"The brave and invincible King of Ireland."

"Rule the seas."

"Under his leadership, we will win everything."

The sailors who came ashore sang the "Song of Yinvar", a ballad written by the Boneless to strengthen their voice.

Out of tune, ugly, but energetic.

The ships docked, and the bandit fleet, which was mixed with the inhabitants of northern Europe and even the inhabitants of northwestern Europe, returned to Dublin Harbor.

When they return from the sea to land and set foot in familiar places, they have no patience for the wildness.

Some people took off their dirty clothes and threw them on the beach, while others took off their pants and urinated directly on the sand.

Some people sang and danced on land as if they were drunk, and went back and forth in circles.

Some people held the relics of their companions tightly in their hands and recited the holy words of the Vikings.

They need to release the pressure, and the people in the harbor are not surprised.

Asturias is located in a mountainous region and produces a large number of minerals, most of which are silver.

This time back, every boat was filled with silver to make candlesticks, necklaces, and ornaments.

As for the slaves, a total of 120 men were brought with them, but half of them died on the way back to sea.

The remaining sixty were chained and dragged away like pigs and dogs.

When Dre came ashore, he took off the helmet of the ox.

Whew, then shouted to the sky, and finally came back alive.

He saw the leaders leave in a hurry after hearing the advice of the people left behind, as if something was wrong?

But after a while, I don't think about it anymore.

He sold all the slaves he brought back, and in exchange for the money, he had to buy new equipment and weapons, buy more male slaves, and build a stronger army

That night, Dre was invited into Yinval's castle.

It is said to be a castle, but in the eyes of the Franks, it can only be regarded as a taller, larger longhouse.

After entering, there is a strong smell of alcohol, bad breath, body odor, and all kinds of indescribable odors.

Dre chose a barely clean place to sit down.

It was not the first time he had attended this kind of celebration banquet, but until now, he is still very unaccustomed to it.

Unlike the active Vikings, he prefers to be alone, read a book, and feel nature.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that you have a quarter of your Catholic scholar blood in your body?

His grandmother was an Anglo-Saxon aristocrat who taught herself poetry as a child......

Dre was distracted until two Vikings who were drunk and bickering with each other, which led to a quarrel, and one of them bumped into him, causing him to come back to his senses.

On this kind of day, you can't use force, Dre helps the two separate, and then lets the two of them have a civil fight.

Viking fights are strange, and there is a kind of verbal quarrel between two people, and if one of them can't come back, then lose.

Except for the fact that you can't blaspheme the gods and direct leaders of Valhalla, you can make any jokes.

Two drunks, greeting each other's families.

It was difficult to tell the winner for a while, and finally Dre helped and proposed a guessing puzzle, who won and stayed, and who lost.

"What grows first, then shorts, and finally grows longer?" After Dre finished speaking, the tall man preemptively replied, "Shadow, I've heard this question from the sailors in the south!"

Dre nodded, and then the samurai who helped maintain order in the arena carried out those who didn't answer.

Calm returned, and Dre returned to his seat.

But it wasn't long before he was called up by Yin Val's close warrior and entered the inner hall.

A few walls apart, this place is much cleaner than the outside.

When Dre entered, he saw the great King Yinvar and immediately bowed his head and saluted.

Then he greeted the senior leaders in the field, and consciously chose a corner to lean onto.

This time, Chris, who made a great achievement, is also there, and he is now the captain of the 100-man team.

There were maps on the table and on the walls.

One after another entered, and soon all the empty seats were filled, and then a Danish envoy from the east appeared.

He had a long beard, gray hair, a badly dented face, as if he had been dented by a blunt object, and he spoke with great difficulty, and his voice was hoarse, and the crowd listened intermittently, but he probably understood that King Ragnar was about to go to war in an all-out way

Dre looked at the map on the table, and if he had the power to choose, he would prefer to go to the Baltic.

At the age of ten, he came to Ireland with his parents from Novgorod.

Viking Grand Temple Uppsaran, Kiev, Caspian Sea...... These eastern regions are the places he wants to visit the most.

Some of the fighters were reluctant to hear that a large-scale mobilization was about to be launched, but in the end, it was up to Yin Val to take the lead.

Yin Val on the throne, although he respects his father's messenger, has other plans in his heart.

In his eyes, little England has exhausted thousands of Viking warriors?

Compared to the Franks, there were seven kings in this small place, and with the separatist forces, there was no fighting power at all.

Obviously, my father is too old to move......

The old wolf king must be conscious and step down from the position of leader, otherwise what he will wait for in the end will be an extremely tragic ending.

Yin Val asked his subordinates to answer, and he listened from the sidelines.

The soldiers who were invited to the table were all the soldiers who had made a contribution this time, and everyone had the opportunity to speak, and when they got up, Yin Val toasted them with a glass of wine.

After more than 20 glasses of wine, Yin Val remained sober and his eyes were firm.

The old messenger of King Ragnar, who was at last also drunk, went outside the house to compete with the young men, boasting that when he was young, he could pee ten feet away in the face of strong winds.

And in the hall, in the end, there were seven people left who did not get drunk.

Yin Val the Boneless, his son Explorer Heik, Chris the Mad the Madman, Little Dre the Bullhead, Starr the Swordsman, and Tarand the Advisor.

There were only a few people left, and Yin Val asked again, "Have you changed your mind?"

Everyone looked at each other, looking at each other, and finally it was Heiko who spoke, "Father, we can support, let out the rumors that we will go ashore from West England, and wait for the war to become clearer." ”

Heiko is eight points similar to Yinval, and is his most beloved heir, so much so that this time on this voyage, Yinval didn't even take him with him, didn't let him take danger, and let him stay to guard the castle.

Although Yin Val didn't want to fight, he was also a little dissatisfied when he heard his son's weak answer.

Any father wants his son to surpass himself.

Yin Val let the group out, left Heiko behind, and forced him, "You have no combat achievements, this group of warriors will not listen to you in the future, even if you don't want to fight, you shouldn't reply so easily." ”

"Father, oppressing others with all your strength and making people fear with a bad name is not from the heart. I have calculated the goods you have brought back, and do you know that if we do not choose to go on the expedition, but stay to farm, produce, and trade, then the income generated in this half year will be deducted from the expenditure of this expedition.

Although there are not many, they are very stable, and most importantly, the fighters are all alive.

No matter how powerful a warrior is, if he goes to sea seven or eight times, after the age of forty, he will be infected with all kinds of diseases.

Starr's brother, who was faster than he could draw his sword, was wounded in the knee by the sea breeze, and died on a rainy day, shivering in his bed in pain, and finally ending his life with an overdose of alcohol.

So, we should change, Father. ”

Every father wants his son to surpass himself, but he wants them to surpass in what he can't do, not in his imagination.

"Normandy, Britain, the Mediterranean, the North Sea, our ancestors have all been, but there are many interesting, rich, uninhabited places. ”

"And you want me to fund your voyage?" Yin Wadao seemed to be smiling, he had sponsored it once before, but all four boats were shipwrecked in the north and almost didn't come back.

"I've asked a lot of sailors that there are a lot of islands around the Faroe Islands, and they're full of ice floes...... To the southeast, to the northeast, we can also access many wide lands from the Caspian Sea, and to the west?

If you go down the ocean from Ireland, you may come across a beautiful continent that you can't see at a glance. Heiko was very excited, and he was spending less and less time alone with his father, who was always forcing himself to take up a sword and kill people.

But he didn't like it, even disgusted from the bottom of his heart.

"Iceland, westbound, beautiful continent?"

Yin War's displeasure has been full, and everyone knows that the world has an end, and all the way from the west will enter the sea of death.

Even when Ragnar's father was the strongest, he often went south to harass various countries, and he did not dare to deviate from the coastline to do so.

It seems that he should find a wife for this stinky boy, a wife who can make the boy grow up to be a man who resists the family business, but who should he choose?

Images of several young girls flashed through my mind......

Watching his father remain silent, Heiko told the stories he had heard from the Catholic monks of Southern Ireland, as well as some new but deviant rumors.

There was no accident, and it was blasted out in the end.

But Heiko didn't give up, although he didn't sail, but this time he also secretly asked several leaders who sailed to catch some monks and find a way to get back the local books when they went south.

Heiko was kicked out, and instead of entering the banquet hall, he went to find a few warriors he knew well, including Drey.

Gather all the friends together and go back to the back of your longhouse.

Heiko reshares his thoughts, but the idea is so terrible that even Drey, who has always agreed with Heiko, disagrees.

"My lord, what can be in the west? If you want to explore the Faroe Islands, that's fine. ”

"When the wind and waves are strong, the ship will deviate from the track, and then we will be swallowed by the wind and waves, and we will die in the ocean and become food for sharks."

"It's crazy."

None of his men agreed, but Heiko took out the treasure he had recently gathered, a beautiful locket.

Originally, everyone thought that it would be a big gem when it was opened, but they didn't expect that after opening, it was just a more strange square box, and there was a needle moving gently on it.

"This is a treasure, a holy relic that can lead us across the ocean! Last time I was ordered by my father to go to Denmark, and after a council of lords, I bought a castrated heretic who had been a craftsman in the market. ”

After a few glances, everyone found that no matter how they turned, the needle would float to the same position.

Then he asked, "What is this called?"

"The slave told me that it was called the 'Compass,' and that it was made in a very powerful country in the East, and that the lord there, who called himself the 'Dragon,' was the son of the gods, and that the people there bred a worm that, like magic, spits out the most beautiful and gentle silk threads in the world......"

The walls of the city that snake for thousands of miles.

A royal palace ten times more prosperous than the city of Rome.

A megacity with a population of millions.

A strange worm that spews silk.

Dragon's Blood Descendant.

These words sound exciting, but they just sound, I really want to make myself work hard to find it, but I don't have this addiction.

It's Ragnar, and the goal of his ocean is also to prioritize robbery, not some great geographical discovery.

In the hearts of everyone, the farthest known east is the steppe area east of Rus.

Legend has it that the people there began to ride horses at the age of three, and "Tatars" was the unified name given to them by the Vikings.

Tatars are already far, far away, so far that they are very strange.

"Tartar stuff?" Dre asked.

He slapped the compass that was about to break out twice, and the needle slowly returned to its fixed place.

He knew the magic of this thing, and if he could point in a fixed direction by simply holding it in his hand, and with the star current, he could find a safe sea route in the unguided sea.

It's a good thing, Dre looked through it, wondering how the tool worked.

"No, farther and farther, the slave died of illness, but I learned a few Oriental words, among which was the 'name' of their country.

Heiko uttered three short syllables and said, "This is the chanting of their kingdom." ”

Then the word was written.

Even though there are a few local Runnes, or Ansas, or even Frankish scripts, Heiko is definitely the most complex script anyone has ever seen.

Dozens of brushstrokes are put together, like a row of houses, a long picture scroll.

"Don Empire".

Then Heiko continued, "If the end of the world is not the sea, but another land, then we can enter this empire from the west, and if we can rob the Tang Empire once, according to the description of the craftsman, it is simply more valuable than robbing the Franks, isn't it?"

Thousands of miles away, the Long March robbed the Tang Empire.

Heiko knew that he still had to draw a big pie for this group of robber friends, but this pie had already drawn the limit of cognition, that is, to say to a robber, follow me, and let you be a cardinal tomorrow.

When the moon shines across Dublin Harbour and the people around Heiko are gone, he's the only one who can figure out how to improve the ship, explore the latitude and longitude, and head to the vast and fascinating unknown.

He finally fell asleep tired, but he didn't know that his father was meeting a woman who would soon become his wife.

Her name is "Hervey".

......

Brush!

Syllable!

Orlanra drew his bow and arrows, testing the strength of his longbowmen.

Tuman shot alongside him.

After replenishing the number of soldiers, although there was a group of recruits in the territory, Orlan's book numbers still reached the point where they could shock other county magistrates.

Practice can make the body better into the fighting state, Orlan has already shot more than 20 arrows, but he did not stop planning, and listened to the craftsmen around him.

A year has passed, and the papermaking and printing technology he mentioned to the craftsmen last year have reached about three points if they are calculated in terms of ten.

He was already satisfied with the figures.

The process technology is cumulative, once the critical point is broken, the speed will increase a lot, Oran estimates, in another two or three years, simple printing and paper can launch the most basic version.

Then you can push it all the way...... Fart!

I guess I can be decent, if I was still alive at that time.

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