Rise of Rurik

A snowstorm hit Rosberg with an inevitable attitude, and a brand new arctic cold current poured into the Baltic Sea. It swept across northern Europe, and finally stopped in the Alps and...

The snowstorm lasted for a week. Relying on sufficient material preparations, Roseburg experienced this snow disaster safely, but when the weather is fine, everyone must bring tools to sweep the snow in front of their doors.

The lives of the captured Tavastian women improved immediately after Rurik intervened.

First of all, they all changed into a batch of simple leather and cloth clothes, and the food treatment miraculously reached an average of two pounds of boiled wheat per person per day.

This is really an amazing amount of food. When they are hungry, they eat a lot, and their physical fitness improves rapidly. Some people even start to accumulate fat.

In the extremely cold era, the fat on the body is really a life-saving treasure. After their physique recovers, they hit the cold snap. Fortunately, there are no more deaths during the raging cold snap.

Another nasty blizzard!

Rurik stayed in his palace, and his life was indeed different from that of ordinary people. He was surrounded by Yingyingyanyan, and he enjoyed the warmth of his family.

It would be impossible for Rurik to have no taboos if the young man John Ingvar was allowed to continue teaching Latin to his wives and concubines. Now the Queen Mary of Mercia is here, and this woman has easily become a Latin teacher.

She doesn't need to teach her deliberately, as long as she deliberately speaks more Latin in her daily life, other people's languages ​​will improve themselves.

Rurik most hoped that they would develop a sisterhood, even if their parents' families were different. Eating at a table is a means of enhancing affection, and co-sleeping is another means.

However, he is still facing his women in the same way that the emperor flips the brand.

Today, it's Noren's turn.

Under the soft light of the oil lamp, the girl sat casually by the bed. The whole palace is warm because of the fireplace and the thick layers of wood and moss, and the temperature outside has plummeted to -30°C.

She wore a simple cloth and was held in the palace for many days to avoid the extreme cold, and her peaceful face was filled with heavy worries.

Here comes Rurik, shirtless and scented with flowers.

He just scrubbed his body and soaked his feet in hot water. He should have gone to bed to relax, but he was really not sleepy.

"You finally came.

Everyone else fell asleep and I stopped singing. ' she said casually.

"Sing to please me? Not yet."

Having said that, Rurik also sat beside the bed: "You cleaned your room very clean, cleaner than the boudoir in your hometown. As it happens, it's time for me to tell you something."

"Is it about my biological father canonizing me as the earl of my hometown?"

"Oh? You've heard about it? Yes, you should be able to hear the big news."

"Yes. But I don't quite understand. I'm a woman. Many people have gone to Britain to build new homes. Do they want me to be the leader of the old fjords? I've never thought of a woman as the leader."

"That's right. Specifically, your and my children will inherit the title forever."

"That's right." Nuo Lun sneered, then lay down and seemed to understand, "Then let's start."

Rurik was taken aback.

"You're so eager? You're so young..."

Noren's trembling eyes stared straight at him and sneered: "It's ridiculous, do you think you are too old? The moon god has already revealed it to me! Mother (referring to Nia) has long said that I can be a mother. Since My biological father has such a title arrangement, and I can't live up to him, as well as the people in my hometown who are unwilling to leave."

The marriage itself was a political marriage, and Rurik was surprised by what Noren said, far beyond her age. Maybe someone taught her? Was it urged by his old mother?

"That's not OK."

"Why!?" Noren got up immediately: "I've heard that Sister Mary is a few years older than me, and I heard that you used to be almost every day in the past... Do you love her the most? You clearly know me like you very much."

"That's your destiny and mine, but it's not suitable for the next three or four years, just wait..."

"But! I need to have a child to inherit the title of Balmer. It is your responsibility and mine. I am eager."

"Let's stop here!" Rurik didn't intend to tangle, he wondered that Mary must have babbled a lot in Latin. It's also understandable. It is necessary for a princess who has lost her country to establish her own status in the new world, and it is necessary to have a good relationship with this group of female relatives. Besides, although Mary lived like a toy in the old Mercia court, she also passively practiced the ability to observe and tell a group of simple women how to please men. Mary is really good at this.

Noren pouted, but she wasn't happy anymore...

Rurik only thought it was absurd, and suddenly felt a little bit that on this issue, it was the women who were too proactive. And unlike men, they have a very strong purpose.

Suddenly Rurik really felt like an April stallion.

Rurik lowered his face: "Since you already know, I will tell you the detailed arrangements for the follow-up. Our children naturally have the title of Balmerk, but you should pay attention, that is not the Earl of the Kingdom of York, it is loyal to me and loyal to Earl of Balmerk, Duke of Ross. Noren, you are my woman, your son is my son, and your fellow Balmerk..."

In a trance, Noren heard a strange meaning.

"Many people don't want to leave that fjord, they are my people. The Balmers who don't want to leave are my people! I am their duke! The whole Narvik Fjord will always be Ross. territory."

"This... is a merger?" Noren was taken aback.

"Exactly! The true Balmers have emigrated, and they have built a huge kingdom of York in Britain, and your brother is a coward if you don't want to leave. Those noble family leaders, they abandoned their old places, and abandoned people who didn't want to go. I don't, I like those who stay. I also promised them that this winter I will take the ice and snow road to Balmerk. No Len!"

"Um."

"You and I must go with me. I will organize a huge expedition after Hanukkah, cross the snowy mountains into Balmerk, and officially declare your rule. This is what I'm going to tell you, what do you think?"

"Okay! I have no idea about Britain, and Ross is the greatest. If my fellow villagers become new Ross people, their lives will be better." Noren's heart was quite shocked, but the girl Showed a sense of joy. She regarded all this as fate, and in all fairness, the people in her hometown were really included in Rurik, and life would definitely get better.

"Indeed. Severe ice and snow is a problem. As long as everyone is prosperous, ice and snow are no longer a problem. Go to sleep, Noren. When the snow stops, I want to see the military band you organized."

"Good! You will be satisfied."

Of course Noren hopes to become a mother sooner, but her current physical condition is that if she is a mother properly, she will seek her own death. As a rational person with extremely deep knowledge, Rurik certainly knew the terrifying risks in this regard, even if she was a pure Nordic person.

However, during the long snowstorm period, what is there to do in the homes that are hidden in such a warm cave?

The snowstorm and the accumulation of blood outside covered the movement of people. Rurik could think with his toes that the next baby boom in the Principality of Ross would be in August next year. Not bad, at least the feet were thick and warm at that time, and the delicate baby hardly died suddenly.

Then, as a monarch, Rurik had no doubts about the strength of Russ women. He was afraid that it would be no problem for one woman to give birth to eight people, just like the situation in Britain in the early industrial age. For the further expansion of the population to survive, expansion and opening up living space are the simplest and crudest means.

Fortunately, in this era, the geographical space was extremely huge, and the wild and rich world was in urgent need of the Rus people to open up.

The next step is to open the overland trade route of Fort Rosberg→Fort Elrond→Fort Fisk→Balmerk, so that the Russ officially had an outlet to the Atlantic Ocean in 834, and it was an ice-free port.

When the wind and snow stopped, the people hiding in the house walked out of their homes, and immediately picked up tools to sweep the snow in front of their doors, which gradually evolved into a snow sweeping project covering the entire city.

Although the servant deer breeders carried the property belonging to the duke, the captured and bred reindeer herd of 3,000 headed north for winter grazing.

There are more than 100 reindeer in Roseburg, and they are actively transporting snow from the city as a sleigh-pulling service.

As a result, a snowy mountain by the sea is being "constructed", and a group of children are laughing and laughing with it as a toy, and many children are smashing snowballs around and playing continuously.

Hanukkah is not far away, and the time is approaching December in the Julian calendar.

Because times have changed, many Rus people can no longer have the qualifications to hide in their own homes and live until the sea is thawed.

Because of wealth or the desire for glory, they bravely walked out of their warm homes and started special winter production operations.

For example, furnaces in industrial areas cannot be turned off! Even in the extreme night, even with the soft light of the stars, miners still have to go into the mountains to dig all kinds of ores. Even the roads that people step on in the snow are very flat, and winter is a good time to transport ore.

In recent days, Otto and other old Rus people have gathered together all day long to talk about mountains, accompanied by strong wine, bacon and dried fruit.

Sometimes Rurik was worried that his father had suddenly lost his soul to Valhalla because he had drunk too much.

However, the days of Dad as the leader have passed for many years. He was only physically weaker, but in fact the people supported the young duke. For a very simple reason, who makes them live a good life and whom they support.

So, let's take the good days to the next level!

Rurik reduced his horde of cubs.

Boys and girls between the ages of six and twelve in Roseburg are here, and most of the children of the Principality of Rose are currently gathered in the original capital, Roseburg.

They were trained to cut wood, carry materials, and carry water, and although very young, they were a very determined workforce.

They even received military training, and the first group of children became "grass-level commanders", and each brought more than a dozen people to form groups one after another.

The Rurik century did not have to be too obsessed with grouping. Following the tradition of the Rus or the Vikings, people would spontaneously gather around the brave.

They formed a small group, and they easily coalesced into a huge group.

Now, Rurik counted the heads to know that the total number of children who were eating the Duke's meals had reached 2,000!

That's a huge number! Rurik was informed of this actual quality, and he also quite understood why the old fellow Harrodsson had neglected the group of Tavastian women.

Just because of this group of children, it is a great internal friction for the duke's treasury.

Fortunately, this wear and tear is easily overshadowed by taxes, tributes, and plunder.

Do not!

"Maybe this year I'll have to increase taxes on those merchants. Plus the amount of Suomi's in-kind tribute..."

It is a means to make war money to feed the cubs who are waiting to be fed. Developing industry and handicrafts to sell products to make money for materials is the second means.

And pioneering is the third method. Just pioneering farming and harvesting wheat to achieve self-help is difficult to achieve within a few years.

Then focus on metal smelting, manufacture high value-added iron products at low cost, and rely on trade means to trade with swords.

So, what is the current industrial capacity of the Rus?

On the first day of December in the Julian calendar, the people officially look forward to Hanukkah.

Many warriors turned into hunters, and they took their equipment to the north of Fort Elrond and Fort Fisk. A group of guest merchants also went to the north, intending to buy high-quality and precious leather on the spot.

A large number of leather craftsmen are also best prepared, preparing a large amount of northern leather to be processed immediately upon arrival.

The population of Roseburg has dropped a lot, while the population of Elrond has increased sharply, and there are brave people who want to seek wealth in the land of ice and snow.

It was even a family of free deer farmers from afar. They believed in the promises of the Rus, and changed their prudence for hundreds of years. They began to trade live deer and leather with the people of Elronborg with their own deer in exchange for key iron tools. .

As soon as they started swapping they got a rustless tool - a chrome tool.

Rurik is not yet aware of the fact that the free-roaming deer-raisers, the small Sami settlements in matrilineal clans, began to trade with the Rus. Because of the early declaration of the city's dominion over all deer breeders, the decree restrained the Rus and Corvins of Elrondburg from plundering the free deer breeders.

Rurik didn't even expect this, or because of the construction of a batch of new buildings, including the "Ros Duma" parliamentary chamber, as well as new ships, a mighty logging team on December 1, rushing Reindeer pulling sleds, ponies, pulling a lot of lumber back to Roseburg, so the date arrived just for a good luck.

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This is really an exciting good thing, Rurik is happy to see their return, and Otto rarely does not drink, to appreciate the return of the loggers with the giant spruce in the extreme north.

And those more than 500 deer hides bought from free deer breeders belonged to private individuals, and the arrival of the new leather gave the leather processing industry in Roseburg a boost.

Rurik and his entourage once again entered the so-called industrial area with thick smoke.

Unlike other areas, this area is still hard sand and gravel. Even during the raging snowstorm, the flames of the hearth still burn, the main area continues to be hot, and the snow is never covered.

There was a ding ding dong dong sound of hammering everywhere, it was a lot of young blacksmiths, and they were also so-called slave workers.

In principle, Kamne and his fifty-odd men are directly loyal to the Duke of Ross himself, and their current and future work is to manufacture various iron tools or other equipment for the Duke.

All of them came from poor backgrounds, and all of them must become engineers in the future.

Rurik's visit was a little abrupt. Many people paused their work for a while, and then began to beat again.

The white-bearded Clavasson came to meet him, and a smart and furry little guy rushed over enthusiastically, and his white fluff looked like a little polar bear.

The child of Kuzneslav, nicknamed Kuja. Rurik was his uncle according to his seniority.

Suzanne Lilia also went out, although she was well dressed, Rurik was surprised to find that she was pregnant again.

"My lord, you have the time to let me come here. Oh no, you must have a new idea. You are welcome, let's come in and have a good chat." Although Clavason is significantly older than a few months ago, he is still enthusiastic to not fix.

"Indeed, I'm here to discuss some important matters with you. It's still a very important matter!" Rurik said casually.

"Oh, then please come. Come to the council room of our blacksmiths, you can wait a moment, and I will call all those old buddies."

"And a separate conference room? Why didn't I know about it before?" Rurik was a little surprised, and then lowered his face calmly: "I don't want to be idle. Where is Kawi?"

"He... he's supervising blast furnace production. You see, I'm getting old, and I can't even wield a hammer now. You can tell Kavey if you have anything important, I..." Halfway through the words, the old carr Wasson called the laughing grandson to his side: "I just want to continue to accompany this kid."

After living a prosperous life, enjoy family happiness? Clavason's aging is indeed visible to the naked eye.

Rurik looked at Lilia again, but did not talk for the time being. In fact, of course he has a lot to ask Lilia, after all, this woman is very unusual, and almost all of Rose's die-cast glassware are from her. Glassware is also expected to flourish as an industry, and Lilia must be a key figure in this cause.

"I'm going to look for Kawhi first. Kravason, you can call someone. By the way, call this kid Kamne to your parliamentary room."

"Okay!" Clavason pushed the little grandson to his mother, shaking his body, leaning on a wooden staff, he personally went to inform the heads of the other families who were traveling with the blacksmith.

Looking at the old man's back, a strong sense of strangeness came to Rurik's heart.

You're getting really old, Clavason, so suddenly...