Rise of Rurik

The battle is won, and now comes the winner's feast!

In the stone room, someone began to violently drag the hair of the two women, which made the women cry in fright, and the protected children also screamed.

Arik couldn't stand the noise, and what was even worse, after seeing the gold and silver and the woman, his brothers obviously became a group of disorderly savages.

He shouted: "You all give me peace. All the prisoners, all the gold, are our spoils! Everyone has a share, don't rob it until it is fairly distributed!"

Perhaps at the beginning, Arik only had a reputation for fighting in tribal fighting games, but now, normal combat is the most heroic he has shown, especially when he personally kills the enemy generals. The young Rus, who worships heroes, is now following Arik's orders from the bottom of his heart.

The hand holding the woman's hair loosened, as did the hand trying to grab the gold coin.

Arik ordered his own people to retreat a little, then he personally walked into the two women who were terrified, looked down and asked: "Women, submit to us, you and your children can save their lives. I can guarantee that we will not kill slaves. Tell me, how many gold and silver coins are in the box?!"

As soon as they heard that their lives could be guaranteed, the two women instantly changed their posture and began to cooperate actively.

One person answered with a trembling voice: "One hundred thousand. At least one hundred thousand..."

The Viking tribes have known some of the Roman culture since ancient times, as well as the Roman numeral system. So in their concept, "one thousand" is already a huge number.

When doing business, sometimes larger numbers are used. They do not have a word to describe "ten thousand", but they do describe one million.

"One hundred thousand" means one hundred thousand.

"So many silver coins?! You didn't lie?" Arik asked in astonishment.

"Yes, my lord." The woman replied respectfully: "Each box has ten thousand silver coins. There is also a box full of gold. They are all yours. Your lord, you will...will guarantee our lives, right? ?"

Arik smiled and pointed at the woman's child: "You are all women, and I can guarantee your life. However, if you want to escape, you will be beheaded."

"We understand! We dare not escape, my master."

Viking women generally only want to live a stable life, and there seems to be no real peace in this sea area, and the war has never been suspended. The special environment makes them generally not feel that it is shameful to compromise after the war.

Although some women will commit suicide to pursue their husbands who died in battle.

More women will attach themselves to the new strong in order to survive, and the victor will immediately accept the captured women as wives and concubines.

Arik and Harrozuson are now very clear-headed. This battle is both revenge and robbery. Even now, the price paid by the Rus people is really unexpected.

The Rus did defeat an armed enemy roughly equal to their own. The enemy was a complete defeat, and it is roughly estimated that fifty people were killed on their own side. Others were seriously injured, and I'm afraid they won't last long.

The strength of the tribe has been weakened to a certain extent. If all the captured people are brought back, the strength will be supplemented to a certain extent.

In particular, a group of young women captured and brought back, will it give birth to many boys for Ross in a year? In this way, at least fifteen years later, the forces lost in this battle will be fully replenished.

However, those who can think of this level can be described as the elite of the tribe.

Ordinary surviving warriors just want gold and silver to become rich, and they want a wife to have a group of children, so as to realize the basic life pursuit of a man.

The amount of silver coins as many as 100,000 shocked Arik.

Because according to the negotiation before departure, the leader Otto fully approved the arrangement that almost all the participants would divide the spoils. Obviously, everyone realized that the big boss meant that the arrangement of the spoils in the future should also adhere to the new principle of who participates and who shares.

The world has indeed changed a lot, and this arrangement is obviously to put an end to the unearned gainers in the tribe.

It also stimulated the more frantic looting of the careerists.

Otto's decision was no problem.

Since in 829 AD, the Rus decided to end the state of dormancy forever and go out bravely, can the tribal culture remain unchanged? Without enough wealth to stimulate, who would be happy to explore the outside world? Since they are exploring outside, who would be willing to share the treasures found with the tribe's unearned rewards?

There were 450 people who participated in the crusade to the south. Arik tentatively believed that 50 brothers died in the battle, and all the money that was seized was still shared by everyone.

In fact, many people have already stuffed a pile of silver coins and other valuable things into their leather pockets made of seal stomachs in the initial melee, and everyone has become rich.

Come to think of it, it is unrealistic to ask everyone to hand over their personal seizures and distribute them equally.

Then, the gold and silver in all the chests in the stone chamber must be distributed equally.

As the woman said, there are 100,000 silver coins in all the boxes? ! What kind of concept is that?

The high-quality silver coins circulating in the market now have different stamps, and the weights are all cast according to the casting standard of one hundred Roman pound whites.

Therefore, 10,000 silver coins are equivalent to nearly 40 kilograms. Plus the huge, sturdy solid wood boxes that carry them. The box, together with the full load of silver coins, has a total of 70 kilograms, which is very normal.

A sturdy Ross warrior is fully capable of carrying a large rock of seventy kilograms.

Everyone fought hard, and when all the enemies were eliminated, everyone slacked off. Once the adrenaline was full of them, the hormone levels dropped, the arm pain and bruising pain began to disturb everyone. No one has been able to lift the entire cash box without much effort.

Just when Aric was thinking about what to do with so much gold and silver, Harrodzuson coughed twice and reminded loudly: "Aric, you and your brothers move all the boxes away. We must retreat immediately. We have no time and may come here. Enemy reinforcements are fighting."

"That's right!" Arik stomped his feet to stop his speculations about wealth, and called his brothers to act immediately.

When distributing gold and silver, of course, the pile of gold and silver should be distributed equally. This is something that everyone has discussed. For those brothers who died in battle, their relatives are still distributed, and not a single silver coin is less.

If there are another 100,000 silver coins, there will be 220 per person on average. There is enough money to order three amazing steel swords!

Thinking of this, Arik felt relieved. He has gained a lot of fame in this battle, which is largely due to the steel sword in the shuriken. Look at this sword, I used it to kill 20 people and cut off many iron swords, and now I look at its blade, there is still no breach!

Does each Russ get more than 200 silver coins? of course not!

Twenty boxes were found in several stone chambers, and the two captured women also volunteered to reveal where the keys were hidden.

In fact, these two women are only slaves of the dead Oxon. Due to the position of his eldest son, he did not give the slaves official wives and concubines. In this way, the children of slaves have no right to demand even a single silver coin from their eldest son in Jutland.

It is precisely because there is no name, Oxon promised to give birth to a son only. However, among the children born by the two girls, only one girl of each is still alive.

In a special era, the fertility rate of women and the survival rate of children are extremely low. Even the future Kingdom of Sweden, with its vast land, only had a population of half a million people in the sixteenth century.

The two women, both from Denmark, had lived with Oxon for many years, and it would be impossible to say that it was impossible to have a relationship.

However, at the most critical moment, Oxon, who decided to live a life, actually regarded his wife and daughter as a bargaining chip. Now, the two women just want to live by their new master.

Handing over the hidden keys and confessing to all the locations of Oxon's secret treasures is a name-call.

Things are suddenly going in an incredible direction!

In fact, all the wealthy Viking merchants who lived in Gotland had the habit of burying their silver. Dead Oxon was no exception.

He has a small cellar, and in it there are ten large boxes of ten thousand silver coins each. Other valuables were also thrown here, including some rubies, sapphires, and high-grade amber.

However, despite providing such a "name certificate", the two women, along with their daughter, were still tied up with twine by the Rus.

All the captives were tied with ropes and began to escort the boats to the beach.

The Rus people really gained amazing wealth in this battle!

They carried as many as 30 leather-covered wooden boxes that they had seized to the beach, opened the bronze locks with keys, and all they saw were Mandenden coins.

How many coins are there? It still needs to be shipped back to Roseburg for inventory and distribution.

We saw a lot of silver and copper coins. In a small leather wooden box, there are actually gold coins stacked!

"Wow! We've made a fortune!" Arik, who had already evacuated to the beach, saw the gold and silver that was full of gold and silver at a young age, and his heart could not help beating wildly. People's evaluations are true. Gotlanders are really rich! .

The warriors who came around, they had just washed their faces with sea water, and when they saw so much money, they were all shocked and sweaty, and some people laughed with joy.

Because many people have already stuffed twenty or thirty silver coins in their pockets, as well as many axe seized from the enemy.

How much money was in the box seized by the Rus?

Twenty boxes of silver coins, ten boxes of copper coins, and gold coins in a small box. There are 210,000 silver coins alone! There are also two thousand gold coins!

The wealthy businessmen of the Gotlanders love to hoard gold and silver, and it is not surprising that they have the strength to hoard 200,000 silver coins.

The Rus did not foolishly attack the northern part of the island, where many families can store up to 300,000 silver coins, and the gold master's mercenaries can also skyrocket to 200 or more. And the local ordinary people are also relatively wealthy, so men generally can afford chain mail to arm themselves.

It was not because the Russ heard Gould's intelligence that they dared not fight the enemy on the north of the island.

Everyone is tired now, and it is never a good idea to continue to expand the victory.

The Rus people stole so much money and burned the entire Thinkenburg. After a war, at least 800 local people died, and the entire settlement collapsed. The business of Oxon Oakens collapsed, and most of its funds were kept in safe castles and ended up being the wealth of others.

Oxen's eldest son also took part of the funds to develop in Jutland, the core area of ​​​​the Danes.

Just as Captain Okenstein said before his death, the actions of the Rus are provoking a war, a real war!

The Rus still didn't think about whether the Danes would avenge the Gotlanders. They were cheering for a large amount of gold and silver. In contrast, nearly eighty prisoners were sobbing pitifully, and sixty-five prisoners. The convergent Rus became the icy corpse.

"That's it." After inspecting the spoils, Harozov shouted at his men who were trying to share the spoils immediately: "We have avenged our revenge and leave now. Take everything we can with you! Let's go!"

Everyone woke up. They knew that they could not stay here for a long time. They immediately dragged their tired bodies and tried their best to push back the boats that washed up on the beach.

A great deal of booty was loaded onto the ships, especially the captured women. In order to prevent them from being short-sighted, the Rus people acted aggressively. All the prisoners were bound with their hands and feet, and almost all of them were carried by people to wear them. Many poor people were stuffed with hemp balls in their mouths, and their mouths were tied with hemp ropes.

Considering the long voyage, all the boxes full of gold and silver were deliberately installed on separate ships. After all, a box weighs close to one person, and if all of them are placed together, the ship will be overweight and even capsize.

The boxes must be separated, so that even if there is a loss in the storm when returning to the voyage, most of the ships will be able to survive the storm, and a large amount of gold and silver will still be transported to their hometown.

Captives and gold and silver, these were the carefully guarded spoils.

Others to be closely watched are the corpses of brothers who died in battle. Unlike the casually thrown prisoners, the bodies of the dead were laid neatly and stacked in the captured ships. The corpses carried their shields and axes, and were covered with seized sackcloth.

At this moment, the captured wooden boat carrying their bodies may be their future coffins. People string such boats decorated with dragon heads behind the main boats with hemp ropes and drag them along the way.

Those seized all kinds of metal objects, all kinds of marinated meat, all kinds of wheat kernels in sacks, some dried peas, leather, tableware, and even all kinds of daily necessities of the Death Castle Lord, all those that have not been burned will be destroyed. kidnapped by the Rus.

In particular, a sealed wooden barrel was found from the owner's house. A warrior imitated a puppy and sniffed out the smell of grapes with his nose - it was actually a barrel of wine.

When it was still late at night, the Rus launched a storm, and twenty ships washed the beach.

Now that the sun has risen high, the sun has fallen into the thick smoke that is constantly emerging, turning into a dimly swaying image.

One of the Rus's goals in this battle was to take revenge, and they were completely in a state of venting their anger, setting all their houses on fire. The thatched roofs of the people of Thinkenburg, and soon, the entire fishing village was plunged into a huge fire, the size of which was like a volcanic eruption, and the smoke was like a lighthouse!

The area of ​​Gotland Island seems to be small, and I have to feel that the island is not small when I live in it.

Thick smoke is a very clear warning sign, whether it's a volcanic eruption or something else. But how can the main forces of the Gotlanders living in the northern part of the island sit idly by!