Compared with Novgorod, the situation of Novgorod is easier to accommodate a huge horse team and even serve as a temporary residence for commodity horses.

Since his Rurik brothers are still in the capital, Kagan is not busy crossing the frozen Lake Ilmen.

Merchants from the south brought opportunities to this closed area, and the market was established! But it's not just regular cheese, butter, honey, wool felt that is traded.

A special store was built with great fanfare by the new Duchess of Ostara, Carlota. She made the "store opening" a big deal. As for the goods she asked for, it was people...

Those Smolensk women and La Mickey women who almost froze to death legally became Carlota's private property after that reception banquet.

She is a female class, or a female general, and she doesn't need too many maids. In this way, these female slaves were packaged and purchased from the Pecheneg people, and of course they couldn't be rotten in their own hands.

She paid the sellers ready-made silver coins and food, and signed an agreement to supply the food and lodging consumption of personnel, mounts, and commodity horses.

This is less of a problem for the Ostara tribe than the consumption of materials, because the successful immigration and development of the tribe has solved a long-term shortcoming in the Lake Ilmen area - animal husbandry. Farming is not the strength of the Ostara immigrants, but animal husbandry. Now Carlota has received the task of her husband Rurik to open up new pastures in the southern part of the Great Lakes and domesticate cattle, sheep and horses.

Since cows began to produce milk, sheep were the supply of wool, and dairy and wool products soon began to be shipped to Novgorod, the center of craftsmanship.

The Ostarans sell cheese and butter and barter for wheat. They send rough-processed skim wool, fresh cowhide and sheepskin to state-run garment factory directors like Verdegen in exchange for real silver coins.

Carlotta accumulated wealth in this peaceful way, and also used his personal advantages to ask for a sum of money as a monarch woman, so-called for consolidation and development.

Raja Rus never prohibited the slave trade in the form of a law, but there is a fact that the whole people tacitly agree that the purchased foreign population will become the buyer's family members. This has nothing to do with benevolence or not, it is purely a legacy of the tribal era.

Carlotta then personally inspected the women in the stables, and like a horse, they opened their mouths one after another, and determined each other's age by looking at their teeth.

They were all terrified, they didn't know where they were going, and the more they were, the more frightened they were.

Carlotta checked it out for herself, divided their ages into three, six, nine, and finally even checked their chastity herself.

Even if Carlotta was a woman, the followers who accompanied him were all women. After all this tossing, many female slaves suffered great insults, but unfortunately their will to resist had already been disintegrated on that **** night, and they could only hide their faces and weep.

I have to say, Carlotta is a smart woman.

She summoned her own maid: "You take all the ten young men away, and untangle all the shackles. Arrange for a bath to change your heart, and then send them to a normal room. After that, let them do nothing, a group of emaciated people. The cubs have to feed me fat."

This move made one of the waitresses puzzled: "My lord, is it too kind to be treated like this? Do you plan to incorporate them into our tribe?"

"Why do you say that? Isn't it supposed to make up all these women?"

"Why do you need to treat those ten women specially?"

It seemed that he should answer the questions for his subordinates, and Carlota sighed suddenly: "You don't need to know too much, it's okay for me to say it now. Originally, the king had an appointment with the prairie people, and these women should be dealt with by the king in principle. I am now I was doing it for the king, and I risked being punished. I am his woman, and I used to be his sister. Of course he would not do anything to me. I am still worried that he will be dissatisfied, and it is not special to leave ten pure I sent the women over and raised them beautifully, and I will end up here."

To send a show girl to King Rurik? The waitresses who had estimated this situation blushed.

A daring person suddenly had the courage to complain to his master: "The king has too many wives and concubines. You...why do this."

"Stupid!" Carlotta slammed his face down, "These ten people are handed over to the king, presumably as a reward to his subordinates. Don't ask any more questions, and do things first."

"As ordered!"

When his man becomes king and escalates, his relationship with him becomes delicate. Carlotta had to think about whether he was more of the king's wife and concubine, or more of a frontier nobleman.

There are more and more children in Rurik, and Prince Osborneslav is about to learn to walk and talk. How about his own son Karl?

At the end of her age, she wants to create a good environment for her son and ensure a prominent position among many noble brothers, which is a good thing for herself and the people of Ostara.

The women who were left watched eagerly as the young women were unshackled and led away, as if they were free. At this moment, Carlota, who had been babbling in Norse for a long time, suddenly shouted Slavic in a clear voice.

"I heard you are all Slavs from the South! Coincidentally! There are Slavs from the North all over here. And us! Varyags with blond hair! A lot of strong men will buy you, and you will be their wives , bear children to them. From now on your life will be protected by noble people, and your life will return to stability."

She didn't say any more, no matter whether these women understood it or not, they will all understand it in the future.

The news spread to eight townships, and a special market was set up in the city of Ostara, and any man who could put out a thousand pounds of wheat could come to buy a wife and concubine.

Some Slav boyar nobles from nearby farms came to join in the fun, trying to buy back a slave. But most of the female slaves were first bought by the Ostarans and Granites, and the prices were quite low.

They were really pushed onto the wooden platform like commodities, and stood in several rows anxiously, most of which were digested by Carlota's own clansmen.

Only a dozen or so women were obviously older, so they sold them to nearby Slavic aristocrats and were delighted with nearly 20,000 pounds of oats.

The market of trading people disappeared as the goods were sold out, and the man who had won his wife and concubine immediately "treated" his new woman well on the first night.

They made a loud noise, and many women were heard crying at night.

Carlotta was regarded as a boring noise. The Pechenegs and Kievs who lived in the guest house were staying in the mansion and secretly having fun, especially Kagan and Sakyi. This is already the second successful looting. Next year, they will go north together again. When doing business, you must be more prepared to rob a Smolensk village and rob people and property.

However, things took a very unexpected turn in a magical place.

The strong girl who dared to resist has died under the sword of Pecheneg's noblewoman Bejahir, and the other female slaves were frightened, but it did not mean that they really lost their will to resist.

That night, although some women couldn't resist the strong man's intentions, they cursed with a stinky mouth, and this was the only way to resist.

It is said that the small group of young boys in Ostara who escaped for their lives in those days have now become strong young men ten years later. The various Vikings who later joined New Ostara were as robust. They bought these women, and today they are acting on the orders of the Duchess, and they must show the strength of men.

This Ostara is not the old Ostara people more than ten years ago, at least the ruler is still the noble lineage of the old family. They have all changed a lot, for example, because of frequent contact with the Ilmen Slavs, everyone has learned some Slavic languages.

The new wife I bought hopelessly scolded me, which could only arouse my stronger desire to conquer, but things became wonderful.

Early the next morning, a man with a lot of blood gouged out of his face rushed straight to the Duchess' mansion, intending to report important information.

Carlotta is in a good mood today, especially since Hanukkah is coming, the Ostara and Gran are celebrating the first time together, and the festival will be more grand, she is looking forward to it.

What else can the men under my command report?

When she saw the strange faces of her subordinates, she covered her stomach and laughed with just one glance. She laughed enough and asked, "Didn't you buy a new woman? You are obviously very strong, but you can't surrender?"

"It's not like that, my lord. It's just that she says she's from Smolensk, and she curses us with vicious curses. As for her hurting my face with her fingernails, it doesn't matter."

"Curse? Could it be that he prayed that some **** would drop thunder and kill us? Ridiculous, we are the ones blessed by the gods." Carlotta's expression became serious.

"That's not it."

"what is that?"

"The woman said that a great aristocrat who opposed Rus escaped from us, became a son-in-law in their Smolensk or something, had an army at hand, and inspired the local nobles..."

"Is it possible to raise troops to attack us?" Carlotta interrupted his subordinates indifferently, his face full of contempt.

The subordinates did not dare to speak, and simply did not say a word.

"That's all. Retire. It seems that the woman you bought is a stubborn bull that needs to be tamed by you."

"Yes, I don't dare to embarrass us Ostarans."

Carlotta thought it was an anecdote, and the more he thought about it, the more he laughed, ignoring the information reported by his subordinates.

But in the following days, more than a dozen men reported that the new wives they bought had made the same verbal curse, with similar content, all pointing out the maliciousness of the Smolensk people. What's more, even the Slavic farm nobility who was good at planting hemp poles also sent messengers to tell Carlota something. The so-called information about the missing rebel Vadim was learned from the slave girl's mouth.

One or two came to report, and Carlotta could no longer sit still.

She couldn't let these worrying things dilute the joy of the festival. After many days, she suddenly wanted to interrogate the ten young women who were specially treated.

Ten women or girls, they put on new clothes, new boots, and their panic dissipated a lot because they had been nourished with food and drink. But seeing this woman Carlotta, a sense of fear from the bone marrow came out again.

They stood in a ball and bowed their heads timidly.

Carlotta shouted: "Women! Look at me!"

They were forced to raise their heads in fear.

She continued: "If you have any of you from Smolensk, come forward! Come on, don't force me to do anything."

Forced by the power, six women walked out timidly. They were frightened, and in order to protect themselves, they obeyed Carlota's orders and explained what they knew.

At the same time, Carlotta's waitress was on the side, recording their speeches with pen and paper.

The so-called if Smolensk really has absolute hatred for Ross, this hatred must be on a large scale. Unexpectedly, these young women are indifferent to the attitude of the Rus and other Varyags in the north, as well as the Ilmenslavs, they can't talk about hatred, let alone love.

They are not young village girls who know nothing, but reveal some of the same information.

Even the ignorant and sprouting young village girl knows this matter, it is obviously a fact - the leader of the rebels, Vadim, is not dead!

In that war against rebellion, the Ostarans also took part in the war with only a few troops, and Carlota was a witness.

Since Vadim has a high probability of going to the south to become a noble of Smolensk, what is this person doing now? Following this line of thought, she immediately started the interrogation of more women, and the answer became more and more clear.

It is necessary to ask not only them, but also what the Pechenegs and Kievs know.

When the news from all sides is pieced together, the situation such as the fog state becomes more and more clear.

She can make an assertion that the leader of the rebellion, Vadim, did not give up the rebellion even if he lost all his clansmen. Smolensk has a large population, and the local nobles are mostly hostile to Ross in the north. What those women said was definitely not a bluff, but that the people of Smolensk really had the intention of going north and attacking in a big way.

She shuddered, thinking that Rurik's order to build a fortress and garrison a cavalry force had anticipated this situation.

As a woman Rurik had been close to, Carlota knew his attitude towards Smolensk. The so-called not attacking them now was just premature, and Ross would eventually conquer the Slavs in the south.

The Smolensk army was unlikely to defeat Rus, but once they attacked, Novostara was the first place to fight.

The possibility of a massive attack by the Southern Slavs has always existed, but in recent years, people have forgotten about it, so that Carlota recently encountered the Pecheneg caravan who was seriously late, and took this opportunity to make a surprise attack. A very unremarkable exercise in which the army is assembled and confronted.

Now she can no longer ignore this threat, and she has to deliver the compiled news to Rurik in person!

On the winter solstice, the people of Ostargran come together to celebrate Hanukkah, the biggest festival of the year for Pecheneg and Kiev.

It's a joy to have a drink together and dance around a small fire tower together.

Carlotta, who is worried about something in her heart, has a really happy attitude towards the festival on the surface.

She finished summarizing the document. The so-called two or three women explained the same news, and it was assumed that the news was likely to be true. She came to the conclusion that the Smolensk people were preparing for the northern expedition, and the rebellious Vadim became the son-in-law of the Smolensk leader and held an army, and the Smolensk people regarded the previous terrorist attacks as As the active attack of the Rus (actually by the Pecheneg caravan), the main nobles supported the adoption of toughness against the Rus and the Ilmenslavs, and also called for the migration of villages to avoid risks.

A report was organized by Carlotta herself. Although her handwriting is not as good as that of her sister Ella Juanxiu, the entire report is written in Latin, which still shows her high cultural literacy~www.mtlnovel.com~stay All of Rick's wives and concubines have made up for Latin, and high-ranking female nobles like Carlota have to study it even more. After all, Norse, Slavic, and Latin are all Indo-European languages. The language structure is logically figured out. If you look carefully, some words also have something in common. It is said that only nobles can read and write in Latin, and as a true noble, Carlota must master it.

She made a plan for herself. This time, instead of bringing her troops to Novgorod to assemble, she also submitted the report on Smolensk to Rurik in person.

So, after the festive season, a huge team of horses and sleds began to assemble.

The Pecheneg-Kiev Armed Merchant Corps, leading their own commodity horses and special supplies to be sold to Rurik himself, was escorted by the Russ cavalry and headed north along the frozen lake.

Carlota had a hunch that King Rurik had arrived in Novgorod, and the information he carried this time would surely shock his man deeply, and even have a major impact on the next decision-making.

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