Some people may wonder why steel is used to forge a crown without adding any gems for decoration? Although steel was indeed very expensive in that era. The Norman iron crown worn by Egil was produced by the system when he was the king, and forged with alloy steel smelted with modern craftsmanship. It can be regarded as the best steel forging - but, no matter what, it is not as good as a golden gold crown?

"Only fools and nouveau riche will like the crown made of gold." Egil replied: "Steel is good, because all weapons are forged with steel. The only mission of steel in this era is to kill. In addition to killing, it is also to kill. Putting such a heavy crown stained with endless blood on the head will bring about the awareness of killing at any time, or being killed."

That's it.

Egil Scadragrimsun conquered Sweden.

That night, the soldiers were extremely tired, and at the same time, the sky was dark and not suitable for chasing. So Egil ordered back to the camp helplessly.

In this way, although the enemy killed nearly 20,000 in this battle, there were only 15,000 prisoners. In other words, nearly half of the enemies fled.

This time, Egil did not use methods such as massacre or burying alive for prisoners of war. Because next, Sweden was his territory. These Swedes could obviously be summarized into the Northern Branch of the Germanic language, the Vikings, or the Norman people. Therefore, these Swedes had a high degree of recognition for Egil. Egil also felt that it was necessary to win over them, so he promised to acquit them. At the same time, they asked them to return to the countryside and be close to their relatives and friends, as well as those Swedes who fled early to declare:

This is already the territory of the Normans. You are already the King of Norman, the Lord of the strongest kingdom in the north, and the undisputed strongest person in the snow and ice: Egil Scadragrimson's subjects! Remember to pay taxes to your king.

After Gustav was defeated and died, the overall situation was settled. The whole Sweden was trembling under the iron hooves of Norman. After holding up the spear that had been brushed with lime, but still seemed to have some other heads, the Swedes wisely chose to surrender. Next, a large area of ​​Swedish territory could be determined. The entire Nordic Europe took another step away from unification.

Next, we will rectify the internal affairs, supplement the army, rest and rectify the Stockholm city, calm the people's hearts, and... continue to go on the expedition.

The two Eastern European countries, Moscow, Novgorod and Egir did not want to bypass them so easily. Especially Novgorod, with weak military strength, vast territory, developed commerce, and unification of the Baltic coast, claiming that the last step of the Norman Emperor... Egir would not let him go no matter what.

In the following period, Egil chose the usual Stockholm officials through the quota recommended by the Royal Court. After establishing a centralized government, Egil no longer had to rely on points to exchange for officials like before. Instead, he could select urban managers with better capabilities for free through the personnel recommended by the Royal Court of the Central Government to establish a local bureaucracy.

This is somewhat similar to the Han Dynasty's recommendation system. However, Egil also knew that this was not good. The bureaucratic selection system needed further improvements - but before that, he needed more people who could read and read, that is, he needed to improve the population quality of the entire empire and establish a complete system for selecting officials... This is another very troublesome task. Speaking of which, even the Germanic common language named Norman has not been popularized.

Not to mention these relatively long-term things, Egil's most important person at present is to stabilize the situation in Sweden. Gustav's head is really useful. Any disobedient nobleman wants to resist. As long as he raises his head and shakes it, the noble's wooden fort will be panic, and a traitor will jump out and chop off the head of the fortress, and then opens the door and surrender.

Because Gustav is second only to the Father and the Son in this territory of Sweden. Since even he will be killed, the strength of the enemy can be imagined. Not everyone in this world is afraid of death, especially in the case of undoubted death.

In this way, Egil stabilized the situation in Sweden very easily and quickly, rebuilt Stockholm and implemented various laws that were completely synchronized with other parts of the Norman Kingdom. After that, a 500-strong security patrol force entered Stockholm and maintained local public order.

In a total of thirteen days, Egil occupied the entire Sweden and controlled it all. Then, the administrative divisions of Scandinavia were re-divided, and according to the latitude, instead of the previous borders between Swedish Norway, the entire Scandinavia was divided into two administrative regions, including the capital Gothenburg, and the capital area in the south, including the three cities of Biard, Bergen, and Stockholm, and the Arctic region that did not include a city at all. Three pieces.

After completing these things, it was about July. Scandinavia entered the warmest season of the year. For normal people, even if they go to the highest latitude Finland, they don’t need to wear down jackets. The opportunity is fleeting, so Egil thought for a moment and issued an order to continue the attack and bring Finland into control. At the same time, the orders were issued to the navy that had completed the task of transporting reinforcements to Normandy. In addition to maintaining the necessary logistics supplies, the rest of the navy were transferred back to the Baltic region to harass the coastal areas of Novgorod.

At the same time, because there was a state of war with Novgorod and Moscow, Egir decided to increase the income of punitive tariffs on merchants from the two countries that transited. The initial booking would be increased by 1,500%. If the payment could not be made, the debt would be paid with goods. If the goods could not be offset, they would be arrested and used as serfs or miners. Until the merchants took money to redeem them, or waited for the ceasefire between the countries - that is, Egir completely annexed the two countries, or the two countries bowed down and provided Egir with huge war reparations and cede territory.

That's it.

When it comes to Norman merchants, Egir doesn't have to be afraid. Even if he temporarily lacks two trade objects, Novgorod and Moscow, he still has a lot of business to do on the continent. In fact, the biggest trade object of Norman merchants is not Eastern Europe, the two extremely barren countries, but the Italian city-states in the south, Eastern Rome, and even Ottoman Türkiye, and Egypt.

The gold of the pagans is also gold. This is a very popular saying in the small circle of Norman merchants. The source is that they exchanged two Persian carpets for a second-hand fur, and they pitted a handful of unlucky Turkish merchants.

When trading with Novgorod and the Grand Principal of Moscow, the main trading materials were food - yes, it was food.

After Egil relied on the powerful system to implement a rotating system, excellent, and classified agricultural tools, as well as the use of green manure, heavy plowing, and other measures, the Norman Kingdom's agricultural level was the highest among the European countries. It not only could meet its own needs, provide sufficient military supplies to the army, but also export large amounts of foreign exchange.

Before this, Egil had a relatively strong management of grain. Not only did he establish an emergency reserve granary mechanism in various places, he also listed grain as one of the military supplies. Private transactions were prohibited. However, after obtaining two pieces of land in Prussia and Livornia, after systematic identification, these two pieces of land were extremely fertile and could reach very good land that was ripe for two years. This is also the reason why Egilken took the lead in spending a lot of money to invest and build this piece of land.

After obtaining agricultural support for these two pieces of land, Egir gradually slowed down restrictions on food exports. In this way, a place where there was not enough food for many years in bitter and cold places like Moscow and Novgorod, naturally traded with the Norman Kingdom, which could provide a large amount of food exports. The locally produced fur and precious metals were used to feed the food of the Pope Norman Kingdom.

If this continues, the two countries with enough food may be strengthened in decades due to the increase in population. Even if the Grand Duchy of Moscow could forcibly annex Novgorod, they could become one of the European powers, but now they have been completely destroyed by this war. Now these two countries have to continue to endure hunger - the ice and snow in Eastern Europe is not so easy.
Chapter completed!