Rise of Rurik

Once, the settlements of Münster and Osbrünak belonged to the Saxony region.

It also includes the whole of Westphalia, which is part of traditional Saxony.

After the war, these areas were devastated, and those people of Saxony who were able to flee had already crossed the Weser River and even the Elbe River. Liudov gave up a full half of the traditional Saxony, but got the vast majority of the Saxon population.

His strength is now greatly lost, and he has to cooperate with the Rus to obtain military protection.

The large-scale reduction of territory is only temporary, and he continued to comfort himself: "Everyone is in my hands, and I can easily manage them. When my strength recovers, I will gain more territory."

Like his bloodline, Ludov's family is not content to be a hound with a collar on the neck. The lost Westphalia will eventually be reclaimed, which will then force the Archdiocese of Cologne to cooperate with itself.

"Maybe my Duchy of Saxony can expand as much as possible. As long as I don't endanger the interests of the Normans, as long as I continue to cooperate with them, my expansion will also be supported by them. Perhaps, my family can replace Ludwig. family."

Such unreasonable ambitions should not be told to others, and Liudov was very strict.

What is revenge? Simply killing an enemy is not revenge. The so-called killing and killing hearts, if they can still seize all the political power of the enemy, this is the most thorough revenge.

Continuing to declare de jure submission to Ludwig is a conspiracy and no one is blamed. The Duchy of Saxony is still a political sector in the vast East Frankish territory, and Ludov has become one of the few real power nobles!

Today, how many great nobles in East Frank's law are there?

The Duke of Bavaria (and generalized Austria), this is the basic plate of Ludwig as a king, and his original identity is the Duke of Bavaria.

Followed by: Duke of Saxony, Count of Rheingau (Marquis of Frankfurt), Archbishop of Worms, Archbishop of Cologne, Marquis of Thuringia, Count of Flanders.

If it is inevitable that the decline of German monarchy has entered the historical process of the electorate competing for the title of emperor, then the root of all this has already existed when she was still the Eastern Kingdom.

The large-scale war in the north of 840 that finally ended recently, only the Marquis of Thuringia did not lose any of these "princes entities" in the Eastern Kingdom.

Of course, Tarschoff, the Marquis of Thuringia, received an order from Ludwig to send troops, and he made it clear to the messenger that he would indeed send troops.

However, until Ludwig was wiped out, half of the Thuringian reinforcements were not seen. Even the Thuringia Marquis and Saxony are bordered.

This war can be said to be an unprecedented large-scale invasion of the Eastern Kingdom against the Normans, and it can also be said to be a war for the restoration of the traditional Saxony nobles.

The war finally came to an end, and Ludwig's wish for the war to be over by Christmas was fully realized in this dark humorous way.

The Eastern Kingdom is the loser!

The victor gave the loser a very decent ending.

Thus, when the peace treaty written on the hard paper was signed, it meant that the "Northern Alliance" and the Eastern Kingdom had become an actual military and commercial alliance.

Most of the contents of the treaty are supported by everyone, even including the Eastern Kingdom's cancellation of all tax collection rights to the member states of the "Northern Alliance".

Only one, the two sides have finally reached a compromise after some mediation.

With the Great Wall of Schleswig as a boundary, the northerners will not spread the Odin faith to the south, and the southerners will not spread the God faith like the north.

Forced to dress plainly, Ludwig put on his gorgeous clothes again, and also took back his sword.

Therefore, it was not until he was defeated that he realized that the sword that he had treasured for many years was originally the sword that Rurik, King of Rus, tailor-made for him. Then in the Rus army, Ludwig met Kawhi, the great blacksmith of Rus, the son of the sword maker.

There is destiny in the dark, and looking at the sword in his hand, it is really mixed. "Maybe I was less arrogant back then and had a good talk with your messenger. Is this still the case now?"

Since they were allies, the Frankish civilians who were detained in the city of Hamburg were all restored to their freedom. These civilians have almost lost the courage to curse and curse, and now, all the men who can hold a short spear and axe have become Ludwig's guards to support the king's face.

In principle, Ludwig and Hadbold could leave after the meeting, which they did not do.

They had to spend Christmas in Hamburg, and they had to take a good look at the Norman life and their savage holiday etiquette.

After a wooden pagoda is piled up, the bottom of it is sturdy. The higher the wooden pagoda is, the more it converges, and finally it converges into a patio that is equivalent to one meter square. This patio is intentional. The so-called chimney effect is used. After the fire is ignited, the wooden tower will think of the violent flames spewing from the sky. The scene is extremely spectacular.

The wooden towers are stacked on top of each other in a slight tenon and tenon structure, making it very strong. A large number of pine branches have accumulated outside the wooden tower, and the boiled fish oil can be poured. The oil has been frozen in the extreme cold and mixed with the pine branches.

The only part of the wooden pagoda is bare, and the accumulation of wood forms a staircase that leads to the top of the pagoda.

What is the significance of building a tower like this, that existence that resembles a ladder is really a ladder?

An interesting and crazy piece of news is circulating in the Ross Army. Legend has it that at the fire tower ceremony of Hanukkah, the offerings will be tied up, transported to the top of the tower by soldiers, and will be completely burned to ashes.

That sacrifice was nothing but Horrick, the defunct Danish king, careerist, and instigator of war.

To this day, the man is still lingering. Now that he has been slapped with his tongue, he has lost the ability to bite his tongue and commit suicide to end the humiliation of the wooden cage.

Burning Horrick to death was the wish of all Normans, and of course, Baudouin, Count of Flanders, was extremely happy.

In addition to burning a prisoner, the residents of Hamburg, regardless of their ethnicity, are welcoming the grand festival according to their own living habits.

Esquier and Hudderbold have teamed up in a historic Hamburg church, determined to do a reasonable Christmas Mass. To this end, all Christians, including the Saxons and the freed Franks, must come to participate.

Even the blue fox, earl of Gothenburg, who belongs to the Ross camp, and Regraf, the actual eldest son of Rurik who has the legal kingship of Mercia. Even if the two prefer to participate in the traditional activities of Ross, it is necessary for political purposes to participate in Catholic Mass.

And before the festival, one important thing must be fulfilled.

The snow has stopped on the cold day, and the Ross Barracks and the Danish Barracks horns are in full swing.

Ludwig woke up in his sleep, subconsciously thinking of the terrible war and his humiliating defeat. He was so frightened that he sweated, and only after he woke up did he realize that he was sleeping in Hamburg and that the war was over.

The low and melodious Norman horn seemed to come from another world. It was an exciting signal. The soldiers who had received the news had woken up one after another.

The various flag formations, which now also include the fighters of the Gothenburg Gothenburg-Unklaas Army of the Blue Fox, and the Danish Army fighters of Ragnar.

Thousands of people gathered and whispered, joined by armed sailors, discussing the special benefits that King Rurik was about to bestow.

This is not! The much-anticipated Rurik the Great King of Ross, dressed in extremely gorgeous clothes, made his debut surrounded by the equally luxurious and brave bear-headed berserkers.

Rurik tried his best to suppress the roar of a thousand people with his loud voice.

"Don't be noisy! Half a pound of silver coins for everyone! No matter what ethnicity, everyone who has fought a war has a share!"

He kept shouting until his voice was hoarse.

After all, it was the bear-headed berserkers' turn to roll up cardboard into simple trumpets, repeating the king's words to the swarming brothers.

With the captains of the flags and the nobles in place, Rurik ordered them to form the team immediately, and his own side also hurriedly prepared the platform to send the money.

The Berserker himself was pulling some sledges, with heavy sacks piled on them, all of them, unsurprisingly, silver coins.

A simple wooden table was quickly assembled, and a wooden chair was also assembled.

Rurik sat alone in the wooden chair, while the guards around him prepared the money bag. He deliberately held out some silver coins and spread them on the wooden table. The silver-white treasure was here, and the viewer's eyes were straight. This also proved that the king really had a lot of money and was willing to reward the army.

He deliberately put on the music, and it happened that the music girls who were trained by his beloved wife Noren were always doing chores in the army. They also served as cooks, medical nurses, and washers. Their jobs were music girls. They played tactful tunes on bone flutes and wooden flutes, and played a special symphony with horns, leather drums and gongs.

This piece of music officially started the money-making drama that the king personally implemented.

To send money to thousands of people, Rurik naturally made some preparations in advance.

The huge burlap pockets were filled with a bunch of pockets, and the simple sew pockets were packed with fifty silver coins, and finally tied with a thin hemp rope.

In a sense, this became the New Year's red envelope given by Rurik to the soldiers.

At the end of the music, facing the very quiet scene of thousands of people gathered, Rurik's cry finally had full penetrating power.

"The first flag team! Brothers, come and collect the reward!"

"In the order of each centurion! Receive the reward!"

As a result, a small team walked out amid the attention of everyone, and lined up neatly in front of Rurik's desk in a single column.

Rurik was sitting here, and the first warrior could not hide his laughter in a cautious manner. He trembled with excitement. After taking the simple pocket given by the king himself with trembling hands, he jumped up and down subconsciously. .

However, the rash warrior was immediately stopped by the bear-headed berserker with his sword.

"Wait! Brother! Don't thank the king? Also, don't show other brothers what you have received?" The soldier accused.

Hearing this, the warrior couldn't hide his smile. He immediately stood at attention in front of the king, beat his chest with his right fist and gave a warrior salute, tearing his throat and shouting, "Thank you, king."

Just tore off the rope at the mouth of the bundle, and there were neatly stacked silver coins inside. He was also embarrassed to see if the list really weighed fifty and a half pounds, and immediately shouted to the waiting comrade: "It's really silver!"

In this way, Rurik handed the prepared pockets to the subordinates who received the reward one by one, and the soldiers immediately shouted "Thank you, King", then pulled the rope to inspect the goods and left in ecstasy.

This is a performance art of unprecedented scale, and Rurik will personally hand over the reward to all his subordinates, even if it will make him very tired.

He now behaves extremely equally, and to many warriors, the honorable King Russ is as mysterious as a god.

It is rare for a mortal to have a chance to say a word to the king in this life, and even seeing the king is extremely rare. Especially the Finnish flag team and the Slavic flag team, they are not and cannot become the king's cronies. If they want to see the king's face from a distance, and get rewards from the king's hands, I am afraid this is the only chance in their life.

The diminutive Finnish Suomi, who tried to challenge the Rus army many years ago, surrendered immediately after realizing that they could not be beaten. The Suomis became the most prosperous of all Finnish tribes, not because of their smooth surrender, but mainly because the king's cronies, Yevlo, were Suomis.

Also included in the Finnish flag team were playful miniature tribes such as the Vips and Rudis, who, before being conquered, lived like wild animals. They were pulled into a northern civilization system created by Ross. They were extremely poor and had already enjoyed the war bonus. This time, they were personally rewarded by the king of Ross.

After receiving the silver coins, a small warrior slumped on the ground because his legs were too excited, and then stammered and said "Thank you, King" in Enos.

Rurik subconsciously leaned out half of his body and looked down on the ground, and asked in Suomi dialect with the gentleness of the king: "Are you okay? Take the money and make way for the brothers behind."

This is actually a local dialect! The king can actually speak his native language!

The paralyzed Suomi warrior was finally dragged aside by the bear-headed berserker. This kind of over-excited person became a joke for onlookers to talk about, and the warrior was even more pleased with the king's attention to the ordinary Suomi longbowman.

Rurik really showed great importance to all the warriors who survived the war.

For the Rus Kingdom, which has already been flooded with a lot of hot money, giving fifty silver coins to the Viking soldiers of the kingdom cannot change a family, but it is definitely a huge sum of money.

But for Finnish and Slavic soldiers, it would bring about a qualitative change.

After capturing the female prisoner, he gave the Viking warriors as wives. This was a benefit that Rurik had thought of for a long time. By this trick, he won over a large number of fans.

This benefit was soon extended to the Slavic villages in the Novgorod region that were subject to Rus, but the act of abducting women through war and giving them wives was only a temporary measure in a special historical stage.

They are men, and capable men go after wives themselves and cannot expect the king to send them.

Counting on pure love is an extravagant hope. If a talented man can come up with a betrothal gift, the marriage problem will probably be solved.

In particular, the Slavs from Novgorod, who live purely agricultural life around Lake Ilmen, are culturally only subordinate to the family, and their parents have full authority over their daughters' marriage arrangements. Although there is no clear clan culture, small Slavic families through continuous marriages have made farms rise up one by one, and the farms have intertwined blood ties, and this marriage pattern continues, and multiple small farms can be merged into large farms. , its final derivative is the city-state.

A Slavic man rarely sees silver coins in traditional life, and even iron tools are rare. Today, silver coins are widely used in the trading system of Lake Ilmen, but fifty silver coins are enough to obtain a marriage as a dowry.

Many soldiers in the Slavic flag team are young and unmarried. They are the second and third sons of the family, and most of them are not the main labor force. In this way, they died in battle, and the loss of their own family was not fatal.

The battle damage of the flag team was very small. After a whole year of war, the young warriors not only realized the hugeness of the world, they had already plundered some trophies, their shriveled pockets were bulging, and now they have to add fifty silver coins bestowed by the king himself. .

This means that when they return to their hometowns after the war, the young Slavic warriors can get wives immediately, and they can also buy some tools to clear the land, and hire labor to help them cover new woodcuts.

Because the king has ordered to cancel this year's tax due to the victory of the war, since the tax has been collected, the next year's agricultural tax will be exempted.

There is also a one-year tax holiday for land reclamation. Even if tax collection begins, newly cultivated fields are always "bad fields" by default, and the agricultural tax collection is extremely low. As for whether it can be defined as "good land" to increase the tax rate, it depends on the future land survey.

Young Slavic soldiers enjoyed the war dividends, they could work as homesteaders, and then gathered together to form a farm ~www.readwn.com~ just like the already built cities of Mstisk and Youth near Novgorod, thus Allegiance to the royal family of Rus.

Now, they see their king as a young man like themselves. This is no longer a distant view. Everyone can clearly see the king's beard and sharp eyes, and even touch the king's hand when he takes the money bag. .

Even if Rurik wanted to do it quickly, the entire money distribution activity continued into the night. After all, the daytime is too short.

The soldiers kept their enthusiasm unabated. They lit bonfires and held torches. Rurik held back his yawn and continued to distribute the well-prepared wealth.

By the way, I also took this opportunity to determine how many troops there were still under my command.

The fact is, even with the sailors, there are only 4,000 men left to fight.

Instead of passing by on the horses of the reviewing army, Rurik saw the faces of each warrior, and had the most accurate understanding of their height, shortness, fatness and thinness. Obviously, there are not many faces of Ross' veterans. After all, no matter how powerful the veterans are, they will naturally have to fight the toughest battles. They have suffered a lot, and the core army of the Ross Army will be changed for this. Because of the shackles derived from a large number of veterans, the old Ross tribe will be worn away by the sacrifices of the veterans.

A large number of new recruits were added, and in their childhood before they became warriors, they ate the king's meal, wore the king's clothes, and were sent by the king to educate cultural knowledge and combat skills. It is self-evident to whom they will be loyal.

This war shuffled the political landscape of Northern Europe and Northwest Europe, and also shuffled the internal affairs of the Rus Kingdom. The younger generation is emerging and will quickly replace the older generation, which is exactly what Rurik wants to see, and everything is under his control.

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