Soon, the three of them got together to make things clear.

The so-called Briton women next to Gould, their obedient appearance made Rurik's mind open.

There are such servants plundered from outside in the society of the Southern Allies? To be honest, Rurik felt pity for their tragic experience, and even moved with compassion.

Now, Lumia, who has lost all of her relatives, is easily trained by herself to be an extremely loyal servant. Rurik's success is not so much about treating her sincerely, as it is mainly from a stable supply of material.

If the people who took Ali into captivity had committed suicide long ago, becoming slaves meant fear of death. If you can get food, clothing, and accommodation from the master's house, the servant is willing to compromise.

By giving a little help to the miserable person, Rurik naturally gains a sense of psychological satisfaction. Of course, what he needs most is the greater benefits brought by more servants. He provides food and housing for the servants. In exchange, the servants have to pay a lot of labor.

To fully and efficiently exploit the labor value of servants, servants will inevitably consume a lot of physical energy. In order for them to work better, they must provide more food. For this reason, every servant is bound to be better than ordinary Ross. The tribe needs to consume more food.

Rurik could imagine that after his decision was really implemented, he would be chewed out by the clansmen and said, "It's incredible that the master's house is so kind to the servants." However, the big project that I launched this year requires a lot of cheap labor to work.

As a so-called crazy capitalist, he can't wait to monopolize the profits of the entire industrial chain by himself. For example, to make soap, is it always dependent on the work of the priests? Pooh! Does the signed document say that future soaps can only be made by priests? Besides, when some large-scale rituals are reached, the priests are busy with related work, and the soap industry will inevitably suffer a catastrophic shutdown.

As long as you have a group of absolutely loyal labors, you can create a "soap factory" to realize the complete set of industrial processes of boiling oil, burning plant ash, and saponification, and even train a few more servants as professional "salesmen". Serving as the big owner of this soap company also puts an end to others' constraints on the entire industry.

The profitable soap trade can be done in this way. Similarly, the brewing industry to be built requires a large number of servants to do it.

I thought that I still had fifteen deer in my hand. Last year's plan was to try to multiply this small group of deer into a huge herd!

Count on a Lumia to graze? too crazy.

What's more, Lumia is now able to do four arithmetic operations within a thousand, and the multiplication formula is very fluent in recitation. Such a "little mathematics genius" to herd, it is really an inconvenience.

To this end, some servants need to become professional deer breeders.

The large number of servants is a particularly huge appetite. If there is a problem with the most fundamental food supply, all industrial plans will suffer severe damage.

After clarifying the situation, the great businessman Gould had fully understood it, and he couldn't help thinking that once Rurik's plan was successful and he led a group of servants to produce a large number of high-value-added goods, it would be more money than being a pirate. .

Gould thought for a while, and said, "Rurik, I have fully understood your plan. I can get you some servants who can understand Gnoss. The southern market sells some from Denmark every year. Most of the poor people who are brought over by humans are Britons from the Western islands, and there are even prisoners of tribal wars. How many people are you planning to get from me?"

"Probably, get me thirty people? Or fifty people."

"so much?!"

"Ah! Too much?" Rurik just said casually, thinking about it now, there may not be too many people at first. "Then twenty people, preferably all men, I need strong men, I need their strength."

"Man?" Gould curled his lips and shook his head. "You think too much, I can get you some women at most."

"Why? Are those Briton men worth a hundred gold coins?"

"Of course not! Boy, you don't even know that the Danes who attacked the island didn't have the time to catch men. They looted gold and food, and local women. They didn't want local men, and they couldn't capture them at all."

"why?"

"Because those Briton men are fighters! They will be killed by the Danes on the battlefield. Besides, the Danes need more women, and the same is true for our Mind League. My lovely Rurik , You are still too young now, and you will know the benefits of women when you grow up. Ah~" Gould couldn't help but laugh, glanced at Otto, and deliberately said: "Rurik, I hope you grow up You can have at least five sons like me! Do you want a stronger and stronger power? Then have more women and more sons."

At this, Rurik laughed as much as he wanted to.

He must think carefully about Gould's words, if everything is destiny, it is the process of history, the other plane Chief Rurik has given birth to a lot of children, and many children are eager to be separated from the power of his father. To get a piece of the pie, he had to accept the fate of being arranged to be the leader of various Slavic tribes in other places.

Rurik's descendants really bloomed everywhere in Eastern Europe. From Karelia to the shores of the Black Sea, Rurik's descendants led the locals to integrate the various Slavic tribes that were constantly struggling into a large feudal country. One of the descendants became the lord of the small village of Moscow, and eventually the descendants of the lord became the emperor of the huge empire.

But Gould's words revealed a straightforward reality.

Perhaps the geographic location of the Swedes determined that in the Viking era, it was impossible for the Swedes to go to the wealthy British area to kill the Quartet.

Due to geographical reasons, Norwegians are more likely to abduct to Ireland when they travel north. The Danes crossed the North Sea all the way west and landed in Northumbria. At this stage, the Danes attacked Britain for robbery. Although the British kingdoms in the melee lacked the ability to resist sudden strong men, they still did their best to organize troops to resist.

The kingdom of Britain itself is in a state of warfare. The total population of the entire archipelago barely reaches two million. Ordinary residents live in small villages, grow grains and raise livestock and pay taxes to the lord.

The Danes suddenly appeared on a long boat. They came and went without a trace. The coastal villages, especially the coastal villages of Northumbria and Kent, were facing great threats. Immediately after the Danes landed, they had a great victory. They killed the men and took the women, ransacked the church and took the gold utensils, and taken away along with the nuns.

The Kingdom of Kent organized several battles. The farmers who were enlisted brought their own wooden spears and dung forks to face the organized Danish army. The result of the melee was that the Kent army was washed away. mercy? impossible. The Kingdom of Kent was hit hard for this, and the Danes began to act boldly.

There were also some Danish divisions who went to attack the island of Ireland. They even encountered a Norwegian robbery army in the North Sea. Of course, they all went to war with their counterparts.

Ireland has also begun to encounter looting, and local people have begun to be taken into Viking homes and **** with ropes to appear in the natural market.

According to their culture, many girls who cannot become warriors are abandoned at birth. This phenomenon has caused the female population of various Viking tribes to remain low. Many young fighters yearn for marriage, and reality forces them to try to marry with foreign women who have been taken captive.

However, whether it is the Kingdom of Kent or the Kingdom of Northumbria, the ancestors of the local people landed in Britain by boat from Jutland four hundred years ago. Four hundred years later, the Danes, the Norwegians, and the captives were the same ancestors. Four hundred years have changed so much!

The people who immigrated to Britain had become the lamb of the Lord, and those who did not leave believed that they were Odin's fighters.

The Danes called all the captives "Brittons". In fact, some of the captives were Celts, and some were farmers from the Kingdom of England. A small number of captured men would be transported by the Danes further afield for silver, while women would be quickly digested by them.

Some women were transported to Lake Mlaren by various means and fell into the hands of the great merchant Gould.

The purpose of requiring a large number of Briton servants is to train them into working workers. Rurik heard Gould's detailed description and was shocked by the lack of male servants in the South Market.

"Forget it, even women are acceptable to me. Those priests are all women and they make thousands of soaps. I order a group of Briton women to do the same thing, and they can do the same. If you If you can get me a male servant, that's the best. Listen, money is not a problem, I want someone." Rurik said surely

Gould nodded deeply, and then greeted the two well-dressed maids to come, kneeled beside him, and proudly introduced to Rurik, "They are three gold coins each, they are young. It's worth the price. Too young or too old is very cheap."

"What? A person alive, only three gold coins. Your glass wine bottle is twenty gold coins."

"Haha, they are servants, a tool, nothing more. You have to admit that some tools just lack value."

Hearing such words, Rurik didn't curse a few words in his heart.

But when you think about it carefully, Gould, as well as other people, believe in the inherent hierarchy of people. To talk about equality with them, or even to introduce equality knowledge to the servants, is all a sudden absurdity.

Rurik stopped talking nonsense, and continued to ask, "Your servants have been trained to be very obedient by you? Didn't they think about running away?"

"Is it possible?" After that, Gould pulled a woman very rudely, dragged her face to the fat belly, and asked rudely: "Anne, do you dare to run away?"

"I...I dare not, my lord." The woman replied weakly, her eyes full of begging for mercy.

"That's right." Gould let the woman go and said proudly, "Rurik, the problem is actually very simple. Why didn't your servant run away? I think she knows that running away is eaten by wolves. My servant is just as smart as his fate."

Rurik took a breath, it was really that simple.

"They are just a group of docile sheep, perhaps trained, a group of Briton servants are very good workers. How many do you want? Twenty? You will pay at least six hundred silver coins for this."

Rurik nodded: "You go find twenty for me, and I will pay you two hundred silver coins after it's done. What do you think?"

"Wow! You are so generous, I will definitely complete this business very well."

"Well, I still need some other people."

"Huh? More servants? Increased numbers? No problem."

"No! I want some samurai who only obey my orders. I want to build an elite guard. Gould, just like the guard you spend money to build, I want to follow suit."

"You... do you think you have reached the point where you need to form a personal guard?" Gould asked incredulously.

"Of course, I think it's necessary now."

Hearing the discussion between his son and Gould, Otto felt that his son's plan became more bold!

Until now, Otto has supported his son's decision, even if it is about having a large group of maids. He never thought about the possibility of having twenty slaves. His son had a big goal, and he had nothing to say.

But recruit a private guard? is it necessary?

When Otto had to interrupt his son, he asked with a harsh tone: "Rurik, what do you mean? You want to recruit elite guards. Are your 100 men not enough? If you need strong warriors There are at least a thousand in our tribe. I can easily organize a guard for you."

"No, Dad, I know what you mean. But now I...I really need a group of warriors who only obey my orders, only serve my interests, and have powerful combat capabilities."

"Really? You can recruit from the tribe."

"No." Rurik shook his head deeply, "I'm sorry, Dad, I trust our people, but the hearts of the people will change. I can assure you that when the agreement between me and Gould is implemented, I will become very Wealth. In order to protect this huge wealth, I must have my own power. If we recruit people in the tribe, I am worried that they will naturally think of the tribal distribution system, and then collectively ask me to distribute the wealth to everyone. Dad. Don't you worry about such a future?"

"You... actually think so."

My son stopped asking myself! Otto settled down and thought about it carefully. Looking back at the tribe's biannual tax collection actions against Novgorod over the past few decades, the situation has indeed changed a lot.

According to the old high priest, the Ross tribe went to the east to collect taxes. This has lasted for at least forty years! In the beginning, the tributes collected were divided equally among all families. Forty years have passed, and now it is whoever participates in the "Sorgon Sailing" and who gets the most wealth. Participants' families can get 80% to 90% of the total tribute. Those who stay behind are considered to sit back and reap the rewards and throw away the tribute to the priest. The left-behind families may get a few pounds of wheat kernels.

Everyone can perceive that the current sailing of Sogong is really worse than every year. It is not that Novgorod has become a poor ghost, but that those who go to collect taxes are less willing to share the tribute with other tribesmen.

Times have changed. I hope that the good days of staying in Roseburg and waiting for dividends will become history forever as the previous generations age.

Moreover, the situation has undergone new changes. Those families who have married Novgorod women are embarrassed to collect taxes from their in-laws.

The Sorgon voyage in the spring of the new year will undoubtedly begin to incorporate the plot of visiting relatives. The young warrior who married a local woman gets a fortune from his parents-in-law, and they must not share this with other ethnic groups.

Otto believed in his brothers, but his life was almost at an end. If the new generation of young people are all like Rurik, it seems increasingly impossible to expect to maintain a large tribe with blood relatives.

The relationship between blood relatives cannot be used, that is, the relationship between using money.

Although Otto couldn't be persuaded by his son in an instant, he didn't explode in his temper to express his opposition, so he took a tacit attitude this time.

Rurik continued to look into Gould's eyes and asked: "You claim to have at least fifty warriors to protect your wealth and family safety. Where did you recruit so many reliable people?"

"It's at the market of the Mlaren tribe. Maybe you don't know. Some strong people are eager to have a master and earn wealth by betraying their power."

It sounds like a professional mercenary. Thinking about it this way, Rurik became more and more interested in the Melaren Bazaar that was only heard by its name, as if the big market could buy all kinds of typical goods from the Middle Ages.

"So, how much do you pay your samurai?"

"I pay them according to the month. On the first day of each month in the Julian calendar, I pay them ten silver coins. In addition, they provide extra accommodation and food."

"Huh? Is this the price for hiring warriors? For fifty warriors, you have to spend five hundred silver coins every month, which is really not a small amount of money."

Gould smiled, "Child, you can also give a lower price, so you won't be able to recruit brave people. If my guards participate in a weapon fight, I will pay them an extra bonus after victory. I want to bury the dead in war. Without these measures, who would give you the life you didn't know each other? Listen, if you want to defend your huge wealth, you can't be stingy with your money! Five hundred silver coins don't count for you now. What. Do you want fifty private guards too? I can try to help you finish it."

"This...you can try it. Suddenly with so many people, I'm just worried that I can't control it well."

Gould immediately slapped his thigh, and said on a whim: "Don't worry! Just like this, I will give you my captain of the guard, and I will give you five more. From then on you will pay them. There is not much money, the guards. Long give twenty silver coins a month, ten ordinary ones."

In this regard, Otto Birurik was more vigilant: "Gould, are they reliable?"

"Of course it's reliable. If they weren't for money, how could they leave their tribes to sell their lives to others? You may not know the composition of these people. Some are taken from slaves, some are poor people who seek a living, and some are owed money to the leader As a slave, they were sold by the leader. In short, most of them are involuntary people, and their common characteristics are strength and loyalty."

Gould looked at Otto again with great interest and boldly said in his heart: "Great leader, maybe you really want to support your son from the heart to form a guard with money. You can doubt the guard bought by money. You can't really believe that blood relatives maintained by feelings will never betray. The affection of relatives will be alienated for generations, and your guard and master are not relatives, they are simply selling their lives for the master's family. ! I firmly believe that except for life and time in this world, nothing can be bought with money!"

Money can make ghosts grind, Rurik admires that Gould already has this knowledge.

Rurik grabbed the right to speak and continued to ask: "Then what about your captain of the guard? He is strong and good at fighting? Where is he?"

"My captain Jeflo has always been in my hometown. In fact, you can't imagine that he is actually a Savoy?"

"Savor? Who is that?"

"It's some people from the eastern land of our sea." Otto explained.

"A Finn?"

"It's not a Finn, it's a Savoy. It's different from a Finn."

At present, Finland does not have a clear national concept. In that area, near the sea, tribes called "Fen" are active, and there are also a group of Savor tribes in the inland areas. Numerous tribes spoke a very similar ancient Uralic language. They continued to develop, and a unified Finnish nation was formed 800 years later.

The Savoy may be more fighting than the Finns, and the fighting between the two tribal groups is no less intense than the internal fighting of the Vikings. Some tribes of the Minya Alliance, and others from Gotland, also dared to land in Finland and take away the local people who were captured by the way when looking for beasts.

Gould claimed that his captain of the guard was taken away when he was very young.

"It was about fifteen years ago, when I was relatively young. I pretended to be a Danish and went to the south to do business. By the way, I met a rebellious boy at their market. I spent a fortune to get it. He. I took good care of him. After years of training, he became a loyal captain of the guard. Ah! If that child is not my servant, but my eldest son, how good would be. Unfortunately, my eldest son is just like me. Obesity, all my sons may be masters in business. They are definitely idiots who will scare and cry in battle. Without the protection of a strong guard, they are all big fat sheep waiting to cut their wool."

"Ah! Unexpectedly you and your captain of the guard have this past?" Otto couldn't help but admire.

"So as long as you are good enough to your servants, they will be loyal. Especially your guard, Rurik." Gould preached, "I can trust you, so I will give you my most trusted captain of the guard. Rurik, you will eventually become the leader. I think the close alliance I have established with you will definitely give my family unprecedented prosperity."

He actually looked at himself so highly, Rurik felt very comfortable being slapped by a powerful flattery.

Gould continued his efforts: "My mentality has changed, Rurik, I will sign a bigger agreement with you. You will make a lot of money, and I will make a lot of money because of you. And my wealth will get your Rose. For the protection of the tribe, I think I should consider moving my home from the Ankras tribe to you."

Otto's eyes lit up: "Are you planning to move?"

"Great leader, I am not drunk, and my mind is very grateful now. I can guarantee that I am telling the truth. If you think about it, if my wealth grows, the leader of Unkras will treat me As a fat sheep? Even if my fifty guards fight to the end, they are not the opponents of the warriors of the entire tribe. If I move to you, it will be different. The interests of me and Rurik are tied."

If a strong businessman wants to be stable, he must cultivate his own power to become a commercial organization with an army, or even establish a country for this purpose. Either belong to a strong power, help the strong become stronger, and at the same time get the shelter of the strong power.

The geography of Europe determines that it is easier for her to form a commercial civilization. Many ancient city-states were actually formed by a large group of businessmen. Together with the original Rome, they also have a strong business culture. Those Senate members have a large vote. businessman.

The matter about the guard was quickly settled. As soon as Rurik calculated his own money, he insisted on requesting the formation of fifty guards. The captain of the guard was the only known "Jeflo", the Savoy in Finland. people.

The agreement also adds new clauses.

The third clause: If the Gould family wants the Ruth leader family to transport food, vegetables and livestock as much as possible, the Ruth leader will pay the currency at a slightly higher price than the market price, and also pay the transportation fee.

Article 4: The Gould family is obliged to find all kinds of servants, as well as foreigners who intend to settle in the Ross tribe, and the Ross leader shall pay the Gould family money for this.

There are still large blanks in the wooden board, just to add in after thinking of new terms.

At the bottom of the board, there is also such a signature, that is, "In the name of Otto, the leader of Ross, this agreement is proved to be valid."

The promise has been made!

Rurik is very convinced that in this era, human resources represent the strength of a power base. As long as the Ross tribe has a larger population, it can burst out a powerful force through reasonable organizational planning. Selling high value-added products is to make money and to make the life of the people better. Money buys the necessities of life, especially imported food ~www.mtlnovel.com~ to ensure that a large number of people can survive.

It is Rurik that even if the future is really going as smoothly as he expected, the biggest problem of the Ross tribe is always the problem of food supply.

A stable supply of food is always the basis for a power's long-term stability. If the situation changes and the tribes can no longer import food steadily, their huge population will become a heavy burden. In order to avoid the worst possibility, build a second base early, a cultivable base is the right way to plan ahead.

Therefore, Rurik also had to sigh that his father Otto had a strategy.

My father wanted to build the "Second Roseburg" at the mouth of the Neva River. The geomantic omen in that place was actually pretty good, and Rurik had heard of another plane. The location of St. Petersburg was perfectly able to grow wheat.

Don't ask for a gratifying wheat yield, the climate is enough to ensure sowing and harvesting, and the production capacity is enough!

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