afterwards.

Therefore, Jaime, as Warden of the East, had the backing of the royal family, and Tywin Lannister had also reached an agreement with the Righteous Alliance.

After Stannis was driven out, they completely collapsed.

As for the laborers transporting supplies, Joffrey had the news spread in the flea den.

They provide meals, meat, and even give out money.

Through a combination of coaxing and deception, they recruited more than 10,000 people.

This was another double blessing. Joffrey had long disliked this cesspool called King's Landing, especially its infamous flea nest.

Take this opportunity to lure all the young and strong out, and let the little devil lead people to renovate this rotten place.

He's been traveling around these past few days, researching these very things.

The Craftsmen's Guild did not thrive in Westeros. Apart from the Alchemists' Guild, which was once very popular, the rest were scattered and disorganized.

The blacksmiths in King's Landing are all apprentices, and they are all crammed into the Steel Street.

Because their colleagues were enemies, there was far more competition than cooperation among them, and they guarded their own skills for fear that others would learn them.

But things were different after the war.

Joffrey forcibly brought them together to make equipment for the soldiers going to war.

The King's Landing Commando has also been reorganized.

Although they were called a commando team, Joffrey had no intention of having them launch an offensive. His training objective was simply to ensure they could hold their positions and hold the line.

All the damage should be dealt by ranged attacks.

Those who were tall, strong, and fierce were all selected and trained as heavy infantry, armed with short swords or battle axes and issued with rivet-studded oak shields.

The best plate armor, ring armor, and chainmail in the armory were issued to them.

The rest served as spearmen and axemen, mixed in with the crossbowmen in the rear to protect the enemy cavalry.

Archery is not something that can be mastered in a short time, and the requirements for wielding a spear in one hand and a shield in the other are quite high.

Therefore, they were all issued two-handed spears, with a length between ten and fifteen feet.

Their armor was less sophisticated; they were issued a curved half-helmet with a nose guard and a padded cotton armor.

The boiled leather armor they plundered also belonged to them.

Although Westeros' plate armor craftsmanship is quite advanced, the price still hasn't come down.

Joffrey even started considering going backwards, all the way back to Zaraka.

This equipment is easy to carry and even easier to deploy than chainmail.

Unfortunately, the Iron Throne simply doesn't have the capacity for large-scale production, and the environment of Westeros also severely limits the tech tree.

The land is vast and sparsely populated, and the alternation of long summers and long winters is completely irregular.

Most people live in villages near the castle, with vast stretches of uninhabited wilderness in between.

This environment has given rise to an even more distorted armed system.

The plate armor worn by the gentlemen is becoming increasingly sophisticated, with the carvings and patinas starting to overlap.

Their private soldiers could also receive different levels of equipment depending on the lord's strength.

However, these standing troops are ultimately a minority; more than 70% of the army consists of conscripts dressed in civilian clothes.

So much so that in every battle, it was a contest of whose elite troops were more elite, while the old farmers were just there to provide temporary support.

Throughout thousands of years of history, no one has ever rectified this matter.

The biggest limitation is still the environment.

With the onset of a long winter, the more people under one's command, the more tasks need to be managed.

Then, three hundred years ago, Aegon Targaryen unified the country, but he did not establish a centralized government.

Because there is a dragon under his buttocks.

If anyone rebels, just ride over and spray them with water, and that's it.

And so, a thousand years passed, and Westeros's technology did not improve at all; on the contrary, it began to decline due to the disappearance of magic.

Joffrey also considered slowly developing his technology and farming.

As a result, Robert "died," he was assassinated, and then the Seven Kingdoms War broke out, leaving him no time to spare.

But actually, the most important point is...

Joffrey won't.

Why do other people who arrive in another world keep taking out all sorts of technological gadgets in various creative ways?

But no matter how hard he racked his brains, he still couldn't understand how those things were made.

Joffrey had only heard of hydraulic forging hammers, blast furnace ironmaking, and carburizing steelmaking, but had never actually seen them.

He can't build it.

But it doesn't matter, he is the king.

He can't, but plenty of others can. Just issue the order and let others figure it out.

As for right or wrong.

After the Battle of Mudgate, Joffrey's prestige in King's Landing had reached its peak. He could point to a chamber pot and say it contained fine wine, and plenty of people would rush to drink it.

The blacksmith in charge of these things is Tob Mott.

Gendry's deceased mentor.

Joffrey's memory of the dark-haired boy's face had become somewhat hazy; he only remembered that his features were similar to Robert's.

He also considered sending people to the Great Wall or burying them on the other side of the Narrow Sea.

But there were too many scheming people in King's Landing at that time. If someone stole him and used him as leverage, Joffrey wouldn't be able to find him anywhere.

Moreover, the Baratheons' lineage is so strong that it defies the laws of genetics; the blood of this family carries magic.

Even when Targaryens intermarry with other races, their children often have different hair colors.

But Robert must have had black hair.

Besides, Ed and Robert are too familiar with each other; if he were Robert's illegitimate son, he would recognize him at a glance.

The more you do, the more mistakes you make.

Joffrey was very careful even when making a few changes to a book; if he were to create a bunch of fake children on a large scale, it would be even more troublesome to cover it up later.

So he made up his mind and told Cersei what had happened.

He stopped asking about or caring about what happened after that.

So, very early on, on their way to Winterfell, Master Tob's blacksmith shop caught fire.

Besides the child carrying a cow-horned helmet, many other apprentices were also implicated.

Is it because of the chaotic times?

Probably not, and neither was Jon's death.

But Joffrey knew that, in order to protect himself, he had already stained his hands with the blood of many innocent people.

And once this starts, it's hard to stop.

"Dog, bring the eunuch here."

"To reward his loyalty, I'll treat him to dinner."