A mighty fleet sailing in the wind and snow, even if the weather is very cold, the person standing at the bow of the flagship ship feels hot in his heart.

Otto is still wearing chain mail. He is already fifty years old. He looks quite old. His gray beard shows his qualifications. The appearance of him standing in the wind and snow is more admired by the younger generation.

But there is one day when people will get old. He doesn't expect to live as long as the tribe's priest Veria. He just wants to slow down his aging.

Everyone will get old. For the continuation of the entire tribe, Otto, as the leader, is very pragmatic. He needs to adopt some method to get the young people of the tribe to marry as much as possible.

The Ross tribe is no better than other southern tribes.

Although the tribe has been intermarrying with friends in the south, the position between the Ross tribe is even more remote, and few girls are willing to marry.

It is precisely because of the remoteness that they cannot gain the hearts of the women of allies and tribes through powerful means, and it is also difficult for them to obtain populations from remote places through looting to strengthen themselves.

Those Svig people who looted Novgorod?

If they just ask them to give out a portion of their wealth, they will support it even if they have complaints. Besides, a long, long time ago, the ancestors of the tribe and Novgorod had an agreement. In name, when the huge rural aggregate of Novgorod was threatened by other tribes, they could find the mighty Russ. The help of the soldiers.

If it was the female tribe who robbed them, it would unilaterally tear up the treaty. That is their bottom line, they will take out wooden sticks to fight to the end.

However, the attitude of the leaders of the past generations is that if you do this, Novgorod will instantly become a wasteland, and those Svig people will migrate to a place where the Ross tribe cannot find it.

The clever leader would not do such stupid things. The Rus tribe needs Novgorod. The two-year voyage of Sorgon will bring a lot of precious goods that will be difficult to exchange with the southern allies. Losing them, the result is disastrous.

The tribe needs long-term development. Otto, who has been the leader for many years, clearly believes that to develop south, to have allies competing for pastures or arable fields, it is purely idiotic dreams. If you try to do this, it won't be possible. Will cause violent conflict.

If you want to develop, you must use distant allies.

Otto, strictly speaking, he has no particularly lofty ambitions.

Otto hopes the tribe's people can live a stable life, can ensure that they have enough food to survive, have enough clothes to keep warm, and every tribal warrior has a wife.

In fact, everyone knows that Roseburg is really a ghost place. The easiest way to live a happy life is to leave here.

However, the relocation of the family is not permitted at this stage. It is difficult to restrain a single person's rebellion, and the traitor may only gain loneliness. Large-scale rebellion will be severely restricted. As the leader, Otto and his confidants will not be able to severely dampen the strength of the tribe.

Because of the Sweigs who handed over the tribute, they bowed their heads and took out their wealth. They were forced by swords and battle axes. Once the strength of the tribe is weakened, they will no longer surrender.

At least for now, the tribe still retains a strong strength, and there is room for manipulation to conduct larger-scale transactions with them.

The return journey of this year's Sorgon voyage is already in early winter. The snowfall has made the fleet very nervous. What makes them even more nervous is actually the freezing of the sea.

The salt content of the Baltic Sea is too low, and the latitude of the local area is too high, which makes the seawater here more susceptible to freezing. For example, the sea area facing the Roseburg Fjord lasts at least about a month each year. The ocean is completely frozen, and winter fishing is completely stopped at that time. At that time, it became an operational option to gouge the breathing hole in the ice to ambush the Baltic seal.

The Ross tribe likes seals because they are delicious and their fat is also an excellent fat for burning lamps.

So on the way back, the fleet was guarding against possible Gotland Island attackers, and it was also searching for movements on the sea or shore, and caught seals as long as the time was right.

They finally caught ten seals, which was a surprise to return to the voyage.

The returning fleet then left the Gulf of Finland smoothly in the northeasterly wind. When heading north, they had to paddle all the way.

Rose originally meant to be a paddleman, and the tribe claimed to be the best at paddlers, so they moved very quickly at sea.

But this time, their northward sailing speed has slowed down, and the reason is very pure-the number of paddlers per ship has decreased.

how so? Did they lose the sailor during the entire operation?

Do not! Because the returning fleet was stupefied by an increase of thirty people, specifically thirty young women.

This time, Otto was very convinced that he had accomplished a feat and found another way out for the tribe.

I'm fifty years old, and the only surviving son is too young. If he died of old age and Rurik had just grown up, that would be great, so that the people of the tribe would more agree with this "person who is blessed by Odin." Even without having to go through a duel match, when he grew up, Rurik used his natural appeal to let the tribe identify with.

Of course, Rurik has been recognized as being given a special fighting talent by Valhalla. If you really participate in the game, Rurik can beat everyone.

If he dies suddenly, the tribe will choose a strong man to lead the whole tribe through a duel.

To participate in the competition, one of the hard criteria is that the participants must have been married.

There is no age distinction in the competition. Married men participate in the competition. There is only one rule. Use wooden shields and wooden swords to fight until the other person renounces or is directly killed.

So Otto has another hole card, and that is Arik.

With his careful training, Arik, who is close to eighteen years old, is already a master of fighting. As he grows older, he will become stronger and stronger. Fighting within the tribe is also an external battle. Arik will eventually be like his father. Become a strong warrior.

But before that, Arik must resolve his marriage issues.

It's not just Arik. In the past few years, the tribe has rarely had new weddings. Many men who have lost their wives for various reasons also find it difficult to obtain new wives. And those women who have lost their husbands already have new husbands.

The girls in the tribe gradually grow up, and they will marry the boys in the tribe. Even so, the current situation of the tribe with more men and fewer women cannot be improved through internal adjustments, and the only way is to intermarry with foreigners.

If you want to intermarry with an allied clan in the south, ordinary young men in the clan have to pay a high price. Moreover, most of the rebellious "blade hands" are unwilling to leave their beloved Roseburg and go to the south to do homework. son in law.

There are indeed young people who will go to the south to join other tribes. If the young people of the tribe do this, the courage of the Ross tribe will not last long.

Perhaps, at this stage, only the Sweigs of Novgorod, through self-sacrifice, UU read www.uukanshu. com has come to alleviate this severe internal problem of the Ross tribe for a long time.

This time, Otto deliberately took a lot of young people from the tribe. In fact, they had a great sense of seeing the world. Every young man who was similar to Arik's age was very interested.

As a result, greater happiness awaits them!

In the end, thirty Sweig girls married into Rose. They sat on the boat, dressed in thick deerskins, and sat beside their newlyweds. Although language is a problem, the Soshinros tribe has been communicating with Novgorod over a long period of time, and these girls know some Norse language to some extent. The tribes are also some advanced people who know the Swags and the ancient Slavic language, so there is essentially no communication barrier between the two tribes.

Through learning, young girls will quickly master the Gnostic language. They also know very well that whether they are willing or not, they must identify with their husbands for the sake of Novgorod and their natal family, and they must not give birth to their husbands. Offspring.

Through some methods, Otto successfully completed a feat of political marriage, something that has never happened since the exchanges between the two ethnic groups!

The marriage between the Svig girl and the Varanga guy was first approved by the girl's natal family, and the wedding was completed in accordance with the local etiquette.

As for the Ross tribe, there is nothing to object to the marriage of young people. After all, the thirty young people from the tribes who participated in the operation came home beautifully.

They were happy, but Otto thought about it a year later.

When it comes to sailing in Sorgon in the fall of next year, maybe it is time to bring some Svig girls and their children to confess their good wishes to their relatives in their Novgorod hometown.

Yes, it must be done! This also proves to them that the Ross tribe can also be very friendly.