Rebirth of the Viking King

In the river valley, there are four cities belonging to vassals.

Blood Pigeon Town has a vast salt farm and is the most prosperous. Wuya Town is located among the mountains, relying on the mountains to feed on the mountains, and its main industry is logging. Yuemagang is located next to the grassland river and is the only way for herdsmen from neighboring provinces to graze.

The main industry of Hanshui Village is pickling and fishing of herring.

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

No one is allowed to pickle herring as long as they live in Hanshui Village.

In this era, there weren’t those weird mukbangs. Many Vikings would rather chew tree bark than eat pickled herring. What was the purpose of making this thing?

The remote location, weak combat power, and lack of pillar industries are all conditions that contribute to 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 runner.

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 that is not passed down by all Viking Dukes.

Each of the 6 provinces under the rule of the Viking king had its own unique technology. For ordinary people, it might feel like there is a mountain between them. But as a time traveler, Loki spent a lot of time on the Internet in his previous life.

He once watched on the website where DIY experts hand-carved the "treasure ship" used by Zheng He on his voyages to the West, and he also watched the Hollywood blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean" no less than 10 times.

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

Viking lords generally traveled eastward because the narrow Baltic Sea was not wide in diameter. But heading west to reach the English Isles they needed to cross the North Sea! This westward voyage is almost three times longer than the eastward voyage, and this three times the distance is just a straight line.

In the medieval era without GPS positioning and steam engines, maritime navigation could never simply measure straight-line distance. Any storm would cause the light wooden ship to deviate greatly from the course.

The Vikings in history did use canoe-like Viking longships to cross the North Sea, but Loki didn't know how much they paid to accomplish this achievement in real history.

His village has a population of just over 170 people.

He couldn't take any risks.

The memories of ships in his mind were just fragments of films and TV shows, and he was not a professional carpenter in his previous life. Therefore, there was still a long way to go before he could actually use the little knowledge in his mind to build a manned wooden ship that could sail across the ocean.

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

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

The ancestral statues enshrined in the crypt appear to be made of brass. The day after I died, he immediately moved out all the statues of his ancestors.

Worshiping the dead when the living people don't have enough to eat? I know my father quite well, but these old guys who have nothing to do with me still occupy so much of the castle’s public area, I’m so fucking confused!

Made into nails!

What kind of protective fence should be built on the side of the village? !How could an enemy climb to a mountain more than a thousand meters high and attack our poor village from the sky?

I demolished all the wooden fences on the side of the mountain!

I want to build a ship!

In this way, after spending eight years of experimenting and selling everything, Loki finally built two double-decker three-masted wooden ships that could accommodate fifty people. The ship's design is partly modeled after the interior of Captain Jack Sparrow's Black Pearl from the movie. The other part is taken from Zheng He's "treasure ship" reproduced by the coin station's handicraft experts.

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

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

"Hey, boss! The effect of this voyage is amazing!" Seeing Loki come back, a skinny Viking who was smearing animal blood on the wooden statue of the bow immediately came to his side. He was a member of the village. Carpenter Sanchi.

"A few days ago, when the Duke was out at sea and there was no one on the coastline, I loaded up a few brothers who stayed in the town and went out for a walk! Haha, your newly added 'bow knife' design is quite overbearing! It splits the waves against the wind It’s as smooth as a soldering iron cutting butter!”

"Haha, I told you! Installing a stupid ram on the bow of the ship is a design inherited from ancient Greece! They installed the ram to launch a naval battle and use the huge size of the giant ship to smash through the opponent."

"You guys are better off. The Viking longship is as light as a leaf. Who can it hit with a ram? Apart from smashing yourself into pieces, what else can it be used for?!"

Craftsmen in the Middle Ages generally relied on word of mouth to inherit their skills. What my master taught me, I will pass on to my descendants. Almost no one would study "why", and if asked, the master's answers would mostly be nonsense like "God's instructions".

In the Dark Middle Ages, the development of science and technology was extremely slow for thousands of years. In Loki's opinion, this was not unrelated to the strong interference of religious gods.

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 ready, 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 definitely 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!"

**

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 his big alert 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!"