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Chapter 53 Mother and Daughter Attributes

The next day.

The expeditionary army set off, walked through the snow in the forest, stepped on the boardwalk to the northern foothills, and the port of Kirkenes appeared in front of them.

The sun squeezes through the jagged fjords, turning some peaks into fiery gold, while others are still in shadow. Only this ice-free port is still a firm and deep blue.

Following the sound of footsteps, wheels, and the clash of scabbards and armor, the well-formed expeditionary force arrived at the gate of Kirkenes Port.

There are already quite a few ordinary Norwegians gathered here.

They were all helped by missionaries during this period, and came here spontaneously to pick up the eggs and come to welcome the new owner of the Freezing Port.

beep-!
With a sharp whistle, the ground trembled slightly, and the phalanx stopped neatly and smoothly.

"This army...is different."

The people in the port secretly watching here felt the difference between the Expeditionary Army and the Blood Axe.

Ordinary Norwegians who are the closest, the most intuitive, and the most impactful, are even more shocked.

They left their homeland and went north to come here. They thought they were well-informed, but this was the first time they had seen such an army.

beep-!
Another whistle sounded, and the phalanx made way for a passage from the center.

More than a dozen Norwegian horses came galloping, and the warriors on horseback were all wearing white heavy armor and holding long-handled war scythes, shining in the sun, and each of them looked mighty and extraordinary.

Surrounded by horse-riding heavy infantry, Fondorf in a black cloak came to these people and extended his condolences cordially.

He also supported the elderly, the weak, women and children with concern, and cared about food and clothing issues hand in hand.

The missionaries who had been preparing for them early brought boiled eggs and a steaming bowl of wheat porridge, while the trained medical students carefully examined their bodies.

While eating and doing a physical examination, I heard Feng Daofu say, "Everyone knows that my father-in-law, Blood Axe, had an accident."

"Without his suppression, the port is in chaos, and everyone is living in dire straits these days."

"Now that I am here, no one will suffer injustice under my rule!"

The warrior raised his spear banner.

Under the flag fluttering in the wind, Feng Daofu's figure seems to carry a kind of power, a power that makes people want to believe and imagine the future.

The people all had tears in their eyes and shouted long live three times.

After the speech was over, someone curiously asked about the experience of the expeditionary force.

The missionaries told them: "The saint received the revelation from Io, the god of gods, traveled thousands of miles to Scandinavia, created miracles one after another, and led all the lost sheep in the world back to the Lord. embrace."

"We have Norse, we have Norse, we have Finn, we have Sami, we come from the Baltic coast, we come from many clans, and now we are all sons of Io, regardless of status."

"Under the leadership of the saint, we sent out in the Gulf of Bothnia, galloped across the ice sea, went deep into the Salmon River, and sent the gospel to the clans along the way..."

The preacher slowly told an epic story.

Feng Daofu's halo became even more dazzling.

The news here also quickly spread in Kirkenes Port.

After staying at the door for a while, the expeditionary force officially entered.

More ordinary people took to the streets.

They brought bread and ale in pots, and warmly welcomed the expedition as if they were welcoming victorious warriors.

Amid the cheers of the crowd, Feng Daofu stepped on the glow and got the news he wanted.

"Event: Seizing Power"

"You have gained a new demesne"

"Territory: Port of Kirkenes"

"Population: 9863 (including floating groups)"

Seizing power is the first step, how to rule here is the top priority.

This is not like North Town, which has been in business for a long time.

Although these nearly [-] people have heard many stories of saints and made many foreshadowings, they have no sense of reality.

Essentially he is still an airborne leader.

There is a classic question in management science: how to land smoothly when airborne?

Airborne means not familiar with the team members.

There will be a relatively long process of understanding and running-in between each other, which is the so-called long distance to know horsepower and time to see people's hearts.

The routine operation is to seek survival before discussing development, understand the responsibilities, structure, work tasks, personnel roster, etc. of the new department, and then have one-on-one conversations and exchanges with direct subordinates alone, to understand his views on work, way of thinking, Personality characteristics, etc., to enhance mutual understanding, narrow the distance, eliminate strangeness, increase their affinity, and lay a good foundation for subsequent management.

After gaining the trust of team members, it is necessary to find direct descendants who can be drawn in.

Whether it is the oldest employee, the most capable employee, or the most popular employee, they all need to be recruited first. With the approval of key people, the situation can be opened up as soon as possible, and the work will be carried out more and more easily.

"So you brought out four large dragon ships to win over the old troops?"

In the lord's mansion, Slude looked at the comatose old father and five brothers, and finally looked at his husband: "This is too..."

"Too extravagant? No need to regret it. We will have bigger and better ships. We will remove the oars and sail warships that are propelled purely by the wind. The smallest size is also larger than the largest dragon boat. According to my definition, it has a displacement of 100 tons. .”

The dragon boat is good, an excellent dual-purpose ship for sea and river, but it is not in his plan.

Feng Daofu rubbed Slude's hair: "I call this the Valkyrie class, and one of them is your name, Slude, I want your name to become the Valkyrie that our descendants will sing about."

Slude touched his palm with his cheek, very moved, but he still wanted to raise the bar: "Warships with sails can't enter the river, right?"

Feng Daofu: "Yes, the sail warship has a deep draft and cannot enter the river network to do business as easily as the dragon ship."

"This is not a problem, because I didn't intend to use the traditional looting mode."

"Isn't it business?"

The black-haired girl blinked slyly, choked her husband mischievously, and asked, "What's the new model?"

Vondorf: "Do you know about the black slaves in Rome?"

Slude nodded.

Hearing Rome, the black-haired lady also looked over.

Feng Daofu talked to the mother and daughter: "Many Crescent merchants are catching black slaves for sale, but in fact the most black slaves are sold in the Berber Kingdom in North Africa. My model is improved from them."

The unique locations of Central and Western Asia fostered a tradition of commerce and trade.

Black slaves have been the source of slaves for other civilizations since ancient Egypt.

Slave traders in West Asia may have been the first to turn the Mediterranean slave trade into an industry, which can be called triangular trade 1.0.

European colonists came from behind and expanded the scale of the slave trade.

The difference in melanin production between the two is equivalent to the gap between a small family workshop and an assembly line factory, which is progress to the triangle trade 2.0.

But whether it is a small workshop or a factory, the methods used have been the same for thousands of years.

First deal with the local tribal leaders and kings who are blinded by profit.

Send small gifts, show off your fists, start an equal conversation, and then trade with beautiful goods.

Cousin, you can't afford to support the eighth wife, why are you raising so many slaves?
It's better to use the scraps to exchange for my shiny beads, and to exchange for his one-hundred-room concubine, and make up one hundred and eight auspicious numbers!

These chiefs and kings make sense when they think about it!
So they sold the captives of the hostile tribes in the war, the slaves and prisoners of their own tribes to the good people, and obtained a lot of money, luxury goods and weapons.

Start the next tribal war, sell more money, have more treasures Slowly, plunder and sell slaves, from the result of starting the war to the reason for starting the war.

The war intensified, and there were more and more black slaves.

Of course, there are also a few leaders who do not participate in the slave trade.

Some of them are purely out of their own conscience, and some of them hate it because they have also been slaves.

However, these individual cases under the torrent of the times could not resist other chiefs and kings who relied on slave trade to strengthen their armed forces.

This is bad money driving out good money.

There are also piglets in East Asia, a phenomenon that transcends race, color, and country.

Evil is never initiated by one party alone, and bloody interests never belong to only one party.

Feng Daofu said: "First of all, establish a stronghold along the coast, which is also a show of fist."

"There is no need to enter the river. After showing off your fists, you can do business with the local lords along the coast. This will avoid the disadvantage that sailing warships cannot enter the river, and maximize the effect of your own tonnage advantage."

"Bone-sucking plundering is too inefficient, and the risk is high, and the local rulers will hate you. You will become the target of everyone's crusade and make more enemies."

"Doing business with them now, let them do the bone-shaking work. It's easy, the money comes quickly, and it's safe and stable. Everyone will welcome you, and you will have more friends."

There is one more thing he didn't say: the ocean speed bonus given by the panel is more beneficial to the sail.

Tonnage + speed already has the prerequisites for expanding the scale of ocean trade.

However, in order to really realize these visions, shipbuilding alone can be counted in years, which can be said to be a super long-term strategy.

Compared with income, Feng Daofu values ​​other things more: "Each region can support one or two agents, and when the people's grievances are big, let them shout, saying that their village needs assistance and rescue. At this time, I will be successful Intervention, fame and fortune are all just, and it will not arouse strong resentment from nearby territories."

"Taking these points as the starting point, papermaking and printing spread cheap scriptures, exerting influence from multiple levels such as thought and life, expanding the scope from point to point, digging out the ideological foundation first, and then saying too much."

Feng Daofu stopped talking.

Slude was fascinated by what he heard, and subconsciously wanted to raise his eyebrows.

She held back, and acted like a baby quietly: "I still want to hear it."

The dark-haired lady also pursed her lips.

Feng Daofu shook his head: "This is a grand strategy that will take years or even decades to advance. If we really want to extend it for days and nights, we won't be able to finish it."

"First count the dowry that your father gave you. After I go back, I will talk slowly. We still have a lot of time."

"By the way, Slud, do you know much about ships?"

"The four large dragon boats are partly due to me."

Slude raised his chin: "I am responsible for the maintenance of the Roman crossbow that my mother gave as a dowry!"

Auxiliary nanny to farmer's ecstasy?

Now that the new territory has also been unlocked, Feng Daofu found the mother and daughter among the members of the court.

"Name: Slude"

"Gender: Female"

"Life: 105"

"Fertility: 120%"

"Attributes: Strength 5, Dexterity 7, Intelligence 10, Charm 9"

"Characteristic——"

"Pretty (black, long and straight, charm +2, attractiveness +20, fertility +20%)"

"Smart (smart head melon, intelligence +2, general learning experience +100%)"

"Actor (Seamless switching between violent and quiet, increased stress during management, general learning rate +50%)"

"Full of vitality (agility +1, vitality +5, town construction speed +15%)"

"Name: Vipsania"

"Gender: Female"

"Life: 105"

"Fertility: 130%"

"Attributes: Strength 4, Dexterity 5, Intelligence 12, Charm 10"

"Characteristic——"

"Pretty (black, long and straight, charm +2, attractiveness +20, fertility +20%)"

"Genius (a genius's brain, intelligence +3, general learning experience +200%)"

"Suspicion (suspiciousness is very heavy, the pressure is easier to increase, intelligence +1, strategy discovery rate +20%)"

"Pure blood (pure bloodline, vitality +5, fertility +10%, vitality +5, close relatives defect penalty -50%)"

"Outstanding manager (management genius, intelligence +1, taxation +10%, town construction speed +10%)"

I bought a silver card and got a gold card as a bonus?
Now there is no need to worry about the management of the new territory.

But...Feng Daofu glanced at the mother-in-law's suspicion and pure blood, closed the panel and found the accountant who counted Blood Ax King's treasury.

The ship can be given up, but the other wealth of Blood Axe must not be given up!

These belong to his wife and mother-in-law, and they belong to him when rounded up!

Because of the ledger provided by the black-haired lady, the accountant has already made simple statistics on the property.

Feng Daofu took the mother and daughter together to check.

In conversion, it is equivalent to 20 blacksmiths in total, and it is not a problem to feed a thousand people for several years.

This is not counting the four longships with the largest assets.

He is worthy of being a well-known pirate leader in history, and he is really rich.

The blood ax owned by Father-in-law No. 2 is also a treasure that increases fear.

Although the crossbow gun is damaged, it can be repaired.

It's just that Feng Daofu is very comfortable with the two-handed sword now, and he has a spare long knife. He doesn't plan to change the ax for the time being, and plans to keep it as a collectible when it is repaired.

The most valuable thing is that the looting has been upgraded.

"Acquire Specialty-Accomplice (the bandit army has a certain probability to actively join your command)"

With this expertise and the dowry of these mothers and daughters, the rule of the new direct-controlled territory will not be a problem in a short time.

Feng Daofu also took out the prestige he had accumulated until now and provided the last insurance.

"Spend 300 prestige points to unlock the level 2 leader's long house (a small amount of people's support, a small amount of control power)

"Spend 100 prestige points to unlock a level 1 shipyard (a slight increase in local ship construction speed, a slight increase in ocean trade income)"

"Spend 100 prestige points to unlock a level 1 church (a small increase in popular support and a small increase in control)"

Feng Daofu gave Slude and his mother-in-law a job again, and made the best use of them, and worked together to control the new direct-controlled territory.

With the cooperation of the old ministry and the stable majority of the advanced system of the Io Sect, the expeditionary force has gained a firm foothold in Kirkenes Port in just a few days.

At this time Vondorf called Brooke: "The Danes and Swedes are still unwilling?"

Brooke nodded: "They still don't want to clean up the sundry wall in Artisan Street, saying they are worried about being looted."

Feng Daofu: "That guy Randy still wants me to find the property that was lost that night first?"

Brooke nodded.

Vondorf smiled.

Team members usually take a wait-and-see attitude towards airborne managers.

It will not cooperate actively, nor will it radically oppose it, and it is in an observation period.

They will think: Can you lead us to victory?Can it take care of our interests?Why should you be our leader?
Feng Daofu has many bonuses, is willing to share resources, and several building buffs, which greatly shorten the observation time.

You can fast-forward to the next step: Fight a war!
Fighting is the best team building!

Find a breakthrough, lead everyone to complete a small task, complete a small success, and use small victories to boost the morale of the army and establish authority as quickly as possible.

The Danes and Swedes miscalculated the adaptation period of the expeditionary force and thought they could negotiate terms.

Feng Daofu wants them to recognize the reality.

"Assemble, bring the ballista and trebuchet, and then call the gang of King Bloodaxe over, split their brains, and look for them in their skulls!"

(End of this chapter)