"The patriarch said that if you are not willing to pay for your life, then he will tear you all up and throw them into the sea to feed the sea monsters......"

At that time, the priest slave stammered these words, and before the knights could swing their swords and cut off his head in anger, he had already knelt down first—or perhaps he could not stand still at the sight of the knight's murderous eyes, and cried out with his hands raised in the air:

"Don't kill me...... Don't kill me, that's what the patriarch told me, I'm just a slave! ”

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Count Don Jr. made a look, and the knight of Alcobar pushed the knight in front of him, and the knight put away his sword indignantly, and the priest slave immediately got up, and ran back with a thousand thanks, and spoke to the patriarch again.

"Lord Earl, how can you agree to the request of this group of robbers......"

There was a young knight who was not convinced, and in his opinion, even a glorious death in battle was better than a humiliating surrender, let alone a surrender to a group of barbarians, although for three hundred years, since the Viking invasions, they had regularly surrendered to the barbarians......

"Don't be reckless, endure the sea and the sky for a while, the current form is not good for us, and the situation of Wade Knight is not optimistic, we must get treatment as soon as possible."

Count Don interrupted, before King William conquered England, the greatest king of the Saxons, Alfred the Great, lost all the way, and finally defeated the Vikings, and the knight of Wade had just received such a heavy blow, although he finally fainted satisfied, but this was a serious internal injury, and the wound that had stopped bleeding was cracked again!

"But ......"

The knight still wanted to stiffen his mouth, but the old knight of Alcobar stopped him with a look, and there were other older knights, all of whom were also past the age of impulsiveness, and five hundred gold coins was not a lot of money, so why not?

Well, now they do have rich capital, thirty percent of the honey belongs to the knights, and now every one of their veins and every pore is flowing with honey, and there is no land for the money!

"However, we can't agree to them so easily, otherwise they will think that we are weak and deceitful, and now we happen to meet them, so in the future, they will rely on the swamp and sneak attack everywhere at will, and they will not be able to send troops in the swamp, and then it will be troublesome."

Count Xiao Tang pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, the other knights listened, and they all nodded in agreement, the most troublesome thing about Viking pirates is not their combat effectiveness, but their elusive kung fu, as long as they drive Viking dragon ships, they can appear anywhere there is a river.

"At least we have to ask where they landed, and then set up defenses there, and spend money to buy peace, not just a year's peace."

The knight of Alcobar immediately followed, and the knights around him could only fight by chicken, after all, it has become the most famous joke in the entire British Isles, he once paid a total of gold to three different Viking chieftains in a year, which was enough for him to feed more than 10,000 soldiers, but the peace he bought only lasted a year and a half.

And the knights of Desmond, they don't want to be a joke either.

"The patriarch asked if you had thought about it, he didn't have much patience and couldn't wait too long......"

As he spoke, the priest slave ran over again, and asked Count Xiao Tang uneasily, after all, he could see clearly that Count Xiao Tang was flying out of the sky just now, and the flying sword directly pierced the body of the Viking warrior, he didn't believe that such a murderous person would be a good breed.

"Four hundred gold coins, and the location where you landed, you go and tell the patriarch that this is our bottom line, if they don't agree, we would rather fight to the death."

Count Tang Jr. responded, and the slave trotted all the way to the patriarch and chirped, and heard the patriarch roaring loudly with his axe, while the slave lowered his head and honestly disciplined.

"The patriarch said that the location of the landing can be told to you, but this is equivalent to cutting off their future path, so he asked for five hundred gold coins."

After a long while, the slave finally came with a face of defeat and heavy steps, and he didn't know what the patriarch had told him, and now his tone was full of despair, and Count Xiao Tang guessed that it was a threat to cut off his head for less than five hundred gold coins.

But what does this little Count Don have to do with it? He was the Earl of Desmond, not the Count of Cornwall, and he only had to be responsible for his own people, so he flatly refused: "No!"

"The patriarch said, four hundred and ninety gold coins ......"

"The patriarch said ......"

"The patriarch said......"

"Patriarch ......"

The bargaining process was a long tug-of-war, and although it was only a few minutes, the knights still swore that they would rather fight the Vikings in front of them again than listen to the two of them babble over a gold coin and a gold coin - the Viking warriors on the other side thought the same way, just by looking at their increasingly impatient expressions and their axes, they knew that their patience was almost at the limit.

After all, as warriors, the more they are in the negotiation between the bosses of the two sides, the more they have to be vigilant against the other party's possible sneak attack - during the negotiation, the other party is less vigilant, raid and kidnap and then demand a large amount of ransom, this is not the first time that the Vikings have done such a thing.

But if you keep talking like this, the knights will look at each other with wide eyes, and this is really torture, and they can now even count how many blackheads there are on the faces of the Vikings on the other side!

"Okay, I agree, four hundred and fifty gold coins, in exchange for your landing location and the promise of inviolation!"

Finally, this marathon negotiation came to an end, and with the final word of the Count of Little Tang, the knights breathed a sigh of relief as if they had just been released from the execution table, and finally did not have to play any game of staring at the Vikings opposite.

This treaty, it looks like Count Xiao Tang lost a chip and lost the money, but in fact, four hundred and fifty gold coins are no different from sending Hanako, Count Xiao Tang has gained a lot this year, just from Duke Ed's private treasury has made a lot of money, and paying this price ten times is enough.

But for the Vikings, this treaty is also not a loss, four hundred and fifty gold coins, now the little Tang Earl can not look down on it, but when he first crossed over, the tax revenue of the entire Desmond was only more than a hundred gold coins a year! And the location of the landing, as long as Count Xiao Tang really checks it carefully, what is missing is just time, not to mention the promise of never violating, there are only so many warriors in the entire tribe, and seven or eight will die this time, and how many times will the entire tribe not die?

Reluctantly, it's a win-win situation.

When the treaty was signed, in order to show his sincerity, the Viking patriarch also came to the two sides of the confrontation, and this was also the first Viking that Count Xiao Tang observed up close, if not counting the one he had killed before.

The first impression is clean.

The Vikings love cleanliness very much, they bathe at least once a week, mostly on Saturdays, and the Vikings love to take hot spring baths the most, so although the Vikings are barbarians, the little Tang Count dares to guarantee that the fleas on these barbarians are definitely much less than the so-called 'civilized people'.

On second impression, the leader of the Vikings was definitely not what the slaves said he was, a short-tempered and impatient man.

How could such a man be a grumpy man, with his golden hair and dazzling hair, and his eyes, blue and green, as if they were the most beautiful amber in the forest, but at the same time deep and endless......

Ps: There are a lot of classes on Thursday, plus I missed classes last semester and recently have to retake the exam, and I'm trying to revise......