Rebirth of the Viking King

Chapter 450 104 English Raiders (2)

Vangelis has been a smuggler for 20 years.

He started out as a fishmonger in Amsterdam. At first, valuable spices, glass, black powder and other in-demand goods were stuffed into fish intestines and smuggled from France to Wessex.

In this way, the official trade tax amount set by the Principality of France is omitted.

Over the past 20 years, his business has grown bigger and bigger. In the end, 80% of the French sailors in the Port of Calais had been bribed by him with gold coins. He can openly load in-demand goods onto cargo ships and transport them to various countries in the English Islands.

In the process, Vangelis discovered a simple truth——

——Quantitative change is much more important than qualitative change.

It is true that if he and his cousin sailed an old fishing boat across the English Channel, he would get 80% of the profit from the products hidden in the fish intestines.

But what's the use?

If a fishing boat dies, it only carries 500 kilograms of fish. He and his cousin put their heads on their waistbands and worked hard for a year, and in the end they could only carry 300 gorse leaves.

But if you change your thinking and distribute most of the profits to the sailors and trade commissioners at Calais Port, the result will be very different.

Perhaps most of the profits from each shipment must be distributed to the French Navy, and only half of the profits that can be put into their own pockets.

But a French brig can carry 2 tons of cargo!

With the blessing of the sailors and officials, he drove 30 high-rise boats twice a month. Even if he only had half a percent of the profit, he would be worth tens of thousands of gorse leaves in a month.

This is the huge advantage brought by quantitative change.

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Little did he know about French fabrics, spices, books, or Tang Dynasty porcelain, Arabian steel, or even the French cheese stored in the kitchen. Each piece you bring back can be entered into Vangelis's smuggling cargo ship and converted into silver coins!

"If we really have a chance, we will wait until those stupid guys finish looting before leading the militia into the city!"

"If we can really find good goods, haha, what land will we plant this year! Everyone will let me go to France to dig for treasures! More than one million militiamen have poured into this country. Even if they encounter the army, they can still fight !”

"The residents who participated in the robbery took 30% and left 40% for Ecbert. I came up with the idea and moved the goods to sell and took the remaining 30% without any problem!"

Likewise, there were only 4,000 Vikings who crossed the English Channel.

But at this time, he had 100,000 men.

If the French army is really dead, even if this group of Vikings enters the city first and they rush in and take away the gold and silver, there will still be a lot of valuables in warehouses, residents' homes, churches, and store basements. Products of.

the reason is simple. The French cities were too big and too rich. With just 4,000 Vikings, even if everyone had eight hands, they would never be able to move them all.

What's more, these bumpkins only know gold and silver.

"Hoho! If this kind of thing really happens, I will make a lot of money this time!"

Looking at the map of France around me, especially the city of Paris with a magnificent castle on it. Vangelis could no longer control the greed in his heart.

If I could go to Paris once

Hey hey hey

No, I have to prepare a few sacks!

**

At the same time, across the English Channel.

"It smells like blood, but not human!"

"Is it possible that there is something else that can't swallow up all 10,000 French cavalrymen and horses?"

Also raising questions was Duke Moklash who was walking on the beach with his troops. He held up a broken knight's shield with both hands and carefully examined the broken marks.

When Duke Mokrash and Duke Fenix ​​stepped off the longship, a coastline soaked in blood appeared in front of them. Along the French coastline that stretches from west to east, broken armor and broken limbs can be seen everywhere.

Groups of sharks roamed the dark red sea. They hang around the coastline hungrily, greedily looking for human corpses under the sea.

"Andur, look at this, don't you think so?"

"Well." Duke Mokrash's younger brother Andur Mokrash immediately came over, "Brother, you are right."

"This is a row of stamps!"

“It seems like something is really not right.”

Mr. Clint endured the pain like acupuncture, bent down and held up the salty sea water to his nostrils and smelled it.

Even if a mortal has cultivated to the level of a demigod, it is completely impossible for a mortal to crush a Damascus steel shield with "Muhammad texture" with the teeth in his mouth.

What's more, the center of this shield is nearly 3 inches thick!

However, this row of imprints is like chewing a crisp radish in one bite, leaving a row of clean marks. From these traces, you can see the narrow gaps between teeth, teeth of different sizes, and even the curvature of the teeth are completely preserved.

At this time, Duke Moklash already knew what kind of group this was.

At the beginning of this spring, Loki once led him, Mohlandin, and other Dukes of Scandinavia into the territory of the frost giants. He had seen these terrifying giants and understood Where did they come from.

"If one could chew a shield down to this size in one go, the height of the giants that suddenly attacked the French knights would be between 10 and 12 meters."

Converted to me, the chosen one in the Hall of Valor, the three giant paths must be upgraded to at least Sequence 3 or above to have this kind of body shape!

At this time, I looked back at the scarlet beach in front of me. Even though these two brothers had spent most of their lives wielding axes and robbing with abandon, they felt a chill in their hearts.

I never expected that Loki falling into the hands of the French would alert these big guys to come across the sea.

Although these French knights are their enemies, rooted deep in their bones, the collective subconscious of mankind still tells them that they are their compatriots.

When a group of mortals see another group of mortals being tortured and killed by an ancient god of unknown origin in this way, no one can feel indifferent.

**

Throwing away the shields in their hands, the two chose to continue leading the tribe forward.

A cluster of very distinct footprints were carved into the blood-soaked sand. These footprints all point in one direction, and that is XX, the largest port in the northern part of the Principality of France, on the south side of the English Channel.

The usually arrogant Vikings became cautious in this scarlet hell. Everyone has their ears sharpened, trying to identify possible dangers around them.

Among the crowd, only Sartre felt an indescribable sense of familiarity.

Although this was a bustling world, at this moment, he recalled in a trance the first time he and Loki entered the dark and deep underwater city.

At that time, they had no idea what kind of future they were about to face.

at this moment

Just like that time.