Rebirth of the Viking King

The permanent residence of Minister Frank is Southampton, the capital of the Kingdom of Wessex.

As one of the most distinguished people on this island, the French Minister would not move around easily, let alone go to a "remote country" like the Kingdom of Kent in person.

The servant brought the order from the minister, asking King Lanshaw of Kent to open the shackles and release the prisoners.

Lan Shaoer looked solemn and summoned the "Archbishop of Canterbury" to enter the royal city for negotiation.

Letty Evans had already known in advance that this man was just a viscount whose family had already fallen into despair. She expected that such a marginal figure would not be taken seriously by the Plantagenet Family.

Therefore, she refused to compromise and resolutely implemented the verdict.

"My Lord Bishop, on behalf of the Minister, I ask again, are you really not going to let him go?" the servant asked with a slightly playful expression, "Don't say that I didn't remind you that even if this man is poor and destitute, his status as a knight is still the same. Canonized by my king himself!"

"Under the royal authority, no one has the qualifications to judge me, the knight of France!"

"So, let me ask you one last time, are you really not going to let me go?!"

As the supreme preacher of faith in the British Isles, Letty Evans from the "Silent Sisters" was not frightened since she was a child.

As a demigod-level powerhouse under the "path of faith", in her heart, the Pope is supreme. No one dares to desecrate the tributes offered by mortals to the gods.

What's more, the French nobles have been running rampant in the English Islands for more than a day or two, and now they even dare to enter a sacred place like "Canterbury Cathedral" to openly steal gold tribute.

It would be fine if the Minister came in person.

After being threatened by a servant and then letting him go, where is the Pope's face?

Letty turned and left without saying a word.

The French servant in rich clothes looked at her back with a smile and said loudly: "Your Majesty Bishop! I admire your persistence in personal principles."

"I hope you can keep your original intention and let us all witness the grace of the Archbishop of Canterbury!"

"If you can persist for 10 days, you will have achieved a great victory!"

There was a burst of laughter in the Kent Palace. The Bishop is worthy of trust!

There are few things that make people happier than seeing the proud French deflate.

However, just three days later, the same laughing nobles immediately took off their smiles and replaced them with heavy masks of pain.

**

White doves flew to Paris, delivering news that the down-and-out nobles were about to be executed.

Early the next morning, the Principality of France on the other side of the English Channel immediately blocked all requests from English ships to enter the port. Seeing that the agricultural products, fruits and meat on the ship are about to spoil. English merchants could only sail to the Free City of Visigoth next door.

However, even the Visigothic city-state, which has always been known for its "freedom" and "enlightenment", could not afford to offend the powerful French Principality.

the reason is simple.

For all England's exports, whether wheat, fruit, wine, cheese, spices, France had better substitutes.

In the eyes of Visigoth merchants, the status of English merchants was even lower than that of the Vikings.

After all, the Vikings had precious whale oil, seal skin, and cold-land creature leather. There is no substitute for this series of commodities in the civilized society of the Western Continent.

The goods in the hands of English merchants were all bulk goods.

Even if the English Islands all sank to the bottom of the sea overnight, the lives of the French, Visigoths, and Bavarians would not be too obvious.

**

Banning exports is only one aspect.

On the other hand, it is to increase export tariffs.

France does not depend on England, but this does not mean that England can not depend on France.

The high-quality steel, glass, pigments, graphite, papyrus, tea, and a series of commodities that the English people urgently needed daily that they could not be self-sufficient in needed all had to be shipped to France via the "Byzantine Empire" and then sent to England through the "English Channel."

The day after the Principality of France blocked the Channel, merchants sensed the coming crisis and began to hoard supplies. The prices of steel, glass, tea and other daily necessities in the shops of the Kingdom of Wessex have increased rapidly.

Three days later, it entered a terrible situation where there was no price but no market.

The furious Ecbert hurriedly summoned the Kent king "Llanshaw". In this conversation that will not be recorded in the history books, he said a very important sentence.

"In anyone's life, there are inevitably moments when he needs to be a grandchild!"

"As the kings of these islands, we can call the wind and rain whatever we want."

"However, when facing the Plantagenet Family, even if they are facing a servant delivering news, they can still make us miserable!"

"Similarly, the 'Plantagenet Family' show off their power in front of us, but when they face the Byzantine King 'Mikhail III', they also have to lower their heads and kiss the uppers of his shoes!"

“Because the Silk Road ended in Constantinople!”

"All the Eastern Continent goods they sell are distributed to other countries in the Mediterranean from the 'general merchant' in Constantinople."

"Can 'Mikhail III' stand up straight and make money forever?"

"Neither can he."

"Because on the 'East-West Continental Bridge' there is also the 'Abbas Family' that rules the Arab Empire. Farther away, there is also the 'Li Family of the Tang Dynasty', the rulers of the Eastern Tang Dynasty. He can control both of these two giants. Can’t afford to offend.”

Lan Shaoer's face was ashen. He wanted to speak, but couldn't say anything.

"The bastard you locked up just stole a golden apple. The total of that thing is only ten taels of silver. You have a thousand ways to get the golden apple back, but you have to choose the stupidest one. method."

"You have to tie this piece of shit to a cross and burn it."

"I'm so damn convinced. If you are really angry, why don't you find a killer to kill him secretly, and then claim to the public that he died of illness?"

"If you are stumped, you must tell the world: There is a thief among the French nobles?"

"You must slap the Plantagenet family in the face?!"

"It's fine now. If you send me a letter from the sea, our fleets from seven countries, plus the urgently needed goods, the delayed business opportunities can be exchanged for at least 10,000 golden apples!"

"Have you ever figured this out clearly?"

Lan Shaoer didn't reply because he really had nothing to say.

The next day, he let the down-and-out noble go.

But even so, the Principality of France did not bypass the English.

They took this as an opportunity to impose permanently too high tariffs on 17 in-demand goods, with the highest increase even being as high as 7%.

Because of this incident, English merchants had to pay an additional purchase cost of nearly 30,000 gold pounds every year.

And all of this stems from this big hand that is always stuck around their necks——

The Duchy of France, the "Plantagenets".