Rise of Rurik

A looting is over? The appetite of the Viking army was satisfied?

In Edinburgh, which is mainly built with wood materials, the fire is developing rapidly and irreversibly. The looting people almost searched for available property in the fire, and finally all had to evacuate outside the city.

Viking warriors who died in fierce battles, or were wounded, could not be helped in the chaos.

Biyongni took his people and retreated with the soft soft he caught. The group of them can be said to be the last to evacuate, Biyonni and Floki, the two brothers' heads were soaked with sweat by the fire, and they evacuated with their teeth bared, obviously not very concerned about the barrenness of the amount of treasure they looted today. satisfy.

Isn't it said that the people here are very rich? The legendary gold and silver mountains do not exist.

Evacuated with the limited treasure mainly looted from the monastery, Biyonny was still hungry.

As night fell, Edinburgh, which was on the heights as a whole, burst into flames.

The entire city is burning violently, as if the earth is cracking and lava is spewing out.

The flames illuminated the darkness of the night, and people sat outside the city, panting and discussing with their friends what they had looted today.

There are also people who are regretting that they did not bring back the brothers who died in battle.

A heavy news was circulated in the temporary camp of the Viking army, and a large number of people also went to the forest camp personally selected by the commander-in-chief Rurik in order to verify the reliability of the news.

Sure enough, an unnamed corpse hangs from the top of an unnamed tree. It is said that the deceased is the chief of the burning city.

Is his name James? Or is it Edward? No one cared about the name of the Earl of Edinburgh of Northumbria, like those of the other defenders, whose name was not worth mentioning.

Some people still doubt the authenticity of the corpse until they see the enemy's flag, and the capture of exquisite swords.

These tokens are enough to prove that Rurik personally killed the leader of the enemy!

He was the one who took his cronies to destroy the enemy's drawbridge and attracted the army to siege the city quickly. He is still the one who kills the leader of the enemy.

When Biyonni brought people into the camp, he heard all kinds of discussions, the most important of which was the praise for Rurik.

"Listen. Our little brother is the real hero." Hearing the news, Biyonny, whose face was blood-stained, patted his younger brother Floki on the head.

"Rurik is a hero. However, his information is wrong.

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"Yeah." Biyonni sighed, "looting here, we weren't rich in World War I. Let's go, I want to talk to him."

After a while, Biyonny stood at Rurik's camp.

At this moment, Rurik was lying peacefully on the grass, resting with Erlang's legs crossed, waiting for his intimate work to come and find him.

Finally, the Biyonies came back.

"Why are you so dawdling? At one point I thought you were engulfed by your own fire." With that said, Rurik stood up.

Biyonni was examining the hanging corpse and shouted, "The rumor is true, that you killed this enemy chief?"

"Yes! No. This man was a nobleman and died in the chaos of the army. I'm afraid your people killed him, but it doesn't matter. Brothers, come and talk."

Rurik waved his hand in exchange for the Biyonni brothers, opened his mouth and asked, "Edinburgh has turned into a sea of ​​fire, and every brother must have made a fortune."

For this matter, Biyonni is still in a brood. He noticed that there were a large number of carriages and a large number of sacks in Rurik's camp, and just sat down cross-legged and asked, "These sacks are full of wheat?"

"Yes."

"Huh? Didn't you take part in the looting? Did you get a lot of gold and silver?"

"No." Rurik denied, but there was no regret on his face.

"Ah! You... don't regret it?"

"Sorry? There are some, Edinburgh is not as rich as it seems. You Balmers are busy scavenging for gold and silver, and I can only take the opportunity to save a batch of grain before the fire destroys the granary. Biyonni, it seems You are not satisfied."

"Of course." Biyonni sighed again and sighed: "I brought the guys to get a few boxes of silver at the monastery..."

"Ah! Silver? How much?"

"Four boxes and five boxes are obviously not enough to pay us for a big ship."

"This is the chief wealth of the people of Edinburgh?" Rurik asked cautiously.

"Probably so. The coins are to be distributed among my guys. I have more than 20 dead brothers, and the living and the dead have the right to share the silver equally. According to the rules we set before, these silver coins are all Mine. And the Geiger brothers, those Gasherby guys got a bunch of goodies too. As for the others, they got nothing but some iron and cloth and food. Now you see, the city is here Burn, I dare say no one is satisfied."

When Biyongni said this, his meaning couldn't be clearer.

Rurik's eyes stared earnestly at his brother Biyonni: "Then find a new target!"

"Okay! We're already here. If we go inland, we can sack the nearby villages. At least we can get another batch of sheep and wheat to fill our stomachs."

"That's okay? I...I can't believe it, you've lost your desire for gold and silver."

"Are you questioning me?" Biyonni slapped his thigh violently and complained simply: "You said that everyone can get rich by looting this place, but obviously that's not the case. You should...really set a new goal."

Rurik smiled slightly embarrassedly, and then he stood up slowly, pointing his right hand to the south.

"I got a piece of good news from the locals. There is an island in the south. It is one of their temples (referring to the monastery). There is a lot of treasure there. We should rush over and take it for ourselves."

"Ah! Could it be that the locals lied to you? Their so-called wealth is just a bragging?"

"Probably not." Rurik shrugged and smiled deliberately; "I learned that about thirty years ago, someone looted there and took away a lot of treasure. According to my analysis, it was the Bergen people at that time. Good job. They plundered a lot of gold, silver and slaves, which led to the conquest of a large number of sea warriors. Our Shetland allies have also migrated to those islands because of this."

How does Biyongni immediately understand these messages? The core of Rurik's words is to give everyone a new good news.

Biyonny didn't bother to think any more, he and his younger brother Floki were both tired from hacking and slashing, and they only thought of taking good care of their heads and hands by the stream flowing into the sea.

"Enough! Let's attack a new target. I think all brothers are very welcome. It's not suitable to stay in a sea of ​​fire here for a long time. I plan to rest for a night and go out tomorrow. What do you think?"

"Alright." Rurik nodded: "I'm not worried about the enemy's regular troops counterattack, I guess not. We don't need to fight, we don't need to stay here. The new target I learned is called Lindisfarne Dao, please tell the brothers as much as possible about this news."

"Okay. Why don't we organize a meeting tomorrow morning to have a chat." After that, Biyonny stood up and left with his brother Floki.

Rurik's territory finally fell silent, and as the hanging pottery urn cooked the wheat, Rurik sprinkled the salt and began to taste the food.

The captured Paul is now a slave, and this person is just a "skilled serf" under the Earl of Edinburgh. Compared with the previous treatment, the current situation is not very bad.

Rurik had no intention of persecuting this "useful tool in the future", so he allowed him to gorge on wheat, and after hearing that he was poor and unable to marry, he promised to arrange for him to marry a slave girl after arriving in the far north. As for that female slave, she was probably a kidnapped woman from Northumbria.

Paul was even relieved to think of these things. He even began to think in the shoes of these sea barbarians, and began to compare his new masters with his old masters.

During the day, Paul was a humble grain officer, preparing food for the south. Now, he has become a slave of the sea barbarian Vikings.

The huge change did not destroy his heart. Anyway, he was a slave all his life because he was poor. Apart from belief, there was nothing he could not lose. And his new master, this beautiful young man who claims to be called Rurik, not only does not reject his own beliefs, but does this young man still know something about that sacred belief?

In short, Paul is possessed by Stockholm Syndrome.

He received no abuse in the barbarian camp, except that he was not free to leave. And the once noble Earl is now in a situation like a dangling salted fish.

In order to survive, it was Paul who revealed something about Lindisfarne Abbey, which he also realized after thinking about it! It turns out that in 792, a group of barbarians who attacked and looted the monastery, and the barbarians who destroyed Edinburgh in the first battle today, they must be a family after 40 years!

Explaining this to the enemy may be a betrayal of God?

He couldn't care less. Not only will the new master not take away his faith, but he also promises a lot of rewards after doing things, just because the new master urgently needs a knowledgeable food officer. He was never a saint. If selling the news of that holy place could bring him wealth in the future, he would sell it without hesitation. This is the so-called dead Taoist friend who is not dead. He firmly believes that because of this, he will get something unprecedented from the new master.

How true is Paul's unsolicited information?

Rurik was willing to believe 97% of what he said was true.

In this era, the whole of Britain was poor. The Saxons continued to conquer the country, and the whole of Britain was in constant internal friction. Therefore, they could be defeated by various Viking colonists, and finally they were devoured by the big Danfa area. . Their main wealth is concentrated in monasteries around the world. Ordinary people are struggling with food and clothing. Due to poor nutrition and sanitation, the infant mortality rate of local people is very high. Every birth of a woman is a life-and-death journey. Go, so the population is also maintained at a low level.

It was not only the thrift and abstinence passed on by the priests that forced the Northumbrian peasants to live in poverty; the most crucial factor was that there was no basis for a better life at their roots.

Their spiritual life is still peaceful, as if in this short life, apart from paying taxes to the nobles, going to war with farm implements and going to the army, they regularly go to the monastery to listen to the eloquence of the priest.

Pity the few captured women, who were tortured by the Viking conquerors all night, and in the early morning, many of them were tortured to death.

The men who did this kind of thing, including the Vashobi men, obviously planned to take these women back to their hometowns, but they never thought that their one-night indulgence would kill them. As long as there are still living women, their spirits have collapsed and they have become out-and-out cripple. In the end, Guyger has no choice but to order the guys to give the mentally ill a treat.

It was dawn, and the Vikings, who had slept in a mess, got up one after another in the rising sun.

People saw that the fire in Edinburgh was still sparsely populated, the blue sky was blowing with gusts of southerly winds, and huge plumes of smoke were still rising into the sky.

All the heads of families who fought, the bravest warriors, and representatives of those Shetlanders.

A total of more than 30 people stood in Rurik's camp, and everyone sat in front of the horrific corpse of the grey-white Earl of Edinburgh still hanging, listening to Rurik explain what happened next.

Before that, all parties also reported their losses to each other. A siege was over. Including the fighting in the city, the army had killed a total of forty brothers. It is very sad that the bodies have been turned to ashes in the fire.

Of course, some people say that the brothers who died in battle are to be pulled out and burned in the open air. Where the dead died, they died in battle, and their souls must go to Valhalla.

Pairs of eyes were staring at Rurik's handsome face, Rurik then glanced at the group of Balmerk allies, and their deep eyes revealed greater ambition.

"You, a pack of sea wolves that can't get enough to eat. Apparently you still can't be satisfied after our victory over Edinburgh. I heard that most of you didn't grab any gold or silver?"

Speaking of this, everyone immediately expressed their unwillingness.

"Don't be angry. I'm going to attack a place in the south called Lindisfarne."

At this moment, Gasherby's Geiger bluntly interjected: "Please tell the brothers, is there any gold and silver there?!"

"Oh? It's my brother Geiger. Your father Osten expects you to lead your guys to make a fortune." To be honest, Rurik was quite dissatisfied with this son's interjection, but these savages were indeed interested in making a fortune. full of longing. "Just keep trusting me. Attacking that Lindisfarne will get you a lot of gold and silver."

Rurik immediately patted his chest like everyone else and assured: "If there is no treasure there, the Bergen people who came home with a lot of money can't explain it. It's still very rich there, and we're going to occupy it and take gold and silver. If We have achieved new victories and you are still not satisfied, we can continue south. We are strong enough to attack any town we encounter this summer along the coastline of the Great British Isle, until our ships can no longer carry any more loot. ."

"Then do it!" Geiger suddenly drew out his iron sword, "I plan to leave after I finish eating the wheat."

"I agree too." Biyonni echoed.

Immediately, everyone deeply agreed, and everyone was afraid that they would be one step behind and thus be at a disadvantage in looting.

Seriously, Rurik didn't think his noble status would really make these guys take it seriously. Only Rus and Ruth's servants would be convinced that their Lord Rurik was blessed by Odin, and the reason for their unwavering belief was that the most mundane of Ruths did benefit greatly from it.

In the same way, all self-proclaimed noble is a trick to win over others and do it with yourself. If you say too much and you believe it, it will be too stupid.

The current situation left Rurik a little nervous, that is, if this group of pirates in essence is not satisfied, they will be furious, and it is not impossible to suddenly tear up the covenant. After all, the Magnut family is not the supreme power of the Balmer clan. Those families will only continue to recognize the status of the Magnut family and recognize the Biyonni brothers if they benefit from it. The commander-in-chief of the Magnut family's son-in-law.

Rurik has now drawn another big pie. Obviously, all the elites of the Balmers have once again recognized the legitimacy of their own right to rule for the sake of making a fortune.