Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War.

Chapter 224 The dust has settled
Wubbi hesitated and said, "Our goods should have been loaded on the ship and are being transported here at this moment. According to your instructions, we have let our most trusted brothers do this, and it will never leak out. The King of Denmark will not notice our actions, or we will have finished everything before he notices.

But, brothers, we all have a question, is this right? Once the news of our cooperation with the Romans spreads, I am afraid that the king and the Franks will not be happy with us. "

Ivar sneered: "We just made a truce with the Romans. After we move our belongings away, neither the Danes nor the Franks will be able to restrain us. But we are still not enemies with them. If they don't want to cause trouble for themselves, the best choice is to turn a blind eye to us. If those guys really want to be enemies with us, the same things we did to the Romans before can happen to them. Both King Charles and the King of Denmark are not idiots and can certainly see this clearly, so we don't have to worry.

The situation is quite delicate now. It is better to have one more friend or one more neutral spectator than one more covetous enemy. Everyone knows this. So we don't need to worry too much about Bjorn (Ragnar's eldest son) being retaliated against if he stays in the native land, because they don't want to have one more enemy either. "

Although these words did not completely dispel Ubbe's concerns, they did explain some of his doubts. He nodded slightly to Ivar, tentatively approving Ivar's explanation: "Then, may Odin bless us, and may your choice be the right one."

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Turning his attention back to Orville, after he reached an agreement with Ivar, he immediately contacted Jeanne Dacre and asked her to inform the Celts in Ireland of the news. About two weeks later, Jeanne returned to the Governor's Palace with the news.

Not much different from what was expected, the Celts over there reached an agreement with Ivar after negotiating with him alone. The area of ​​about 100 kilometers around Dublin was ceded to the Vikings. At the same time, the Vikings also promised not to go deep into the Celtic territory. The Romans served as witnesses and judges. The documents had been delivered to Orville with the arrival of Jeanne.

They were quite satisfied with the result. After all, King Comfort had just lost a crucial battle, and as losers it was natural for them to pay some price. It was good enough that they did not lose their country or be driven to those remote areas.

However, the person who was most dissatisfied with this result was Cu Chulainn. He had complained to Orville more than once, either explicitly or implicitly, that the Vikings were "too greedy" and that the local resistance forces represented by Finn were "too weak". If he were in their place, he would never give up.

After hearing these words, Orville felt a little relieved - fortunately, he had seen in advance that Cu Chulainn's character was more direct and unwilling to admit defeat, so he did not force the other party to go to Ireland. Otherwise, the matter might have been stuck with Cu Chulainn, and he would have really shot himself in the foot.

In short, there is now basically a ceasefire in Ireland and peace has been restored among the parties. Although there are still frictions between the Vikings and the locals in Scotland (Caledonia), as the Vikings abandon their strongholds on land, their disputes with the locals have gradually subsided.

With a lot of freed-up troops, Orville sent more troops to the lowlands, which doubled the pressure on the pirate forces there. Now it can be said that the Romans have firmly gained the upper hand and the situation has reached the point he hoped for.

After Ivar made peace with the Romans, he did not stay in Dublin, but often went to the Roman Empire. He did not come to plunder, but simply to investigate and travel. It was obvious that he inherited his father's strong curiosity, which was undoubtedly a very valuable trait for a man in his thirties. Orville did not want to stop him and followed him on the tour. After visiting the British province, he even wandered around the Gaul province for several times.

Of course, he did not forget the important matter and reminded Orville several times that he hoped to solve the supply problem as soon as possible. However, Orville did not solve it immediately, but waited until Vespa replied.

The meaning of the letter was simple - as long as they could make money and did not violate the fundamental interests of the Roman Empire, Orvel and Tia could do whatever they wanted. He even wrote a letter to the Governor of Egypt, briefly explaining the matter, hoping that the Governor of Egypt would cooperate.

Egypt was an important distribution center for goods in the Roman Empire. Almost all kinds of luxury goods could be found here in batches. With the cooperation of the Governor of Egypt and Cleopatra, it should not be difficult for Orville to get luxury goods at a low price.

However, it would be better to go there in person. Orville did not have any reliable people to rely on in the eastern provinces, so he planned to get some goods in Rome in the first few times to handle the task, and then change the main source of supply to Egypt after finding a stable channel.

The supply delivery network that had been developed with great effort previously came in handy once again. Now Orville could completely transport the luxury goods sold to the Franks through the same route. The guards, carriages, warehouses, and other things were all ready-made, and the safety factor was relatively high, so they could be used directly.

By now, Orville had basically sorted out the affairs of the British province, and was only waiting for Ptolemy's statistical results to come out so that he could further govern Britain.
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After a while, when spring came, Ptolemy went to Orville with a feeling of relief.

He was accompanied by about fifty or sixty bureaucrats, almost every one of them carrying a thick file. Orville probably understood that this meant that the land inspection work had finally made some progress.

Ptolemy excitedly handed Orville a thick book and said to him, "Please take a look at this book. The data you need should be in it!"

Orville thanked him and began to look through the specific contents.

This is a statistical book that records detailed data on various regions in England: population, arable land area, soil fertility, number of livestock, number of castles, number of military equipment, number of soldiers, and even the output of farm tools and various agricultural and sideline products are all recorded in detail. The books held by the officials are detailed lists, which are the answers they submitted after more than a year.

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