A small fleet arrived in Gothenburg with a large amount of treasure looted from the Franks.

After a long and painful voyage, Princess Ghisla, who had been aliased as "Blackbird" Theresia, finally arrived at the Norman port.

She knew nothing of the northern world, except that the Danes were all north of the Great Wall of Schleswig.

It is said that there is a vast sea, a vast land, a place blessed by the northern gods, and the home of all barbarians.

"Savage? I'm a savage woman too."

She quite likes her alias. Blackbird, a nimble little bird in the north, is small but not afraid of severe cold, and it can still move tenaciously when the world is covered with ice and snow.

The former Gisla is dead!

Now there is only "Blackbird" Teresia.

It was really difficult for herself to accept all this, and looking at the not-so-young Earl of Gothenburg, Blue Fox, made her feel even more complicated.

Because she had cut off her long curly hair, she now changed out of the Frankish robes and put on the more capable and even slim-fitting robes of the Russian aristocratic style. At first glance, she looked quite like a delicate male warrior.

As the weather became colder, she put on a fox fur hat and a bear fur coat, and dressed like a nobleman of Ross.

Although the fleet was small, it was led by a sailing cruiser. The big ship led two armed cargo ships into the Danish Strait with arrogance, and turned into Gothenburg deep in the strait.

The ship skillfully avoided the reef area and rushed into the mouth of the Jota River against the north wind.

"Anchor! It's now." The blue fox standing on the bow shouted while leaning on the railing of the ship.

The iron anchor was smashed into the sea, and soon the ship was firmly fixed on the sea surface. All three ships were like this, followed by the release of the small boat to prepare for landing.

Of course, the boats cruising and fishing in this sea area approached one after another. When they saw the big ship and the flying Ross flag, they believed without hesitation that it must be the Frankish expeditionary army.

As for why the three boats came back? It must be because these three ships transport loot! They belong to the earl blue fox.

Although Blue Fox is an earl, he currently manages his Earl of Gothenburg in a completely laissez-faire manner. The local people are still living their daily lives, because the expansion of the Ross Kingdom has given everyone a great opportunity to go out to sea for adventure. A group of people have left their hometowns and paddled boats to spend the winter in the area where the Rhine River enters the sea. If it is not necessary, they are too lazy go back home.

The population of the country has decreased, but Gothenburg still has a strong vitality.

The blackbird stood quietly on the deck. She was still wearing a thick leather jacket, but her breath was already thick with mistit was already very cold here.

There is a city called Gothenburg in front of you. Looking around, this is a large settlement built by the river. There are boats cruising everywhere, and many boats are placed on the shore. The houses are almost all wooden, no matter how you look at them, they are extremely simple, it is simply a huge countryside, and has nothing to do with cleanliness.

This is different from what the blue fox said. Doesn't it mean that Ross's city is full of clean and tidy places?

"Ghisla. It's time to get off the boat." Blue Fox yelled casually in Latin.

"Call me Blackbird." The girl turned her head sharply, and responded with sharp eyes.

"Okay. Blackbird, at least you shouldn't stare at me like a hawk. As you can see, this is my city, and we will live here for a few days."

"Living the Norman way?" she asked.

"Of course. You're... already a Norman."

"Okay." After saying that, Blackbird threw off his coat and faced the cold in the north. With her mouth tight, she climbed the rope ladder herself under the guidance of the Norman warriors, and gradually entered the long boat rippling in the waves.

Compared with her clumsiness, the blue fox got off the boat really lightly. He has already lost weight successfully, and now his body shape has basically remained stable, but it is really difficult to lose that fat and round face. On the contrary, such a round face is less sharp and more sleek, and it is indeed dissatisfied with the legendary brutal Norman pirates.

This round face, which is difficult to lose weight, has become the beauty of the blue fox. The fishermen who came to watch knew him. After learning that the adults brought back a batch of spoils, they rushed to help

Assist in unloading, and get some benefits.

How to win people's hearts? The best way is to give a large part of these trophies to the people, even if this part of the trophies is already the private property of the blue fox.

Compared to getting gold and silver, it is of course the more the better. For ordinary farmers, especially now that they are facing the problem of overwintering, they need to get a lot of food.

Blue Fox's approach was quite pragmatic. He exchanged the plundered property for a batch of grain in Utrecht. In this way, the low-level nobles who came to the estuary of the Inn River, the Nassau family of the Earl of the Netherlands who immigrated with their families, and the local church, they got gold and silver in hard currency (whether the gold and silver are stolen money or not) and learned to hand over food.

The two armed cargo ships have largely become grain transport ships, and there are also a large number of daily necessities looted from the Frankish people, and even old clothes that have been stained with blood and can still be used after washing.

They are all trophies given to the subjects by the blue fox, and the most valuable trophies that have been dedicated to King Ross are all on the sail cruiser that is their flagship.

One fishing boat after another brought countless full linen bags back to the pier. When the sacks were opened at the pier, it caused a sensation in the whole city!

Oats and rye, even the poorer grains, were prized in Gothenburg, but they arrived in such quantities that they instantly overwhelmed the perceptions of the uninformed fishermen.

The blue fox stood tall on a long boat, and the blackbird suddenly remembered the pain of being tossed and vomited in the dark at sea. The stitches on her left hand wound had not been removed, and now it was tied with a white cloth. Only her right hand firmly grasped the sleeve of the blue fox.

She guessed that she would be a countess in the future, but living in such a sloppy port city was really painful.

But even if he changed his name and surname, he still has the blood of Charlemagne. This is a fact that he cannot obliterate.

He must maintain his nobility, so he firmly stood beside the blue fox and kept his balance on the turbulent boat.

The ship docked, and the blue fox, who had been on an expedition for more than half a year, finally returned to his hometown in the north and his fief.

The general public is eager to know what happened in the Frankish world, and they are also eager to care about the mountains of grain piled up at the docks.

The canonized barons are all leading troops to fight. They still stay at the mouth of the Rhine and have decided to spend the winter with the local Ross Kingdom garrison.

Blue Fox was originally the plenipotentiary general of the expeditionary force, but now the position is temporarily assigned to Grund, a veteran of the 1st Infantry Banner Squad of the Standing Army. With this old guy in charge, and the counties of the Netherlands and Flanders allied in the area, the blue fox is not worried about going wrong.

He could have sailed all the way to New Roseburg.

This stay in Gothenburg, in addition to rewarding the subjects in their hometown, is also a huge spiritual temptation for them.

"Don't you want to go to Frank to grab money and food yourself?"

In the beginning, organizing an expedition to Frank was a huge adventure. At that time, all those who joined the army were voluntary. These men were aggressive and poor. They had almost nothing but this life, and it was completely unrealistic to expect a wife. The expedition to Frank is likely to be crushed by the powerful local army. Even so, they have to fight for wealth, because they find that they only have this chance to stand up.

The fact is that they did make a fortune, and some of them even snatched women as their wives.

Especially those who went retrograde all the way to the Inn River and arrived in Nassau. Among them were the Gothenburg people who had completely cut off from their hometown. .

People from various villages heard the news and gathered in Gothenburg, and everyone sat in the newly built long house. There are thick leather blankets here, and people can sit directly, until now the blackbird finally feels tidy.

She was sitting next to Blue Fox, and because she was dressed like a man, she looked like a young guard beside Blue Fox.

Facing the words of these villages, Lanhu did not explain.

The wine brought back from Nassau was shared with everyone. It is a low-alcohol dessert wine, which means that its total sugar content is extremely high.

If not processed by distillation technology, the wines made in Nassau, Koblenz, Mainz, and even the entire Baden region are concentrated mountain wines.

Grape juice is fermented.

Tasting the sweet taste made people tremble all over. These villagers can almost only get some sweet taste from honey and raspberries on weekdays, and there is almost no chance to drink honey water wantonly. What's more, this sweet wine is a combination of sweetness and bouquet.

Everyone got drunk quickly and then became excited.

Then someone asked in a high-profile manner: "It seems that you really won the battle, boss, but why did you come back with three ships? Could it be that other people have already conquered a large territory in Frank?"

"Of course. For you! This is a huge opportunity..."

The chatterbox started, and Blue Fox started his chatter without hesitation.

Territory, wealth, food, women, warm environment... Scandinavian residents need these.

Living on the banks of the Jota River is a last resort. After all, the residents of this river area have also been rotated in the past hundreds of miles. It was once the home of the Burgundians, who went south and Jutlanders took it from the north. Then the Goths in the north entered the peninsula and immigrated to the Jota River.

Now, the Svealan (Swedish) people from the north are beginning to enter.

Blue Fox is of Swedish origin, and since Rurik himself also serves as the king of Sweden, it means that the County of Gothenburg is also included in the territory of Sweden.

He described Frank so beautifully that he even described it as "Asgard on earth".

People can't imagine what they haven't seen. Is it really so beautiful there? At least the grain piled up at the port will not deceive people.

The villages have been desperately fishing for fish and catching seals for the past two months. They do not have the ability to hunt whales, so they mistook the minke whale they saw strayed into the Baltic Sea as the "Jamungard's tail" and frightened people with false rumors.

They made a large amount of dried herring and cod meat, prepared a batch of fatty seal meat, and relied on the extremely limited food produced by the limited farmland, they should have survived the winter as before.

They were so careless that they began to ask for food.

The blue fox is very happy about this.

Blue Fox raised his head, raised his hand to signal everyone's excitement, and said loudly with a smile: "The food can be distributed to you! But, you have to pay some price."

"Price? Is there still a price?" Everyone whispered again.

The blue fox coughed twice again: "The war is still going on, next year we will continue to rob money and food in Frank to make a fortune! Now that we have looted the capital of Frank, we can loot more cities. Don't be timid, I urge you to come back When I arrived at the village, I told all the young men and women to get ready for war. I don't care what new arrangements King Ross has, but I want to continue the war. I'm just short of troops, how about you?

The meaning couldn't be more clear.

These men slapped their thighs frantically, shouting and booing one by one.

So, on a brand new day, after the meeting, the speaker of the village went home and called all the men in the village to come by rowing or pushing a cart, and there were crowds of people at the pier waiting to receive food.

The distribution of food was messy, and of course Blue Fox didn't have time to be absolutely fair. The fact that there are more leaders and fewer leaders in the villages did not lead to direct conflicts. Firstly, the villagers in the big hometowns, and secondly, all this is just the beginning.

Food can greatly improve the wintering situation of the people. It is also like a huge honey pill. Once you eat it, you can never go back to the past.

All in 843!

The act of distributing food is not the earl's benevolent government, it is clearly a conscription order.

Blackbird noticed all this, but she has been protected and lived in the deep palace, completely ignorant of all the sufferings of the people. She had to learn from scratch like a baby, she had to learn to think from the Norman's point of view.

Because these people may be her future subjects.

Since he was dressed like a man, he pretended to be the earl's bodyguard. It is not surprising that the earl raises servants, such servants may often become generals around the leader in the future. At present, no one thinks that "handsome boy" is anything special.

On a calm night, the north wind howls outdoors, no matter how you look at it

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Sailing in the wind and snow is not surprising for sail cruisers. Blue Fox doesn't want to wait any longer. He is afraid that the unexpected wind and snow will toss for several days and cause the Gulf of Finland to freeze. If he continues to move, he can only anchor at Tombstone Island first, and then Going east on a reindeer sleigh, the cost of returning to the capital by yourself would be too high.

The relationship between the two has not yet been recognized by King Ross. The blue fox is sleeping alone on the floor bunk, and the girl blackbird is also sleeping on the other side of the room.

The two of them were alone in such a weird way.

The girl curled up into a ball, her mind full of associations of the past. In the past four months, she has experienced her own fantasy drifting, witnessed the destruction of the capital, witnessed the betrayal of friends, and witnessed the killing intent of relatives...

The Normans are really fierce, but...

"Teresia, are you asleep?" Blue Fox asked casually when he heard a small sob.

"No."

"Are you crying?"

"No."

"Did you think about the past? Thinking about the war? Thinking about your family? It's okay, you can cry if you want. Don't worry, I will always protect you after boasting in front of your uncle."

This is the problem. It is obvious that this round-faced man is the general of the Normans, and he is the one who commanded the army to break through the capital.

But he has suddenly become his backer, and even... may become her husband.

That's fate, and maybe it's not bad. Unlike my aunts who never married, it wasn't that they didn't want to get married, it was because the grandfather forbade the princess to marry, so she could only end her life in the monastery, how sad it was for a woman.

She had no choice, so now she could only comfort herself like this.

Blue Fox continued: "Tomorrow we set off! There is no time to linger, maybe we have to sail in the wind and snow. Sorry, you will continue to vomit again."

"I...I can bear it." Her words were trembling.

"Go to sleep. My Gothenburg is indeed a bit rough. Everything will be fine in the capital of Ross, and you will meet King Ross. You...maybe be given a new identity."

"Countess?" The blackbird opened his mouth and came.

"Maybe. Maybe the king doesn't agree. If so, I can't force it. And you'll at least start a new life."

"That won't work." Blackbird opened his mouth again, "I don't know about the others, but you...you are a good person."

"Good guy?" Blue Fox smiled wryly, "You don't understand my past, I'm not a good guy. I commanded the army and killed many people, am I not a vicious Norman?"

"But I'm already a Norman, so you won't be vicious anymore."

"Good logic, you're right. Go to sleep, we'll leave tomorrow." Blue Fox didn't speak anymore, he didn't expect this little girl to have such a mental journey.

However, Blue Fox has never insisted on this matter. Compared with marriage and other things, the current Blue Fox is more willing to be a warrior. This is not because he suddenly has great respect for Odin. The blue fox is completely interested. At present, a large army is still entrenched in the Frankish world. The most urgent task is to return to the capital to report the situation to King Rurik, and then immediately propose to send troops. Reinforcement in order to expand the results of the war.

The next day, the fleet that had stayed in Gothenburg for a week decided to set off.

In order to move forward lightly, the two armed cargo ships have been vacant, and they are simply moored at the mouth of the Jota River for use next year.

The only sailing cruiser, she is the Spellosvillea, and her bow has a holy relic of the previous high priesta lock of gray hair.

This ship is believed to have divine power, because of the old lady's hair, so that this ship will be able to sail under any harsh sea conditions with Odin's must.

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It was placed at an inclination, so the boat sailed in the South Baltic Sea with a strong north wind, and the waves continued to rise and fall.

Blackbird Teresia vomited in the dark, feeling like he was going to be tortured to death at sea, and it was really surprising to see other Normans as if nothing happened.

Blue Fox's plan is very simple and straightforward, and he will not make any stops on the final voyage, even though he can indeed rest in Saaremaa Island and Tombstone Island.

Because after sailing for three days, the big ship had to go forward in the dark sponge against the snowflakes.

The worst still happened, but Blue Fox had no choice.

"Come on! Go all the way to Fort New Road, and get there before the sea freezes! Gods bless us!" He encouraged the brothers on the ship with slogans, and everyone's lives were on this ship. Rather than praying to the gods, pray to the Valkyrie, the mistress of the lock of hair in the wooden box in the bow.

"Valky Riveria. This is your ship, this is you. She is unsinkable..."