Rise of Rurik - Chapter 724

[Chapter 725 The New Village of the Forced Immigrants]

In the dense pine forest, an army escorted their captives forward at a fast pace.

“Hurry up, all of you! Arrive at the lake early and start pioneering.” A strong man with a round shield on his back yelled suddenly.

This person is none other than the governor of Novgorod city appointed by Rurik and his brother-in-law Medved.

More than three hundred soldiers guarded the captured people closely.

These people were only captured in name, Medved not only did not want to harm them, but also ordered his soldiers not to allow the women among them to do anything, to ensure that everyone arrived at the lake safely.

More than 200 men, women and children brought their own belongings, and most of them leaned on wooden sticks, pushing and pulling two-wheeled carts loaded with supplies, and set out on the traditional winding and hidden forest path leading to the Great Lakes.

It’s almost autumn harvest time, but everyone is captured by a group of terrible Varyags.

Do not!

They are not Varyags!

Not to mention the powerhouse of Pine Needle Manor.

They are actually the guys from White Tree Manor!

The leader of this village is a man who is nearly forty years old. He was elected as the leader by the villagers because he is strong enough and possesses brute force.

The leader is pragmatic. He knows that the weak strength of the village is not enough to fight against the strong enemy of the iron armor and giant shield.

In the past, when asked by the mighty Pine Needle Manor, Sogon always handed over his belongings very obediently.

A ban on access to the lakeside was also compelled to be accepted.

If the other party asked for a sheep, they hid the sheep, and if they asked for a young woman, they asked the people to hide it.

But this time, everyone has nothing to hide.

The leader asked repeatedly: “Could it be that we can use the land there freely when we reach the lake?”

Medved was obviously bored and wasted his time on the march, so he thought about appeasing their emotions, so he took the trouble to reply: “Of course. You can enjoy the fertile lakeside by paying tribute every year. I warn you not to run away Betray, otherwise Prince Varyag’s army will deal with you as if they wiped out the 10,000 people in Pine Needle Manor.”

The village chief was so excited by the promise of the former, and shuddered by the warning of the latter.

The leader asked again: “Will you…will force us to hand over the woman?”

“Of course. The only thing I can assure you is that you are not slaves. Our warriors from White Tree Manor are here, and they can be your women’s husbands.”

A boulder fell to the ground.

The leader still didn’t dare to believe it too much, and now he couldn’t even fight. If the whole village escaped this year, all of them would have to freeze to death and starve to death in the dense forest to become bear food. He had no choice at all.

Some people say that the leader is a waste of compromise, but if you really choose to fight one by one, you dare not.

A lot of news circulated in the ranks of passive immigrants, so-called they are already the eleventh village that has been forcibly relocated.

It is also said that the escorting soldiers proudly claimed that because White Tree Manor chose to form an alliance with the Varyags early, every day is a good day today, and life will be better for those who join the villages of the Varyags.

They move forward with mixed emotions and are unable to go very far each day.

The fertility of their farmland in the dense forest is extremely low, and the low food production makes them already suffer from summer famine.

If someone dies of starvation on the way, the prince will be angry if he finds out!

Medved had no choice but to ask the soldiers to take out dry food to help them.

Food is of course not free, and it is only natural to provide food harvest benefits.

A large number of women in White Tree Manor married the Ross people, and most of the most beautiful women in the farms around the lake were taken away by the Ross people!

It is even more difficult for the men in the manor to marry wives. Now that they have the opportunity, they have to look for women among the people hiding in the farm.

There are still a large number of small villages hidden, and there will be more discoveries if you continue to search, but the autumn harvest time at White Tree Manor is approaching, and Medwait has suspended work.

It is impossible for the prince to break his promise. The Rus people want to bring the people from their hometown. They have already made this place their new home. From then on, the Rus conquerors will live permanently with the Slavs.

Once, the Ilmen Slavs settled next to the lake, because the rapid population expansion detonated the civil war, and a large number of people were forced to escape into the forest.

Finally, an open world appeared in front of them, and the shimmering scene in the distance surprised these people.

Only some elderly people still remember the beauty of Lake Ilmen, and more people have only known the forest full of danger and opportunity since birth, and the creek that provided water.

As if the world is the villages in the forest and the cramped farmland nearby, many people now realize for the first time that the world is actually very big.

The leader was shocked by the sight in front of him, and unconsciously walked towards the wild land by the lake, towards the reeds, and finally into the big lake, and then screamed excitedly.

More people rushed over, cheered during the conversation, and deliberately played with water splashes…

The soldiers in Medved were busy drinking the water from the lake to quench their thirst, so they just laughed and watched these rare and strange guys play with the water.

The leader got himself completely wet, and his clothes still smelled of mud.

He approached Medved with a hippie smile: “Sir, can we really settle here? No one will deport us again?”

“Are you a fool?”

In a word, the leader was dumbfounded by the question: “I…”

“Have you never seen a lake?”

“My grandpa has seen it before, and it’s indeed the first time I’ve seen it.”

Hearing these silly words, Medved took off his helmet and laughed again.

That’s all, he pointed to the north: “Look carefully, there is a settled village there. We are walking a little north, and when I say enough, you stop and settle here. Listen, I allow your men Then go back to harvest the wheat, but if you escape, you have to consider the safety of women and children.”

“Don’t dare! We dare not escape, we will open up settlements immediately.”

It seems that Shunchang is really in danger. Along the way, the governor of Medved just threatened and promised verbally. The soldiers covered in iron did not use force. It seems that they did not intend to commit violence. The people who were forced to immigrate invisibly There was no rage.

Everyone is a pragmatic person, if it were not for the current situation, who would want to live in Linhai, which is isolated from the world.

It is said that White Tree Manor has been Varyagized, and tens of thousands of Varyags have already dominated the north.

This is the eleventh village that has been forcibly resettled, and each village has a population of around 200 people.

Life in the forest is very difficult. They try their best to procreate to offset the high mortality rate of their children. However, every winter, some people will freeze to death due to long-term weakness due to poor food intake.

If you live by the lake, everything will be fine.

Since this was the permission of the Prince of Rus of the Varyags, the villages were willing to submit to his rule.

Of course, the premise is that the amount of tribute paid each year does not force everyone’s family to die.

The earliest forced immigrants had limited encounters with Ross fishermen.

The overall encounter with each other was harmonious, because these fishermen generally speak some Slavic languages. Since they can communicate effectively, there is virtually a layer of barriers missing.

Most of these fishermen are young people from the First Banner Squad. They have outstanding military exploits and have a lot of savings in their hands. They think highly of themselves, and they are arrogant and sympathetic to these savages who came out of the forest.

So some fishermen took out cheap mass-produced cast iron hammers and harpoons, and exchanged them from these people for young women to bring Mstisk to be their wives.

In just one month, the soldiers of the First Banner Squad brought fifty women, and this was what Arik wanted to report to Rurik.

Just when the Ross fleet finally arrived at Lake Ilmen, Medved just emerged from the forest.

When the eleventh farm began to lay new house foundations and began to treat the weeds with stone scythes, Medved also continued north with the main army.

All eleven new villages of Medwait have left garrisons.

The people who left the forest had no clear hatred for White Tree Manor. Back then, they were both forced to leave the Great Lakes by Pine Needle Manor.

These resident fighters are often unmarried. How is this not good news for new immigrants?

The village leader immediately donated his daughter, and then selected a good-looking woman from the village to give to the warrior, in order to further obtain the promise of safety through marriage.

On the first night after Rurik landed, Mstiysk was indeed a sea of revelry.

There were lit bonfires and dancing crowds everywhere, and the new Slavic immigrants could not help but marvel at the strange light scene. Only the remaining soldiers proudly pointed out that it was the settlement of the Rus.

Mstiysk is full of drunken men, and even quite a few women are drunk.

Ale and kvass from Novgorod, the soldiers of the First Banner got a lot.

Also because they have more wheat in their hands, they can make wine wantonly.

They have no choice in this day and age, when alcoholic beverages are pretty much the only cheap drinking pastime.

Drinking and eating grilled fish, the reunited Ross family is so cathartic. Once this kind of carnival could only be done on Hanukkah, but now that the supplies are abundant and the harvest is approaching, there are too many reasons and solid material foundations for everyone to squander.

Arik blushed from drinking, and Rurik was also in bad shape.

This was the first time Rurik had drunk heavily, and it was all because my brother mixed honey and strong vodka with the ale.

The sweetness of honey concealed the spicy alcohol, when Rurik realized that the problem was already spinning…

At least when he was awake, Rurik learned the good news from the south. The so-called Medved has been fulfilling the mission, and all the villagers who were caught were willing to accept the rule of the prince.

Are they really obedient?

When he was awake, Rurik inspected the village girls who had recently married. Although they met him timidly, Rurik, who had many court girls, could see from the eyes of these girls that they were actually very satisfied with their current life.

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Arik put it very bluntly: “They hide in the forest and are often accompanied by hunger. Once the wheat is gone, they can only starve, so people starve to death every year. But here, they have wheat and fish to eat every day.” …”

Many of the news that the old man described revealed his arrogance, and the brothers all looked at the Slavs who were picked out with pity.

Other than that, no one persecutes them.

Maybe it’s Fu Chang’s conscience?

Rurik didn’t think it was true, but he was afraid that those people were too poor to make the Rus people malicious.

As for arresting people as slaves, the unspoken rules that have emerged in Ross society over the years exclude pure slaves.

The brothers still got a new group of people. They exchanged iron tools for women, and the business with each other was quite harmonious.

When Rurik wakes up, he will go to these new farms by the lake for an armed parade to show the local village leaders the demeanor of Prince Ross.

Just do it!

Rurik stayed in Mstisk until the third day. After the night of hilarity, the clansmen vented all their emotions that had been suppressed for more than half a year.

Both oats and wheat are in good condition, they are just starting to head and the earliest harvest is two weeks away.

In the middle period of at least ten days, I have a lot of things to do, so I decided to gather the army to visit those farms.

The horn was sounded, and the souls of the soldiers moved!

Arik hurried to Rurik’s temporary residence early in the morning and asked the prince, who had put on a gorgeous furry suit, whether he wanted to fight.

“Who are we going to fight with our army?! Could it be that there is an enemy attack?”

“No, I still want to gather an army. Well, gather at least two hundred men for me, and let’s take a boat and go to those new villages.”

Arik scratched his head and didn’t think there was any cleverness in this, “I probably understand that we want to parade with arms like those poor people?”

“Yes! It is to show my existence.”

“Oh, then they will feel that God is in the world!”

“It’s just what I want.”

Arik shrugged, since it was his younger brother’s order, he carried it out. It was nothing but vanity for the poor and weak to show their great martial arts, and he didn’t like it.

What Rurik wants is not vanity. He really wants to show his strength to those people. By the way, he also took his “young boys” to explore their future living space and see if they can solve the marriage of some boys. question.

There is a farm that has always been a hard-core ally of the old Pine Needle Manor, the former was killed and the latter was killed.

Only the ruins of a small farm remain, but the land is not barren.

Part of the area there was rewarded to the soldiers of White Tree Manor after the war. They cultivated oats and sowed seeds on all the land they saw when they sowed.

The wheat there has an owner, and the owner is Rurik.

Liuli decided to give that piece of land to the youngest warriors, form a new banner, and build a new city.

The prince has been feeding a large number of children. When the child is over twelve years old, according to tradition, such a boy should fend for himself, and a girl should consider marrying.

Rurik couldn’t really cut off the food for such a young child, they still had to cooperate with each other to survive, but it was time for the prince to cut off the free food supply.

Living on the king’s salary without doing things, children will feel guilty when they grow up. They really need to make a living by themselves, and they have to pay off the debts of the past to the prince.

Rurik intends to build a “city of youth” with a total of nearly 400 men and women of the right age (the ratio of male to female is about 2:1). It can be said that the principality’s best young man needs to flex his muscles in the new world.

Their other existence is also as the Ross army to take care of the Slavs who left the forest. It seems that those people cannot rebel, and the Ross army must be around those people to prevent accidents.

An army of 600 men was assembled, and Rurik was dressed in a gorgeous yet brave body. The soldiers generally did not wear heavy chain mail, but they had quite a complete set of weapons on hand.

There are as many as 20 flags on Ross, and each standing war halberd (axe tied under the spearhead) about three meters in length is tied with blue and white cloth strips, and the soldiers are uniformly and neatly dressed.

This army is placed in Frank, and any lord will treat it with caution. It is very bluffing just in terms of visual senses, and their strength is indeed strong.

Rurik wants to show off his force, and this time he is advancing by water.

Since the main force of the Ross Navy happened to be in Mstisk, the professional sailors who went ashore to rest took control of the fleet and went on a cruise to the south, mooring in front of the people in the new villages to open their eyes, and then the army, which is good at expeditions, swaggered arrival.

Rurik also thought about it, Medved’s method of forcing them to leave the forest was really rough.

So giving them a little bit of iron is a kind of appeasement.

Everything seems to be in place.

Rurik looked at his army again, checked the horse-drawn carts and stag carts loaded with camping supplies, and finally ordered: “Let’s go! Show the newcomers how powerful we are!”

[End of this Chapter]