Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

Ubi hesitated and said, "Our things should have been loaded on the ship and are being transported here at this moment. According to your instructions, let our most trusted brothers do this, and we will never let the news leak out. The King of Denmark will not notice our actions, or we will have finished everything before he notices.

But, brothers, there is a question, right? Once the news of our cooperation with the Romans spreads, I am afraid that the king and the Franks will not look good on us."

Ivar sneered: "We just made a truce with the Romans. After we move our belongings away, neither the Danes nor the Franks can restrain us. But we still haven't made enemies with them. If If they don't want to cause trouble for themselves, the best choice is to turn a blind eye to us. If those guys really want to be our enemies, what we did to the Romans before can happen to them. Whether it is King Charles or the King of Denmark, they are not idiots and can certainly see this clearly, so we don't have to worry.

The situation is quite delicate now. It is better to have one more friend or one more neutral spectator than one more covetous enemy. Everyone knows this. So we don't need to worry too much about Bjorn (Ragnar's eldest son) staying in the country and being retaliated, because they don't want to have one more enemy. "

Although these words did not completely dispel Ubbe's concerns, they also explained some of his doubts. He nodded slightly to Ivar, which was considered to be a tentative approval of Ivar's explanation: "Then, I hope Odin will bless us, and I hope your choice is correct. "

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Turning his eyes back to Orville, he contacted Jeanna Dacre as soon as he reached an agreement with Ivar and asked her to inform the Celts in Ireland of the news. About two weeks later, Jeanna returned to the Governor's Mansion with the news.

Not much different from what was expected, the Celts over there also reached an agreement with Ivar after negotiating with him alone. The area of ​​about 100 kilometers around Dublin was ceded to the Vikings. At the same time, the Vikings also promised not to go deep into the Celtic territory. The Romans were witnesses and judges. The documents had been delivered to Orville with the arrival of Jeanna.

They were quite satisfied with this result. After all, King Conforchu lost a crucial battle. As losers, it was natural for them to pay some price. It was good that they did not lose their country or be driven to those remote places.

However, the most dissatisfied person with this result was Cu Chulainn. He complained to Orville more than once, either explicitly or implicitly, that the Vikings were "too greedy" and the local resistance forces represented by Finn were "too weak". If he were in his place, he would definitely not give up.

Orville was slightly relieved when he heard these words. Fortunately, he saw in advance that Cu Chulainn's character was more direct and unwilling to admit defeat, so he did not force him to go to Ireland. Otherwise, the matter might be stuck with Cu Chulainn, and he would really shoot himself in the foot.

In short, the current Irish direction basically ceased fire, and the parties restored peace. Although there were still frictions between the Vikings and the locals in Scotland (Caledonia), as the Vikings gave up their bases on land, their disputes with the locals gradually subsided.

With a lot of troops freed up, Orville sent more troops to the lowlands, which doubled the pressure on the pirate forces there. Now it can be said that the Romans have firmly occupied the advantage, and the situation has reached the point he hoped for.

After Ivar negotiated peace with the Romans, he did not stay in Dublin, but often ran to the territory of the Roman Empire. He did not want to plunder, but simply came to investigate and travel.

Obviously, he inherited his father's strong curiosity, which is undoubtedly a very valuable trait for a man in his thirties. Orville did not want to stop him and followed him to visit. After visiting the British province, he even went to the Gaul province for several rounds.

Of course, he did not forget the business and reminded Orville several times that he hoped to solve the problem of the source of goods as soon as possible. Orville did not solve it for him immediately, but waited until Vespa replied.

The meaning of the letter was very simple-as long as it could make money and did not violate the fundamental interests of the Roman Empire, Orville and Tia could do whatever they wanted. He even wrote a letter to the Governor of Egypt, talking about this matter a little, hoping that the Governor of Egypt could cooperate.

Egypt is an important distribution center for goods in the Roman Empire. Almost all kinds of luxury goods can be found here in batches. With the cooperation of the Governor of Egypt and Cleopatra, it should not be difficult for Orville to get luxury goods at a low price.

However, it would be better to go there in person. Orville didn't have anyone reliable enough to rely on in the eastern provinces, so he planned to get some goods from Rome in the first few times to deal with the job, and then change the main place of purchase to Egypt after finding a stable channel.

The supply transportation network that he had spent a lot of effort to develop before played a role again. Now Orville can completely transport the luxury goods sold to the Franks through the same route. Guards, carriages, warehouses and other things are ready, and the safety factor is relatively high. Just use them directly.

So far, Orville has basically sorted out the affairs of the British province. He is just waiting for Ptolemy's statistical results to come out before he can further govern Britain.

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After a while, when spring came, Ptolemy came to Orville with a sense of relief.

He was accompanied by about fifty or sixty bureaucrats, almost every one of whom carried a thick file. Orville probably understood that the land survey work had finally made some progress.

Ptolemy excitedly handed Orville a thick book and said to him, "Please look at this book. The data you need should be on it!"

Orville thanked him and began to look through the specific contents.

This is a statistical book, which records the data of various regions in England in detail: population, cultivated land area, land fertility, number of livestock, number of castles, number of weapons, number of soldiers, and even the output of farm tools and various agricultural and sideline products. The books held by the officials are detailed lists, which are the answers they submitted after more than a year.