Chapter 148： 160 Novgorod girls

It seemed that Brodne's courage was finally trampled on by his Ross army.

Otto put away the sword, and said completely in the tone of the ruler: "You are very smart. Now I still have a requirement, you must complete it unconditionally."

"Is it a woman? I want to organize some girls to marry your tribe?" Brodne asked knowingly, but his whole body began to grow hairy.

"Clever answer. Yes!" Otto pointed at his own person, "This is my great army. You should be thankful that your girls can marry these strong fighters as their wives, instead of marrying poor peasant women. A life of poverty."

"So... how many people do you need?" Brodne asked weakly.

"Fifty, at least fifty." Otto did his part. "If you can't get it out, I still consider it your infidelity."

"I will send someone to do it right away. Your people need to wait, because most of the residents have...have already ran into the woods. I need time to summon the hidden girls and their families back."

"This is your problem, I'll give you one day." Otto did not give any respect, "If our soldiers cannot have a wife in your manor, we will take revenge."

"But..."

Suddenly, Otto thought of something: "It seems that you are still hesitant? Are you worried that you still can't bring back the girl I need? You have three daughters, none of whom have yet been married. Now hand them over and marry my people."

"Huh?" Brodne felt that he had misheard, and asked quickly: "Could it be my daughters."

Otto smiled sinister deliberately: "Your three daughters must marry me, right now, I want them to finish the wedding today. You have no choice."

"Ah!" Brodne sat on the ground all of a sudden, unable to calm down for a long time.

At this time, Vadim, who was ordered to kneel, stood up hurriedly and hurried to his father's side.

Vadim threw himself on his father. He raised his head and stared at Otto with anger. His deep eyes were full of grief and indignation at the barbaric acts of the Ross people.

Vadim, he grew up in humiliation, his eyes longing for revenge...

Otto’s sword still pointed at Brodne, who was lying on his back: "Hand over your daughter and marry me, otherwise I will start attacking now."

It seems that there is no room for bargaining now.

Brudne really can’t figure out what happened to the Ross people this year. How could the property they wanted in the past years be as outrageous as this year?

For the manor, he can only do so.

"Okay...I'll do it right away." Brodne stood up panting heavily and ordered his subordinates who were about to pee: "You...you go call out all my daughters, and go."

got the order, Jia Ding dropped the short spear in his hand and hurried back to the wooden door.

After a while, Brudne’s family walked out of the room, including his old wife, three young daughters, and the cowardly eldest son.

They face the huge army of Ross people, and subconsciously hug each other, praying in their hearts that someone can save the crisis.

In terms of preferences, Otto didn’t think Brudne’s three daughters were so beautiful. Looking at their father's deeds, Otto is really disinterested in them.

After all, they are young women, and youth is a kind of beauty.

Although their looks can't make Otto happy, it has attracted other young Ross men eager to take over. Of course, there is no problem.

The three sisters quickly understood everything. Unlike Lilia in the White Tree Manor, the three of them knew their future destiny, and they burst into tears for an instant.

They hugged tightly together, and Brodne reluctantly said: "You go, for the safety of our manor."

"No! Dad. They are hateful Ross people. We would rather commit suicide than..." The eldest daughter cried bitterly, her trembling eyes full of despair.

"You go quickly, otherwise we will all die!" Sad Brodne hooked his head.

The three sisters were still indifferent, their heads leaned against each other, their clothes wet with tears.

Facing a bitter scene, Otto was indifferent and even more impatient.

He stuck the sword on the ground, stretched out his right hand slightly, and said to his men: "Who among you likes to take these three women as wives? Go get it yourself now."

Lian Xiang Xi Yu? Do not.

The young Ross people see young girls crying, and they do develop a desire for protection, but their crying shows their beauty even more, attracting this group of young people of their age to have a strong possessive desire.

A few young Ross people hung their axes back on their waist belts, rolled up their sleeves and walked over aggressively.

They forcibly separated the three sisters and violently broke off the hands they were trying to clenched to each other. But they are too weak, where are the arms as thick as the legs, who can continue paddling the opponent of a strong man during the day?

There are three young Roths who have got their own beauties. From now on, they have got their own wives. They are completely different from the crying and horrified looks of girls. The only thing the Roths show on their faces is a happy smile.

Facing the three sisters who were snatched away by these wild men, Vadim sat on the ground, looking at his dazed eldest brother Kabok in reality, he was a coward. Vadim was eager for revenge, eager to pierce the neck of the Ruth leader with a sword, and then cut off the heads of all the Ruths with unparalleled power.

Fantasy is fantasy after all.

Recognize reality!

He looked at these Ross people with grief and angrily, grinning to indicate his anger.

What disturbances can a child make? This stinky boy is not a miracle like his son Rülik. Vadim's eyes clearly said, "I will definitely get revenge," Otto didn't care about it. A strong man who beats a child will be ridiculed by his clan. Otto didn't bother to do this, and his men didn't bother to leave the team and kick the kid a few more times.

Generally speaking, Otto is quite satisfied with the current situation.

"Brudne, you are finally smart now." Otto said arrogantly.

"Yes. You took my daughters away, and they became your slaves. You should be satisfied with these."

"Slave? No." Otto smiled, "They are the wives of my subordinates. If they are just slaves, we destroy your manor and kill all your rebels, and the remaining children and women will become slaves. We won’t do this, and I won’t explain anything to you again. Remember the order I just gave you?"

"It's... double the tribute, and there are fifty women."

Otto nodded: "I'll give you some more time. Before the sun sets tomorrow, I want you to pile all the tributes on the beach, and those women. You go now to gather the people who have fled and make them come back to put out the fire. Collect the tribute"

"Yes." Brodne stood there alone, twitching his head and daring not to wipe the dirt on his body.

"This is the last order for you, we will leave now. You stupid fellows, know what to do."

After that, Otto turned around and swaggered to start. Many of his subordinates, with their own seizures, happily followed the leader and walked towards his long boat.

Even Kawei got a sack of wheat and two large **** of linen in this additional looting. Linen is a good thing. Take it home and let my mother tailor them into thick gloves, so that you can protect your hands when you smelt iron.

Because of any ironing work, the wear of gloves is severe, and blacksmiths need gloves made of leather and linen.

He can't help but fantasize that maybe his new wife has a more exquisite craftsmanship.

The long boats of the Ross people were pushed into the Volkhov River one after another. What they did in the morning at Pine Needle Manor naturally caused a lot of panic in the small manor along the lake.

They had heard the news of the arrival of the Ross people a long time ago. Considering their past experience, as long as the tribute was prepared as usual, the Ross people would just take it and leave.

In winter, there are legends everywhere. For example, living in the manor in the birch forest in the northernmost part of the Great Lakes, they provided wheat and a group of women, and they were rewarded with a batch of amber from the Ross people.

The wood loggers at White Tree Manor claimed that the woman was married to a Ross man as his wife.

But the most powerful Pine Needle Manor denies this claim, claiming that the Rus are exactly the same as the previous Varyag robbers. They are only the Russ pretending to be a superficial civilization. The so-called marriage of a wife is still a hunted slave.

Amidst anxiety, a large number of small estates are afraid of the arrival of the Ross people.

This time I saw the fire that started in Pine Needle Manor and a large number of canoes fleeing on the lake. Fear immediately spread among the fishermen in Lake Ilmen who were fishing on the lake.

Still in the mood for fishing? Pooh! It's important to escape quickly.

They rowed their boats straight to their homes, hoping that the elders of the manor could speak to the scene like a forest fire.

Some manors think that not only did the Ross people come, or for some reason they eradicated the Pine Needle Manor, and they couldn't help worrying about their situation.

Most manor houses, they had prepared two tributes.

A house is on the ground, waiting for the Ross people to fetch it. The other is hidden in the cellar, and when the Ross people leave, it will be moved out and handed over to the powerful Pine Needle Manor.

Some manor houses are very happy to see the hateful Pine Needle Manor igniting fire. I have always been very respectful to the Rus, and the tribute has never been underpaid, and now I will not be hacked and killed by the Rus.

If Pine Needle Manor is eradicated, what does it have to do with yourself? It will even be a great thing. In this way, at least one less tribute can be paid.

A large number of leading long boats towed the transport ship appeared on the vast Ilmen Lake.

Otto immediately ordered the soldiers to split into two groups, and his men continued to march along the shoreline on both sides of the river mouth.

The largest pine needle manor with the best geographical location, there are still as many as ten larger manor houses inhabited by the lake.

Besides, there are more settlements hidden in the dense forests of this vast area.

Considering the limited time and energy, Otto has no intention of going deep into the dense forest along the small waterway to search for the tribute of the diaspora. Those people are still too small to accumulate much wealth.

The people living along the lake are quite different. They are indeed richer.

Of course, wealth is also relative. They can produce more food, but they have no ability to produce salt. Even the reward given to White Tree Manor does not include salt. Specifically, Otto and even the entire Ross tribe have not thought about the routine of making crude sea salt through large-scale boiling of salt in sea water to make huge profits.

Actually, Otto can really sell a lot of salt, even if it is inferior sea salt mixed with a lot of bitter magnesium chloride, it can still make huge profits from Novgorod, and more people support it. After all, agriculture can produce its own wheat, and farmers have to eat salt.

Nowadays, the residents of Novgorod either get a trace of salt from food and game, or they import salt from Smolensk at a high price. The residents of Smolensk did not produce their own salt, they also went deep to the south to buy salt from the Eastern Romans. The long salt transportation route ends as far as Novgorod. So far, cheap sea salt is enough for a Novgorod farmer to pay for a quarter of his annual labor income in exchange for enough salt for his family to use for a year. .

Otto took his team and quickly approached a manor along the lake. After he contacted the manor, he immediately pointed to the area where the smoke was still rolling in the distance, and ordered: "This year is different. From now on, you have to pay double the tribute every year. I know that after we leave, Pine Needle Manor will pay back I will ask you again for a sum. Now, they dare not. But your tribute will still be doubled."

The wise manor did not dare to rashly object to this extortion, but immediately offered conditions.

Otto is a smart man, since the other party wants to negotiate, okay, let’s talk about it.

He released a compromise plan: "I will give you another plan. Hand over your manor is a young unmarried girl, who married me. My boy will give the girl's family at least a few silver coins, or even rough amber. There is no such thing as double tribute."

The carrot is given, and then there is still a stick. Otto still pointed to the smoke: "Pine Needle Manor thinks he is your master! I am your master. I taught them for you. Also because Pine Needle Manor firmly opposed my plan, their house has been on fire. . You must choose one of the two plans. If you still oppose it, I can only kill."

Two choices can only be the lesser of two evils. The manor had to choose the latter, and quickly selected ten girls.

Otto did not hesitate. The young men under his command also walked out of the line and led away the girl who looked dumbfounded by him, and then stuffed a stack of silver coins into their parents' hands, facing the girl's parents' complicated expressions. , The boy promised to take the child to visit every year after the girl gave birth.

Although it was a promise to the future, it somewhat comforted the family who suddenly lost their daughter. The silver coins in their hands at least solved the family's one-year food ration problem.

The 　　 routine achieved initial success. Otto’s team added a batch of tributes and ten more girls.

He moved to the next manor and succeeded again in a short time.

Finally, the two-way team collected the tribute from the manor along the lake, and their team, not only a large number of transport ships filled with goods, but also 80 young girls.

This is already a terrifying number! After all, Otto's trip was meant to completely marry a hundred young people under his command. For the other young boys in the team, the purpose of this trip is to gain insights to understand the vastness of the world.

Marriage requires at least a handful of silver coins, or a large pack of copper coins. There are also a group of fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys who have just grown beards. How can they have such financial resources?

The situation has really changed.

After the fleet meeting, Otto clearly realized that he was facing such a great thing.

can help young boys of the tribe to marry one after another The prestige of him and his family must be unprecedentedly increased.

Eighty girls got on the Ross boat this afternoon.

In addition, White Tree Manor has already provided thirty people, and Pine Needle Manor must also provide fifty people. All in all, one hundred and sixty Novgorod girls must be seen as mothers of the next generation of Rus during this trip.

If most of the young people of the tribe have a Novgorod wife, Otto would not care at all.

He feels that life is still going on normally.

But I didn't expect that when the Rus tribe was filled with a large number of Novgorods, would they still be the same as before?

Will the new generation of Roths just think of themselves as Roths?

Otto, he still didn't think so long.