Rise of Rurik

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Under the appearance of cold and calm, the whole world is freezing, and some clues have emerged.

The Neva is still frozen, and the heaviest reindeer can still roam the ice.

The Gulf of Finland is also an endless ice sheet, and it seems that spring has nothing to do with it.

The vernal equinox was approaching, and Rurik also planned to leave just after the equinox sacrifice, which was set on the twenty-ninth day of March.

Although there was ice everywhere, people began to find that it became quite warm in the afternoon. Snow began to melt on the wooden eaves, and then began to congeal in the evening, so that a lot of ice began to appear on the eaves the next day, so that some children used ice as a sword and laughed. fight each other.

Svetlana is already preparing the dry food for her journey back home. She plans to cook some fish herself and bake some oatmeal pancakes.

The stove is in the corner of the backyard of the palace. She has no one to help and does not want others to interfere, so she sweats a little here, and is very satisfied.

Suddenly, Rurik wearing a velvet hat came over looking for the fragrance.

"It can be arranged for a servant to do it, you don't have to do it yourself," he said.

Lanna Yingying smiled: "You didn't recruit a few servants. Besides, according to our tradition, women must do this."

"But you are my queen."

"I am your woman."

Rurik was satisfied, and when he got closer, she saw that she was indeed boiling a pike steak that had been cut into pieces.

Compared to bass and herring, the biggest fish you can catch in water near Fort New Rose is pike. This fish tends to grow very large and has a long lifespan. It has a ferocious temperament like a vicious dog, and is a proper carnivorous fish. Therefore, the bait for fishing is freshly slaughtered reindeer meat. The hook is tied with a thick hemp rope, and it is thrown into the excavated ice hole.

While cooking the meat, Lanna said: "The fishermen said that the water under the ice has become more turbulent, and the ice must be melting, but fortunately the deep water is stable. The big fish took the bait, and it took twenty people to pull the big guy up. "

Rurik took a closer look, and sure enough it was a tough dish.

"Did you send someone to buy it? How much did it cost?"

"Two silver coins. The best fish is here. Rurik, we have enough fish for a week."

"Really? You got a bargain. No, they did it on purpose."

"Yes." She smiled in a low voice: "Because I am your woman, they have such a price when they hear that fish will go into your stomach."

"Alright. It's just that I still have to spend a lot of money on the journey back."

"So how's your inspection work? Their preparations are going well?" she asked.

"Of course. There are fishing holes all over the ice, pike and bass coming out. I've also seen the sleds they've made a lot, and they're all very solid. There's a lot of yellowed reeds covered in snow, and they cut some."

"Reeds? Feed the deer?"

"Exactly. But you don't believe that just grazing, more than a thousand deer in a larger sleigh team can go to Novgorod smoothly."

"That's impossible," she said.

It was this matter that made Rurik upset, and Rurik sighed: "I can wait until the ice and snow melt before taking action. But that will delay the farming time. Look at the ice on the palace, the earth is thawing, and the ice can still walk. The time to sled is running out, but I wouldn't dare to take the risk of a lot of ice-breaking ice that could destroy a boat."

"Yeah..." She continued to turn the fish with the iron fork.

"The spring sacrifice is coming soon. After the ceremony, we will leave. I will try my best to whip the deer. We must go back within ten days."

New Roseburg is indeed making intense preparations for a "snow immigration operation".

A total of nearly 1,300 people will move to Novgorod, and their departure is not only themselves, but all kinds of softness that can be taken away.

The soldiers of the first flag team are strong and strong, and their families are all in their hometown of Roseburg Fjord.

Their family members will emigrate on a large ship in the summer, and the prince made no promises about this, and positioned this as the current national policy, even higher than foreign wars.

The success of their winter hunts turned into heavy silver coins. They made another batch of jerky or cooked meat, and bought a batch of oatmeal crackers or simply sautéed oatmeal from Aslagi's store. Several people hired local people to build sleds. As for the reindeer pulling the sled, there is no need to worry about this.

The first flag team is not heavy and soft, and the existing property and dry food are on them, and they can run without worry.

The Ostara people are another huge immigrant team. Although there are only more than 600 people, men, women and children, they have a lot of soft hands.

Those new Ostaras who are actually Yermalenians, they have run all the way to the mouth of the Neva River to basically complete the winter, but they can't think of new immigrants to start again.

Legend has it that Lake Ilmen is very similar to the hometown of Yermalen Lake, and the climate is more mild. If wheat is planted, wouldn’t it be a bumper harvest every year?

As for where the tribe settled, Duchess Carlotta had figured out the location, even though she hadn't arrived to investigate in person.

Tomorrow is the Spring Festival, and on the eve of the festival, all Ostarans have completed their preparations.

Their camp outside the city walls is about to be abandoned, and what will happen to the old shack depends entirely on the wishes of the Governor of New Roseburg.

The shed has become a simple shed. The Ostara people carefully took away all the cloth heads and pots, and the breath of life was quickly dissipating.

In contrast, there are a large number of oak sleds, all kinds of materials, especially sacks full of grain, and the sleds are fully loaded.

After Asraki signed the contract, she handed over the large amount of wheat that Rurik had paid for to Carlotta the next day, for which she paid an extra portion.

Wheat worth 20 pounds of silver greatly increases the weight of the Ostara people's supplies. They don't think that the goods are too much, because the existing food of the tribe can ensure that more than 600 mouthfuls will be eaten until next year's harvest season. Can have surplus grain as the crops for next spring ploughing.

There are only more than 600 of them, only 300 adults, and the rest are children.

Although the sled slides on ice and snow, if the weight is too large, the sliding effect will be bad. The total weight of the tribesmen is not large, and their goods far exceed the weight of human beings.

"We're going to build the best farms and pastures on the banks of Lake Ilmen, which is very warm. We'll grow wheat, we'll grow flax, we'll raise cattle, we'll fish, and we'll be richer than ever."

Carlotta describes a wonderful picture, even using the legendary Asgard to describe it. People believed in this so much that they were very serious about making sleds.

The males in the tribe are all farmers from the Yermalen tribe, and they also all do carpentry and manufacture a number of commonly used agricultural tools and vehicles. In fact, many people can live a decent life in their hometown, and they do not commit the risk of immigrating.

But their wrecked wives kept clamoring to return to Ostara, and there were legends about the Rus discovering a wonderful world, and the fact that the Rus did sell all sorts of things in the Birka market, even the Duke of Rus killed himself This statement of the King of Denmark. Many reasons are intertwined, which led them to take risks.

However, life on the Neva River is not much different from that in my hometown.

Now that they have been riding a tiger, they can only believe in new legends and immigrate to Lake Ilmen.

Each little family has its own sleigh, and each sled is stacked with various loads and fastened with twine.

They had as many as one hundred and forty sleds, big and small, and now the "army" of sleds had assembled in the camp.

All the clansmen surrounded the female leader, and the setting sun shone on Carlota's clean face, eager to hear an exciting speech from her before she set off.

No, Carlotta has tore her throat.

"The snow is about to melt! People of Ostara, we are going to go to Lake Ilmen, to the rich waters south of the lake. There is a river there, the locals call it the Lovady River, and we are going to be in Lowadi. Our new Ostara is established at the mouth of the Vadi River.

There were other tribes in the area, and they despicably betrayed our ally, the Duchy of Ross. I led our warriors on crusades, rebels were killed, and their lands became ours as trophies.

I know that many of you men are actually Yermalen. It doesn't matter, you are all my clan, and you are also very good farmers and herdsmen. We're going to get a large tract of cultivated farmland that we can farm as soon as we land. The soil is fertile and the climate is warmer, and we will be able to harvest a lot of wheat this year.

We also have a fortune now, we're going to buy some cows and some deer, we're breeding animals, we're skinning them for hides, we're milking them for butter, and we're making cheese. We will do whatever we want under the military protection of the Rus.

I have a brand new heir on my belly, the blood heir to the chief of Ostara, and the nephew of Prince Ross.

So no one can hurt us and everything will be fine..."

Although a lot of words have been repeated too much, it used to be just word of mouth, but now it is very important for Carlotta to preach in person.

The people of Ostara were shouting, attracting nearby residents to watch, and then discuss their opinions.

Some people were reluctant to give up, while others fell in love with their abandoned wooden shacks. Many people also felt itchy and wanted to emigrate with them.

Immigrants are not random immigrants, and the worries of Ostara immigrants do not exist. Rurik has made a guarantee for it, and even this year's "big immigration project" Rurik has paid for it. This immigrant sleigh team has approached 250 vehicles. This time, he is not only transporting people, but also a lot of materials.

In particular, a large amount of grain has to be transported away, which takes up the load quota of many sleds. There are also sleds that simply transport oats and bales of hay, which are used as fodder for the reindeer.

Rurik gathered a thousand deer and a few horses. He now has such capital, but the deer does not choose casually.

Locally owned and newly captured deer have resulted in a huge herd of nearly 4,000 deer in New Roseburg. They are almost all the property of the Raja Rus, and the Governor Knuthon has the obligation to breed them and is entitled to some benefits from them.

The capture was that the herd was thought to have been chosen by the Karelians, so the females far outnumbered the males. Many of the doe are already full, they are about to give birth, and the herd will swell to nearly 5,000 this year.

There are still a group of does that, for various reasons, didn't finish breeding during last fall's mating season, and they just happen to be excellent service right now. These deer are already different from their wild counterparts, and even their genes have been slightly altered, making them more willing to accept human breeding and use, and humans will try their best to multiply the number of deer herds.

Each sled is equipped with four deer, doe and stag. Reindeer are inferior to horses, but they surpass Mongolian horses in endurance and are extremely resistant to cold.

These deer are excellent winter animals, and Rurik has figured out how to use them well, by feeding them oats at a cost. Just feeding oatmeal won't do, just put salt on your hands so the deer will lick them with their tongues. When the team begins to rest, they unleash the reins and watch the deer as they tumble over the snow and eat hay and moss.

Land transportation is far worse than water, especially the settlements controlled by the Rus Principality rely on lakes and rivers. However, the farming time cannot be delayed. Rurik needs a lot of strong men who have a strong desire for farmland and a good harvest. He needs the brothers of the first flag team to sweat. More importantly, wheat is grown, even if only a little more than one hectare can be grown now.

He hoped that after the sea in his hometown froze, the tribesmen in his hometown would strictly implement the order, and the new ship would carry a huge amount of wheat to expedition to Novgorod in the shortest time, so that the land could be planted in time for the spring ploughing. If this is going to be a failure, that's fine. It's okay to immediately plant vegetables or hemp sticks on purposely empty land.

The "Immigration Pledge Conference" of the Ostarans was very lively, and the people sent by Rurik returned to report truthfully.

He is very satisfied, the most worrying Ostara people are ready, and the sacrifice tomorrow is just a matter of convincing!

Since this is a large immigrant of the Vikings, the worship must be the gods of the Vikings.

The priests who were dispatched to New Roseburg in the early years escaped the "sacrifice for Veria" incident in their hometown. They are the remnants of the old priest group. They know that coveting the highest power is to seek death, so they deliberately live a poor life and simply become priests.

However, the residents of New Roseburg did not worship the priests much. The new priestesses did not believe in Rurik himself. The heroic young man was clearly a god who could be touched and seen.

Rurik did bring benefits to the tribe and the late entrants, and his status as the "son of God" was further consolidated.

In a sense, he did become the Son of Heaven, a medium for mortals to communicate with the gods of Asgard.

No, people from all over New Roseburg have been dispatched for the spring festival.

Ross has changed the customs, there must be a stone boat altar to slaughter deer and oxen, and a fire tower must be lit. So Vikings and Slavs, and even Finns, will be happy.

He personally slaughtered a stag, and the priestess cut its liver and cheered auspiciously. The main sacrifice of this sacrifice is Frey and Freya, and finally Odin is sacrificed. When the fire tower is lit, it is equivalent to sacrifice to the Slavic fire god Peron.

Everyone was cheering, enjoying the warmth of the flames, as if bathing in the early summer sun.

The sacrifice was a great success. After the priest, spring would come, and the snow and ice would soon melt away.

Those who were very worried about the migration journey itself were reassured, the priests and princes would not lie, and the gods had promised everyone a safe arrival in Novgorod.

The appointed day has come!

People rested beautifully all night, and the next day dawned, and golden light was scattered on the ice and snow.

"What a beautiful sight!" Rurik looked into the distance, looking both east and west.

Svetlana wrapped herself tightly, took off her scarf and couldn't help looking at the sun.

"Rurik, we're about to go, and I see people have gathered."

"Indeed. Oh, here comes my brother."

Arik came at a confident pace. He ate wheat cakes and grilled fish. The food in his stomach filled him with strength.

"The first flag team is ready, you have to take everyone to action. Thanks to the ability of my second daughter-in-law, my brothers are not short of food now."

Rurik nodded: "Sister-in-law and Asgard should go too."

"That's natural. It looks like my third son will be born in Novgorod. I'll call him Kiel."

"Sure enough, it's a son, what if it's a daughter?" Rurik asked again in surprise.

"It must be my son. Freya gave me a dream. My son will make great achievements."

"Yes. A great achievement indeed."

"Oh? So you can still see the fate of your nephew?" Arik asked with a smile.

"Yeah, after all, it's our family's child. You go and tell the brothers to show all the flags. I'm not sure if Loki will play a prank in the middle, beware of the sudden wind and snow, all sleighs hang flags to ensure that no one is left behind ."

"Good decision, I'll arrange it."

Rurik had a few words with Arik and Carlotta, and then said goodbye to the Governor Conusson.

The huge team hunted with flags and flags. Although they were immigrants, they were actually a powerful military force in Northern Europe. They were armed immigrants through and through, under the direct command of Raja Rus.

The horns were blown one after another, and the leather drums were beaten.

The emigration began, and the reindeer pulled sleds and began to march on the frozen and flat ice of the Neva. Behind Rurik are more than 200 large and small sleds, people are enthusiastically marching on the road to happiness.

They walked smoothly across the Neva into Lake Ladoga and continued on the frozen lake. A discerning person could see that the lake ice was thinning, so in order to avoid danger, when the sled team entered the Volkhov River, they all advanced on the left bank of the river, just to reach Novgorod directly.

Svetlana keenly noticed the change in the river: "Ljurik, look, there are cracks in the ice."

"It looks like the Volkhov is about to freeze."

"Yeah, the thaw is a bit later than before. It seems that the spring ploughing may be delayed this year."

Lanna said it in a normal way, but Rurik felt a tinge of fear. The climate is indeed getting colder in this era, and everyone exists in the process of a mini-glacial period in Europe.

Northern Europe as a whole is not suitable for farming, and it is basically impossible to play without the blessing of modern agricultural technology. In Novgorod and harder areas, warm winds from the Black Sea can penetrate the entire area.

Agriculture in Eastern Europe will develop by leaps and bounds, and the large immigrants of Rus need to seize the land here.

The journey was so peaceful that it was almost boring, and God Loki didn't cause any trouble. The earth is indeed thawing, and every afternoon, the migrant team finds it thawing. Some even saw grass shoots breaking through the snow and dead branches starting to sprout.

As soon as the team left, it was the whole day, and the reindeer herd consumed a lot of oatmeal, which Rurik could afford, ensuring that he could literally reach Novgorod by sleigh in eight days.

Sen suddenly disappeared, and the front suddenly opened up!

Under the snow lies the fields of Novgorod, and a city emerges from the river!

It's a tower and a wall!

Finally arrived at the destination!

Rurik took the whip and lashed at the deer. The deer that was walking slowly all the way began to speed up, which then caused the entire team to run wild.

The flags of Ross and Ostara trembled violently, and the people cheered the deer galloping. The mighty team finally arrived at this happy place and returned to this field of hope.

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