Probably a few days ago. After Egil and the system elves discussed the so-called Vikings and merchant ships, Egil was cheated again for this - but after that, the light ballista battleships equipped with scorpion crossbows were not made, but small fishing boats, merchant ships, were added.

Fishing boats, nothing else to say, just near the sea where the wind and waves are not big, and after a net is cast, the net is fished, shrimp, crabs, shellfish, turtles and everything can be eaten. If you can't eat anything else, you just throw it back into the sea.

The merchant ships, on the other hand, had a slight problem.

Small merchant ships, although they can't go out of the offshore sea, but they can go along the offshore sea, and this is not a problem.

So some of the merchants of Biard spontaneously organized themselves, and planned to sell the animal skins hunted in the forest, as well as the surplus pottery made in the pottery workshop, and some iron tools in the south.

Of course, in the end, all the iron and other things were detained by Egil. Just kidding, this is your sister's strategic resource, do you want to fund the enemy or what? Do you want to get mixed up? Don't want to mix up, squeak as soon as possible, and within five minutes you will be raided by the Viking Legion.

So, the merchants begged their grandfather to sue their grandmother. In the end, he paid 1,500 gold coins for protection, and he was spared.

Earned.

"Please note that if you oppress the people in this way, it will cause social unrest and a decrease in law and order. Eventually, there may even be a riot. ”

"Not as an example. ”

So the rest of the matter was left to Egil - he was only concerned with collecting taxes.

The small merchant ships arrived in Oslo and docked, because there was no trade contract between Biard and Oslo at this time. So there is also a tax to pay. In this way, the merchants suddenly found that even if they sold all the goods in full, they would not be able to recover the cost.

"Loss, loss, ahh!!hhh

For a moment, there was a wail in the cabin of the small merchant ship.

-- Of course, that's not the point. The point is that Felix von Luckner, lord of Oslo and known as the best heir to the Grand Duke of Norway, suddenly discovered that such a force had appeared in the direction of his north.

I haven't heard of it. I guess it's a small tribe that has just sprung up recently. However, they were able to send several (plural counts) ships to trade in their own territory. Plus a group of Viking soldiers that Egil "kindly" lent to the merchants for self-defense (a hiring fee of fifteen gold coins per day). It looks like the strength of this small town is not bad......

At the thought of this, Count Felix's mind began to spin - and now the contradiction between him and Olaf III of Bergen had reached a burning point. Both sides are gearing up to fight each other for a showdown.

Although Count Felix is confident that his strength is much stronger than that of the other party, and his ability and wrist are not comparable to that little cub of Olaf III. But the orthodox surname of Olaf III is just a little bit higher than him......

Therefore, there were also quite a few rigid Viking tribes who supported Olaf III. The army that Olaf III was able to control also amounted to 22,000 men. In particular, a chain cavalry force of more than 2,000 men was the trump card in the hands of Olaf III, and if there was a full-scale war, the victory or defeat of the two sides would still be five-five.

Of course, Count Felix was convinced that he would win. However, the casualties incurred in the aftermath of the battle were too great. That's not good...... Next, he will continue to uphold the will of the previous monarch and continue to march into England, saying that if the loss is too great, what can he do.

So, in recent times, Count Felix has been wooing the dwarves in the mountains. Hopefully they'll be on their side. It is best to send troops to war, and at worst, you should help yourself with some weapons and armor.

Of course, the reason of the Earl of Felix is also very valid - your very king is also in England, so you want to take revenge - so if your own strength is not enough, so you need our Vikings - so we Vikings are now going to "choose" the Grand Duke - so we Vikings are not good at making trouble, and we have lost too many forces, so it is unlikely that we will send enough strength to conquer England in the future...... So, you can do it.

So, in the last few days, the elders of the various dwarven tribes have gathered together to quarrel fiercely, and to be more honest, if they do this, it is against the traditional morality of the dwarves. The slicker ones say: things should be flexible. The centrist beats soy sauce.

In this way, the dwarves have not yet elected their own kings, and they are still required to participate in the Viking "election", which is almost a mess, and the vast majority of people are not in the mood to drink - which is why Egil has waited for so many days and has not seen any dwarves ever throw themselves into the net.

So, when the scales are balanced, even a straw can be the key to the final victory, let alone a city with 2,000 heavily armed soldiers?

After this, Count Felix received more and more news about Piard, and his amazement at the small city grew—new, vibrant, rich, and well-armed. It's not just a straw to describe it. Instead, it should be a 50g weight.

In the end, of course, it's the weights. It can't be a weighing pan, and it can't be the balance itself.

"Send a messenger and contact that guy named Egil. Let him support me, and when I became the Grand Duke of Norway, I gave him the land under the control of the bastard of Bergen, and made him Count of Biard. ”

So, Count Felix sent his right-hand men to tell him all his prices and conditions. And almost at the same time the emissary of Olaf III arrived. The two sides barely fought after meeting on the village road outside Biard. Eventually, it was discovered by a patrol cavalry, so that there was no large-scale bloodshed. The cavalry captain of the patrol saw that this was not the case, so he sent the patrol cavalry to the city to report the news.

“...... Ala alas, really. I originally thought that I was going to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight and then reap the benefits of the fisherman, but it seems that this plan is no longer working, really. After hearing such a report from his subordinates, Egil sighed.

"Cut, you also need strength to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. When the snipe and the clam fight, if the onlookers are a toad, do you think he can get the profit?"

"Then, the next thing is to find a camp to take refuge. Well, who should be chosen--the two masters are good enough to pick the door--or what consensus they have reached before this? all of them are one Earl of Biard, and then carve out a territory controlled by the other party. Really, the empty glove white wolf is not such a routine. Anyway, give me a few thousand gold coins in case of emergency. ”

"By the way, you still have tens of thousands of gold coins in your hand lately, so it's useless. There's no shortage of money. The system elf said.

"That's a good thing to say, but who thinks they have a lot of money?"

So, he sent the messengers of the two families to the guest rooms in the center of the large town - they lived next door, and they didn't look up and looked down, disgusted and disgusted by the bastards. After that, Egil began to sum it up.

From the current point of view, Count Felix is more powerful, the thirty-seven-year-old earl, in the previous combat experience of various performances are remarkable, according to the judgment of the system elves, people's command skills are at least three stars.

And the slightly less powerful Olaf III, now twenty-two years old, is said to be quite powerful and powerful. A few years ago, it was already quite famous. But this inevitably gives people a sense of courage and strategy. It's just that this guy has 850 chainmail cavalry under his command, although it is only the most basic heavy cavalry. But its strength is also not to be underestimated......

"Well, who's to choose—or we'll flip a coin. ”

"I don't care, whatever you want. ”

“...... Olaf III. ”

Naturally, Egil couldn't really pretend to be "beep" and really rely on a coin flip to make such an important decision. That does nothing but make the reader think they're cool (or a silly fork).

So, in the end, after judgment, Egil chose the younger, stupider, and better-looking one, Olaf III.

After all, he also wanted to be the Grand Duke of Norway - no, the King of Norway. Then, it is the right thing to destroy a stronger opponent like Count Felix as soon as possible.

As for Olaf III, who was now twenty-two years old and looked no different from an ordinary Viking, Virgil felt that such an opponent was a little easier to deal with.

"By the way, I still have 10,000 gold coins on hand, right?"

"That's right. ”

"Let's recruit. Recruit six teams of Viking soldiers and four teams of patrol cavalry. Then recruit a special team of the Nordic Battlefield Order. ”

"The cost of recruiting Viking soldiers is four hundred gold coins, three hundred patrol cavalry, and eight hundred for the Nordic Field Order. Four thousand four hundred gold coins in total, is it all right?"

"No problem. ”

"Good. Then, the army will be able to be recruited in a day's time. In this way, you add nine hundred infantry, two hundred cavalry, and fifty field orders. The army has grown to more than 3,000 people, so your taxes are almost impossible to support them. Please note this. ”

"Take it easy, and you can afford it in a few days. Egil said with a wicked grin.

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