Rise of Rurik - Chapter 694

[Chapter 695 Messenger Team]

A special sledge team was established in a surprise attack, and Rurik selected 20 people from his own mercenary team, and also selected 10 people from the local residents of New Roseburg.

Some of them are old Ross people from the fjords, and there is also a group of people from Lake Mälaren.

Rurik entertained these people who were about to travel in his palace, eating roasted venison and drinking ale with them.

Holding a glass high, he walked in the hall and said: “This year we will start a big immigration, and people in our hometown must know about it before that. By April, the ice and snow in New Roseburg will melt, and the bay will become suitable for navigation. Our fleet will return to Roseborg Fjord as quickly as possible, and I will ship the wheat seeds as quickly as possible. Brothers, your task is very important. I want you to pass the letter to Harrow Zuosen and the great merchant Gu When I get to Tombstone Isle, I’m going to see a lot of wheat seeds must be set…”

He stated the significance of the mission and described a grand scene of golden wheat fields overwhelming the sky.

I especially tell everyone that this is not a dream, as long as the information is transmitted in time, starting from the golden autumn, everyone can become a fat elephant seal in the years to come because of eating too much wheat.

The following adjectives directly amused everyone.

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? Does that mean anyone is afraid?”

“Fear? We have nothing to fear.” It was the same person, “It’s just that there are risks…”

Rurik guessed that someone would hint something, so he announced in public: “You can rest assured. I promise thirty of you to bring the letters and a batch of goods to your hometown as quickly as possible, and each will get 50 silver coins.” Don’t worry, I know the difficulty, so I will give you food for fifteen days’ journey and oats to feed the reindeer. Don’t think this is just a simple mission of sending letters, I need your achievements to prove a The thing is to open up a winter ice and snow traffic line, so that Rosberg and Novgorod can be connected.”

They knew only a little about it, and they thought it would be a great trip.

The prince has always kept his promise, and he can earn half a pound of silver coins just for the task of reporting letters, and he doesn’t have to pay for the food himself.

Especially the mercenaries, they know best that for the greater good, they need to make new achievements in front of the prince.

Rurik did not choose randomly, and the elite among the mercenaries had the right to participate.

The men selected from the residents of New Roseburg are actually not tough, but they know the routes in warmer times like the back of their hands. Even if the sea is frozen now, there is no doubt about the control of the routes.

They rowed with Otto to Novgorod for the first time when they were young, and now they are too old to even be eligible to join the Second Banner.

They still have important value, which is the truth of the old horse knows the way.

Rurik himself established a route for the messenger and wrote some letters on paper in traditional script.

In particular, a special document should be handed over to the left-behind Governor Harrow Zuosen, which is to allow him to take out silver coins from the “national treasury” to pay the sender. A piece of paper has the meaning of a silver ticket.

He even drew a map for the sled team. The Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, the Åland Islands, the Great Peninsula and the land to the east of Finland are all clearly marked.

There are nouns written on the map, and that is where the sled team can get supplies.

For example, Helminki (Helsinki), the first supply point you will encounter during the journey, as long as you walk along the frozen coast, she is not far away.

The journey isn’t an endless journey along the frozen coast, and all will be well when the team arrives at Tombstone in the frozen Åland Islands.

Because when they continue to go north, they will definitely meet a group of masters who dig ice, fish and catch seals.

This won’t be a lonely journey, and being able to meet some people from my hometown along the way must also eliminate the fear of ice and snow and freezing to death psychologically.

The climate is still cold, the branches covered by ice and snow are ready to move, and the grass seeds on the ground under the snow are about to germinate.

Southern Europe is already full of spring, and the whole of Eastern Rome has even completed their spring plowing.

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

The sleigh team was ordered to set off. Thirty of them were divided into ten sledges, pulled by as many as forty reindeer.

Rurik hoped that they would complete the task earlier, and spent a lot of money on logistics. Fortunately, the warehouse in New Roseburg had enough supplies to deal with the excessive consumption that Rurik needed.

The sleds had brought a load of oats, which were rations for the deer.

Human rations consisted of heaps of oatcakes mixed with wheat, and pickled venison and fish jerky.

What awaited them was an expedition of up to a thousand kilometers, which was very dangerous from any point of view.

Just like this, a large amount of rations, dry charcoal blocks for fire, and materials that can quickly build tents are quite well prepared.

The most critical letters were in a suitcase, along with a special shipment of freeze-dried squirrel hides.

The main ships of the huge Ross Fleet are still trapped in ice and snow, and the ice is like a shackle. They are firmly anchored on the frozen Neva River.

A small team of sledges was ready to go, each sledge attached to a mast with a Ross flag on it.

This makes the team look quite majestic, and it also ensures that everyone can see each other to avoid getting lost, and can even explain their identities to the settlements along the way.

The team set off, heading for the frozen Gulf of Finland watched by thousands of people.

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

People took off their hats and cheered, and only words of blessing were spoken.

“I always feel that the ice is about to melt, can they arrive smoothly?” Svetlana worried.

“They will, they will. Lanna…” Rurik murmured.

“Well.”

“We should also prepare for the next thing as soon as possible. We have to return to Novgorod as soon as possible and bring a large number of immigrants there. This matter cannot be delayed.”

A larger sled team is in preparation, and the whole of New Roseburg is buzzing again.

Some early immigrants wanted to leave the city to go further east. Everyone knew that Novgorod had more suitable fields for farming, but the land on both sides of the Neva River in Novorosburg was not bad.

When an immigrant has nothing, or is not settled in a region, and then sets off to settle in a possibly better region, he will not have many worries in his heart. As the saying goes, bare feet are not afraid of wearing shoes.

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

Once the Rus became farmers, they became bound to the land itself like no other.

They have not lost their pioneering spirit, but no one will boldly give up the land they have actively developed and cultivated for many years, and they are unwilling to take the risk of delaying farming work to cultivate new areas, unless the prince gives some kind of guarantee.

Rurik did not give old immigrants a minimum guarantee mechanism. Of course, old immigrants can freely buy and sell land, as long as the buyer pays taxes every year.

It’s just that when the old immigrants went to Novgorod, they didn’t want to think about getting the cultivated fields that had been developed. On the contrary, Rurik naturally welcomed such things as logging and opening up wasteland to reclaim new fields.

Only all the Ostarans staying in New Roseburg, they have determined the total number of men, women, old and young (including infants) under the personal count of the Duchess Carlota.

The Ostara people are indeed not too much. Of course there are a group of female clansmen among them, and more men are married by in-laws.

People of various tribes often don’t worry 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 live a difficult life, so those who are not destroyed by life are the strong ones who have experienced it, which objectively makes the Varyag people’s overall combat effectiveness tenacious.

If you find a more livable environment, if you don’t have any shackles around you, it is a good choice to immigrate with your family.

In recent years, life in Scandinavia’s hometown has become more and more difficult.

Carlotta knew very well that the men under his command were a group of Jermalens and Grans.

It doesn’t matter, everyone has all moved to the east, which is farther than the land of the east, and they have separated from Sweden, and the merger with the mighty Ross has also eliminated all passive disputes.

More than six hundred people are willing to accept the leadership of Carlotta, 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.

People naturally welcome a male leader, and it is purely expedient to let a woman be the leader, Carlotta knows this well.

“We will move to Lake Ilmen in Novgorod. The most difficult thing is that the environment there is similar to our homeland. It is warmer, there are abundant water and grass for us to raise cattle, and there are fertile fields for us to grow wheat. Linen. There are no dangerous enemies there, and those around us are our allies. All of us can live in freedom.”

Compared with the Ross people, the Ostara people have the most urgent desire for a stable life.

The first group of Ostara families who immigrated began to openly sell the farmland they had cultivated, and the price was the expected wheat output of the field for five years.

These people did not reclaim a large area of land, and they were a little farther away from the city.

Those fields are not fertile, and the wheat output is not much. Perhaps the only advantage is that they are concentrated and connected as a whole, which is convenient for the early immigrants to cultivate, and it is easy to sell them today.

It is estimated that the five-year output will be used as the selling price. The people of Ostara plan to leave, and all the reclaimed land will be sold.

They have reclaimed a total of nearly ten hectares of fields, and because they are new fields, the yield per hectare has not even reached 1,500 pounds.

They do have a lot of development value, but the price given by the people of Ostara is equivalent to nearly 60,000 pounds of oats, or 60 pounds of silver coins.

The ordinary Ross immigrants here now, they were the disadvantaged people in Roseburg back then, so they had the courage to put all their eggs in one basket to immigrate.

They are indeed weak, and they have not even enjoyed the war dividends of the Principality of Ross over the years, only the dividends of survival and safety.

What family can now afford to come up with sixty pounds of silver at once?

Even if the purchasing power of silver is reduced due to the influx of huge amounts of hot money into the Rus society, the sixty pounds of silver coins is an outright huge sum of money. This price is basically enough for the shipyard to build a “Mercury-class sailing destroyer” in full condition.

Who has the ability to buy a field of this size at such a price?

Rurik has already given the departure time for the brothers of the First Banner Squad and the Ostara immigrants. At that time, more than a thousand people will sit on a huge sled team and head straight to Novgorod with all kinds of things.

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It was a peaceful night, and Rurik, who was full of wine and food, was about to go to bed early, Carlotta pursed her lips and begged to see him in a hurry.

The guard reported as usual, and upon hearing that it was Carlotta, an embarrassing thought flooded Rurik’s mind.

“Lana, look. Your sister is here, and it looks like tonight…”

Svetlana suddenly felt jealous, but she still had to smile: “I understand. I will avoid it tonight. It doesn’t matter if I sleep alone.”

She stood up and hurried away.

After a while, Carlotta approached her man.

“Is there something important?” Rurik raised his head, first moved 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 obeyed the order, but unexpectedly, her man turned over suddenly and pinned her down, and skillfully lifted her robe with one hand.

Rurik stared into her eyes with a smile: “One more time before departure? I ate the stewed deer blood, and my whole body is full of strength.”

“do not!”

“Oh? What’s the matter?”

“I actually…” Carlotta smiled kindly, “I already have it.”

“We succeeded?!” Rurik sat up abruptly, “You didn’t tell me earlier, I almost did something stupid.” After that, he beat his heart again: “It must be a boy, it must be a boy! Do whatever you want. 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 the fields.”

“Oh, Novgorod? That warm land is yours, and I will do what I say.”

“It’s New Roseburg. I’m here today…on behalf of 600 men, women, and children in Austala to find a good buyer for our field.”

(She described the field in hand, the approximate area and the price offered)

Originally, Carlotta thought that her man would be very happy to reunite, but unexpectedly, what she saw was his frown.

“What? The price I gave was too high?” She asked cautiously.

“Not high.”

“Why do you hesitate? If…you don’t buy it, who can afford it. Do I have to wait until the people of Roseburg come to sell them? Rurik, I beg you to hurry up and buy it! In this way, our immigrants will have no worries.”

It was not in Rurik’s plans to buy the newly cleared land of the Australians.

Theoretically, the more land directly under the prince’s direct control, the better, but the current situation is quite special.

Rurik wants to deeply cultivate the farmland in the Novgorod region, and the focus of agriculture will also be placed here.

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

These are the fundamental reasons, and secondly, Rurik is very self-aware, and he has no energy to cultivate the fields here by himself.

But wait!

There is still a big turning point here!

Rurik had an idea, and gradually laughed out loud.

Anxious Carlotta hurriedly asked: “Have you thought about it?”

“I thought about it.”

“So, when can I get the silver coins.”

“No.” Rurik looked into Carlota’s eyes again: “I won’t buy it myself. I can find you a buyer right now.”

“who is it?”

“Of course it’s Asuraki. Honey, you want to revive your tribe, and she wants to revive her family business. Let her buy the land, and you all get benefits.”

“fair enough.”

Rurik nodded: “If there is nothing more important, you can go back and tell your clansmen now. Carlota, it seems that Freya answered your prayer, and I will not touch you in the next few days body. You will safely give birth to the child in the new world of Novgorod.”

“Alright.” Carlota smiled with tears in her eyes, stood up, then stuffed a few pieces of Rurik’s leftover meat into her mouth, and happily ran away.

Rurik breathed a sigh of relief, and grinned again: “You can come out now. Lanna, I knew you didn’t really leave.”

Svetlana came out of the darkness and nestled very skillfully beside her husband.

“You heard it all.”

“Yes.” She said, “Sister Carlotta finally fulfilled her dream, I…”

“You still don’t want to think about it in a few years, but Regalaf can be handed over to you to raise.”

“Me?” Lanna was taken aback and opened her eyes wide and clear.

“This child lost his biological mother as soon as he was born. You are my queen, and you should learn how to be a mother in advance. When this child is weaned, you will raise him. In the future, he will be the king of Mercia, and he still wants to be called You are a foster mother.”

Think of poor Mary, poor Regrave.

Svetlana, who has always been well protected by her natal family, never imagined that there is such a poor nobleman as Queen Mary. She doesn’t hate Mary at all, and she plans to learn how to please men from her.

It’s a pity that everyone has their own destiny.

She was moved with compassion and agreed to the royal order.

[End of this Chapter]