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Chapter 913 Nobles

Ivan is a serf from the outskirts of Moscow, but his name is Ivan. The reason is very simple. The lowest serf like him is not worthy of a name. Now this name is that after he escaped from the farm, he joined one of the officers of the expedition to obtain it.

At that time, the Siberian Expedition was recruiting personnel in Moscow. Ivan, who escaped, had to join the expedition in order to find a meal. Ivan still remembers what the officer said at that time.

"Hey, do you have a last name?"

"What did you say? Master?"

"It seems that there is no. So, what's your grandfather's name?"

"Call Ivan, Master."

"Then you will have the surname Ivanov from now on. Your sister is also Ivanov, and your whole family is Ivanov. Next!"

In this way, the serf became Ivanov, abbreviated as Ivan. However, there are more than twenty people with the same name as him in Jakar-Sari. The name Ivan is too ordinary in Russia, so everyone adds modifications to the name, such as Fatty Ivan, Ivan Ivan, the damn Ivan, etc. However, our Master Ivan is lucky because he comes from the big city of Moscow. Unlike the country bumpkins from Kiev, he is Ivan from Moscow.

Now Master Ivan from Moscow is riding on a horse and watching the Tatar woman I just caught. In fact, the appearance of the Tatar woman is completely inconsistent with the aesthetics of a white man. She is not tall, has a flat nose and small eyes, but this is good for Master Ivan, who has not touched a woman for two years.

There are more than 600 Russians in Jaques now, but there are only more than 20 women, among which are mainly families brought by the officers, and these women are what Ivan dares to think about. Therefore, these Tatar women outside the city have become the only way for Russians to vent.

However, it was okay in the past few years. Those Tatars were easy to deceive, and they could deceive the city with a little salt. However, as more and more women were deceived into the city and raped, those Tatar women were no longer fooled and they hid far away when they saw tall Russians.

Ivan stayed alone in the empty house and worked as a wife for two years. Of course, I had had romantic encounters in the past two years, such as catching a little goat or a doe. Those days were Ivan's festivals.

Today Ivan and Lieutenant came out to collect furs, which is also what Ivan liked to do the most. In name, it was a acquisition, but most of it was robbed. Those Tatar men could kill all of them, but women were cheaper to these soldiers.

The Tatar tribe that had just been wiped out was too small, with few adult men, and most of them were women. Originally Ivan could have fun, but the lieutenant said he wanted to hurry up and rush, so Ivan had no choice but to leave.

However, even though he left, the lieutenant still caught a young Tatar woman. This woman was very young and seemed to be only in her teenage years, and was exactly the same age as a flower. The lieutenant said that he would give this woman to the Viscount in the city and specifically told her to save her life.

But can a young woman fall into a pack of jackals? Several other soldiers have already made up their minds.

When Ivan saw those guys with malicious eyes, he quickly said, "Don't think about it all, you guys, you guys, you have to give it to Lord Viscount. Do you want to die? You really can't hold it in and use your horse to make a fire!"

A soldier Vasily said, "Ivan, we won't kill her, we'll just play with it!"

"No, have you forgotten what the Lieutenant said?" Ivan looked at the lieutenant riding in the front and whispered: "Did you guys forget Yuri who was hanged two months ago? He just stole a copper plate from the Lieutenant and was hanged. The body was hung outside the city for half a month. You are not afraid of death, I am afraid of death!"

These Russians are all outlaws, so they must be restrained by torture. If they make a small mistake in the army, they will be hanged. Those soldiers gave up their minds after Ivan said this.

Seeing that hope was lost, Vasily had to find some topics to divert his attention: "Ivan, you are Ivan from Moscow. Let me tell me how those nobles lived!"

These Kiev's country bumpkins are of very low origins, and they have never seen any nobles except the small landlords on their own farms, so it has become a daily entertainment to hear Ivan's bragging from the big city of Russia.

Seeing that his chance came, Ivan cleared his throat and said, "Moscow is a city that never sleeps. The Kremlin is lit with bright candles, and the Tsar lives there! The Kremlin is inlaid with gold, and lights at night can blind your eyes. The Kremlin is surrounded by the landlords' manors, and they are guarding next to the Tsar's palace! Those nobles eat white bread and honey, and live a carefree life every day!"

It is true that Ivan is a Moscow, but he has been a serf on the farm outside the city all his life, and there is a chance to enter the city? However, men like to brag, especially when some people think you are bragging about the real thing, so Ivan gradually became obsessed with the fairy tales he woven.

Ivan brags behind him, but Lieutenant Mikhail is worried. Lieutenant Mikhail is a noble family. His full name is Mikhail Alexander Daniel Alexandrovich. His name is ordinary, just the name of an ordinary Russian nobleman. However, the surname Alessandrovich is well-known in Russia.

Russia is now the Romanov dynasty, but before Romanov was the world of the Duchy of Ros. At that time, the Duchy of Ros was composed of more than twenty small principalities, the strongest of which was the Duchy of Vladimir. After thirty generations of the inheritance, the Grand Duchy of Vladimir Alexander Nevsky at that time regarded Moscow as the territory of his youngest son Daniel Alessandrovich.

Since Daniel Alessandrovich, many capable rulers have emerged from generation to generation. During the nearly 300 years of the Mongol rule over Russia, the power of the Grand Duke of Moscow gradually became stronger. The Grand Duke of Moscow adopted the most powerful policy among the Russian princes and cleverly responded to the Mongolian rulers of the Golden Horde, sought support from the Orthodox Church, and weakened the power of other princes.

In the most representative struggle for the title of Vladimir, the Grand Duke of Moscow thwarted the competition between Grand Duke of Tver and Grand Duke of Ryazan, making this useful title almost monopolized by the Grand Duke of Moscow.

In 1378, Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy defeated the army of the Golden Horde, thus breaking the myth of the invincibility of the Mongols. In the era of Grand Duke Ivan III, he finally broke away from the rule of the Mongols and eliminated most of the dukes with fiefs, and basically completed the unification of the Russian state. In some documents, Ivan III was already called the Tsar. In 1547, Grand Duke Ivan IV was crowned as Tsar, and the title of Grand Duke of Moscow became history.

Lieutenant Mikhail is a descendant of the Grand Duke of Moscow, but he is not a direct descendant, but only has the bloodline of the Grand Duke of Moscow.

But because of this, Lieutenant Mikhail is very noble, but in the entire Far East, there is no noble with a higher status than him.

Why do you have to come to the Far East to suffer with such a high status? There is no way. At this time, Europe implemented the system of eldest son inheritance, that is, all the father's belongings, property, title, land, and women are all the eldest sons, and other sons have no right to inherit. In order to establish their merits and be recognized by the family, Mikhail came to the Far East to serve in the army.

Mikhail is twenty years old this year and is an authentic Slav. He is 1.8 meters tall, with light yellow hair, black eyes, and two beards. He looks like a noble man.

Although Mikhail was born into a noble family, he was not the second generation of rich people who showed off his wealth in later generations. Mikhail received a good education, equestrian and fencing when he was a child, and he was proficient in several foreign languages ​​such as Spanish, French, German and other languages.

The European nobles were very chivalrous. Mikhail came to the Far East and saw these bandits burning, killing, looting, and was very uncomfortable. However, he was just a lieutenant, just a nobleman who came here to gilt, so no one listened to his objections. Mikhail was very upset.

Mikhail saw that the sun was about to set. Although it was spring now, the night in the mountains was very cold. Without good methods of keeping cold, people could be frozen to death.

Mikhail said to the bragging Ivan behind him: "Ivan, find a place to rest in front!"

After hearing the orders of the lieutenant, Ivan woke up from his beautiful dream and quickly urged the horse to find a place in front.

The Greater Xing'anling area is densely filled with rivers, so it is easy to find a place with water. Soon Ivan came back and reported that there was a perfect camping place in front.

Soon Ivan took his men to camp in this place. Mikhail stood by the river and looked at the frozen river water in a daze. After a while, his servant came over and whispered: "Master, dinner is ready!"

Mikhail nodded and returned to his tent. The dinner was white bread and cream mushroom soup. It was enough for the servant to get these in the Greater Xing'anling in the far north. Of course, the soldiers from serfs could not eat white bread. They ate black bread with wood chips. The soup was good, and it was a thick soup stewed with large pieces of venison.

Mikhail took a few bites and shook his head, asked the servant to retreat, and then said, "Go and bring that Tatar woman!"

The servant didn't expect the master to be in this mood, but these nobles have always paid attention to bloodline, so why do you want to play with such low-level women today?

Although the attendant was full of questions, he did not dare to say anything and bowed out to prepare.

Ivan and Vasily, who were eating around the fire outside, saw the servant coming out to bring the Tatar woman in. Ivan whispered: "Vasily, have you seen it? If you hadn't listened to the master, you would have been hanged now!"

Vasily was nervous when he saw this scene and asked quickly: "Ivan, I really didn't expect that the lieutenant looked like a nobleman, so why did he still play Tatar women? Don't their nobles pay the most attention to their bloodline?"
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