When negotiations are absolutely uneven, the final result will naturally not be fair. Just like this "deal" between Egil and Edward. Of course, it is better to say that it is unilateral squeeze than a transaction.

When the two sides signed the treaty, Edward IV was so distressed that he was dying. In the end, Egil was impatient and asked someone to hold him down. Then he almost chopped off his fingers with a dagger, and then pressed his handprints with blood.

The treaty was very simple: Edward IV, because of his rampant, brainless, idiotic invasion of England, and overbearingly claimed that he was the king of England. Therefore, it caused great harm to the people of England. In the end, he was willing to pay a lot of compensation and ransom to redeem himself, as well as the lives of the twenty-eight nobles and ninety-three knights under his command. The total amount of money to be paid was calculated and required 67,000 gold coins.

Because I couldn't get so much money for a while, Edward IV had to use the entire Normandy fiefdom to borrow 50,000 gold coins from Edward. The interest calculation is based on the fine tradition of usury, and it is settled every year. In other words, Edward IV actually only needs to pay 40,000 gold coins - of course, these 40,000 gold coins will be returned to Edward his own vault as compensation - and after that, Edward IV would have to pay 30,000 gold coins every year - the interest is also the debt of the interest of the tumbler. And it must be settled within ten years and must not be repaid in advance. If Edward IV could not get so much money within ten years, then the entire Duke of Normandy would be confiscated by Edward. The above.

Well, this is no longer a fair or unfair thing. This is a purely terrifying thing that kills human life. Compared to this, the car slave and the house slave are simply weak. Egil can almost imagine that Edward's future life should be the years of being connected with grassroots and bark. Of course, there is no need to worry about ten years or something. Egil clearly understands that such debts will only become more and more, more and more... There are only two solutions in the end, one is to default on the debt and the other is to commit suicide. I don't know which one Edward will choose in the end.

In short, even with the loan of 40,000 gold coins from Edward, Edward still needed to raise another huge ransom of 27,000 gold coins to regain his freedom. Such numbers made Edward feel his mind blank, and then an additional clause was handed over to him. It was written in great detail about where he could get the money... Even the matter of hiding a private money of 1,000 gold coins in his hometown was investigated clearly.

In total, exactly 27,000.

So Edward IV understood that this number was obtained after careful calculation - and, at the end of the clause, it was written: the last number has been rounded and saved. There is a small matter, so you don’t need to change it to thank me. In this way, Edward IV had the urge to turn the table up at that time.

Of course, I finally held back.

In this way, Edward IV's matter came to an end - before Egil got the money and completely controlled the situation in Normandy, Edward IV had to live in the prison dungeon in London for a while...

After that, after learning about Edward IV's tragic experience, Robert II of Scotland retreated. A total of 20,000 Scottish troops attacked several times in the snow under York City, but failed to gain any advantage. So, in the end, Robert II decided to give in temporarily and return to the country to stabilize the situation. He also wrote a handwritten letter to Egil, saying that he was bewitched by villains, so he fought with Egil. He would not be an example, and hoped that Egil could forgive him and others.

Egil's answer was very simple. He gave up Northumberland and Cumbria and retreated to the north of Hadrian's Great Wall. This matter will not be investigated again.

Of course it is impossible.

Scotland spent hundreds of years to attack Hadrian's Great Wall, spent countless manpower and material resources, and countless Scottish athletes were on the battlefield. Finally, Hadrian tasted it. How could it be that Egil could easily give up his words?

So Robert II scolded Egil for being greedy, disregarding the alliance, and sworn to fight the shameless Vikings to the end. He completely ignored the fact that he was the first to attack the other party.

Immediately afterwards, Robert II led a large army to retreat, stockpile food and supplies in Newcastle, and prepared to defend this place to the death to guard against Egil's army's attack.

However, Egil was not busy attacking Scotland.

The terrain of Scotland is fragmented, and the army is difficult to unfold, and it is very difficult to march and supply. At the same time, the people of Scotland are fierce and unruly. At the same time, the mountainous areas are barren and difficult to develop. Obtaining is completely inconsistent with the efforts. However, Egil didn't want to worry about him for a while.

As long as it can be driven back north of Hadrian's Wall and obtain a whole, complete area of ​​England, it will be enough. This is the strategy that Egil envisioned in a short time.

In addition, after several months of war, the people's livelihood in the land of England had withered. Egil could have ignored it a little before. But at this moment, the opponent who competed for Britain with him was either dead or became a prisoner. And Egil didn't take him seriously like Robert II.

In this way, it's time to take a little care of internal affairs.

First, all the Celtic recruits were dismissed - although Artoria was a little unhappy about this matter, it would be better to coax it a little. After all, the Celtics were not professional soldiers. And they wanted to go home in such continuous combat.

In this way, after dismissing nearly 10,000 Celtic soldiers, Egil opened the system interface and saw that the population of the territory he managed increased slightly.

Immediately afterwards, Egil issued three laws in response to the decline of the entire British people’s livelihood:

One is a replica of the Infinite Recruitment of Knights. During this war, too many soldiers and civilians died, leaving behind a large number of unowned wastelands. Egil took out some of them and planned to recruit 300 knights. This time the selection was not limited to Nordic regions, British localities, and wandering knights on the European continent. In this way, the National Knights under Egil will be further increased. The Knights' territory that uses advanced farm management methods will also have a good harvest.

Secondly, the law of encouraging wild people in the forest and refugees to vassals. In the whole of England - no, it should be said that there are some mountain people in the deep mountains and forests who are not convinced by the king. At the same time, because of the war in Britain, many people who were originally self-cultivated farmers left their hometowns and hid in the forests. This law of Egil was issued to these people. Every mountain savage who took the initiative to join the mountain was given twenty-five acres of land, granted the status of free people, and was exempted from taxes in the first year of planting.

"If you want to be exempted from tax, can't you be exempted? Everyone else can be exempted for three or five years with a big pen." Since Egil and Artoria got married, the system elves seemed to have given up (?) the things that inexplicably stopped them.

"So - it's easy to get the taxes collected by a wave of the hand. Do you give me the taxes you collect? Your sister is already good enough?! I'm good enough for farmers, right? I only charge 50% of the agricultural tax and 60% of the commercial tax! Special income is only one Öle waterway toll taxes. Compared to other lords who have to collect taxes when using the toilet, labor and capital are already virtuous enough. When people compare how wise people are, do they only consider taxes? The less they collect is virtuous, and the more they collect is tyrants?!"

"Forget it, you'll do whatever you want." The system elf said indifferently.

In short, as Egil said, the tax he collected was actually not a lot - compared with other feudal lords - and there were no other messy additional taxes, road maintenance taxes, etc. Although the commercial tax was set a little higher, Norway's overall business level was very high, and the checkpoints in various places were cancelled and many surrounding countries signed favorable trade contracts, Norwegian merchants could also make money.

Those who complained were executed.

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The third law is a little bit like that, which makes the nobles under his rule feel a little inappropriate: the law of selecting talents and appointing talents.

It has been said before that the ground ruled by Egil was caused by wars and wars, so the nobles were deeply harmed and died a lot. There were still some nobles in Norway. But in England... I am very sorry, such a long battle has caused many nobles to cut off their descendants. And the rest, because when Egil ruled England, did not express too much support, nor did they send troops to fight or anything. Therefore, Egil's attitude towards them was not very good. It seemed that the Norwegians raised like pigs, which did not happen at all. So, Egil completely ignored their protests.

The nobles seemed to be discussing something secretly. But Egil didn't care at all if they dared to make any bad intentions.

Kill them.

That's it, very simple, extremely simple.
Chapter completed!