Rise of Rurik - Chapter 1080

[Chapter 1080 Appeasement and Enclosure]

Now, the Latvian army in Riga is in disarray and can be easily defeated by a strong force present.

Fisk’s cavalry arrived here. He has this ability, and he may have this motivation, but in order to take the overall situation into consideration, he showed a completely peaceful attitude.

It was a beautiful coincidence to meet the people in Spuute, and it is precisely this coincidence that can be exploited.

The militiamen were still withdrawing in a chaotic manner, and the well-dressed local nobles gathered one after another.

Fisk is wary of other people, and he only believes in the advice of his fellow clan, Spuyut.

He got off his horse, and through the local interpreter, he negotiated further with these nobles.

“I want to talk to your biggest leader.” Fisk’s request was very direct.

This request made it difficult for many nobles. They looked at each other, and at the critical moment, it was Spueut who explained it himself.

“Boy, you still don’t know anything about Riga. There is no big boss here!”

“how is this possible?”

“That’s the truth. However, if you have to say it…” Spueut pinched his waist proudly, “I am the war chief they elected.”

“Huh? So you’re already Riga’s boss?”

“No, but I have a certain power. I am the chief they temporarily elected to deal with the war.”

“Just to fight us?” Fisk heard, and then looked at these nobles, his attitude changed a bit, and his eyes became sharp.

“Don’t be vicious, it’s all a misunderstanding. Now that the misunderstanding has been contacted, the cavalry can directly enter Riga.”

It seems that this is the way to go, but this is not what Fisk wants.

Riga has no supreme chief, which is a strange situation, so these guys need a chief as a boy needs a father.

This is Fisk’s thinking. He feels that Riga is a land of no man. In the future, the benefactor will be the Earl of Saaremaa Island, the law enforcer of the South Baltic Sea, the great explorer, and the old Russ. It is also.

Even the other party has hinted that he has the ability to transform temporary power into permanent.

Of course, the cavalry will enter Riga, but according to the original plan, they will go straight to the beach to make a fortune by mining rough amber stones.

Unexpectedly, meeting many local nobles in the current special way, Fisk had a plan.

He didn’t want to think about why there was another group of Vikings here. Obviously, these guys were allied with Spueut and provided valuable translators.

Behind him, the cavalry still lined up neatly.

The soldiers remained on guard and could quickly launch a brutal pursuit of those evacuees after being ordered. On the contrary, the waiting now became more and more boring.

Fisk could understand the mentality of his subordinates, so he deliberately pointed behind him: “Have you Riga people seen it? They are Ross cavalry, paid by the king himself, and only loyal to the king’s army. They are more loyal to the king than your relatives.” Soldiers must be loyal, well-equipped and fearless, and each soldier has killed at least ten enemies. You’d better not provoke them, otherwise the fire will burn your city to ashes.”

He didn’t know if the interpreter explained truthfully, but from the astonished faces of these guys, it could be concluded that the effect of intimidation had been achieved.

Fisk mentioned the request again: “My people come from afar and never intend to kill people and steal goods in your territory, but brothers should not be empty-handed.” He gestured deliberately, “Give us enough food supplies, and I will give you everything else.” Don’t force it. Otherwise…food! Or war!”

The final appeal is a Norse vocabulary that the local nobles can fully understand. Obviously, although the other party is another group of Ross people, they may be the real Ross people in terms of senses.

Some people “suddenly realized”, I am afraid that from the very beginning, the businessman Spuute was playing tricks. The gang paralyzed the Latvians in Riga with rich goods, defrauded the military command and joined forces with another accomplice.

And the Varyags of the Danish community.

The Varyags are the Varyags, whether they are subdivided into Danes or Rus, they are all one.

So what if you feel cheated?

The vast majority of Latvian village chiefs and rich locals in Riga were surrounded by Varyags. The reason why these people didn’t swing the butcher’s knife was because of their past friendship, right?

A village leader put an end to his panic and hesitation, and he stepped forward: “Then, we should sit together and talk about our future with the help of good wine and food. We… don’t want war.”

The translation explained well, and Fisk nodded: “I really need a friendly talk. Now, I need you nobles to make a promise immediately. I have 700 soldiers under my command, and I want to give no one 200 pounds of food.”

Therefore, the Russian cavalry asked for a total of 140,000 Roman pounds of grain, which was converted into a concept that the Riga people could easily understand, which was 1,400 “sacks.”

For the convenience of statistics and transportation, Riga, as the trade center of Latvia, also fully used the general weights and measures of the Vikings due to the settled Danes, and most of the dimensions of these calculations came from the definitions of the Roman Empire.

Bulk goods such as grain, a hundred pounds of oats stuffed and tied in a burlap sack.

In this way, the sack has also become a unit of measurement.

Here, the Riga nobles were ashamed of the cavalry’s appetite, and they were all complaining that this request was too outrageous. Unexpectedly, the two Varyag generals they had personally selected were no doubt with the robbers at this moment.

“The demands of those who support us are nothing more than 1,400 sacks of grain. Compared with war and death, are you reluctant to part with these grains?” Spueut said.

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At this moment, the Dane Stekander is very sensible and completely stands on the position of the allies of the Rus.

The old boy thought with his toes and knew that his community did not have the slightest bargaining power with the Ross people.

Fortunately, Denmark and Ross are already in an alliance, and the brothers will join if they can’t beat it. Now is the opportunity to act together with the Ross people.

Stekander warned the nobles in the Latvian dialect of the Baltic language: “Anyway, we will not fight them. I think that even if you have the opportunity to organize an army, there is no chance of winning. Just give them food, There is no shame in buying peace. Besides, you have negotiated a price, and if there is any trouble in the future, the Ross people will help you fight.”

What a joke!

The tomahawk is on the neck, and at this time to persuade, “Don’t resist and buy peace with food”, what kind of persuasion is this?

Clearly a threat.

“Hurry up and talk back.” Fisk urged.

Seeing that the nobles were still hesitant, they simply acted indifferent: “At worst, we’ll go get it ourselves, but at that time it will cause unnecessary casualties. Listen, you are responsible for the deaths of those people.”

Having said that, what about the nobles?

They expressed their willingness to give food.

“Very good. Within three days, we will see enough food. We have to enter the city of Riga to be stationed. We will exercise restraint while waiting for food. If we don’t see food, we will loot it.”

Seeing that there are five people and six people like Fisk, Spueut doesn’t want this junior to share his power, so he added: “Dear people, your villagers had better hurry up and get out the food. You stay in the city for the time being, and we will release you when we get the food. Don’t worry, this is not imprisonment.”

As a result, the Ross Cavalry joined forces with the Spyut pirate army. They fought side by side in last year’s war, and now they meet each other and are willing to reminisce with each other.

Among the cavalry was flying the bull’s head flag, this is the cavalry of Ostara, there are quite a few of them.

There are also a large number of prairie people wearing iron masks, the number is actually the largest.

In contrast, the real Rus cavalry is only one-sixth.

In any case, after completing the meeting, they became a group of people, and the strength of the troops on the scene directly expanded to nearly 1,200 people, and their military literacy was extremely high.

If you count the non-combatants of the Danish community in Riga, a new force descended on Riga, with a population of 2,000.

Just two thousand people?

Many of Riga’s residents have entangled ties to the Danish community through business partners, in-laws and friends.

It is precisely this relationship that Riga can open the door to the later Ross merchants, just because they have a good impression of the Varyag merchants.

This is exactly the case, it can be said that they have given up their power, and the entire Riga has been completely turned into the territory of the Varyags.

The entire Latvian tribe is only 30,000 people, and this population is already unable to get rid of the influence of the Varyags, let alone he will not do so.

Because the local nobles have no backbone, they all support appeasement out of self-preservation instinct, that is, handing over food to buy peace.

The cavalry lined up neatly, the warriors held their heads high, and the horses strode forward in such a mighty way to Riga.

They showed unstoppable force but turned into guards of honor on the bright side. The refugees entrenched in Riga finally saw the existence they feared. Only when they really saw the faces of these cavalrymen did they feel that they were not vicious people.

The cavalry team walked around the riverside area, deliberately showing the lineup to the locals, firstly to frighten them, and secondly to dispel the fear of the unknown.

Such a measure worked very well. The nobles who were under house arrest saw the happy smiles of the people as if they were participating in the sacrifice. Their fear of the Ross people disappeared, and the Ross people did abide by the promised security after arriving in the area they chose to stay. point.

They don’t even harass local women, not anybody.

Riga people have not been violated, so how can they talk about resistance?

Even more good news is spreading wildly-the Ross cavalry crossed the village without any looting, and all the refugees can go home and live.

This is real?

At least they didn’t plunder in Riga.

The people began to withdraw again, hoping that those who did not withdraw would be safe and hope that such peace could continue.

Ordinary people began to comfort themselves. Originally, there was a Danish community in Riga, and it would be okay to have a Ross community in the future.

There are even great cleverness to publicize to friends that the so-called two Varyags are stationed here, and the Semigallians will stop intruding in the future.

So, at what cost?

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In the short run, it’s food.

In the long run, it is the Latvians who have just entered the state of the village union who want to cede their power and sovereignty.

All the village leaders sent reliable messengers back to the village to collect food, and they themselves were grounded.

They had enough time to discuss how to make a big deal with the new Ross, and everyone on the other side had already gathered.

In the middle of the night, a carefree reception.

“Cheers to our friendship!” Stekander held up the oak cup to pay tribute to friends who also believed in Odin.

On behalf of the Danish community, he organizes this very Viking-style drinking party, where people drink cloudy ale, use knives to freely cut the meat of roast sheep, and cement friendship between cups and cups.

At first, Strkander was skeptical when Spueut claimed the Ross-Danish alliance, but that skepticism is now gone.

Among the people sitting was a prairie nobleman from the far south. He had a strange appearance and a short stature, with a big pie face and small eyes.

Strokander naturally looked down on the kid, but when he learned that the Ross cavalry were trained by the grassland tribe, he immediately looked at him with admiration.

Strkander did not know the structure of the earth, nor the infinity of the world.

He felt that the Danish community he was in was almost at the end of Midgard, the so-called human world, and after all, his own structure was small.

Therefore, some fundamental problems should be seized and solved immediately.

Stekander hosted the reception. Behind him is the Danish community of thousands of people, and he bears the responsibility for the future of the entire community.

But there was another very familiar face sitting here!

“Harold, why are you with the Ross?” he asked.

Seeing that old Harold really didn’t know what to say, he could only hook his head.

Fisk, who was blushing from drinking, was surprised: “Harold? Is there anyone named Harold here?”

“It’s the guy next to you.”

“Him? He is Olaf, our friend.”

“Bah Olaf, he’s Harold. Well, if your boy is willing to change his name to Olaf.” Speaking of Strkander gave another hard look, and recalled: “You take some young boys to Chuang Tianxia, where are they? Are they all dead?”

“It’s dead. They all died in the territory of the Polotsk people.”

Originally, when the old guy talked about this matter, Fisk was a little nervous. Hearing that this guy whose real name should be given to Harold “they died in the territory of the Polotsk people”, I wanted to admire the old boy’s nonsense. , I also feel that such a witty remark actually takes the overall situation into consideration.

(After all, it was a misunderstanding that those boys were hacked to death by Ross cavalrymen.)

“Those Polotsk people are murderers? That’s true. They also detained our caravan, took away supplies, and drove people away.” Strokander, who was slightly drunk, was indignant and his beard trembled.

Old Harold would not be so stupid as to tell the truth. Anyway, everyone is happy that the big villain is labeled as a Polotsk by him.

“Friends, everything has changed now. Our young war chief, Fisk, has conquered Polotsk. Those guys will return to Rus in the future, and if someone jams our ships and asks for tolls, even killing people and stealing goods is over.”

“He? Young?!”

Fiskeben smiled and said nothing, and now he has to explain something.

He stroked his red, bald head that was dripping with sweat with one hand: “To be honest, I am twenty-three years old.”

“Unbelievable, you seem to be forty years old.”

“Uncle, you are wrong. I cut off my hair on purpose. It is very particular about cutting it clean. If I don’t take good care of it, I will have thick hair soon, which is not good.”

“Your hobby? Interesting.” Spueut now fully understands that the kid’s nickname “bald” comes from this hobby, not a skin disease speculation.

Taking this opportunity, he started to talk about business: “I heard that Ross and Denmark have already made an alliance. The descendants of the Stonewall tribe have gained the highest power. Is this true? I want to confirm one more.”

“It’s absolutely true.” Fisk played very simply, his eyes full of sincerity.

“So, what do we do? I mean, the community is all Danish, and there are a lot of mixed-race kids with at least one Danish parent. Where do we go from here?”

“Maybe you can go back to Zealand. The new king of Denmark, Ragnar, built a big city called Copenhagen there. This year, the Danes who live in Ross will also return home one after another. Denmark is the time when people are employed, and your return may be able to Get their reuse.”

Listen, a young cavalry general speaks deeply of this insight.

What Fisk said is good, but it is not in the interest of the Danish community in Riga. One very simple reason is that it is too far away from Denmark and the Ross forces are in sight.

Stekander drank a large glass of ale in public, and after a rumbling belch, he raised his chest especially: “I am the leader of the community! I don’t want to go back to Denmark with my family! I want to meet King Ross in person. Hope the whole community joins Ross! Hope, we will always be brothers.”

His proclamation was unexpected by Fisk and Spueut!

But if you think about it carefully, a very powerful force appeared in Riga, and even crazily attacked from two directions, which further reflects the strength of this force.

We are all Vikings and have the commonality of worshiping the strong.

The bald Fisk and the Earl of Saaremaa Island, Spuute, are related by blood to King Ross, after all, they are both from the same blood tribe.

In addition, Svalgard of the Duchy of Ostara, whose duchess or chieftain was a wife of King Ross, was present at the meeting.

Grassland Quetzal is a nobleman, and his sister is another wife of King Ross.

Sturkander is a smart man. When he realized that his newly-acquainted friends had a close relationship with King Ross in the far north, how could he let go of this golden opportunity?

He asked for surrender, a request Spueut and Fisk could not have wished for more.

And he didn’t stop there: “What do you think of Riga? What do you think of the Latvians who live in this generation?”

Spueut, who has lived for a while, finally no longer has to hide his ambitions: “In my opinion, this place needs to be brought under Ross’s rule.”

Fisk’s original plan was only to establish business contacts with Riga, and of course eventually occupying Riga is also in the future plan.

He never expected that the locals in Riga are so inferior, and those who are truly capable have already thought of enclosing them. How can such an opportunity be passed up?

“I also support your decision,” he said.

All the people present supported Strkander’s proposition. At that time, everyone would continue to practice the traditional Nordic democracy, and Riga would become a free port in the northern world, but the ownership would be in the hands of Ross.

This is the result of everyone’s final discussion, and the final question also came-who will manage Riga on behalf of Rose?

The answer is no need to think about it!

As the first nobleman of Ross, Spyut has experienced many battles and is well-informed. The first fiefdom is Saaremaa Island guarding the exit of the Riga Gulf. It can be said that whether people here can fish in the ocean depends on this person. Spueut’s face.

Its title is still hereditary, and its eldest son who has the right of first succession is in Riga.

Who better to have the management of the city of Riga than Spuyet representing Ross?

Now there is none.

Everyone chose to support Spueut, but the old guy was also very particular about his words: “This is the best. We will persuade those nobles to give up the control of Riga, and even convince them to enclose Ross collectively. But, do I really have I still need to report to the king after it is stabilized. When the king announces that I have this power, my family is the master of Riga, and I will move here.”

[End of this Chapter]