"Oh, respected chief, please call me Gould Unklas." As he spoke, this guy who was clearly dressed as a wealthy man strode closer, holding his leather coat with his left hand.
Otto.
He glanced at the soap on the table a few more times and couldn't help but marvel at its special yellow-white color.
"Chief, are you still selling these soaps like you did a few days ago? It seems that your people did not buy them immediately."
Otto nodded, his wariness gone, and at the same time he deliberately showed a hint of embarrassment.
Because this Gould was unusual, anyone with a clear head could tell from his clothes that this young guy was rich.
Although this man is rich, trying to take advantage of him is really seeking death.
Not to mention that Rossburg will adopt a protective attitude towards visiting merchants, the wealthy merchants always have a group of smart and capable guards. The sources of these guards are diverse, and there are even Finn tribes from the east of the sea. They are only loyal to their sponsors.
, willing to help the donor do various things for money.
"It seems that you have encountered some troubles and your products are unsalable."
"Yes, what if..." Otto paused and stepped forward to introduce deliberately: "Look at these beautiful spas, they are different from the previous ones. I will be very happy if you can buy them.
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Gould answered very happily: "Of course, I will buy it. Thank you for your permission, my distinguished chief. Besides, there are some other things I really hope to talk to you about."
"Oh?" Otto couldn't help but narrowed his eyes. He naturally felt that it would be a good thing.
This Gould Unclas is indeed extraordinary. He is a wealthy businessman and has an elite guard of about fifty people.
Onkras is not this person's surname, or in other words, the owner of the Viking world in this time and space does not have a clear concept of surname.
If you insist on having a surname, it would be the name of the tribe to which you belong.
Onkras, which means "antlers", is a tribal name.
Hundreds of years ago, some people who went north to land in Scandinavia took their boats and entered a large coastal swamp. They saw a large number of islands and fresh water that could be drank directly.
Settle down.
They settled in a group of lakes named Lake Malaren, and the population gradually developed.
For hundreds of years, a large number of residents settled in a large area along the lake. They reclaimed land to grow wheat and graze cattle and sheep on small flats. They were called the Melalen tribe, and the lake was named after this tribe.
name.
Lake Malaren is indeed a geomantic treasure. Hundreds of years later, a trading city will rise at its mouth and become the core of everything in the region, that is Stockholm. Of course, Stockholm now exists as a small settlement.
More tribes moved north and west, stopping at the towering mountains.
The Angkras tribe is in the northwest of the Mälaren tribe, and there are many waterways leading directly to Lake Mälaren.
There are also tribes such as Gavle and Ratina that are active in the area. They are all tribes with extraordinary strength.
Even though his strength is extraordinary, he still needs to be compared.
What is very bad is that the current total population of the entire Siiya Tribe Alliance is less than 100,000!
That's because they are currently strongly suppressed by the Danes, and the main body is huddled in the Svealand Plain. However, even if they occupy the entire Götaland Highlands, conquer Gotland Island, and absorb all Gotland as the normal trend of history, people, the total population only increased by ten or twenty thousand.
During the same period, the Danish population exceeded 200,000.
Including the Norwegians who lived in a large area of disconnected bays and the pioneers in some Baltic settlements, the population of the entire Viking world was less than half a million.
The British kingdom and the huge Frankish kingdom, which they began to plunder, had a combined population of up to 15 million!
The Siweiya Tribal Alliance will eventually develop into a feudal country. No matter how they develop, they will not be able to quickly develop powerful agricultural technology. In the hundreds of years after the Viking Age, agricultural technology has not changed significantly, and population development has been slow. of.
So the real historical trend is that until the early 16th century, the total population of Swedes living in Svealand, Götaland, and Gotland was only more than 400,000. Even the Finns who were servants were included. The population is only half a million people.
The situation in Denmark, their centuries-old rival, is not much better, with only 600,000 people.
At the same time, the population of France reached 15 million.
In the ninth century, the Danes and the Siyans both spoke the same language and were devoted to trade and raiding. Population undoubtedly became the first key factor in competition.
Today's Roseburg has truly become a strange flower in the alliance. It is not that it is so weird, but that seven thousand people are actually crammed into a fjord. Roseburg is truly a behemoth.
What kind of concept is this?
In another dimension, in the mid-16th century, Stockholm, the core of the Swedes, was just a trading port with a population of only 9,000 people. At that time, the share of the citizen class was extremely low, and farmers were the majority of the Swedes. .
The situation of the Danes is exactly the same. Copenhagen is a geomantic treasure, which is particularly suitable for the development of business. Therefore, the city has a population of up to 20,000. It is this city that is a "large rural area" in the Eastern concept. It was already in the 16th century. The largest city in Northern Europe!
At the same time, London had only 60,000 people, while Paris had a population of 200,000. France, with a population five times that of Britain, took advantage of its population. As long as a king was not stupid in intelligence, it would not be difficult to win continental hegemony.
In the ninth century, Rossburg had developed into a behemoth, and the fjord had approached its population capacity limit. The Ross people's plunder of materials in the surrounding areas had reached the point of completely wiping out the wild reindeer in the area. In order to gain more wealth, the winter of 2 The northern expedition was an adventurous and radical action.
Will famine break out due to huge population?
The answer is no. If the tribesmen feel that they will be hungry, they will spontaneously leave the tribe, give up all rights to war dividends, and find their own new world.
So Otto insisted on establishing a new stronghold in the East. He now simply hoped to set up a material transfer station on the Eastern trade line and develop it into a new settlement, which would bring unexpected gains.
What about the fact? This is also a manifestation of subconsciousness.
As the elite of the tribe, Otto convinced other elites that they must establish a new stronghold. In fact, he was dispersing the terrifying population pressure of Fort Ross.
They have never been a resettled people; they are homeless everywhere.
That night, Otto was very happy to invite Gould to his home.
Poor Otto, he has never thought of having his own personal bodyguard like Gould, because he doesn't need it in his daily life. In order to show his majesty as a leader, he deliberately gathered more than ten of his close friends.
The following time is purely a meeting between men. Women, children, and even servants must avoid it.
Rurik was relieved and continued to teach Rumia some knowledge in the priest's longhouse, which was also a pleasure.
What would they talk about? Rurik had already learned that it was about business dealings.
Rurik had a clear hunch that this so-called Gould from the Onkras tribe was a big businessman who intended to buy a variety of goods from the Ross tribe!
Gould, the name itself means gold.
Otto welcomed this distinguished guest with traditional mead and brown bread, and asked Gould directly about his wishes.
"Since the distinguished leader asked, I will tell you frankly." Gould paused, took a sip of the sweet mead, and couldn't help but admired; "Mead is really delicious, and we always have to pay to get it.
The price is high, but even so everyone is happy to buy it.
Now your Ross tribe is making a bathing tool called spa. I asked my servant to buy one a few days ago. I tried it at my home and the effect was really good. Hey, maybe you don’t know, I am a person with
It's different from others, I always feel like I'm stuck in greasiness. I always take a shower, eager to wash away the damn greasiness but always fail.
The spa saved me and my hair felt dry for the first time.”
"Oh? Really? It's really an honor for me."
Otto himself is not obese. He is not young yet, and his arms and legs still have strong muscles. Thanks to these muscles, he can still run long distances on foot with weapons like a young man.
Gould is different. He is really a greasy middle-aged uncle. Because he is a big businessman, he has extraordinary assets. He has to hire warriors to guard the family wealth and support more maids and concubines in order to give birth to more children.
The children want to expand their family's business strength and eat a lot to satisfy their appetites.
Gould loved drinking mead, ale, and even eating barbecue. While many farmers in the Anglas tribe actually lived a life of hunger and satiety, Gould had already developed fatty liver in himself.
This time he was a guest at Otto's home. He took off his stuffed ferret hat, and his shiny bald head really shined under the light of the oil lamp.
He was an old guy with strong sebaceous gland secretion, and he didn't think his belly was very harmful to his health. The greasy feeling made him unhappy. Soap changed this situation, and he instantly realized the business opportunities here.
Because, although Roseburg has a large population, they do not have huge wealth.
The wealthy people are all in the south, especially the Melalen tribe, which has the best farmland and pastures, as well as the most wealthy people and the most fat people.
In order to wash away the lingering oil on their bodies, they will definitely pay a big price for it.
Gould had nothing to hide. He was very happy that the leader Otto allowed him to build a larger wooden house here, and he had no discriminatory attitude towards him and his servants.
Because of the legend about Rurik, the "Blesser of Odin", Gould was even more willing to stay. Recently, he asked his servants to get clear information, not only about the spa, but also about the steel sword that had recently caused an uproar in the entire Ross tribe.
It was Rurik who spread the "wisdom of Odin".
"Great leader, I will buy all the yellow and white spas you gave birth to right now. I heard the price is three silver coins. Thanks to your love for so many years, I am happy to buy it for four silver coins each."
"Really?" Otto and his friends were shocked.
"I am a person who pays attention to integrity. I am willing to pay this price. It is worth paying. I will also tell you my purpose. I will sell it to the Great Lakes in the south. I will sell it at a higher price."
Otto responded: "If that's all, we can just sell it ourselves, and we will sell it at a good price."
"Oh, great leader, maybe I have an advantage over you on this issue." Gould, who was sitting cross-legged, bowed slightly, with a round face full of fat. It was hard to tell that this guy was almost fifty.
Years old.
"Chief, I think you need me. Your Ross tribe has long been looking forward to being in the far north, and your direct trade with your brothers in the south is not ordinary. With all due respect, many southerners have forgotten that there is a group of people in the north who call themselves tribesmen.
Brother of a master paddler. If you rashly go south to sell a large number of novelty things, I'm afraid you will still have some trouble. At this time, my value will appear."
In fact, Gould's meaning is very straightforward, that is, to act as a big comprador to help the Ross tribe dump goods.
Gould made it clear: "Not only do I want to buy your soap, I also want to buy your steel swords. Your back operation last year was a huge success, and now I'm more than happy to do whatever I can to buy your already tanned pelts. Plus
For some other goods, I would be happy to exchange all the silver I have in Fort Ross for a large quantity of merchandise."
"Oh? Is this true?" Gould's determination really shocked Otto and others.
"I've made a decision and I won't change it."
"You are such a happy businessman. So how much are you willing to pay for our goods?"
"Hmm... probably..." Gould pinched his chin, which had been carefully shaved off all the beard, and said tentatively: "I will probably spend five thousand silver coins to buy various goods. What do you think?"
"Wow! So many?"
"I can afford the money. Now I just want to ask, great leader, can you provide goods of corresponding value?"
A tanned adult reindeer skin can be sold for two silver coins depending on its softness, good quality and large area. Others, such as ferret skins and forest cat skins, are more expensive.
As a large number of processed animal skins are already on sale, merchants from all over the tribe are rushing to buy them.
Except for the furs that the tribesmen use themselves, they still sell half of the furs to the public.
In the sale of goods, the one with the highest price has been easier to buy since ancient times. What Gould did was very simple. He bid a little higher than other competitors and obtained a large amount of animal skins.