Rise of Rurik - Chapter 658

[Chapter 659 Cleaning]

If tonight is a simple celebration banquet, Rurik only needs to be anxious for all the generals of the Ross Principality’s regular army to have a feast of barbecue and spirits.

Uski and Tory, the two local manor owners, were honored to be at the banquet because they provided Rurik with a list—a purge list.

There are twenty manors living by the lake. Vadim, the leader of Pine Needle Manor, set off a big rebellion. His disappearance may have been buried or he may have fled. Rurik has not paid much attention to his life or death.

What he cares about is the rebellion attitude of the other seventeen manors. Five of the seventeen manors sent troops to directly participate in the rebellion. What about the other twelve?

I’m afraid they simply didn’t have time to send troops!

Usky and Tory, at this moment, they no longer cared about other manor owners. In order to flatter Duke Ross, they selected five of the seventeen main manors. In fact, they were the five who sent troops to fight, just because they learned that , when Vadim declared war on Rus, these five estates were particularly enthusiastic about mobilizing for war.

As for the others, most of them are hesitant, not as if they think that this is death, grasping the reality and escaping, they have achieved the glory of victory today.

They named their names, and Rurik himself found a wooden board and carved the names of these murderers in Roman letters with a knife.

As a monarch, Rurik even wanted to clean up all the local nobles in the area around the lake, leaving only the masses for easy management.

After all, even if they choose to resist again, they must have a leader with appeal.

Purge the local nobles and replace them with your own cronies. This kind of technical operation was normal in ancient times.

But if you put yourself in the shoes of the local nobles, how can you manage the huge lakeside fields?

The local people have formed a fairly stable agricultural ecological structure, forming manors one by one, and if they really kill the family of the manor owner, I am afraid that the subsequent collection of taxes will become a big problem.

For the time being, these local aristocrats still have improper use and abolishment.

It is still a clever plan to produce the chief evil to liquidate the gangsters.

Rurik intentionally waited in the occupied Pine Needle Manor. During this waiting period, the huge manor ushered in a vigorous demolition operation.

Pine Needles Manor will cease to exist!

This is the most severe punishment for a rebel.

No, the many wooden beams of the house were demolished wantonly, and the astonishing number of beams became a very special and important trophy, which was divided up by the three hardcore “Conglong” manors.

The homes of the calf and the fisherman’s manor are on the other side of the Great Lake. Without the help of Ross’s boats, it is really impossible to quickly bring the spoils back to their homes.

Simply, they started to build brand new wooden houses on the spot, and each guarded the 5% share of the farmland spoils they had just allocated.

As for the White Tree Manor, the bare-armed men have the right to directly borrow the Ross ship to transport the timber back home wantonly.

They had to make some effort to do this well, entirely because Lord Rurik ordered the immediate implementation of the policy-basically following the style of New Roseburg, building a circular wall with towers outside White Tree Manor.

White Tree Manor will also get a brand new name, and the so-called vaguely-concepted Novgorod is completely determined.

The core of the city is surrounded by the Volkhov River, and not far to the south is the huge Lake Ilmen.

Novgorod should be like this, and the location of her city construction is also very in line with the historical process.

Loot beams allow for faster construction of walls and towers.

Novgorod will have the use of residential buildings and military camps. She will definitely expand and truly become the political, economic and military center of this lake area, and most importantly, it will become a land of fish and rice in the real sense of the Principality of Ross.

No, the conquistadors of Rus had already used traditional longboats to cruise on the lake, the fishing line was thrown, and the people on board started fishing.

Even those sail destroyers, they were ordered to bring large trawl nets made of hemp rope, throw them into the lake to maneuver and wander, wantonly plundering the local European bass, burbot and tench.

The general water depth of Lake Ilmen is only ten meters, and the bottom of the lake is quite flat lake mud, with almost no rotting miscellaneous trees.

Under such hydrological conditions, although Ross’s ships could not have any sonar equipment, their trawl nets seemed to sweep across the water aimlessly, but in fact they were a kind of sweeping of fish schools.

The boats started fishing in the morning, and in the afternoon, a group of people smiling like fools drove the boat to the shore of the lake. The fish caught in the nets were gratifying, reflecting the silver-white luster. .

The Slavs on the shore never expected that the Great Lake would have such a bountiful output!

In fact, the Slavs who were servants of the Principality of Ross have almost never seen trawling. This technology is normalized in Northern Europe. They are so rare and envious. Do you want outsiders to teach?

The ruins of the Pine Needle Manor are disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye. The roofs of the residential houses that have been emptied of their belongings have been demolished, and a large amount of thatch and broken wood have a home for fuel.

The Ross army lavishly grilled the fish they caught, and the salty barley porridge cooked in this earthenware pot made life good.

Look at the stretches of wheat fields by the lake!

This year, the output of the farmland left by the Pine Needle Manor is all owned by the Duchy of Ross. Even if Lord Rurik claims that the wheat produced belongs to the Duchy (in fact, it is equivalent to his property), the general public can still use the money at the old price in the severe winter. buy it.

It was Duke Rurik who brought the victory to everyone. How he arranges it must have a profound meaning of wisdom. Mortals should not question the decision of the Son of God, so everyone is so self-disciplined that they don’t care about it. Instead, they are busy enjoying and even exchanging spoils with their companions.

Will the army stay here for a long time?

Is the crusade against the Karelians finally about to begin?

Presumably, His Excellency the Duke entertained all the manor owners in the lakeside area, and a new expedition began.

To entertain a group of “distinguished guests”, Rurik is setting up an open-air venue.

Banquet?

Pooh!

It was clearly a grand feast, but Rurik would never be a hesitant overlord of Chu.

The venue he chose was the largest courtyard in the mansion of Borudne, the old leader of the Pine Needle Manor. The place had been cleaned up quickly, and no blood was visible on the dry and hard ground, as if there had never been any killings here.

It happened here that Otto was assassinated and narrowly escaped.

Borudne himself was assassinated here by his own son Vadim.

Since this place is unlucky, let the five rebels die together!

There were a hundred knife and axemen lying in ambush outside the wooden wall, and they would all rush out as soon as they heard the sound of the horn.

The plan was well underway, and those manor owners who were completely ignorant of the Hongmen Banquet had no choice but to paddle their canoes to the defeated Pine Needle Manor with very few entourages due to the pressure of reality.

Wouldn’t the Ross people really kill the huge manor as the messenger said?

Many manor owners had fantasies, but when they saw the Varyag ships wandering around on the lake, their inner fantasies collapsed.

When they landed again, a ridiculous question appeared in front of them – where is the huge Pine Needle Manor?

A large number of buildings have been demolished, and there are wandering Varyags everywhere.

All the manor owners who landed were closely searched by heavily armored Russian soldiers armed to the teeth, and all meat-cutting knives were confiscated.

The soldiers only allowed the owner of the manor to see him, and the entourage was driven to a wooden house that had not been demolished.

The owners of the manor seemed to have been in contact with each other, and they all arrived at the Pine Needle Manor by boat around noon on the last day agreed upon. When all their personnel arrived, it was almost evening.

This group of manor owners was unarmed, and they were collectively driven to a house, like a flock of sheep locked in a sheepfold.

Some people are complaining, some people are shouting.

The Ross warrior with bared teeth came over, uttered foul words in Norse language, fiddled with the ax in his hand, and forced them all to shut up with a grim expression.

Arik walked into the temporary residence of Rurik and Otto with great interest, and the sound of footsteps woke up the dozing people.

“Are they finally here?” Rurik, who was stroking Svetlana for a nap, opened his sleepy eyes and asked.

“It just so happens that I’m explaining this to you. Brother, the knife should be bleeding.”

“Okay! Let them all see what happens to the traitor!”

The son became a fierce man, and Otto was most satisfied with Rurik like this. He stood up without saying a word, determined to take a good look at his son’s tricks with his old eyes.

Rurik, the Duke of Ross, with his wife Svetlana, the old Duke Otto, Carlota, the Duchess of Ostara, Arik, the captain of the First Banner, Hellafeld, the captain of the Third Banner, and Medved, the captain of the Slavic Banner , Archery Master Fraser.

The calf, the fisherman, and the white tree are the owners of the three manors.

Even Rurik’s young and close comrades in arms.

This group of nobles all attended this open-air feast, and there was nothing wrong with sitting on a leather cushion on the flat ground.

As for the feast of the banquet, it is a selected calf.

At this moment, the skinned, deboned and washed calf meat is roasting on the fire, and it will take some time to be fully roasted.

Rurik sat in the most honored place, and the others lined up on both sides.

Some leather pads in the distance are empty, and all seventeen manors that will arrive there will soon be filled.

People are all sitting vigilantly, because in a short while, a big show will be staged here first.

In this banquet hall, there are more than fifty guards armed with weapons. They stand against the wooden wall and hold halberds. A hundred knives and axes are separated from them by a wooden wall.

Grund is like a tool man, his steel sword is like a monster that wants to drink blood, his ears listen to the small voice, only to hope that as soon as Rurik’s order is given, a hundred brothers will rush in and kill him.

No, Rurik clapped his hands: “Come here! Invite all the guests in!”

Finally, the seventeen local manor owners who were locked in the increasingly dimly lit house finally left the place of restraint. They all wore noble calico gowns and furs, although they were a little hot, in order to show their identities. Continue to wear it.

Before they entered the meeting place, they had to walk one way under the watchful eyes of thousands of Varyag warriors. Enduring their fear, they finally entered the meeting place, and sat on leather cushions one after another according to the requirements of the Rus people.

For a moment, the scene fell into an eerie silence.

Rurik took a look at them first, five of them will be executed, who are the five lucky manor owners?

Might as well, you can catch up with them first.

Rurik stood up and said in a voice that was changing rapidly: “Masters, the rebel Vadim is dead, and the people of the entire Pine Needle Manor have been killed by me. Soon, this manor will be demolished. , the house turned into farmland, as if Pine Needle Farm had never existed.”

Hearing these words, the newly visited manor owner twisted his face and trembled.

This young boy is indeed the new leader of the Ross people?

The eyebrows were indeed exactly like the old Otto sitting next to him, but the viciousness of this boy was a hundred times better than his father’s, and he actually explained this terrible fact of killing with the calmest words.

Seeing the astonished faces of these people, Rurik deliberately said again: “I heard that many of you supported the rebellion, and the reason why I couldn’t see you in the war was simply because you moved too slowly. ”

This remark already carried obvious killing intent, and some wise people hurriedly stood up: “My lord! We dare not rebel, it is the damned patricide Vadim, who said we would kill all of us if we didn’t obey! My lord! The farm has a population of less than a thousand people, and they will easily be killed by them. My lord! How dare we rebel against the great Ross?”

“Really? What’s your name.”

“Dreyvislav Sokoslavitch, lord of Green Grass Creek Farm.”

This name, Rurik remembered that this name appeared on the list, and he could not hear it wrong.

Revisiting this person’s rhetoric in this way, wouldn’t it be a sophistry throughout the article.

He told him to sit down, and if he had heard what other people said, even if he felt wronged, he would speak out now.

With this order, let’s see that these seventeen people are all talking about claiming that they were coerced by Vadim, but they are scrambling to say that they have no objection.

“Be quiet! There are traitors among you!”

After saying that, Rurik took out the board and gave a wink to a guard with a horn on his chest.

The bullhorn is sounding!

There was a commotion outside the wooden wall, and Grund rushed in with a hundred knives and axes.

At this moment, Arik, Hailafeld and others also drew their swords one after another, with serious eyes and murderous looks all over their bodies.

The intruders were ordered to keep quiet, only Rurik continued his words.

Rurik ordered the terrified seventeen people to report their names one by one, and as long as it matched the life engraved on his wooden board, he ordered his subordinates to take them aside.

As a result, five estate owners who were clearly involved in the rebellion were arrested.

The five people were immediately tied up with ropes, like a hairy crab, and then pressed to the ground so that they could only struggle limitedly, like fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

At this situation, the other twelve manor owners were dumbfounded. They wanted to avoid it, but they were trapped inside the wall by the Ross warriors who formed the shield wall.

Rurik continued to shout in Slavic: “The five of you participated in the rebellion. You are traitors of the Great Principality. The evidence of the rebellion is solid. Today is your death day! Come, execute!”

Who would have guessed that going to the banquet would mean death?

None of the seventeen people had such a psychological estimate, and they all felt that only by coming in person could they show their sincerity.

Even though that Drewislav claimed to be coerced and did not want to be an enemy of Ross at all, his head was chopped off by a warrior with a big axe, and his entire head was raised in public.

All five were beheaded, and the soldiers held up the head of Guizhou to show the fate of the rebels.

The twelve people trembled when they saw it, and more than one of them was so frightened that they wet their pants. They all knelt down and begged Duke Ross to spare their lives.

“Forgive me? Yes! Have you seen what happened to the rebels?”

They said yes one after another.

“Actually, I know that if you acted faster, you would join the ranks against our Ross army. Mine is fair, and those who were killed without investigation sent troops to fight. You people did not do this. I Taking a fancy to this fact, you did not participate in the rebellion, and you avoided death by being clever. You have also seen that this is the end of the rebels, I hope you will take care of yourself, otherwise it will become ruins like Pine Needle Manor!”

They didn’t know what to say anymore, and some people even fainted because of extreme panic and sudden relaxation.

This is a grand banquet. When the dead traitor leaders are all executed, and the blood of the traitors is sprinkled on the banquet hall, it can be regarded as a warning to all local Slavic nobles, or a warning to the entire Ross Principality.

The fate of the rebels is to be beheaded in public!

This is very much in line with the customary law of the Ross people for hundreds of years, and it is also understood and accepted by the local Slavs.

The corpse was pulled away, and the beheaded head was thrown out together.

The blood-stained ground was temporarily sprinkled with ashes to cover it, and in a short while, the roasted whole cow with hard vegetables was put on a trolley and pushed into the banquet scene.

At this time, Rurik gave another order, and all the knives and axes at the scene retreated, and even the fifty guards with halberds also withdrew without a trace.

Otto witnessed his son Rurik’s clean execution of the rebels, and he stood up to announce the start of the banquet when he was happy. A group of people shared the roasted calf…

The confiscated dagger was returned by the Ross people, and the twelve manor owners who were frightened looked at the roast beef in the glass plate, ignoring the preciousness of the glass plate.

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They didn’t dare to eat it for a long time, their minds were full of the killing just now, and looking at those Ross people who ate beef wantonly, they were simply monsters!

It happened to be them, the well-deserved masters of this lake area.

[End of this Chapter]