Rise of Rurik

It seems that the courage that Brudenie finally mustered was finally trampled by his own Rus army.

Otto put away his sword and said in the voice of a ruler: "You are very clever. Now I have one more request, and you must do it unconditionally."

"Is it a woman? I want to organize some girls to marry into your clan?" Brudenie asked knowingly, and his whole body began to feel hairy.

"Smart answer. That's right!" Otto pointed at his own people, "This is my great army, you should be glad that your girls can marry these strong warriors as wives, not poor peasant women to spend the rest of their lives. A life of poverty."

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

"Fifty, at least fifty." Otto did his part. "If you can't show it, I still regard it as your infidelity."

"I'll send someone to do it right away. It's your people who need to wait, because most of the residents have... already run into the woods to call back the girls and their families who were hiding. I need time."

"This is your problem, I'll give you one day." Otto didn't give the other side any respect. "If our warriors can't have wives in your manor, we will take revenge."

"but……"

Suddenly, Otto thought of one thing: "It seems that you are still indecisive? Are you worried that you will not be able to bring back the girl I need? You have three daughters, none of them married yet. Now hand them over and marry my people."

"Ah?" Brudenie felt that he had heard it wrong, and quickly asked, "Are my daughters."

Otto smiled deliberately sinisterly: "Your three daughters must marry my people, right now, I want them to complete the wedding today. You have no choice."

"Ah!" Brudenie sat on the ground at once, unable to calm down for a long time.

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

Vadim threw himself on his father. He raised his head and looked at Otto with wide eyes. His deep eyes were filled with grief and anger at the barbaric behavior of the Rus people.

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

Otto's sword still pointed at Brudenie, who was lying on his back: "Hand over your daughter,

Marry my man, or I'll attack now. "

It appears that there is no more room for bargaining now.

Brudenie really couldn't figure out what happened to the Rus people this year. How could the wealth they want in the past years be so outrageous this year?

For the manor, he could only do as he did.

"Okay...I'll do it right away." Brudenie gasped and stood up, ordering his men who were about to scare the urine: "You...you go and call my daughters out, go quickly."

After receiving the order, Jiading dropped the short spear in his hand and hurried back to the wooden door.

After a while, Brudenie's family walked out of the house, including his elderly wife, three young daughters, and the cowardly eldest son.

Facing the vast army of Rus, they hugged each other subconsciously, praying in their hearts that someone could save the crisis.

Just from the point of view of preference, Otto did not think how beautiful Brudeni's three daughters were. Looking at what their father did, Otto was really not interested in them.

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

Although their appearance could not make Otto happy, it made other young Ross men yearn to take possession of them, which was of course no problem.

The three sisters quickly understood everything. Completely different from Lilia in White Tree Manor, the three of them learned of their future destiny, and tears flowed in an instant.

They hugged each other tightly, and Brudenie said helplessly, "Go, for the safety of our manor."

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

"You go, or we will all die!" Sad Brudenie hooked his head.

The three sisters remained indifferent, their heads resting against each other, their clothes wet with tears.

In the face of a bitter scene, Otto is indifferent, and even more and more impatient.

He put the sword on the ground, stretched out his right hand slightly, and said to his subordinates, "Who of you likes taking these three women as wives? Now go get them yourself."

Pity Xiangxiyu? Do not.

When young Rus see young girls crying, they will indeed develop a desire to protect, but their crying shows their beauty, which attracts these young people of their age to have a strong possessiveness.

Several young Russ put the axes back on their belts, rolled up their sleeves and walked over aggressively.

They forcibly separated the three sisters and violently broke off the hands they were holding each other tightly. But they are too weak, where are the opponents of a strong man with thick arms and legs who can keep paddling during the day?

Three young Rus got their own beauties. From now on, they have got their own wives. They are completely different from the girls crying and terrified. The only thing on the faces of the Rus is a happy smile.

Facing the three elder sisters who were snatched by these savages, Vadim, who was sitting on the ground, looked at the stunned elder brother Kapok, and he was a coward. Vadim longed for revenge, longed to pierce the neck of the Rus leader with his sword, and cut off the heads of all Russ with unparalleled power.

Fantasy is fantasy after all.

Recognize the reality!

He looked at the group of Ross people with grief and anger, and grinned to signal his anger.

What kind of turbulence can a child make? This stinky boy is not a miracle like his son Rurik. Vadim's eyes clearly said "I will definitely take revenge", but Otto didn't care about it. A strong man who beats a child will be ridiculed by his fellow clan. Otto was too lazy to do so, and his men were too lazy to leave the team and kick the kid a few more times.

Overall, Otto is satisfied with the current situation.

"Brudene, you are finally getting smart now." Otto said arrogantly.

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

"Slaves? No." Otto smiled. "They are my subordinates' wives. If they are just slaves, we will destroy your manor, kill all your rebels, and the remaining children and women will become slaves. . We won't do it, and I won't explain anything to you. 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 goes down tomorrow, I want you to pile up all the tributes on the beach, and those women. Now you go and gather those fleeing people and make them come back to put out the fire, Gather the tribute"

"Yes." Brudnie stood submissively, daring to wipe the dirt on his body with his head hooked.

"This is your last order, and we'll leave now. You fools, know what to do."

After saying that, Otto turned around and swaggered to the start. Many of his subordinates, with their respective captures, happily followed the leader and walked towards his longship.

Even Kawhi got a sack of wheat and two large balls of sackcloth in this extra loot. Linen is a good thing to bring home and have my mother tailor it into thick gloves, so that it can protect her hands well when ironing.

Because of any ironwork, the wear on gloves is severe, and blacksmiths often need gloves mixed with leather and linen.

He couldn't help fantasizing that perhaps his new wife had a better craftsmanship.

The longboats of the Rus were being pushed into the Volkhov River, and what they did in the morning at Pine Needle Manor naturally caused panic among a large number of small estates along the lake.

They have already learned the news of the arrival of the Rus people. Considering their past experience, as long as the tribute is prepared as usual, the Rus people will just take it and leave.

In winter, there are legends everywhere. For example, they lived in the manor in the birch forest in the northernmost part of the Great Lake. They provided both wheat and a group of women, but they were actually rewarded by a batch of amber from the Rus.

The loggers at Whitetree Manor claimed that the woman was married to a Russ.

But the most powerful Pine Needle Manor denied this statement, claiming that the Rus and the Varyag robbers in the past are exactly the same, just the Rus people pretending to be a superficial civilization, the so-called wife is still hunting slaves.

In the midst of apprehension, a large number of small manors were afraid of the arrival of the Rus.

This time I saw the fire burning at Pine Needle Manor and a large number of canoes fleeing on the lake. Immediately fear spread among the fishermen at Lake Ilmen who were fishing on the lake.

Still in the mood for fishing? Pooh! Escape quickly.

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

Some estates believe that the Rus not only came, or that for some reason they eradicated the Pine Needle estate, they could not help worrying about their situation.

In most manors, they have prepared two tributes.

There is a house on the ground, waiting for the Rus to pick it up. The other is hidden in the cellar, and when the Russ leave, it will be taken out and given to the mighty Pine Needle Manor.

Some estates are more than happy to see the damnable Pine Needle Manor set on fire. I have always been very respectful to the Rus people, and I have never paid less tribute, and now I will not be hacked and killed by the Rus people.

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

A large number of dragon-head longships towed transport ships appeared on the vast Lake Ilmen.

Otto immediately ordered the troops to split in two, and his men began to march continuously along the lake shoreline on both sides of the mouth of the river.

Apart from the largest and best-located Pine Needle Manor, there are still as many as ten larger manors living by the lake.

In addition, 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 jungle along the small waterway to scavenge the tributes of the diaspora. Those people are still too small to accumulate much wealth at all.

The people who lived along the lake were quite different, and they were indeed wealthier.

Of course, wealth is also relative. They can produce more food, but they have no ability to produce salt at all. 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 for huge profits by boiling salt with large-scale seawater.

In fact, Otto can really sell a lot of salt, even if it is a low-quality sea salt mixed with a lot of bitter magnesium chloride, he can still make huge profits from Novgorod, and more people support it. After all, agriculture can produce its own wheat, and farmers cannot but eat salt.

Today, the inhabitants of Novgorod either earn trace amounts of salt from grain and game, or import salt from Smolensk at great cost. The inhabitants of Smolensk also did not produce their own salt. They also went far south to buy salt from the Eastern Romans. The end of the long salt transportation route reaches as far as Novgorod. So far, the cheap sea salt is enough for a Novgorod farmer to pay a quarter of the annual labor income in exchange for enough salt for the family to use for a year. .

Otto took his team and quickly approached a lakeside manor. After contacting the head of the manor, he had an idea and immediately pointed to the boundary 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, the Pine Needle Manor will still be I'll ask you for another sum. Now, they don't dare. But your tribute will still be doubled."

In response to this extortion, the wise head of the manor did not dare to object rashly, but immediately put forward conditions.

Otto is a smart guy, and since the other party wants to negotiate, okay, let's talk.

He released a compromise plan: "I'll give you another plan. Hand over your manor is a young unmarried girl, marry me. My boy will give the girl's family at least a few silver coins, and even the rough amber stone, you just need to do so. Now, there is no such thing as double tribute."

The carrot is given, and the next is still a mallet. Otto still pointed to the thick smoke: "Pine Needle Manor thinks he is your master! I am your master. I taught them a lesson for you. Also because Pine Needle Manor is firmly opposed to my plan, their house has been set on fire. .You have to choose one of the two options, if you still object, I can only kill."

The two options can only be the lesser of the two evils. The manor had no choice but to choose the latter, and quickly selected ten girls.

Otto didn't hesitate, the young man under his command also walked out of the team, led the girl with a dazed expression that he liked, and then put a stack of silver coins into their parents' hands, facing the complicated expressions of the girl's parents. , 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 comforted the family who suddenly lost their daughter. The silver coins in their hands at least solved the family's one-year ration problem.

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

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

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

This is already a very scary number! After all, Otto's trip originally only wanted to completely marry the 100 young people under his command. For the other young boys in the team, the main purpose of this trip is to gain insight, so as to understand the vastness of the world.

To get married, you must have at least a small amount of silver, or a large bag of copper. There were also a group of fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys who had just grown beards. How could they have such financial resources?

Things have really changed.

After the team reconciled, Otto clearly realized that he was facing such a good thing.

Young boys who can help the tribe are getting married, and the prestige of him and his family must be higher than ever.

This afternoon, eighty girls boarded the boat of the Rus.

In addition, White Tree Manor has already provided 30 people, and Pine Needle Manor must also provide 50 people. All in all, there must be 160 Novgorod girls on this trip to become mothers of the next generation of Rus.

Otto would not care if most of the young men of the tribe had a Novgorod wife.

He felt that life was still going on as normal.

But I didn't expect that when the Rus tribe is filled with a large number of Novgorods, are they still the same as usual?

Will the new generation of Rus still just think of themselves as Rus?

Otto, he still hadn't thought so far.