Chapter 4 1.4 Illuminati (Please Vote for Recommendation)

There are 4 cities belonging to vassal states in the river valley.

Blood Pigeon Town has a vast salt field and is the richest. Fog Duck Town is in the mountains and relies on the mountains for its livelihood. Its pillar industry is logging. Yuemagang is next to the grassland river and is the only way for herders from neighboring provinces to graze.

The pillar industry of Hanshui Village is pickling and catching herring.

Unless they are on the verge of starvation, no one likes to eat this kind of smelly and sour fermented raw fish. Not to mention that in summer, the whole village is filled with a strange smell of herring. The first thing Loki did after taking power was to abandon his ancestral business.

As long as you live in Hanshui Village, no one is allowed to pickle herring.

There are no weird eating broadcasts in this era. Many Vikings would rather gnaw on tree bark than eat pickled herring. What is the purpose of doing this?

The remote location, weak combat power, and lack of pillar industries are all the conditions that cause the poverty of Hanshui Village. However, for the Vikings, the deep-rooted reason is that they do not have their own ships.

Pirates, without ships

This can't be called a pirate, it can only be called a street scoundrel.

In the valley ruled by Duke Bernard, only the Duke's hometown "Storm's End" has a shipyard. As for how to build a ship, this is a secret of all Viking dukes.

The six provinces ruled by the Viking king have their own unique technology. Ordinary people may feel that it is like a mountain between two different trades. But as a time traveler, Loki spent a lot of time on the Internet in his previous life.

He had watched DIY masters hand-painted the "treasure ship" used by Zheng He to sail to the West on the website, and he had watched the Hollywood blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean" no less than 10 times.

There is no sun and moon in the mountains. Since he was twelve years old, Loki has been tinkering with how to build ocean-going ships in the village.

Viking lords generally sailed east because the narrow Baltic Sea is not wide in diameter. But to reach the English Isles from the west, they need to cross the North Sea! This westward sailing distance is almost three times longer than the eastward sailing, and this three times the distance is just the straight-line length.

In the Middle Ages without GPS and steam engines, sea voyages could never simply measure straight-line distances, and any storm would cause a light wooden boat to deviate greatly from its course.

The Vikings in history did use canoes to cross the North Sea, but Loki didn't know how much they paid to achieve this achievement in real history.

There were only more than 170 people in his village.

He couldn't take any risks.

The memories of ships in his mind were just some film and television fragments, and he was not a professional carpenter in his previous life, so it was a long way to go to use the half-understood knowledge in his mind to build a manned wooden boat that could sail on the ocean.

In order to build ships, he joined the Duke Bernard's pirate group every year, touching every detail of the Viking longship with his hands, and carefully studying their functions and principles.

When his father was alive, he could only use his looted private money to make models. However, two years ago, when his father died, Loki finally let himself go completely.

The ancestor statues enshrined in the basement seemed to be made of brass. The day after I died, he immediately moved out all the statues of his ancestors.

The living can't even get enough to eat, but why do they worship the dead? I know my father, but these old guys who have nothing to do with me want to occupy so much public space in the castle. Melt them all!

Make them into nails!

Why build a protective fence on the side of the village facing the mountain? ! How could an enemy climb a mountain more than a thousand meters high and attack our broken village from the sky?

Tear down all the wooden fences on the side facing the mountain!

I want to build a ship!

In this way, after eight years of experimentation, Rocky finally built two double-decker three-masted wooden ships that can accommodate fifty people. Part of the design of the ship imitates the internal structure of Captain Jack's "Black Pearl" in the movie. The other part is based on Zheng He's "Treasure Ship" reproduced by the handicraft masters of the coin station.

These two sailing ships that appeared in the "Age of Discovery" in the late 18th century were more than a thousand years ahead of schedule in this life! They appeared in the territory of the ancient Vikings in the seventh century AD.

The first thing he did when he got home was to run to a wide cave on the coast to check his wooden boat.

"Hey, boss! This voyage was so good!" Seeing Loki coming back, a skinny Viking who was smearing animal blood on the wooden figure on the bow immediately came to his side. He was the carpenter Sanji in the village.

"A few days ago, when the Duke went out to sea and there was no one on the coastline, I took a few brothers who stayed in the town and went out for a walk! Haha, your newly added "bow knife" design is quite domineering! It splits the waves against the wind as smoothly as a branding iron cutting butter!"

"Haha, I've said it! Installing a stupid ram on the bow is a design inherited from ancient Greece! They installed rams to launch naval battles and smash the opponent with the huge size of the giant ship"

"You are so good, the Viking long ship is as light as a leaf, who are you going to hit with the ram? What else can it do except smashing yourself to pieces?!"

In the Middle Ages, craftsmen generally relied on word of mouth to pass on their skills. I will pass on what my master taught me to my descendants. Almost no one will study "why". If asked, the master's answer is mostly nonsense like "the instructions of the gods".

In the dark Middle Ages, the development of science and technology was extremely slow for thousands of years. In Loki's opinion, this was related to the strong interference of religious charlatans.

And the first thing he did in this life was to change this.

"Boss, we exchanged all the silver we got from the last robbery for ropes and canvas! The sails of a ship are all equipped, and now we only need an anchor! Navigation is not a big problem, But without an anchor, our boat will be blown away by the strong wind if it is parked on the shore!"

"With the anchor, we can set off in no time!"

Bang, a heavy silver bag hit the shipbuilder Sanji. He picked up the purse and weighed it. The scattered silver in it should be enough to buy an anchor first.

"The Slavs are very poor this year. After paying tribute to the Duke, we only have this little money left. Tomorrow you go to Storm's End to find your father and have a good chat with him. If it's not enough, buy the anchor first. You owe him We will be able to pay back the money on our return trip!”

"There are still two months left before winter begins. You take your two sons to buy anchors. You need to be hidden and don't let too many people know!

"I will take advantage of this time to examine my new friend."

"Let's try to set off in a week and do something big!"

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Returning to the village from the cave, all the food looted this time has been neatly stacked at the feet of the chief steward "Wenzov". Wenzov is a silver-haired scribe in his thirties. He is not a native Viking, but a Slavic orphan that Loki's father plundered during a robbery eastward. He grew up in Hanshui Village, so he knew every household in the village.

"It's too little!" He muttered, looking through the animal skin bags on the ground one by one.

"I've calculated that with these things and the meat we saved from hunting, we can survive this winter if we save some food. Moreover, I plan to do something else in the near future."

"Guarantee that no one will starve to death this winter!"

Hearing this, Wenzov just shook his head, haha, won't people starve to death? As long as he could remember, there had never been a winter in their poor village where no one had starved to death.

"I came back this time and brought back 6 women and a dozen children. They are still under your command. They are all fellow Slavs, so it is easier to get along with them."

"As I said before, women can live with the men they like, but if they don't like it, don't force them. Children should still live with their mothers! If you want to not be dependent on men, you must have the ability to raise children on your own!"

Vintsov knew how to do his job, so Loki didn't continue to dictate. Quickly arriving at the slave barracks, he pulled out Old Walder, who had been carefully protected all the way, and directed the handymen in the camp to send him to take a good bath, eat a full meal, and finally put on clean clothes and sit down beside him. in front of.

"My brother, after eating a full meal and taking a hot bath, do you feel much better inside and out?

Old Walder looked around with alert big eyes, and finally nodded hesitantly. Loki was different from all the pirates he had seen. He gave Old Walder the feeling that he was like a cunning snake, slippery and elusive.

"From now on, you are my best friend Loki. I need to ask you a few questions."

"First, you must answer me honestly"

Loki said as he walked up to Old Walder. He held the loose skirt of his clothes with both hands and forcefully pulled the robe off his chest, revealing a triangular symbol tattooed on his left chest.

"What's going on with this 'Illuminati' symbol on your chest!"

Old Walder was stunned when he heard the word "Illuminati" spoken by a vulgar Viking barbarian. For a moment, he even forgot to cover up the emblem of the Illuminati on his chest: the Omniscient Eye.

"A missionary holding a Holy Cross actually has the 'Omniscient Eye' painted on his body, which represents the belief in evil gods!"

"Why don't you explain this matter to me today?"

"Don't even think about walking out of this door alive!"