Rise of Rurik

"I am willing to sell the whole of Laiying to you. You will be the master in the future, and you don't need to consider Ludwig's attitude at all." Robert's attitude was very firm.

He did seem to put a piece of oily fat on the table, but the question was, did he cut it and eat it. The blue fox and the black fox had to think for a while. To be fair, Robert's promise was really tempting.

"Your family is going to the south of the Franks, and you want to borrow our boat, of course there is no problem. It's okay to help you, and by the way we can also go to the south to see the situation and maybe explore all new business opportunities. You know we are different from others. My King Rurik prefers to trade, and my brother and I are both businessmen." Blue Fox Che Gulu said one thing at a time, he made Robert relax his guard, and also made the Countess Al sparked deeper thinking.

Leaving aside the issue of land prices for the time being, Countess Eldère's husband asked another question: "If we had trade relations with each other, would we have avoided attack. I heard that you had a deal with Cologne and Flanders, You make sure they stop worrying about piracy."

"Of course. As you can see, wise lady, who would want to be a pirate as long as they can make money steadily through trade?"

"That's good." The countess nodded with a relaxed expression: "In fact, this is how we plan our future itinerary."

"how?"

"We will leave next year anyway. After this winter, we will arrive in Nassau with our family in the spring of next year, and borrow your boat to leave here. After the boat reaches the endless sea, it can go all the way south along the coastline, and finally arrive at Tour of my family. Since you are going to do business, everything is easy to talk about. You have a strong army, and my father has the financial resources but always faces the military threat from the north. We can make a pact and each other will benefit."

Countess Ayre is by no means an easy-going person, she is indeed more calculating than Robert himself.

Lanhu felt that it was no longer as simple as thinking about how much money to pay to come to Yingao at this stage. The Countess offered enormous possibilities, and the South of the Frankish world was a blind spot for today's Rus and nearly all Vikings. Do not! it's not true.

"Please wait a moment. Compared with your oral description, if I can describe it in detail on the map, it will be easier for me to understand." Lanhu said.

"map?"

Al and Robert were a little puzzled, and with the blue fox who left for the time being, they hurriedly walked to the attic house with their beautifully decorated leather bags.

He took out the documents in the bag and spread them out, and then used two small thumbtacks to nail them into the small holes reserved at the two corners of the drawing. An abbreviated map of Europe is spread out, with a larger area and as detailed as possible.

"What is this? A map?" The Countess couldn't help covering her mouth.

"It's a map, our known world." The blue fox pointed to a point: "up north, down south, left, west and right east, this is a treasure drawn by my king himself. The paper that carries the map may also be a magical thing for you, but The information in it is extremely critical to my business. This point is Nassau, where we are now. Looking at this black line, it is the basic flow of the Laine, and finally we will reach the endless sea."

The blue fox kept gesturing, he no longer considered Robert's thoughts, and now he was clearly discussing in detail with the smart countess. He pondered that if this lady was really smart, she would be able to quickly figure out the logic and understand where she was on the map in an abstract way.

Indeed, the Rus kingdom marked on the map is vast and its settlements are spelled in the Latin alphabet, and the more important the city, the larger the letters. The Countess Ayre was amazed, she was indeed a smart person, and realized the complexity of the Normans in surprise.

The Frankish kingdom was incapable of redrawing the map of Europe, but the Roman Empire had already drawn what they thought was the known world, and the maps drawn on parchment survived the destruction of the empire by being preserved in large numbers in various large churches. Frank directly inherited the old Roman maps. With the benefit of the maps, Charlemagne's expeditions were smoother, and military operations proved the accuracy of these maps.

"Can you understand?" Blue Fox bluntly asked the Countess who couldn't take her eyes off her.

Al nodded reluctantly: "Maybe... I understand."

"Okay. Maybe you can point out the location of your father's fief on the map. Please come forward and tell me directly."

"I try my best."

Al didn't think much about it. She hoped that the family would leave the despairing Leinga as soon as possible, and first return to her mother's home, Tour, to plan something else. She even completely ignored that since these Rus people regarded long-distance voyages as easy things like eating and drinking, they could easily complete the expedition, so it was not just as simple as doing business. They are strong warriors, they come and go quickly, and once they launch an attack, how can Tuul be able to resist.

However, Al knows his hometown. In the past years, the Earl of Tours has never been attacked by the Normans. Instead, the Bretons in the north frequently attacked the fiefdoms.

She could see clearly the salient area, where the so-called Brittany was.

The Count of Tours is a large noble in the southwest of the Frankish region. In the era of unified kingdoms, the Count took the Loire Valley as the core of his territory, and the city of Tours was the Count's palace. At the same time, the count also held the fiefs of Alsace and some trivial fiefs at the foot of the Pyrenees. Tuer is a great nobleman in the south. As the so-called mountain is high and the emperor is far away, he also faces some alien attacks. In the old days when Charlemagne was alive, the Counties naturally had to hold their tails between their tails when facing the king's standing army of 150,000. now? forget it.

As the daughter of a great nobleman, El received an aristocratic education, knew some Latin, and read some rare books and documents in the church.

She easily recognized Strasbourg and was amazed that the names were drawn by King Ross himself. Everything seemed like a miracle, and she saw the city of Rome and Sicily clearly marked on the map.

This is not the most critical, the reason why she can easily recognize Brittany is simply because the protrusion is directly marked "Brittany". Apparently, the victor of the war, Rurik, whom he had never met, knew exactly where Brittany was.

Many Frankish cities were marked, of course, the southern area was largely blank, which proved that the Russ knew the Frankish South was limited.

Now, Robert was put aside, and his wife, El, was more like an earl, and was discussing with the blue fox around the map in person.

Blue Fox can hear a lot, he can understand a lot of emotions of the other party, and he can even think about the Frankish civil war from the standpoint of Count Tour, who he doesn't understand at all.

The civil war was a reshuffle of the nobles, and the civil war hurt the Count of Tours deeply. Alsace was confiscated by Lothair, and Alsace's location was very close to the peak of the civil war in recent times. And from the map, if the Ross fleet launched a surprise attack on the Laine, it could indeed attack Strasbourg and even the Alsace region.

The greatest threat to the Earl of Tours is still the Bretons in the north, while Paris, Troyes, Champagne, and local nobles have all turned to King Lothair due to their own problems. So much so that it can be seen on the map that there are hostile forces everywhere in the north of Count Tour.

Mrs. Al thought long-term, because in the southern world, her husband's family had many branches, and the family who fled to the south could still live a life of worry-free food and clothing. but!

If you lose your fief and financial resources, even if you have a noble identity, you will only have one identity. Nobles have no money or soldiers, so they are only as valuable as mascots. As a husband, they don't have much plans for the future. They just have to take one step at a time.

Madam El was not. She thought that since these Normans named Ross could take the initiative to convert to God, they were really helping King Ludwig in the East now. Ludwig has the ability to hire these northern ruthless people, why can't he do it himself? As for commissions... how much is the whole Earl of Laying worth?

Today's conversation with Joseph Blue Fox made her comfortable, and the other party was an earl with a large army, and the older El was afraid of his status.

Today's event is a negotiation after all, and the Yingao side has never come up with its own conditions, just because there are too many clauses.

Countess Ayre became the absolute think tank, and she did all the detailed negotiations.

Finally, she felt that the time had come.

The Countess made these conditions:

One, the entire Earl of Leying was sold to the Baron of Nassau.

Second, the Baron of Nassau and the Earl of Gothenburg in the north sent someone to **** the Robert family to Tours.

Third, the Count of Gothenburg can send troops to the mouth of the Loire, take a territory from the Bretons as a control area, and establish shops in order to trade with the Count of Tours. In exchange, the Count of Tours can act as a middleman and introduce him to meet and negotiate with King Charles of the Western Kingdom.

Fourth, arrange for some converted Normans to serve as mercenaries for Robert, with a strength of no less than two hundred.

Compared with considering how much to spend to buy Yingao, Blue Fox is most concerned about the latter terms. On the other side of the Loire, the establishment of a control area at the local estuary has greatly expanded the horizons of the Rus and added countless possibilities. As for sending troops to serve as mercenaries for the out-of-power Robert family, it is not a problem. The Gothalans in Gothenburg are too poor, and they are really happy if they can make money from being mercenaries. Moreover, it is self-evident who has seized a control area in the southern Franks, who is the local master.

Accepting these negotiating conditions means that the black fox will legally swallow the entire Leinga, and the blue fox will have the right to directly communicate with Count Tour and the West Kingdom.

Of course, on the biggest issue here, Nassau only got to Ingau legally. Even if it is only obtained legally and in name, Ludwig would probably never approve it.

To **** with that defeated guy! Leyingo must be taken down by his younger brother.

Now, the most critical question - how much is Lyingo worth.

"We can accept all the conditions. So what's your offer?" Lanhu finally asked solemnly.

"One thousand pounds of silver."

"Too much. Too much." Lanhu said so, with no surprise on his face.

"That's huge land, isn't it worth a thousand pounds? We even think..."

"However, most of Leingo is still controlled by Ludwig. You sell it to us, and in the end we have to ask for it ourselves. One thousand pounds of silver is too expensive."

Indeed, Al hopes to ask for more money to help her husband make a quick comeback in the South. One thousand pounds of silver coins is a huge sum of money. She estimates that the Russ who have looted and made a fortune can get it, and the range from Ingol is real. big.

How big is Leyingo? It reaches the town of Linden in the north and Wiesbaden in the south, with a north-south depth equivalent to 70 kilometers. And Linden is a town on the banks of the Rhine River. Most of the settlements on the banks of the Rhine River do not belong to the Baron of Nassau. Now these towns will be legally sold to Nassau. To the north of Linden is the territory of the Marquis of Thuringia, so the new Nassau can be directly bordered by it.

In the same way, Nassau merges with the entire Leingau and occupies Koblenz, which means that the new Nassau West and Cologne Diocese, North and Thuringia, East and Worms (Frankfurt) Diocese , borders the parish of Trier to the south.

New Nassau will be directly upgraded to the country, but it is essentially a Norman force. Almost all the troops are blond Nordics, and they are economically integrated with the Rus Kingdom.

Once this new Nassau is pieced together, it means that Rurik's strategic layout has achieved an epic victory, and it has taken root in the heart of Frank. All of this is based on the internal emptiness of the Frankish Civil War, and as long as their civil war continues to expand, the Rus will have more opportunities.

But New Nassau really effectively controls the entire Leyingau. It is still a dream at present. In the end, it is necessary to negotiate with Ludwig to force the other party to admit that Nassau has indeed merged with Leingo. If necessary, I am afraid that more troops will be sent to Nassau to force Ludwig to agree with military deterrence.

In this way, it is really inappropriate to implement the plane according to Countess Ayre's plan to buy land with a thousand pounds of silver coins.

Lanhu didn't want to say anything: "There's no need to give you money, we can just grab the entire Laiyingao." Things can't be so savage, he must think long-term.

The blue fox took a step back: "Five hundred pounds of silver coins! First, I will give you two hundred pounds of silver coins to survive the emergency, and then I will give you and your attendants two thousand pounds of wheat for the winter. Next year, I will deliver you another three hundred pounds of silver coins and **** you with a fleet of ships. How about the family going to the south?"

Al and Robert did not have any bargaining chips, and Al wanted to use his family's relationship and the diplomatic conditions to introduce the meeting between the Ross people and the West Kingdom Charlie as bargaining chips, but none of these bargaining chips were real things, most of them. All are empty checks.

Blue Fox and Black Fox also know that they are taking a risky adventure, and it is worth trying because of the huge benefits.

Lai Yingao was sold like this~www.readwn.com~ The two sides set up a document for this.

The documents on rough paper are in duplicate, with the blue fox and the black fox signed on behalf of Nassau and Gothenburg, respectively, and El and Robert on behalf of Tours and Reingau respectively.

Negotiations must establish clear documents, and the two documents were finally signed by Father Conrad of Nassau Abbey. Legally, both parties are Catholics, and the four of them are not small. The signature of the priest means that the clergy has become the clergyman. A witness to a transaction means that the transaction is affirmed by God.

All of this is naturally hidden from King Ludwig, but how much can Ludwig really control?

Ludwig was never a centralized monarch, but was the head of the lords in the eastern part of the kingdom. He could only firmly control the Bavaria and Austria regions, and he could only negotiate the **** of other nobles. Now, in fact, occupying the fief of the Earl of Laiying is purely an act of killing the red eye in the civil war. Robert was furious and suffered from the lack of capital to fight.

Now, the Robert family begged for a lot of food and money, and the carriage they brought was full, and they happily returned to the palace at the foot of the Taunus Mountain where he temporarily lived. This batch of money and food is enough for him to spend the winter, and next year, everything will be fine.