"Ah! What does this mean? We are peaceful businessmen and we only want to sell horses." Sakhi insisted on explaining, although he felt that he might be stabbed to death and robbed of property.

The translator stammered to describe the attitude of the Duchess of Ostara: "Your motives are very complicated. You will be detained and escorted to Novgorod in the north of the lake, including men and horses. You will have the whole of Russia."

The prince will interrogate him personally."

Will he be imprisoned? No! Just house arrest.

Carlotta temporarily locked the merchants in a small warehouse and provided them with dried fish, oatmeal, and even some ale with honey.

After receiving such a meal, the smart businessmen immediately woke up from their initial fear. The food was quite salty, which was only enjoyed during New Years and holidays in Kiev's hometown. They even provided sweet wine. Obviously, the young man was clearly pregnant.

The Varyag female leader is not a villain.

Even if the horses are impounded, can they take care of them properly?

When it comes to taking care of horses, there are horses in New Ostara, but they are just some local horses. They are all ponies with a shoulder height of 130 cm or even shorter. After all, this kind of horses was brought by Slavic immigrants from Victoria.

The ponies were brought from their hometown in Svahe, and even if they immigrated to Lake Ilmen, the ponies will still be ponies.

The merchant's horse will definitely be bought by the wealthy prince Rurik.

But the horse fell into her hands, and Carlotta felt that she would suffer a big loss if she didn't pay for it in vain.

Even for native ponies, mares enter their breeding season when the ice melts.

The overall intelligence of horses is very high. The ten horses were tortured along the way and did not eat well along the way. Naturally, even the desire to reproduce was weakened by hunger. They were all obedient. Carlotta picked up the treasure, two males.

The horse was immediately fed a large amount of oats, and the weak stallion immediately became manic. It took five or six people to pull the reins to barely control it. When the stallion calmed down and knew that these humans would provide food, the manic hints subsided.

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Carlotta was so happy to see the stallion so majestic!

The warm wooden shed served as a temporary stable, and she happily signaled to her men: "Go! Bring all twelve of our mares over."

New Ostara has used local horses for spring breeding according to the original plan. The arrival of extremely high-quality southern stallions is clearly a gift from the gods. Excellent horses can breed better foals and can greatly improve local horses.

Quality. This is how various domestic animals are selectively bred. The Ostara people are already good at this, but they arrive at these conclusions based on experience, and the biological principles behind them are unknown.

Twelve mares came one after another, and now the male horse really couldn't hold it anymore. In full view of the crowd, everyone witnessed the connection between horses and horses with laughter, and everyone also talked freely, looking forward to giving birth to high-quality horses in February next year.

Although February is still a very cold period, the risk of foals being born at this time is very high. Everyone knows that the time when they can control two high-quality stallions for free is too short, and they can only wait until next year to take good care of the foals.

They were even taken to a house where people lived and protected.

Carlotta's goal was thus achieved, and all the businessmen under house arrest were released.

Today's climate has become warmer, the snow has entered a rapid melting period, and spring plowing around Lake Ilmen is about to begin.

As the female leader, Carlotta knew that she was about to become a mother and the child's father would inevitably be in Novgorod, so let the child be born next to his father.

A small Ostara fleet is put together, and the merchants will be personally brought before the supreme ruler of the Principality of Ross by the female leader. Only the supreme ruler has the right to decide on any commercial activities or other purposes.

People and horses are floating on the lake, and it feels so wonderful to be in the same boat with the real Varyag. After having real close contact with them, Sakhi and other Kiev businessmen increasingly feel that the Russians are rougher in their methods, but they are still

A good business partner, even hospitable.

During the period of house arrest, they had good food and drink, and Sacchi and his gang did not pay even a single copper coin, even though they had some Eastern Roman copper coins and Russian silver coins stuffed in their pockets.
Chapter completed!