Rise of Rurik

If tobacco existed in this day and age, Otto wouldn't mind taking one out, sitting on some bare tree stump, sitting down and smoking one.

Perhaps, the only advantage of tobacco is to calm the mind and relieve some physical fatigue.

Otto has heard that some people will look for some red mushrooms in the woods, and those who eat them will see some incredible scenes, and even can talk to God,

He didn't try this, because he also heard that someone ate red mushrooms. God didn't know if he saw it. Anyway, the poor guy vomited foam at the mouth and died in convulsions. Perhaps the soul of that person will soar to Valhalla and see the deity of God.

Otto just wanted to rest, sitting on a log that had been brought in to be broken down, longing for a magnificent glass full of frothy craft ale beside him. Have a drink and enjoy it.

Otto accompanied his son this morning and has walked half a circle in the entire tribe!

After all, it has been three months, and the tribe has indeed undergone tremendous changes. Not only were there a group of foreign merchants, carrying and holding their goods, shouting and selling their sackcloth and wine, or other useful things, on the tortuous paths of the tribe. Obviously, these travel merchants can always sell their goods quickly, and at the same time travel merchants do not have to worry about their own safety.

Because Otto and the elders of the tribe, as well as the high priest Vilia, made a very basic law many years ago.

So-called thieves have their belongings confiscated and then permanently evicted. Robbers will be executed in public after their property is confiscated, and their families will be slaves.

Even in the sea, fishermen often turn into pirates, and openly black and white between their peers occurs. In the Ross tribe, residents supervise each other, and once a crime is discovered, the result is severe.

Basic laws govern both the tribesmen and the inhabitants, and for so many years, crime within Roseburg has been rare. Mishandling the punishment for offenders is big news.

The law and order in Roseburg is very good, and the first reason for the excellent law and order comes from the simple mutual supervision of the settlers. The second reason is that the population of Roseburg is only 7,000 to 8,000 at most. To manage such a small number of people, it is not necessary to invent occupations such as "capture head" and "capture fast", and more advanced ones are even less necessary.

The basic laws are binding on the natives and those allied merchants who belong to the same alliance.

As for captured slaves? forget it.

Those who were taken captives were involved in the daily labors.

Those captured women, Otto has nothing to do with these people, they can be described as the "tools" of the possessor. Even so, if they gave birth to the child of the possessor, it would be completely different!

The Rus people cherish the boys of every tribe, even if their mother is a slave, it does not affect their right to grow into warriors who can fight for the Rus tribe.

Many others have started building new homes. One thing Otto noticed was that the so-called new houses were built next to their own positions, with a large number of wooden piles buried and on which superstructures were built.

Until I saw Rurik's masterpiece,

Otto suddenly realized.

Obviously, some clansmen must have started to build Novgorod-style wooden houses because of the influence of the Novgorod women who married.

Are they doing it right? Whether it is correct, it is indeed understandable.

Because of Otto, during his long stay in Novgorod, he lived in a comfortable wooden house provided by the manor of White Tree Manor, especially sleeping on a wooden bed, Otto felt quite comfortable.

Those children were all brought out by Parla, each with their little hands behind their backs, facing their master shyly.

Rurik did a little check and determined that the ten people were correct.

He still wanted to ask, "Parla, are everyone here?"

"Yes, as you can see."

"Really? Did they line up by their own names?"

"This... of course not." Parla's face was quite regretful. No one, facing ten children, could completely distinguish each other in just one day. Of course Parla can finally distinguish their names based on their appearance, and that will take a little time!

It's good now, because of Parla's actions, even if Rurik saw them from a little distance, it was as if they were 10 twins!

It turned out that the homework faced them who were dirty. Parla started to boil a lot of hot water, and then washed their bodies one by one.

Like a mother bathing a child, Parla rubbed each child with soap, and then with a very rough burlap, wiped off the dirt that had accumulated on their bodies for an unknown period of time.

Especially their hair! They fell into Parla's hands, but were forcibly washed their hair, causing the child to scream for a while.

Many children have eggs of parasites hidden in their hair, as well as lice and fleas.

Since enjoying the richness of soap, the old annoying bugs have been eliminated, and Parla has noticed this magic power of soap months ago. She rubbed the children's hair frantically. Due to long-term malnutrition, many children lost a lot of hair during this process.

The only good thing is that many parasites were washed away, and they also felt the extreme refreshing feeling of the scalp after the event, that kind of itchy feeling in the head, actually disappeared!

Along with their clothes, Parla washed them, and finally dried them quickly by the fire.

It can be said that when Rurik saw his ten little maids, their clothes looked shabby and dirty, but they were actually washed with soap. The muddy mud on their bodies was also gone, and their hair was not only washed, but also trimmed by Parla with a sharp knife.

The children's long hair was trimmed to a uniform length. After being washed by Haosheng, although the hair quality was not very good, the crooked hair was smoother in the end. Parla also applied a little oil to their hair and tied it into a small braid at the back of their heads.

Without him, because Parla knew that Rurik's head maid, Rumia, had a braid in the back of her head. The most common maids naturally want to be closer to their "eldest sister" in image.

Is it really?

But the biggest disadvantage of these little maids is that they haven't received the great favor from their masters, and they haven't received the gratifying huge silver ornaments like Rumia to adorn themselves.

They look so similar!

In addition to the uniform dress and hairstyle, although their faces are fair, they all show sub-health conditions. After all, their faces are still different.

Rurik, he was still used to some militarized management elements, especially his own servants.

With his left hand, he stroked the sackcloth bag full of silver nameplates, calling out the names given to them one by one.

First, let's start with Anna...

The girls were not afraid of their masters in the slightest, or in other words, when they faced Rurik, they always had the feeling of facing their elder brother. Even this "elder brother" is better than the elder brother of the hometown family.

They are generally only seven years old! Even though they have already begun to face the burden of family production and become a labor force. Who is kind to oneself is really clear.

Yesterday, my stomach was full of fish, and everyone ate some more this morning.

Although they didn't understand the words of the woman named Parla, they knew that in a while, everyone should eat again!

This is a happiness that cannot be enjoyed in my hometown.

The ten girls stood up obediently and did not dare to act rashly without the master's order.

Their eyes were full of anticipation, and they didn't know what else the master would do.

"Anna, come to me!" Rurik ordered in Slavic.

I saw the little girl jumping up and down, and the pigtails on the back of her head swayed constantly.

"Master?" The girl opened her dark blue eyes. Perhaps at this time, she was more willing to call Rurik "brother".

"Did you have a good time yesterday?" Rurik asked politely.

"Very satisfied, Master!"

"Have you eaten anything in the morning?"

"ate!"

During the question and answer, Rurik completely figured out their new life based on this girl. Perhaps for his father or other clansmen, he has too much favor based on servants. Is it really so? Rurik felt that he was not called "favor" at all, but a person with power, who should give the most basic public affairs to the tribe.

Especially the kids! Even if the current living conditions of the Ross tribe can only be said to be better than a few years ago, in the final analysis it is still relatively bad.

Economic hardships can be deeply improved by striving to increase productivity. If the tribe wants to be strong, all the children are the key!

When a young man is strong, a strong country is not a joke.

They are still yellow-faced and thin, with thinning hair. Just like this for a while without worrying about eating and drinking, Rurik was sure that they would turn red and even gain weight. With the physical fitness up, I don't have to worry too much that the servants will get sick and die.

Rurik unhurriedly took out the silver nameplates. In Anna's excitement, Rurik took out the nameplate with the letter "a" inlaid with gold, and hung it on Anna's head with his own hands.

The girl hooked her head, trembling all over.

"Are you... excited?"

"Master... this is, silver?"

"And gold," Rurik added. "The pattern on it represents your name. You are my servant, and you will become noble by following me."

noble? Ana is very vague about this concept.

"Now, face your sister and show your nameplate," Rurik ordered.

Anna turned around happily and swayed freely in the envious eyes of her sisters.

Anna is just the beginning.

Soon Rurik gave all the girls nameplates with the letters corresponding to their names.

The children danced and danced together, they understood the preciousness of silver and gold, and this gift came from the master.

Let them be noisy for a while.

Rurik leaned in front of Palla, who looked relieved: "Now, you can probably distinguish their names."

"Yes. I understand the ordering of those Roman letters. But you... give the nameplate made of silver."

"It doesn't matter." Rurik felt that Rumia might be jealous because of his behavior, so he pulled her to his side: "Look, this is my head maid, and her nameplate is the biggest and most beautiful. Don't The maids can only condescend to her. Parla, you know their names, work later."

"Soap?" Parla laughed, "I'll finish it well."

"Okay, I'll give you the money as well. But you also understand my attitude. The money will be given to you, throw it away from your daily life, and you have no right to spend it indiscriminately."

Parla nodded deeply. She had already heard that the once arrogant and domineering Bona was directly beheaded by the returning chief. She didn't dare to ask, she didn't dare to say, Giyurik's words basically did the job.

Rurik returned to his father's side, and the chatter of a group of girls in the soap workshop behind the father and son was even more noisy.

Otto, who witnessed everything, couldn't hold back: "Children, they are your servants, not your sisters. You treat them as if you were sisters."

Rurik was startled: "What? Dad, do you think I'm doing something wrong?"

"No! If those were your brothers, you would have done it very well. But they are just servants. I see that you treat all servants like family and friends, boy."

"Well, maybe I'm a benevolent person."

"Really?" Otto put his big hand on his son's head: "I chose them for you. They are all pretty girls. Their identities are inherently low, don't you think they are low?"

"This...actually..."

"You hesitate, that's the default!" Otto said bluntly: "Well, you take them all as wives."

"What? Dad, are you sure?!"

"Of course." Otto continued to sigh: "It seems that I need to go to the stone boat altar and pray that God will give me another ten years of life, and I can see that they are all pregnant with your children. Haha, the high priest is fine."

Saying that, Otto suddenly grabbed the braid on the back of Rumia's head and pulled her to his side: "The high priest cannot get married. However, there is no need to go to a ceremony. She has nothing to do with being a high priest after giving birth to a child. ."

"Dad! You!" Rurik felt that his father was afraid that he had just had a glass of wine? Not right!

What Otto seemed to say was out of touch, but in fact it was his honest thoughts.

Not surprising! Tonight, the tribe will have a huge and grand mass wedding. After one night, all the newly married Novgorod girls will become new Rus women.

As a big leader who has held the highest power for more than ten years, Otto knows the importance of population! What's more, although the tribe has benefited a lot from this year's war, sixty-five young people died in battle. You must know that the most elite warriors in the tribe are only 700 people, and half of these elites are lost. The only thing that can make up for the loss is to count on all Rus women to give birth as soon as possible, to give birth to healthy sons as soon as possible.

Yu Gong, Otto thinks like this.

In private, Otto certainly hopes that he can have countless grandchildren.

Now Rurik felt that his father wanted him to be a pile driver.

Well, one of the old stories Rurik knows best about this part of Eastern Europe is that the descendants of Rurik historically bloomed everywhere. Rurik used the power of blood to make children the leaders of various Slavic tribes, which was quite a bit of learning the expansion routine of the Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasty. study? Maybe not. It may be an optimal solution for a special pattern.

In the early history of Kievan Rus, there are also anecdotes similar to "Chou Gong's assistance".

It was the general Oleg who assisted the young prince Igor. When Igor grew up, he conquered the south, attacked Eastern Rome, and established the first prosperous age of Kievan Rus.

Oleg? Who is Oleg?

So, Arik and Oleg, is it a concept? Do not! Oleg must be very young, not yet born! The only thing Rurik could estimate was that this legendary minister was born among his relatives, friends and subordinates.