The Chinese version of cooking their recipe would entail but it's taking these places that have no real strong central authority right lots of different chieftains or warlords. consolidating them into a more centralized sort of state someplace with a you know hierarchy where there's somebody in charge that's answerable if pirates from this other territory raid your coast. Civilizing the Vikings is the long-term way out of this problem as far as these people are concerned and we see this same thing going on as a solution to the pirate problem in this era after all.
This show picks up where Dan's Thor's Angels show left off. In the early Middle Ages Pagan Germanic-language speakers like the Vikings are a dying breed. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster.