Chapter 132: A feast for the winner
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The battle is victorious, and the next is the feast of the victors!
In the stone room, someone began to drag the two women's hair roughly. This move made the women wailed and the protected child screamed.
Arik couldn't stand the noise, and it was even worse. After seeing the gold and silver and the woman, his brothers obviously became a group of disorderly savages.
He yelled: "You all give me peace. All the captives, all the gold, are our trophies! Everyone has a share, don't grab it before you distribute it fairly!"
Perhaps at the beginning, Arik had only his reputation in tribal fighting games, but now, normal combat is his most brave performance, especially his actions to behead enemy generals himself. The young Rose who admired the hero now obeyed Arik's order from the heart.
The hand holding the woman's hair loosened, and the hand trying to grasp the gold coin also loosened.
Arik ordered his people to retreat a little, then he walked into the two women in fright, looked down and asked: "Woman, surrender to us, you and your children can save your lives. I can guarantee that we will not kill the servants. . Tell me, how many gold and silver coins are in the box?!"
Upon hearing that their lives could be guaranteed, the two women instantly changed their postures and began to cooperate actively.
One person replied with a trembling voice: "One hundred thousand. At least one hundred thousand..."
Since ancient times, the ancestors of the Viking tribe knew some of the Roman culture, 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 don't have a vocabulary to describe "ten thousand", but they do describe one million.
The so-called "one hundred thousand" is 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. Another box is full of gold. They are all yours. My 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. But if you want to escape, you will be beheaded."
"We understand! We dare not run away, my master."
Viking women generally only want to live a stable life. There seems to be no real peace in this sea area, and the war has never been suspended. The special environment makes them generally do not feel that it is shameful to bend everything after the war.
Although some women will commit suicide in pursuit of their husband who died in battle.
More women will cling to the new strong in order to survive, and the victor will immediately accept captured women as wives and concubines.
Arik and Harrodsson are very clear-headed now. This battle is both revenge and plunder. The price paid by the Ross people is really unexpected.
The Russ did defeat an armed enemy that was roughly the same number as themselves. The enemy has completely failed, and it is roughly estimated that 50 people have also been killed in the battle. There are also some people who have been seriously injured, and they may not be able to hold on for 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.
Especially if a group of captured young women take them back, will Rose give birth to many boys in a year? In this way, after at least fifteen years, the power lost in this battle will be fully replenished.
But those who can think of this level are all tribal elites.
Ordinary soldiers who survived, they just want gold and silver to become wealthy, want a wife to have a group of children, so as to realize the basic life pursuit of a man.
The number of silver coins as many as 100,000 shocked Arik.
Because according to the discussion before departure, the leader Otto fully approved the arrangement that almost all the spoils were divided among the participants. Obviously, everyone is aware that what the big leader means is that the future loot arrangements must also adhere to the new principle of who participates and who shares.
The world has indeed changed a lot, and this arrangement obviously eliminated the unearned people in the tribe, and it also stimulated even more frenzied raids by careerists.
Otto's determination is not a problem.
Since in 829 AD, the Rus decided to end the dormant state forever and go out bravely, can the tribal culture of the past remain unchanged? Without sufficient wealth to stimulate, who would be happy to explore abroad? Since exploring the outside world, who would be willing to share the searched treasure with the tribe's unearned people?
There were four hundred and fifty people who participated in the crusade south, and Arik thought that fifty brothers died in battle, and all the money seized was still shared by everyone.
In fact, many people have already packed a pile of silver coins and other valuable things in their skin pockets made of seal stomach bags in the initial melee. Everyone has become rich.
Think about it, it is really unrealistic to let everyone hand over their personal seizures and distribute them equally.
Then, the gold and silver in all the boxes in the stone room must be evenly distributed.
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 currently circulating on the market have different stamps, and the weights are all cast according to the casting standard of one hundred roman pound white.
Therefore, 10,000 silver coins are equivalent to nearly 40 kilograms. Plus the huge and sturdy solid wood boxes that carry them. It is normal for the box and the full load of silver coins to accumulate 70 kilograms.
A sturdy Ross warrior is fully capable of carrying a seventy kilogram stone.
Everyone went through hard work, and when all the enemies were eliminated, everyone slackened. Once they were full of adrenaline, their hormone levels dropped, and the pains of arm soreness and bruising began to disturb everyone. No one can lift up the entire cash box without much effort.
Just as Arik was thinking about how to deal with so much gold and silver, Harrodsson coughed twice and reminded loudly: "Arik, you and your brothers move all the boxes. We must retreat immediately. We have no time or possibility to come. Enemy reinforcements engage in battle."
"Yeah!" Arik stomped abruptly to stop conjecture about wealth, and greeted the brothers to act immediately.
To allocate gold and silver, of course, the pile of gold and silver must be equally distributed. This is a good deal for everyone. For those brothers who died in battle, their relatives are still allocated, and a silver coin will not be lost.
If there are 100,000 silver coins, on average there will be 220 coins per person. It is enough to order three magical steel swords with this money!
Arik felt relieved when he thought of this. He gained a lot of fame in this battle, to a large extent it was bestowed by the Shuriken. Looking at this sword, I used it to kill 20 people, and also cut off a number of iron swords. Now look at its blade, there is still no breach!
Could it be that each of the people of Rus gets more than two hundred silver coins? of course not!
People found twenty boxes from multiple stone chambers, and the two captured women also voluntarily confessed where the keys were hidden.
In fact, these two women were just slaves to the dead Oxon. Due to the position of his eldest son, he did not give the slaves official status as wives. In this way, the child of the slave had no right to demand even a silver coin from the eldest son far away in Jutland.
It is precisely because there is no status, Oxon promised that only the birth of a son can be given status. However, of the children born to the two daughters, only one of them survived.
In special times, the fertility rate of women and the survival rate of children are extremely low. Even the future Kingdom of Sweden, sitting on a large land, only reached 500,000 in the 16th century.
Both of these women are from Denmark, and they have lived with Oxen for many years, saying that it is impossible to have a relationship between them.
However, at the most critical moment, Oxon, who decided to survive, actually used his wife and daughter as a bargaining chip to sell. Now, the two women just want to live by relying on their new master.
Handing over the key to the hiding and confessing to the location of all of Oxon's secret burying of wealth is a nomination certificate.
Things are suddenly thinking of an incredible direction!
In fact, all the wealthy Viking merchants living in Gotland have the habit of burying money. The dead Oxon is no exception.
He has a small cellar with ten large boxes in it, each with ten thousand silver coins. Other precious things were also thrown here, including some rubies, sapphires, and high-grade amber.
However, despite providing such a "voting certificate", the two women, together with their daughters, were still **** with twine by the Ross people.
All the captives were tied with ropes and began to **** the boats to the beach.
The Ross people really gained amazing wealth in this battle!
They carried as many as thirty skinned wooden boxes to the beach and opened the bronze lock with a key. All they saw were Mandengdeng's coins.
How many coins are there? It still needs to be shipped back to Roseburg for inventory before distribution.
Everyone saw a large number of silver and copper coins. In a small skinned wooden box, there are actually gold coins stacked!
"Wow! We made a fortune!" Arik, who had already withdrawn to the beach, saw the gold and silver of Mandengdeng at a young age. His heart was beating wildly, and he sighed again in his heart that Gould, a big businessman, was against Gotland. Human evaluation is true. Gotland people are really rich! .
The warriors who came around, they had just washed their faces with sea water, and when they saw so much money, all of them were shocked with sweat, and some of them laughed with joy.
Because many people have stuffed twenty or thirty silver coins in their pockets, as well as many axes seized from the enemy.
How much money was in the box seized by the Ross people?
Twenty boxes of silver coins, ten boxes of copper coins, and gold coins in a small box. There are only two hundred ten thousand silver coins! There are also two thousand gold coins!
The wealthy merchants of Gotland love to hoard gold and silver, and it is not surprising that they can hoard 200,000 silver coins.
The Ross people did not stupidly attack the northern part of the island, where many families can stock up to a huge number of 300,000 silver, and the mercenaries of the gold master can also skyrocket to 200 or more. And ordinary people in the area are also richer, so men generally can afford chain mail to arm themselves.
It was not that the Roths had listened to Gould's intelligence and were afraid to fight the enemy in the north of the island.
Everyone is tired now, and it is definitely not a good idea to continue to expand the results.
The Ross people robbed so much money and burned the entire Sikkemberg. After a great battle, at least 800 locals died, and the entire settlement collapsed. The management of Oxon Okens collapsed, and his people put most of the funds in a safe castle, and finally became the wealth of others.
Oxon's eldest son also took part of the funds to develop in Jutland, the core area of the Danes.
As the captain of the guard Okenstein said before his death, the actions of the Ross people are provoking a war, a war in the true sense!
The Ross people still didn’t think about whether the Danes would avenge the Gotland people. They were cheering for the large amount of gold and silver. In contrast, the pitiful appearance of nearly eighty prisoners weeping and sixty-five were killed. The convergent Ruth became an icy corpse.
"Let's stop here." After inspecting the trophy, Harozov shouted at the subordinates who tried to share the trophy immediately: "We have revenge, and now leave immediately. Take everything you can take away! Let's go!"
Everyone was awake, they knew that this place shouldn't stay for long, and immediately dragged their tired bodies, struggling to push the boats on the beach back.
A large amount of trophies were carried on the ships, especially the captured women. In order to prevent them from short-sightedness, the Ross people made aggressive actions. All the prisoners were **** with their hands and feet, almost all of them were lifted to put them on. Many poor people were stuffed with hemp **** in their mouths, and their mouths were tied with a circle of hemp rope.
Considering the long route, all the boxes full of gold and silver were deliberately divided into ships and installed. After all, a box is close to the weight of one person, and the boat will be overweight and even capsized if all placed together.
The boxes must be separated ~www.novelhall.com~ so that even if there is a loss in the storm when returning home, most ships will be able to survive the storm, and there will still be a large amount of gold and silver transported to their hometown.
Captives, gold and silver, these are the spoils of war that have been carefully guarded.
Another thing that needs to be closely guarded is the corpses of the brothers who died in battle. Unlike the prisoners who were thrown away at random, the bodies of the dead were lying neatly and stacked in the captured ships. The corpse was surrounded by their shield and axe, and the whole body was covered with seized linen.
At this moment, the captured wooden ship carrying their bodies may be their future coffin. People string such boats with dragon head decorations behind the main boats and drag them on their way.
All the seized metal objects, all kinds of cured meats, all kinds of wheat kernels in sacks, some dried peas, leather, tableware, and even the various daily necessities of the Lord of the Dead, but all that have not been burned. Taken away by the Rus.
Especially in a sealed wooden barrel found from the home of the fortress, a warrior imitated a puppy and sniffed out the smell of grapes-it was actually a barrel of wine.
When it was still late at night, the Rus launched a strong attack, and 20 ships washed up on the beach.
Now that the sun has risen high, the sunlight has fallen into the thick smoke that is constantly emerging, turning into a dim and swaying image.
One of the main goals of the Ruths in this battle was revenge. They were in a state of venting their anger, setting all the houses on fire. With the thatched roofs of the Sikkemberg people, the entire fishing village was quickly caught in a skyrocketing fire, and the scale of the smoke from a volcanic eruption was like a lighthouse!
The area of Gotland seems to be small, and I have to feel that the island is not small when I am in it.
Heavy smoke is a very obvious warning sign, whether it is a volcanic eruption or something else. But how can the main forces of the Gotland people who live in the north of the island sit back and watch!
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The battle is victorious, and the next is the feast of the victors!
In the stone room, someone began to drag the two women's hair roughly. This move made the women wailed and the protected child screamed.
Arik couldn't stand the noise, and it was even worse. After seeing the gold and silver and the woman, his brothers obviously became a group of disorderly savages.
He yelled: "You all give me peace. All the captives, all the gold, are our trophies! Everyone has a share, don't grab it before you distribute it fairly!"
Perhaps at the beginning, Arik had only his reputation in tribal fighting games, but now, normal combat is his most brave performance, especially his actions to behead enemy generals himself. The young Rose who admired the hero now obeyed Arik's order from the heart.
The hand holding the woman's hair loosened, and the hand trying to grasp the gold coin also loosened.
Arik ordered his people to retreat a little, then he walked into the two women in fright, looked down and asked: "Woman, surrender to us, you and your children can save your lives. I can guarantee that we will not kill the servants. . Tell me, how many gold and silver coins are in the box?!"
Upon hearing that their lives could be guaranteed, the two women instantly changed their postures and began to cooperate actively.
One person replied with a trembling voice: "One hundred thousand. At least one hundred thousand..."
Since ancient times, the ancestors of the Viking tribe knew some of the Roman culture, 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 don't have a vocabulary to describe "ten thousand", but they do describe one million.
The so-called "one hundred thousand" is 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. Another box is full of gold. They are all yours. My 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. But if you want to escape, you will be beheaded."
"We understand! We dare not run away, my master."
Viking women generally only want to live a stable life. There seems to be no real peace in this sea area, and the war has never been suspended. The special environment makes them generally do not feel that it is shameful to bend everything after the war.
Although some women will commit suicide in pursuit of their husband who died in battle.
More women will cling to the new strong in order to survive, and the victor will immediately accept captured women as wives and concubines.
Arik and Harrodsson are very clear-headed now. This battle is both revenge and plunder. The price paid by the Ross people is really unexpected.
The Russ did defeat an armed enemy that was roughly the same number as themselves. The enemy has completely failed, and it is roughly estimated that 50 people have also been killed in the battle. There are also some people who have been seriously injured, and they may not be able to hold on for 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.
Especially if a group of captured young women take them back, will Rose give birth to many boys in a year? In this way, after at least fifteen years, the power lost in this battle will be fully replenished.
But those who can think of this level are all tribal elites.
Ordinary soldiers who survived, they just want gold and silver to become wealthy, want a wife to have a group of children, so as to realize the basic life pursuit of a man.
The number of silver coins as many as 100,000 shocked Arik.
Because according to the discussion before departure, the leader Otto fully approved the arrangement that almost all the spoils were divided among the participants. Obviously, everyone is aware that what the big leader means is that the future loot arrangements must also adhere to the new principle of who participates and who shares.
The world has indeed changed a lot, and this arrangement obviously eliminated the unearned people in the tribe, and it also stimulated even more frenzied raids by careerists.
Otto's determination is not a problem.
Since in 829 AD, the Rus decided to end the dormant state forever and go out bravely, can the tribal culture of the past remain unchanged? Without sufficient wealth to stimulate, who would be happy to explore abroad? Since exploring the outside world, who would be willing to share the searched treasure with the tribe's unearned people?
There were four hundred and fifty people who participated in the crusade south, and Arik thought that fifty brothers died in battle, and all the money seized was still shared by everyone.
In fact, many people have already packed a pile of silver coins and other valuable things in their skin pockets made of seal stomach bags in the initial melee. Everyone has become rich.
Think about it, it is really unrealistic to let everyone hand over their personal seizures and distribute them equally.
Then, the gold and silver in all the boxes in the stone room must be evenly distributed.
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 currently circulating on the market have different stamps, and the weights are all cast according to the casting standard of one hundred roman pound white.
Therefore, 10,000 silver coins are equivalent to nearly 40 kilograms. Plus the huge and sturdy solid wood boxes that carry them. It is normal for the box and the full load of silver coins to accumulate 70 kilograms.
A sturdy Ross warrior is fully capable of carrying a seventy kilogram stone.
Everyone went through hard work, and when all the enemies were eliminated, everyone slackened. Once they were full of adrenaline, their hormone levels dropped, and the pains of arm soreness and bruising began to disturb everyone. No one can lift up the entire cash box without much effort.
Just as Arik was thinking about how to deal with so much gold and silver, Harrodsson coughed twice and reminded loudly: "Arik, you and your brothers move all the boxes. We must retreat immediately. We have no time or possibility to come. Enemy reinforcements engage in battle."
"Yeah!" Arik stomped abruptly to stop conjecture about wealth, and greeted the brothers to act immediately.
To allocate gold and silver, of course, the pile of gold and silver must be equally distributed. This is a good deal for everyone. For those brothers who died in battle, their relatives are still allocated, and a silver coin will not be lost.
If there are 100,000 silver coins, on average there will be 220 coins per person. It is enough to order three magical steel swords with this money!
Arik felt relieved when he thought of this. He gained a lot of fame in this battle, to a large extent it was bestowed by the Shuriken. Looking at this sword, I used it to kill 20 people, and also cut off a number of iron swords. Now look at its blade, there is still no breach!
Could it be that each of the people of Rus gets more than two hundred silver coins? of course not!
People found twenty boxes from multiple stone chambers, and the two captured women also voluntarily confessed where the keys were hidden.
In fact, these two women were just slaves to the dead Oxon. Due to the position of his eldest son, he did not give the slaves official status as wives. In this way, the child of the slave had no right to demand even a silver coin from the eldest son far away in Jutland.
It is precisely because there is no status, Oxon promised that only the birth of a son can be given status. However, of the children born to the two daughters, only one of them survived.
In special times, the fertility rate of women and the survival rate of children are extremely low. Even the future Kingdom of Sweden, sitting on a large land, only reached 500,000 in the 16th century.
Both of these women are from Denmark, and they have lived with Oxen for many years, saying that it is impossible to have a relationship between them.
However, at the most critical moment, Oxon, who decided to survive, actually used his wife and daughter as a bargaining chip to sell. Now, the two women just want to live by relying on their new master.
Handing over the key to the hiding and confessing to the location of all of Oxon's secret burying of wealth is a nomination certificate.
Things are suddenly thinking of an incredible direction!
In fact, all the wealthy Viking merchants living in Gotland have the habit of burying money. The dead Oxon is no exception.
He has a small cellar with ten large boxes in it, each with ten thousand silver coins. Other precious things were also thrown here, including some rubies, sapphires, and high-grade amber.
However, despite providing such a "voting certificate", the two women, together with their daughters, were still **** with twine by the Ross people.
All the captives were tied with ropes and began to **** the boats to the beach.
The Ross people really gained amazing wealth in this battle!
They carried as many as thirty skinned wooden boxes to the beach and opened the bronze lock with a key. All they saw were Mandengdeng's coins.
How many coins are there? It still needs to be shipped back to Roseburg for inventory before distribution.
Everyone saw a large number of silver and copper coins. In a small skinned wooden box, there are actually gold coins stacked!
"Wow! We made a fortune!" Arik, who had already withdrawn to the beach, saw the gold and silver of Mandengdeng at a young age. His heart was beating wildly, and he sighed again in his heart that Gould, a big businessman, was against Gotland. Human evaluation is true. Gotland people are really rich! .
The warriors who came around, they had just washed their faces with sea water, and when they saw so much money, all of them were shocked with sweat, and some of them laughed with joy.
Because many people have stuffed twenty or thirty silver coins in their pockets, as well as many axes seized from the enemy.
How much money was in the box seized by the Ross people?
Twenty boxes of silver coins, ten boxes of copper coins, and gold coins in a small box. There are only two hundred ten thousand silver coins! There are also two thousand gold coins!
The wealthy merchants of Gotland love to hoard gold and silver, and it is not surprising that they can hoard 200,000 silver coins.
The Ross people did not stupidly attack the northern part of the island, where many families can stock up to a huge number of 300,000 silver, and the mercenaries of the gold master can also skyrocket to 200 or more. And ordinary people in the area are also richer, so men generally can afford chain mail to arm themselves.
It was not that the Roths had listened to Gould's intelligence and were afraid to fight the enemy in the north of the island.
Everyone is tired now, and it is definitely not a good idea to continue to expand the results.
The Ross people robbed so much money and burned the entire Sikkemberg. After a great battle, at least 800 locals died, and the entire settlement collapsed. The management of Oxon Okens collapsed, and his people put most of the funds in a safe castle, and finally became the wealth of others.
Oxon's eldest son also took part of the funds to develop in Jutland, the core area of the Danes.
As the captain of the guard Okenstein said before his death, the actions of the Ross people are provoking a war, a war in the true sense!
The Ross people still didn’t think about whether the Danes would avenge the Gotland people. They were cheering for the large amount of gold and silver. In contrast, the pitiful appearance of nearly eighty prisoners weeping and sixty-five were killed. The convergent Ruth became an icy corpse.
"Let's stop here." After inspecting the trophy, Harozov shouted at the subordinates who tried to share the trophy immediately: "We have revenge, and now leave immediately. Take everything you can take away! Let's go!"
Everyone was awake, they knew that this place shouldn't stay for long, and immediately dragged their tired bodies, struggling to push the boats on the beach back.
A large amount of trophies were carried on the ships, especially the captured women. In order to prevent them from short-sightedness, the Ross people made aggressive actions. All the prisoners were **** with their hands and feet, almost all of them were lifted to put them on. Many poor people were stuffed with hemp **** in their mouths, and their mouths were tied with a circle of hemp rope.
Considering the long route, all the boxes full of gold and silver were deliberately divided into ships and installed. After all, a box is close to the weight of one person, and the boat will be overweight and even capsized if all placed together.
The boxes must be separated ~www.novelhall.com~ so that even if there is a loss in the storm when returning home, most ships will be able to survive the storm, and there will still be a large amount of gold and silver transported to their hometown.
Captives, gold and silver, these are the spoils of war that have been carefully guarded.
Another thing that needs to be closely guarded is the corpses of the brothers who died in battle. Unlike the prisoners who were thrown away at random, the bodies of the dead were lying neatly and stacked in the captured ships. The corpse was surrounded by their shield and axe, and the whole body was covered with seized linen.
At this moment, the captured wooden ship carrying their bodies may be their future coffin. People string such boats with dragon head decorations behind the main boats and drag them on their way.
All the seized metal objects, all kinds of cured meats, all kinds of wheat kernels in sacks, some dried peas, leather, tableware, and even the various daily necessities of the Lord of the Dead, but all that have not been burned. Taken away by the Rus.
Especially in a sealed wooden barrel found from the home of the fortress, a warrior imitated a puppy and sniffed out the smell of grapes-it was actually a barrel of wine.
When it was still late at night, the Rus launched a strong attack, and 20 ships washed up on the beach.
Now that the sun has risen high, the sunlight has fallen into the thick smoke that is constantly emerging, turning into a dim and swaying image.
One of the main goals of the Ruths in this battle was revenge. They were in a state of venting their anger, setting all the houses on fire. With the thatched roofs of the Sikkemberg people, the entire fishing village was quickly caught in a skyrocketing fire, and the scale of the smoke from a volcanic eruption was like a lighthouse!
The area of Gotland seems to be small, and I have to feel that the island is not small when I am in it.
Heavy smoke is a very obvious warning sign, whether it is a volcanic eruption or something else. But how can the main forces of the Gotland people who live in the north of the island sit back and watch!
The battle is victorious, and the next is the feast of the victors!In the stone room, someone began to drag the two women's hair roughly. This move made the women wailed and the protected child screamed.Arik couldn't stand the noise, and it was even worse. After seeing the gold and silver and the woman, his brothers obviously became a group of disorderly savages.He yelled: "You all give me peace. All the captives, all the gold, are our trophies! Everyone has a share, don't grab it before you distribute it fairly!"Perhaps at the beginning, Arik had only his reputation in tribal fighting games, but now, normal combat is his most brave performance, especially his actions to behead enemy generals himself. The young Rose who admired the hero now obeyed Arik's order from the heart.The hand holding the woman's hair loosened, and the hand trying to grasp the gold coin also loosened.Arik ordered his people to retreat a little, then he walked into the two women in fright, looked down and asked: "Woman, surrender to us, you and your children can save your lives. I can guarantee that we will not kill the servants. . Tell me, how many gold and silver coins are in the box?!"Upon hearing that their lives could be guaranteed, the two women instantly changed their postures and began to cooperate actively.One person replied with a trembling voice: "One hundred thousand. At least one hundred thousand..."Since ancient times, the ancestors of the Viking tribe knew some of the Roman culture, 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 don't have a vocabulary to describe "ten thousand", but they do describe one million.The so-called "one hundred thousand" is 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. Another box is full of gold. They are all yours. My 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. But if you want to escape, you will be beheaded.""We understand! We dare not run away, my master."Viking women generally only want to live a stable life. There seems to be no real peace in this sea area, and the war has never been suspended. The special environment makes them generally do not feel that it is shameful to bend everything after the war.Although some women will commit suicide in pursuit of their husband who died in battle.More women will cling to the new strong in order to survive, and the victor will immediately accept captured women as wives and concubines.Arik and Harrodsson are very clear-headed now. This battle is both revenge and plunder. The price paid by the Ross people is really unexpected.The Russ did defeat an armed enemy that was roughly the same number as themselves. The enemy has completely failed, and it is roughly estimated that 50 people have also been killed in the battle. There are also some people who have been seriously injured, and they may not be able to hold on for 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.Especially if a group of captured young women take them back, will Rose give birth to many boys in a year? In this way, after at least fifteen years, the power lost in this battle will be fully replenished.But those who can think of this level are all tribal elites.Ordinary soldiers who survived, they just want gold and silver to become wealthy, want a wife to have a group of children, so as to realize the basic life pursuit of a man.The number of silver coins as many as 100,000 shocked Arik.Because according to the discussion before departure, the leader Otto fully approved the arrangement that almost all the spoils were divided among the participants. Obviously, everyone is aware that what the big leader means is that the future loot arrangements must also adhere to the new principle of who participates and who shares.The world has indeed changed a lot, and this arrangement obviously eliminated the unearned people in the tribe, and it also stimulated even more frenzied raids by careerists.Otto's determination is not a problem.Since in 829 AD, the Rus decided to end the dormant state forever and go out bravely, can the tribal culture of the past remain unchanged? Without sufficient wealth to stimulate, who would be happy to explore abroad? Since exploring the outside world, who would be willing to share the searched treasure with the tribe's unearned people?There were four hundred and fifty people who participated in the crusade south, and Arik thought that fifty brothers died in battle, and all the money seized was still shared by everyone.In fact, many people have already packed a pile of silver coins and other valuable things in their skin pockets made of seal stomach bags in the initial melee. Everyone has become rich.Think about it, it is really unrealistic to let everyone hand over their personal seizures and distribute them equally.Then, the gold and silver in all the boxes in the stone room must be evenly distributed.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 currently circulating on the market have different stamps, and the weights are all cast according to the casting standard of one hundred roman pound white.Therefore, 10,000 silver coins are equivalent to nearly 40 kilograms. Plus the huge and sturdy solid wood boxes that carry them. It is normal for the box and the full load of silver coins to accumulate 70 kilograms.A sturdy Ross warrior is fully capable of carrying a seventy kilogram stone.Everyone went through hard work, and when all the enemies were eliminated, everyone slackened. Once they were full of adrenaline, their hormone levels dropped, and the pains of arm soreness and bruising began to disturb everyone. No one can lift up the entire cash box without much effort.Just as Arik was thinking about how to deal with so much gold and silver, Harrodsson coughed twice and reminded loudly: "Arik, you and your brothers move all the boxes. We must retreat immediately. We have no time or possibility to come. Enemy reinforcements engage in battle.""Yeah!" Arik stomped abruptly to stop conjecture about wealth, and greeted the brothers to act immediately.To allocate gold and silver, of course, the pile of gold and silver must be equally distributed. This is a good deal for everyone. For those brothers who died in battle, their relatives are still allocated, and a silver coin will not be lost.If there are 100,000 silver coins, on average there will be 220 coins per person. It is enough to order three magical steel swords with this money!Arik felt relieved when he thought of this. He gained a lot of fame in this battle, to a large extent it was bestowed by the Shuriken. Looking at this sword, I used it to kill 20 people, and also cut off a number of iron swords. Now look at its blade, there is still no breach!Could it be that each of the people of Rus gets more than two hundred silver coins? of course not!People found twenty boxes from multiple stone chambers, and the two captured women also voluntarily confessed where the keys were hidden.In fact, these two women were just slaves to the dead Oxon. Due to the position of his eldest son, he did not give the slaves official status as wives. In this way, the child of the slave had no right to demand even a silver coin from the eldest son far away in Jutland.It is precisely because there is no status, Oxon promised that only the birth of a son can be given status. However, of the children born to the two daughters, only one of them survived.In special times, the fertility rate of women and the survival rate of children are extremely low. Even the future Kingdom of Sweden, sitting on a large land, only reached 500,000 in the 16th century.Both of these women are from Denmark, and they have lived with Oxen for many years, saying that it is impossible to have a relationship between them.However, at the most critical moment, Oxon, who decided to survive, actually used his wife and daughter as a bargaining chip to sell. Now, the two women just want to live by relying on their new master.Handing over the key to the hiding and confessing to the location of all of Oxon's secret burying of wealth is a nomination certificate.Things are suddenly thinking of an incredible direction!In fact, all the wealthy Viking merchants living in Gotland have the habit of burying money. The dead Oxon is no exception.He has a small cellar with ten large boxes in it, each with ten thousand silver coins. Other precious things were also thrown here, including some rubies, sapphires, and high-grade amber.However, despite providing such a "voting certificate", the two women, together with their daughters, were still **** with twine by the Ross people.All the captives were tied with ropes and began to **** the boats to the beach.The Ross people really gained amazing wealth in this battle!They carried as many as thirty skinned wooden boxes to the beach and opened the bronze lock with a key. All they saw were Mandengdeng's coins.How many coins are there? It still needs to be shipped back to Roseburg for inventory before distribution.Everyone saw a large number of silver and copper coins. In a small skinned wooden box, there are actually gold coins stacked!"Wow! We made a fortune!" Arik, who had already withdrawn to the beach, saw the gold and silver of Mandengdeng at a young age. His heart was beating wildly, and he sighed again in his heart that Gould, a big businessman, was against Gotland. Human evaluation is true. Gotland people are really rich! .The warriors who came around, they had just washed their faces with sea water, and when they saw so much money, all of them were shocked with sweat, and some of them laughed with joy.Because many people have stuffed twenty or thirty silver coins in their pockets, as well as many axes seized from the enemy.How much money was in the box seized by the Ross people?Twenty boxes of silver coins, ten boxes of copper coins, and gold coins in a small box. There are only two hundred ten thousand silver coins! There are also two thousand gold coins!The wealthy merchants of Gotland love to hoard gold and silver, and it is not surprising that they can hoard 200,000 silver coins.The Ross people did not stupidly attack the northern part of the island, where many families can stock up to a huge number of 300,000 silver, and the mercenaries of the gold master can also skyrocket to 200 or more. And ordinary people in the area are also richer, so men generally can afford chain mail to arm themselves.It was not that the Roths had listened to Gould's intelligence and were afraid to fight the enemy in the north of the island.Everyone is tired now, and it is definitely not a good idea to continue to expand the results.The Ross people robbed so much money and burned the entire Sikkemberg. After a great battle, at least 800 locals died, and the entire settlement collapsed. The management of Oxon Okens collapsed, and his people put most of the funds in a safe castle, and finally became the wealth of others.Oxon's eldest son also took part of the funds to develop in Jutland, the core area of the Danes.As the captain of the guard Okenstein said before his death, the actions of the Ross people are provoking a war, a war in the true sense!The Ross people still didn't think about whether the Danes would avenge the Gotland people. They were cheering for the large amount of gold and silver. In contrast, the pitiful appearance of nearly eighty prisoners weeping and sixty-five were killed. The convergent Ruth became an icy corpse."Let's stop here." After inspecting the trophy, Harozov shouted at the subordinates who tried to share the trophy immediately: "We have revenge, and now leave immediately. Take everything you can take away! Let's go!"Everyone was awake, they knew that this place shouldn't stay for long, and immediately dragged their tired bodies, struggling to push the boats on the beach back.A large amount of trophies were carried on the ships, especially the captured women. In order to prevent them from short-sightedness, the Ross people made aggressive actions. All the prisoners were **** with their hands and feet, almost all of them were lifted to put them on. Many poor people were stuffed with hemp **** in their mouths, and their mouths were tied with a circle of hemp rope.Considering the long route, all the boxes full of gold and silver were deliberately divided into ships and installed. After all, a box is close to the weight of one person, and the boat will be overweight and even capsized if all placed together.The boxes must be separated ~www.novelhall.com~ so that even if there is a loss in the storm when returning home, most ships will be able to survive the storm, and there will still be a large amount of gold and silver transported to their hometown.Captives, gold and silver, these are the spoils of war that have been carefully guarded.Another thing that needs to be closely guarded is the corpses of the brothers who died in battle. Unlike the prisoners who were thrown away at random, the bodies of the dead were lying neatly and stacked in the captured ships. The corpse was surrounded by their shield and axe, and the whole body was covered with seized linen.At this moment, the captured wooden ship carrying their bodies may be their future coffin. People string such boats with dragon head decorations behind the main boats and drag them on their way.All the seized metal objects, all kinds of cured meats, all kinds of wheat kernels in sacks, some dried peas, leather, tableware, and even the various daily necessities of the Lord of the Dead, but all that have not been burned. Taken away by the Rus.Especially in a sealed wooden barrel found from the home of the fortress, a warrior imitated a puppy and sniffed out the smell of grapes-it was actually a barrel of wine.When it was still late at night, the Rus launched a strong attack, and 20 ships washed up on the beach.Now that the sun has risen high, the sunlight has fallen into the thick smoke that is constantly emerging, turning into a dim and swaying image.One of the main goals of the Ruths in this battle was revenge. They were in a state of venting their anger, setting all the houses on fire. With the thatched roofs of the Sikkemberg people, the entire fishing village was quickly caught in a skyrocketing fire, and the scale of the smoke from a volcanic eruption was like a lighthouse!The area of Gotland seems to be small, and I have to feel that the island is not small when I am in it.Heavy smoke is a very obvious warning sign, whether it is a volcanic eruption or something else. But how can the main forces of the Gotland people who live in the north of the island sit back and watch!
