Rise of Rurik

There was an extra batch of gems in Rurik's warehouse, and a huge sum of money was paid for it.

The old Eric family from Denmark, they did get a considerable fortune. The adventure to Roseburg was indeed very rewarding, but they were also restricted in their freedom.

Rurik had no intention of using force against these people, but worried that they would be killed if the "Danish" information leaked out.

Let the people know that Lord Duke actually received the Danes, and the public opinion is not good.

The Ross people and the Gotland people have hatred, and the other party has completely collapsed, and this hatred is also lifted. Ross and Denmark themselves have no hatred, but Denmark and the Kingdom of Sweden are in a state of hostility, which is forcing the Ross people to be hostile. Because of this relationship, it is considered reasonable to attack the Danes publicly.

Old Eric did not become a guest, they were still being watched.

But with this adventure, Rurik had a wonderful idea.

At dawn tomorrow, Beishou’s "army" will set off. A group of capable people will go to the north for hunting, while Rurik is in urgent need of high-quality wood and important chromite ore from the north.

He had a plan that needed to be negotiated with the big merchant Gould as if he was struck by iron. On the eve of departure, he came to Gould's mansion.

The banquet was a joyous scene, and Rurik was not too interested in the oily barbecue on the table.

"My old friend, tomorrow my son Snoreva will also go to Elronburg to practice, so tonight you are here to congratulate him..." Gould looked silly. He was very interested in this year's precious leather trade. confidence.

Snoreva, who was as fat as his father, sat cross-legged on the leather cushion and looked at his posture. He really needed to support the table to stand up.

Rurik shook his head, "Just forget it. Only when Snoreva gets thinner can he have the basic qualities to become a fighter."

"So how can I lose weight."

Snoreva was indeed dissatisfied with his body, but when he spoke, he was still holding a barbecue lamb leg, and Rurik could only continue to shake his head: "You can't lose weight. This is your destiny. . So you can never be a fighter, but you can do something in business."

Rurik obviously had something in his words, and Gould hurriedly asked: "Are you... are you planning to arrange something for him?"

"Yes! It's an adventure. You know, any adventure is dangerous. Take the biggest risk and get the most benefit after it's done."

Gould's head tightened: "This has absolutely nothing to do with going north?"

Rurik is decisive: "I want him to go to the south."

"Going south? My son always stays at Lake Mälaren. What kind of experience is this?"

"It's more south!"

"It's harder? Isn't it?!" Gould was taken aback. "Could it be Gotland? You threw the ruins of Visby to the Mälaren people. Don't you like it? Or is it now? I like it. No! No! You are planning to run our initial landing site, that small fishing village."

Rurik continued to shake his head with a sullen face: "It's not Slitomo, it's more south."

Gradually, the two businessmen began to hesitate to an amazing answer.

"Could it be... Denmark?" Gould asked tentatively.

"It's Denmark."

"Why?!" The fat boy who had been struggling to get up suddenly ejected into the sky as if being pierced by a steel needle. Snoreva stood up, and he asked: "My lord! Why! Oh, I mean, why me?!"

Rurik was also surprised that the fat boy was really anxious. He twisted his shoulders and asked, "Does Duke Ross give you a great and glorious task? Do you feel that you are not qualified? Want to shirk?"

"Me! I... didn't mean that."

"You have no right to refuse, Snoreva. Your father is old, and you are the eldest son of the family, and you deserve to bear the burden. Gould disguised and penetrated into the Danish territory when he was young, and you are also very young and powerful. Why shirk? Listen, if I think I can’t do it, I can only find someone else. I think that Harald is the father of my sister (sister-in-law) Asraki. After all, this person was still with Denmark before. Merchants have a close relationship."

Gould, who was puzzled by Rurik's sudden decision, directly gave his son a kick, causing Snoreva's meatball to roll on the ground again. Obviously aware of the great threat in Rurik’s words, Gould stretched out his arms to criticize: "It's stupid! You dare to disobey the Duke’s order to you, do you deserve to be the eldest son? How about I declare now that my chief The property is inherited by my second son."

Snoreva's head buzzed, and Rurik hurriedly waved his hand when he saw this: "Don't be harsh, let Snoreva decide."

That Harald was the leader of a captured business family, because the in-laws succeeded in establishing a relationship with Rurik himself.

In fact, Rurik still highly trusted the Gould family. He didn't say it clearly. In the current situation, it is clear that Gould himself has sensed the pressure of a crisis of trust. This is exactly the effect Rurik needs.

Snoreva hurriedly agreed that the so-called going through fire and water would have to do it.

"Okay." Rurik nodded, "Because I have a great plan that concerns the future of our Ross people. The old Danish businessman Eric, I want to use this man."

"Do you think he can be trusted?" Gould asked cautiously.

"Trust? He is not my friend. How can we talk about trust? We just want to use him. Gould is also there when buying and selling gems. I don't care about the character of that family at all, and it doesn't matter whether they will change or not. Become whistleblowers. But I can see that they are extremely fancy about money, they are eager for money, even if it is to betray the interests of the Danish Alliance. Therefore, I want to insert my power into Denmark."

"So you chose me?" Snoreva pointed to his chubby head.

"Of course! I'm going to arrange you to Hezeby, the Danish's largest trading bazaar. You are indeed a fat elephant seal. Anyone who sees you can be sure that your life is rich. No one will. Doubt about your financial resources. That old Eric will be your guide. In the future, I want you to open a shop in Hezeby and make a lot of money selling our Ross products. At that time, the old Eric's family will be your cooperation partner……"

Rurik tried his best to describe a wonderful business picture, but it was so wonderful, and Snoreva was very worried.

"My father tried it back then, but my family didn't take root. Once I let them know who I am, wouldn't it be..."

"Why should you expose yourself? You can wisely choose to shut up."

"In case that old guy betrayed me, the Danish king would come and kill me, and then confiscate all the payment." Snoreva continued to snarled.

Rurik squinted: "This is an adventure. If you fail, you will of course die, and I will also lose a lot. What if we succeed? In my opinion, the success rate here is very high, because Heizer Those guys in Bi are not interested in fighting and expanding their territory. They just want to do business and only want to expand their own cash box. These are all introduced by old Eric. I can’t tell if he is lying, I can only have a game. A gambling game. Don’t worry, Snoreeva, if you are really killed, you are considered to be killed for the Ross. I will meet Odin in my dream, and I will talk to him and let you go to the Hall of Valor."

But Snoreva, he didn't believe in Odin at all, he only believed in money.

Obviously any retreat of oneself is to look for death, and it is to lead the whole family to the shameful abyss.

He could only fully agree with Rurik's resolution, and then asked when he would leave.

"Just in the spring, you and the old Eric's family rushed to Denmark, and you went straight to Hazeby. It is said that the local treasured leather is very in short supply. For example, the white bear leather can be sold at higher prices. It happens to be a plan of mine this winter. You are desperately hunting bears in the Elronburg area. You take these leathers and hit the sky in Hezeby. Then, as my eyeliner, I will investigate all kinds of things about the Danes as much as possible, and send the information back quietly. Compared to how much money you can make, the information you get is the most valuable."

To tell the truth, inserting permanent spies into the confederacy of the hostile forces is really high-end with today's Nordic world.

Before that, Olekin, who was killed in battle, also planted a few spies to inquire about news in Roseburg. It was only a very short-term move. With his own death, the Mälaren tribe is fighting fiercely this winter, and it is not appropriate to send another spy. .

Through the confession of the old Eric’s family, Rurik has a better understanding of the Danes, especially since he was born in this world for the entire ten years to the current era. He really did not expect that the powerful Danes are as they are now. Like the Swedes, in fierce internal fighting.

Any power needs a warchief, leader, or king with top leadership.

Rurik learned that a Danish chief named Harald Clark had been expelled. He was missing, and it was rumored that he was dead. In the fierce internal fighting, the Danish tribes deliberately fight for the lords of the alliance leader, either personally or sending warriors to rely on the "competition conference" to select the victor as the leader.

This is nothing more than a clever technique, otherwise, in order to fight for hegemony in the region, the lords would not be allowed to kill each other with a large army.

A man named Hafgen won the final victory, and after a series of events, such as the great disaster of the Ostala, this man was the mastermind. Rurik also learned of a very crucial thing, that is, the Danish leader Hafgen, the so-called attack on Ostala was not the main purpose, that battle should have been a direct attack on the Mälaren tribe, directly grabbing the entire May. Laren Lake.

The war madman among the Danes deliberately conquered the entire Svealand Plain!

Even if old Eric pointed out that many lords felt that this was an adventure, the Saxons who had fled were still thinking of counterattacking the Frankish kingdom to regain the lost territory, and did not want to fight with the guys further north. The merchants of Hezeby wouldn't fight the wars themselves, but fighting meant making money! They are willing to resell weapons and armor for profit.

Maybe that Hafgen would be assassinated, or choked to death while eating and drinking.

Rurik knew clearly that a Danish madman decided to attack Mälaren. Wasn't the Swedish king Olekin also killed by this person's counterattack? If at the beginning Hafgen simply wanted to expand hegemony and attacked the north, now Hafgen obviously has too many excuses for war.

It is true that Rurik regards the Mellaren as a shield and a strategic buffer. If they are really finished in a short time, the Ross people will not have a good fruit.

In this way, it is very important for the Ross people to put a eyeliner in the trade fair of Hezeby under the guise of doing business. Because any expeditionary force must be assembled, the wind of the expedition before the assembly will be released, and the eyeliner will immediately row a boat and bring the war warning back.

It is better not to have a full-scale war within a few years, but trade with the Danes has a long-term prospect.

At this point, Rurik understood the strategic value of the spy, and its commercial value is still critical.

"It turns out that I am Rose's eyes." Snoreva covered his chest, "Listening to the explanation from the lord, I understand it. This is a very important job."

"Not only that, before you report the situation, you are still a businessman. I want you to develop in Denmark as soon as possible, so that local businessmen can see the rise of a new business family. My friends, the Mälaren tribe is in internal friction, they I don’t dare to hope for the future. Besides, they are only 20,000 people. The main reason why the Danes are strong is their large population. They have a large population, produce more materials, and need more goods. We The Ross people need a bigger market, and they want to ship a lot of wonderful products to Denmark, and Danish merchants will sell it further afield. You are merchants, and you should understand what I mean."

After hearing this, Gould fully understood, his face solemn: "The risk is very high, and my son might die because of it. But this is an acceptable risk, and this risk is not more serious than a storm at sea."

"Then do it!" Rurik again asked Snoreva: "You still follow me to the north this winter. I want you to talk to the old Eric guys. You have two newly grown daughters. , The old Eric also has a very young son. Marry his daughter to establish an in-law relationship. By the way, I will eventually let that guy keep a son as a hostage in Roseburg. With this kind of care, I believe that old Ai Even if Rick betrayed, he has to think about the future of his heirs."

Rurik only appears to be small and young.

But is he really young? Gould didn't think that such a decision could be made by a child, and presumably it was not something Otto could think of.

This is a wise decision made by a king, such as spies, in-laws, protons, expansion of the commercial market, and very wonderful flexible thinking.

The warriors in Gould's concept often have a rib. They will have no bottom line for revenge. If they recognize that the Danes are enemies, they will never change their attitude all their lives.

Rurik's resolution is full of businessmen's colors, because only benefits are eternal.

The old Eric family was highly supportive of Rurik's decision. Old Eric almost cut his finger with a knife and wrote the words "No whistleblower" on the wooden board with blood. His family is more ordinary in Heze, so it is said that in order to make money, he ventured to the extremely far east to get lapis lazuli to make big money. If the local lord could make money, he would have done it a long time ago, but unfortunately he is an unknown person in Denmark. A god-given opportunity lay before him, no matter whether this Rurik claimed to be the "son of Odin" is true or not, he at least gave the family a chance to make a fortune.

Rülik left after explaining the matter. He only verbally decided to "implement a strategic layout for Denmark", and the actual implementation will have to melt away in the spring of next year.

He had just left Gould's house and "wandered into a mess".

Gould's two chubby children and granddaughters were pulled out of their sleep, and the two daughters were shocked by the decision of their father and grandfather.

They are women. In such a family, they can't control their marriage at all. They are always indoctrinated when they are pampered. It is said that when they grow up, they must marry a business colleague. The luckiest thing is to marry a noble soldier.

Now they even want to marry the hero warrior of Rose~www.readwn.com~ After all, they have been living in Roseburg for so long, and they naturally began to worship the hero.

However, his father's life was embarrassing, and he could only accept this arranged marriage while crying.

On the second day, the two girls put on gorgeous clothes and gold ornaments. They were led by Snoreva and Gould, and arrived at the new house of the old Eric’s family, which was closely monitored by the duke’s elite mercenaries. residence.

The old Eric's family has already rectified their bags, including the servants they are taking, and they are about to rush north with the Ross people's army.

At this very subtle occasion, the old Eric never thought that Rose's big businessman would actually bring his daughter to propose marriage.

The two old businessmen have the most common language, and they reached a marriage contract after they negotiated. The two youngest sons of old Eric married Gould's two young granddaughters. The wedding was scheduled for the vernal equinox next year, and the two parties entered into a business alliance through this marriage.

Of course, the well-informed old Eric also knows that if the big businessman in Ross hadn't been pressured by some powerful force, he would be able to marry his granddaughter if he was full. He already understood that this was the Duke of Rose's strategy. It was in his family. In addition to arranging a son to be a long-term proton, the in-laws were to add another lock.