"You...... Where are you taking me?"

"The Milo family's manor is here, go back and heal your injuries first."

After the battle, looking at so many corpses, still being held by Marcus, Pol's soft side as a woman was revealed, and he sobbed.

"I'm sorry...... I'm sorry. ”

"What are you crying about, like a woman."

"I was originally a woman...... Sorry ......"

"Women are trouble." Marcus thought silently.

Of course, the "young" have "wealth", with the exception of women who also hold "titles".

Five days later.

"Marcus. Milo "returned to" Darsf with "Pol". Canaan" barony.

As a frontier knight, he had to go back every three to four months to report on his work.

I can't remember how many times I've been to the castle hall, but compared to the last time, Marcus found that the hall was less decorated than half, and even the number of candles was a third less.

This shows a truth - lack of money.

The Vikings are troublesome along the coast, the climate is too cold this year, and the roads to the six southern countries - the number of thieves - these all affect the income of the territory.

As a knight under the weak baron, Marcus wants to change something, but there is nothing he can do.

Since his own territory is a gift from the Canaanite family, he should concentrate on his work.

The two-year-old baron, who was held on the throne by his mother, was lively and active, and he would certainly be a healthy child in the future, but he was too young to bear the burden of the collar.

Marcus's proposal to increase the number of men or purchase equipment at the border was rejected.

A man from a merchant background, standing in the hall, flirting with the Baroness from time to time.

The decaying castle, the young hostess, the young man, I wonder if the next "Viking wave" will be able to survive?

The next morning, he said goodbye to his lord and wanted to go back to the border, but he received an invitation from his hostess (the baron's mother) to attend a luncheon.

At the banquet, Marcus meets Pol, who has been "dressed up".

But if you dye a stone with white powder, it will not turn into a pearl.

Bol Long ...... It's average, plus long-term training, muscular, short hair, and a tone of voice like a man.

At the banquet, Pol always understated the hostess's hints about the marriage.

Nothing happened until the end of the feast.

As he left the castle, Pol suddenly appeared.

Faced with Pol, who killed the soldier but was not punished, Marcus can only forget about that incident.

"You...... I ......"

"What do you want to say?"

"I've already settled four soldiers and given them a sum of money to their families."

"Hmm."

"See you next time, you'll be impressed with me."

"Okay."

"Can you give me the bronze ring in your hand, and I'll exchange it with you."

Pol pulled out a silver ring that was noticeably more precious.

The exchange of rings between the knights was a form of friendship, which Marcus gladly accepted.

After the exchange, Marcus turned and left, stepped on his horse, and hurried back to the border as soon as possible.

After returning to the border, looking at the granary that had bottomed out, he could only take out his savings and make an emergency first.

But only for two more days.

This was far from enough, but last year the Vikings came to rob him, and his estate has not been restored until now, and he can't take out more.

No way!

Looking at the forty men at the border post, Marcus gathered together and asked, "Would you like to make you like the Vikings?"

The atmosphere was quiet, and no one boasted that they could do so many times a night, or that they had met a certain nobleman.

The soldiers knew that if Marcus hadn't been trying to find a way, the people would have starved and might have become thieves.

"My lord, it's not a robbery, we're just going to borrow a little." A veteran said.

"Who are you going to rob?" Another soldier asked.

"To the north? There were a few Viking settlements. "A soldier thought he was going to rob the enemy.

Marcus wanted to, but these settlements were too far away, in the county of "Jerey County" north of Durham County, and it didn't take a few days to go back and forth, the time cost was not cost-effective, and everyone was not familiar with the terrain over there.

"Let's rob the Moore family!"

Marcus finally set his sights.

And the Moore family is under Orlan's protection at this time, that is, he is going to kill "Orlan Vijay"!

As a frontier knight, he had never met Oran, but he had seen Oran's father.

From the mouths of others, he had heard that Orlan had a health problem, but it was only a few months, why did Durham County change?!

On the eve of departure, Marcus kept rubbing his knight's sword.

Then he walked up to the ten scarecrows that made his subordinates stand up, focused on his mind, squatted slightly, and made a battle stance.

Ten straw figures do not move, and each straw figure is one meter apart.

Marcus thought of them as ten living Viking thieves,

It was Ragnar and his sons, as well as the famous Viking chiefs.

When you pass the straw man's side, each straw man will have a sword, and if the straw flies a few threads on you, you will lose.

Going back and forth more than a dozen times, Marcus always failed at the seventh or eighth straw man.

Stop in front of the straw men (phantoms) of Ivar the Boneless or Havedan the White!

Why?

Marcus wondered why he wasn't afraid to hit the ground when he saw a sparrow fly down and bite the ground with a bug.

It's instinct, it's confidence, it's fearlessness!

He understood, got up and practiced again, and finally, in the twenty-third test, he swung ten swords, and heard ten fantastical exclamations.

He succeeded, and even if he was "short and long" in the future, he would have great confidence to shuttle through it and avoid danger.

At the moment he was out of breath, but he exuded power.

On the day he took his father's last words and became a knight,

"The First Sword of the Seven Kingdoms" - is the ideal of life!

……

Clearing out the bandits gave Orlan eight days of life gain.

The third day of the thieves' sweep.

A new situation emerged under Oran.

This is a kind of vision for the future of his subordinates and the people.

As long as people have a vision and work hard, they can also endure things that they can't usually bear.

Olam intends to make the business model of the territory a group size.

He also had merchants, but they were all small vendors, and they could not go as far as the border towns of Northumbria to trade and bring back some necessities to profit.

The richest were the wool dealers, who would go to the other six countries, but the scale of the trade was too small, and there was no one to protect them, and often the round-trip fee was reduced by more than half of the profits.

Orlan asks the butler Southamp to gather merchants and vendors to form an organization called the "Guild of Commerce".

The main purpose is to bring together business owners and merchants in the same industry to form a group that has a system, efficiency, and training of successors, and can support the domestic treasury at any time.

According to Oran's rough estimates, the population of the entire island of Britain (plus Wales, Scotland, Ireland, etc., in addition to the Seven Kingdoms) is about one million, and at most not more than two million.

Even if it is completely unified, it is difficult for commodities and force to compete with the countries of the South, not to mention that it is still in such a state of division and chaos.

On the twelfth day of the third month, Oran gathered all the people inside and outside the city to hold an "open-air meeting in the city" in the open space square outside the city.