According to Enides' prompt, Randy originally wanted to recruit priests from his own monastery, but in the end he gritted his teeth and spent 1500 points to exchange for a very pious, but somewhat stupid priest from the system, plus a diplomat number two, who was slightly stronger than Diplomat One, and a team of Norse Battlefield Orders as an entourage, and asked Carter to transport them to Jutland, Denmark, to the legendary Rome pilgrimage.

Watching the fleet depart, Randy Tsehorse turned to return to Oslo.

The castle has been renovated with great effort to become a fortification complex that is ready to defend itself against the resurgence of Denmark and serve as a bridgehead for the invasion of Jutland.

"Host, you don't need to be too scared of Rome right now!"

"Really? Why? ”

"Because in Rome now, the controversy over the ecclesiastical system has not yet passed."

"Isn't the battle over the hierarchy yet? It's been 100 years, so which is stronger between the current Roman Catholicism and the Byzantine Orthodox Church? ”

"Byzantine Orthodoxy, of course! After all, it has not been baptized by war for 100 years, and its strength is very strong, whether it is land, military strength, or cultural level, all of which are second to none in Europe. ”

"How big is the territory of Byzantium now?"

"Cyprus, Rhodes, half of Anatolia, the Balkans, the Crimean Peninsula, Sicily, the southern Iberian Peninsula,"

"What about the army?"

"Byzantium has the Roman Praetorian Guard, the permanent legions of various military districts, Latin mercenaries, barbarian mercenaries, border guards of various military regions, cantonment troops, peasant soldiers, it is estimated that more than 500,000, if war breaks out, another 500,000 should be recruited!"

Randy: ".............................."

Randy is fucked up and returns to Oslo City.

The current Oslo has been renovated by Randy at a great cost, with a total of 20,000 gold coins, plus more than 10,000 point scrolls, to build the entire Oslo into a super bunker that is basically impossible to conquer in terms of technology.

A total of four layers of walls, five meters thick, twenty meters high, with a number of arrow towers, all kinds of city defense ballistas, trebuchets, and oil traps.

And some of the more insidious urn cities, jack gates and other items, if there are enough defenders, even if the enemy army besieging the city is twenty times that of the defenders, there is nothing to be done.

If you insist on finding a flaw in Oslo, that is, the side around the sea is missing a wall, and Randy has opened up that place where the water is deep and calm into a large military port and a supporting dry dock shipyard, but Randy is confident that as long as he maintains his current strong navy, the enemy will not be able to bargain for this aspect.

Just like Britain in the 19th century, as long as there is a strong navy, then the enemy will never be able to attack your homeland, and through sea transportation, the navy can attack any coastline of the enemy, only you fight others, no one else can fight you, so island countries still have certain benefits.

And these are just Randy's fantasies, it will take at least four months to complete the construction of the entire Oslo fortress and the fantasy naval base, and after Randy has always adhered to the concept of building roads first if he wants to get rich, he will build a paved road from Oslo to New Nijmegen again, and spend 31,000 gold coins, Randy suddenly finds himself a poor bastard again.

Although the current tax has increased to 8,000 gold coins per month, Randy still feels that it is not enough to spend, maybe after the start of trade with Denmark and Sweden, the situation will be better, but the obvious improvement will not be too big, so Randy began to think of some home remedies to make money.

Like what...... Privateer License, Legal Pirate,

Although doing so would bring the national navy and the nation into disrepute, Randy eventually decided to impose a toll tax on the Öresund waterway without discrimination for all ships entering and leaving the Öresund waterway.

However, if he wants to collect a tax on the Öresund waterways legally and reasonably, Randy should have to control Jutland, after all, the Öresund waterways are half of Denmark's.

Randy took advantage of the new victory, completely ignoring the anger of the whole of Northern Europe and the strong protest of his friendly neighbor Denmark, and began to impose taxes.

For the good boys who pay their taxes, Randy will issue their captain a qualifying pass, on which the captain's ship size, the number of goods, and the length of the certificate will be recorded in a special ghost-like text that Randy calls an oracle bone inscription.

If you don't pay it, it's fine, but in this way, there is no way to guarantee the safety of the ship when sailing in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, and if you encounter pirates, plus you don't have a ghost drawing pass, you will be robbed of it with people and ships.

But they won't kill anyone, but will send you back to shore kindly, and I wish you another time.

After this order was issued, many shipowners were robbed and bankrupt, and at the same time, news began to circulate in the industry that some missing ships had been killed by pirates, and all the spearheads were faintly aimed at Randy, and almost all the seafaring merchants learned to be obedient, and while driving through the Öresund waterway, they would honestly pay taxes to Randy, and they did not even need to be urged.

Randy's reputation has worsened because of this, and he basically belongs to the kind that can stink eight streets and be poked in the back when he goes on the street.

But Randy doesn't care about his reputation, as soon as the Öresund aqueduct tax policy is introduced, Randy's monthly income instantly increases by 5,000 gold coins, which is more important than anything else in Randy's opinion.

At the same time, as a dwarven emissary of the Randy Covenant, he went on another mission, and when he could not find the Randy in New Nijmegen, he chased him all the way to Oslo.

Marveling at the rapid changes in Oslo, and seeing the naval strength under Randy's command in the gradually forming naval base, the dwarves began to urge Randy to quickly fulfill his promise and form an alliance with the dwarves to expedition to England.

After a little consideration, Randy persuaded the dwarves to be officially crowned king of Norway after the return of his diplomats from Rome, so that they could legitimately send troops to England.

The dwarven messenger received an affirmative reply and signed a trade treaty with Randy in order to buy food and sell wine in Norwegian cities.

It is true that the dwarves are not a people suitable for farming, although they try their best to create a variety of farming tools, such as plough sticks, nail rakes, hoes, sickles, and other tools, but the dwarves still do not produce enough food to eat, and the dwarves especially love to drink, especially spirits, but making wine is a very food-consuming thing.

In addition, the dwarves were in dire need of pottery, cloth, salt, and other daily necessities, which needed to be exchanged with humans.

Swapping lattes or other precious metals is a surefire deal.

After receiving trade revenues, taxes on the Öresund waterways, and some black income from pirate smuggling, Randy's purse bag finally swelled, and the spy network covering the whole of Northern Europe, larger and more ornate churches, and all kinds of supporting public facilities were all rebuilt, and the whole of Norway began to flourish.

It was at this time that the mission to Rome returned smoothly and brought good news again.

The strength of the Papal States is still the same as 100 years ago, the powerful German vassal states are basically not like him, and the Eastern Roman Empire regards this bishopric as a rebellion, and it is rare for a Nordic country to respect the status of the Papal States, which makes the current Pope Innocent III, who is determined to establish a heavenly kingdom on earth, quite encouraged, and immediately affirmed the proposal of the Grand Duke of Norway to be promoted to king, and by the way, according to Randy's proposal, brought back many copies of the classics.

Even, after Diplomat No. 2 and Priest No. 1 presented Randy's priceless ruby papal tiara, Innocent III gave a silver cross that looked rather delicate, saying that it was a gift in return for Randy the Pious.

The Blessed Cross

Piety +1, gain Devotion Disciple attributes,

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In the previous battle, because Randy led the elite cavalry to charge continuously and finally turned the tide, Randy's qualified cavalry general level increased by one level, becoming an excellent cavalry general +2, but Randy was not the person with the biggest increase in ability in this war.

Spy Leader!

An unsung parkour master who successfully assassinated Felix II and received an assassination reward, +1 Assassin Skill Points and +2 Spy Boss.

Fleet Commander Carter!

Pirate model, Dominance +2, Qualified Admiral upgraded to Excellent Admiral, Dominance +2.

After two months of recuperation, Randy's army expanded once again.

With strong financial support, Randy's expansion is quite large.

All Viking soldiers are upgraded to Viking warriors, and all are replaced with heavy chain mail, each team has a total of 500 Viking warriors, of which 1/10, that is, 50 Viking warriors, are in charge of ten-person squad leaders, equipped with plate chain composite armor purchased from the dwarves, and at the same time, Viking warriors have been upgraded and improved by Enides again, which greatly enhances discipline and training, and is officially upgraded to a regular professional army.

Name: Professional Viking Warrior

Quantity: 500 people/team, 10 teams in total

Ethnicity: Vikings

Morale: High

Training: Slightly higher

Discipline: Slightly higher

Skill: Throwing axes (each person carries two throwing axes, one flying axe on the left and right waists, a total of four flying axes, which can be cut and thrown.) ）

Skill: Shield Wall (Lined up in a strong and sturdy infantry array, the defense is first-class, and it can resist cavalry to a certain extent.) ）

In addition, after seeing the powerful attack power of the legendary Danish tomahawk infantry, Randy also followed the example of the Danish Nordic axe soldiers and created an elite assault force, a powerful assault class called the Viking Death Warriors, all of whom wore plate chain composite armor and held 1.2-meter-long giant battle axes, all of whom were selected from the best of the Viking warriors as the first choice for charging into battle.

Name: Viking Death Warrior

Quantity: 100 people/team, 5 teams in total

Ethnicity: Vikings

Morale: Extremely high

Training: High

Discipline: Ordinary

Skill: Warcry (Increases Attack)

The above two types of infantry are Randy's current main force, although there are only 6,000 people in number, Randy is confident that such an army can fight against a rabble that is more than ten times larger.

It was only after the research was completed that Randy realized that he had been tricked severely.

In the cold weather of Northern Europe, the bio-glue made from the composite bow quickly cracks and deforms, causing the composite bow to become a handful of garbage.

Therefore, Randy's ranged troops still did not improve, only expanded slightly, and raised the crossbow-wielding militia level in the regular army to the crossbowman level.

Name: Crossbowmen

Quantity: 200/team

Ethnicity: Vikings

Morale: Medium

Training: Moderate

Discipline: Medium

Facts: Although the fate of the crossbowman is still not escaped, his combat effectiveness has improved a lot, the winding speed is faster, and even in close combat, he can barely cope with some light infantry.

Crossbowmen are armed with medium crossbows!

At present, Randy has begun to order scientific research institutes to study hand-cranked winding heavy crossbows, as well as the legendary pulley crossbow with strong armor-piercing ability, wearing light chain mail, wearing hand axes, helmets, and small shields, which can be used in long-range and melee combat.

With such a good combat effectiveness and high cost performance, Randy put two teams each in New Nijmegen and Oslo near the sea, and there were four teams of 800 crossbowmen in the main force.

The Nordic archers are still the same, and they are basically about to be eliminated.

The recruitment price and maintenance cost of such archers are not high, so in Bergen, Oslo, New Nijmegen, and the three cities, there are two teams of Nordic archers each, and the main force has five teams of 1,000 people.

In terms of cavalry, after Randy led 200 cavalry to fight in and out, he finally learned that Norway's heavy cavalry was also very good, and he was more determined to develop elite heavy cavalry.

After acquiring a large amount of land in Norway and confiscating the fiefs of a large number of nobles, Randy issued the famous Infinite Knight Recruitment Decree.

The decree reads as follows:

Measure all the state-owned land in the country, and take one out of five as a fief for the future National Knights, and every knight who swears allegiance to Randy can become a member of the National Knights after passing the test, and receive a reward of fifty acres of land, and as long as the knight has a direct line, can inherit the heir to the knight's title, the land can be inherited by him, and the knight's title is the same.

But be careful here!

That is, the territory of the Knights is still part of the state-owned land, and the knights have the ownership, but they have no right to govern, and all the land is still governed by the royal family, that is, Randy, and the knights just have to wait for the year-end benefits.

To put it bluntly, only wages are paid, and land is just an excuse, which can be seen but not touched.

Now in this year, if you give money directly, the knights will definitely not do it, people only value the land, so they need to change the method slightly, so that after tying them all up, they have no territory to take care of, and they will have more time to train and fight.

After the decree is issued, it will not be said elsewhere for the time being.

Chivalrous knights, ranger knights, rogue knights, all flocked to Oslo from all over Northern Europe.

Although they can't be powerful in their territory, for these knights, having something to eat is a considerable benefit.

Similarly, Randy recruited a lot of feudal knights produced by Enides, so that the number of the National Knights was temporarily expanded to two hundred.

Uniform attire ......

Unified equipment ......

Unified War Horse ......

Unified training ......

In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of this group of knights!

Name: National Knight of Norway (Professional Killing Machine)

Quantity: 100 people/team, a total of 2/team

Ethnicity: Vikings

Equipment: Plate Chain Composite Armor, Full Coverage Helmet, Overcoat, Cloak, Heavy Cavalry Spear, Battle Axe, Vulture Shield, Armored War Horse,

Morale: Extremely high

Training: Extremely high

Discipline: High

Skills: Charge, Scare,

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Name: Improved Tomahawk Cavalry

Quantity: 100 people/team, a total of 300/people

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Name: Patrol Cavalry

Quantity: 100 people/team, a total of 500/people

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Randy roughly calculates that his army has expanded to nearly 9,000 people, and all of them are professional troops, so it can be basically equivalent to conscripts + mercenaries + professional soldiers, three times the combat effectiveness of the combined army, that is to say, Randy's army of 9,000 people is equivalent to the opponent's army of 30,000 people.

At least that's what Randy himself thinks!

On the navy side, the galleys that were temporarily conscripted have all been returned, and the entire navy has been completely regularized, with 50 light ballista warships as the main force and 50 dragon head warships as the assault force, a total of 100 warships, the Norwegian navy is the strongest maritime force in Northern Europe.

After taking care of all the affairs of the country, Randy is full of ambition and begins to prepare for an expedition to England.

It's just that there is still a slight problem here, waiting for him to solve it.

"Banner ......"

"Yes, flags! Host, you are now the ruler of a country and should have your own banner. ”

"Enides, what flag do you think I should use?"

"How's this?" Enides gave a suggestion.

Randy opens the system interface, revealing a skeletal pirate flag drawn on it.

"It's really imposing, and it's Viking enough, but it's ......"

(End of chapter)