Chapter 10： Viking life of the Rus tribe

When the spring returns to Scandinavia, the "trade season" of the year begins again. Of course, trade is often accompanied by conflict.

The long boats that disappeared in the bay suddenly appeared.

The Danes and Norwegians are exploring Britain again, or going south along the coastline.

Thinking Asian tribes, in addition to the inevitable conflict with the Danes at sea, they began to conduct regular trade towards the Baltic tribe on the other side of the sea.

The Ross tribe is the same here. They trade with relatives in the south, and they do business with the Baltic people further south.

The only difference is that the Ross tribe has mastered a secret route to the inland waterway.

It is a long route. Last fall, the Sorgon voyage was attacked by the Gotland people, making the once safe route dangerous. Even so, as long as the army lays out and beats the shield with the battle axe, the powerful aura will enable the locals of Novgorov to take out the treasure obediently.

Actually, if it is a group with a strong fighting capacity, the Ross tribe will obediently do a peaceful trade with them, and will try to avoid conflict.

But those people are rich but weak. In the ninth-century Baltic region where there is no clear law, power is truth!

Even, they never think that plundering is a sin.

At the beginning of May 822 AD, the Sorgon voyage in the spring was once again under the leadership of the leader Otto. This time the fleet was very cleverly next to the shore of the Finnian Territory and slipped to the Neva River mouth. .

The tribute that Otto asked for, those Sweig people are still as weak as ever. At least Otto thinks so.

The servitude of the Svig people made Otto and his warriors very happy. Under the kindness, Otto gave the family chiefs for the first time, a small piece of amber for each person, which was regarded as a kind of reward.

It is this little amber. Does it indicate that the relationship between the Rus tribe and the Svig people in Novgorod has begun a subtle change?

Maybe yes, maybe not.

Otto only rewarded several family leaders with amber, which is more common in Scandinavia, out of his own pleasure.

But for the Sweigs, perhaps this is the beginning of a warmer relationship after their encounter with the Ross.

As early as AD 754, explorers of the Rus tribe found the mouth of the Neva River westward. This place is desolate, covered with thatch under the snow. Some bears and deer activists here, getting their fur, is probably the only value here.

But as they found a river deep inland, a warm place unfolded before them.

They went up against the current. At first they also traded with the huge village of Novgorod, until they found out that they were not good fighters, and evil thoughts emerged.

In the first few years, the trade between the two ethnic groups was normal, until Otto’s grandfather’s area, they began to trade with swords.

If they can be forced to surrender their wealth through physics, it is really a profitless business.

Besides, the Ross tribe doesn't want to occupy the territory of the Sweigs. As long as they get enough treasure, the people on the left and right will return to the dragon head warship and sail away.

In 822 AD, two Sorgon voyages were successful.

In 823 AD, the situation remained the same.

Otto was surprised to find that as long as the symbolic amber is given, the Sweig people will be very happy to take out a lot of treasures.

This is completely different from normal transactions in the past, and it is also different from a profitless looting.

As long as the tribes really donate a little bit of irrelevant finances symbolically, the Sweig people will be very generous with the treasure.

Novgorod is a huge settlement of residents. It is a small city with many villages around it.

They are dominated by multiple families in the city, and the remaining small villages are vassals of Novgolov.

The population of the entire region has exceeded 200,000. The land there is at least more fertile and the climate is milder. They were able to produce more wealth, and they also took the initiative to trade with other Sweig tribes in the south.

Every year, Novgorod has a lot of wealth, which flows into the pockets of the Rus tribe with a population of less than 8,000.

Now, as long as there is no conflict with the Danes, under the leadership of Chief Otto, the wealth of the Ross tribe has been swelling, right?

Otto returned triumphantly with a large number of treasures, he once again became the hero of the tribe. The entire tribe is also full of confidence to survive the new winter.

Liu Li is already two years old, and he has to accept his unique identity as Rurik.

"Ruriek, Rose. Damn it, am I being arranged for such a fate? I want to lead these Vikings to Eastern Europe to establish Kievan Rus?"

"Is it possible? Look at these people, they are Vikings! Shouldn't they rob England?"

"Really, they actually named me Rurik."

Two-year-old Rurik has a real adult in his weak body.

In the past two years, he has basically figured out where he is and the fact that he is a Viking.

Liu Li knows very little about the historical development of Russia. For the concept of Vikings, he is also a group of sea madmen with horned helmets, bucklers and battle axes.

Vikings, they seem to be the image of a group of pirates who do no evil.

However, the facts completely subverted Liu Li's imagination.

The tribe he belongs to is named "Ros", which means "blade hand". He estimated that the tribe was only a city-state of Roseburg, and estimated that the population of the settlements was not large.

They don’t have any horn helmets either, but there are a lot of leather and iron helmets with eye protection and nose protection.

is the classic dragon-head battleship, forest axe, and painted buckler are real.

And the most real thing is probably their food.

In the past two years, Liu Li was weaned early. He felt that he had to eat meat before he was one year old. In the following days, there are only a few chances that he will be able to eat bread with a poor taste. Most of the time, the food he can eat is all kinds of meat.

Correct! All kinds of meat, and meat that has not been carefully cooked.

He saw tribal fishermen hunting Baltic seals, casting nets for herring, fishing for cod, UU reading and even fishing for sharks.

It may be that the land here is too barren. People mainly rely on sea fishing for food and trade cattle and sheep with people in the south. As one of them, Liu Li also had to eat the same meals as them.

For a sheep, the sheep’s skin will be peeled off to make clothing, and all the mutton will be eaten, and then almost all the internal organs will be eaten, and the bones of the sheep may also be further used.

The taste of food is crazy, but the extremely young Liu Li has no choice but to bite the bullet and eat the weird meat, even shark meat.

The historical Rurik will establish a Slavic country in Eastern Europe, named after Ross.

Moreover, Rurik was invited by the locals to become a prince.

Liu Li feels absurd, but his name does sound like "Rulik", and "Ros" is the name of his tribe.

He is very happy that he is the son of the leader of the tribe. His biological father is a very strong white man, who always exudes a strong annoying smell. But he should be a qualified father. According to his biological mother Niya, the biological father is also a qualified leader.

The whole tribe is full of respect for their biological father, and they are full of respect for themselves, a baby.

The situation is not that I am the heir of the leader, but because of a prophecy from the elder of the tribe that the son of the leader will bring prosperity to the tribe.

"Well, I don't know what kind of life Relic should have in history. If my destiny is to become a leader in the future and lead them to collectively immigrate to the vast plains of Eastern Europe, they can indeed prosper. But at that time, their The descendants are no longer Vikings."

All the thoughts of Liu Li are hidden in his heart.