In the final analysis, it is a land issue.

The Vikings put too much pressure on them.

If Suganam doesn't go south, it's not just a matter of quality of life, it's even a matter of perish!

Land......

Oran's head hurts again.

Tyrrell waited for three days for the prisoner exchange, and he was verbally humiliated many times, but kept it in good condition, because he found that the other captives would be beaten even more inhumanely when they returned their mouths.

In the past three days, Oran had not met with the Scots, and a clan mountain infantry came by small boat from the "Scone area" in central Scotland, and they did not enter the battlefield in the southwest, but crossed directly south in simple boats, and in one day, they entered the north of Edinburgh, which is across the sea.

Like the Vikings, they were covered in tattoos and their faces were painted with paint.

It was the people of the clan who had sinned and become slaves, the "King of Cosangtan" of Scotland, who gave them orders to be relieved of all sins if they could establish merit.

Once ashore, they stormed Tyrel's dwellings and ransacked the town.

Tillel's beautiful male pet was taken away as a slave.

His lord's seat was also removed from the leather by the mountain people before leaving, and the was pulled up.

As evidence of a visit here.

Orlan sent his men back to defend them, and they retreated, followed the current, and re-entered the perimeter of the battlefield.

If you pull back and forth, these hundreds of thousands of mountain people will drag themselves to death.

Some losses must be eaten, Orlan carefully examines the situation and suppresses the dissatisfaction of Tiller's subordinates.

Negotiations still have to continue

He called Edinburgh, on the border with Scotland, where monks and manor owners had lived for many years.

I asked a lot of questions, and I found a map to analyze in detail the current problems between the enemy and us.

Scotland at this time was a challenging place.

The terrain is irregular and rugged, and the climate is changeable.

In a few months, a long, cold winter can drive people crazy.

In the northernmost highlands, it can reach tens of degrees below zero.

Without sufficient financial resources to develop, there are swamps and wetlands.

Those who are not familiar with the road can fall into the pit and drown as they walk.

The mountain people of the Northland had as much trouble as the Vikings of Northern Europe.

Located in the northern latitude, the rainfall is not small, and the agricultural production technology is backward, so that the land is very barren and the production efficiency is very low.

If you don't accumulate enough food in the summer, then when winter comes, there will be a wave of disease and famine.

In the past few months, the Scots have mobilized thousands of clans without retreating, including the idea of forcibly taking Orlan as a summer expedition and abandoning agriculture.

From geography, agriculture, population, commerce, and the ability to continue fighting, Orlan analyzed everyone and saw that this group of illiterate people was still unhappy and wanted revenge.

Orlan didn't bother to say more, and hit the nail on the head.

The land cannot be cut, and Edinburgh has been my land in Northumbria since ancient times.

Once this is opened, there will be trouble, but as a big country, you can give some benefits to this group of mountain barbarians.

"Reparations?"

There were nobles who objected, and Nanding did not agree.

What an indemnity, how can these illiterate people say such a good thing as to be so ugly.

"It's a gift!"

The gift does not cut the land, I bring the British to have its own national conditions here!

In fact, Orlan still had to be cut, but he thought of a trick, which was an example he found from the land dispute between the Ansa kings.

In a state of snatching and hurting each other, they did not trust each other, and Orlan sent an envoy to the other side, and the same was true on the other side, and the two sides held an exchange of views on a river sixty miles outside the battlefield.

After the mountain messenger accepted Oran's opinion, he showed his crossbow with great vigour.

Later, Orlan was relieved to receive that the Scots were interested in his proposal.

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It's been more than July, and he must go back to the south by August at the latest, where the bigger battlefield is.

This time it's really going to be discussed.

It's the same canyon from the last battle.

If the south of Northumbria is a civilized world, then this group of Scottish hill people is a bit semi-feudal.

The group of soldiers in front of them was poorly equipped, not all of them had heavy fur and trousers, many of them had animal skins sewn on their chests, and only some of the soldiers had iron armor and copper plates.

Their bows were simpler than those from Wales, with rough wood cuts, and strings made of sheep's intestines or cow's tendons.

The nobles in the front row are better, with neat leather, a full set of chain mail, and various colored silk robes.

In front of this group of nobles, there were soldiers holding large shields to prevent a sudden attack by Orlan's side.

When he first saw the king of Cosantan, who was ten years older than himself, Oran did not use the official title, but shouted, "My dear family."

My brother!

The other party just nodded politely.

King Kausantan was stronger than Orlan had imagined, and after his father's death, his uncle ascended to the throne, and then the clan was in turmoil, and he spent several years holding on to this unstable dynasty.

The two unsheathed their weapons and gave them to each other.

Then dismount and come to an open-air wooden platform.

This was Scotland's land sphere of influence, and in the past, this kind of place was specially used to paste the lord's command parchment paper for the mountain people to see.

Today, however, it is a place of negotiation.

Orlan and King Cosantan each had the prisoners brought with them.

Orlan's side captured five more valuable clan leaders, and on the side of King Cousantan, Tiller was the leader, as well as several barons and knights, and there were even more of them.

So King Kausantan wants more.

Orlan inquired that this man was so interested in practical interests that he had even paid a "tribute" to the Vikings in order to quell the rebellion, and asked the bandits to visit the leader of his rival clan.

However, in the future, the Vikings often used this as an excuse to force him to pay tribute, and also entered the northern land from Shetland and other northern islands at will.

King Kausantan offered to change one for the other, but Orlan disagreed, as the other side had more prisoners.

The king of Cosantan also proposed to value the price according to his status, but Oran still refused, because coach Tyrrell was arrested.

Both of them are actual stakeholders, and if they can't get along, they will continue to talk.

Throughout the summer, the mountainmen marched as far south of Edinburgh as far as the south, but were soon driven away, and then the front was pulled back and forth at Galloway, Northumbria, and Scotland.

This year, his mountain people did not have enough food to survive the winter.

The summer harvest had been delayed, and if Oran did not agree, the king of Kausantan would continue to rob, and at the same time he was ready to send men to take a boat to the county of Jerey further south to loot.

"Perhaps, we can do it another way, Your Majesty."

"Disputes over the land, since my ancestors have not reconciled with the enemy, and so it has been, but since we have all come here, I will listen to you."

Under the guidance of the priest's interpreter, the king spoke very elegantly.

"Silver, gold, cloth, necessities, open a quantity, I can make it up in installments."

It is not uncommon to pay compensation, as a type of tribute, the amount is too large in installments.

Hearing that Orlan was going to pay tribute, the clan leader on the Scottish side immediately laughed, this little white face looked hard, but he didn't expect it to be much softer than his subordinates, but this is a good thing.

"Lord Oran, are you teasing us?" King Kausantan was skeptical.

"Pay attention to the wording, this is a gift from allies, not a tribute."

"Gifts?"

"Didn't we say we were going to get married at the beginning, let's move forward."

After so many deaths on both sides, Oran's proposal came as a surprise.

For Oran, this way of marriage is too effective in the short term.

Connecting the two families and the forces behind the two families, it is true that if one of them dies in the future, it will lead to a struggle for common property, but that is something that needs to be troubled later.

He has come to understand the monarchs' practice of using the marriage of their children, or even the marriage of their subjects, as a bargaining chip in exchange for benefits.

You have been blessed by me and lived a prosperous life, so how can your life not be sacrificed for my great cause!

"Who is the bridegroom?"

"Isn't it in your hands?"

King Cosantan glanced at it, his eyes puzzled, "Are you going to tell me it's Tyrre?"

"The great King of Cousantan. How about I'll sell you half of him?"