Rise of Rurik - Chapter 677

[Chapter 678]

The army assembled in Harvest Square, and each flag team lined up neatly according to their own organization. Each soldier put on his washed clothes and showed his heroic posture in the most gorgeous and mighty posture.

Harvest Plaza is a large flat land of rammed earth. When the army gathered, the square was crowded with people, making the square appear small.

Although they were lined up, the soldiers were talking and laughing. Many people speculated that this year’s conquest of Karelia was not over, and the army would gather again and head north again.

Some people eagerly hope for a new expedition, hoping that they can really get a lot of treasures.

Some people think that this year should end here, and the expedition will surely advance in the snow and ice. Although it is not impossible, everyone still prefers to carry out operations in the warm summer.

The warm autumn sun brought warmth to all the soldiers, and the body that gradually looked like rotten wood in the continuous rain was now dry and full of vitality.

The general public didn’t understand the Duke’s true intention of gathering the army, and they didn’t dare to enter the Harvest Square to find out, so they stopped and watched outside the venue, and even climbed the city wall, the roof of their own house, or the tree planted in front of the courtyard Find out on the branch.

The rumble of the outdoors penetrated all the buildings, and Rurik put on his gorgeous clothes and walked out of his palace in a white and furry posture.

A flag fluttered in the strong wind, and the people who watched it whispered held their breath.

Duke Rurik has appeared!

He is dressed in polar bear fur and a white fox fur hat, decorated with gold ornaments and glass beads.

The leather boots are black and made of deerskin mixed with felt.

A gilded leather belt bound his waist, and a dagger hung from his body.

His golden ponytail hairstyle is quite obvious, and his fair face has begun to be covered with golden fluff, especially on the chin. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the young Duke’s beard is already quite vigorous, just like his old father Otto.

The old fellows of the second flag team in the team, when they saw Rurik today, they thought of Otto in the past.

It is true that Otto is an old man. He was also a handsome man when he was young, and he was also a fierce fighter. He married the beautiful Niya like this, and his friends did not dare to question him.

Inheriting his father’s handsomeness and his mother’s beauty, Rurik’s heroic appearance won everyone’s praise.

The Duke is like this, and the soldiers of the army examine themselves. Lord Rurik is naturally precious, and he is equally noble.

Standing beside Rurik was a group of women in plain clothes. The linen gowns with hoods concealed the female posture. This minimalist attire was another kind of dignity, because these were the usual attires worn by the priestesses of Ross.

Everyone knows that since the reform of the principality’s sacrificial system, the duke’s female family members have also become part-time priests.

On the surface, the most honorable High Priest is Rumia, but in fact, the people in Rose Headquarters believe that Lord Rurik is indeed a psychic.

The Son of God was free to communicate with Odin out of his body, so that all priests were merely auxiliary roles.

The female relatives are all in plain clothes, with white fox hats on their heads, just like Rurik himself.

They are all accentuated with their necklaces displayed on their chests.

The horn sounded and the leather drum beat. In the solemn atmosphere, everyone looked up and paid attention to Duke Rurik.

Standing on the rammed earth abutment of the square, Rurik became the center of attention.

What he saw was a plain white army, and there were people wearing white robes everywhere, with crossed blue stripes on the chest of the robes.

Their spearheads and helmets gleamed coldly in the sun, and the steel arms of their crossbows slung from their shoulders gleamed.

Most of the round shields painted white with chalk were tied to the left arm, such warriors could clearly be thrown into battle.

Looking at his own army, Rurik felt that it would be great to have a loudspeaker at this time, and Rurik could only use his own voice to preach to the army.

The army was solemn, and people were expecting the Duke to announce something important. They held their breaths and whispered to each other in a quiet, chilling scene.

Rurik held his sword hilt and raised his chin. He deliberately left the army for a while to let them speculate, which aroused everyone’s interest.

Finally, he spoke.

“Brothers, this is our first military parade in Novorosberg! This year, we put down the rebellion in Novgorod and severely damaged the forces of Karelia! This year, our army killed as many as 10,000 enemies, You have proved to Odin that you are a true warrior! The proud Danes are no longer as noble as you, and the allies in our hometown are not as noble as you. The Duchy of Ross is the strongest. Now, I will lead you to let People of New Roseburg take a good look, let everyone see a real warrior…”

Rurik got emotional, and he talked for a while at the top of his voice.

He was boasting of the bravery and fearlessness of the warriors of Ross’s own tribe, and also boasted that other Viking tribes in the principality, such as the Balmerks and the Mellaren, were as strong.

He also boasted about the loyal servants of Suomi’s servant army, and swore again in ancient Finnish to this group of Suomi warriors who had seen a large area of flat ground for the first time in his life, that the so-called Principality of Ross would abide by the obligation of suzerain’s protection, and announced a Big decision.

“The Suomi people have the right to voluntarily immigrate to New Roseburg, reclaim wasteland here to grow wheat, accept the management of the Governor of New Roseburg, and pay taxes every year to live their own lives.”

This is an invitation to the Finnish people to open up wasteland on the banks of the Neva River.

It is not aimed at the welfare of the Suomi or all Finnish ethnic groups, but only opens up the qualifications for land reclamation to them.

All subjects under the Principality of Ross have the right to open up wasteland and farm land for the Principality. The Principality will protect the results of land reclamation by farmers, record the measured land area, and use it as a tax base.

Most of the most elite labor force of the Suomi people are here. Rurik took advantage of this gathering opportunity to invite them. As for whether they are really willing to break away from the traditional Suomi community and move their household registration to New Roseburg, that is a question. They are voluntary.

In other words, the migration of the Suomi people is the better. The value of Novorosburg is the geographical node where the eastern inland waterway enters the Baltic Sea. She is a good port but not a large amount of land. It is the big granary of the Principality.

Of course, more food is better, and the opportunity to open up wasteland and cultivate land should not be wasted.

Rurik paid attention to the faces of those Suomi people. They seemed to have heard and understood his declaration, and many of them were shaking involuntarily, as if they were eager to try.

The preaching ended here, and the soldiers who were looking forward to the war did not usher in the declaration of continuing the war in winter.

The soldiers saw Rurik jump off the abutment, leading the women’s family and a group of elite guards straight to the first banner team.

Arik smiled maliciously: “I thought you were going to announce that the fleet was going to Xiongji Town again. You just announced that anyone can come to open up wasteland and farm? Is this a big deal?”

Rurik shrugged: “Brother, we fight for looting. Only God knows how much material we can rob. But the wheat grains and flax stalks harvested by opening up wasteland and farming are predictable.”

“I’m still looking forward to a war. Listen, brother, the war is still going on, and I don’t believe those Karelians will let it go.”

“I don’t believe it either. The war is in the future. Now we should develop our own strength immediately, so we must make people full of arrogance. Come with me! Let the people see how mighty the army guarding them is.”

The Romans invented the triumphal parade, which is a military parade in costumed parade. Caesar made it to the extreme. The army circled around the city of Rome to let everyone see the heroic posture of Caesar’s legion. Caesar also invited everyone to eat for a month. .

Inviting all the residents of New Roseburg to eat for free for a month is not enough, but Rurik urgently needs the army to walk around the city two or three times around the road under the city wall.

As the greatest leader, Rurik was at the forefront, and the women in traditional priestly attire took off their white fox hats and put hoods on their heads, just to highlight a pure divinity.

Guards carried the Duke’s banner, and drummers and horns played music as they walked.

The flag teams marched forward with weapons, their steps were not completely in sync but full of murderous intent.

The city of New Roseburg itself is not big, but the distance to walk around the city is not far.

At first, the people who immigrated to the city were ordinary families of the Ross tribe. Not to mention the small number, there were more old and young people.

When the settlement was established, Slavic immigrants from Novgorod left their hometowns, and Novorosburg was no longer a purely Russian city in the early days of the city.

She is a melting pot. The Ross people, the immigrants of various Swedish tribes, and the Slavic immigrants came in droves. The permanent population of the city has exceeded 3,500 people (due to too many young babies and children, it seems that the population is not very large), and she is still rapidly developing. During the expansion, a batch of new wooden houses appearing from outside the city walls can show this. It is time for New Roseburg to consider building another outer city.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Rurik surveyed the city with his feet.

Some of the onlookers cheered, while others opened their jaws quietly.

This is the army of the Principality, with powerful troops and powerful forces, they wiped out the mighty Pine Needle Manor!

The Slavs who moved here are the most excited, men and women are very happy that they have made the right choice.

People were cheering, and a group of naughty children were running around in front of Rurik, laughing and laughing.

There were also boys carrying wooden sticks as daggers and a wooden board as a shield, imitating the posture of young soldiers of the First Banner Squad.

Now such a Slavic boy has a very clear idea of what a real man is, and the child has established his own goals.

And this armed parade, didn’t it also directly shocked the men of Suomi’s servant army?

Compared with the wooden sheds hidden in the hills, lakes and forests in their hometown, the city of the Ross people is really magnificent!

Harvest Square is very flat, which is unimaginable in the Finnish Lake District. It was the first time they saw a large area of flat land, and the subsequent armed parade around the city also stepped on flat sand and gravel.

It has been raining for more than half a month, and the roads are not muddy.

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Of course, in Rurik’s view, the road here is not smooth, and many places are full of potholes.

The two sides have different expectations for the concept of “levelling”. From the perspective of Suomi’s servants, Duke Ross not only gave himself a big face, but it is clearly a silent suggestion. The so-called Suomi returned to their hometown. , when renovating their settlement in imitation of New Roseburg.

Is New Roseburg that grand?

The road around the city is paved with sand and gravel, and there are shallow ravines on both sides of the road. The city has a basic drainage system and has played its own role in the continuous rainfall.

These are far from enough. The roads inside the city must at least be paved with stone slabs, and finally a large amount of cement is made to pave the entire road system within the wall.

Let’s talk about the buildings in the city. There are small courtyards with exclusive homes everywhere. The economy of courtyard farming is already running. The most obvious ones are the poultry running around in the city and a group of rabbits raised in captivity.

The dwellings are all Slavic-style woodcuts, and the single-story structure limits the use of space. At first glance, New Roseburg looks like a large countryside surrounded by city walls. She can obviously build double-story or even three-story wooden buildings. The city is what it should be.

Especially the so-called palaces and the Rus Duma Chamber, such buildings related to public affairs should not be long houses with a mixture of Viking tradition and Slavic style.

They should be built magnificently, and they should give people a sense of oppression to highlight their holiness. After all, they are built from the buildings on the other side of Rabbit Island, which is the main palace of the Winter Palace.

Is it appropriate for a large longhouse to be named the Hermitage?

Rurik didn’t think it was appropriate.

New Rose Fort must be expanded and become magnificent in order to properly serve as the capital of the Principality of Ross.

The parade seemed to have ended victoriously, and the people cheered, and the army, which had walked around the city twice, returned to their respective residences to rest.

Rurik’s face was not happy. He had already declared a winter truce, the assembled army would be disbanded, and each banner team would return to their homeland. It will be notified when they will fight again.

This seems to be a risky decision, but it does not mean that Ross has no soldiers to send in case of emergencies.

The woodland in the northern part of New Roseburg is currently a huge no-man’s land, and it seems that only a small group of Veps have limitedly explored a part of it, and the rest of the vast forest is still home to wild animals.

Many members of the First Banner Squad did not go far. After all, if there were no wars in winter, everyone would go hunting north of Fort Allen with their weapons when they returned to their hometown of Roseburg.

Since it’s all about hunting, wouldn’t it be possible to hunt an astonishing number of small animals by exploring an undeveloped forest?

The First Banner had already tasted the sweetness during the armed reconnaissance, and they voluntarily stayed to do it again.

Everyone’s decisions were collected and handed over to the flag captain Arik, but he said that Arik had happily run to the second wife’s mill.

Here, his wife Aslaqi, his father-in-law Harald, and his bastard Gustav can enjoy the joy of life to the fullest, even forgetting for a moment the eldest wife Peravina in Roseburg’s hometown.

Tired from walking, he soaked in the hot water wooden bucket to soothe and cleanse his body, and when he got out of the bath, he held a large piece of bread to bite hard, until his stomach swelled.

At night, lying on the soft bed, he patted his bulging belly, flirting with his beloved wife.

“I’ve decided to spend the winter here this year.”

“Really?” Asuraki was surprised and wary.

“Of course it’s true. I figured it out. My first flag team will stay here. Brothers are going to hunt in the north. There are too many squirrels there. Every squirrel skin is a silver coin. Brothers can get rich. Besides, in case there is a crisis in the north of the Great Lake, I can take my brothers to kill the incoming Karelians.”

“Well… I thought you decided to accompany me.”

“Accompany you! Of course I want to accompany you. And I have to bring your sister (referring to the eldest wife) over.”

“Her?” Asuraki couldn’t hide the embarrassment in her heart, but she hid it deep enough on the surface.

“As you please.”

“You don’t like it?”

“How dare I, she helped me when I gave birth.”

“Alright.” Arik nodded, “The fleet will sail back to Roseburg in October. As long as you move fast enough, Peravina will be able to come over there by boat before the bay freezes. At that time, your sisters will serve me. One, it’s wonderful.”

Arik thought beautifully, he really didn’t have time to take into account Asuraki’s jealousy, and he didn’t even care about her pouted mouth, so he relaxed and fell asleep after a while…

Speaking of enjoyment, Rurik is indeed surrounded by a group of female relatives.

He walked around the city twice, and the soreness in his ankle made him unhappy. When he had a request, ten maids rushed forward to serve their master with joy.

Rurik’s head was kneaded, his shoulders and wrists were kneaded.

Especially for a pair of feet, one person is really responsible for one.

From Anna to Yulia, the ten maids rarely had the opportunity to touch their master’s body. They all knew their fate, and one day they would be broken up by this heroic man and become mothers, thus becoming enfeoffed nobles.

Look at this intimate situation, Ella and Svetlana, who couldn’t stand it anymore, also walked over to join in.

Only Carlotta was watching, and she couldn’t help complaining in her heart: “Didn’t you girls go the same way? You rubbed his feet regardless of the soreness of your own feet.”

Carlotta really didn’t feel pain in her back when she stood and talked, but seeing that the sisters were already doing their best, she decided to join in.

Rurik became a sort of toy, but he ordered the chattering women to settle down before things got any worse.

Under the oil lamp, Rurik put on his clothes and told them to behave themselves, pouted and shouted: “Have you had enough trouble? Are you satisfied?”

“Not satisfied.” Svetlana raised her delicate chin playfully on purpose.

“I can’t stand it. Listen, we’re going to Novgorod soon, and we’re leaving in a few days. I’m glad you sisters are close, and I wish you all the rest of your life. Len and Mary will take it over and spend the winter in Novgorod this year!”

Rurik’s decision was sudden, and his tone was quite firm.

He has eleven female relatives all from Novgorod, and he is very happy out of reason.

Where is the whim?

It’s no joke that Otto’s father wants to live in Novgorod for the elderly, so his mother has to move here too, and a group of servants have to move with him.

This is actually a big political change in the Principality of Ross, which means that the political center of the Principality has moved eastward in a rather low-key way.

The eastward relocation was originally planned, but the biggest reason why Rurik decided to stay was still the follow-up calculation of the statistical work related to farmland. This is a huge calculation work, a major event that did not happen in the era of the Ross tribe, and a major event that created history. .

Rurik is really at ease with Ella’s work?

how is this possible!

Except for Lumia and little Lumi who are in charge of the sacrificial work, they will stay in the hometown of Roseburg to guard, and the other female relatives have good mathematical knowledge, so they must all join in the calculation work. Rurik himself will supervise and verify. Work with the final proofreading.

After all, this matter is related to the principality’s most important agricultural tax, and Rurik feels that it is most suitable for him to do it himself.

Just poor Rumia…

The high priest of the Principality of Ross obviously lived in the posture of the old priest Vilia like fate.

She did inherit Vilia’s mantle, but the Rose guarded by Vilia has changed.

[End of this Chapter]