Rise of Rurik

The long voyage has exhausted people, and the only thing that can make everyone happy is the sufficient reserves of materials, which also makes it impossible for the huge fleet to stop at the shore for supplies.

Rurik didn't have time to linger, he had spent too much time in his homeland, and the fleet would definitely arrive at New Roseburg earlier.

The fleet only replenished fresh water at Tombstone Island at the T-junction of the ocean, and the rest was a full five-day and night voyage all the way to the east! Even if the fleet could dock at the city of Helminki on the Gulf of Finland, Rurik was undecided.

The sea conditions on the way of sailing are always good, although there is haze, there is no rainfall.

The south wind was strong as a whole, all the ships tilted their jibs, the entire fleet sailed sideways and continued to sail in broken lines, and the speed was even more gratifying.

The flagship Avlora led all ships, large and small, and the entire fleet kept a distance from the following merchants.

Rurik would not let the fleet accommodate those who were eager to make a fortune, and with the appearance of a large island directly ahead, the excitement quickly spread throughout the fleet.

That's Kotlin Island, a sandstone island. It is not the largest island in the entire Gulf of Finland, but when the fleet sails here, you can see the city standing ahead with the naked eye.

Rurik, with the wind blowing from the bow, saw the walls of Novolaosburg, which stood out and dazzled in the small alluvial plain at the mouth of the Neva River, which was devoid of trees.

He looked back at the people in his flagship with a calm face: "New Roseburg is ahead! Our first destination has arrived!"

The already restless crowd is even more manic, and even the most apathetic are now looking excited. They roared loudly, made noises by various means, and also waved to nearby ships.

Compared to their excitement, Rurik seemed much calmer.

Arriving at New Roseburg is a phased victory in a long journey, where a group of people will land as a new group of settlers. Especially those accompanying leather craftsmen and small-capital businessmen, they will build new mansions here and start a new business life in the new world.

The Governor of New Roseburg is out of town with all the current occupants of the city! They gathered on the river bank, watched the arrival of the huge fleet, and actively began to greet them.

Now it is the flood season of the Neva River, the flow of the river is quite large, and it is quite difficult for the fleet to advance only by wind.

The main ships began to be towed and assisted by oars, and all the ships docked. As a result, the "Eighth Eighth Fleet" of the Principality of Rus was already anchored in the capital of the Principality.

The long and narrow planks were lowered, and the sliding door panels on the broadside were pulled.

Rumia has experienced a long voyage, and she has vomited all the way. Rurik hoped that it was morning sickness, but in fact it was simply seasickness.

Her mental state is quite sluggish, but in the face of this new big city that does not belong to the old city of Roseburg, she must show the demeanor of the high priest of Rose to the people here wearing the antler helmet.

"Here... it's Novo Roseburg." She asked indifferently, staring at Rurik.

"How? A brand new city, our capital."

"That's great! We're going to build a new temple here."

"Maybe there will be a big statue erected at the mouth of the river. Odin's statue! Odin's eyes stare at all the passing ships." Rurik seemed to say, but he planned to imitate New York.

Seriously, New Roseburg really needs an iconic building, such as a lighthouse, or a colossus of gods that resembles a lighthouse.

Colossus of Rhode Island? Or the Statue of Liberty?

From a pragmatic point of view, piling up a rammed earth mound to set up a lighthouse is a cheap and practical move.

There should be a large infrastructure in New Rose Fort, and all the current infrastructure is not as good as building a new temple.

He hurriedly grabbed the hand of Lumia, who was looking left and right, and said with a smile, "Let's go! High priest. Let the cheering crowd see our style."

She nodded, and two more lines of tears welled up, because she herself was indeed the heart of the cheer.

The High Priest is here, and New Roseburg is the real capital!

The high priest is here, and the gods will truly bless this place!

Rurik was chatting with the governor Knusson, and both knew their responsibilities, so he spent the rest of his time directing the unloading of the cargo and the disembarkation of the personnel.

That night, there was a real carnival in New Roseburg.

The city's inherent market is open all night, and new immigrants who choose to settle here according to plan, buy daily necessities at the first time.

Ships of casual merchants and craftsmen will arrive one after another, and some of the first to arrive are immediately shocked by the fur exchange here.

Because, in Roseburg and the world further north, the trace of the big squirrel has disappeared for many years, and the fur market here, on the other hand, is large and cheap. They were fortunate that they were following the fleet, and they had forgotten their exhaustion. After purchasing some leather, they began to put small wooden stakes in the open space beside the city, and they never announced that this was a homestead.

A key meeting of the night was held here in Roth Duma.

Knusson slaughtered a few deer for the elites of the prince's fleet, but Rurik had to arrange tasks for Knusson more than eating and drinking.

He listed some projects, such as fully supporting the construction of the shipyard, planning the mansions of merchants and craftsmen, and ensuring the prosperity and stability of the business district.

The most important thing is no other, it is the temple that is deliberately left in the open space near the Harvest Square!

This Rurik alone is too much to ask for.

The Great Temple must have a rocky base, quarried on the Stone Island (Gogrand Island) in the Gulf of Finland, continue to stack stones on the stone base, and build a large stone chamber with a wood roof. To make a batch of cement mortar as a binder, a large amount of crystal clear glass will eventually be attached to it, so that the sun shines on it, and the temple is crystal clear. This is very meaningful, because it is said that Asgard is full of gems, so it is of great significance to cover the great temple with the gods. Real gems are naturally unavailable, but the Principality can mass-produce glass fragments.

The Great Temple Rurik is a little creative, but with the limited material conditions now, wrapping the temple in glazed glass is already a major and expensive feat. It stands to reason that Ross is fully capable of putting a layer of glass on the temple, or because of the control of funds, Rurik doesn't want to spend crazy money in this regard.

My sister-in-law Lilia has become a very good female glass craftsman in her long-term work. She does not blow glass herself, and does not want her beautiful face to become strange. She processes glass products by die-casting technology, and happens to make a large number of glazed tiles. It is die-casting. The Neva River has a lot of river sand that can be stepped on, and this sand has a lot of impurities and can only make glaze.

Rurik brought a group of young craftsmen from his homeland, especially the young Kamne, who he relied on. They are already independent comprehensive craftsmen and only serve the princes. They will build a state-run blacksmith shop here. , the biggest job outside the tool repair service for the locals is the manufacture of glaze and glassware.

Although the harbinger of industrialization is unlikely to sound in New Roseburg, the city was not based on agriculture from its inception. New Roseburg will dominate the north with comprehensive handicrafts, trade, and shipbuilding.

Rurik gave the governor Knudson a light but heavy construction list, and he took out a heavy sum of silver taels from the big money bank and delivered it. The so-called this is the initial urban construction funds.

In order to avoid money fascination and lead Conusson to do nothing with the money, he also asked the governor to come up with a list of how the funds were used afterwards.

At present, Rurik is really incapable of making precise financial planning for the construction of the city of New Roseburg, and his management methods are relatively rough. Of course, there will be many problems here, so he can only make up for it in the future.

Rumia was ordered to stay here, she wanted to come to the High Priest's check-in and supervise the Governor to act honestly...

Rurik hadn't stayed too long in New Roseburg. He paid attention to the growth of oats in the nearby acres, and was glad that this year was indeed a good year.

The fleet will still travel far, and the next stop is Novgorod.

The meandering Neva River is getting more and more turbulent, and the Russ immigrants who came to Eastern Europe for the first time are watching the surrounding scenery.

When the river began to extend northward, even the retrograde fleet was able to take advantage of the southerly wind. There was a big lake like a sea in front of them, and they cheered and cheered, and many people were shouting that Novgorod, which is adjacent to the big lake, was coming soon.

Is not it?

Look here, a group of fishing boats can be seen with the naked eye on the lake, and there is a small settlement on the lake not far away.

The fleet entered the lake and went all the way to the east, and the small village in the distance was getting closer and closer.

Then someone from the flagship asked the confident prince: "Is there always Novgorod?"

"Of course not there! It's just..."

Rurik's answer was ambiguous, but he was also bewildered by the village.

As the fleet approached, some fishing boats came over after showing the Ross flag.

In the vast sea or the big lake, the flag is the token that can best identify each other. Rurik quickly figured out the situation, because those fishermen were simply the fighting madmen of the First Banner!

The fishermen held up a big pike with both hands, looking at their emotions, they wanted to pay tribute to the big fish to the prince.

"His Majesty is finally here! Accept my gift!"

All the flagships were gathered on one broadside, and the faces of women and children came together in a single line. Not only the flagship, but other cruisers of the same level are also close, it seems that the fishing boats are tiny existences in the cracks.

Rurik was so interested that he dropped the rope. After all, his subordinates gave gifts.

"Okay! I accept your gift! Improve meals for women and children!"

What Rurik said was true, because the real Rus people have always had the habit of eating raw fish, especially for the herring, which was caught with a knife. How to eat. And pike is extremely delicious, no one will object to its fishy smell, because the thick fish oil can keep people alive in the extreme cold. The women dragged the fish drooling, and then cut the meat for raw food.

Suddenly, the excited scream of the woman caught all the attention.

But the woman on the Duke of Ostara held up the young child and shouted to the fishermen: "Harald! Look at me! And your child!"

The fishermen squinted and trembled immediately, and they could maneuver the fishing boat to get closer.

He shouted, "Kalia! Wait for me! I'll pick you up."

The woman can't wait to be reunited with her husband. She is a Slavic woman, knowing that returning to Novgorod is her hometown, her heart has long been integrated with Ross over the years.

She sold the wealth of her hometown and turned it into a heavy bag of silver and copper coins. Wrapped in a soft cloth, he climbed down the rope ladder that was thrown down. The two children had already been roped down to their father's hands.

The Rus witnessed a scene that brought tears to their eyes. Their family reunion on Lake Ladoga was just the beginning, and soon most of the Rus families will be reunited.

Rurik wanted to build a small town at the mouth of the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga, and even another town at the intersection of the Neva and Lake Ladoga.

Obviously the people made their choice and they chose the former.

Lake Ladoga is a term that has been around since ancient times, when the Rus learned it from the Suomis a long time ago. It doesn't matter what it means, it probably describes a large lake. This fishing village has its own name, called Ladogastad, a typical Norse name.

The fleet had to stay briefly in Radogastad for very touching reasons.

Because the traditional Rus people have not been farmers until this year, they have only made major innovations in the technology of sowing, and have no clear concept of intensive cultivation. If Rurik did not personally supervise them, they would not even have the idea of ​​irrigating the lake. It is impossible for them to spend a lot of time in tending the fields, but instead take up the old line of fishing. It just so happens that the hydrological conditions in this area are excellent, and the rich fish resources are simply allowed to be plundered by the Rus.

A group of the first flag team went down the river with professional tools such as fishing tackle and tycoon to build a summer camp on the bank of the Great Lake, which is called Ladogastad.

Then, when Sorgon sailed and camped on the lake by accident, he caught a huge fat pike, and the good news was passed among the Rus. No one would deny the charred flavor of the roasted meat when it sizzles with oil, and the roasted pike smells the most. They mainly caught pike, followed by bass, and occasionally encountered freshwater seals and actively killed them.

Rurik, who went ashore and walked around, saw the general situation of this small fishing village. The brothers all lived temporarily, and the large number of wooden sheds they built were indeed impossible to withstand the wind and cold.

There are not many buildings here, but there are a lot of wooden poles, and hemp ropes are hung between the poles, on which are hung densely dried fish that has been roasted and dried to extremely compact dry meat. Apparently a lot of the pike they had caught before were ready-to-eat steaks, and a batch of bass was hung whole.

In their conception, wheat is always precious. They have never seen a harvest created by their own hands, so they are not completely sure about this year's wheat harvest. At least catching fish to make dried fish, this craft has been done for generations, and given the opportunity to catch fish, most people make dried fish almost as a matter of survival instinct.

A group of women disembarked with their children in their arms, and they were reunited with their husbands, followed by Ladogastad, who runs the summer camp on the spot.

This is a good start, settlements are formed spontaneously, which means this geonode needs a settlement. In the foreseeable future the settlement will urbanize until it becomes a post-inn-like existence.

The journey continues and the journey is drawing to a close.

It was the final voyage, and the rowing boats that pulled the big ship forward were struggling. There are a group of Russian women in the oars, and a group of Slavic women. The former is to open up a new world, and the latter is simply to return to her parents' home. Today's paddling has nothing to do with men or women. In order to get home faster, everyone who has the strength to paddle is working hard. On the contrary, almost all the big boats have no one standing.

No one thought it was wrong, because the great and young prince was also a member of the paddle.

Rurik was sweating, and everything was like Otto forty years ago. His young king-eater boys and girls interpret this as the real Russ by paddling on the Volkhov. As the saying goes, if you don't advance, you will retreat. Although the Volkhov River in the wet season is far less than the Neva River, its flow rate throws a lot of psychological pressure on these cubs. The paddlers cannot stop, because there is another towing group behind the towed boat, and the result of one party's slack may be to collide with the rear boat.

The high-intensity physical training on weekdays showed their physical advantages to the fullest at this moment, and the young paddlers fully proved that they are indeed the new force of the Principality of Ross.

After three days of paddling, many people were still troubled by sore arms, including Rurik himself.

Perseverance finally yielded a perfect result. The front is the farmland attached to the White Tree Manor.

Do not! That is already Novgorod!

The boy who belonged to White Tree Manor standing on the bank waved to the Ross fleet, which was flying the Ross flag and formed a snake formation.

There is no suspense anymore. The closer the fleet is to Lake Ilmen, the more open the river is, and the more the water continues to ease.

The fleet returned, on the sixteenth day of the July Julian calendar, and although Rurik took more time than expected, he succeeded in accomplishing the feat.

The fleet was temporarily moored on the Volkhov River, and the ships broke down one after another. Everyone disembarked and immediately started supply work in Novgorod.

Compared to the excitement of the clansmen entering the warm new world, what Rurik only has is the gratification after success.

He easily recognized Svetlana from the welcoming crowd, still fresh and beautiful. Next was Noren, his high, delicate chin exuding arrogance.

Although Otto is old, in order to show his arrogance in front of his own people, this time he changed into a chain armor shirt.

Niya is also an old woman, and this time she continues to hold a baby.

The ten maids in Rurik were all flamboyant, dressed with similar hairstyles and wearing the same clothes, as if they were ten sisters!

Rurik returned to his loyal Novgorod, approached his family, approached his subjects.

He didn't say much, just "I'm back", and succinctly announced the successful end of the immigration operation.