Rise of Rurik

"The Rise of Rurik (

The sea became violent, and the fjords of Roseburg were full of waves.

These conditions can't prevent the Ross people from returning to the voyage at all, that is, all the boats are up and down in the waves. Many people have been affected by the bumps, and the vomiting after seasickness made people feel depressed.

The temperature has become colder, and some people are even worried that the first snow will be earlier than in previous years.

Snow will come later! It is best not to rain.

During this war, the Russ plundered a lot of money and leather, but the very important food was limited.

In the past years, from August to October, the tribe would desperately store food for the winter. They must fish on a large scale to make dried meat and store them. Of course, there is no shortage of brave winter warriors. It is safer to nest at home to chew dried fish than to venture out to hunt.

The people know that when they return to their hometown, the Duke of Ross will give everyone a reward of victory. Maybe it will not be a huge sum of money, and it must be indispensable.

Money is a good thing, but it can't be exchanged for food in the extreme cold season. They hope to go back early and take a short rest for a day or two, no matter whether the sea is violent or not, it is the right way to forcibly go out to catch herring. The people of the tribe are full of hope, because the leaders of the two major tribes of Kewen who are fighting together pointed out very crucial information, namely, the salmon fishing floods of the big river.

Then row a long boat to head north, line up the estuary of the big rivers, and catch the salmon with a dense net.

Under the slightly hazy sky, there were gusts of cold wind, and the Aphrola moving against the wind led Rose's main fleet back.

The people who stay behind are fearless of the severe cold. They gather on the shore and dance, their excitement cannot be suppressed.

Cargo ships docked at the pier one after another, and long ships washed up directly on the beach.

The women rushed forward to find their husbands and sons among the returning soldiers.

Many people hugged each other and laughed, and some women were first ecstatic, then vigilant, and finally cried out in confusion.

Because there are not many Ross men returning.

Arik took on the task of Sorgon in the East, and rushed to the east with his new woman and more than a hundred native Ross fighters. The surviving fighters conscripted from Fort Shilla should return to their homes. All the men from the White Tree Manor in Novgorod will naturally go home. Only the Slav men who betrayed the manor have become new immigrants in Fort Shilla. .

There is also a small group of new immigrants in Fort Shilla with a rather special status.

It was Harald on Gotland, and his family was ordered to move to a new area with the remaining property.

The route to the east is extremely novel. Harald went to the so-called "wild east" for the first time. When he saw the huge fortresses, regular piers, and even some huge objects in rotation at the mouth of the river, it completely changed idea. Dongfang does not seem to be really barbaric. Coming here is definitely not exile, it may be a new opportunity to make a fortune.

Harald must be grateful for his daughter and his wonderful fortune. His recognition and reconciliation at a critical time made his family extremely important in Rurik's eyes.

If the expansion of the wealth of the Russ is mainly entrusted to the Gould family, this obviously poses a huge security risk. Rurik knew that Gould, a time-savvy person, would not betray, and it would be hard to say whether his descendants were loyal. A family that has mastered immense wealth and contributed a lot to the principality, they must hope for greater power.

Supporting a competitor, such as the Hrolev family of Soharal, is a means. Besides, Rurik knew that he had to call Asraki a elder sister (sister-in-law is equivalent to elder sister).

Harald settled in New Roseburg with hundreds of pounds of silver, and the Hrolev family is currently the richest in the area. As a result of this organization of eastern trade and industrial development, will the economic situation of Shilla Fort take off quickly? Because as many as a thousand sheep have been transported to Silla Fort at the mouth of the Neva River, the local climate is naturally much warmer by the hometown of Rose Fort, and the local area can at least develop sheep breeding.

The 1,000 sheep seized are all the property of Duke Ross. Harald has the power and task to breed the population. His family must pay tribute to leather, wool and dairy products on a regular basis, and the newly bred sheep become him in proportion. the property of. In the future, some cattle will also be transported.

Only more than 500 native men from the Ross tribe returned.

Three hundred soldiers from Lake Mälaren have officially become the new Rosses, but they are not natives here.

When there is war, there are deaths. Of course, the women who died of their sons and husbands rejoiced in the victory, but their homes collapsed!

The wife inherits all of the husband’s property, and she can take the child to marry a new man, just take a look at the current situation! Only a few years ago, any woman in the Ross tribe was rushed by men, and now there are too many women in the Ross tribe.

A large number of women and children got off the ship. They could not cheer for the victory of the Rus, because they were captured after the defeat. After getting off the ship, they could only wait for the unknown fate.

As more detailed news spreads, women who believe that their husbands have died in battle, they have one last thought. Some tribesmen went to Sorgon in the east, maybe their husbands were there.

However, there were more than three hundred native Ross soldiers who died in battle. Whose husband and son were the glorious dead?

They pray that they are not this "lucky person". Even if they are really "lucky", they can only comfort themselves, those heroes who died in battle have gone to Valhalla.

From June to September, the long war seems to have finally come to an end.

The Ross tribe ushered in a resounding victory. The returned people returned to their homes and had fun with their families all night long!

The cold wind outside is no longer terrible. In Roseburg, which should have been dark at night, bonfires are lit everywhere, there are crackles of burning pine wood piles, and a group of people dancing around the bonfire.

A large amount of seized materials were unloaded from the ship, and most of the leather was naturally transported to Gould's warehouse in the first place. This is of course out of place. Taking into account the current situation, Rurik considers that the Rus’ "Principality Warehouse" has not been built, and the seized goods can only be temporarily held by the big merchants.

Only a group of very critical treasures, they were picked up by the sturdy warriors who were not seasick. The warriors formed a dragon and headed straight to the priest's longhouse under the leadership of Rurik and Otto.

victory! A great victory!

Lulik's ears were full of cheers from the tribe, they shouted the names of Otto and Lulik, and praised their duke family in the most beautiful terms.

Immersed in the joyful atmosphere, Ruriek wanted to laugh. Thinking of something, he had to squeeze a smile to face the welcoming tribe.

Because the high priest Velia who transferred power, her life...

"The long house of the priest is in front, I..." Lumia, who is holding the antler helmet, followed Rurik. She was immersed in the cold wind, and the sky was a bit late, and the hazy world became more dramatic and joyous. The atmosphere is out of dreary.

"Are you worried about Veria?"

"Yes. She was very weak when we set off. I was worried..."

Worried about losing her, Lumia thought so.

Rurik didn't want to give any comfort, it made no sense. And for Veria, the decayed old lady has been too weak to stand up this year, she is still alive, I am afraid she is already in a state of hanging.

Many Viking tribes do not have a clear sacrificial center. For example, the Mälaren tribe, which controls most of Lake Mälaren, the so-called altar is a pile of stones placed by the lake.

The Uppsala tribe built wooden sheds in the woods and set up wooden sculptures of gods to worship.

Visby in Gotland, this is a real sacrificial center. They built temples and cast idols in bronze to worship.

The Ross people have never reached the level of faith of the Visby residents, but they are also more advanced than most tribes. Living in the extreme north, people need a gritty belief to resist the coldest winter with a strong spiritual force. The Rus have a permanent stone ship altar, which also advertises the residence of the priests as a sanctuary.

The long house of the priest is sacred, and ordinary people should stay away from it.

The parents of the Roths will educate their children not to approach the long house of the priest when playing around. The soldiers who have been selected as the guards of the priest’s longhouse in recent years boasted of this honor and received a letter of introduction to Valhalla when they were alive.

They were afraid that Odin would be angry because of their unwise blasphemy. They didn't dare to have any thoughts about the long house of the priest, so this was the most suitable place to put money.

Only a handful of fighters have the power to carry boxes. Now they start to carry the last gold and silver treasures box by box to the "Lurrik's Big Cash Box" located inside the longhouse of the priest, which is the treasury of the Duchy of Ross.

And this is the second time a large sum of wealth has been recorded in these ten days.

When the first batch of thousands of pounds of silver and gold coins arrived in the large cash box, the priests who stayed behind screamed in shock, and even Villia sat up in shock, dying and sick, and saw the stacks under the help of the priestesses. There are cash boxes everywhere.

The long house filled with rosin and chrysanthemum tea is noisy.

The two priestesses supported an old woman with wrinkles and cracked ground, and slowly emerged from the dim inner chamber.

"Let me see if my Rurik has really come back."

Veria's situation may not be so bad. It turns out that the old woman can actually stand up. Hasn't her physical condition recovered? Rurik left the people around him and walked quickly, as if his grandson and grandma were reuniting.

Of course, Rurik felt in his heart that Veria was a relative, an old man with a pitiful but very respectable life.

Vilia sees Otto as if she is a son, and she sees Rurik as a grandson. As for Lumia, she is the heir to all of her. Although she is not related by blood, who says that relatives must be related by blood?

Her withered hands stroking Rurik's round face vigorously, her eyes full of enthusiasm, and finally kissed "grandson" on the forehead affectionately.

"High Priest, you regained your health at first." Otto could not help but feel very pleased to see that Veria was so "live and live".

"I'm no longer the high priest, Lumia is. I..." She opened her hand lightly and looked at Rurik's blue eyes kindly: "People are inherently dead, I'm too old. I'm about to go to Val. Hara, don’t worry, Odin has entered my dream. God told me that the Ross army will achieve a great victory, and I will leave the human world and become a Valkyrie."

If she is not afraid of death, if she feels that the so-called death is just a process of becoming a Valkyrie, how can she be afraid?

Rurik followed her words and said, "You will never leave, right? You will guard the Ross people on the earth from the sky."

"Yes." Veria continued to hold Rurik's cheek: "There is an oracle, Odin will take me away at the right time. At that time, don't be sad, please stay in the human world and make me physically. As ashes. You can call my name, SPIRUS."

Rurik thought that Veria would say a lot of happy words and applaud the unprecedented victory of the Rus people. She really did not expect that she was telling her destined death.

what is this? still is.

what!

For a moment, Rurik suddenly felt that Veria's toughness was just a kind of glorious reflection.

"SPIRUS, this is you...your real name?"

Veria shook his head: "My name has long been forgotten, and it doesn't matter at all. Viria is just the meaning of the sacrificial daughter. And Spirus, the new name given to me by Odin, is the oar of hope. Rurik, you !" Saying that Veria raised his head slightly, facing the people present, "I! I am the Valkyrie Spirus, I will regain my youth in Vallaha, and I will drive a carriage in the sky. This is it. I want to tell you."

(Villa dreamed of Odin’s rewards, such as the qualification to become a Valkyrie, and a new name. Spirus is just a combination of the Latin "hope" and the Gnostic "oar", deep in her soul Always retain the encounter with the messenger from Eastern Rome when he was young)

Like a huge rock on his chest, Otto was shocked and speechless, because he regarded Veria's words as the truest thing.

Where's Rurik? He was a little skeptical, but it was a pleasure for Veria to continue living in the fantasy hometown.

"Then I will call you Speros Villa Valkyrie."

"A good name. Let's continue to call me Veria. Rurik, now tell me about you, and tell me what victory you have won..."

Legend has it that the Asgard sanctuary, where the land is covered with gold and silver, the residents of the sanctuary wear gold and silver, and no language can describe their grace and luxury.

Vilia saw a huge amount of gold and silver seized on Gotland. Her three views were completely refreshed, and she even exclaimed, "Did they attack Asgard?" It was for this reason that she had many wonderful dreams in succession, which were interpreted as miracles.

Following the detailed description of Rurik, Otto, and even Lumia, a magnificent war scene slowly unfolded.

Veria did not grieve for those who died in battle, whether it was the enemy or his own, the brave warrior who died in battle must now be drinking and having fun in Valhalla.

It was the Russ that killed more than 300 people in the first battle, which was a terrible loss to the current Rus tribe.

But things are not bad, there is a huge turnaround in it, or that the Ross people have ushered in a new era.

Veria, who experienced the most difficult moments of the Ross people when she was young, fled Svealand to the bitter cold of the north, fought fierce battles with the local deer breeders and brought down today's Ross Fort. Is there anything worse than these things?

Sitting obediently, Otto bluntly said that the strength of the tribe has become a lot weaker, and Villia bluntly said this is a fallacy: "You have captured two thousand women? They will be able to give birth to two thousand children as soon as next year, at least one thousand. It's a boy. Twelve years later, there will be a thousand fighters. They can give birth as much as possible. As long as you can feed them, the Ross people will have tens of thousands of fighters, and we will become stronger quickly."

Otto pounded Rurik: "This is exactly what my son wants."

"What do you want to do?" Veria asked Rurik.

"Distribute them and start tomorrow! We and the Mälaren people have a clear stipulation that I will set off again to Lake Mälaren to get back our one million pounds of wheat. I want to give one to the soldiers who will be enlisted. The money will be led by his wife and children if they die. I will also give them to the captured women~www.readwn.com~ will hold a large-scale wedding ceremony. The tribes take the money and come to me to buy wheat. , To feed ourselves and many women in the family. The wheat we get will easily feed all the people living in Roseburg. We can afford to feed those women no matter how many children they have."

Veria nodded: "Many people say you are kind. They are just mortals and don't know you at all, and I know you best..."

Veria didn't say any more, and there was no need to say more.

Rurik, this child only looks like a child. He is already a veritable Duke of Ross, and his achievements have far surpassed the leaders of the past. He is an unprecedented leader for every Ross and new immigrants.

"You all leave, I... just want to be quiet."

With a smile, Villia persuaded everyone who was debriefing her duty away. At last she saw Rurik close the leather curtain and let out a deep breath. Then she softened and relaxed in the support of the priest.

The priests present gathered around in a panic: "High priest! Are you... okay?"

"I'm okay, I just feel weak suddenly. Let me... keep lying down. Ah, Rose doesn't have to worry about me anymore. You... you remember." Veria muttered desperately, "I won't leave for a while. You must remember that Lumia is the high priest chosen by Odin, and Lumia is Rurik’s servant. Rurik, he is not a human, he is a **** who lives in the world, he is a descendant of Odin Glory! You women who should be ordinary, you are serving a god."

Hearing these words, the priests trembled all over, they were surprised and happy, and no one doubted Veria's words.

Veria was not fabricating a story to strengthen the legitimacy of Rurik's rule. She persuaded herself to completely reconcile with the world. Her life is complete.