When the Finance Minister of the Principality of Muscovy heard Hugrut's words, he quickly nodded and bowed in response.

"Don't worry, sir, the gifts prepared by me will definitely satisfy you!"

As soon as the Finance Minister finished speaking, a group of Pingting girls wearing hijabs walked out of the castle.

Although there was never a shortage of women around Hugroot, he was still secretly surprised when he saw such a scene.

"grown ups!"

"These jewels should be regarded as gifts from the small country to the Khan of the Great Tent. These beauties have also troubled me to deliver them to the Khan on my behalf."

"But the preparation was too hasty. These beauties and jewelry did not appear on the gift list. We have to trouble you to make a supplementary entry for us in the gift list..."

While the finance minister spoke, he handed over a list of tributes.

When Hugrut saw that there were only 5,000 grain trucks and only 500,000 gold coins on the list, he finally understood.

I bet this guy is bribing himself!

However, just when Hugroot felt that his character had been offended and was about to get angry, he heard the man from the side walking over with a smile.

"General, Moscow is a small country after all. To be able to take out these assets is already draining the family's wealth. Let's not force it too much."

"ah?"

Hugrut looked at Edeige in confusion, intending to ask why the other party said that, but when he saw Edeige wink at him and look in the direction indicated by the other party, he suddenly felt a shiver in his heart.

I could see people in the castle looking longingly, and from time to time someone looked down through the archery hole.

If his guess was correct, he should be a knight under Grand Duke Dmiritjevich.

Upon seeing this, Groot quickly changed his words and said with a smile.

"Since it's your turn to speak, I, the general, won't be too harsh."

"It's just that your Grand Duke didn't come out to see us off, which made me very unhappy!"

The finance minister heard this and quickly explained.

"Your Majesty the Special Envoy, our Grand Duke fell ill while collecting food and grass. He contracted a very serious cold, the kind that can be contagious..."

Hugrut snorted coldly in his heart, not believing a word of what the old man in front of him said. But he was too lazy to expose it, as long as he received taxes.

"Since the Duke is ill, let him recover well. This general will go back with the soldiers now!"

"Send me off to the general!"

Following Khugrut's order, 100,000 soldiers drove 10,000 carriages, plus hundreds of boxes of gold and silver jewelry, and happily left Moscow, heading to the next extortion area.

As for the hundreds of beauties, they were also arranged to take them back together on the carriage.

Seeing that these plague gods were finally sent away, Dmiritjevich let out a long sigh of relief.

"I want to form an alliance with Ming Dynasty!"

"I will join forces with the Ming Empire to destroy the Golden Horde!"

Demirit comforted the families of the deceased civilian husbands, settled the affairs of the country, handed over the military and political power of the kingdom to his queen and son, and then embarked on a journey to the holy land of Kangju City with a hundred knights.

Although whether it is the Islamic world or the Christian world, there is only one holy place, and that is Jerusalem.

But for Dmiritjevich now, Kangju is the holy land in his mind, a great city that can help him escape from being enslaved and oppressed by the Golden Horde, and can help him gain freedom and equality.

Hugrut left Moscow with an army of 100,000 men and marched toward Lithuania.

Along the way, everyone was trying to persuade Groot to send someone to bring some of the property back to the royal court and explain it to the Khan first.

However, no matter how hard Edi tried to persuade him, Hugroot seemed not to hear him.

It was not until he arrived near Lithuania that Hugrut ordered the troops to be stationed on the spot.

"General, we can't defeat Lithuania!"

“You have to fight even if you can’t win!”

"Otherwise, the wealth of the Principality of Muscovy alone will not be enough to support a war!"

I should have been so angry that I almost cried when I heard this.

"General, it's not about making sarcastic remarks because of your humble position. The key is what we should fight with..."

"You must know that many of the soldiers we brought, not to mention armor, even have full arrows, are not strong enough to fight!"

"There's none?"

"No!"

"Don't we have money? We can buy it with money. But if that doesn't work, we can sell the beauty for money..."

"purchase?"

Hugrut stopped explaining to Erdi. He had contact with Erdi along the way and found that this man was extremely resourceful, but sometimes too greedy and timid.

Therefore, there is no need to discuss some things with him at all, lest he would be frightened and unable to sleep.

After setting up camp, Hugrut did not send out scouts to investigate. Instead, he sent groups of envoys to Lithuania to summon merchants for trade.

He also sent someone to inform the Grand Duke of Lithuania, stating that he was only here to do business, and if he purchased enough supplies, he would lead his army to fight the Ming Empire.

The Grand Duke of Lithuania, Vytautas, originally issued a recruitment order, but after receiving Hugrut's letter, he immediately stopped recruiting soldiers and summoned all the lords under his name in his castle.

"My lords, Prince Khugrut of the Golden Horde is approaching the border with troops now, saying that he wants to trade with us and buy some urgently needed military supplies. Should we sell to them?"

Lithuania is not a centralized country. It is essentially a loose state that relies on the Kingdom of Poland and is canonized by the Kingdom of Poland.

Vytautas's nephew Shvitrigela was the first to stand up and object.

"Uncle, the Tatars are innocent or not. Who knows whether what they say is true or false? What if they sell them weapons and equipment and they turn around and attack us?"

Vytautas nodded happily after hearing this.

"Shvitrigela is right, the Tatars really have no faith at all."

"But the rise of the Ming Empire is too fast and must be curbed, otherwise the flames of war will reach us sooner or later."

"Therefore, if Prince Hugroot can really lead troops to resist the Ming Dynasty, we might as well sell them some weapons and armor. If necessary, we can even give some away."

As soon as Vytautas' words came out, all the Lithuanian nobles in the castle smiled knowingly.

Shwetrigela also understood that his uncle was planning to kill someone with a borrowed knife.

"Uncle is wise!"

"If my uncle trusts me, my nephew is willing to take people to the border to supervise the trade between merchants and Hugrut."

Vytautas shook his head when he heard this.

"No!"

"We still don't know Hugroot's true intention. What if he takes you hostage..."

"My uncle doesn't want to lose a qualified heir just because of this!"

When Shwetrigela heard this, his eyes turned red with emotion.

"My nephew listens to his uncle in everything!"

After Vytautas decided to trade with Hugrut, he began to organize merchants and supplies in the country and went to the border to do business with Hugrut.

The business was going very smoothly, and even when faced with his malicious increase in prices, Khugroot did not show any dissatisfaction.

However, just when Vytautas thought that the business was over and he could bid farewell to Hugroot, he suddenly discovered that Hugroot turned his horse and headed towards his territory!

Because Vytautas gave up the conscription order, he was unable to organize an effective resistance in a hurry. Hugrut easily broke through the border and entered his territory to burn, kill and pillage crazily.

This made Vytautas very angry, and he immediately issued a conscription order to mobilize all the men in the country to participate in the war.

However, when he finally organized an army of 300,000 people to prepare for a decisive battle with Hugrut, he didn't expect that this guy had been prepared for a long time and ran away with the loot...

When Vytautas got the news, he jumped and cursed at Hugrut, and at the same time completely blocked Hugrut and all the Tatars.

"Damn it!"

"I shouldn't have trusted these damn Tatars!"

"This is a group of demons, a group of unfaithful demons!"

While Vytautas was cleaning up the mess with tears in his eyes, Hugrut sang a song of victory all the way, drove tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, and returned happily with the looted grain, cloth, goods, women, slaves, etc.

Home.

Edeige finally stopped nagging and turned into endless praise.

"How did the general come up with such an ingenious method?"

Hugrut smiled proudly after hearing this.

"I once caught a Han who studied in the Ming Dynasty for several years, but failed to pass the exam..."

"He told me many stories, including a story about a false journey to defeat Guo..."

I should have happily praised Groot, but after the compliment he asked a question.

"General, have you ever thought about how the property looted during this expedition should be distributed?"
To be continued...