The Rise of Iceland

　　 Two carriages bumped into the dock all the way.

　　 Back on the ship, the sailors helped the servants of the Governor's Mansion carry the fur and royal jelly. The steward took the servants and drove away, while Hadar and Hagrid kept counting the money with a few boxes of gold coins.

Hagrid used to have more than a dozen **** skins and **** skins a year, and sold half of them to the French. He couldn't make a lot of money even if he was full, but he made a trip to Ireland this year and made more than one in the past seven years. Money.

　　 This made Hagrid completely believed that Wenlan could only be led by his brother Hadar, and he became excited.

In fact, dozens of leather goods were sold at such a high price. Many of the reasons were that the governor had a good impression of Ulav and Olaf and did not lower the price. When he reached his age, he often saw promising young people willing to take care of him. It is to invest in the future.

　　 After a while, Bowers’ servants also came. After Ulav went out to negotiate, he sold ten **** skins and 30 other skins, and 40 cans of royal jelly.

　　 After the people of Bowers left, Shilt, Hudik, Valitu, and Lund carried the money box and followed Ulav into the cabin.

　　 "Wow!"

After opening the box, everyone counted, and then Hadar said ruddy: "We sold 50 **** skins this time, other skins more than 60, and more than 3,000 pounds of dried cod and more than 300 gallons of wine. One thousand six hundred pounds of gold coins were sold, which is equal to 3,156 gold marks. When converted into silver marks, it is more than thirty thousand silver marks!"

　　 "Hiss!"

　　 Everyone took a deep breath. For the Icelanders, more than 30,000 silver marks could buy the land of a village, and they were all happy.

　　 "After returning, the white slave will reduce the contract time for one year, one person will give out ten pounds of gold coins, and the others will receive fifty pounds of gold coins!" Hadar happily said, and everyone became more excited after listening.

　　 Then Hager sent someone to buy beer, ready to get drunk on the boat to celebrate.

Hudick was still sober, pulled Hadar, and said sharply: "No more white slaves? First find someone to settle the matter of recruiting white slaves, and then we bought wine and left the harbour before drinking! We got drunk here! You don’t know if you were killed and took the money!"

　　 Everyone suddenly woke up, and then Hadar ordered Ulav and Hagrid to contact the northern landlords who lived in Dublin, and through them recruited the northern white people to sell themselves as slaves to Vinland.

　　 Because of the oppression of the King of England, it is now the most bitter and poorest. It is the northern part of Ireland that has been selling children and women for a long time, especially in the Ulster area in the northwest.

　　 Many of the white slaves that England defrauded New England on the east coast of North America more than ten years ago were Irish, and the three white slaves Hagrid recruited in the past seven years were mostly white slaves in northern Ireland.

　　 The southern part of Ireland is more stable and wealthy, and life is still alive, but the north is much worse.

　　 In order to improve the political environment and treatment in the north, the big landlords have been living in Dublin. They lobbied the governor to reduce taxes in the north, or advised the British king to give Catholics a certain amount of living space.

Stephen naturally ignored the northern landlords and always ignored them, but the big landlords who could not change the status quo in the north for many years also began to quietly help Northern Irish people to escape overseas, so as to reduce the population pressure on his estate. Setting aside land will also allow domestic farmers to find a way to survive, so that northern landlords can get land and a white slave's selling money. This business is currently preferred by northern landlords.

　　 Among these northern landlords, the most active and powerful one is a big landlord named Raleigh Omor.

Hagrid and Ulav met Omor in the villa near St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the Southern District. This is a mature man of the same age as Hagrid. He is tall, with tough skin and a fiery red hair. He is the purest Celtic.

"Brother Hagrid, you are here again!" After Omor and Hagrid shook hands, the three of them sat down, and then asked, "Come and make a fortune this time. I heard that Ulav sold it to the Governor and Bowles. The old boy has a lot of **** skins and what kind of queen honey. Your business is really getting bigger and bigger, why? Is there really gold everywhere in America?"

　　 Hahahaha laughed and said, "If you guys want to go, go with me and pull a boat. Although it's a bit harder, you can live a good life."

Omor lightly shook his head and sighed: "Hey! I am the patriarch of several families in the north. Tens of thousands of people count on me to feed. I really want to visit America, but I can't go! Look at the Irish now. I can't live anymore, how can I bear to leave? Humph! Charlie is a bad thing, I really want to..."

It seems that it’s because Hagrid and Ulav are not natives, and they seem to have a good relationship. As Omor talked about it, he was superb, and then he hurriedly stopped, coughed, and asked: "Well... you still Want to recruit slaves and go to America?"

Hagrid and Ulav had long known that the Irish hated the English people secretly. They pretended not to hear Omor's true feelings. Hehe laughed and said, "Yeah! We are going to recruit more this time, it's best. It’s a single male or a young couple, and it’s okay to have one child, but those over fifty years old don’t want it. You have to help screen them."

Omor frowned slightly, as if embarrassed, and said after a while: "In this case, the price would have to be increased by half, and their families would have to leave more for the support of the family to pay for the settlement...Uh...a contract slave costs 5 GBP."

　　 "My buddy, what you said is too expensive! We can find Saruman for cheaper than this." Hagrid said gruffly.

The two argued for half a day, and finally reached an agreement at a price of 65 shillings per household. Hagrid asked for more than 200 people in 100 households, and then agreed that the delivery person would be in the northern port of Omor’s hometown in 20 days to a month. money.

　　 Hagrid pushed back Omor’s invitation to have dinner, and then hurried back with Ulav.

After getting on the boat and talking about the situation, Hadar breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Our mission to Ireland has been completed. Hudik and Hilt, you are raw faces. Take a few sailors who don’t show up very much to buy a few barrels of beer. Let’s leave Dublin tonight, let’s all eat and drink at sea!"

During the day, Hadar had bought enough water, food, chicken, duck, and fish for the two ships. After a while, Hudick came back with a dozen barrels of beer~www.wuxiahere.com~ Hadar gave an order, two ships The ship set sail at the same time, and after leaving the port, it headed south.

After entering the sea for a long time, it was not until we left St. George’s Strait and entered the English Channel that a sail was taken in the sea and the boat drifted southeast at a speed of two or three knots. Then the two people in the boat began to suffer under the leadership of Hadar and Hudick. Eat and drink.

　　 The excitement did not go to bed until the middle of the night. After getting up the next morning, he re-loaded the sails again, controlled the vessel to turn northeast, and then went east with all his strength.

On the morning of the third day, the two ships Thor's Hammer and Hope passed through the Strait of La Manche, the Strait of Dover, and the Strait of Calais, passing through the Thames estuary into London, passing through the North Wadden Sea in the Netherlands, and arriving south To Amsterdam.

The Netherlands has just risen now. Although the North Sea Grand Canal, which runs from Amsterdam to the North Sea to the west, was built last year, because the continuous canal in the city is still dredging, it will only be put into use in the second half of the year. Olaf When they came, the canal was closed for dredging, so they could only enter Amsterdam from the northern Zuiderzee.

　　 The Netherlands began to reclaim the sea 30 years ago, but the Zuder Lake, the IJsselmeer, has not yet been transformed.

The Netherlands, a country called the United Republic of the Seven Provinces of the Netherlands, is a well-known lowland country with developed water systems, rich river channels, and sea breeze blowing to the coast. The Dutch coast is surrounded by windmills. This kind of windmill is not a decoration of later generations, but Used as flour processing for mills, the Netherlands is currently an important country for the transshipment of fish, wine, noodles and other food across the Baltic, Mediterranean and North Seas. The rise of the Netherlands is also closely related to the critical location, convenient transportation, and food production and processing. Inseparable factors.

　　Note: The early exchange standard for British currency was 240 pence = 20 shillings = 1 pound silver.