After that, the system elves began to whisper with me: "I remember that during the heyday of the Roman Empire, the legendary five bishops were united together, the bishop of Rome, the bishop of Constantinople, the bishop of Jerusalem, the bishop of Alexander, and the bishop of Antioch. How might it be. It was a territory of 10 million miles and a dozen millions of chariots. How domineering it was. Gujos Julius Caesar, Augustus Octavia, Flavi Valerius Aurelius Constantine, Flavi Peter Sebatius Justinian, what a great 'beep' it was..."

"But there is nothing now." Egil complained so strongly.

"Although it is true, since Rome split, civil war, Western Rome was destroyed, and other events are indeed worse than before - but be careful. The current Eastern Rome is still in the strongest era in history - or in other words, the strongest state in history. It is always eager to recreate the glory of the Roman Empire again. And, do you know that the current Roman emperor took one?"

"I don't know." Egil asked.

"Want to know?" asked the system elves.

"I don't want to know." Egil replied.

Of course, when the system elves were happy, Egil, the protagonist, was completely irresistible. Therefore, the system elves completely ignored Egil's answer and said to himself: "It's Basil. The grassroots emperor, who was a peasant, finally fought to the throne of the imperial emperor, and was known as the Bulgarian butcher. He was the pervert who liked to poach people's eyes, "Leave a glance every hundred people and guide the prisoners back to their hometown."

"..." So Egil was speechless: "That place is far away from me - even in the heyday of the legendary Roman Empire, those fools with soft Mediterranean climate had never conquered such high-latitude areas. Isn't it enough to not be able to beat my cat in Scandinavia?"

"Are you willing?"

"Okay, I'm not willing to give up." So Egil was convinced: "So what should I do?"

"Think yourself."

"..." So Egil was completely convinced.

Forget it, what's the use of those entangled things now? According to historical legends, Rome is a natural deterioration. It will be destroyed by the Ottoman in a few hundred years... Well, this is a different world, so it is very likely to be different. Egil returned to the Oslo Fortress in a mess.

At this moment, Oslo had been transformed by Egil for a large price, with a total of 20,000 gold coins and more than 10,000 points. The entire Oslo was built into a... Well, how to say it, in terms of technology, it is basically impossible to conquer the super bunker.

There are four walls in total, five meters thick and twenty meters high. There are many arrow towers, various city defense crossbows, catapults, and oil-rolling traps. Some of the more sinister ones seem like urns, like thousand-jin gates, etc. If there are enough defenders, then even if the enemy attacking the city is twenty times that of the defenders, there is no way to do anything.

If Oslo's biggest flaw is that the side around the sea is slightly missing a wall, Egil has opened the deep and quiet place into a large military port and a supporting dry dock shipyard. However, Egil is confident that as long as he maintains his current powerful navy, the enemy will not be able to get a bargain in this regard.

Just like an island country, as long as there is a powerful navy, the enemy will not be able to attack your land. Through sea transportation, the army can project strikes on any of the enemy's coastlines. Only you can hit others, others cannot hit you. So, island countries still have some benefits.

Of course, all this is just Egil's fantasy. It will take at least four months to complete the entire Oslo Fortress and the naval base he conceived. In addition, Egil adheres to the concept of "If you want to be rich, build roads first", and once again builds a stone paving road from Oslo to Biard, and spends another 31,000 gold coins. Egil suddenly discovers that he is a pauper again.

I was so fucked. Although the tax revenue has increased to 8,000 gold coins per month, I don’t know why, but I still feel it’s not enough to spend it. Egil thought so in his mind.

Perhaps this situation will be better after the trade with Denmark and Sweden begins. But there will be no greater improvement.

So Egil began to think of some ways to make a mistake.

For example, privateer licenses, legal pirates, etc. If the national navy does such a thing, it will more or less lose the national image of Sweden (system elves: so your current honor level is already an infamous fool).

So, if that's the case... then plunder, pirates or something.

After hearing the size of the system elves, Egil decided decisively: he decided to treat all ships entering and leaving the Ore Waterway equally (of course Norway can purchase a more cost-effective tax-free pass separately) and impose an Ore Waterway toll tax.

Of course, if we wanted to properly and legally impose the Öre waterway toll tax, Egil should have controlled the Jutland Peninsula, the legendary Denmark, so that would be enough. After all, the Öre waterway should have half of the other party.

However, with the power of new victory, Egil ignored the wrath of the heavens and people in northern Europe, and ignored the strong protests of Denmark, a friendly neighbor who was surrounded by water across the sea. He began to impose a forced tax. For good children who paid the tax, Egil would issue their ship owner a legal pass, and use special words on the document, like ghostly paintings that Egil called oracle bone inscriptions to record the ship owner's ship size, quantity of goods, and the length of the validity period of the document.

Of course, it is impossible for Norwegian sailors produced by the system to not understand these words.

Hey? You don't hand over. No problem. But in this way, you can't ensure your safety in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Pirates or something, if you don't carry the pass for oracle bone ghost painting talismans, you will snatch you from the people and ships. Of course, they don't kill people, but will send you friendly and kindly to the shore. I wish you a good appetite and come again next time - no no, that is really not a Norwegian navy. I think you have definitely misunderstood - what? You said you know the bearded captain? I met him on the Norwegian navy's ship two days ago?

...You know too much.

In this way, many ship owners were stolen and lost all their money. At the same time, some missing ships were circulated in the business. After vaguely pointing their finger at Egil, almost all the sailors learned to be good, and they would honestly pay taxes to Egil while passing through the Ore Waterway. They didn't even have to urge them.

So Egil's reputation became even worse. He basically belonged to the level of eight streets that could smell bad when facing the wind. He would be stabbed by someone when he went to the street.

But Egil doesn't care about this. As soon as the policy of Öle waterway toll tax was introduced, Egil's monthly income increased by 5,000 gold coins in an instant. In Egil's opinion, this is more important than anything else, which is enough. At the same time, the dwarf messenger, who was Egil's quasi-ally, took another mission. When Biard couldn't find Egil's people, he chased Oslo all the way to Oslo. He was amazed at the speed of Oslo's change. After seeing the naval strength under Egil's command, the dwarves began to urge Egil to fulfill his promises quickly and form a coalition force with the dwarves to expedition to England.

Egil thought for a moment and persuaded the dwarves to send troops to England after they returned from their diplomats who had been on a mission to Rome and officially became the king of Norway.

After receiving a positive answer, the dwarf messengers signed a trade treaty with Egil to buy food and ale in Norwegian cities. By the way, the dwarfs are indeed not a nation suitable for farming. Although they worked hard to create various farming tools, plows, rakes, hoes, sickles, etc.... But the dwarfs still did not have enough food to produce themselves. In addition, the dwarfs love to drink alcohol, especially spirits, and making wine is also a very, very food-consuming matter.

In addition, the pottery, cloth, salt and other daily necessities that dwarves urgently need also need to be exchanged with humans.

Lattes, or other precious metal exchanges. This is another sure-making deal.

After obtaining trade income, Ore Waterway toll taxes, and some black income such as pirates and smuggling, Egil's money bag finally bulged up. The spy network covering the entire Nordic, larger and more gorgeous churches, and various supporting public facilities were also successfully built. The entire Norway began to show a prosperous and prosperous atmosphere.

At this moment, the mission to Rome returned successfully, bringing good news again - at this moment, the Papal Kingdom was indeed not as strong as that afterwards. The more powerful European powers basically did not miss him. The Eastern Roman Empire even regarded this "bishop" as a rebellion. There was a rare Nordic country... Well, it seemed to be called Norway - but this was not important. What was important was that Norway respected the status of the Papal Kingdom. This made the current Pope Innocent III, who was determined to establish a large earthly kingdom, and immediately affirmed the proposal of the Grand Duke of Norway to be upgraded to a king. By the way, according to Egil's temptation, he brought back many scriptures - of course, manuscripts - and most of them were Bibles.

Even after diplomat II and pastor One presented the priceless Ruby Pope crown brought by Egil's command, Innocent III specially gave a delicate silver cross, saying that it was a gift to Egil the devout.

In this way, Egil obtained another piece of equipment: the blessed cross, piety +1, and the attributes of devout believers, piety +3 - of course, they are all attributes (list). And (inside) piety and your sister's behavior has been reduced by three points.
Chapter completed!