Is Egil really the kind of person who has to play in front of the battle, and thus delay the fighter? In fact, this is not the case. Excluding the fact that Egil himself was injured and therefore could not ride a horse, there was a reason why Egil put on such an unenterprising appearance and stopped his army at a distance of about 100 kilometers from Moscow, advancing at a tortoise speed of three to five kilometers a day.

He was threatening, or rather, he was bargaining - for the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

The reason is very simple: Ba looked at the city wall and looked into the distance, muttering to himself: "Reinforcements always come, always do not come...... How much will the Grand Duchy of Moscow pay for its life? Egil listed such a formula with his own army, human psychology, war science, and the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians throughout Moscow as variables.

The slower the reinforcements went – the more people died in Moscow – and the more panicked the Moscow royal family – the more they could give.

That's it.

Therefore, when facing the bloodstained emissaries of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, who had easily broken out of the siege, Egil did not even meet him. Directly let the knights of the guard say: "His Majesty the Emperor was seriously injured in the previous battle and needs to recuperate with peace of mind." And for the sake of it, he sent them away. No matter how sad the messengers wept and shouted, Egil remained as cold as a stone-hearted man.

Therefore, Shen Baoxu cried Qin Ting, it must be the interests of the Qin people, so he agreed to send troops to help. Otherwise, that stupid boy would cry to death in front of Qin Shi Huang and his ancestors, and the army of Qin would not move forward.

It's like it is now.

Of course, it would not be true to say that Egil did nothing. When the Rus' returned to Moscow, their eyes were swollen with tears, but they had no choice but to leave, and they wore a very harsh and pufferfish-like clause that Egil had already drawn up.

This clause, except for the very polite wording, is unusually harsh in all aspects, and some aspects that seem to be beneficial to the Grand Duchy of Moscow are in fact harboring evil intentions, or just trying to take advantage of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

The content of the treaty is as follows:

First of all, some nonsense, or what seems to be very dark humor, Egil wished the Grand Duchy of Moscow eternal and the emperor long. I wonder if Catherine II, who is now on the verge of the collapse of the country, will see this, so she will directly tear the entire document to pieces, and then let the people glue it up and read it again - then again, Egil's scientific research institute has now given birth to a great invention - modern papermaking technology. It's not the kind of trash paper that Cai Lun picks up rags and makes of rags, but tough paper made purely from wood pulp that is easy to write. Nowadays, the Norman Empire used this kind of paper for correspondence, at least official documents.

Then came the first condition put forward by Egil: in the future, the dukes of the Grand Duchy of Moscow would have to accept the canonization of the Norman Emperor. If he failed to be canonized by the Norman Emperor, such a duke title would be illegal - here, Egil does not know whether it was intentional or unintentional, and deliberately changed the title of Grand Duke to Duke. Of course, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is this canonization, and the claim of rights. If the Grand Duchy of Moscow had promised this, then the Norman Empire would have intervened in the selection of the prince of Moscow and the appointment of the Grand Duke. Then all the heirs who want to take the position of Grand Duke must put down their bodies and lick their faces and stammer the Norman Empire......

Compared with the first condition, the second condition is even more naked to expose the greed and ambition of the Norman Empire. Egir announced that in order to better protect the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Norman Empire needed an additional military expenditure. This additional military expenditure, naturally, had to be paid by the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which was required to pay a third of its revenues to the Norman Empire as military expenses and tribute from 1005 AD. to ensure that the Norman army was strong enough to protect (or eliminate) the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

In addition to this, Egil also made demands on the city of Smolensk, which he had coveted for a long time. Of course, Egil didn't say it bluntly: Please cede this territory to me. Rather, it is hoped that a free and equal tariff-free trade zone can be established here. At the same time, it was also hoped that the Norman Empire would be allowed to garrison troops in this place. The boundaries were set aside for commercial immigration in the Norman Empire, and of course, the laws and regulations within the concession all needed to be implemented in accordance with the Norman Empire. ...,

In the treaty, Egil imagined that such a special status would increase the speed of Smolensk's development. Becoming a regional trade center, the ease of transportation and the excellent laws will attract more people to settle here. In this way, the Grand Duchy of Moscow would receive a very large and significant city, and the Norman Empire would receive enough of it......

Fourthly, the Grand Duchy of Moscow must henceforth make unauthorized representations to other countries, and in diplomatic terms, it must be in line with the Norman Empire.

The first four were almost entirely favorable to the Norman Empire, while the latter seemed to be favorable to the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

The fifth was that the Norman Empire would send a group of officers to help the Grand Duchy of Moscow carry out military reform and train the army for all kinds of purposes - of course, the cost of hiring the officer corps, training the army, and buying equipment, all of which would have to be paid by the Grand Duchy of Moscow itself. And whose orders are the final trained troops...... This can be discussed later.

Sixth, the Norman Empire was to build a road between Smolensk and the city of Moscow, and between Smolensk and Minsk, the capital of the Belarusian region, with the former demanding that the Grand Duchy of Moscow pay the full amount (double the amount of the buildings that Egil had built from the system), and the latter, Egil wanted the Grand Duchy of Moscow to pay a third of the money - it would be okay if the Grand Duchy of Moscow could not scrape together the money for a while. The Norman Empire could provide loans for a fee.

In addition to this, there was an additional element of the clause, which was that the Grand Duchy of Moscow could also request the help of the Norman Empire if it wished to build roads between its own territory and other cities. Of course there is a fee. The same double as Egil's purchase of the building from the system.

Seventh, the Norman Empire will send a team of experts to help the Grand Duchy of Moscow carry out extensive political and legal reforms, if it so wishes. Help the Grand Duchy of Moscow to become a centralized imperialist state as soon as possible.

Eighth, again, if the Grand Duchy of Moscow wishes, after defeating the combined forces of the Cumans and the Centaurs, the Norman Empire can help the Grand Duchy of Moscow to rebuild the system of defenses of Moscow, including Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, in order to prevent the recurrence of the tragic situation of being breached by the enemy, of course, this is still required to be paid by the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and if there is no money, it can still apply for a repayment loan from the Norman Empire. And if the Norman Empire made a few backdoors or something in the project just in case, of course, it should have been.

Article 9: The two sides will reduce tariffs and promote trade. The tax of the other businessman shall not be increased in any form. The value of tariffs between the two sides must not exceed five percent – of course, given the current level of productivity of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and the sad output, it is conceivable that such a clause would only be unilaterally dumped by the Norman Empire on the Grand Duchy of Moscow......

The last five seem to have some benefit for the Grand Duchy of Moscow. But in fact, it is harboring evil intentions. If Catherine II agreed to such a clause, she could only cultivate a large number of Norman brains like her son Paul in her army, in the bureaucracy, and in the aristocracy. The Norman Empire dumped goods, the Norman Empire controlled the debts of the other side, the Norman Empire controlled the customs duties of the other side, and the Grand Duchy of Moscow would lose the right to defense, justice, and diplomacy, and completely become a vassal of the Norman Empire.

After the implementation of such a policy, the standard of living of the people of the Grand Duchy of Moscow may indeed rise to a certain extent. The army and defense will also be strengthened accordingly, and it will become a qualified shield in the future against the Mongol expedition to the west. But the government of the Grand Duchy of Moscow will completely become a puppet and instrument of the Norman Empire. Such a policy was implemented for decades, and without Egir's mouth, the nobles and commoners of the Grand Duchy of Moscow would automatically ignore their duke and regard Egil as the leader of the country. And the Grand Duchy of Moscow naturally became the Duchy of Moscow and the territory of the Norman Empire.

Egil was not afraid that Catherine II would not agree. I'm not afraid that she will see what she wants to do. Anyway, the facts were in front of her eyes, either to agree to Egil's conditions and become a Norman vassal, or to die. I believe that between life and freedom, this old woman will make the right choice......

Of course, Egil will never waste his efforts to fight the nomads until this guy completely, completely, and unconditionally agrees to Egil's treaty - but Egil ignores one point: just because he doesn't want to fight the nomads doesn't mean that the nomads don't want to fight him. At this moment, Egil lay leisurely in the gentle country, and heard a commotion in front of him, and when he walked out of the sedan chair, he was carried up a hillside and looked at it—and saw a beautiful white mare in front of the two armies, and shouted loudly: "Where's Egil Skadergrímsson?!

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