"Where...are you taking me?"
"The Milo family's manor is here. Go back and treat your injuries first."
After the battle, looking at so many corpses and being held by Marcus, Bol's soft side as a woman showed and he began to sob.
"sorry Sorry."
"Why are you crying? Just like a woman."
"I am a woman...I'm sorry..."
"Women are trouble." Marcus thought to himself.
Of course, there are exceptions to women who are "young", have "wealth" and hold "titles".
Five days later.
"Marcus Milo" took "Bol" back to the baron of "Dasf Canaan".
As a border knight, he needs to go back to report on his duties every three to four months.
I can’t remember how many times I came to the castle hall. Compared with the last time, Marcus found that the decoration in the hall was half less, and even the number of candles was less than one-third.
This shows a truth - lack of money.
The Vikings are causing trouble along the coast, this year's climate is too cold, and there are more thieves on the way to the six southern countries, all of which have affected the territory's income.
As a knight under a weak baron, Marcus wanted to change something, but he was helpless.
Since your territory is a gift from the Canaan family, you just have to concentrate on your work.
The two-year-old Baron is held on the throne by his mother. He is lively and active. He will definitely be a healthy child in the future, but he is too young to bear the important responsibilities in the leadership.
Marcus' proposals to increase manpower or purchase equipment at the border were rejected.
A man with a business background stood in the hall, flirting with the Baroness from time to time.
The decaying castle, the young mistress, and the young man. I wonder if they can survive the next "Viking wave"?
The next morning, he said goodbye to the lord and wanted to go back to the border, but he received an invitation from the hostess (the baron's mother) to attend a luncheon.
At the banquet, Marcus saw Bol who had been "dressed up".
But if you dye a stone with white powder, it won't turn into a pearl.
Bol's appearance is... very average. Due to long-term training, he has strong muscles, short hair, and his tone of voice is like a man.
At the banquet, Boll always downplayed the hostess's hints about marriage.
Nothing happened until the banquet was over.
As they leave the castle, Bol suddenly appears.
Facing Boll, who killed a soldier but was not punished, Marcus could only forget about that incident.
"You and I……"
"What do you want to say?"
"I have resettled four soldiers and given their families a sum of money."
"Um."
"Next time I see you, you will be impressed by me."
"good."
"Can you give me the copper ring on your hand? I'll exchange it with you."
Bol pulled off an obviously more precious silver ring.
The exchange of rings between knights was a form of friendship, and Marcus readily accepted it.
After the exchange, Marcus turned around and left, stepped on his horse, and rushed back to the border as soon as possible.
After returning to the border, looking at the granary that had bottomed out, I could only take out my savings and prepare for emergencies first.
But I can only hold on for two more days.
This is far from enough, but the Vikings came to rob him last year, and his manor has not recovered yet, so he cannot take out more.
no solution anymore!
Looking at the forty people at the border post, Marcus gathered them together and asked, "If I let you be like the Vikings, would you like it?"
The atmosphere became quiet, no one was bragging about being able to do dozens of times a night or meeting a certain great nobleman.
The soldiers understood that if Marcus hadn't been thinking of a way, everyone would have starved and might have become thieves.
"Sir, this is not robbing, we are just going to borrow some." said a veteran.
"Who are we going to rob?" another soldier asked.
"Going to the north? There are several Viking settlements there." A soldier thought he was going to rob the enemy.
Marcus thought, but these settlements are too far away, in the "Jewish County" in the north of County Durham. It takes who knows how many days to go back and forth. The time cost is not cost-effective, and everyone is not familiar with the terrain there. Not familiar.
"Let's go rob the Moore family!"
Marcus finally set his goal.
And the Moore family accepts Oran's protection at this time, which means that he is going to do "Olan Vijay"!
As a border knight, he has never met Olan, but he has met Olan's father.
From other people's words, he had heard that Olan had health problems, but it had only been a few months, so why did the situation in Durham County change?!
The night before departure, Marcus kept polishing his knight's sword.
Then he walked up to the ten scarecrows that had his men standing up, focused his mind, squatted slightly, and got into a fighting stance.
None of the ten straw men will move, and each straw man is one meter apart.
Marcus thought of them as ten living Viking thieves,
It was Ragnar, his sons, and famous Viking chiefs.
When you pass by the straw men later, each straw man will shoot a sword. If a few strands of straw fly to you - you lose.
After going back and forth more than ten times, Marcus always failed on the seventh or eighth straw man.
They all stopped in front of the straw man (phantom) of "Ivar the Boneless" or "Halfdan the White"!
Why?
Marcus was thinking hard, why was he not afraid of his body hitting the ground when he saw a sparrow flying down and biting an insect on the ground?
That is instinct, confidence, and fearlessness!
He understood, got up and practiced again, and finally in the twenty-third trial, he swung ten swords and heard ten imaginary exclamations.
He succeeded. In the future, even if he is "short-range versus many", he will have great confidence in traveling through it and avoiding danger.
At this moment, he was panting, but he was exuding strength.
On the day he took over his father's last words and became a knight,
"The First Sword of the Seven Kingdoms" - is the ideal of life!
…
Clearing out the bandits gives Oran eight days of health gain.
The third day of clearing out thieves.
A new situation emerged under Orange.
This is a vision of the future for the subordinates and the people in charge.
As long as people have a vision and work hard, they can endure things that are usually unbearable.
Olan plans to bring the business model within the territory to a group scale.
He also has merchants under him, but they are all small vendors, and they can only trade as far as the border towns of Northumbria, bringing back some necessities and making a profit.
The richest ones were the wool traders, who would go to the other six countries, but the scale of the transactions was too small and there was no one to protect them. The round trip expenses often reduced more than half of the profits.
Oran asked the butler Nanamp to gather merchants and vendors to form an organization called the "Commercial Guild".
The purpose is to bring together entrepreneurs and businessmen in the same industry to form a systematic and efficient group that can cultivate successors and be able to support the territory's finances at any time.
Oran roughly estimated that the population of the entire British island today (in addition to the seven countries plus Wales, Scotland, Ireland, etc.) is about one million, and no more than two million at most.
Even if it is completely unified, it will be difficult for goods and force to compete with the southern countries, not to mention it is still in such a divided and chaotic state.
On the twelfth day of March, Oran summoned all the people in the territory inside and outside the city and held an "open-air meeting within the territory" in the open square outside the city.
