Chapter 860： Those free fishermen

In Uppsala, Lurik secretly summoned Lonstall, Duke of Yärmälen, and submitted a crookedly written document. Lurik finally had a certain understanding of the situation in the southern tip of Scandinavia. learn.

Although his wife Carlotta can provide some information on the south, but that is all ten years ago. To what extent the Gotalans in the south are now expanding, this requires Yelmalen’s Langstall to do a good job. Introduce it.

It turned out that the Gotaland people have infiltrated the Van Svealand region, which is approaching the traditional territory of Sweden, and the traditional border has fallen.

The current intelligence broke the heart of Duchess Carlotta of Ostara the most. Because of the absence of the owner, the small bay often became a fishing spot for the Gotalans.

"They stole my wealth, they must be punished!" Carlotta bared her teeth like a she-wolf, and his angry emotion directly aroused Rurik's anger.

Therefore, while the army was still in Uppsala, based on this information, Rurik specified a road map plan to conquer the power of the Gotaland.

The purpose of war is not to kill, but to incorporate the tribal alliance of Jotaland into the kingdom. They are also Vikings, as brave as fighting. It is unrealistic to expect words to persuade them to make them surrender.

For example, attack a small part of its forces, win a battle by force, and force them to surrender. Of course, this behavior may also force the opponent to assemble an army for a decisive battle, then fight! The Kingdom of Ross has never been afraid of the war of annihilation.

What's more, according to intelligence, the future conquest Rose will surely have a huge advantage in the navy.

There is no other reason, because the Gotalans must also live by water and grass.

There is another large lake just south of Yärmalen, Sweden, which is almost the same size as Lake Mälaren. Because there is no surface river connection with this lake, it is impossible for the Ross Navy to kill Lake Mälaren.

However, if you go upstream from the bay of the Old Ostala tribe (Norkoping), rush to the small Grand Lake, and continue to the west to reach the Great Lake.

The Russ army, which has the advantage of navigation, can maintain high maneuverability in any waters. This time, Rurik decided to pay special attention to his enemies. Whether they are strong or weak, Rose will bring an elite force armed to the teeth to attack the Gotalans.

Liulik even plans to use cavalry troops to bathe the enemy’s blood in the expanded cavalry and flag brigade.

Winter is coming, Rose, who has a huge stock of supplies, can make great efforts to rectify his armaments in the east.

To attack the South and crusade against Jotaland, the army must reserve its military supplies six months in advance.

Now, the wheat harvesting around Lake Mälaren has begun, and at the same time, the large granary of the Rus people in the Ilmen Lake Novgorod region in the far east has been harvested.

This year’s climate can’t be said to be particularly smooth and rainy. It’s quite normal in a normal year. This is enough. The east has much more arable land than Sweden, and the climate is warmer. The per mu yield of grain, especially oats, is more than that of Sweden. Relying on the advantages of scale, the east part of the kingdom has more surplus grain.

Ross annexed the Swedish homeland. Although a kingdom was born, the economy within the kingdom was still fragmented.

In Sweden, the nobles are still firmly in control of their tribes, and the people still live a very traditional life. It is true that Birka (Stockholm) has changed the Great King Banner, which has nothing to do with ordinary people.

The ten-year tax exemption decree proposed by King Rürik, the most profitable are the nobles and businessmen, except for the traditional fishermen's families staying in Stockholm.

In Sweden, there are indeed many home-grown families with husbands and wives. They are also extremely free, but because of debt problems, they have economic contacts with the nobles.

Each tribe is made up of several families, and some are big families. Such a family raised a group of slaves, and sometimes bankrupt families became slaves due to debts.

Sweden area around Lake Mälaren, the level of civilization of each tribe varies greatly. Hundreds of people from these small tribes form villages. They are all the same ancestors, and they form natural villages by blood. As each other is relative, individual productivity is limited, and the entire village must form a community.

A giant like the Mellaren tribe has lost the tyrant-like king Olekin, and has evolved into a noble republic of the major landlords.

They are accustomed to their own way of life, and Rurik has no intention of changing it. If anyone wants to be changed, there is nothing more than the huge Melaren tribe.

Only this tribe has the largest population in Sweden. She is not a monolith, but a giant made up of countless tiny tribes. As long as she is still a Big Mac, she will naturally threaten Rose's rule.

After all, the history books that Ross kept make it clear that it was the Mellaren tribe who squeezed out the ancestors of Ross about a hundred years ago.

Although Rose did not know the follow-up history of Mälaren, Mälaren still firmly occupies the vast area on the north shore of the lake, and outsiders are not allowed to set foot in it.

How to dismantle and weaken this overlord? Is it to fight their nobles? Naturally this is not desirable.

Rationally facing the current political ecology, the king must maintain cooperation with the traditional Swedish aristocracy.

In my heart, Rurik still wants to directly rule the ordinary people.

The interests of those nobles should be preserved, but the huge civilian class can be wooed! Because the handicraft industry in the eastern region of the kingdom, the mining and metallurgy industry in the northern region, as well as the three-pointed shipbuilding industry, a labor force who understands the Norse language is needed.

These days, Lurik is certainly busy having an intimate relationship with his wives and concubines. His body was so vigorously repaired, a majestic man recovered!

He entered his loyal Stockholm openly and with great fanfare, feeling that this port area has become his own in ten years.

A group of long rowing boats landed, and the soldiers in costumes disembarked one after another. They approve Rose's blue robe with white background, a white bear hat and large wild goose feathers. They were also carrying round shields, each holding a long-handled halberd, and blue, white and red cloth strips were tied together to make decorative tassels.

They were dressed in mighty and gorgeous clothes, and the glass beads hanging from their bodies clinked.

Liulik brought more than three hundred people, and when the wheat harvest in the whole area was busy, he moved to Stockholm with great strength. The army assembled under the huge flagpole of the Ross shop.

People can see the king raising his head, without autumn sunshine, looking at the flying flag in a daze.

It was a little surprised that the Governor Bai Fox was responsible for picking up the driver.

"My lord, are you hesitating?"

Lurik hurriedly recovered, "It's nothing, just a little emotional. Let's go! Take the guards you trained, and we will go on an armed parade in the city!"

"Yes! But..."

"How? Do you have concerns?"

The white fox told the truth: "Our regular army is mighty and mighty, but the people I recently recruited have no such domineering. Wouldn't it be a humiliation to the army to let such a group of people walk with the army?"

Those garrison troops are also here, there are two hundred people. Many people are newly recruited, and the system is not unified at all. In particular, some free mercenaries looking for employers have also been absorbed, making the overall dressing more varied.

They are here, and Rick really feels a little uncomfortable seeing their appearance.

Lurik can’t forget that the armed parade of Olegin and his 500 "warriors in black" caused a commotion throughout the city. The clothes of the five hundred people in Olegin were not uniform, but the overall blackout appeared to be more consistent.

The key is not the clothes, but the behavior.

"It's okay!" Rurik clearly stated, "You can solve the problem of garrison dressing yourself. Now I have enough 500 people, just like Olekin back then. I want to show my authority in front of the people!"

"Yes." The white fox didn't say anything. Valley

The king’s armed parade is very large, and the well-informed local nobles of the big land are monitoring whether their serfs are harvesting the wheat, but the king has brought a large army to parade, or he personally goes, or sends spies to Tibet. In the folk.

These big landowners must supervise the serfs' wheat harvesting and threshing operations. The nobles of the entire Melaren tribe have indeed achieved an internal republic, so the five slender ships ordered are crowdfunded by everyone. Bjorn is still the Duke of Mellaren elected by everyone. He must satisfy everyone's interests and everyone is willing to fulfill their responsibilities.

The horns are intertwined with the sound of drums, and the king's parade begins with great fanfare.

Many people have heard the wind, and they heard the sound gathered on both sides of the winding road.

Lurik saw a large number of fishermen in tattered clothes gathered on both sides of the winding road, watching the mighty Rus army parade under the leadership of the king.

Civilians are not fighters, and they are not particular about bowing on one knee and saluting. Both men and women nodded and bowed their heads with a smile, and a group of children sat on the ground casually, their faces were dirty and snotty, and their eyes were dull as if they were about to beg.

The big white fat man who accompanied the king on the parade was the Governor White Fox. He was quite disdainful of the attitude of the fishermen onlookers.

"Even after ten years, don't think about how much tax you will collect from these people. They are just poor fishermen, and they just live a barely fruitful life."

"Oh? You are a bit exaggerated, right?" Ruriek asked.

The white fox boasted that he had seen everything, and said: "In those wars back then, the men who fought in Mälaren were farmers. On the other hand, these pure fishermen did not seem to be from Mälaren and were unwilling to take risks with Denmark. People fight."

"It shouldn't be so unbearable."

"However, after you gave the order, Stockholm became a free port. A large number of fishermen should not have come to the port area in the past because they could not give tribute. Now they come boldly, and they are bound to cause a lot of trouble to my governance. There are even nobles. Tell me they feel worried."

Hearing what the white fox said, Rurik suddenly thought of something. As the saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun. After granting the tax exemption right, wouldn’t it create a slum in Stockholm? Can a spontaneous fishing village be allowed to be embedded in a commercial port?

Lurik reserved his opinions for the time being, and patiently completed the entire cruise.

The army basically completed the inspection of the entire city in one day. Lurik noticed that a large number of new sheds were being built, and the population of the city was larger, which was quite different from his own past perceptions.

He also passed by the former king's mansion occupied by Duke Bjorn of Mellaren, and also passed the wind and moon field in the city.

The Stockholm area has been the core area of ​​the Mälaren tribe since ancient times. However, this city adjacent to the Great Lakes is too messy and messy, although there are many people engaged in various industries, including slaves from Börgen, Norway, who tied slaves as livestock. Traffickers, the poverty of most people is written on their faces.

Although the population is small, the most valuable areas of Mälaren are occupied by land nobles, making a group of poor fishermen flock to Stockholm for profit.

Aren’t these fishermen good candidates for emigration?

At night, Rurik did not return to Gould Island. Dajun slept on the floor in the warehouse area of ​​the Ross store, and he himself talked with the white fox in the attic of the store.

Under the candlelight, the two men face each other.

There are fragrant grilled meat and exquisite wine. The white fox wanted to entertain the king, so he made a simple meal after hearing the king’s order.

Lurik had no intention of eating and drinking, and he was full of emotion during the daytime parade.

He said something, and the words finally fell on the point: "I saw those poor fishermen, they can only continue to live in poverty. I am very worried that their children will be taken away as slaves, I am afraid that these things are already happening. ."

The white fox asked keenly: "You are going to give them a new job for a good life."

"That's it. I want to give you a task that must be completed."

Baihu didn't hesitate, he had already guessed the king's needs a little bit.

Rurik continued: "There are too many people in Mellaren who live by fishing, or they don’t think they are Melaren people. In the past, we forced some people to move to our Ross, and I don’t remember this. How many fishermen are involved. They seem to have suddenly appeared after I gave the order. Now that they have appeared, I will remove them all!"

"Order them to forcibly emigrate to the East?"

"Exactly! I have decided!"

"What if they don't want it?" White Fox asked skillfully.

The topic was thrown back to Ruriek, and he answered simply: "Let your private soldiers arrest me. Ah! No!"

Rurik slapped his thigh abruptly. "You shouldn't be the only one to do this. Soon there will be a large number of food merchants stationing in tax-free Stockholm. These huge numbers of free fishermen may turn into bandits directly. For the sake of business stability, this group People who are almost extinct in business must be captured. I will transport them to Tombstone Island first, and then to the north and east. I will use very crude methods to clear the site and make sure that no one touches my business."

If thousands of fishermen are lost, it would not be a big blow to Stockholm. The white fox fully supports: "Great King Yingming! The local aristocrats are also happy now. I killed a group of gangs who disobeyed Wang Hua a few days ago. A large number of people came from these nasty fishermen. They have always been villains who destroy business. They are born. Despicable and dirty, like maggots in the dung."

Baihu said very emotionally, he really despised these free fishermen, and at the same time he echoed the king's decision.

It is these words that Rurik heard quite harshly, "Your words are too rough. I don't think they are maggots."

"what?"

"Poverty is the root of all evil. As long as they live like this, they will always be poor I am afraid they dare not lose their current life. They don't have the money to take the life of the whole family to risk, so I will be tough. means."

"Is this... letting the army land? It's like preparing for war?"

"Indeed. Or it is clearing. Stockholm is a trading port. There can only be nobles, merchants, and craftsmen serving merchants in the port area. My decision is made. I will contact the local nobles immediately. And you!"

"exist."

"Immediately rectify your garrison. You clearly mark the fishermen’s settlements and you must ensure that you do not catch the wrong people."

"Yes. I will do it tomorrow morning."

Lurik shook his head, "You do it now. I want to inform the nobles overnight. You immediately send a messenger to tell them to come here urgently and come to the Governor's Office. Especially Bjorn! Let him come quickly."

It is estimated that the king will do it in the next two days. This is really to build a stable and refreshing trading environment in the city in the early stage of large-scale grain trading. All merchants and land nobles are good things.

In the silent and dark night, messengers holding torches assemble assault.

Liurik taught himself as the king, which surprised many couriers who were coolie porters.

This is the order of the king, and everyone still holds a letter written by the king himself. They felt great respect, and even the possibility of making a fortune in the future, so they swore an oath, disappeared into the dark city, and went straight to the land nobles whose residences were in the city...