Rise of Rurik - Chapter 727

[Chapter 728 Rurik in Novo Ostara-on-Lovati]

It was the evening, and the soldiers who had walked for an afternoon were fortunate that the calves of the male and female soldiers were all bandaged to avoid muscle soreness to a great extent. Everyone was still exhausted, so they began to unload large quantities from the carriages and deer carts full of supplies. The iron pot is covered with pottery piers, and the stove is buried to cook thick porridge mixed with wheat and vegetables.

They also started cutting wood to get branches and set up field tents on the spot.

This move undoubtedly surprised the villagers who had just built a few wooden sheds.

The Varyag conqueror of Rus was at hand, the conqueror king was a young boy, and the king’s warriors were both male and female and very young.

The conquerors were not malicious to everyone, and even rewarded them with salt and iron tools.

The prince is really a good man, the children in the whole village got some strange food, it seems that it is really delicious made of wheat…

The kind behavior won the hearts of the people, and the attitude of the village chief changed drastically. He was eager to work for the prince Rurik in exchange for rewards, and he hurriedly put his little daughter in the prince’s arms.

The villagers are simple and innocent, and they are full of desires. It is entirely because they lived too poorly in the past. A Varyag king who can speak Slavic language has already sworn that he will lead his subjects to live a good life with practical actions. The villagers use their feet vote.

The village was named “Eleventh Village”, and the village chief who hurriedly sent his daughter off was also remembered by Rurik.

The Ross army lived with the villagers overnight, and the sailors also went ashore to rest, and brought a batch of perch caught by trawling nets for everyone to grill.

The “peace parade” throughout the day has been suspended, but it has just begun.

The bonfires lit by the lakeside are as dense as stars, so they can probably be seen from far away, right?

Many people were already sleeping soundly in their tents, and Rurik was willing to stand by the lake for a while longer.

Arik patted his brother on the shoulder: “What are you thinking? You… this year is completely your performance.”

“I’m looking south, those Aostarans.”

“It’s about your Carlotta.”

“Yes. I also want to see how the construction of New Ostara over there is going. Tomorrow I plan to board the boat and take a water cruise to the villages behind. We will spend the night in New Ostara again. I hope Carlo Tashe can provide us with some yoghurt and cheese.”

“Can she get enough cows?” Arik yawned and shrugged. “Let’s rest early.”

“Also.”

Rurik created a new image among the newly subjugated Slavic populace.

The Varyags are a general term for a group of people. Although the Russ are one of them, they are more reasonable than other Varyags and are building a stable order.

These people are willing to submit to a monarch who helps and protects them. They don’t care whether Prince Rurik is really the “Son of God”, as long as the prince fulfills his promise, then he is the “Son of God”.

This is true for new subjects, and it is also true for old subjects who have surrendered.

However, Rurik will no longer give rewards in kind to those old subjects. Of course, they can still get a batch of advanced production supplies, provided that the food is exchanged.

Lake Ilmen is considered a large lake in the inland area of Eastern Europe. The eleven villages of the new subjects are relatively close to the settlement of the Rus, Mstisk.

The fleet suddenly appeared, and all the people in the manor along the way watched it.

The boat was released, and Rurik landed with a group of soldiers.

Accompanied by the respectful Boyar of the farm, the prince visited the fast-heading wheat field. According to the statistics of the fields, he reiterated the tax that the manor should pay this year and the specific time for tax collection.

The prince further pointed out the relationship between the monarch and his subjects, focusing on the fact that Mstisk on the north of the lake is actually the largest Rus settlement in the region, and welcomed the village name to bring its own production surplus to trade useful materials .

In the face of the absolute might of Ross’s army, thousands of people bowed their heads in any farm.

Each of the old farms that surrendered has its own unique business. The fleet has entered the southern lakeside of the Great Lake. The farms distributed here pay more attention to raising sheep and growing flax, and more black-haired cattle are raised.

Rurik’s fleet has drifted to the so-called flax manor far south, where people grow flax wantonly in addition to wheat.

This year’s flax stalks had already been harvested, and when Rurik arrived, a strange smell was permeating the village.

Let’s see!

Two thousand men, women and children in the whole farm are serving the boiled hemp stalks. Those strange smells are emitted by the hemp stalks in the boiling water in the pottery urn. The thick fibers of the dry jute stalks are disintegrating into filaments. The decolorization of the hemp stalk was also done by the way.

Cruises can also be used to do business. Salt is a currency that is better than silver in this lake area. He took out a pound of salt and easily exchanged it for a large amount of rough-processed twine.

Making fine twine into cables is a specialty of the Ross people, or all Viking tribes are good at doing it, but everyone lacks the opportunity to get flax on weekdays.

The flax manor originally produced crude flax for its own use and then sold the surplus to other tribes.

The Pine Needle Manor, which was the biggest buyer in the past, and now the consumers of that manor have all turned into dry bones under the mud. It seems that they lost a big buyer, but now they get an even crazier buyer, the Prince of Ross.

“You should continue to open up wasteland and grow flax for me. The flax you produce can replace oats as taxes, and I also order you to sell all the surplus goods to me every year. Oh! I changed my mind! You will use flax to deduct taxes this year , according to ten times the taxable weight of oats.”

Farm Boyar and the general public fully welcome the prince’s request for tribute, and all of this is indeed in line with the previous contract.

Princes don’t accept death so much that they only consider wheat as a tax, and any equivalent can be used as a tax.

They can keep a large amount of rations, and according to the contract, they really paid a batch of crude flax as tax, and everyone didn’t lose much.

Not only that, since the prince revealed that the principality has a huge demand for flax, Boyar and the tribesmen in the village immediately reached a consensus that this year, except for the flax used for cloth, the rest will be processed or not. By the lake, all of them were sold out.

The people also got salt and a batch of new ironware, especially a Quyuan plow, which will have a huge positive effect on the reclamation of wasteland next year.

Now that there is a flax manor, it should be New Ostara to the south.

The Lovati River, the West Dvina River and the Dnieper River all originate from the same swamp.

As long as you follow the Lovati River to the south and enter the source, the second wide river found by the explorers must be the West Dvina River, and its mouth is the Riga Bay, which is the traditional territory of the Latvians and Lithuanians. .

If explorers find a third wide river further south, there is no doubt that it is the Dnieper River. As long as you sail a short distance along the river, a huge settlement is in front of you.

That was Smolensk built by a branch of the Krivichs.

In any case, Carlotta and her people were Vikings at heart, and when they reached a new territory, exploration became an urgent task.

She is pregnant with a prince’s child, and no one dares to oppose her power.

She is also a very ambitious duchess, and she was not like that at first, but the current situation forced this young woman to become a hero of the generation.

The Ostara people are also Varyag people. They are part of the Principality of Rus, and the female leader is also one of the wives of the prince.

Nearby farmsteads are in awe of the Aostarans, even though their population may be no more than seven hundred.

In terms of technological development, the people of Ostara are still better than the nearby farms, but they are far behind in terms of farming skills.

However, the Ostara people hardly cultivated land in Scandinavia back then, even though the shores of the Grand Lake they controlled could completely grow wheat at that time.

The people of Ostara focused almost all their technology trees on raising large livestock and making dairy products. When they immigrated to the New World, Carlota’s first thought was to buy cattle and sheep from nearby farms.

She resolutely took tough measures and led a small group of armed soldiers to buy cattle by force, especially female calves, which were the most favored.

How dare those farms resist, so they had to hand over a batch of cattle and sheep.

However, the money that Carlota gave them greatly eased the anger of the people who had lost their cattle and sheep.

This was a time when assorted cows did not exist, and aurochs were not yet extinct.

Even domesticated cattle still have some wildness. Both male and female are mostly pure black. The sharp horns of the bull go straight forward. If they are frightened or angry, the bull will charge violently. It is also a powerful fighting tool.

But the Aostara people are the best at grazing. Even if the old Aostara tribe has only a hundred women left after the war, the production and life experience of the tribe is basically mastered by women, and the tribe’s skills in raising calves and making dairy products have not been lost at all. .

They deliberately kept a small number of bulls, and because they did not know how to farm cattle, most of the bulls must have been eaten when they were young.

All cows will be kept and they will be cycled through gestation, colostrum.

Life is getting better, settlements have sprung up, and a walled town with a dock next to the river and lake stands at the mouth of the Lovati River.

It was the breeding season for cattle, and Carlota now had sixty cows, but only ten bulls.

There are another forty cows that can breed immediately. They must survive the winter safely, and their calves will be born in the early summer of next year. Only at that time can the people of Ostara make sour cream cheese.

The people of Ostara have to wait. Their cattle and sheep are like a kind of farmland that can walk and live. The time of harvest is next year. Now they have to rely on fishing and buy wheat from neighboring farms for the winter.

Of course, Carlotta firmly believed that her man would cross the great lake and bring enough food for the tribe to survive the winter.

Her body has undergone very obvious changes, and her enlarged belly can still be covered with clothes for the time being.

She didn’t want to cover it up, her growing belly every day was simply an oath of power.

It didn’t take long for her to become pregnant, and the women were planning a big day for their duchess, probably until next year’s spring sacrifice, a male Duke of Ostara will be born, and her position will be completely unshakable.

Everyone is looking forward to the birth of this child, and the birth of a boy means the rebirth of Ostara.

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Women weave cloth from the bought linen, make wooden furniture with knives and axes, and chop firewood outdoors to build “wooden walls” to store heating fuel in winter.

A large number of reeds have been harvested and piled up into haystacks. According to past experience, the women hold scythes and now start to store food for cattle and sheep to survive the winter.

There are also a large number of wooden stakes in the city of Nova Ostara. Densely descaled perch are hung on the hemp ropes pulled up. They are naturally dried and become one of the staple foods of the people in winter.

Men contribute a lot when building cities, and they don’t have much time to cultivate wasteland when they are busy logging.

Only a small amount of wasteland has been reclaimed, and wheat seeds will not be sown until next spring.

Instead, these lands already produced some crops—yellow-rooted carrots.

There is a fishing boat belonging to Ostara cruising on the lake. They are traditional long boats. The boss of the boat invites ten fishermen to work together to manipulate the big net to trawl.

They were ordered by the Duchess to catch fish, and all the catches should be shared by the whole clan. There are still five fishing boats cruising like this.

A fleet in the distance was approaching, and the fishermen squinted their eyes and paused to look at it. They all guessed who was coming, until they saw the flags flying on the masts, they all smiled.

“Brothers, hang up the bull’s head flag, the Ross people are coming!” the ship’s boss ordered.

Rurik had noticed the long ship a long time ago. They hung familiar flags to prove their identities. He stood on the bow and looked around again. A city with wooden walls suddenly appeared on the shore of the lake reflected by the dark green forest in front of him. !

The fishing boats met the fleet, and soon the prince’s parade army reached the most important resting point of their journey.

Considering that the small pier in New Ostara City is not enough to dock the fleet, all the big ships anchored near the shore, and everyone landed like this after releasing the small boats.

Carlotta is a strong woman, she can still jump and run around, and she heard that Rurik came in person, how could such a sudden good thing make her continue to take a lunch break to raise her baby?

Under her leadership, all the people in the city went to greet the guests, especially when she ran all the way, and finally gave a bear hug, holding Rurik in her arms.

But Rurik was taller and stronger.

“I said it.” He looked at his woman affectionately, “I finished the immigration work, and then I came to see your new Ostara.”

Because she was too excited, Carlota burst into tears: “Great. Everyone has come to this warm new world, I…”

“You are crying. Don’t cry, even if you are very happy. I will stay here for at least a whole day, and I will accompany you well. Let you taste the taste of being a woman…”

Rurik’s meaning was already very obvious, Carlotta slightly hooked her head shyly, grabbed Rurik’s right arm with one hand, and slowly brought it under her robe.

Rurik just touched it lightly, and then he was startled with excitement.

“Sure enough… you finally succeeded.”

“Women say the baby will be born next spring. This is your son.”

“I know all about it.” Rurik was too lazy to say much, he made a sudden effort, and directly hugged his woman and the child in his belly as a princess.

After all, Carlotta is very young. Even if she has square cheeks, her overall youthful appearance is enough to attract Rurik, not to mention that she is still a girl adopted by Otto, the first Duke of Ross. The older sister Rick could call.

Otto’s move was motivated by good intentions and a strong political purpose.

The revived Ostara people are indeed strong supporters of the Principality of Ross. They essentially guard the southernmost part of the Principality’s existing control area. Holding the Duchess of Ostara, Rurik heard “” Long live the Maharaja of Ross”.

Obviously, the people who immigrated here not only welcomed the prince, but also clarified the fact that everyone is the subject of the prince Ross first, and the duchess second.

[End of this Chapter]