Chapter 142 - The Trip To Fort North

At the dock of the tribe, Einar was saying goodbye to his wives as he had to start taking all the new settlers and soldiers to the North fort that he had founded on the island.

Unlike the expedition that they had done last year, Einar this time only planned to stay for about a week or two because if they stayed longer it would be unnecessary because the creation process had to be done by the new settlers completely alone.

He would only be in charge of supervising the first stages of the construction of the village since the fort was in a good area and the other thing he had to guarantee was that there was a nearby water source or, failing that, a water well could be made with which to obtain the vital liquid without many problems.

After saying goodbye, he boarded the ship with his father, and then the great ship began to set sail towards the north. Unlike the first expedition, the outward journey was much faster.

Because not many ice eardrums were found in the sea like the first time they were, while Einar was enjoying the sights Iceland had to offer, his father sat next to him and handed him a horn that had herbal liqueur on it.

"What are you thinking, son, I see you too interested in the beautiful but useless landscape we have on the island?"

Einar shook his head and drank from the horn "Father, no land is useless, it is only that we have not learned to take advantage of it. If we can send some artisans to check those mountains, perhaps we could discover valuable resources or a source of water that allows us to found a new city.

Although what worries me most is not if we can fund a new city but if we can maintain it in the long term because even if the Island has trees that guarantee us that tomorrow we will not have completely extinct them.

When the traders come, I will tell them to bring most of the Nordic people who want to find a new life to the island, not to mention that I will also end up buying quite a few slaves.

In this way, this year we will begin with the preparations to found different towns on the beautiful coastline of the Island, these towns will have to be fortified because their main task will be to have any kind of threat that comes from the south or the continent.

Having all our coastline protected and connected to each other, then Father we will begin the conquest of the north to the great snow moor called Greenland, It may be a completely hostile area for life but the importance it has is more than that because we can do it at least 4 cities in all of Greenland.

We will guarantee a route to reach the new continent where all our problems will have ended, but then new problems will begin because we will have to be able to trade or completely conquer the peoples that inhabit that land.

Although if we want to have a large area of ​​land and be able to maintain it without problems, we will have to conquer and not exterminate because although it may sound easier to kill, the time it takes to reproduce is too slow.

In addition, with the new style of the nation that I plan to do, it is not going to matter the color of the skin, the tribe to which it belongs, or the place of birth.

As long as they know that they have to give everything to the nation where they are and create in their minds an idea of ​​patriotism, then we can grow without worrying about possible problems in the future.

One of the biggest problems that Rome had was that having numerous cultures could never assimilate all of them, therefore when the barbarian peoples began to arrive, all those tribes in the Roman Empire simply collapsed.

In the case that we manage to conquer a culture that has enough traditions and history, we will only have to assimilate it slowly to make their traditions our own and that they feel identified.

It will be a process of hundreds of years but the result will be that our culture will become prosperous again, our traditions will increase and our children and grandchildren will be able to enjoy a diverse and diverse history.

But despite this, we always have to be careful because if we manage to assimilate all the cultures we conquer, we always run the risk of creating feelings of identity with the fallen nation or tribe.

That is why all the peoples that we conquer will have to always follow the same language as their original languages ​​will have to be completely forgotten.

Of course, there could always be exceptions because if we use those languages ​​to our advantage, no enemy could decipher our messages. "

Sven who had just finished listening to his son took a big gulp from his jug of herbal liqueur and subsequently put his hand on Einar's shoulder.

"You know if your grandfather was still alive, I'm sure he would take you on an expedition to Miklagard just so you could learn the form of government that the Romans use because, in fact, he made the reforms in the tribe from there.

But the way you talk about that form of government that you are going to implement makes me very curious. Einar, are you going to turn our family into a symbol or a form of government with Christians? "

Einar scratched his chin and looked at the beautiful sea. "According to Odin's information in the world, there are two nations which will maintain their royal family, one of them is in the British Isles and the other is in the Far East.

But the one that was most successful was the one in the Far East, and you know why father ... "

Sven shook his head and looked curiously at his son.

"Because they became the nucleus of the nation they created, even they themselves are descendants of the gods according to their own religion, thousands of years may have passed and countless governments managed that island in the far East but they never dared to attack the imperial family.

Well, as a symbol you were more important than simply taking them and eliminating them. Of course, we can always learn what is important from their history and discard what does not serve us.

For and I plan to create three powers, the imperial power, which will be in the hands of our family and will be superior to the other two powers, the judicial power with which it will be in charge of carrying out all the laws of the empire and will be in charge. of dispensing justice.

Last but not least is the legislative power in which the laws and reforms that our nation needs will be made, each province of the empire will necessarily have a guaranteed seat.

That seat will be used by a legislator who must be elected in the province where he comes from and will have to be elected by the people.

By doing it in this way, all the provinces will have a representative with whom they can reform and create the laws that our nation requires, as the provinces of the good empire the systems will be different because if an election is allowed to be made, it would be provided for the creation of mafias and powers which would not have a filler.

That is why we have to retake the knowledge that the ancient Greeks left with what true democracy was, which consisted of choosing random people who met the requirements and who will serve as those in charge of doing government work.

In this way, anyone who participates and who gets to have a place in the government will be only by their luck and therefore will not be able to create a sphere of influence with which to be able to lend themselves to commit a crime or steal money from the state.

In addition, if we add laws with death sentences for those who dare to steal or falsify government evidence, we will be able to keep corruption at a fairly low level, preventing situations like those of the Roman Empire from occurring.

Where those in charge of the provinces sometimes did not do their part and they simply ended up stealing the money, therefore the constructions that were needed were never finished or worse still were lent to have them resolved.

With a fairly decentralized form of government, we will avoid many of those things, but we also need a force in the shadows that is the iron hand of our family with which we can assassinate any threat before it can be too late.

Although on the surface our family seems like a symbol and perhaps many consider it the pillar of the nation, we cannot always guarantee that foreigners think the same way, therefore having the interior and exterior of the nation guarded will not be very useful when we want to. make strategies.

But I guess I've already spread out more than I should. You don't think we should change the subject. Thinking about this just makes me realize that I need to make major changes in our tribe. "

Sven started laughing and ran out of his horn liquor "That just shows that you care too much for our tribe and the future our descendants will have but Einar, one piece of advice I can give you as a parent is to just take it easy on the government.

I know that you are going to do everything that you propose but you must understand that people's hearts are sometimes more complicated than you think, for example, your grandfather carry out the reforms and even with that there you have the case of Ivar who was agreed, and he ended up launching a challenge against you.

Although I am sure that you will be able to eliminate all those obstacles that prevent the Advancement of the tribe, you have to be careful because there are always going to be people who are not going to like what you do and the worst of all is that they can be people close to you or the tribe.

But leaving that issue aside, I think we should enjoy this beautiful climate because believe me, sometimes the sea in this area is calm and other times it can be quite horrible because the weather changes in this place sometimes scare me. "