Rise of Rurik - Chapter 1021

[Chapter 1021 Rurik Triumphs His Prosperous New Roseburg]

The long ice block is finally over, and the sea is still floating with broken ice, which can sail even the smallest fishing boat with ease.

The trade routes blocked by ice and snow were officially restored, and the dormant power of the entire eastern and northern Baltic Seas began to recover.

The huge Ross fleet is about to return to the Kronstadt berth in New Rossburg!

A year ago they assembled from Tombstone and set sail for an expedition, and a full year later they came home with spoils and great victories!

After many days of rest, the army entrenched on the island has almost recovered its energy.

They have been eating dried fish these days, and this kind of food can only make do.

Still because of the blockage of the ice, food from outside the region cannot be transported to the island. Thousands of appetites have already caused the food on Tombstone Island to run out.

Fortunately, the difficult times are over!

Fishing operations will be in full swing, and fishing boats from the north will rush frantically into the southern Baltic.

Fishermen of all stripes on Tombstone have perfected their hemp nets and gaff lines, and even steel forks for whaling and sealing.

The army that is about to go home completes the final preparations.

The restless Xin is jumping around. The people who survived the war did not have the mentality to lie down and enjoy the victory after the triumph. They are the best labor force. the power of.

They are energetic and anxious, and the king has stipulated that the agricultural tax in 841 will be completely exempted.

There are even rumors that the so-called great king Ren Shan will also be exempted from the agricultural tax in 842 next year.

This kind of good policy is very beneficial to the new and old Russians who own good land and make a lot of money, but for the Slavs with a population of more than 200,000 in the Novgorod region, they are really grateful for the good governance.

Rest with the people for at least one year. If the situation is not bad, you can rest for two years.

Rurik knew very well that the Frankish Kingdom officially split in 843. He learned this history from textbooks, but he didn’t know the details.

Now that I have become the promoter of this period of history, the war of 840 has changed a lot, but even if I didn’t get involved, the rifts of those princes have already appeared, and the civil war has already broken out.

There must be a decisive battle to end everything!

Maybe it will happen in 843 after all.

Resting with the people in this way is not really sympathetic to the strength of the people, but to allow the people across the country to slowly accumulate “fat” to calmly face new and severe challenges.

For the benefit of the kingdom, Ross would not hesitate to intervene in the Frankish civil war.

In order to prevent Ross from occupying a strategic advantage when the decisive battle comes, and even defending the fruits of victory in Europe in the 840-year war, the strategic layout must start without stopping.

The price-raising of horse leather was a great success, the treasury won four hundred pounds of silver coins, and the black fox and red fox brothers handed over the voting certificate.

The two brothers were about to leave their old father, and accepted the arrangement of King Rurik. They brought letters of introduction, money, mercenaries, and an armed cargo ship. They first went straight to the temporary capital of Denmark, Mahobi or Copenhagen, and then went to Hamburg to stay. Waiting for news.

They will undergo a special ceremony in Hamburg – a baptism.

Converting to God is the order of King Ross, and the black fox and the red fox are even looking forward to it.

The two are not devout at all, but in a sense they can act very devoutly.

Seafaring businessmen will always face many bizarre things. People are superstitious for this reason, so it is always a good thing to believe in a few gods.

Belief in God is to add a patron saint to the unknown business road, nothing more.

However, with the blessing of God’s faith, it is possible to conduct grandiose activities in the Frankish world.

As soon as good news comes from the Rhine hinterland, the brothers will head to Rotterstadt.

They will stay in Rotterstadt and immediately start building the Ross store there, which is a comprehensive base including commercial, military, and material distribution centers.

It is euphemistically called the concession area obtained from the Earl of the Netherlands, and the lease time is unlimited.

The Gould family is rich and powerful, and only on Tombstone Island, the two brothers easily recruited some vikings who wanted to make a living.

They still recruit soldiers, and the mercenaries come from Lake Mälaren, and they even recruit past folks from their ancestral Anklas tribe first.

“Your second brother first explored the way for you, and eventually he will control the security of the entire Götaland in Gothenburg. In the end, your two brothers will each be in charge of the Ross store in Rotterstad and Nassauburg. “This was Rurik’s arrangement, and the two of them kept it in mind.

The old Gould will finally meet his own end, and the loneliness of thinking that his last two adult sons will leave him to start a business is enough to make the old man cry.

He sent the blacksmiths on the island to create two special and precious amulets, which are actually two silver cross pendants inlaid with gold.

Wearing this, they’re like wild Christians!

It is not.

The brothers also own a solid amber lucky genie pendant, a sterling silver hammer pendant (for Thor), a sterling silver bird pendant (for Odin), and a sterling silver pig pendant (for Frey).

The letter of introduction written by Rurik with the two men, one of which was in pure Latin, was handed over to Archbishop Esquiel after they arrived in Hamburg, and Esquiel then baptized them By.

This matter was Rurik’s last concern on the island, followed by the final triumph.

According to the tradition, Rurik organizes staff to hold the spring sailing ceremony on Tombstone Island.

Those brave fishermen took the risk to catch the fish first, and these became one of the sacrifices.

The other sacrifices are grains of wheat, and the addition of catches represents the gift of the earth and the gift of the sea.

Any sacrificial ceremony has its own particularities, and its interpretation is firmly in the hands of the king himself.

Rurik has his own explanation for this.

A small pine platform was built on the shore of the pier, and fish and wheat were placed on the platform, and then the whole wooden platform was lit with a fire to worship the god Frey, who was in charge of the harvest.

For the belief in the Nordic gods, each tribe has different beliefs, and Rurik regulates it and establishes seven gods as the main worship.

God Frey is a god believed by all tribes, and any work related to wealth is under her protection.

Because the Nordic sea god is always frightening because of the waves, people do not worship this god, but are simply afraid.

This small-scale sacrificial event was mainly dedicated to Frey and Odin. When the sacrifices turned into green smoke in the raging fire, the ceremony was completed.

The once bustling Isle of Tombstone will go into hiatus for a while, but it will enjoy prosperity again as ships from the north and east flock in.

The huge fleet was divided into two groups, and some ships were stationed on Tombstone Island and served as merchant ships communicating with Lake Mälaren.

Most of the ships of the Grand Fleet will head east all the way, and it is no longer possible for Rurik to stop in the middle, so they will go straight to Fort New Rose.

In this way, the heroic king stood on the bow of the flagship ship wearing a golden laurel crown, and the blowing wind was no longer like a knife-like north wind, but like Freya’s caress. This warm wind can bring the power to revive the dormant earth immediately.

Even the horses were transported to the armed cargo ship, and the warriors with their respective trophies crowded the cabin.

The king drew his sword, and the sword pointed directly at the rich east.

“let’s go!”

All of a sudden, the horns of the whole army blew collectively, and the melodious sound of the horn shocked the dawn.

The sailors chanted to raise the triangular sail, and the winch quickly recovered the anchor head.

The entire fleet sailed against the south wind for the time being, until a vast sea area appeared in the east, and they rushed to the Gulf of Finland…

There is no longer any obstruction, and there is no need to stay any longer. The large and small ships are sprinting with all their strength, and the keel smashes all the floating ice that blocks the way.

During this period, Jefflo and his Finnish army happened to pass through Helminki. They did not go home directly, but continued to follow the army to New Rossberg.

The Finns have their own goals. They also obtained a lot of spoils in the war. Everyone holds a lot of silver coins, but it is a pity that there is no place for consumption in their hometown.

Or Novorosburg or Novgorod, only the markets of these two big cities allow them to buy a lot of daily necessities.

It is rare to enter a big city once, and it is even rarer to hold a huge sum of money.

They don’t need to sell grain on a large scale. Cloth, ready-made clothes, iron farming tools, and iron tableware are what they need most.

“You can buy just about anything you can think of at the Outer City Market in New Roseburg.” They believed this and were happy to explain it to anyone they knew.

The Finns also have no fear of the capital city of the kingdom. Some fellow countrymen have settled there, and the royal city has long been a melting pot of all nationalities in the kingdom.

New Roseburg has a unique water conservancy advantage, and the banks of the Neva River can be transformed into oat fields, which are also natural grazing grounds.

The channels leading from the main river provided the city with easy access to water sources, and the water in the channels drove wooden waterwheels, and more and more water mills were built.

The agricultural production base is in the area around Yinlmen Lake, and the big city of Novgorod is also.

Fort New Rose is the seat of the royal family and the largest economic and trade center in the East.

Even if the king and the expeditionary army did not return, the high priest Rumia still had to hold a sailing sacrifice as usual.

The sacrifices were reindeer, and since this was the largest city in the kingdom, the Sacrificial Sacrifice of New Rose Fort meant that all commercial activities here would start, and everyone could not tolerate the shabby ceremony.

Due to the principle of inviolability, the slaughter of a hundred deer sacrifices will not destroy the population size of the royal deer herd in principle, but at that time, the sacrifice was only suitable for the new king’s enthronement ceremony or when the king announced the launch of a war to destroy the country.

Rumia made a half-fold, and fifty deer were moved to the banks of the Neva River by the strong men.

Even with her tall antler helmet she was a small woman, which made her all the more mysterious.

She leaned on the jeweled amber staff handed down by the high priests of Ross in the past, and ordered her daughter to hold a gem-studded dagger to kill the deer one by one that was firmly controlled by the strong man.

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Verika has passed her eighth birthday. She is a hybrid of Rose and a deer breeder, with double genes from Northern Europe and North Asia.

Rurik likes his eldest daughter very much. She grows up in her own aesthetic point, and because she is the eldest daughter, it is easy for her father to love her.

Most importantly, she is destined to be the next High Priest.

The high priest of the Great Temple of Uppsala is Lumi from Cowen, and the “jewel” Great Temple of Roseburg must be inherited by Verika and his descendants.

Even though she is only eight years old, important ceremonies must be attended.

She fulfills the duties of the archdeacon, even if the work is bloody.

Killing a deer taller than myself was really scary at first, but I was relieved after being forced to do it many times by my mother.

Especially when she was so harshly criticized by her mother: “When your father was your age, he not only dared to kill a deer, but also dared to cut out the deer liver. You must prove to everyone that you are a qualified high priest.”

For a while, the banks of the Neva River were crowded with people, and even the tall city walls were full of onlookers.

The scene of the deer slaughter was very large, and they saw a short figure thrust out a bright white dagger, and then the red slurry flowed into the rapids of the Neva River full of ice floes.

Some old fellows commented on little Verika, especially her bloodline.

Verika is not a pure-blood old Ross, and until all the old guys pass away, the secret discussions on mixed-race will never stop, but no one publicly criticizes the issue of blood, because she is the eldest daughter of the king!

More people are eager to see little Verika can complete the ritual calmly, so every time she assassinates a deer, thousands of onlookers will cheer enthusiastically.

The Neva is flowing and navigation has fully resumed when the ice is discharged.

The high priest Rumia also presided over Odin and Frey. Due to the habits of the local Slavic people and the Pan-Finnish people, this sacrifice was also regarded as a sacrifice to the god of Lake Ladoga and the god of the Neva River.

People can rest assured that immediately after the ceremony, the sacrificial deer will be skinned, cut up and transported to the market for sale.

Now, snapping up “opened” venison is another spring trend, and fresh deer skins immediately flow into local leather workshops.

Even the deer bones were picked up by the Suomi people in Finland, just to make the fingers that hold the strings. Because the materials were taken from sacrifices, people believed that the fingers had the magical power bestowed by Frey, the harvest god of Ross, and bow hunters would hit every shot.

That was a sacrifice of fifty deer!

Now the deer breeders (Lapps), the servants of the royal family, have bred a huge herd of royal deer, and it is normal for the grand priest to spend a lot of sacrifices.

People firmly believe that they are more devoted to the gods and their lives will be better this year.

Therefore, the Great Temple is also the tradition of the Ross tribe after all. It comes from the Hotra family, a shipbuilding family of the Melaren tribe, and has always had its own sacrificial customs.

Baskets of inshore catch had piled up, herrings were dead, and the stinking fish had all been dumped back into the sea.

This behavior, which can be called performance art, is a tribute to the violent sea god. Carl Horterson, who manages the New Roseburg branch of the family, organized the ceremony, and then continued their great project-the hull of the Sea Monarch put up.

When the ice layer is fully thawed and turned into densely packed ice floes, ceremonies of setting sail and offering sacrifices to the god of agriculture will be held in various places.

They were looking forward to the years of abundance, but they never expected that within two days of the grand sacrifice of Fort New Rose, the fishing boats and merchant ships rushing to the Gulf of Finland and sailing westward directly met the huge fleet rushing eastward.

look!

The flags flying everywhere, and the exaggerated blue patterns on the huge triangle sail.

“It’s the king who’s back!” The family of cod fishermen completely stopped their fellows. Their boat was bullying on the waves, but it was the husband and wife who raised their hands and cheered desperately.

Rurik, who was standing on a high place, noticed this situation, and the sailor riding on the top of the mast had already descended and reported amazing information: there are small boats everywhere in the due east!

“They have already held a sailing ceremony, a little earlier than I thought?! That’s good, so the business will resume earlier, just to help me dump the spoils.”

At least a hundred fishing boats, large and small, gave up their work and spontaneously approached the large fleet.

While cheering, the fishermen saw the king sitting on the flagship standing at the bow, and the golden ponytail fluttering in the wind became the most prominent symbol.

The fleet was still huge, and the smart people suddenly noticed the abnormal draft of the main ship.

The most exciting thing is the arrival of the big ship on the voyage to the port!

Obviously, the collective draft of the triumphant fleet is very deep, which means that a huge amount of spoils will soon arrive in the royal city.

The king is fulfilling his oath, the war has won huge benefits for Ross, the wealth is about to arrive in the royal city, and those who are prepared can get a share.

Do you still want to continue fishing?

Pooh!

Hurry back to Hong Kong!

Bring your savings at home to snap up the spoils unloaded by the king!

Nor should we forget the triumphant warriors. There were a large number of men who participated in the war in New Roseburg.

People ignore the sacrificed people and the sadness caused by it, and look forward to the triumphant folks returning home with a lot of spoils, and then selling them at low prices for quick cash.

So Kotlin Island came into view, and the outline of the eastern coastline became clearer.

At this moment, Rurik was holding on to the railing of the bow, he was not excited enough to jump his feet, but the soldiers crowded in the cabin stood on the deck in unison, causing the battleship to move up one after another.

The soldiers were cheering, as were the trailing fishermen.

Who can ignore this joy!

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Rurik was so satisfied that he continued to smile, and he ordered the semaphore soldiers: “Order all the ship owners to make as much noise as possible.”

Thousands of people cheered in response to the order, accompanied by horns and war drums. They made a huge noise, which even the strong south wind could not stop.

Fort New Rose with its towering walls is already very clear, and a tall attic in the city is the royal palace.

“Finally home…” Rurik’s broad hands tightly clenched the wooden fence.

He still didn’t fall into ecstasy until his eyes swept across the densely packed shantytowns outside the main city surrounded by walls, and his eyes fixed on the shipbuilding workshop far away from the main city.

“That! Is the hull? It has been a year and a half since the dry dock was excavated. The hull of my big ship is almost finished?!”

Rurik could no longer suppress the joy in his heart, knowing that he had given the Hortra family a difficult task, with the promise of great funds and bonuses, and hereditary dignities in the kingdom.

Apparently they’ve really methodically followed orders and are starting to show results.

His heart became more and more excited, thinking that the world’s first Galen ship would be born in his hands.

[End of this Chapter]