Of course, the earnestly worded handwritten letter, coupled with the clever messenger, adds up to the effect that one plus one is greater than two. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 At least, these Slavic nobles in Kiev believed it, and William was serious.

"If that's the case, then, perhaps, maybe...... It's better to work with the Goths of House Hereford, right? After all, these people are all human, and at least in appearance, we don't have much difference. ”

Many Slavic nobles thought so in their hearts. Then they all showed excited expressions.

Rather than becoming an insignificant vassal race under the command of the Dark Elves, it would be better to cooperate with the Hereford family and become another prominent race under the Goths. Even with the help of the Hereford family, recreate the glory of the Slavic Empire in the classical era!

The emissary of the Hereford family looked at the expressions of these guys and knew that these guys had taken the bait. William's words convinced these greedy Slavians.

The messenger secretly despised in his heart, and laughed at the fact that these fellows were not capable of doing their own thing, and that the toad wanted to eat the swan meat.

Can the current situation of the Hereford family be the same as that of the Dark Elves?

As outsiders, the dark elves themselves are not very numerous. In the territory of the Ottoman Empire, the number of dark elf nobles and commoners combined, I am afraid that it will not exceed 500,000.

In this case, it is only natural that the Dark Elves need more help and more helpers. And the Peloponnesians they chose to support also had their considerations.

These people are not very combative. And not as "barbaric" as the Turks, Levantines and Berbers. Even if a certain amount of power is gained to oppose them, the possibility of overthrowing their rule is not very high.

After this foundation, it is because the Peloponnesians have a relatively high level of civilization that can help them govern the country. In this way, the relationship between the ruled peoples is balanced.

It was under this particular system that the Peloponnesians would come to prominence. will become a cornerstone of the dark elves' rule over the Ottoman Empire.

In the case of the Hereford family, there is no such problem at all.

The cornerstone of the reign of the Hereford family, that is, the number of Goths, was completely sufficient. There are tens of millions of Goths, as well as people of Gothic ancestry, who can provide the Hereford family with civil officials, military generals, soldiers, workers, peasants, scientists, artists, writers, scholars, social workers, etc., any social position that the Hereford family needs.

For the Herefords, even if the Slavites were dead, it would not bother their rule in any way.

The two are completely incomparable, and in a sense, the Slavites, as the second largest ethnic group under the rule of the Hereford family, their very existence is a threat to the rule of the Hereford family.

In a way, the Goths of the Hereford family looked at the Slavits, and the colonists of the New World felt like they looked at the Indians. A subconscious, feeling that this is not possible, wants to kill all these guys, so that they can rule this land in peace.

That's it.

And as William's chosen envoy to Kiev, he is naturally also William's confidant, and at the same time, of course, a Goth.

Seeing these Slavians daydreaming, the Goth envoy secretly sneered in his heart, and had a feeling of disdain for these fellows - these inferior races even delusionally thought of such a good thing, it was a pipe dream.

The emissary had already figured out how to inform his lord, the great, young and wise heir to the Hereford family, King William of Bolotsk, after returning to the land of the Hereford family.

He wanted to inform his lord that these Slavites were as despicable from top to bottom as they had discussed before. These people are completely unbelievable. After the end of this war, the empire should mobilize all its forces and send a million or more Goths to the Kiev region to fill the void in this area, so that the Goths will have an absolute majority in this area. In this way, you can start the next step with peace of mind.

But, of course, the messenger was only thinking about it in his heart, and on the surface the messenger still maintained a gentle smile and a pleasant expression, and talked merrily with the Slavic nobles who had basically made up their minds to betray the dark elves, or at least to be the grass on the wall, and promised all sorts of empty promises, large and small, to tell the sky about their future.

In this case, the guests and hosts are happy. The envoy also refused to be held by the Slavic nobles, and quietly left the ancient city through a secret door in the walls known to the Slavic nobles.

After leaving the city of Kiev, the envoy turned and looked at the city, the dark red brick wall, with an onion-like dome, dozens of meters high, and the splendid churches that could be seen outside the city, recalling the shops and markets opened by the Slavians in the city, the large rows of orderly streets, the houses of two-story buildings, and the bearded Slavian nobles. A strange emotion welled up in my heart.

It's all new and exotic. It is very different from Russia, which has changed a lot under the notice of the Hereford family. The spired Gothic buildings, the Hereford family's emphasis on discipline and unity. A state of workers and armies, as tight as machinery. Very different from everything he sees now.

He was somewhat aware of one thing, and that was that what was unfolding in front of him was a civilization that was very different from that of the Goths. The Slavits, although inferior to the Goths for most of history, were passive, defensive, invaded, attacked, and defeated by attacks. But these Slavians still created a civilization that can be called great.

Although, this greatness is a little worse than that of the Goths. But he was still great.

"It's a shame that maybe the next time I come here, it's all gone. He thought to himself, and then rode his horse and left the city as fast as he could. Maybe it's because the horses' hooves are a little loud. So at the head of the city, a group of Dark Elf soldiers who were patrolling heard the voice and found him.

At the same time as a shrill whistle sounded as an alarm, the dark elves had raised their smoothbore guns and aimed them at the messenger on horseback. In the roar of a volley of muskets, the choking smoke obscured the view. At the same time, the Dark Elf emissaries grumbled loudly in annoyance.

Although they didn't see it, they knew that their shot didn't hit the target. For they did not hear the shouting, nor the sound of anything falling. On the contrary, the sound of horses' hooves continued to ring.

The dark elves continued to complain, complaining that their Sudan should not massively promote this inconvenient weapon in the army. Many of the Dark Elves were nostalgic for their old equipment, the black, barbed-filled sharp plate armor, the repeating crossbows that could shoot continuously, the sharp scimitars, and the heavy halberds......

The latter two were still heavily deployed in Sultan's army. But the crossbow was no longer a convenient weapon, and was replaced by a variety of more powerful, but more inconvenient gunpowder weapons.

The traditional power of the Dark Elves is still strong. Especially the nobles, as well as the great nobles of the dark elves who are representatives of the military. These guys are accustomed to riding violent crazy war horses, fighting with repeaters with all kinds of heavy crossbows. There are quite a few complaints about almost all gunpowder weapons except artillery. It's just a pity that the protests of these guys are destined to be drowned in the power of the female Sudan......

And that's it, in the following period, the migration of the Slavians went well.

Persuasion - or coercion - is scary, but in the vast majority of cases it is coercion. The use of coercion to subjugate the Slavians of villages and towns outside the cities of Kiev is a matter of ease and ease for centaurs and steppe nomads.

The guys of the 1st Cavalry Brigade discovered a very surprising thing, and that was that these Slavians always glared at them with angry eyes and looked very tenacious. But when you see the centaurs, and these accessories that have been equipped and standardized, but still retain some of the accessories of the steppe nomads, and the weather-blown faces of the steppe nomads, they will be well-behaved and docile as sheep. At this time, with a series of cooperation agreements they had signed with the Slavic nobles, these guys could be obedient.

This made the Hereford family feel very strange. But if you think about it a little, you can understand the key to it.

The trick is that for almost a few hundred years, the Slavians have been able to fight back and forth with the divided Wendes and the Polotsks, who don't have much of an aggressive mentality. But in the face of the centaurs of Tartaglia, as well as the army of nomads, the Slavians almost always suffered.

The northern Slavites, known as Novgorod and Kholmgard, who were easily defeated by the Hereford army, were better. But this is not the case at all with the Ruthenians and the Pirm.

Thinking about it, they would be afraid of centaurs and nomads, and rightfully so.

Bullying the weak and fearing the hard is a common problem of all living beings in the world.

All in all, the Hereford family, although they did not control Kiev, with several times more troops than the enemy, controlled, and began to move to various villages and towns around the city of Kiev.

This made the dark elves in the city feel very worried.

Two elements are needed to maintain a settlement, one of which is the city's industrial and handicraft population. The second is the agricultural population in the periphery of the city, in the villages and towns. If we have to abandon the same, we would rather abandon the former than the agricultural population.

The number of Slavians in the surrounding villages and towns is about the same as that of the Slavians in the city. But its importance is not below that of the urban population.

In this way, who has the upper hand between the Hereford family and the dark elves...... It's really hard to tell.