The Rise of Iceland - Vol 3 Chapter 423

With the stability of Olaf’s power, he no longer thinks about preservation, but expansion.

The distribution of land and the reorganization of the regular army gave Olaf the power to control the Swedish empire, instead of relying solely on force, so he now wants to do something bigger through Sweden.

Olaf’s experience in governing the country is all about the slave society of Vinland and small countries like the Duchy of Pomerania. For Sweden, he dares not make arbitrary decisions at all, but now he has given freedom through the distribution of land. Farmers, even if they get less than one-tenth of the rural population, all free farmers still love Olaf.

Now Olaf knows very well that he has offended the Swedish nobles and ministers. Even if some people fall to him, they still regard themselves as thief in their hearts. Therefore, Olaf does not want to win over the Swedish nobles and ministers who are destined to lose their hearts.

The state structure in the agricultural era is divided into kings and nobles, ministers and bottom aristocrats, urban freedmen with small assets and rural freedmen, and the poor people at the bottom. The latter two occupy the vast majority of the population, but they have the right to speak and govern. But in the hands of the first two.

Olaf is now at the top of the pyramid. What he has to do is to win over the two at the bottom. The poorest peasants are obtained by dividing the land into each household. The next step is to win over urban free people and small property farmers.

Olaf used his simplest values ​​to measure, and felt that a good governor should make the people feel that the quality of life is improving. If the wages are low, the prices will be lower. If the prices rise, the wages will rise. In short, the more The better.

Therefore, Olaf decided to integrate the Viking business circle composed of Vinland, Iceland, Greenland, Trondheim, and Pomerania into Sweden, with the largest output of spirits, caramel, dried fish, dried meat, starch, corn, Dozens of commodities such as pumpkin, cowpea, fur, cotton cloth, bone china and so on are mainly sold to Sweden, and their prices are lower than other foreign markets.

In order to ensure the quality of life of the citizens of the Viking system, Olaf has given priority to supplying the circle of the Principality of Iceland for so many years. In addition, it is either a monopoly or a requirement for local distributors, so the price has always been half or 10% lower than that in the European market. The price can take care of the people, while ensuring that it cannot be shipped to other places for sale to earn the difference, because the freight will reach or even exceed the market price.

With the growth of Wenlan’s area and population, commodities other than fur are increasing year by year, but the European market is not too big, and the selling prices of many commodities have fallen in recent years.

Since the price is simply to be reduced, Olaf feels that it would be better to make the Viking system’s citizens cheaper. This will also ensure that prices in other markets will stabilize or even rise, so that the Viking system market can eat up a large chunk of production through internal consumption. The income of Dahl and Olaf did not decrease, but increased.

This feeling gave Olaf a meaning of forming an “Ice Federation”. Although there are differences, this internal circulation is very effective. Olaf decided to include the Swedish market in the “Ice Federation.”

Although Gustaf II gave Venland and Iceland products a considerable discount in Sweden before his death, when Olaf was expelled from Stockholm, the agreement of the year was naturally abolished.

Now Olaf called several representative businessmen of Viking Raidang, representatives of the Danish West India Company, the East India Company, and the businessmen of the Principality of Pomerania to Stockholm for a meeting.

None of the big local businessmen in Sweden called, but the father-in-law Nolen, the minister of commerce, and the five businessmen he hired to attend the meeting.

Olaf is just a platform, so after raising the request and leaving, Noren and Honrode and other Danish and Icelandic businessmen set the price and share of the special products of the United Principality of Iceland-Pomerania-Vinland in Sweden. And other matters, and signing contracts, paying deposits and many other matters.

After the meeting was over, after the parties left the venue, less than half a month, the first batch of goods at a discounted price arrived in Stockholm, and Nolan’s white glove merchants collected and sold them and flowed into the market.

Soon citizens of Stockholm discovered that the price of water of life, originally worth 200 Swedish copper dollars per gallon, was reduced to 188 copper dollars, and the latest cotton cloth on the market was also reduced in price. There are also foods such as dried cod, pickled deer legs, starch, etc. in Wenland and Iceland. The reduced prices and various benefits made the citizens of Sweden very happy, and they gave generously.

So in June, the Stockholm and even the Swedish market purchased an amazing amount of specialties from the United Principality of Iceland. The turnover exceeded 2 million Swedish silver dollars, but everyone knew that sales would drop significantly after next month.

However, with the increase in sales of special products from the United Principality of Iceland, many news have also spread through various gossips.

For example, the decline in the specialties of the United Principality of Iceland is entirely due to the kindness of our Swedish godfather, Regent Olaf, and his old man’s kindness. He held a meeting to force the businessmen of Iceland and Sweden to benefit the people, and his country of Vinland bears the risk of raising the cost. Let the people of Sweden also enjoy the same prices as the Vinland and Icelanders.

This kind of kindness is never seen by many monarchs, so this statement spread quickly among the people of Sweden. In less than a month, the two million lowest farmers and citizens in Sweden knew that they had a kindness. monarch.

Godfather Regent has been called “the benevolent father” by people since then.

Olaf, the “loving father”, did not know that he had already enjoyed the treatment of Comrade Stalin in the Soviet Union, but from the feedback from various places, he also understood that with the increase in sales of goods and goods, it feels that the Swedish people who have picked up the cheap will very happy.

When the Swedish people know that the special products of the United Principality of Iceland in other countries are always more expensive than Sweden in the future, their happiness and pride will increase, and they will eventually turn into gratitude to themselves~www.mtlnovel.com~ Olaf is very clear. Inferiority is something that everyone has. No matter how good it is, it is not good. It is really good if they are not unique to me.

This involves many issues such as taking advantage and good honor and face, but at the root of it is that “I” has received special treatment and the enjoyment of this psychological superiority, just like falling in love, a man can make a woman enjoy it, and you are brazen to her. Preference, this kind of preference, regardless of right and wrong, this woman will be moved.

As for whether a man’s showing of preference really needs to be proved by irrespective behaviors of right and wrong, it can only be said that this man is too stupid, and his attitude and language can actually be solved. Why do you have to add more things?

Olaf, who understood this truth, began to consciously promote that the Swedes had enjoyed the special care of the godfather Olaf. The reason was entirely that Olaf believed that Iceland and Sweden were of the same origin, so there was no reason to take care of his family without doing a good job wholeheartedly.

At the same time, Olaf also looked for an opportunity to give a speech to the citizens in the square in front of the palace. The topic of the speech was-“We are a family.”

The content is that Olaf screams about Sweden, screams about Iceland, screams about the Viking ancestors, and screams about the concept of Vikings…

The effect of the speech was very good. The citizens of Stockholm quickly praised the glorious achievements of the Viking ancestors in their speeches.

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