Some of these merchants had fled to the Ural Mountains, where they traded with the tribes in the hope of obtaining a large number of slaves, and there were unknown numbers of tribes, which were important sources of imported slaves for the Empire.

It is true that the coalition forces in the Urals are still at war with the Baltic Empire under the leadership of Goliath, but this does not affect the trade between the Hordes in the rear and the merchants of the Baltic Empire.

Golia is only the commander of the coalition, and her orders are not really enforced, not to mention that there are many tribes that have not joined the coalition she has organized, and their priority is how to survive the current crisis, because they do not know if their tribe will survive until the day of the conquest of the Baltic Empire.

In such a harsh winter, they could exchange their insignificant things with merchants for clothing, tents, and quilts to protect themselves from the cold, and charcoal was also the thing they used the most, and no one would refuse to stay in a warm place that would not be affected by the wind and snow in the cold winter.

The clothes, tents, and quilts produced by the Baltic Empire were excellent in terms of wind protection and warmth, and with these things, they were able to no longer fear the bitter cold of winter.

However, these tribes preferred to pay their bills with slaves rather than materials, and even in winters like these, there were still battles between tribes for various reasons, and the defeated had to be put to death and turned into unpalatable food.

But now, since the merchants of the Baltic Empire appeared, they found another use for slaves, they could exchange slaves from the hands of the merchants for all kinds of things they needed, and even they could exchange them for those beautiful and sharp weapons, which could be used to fight wars and get more slaves.

Of all the slaves, the most valuable are the slaves of women and children, because women, especially women of the right age, can perform some simple work and bear children as spouses without ceasing, provided that there is sufficient food and a stable environment.

And children, after entering the Baltic Empire, after years of education, they will become Baltics, become a certain part of the machine of the Baltic Empire, and produce wealth for the Empire.

As Alice said at one point, to grasp the growth of a child is to grasp the future, and a more malleable child is more worthy of the investment of the empire than an adult who is already difficult to change.

After coming to the Empire, these children who have become slaves and have no past will be divided into different colleges according to age and race, and these colleges are actually orphanages, which are dedicated to taking in children who have lost their parents and have no guardians.

These orphanage schools will be equipped with special teachers to take care of and teach these children, and every month the empire will allocate food and living materials to maintain these orphanage colleges, and the living materials will be watched by special people to ensure that these materials will be distributed to the children.

What the empire needs is a group of healthy children, because the health of children is related to their growth and whether the empire's investment can be rewarded.

The food can be said to be very good, compared to the ones they can only eat during the New Year's holidays in the tribe, and the meat pieces that taste like wood, and I don't know how many years they have been stored and dried.

The daily broth and bread are really foods that they couldn't imagine before, and the deliciousness of that kind of food, the feeling of fullness, was something they couldn't imagine with their imagination in the past, even the leaders of the tribe, they couldn't eat such deliciousness.

After experiencing the delicious food and putting on clean and warm clothes, these children are not so good, and their teachers will educate them in the same way as training warriors, so that they understand that all the things they enjoy are not free, and they must work hard to make the empire see their worth.

A stick made of wood is definitely not a good feeling to hit on the body, let alone hang upside down and starve to see other children munching on those delicious foods, which is definitely a taste that people will never want to recall.

After experiencing good things, children will not want to go back to their previous lives, they will try to follow the teacher's instructions in order to maintain the happiness they have now, and squeeze the potential in their bodies in order to maintain the status quo.

Even if there are many things that they cannot understand, they cannot understand, such as the prayer of two idols in the dining room before eating, one is a girl riding a white horse, wearing light armor and holding a spear, and the other is a girl in a black robe, sitting on a chair with a book in her hand, smiling.

Brunhilde and Alice began to nurture the beliefs of these children before they were even growing up, and as they grew up, these beliefs would gradually deepen and eventually become an integral part of their lives.

These children are very healthy children, because unhealthy children are abandoned when they are born, when they experience disease, in those tribes, there is no waste of resources, every cent of materials must be used for the survival of the tribe, there is no need for the weak to survive.

Children's education is managed by militarization, and the empire invests so many resources in these children every year, what is needed is not a group of workers who enter the factory for production, but the military elite who can be loyal to the empire and believe in Alice.

She can control the entire army through these elites, make the army loyal to her, let her ideas spread in the army, and allow her to reform the army at will, and prevent other voices from appearing in the army.

Coupled with the schools scattered throughout the Baltic Empire, the education that children received from childhood to adulthood made it easy for the empire to control people's minds and control the direction of mainstream thought.

In the past few years, the internal environment of the empire began to change, and as batches of students graduated from the academy and entered the society, entering all walks of life to work, the contradictions within the empire began to ease.

The old people began to withdraw from the front line of work, and the main force of production was replaced by young people, and as these people took a back seat, the influence of those tribal chiefs and chiefs declined year by year.

The younger generation, who had grown up in the Baltic Empire, did not approve of the ideas of the chiefs and chieftains, and they were unwilling to obey their orders anymore, and turned their heads to the people who were the cancer that grew up in the Empire.

Without the support of the masses, the power of the tribal chiefs and chieftains was shrinking day by day, and they tried many ways to move back to this situation to change the status quo that was not good for them, but under the righteous and righteous machinations of the empire, they all disappeared like ice and snow.

Compared with the contradictions that need to be faced within the United Kingdom, and compared with the contradictions within the Attila Empire that will not explode for the time being, the contradictions within the Baltic Empire have gradually been resolved with the stabilization of the situation and the passage of time.

However, despite the growing power in their hands, the tribal leaders and chieftains did not think of rebelling, on the one hand, they did not feel that the rebellion of their power could succeed, and on the other hand, they did not want to leave the empire, and after enjoying the internal conditions of the empire, they did not want to return to the old days.

Even if it would cause them to lose their power and become a relatively wealthy ordinary person, they would not want to leave the empire and go elsewhere to become the leader of a tribe.

For these people, it was in their interest that the Baltic Empire launched a war against Scandinavia, and even the indigenous people of Scandinavia, the Yaats, supported it.

If the rest of the people supported the war because the empire needed it, because they could gain a large enough profit from it, then the Yayats wanted to return to their land through this war.

Most of the Yaats in the empire grew up after the war, but they still have a special affection for the land, they still remember the screams of their fathers before they died, and they remember their mother, who had been killed but still clung to her enemies.

They will not forget what the Scandinavian Empire has done, the hatred has not disappeared, it is just continuing, they have waited too long, even the Scandinavian Empire, even Siegel is waiting to be destroyed.

But the king died, the kingdom was destroyed, and the people were still there, and the Yaats could never forgive them so easily, and it was clear that Beowulf was on the front line against the Attila Empire twice, and finally died in a foreign land, in Karelia.

But what about the other Scandinavians who repaid the hero's homeland, they were abandoned without hesitation, attacked by the Goths when they were weakened by the war, their homeland has been destroyed, and now even the last ruins are occupied by the dead.

The spirits of the ancestors wept, cursing the incompetence of their descendants, and every Yaat, when he closed his eyes, could not help imagining such a picture, and they dreamed more than once in their sleep that they had returned to their homeland

The land that looks barren because of ice and snow all the year round, and those rough cities, no matter how bad the environment is, no matter how barren the materials are, that is the hometown where they have lived for a long time.

The Baltic Empire is indeed in a war frenzy, and no one thinks that the Empire will be defeated, and many of them will not think about what will happen after the victory, because all they need to do is follow the orders of the Empire and become part of the machine that is already running.

The Empire's preparations for war began to warn the surrounding countries, although they all knew that the Empire's target was not theirs, but Scandinavia, but in the face of such a powerful neighbor, these countries could not help but feel sad.

Golia of the Ural Mountains once again organized an army to attack the camp, but that was enough time for the Baltics to build the camp into a fortified castle.

The attack was very unsatisfactory, or terrible, they were defeated before they even climbed the walls, and the tribes, who no longer wanted to start a war this season, used their unique methods to protest against Golia's orders.

And Goliath can't do anything about it, she can't give strong orders at all, and if the tribes below choose to directly disobey her orders, then it will be difficult for the coalition she has established to continue.

The castles built by the Baltic Empire here were thoroughly defensive, and many tribal leaders were reluctant to attack an enemy who would not attack, and they were not willing to continue to compromise their power here.

The coalition forces in the Ural Mountains began to show their weakness, and the barren lands further north, where the giants lived, did not care about this war, and whether the Baltic Empire won or the Scandinavians held their ground, nothing changed for them.

No matter which country eventually gains Scandinavia, it will be the enemy of these giants, because those who believe in the Aesir gods are the eternal enemies of those giants, and they are all objects to be killed.

In the Celtic Isles, as winter approached, the heat of the war began to wane, and the kings were all paying attention to what was happening in Scandinavia, and they were watching the war of the Baltic Empire.

It was true that they were not interested in what was happening outside of Celtic, but now, under the rule of the Empire in the North Sea, they found themselves next to a dragon with a huge mouth wide open.

The kings had a sense of crisis, and they felt that if the civil war continued, weakened, they would become a second Scandinavia, causing the Malice of the Baltic Empire.

In other words, they were the rulers of the Baltic Empire, and they would not give up the food that had been delivered to their mouths, cooked and seasoned and cut so easily, because no ruler would dislike the small territory of their kingdom.

Despite the sense of crisis, the Celtic kings were still maintaining trade with the Baltic Empire, and they did not trust the countries next to them, and they did not really trust the other side to start a war.

They need cheap and high-quality goods from the Baltic Empire to stabilize the turmoil caused by the perennial wars in their country, and they need the excellent weapons and equipment of the Baltic Empire to deal with wars, or to deal with wars that are likely to occur.

Whether it is a war with the surrounding countries, or a possible war with the Baltic Empire in the future, materials and weapons are indispensable.