Rise of Rurik

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A special sleigh team was formed, and Rurik selected 20 people from his mercenary team and 10 people from the local residents of New Roseburg.

Some of them were old Rus from the fjords, and a group of them from Lake Mälaren.

Rurik feasted in his palace these people who were about to travel, and ate roasted venison and drank ale with them.

He walked the hall with his glass aloft, and said, "This year we have a big migration, and before that we have to let the people of our hometown know about it. When the snow in New Roseburg melts in April, the bay becomes navigable. We My fleet will return to Roseburg Fjord as fast as I can, and I will ship the seeds of wheat as fast as I can. Your mission is very important, brothers. I want you to deliver the original letter to Harrodzen and Great Merchant Gur De's hands. When I arrive at Tombstone Island, I will see that a large number of wheat seeds must be placed..."

He stated the significance of the mission and depicted a pomp and circumstance of an overwhelming golden wheat field. Especially to tell everyone that this is not a dream, as long as the information is delivered in time, starting from the golden autumn, everyone can become a fat elephant seal from eating too much wheat in the years to come.

The following adjectives amused everyone directly.

Someone who was slightly drunk showed his slightly blackened teeth and shouted: "My lord, we are fighting for our lives! This is a cold expedition."

"Oh? So is anyone afraid?"

"Fear? We have nothing to fear." This is the same person, "It's just that there are risks..."

Rurik guessed that someone would suggest something, and announced in public: "You can rest assured. I promise you thirty people to bring letters and a batch of goods to their hometown as quickly as possible, and each will receive 50 silver coins. Don't worry, I know how hard it is, so I will give you food for your fifteen-day journey, and oatmeal to feed the reindeer. Don't think this is just a simple mission, I need your merits to prove one thing , is to open up a winter ice and snow traffic line, so that Rosburg and Novgorod can be connected."

They didn't know much about it, and thought it would be a great trip.

The prince has always kept his promises, and he can earn half a pound of silver coins just for the task of reporting letters, and he does not have to pay for his own meals. Especially the mercenaries, they know best that for the greater good, they need to make new achievements in front of the prince.

Rurik is not a random selection, and the toughest among the mercenaries have the right to participate.

The men selected from the residents of New Roseburg are not tough, but they know the routes of the warm period well. Even if the sea is frozen now, there is no doubt about the control of the routes. They rowed to Novgorod for the first time with Otto when they were young, and are now too old to be eligible for the second flag. They still have important value, which is the reason why old horses know their way.

Rurik personally determined a route for the messenger and wrote some letters on paper in traditional script. In particular, a special document is to be handed over to the left-behind Governor Haro Zuo Sen, that is, Xu Qi took out silver coins from the "treasury" to pay the messenger's remuneration, and a piece of paper has the meaning of a silver ticket.

He even drew maps for the bobsled team, with the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, the Åland Islands, the Great Peninsula, and the eastern part of Finland all clearly marked.

Some nouns are written on the map, which are the places where the sled team can get supplies. For example, the first supply point Helminki City (Helsinki) encountered during the journey, as long as she walks along the frozen coast, she is not far away. Instead of an endless journey along the frozen coast, the team arrives at Tombstone Island in the frozen Åland Islands and everything will be fine. Because if they continue to go north, they will definitely meet a group of masters who are ice fishing and catching seals.

This will not be a lonely journey. If you can meet some people from your hometown along the way, you will definitely be able to eliminate the fear of ice, snow and freezing to death.

The climate is still cold,

The branches covered with snow and ice are ready to move, and the grass seeds on the ground under the snow are also sprouting.

Southern Europe is already a scene of spring, and the entire Eastern Roman territory has even completed their spring ploughing.

In the Nordic world, there is still snow and the frozen sea as far as the eye can see.

The sleigh team led the order and prepared to set off. Thirty people were divided into ten sleds, and as many as forty reindeer were responsible for pulling.

Rurik hoped that they would complete the task as soon as possible, and it could be said that they had invested a lot of money in terms of logistics. Fortunately, there were enough materials in the warehouse of Novo Roseburg to deal with the excessive consumption required by Rurik.

The sled pulls a load of oats, which are the deer's ration.

Human rations consisted of heaps of oatmeal mixed with wheat, cured venison and jerky.

What awaits them is a thousand-kilometer expedition, which is very dangerous from any point of view. That's right, a lot of rations, dry charcoal for fire, and materials that can quickly set up a tent are well prepared.

The most critical letters are kept in a suitcase, and a special shipment of freeze-dried squirrel skins is also included.

The main ships of the huge Rus fleet are still trapped in ice and snow, and the ice is like a shackle, and they are firmly anchored in the frozen Neva channel.

A small team of sleds prepares to advance, each sled with a mast with a Ross flag on it. This makes the team look quite imposing, and it ensures that everyone can see each other to avoid getting lost, and it can also explain their identity to the settlements along the way.

The team set off, escorted by thousands towards the frozen Gulf of Finland.

Rurik and his wife stood on the frozen pier, watching them gradually turn into dots on the ice field.

People took off their hats and cheered, and what they said was only words of blessing.

"I always feel that the ice is about to melt, can they reach it smoothly?" Svetlana worried.

"They will, they will. Lanna..." Rurik murmured.

"Well."

"We should also prepare. The next thing should be done as soon as possible. We have to hurry back to Novgorod and bring a large number of immigrants there. This matter cannot be delayed."

A larger bobsleigh team is in the works, and the whole New Roseburg is buzzing again.

Some of the early settlers wanted to leave the city and head further east. Everyone knows that Novgorod has more suitable fields for farming, but the land on both sides of the Neva River here in Novgorod is not bad. When immigrants have nothing, or settle down in a region, and then set off to settle in a better region, they don’t have many worries in their hearts. As the saying goes, bare feet are not afraid of wearing shoes.

However, the early immigrants reclaimed the land and signed a contract with the prince Liurik. Are they still eligible to immigrate?

Once the Rus became peasants, they also began to be tied to the land itself, like no other. They have not lost their pioneering and enterprising spirit, but no one will dare to give up the land that they have actively developed and cultivated for many years, and are unwilling to take the risk of delaying agricultural work to cultivate in new areas, unless the prince gives some kind of guarantee.

Rurik does not give old immigrants a guarantee mechanism. Of course, old immigrants can buy and sell land freely, and buyers can pay taxes every year. It’s just that the old immigrants went to Novgorod, don’t think about getting the mature fields that have been developed, but logging to open up new fields, Rurik naturally welcomes it.

Only all the Ostarans who stayed in Novo Roseburg, who, under the personal count of Duchess Carlotta, determined the total number of their clansmen, men, women, and children (including swaddling children).

It is true that the Ostara people are not too much. Of course, there are a group of female clansmen, and more of them are men who are married by marriage.

People of various tribes often don’t bother about which tribe they belong to. They don’t even have a surname. It is a great honor to remember the names of their grandparents.

Ordinary people are living a difficult life, so those who are not destroyed by life are all experienced and strong, which objectively makes the overall combat effectiveness of the Varyag people tenacious. If you find a more livable environment, and if you don't have any shackles and fetters, it is a good choice to immigrate with your family and family.

In recent years, life in Scandinavian hometown has been getting harder and harder.

Carlotta knew very well that the men under his command were a group of Yermalen and Granites. It doesn't matter, everyone has all moved to the East, which is farther than the Eastern Land, and has separated from each other with Sweden, and the merger with the tough Ross has also eliminated all passive disputes.

More than 600 people are willing to accept the leadership of Carlota, not simply because she is the woman of Prince Ross, but also because of one thing she solemnly announced - she will be a mother, and the child in her womb must be a boy.

A male leader is naturally welcome, and a female leader is purely expedient, and Carlotta knows that.

"We will move to the most difficult part of Lake Ilmen in Novgorod, where the environment is very similar to our homeland. It is warmer, there are abundant aquatic plants for us to raise cattle, and fertile fields for us to grow wheat seeds. Flax. There are no dangerous enemies, the people around are our allies. All of us can live our lives freely."

Compared with the Rus, the Ostarans have the most urgent desire for a stable life.

The first group of Ostara families to emigrate began to openly sell their cultivated farmland for the estimated five-year wheat yield from the fields. These people did not reclaim a large area of ​​land, and it was a little farther from the city. Those fields were not fertile, nor did they yield much wheat. Perhaps the only advantage was that they were concentrated and connected as a whole, which was easy for the early settlers to cultivate and easy to sell today.

The estimated output in five years is used as the selling price, and the Ostarans intend to leave all of them, and all the cultivated land will be sold. In total, they have cultivated nearly ten hectares of land, and since it is new, its hectare yield has not even reached fifteen hundred pounds. They do have great development value, but the price offered by the Ostarans is nearly 60,000 pounds of oats, or 60 pounds of silver.

The ordinary Ross immigrants here now are the weak ones in Rossburg back then, and that's why they have the courage to go all out to immigrate. They are indeed weak, and they have not even enjoyed the war dividends of the Rus Principality over the years, only the dividends of survival and security.

What family is currently capable of pulling out sixty pounds of silver in one fell swoop? Even if the huge amount of hot money poured into the Russ society and the purchasing power of silver decreased, sixty pounds of silver coins were downright huge, and this price was basically enough for the shipyard to build a fully-fledged Mercury-class sailing destroyer.

Who can afford to buy a field of this size at such a price?

Rurik has given the departure time of the brothers of the first flag team and the immigrants from Ostara. At that time, more than a thousand people will ride on a huge sleigh team and go straight to Novgorod with all kinds of softness. .

It was a peaceful night. Rurik, who was full of food and drink, was about to go to bed early, when Carlotta pursed his lips and hurriedly asked to see him.

The guard informed him as usual, and when he heard that it was Carlotta, an embarrassing thought flooded Rurik's mind.

"Lanna, look. Your sister is here, it looks like tonight..."

Svetlana suddenly felt jealous, and she still had to smile: "I understand. I'll avoid it tonight, it's fine for me to sleep alone."

She stood up and ran away in a hurry.

After a while, Carlotta approached his man.

"Is something important?" Rurik raised his head, first removed the table with the minced meat, wiped his hands with a cloth, and asked her to sit next to him.

She understood the situation, so she followed the order, but unexpectedly, her man turned over suddenly and suppressed her, and skillfully lifted her robe with one hand.

Rurik stared into her eyes with a smile: "One more time before departure? I ate stewed deer blood, and I was full of strength."

"do not!"

"Oh? What's wrong?"

"I actually..." Carlotta smiled kindly, "I already have it."

"We succeeded?!" Rurik sat up abruptly, "If you didn't tell me sooner, I almost did something stupid." After that, he beat his heart again: "It's probably a boy, it must be a boy! Do as you wish. You...are you here to tell me this on purpose?"

"Yes! No." She slowly got up, patted her cheek and tried to restore her serious expression: "It's about Tianmu."

"Oh it's Novgorod? That warm land is yours, I'll do what I say."

"It's New Roseburg. I'm here today... on behalf of 600 men, women and children in Ostara, to seek a good buyer for our fields."

(She described the field at hand, its approximate size, and the price she offered)

Originally, Carlotta thought that his man would be very happy to unite, but what he saw was indeed his frown.

"What? The price I paid was too high?" she asked cautiously.

"Not high."

"Why are you hesitating? If . Come down! This way our immigrants will have no worries."

The purchase of newly cultivated land by the Ostarans was not part of Rurik's plans. Theoretically, the more land directly administered by the prince, the better, but the current situation is quite special.

Rurik wanted to plough the farmland of the Novgorod region, where the focus of agriculture would also be placed.

With the current agricultural conditions, New Roseburg is not suitable for vigorously developing agriculture, but it is more suitable to develop animal husbandry, fishery, and other industries such as handicrafts and shipbuilding.

These are the fundamental reasons. Secondly, Rurik is very self-aware. He bought the land here by himself, but he did not have the energy to cultivate it.

But wait! There's a big turnaround here!

Rurik thought for a moment, and gradually laughed.

An anxious Carlotta hurriedly asked: "Have you thought about it?"

"I thought about it."

"Then, when will I get the silver coins."

"No." Rurik looked Carlotta in the eyes again: "I wouldn't buy it myself. I can find you a buyer right now."

"who is it?"

"Of course it's Asraki. Honey, you want to revive your clan, she wants to revive her family estate. She bought the land, and you all benefit."

"fair enough."

Rurik nodded: "If there is nothing more important, you can go back and tell your people now. Carlotta, it seems that Freya has answered your prayers, and I will not touch you in the next days. body. You gave birth safely in the new world of Novgorod."

"Okay." Carlotta laughed with tears, then stood up, then took a few pieces of Rurik's leftover meat into her mouth, and ran away happily.

Rurik let out a long sigh of relief, then grinned again and said, "You can come out. Lanna, I knew you didn't really leave."

Svetlana came out of the dark place, leaning very skillfully beside her husband.

"You heard it all."

"Yes," she said, "Sister Carlotta has finally fulfilled her dream, I..."

"Don't think about it for a few years, but Regraf can be raised by you."

"Me?" Lanna widened her clear eyes in surprise.

"As soon as this child is born, there is no biological mother. You are my queen, and you should learn how to be a mother in advance. When the child is weaned, you will take care of him. In the future, he will be the king of Mercia, and he is still willing to call you. A foster mother."

Think poor Mary, poor Regraf. Svetlana, who had been well protected by her family, never imagined that there was such a poor nobleman as Queen Mary. She didn't hate Mary at all, and planned to learn from her how to please men. Unfortunately, everyone has their own destiny.

She moved with compassion and agreed to this king's life.

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