Chapter 805： Tasteless negotiation

The update is super fast|;Swind must give an answer immediately. He is caught in a huge entanglement. Facing the aggressive posture of the Ross people, there is obviously no reason to refuse. Watermark advertising testWatermark advertising test

The corner of his eyes glanced at the samurai sitting on both sides, and asked tentatively: "Could it be that there is no... a third option?"

"The third choice?" Rurik almost laughed when he heard the news, "No! You must make a choice now. Listen, when you get a chance to fish safely on your island, it depends on your choice."

A large rock pressed against his chest, and Swind was almost vomiting due to such a depressing scene.

He endured the discomfort and asked tentatively: "If I agree completely. What is the price...what is it?"

"The price? If you are servants, of course you have to pay the price. You make your choice! I don't want you to linger." After speaking, Liu Lik raised his arrogant chin, first glared at the messenger in contempt, and then looked towards Guangliang. Outdoor. He deliberately called: "The weather today is really good, it's very suitable for sailing. My army has been ineffective for a while. They are eager to fight, and their swords and axes are eager to drink blood."

"This... Prince Rose, what does this mean?"

"Are you pretending to be confused?"

Swinder was indeed pretending to be confused, although he didn't believe that the Ross people would really launch a large-scale invasion this year for a broken island in Bornholm, but Prince Ross had already brightened his sword.

"I agree!"

He consciously has no choice but to agree in order to avoid disaster.

"Very good." Rurik clapped his hands in praise. "You made a smart choice."

Although Swind was sitting on the ground, he leaned back and raised his head hard, staring at the sitting king with complicated eyes. "So, what price do we pay?"

Rurik also poked his head, his face filled with the joy of a winner: "Of course you have to pay a price, probably a price you can pay. I learned about your current situation from other people's mouths, and thought that you might use a bunch of stinky herrings. Tribute, forget it."

"You guys, what are you going to want?"

"people!"

"people?"

Swind was a little puzzled, but it became more and more terrifying after some careful consideration.

"It's people. The most valuable thing on your island is people. Do you have many women?" Ruriek asked this deliberately.

"Women? Not many."

"What about the child?"

"Not much the same."

"Are you perfunctory me?" Rurik smiled. "There are so many lonely men with so little strength?"

"At least not as much as yours."

"Hehe. I think you just want to irritate me. You and your islanders probably don't want to be attached. It doesn't matter, because it is not difficult to destroy you. Come on, there are five thousand islanders?"

"There are five thousand men who can afford weapons." Swindle raised his head and said grandiosely.

He intended to make a small demonstration to Prince Ross, but the number of five thousand was just casually said.

This number really touched Rurik. He didn't believe it was true. Perhaps the opponent could mobilize at least two thousand troops. This is indeed a very large number. It was placed a long time ago for Ross to be alert, but now it is nothing, just because Ross can mobilize more troops.

Rurik didn't like the messenger named Swinder. Obviously, this guy was not shocked by the prosperity of the Duchy of Ross. It was such an island, even if it surrendered, it was an unstable group, a potential Linden Wan. It stands to reason that there is no need for these guys to annex, and the principality must stretch out its tentacles, obviously relying on them to contain Denmark.

At this moment, Rurik thought of Ragna's statement again.

Swind is very entangled in the matter of surrender, and now Rurik also feels that this matter is beginning to become tasteless.

Maybe they shouldn't be forced too tight?

Finally, Rurik made his own terms.

"Swind, it makes no sense for you to put forward any more conditions. Now you must comply with several of my decisions. First, you must force the immigration of five hundred young women into Ross as my subjects. Second, yours. Fishing boats must start flying the Ross flag, and our ships will attack all flagless fishing boats in that sea. Third, you must resolutely oppose King Horlick of Denmark and terminate trade with Denmark. Fourth, let your islanders have the right to choose freely. I invite some people to immigrate to Ross."

The four major clauses came to his ears, and Swind was surprised that Prince Rose seemed to have no more requirements besides these. What about the requirement of paying tribute to Suisui? Doesn't seem to be?

He hooked his head and analyzed it carefully. First of all, if you hang the flag of the Russ, you can avoid attacking free fishing. This seems to be a good thing, and it means that ships from Denmark can attack Bornholm ships at will. The fact that the fishing boat hangs the flag gives outsiders the sense that the islanders belong to Ross, and it also means that the entire island is opposed to King Horlick of Denmark.

Prince Ross's request is very peculiar. It seems that Ross is only opposed to the current Danish king himself.

Let the islanders have the right to immigrate freely, which is even more wonderful than the so-called clause. Imagine that I am just a selected person. There are many sources of people who can settle on the island. They want to come and go, and there is no power to restrain them. If they are willing to be subjects of the Rose Prince, no one will stop them from leaving. .

The only thing that entangled Swind was the provision of five hundred women in the first clause.

He agreed to the last three clauses, but expressed deep concern about the first clause.

"I'm not the owner of the island, I'm just someone who is recommended by them. I can't order those people to surrender their daughters. If you insist on doing this, you may only be the only one who orders them to force them to submit."

"Absurd." Rurik slammed the table with a punch, forced an angry face and smiled: "I think our conversation is getting more and more boring. Am I doing peace negotiations with someone who has no authority? Since you can't What else do you have to say?"

Swindle said, "My lord, I can only be responsible for a part of the affairs. But the matter of handing over 500 women...they are humans, not cattle."

"Don't you think that I asked for a woman to be a livestock? To tell you the truth, I am kind, and these women will reward my fighters to be true wives. They are all Odin's fighters and need a blonde wife. My kindness has its limits! It seems we don’t need to talk anymore. Come on!"

Rurik gave an order, and the warriors on both sides stood up.

Swinder was anxious and wanted to talk again, but was crossed out by a group of samurai, and immediately threw it to the temporary dormitory to rest...

A messenger who came for peace talks lacked authority. Since this Swinder could not promise absolute surrender, his concession was meaningless.

Through this boring negotiation, Rurik has an intuitive understanding of the true internal political situation of Bornholm Island.

Swind said some nonsense while defending, some of which inadvertently leaked the true information. For example, on the island, some big families nominate people to talk about, and Swinder is also a patriarch of the big family. Swind can manage the affairs of this family, but other families cannot.

This is also a good thing. If the people of Bornholm Island, each small family is a political unit, it is obviously easy to be defeated by Ross.

A new plan began to emerge in his mind.

...

"Just send your troops out!" Rurik, who was lying on the bed, said sharply at night, which made Svetlana sit up abruptly.

"Huh?! War? It's OK not to fight? You..."

"Damn it. I just don't want to give up this opportunity."

Lanna lay down again: "Who are you going to fight in a war? Aren't the Karelians perished?"

"Of course it's not them. I changed my mind. Bornholm's messenger is ridiculous. I want to conquer the **** island to surrender. I even have the confidence to surrender soldiers without a fight."

"Win without a fight?"

"Exactly."

"Okay. You are the prince, you are in charge of everything." Lanna tugged her man by the arm, with a smile: "I will go too."

"You? What are you going to do? If you are pregnant, you shouldn't walk around."

"That's why I want to follow you even more. I have the crown prince in my stomach, so I must go..."

Is this a kind of prenatal education? I think she is tired of staying on the shore of Lake Ilmen, and wants to go outside and see the world again.

"Well, let's be together."

"Hehe." She smiled sweetly: "I'm a Varanga woman."

"Oh? I thought you were a beautiful Slavic woman."

"Both. Oh! I'm a Rose woman, your woman."

Svetlana is acting like a baby here, she is out of her own heart, and she is also going all out to strengthen her identity in the Rose court. She wanted to work hard to please, to be a charming woman and a Varanga warrior.

All of these are very useful for Rülik. As a man, Rülik is more willing to listen to her breathing in her arms. That is the fiercest ecstasy soup for men...

He could only sigh that Otto really didn't look away. The Lanna he chose for himself was really the most beautiful one among the many wives and concubines. It was not obvious when I was young, but now it is really a three-dimensional sharp chin with deep sea blue pupils and big eyes. The most important thing is a pair of long legs. She was originally thin, and her long legs not only gave her an extraordinary height, but also looked slender and agile as a whole, but she grew up in a place where she was proud of her without ambiguity.

It is such a beautiful woman who has experienced war. She once fought with a bow as an ordinary warrior and actually killed the enemy. This was a great touch to the warriors from the old Rus tribe.

After all, a Slavic woman is coming to be the prince’s wife. Is she qualified? Oh? ! She had killed the enemy like Valkyrie, that would be completely different.

There will be another meeting in a few days. Since Rurik has decided that the islanders must be forced to choose by force, there is no need to talk nonsense with the messenger Swind.

After taking a rest, Swind was picked up and slipped into the palace again. He thought that he barely slept all night, but he still couldn't figure out what Prince Rose wanted to do.

Ragna is also ambiguous about the outcome of the negotiations, but he has other things to do-talk to his tribe and family in Novgorod.

Ragnar even visited the school of the Roths. This was a close observation of what the younger "wise men" were instilling in a large group of children.

Because his eldest son, Ivar, who was in a wooden wheelchair, was also taken to school to study.

It was just a month away. The eldest son has learned something. The most important thing is the spelling mode of the Latin alphabet of Gnostic language. It is not difficult to memorize these letters and spelling rules by rote memorization. Little Ivar can barely read the documents issued by the principality.

Ivar actually dabbled into something more profound, how he, a seven-year-old boy, deeply understood such things as Midgard (the human world) as a giant ball and Northern Europe as a small world in the extreme north.

Ivar dictated something to his father, but he didn't understand it very much, but Ragna was greatly shocked.

Do the people of Ross know the face of this world?

How do they know the precise location of Bornholm Island? Also know the shortest route through the Danish waters?

Ragnar is a fallen lord, his status determines that he must have more considerations, and he naturally realizes the importance of a map. He has a certain understanding of this sea area, knows the location of some islands, and does not know the farther places.

He asked his son to stare at the pattern drawn by the young teacher on the blackboard made of pine glue mixed with toner when he was in class, and to reproduce the pattern of drawing on the sand with wooden sticks afterwards by rote memorization.

In this way, Ragner probably understood the shape of the entire Baltic Sea for the first time, as well as the location of the key Gotland Island, Tombstone Island, and Lake Mälaren in Sweden relative to the entire sea.

Following this line of thought, I'm afraid that Spuyut, who is also the Queen's Pirate, has a particularly exquisite map in his hand, otherwise their big ship would not dare to rush in the waters grandiosely.

Ragnar was not ashamed to ask, and secondly he was afraid of causing dissatisfaction among the Ross people.

Since Rose has a toilet-wiping treasure called paper, their papers are also written on a different kind of paper. Ragna simply drew a rough map on a piece of soft toilet paper, folded it and kept it.

But Ragner had no idea that Prince Rurik clearly didn't want to negotiate with the Bornholm people.

The next step is no longer the scope of the secret talk, and even a piece of news spread like wildfire before the meeting.

Does Rosger plan to continue the war? Rose wants to directly conquer Bornholm?

The news tickled the hearts of the men. In their opinion, fighting is a good thing to make money, wealth and honor. Even the prince made a case, so that the so-called personal injury can be saved, and if the children are killed in the war, they can also live without worry.

This is what Ragnar has seen and heard, and the atmosphere has infected the entire Stonewall tribe living in Novgorod. The men who went into exile with Ragnar probably didn’t care about his personal ambitions. They just wanted to get it on the boat of the Russians. Own good.

Yes! The Bornholm people are not relatives and do not have economic contacts. If they were to be killed, who would feel guilty? On the contrary, it will make the Ross people look at it with admiration.

A military meeting with a curious atmosphere was held in the Roseduma Chamber in Novgorod. It was this meeting that was unsurpassed. The envoy of Bornholm, the speaker, and the theoretical leader Swain De was also pulled over.

Swind also heard those rumors. Seeing the atmosphere of the venue, his teeth were itchy, and he was clearly deceived by the young king of the Ross people. What promise can be peace? After all, we still have to fight!

The people attending the meeting were all good-looking martial arts, and they did not hesitate to take the poor Swindle to take a shower, and one after another threatened to easily conquer Bornholm. Especially Aliekai, his open show of power made Swinde to bear the humiliation.

Rurik was late, and he could hear the internal noise outside the venue.

As he entered the arena, the chaos stopped abruptly, and a pair of eyes stared at Rose's maharajah.

"It seems that you all know! Especially you!" Rurik pointed his right hand at Swind very undesirably: "I originally wanted to negotiate with you and made some concessions to you. But I want to understand. , On the battlefield you can’t get the peace you can’t get through negotiation? Absurd! I fought fiercely with your islanders many times, and I won easily every time. I changed my mindI want I’ll let your islanders surrender to me this year!"

Swindle sweated, and simply took off his cotton cap. He licked his canine teeth and got up to his feet, shouting angrily: "If you really choose war, we would rather fight. Don't forget, we are all Vikings, who is afraid of whom? !"

He was so arrogant, and instantly detonated the atmosphere of the entire parliament court. Everyone present drew their swords one after another, and as many as twenty swords flashed coldly to his neck.

On the other hand, Swind was still angry, he was not afraid.

Rurik shrugged, the messenger was really stabbed to death and things didn't end well.

"Brothers stay calm." Rurik ordered everyone to sit down, and solemnly announced: "Conquest is necessary, but...maybe this will not turn into a **** conflict."

"What do you say?" Swind asked suddenly.

"Idiot! I want subjects, not corpses. When my army landed on the island, the islanders are really willing to resist desperately? So I want to keep you and let you tell them the benefits of surrendering me. Let them see too. My army will deter non-subjects and punish those who resist."