Rise of Rurik - Chapter 787

[Chapter 788 The Son of the Grassland Has Opened His Eyes]

From Kotlin Island to the mouth of the Neva River, a huge area was covered by a solid ice pack.

The thickness of the ice layer was more than half a meter, and the large ships moored in the port were firmly trapped by the ice layer, and a large number of paddle boats were pushed directly to the shore and fixed to wooden posts with cables.

Strips of snow are attached, and the towering wooden walls are covered with icicles. The whole city looks like an ice sculpture, standing in the bay of the Northland.

The sun glares on the ice, and the running teams on the ice generally wear sunglasses to shield it.

The team is marching in the sun, and the whole scene has indescribable poetry.

It is no secret that the princes will come to participate in this year’s Hanukkah in person. As the festival approaches, the people of Novorosburg are already ready to welcome visitors from Novgorod.

But before that, a group of guests from Roseburg’s hometown arrived at the port with supplies before the sea was completely frozen, and even after the sea was frozen, there were still sporadic sled teams transporting goods for sale.

In terms of resident population, Novorosburg is second to Novgorod. Due to the arrival of a group of merchants and hunters, the city’s population exceeded 8,000 on the eve of the festival.

Eight thousand people living together is considered a big city?

Indeed, in a residential area after a thousand years, several rows of “pigeon cages” with a height of 100 meters can even swallow tens of thousands of people.

Although the Principality of Ross now possesses the ability to build high-rise buildings, at best only a wealthy person like the prince can afford to build a three-story or four-story wooden attic.

Some resident wealthy people did make a lot of construction in the city of New Roseburg, and the three-story wood-carved flutes with herringbone storage rooms began to appear in large numbers.

High-rise buildings are limited to the urban area within the wall, and there are large-scale wooden houses outside the wall.

The expansion of the city is completely in the form of spreading the pie, even so there are still a lot of vacant land in the city.

So the first image of Kagan given to Kagan by the Royal City of Rose is her hugeness.

A huge city must have a lot of treasures, and it can accommodate a huge population in the extremely cold north. The Ross people must have their ingenuity.

He desperately hoped to buy some treasures in the city, especially good salt.

The city wall was close at hand, and a dense group of wooden carvings appeared on the south bank of the frozen river, and a large number of people came out of the house and waved to the team.

The whole procession slowed, and Kagan took the opportunity to yank the reins and steer the horses into Rurik’s sleigh.

“My lord, is the price you set absolutely stable?”

“You? What do you want to buy in the city?” Rurik asked excitedly.

“Salt!”

“Salt? One pound of silver and ten pounds of good salt, you can buy as much as you want! Just don’t be too ostentatious in the market, you have to remember that you are visitors, and there are also a group of foreign visitors in the market. You are all warriors, thousand Don’t start a dispute with others, if something happens, I won’t favor you.”

Kagan readily agreed, but thinking about the prince’s words was a bit strange.

There are still many foreign visitors in the market, isn’t the place where I am still the northern end of the world?

How big is this world?

The team finally reached the end of the journey. After hearing the news, the governor, Conuson and his son, both gathered the city defense patrolling militiamen to put on their clothes, and then led a group of people to gather at the frozen pier to welcome the return of the prince.

A pregnant woman with a puffed belly is dressed in a buckskin robe and a huge antler helmet.

She was dressed like a wild elf in the forest, and her youthful face was slightly covered up by the rough dress.

She was more anxious than others, and assembled at the pier with the team of priests she trained.

Rumia is still the same Rumia, and she has to be the presiding high priest this year’s Hanukkah, even though her second child is about to be born, which will cause inconvenience to the current activities.

It has been several months since she saw the prince, and as a noble person, she is extremely lonely in her heart. Both her daughter and the prince are in Novgorod, and the two cities are not far away. However, due to her duties, she cannot leave.

She dwelt the amber-inlaid staff of the former high priest, a holy relic of the duchy, a token of her nobility.

Around the high priest stood more than a dozen junior priests in plain clothes and white fox fur hats on their heads, and a distinguished deputy, Lumi, the daughter of Chief Kewen.

I saw a tall and handsome young man walking down the sled surrounded by many cavalry. To be honest, Rumia was surprised to see a large number of Ross warriors on horseback.

It wasn’t just her, the crowd watching couldn’t even dream that the principality had a cavalry unit.

What a dream!

The war horses are generally wrapped in white cloth with blue patterns, which seems to keep the horses warm. The riders wear the Russian standard war robes and hold the Ross flag.

The flags were flying on the ice, the horses and deer were fiercely dressed, and the cavalry in the sun had a sense of coercion like a hill. In fact, it was the tall and strong Nordic men riding the tall Turkic horses that gave people the impression of absolute strength. feel.

A man stepped out of the majestic team and became a mighty background, which further set off the mighty strength of Prince Rurik.

The governor and his son, who were trembling under the pressure of the powerful aura, walked cautiously, and involuntarily asked about the origin of the cavalry.

“This? This is my achievement in Novgorod in the past few months. I tell you that our cavalry will increase. When the cubs of Novorosburg grow up, I will recruit a group of people to go Be a cavalry soldier and enrich our army’s land combat power.” Rurik made a grand vision.

Little Conuson would be the next Governor of Fort New Rose, or mayor, without any accidents. At the same time, he also had the obligation to organize a civilian army to respond to the prince’s call and fight in person.

Seeing those handsome boys riding tall horses, how could little Konusson not be curious?

Because, one of the riders was clearly Arik!

They are all the same age, and they are all brothers who have come out of Roseburg Fjord. Why is this guy so beautiful?

The other brothers would have to learn to ride, and New Roseburg would have a standing troop of cavalry, at least useful for daily patrols.

The brief pleasantries were broken by the woman who thought she had lost her composure.

Rumia hurried over, ignoring the chatter of the men, her own belly, and even the words of the onlookers.

“Mastra!” she yelled until she was in front of her man.

She threw herself into the arms of her man under the gaze of many eyes, her eyes were full of tears…

The prince who was blessed by the gods held the high priest in his arms, who dare to say that they are not cherished.

Only Rumia has the right to call Rurik Mastra, the so-called master.

This was appointed by Rurik back then, it is the exclusive power of Rumia, and it is also a symbol of friendship.

Such an intimate scene aroused the jealousy of Svetlana and other girls. The other concubines were aware of themselves, but as the queen, Lanna saw the prince and the high priest being intimate. What was the matter with the depression in her heart?

She patted her face vigorously and forced a smile to be calm.

Rurik was a full head taller than Rumia, obviously she was twenty years old, crying like a child.

Rurik buried his mouth in his ear: “Obviously I’m going to be a mother again, so if I don’t recuperate in the temple, I still take the risk to welcome me.”

“I… just miss you. And our daughter.”

“I miss you too. I will live in the city for a while, and the other women will go away. We will be together day and night for the next few days.” Rurik made a promise, in exchange for Rumia crying even louder Sound, she was wailing with excitement.

No, the four-year-old Verika came over, hugged her mother’s leg, and called her mother milkyly. Rumia, who was so happy and tearful, used amazing strength to lift her daughter up. He kissed him violently, and stuffed it into Rurik’s arms as his father.

Noble princes should pay attention to ostentation and need to set an example for the people. What’s more, Rurik learned that a group of Swedish allies simply went to New Rossburg with their goods for direct winter trade, so-called saving freight and purchasing cheap oriental leather .

In this way, princes will pay more attention to ostentation!

A small triumph becomes extremely important.

Just like the first crusade against the Karelians that year, the Ross army assembled in New Rose Fort. The army lined up in a matrix at the Harvest Square outside the palace to receive the inspection of the princes, and then walked around the city twice around the road under the city wall. Head to the battlefield of the expedition with extremely high morale.

This time is naturally the first show of the Duchy of Ross Cavalry, and it must leave an extremely positive impression on thousands of people.

Rurik, who was riding a sled, turned himself into a knight. He personally led the entire cavalry into the city and walked on Nevsky Prospekt.

The tall wooden walls blocked the grand occasion in the city, and the Pechenegs on horseback were forced to enter the city with weapons to strengthen their majesty.

Just look at this city!

Kagan opened his eyes wide. He saw a batch of double-storey wooden houses on both sides of the road, some of which were even built up to three floors.

Some houses even have stone bases, or simply stone (brick) stacks.

As seen in Novgorod, Novorosberg’s main road also has gutters, apparently key to keeping the city clean, even now the gutters are frozen.

Residents cheered and whistled on both sides of the road, and even found all kinds of things to beat to create momentum, just like a young boy picked up his father’s round shield, held it in his left hand, and beat it with a wooden stick in his right hand.

After the cavalry team came the reindeer sleigh team, and the whole team entered the city one after another in a long snake formation.

Finally, people gathered at the Harvest Plaza, which has become a winter market.

What kind of business do businessmen from all walks of life do now?

A group of people dressed like bears watched this majestic cavalry team cordially, Prince Rurik received endless glory…

In fact, it was this square that gave Kagan a huge shock. Although he could see the boundless flat land as far as he could see on the southern Russian grassland, a huge and very hard flat land appeared in the city, which gave him a huge shock.

Because this flat land is really extraordinary!

Governor Konusson and his son have been implementing the orders of the prince. At least up to now, the father and son have not dared to embezzle madly out of morality and the honor of tribal fighters. meal needs.

New Roseburg itself is a huge source of taxation. Merchants must pay taxes for their economic activities. This tax was set in their hometown of Roseburg that year, and it has been implemented for many years now, and the amount of tax paid by merchants is also adjusted every year.

Rurik is deeply cultivating the economic development of the Novgorod agricultural area, and the taxation work of Novorosburg has given the governor Konusson full powers.

Conuson actually became a taxpayer. He was ordered to build a magnificent city for the prince. He had to spend a lot of money on infrastructure construction, and tried not to rely on the treasury appropriation, and tried to rely on the taxes in the region to complete the construction. Song needs to report to Rurik himself.

A part of Harvest Plaza is paved with cement, and as long as you pry away the snow that has been trampled hard, you can see the hard gray road.

The “square cementization project” can be said to be beneficial to the country and the people. After complete cementation, it will become a super-large threshing ground, which can basically meet the work of drying oats in the area. The same non-busy season turns into a harvest square in the market, and merchants and customers do not need it. Worry about muddy potholes.

The base of the wooden fence continues to be reinforced with cement, and the cementation of all roads in the city is slowly proceeding.

Rurik did not lack the financial resources to hire people to lay the cement, because the key lime, iron ore slag and sandstone came from different places, and they needed to be transported to New Roseburg by ship.

Not only these three materials were transported, barges were also transporting whole pieces of granite and pebbles into the city.

The transportation of these heavy materials all depended on the summer transportation of marked transport ships. The half-year-long severe winter and sea freezing greatly limited the efficiency of the urban construction of New Roseburg.

What better way?

On both sides of the Neva River and even the huge Valdai Highlands including Novgorod, there is too soft mud everywhere, and the most scarce thing is stone, because there are no mountains in this huge area.

Of course, it was precisely for this reason that Rurik felt that he had to train a cavalry. In winter, when the convenience of the water network in summer was lost, cavalry was the key to ensuring the principality’s winter operations.

Even with the slow construction, Rurik is very satisfied with the current construction results.

He was very pleased that a lot of scaffolding had been laid out in a clearing next to the Winter Palace that he had ordered, and although a mass of stone lay haphazardly on the ground, the granite plinth was indeed being put together.

The original Winter Palace was a large longhouse that combined the advantages of woodcut and Viking longhouses. According to Rurik’s new needs, the new Winter Palace should have the style of the old palace in Roseburg’s hometown. It is essentially an enlarged version with stones. The base of the wooden structure of the four-storey castle.

The mortise and tenon structure, which is widely used in shipbuilding, is used in palace construction. The new Winter Palace in Rurik will be shown with a stable structure similar to a pyramid. It will also be the tallest building in the city, and even the tallest building in the Nordic region!

Naturally, the palace does not have to worry about the wood for construction. The giant red pine and spruce that are everywhere in this area provide sufficient materials.

They are also good materials for shipbuilding. Except for the keel and ship ribs, they are made of oak found in the forest area and other parts are made of spruce.

Therefore, there is an additional walled area on the riverside, which is the location of the “Neva Shipyard” of the Hotra family. Huge spruces stand on the soft riverside to form a frame structure, and two indoor shipbuilding workshops were completed and put into operation.

The standard cargo ship from New Roseburg has been launched and put into the East and North Baltic trade network, and the new cargo ship is still under construction.

The new Winter Palace only built a base and erected a large number of load-bearing spruce columns, and the winter construction of migrant workers proceeded step by step.

Look, some load-bearing columns have been spanned by wooden beams, and the frame structure of the second floor is already under construction.

Kagan couldn’t imagine the grandeur of the new palace after it was completed, he noticed some other magnificent buildings!

Just like the largest temple in the Principality of Ross, a temple made of stone inlaid with countless gemstones and strongly reflected in the sun.

The principality’s first temple has been completed, and the sculptures of the gods inside are well arranged, and hundreds of people can kneel and pray inside.

The people called the first temple the “House of Gems”, and some even praised it as “Valhalla on earth”.

It was covered with a layer of stained glass and glazed glass. These crystal-clear objects with messy shapes were all mass-produced, and they were not worth much in themselves. They were densely packed and neatly inlaid, and the quantity became a qualitative change. expect.

Harvest Square can be described as the core area of New Roseburg. The square is surrounded by the old Winter Palace, the new Winter Palace under construction, the huge Ross Duma Council Chamber, the magnificent First Temple, and the heavily guarded granary area on artificial highlands.

After a long journey, the people finally settled down. After the day’s scenery, the cavalry, including the Pechenegs, enjoyed a feast of roasted venison.

Military and state affairs, festive rituals, these major events can be formally discussed at the Ros Duma meeting tomorrow.

Everyone needs a good meal and a good night’s sleep tonight.

After the scenery, Kagan waited for the Pechenegs to hand over their steeds, and all the horses were under unified management. At the same time, he also learned that there were 20,000 reindeer wandering around New Rose Fort. They were domesticated creatures, most of them It is the property of the prince’s family. There is a group of “deer breeders” who are loyal to the prince’s family and are ordered to take care of all the deer. Even the high priest of the Principality himself is a “deer breeder”.

There are so many wonderful things, what Kagan has seen and heard is indescribably fresh.

He is also like a poor boy who has just arrived in the big city. He is novel and has low self-esteem at the same time. It really takes a little time to adapt.

More than Kagan?

Ragnar, who was in exile a few months ago, was not allowed to enter Novorosburg because of his Danish status. The whole family, women and children, were “detained” in Novgorod, and he and the thirty brothers he accompanied entered the big city of Rus.

In a trance, Ragnar had a hallucination. In a sense, this big city was like the Frankish Bremen that he participated in burning.

The same is the big square, the same is the structure of the noble residence and the big temple, as well as the dock and a large number of ships by the river.

In terms of size alone, New Roseburg was the grandest city he had ever seen.

In fact, because Rurik built New Roseburg according to the old city structure of St. Petersburg and Moscow in his impression, she was carefully planned out as an inner city from the beginning, and there is nothing wrong with the residential area structure in the outer city. Vertical, just like her title of “Harp City”, the straight roads are like strings, there are a large number of standard intersections, and even Fengshou Guangcheng is square.

The prince’s palace is called the winter palace, without him, the winter palaces of the two planes are in the same location.

Another plane is the Senate Council of St. Petersburg, and the original plane is the Duma Chamber of the Principality of Ross.

Even the small sandbar just north of the Winter Palace is called Rabbit Island, and there is indeed a small wooden fortress built there, guarding the mouth of the Neva River, while taxing merchant ships, except for those from the Rus capital. (temporary).

Of course, the people wandering here believe in Odin, Thor, Freya and other Norse gods, and there is at most one Slavic god of fire, Peron.

This is a famous northern city favored by Odin, at least Odin will not reject warriors who believe in him.

Ragnar is more self-aware than the sons of the grassland like Kagan. He told his subordinates not to run around in the city, let alone publicize the fact that he is a Dane.

People who have returned have eaten a big meal and taken a steam bath. The floral essential oil soap has washed away the dirt all over their bodies. Even their body odor has become a floral fragrance.

A large number of people lived in warm vacant warehouses. Lagra led his brothers to lay the floor collectively. The fireplace warmed the air in the house, and they fell asleep with the aroma of essential oils and soaps all over their bellies of barbecue.

Kagan and other Pechenegs slept in another vacant warehouse. Naturally, their weapons were temporarily kept, and only the money to buy supplies remained with them.

Those young Ross cavalry were all treated well, and they were arranged directly by the governor to the dormitory of the patrolling soldiers. It was a warmer room, and it was convenient for going to the toilet or eating supper.

As for the home of the horses and deer, they are naturally in the deer pen, and they also enjoy a very sufficient supply of hay and oats after their hard work.

This night, the pregnant Rumia hugged her own Rurik, and the eldest daughter of the two, Verika, slept in the middle, twisting her body mischievously, enjoying the rare parental love.

Such intimacy is worth a thousand words, as if they were the closest family, the other wives of Mushalurik.

Svetlana, Noren, Carlota and the others, as well as Sepporava who came here specially from Eronburg, all the girls gathered together to chat and laugh happily, and they set up a bed in the palace, To usher in the new dawn.

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