In the past two years, Durham's strength has also improved unprecedentedly.

Bran made Durham the Duchy of Milan's agent in the north, and helped him conclude trade relations with Castile.

As a wool owner and merchant, Durham was able to obtain a large number of better prices for his goods than other Irishmen.

Bran also has an old relationship with the Black Prince, and also helps him to connect with England.

Durham has gone from being unknown to becoming a new (old) star in the north?

He was nearly forty years old, and by this time he had mastered a territory of 20,000 people, and could barely be called an earl.

A person's age is not directly proportional to his ambition, and after Durham went from a small shepherd to his current position, he felt younger in body and more flexible in mind.

He's got more!

He now has three sons, like three arrows on the three arrows of the family crest.

He wanted to train the three sons separately, and he sent one to Milan to serve under Bran - it was Wanamo.

One went to England to follow the Black Prince, and the other to Iceland to attend the conference.

He stayed in Ireland, and now he has a castle as well.

He also sent a member of his clan to Castile to study navy.

His right-hand man, Bolarin, formed an Irish Step.

And renovated a fortress left over from the ancient Roman era, hung the family crest, and lived in it.

He learned from the Milanese system, set up a team of counts, and his ambitions began to be revealed.

However, he does not have the ambition to become a man of the world like Bran, as long as he can become the overlord of the north.

His second son, who came to Iceland, was very young, but only sixteen years old.

The second son came this time, mainly to establish a preliminary relationship, and now Duren's strength is not strong, so they are just familiar with each other.

The way they took was introduced here by the Scots, and their faith was also the Illuminati, so their hearts were oriented towards the victory of Poxen, so that they could communicate well in the future.

They waited for two days.

On the third day, the conversion discussion finally arrived.

On this day, twenty leaders of West Iceland were present.

Under the open-air square, although the two factions are not tense, the atmosphere is not much better.

In this world, nothing can remain eternal, and once external variables are added, they will be unconsciously pushed.

With the wars and deadly disasters such as the Black Death in the southern European continent, although life in Iceland was miserable in the low temperature environment, there were many nobles and clergy who collected taxes, and in the low temperature environment, there were few terrible infectious diseases produced by the warm air in the south.

So in the last hundred years, more and more people have moved into Iceland.

The political and cultural changes in the southern continent began to affect Iceland.

After inheriting the throne, Hu Nulunen dreamed of becoming the king of Northern Europe and the lord of the Vikings.

With the help of his half-brother, Bloody Axe Eric.

Bazihu claimed that the gods had a dream and wanted to make himself Odin's mortal messenger, and he also built an altar, often pretending to issue divine orders under the pretense of Odin, so that his priests could interpret it as beneficial to him and carry it out.

Hundreds of years of exploration by the Vikings have made the land the most important part of their hearts.

So Iceland is barren, but it's bigger than Italy, and even a tenth of it can be inhabited.

Beginning the year before, the beard imported a large number of ironware, cloth, and grain to East Iceland.

In layman's terms, East Iceland suddenly went from two pants per capita to three pants with a short coat.

Disposable wealth is on the fly.

But the Vikings didn't do a loss-making business, and the price for that was that East Iceland had been infiltrated.

When West Iceland converts and destroys relations with Scotland, the mustache will have to harvest two Icelands at once.

In fact, according to the idea of the figure-of-eight beard, it is better to be able to play Scotland or somewhere else.

However, in the Danish region, after these nobles who originally belonged to the Danish Vikings were changed to Dutch power, the Viking power suffered an unprecedented blow.

In addition, after the righteous king from Poland unified Poland, the Vikings went south several times but could not please them.

You can only gnaw all the bones that can be gnawed around first, trying to follow-up.

Outside the hot springs, the crowd gathered around a large irregular oval stone table, and twenty leaders sat on twenty stone chairs.

Poxen and Frachi looked at each other, and the two sat on the left and right sides very well.

But after today, if you come here to discuss it in the future, you may have to change it to sit separately.

There is only one sun shining in the sky, and Iceland only needs one leader to lead it.

Each side brought a few hundred men with them.

The clothes of the people on the outside looked coarse linen, but in fact the coarse linen was peeled open, and the inside was stuffed with animal armor or old leather armor.

The waists are made of iron or bronze.

On the surface, you are not allowed to bring weapons, but whoever cares about him, if he can't solve the problem, he will solve the person who created the problem, which is more efficient.

"Dog, I brought someone from East Iceland, and I must slaughter you today!"

Fra felt that he was victorious, and he gave his subordinates a look, and the subordinates understood, and immediately got up,

"Ladies and gentlemen, today we are going to discuss the question of faith."

Before he finished speaking, one person spoke up, "For a long time, everyone can believe whatever they want, why do they have to force faith?"

Leaders were allowed to vote, but many freedmen could sit in and occasionally make noise, a phrase that was immediately approved by some of them.

Iceland's literacy rate is about half as much.

For many people, the difference between the god Odin and the god of light is only the name and the external display (cross and idol).

"Iceland is big, but there are very few places to live, how many days a year do we have to go hungry?

How many women have just given birth and have to go out to work in less than three days?

When we are lucky, we can increase the population, and once we encounter a disaster, the people around us will die one by one.

Now my fellow Vikings from Norway have said that they are willing to provide me with all the supplies I need, as long as I become a believer in the god Odin.

This is a very advantageous thing, and in the future our children can also go to Norway to become berserkers.

Have you ever been to Norway? I've been.

In the capital city of Oslo, we can see ships from all over the world, fresh fish bigger than dogs, as well as gold and silverware, spices, jewelry, shipped there by boat, as long as we agree to join, in the future, we can have three dishes and one soup on our table, we can smell the charming musk, lovers, wives and daughters, in addition to calluses on our hands, there are also these shiny jewelry.

This is very eloquent, of course, it is not something that this illiterate leader can say, but from Norway, and this time he was also taught by the Norwegian envoy who was present next to him in private.

He had been listening to Orlando outside, and when he heard the priest's translation, he was stunned, and if he hadn't listened carefully, he would have thought that the leader was talking about Paris.

However, the Scottish delegates, who were also listening outside the stone table, were not happy.

A Suge man dressed as a merchant spoke up, "I'm afraid those luxury goods you mentioned didn't get back from the hands of the southern masters, right?"

Fresh fish bigger than a dog? After that, everyone doesn't have to keep a dog to watch the house, but instead raise fish.

Three dishes and one soup?

Ladies and gentlemen, the Norwegians and Vikings who come to West Iceland are two or three hundred a year.

How many people have you seen who can eat and drink like this? Aren't they all the same as you, simply eating some vegetable batter, fried dough, and drinking wine, all of which have been mixed with water, and when trading with you, they are not allowed to divide a copper plate in half, so do you believe what you just said?

We Suges absolutely respect your faith, we send people to preach, build wooden churches, spread the gospel, help you see a doctor, and occasionally give you treatment and even alms, have you forgotten?

Forty years ago, there was also a discussion of a conversion, what did the Vikings do at that time?

At that time, the king of Norway violently forced you to submit and did not allow Norwegian goods to enter the island, and at that time our ancestors of the Sugers helped your ancestors, and it was only a few decades, and you have forgotten?"

When the Scottish merchant said this, the scene fell silent again.

However, the Scottish aristocratic lord behind the merchant did not have any good intentions, and Iceland still has some precious resources, such as ice wood born on the island, which is durable and can even emit a fragrance.

There are also some special ice plants on the island, which can be used to make medicinal herbs and import them into the north.

Icelanders are particularly able to endure hardship, as long as they take care of their food.

The Scottish lords even recruited these people to their own lands in the south and used them as strong laborers.

Strictly speaking, the nobles on both sides are bastards.

The smell of gunpowder was quickly ignited.

Several leaders went up to tell their stories.

One said that his mother was killed by the Vikings, and another said that he believed in the Illuminati, and then everything from food to clothing was controlled.

The freedmen were like the grass on the wall, and at once they leaned towards the cross, and at once they felt that the berserkers were good.

But the words of these small leaders are actually not important, they lie in the two big leaders.

Orlando looked at these people and suddenly felt ugly.

They are not for the freedmen, they are not for Iceland.

He wanted to go out and get some air, but then he saw a Norwegian woman.

His steps immediately stopped, and the woman had pigtails, blonde hair, soft leather armor on her chest, and a small shield in her hand.

This woman looked like her dead wife by six or seven points.

For the Vikings, this woman with a sword and a shield was called a "shield woman".

Little Ali also saw this shield girl, his small eyes, kept looking at the people on the field, and wrote down their facial features.

Transportation is inconvenient, information is blocked, and many people only see it once in a lifetime, or only listen to its name.

He didn't let go of the opportunity to meet.

"Uncle Maximi, is this the Shieldmaiden?"

During his years in Iceland, Maximi had a love affair with a shield girl, so little Arry asked him.

"Well, they are glorious and ruthless, remember, if you go to war, don't treat them as women, or you will suffer."

Orlando's gaze looked at the Shieldmaid, who was clearly not your average Shieldmaid, and her shield was painted with a Fire Emblem.

In the world of the Vikings.

Shield women have two identities of men and women, go to the shield, they are women, pick up the shield, they are more ruthless than men.

Hearing these men's inkblots, the fire girl suddenly shouted, "Don't talk nonsense, be like a man, Icelandic tradition, isn't it the brave who decide everything?" In jousting, the dead have no right to speak. “

"Who is this man?" Freitrick asked Poxen, who was beside him.

"Look at the shield should be the fire girl Wei Ge, the ice girls of the Vikings, if they are from a noble background, they will add some natural things to their shields.

And there is a inheritance, I know the fire girl of the previous generation, since this person is holding a fire shield, it should be the new generation of fire girl. “

The method decided by the fire girl in this competition, both parties are unwilling, and they can fight in groups, why do they have to fight alone.

The Norwegian envoy who came here also whispered to the fire girl beside him, "Don't intervene, this has nothing to do with you." “

"You are all soft bones, take a small island, give me 2,000 people, and you can change everything in a day."

"What are you angry about, you just have to climb into His Majesty's bed to be this shield girl."

This Norwegian envoy doesn't give his own people's face to the fire girl.

At this time, Poxon got up and said to the crowd, "I want to ask, if you convert to Odin completely, do you want to follow the Odin faith completely?"

"God Odin is everything!" The Fire Girl walked out and fired again.

Poxon then turned to the leaders and the freedmen outside, "Do you hear me? The shield maiden made it very clear that our diet would be taboo from now on, and that in the eyes of the Vikings, ravens were the embodiment of their prophet Floki, so we should not harm birds that resemble ravens.

We need to leave tattoos and tattoos on our children, and we need to kill people to prove our skills.

We have to accept the recruitment of the Viking Lord, join the dragon ship to go south, no matter what time it is, the lord needs you, the god Odin needs you, you have to leave your hometown with your wife and daughter, and fight for life and death with the unmasked people, you want to live this life?

Convert to the Light, and we can trade with the people of the North, and even with the Frankish merchants.

The priests agreed that we would leave us with various customs, and that we could be alone and worship in the room with elves, Odin, ancestral spirits, etc., and no one would care about you.

We can get rid of sick children in the wild, we can continue to eat horse meat, we can drink alcohol, we can keep almost all the customs of life, and the Scots will bring a lot of support. “

Speaking of which, the Scottish delegation, launched a cart of silverware, copper cutlery, fabrics, etc.

"This is the first car, you divide it, and there will be a second car and a third car soon."

It was Frederick's idea, and people were short-sighted, especially the illiterate freedmen.

Just look at the immediate benefits, and the future will be a monstrous flood.

And as long as Frachi is eradicated, these freedmen will have no one else to be loyal to.

The Fire Maiden came out to speak, and the leaders began to vote after a little more arguing.

This kind of behavior of introducing gold and silver just now is obviously buying people's hearts, but there is no such thing in this era.

If you can give benefits, it is justice.

Before the ticket was opened, several leaders exchanged glances.

Because this vote is too important to avoid public influence, this vote is not counted.

"Cross, Odin, Cross, Odin."

The votes belonging to the two factions slowly came out, and the other people outside the venue put away the nervous expressions just now, held the weapons on their waists, and there were some houses around the hot springs, and at this time, the free women and children who came here all retreated to the stone room.

Twenty votes, ten to nine!

Ten votes for conversion to Christ and nine votes for Odin God.

Before the last ticket was issued, Frachi and the others panicked, and even the Norwegians were afraid that they would lose, so they shouted to stop the ticketing!

"What do you mean?" Poxen felt that he had a great chance of winning at this time, but if he really opened, there were hundreds of people on the opposite side with weapons, and he would have to pay a great price for his own victory.

In that case, let's listen to what Frachi has to say.

I saw that after talking to the Viking envoys, he suddenly said in a loud voice, "This matter is in a hurry, let's maintain the same as before, and discuss it next time, right?"

The chances of losing are too great, and Frachi wants to stop.

But Poxon didn't care, rushed forward, and directly took out the ticket holder, which was dumbfounded.

The vote for Frachs is now ten to ten!

The leaders of both sides bought each other's votes, and this vote was cast by the leader who had always coveted Othaya and sent the slave girls to the Fettrig House.

"Hahaha."

At this moment, the Norwegian laughed, and the soft frame that had just been accepted did not exist at all, and the two sides instantly drew their weapons.

Orlando, who was watching from the sidelines, also called the apprentice, took out his knight's sword, and asked the Scottish priest to stand behind him.

It was given to his father after he conquered the rebellious nobles, and then it went into his own hands.

Is one of the three swords of the Franks, sanctions.

The head of the three swords is the "Roland Sword" taken by Bran.

The second is the "Sword of Pleasure" in the hands of Heyderian.

The third is sanctions.

The total length is one hundred and seven centimeters, and the width of the sword is twenty-two centimeters.

The scabbard was cast in gold and silver, inlaid with precious stones, and there was a buckle at the metal plate at the throat to hang the sword on a belt.

The tattered weapons of the people, compared to this sword, are probably like the difference between the village chief and the emperor.

Such a sword also attracted the attention of the fire girl Wei Ge.

The Scottish priest hid behind Orlando and began to pray.

Orlando swept away the decadence just now and took a step, "Whoever comes, who dies!"

Orlando, the mad sword that once caused a sensation in the north and fought alone against the black prince, is now in place.