The battle is won, and what follows is the winner’s feast!
In the stone room, someone began to roughly pull the hair of the two women. This move frightened the women into wailing, and the protected children also screamed.
Arik couldn't stand the noise, and what was even worse was that after seeing the gold, silver and women, his brothers obviously became a group of disorderly savages.
He yelled: "You all should be quiet. All the prisoners and all the gold are our spoils of war! Everyone has a share. Don't grab it until it is distributed fairly!"
Perhaps in the beginning, Arik only had a reputation in tribal fighting games, but now, he has shown the most bravery in normal combat, especially the act of personally killing the enemy general. The young man from Ross, who worships heroes, now expresses his sincerity
Listen to Arik's orders from your heart.
The hand holding the woman's hair loosened up, and the hand trying to grab the gold coins also loosened up.
Arik ordered his men to retreat slightly, then he personally walked into the two women who were in fear, looked down and asked: "Women, surrender to us, and you and your children will be safe. I can guarantee that we will not kill the slaves."
.Tell me, how many gold and silver coins are there in the box?!"
As soon as they heard that their lives were guaranteed, the two women immediately changed their attitudes and began to cooperate actively.
One person replied with a trembling voice: "One hundred thousand. At least one hundred thousand..."
Since ancient times, the Viking tribe's ancestors understood some Roman culture and also understood the Roman number system. Therefore, in their concept, "one thousand" is already a huge number.
When doing business, sometimes larger numbers are used. They don't have words to describe "ten thousand", but they do have words to describe one million.
The so-called "one hundred thousand" means one hundred thousand.
"So many silver coins?! You're not lying?" Arik asked in astonishment.
"Yes, sir." The woman replied respectfully: "Each box contains ten thousand silver coins. There is also a box full of gold. They are all yours. Sir, you will...will guarantee our lives, right?
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Arik smiled and pointed at the woman's children: "You are all women, I can guarantee your lives. However, if you try to escape, you will be killed."
"We understand! We dare not escape, my master."
Viking women generally just want to live a stable life. There seems to be no real peace in this sea area, and the war never stops. The special environment makes them generally not feel that it is shameful to compromise after the war.
Although some women will commit suicide to pursue their husbands who died in battle.
More women will attach themselves to the new strong men in order to survive, and the victor will immediately accept the captured women as wives and concubines.
Arik and Harozolson are now very clear-headed. This battle is both revenge and robbery. Even so far, the price paid by the Russians has really exceeded their expectations.
The Russians did defeat the armed enemy, which was roughly equal in number to themselves. The enemy was completely defeated, and a rough estimate was that fifty of their own people were killed. Some others were seriously injured, and they may not be able to hold on for long.
The tribe's strength has been weakened to a certain extent. If all the captured people are brought back, the strength will be replenished to a certain extent.
Especially if you take a group of captured young women back and bring them back, will they give birth to many boys for the Russian people in a year? In this way, at least fifteen years later, the strength lost in this battle will be completely replenished.
However, those who can think of this level can be said to be the elite of the tribe.
Ordinary surviving warriors just want to become rich with gold and silver, and want a wife to have a group of children, so as to realize a man's basic pursuit of life.
Aric was shocked by the amount of silver coins, which amounted to one hundred thousand.
Because according to the discussion before departure, the leader Otto fully recognized the arrangement in which the spoils are almost divided among the participants. Obviously, everyone realized that the big leader meant that the future spoils arrangement should also adhere to the principle of sharing among the participants.
New principles.
The world has indeed changed a lot, and this arrangement obviously prevents those who get something for nothing in the tribe, and also stimulates more crazy plundering by careerists.
There was nothing wrong with Otto's determination.
Since in 829 AD, the Russian people decided to end their dormant state forever and bravely go out, can the former tribal culture not change? Without enough wealth stimulation, who will be happy to explore outside? Since there is no need to explore outside, who will
Will you be happy to share the treasures you find with those in the tribe who get something for nothing?
There were 450 people participating in the southward crusade. Arik tentatively believed that fifty brothers died in the battle, and all the money captured was still shared by everyone.
In fact, many people had already stuffed a bunch of silver coins and other valuable things into their leather bags made from seal stomach pouches during the initial melee, and everyone had become rich.
Think about it, it is really unrealistic to ask everyone to hand over their personal seizures and distribute them equally.
Then, the gold and silver in all the boxes in the stone room must be equally distributed.
As the woman said, there are one hundred thousand silver coins in all the boxes?! What is the concept of that?
The high-quality silver coins currently circulating in the market have different stamps and are minted according to the casting standard of one hundred Roman pounds of white coins.
Therefore, ten thousand silver coins are equivalent to nearly forty kilograms. Including the huge and strong solid wood box that carries them. The box, together with the full load of silver coins, totals seventy kilograms, which is very normal.
A strong Russian warrior is fully capable of carrying a 70 kilogram stone.
After everyone fought hard and eliminated all the enemies, everyone slacked off. Once they were bursting with adrenaline, their hormone levels dropped, and the pain in their arms and bruises began to bother everyone. No one could help but feel nervous.
It was difficult to lift the entire cash box.
Just when Arik was thinking about how to deal with so much gold and silver, Haro Zuosen coughed twice and reminded loudly: "Arik, you and your brothers move all the boxes. We must retreat immediately. We don't have time and people who may come
Enemy reinforcements are engaged."
"Yes!" Arik stamped his feet to stop his thoughts about wealth and called on his brothers to take action immediately.
When distributing gold and silver, of course, the pile of gold and silver must be distributed equally. This is what everyone has agreed upon. Those brothers who died in the war will still be distributed to their relatives, and they will not be missing a single silver coin.
If there are another 100,000 silver coins, the average person will have 220. With this amount of money, it is enough to order three magical steel swords!
When he thought of this, Arik felt very gratified. The great reputation he gained in this battle was largely due to the steel sword in his hand. Look at this sword, he killed at least twenty people with it.
It has also cut off many iron swords. Now look at its blade, there is still no flaw!
Does each Russian get more than 200 silver coins? Of course not!
Twenty boxes were found in multiple stone chambers, and the two captured women volunteered to reveal where the keys were hidden.
In fact, these two women were just slaves of the dead Oxen. Due to the position of his eldest son, he did not give the slaves formal status as wives and concubines. In this way, the children of the slaves did not have any rights to live in Jutland.
The eldest son asked for even a single silver coin.
It is precisely because of the lack of status that Oxen promised to give birth to a son in order to give him status. However, among the children born to the two women, only one girl from each is still alive.
In this special era, the fertility rate of women and the survival rate of children were extremely low. Even the future Kingdom of Sweden would have a large land, and its population would only reach 500,000 in the 16th century.
These two women are both from Denmark. They have lived with Oxon for many years, and it is impossible to say that they have no love.
However, at the most critical moment, Oxon, who decided to live quietly, actually used his wife and daughter as bargaining chips to be sold. Now, the two women just want to rely on their new master to survive.
Handing over the hidden key and revealing all Oxon's secrets and where the wealth is buried is a surrender.
Things suddenly develop in incredible directions!
In fact, all the wealthy Viking merchants who lived on Gotland had the habit of burying their money. Oxen of Death was no exception.
He had a small cellar with ten large boxes in it, each containing ten thousand silver coins. Other valuable things were also thrown here, including some rubies, sapphires, and high-grade amber.
However, despite providing such a "letter of surrender", the two women and their daughter were still tied up with hemp ropes by the Russians.
All the prisoners were tied with ropes and began to be marched to the boats on the beach.
The Russians really gained amazing wealth from this battle!
They carried as many as thirty seized wooden boxes to the beach, opened the bronze locks with keys, and what everyone saw was full of coins.
How many coins are there? They still need to be transported back to Roseburg for counting before distribution.
Everyone saw a large number of silver coins and copper coins. In a small wooden box covered with leather, there were actually gold coins piled up!
"Wow! We have made a fortune!" Arik, who had already retreated to the beach, saw the gold and silver piled high at a young age and couldn't help but feel his heart beating wildly. He lamented in his heart that Gould, a big businessman, had nothing to do with Gotland.
People's evaluations are true. Gotlanders are really rich!.
The warriors who came around had just washed their faces with sea water. When they saw so much money, they were all shocked with sweat on their faces, and some were so happy that they laughed.
Because many people already had twenty or thirty silver coins in their pockets, as well as many axes captured from the enemy.
How much money was in the box seized by the Russians?
There are twenty boxes of silver coins, ten boxes of copper coins, and gold coins in small boxes. The number of silver coins alone is 210,000! There are also two thousand gold coins!
The wealthy merchants of Gotland loved hoarding gold and silver, and it is not surprising that they were able to hoard 200,000 silver coins.
The Russians did not foolishly attack the northern part of the island. Many families there could hoard silver to a huge number of 300,000 pieces, and the mercenaries of the gold masters could also surge to 200 or more. Moreover, ordinary people there also
They were relatively wealthy, so men generally could afford to arm themselves with chainmail.
It was not because the Russians listened to Gould's intelligence that they did not dare to fight the enemies in the north of the island.
Everyone is tired of fighting now, and it is definitely not a good idea to continue to expand the results.
The Russians robbed so much money and burned the entire Skokenburg to the ground. After a great battle, at least 800 locals died, and the entire settlement collapsed. Oxen Oakens's business collapsed, and its operations collapsed.
People put most of their money in a safe castle, and it ends up becoming the wealth of others.
Oxen's eldest son also brought some funds to develop in Jutland, the core area of the Danes.
As guard captain Okenstein said before his death, the actions of the Russians were provoking a war, a war in the true sense of the word!
The Russians still didn't think about whether the Danes would avenge the Gotlanders. They were cheering for grabbing a large amount of gold and silver. In contrast, they saw the pitiful appearance of nearly eighty prisoners sobbing and the sixty-five dead bodies.
The restrained Rus became cold corpses.
"That's it." After inspecting the trophies, Harozov shouted to his men who were trying to share the trophies immediately: "We have taken revenge and are leaving now. Take everything you can! Let's go!"
Everyone woke up and knew that they could not stay here for long. They immediately dragged their tired bodies and pushed the boat back to the beach with all their strength.
A large number of trophies were loaded onto the ships, especially the captured women. In order to prevent them from committing suicide or making aggressive actions, all the captives had their hands and feet tied, and almost all were carried to put on their clothes. Many of them were pitiful.
A sesame ball was stuffed into the person's mouth, and a hemp rope was tied around the mouth.
Taking into account the long voyage, all the boxes full of gold and silver were deliberately divided into ships. After all, one box weighed nearly one person, and if they were all placed together, the ship would be overweight and even capsize.
The boxes must be separated, so that even if there is a storm and some damage on the return voyage, most of the ships will be able to survive the storm and there will still be a large amount of gold and silver transported to their hometown.
Prisoners and gold and silver, these were carefully guarded spoils of war.
Others that need to be closely guarded are the corpses of brothers who died in battle. Unlike the prisoners who were thrown away casually, the corpses of the fallen were laid neatly and stacked in the captured ships. Their shields and axes were carried around the corpses, and their bodies were covered with blood.
Covered with captured linen.
At this moment, the captured wooden boats carrying their bodies may be their future coffins. People would string such boats decorated with dragon heads with hemp ropes behind the main ships and drag them on their way.
The various metal objects, various pickled meats, various wheat kernels packed in sacks, some dried peas, leather, tableware, and even the various daily necessities of the Lord of Death Castle, all that were not burned, were seized.
Abducted by the Russians.
In particular, a sealed wooden barrel was found from the castle owner's house. A warrior imitated a puppy and used his nose to smell the smell of grapes - it turned out to be a barrel of wine.
When it was still late at night, the Russians launched a strong attack and twenty ships washed up on the beach.
Now that the sun has risen high, the sunlight has actually fallen into the thick smoke that is constantly rising, turning into a dim and shaking image.
One of the main purposes of the Russians in this war was revenge. They were completely in a state of venting their anger and set all the houses on fire. The thatch roofs of the Sikenberg people were built. Soon, the entire fishing village was engulfed in a fire that reached the sky, and the scale was like a dense volcanic eruption.
Smoke is like a lighthouse!
The island of Gotland may seem small in size, but when you are there, you have to feel that the island is not small.
Thick smoke is a very obvious warning signal, whether it is a volcanic eruption or something else. How can the main Gotlander forces living in the north of the island sit idly by and watch!