Rise of Rurik

　　 "It's you, Gould!"

"Oh, dear leader, please call me Gould Unkras." As he spoke, the guy who was clearly dressed as a rich man, he held his leather jacket with his left hand and strode closer. Otto.

　　 He glanced at the soap on the table again, and couldn't help but marvel at its special yellow and white color.

　　 "Chief, are you still selling these soaps just like a few days ago? It seems that your people didn't buy them right away."

　　 Otto nodded, and while his guard was gone, he also deliberately showed a hint of embarrassment.

　　Because this Gould is unusual, anyone with no brain can tell from his clothes that this young guy is rich.

　　Although this person is rich, wanting to beat him is really a deadly act.

　　 Not to mention that Roseburg will take a protective attitude towards the merchants who live there. The wealthy merchants always have a group of shrewd and capable guards. The sources of these guards are varied, and there are even Fen tribes from the east of the sea. They only loyal to their own benefactors and are willing to help the benefactors to do various things for money.

　　 "It seems that you are in some trouble, and your merchandise is unsalable."

"Yes, if..." Otto paused and stepped forward to introduce deliberately: "Look at these beautiful sopas, they are different from the previous ones. If you can buy them, I will be very happy. ."

　　 Gould replied very happily: "Of course, I will buy it, thank you for your permission, my noble leader. Besides, I really want to talk to you about some other things."

　　 "Oh?" Otto couldn't help narrowing his eyes, he naturally felt that it would be a good thing.

　　 This Gould Unkras is really extraordinary. He is a wealthy businessman and has an elite guard of about fifty people.

　　 Unkras is not the person’s last name, or the owner of the Viking world in this time and space, and there is no clear concept of a surname.

　　 If you insist that you have a surname, there is nothing more than the name of the tribe where it belongs.

　　 Unkras, which means "antlers", is a tribal name.

Hundreds of years ago, some people who landed northward in Scandinavia, rowed boats at that time into a large coastal area. I saw that there were a large number of islands and fresh water that could be directly drunk. Settle down.

　　 They settled in a group of lakes named Lake Mälaren, and the population gradually developed as a result.

　　 For hundreds of years, a large number of residents settled in a large area along the lake. They cultivated the land to grow wheat, and they kept cattle and sheep on small flat land. They are called the Melaren tribe, and the lake is named after that tribe.

　　 Lake Mälaren is indeed a treasure of geomantic omen. Hundreds of years later, a trading city will rise at its estuary and become the core of everything in the area. That is Stockholm. Of course, Stockholm now exists as a small settlement.

　　 More tribes migrated north and west, and they stopped at the towering mountains.

　　 The Ankras tribe is northwest of the Mälaren tribe, and there are many waterways that lead directly to Lake Mälaren.

　　 There are other tribes such as Gavle and Ladina active in the area, and they are all tribes with extraordinary strength.

Although 　　 is extraordinary in strength, it also depends on the object of comparison.

　　 Very badly, the total population of the entire Mind Subtribe Alliance is now less than 100,000!

　　 That is because they are strongly suppressed by the Danes at this stage, and the main body is shrunk in the Svealand Plain. However, even if they occupy the entire Gotaland Heights, conquer Gotland Island, and incorporate all the Gotland people, their total population will only increase by 10,000 or 20,000.

　　 At the same time, the Danish population has exceeded 200,000.

　　 Together with the Norwegians who live in a large area of ​​unconnected bays, and the pioneers in some Baltic areas, the entire Viking world has a population of less than 500,000. Starting

　　British Onevote Kingdom, which they began to looted, and the huge Frankish Kingdom, the combined population of the two has reached 15 million!

　　Since the sub-tribal alliance will eventually develop into a feudal country, no matter how they develop, it is impossible to quickly develop a powerful agricultural technology. In the hundreds of years after the Viking Age, agricultural technology has not changed significantly, and population development has been slow.

　　 So the true historical trend, until the early sixteenth century, the Swedes living in Svealand, Götaland, and Gotland had a total population of only more than 400,000. Even the servant Finns are counted, and the population is only half a million people.

　　The situation in Denmark, their centuries-old competitor, is not so good, with only 600,000 people.

　　 The population of France in the same period has reached 15 million.

　　 In the ninth century, both the Danes and the Shiya spoke the same language, and both were loyal to trade and plunder. The population has undoubtedly become the first key element in the competition.

　　 The current Roseburg has truly become a weird flower of the Alliance. It is not how weird it is, but that a fjord has squeezed 7,000 people. Roseburg is really a behemoth. First release https://https://

　　 What kind of concept is this?

　　 On another plane, in the middle of the sixteenth century, Stockholm, the core of the Swedes, was nothing but a trading port with a population of 9,000 people. At that time, the proportion of the citizen class was extremely low, and farmers were the mainstay of the Swedes.

　　 The situation of the Danes is exactly the same. Copenhagen is a treasured place of geomantic omen. It is particularly suitable for the development of business. Therefore, this city has a population of up to 20,000. It is this "large rural" city in the Eastern concept, and it was already the largest city in Northern Europe in the 16th century!

　　 At the same time, London had only 60,000 people, but Paris had a population of 200,000 people. France, which has five times the population of the United Kingdom, takes advantage of her population. As long as a king is not stupid, it will not be difficult for a king to fight for European hegemony.

　　 In the ninth century, Roseburg has developed into a behemoth, and the fjord has approached its population capacity limit. The Russ' plundering of materials in the surrounding area has completely eliminated the wild reindeer in the area. In order to gain more wealth, the northern expedition in the winter of 828 was an adventurous and radical action.

　　 Will famine break out because of a huge population?

　　 The answer is no. If the people of the tribe feel hungry, they will spontaneously leave the tribe, give up all the power of war dividends, and find their own new world.

　　 Therefore, Otto insists on establishing a new base in the East. He now simply hopes to set up a material transfer station on the Eastern trade line and develop it into a new settlement, which is a windfall.

　　What about the facts? This is also a manifestation of subconsciousness.

　　As an elite in the tribe, Otto persuaded the other elites to establish new strongholds, which in fact was dispersing the terrorist population pressure in Roseburg.

　　 They are never the people who moved from the land, they have no homes in the world.

　　 That night, Otto was very happy to invite Gould to his home.

　　Poor Otto, he never thought that Gould had his own personal guard like this, because he didn't need it in his daily life. In order to express his majesty as a leader, he deliberately gathered more than a dozen of his best friends.

　　 The next time is a meeting of pure men, women and children, and even servants, must avoid.

　　Lurik was relieved, and it was a pleasure to continue to teach Lumia some knowledge in the long room of the priest.

　　What will they talk about? Rurik had learned that it was about business dealings.

　　Lurik has a clear hunch that this so-called Gould from the Ankras tribe is a big merchant who intends to buy various commodities from the Ross tribe!

　　 Gould, the name itself means gold.

　　Otto recruited this distinguished guest with traditional mead and black bread, and asked Gould straightforwardly about his wishes.

"Since the noble leader has asked, I will say it bluntly." Gould paused, took a sip of sweet mead, and couldn't help but exclaimed; "Mead is so delicious, we always have to pay for it. Great price, even so everyone is happy to buy it.

　　 Now your Ross tribe is making a bath tool called sopa. I asked my servant to buy one a few days ago. I tried it in my own home and it worked really well. Hey, maybe you don’t know, I’m different from others, I always feel like I’m greasy. I always take a shower, eager to wash away this **** greasy but always fail.

　　Sopa saved me, and my hair felt dry for the first time. "

　　 "Oh? Really? Then it's my honor."

　　 Otto himself is not obese, he is not too young, his arms and legs still have strong muscles. Thanks to these muscles, he can still walk long distances with weapons like a young man.

　　 Gould is different, he is really a greasy middle-aged uncle. Because he is a big businessman, he has extraordinary assets. To hire a samurai to keep this family wealth, and to raise more maids Ji concubine in order to give birth to more children to expand the business strength of his family is also to eat and be satisfied. Appetite.

　　 Gould loves to drink mead, ale, and even barbecue. When many farmers of the Ungrass tribe were actually living a hungry and full life, Gould had already eaten himself out of fatty liver.

　　 This time he was a guest at Otto's home, he took off his plush ferret hat, his shiny bald head was truly shining under the light of the oil lamp.

　　 He is an old guy with a strong secretion of sebaceous glands, and he doesn't think his belly is very harmful to health. The greasy feeling made him uncomfortable, and the soap changed the status quo, and he realized the business opportunities here in an instant.

　　Because, although Roseburg has a large population, they do not have huge wealth.

　　The local tyrants are all in the south, especially the Melaren tribe, where there are the best farmland, the best pastures, the most rich men and the most fat people.

　　 In order to wash away the lingering oily body, they will definitely pay a large price for it.

　　 Gould didn't hide anything. He was very happy that the leader Otto allowed him to build a large-scale wooden house here, and he did not discriminate against him and his servants.

　　Because of the legend about Rurik's "Blesser of Odin", Gould is more willing to stay. Recently, he asked his servants to inquire about clear news. Not only the sopa matter, but also the steel sword matter that caused the entire Rus tribe to become agitated recently, it was Rurik that spread the "Wisdom of Odin."

　　 "Great boss, I will buy all the yellow and white sopa you gave birth now. I heard that the price is three silver coins. Thanks to your love for so many years, I am happy to buy it at the price of four silver coins each."

　　 "Really?" Otto and his friends cheered.

　　 "I am a person who pays attention to integrity. I am willing to pay this price. It is worth my payment. I will also tell you my purpose. I will sell it to the Great Lakes in the south, and I will sell it at a higher price."

　　 Otto responded: "If this is the case, we can sell it ourselves, and we will sell it at a good price."

"Oh, great leader, maybe I have an advantage over you on this issue." Gould, who was sitting cross-legged, bowed slightly, his round face covered with fat, really can't tell that this guy is almost fifty. Years old.

"Leader, I think you need me. You clan leader Ross looks forward to being in the far north. Your direct trade with your brothers in the south is not ordinary. IMHO, many southerners have forgotten that there is a group of self-proclaimed divisions in the north. Brothers of master oars. If you rush south to sell a lot of novel things, I am afraid it will take some trouble. At this time, my value will appear.

　　 In fact, Gould's meaning is very straightforward~www.readwn.com~ is to act as a comprador helping the Ross tribe dumping goods.

Gould made it clear: "Not only do I want to buy your soap, but I also want to buy your steel sword. Your back actions last year have been a huge gain, and now I am very happy to do my best to buy your tanned fur. Plus For some other goods, I’m happy to take out all the silver stocked in Roseburg and exchange them for a large amount of goods.”

　　 "Oh? Is this true?" Gould's determination really surprised Otto and others.

　　 "I have made a decision, I will not change."

　　 "You are a really happy businessman. Then how much are you willing to pay for our goods."

　　 "Um...probably..." Gould pinched his chin with all his beards carefully shaved, and said for the first time: "I will spend about five thousand silver coins on various goods. What do you think?"

　　 "Wow! So many?"

　　 "I can afford the money, now I just want to ask, great boss, can you provide goods of corresponding value?"

　　 A tanned adult reindeer skin can be sold for two silver coins according to its softness, good quality and large area. Others such as ferret fur and forest cat fur are more expensive.

　　As a large number of processed animal skins are already in the selling stage, merchants from the entire tribe are vying to buy them.

　　 Except for the tribal residents who want to use them, they still openly sell half of the fur.

　　 Commodity sales, since ancient times, the higher the price is easier to buy. What Gould did was very simple. He bid a little higher than other competitors and got a lot of hides.