Rise of Rurik - Chapter 626

[Chapter 627 Welcome to Year 834]

The sun went down, and the afterglow dissipated below the sea level.

Stars cover the world, and the temperature is extremely low.

The opposite of the low temperature is the excitement of Roseburg.

A large amount of wood waste, branches, and dead wood were piled up, and a huge wooden tower was successfully piled up.

Pile towers have become a new nation. The so-called burning towers are a gift to the gods, and every household has to contribute a little firewood.

No matter where they come from, they are all Rus now, and the worship of the fire is welcome to all.

The time has come, the stars are returning, the aurora is a green streamer, and suddenly a shooting star passes by!

Someone raised his hand to the sky: “That’s a parading Valkyrie!”

But the shooting star suddenly dissipated, and some people were stubborn, raising their hands and insisting that they saw the shooting star, and also saw the smile of the old priest Velia who turned into a Valkyrie.

People elicit empathy for their words, regardless of whether they actually saw the shooting star or not, his family just said that they saw the image of the old priest.

The rumors were getting more and more outrageous, with some even claiming that he was personally blessed by the gods.

“Maybe gods exist. Velia, you are indeed a Valkyrie. We all agree that you are a Valkyrie.” Rurik did not comment on the rumors, but in his heart he hoped that these beneficial rumors would spread more and more. wider.

A duchy on the rise, people from at least three cultural groups gathered to form a new Rus.

It was the local Rus who used force to conquer a principality, so she naturally had the possibility of splitting.

Unless, all the people worship the same thing, such as flames.

Under the wooden tower, all the people of all colors living in Roseburg gathered here.

Not only them, but also people from Elronburg, Kowenstad and Tombstone Island, who came to participate in this event in reindeer sleigh and horse sleigh.

The men put on their weapons and looked awe-inspiring, while the women put on calico clothes and tried their best to dress themselves colorfully.

A large group of children was running around, and the baby in the swaddle was screaming and crying.

There were lit torches everywhere, and flames formed a garland of flames on Roseburg’s wooden walls.

Rumia stared at the antler helmet again and chanted the ritual, and Rurik killed five reindeer himself.

The boy’s handsome face and newly grown beard were stained red with deer’s blood. Rurik held up a burning torch and threw it onto the dry pyre.

Under the starlight, moonlight, and aurora, the frozen beach of Roseburg was billowing with smoke.

Soon, the initial flame ignited, and the pupils of more than 10,000 spectators also ignited flames. They stood and stared at the flames gradually turning into fire dragons, and then felt the refreshing warmth…

The fire tower has been burning, and firewood is constantly piled up.

Until the new dawn pierces the darkness before dawn, people don’t need a tower of fire to illuminate the darkness.

The soft light of the morning sun shone on the faces of tens of thousands of people watching the sunrise on the ice sheet.

Welcome to 834 AD!

The daylight hours are still very short for a few days after sunrise, and then the time will quickly lengthen, and it will lengthen to occupy half of the whole day within three months.

Year 834 of the Julian calendar has arrived.

As the highest nobleman of the principality, his childish face was attractive enough, but now his eye sockets are very obvious, and his eyes have become deep and sharp.

The body in this Nordic painting begins to grow golden fluff vigorously. Only the wives and concubines know where the clothes are wrapped. Only the cheeks, lips and chin, the fluff is clearly visible.

Many old guys who grew up with Otto thought of Otto when they saw this young boy.

Otto was also a beautiful boy back then, and he was also a good fighter.

It is for this reason that he has the right to marry the beautiful Niya.

That was the distant past, and Ross was no longer the small tribe that cared about its own life back then.

Today, all known worlds north of Tombstone Island are completely the territory of the Principality of Ross, and the people living there, whether they are their own family members or servants, do not have any forces that can threaten the power of Ross.

If there were, it was the Karelians who were in dire need of conquest.

So this year, according to the promise to the Suomi people last year, take the Karelians?

Rurik had no intention of concealing his ambition. He began to utter harsh words deliberately, shouting a slogan that made all the strong men beat their blood like chicken blood: “Use Rose’s sword and shield to fight for the living space in the sun.”

The Duke is at war again!

May I ask, is there any enemy in this world that the brothers fear?

The Danes are obviously unfounded, Svealand’s allies are dejected losers, and the British guys are all idiots.

Ross was stronger than before, because among the mercenaries who were ordered to participate in the logging work, there was a group of native Balmerks.

Everyone believes in Odin and has exactly the same warrior culture.

The Balmerk mercenaries are not only for money, they feel that following Rurik will continue to achieve themselves in one victory after another, and finally become a heroic spirit.

How can you just let yourself take advantage of a good thing?

There is still a vote of brothers in my hometown who are unwilling to immigrate to Britain. Wouldn’t it be better for everyone to directly raise the flag of Ross?

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Work that had been suspended due to the extreme cold has fully resumed as the day lengthens.

In the first ten days of January, another small-scale cold current went southward, bringing another rather serious snowfall to the already frozen world. Fortunately, the snowfall process lasted only three days.

What is this?

As usual, people swept the snow in front of each door to make snowdrifts, and then shoveled the blood clots onto sleds and pulled them all out of the city.

After the snow, the construction speed of Blast Furnace Town has been greatly accelerated.

The wooden piles at the core of the walls have all been built, and the rest is to build the walls around these strong wooden piles.

Inside the wall, not only were the wooden piles built, but wooden walls were also stacked on top of them to build a wooden floor.

In terms of building wooden houses only, Ross not only learned the technology of the Slavs, but also made improvements and innovations based on it.

In Rurik’s view, these are not innovations, but relying on the existing technical level to create the traditional wooden houses that were common in Europe before the electrical age.

A large number of woodcuts are used for living and living by craftsmen, and the obviously simple and simple big wooden houses are warehouses at all.

An open space was deliberately left, and the original tree roots on it were dug out abruptly.

The land is leveled, and some simple sheds with air leakage are placed on it.

Here would stand the blast furnace, and a large number of auxiliary small furnaces.

A hill of iron ore is being piled up, and the ore dug from the mountain is covered with a layer of snow, making the ore even more magnificent.

Regarding the construction of Blast Furnace Town, ore excavation, timber transportation and processing, traditional leather and linen production, soap production, and even shipbuilding, Rurik no longer had to personally supervise these things.

Even he doesn’t need to be supervised. Tens of thousands of people are doing their own work to create a pair of invisible hands. Roseburg’s economy is operating benignly.

Rurik was convinced that what he had to do personally was to hold the most core things, namely precious metals, metal utensils, salt and grain.

These physical resources are actually his personal dominion, and the so-called divinity is really the icing on the cake.

In the past few days, all kinds of people have made a lot of money by selling their labor.

Rurik also took out more wheat and salt in January at the right time, and the terms of purchase restrictions were also relaxed, so the silver coins sent out were basically recovered.

A lot of wheat!

Today’s wheat is a small profit for the ruler of Rus.

Looting from Britain, collecting grain in Novgorod Sogon, and opening up new farmland at the mouth of the Neva River, there seems to be only the cost of transportation and labor.

Only in the area around Lake Mälaren does it cost a huge sum of money to buy food.

The military campaign of 833 solved the food problem for the coming year for the first time.

More than two million pounds of wheat were obtained from the capture and Sorgon. After paying the soldiers what they should have paid, Rurik still got such a large amount of grain for nothing.

In Ross, the anchor of silver coins was grain.

The Duchy of Ross has formed a large consumer market internally, but it is still very closed to the outside world.

A total of more than three million pounds of grain is essentially the property of the duke’s family, and it is the property of Rurik himself.

It is very ironic that only he personally realizes that such a large-scale grain has the power to shake the earth, while ordinary people simply think that if they obey the Duke’s request, they can get coins for granted, and they can buy delicious wheat by changing hands , other than that he had no other ideas.

Now a great quantity of grain is far better than a great quantity of gold and silver.

As a principality, Ross is actually implementing a food-based economic system.

This is a wonderful thing in Europe at the same time. In other words, the spiritual core of Rurik’s orientals is to cultivate the land in the depths of the soul. From the perspective of the oriental world, sufficient food is the bottom core of a country’s long-term stability elements.

The Ross people are indeed consuming food rapidly, and they are creating a large number of things with long-term significance and value, and their personal physique is also stronger because of enough food in the cold winter.

The old blast furnace will still be the main smelting force in the next six months, and the two old blast furnaces will also end with a bang.

The furnace has been producing brittle gray cast iron. In the new year, the task of casting cast iron tools was stopped by Rurik, but the gray cast iron was still being manufactured, but the irregular iron pieces formed after casting were smashed into pieces by a sledgehammer. debris.

These shards of iron with too high carbon content were immediately thrown into ordinary small furnaces, and continued to be calcined by high fire to remove part of the carbon, resulting in low-carbon steel that could be forged.

This is the method of frying steel, and it is also a technique popularized in the workshops of the Blacksmith Alliance.

Rurik was not worried about technology leaks at all, even though many merchants from the southern allies lived in Ross.

Even Rosberg may be mixed with the elaboration of Mellaren.

How about that?

If they can learn blast furnace technology, it can be said that they are helped by the gods, unless Mellaren also has a traverser.

Do not!

This is my world, my stage!

Almost all of the more than fifty young apprentices were from Novgorod. They were all about the same age as Rurik, and they were his personal iron slaves.

Their status is humble in principle, and it seems to be only in principle.

They are also a group of teenagers. Compared with other children, they are all strong men. They have changed the traditional Rus’ impression of the weak Slavs on Lake Ilmen who have been conquered long ago.

Maybe this is where one side supports the other?

Rurik was very satisfied with the achievements of these youngsters. The five hundred Tavastia female miners had limited mining capacity, so the amount of work caused by such a large number of workers turned into a qualitative change, which directly changed the work and rest of the blacksmith boy.

The teenagers can stand by the stove all day long and sweat, and they use their efforts to flatter their master Rurik.

In fact, the original intention of their efforts is not for advanced ideas such as self-realization. Their pursuit is very ordinary. After doing things according to the master’s requirements, they get food, clothing, housing, and even a wife.

Master Rurik has promised, and he will definitely fulfill his promise!

Don’t look at them as teenagers, the muscles on their arms are already terrifying.

The smashed iron blocks were brought in, and after two consecutive days of processing, a flexible carbon steel sword embryo was completed!

As for grinding and sharpening the blade, as a low-cost mass-produced device, it can be polished with a manual grinder.

Its inferior steel sword was priced at a half-pound by Rurik.

Such a price is no longer extreme for the majority of Ross men and mercenaries today.

They either sell their labor to make money or accumulate rewards, and it doesn’t take long to buy another steel sword.

As for further improving it, even making a gold-plated and gold-plated hilt, or even a wooden scabbard with engraved patterns, this aspect is too individual, and the cost is also a bottomless pit, so Rurik can’t care about it.

Fifty young blacksmiths were responsible for the most critical processing steps. As the master, Rurik directly set them a harsh task – each person produced ten qualified sword embryos that had been polished every month.

He also ordered Kamne to be the leader of the blacksmith. If the 6,000 steel swords accumulated throughout the year cannot be completed, everyone will forget about arranging his wife!

In fact, this is their fate, the order is passed on, Rurik realizes that the effect of his determination is really immediate.

Rurik didn’t dig out the bone and wash the marrow and asked his guys to really produce according to the efficiency of one sword in two days. It can be done in a short time, but people will die of exhaustion in a long time.

They will definitely evolve into a furnace that carburizes ten sword embryos at the same time, and will use various means to reduce the process and complete the task ahead of schedule.

In the remaining time, everyone can take a break, and it is also just to use this time to make some other weapons, such as participating in the mass production of carbon steel arrow clusters.

“Did they be rewarded with power by Thor?” Old Kravson couldn’t help sighing.

Not only these young blacksmiths, but also a group of professional carpenters from Roseburg were assembled and accepted Rurik’s arrangement.

His arrangement was very purposeful, that is, to ask Kawei to be the technical guide. After the group of them made the parts, they made the new torsion slingshot and the bull catapult.

As for the quantity, Rurik hopes to manufacture thirty slingshots and five trebuchets a month.

Of course there are difficulties, and their enthusiasm is immediately mobilized by the ding ding dong dong of money.

This group of carpenters had reached a tacit agreement with the blacksmith alliance in the past few years. They had already undertaken the manufacture of heavy weapon parts and some wooden ship parts. Now it was just Rurik who bypassed the blacksmiths and gave them orders directly. Orders are also paid directly by him.

If mining, logging, sailcloth making, cable making, shipbuilding and other personnel are also counted, the Ross people have as many as 2,000 “combat readiness service” personnel. body.

Roseburg has become the only realistic arsenal in Europe in this era. Rurik’s rich gold and silver and real materials are guaranteed, which guarantees the hard work of the people, and also ensures that the arsenal can continue to emit black smoke!

[End of this Chapter]