The Rise of Iceland

　　　　 After entering mid-March, the weather is getting warmer and warmer. Although it is still cold at night and in the morning, people can't help taking off a layer of leather when the sun is out at noon.

　　 Many maple trees, birch trees, and hazelnut trees that became bare in autumn and winter have begun to spit out their buds. I believe that if you can’t wait a month, it will be a warm spring with the fragrance of birds and flowers.

　　 The surface of the river has been civilized, and all kinds of small birds, beasts and animals have come out to move around. The scene of the resurrection of everything makes people happy when they see it.

The indigenous slaves adjusted after nearly 20 deaths. Most of the patients gradually improved. Because of the improved diet and warmer weather, the rest of the slaves also recovered to a certain degree of health and physical strength, able to barely support the daily hard work. Worked.

　　 It's warm, Olaf couldn't bear it and began to take the teenagers to continue to practice the craft passed down from generation to generation.

The melee skills are the use of swords, axes and spears. The medium range is the precision strikes of the flying axes and spears. The long-range bows and arrows are not Icelandic specializations. Only some people master them. Olaf is not good at it and gave up. Raf thinks that in the future, directing everyone to master the use of muskets is enough to replace bows and arrows.

Ulav and Hagrid instructed Olaf and the others to train martial arts, usually by Olaf alone. The teenagers all know the mission of occupying Wenlan and even the distant mainland when they grow up. How much they learn depends on their own skills. In the future, I will practice hard, and it will look good in a few days.

　　 After the beginning of the spring, because farming was not a solar term, Yot was still responsible for the management of white slaves and savage slaves to build the city of Herrut, and construction was being done every day outside Hagerburg.

Hadar, Hagrid, Ulav and others took the militia into a hunting team, and began to look for beavers near the various water systems. If they were found, they would be killed, and then they would be brought back to the manor to be peeled, and the fur was carefully shaved off. The fat and minced meat inside are dried, and the meat is divided and eaten.

While catching beavers, we will not let go of minks, squirrels, black bears, reindeer, and large white wolves that are unique to Wenlan. As long as they are found, they will shoot volleys with muskets and bows. They will always hit them. The wooden stick knocked the injured beast to death, so that a relatively complete piece of skin was obtained.

Spring is the season when animals with cherished furs come out to forage and even mate. Especially when they are hungry for a winter, most of the animals are very active. The fur of these animals after the coldest winter is the thickest and beautiful. The best time to kill and peel is in the early spring.

　　 Hadar led the militia to go out in the morning, and then he, Hagrid, Hudick, Kadir, Hoskurd, and Heine each led a small group to catch the beast.

Every night returning to Hagerburg can bring back seven to ten small or even medium-sized beasts. The most are beavers, beavers, white wolves, foxes and other animals. There are very few reindeer. This kind of constantly migrating animal seems They all fled back to Vinland Island, and the black bear, as the pinnacle of the food chain, was originally a few beasts. After seven or eight of them were killed, they were almost extinct on the peninsula.

　　 Hagrid lived in Wenlan for eight years. The real support for his development and accumulation of wealth is beavers, beavers, seals and other beautiful animal furs that cherish their beauty.

　　Whether it is in Europe or Asia, the mink, beaver, beaver, sea dragon and other animals with rare furs in the cold northern regions are all hunted to provide the rare furs to the nobles and nobles.

　　 Rare furs produced in the northeastern region of Daming must be enjoyed by the princes and nobles and the Emperor Daming. Ordinary people are not eligible to buy or wear them even if they have a wealth of wealth.

　　 Similarly, in the Obaro region, rare furs such as **** skins and fox skins produced in the Nordic forests are also sold to the nobles of various kingdoms, especially the richest countries around the Mediterranean.

　　 From the early Middle Ages, the Nordic people traded fur with Eastern, Central and Western European countries. The Nordic people migrated south from Scandinavia to take the initiative in trade and to find a place to live with trade.

　　 France and Britain came to North America to colonize, in fact, to find precious furs such as **** skins and **** skins. After hundreds of years of wild hunting in the Nordic region, the beavers and beavers that produce precious furs have been nearly extinct and it is extremely difficult to find them.

　　 At this time, the cold regions of North America across the Atlantic are full of beavers. How could the French and the British not be crazy? Therefore, from the beginning of the seventeenth century, France and the United Kingdom sent merchants to find suitable places to trade. They hunted their own furs and bought the furs of indigenous peoples, and then supplied the rare furs to domestic princes and ministers.

As for trafficking to other countries, since the colonies of the two countries are both initially established, no matter the human strength is not enough to obtain large amounts of **** skins to provide to Europe, but half a century to a hundred years later, with the British, especially the French colonies With the expansion of China, animal skins such as **** skins will become the leading products of the two countries, replacing Nordic furs and dominating the European market.

　　Of course, cod from Newfoundland fisheries is also considered a product. However, in the 17th century, when productivity was insufficient, the fishing industry as far away as North America had little impact on Europe and could not provide a few tons of fish a year.

There are only a few hundred people in Quebec in France and New England in the United Kingdom, which is not as good as Vinland. Because the strength and population are still very weak, Québec and New England, the nearest to Vinland, have been right in recent years. Hagrid, the colonist of Vinland, was very close.

This is not only to buy **** skins from Hagrid, but also to form an alliance with Hagrid, so that the white people who are still small and disadvantaged on the roads of North America can form an alliance and unite to protect themselves, so that the indigenous people respect the powerful and united white people~www.readwn. com~ If the French and British colonies remain weaker or smaller than Vinland, the friendship between Hagrid and the two places may continue.

　　 But if the French and British colonies greatly increase in strength and completely overwhelm Vinland, they will never tolerate "sleeping on the side couch and others snoring."

Hadar and Hagrid were not very clear on this point, but Olaf had already been alert in their hearts. He had told his father and uncle many times that he must be vigilant against the surrounding British and French colonies, because more than a hundred years later, the spread of the North American region The Great Britain and France War was born to fight for colonies. This is an example.

In the warehouse dug out from the cave after Hagerburg, more and more rare furs such as **** skins have been piled up. A rough count is already hundreds of them. Among them, there are only more than 280 **** skins. There are more than 200 skins, and there are more than 200 mink skins. The rest is far less valuable than these. This is accumulated from hunting from the fall to the present. According to Hagrid's estimation, if they are sold, they can be exchanged at least. Thousands of silver marks are enough to buy three big ships.

Hadar’s ancestors planted and grazing in Iceland, and they couldn’t earn tens of thousands of silver marks after ten years of operation, but now Wenlan has assets worth tens of thousands of silver marks in less than a year. Hadar and others are very happy. Encouraged.

Olaf was amazed when he learned about it. Only then did he deeply feel why Europeans in this era love robbery. Colonization and robbery do not require capital investment and production links. As long as the plundered labor is exchanged for wealth, the money will come quickly. So many, who doesn't like it? Who can withstand the temptation?

　　Of course, what the white people did was actually to put the cost and time input of asset investment and production links on the invaders, poor indigenous people, beasts, etc. Plundering meant disregarding the life and death of others.