Call~

The north wind blows, and flocks of seagulls hover and soar in the blue sky.

In the sun, the frozen sea becomes a thoroughfare, and hundreds of ice sails gallop like loose horses along the jagged coastline covered with snow.

Crossing several frozen rivers and at speeds far exceeding the previous one, we arrived at the corner where the river meets the sea: the Tornio River.

According to local customs, it should be called Salmon River, and it is also the limit of exploration by the Norse brave in the past.

However, there are Sámi and Finns who have been absorbed, and the river is in the range where both communities are frequented, and they have knowledge of the surrounding terrain.

The large army slowly slowed down, Feng Daofu looked at the sky, raised the iron horn and said: "Io bless us, the day has not passed, we will smoothly cross the road that can only be walked in the past few days!" ”

"Salmon River is the beginning of exploring the seas at the end of the world!"

"Brothers, we will always go on so smoothly, cross this river, explore the unknown world, expedition to more clans, and let the confused lambs return to the arms of God!"

"Before that, let's enjoy the beauty of the expedition!"

"As soon as you hear the name of the Salmon River, there are a lot of salmon here, and I also know that salmon is abundant here, and after getting a lot of nutrients from the abundant currents, they are now the most compact and delicious meat!"

"Let's start camping!"

"If you want ice fishing and hunting, report to the commander of your unit!"

On the wide frozen river, Feng Daofu gave an order, and more than 500 expeditionary troops suppressed their excitement and became busy in an orderly manner.

Dig a semi-crypt-like snow pit with a shovel, build a frame on the pit with tree branches, cover the tent with bleached cloth, and then lay tribulus traps on the perimeter.

As a coach, he has his own personal guards to do it for him.

Master Feng inspected the circle with his hands behind his back, and the scouts who came first rushed over to report the situation ahead.

As the Finns and Sámi say, the Salmon River has many waterfalls in the upper reaches and rapids in the lower reaches.

At the time of the thaw, most of the river was not navigable and was previously used as a timber exile channel.

"Now that the river has been frozen for months, we tried it and the ice is very thick, and there is no problem with the passage of large ice sails."

Ted, who led the reconnaissance squad, said with a glance: "According to the waterfall information provided by the Sami people, I deduce that the upper reaches will pass through the Norwegian mountains, which are very high, and all the way uphill, and some winding, which may be difficult to walk. ”

Feng Dolph was prepared: "It's windy, no matter how difficult it is, it's better than before, and pay attention to the traces along the river, as long as we find a deer herder, we have a reindeer herd to provide animal power." ”

"I see, grab it!" Ted suddenly said, "Io, what a great wisdom! ”

You understand the hell!

Vondolph resisted the urge to explode: "We are a civilized church. When the time comes, let the Sami trade with their fellow countrymen. ”

Ted wondered, "What if you don't cooperate?" ”

Feng Daofu said without thinking: "If you don't cooperate, there will be a group of Danish robbers who will accidentally wander to the neighborhood." ”

"As a civilized church, we must not be able to die without help, helping the Sami people repel the terrifying and powerful Danish bandits, and taking their reindeer herd as a reward, right?"

"Reasonable!"

Ted gave a thumbs up.

Master Feng said again: "I have a good heart, as long as the Sami people can come to Luleo Bay, I will return it to them when the time comes, okay to them?" ”

"Great!"

"Do you know how to do it?"

"Got it!"

Ted left energetically.

The former bar spirit can now be on his own, and Feng Dolph returned to his tent satisfied.

Call~

The tent door opened, the cold wind swayed on the fire, and the old father-in-law, Ethelno, glanced at Vondolph who had entered, stirred the copper pot intently, and then brewed barley tea with the water in which the kelp was boiled.

Feng Daofu smiled: "Give me a cup too." ”

The old father-in-law snorted: "Aren't you afraid that I will be poisoned like you?" ”

Feng Daofu looked surprised: "When did I get poisoned?" ”

"I said that you drank too much that night, you were too drunk, you always like to think about conspiracy, and you are too prejudiced against me."

"It's okay, I'm your son-in-law, and for Brunhilde's sake, I'll put up with this prejudice."

Master Feng looked like he was swallowing his anger.

The old father-in-law almost didn't squirt out a sip of barley tea.

I don't know if I drank too much that night?

Even if you drink too much, it's time to wake up when the shouting and killing are so loud.

The most important thing is that you still took me to run into the rain of knives and arrows!

Even if I slept and died, I couldn't die to this extent!

If it weren't for Brunhilde, would he just push me into the fire pit? You are such a good son and son-in-law!

In the past, the old father-in-law felt that the Jews in the south were already the worst.

But when he saw Feng Daofu, he knew what a black saint was!

Heavenly Father has a black saint tattooed on his back, and he has to close his eyes!

Don't get angry, don't get angry. The old father-in-law took a sip of barley tea: "If you are really so innocent, what do you have to take me out on an expedition for?" ”

Vondolph took off his suede gloves and put his hands in front of the fire to roast the fire: "I want the experience of the old chief." ”

"My experience? Didn't the great sages have an infinite amount of wisdom from outside the world? ”

"The wisdom of the elders is also the wisdom I want."

Elderly?

The old father-in-law couldn't help it: "I don't have that kind of wisdom, I only have the strength to split an axe!" ”

Vondolph laughed: "I think so too. ”

Old father-in-law: "? ”

What's the deal with the fist getting a little hard?

The wooden cup rattled.

The old father-in-law wanted to turn his face very much.

But.

Yu Guang glanced at the knife and axe hand who was eyeing the tent door.

He endured.

Feng Daofu took the initiative to find a topic: "Now that I am out, I have a lot of time, so I will have a good chat with the old leader today." ”

"Old chief, what do you think of everyone's life before?"

"Ask this? You can't see it yourself? ”

Ethelno frowned.

Feng Dolph's tone was very pompous: "Me? I think they used to live very well, they had food and clothing, they ate meat every day, and they didn't have to worry about freezing to death from snowstorms. ”

Ethel subconsciously retorted: "How can it be so good, most of the food is still wild vegetables and mushrooms." ”

"The meat is mainly hunting and fishing, and the richest thing is all kinds of dairy products obtained from the livestock, if you can't get grain at sea, there are many children and young children who die because of the lack of grain to eat, and some old and weak people freeze to death due to the lack of grain to eat every year."

"It turns out that the old leader used to have eyes, and he could see it."

Vondolph feigned surprise.

The old father-in-law's brows deepened: "What do you mean?" ”

"Old chief, didn't you just want good words before? I've said good things to you, you're still not satisfied, now I'll tell you the truth. ”

Feng Daofu said: "Old leader, you lost to me, not because of any conspiracy, but because of people's hearts!" ”

"In the tribe, you can be the leader, not because of your bloodline, but because of your ability, and because everyone believes that you can make everyone live a good life."

"To be fair, you're doing a good job, old chief."

Vondolph lifted the belt of his trousers: "But I'm sorry, I'm doing better." ”

Click!

The old father-in-law clenched his fists.

Vondolph coughed.

The knife and axe hand at the door suddenly began to practice.

"Humph!"

"Hah!"

A burst of swords and swords.

The wrinkles on the old father-in-law's face relaxed again.

Feng Daofu smiled and continued: "You just let everyone starve to death, thinking that everyone should be grateful to Dade in this way? ”

"Yes, I should thank you, but after a long time, my living environment has not improved."

"Bury the young son who just died, touch the belly that is 5 percent full, look at the worn-out wife, and think of being scolded by the nobles on the street just now. It's too screwed to live. ”

Traditional tribesmen do not kill livestock, to use a loose metaphor, livestock is the principal, the milk provided is the interest, and there are very few losers who eat the principal and do not care about the interest.

It is the treatment of the prince who can kill a sheep to open meat in a month, and Zhao Yi's "Eaves Exposure Miscellaneous Notes" wrote: Meat-eating is only the prince Taiji, and we are poor, but killing a sheep is only a sheep in every festival, and killing sheep must also be dominated by several households.

No one really thinks that the traditional animal husbandry industry can allow the bottom people to live a good life of eating meat every day, right?

Even if there is farming, the harsh environment limits the scale of agriculture and it is not completely self-sufficient.

As a result, many fishermen/hunters/nomads in history have formed a certain parasitic relationship with the surrounding agrarian regimes.

Contacts are accompanied by wars, commerce, etc.

The Xiongnu of the Han Dynasty and the Western Regions, the Jiannu of the Ming Dynasty and the Jin Shang Dynasty, nothing more.

The same goes for the Vikings.

Feng Daofu said: "You will say, go to sea, heroic northern man, if you have any grievances, you will go to sea and take it by yourself." ”

"The location of Luleå Bay is too far north, and Denmark to the south is stuck at the most critical waterway hub."

"Either you are bribed and the Danes take most of the proceeds, or you are lucky."

"The only safe passage is the Slavic clans in the east, but they are all listed in the Sogon patrol, and they can't be grabbed casually, and the big head is taken away by the top, and they only earn a little bit by going to sea hard."

Vondolph remembers the blacksmith's hospitality when he first arrived.

In his view, the hospitable Buraku are dead, and it's a Darwinian process of screening.

For Buraku people, the exchange of information is a matter of life and death.

Guests are the only carriers of information from afar.

Whether it is grazing on the grassland or going to sea, it is a very high-risk thing, and it is a highly technical production skill.

The slightest accident can lead to destitute or even kill you.

So the Buraku people will be hospitable to guests from afar, even if they don't bring them goods, but they can bring them information from afar, which may help them avoid the risk as much as possible, and that is enough.

It can be said that hospitality has been summed up by countless generations with wisdom and life, and it is a natural choice for life to be forced by the pressure of life.

If you have a choice, who doesn't want to live a comfortable rural life.

"So."

Feng Daofu said: "Old leader, don't you think this is very unreasonable? ”

"Everyone is trying to improve their lives, and they can't all count on the leader, but in the previous situation of the tribe, is it still a matter of not working hard enough? It's you who didn't expand the bread, so that everyone can't support themselves with their efforts! ”

"I was wronged if I didn't give enough money, the cake was too big, the stomach was too snack, the pot was too heavy and the shoulders were too thin to bear. I didn't have an option before, but now I'm here. ”

"I can't bear to see everyone who is hospitable have such a hard time!"

"I do what I say, I can really make life better, who wants to do it with the old leader."

"Not only can I satisfy the flesh of all people, but I can also win the hearts of all people."

"In addition to living, people need respect, freedom, the value of life, love and be loved."

"There are too many people to take care of all of them, but I have trained missionaries."

"The framework of the church spreads from point to surface, everyone is brothers and sisters, helping each other and developing together, and the church life allows employees to have a sense of belonging to the company, I mean let believers have a sense of belonging to the church."

"The future is dangerous, and the restless Norwegians, the greedy Danes, even the Finns and Slavs, will not be subservient forever."

"The road ahead is full of dangers, old chief, you can't grasp it."

"Rather than waiting for you to end up in a less heroic way and not get into Valhalla, wouldn't it be good for me, as your adopted son, your son-in-law, and the heir to your estate, to give you a decent one?"

Master Feng's heart is too spicy!

The old father-in-law felt that his concept was being subverted.

The stubborn reef brain, as if it was crushed by the stormy waves, slowly felt that what he said made sense.

I didn't let everyone live a good life, I can't grasp it...... The old father-in-law took a sip of barley tea, his attitude had softened, and his tone was complicated and bitter: "Can't you use other methods?" Can't both of them? ”

"There's no point in saying that anymore."

Feng Daofu shook his head, and suddenly said, "Do you want to come to ice fishing?" ”

The old father-in-law agreed.

I picked up the brand new tools, thought about it, and said something nice: "These new steel tools are easy to use." ”

Vondolf lifted the pickaxe: "I think so too. ”

"What are you doing?"

"I'm trying to feel it."

Vondolph rounded his pickaxe.

Click!

The ice was chiseled open, and as soon as the hook was dropped, a salmon showed its head.

Feng Daoff looked at the fishing rod, and then at the salmon with its mouth open and closed, that is, it did not swallow the hook.

Old father-in-law: "Hahahaha. ”

Salmon: "Abababa~"

Burst!

Feng Dolph took out his crossbow and stabbed it from the fish's mouth to the fish's stomach with a snort.

Grab the rod of the crossbow arrow, pick it up fiercely, and forcibly lift the salmon to the shore.

The old father-in-law stopped smiling now.

Look at your fishing rod, and then look at the salmon fluttering on the ice: "Is there any fishing like you?" ”

Feng Daofu said righteously: "Look at this wooden pole, look at this iron head, look at this line group, what is this called a fishing rod?" ”

The old father-in-law stopped talking.

Fishing, grilling, eating fish, and a glass of ale.

Feng Dolph let out a pleasant breath of heat and raised his eyes to look at the forest in the distance.

The ancient trees are towering, the trunks are straight, and they are sparse and dense.

In the sparse forest, the light spots are everywhere, the birds are singing and dancing, the scene is changeable, and the silence is mysterious.

If you come in spring or summer, the scenery will probably be better

The old father-in-law suddenly asked, "Why do you want to go on an expedition?" ”

Vondolf drank wine: "On the one hand, it is to avenge the dead, so that the relatives and friends of the war dead can divert hatred from the converted Finns. ”

"On the other hand, there is not enough population."

Feng Daofu didn't hide it: "Although there are only a few cases of a hundred people who die in childbirth because of Io's blessing, and there are several times more newborns than in previous years, but waiting for the new generation to grow up is too slow, and absorbing more manpower from other clans is the best way." ”

"Not enough of so many?"

Once again, the old father-in-law felt the difference between himself and his son-in-law.

Feng Daofu smiled and did not explain: "The last reason is to go to the sea." ”

"Luleå Bay still has an outlet to the sea?"

The old father-in-law was stunned for a moment, and then thought of what he had just said, about Denmark blocking the waterway hub in the south.

He looked at the snowy scene, and then at the frozen salmon river: "Luleo Bay will also thaw in spring and summer, and the sea at the end of the world can really be used as an estuary?" ”

Feng Dolph's tone was affirmative: "Of course." ”

Then there's the Barents Sea, the North Cape Current, the Norwegian Current, and the Ice Sea.

Most of the old father-in-law didn't understand, but only understood Feng Daofu saying that there is no ice all year round and there is a freezing-free port.

"To the east it may be blocked by ice, and it is only navigable for 2-3 months of the year."

"But if it is to the west, which is navigable all year round, this route from the Barents-North Sea can bypass the Danes and make direct contact with the Norwegians and Britons," said Vondolf. ”

The old father-in-law wiped his beard: "Even so, this road is too far, why not just kill the Danes?" ”

Feng Daofu said in his heart that of course it was because they had a lot of people and didn't have that strength yet.

Northern Europe is the two most livable and most populous places in southern Sweden and Denmark.

If you open a route from the Baltic Sea, you will first have to deal with old forces such as Gustav in southern Sweden, and then you will have to fight the Danes.

If it's fantasy, this strength standard is very suitable for upgrading exercises, but unfortunately this is strategic farming.

There are more than 500 junior brothers, and the maximum conscription is only one or two thousand, and the population gap is too large, and the hope of facing hard steel is very slim.

Of course, Master Feng also has yin. Wise strategy, but first pinch the soft persimmon to upgrade a level, and wait until the absorption of enough population is almost enough to expand the team, and then pinch the boss of the Nordic house, isn't this fragrant?

"It smells so good."

Feng Daofu glanced at the younger brothers, who had already hunted and opened, were roasting meat.

Hunting fur is one of the income points of the expedition, and the animal meat is used to eat and reduce the loss of grain.

There was a little brother who came in to offer a roasted snow rabbit.

Feng Daofu said, "Father-in-law, you can eat." ”

The old father-in-law was suspicious: "You can't see me fishing a lot, what kind of trick do you want to play?" ”

Feng Dolph looked upright: "What kind of person am I?!" ”

It's just that the rabbit meat is too firewood, which is just right for the father-in-law with bad teeth.

When there is a problem with the tooth, and when the time comes, it hurts, Brunhilde will come to him who can fill the tooth, and then in the name of filling the tooth for his father-in-law, let the silverhaired girl.

If you don't have a chance to create an opportunity, you have to go on!

If there is no channel, the channel will be created!

Doodle!

Vondolph was playing a dryland boat song in his head when Ted sent a message via rabbit telegram.

Find the trail of the deer herder!

"Don't eat it!"

Vondolph 'accidentally' kicked over his old father-in-law's fish bucket.

In the old father-in-law's wide eyes, he didn't seem to notice it, and raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, it's time to live!" ”

"Call someone to gather, and we will send warmth to the northern folks side by side!"

A group of people left.

The old father-in-law endured it, but he still couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth.

"Blanch!"

Thank you for the 500 points of reward of 'salted fish with salt', thank you for your monthly pass, and there will be a one-month pass in the future.

(End of chapter)