Rise of Rurik

"The Rise of Rurik (

Gold and silver cannot be eaten as food. The returning Ross army is still waiting for their leader to distribute the treasure. The hunger of their stomachs forced them to run to the sea immediately, rowing a fishing boat to start fishing operations.

During the war, the women in the rear could not expect to row into the sea to fish a lot, and the people in the rear did indeed catch some fish. Even if they fished desperately, the remaining fish was not much.

Not only because of their inherently weak physical abilities as women, but also because of the lack of labor in the rear.

The army returned, it was already mid-September, and the migratory salmon began to run towards the rivers where they were born.

Rose's men are already gearing up. They have obtained critical information from Cowen's allies, and they are waiting to head north after receiving their war dividends.

No one expects the merchants from the Mälaren Lake area to provide materials. They are a group of migratory bird-like guests. They come in winter not to sell agricultural products, but to process and purchase leather obtained by the Ross people for profit.

A group of merchants have arrived and brought good news of the harvest on the lakeside farmland of Lake Mälaren.

Once upon a time, all kinds of fish were fed to the Ross people, but now the scarce wheat is no longer expensive. In other words, it is because the money in the hands of the tribe has increased.

Ross' men are warriors, hunters, and fishermen. Of course, they naturally become pirates on the sea.

A purely plundering war cannot stably feed a large tribe. It is really huge to pin their hopes on the future of life on trade. The risks are huge. They must engage in production operations, which is desperately fishing for fish and even hunting giant beasts in winter.

The men are going to the north and go to Elon Orava Fort, the very northern Ross town, for a ruthless fishing against the migratory salmon. Part of the men also made plans. They stayed here throughout the winter, watching the right time to continue northward in the winter, hunting rare small animals to obtain treasured leather.

Of course, this winter will be a "northern hunting", but Rurik suspects that those business explorers from Narvik Port will return, and even spend the winter in Elronburg.

The North Hunting matter is still in the future, and Ruriek urgently needs to solve the current material distribution problem, and then organize a huge fleet to head to Lake Mälaren.

Take your own principal and interest, that is, 800,000 pounds of wheat is one of them.

Purchasing various materials with huge sums of money is the second.

It is the third one to win over the local men and immigrate with their families.

Because the problem that can be solved with money is not a problem at all. Rülik contemplated a plan to draw wages from the bottom of the Melaren people, using profit as a bait to relocate the Melaren people to New Roseburg. By then, their group of immigrants would no longer be Melalen people.

A few days after the army returned, almost all men, women, and children of the entire tribe gathered on the beach of the Rus.

A grand event for the distribution of trophies is held!

Here, Otto and all his old confidants, dressed in gorgeous clothes, took a hot bath, quickly washed their hair with soap, and took a sauna in the steam room.

The flag of Rose was flying, and many people were still wearing the blue and white robe of the Rose.

Everyone is very neat, they tie their belts firmly, their steel swords hung around their waists, talking and laughing to each other, waiting for the Duke's reward.

Anyone who goes on the expedition, regardless of whether he died in battle or not, has the most basic reward, that is, one hundred silver coins.

In addition, to kill the brave flag team, each will give another fifty silver coins.

For the war dead, his wife enjoys all of the above, plus a pension of up to two hundred silver coins.

How many enemies did the war against Gotland kill? Leurik counted as 10,000 enemies for the time being, and then took out 10,000 silver coins to be evenly distributed among the brothers, as the "killing bonus".

There are also some people who have worked hard. Like a warrior covered in heavy armor, no matter who is dead or alive, he is entitled to the "Desperate Reward" of fifty silver coins.

Those fighters who have been on the expedition since June, each of them will have an additional bonus of one hundred silver coins.

There are also some of the craziest warriors who followed Arik from the east coast of the island all the way to the west coast. Only a few of these fifty people returned to their hometowns alive, but they were almost crazy brave and detected The enemy’s major intelligence is worthy of extremely high rewards. Or the people, or the family members of the deceased, will receive an additional two hundred silver coins as a reward.

In this way, it is perfectly possible for a strong and hard-working warrior to receive more than three hundred silver coins today, that is, three pounds of silver.

However, only the two Warriors flag teams, the Merlaren flag team, and even some adult men in the marksman flag team can enjoy the spoils. Although many people participated in the war, they either could not enjoy the war dividends, or part of them.

Rurik is going to make this complicated thing that goes round and round. What is this called? This is called the distinction between rewards and punishments!

In fact, compared to the looted gold and silver treasures, what Rurik took out was only a small part.

How many silver coins were equivalent to the treasure in the "Principality Treasury" of the Ross people? The roughest one is more than ten thousand pounds of silver coins, and this is just a plunder of gold and silver.

But no one complained that the Duke gave too little. Compared with the previous dividends, the small families of Ross received unprecedented wealth. Even in a family where the husband died and life should have been suddenly difficult, the wife took the pension from the duke and the war dividends due to the husband who died, and the lives of herself and the children were not sad. Because Lord Duke pledged with honor and power, as long as there is food in the warehouse, every native inhabitant of the Ross tribe, regardless of men, women, or children, can exchange a silver coin for ten pounds of wheat, and ten pounds of wheat is enough for a woman to survive for a month.

Wait a minute! The Duke of Ross, the great Rurik is indeed a saint! The husband died in battle, and the future living expenses of the children have been contracted by the duke. The children will be trained to get a life-saving meal every day.

They were fighting for the Ross tribe, not just ordinary mercenaries who only wanted money.

They got the huge amount of money they deserved in the laughter. The woman who received the money on behalf of the husband and son who died in the battle burst into tears with heavy linen pockets, and even knelt down on one knee to Otto and Rurik. Her husband salutes soldiers.

The soldiers received dividends, and the families of the soldiers who died in battle had no worries.

Those sailors, elite mercenaries, soldiers of the Merlaren flag team, and allies of the Corvin deer breeders who participated in the battle were rewarded to varying degrees.

At least they all received the reward of that tall one hundred silver coin. As for the soldiers of the Merlaren Banner team, they even received their own commission of 20 silver coins, which is nothing compared to the bonus.

The happiness of the Merlaren mercenaries does not stop there, because they have become Ross people.

The dividend conference finally reached its enthusiastic peak.

A batch of very special treasures are waiting for distribution. As treasures, they have been waiting for a long time!

Yes, a group of as many as 1,200 captured Gotland women were selected, waiting to be assigned to their new men.

Those women who were captured and tattooed early have been taken away by their new husbands. Rurik sent someone to identify the women who were under-age and stuffed them into the "Valkyrie Legion". The rest was left out of the elderly women, whether they gave birth or not, and the children were all around, and they were all allocated.

Of course, this distribution is free of money, or they are equivalent to a sum of money.

Rurik was unwilling to follow Viking traditions and set up a slave market on the beach. He didn't like this in his heart, although it was reasonable based on this era.

Rurik wanted a bit of humanity, that is, to deny the captives as slaves in name. Only in name.

The captives were divided into three or sixty-nine grades based on their age, face, and whether they were fertile. Within a day, they were all cleaned up by the Ross people.

So the last "ninth class" was divided by the new Merlaren. They were grateful because it was difficult for them to marry a wife in their hometown. In the past few months, the Ruths were born and died, and money and wives were also available. Everyone has a bright future. The wise and martial arts of the Duke of Tsikwaros family.

They took away their new woman, and that night was joy...

The Ross tribe seems to have completely digested all the seizures, and the population has surged as a result, but are these women really integrated into a new life?

Rurik is a little worried, but fortunately, the winter is approaching, and they will adapt to their new life in the long winter.

The most important event seems to be over. A large number of fishing boats are heading north. With the Kovin people as their guides, they take a variety of fishing gear to plunder salmon and perch.

For example, the Ayron River (Kemi River), where the Ayron Orava Fort is located, has a large lake upstream, and Ross explorers have determined that there are quite rich freshwater fish resources. The lake is not like the sea, it is calm. And before the Ross explorers explored this lake, it was as pure as a girl. It had not been developed in any way, and the resources in the lake were as if God had rewarded the Ross people.

Nearly a hundred boats left first, and Rurik was also actively preparing to go to Lake Mälaren.

The time is already late September.

A terrible rain hit, and the whole world became extremely cold.

No one likes rain. If the sky must drop something, it's better to snow. The autumn rain season has begun? The pattering rain continued until the 28th of September. The only thing that made the Ross people thankful was that there was no strong wind and the situation was not too bad.

Gloom and damp, Rurik's mood is also inexplicably bad.

It happened that during this bad period of rain, the Sorgon fleet led by Arik came back.

Arik successfully completed the acceptance of wheat, and he even used force of deterrence to blackmail more wheat from the Novgorod Pine Needle Manor. Because of the men in the White Tree Manor, they returned home with a large amount of iron, and everyone also brought a seized round shield. After living with the Ross people for several months and being trained according to Varanga warriors, the men of White Tree Manor were completely reborn. When hundreds of them got off the long boat and gathered together, Rigus, the manor chief, could not recognize them for a time. Until these people laughed and yelled Slavic.

With hundreds of soldiers backing up out of thin air, Arik's raid was particularly smooth.

He searched for nearly 300,000 pounds of wheat in Novgorod, and received a batch of agricultural tax belonging to the Duke of Ross in Fort Shilla. Compared with the former, the so-called agricultural tax (a tribute paid to Rurik according to the contract) The quantity is too much. As far as the population is concerned, the Slavs living around Lake Ilmen have a population larger than that of the Melaren tribe. In terms of the ability to search for wheat, it is clear that the Melaren people are better.

During the transportation, the Russ, who was trembling with rain, carried part of the wet wheat to the shore and stuffed it into the Gould family's warehouse with good waterproof effect.

Arik returned home with his Asraki, and he excitedly introduced his new woman to his wife Peravina, and a family dispute began...

The two women still have to get along with each other.

Arik, he finally tasted the trouble of marrying two women. Fortunately, the second daughter finally set the rules, that Peravina is the first wife, and the eldest son Ascade will inherit all of Arik's. As for Asraki and the children she might have in the future, they only inherited the blood of Arik, not even a single copper coin.

So on the twenty-eighth day when the rain stopped, the elites of the Rus tribe gathered in the Rus people's chamber.

This shed for discussion has already existed. It was a wooden shed from the beginning, and was rebuilt in the construction of the project last year. I've just met the Gotland people's conference room, whether the Ross people's this one is too small.

Small is really small, but the excellent design of its fireplace keeps everyone immersed in the warm hometown when discussing matters. Brothers can talk about major events without any scruples, and then add meat and spirits.

It's a pity that there is only dried meat and no spirits at all.

As usual, Otto presided over tribal meetings, which was the so-called Viking NORDIC meeting. The elites attending the meeting naturally have the right to express their opinions, but Rurik in the Duchy of Ross has essentially controlled the military, financial, administrative, theocratic, and even the greatest power of speech. Rurik is the one who makes up his mind. Become a well-deserved focus.

After an unprecedented victory, the Ross people are unprecedentedly proud.

Otto just opened the meeting, and in the end it became Rurik's speech.

Everyone talked and laughed about things during the war, about the women who joined the clan, and the conversation turned to Arik, who had done a great job in transporting tributes.

Harozossen said with satisfaction: "You kid, you are like a bear on the battlefield. You brought the food back, really solved our big trouble. Now my family is no longer worried about food."

Everyone is praising Arik for his instant, after all, it is 300,000 pounds of wheat! This has been an extremely rare huge food reserve in the past.

The praised Arik was extremely arrogant. Unexpectedly, Haro Zossen joked with haha ​​again: "I heard that the two women in your family fought with each other at one time? This is not good, you have to control your woman."

Everyone laughed out loud and began to give Arik a trick, and then some people took out Rurik as an example: "My Rurik, he already has more than a dozen women, really is a role model for our generation."

"To keep them from quarreling in the future, you have to bother." Arik pouted and vomited.

Rurik smiled bitterly, he didn't have to have so many women, but...

He knew that he could no longer escape this fate, and I am afraid that there will be more women in the future.

Everyone is talking about their own women. They are all wild men whose nature is to have more wives and more children. They also claimed to be good people. For example, they gave the captured female slaves official family status, and the children they gave birth to were also Rosses. Such a high moral character topped the entire Swedish kingdom.

The chamber was full of jovial atmosphere.

Taking advantage of this joy, Liu Rick clapped his hands and stopped everyone's words.

"Three hundred thousand pounds of wheat were squeezed from Novgorod, which really exceeded our expectations. But we still have to get more from the Mälaren. Now you all obey my orders! Especially you, Gu Erd!"

Rurik began to lay out his plans.

First: organize a huge transport fleet, headed by the flagship Aphrola, headed to Gould Island in Mälaren. Organize an army of 500 mature men to go to Mellaron to take 800,000 pounds of wheat belonging to the duke. If King Karl refuses, the Rus army directly attacked Karl's mansion and announced that it would not fight fierce battles with other families of the Mellaren tribe.

Second: Prepare a large amount of money and purchase various materials in Melaren and the surrounding tribes, of which agricultural products are the main ones. In particular, try to negotiate with the local big landlord family to induce them to come up with more wheat at a higher purchase price.

Third: Use money to redeem the debt slaves of the big landlords, and use money to induce peasants, fishermen, and craftsmen of the Mellaren tribe to emigrate.

Sitting there, Gould and his eldest son Snoreva, the two of them fully affirmed Rurik's first plan and the first half of the second plan based on the intuition of the businessman. Almost all the money plundered from the enemy belonged to Rurik, and of course it was his personal preference how he wanted to use it.

But Gould couldn't understand the latter.

"Master Rurik, I don't know something."

"what's up?"

"We are businessmen, and businessmen should try their best to exchange the smallest amount of money for the greatest benefit. Why do you want to increase the purchase price of grain? Wouldn't it be fattening the big landlords and farmers?"

"Ah! You said this?" Rurik shrugged and asked, "You really don't understand?"

"Me? I don't understand..."

The people present really didn't understand, or in other words, they still couldn't realize the deepest intention of Rurik.

"All of us here are the elites of Ross. There will be no traitors among us. I might as well tell you. I!" Rurik patted his chest: "It is to let the Mellaren people decline, so we must first make their rich people change. To get richer, at least they have to give them a chance to get rich."

This remark is still puzzled by everyone.

Seeing that people are all curious, Rurik was too lazy to speak obscurely, so he said in the vernacular: "I plan to only negotiate with the Mälaren family and negotiate a high internal purchase price for food. They will I have money in my hand, and I will sell my food desperately, and this is just the beginning. They will find ways to get food from ordinary farmers and sell it to us, so that although the Melaren tribe has a good harvest, but for those Ordinary farmers, their days are worse than last year. Those big landlords have made a fortune and got a lot of silver coins, but the farmers are destitute. Will the farmers who feel unable to survive, find a way to leave?"

Otto pinched his beard and looked stern, because he really didn't understand.

Gould and Snoreva suddenly realized that they slapped their thighs vigorously. The fat on the faces of the seal-like father and son was also shaken, and the excited smile almost squeezed their eyes into the fat. .

"All, is there a third plan?" Gould asked excitedly.

Rurik nodded with satisfaction: "It seems you have understood."

"But, do those big landlords really do this?!"

"Yes, UU reading www.uukanshu.com because their desire for wealth has no end. You said, would you refuse a golden mountain and silver mountain? In order to rob a legendary silver mountain, the Kingdom of Sweden organized an army Well! Olekin, who became king this year, launched the final battle for a silver mountain and finally died."

Having said this, Rurik sighed: "Olekin is at least credit-worthy, Karl... I have to beware of his breach of contract. I plan to get at least one million pounds of wheat and bring back a batch of immigrants. As for May I don’t care about the future of the Laren tribe. I only care about whether our Rus Principality can quickly become stronger with the help of the huge wealth of looting. The high priest Villia told me that a few decades ago we could only survive, and we were the people of Mellaren. Driven away! Are they allies? No. Listen!"

Rurik made a sudden whim and stood up: "Villa will leave. She will watch us every winter as the Valkyrie Speros, because this is Odin's order. Odin is blessed. Ours, only we are real warriors, the Mellarians are not. God is encouraging me to take revenge on behalf of the people a hundred years ago. I want to use this brand new war, a bloodless war to disintegrate Mela. The power of the Lun people. What is the second right to speak, but I was in Visby in order to stabilize the rhetoric of the leaders. In the end, I am the king of Sweden. Oh, at that time, there is no Kingdom of Sweden, only the Kingdom of Ross."

"Ah, then I will praise you King Ross now!" Gould immediately praised the situation, causing everyone to clap innocently with the atmosphere.

The departure date is selected on the first day of October in the Julian calendar, and it is planned to arrive at Gould Island before the fourth day.

The residents near Lake Mälaren have already waited impatiently for the sellers of the Ross National People's Congress.