Rise of Rurik - Chapter 700

[Chapter 701 Planting Hope for Ale in Mstisk]

Mstisk is now a large rural area under construction. Because of the experience of building cities in the past, this new city next to rivers and lakes will not mess around from the beginning of construction.

It will also quickly evolve into a town, and there will be a T-shaped intersection inside. The houses must be single-family houses, and the arrangement of each other must be coherent.

They will build new woodcuts, new warehouses, and even new dry toilets.

The establishment of a sewer system is still too far ahead, but the drainage ditches were dug in advance to ensure that when it rains, excess water flows directly into the nearby Msj River.

A new wharf is under construction by the lake, and a large number of wooden piles have been driven deep into the nearshore silt, but it is still in the spring plowing period, and no one is working here anymore.

There are also some long boats deliberately flushing the beach on the shore, and there are also a group of local canoes.

As long as you look carefully, you can see moving figures on the fields, and even moving deer.

The two large ships broke anchor only close to the shore, their bulbous bows touching the mud.

Rurik looked at Kawei again: “If you want to see it for yourself, now is the time. If you decide to plant a field, just let me know. I… will stay here for a while.”

“Forget about farming. I’m a blacksmith, not a farmer. I carry tools with me. If your brothers’ iron is damaged, I can repair it nearby. Well, I think this place lacks a blacksmith shop.”

“You still answer like this? Well, of course Mstiysk needs a blacksmith shop. Now, the apprentices I arranged for you in the past can return to their hometown to work. Let’s go, let’s get off the ship.” Rurik said enthusiastically.

A wooden manpower squirrel cage crane should be built on the shore, so that bags of seed grain can be quickly unloaded by relying on the principle of leverage.

Rurik didn’t want to rely on his brothers’ arms to throw the sacks. If a sack of wheat fell into the lake and the seeds were planted, the germination rate would plummet.

The soldiers of the First Banner Squad worked all day long, and when they learned that some family members had returned early, the morale of the whole team was overwhelming, and this enthusiasm was devoted to the construction and cultivation of the town.

The phantom of the big ship reappeared on the surface of the lake, and the farming people hurriedly suspended their work and poured into the half-built pier from all directions.

Kawei stood on tiptoe and saw figures approaching him one by one, and the blond hair of those people was extremely conspicuous under the sun.

“Haha, our helpers are here!”

Arik, who came back with the boat, couldn’t wait even more. He patted his brother Rurik on the shoulder: “You just complained about building a crane, and you will see it soon.”

The First Banner Squad has always presented itself as a brave warrior, but now it has become a large group of mud legs.

Rurik suddenly noticed that some people had red necks from the sun. They all squinted under the hot sun. Everyone was dressed very simply. If they were wearing a straw hat, wouldn’t they be classic European old farmers.

At first glance, the vigor of their bloody warriors has been covered by the dust on their bodies.

And these “red necks”, they saw such a scene!

A group of women in robes climbed cautiously down the rope net of the big ship, and many young children were also moving down the rope with their chubby hands.

The women all carried their bags, and there were still some odds and ends hanging on the waistbands of cloth strips.

On the deck of the ship, some suitcases tied with hemp rope were slowly lowered and landed on the boat that was ready to receive them.

Women and children are slowly landing.

“That’s my woman! That’s my child!”

Recognizing the family members, the soldiers of the first flag team bravely rushed forward, jumped out of the knee-deep lake with tears of joy, and continued to wade forward to reunite with their families.

Dozens of people saw their family members, and the soldiers had spontaneously launched response operations without Lauryk’s urging.

Knowing that their family members are soft and can go ashore very smoothly and quickly, as for landing with a lot of weight, you can wait a little bit.

They were the daughters nourished by Lake Ilmen. They once thought that being forced to marry the Russ would be a lifelong betrayal of their homeland. In just a few years, they came back with their children.

However, doesn’t the lakeside I’m standing on belong to that domineering and powerful Pine Needle Manor?

There was a terrible battle here last year.

There are no traces of the war, and there are no stretches of buildings like Pine Needle Manor. There are only farms being opened up by Ross men, wandering deer, and a city under construction.

They knew a little about the end of Pine Needle Manor, but they couldn’t make associations because they had never seen the horrific post-war scene. They didn’t know about those things and instinctively didn’t want to know.

Actually?

The giant mound is not far away, and there should be obvious markers there.

Only dozens of brothers and women came, and some brothers even had multiple children from two women.

There were even brothers whose mothers came along to meet their old fathers who served in the Second Banner.

This is the so-called selling the real estate in the hometown and emigrating with the whole family.

The decisive action of this kind of person is a very good sign in Rurik’s view. He can’t help but re-examine his understanding of “relocating the land and relocating”. Applicable, my own clansmen have behaved more decisively than I imagined.

Dozens of lucky brothers spent their first night in the New World with their family members who came from afar in their new type of house.

A family guards a one-hectare field. The oats in the personal field have been sown, and the family has a large amount of money and surplus food, which is enough to ensure that the family can wait until the wheat harvest safely.

The soldiers who could not settle down were still working. They were cutting wood to build their own houses, and they asked the forest for land and new private fields in Cape Town.

The hunting operation was also going on, and they manipulating the crossbow began to sweep away the red squirrels jumping around in the forest. The prince came at the right time, and a batch of squirrel skins dried by the campfire happened to be sold directly.

Today’s hopeful days are all thanks to the perfect prince. They are all willing to do things for Prince Rurik. This is not only because of their own wishes, but also because the prince is always trustworthy and will definitely give rewards.

A group of labor was assembled easily. In the evening, more than 300 strong men carried wooden poles on their shoulders together, or carried bundles of hemp rope, newly woven rattan rope, or even drove many reindeer to drag Large pine poles felled towards the pier.

Overnight, timber and rope build a human-powered crane.

On the second day after Rurik arrived, an astonishing amount of wheat seeds began to be transported to the shore where the green grass sprouted through the crane’s net, and were carried by the strong man to the two-wheeled cart…

Do people still need to be taught about farming?

In the past, the old Ross people did not disdain to grow wheat, but the conditions did not allow it.

Some small amounts of cabbage and onions can be grown in Roseburg’s hometown of Fiordland, although a sudden cold snap may undo months of hard work.

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The young people of the First Banner Team received the guidance of the old farmers of Baishu Manor here. Coupled with the advanced “fool-type” farm tools that integrate plowing and sowing, spring plowing is not a technical problem, but a problem of physical exertion.

Rurik ordered his wives and concubines to allocate proper fertile land to the brothers of the First Banner Team according to the contract. They are all near the lake, and they are most nourished by the infiltration of the lake water, and can also absorb some nutrients from the silt.

There are still a large number of fields that have not been allocated. Except for a batch of low-fertility and poor fields, they are good fields that are deliberately vacated and urgently needed to be planted with wheat.

All the wheat seeds were transported in the morning, and the panting soldiers of the First Banner were summoned by Rurik again.

Everyone stared at Lord Rurik standing on a trolley, listening to his preaching, hoping to take the opportunity to make another fortune.

“Brothers! The deadline for spring plowing is coming to an end, and we still have a lot of fields that have not been sown! You have all allocated your own fields and completed your own cultivation. Now you guys count as one, and you Women and children, I need your labors! The fields of wheat and oats must all be planted, for our autumn harvest, all of us together! Beware, we are waging a whole new war, and we are fighting a war called Hungry enemies, fight for our inexhaustible food!”

These words speak too much of the plane, and there has always been some emptiness.

Rurik thought for a second, and shouted again with a smile: “Brothers! Do you like to drink ale and your own kvass? You like it very much! But they need a lot of wheat to brew. Now plant the land for me, I I will return a barrel of delicious ale to each of your households. Of course, I will also give silver coins!”

They seldom have the opportunity to drink beverages. The pure river water and lake water have a fishy smell. Now, because of the popularity of the princes in the past, boiled chrysanthemum water, which is always picked and dried, has become a normal drink.

Boiled pine needle water is another traditional drink, which suppresses the fishy smell with bitterness.

Not to mention what is a good drink, they prefer full-bodied ale.

Nowadays kvass with a slightly sweet and sour taste is another option, followed by high-end mead.

Obviously ale is a drink that everyone likes and has a high cost performance. The only problem is the lack of raw materials.

Unless these fields have a good harvest this year.

In order to drink and eat a steady stream of wheat, Rurik easily gathered a group of laborers.

He is not only under the command of the First Banner Team. Among these labors, part of the farmland here is also given to the allies in the form of trophies. The farmers in the farm have finished farming. Hearing that the prince’s field is in urgent need of labor, they all come to help for a reward. !

Rurik did come prepared for what he said. The presence of the famous blacksmith Kawei immediately built the most traditional earthen stove, repaired the blunt axes of the brothers, and even made the shovel sharper. Quenching heat treatment.

The columbine behind the plow is stuffed with wheat, and many remodeled plows are pulled by multiple reindeer to sweep the fertile fields, and the strip-shaped array of wheat is buried under the soft soil. The speed of sowing has rewritten the local agriculture.

The Old Pine Needle Manor is the largest field in this area, and they are basically connected to each other.

The good fields grow wheat, and the poor fields continue to grow oats.

There is enough seed grain on hand, and Rurik has full confidence to use it. He is not squandering. It seems that he has used amazing seed grain. The more advanced seeding method is actually more economical than the traditional high-density sowing mode of the locals. a lot of.

It was only the tenth day of May in the Julian calendar, and the sowing of the entire Mstisk field was declared a victory.

Rurik acquiesced that the brothers and their families were not lazy, and everyone, regardless of gender, received two silver coins.

It’s very little money, isn’t it?

Very little, after all, Rurik promised that there would be a barrel of ale in the future!

The prince and queen are plowing in person, and the feet of the prince’s young wives and concubines are also covered with mud.

They enjoy the fun of working together, just like living together in their hometown in Roseburg, and fighting side by side on the battlefield, as long as they have money rewards, it’s okay to have some meaning.

As if Odin was protecting his people who believed in him, Rurik in the Lake Ilmen area was the last to complete the spring plowing.

When everyone finished the most tiring work for three days, the rain began.

Rurik had already returned to the city of Novgorod at this moment, and the ground became wet overnight. He didn’t feel the cold, but the intoxicating warmth.

The rain caused Rurik, who had been working continuously, to “suddenly brake”. For three full months, he has been running around in the large area from the Neva River to Lake Ilmen and rarely had a good rest. Now he can finally be quiet. Let’s make some plans for the future.

Everyone knows that the large-scale immigration of the Principality of Ross has already begun. The huge fleet will return to Roseburg during the warm period, and the leisurely sailors who worked as urban construction labor in Novgorod and Novorosburg to make money will return again. Their old line.

This is just the itinerary that Rurik himself must participate in. Those soldiers of the First Banner Squad who have settled down, they have turned into fishermen, and they will fish for bass in Lake Ilmen, and even float along the Volkhov River. Bigger Lake Ladoga to catch fierce and extremely fat giant pike.

In terms of plundering the environment, the local Slavs are no match for the Russians.

Rurik decided to call a meeting on the spot for future operations, especially to give a series of tasks to his wives and concubines who acted as field surveyors, priests, and paper workers, and to Dmitry, who was the governor of Novgorod. Waite gave a clear mission.

Of course, Mstisk, a rapidly expanding city of Ross immigrant, was self-governing under the Nordic customary law under Arik’s supervision, much like the living conditions in Roseburg’s old home.

Before the meeting, the fat little blue fox was happily invited to the bedroom by Rurik himself to discuss certain matters in detail.

This is a secret talk, it must be something related to business!

When I think that I can continue to make a fortune, I feel so happy.

In fact, Rurik was not the only one who invited him, and Blue Fox also noticed a crude toner-painted black cross on the main entrance of an independent, small woodcut building in Novgorod.

John Ingvar, a boy about Rurik’s age, sat in the house in a black robe, and Rurik allowed him to publicly hang a silver cross pendant on his chest.

The spring rain, which was as expensive as oil, made the blue fox a little wet. He walked into the prince’s residence, took off his leather boots obediently, and then walked into Rurik’s house with a big belly and bare feet.

“My lord! I have come to my appointment,” he said.

As a result, based on his experience, the blue fox did not expect Prince Rurik to hold a sleeping child in his arms.

this child?

Could it be?

When Blue Fox arrived in Novgorod, he looked at the city from the perspective of a businessman. His eyes were always observing some details, hoping to explore some business opportunities.

He saw the old prince Otto happily playing with his eldest granddaughter, while the old queen Niya was holding a swaddling baby very strangely, obviously it was a boy baby.

Strangely, he felt that there was something missing in this place. The prince and his family enjoyed themselves happily, but he really couldn’t tell what was missing. Looking carefully at Prince Rurik’s brow, there seemed to be a little regret.

The prince is kind, but he will never hug other people’s children indiscriminately, so this baby must have a blood relationship with the prince no matter what.

Well?

Had his Svetlana borne him the heir to the principality?

Can’t.

[End of this Chapter]