A robbery comes to an end? Is the appetite of the Viking army satisfied?
In Edinburgh, which is mainly built with wooden materials, the fire is developing irreversibly and rapidly. The looting people almost searched for usable property in the fire, and finally everyone had to evacuate outside the city.
Viking warriors died in the fierce battle, or were injured, and they could not get help in the chaos.
Biyongni led his men and retreated with all the fish they had caught. This group of people was the last to evacuate, Biyoni and Floki. The two brothers' heads were burned by the fire and they were sweating profusely. They evacuated with bared teeth. They were obviously very dissatisfied with the meager amount of treasure they had plundered today. satisfy.
Didn't we say that the people here are very wealthy? The legendary mountains of gold and silver do not exist.
Withdrawing the limited treasure that the Lord had looted from the monastery, Biyongni still felt hungry.
As night fell, Edinburgh, which was located in the highlands, burst into flames.
The entire city was burning violently, as if the earth was cracking and lava was gushing out.
The fierce flames illuminated the darkness of the night. People sat outside the city, panting and discussing the gains of today's plunder with their friends.
There are also people who regret that they did not bring back their brothers who died in the war.
A piece of heavy news spread in the temporary camp of the Viking army. In order to confirm the reliability of the news, a large number of people went to the forest camp personally selected by the commander Rurik to find out.
Sure enough, an unknown corpse was hanging from the top of an unknown tree. It was said that the deceased was the leader of the burning city.
His name is James? Or Edward? No one cares about the name of the Earl of Edinburgh in Northumbria, just like the other soldiers in the garrison, whose names are not worth mentioning.
Some saw the corpses and still doubted their authenticity until they saw the enemy's flags and the capture of fine swords.
These tokens are enough to prove that Rurik personally killed the enemy leader!
He was the one who successfully destroyed the enemy's suspension bridge with his cronies and led the army to quickly attack the city. He was still the one who killed the enemy leader.
When Biyongni led 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." After hearing the news, Biyongni, whose face had dried blood, patted his brother Floki on the head.
"Rurik is a hero. However, the information he provided was wrong."
"Yes." Biyongni sighed, "Looting here, we are not rich in one battle. Let's go, I want to talk to him."
After a while, Biyongni stood at Rurik's camp.
At this moment, Rurik was lying calmly on the grass, taking a nap with his legs crossed, waiting for his intimate work to come to find him.
Finally, Biyongni and his gang came back.
"Why are you so stubborn? At one point I thought you were engulfed in the fire you set." With that said, Rurik stood up.
Biyongni was inspecting the hanging dead body and shouted: "Is the rumor true? Did you kill this enemy chief?"
"Yes! No. This man was a noble and died in the rebellion. I'm afraid your people killed him, but it doesn't matter. Brothers, come here and talk."
Rurik waved his hand and replaced the Biyoni brothers, opened his mouth and asked: "Edinburgh turned into a sea of fire, every brother must have become rich."
Biyongni was very worried about this matter. He noticed that there were a number of carriages and a large number of sacks in Rurik's camp. As soon as he sat down cross-legged, he asked: "Are these sacks filled with wheat?"
"Yes."
"Huh? Didn't you participate in the robbery? Did you get a lot of gold and silver?"
"Not really." Rurik denied, with no regrets on his face.
"Ah! Are you... not sorry?"
"Regret? There are some. Edinburgh is not as rich as it appears. You Balmoks are busy collecting gold and silver and killing people everywhere. I can only take the opportunity to save a batch of grain as much as possible before the fire destroys the granary. Biyongni, it looks like You are not satisfied."
"Of course." Biyongni sighed again and sighed: "I took the guys and got a few boxes of silver from the monastery..."
"Ah! Silver? How much?"
"A mere four or five boxes is obviously not enough to cover the cost of buying a big ship."
"This is the main wealth of Edinburgh people?" Rurik asked cautiously.
"That's probably the case. The coins will be distributed to my brothers. I have more than twenty brothers who have died, and the living and 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 Vashobi guys also grabbed a batch of treasures. As for the others, except for some iron tools, cloth and food, they got nothing. Now you see, the city is already here Burning, I dare say no one is satisfied.”
When Biyongni said this, his meaning was very clear.
Rurik's eyes stared seriously at his Biyoni brothers: "Then find a new target!"
"Okay! We are already here. If we attack inland, we can sack the nearby villages. At least we can get another batch of sheep and wheat to fill our stomachs."
"Is this okay? I...I can't believe that you have lost your desire for gold and silver."
"Are you questioning me?" Biyongni slapped his thigh fiercely and simply complained: "You said that everyone can get rich by looting this place. Obviously this is not the case. You should... really determine a new target."
Rurik smiled slightly awkwardly, then he slowly stood up and pointed his right hand towards the south.
"I asked for good news from the locals. There is an island in the south. It is one of their temples and monasteries. There are a lot of treasures there. We should rush over and take possession of it."
"Ah! Could it be that the locals are deceiving you? Their so-called wealth is just a boast?"
"Probably not." Rurik shrugged and smiled deliberately; "I learned that about thirty years ago, someone robbed there and took away a batch of treasures. According to my analysis, it was the Bergen people at that time It was a good thing. They robbed a lot of gold, silver, and slaves, which led to a large number of sea warriors to conquer. Our Shetland allies also moved to the islands because of this."
How did Biyongni understand these messages immediately? The core of what Rurik said is to give everyone new good news.
Biyongni was too lazy to continue thinking. He and his brother Floki were both too tired from killing and just wanted to use their heads and hands by the stream flowing into the sea.
"That's enough! Let's attack a new target. All brothers must be very welcome. This place is a sea of fire and it is not suitable to stay for a long time. I plan to rest for one night and then go on the expedition tomorrow. What do you think?"
"That's fine." Rurik nodded: "I'm not worried about the counterattack of the enemy's regular troops. I guess there won't be any. We don't need to fight or stay here. The new target I learned is called Lindisfarne. Dao, please tell your brothers this news as much as possible."
"Okay. Why don't we organize a meeting tomorrow morning to talk." After that, Biyongni stood up and left with his brother Floki.
Rurik's territory finally fell into silence. As the hanging pottery urn cooked the wheat, Rurik sprinkled salt and began to taste the delicious food.
The captured Paul is now a slave. He is just a "skilled serf" under the Earl of Edinburgh. Compared with his previous treatment, the current situation is not very bad.
Rurik had no intention of persecuting this "future useful tool", so he allowed him to eat a lot of wheat. After hearing that he was unable to marry because of poverty, he promised to arrange for him to marry a slave girl after arriving in the far north. As for the female slave, she was probably a woman kidnapped from the Kingdom of Northumbria.
Thinking about these things, Paul even felt a little relieved. He even began to think about things from the standpoint of these sea barbarians, and began to compare the differences between his new master and his old master.
During the day, Paul was a humble grain official, preparing grain to be shipped to the south. Now, he has become a slave to the Vikings, a barbarian tribe on the sea.
The huge change did not destroy his heart. Anyway, he was a poor man who had been a slave all his life. Apart from his faith, he had nothing to lose. And his new master, this beautiful young man who calls himself Rurik, not only does not reject his belief, but also has some understanding of the sacred belief?
In short, Paul suffers from Stockholm Syndrome.
He was not treated in any way in the barbarian camp except that he was not allowed to leave freely. And the once noble Earl, his current situation is like a hanging salted fish.
In order to survive, even Paul revealed some things about Lindisfarne Abbey, and he suddenly realized it based on thinking! It turns out that in the year 792, a group of barbarians attacked and plundered the monastery, and the barbarians who destroyed Edinburgh in a battle today, they must be the same family after 40 years.
Perhaps it would be a treasonous God to tell this to his enemies?
He no longer cares about so much. Not only will the new master not take away his faith, but he also promises to give him a lot of rewards after doing things, just because the new master urgently needs a knowledgeable grain officer. He was never a saint. If selling out the news about that holy land could bring him prosperity in the future, he would sell it out without hesitation. This is the so-called dead Taoist friend but not the poor Taoist. He firmly believes that he will get something unprecedented from his new master because of this move.
How true is Paul’s unsolicited information?
Rurik wanted to believe that 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 strife. This was why they were defeated by the various Viking colonists, and finally they were able to eat away at the large Danfa area. . Their main wealth is concentrated in monasteries in various places. Ordinary people are struggling to survive on the line of food and clothing. Due to poor nutrition and hygiene, the local infant mortality rate is very high. Every time a woman gives birth, she is on the line between life and death. Go, so the population remains at a low level.
It was not just the creed of frugality and asceticism passed down by the priests that forced Northumbrian farmers to live in poverty. The most critical factor was that they had no basis for improving their lives.
Their spiritual life is still indifferent, as if in this short life they only pay taxes to the nobles, serve as soldiers with farm tools in wars, and go to the monastery regularly to listen to the priests' sermons.
Pity the few captured women. They were tortured by the Viking conquerors all night long. In the morning, many of them were tortured to death.
The men who did this kind of thing included the men from Washobi. They obviously planned to kidnap these women back to their hometowns, but they never thought that their one night of indulgence would kill them. As long as there was still a woman alive, her spirit had collapsed and she had become an out-and-out useless person. In the end, Geiger had no choice but to regretfully order the guys to give the mentally insane a good time.
It was daybreak, and the sleeping Vikings got up one after another in the rising sun.
People saw that the raging fire in Edinburgh was still sparsely populated, with gusts of southerly wind blowing from the blue sky, and huge smoke columns still rising into the sky.
All the heads of families who fought in the war, the bravest warriors, and representatives of those Shetlanders.
A total of more than thirty people stood in Rurik's camp. They all sat in front of the gruesome corpse of the Earl of Edinburgh, which was still hanging, and listened to Rurik explain what was going to happen next.
Before that, all parties reported their losses to each other, and a siege battle ended. Including the fighting in the city, the army killed a total of forty brothers. Sadly, the bodies had been turned to ashes in the fire.
Of course, some people say that even if the brothers who died in battle were pulled out, they would also be burned in the open air and turned into ashes. The dead died in their proper place, they died in battle, and their souls must have gone to Valhalla.
Pairs of eyes were staring at Rurik's handsome face, and Rurik glanced at the group of Balmok allies, their deep eyes revealing greater ambition.
"You are a group of sea wolves who can't get enough to eat. Obviously after we successfully destroyed Edinburgh, you still can't be satisfied. I heard that most of you didn't grab any gold, silver and jewelry?"
At this point, everyone immediately showed their unwillingness.
"Don't be angry. I plan to attack a place in the south called Lindisfarne."
At this moment, Geiger of Washobi interjected bluntly: "Please tell brothers, is there gold and silver there?!"
"Oh? It's my brother Geiger. Your father Ostan hopes that you will lead your guys to make a fortune in this battle." To be honest, Rurik was quite dissatisfied with his son's interruption, but these savages are indeed interested in making a fortune. Full of desire. "Just continue to believe me. If you attack that Lindisfarne, you will get a lot of gold and silver."
Rurik immediately patted his chest and assured everyone: "If there is no treasure there, the Bergen people who returned home with loads decades ago will not be able to explain it. It is still very rich there, and we will occupy it and seize the gold and silver. If You are still unsatisfied with our new victories, and we can go further south. We are strong enough to spend the summer attacking all the towns we encounter along the coast of the British Isles until our ships can carry no more booty. .”
"Then let's do it!" Geiger suddenly pulled out his iron sword, "I plan to leave after eating the wheat."
"I agree," Biyongni agreed.
Immediately everyone agreed deeply, and everyone was afraid that they would be one step late and thus be at a disadvantage during the robbery.
To be honest, Rurik didn't think that his noble status would really be taken seriously by these guys. Only Rus and Rus's servants will firmly believe that their Lord Rurik is deeply blessed by Odin, and the reason for their unwavering belief is that the most ordinary Rus have indeed received great economic benefits from it.
In the same way, all self-proclaimed nobility is just a way to win over others and do it to yourself. It would be too stupid to say so much that you would believe it.
The current situation is a little tense for Rurik. If this group of de facto pirates are not satisfied, they will become furious and it is not impossible to suddenly tear up the alliance. After all, the Magnute family is not the supreme ruler of the Balmok tribe. Those families will only continue to recognize the status of the Magnute family and identify with the Biyongni brothers and others if they receive benefits. His position as the commander-in-chief of the Magnut family's son-in-law.
Rurik has now drawn another big pie. Apparently, all the elites among the Balmoks once again recognized the legitimacy of their rule for the sake of getting rich.
