Rise of Rurik

Gould knew the character of Otto, and Otto was not a shameless bastard for money, and he was quite honest with others.

He believes that it is precisely because Otto is brave and honest and fair that he can miraculously command a large clan to be stable for ten years!

It's just that things are different now.

Gould stated that he spends a lot of money to buy furs made by the Rus people every year when winter is coming to an end. This year's situation is extremely special. He has paid a thousand silver coins for this purpose. Make a fortune at the Alliance Grand Bazaar.

"I still have 4,000 silver coins to buy your goods. I know that at this stage you can't mass-produce magical steel swords. For this, I paid your blacksmith up to 200 silver coins and asked him to give me priority to build one. I paid a huge sum of money and still have to wait for many days to get the short sword with gold pattern for self-defense. The swords you have made recently are amazing. I don't think you will take the initiative to export steel swords."

When it comes to the steel sword, this matter is indeed very sensitive.

In any era, exporting weapons is an absolute profiteering, not to mention that there is already a terrible generation gap between the low carbon steel sword and the ordinary wrought iron sword.

Weapons are often a little bit smarter than the enemy, and their manifestation on the battlefield is often a terrifying crushing.

Alto and his guys naturally realized that exporting weapons indiscriminately might be a foolish thing to shoot themselves in the foot, not to mention that a strong man can easily cut off an ordinary iron sword with a steel sword.

"I... I admire your courage." Otto spoke in a low voice, with a hint of threat in his attitude.

How could Gould not be aware of this threat, he motioned the bodyguards beside him to stay relaxed, and with his round and greasy face full of fat, he showed that he was a smart person with a business-style smile.

He bowed slightly respectfully again, indicating that he intends to buy soap in a big way.

"I will keep the matter of your steel sword a secret, everyone present, we must be strict with ourselves. If I reveal the news of the steel sword, great leader, you can confiscate all my property in Roseburg. On commercial matters , we are perfect allies, I will never betray wealth, and your care.

Now, I am willing to spend four thousand silver coins to buy your sopa.

Ordinary sopa you sell two silver coins, I give three. You sell three silver coins for the yellow and white ones, and I give four! I want as much as you have! When the snow melts, I will organize a fleet to transport them away. Now, I just want to know if you can do it in sixty days? "

"Okay!" Otto said without thinking. In fact, if the priests had been working, it was not impossible to accomplish it. What's more, the priests have stockpiled more than 300 bars of soap, which are being stored in a relatively warm wooden house where the water cannot freeze, and they are undergoing the so-called natural air-drying treatment.

4,000 silver coins. To get it, you need to dump more than 1,000 bars of soap. It is not a big problem to produce it in 60 days, or you have to order people to catch seals.

Commercial transactions were very smooth. One notable difference between Otto and Rurik in this regard was that Otto did not feel it necessary to engrave the transaction on a wooden board and produce a written transaction contract.

Orally, since the two of them are both honest people, does it seem like they have a relationship when they talk about the contract documents?

Otto raised the glass to clink with Gould, which is also the friendship between the leader and the big businessman.

Gould, who had entered a slightly drunk state, felt quite comfortable, and couldn't help but talk about another thing: "Leader,

You are going to establish a new stronghold in the East, I already know this. I have not been to the legendary Novgorod, and I would be very happy if I could do business with those people. "

"Oh, yes? Those guys are stupid, but they can provide a lot of fur. If you want, next fall, you can follow us. Haha, seeing those married women, you should understand Nove The women of Gorod are beautiful. Perhaps you would like to have a new concubine."

"Maybe!" Gould shrugged, "Great leader, maybe you don't understand the consequences of too many concubines. They are a group of quarrelsome women, and they have given birth to me many children, and I have settled them. . . . " Gould complained that his women were jealous, but they were actually getting more money from their fathers for their children.

There is a difference between a merchant and a warrior.

Ordinary people have warriors who are not afraid of death. Because of their limited wealth, such a family can only inherit the wealth as much as possible for the eldest son. The businessman is different. After all, the palms of the hands and the backs of the hands are full of meat. If you give all the wealth to the eldest son, he will surely suffer the hatred of other sons.

Moreover, business behavior is completely different from warrior behavior.

The boys of the whole family, and even the girls who married, have been united in their lives since then, so that the family can use the expanding network of relationships to obtain greater wealth. Because for businessmen, the way to obtain wealth is to be a smart second-order dealer, to find ways to obtain information, to buy low and sell high, and to speculate smartly, there is no other way.

"I still don't want to have a new concubine. Great leader, I don't think I am a loyal person, and you are such a good person."

Otto understood what Gould meant. Want to find a way to marry a new concubine? It wasn't that he never thought about it, and he and his wife Bona didn't reject it outright.

This matter ended with the accident of the two sons one after another. Now, Otto has no such thoughts anymore.

Gould didn't want to continue talking about women. It was his goal to make the family business bigger.

He bowed his head and suddenly asked another thing that must have alarmed Otto.

"Great Chief, I noticed your young people clamoring for revenge, clamoring to make those Gotlanders pay in blood. Are you really doing this? Are you..." Gould deliberately paused. , "Are you ready to attack." Starter

The once happy atmosphere suddenly cooled down.

Otto frowned and thought for a while, and the corners of her eyes were also aware of the changes in the expressions of her subordinates. He finally revealed, "I'm not particularly happy about it. But those young people, they..."

Otto didn't give a clear answer at all, but his hesitation was tacit consent in Gould's view.

Otto is old, and many things are out of his control. He simply cannot suppress a group of young people's thirst for great wealth with the attitude of an old man and his battle-hardened historical experience. What's more, there is a "righteousness" called revenge for blood relatives in the attack on Gotland.

Gould realized Otto's hesitation, "I know that many years ago those nasty islanders attacked your caravan and killed your people. In terms of hatred, they also attacked your people in farther times. This revenge must be avenged!

I can understand your anger. If my children were killed by them, I would hire warriors at a high price to avenge my bloated man. "

Gould's remarks were very useful, and Otto and his close associates were moved.

After all, they are allies of the same alliance, those guys from Gotland can be described as common enemies!

Gould actually believed that either the Ross tribe would not mention it, and once it was brought up after many years, it would be a coward to hold back revenge, and their young people must be busy sharpening their knives. He even boldly assumed that the booming business of the Kravason Blacksmith Shop might have something to do with revenge. He sent his subordinates to inquire, and learned that even many families with little wealth are trying to order a steel sword without any decoration, as long as it can be used on the battlefield.

The current situation must be very delicate, look at Otto, the great leader of the Rus! Otto himself may be a calm existence, but Gould clearly felt a strong murderous aura and the desire for wealth in the eyes of the other group of strong men sitting.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Gould deliberately cut to the crux of the topic.

"Great leader, I do know a little about Gotland."

"Oh? Then tell me." Otto urged.

"Yes. As for those people...even though they are hostile to our alliance, there are still businessmen doing private transactions. They even landed on the island in disguise many years ago and did some business with those islanders. They feel I'm actually a Dane, and I've fooled them and saved my life by dressing up. I've earned a silver coin, and I know a little about Gotland."

The guy's words contained some surprising insider, and Otto pressed: "Oh? How did you fool them?"

"Hey, I didn't use any special means at all." Gould boasted: "I organized a small fleet, and my ships did not have any special decorations, just some ordinary transport ships. My people are at night. Rowing and even hired a little cash-strapped Danish farmer as rower. You know, many Danes don't care about alliances, they'll work for you as long as there is money to be made.

We started from Lake Mälaren and continued paddling through the night and round the island from the east. As we circled to the west side of the island, we swaggered along during the day.

I landed as a Dane and provided the islanders with a large pile of sheepskins, who no longer doubted my identity when they saw them. I'm just a businessman, and when I make money, I take my people away. "

Introducing his own so-called thrilling business operation, Gould has always had a proud smile on his face.

This smile made Harrodsen a little displeased, and he asked loudly: "Businessman! You are doing business with those enemies, isn't that something to be proud of?"

"Huh? Don't you understand what I mean?" Soon, Gould's eyes glanced at Otto: "Great leader, I think you can understand."

At this moment, Otto was silent.

In fact, behind Otto's silence, he was already planning a tactic to attack the Gotlanders, and it was Gould who provided this tactic that might lead to a great victory!

Gould, however, took Otto's silence as the other party's incomprehension, so he simply explained the matter thoroughly: "If you attack, you must not take a short cut, and do not attack from the northwest of the island, Goth The Lan people are vigilant in that regard.

They especially like that silver and gold have a lot of wealth, and they have the money to recruit a group of mercenaries composed of various people, and they become very powerful! If you want revenge, don't land without enough strength. If you insist on landing, look at the landing from the southwest. You can loot quickly, but leave as soon as it gets dark. Your army must be at least five hundred people, otherwise the number is too small, and it is very likely that the entire army will be wiped out due to the failure to withdraw in time. I'm sure you guys are very brave, those Gotlanders are definitely not bad! "ァ新ヤ~⑧~1~中文网ωωω.χ~⒏~1zщ.còм

Hearing this, Harrozosen was not happy: "We killed more than ten people in the past, and we cut off two hundred of them! We won a big victory! Those Gotlanders are a bunch of idiots!"

"Really?" Gould's temper suddenly rose, and he looked at Harrodsen's face: "That was more than seven years ago, and I still vaguely remember it. What kind of ships did you seize? They were all ordinary. of fishing boats. And the rusted axes and crooked spearheads that were captured, but inferior weapons. What you did was to kill a bunch of stupid fishermen who didn't even have leather armor. Those who died were not Gotland at all. The best of men! If the Gotlanders really are a bunch of idiots, how can our alliance still fight so hard in Gotaland?"

"No! They're just a bunch of idiots." Harrodsen insisted on his own opinion, after all, he cut down a group of Gotland raiders back then.

There was a quarrel in the scene, and Otto knew that this matter was of great significance, and he raised his hand to signal to shut up.

After the scene cooled, Otto deliberately put on a respectful gesture to face Gould: "You are a brave and wise businessman, I really appreciate the important information you provide. Regarding whether the Gotlanders are powerful enemies , My inclination is that they are indeed powerful. My own younger brother died in their hands, and I wish I had a chance to eradicate them completely and take away all their wealth. But I have thought about it a lot over the years, just With the strength of our Rus, it is impossible to completely defeat them, and at most achieve a surprise victory in a narrow battlefield.

Merchant, I need more information from you. I really want to know how rich the Gotlanders are and what their elite strength is. "

Being honored by the leader of a large clan, Gould felt extremely respected, which is one of the few things that money can't buy!

Of course, Gould has to provide more information. If he wants to gain a foothold and develop in the Rus people in the future, he must further gain the trust of their leaders. He made an embarrassing blow at the Gotlanders to reflect his strategic value to the Rus.

How rich are the Gotlanders? For example, a large number of maids, endless wine, endless barbecue, and piles of gold higher than people. What he said was so vivid, and it made others believe it very much. These words are not only for Otto, but also to inspire the conquest of the "generals" around Otto.

Otto is calm, and his subordinates must have a large number of radicals. Looking at the trembling eyes of this group of people when they heard the word "gold", Gould felt that his incitement had succeeded.

Attack the Gotlanders? Russ will definitely do it.

Now that the problem has become quite clear, Gould believes that since he has even revealed a reasonable offensive line, how can the Russ not do it?