Rise of Rurik

"The Rise of Rurik ()"

The sea became violent, and the fjords of Roseburg were full of waves.

These circumstances could not hinder the return of the Rus in the slightest, that is, all the boats went up and down in the waves, and many people had been swayed by it, and the vomiting after seasickness made people listless.

Temperatures are getting colder, and some are even worried that the first snow will come sooner than usual.

Snow is coming later! It is best not to have rain.

In this war, the Rus people plundered a lot of money and leather, but had limited access to very important food.

In the past, from August to October, the tribesmen would desperately stock up on food for the winter. They must fish on a large scale to make jerky for storage. Of course, there is no shortage of brave winter warriors. It is safer to eat jerky at home than to venture out to hunt.

The clansmen knew that after returning to their hometown, the Duke of Ross would give everyone a reward for victory. Maybe it would not be a huge sum of money, and it would definitely be indispensable.

Money is a good thing, but it cannot be exchanged for food in the extremely cold season. They hoped to go back early and rest for a day or two. No matter whether the sea was violent or not, it was the right way to go out to sea to catch herring. The tribesmen were full of hope, because the leaders of the two tribes of Kowen who fought together pointed out a very crucial piece of information, that is, about the salmon fishing flood in the big river.

Then rowed the long boat and rushed north, lined up at the mouths of the big rivers, and caught the salmon with dense nets.

Under the slightly hazy sky, the cold wind was blowing, and the Avrora, which was moving against the wind, led Ross's main fleet back.

The people who stayed behind were not afraid of the cold, they gathered on the shore and danced, their excitement could not be suppressed.

Cargo ships docked at the dock one after another, and long ships washed directly onto the beach.

Women rushed forward to find their husbands and sons among the returning soldiers.

Many people hugged and laughed, and some women were ecstatic, then wary, and finally cried out in confusion.

Because there are not many Ross men who have returned.

Arik took up the task of Sorgon in the East, and he took his new woman and more than a hundred native Rus soldiers to the East. The surviving soldiers who were recruited from Novgorod Fort will return to their homes. All the men from Novgorod White Tree Manor will naturally go home. Only the Slavic men who betrayed each manor have become new immigrants in Novgorod Fort. .

There is also a small group of new immigrants in New Roseburg with a rather special identity.

It was Harald of Gotland, and his family was ordered to move to a new territory with what was left of their possessions.

The route to the east is extremely novel. It was the first time for Harald to go to the so-called "Wild East". When he saw the huge fortress, the regular dock, and even some rotating huge objects at the mouth of the river, he completely changed. idea. The East does not seem to be really wild, and coming here is definitely not an exile, but it is likely to be a new opportunity to make a fortune.

Harald must thank his daughter and his wonderful fortune. His actions of confession and rapprochement at a critical time made his family extremely important in Rurik's eyes.

If the expansion of the wealth of the Rus is mainly entrusted to Gould's family, this obviously has huge security risks. Rurik knew very well that Gould, a man of the times, would not betray, and it was hard to say whether his descendants were loyal or not. A family holds great wealth and makes great contributions to the Principality, and they must hope for greater power.

Supporting a competitor, such as the Krorev family of Soharal, is a means. Besides, Rurik knew that he had to call Asraki a sister (sister-in-law is equivalent to sister).

Harald settled in Novi Rosberg with hundreds of pounds of silver, and the Hrorev family was the richest in the area at the present time. Will this person organize the development of trade and industry in the East, will the economic situation of New Roseburg take off rapidly? Because as many as 1,000 sheep have been transported to the new Roseburg at the mouth of the Neva River, the local climate is naturally much warmer than the hometown of Roseburg, and the local sheep industry can at least develop.

The thousand sheep seized are all the property of the Duke of Ross. Harald has the power and task of multiplying the population. His family must regularly pay tributes of leather, wool and dairy products, and the newly bred sheep will become his proportionately. the property of. In the future, some cattle will also be transported there.

Only five hundred native men of the Ross tribe returned.

Three hundred warriors from Lake Mälaren have officially become the new Rus, but they are not natives here.

When there is war, there is death. Of course, the women who have lost their sons and husbands rejoiced in the victory, but their homes collapsed!

The wife inherits all the property of her husband, she can marry a new man with a child, just look at the situation now! Just a few years ago, any woman in the Ross tribe was pursued by men, and now, there are too many women in the Ross tribe.

A large number of women and children disembarked from the ship. They could not cheer for the victory of the Rus, because they were captured after the defeat. After disembarking, they could only wait for the unknown fate.

As more detailed news spread, women who believed their husbands had died in battle had their last thoughts. Some clansmen went to Sorgon in the East, and perhaps their husbands were there.

But here more than 300 native Rus soldiers died in battle. Whose husband and son are the honorable dead?

They prayed that they were not the "lucky one". Even if it was really "lucky", I had to console myself that the heroes who died in battle had gone to Valhalla.

From June to September, the long war seems to have finally come to an end.

The Ross tribe ushered in a resounding victory. The returning people went back to their homes to party with their families all night!

The cold outside was no longer terrifying, and Rosburg, which was supposed to be dark at night, was now full of bonfires, the crackling of burning pinewood piles, and a group of people dancing around the bonfire.

A large number of seized materials were unloaded from the ship, and most of the leather was naturally delivered to the Gould family warehouse for the first time. Of course, this was out of date. Rurik took into account the current situation. The construction of the "Principality Warehouse" of the Rus people has not been completed, and the seized goods can only be temporarily held by big businessmen.

Only a group of very crucial treasures were held together by robust warriors who were not seasick. The warriors formed a dragon and headed straight to the priest's longhouse under the leadership of Rurik and Otto.

victory! Great victory!

Rurik's ears were filled with cheers from the clansmen, who chanted the names of Otto and Rurik, and praised their dukes with the best words.

Immersed in the happy atmosphere, Rurik wanted to laugh, but when he thought of something, he had to squeeze out a smile to face the welcoming clansmen.

Because of the high priest Veria who surrendered the power, her life...

"The priest's longhouse is in front, I..." Rumia, who was holding the antler helmet, followed Rurik. She was immersed in the cold wind. The atmosphere is out of place for a sense of desolation.

"Are you worried about Villa?"

"Yes. She was very weak when we set off. I'm worried..."

Worrying about losing her, that's what Rumia thought.

Rurik didn't want to console either, it was pointless. And for Villa, this decrepit old lady has been too weak to stand this year. She is still alive, and I am afraid she is already in a state of sighing.

Many Viking tribes do not have a clear worship center. For example, the Melalen tribe that controls most of Lake Melalen, the so-called altar is a pile of stones placed by the lake.

The Uppsala tribe built wooden shacks in the woods and set up wooden statues to worship.

Visby in Gotland, this is a real worship center, they built temples and cast bronze idols to worship.

The Rus have never reached the level of belief of the inhabitants of Visby, but they are also more advanced than most tribes. Living in the extreme north, people need a kind of indomitable faith to resist the coldest winter with strong spiritual power. The Rus people have permanent stone boat altars, and they also advertise the residence of the priests as a sanctuary.

The high priest's house is sacred and should be kept away by ordinary people.

Rus parents teach their children not to approach the longhouse when they are playing. And the warriors who have been selected as the guardians of the priest's longhouse in recent years, they prided themselves on this honor, and received letters of introduction to Valhalla when they were alive.

They were all afraid of making Odin angry because of their unwise blasphemy, and they didn't dare to think about the longhouse, so this was the most suitable place to put money.

Only a very few warriors were given the right to carry boxes, and now they began to carry the last of the gold and silver treasures, box by box, to the "Rurik's Big Box" located inside the priest's longhouse, which is the treasury of the Duchy of Rus.

And this is the second time in the past ten days that a large amount of wealth has been recorded.

When the first batch of thousands of pounds of silver coins and gold coins arrived in the big money box, the priests who stayed behind screamed in shock, and even Veria sat up in shock from dying and was helped by the priestesses to see the stacks. There are money boxes everywhere.

The long house, filled with the scent of rosin and chrysanthemum tea, became noisy.

The two priestesses supported an old woman with a wrinkled face like a cracked earth, and slowly emerged from the dim inner hall.

"Let me see if my Rurik is really back."

Villa's condition may not be that bad. Seeing that the old woman can still stand up, hasn't her physical condition recovered? Rurik left the people around him and walked quickly, as if his grandson and grandma were reunited.

Of course, Rurik agreed in his heart that this Villa was a relative, an old man with a pitiful but very respectable background.

When Veria saw Otto, it was as if he was a son, and when he saw Rurik, he was naturally a grandson. As for Rumia, she was the heir to everything. Although she was not blood, who said that her relatives had to be blood?

Her withered hands stroked Rurik's round face vigorously, her eyes were full of eager anticipation, and finally she kissed "grandson" on the forehead intimately.

"High Priest, you have regained your health at first." Otto couldn't help but feel very relieved to see Willia so "living and alive".

"I'm no longer a high priest, Rumia is. I..." She released her hand gently and looked at Rurik's blue eyes kindly: "People are inherently dead, I'm too old. I'm going to Vaal soon. Hala, you don't have to worry, Odin has entered my dream, and God told me that the Rus army will achieve a great victory, and I will leave the human world and become a Valkyrie."

If she is not afraid of death, if she feels that the so-called death is just a process of becoming a Valkyrie, what should she be afraid of?

Rurik followed her words: "You'll never leave, will you? You'll be in the sky to protect the Ruth on earth."

"Yes." Veria continued to hold Rurik's cheek: "There is an oracle, Odin will take me away at the right time. At that time, don't be sad, please leave me in the human incarnation Ashes. You may shout my name, SPIRUS."

Rurik thought that Veria would say a lot of happy words and applaud the unprecedented victory of the Rus, but it was unexpected, she was talking about her doomed death.

what is this? still.

what!

For a moment, Rurik suddenly felt that Villa's current toughness was simply a reflection.

"SPIRUS, this is you... your real name?"

Viria shook his head: "My name has long been forgotten, and it doesn't matter at all. Viria, just means the daughter of the sacrifice. And Spirus, the new name Odin gave me, is the oars of hope. Rurik, you Saying that, Veria raised her head slightly and faced the people present, "I! I am the Valkyrie, Spirus, I will regain my youth in Vallaha, and I will drive a carriage through the sky. This is the I'm going to tell you."

(Villa dreamed of Odin's bounties, such as qualifications to be a Valkyrie, and a new name. Spirus is just a Latin word for "hope" and a Norse word for "oars", deep in her soul Always retains the encounter with the envoy from Eastern Rome in his youth)

Like a boulder pressed against his chest, Otto was speechless because he took what Veria said as the most real thing.

What about Rurik? He had some doubts in his heart, but it was a pleasant thing for Villa to continue living in his fantasy hometown.

"Then I'll call you Speros Villa Valkyrie."

"A nice name. Just keep calling me Veria. Rurik, now tell me about you, and tell me what kind of victory you have..."

Legend has it that the Asgard Sanctuary, where the earth is paved with gold and silver, the residents of the Sanctuary are all dressed in gold and silver, and no language can describe their elegance.

Vilia saw a huge amount of gold and silver seized on Gotland, and her three views were completely refreshed, and she even exclaimed, "Did they attack Asgard?" It was also for this reason that she had several wonderful dreams in a row, which were interpreted as miracles.

With the detailed descriptions of Rurik, Otto, and even Rumia, a magnificent war scene unfolded slowly.

Villia did not grieve for those who died in battle, whether it was the enemy's or his own, the heroic warriors who died in battle must now be drinking and having fun in Valhalla.

That is, the Russ lost more than 300 people in World War I, which is a terrible loss to the current Rus tribe.

But things are not bad, there is a huge turnaround, or a new era for the Rus.

Villa, who had experienced the most difficult time for the Rus when she was young, escaped from Svealand to the bitter cold of the north, where she fought fiercely with the local deer breeders and under the walls of today's Rosburg. Is there anything worse than these things?

Otto, who sat obediently, bluntly said that the strength of the tribe has weakened a lot, and Veria bluntly said that this is a fallacy: "You actually captured 2,000 women? They will give birth to 2,000 children as soon as next year, at least 1,000. A boy, a thousand warriors in twelve years. They can have as many children as they can, and as long as you can feed them, the Rus will have tens of thousands of warriors, and we will grow stronger quickly."

Otto rammed Rurik: "That's what my son wanted."

"What do you want to do?" Villar asked of Rurik.

"Distribute them, it will start tomorrow! We have a clear plan with the Melalen people. I will set off again to Lake Melalen to get back our one million pounds of wheat. I will distribute it to the soldiers on the expedition. The dead will be led by their wives and children. I will also distribute them to the women they have captured, and will hold a wide-ranging large-scale wedding ceremony. The clansmen take the money and come to me to buy wheat to support themselves and their families. Women. The wheat we get will easily feed all the people who live in Roseburg, and we can afford to feed those women no matter how many children they have.”

Villa nodded: "Many people say you are kind. They are just mortals and don't know you at all, and I know you best..."

Villa did not go on, and there was no need to say any more.

Rurik, the child only appears to be a child. He is already a veritable Duke of Ross, and his achievements have far surpassed the leaders of all generations. He is an unprecedented leader who considers every Russ and new immigrants.

"You all leave, I... just want to be quiet."

Veria persuaded the debriefing people to leave with a smile. She finally saw Rurik close the leather curtain, took a deep breath, and then went soft and relaxed under the support of the priest.

The priests present crowded around in panic: "High priest! Are you... alright?"

"I'm fine, I just feel weak. Let me... continue to lie down. Ah, Ross doesn't have to worry about me anymore. You... you remember." Villa muttered desperately: "I won't leave in a while. You must remember, Rumia is the high priest chosen by Odin, Rumia is the servant of Rurik. Rurik, he is not human, he is a god of exile, he is a descendant of Odin . Glory! You should be ordinary women, you are serving a god."

Hearing this, the priests all trembled, they were both surprised and happy, and no one doubted Veria's words.

Rather than making up stories to strengthen the legitimacy of Rurik's rule, Veria convinced herself that she would completely reconcile with the world. Her life is complete.