Chapter 725： New villages for forced immigrants

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An army in the dense pine forest escorted their captive turtle forward.

"Hurry up! Get to the lake early and open up the land early." A strong man carrying a round shield suddenly yelled.

This person is no one else, but the governor of Novgorod city appointed by Liurik and his eldest brother-in-law Medvet.

More than three hundred soldiers closely guarded the captured people. These people were captured in name only, and Medvedt not only didn't want to inflict harm, but also ordered his soldiers not to allow the women among them to do anything, to ensure that everyone reached the lake safely.

More than two hundred men, women, old and children took their own soft and soft, most of them leaning on wooden sticks, pushing and pulling two-wheeled carts full of supplies, and set off on the traditional winding and hidden forest trails leading to the great lake.

Clearly in the autumn harvest season, everyone was captured by a group of terrible Varangans.

Do not! They are not Varangians! Not even the strongest of Pine Needle Manor.

They are actually the guys from White Tree Manor!

The leader of this village is a man who is nearly forty years old. Because he is strong enough with brute force, it is commendable that he still has an iron axe handed down from his ancestors, so he was elected as the leader by the villagers.

The leader is pragmatic, he knows that the weak strength of the village is not enough to fight against the strong enemy of the armored giant shield. In the past, the Sorgong requests from the powerful Pine Needle Manor were very obedient to hand over the property. The ban on entering the lake was also forced to accept. If the other party asks for the sheep that they want to raise, they hide the sheep, and if they ask for the young woman, the people will hide it.

But this time, everyone has nothing to hide.

The leader asked again and again: "Do we really have the freedom to use the land there when we get to the lake?"

Medvedt was obviously boring to march and panicked. When he thought about calming their emotions, he didn't bother to reply: "Of course. You can enjoy the fertile lake by paying tribute every year. I warn you not to run away and don't betray. , Otherwise, Prince Varyag’s army will deal with you like annihilating the 10,000 people in Pine Needle Manor."

The village leader of the former promised was so excited, and the warning of the latter shuddered.

The leader asked again: "Will you... force us to hand over the woman?"

"Of course it will. The only thing I can assure you is that you are not slaves. The soldiers of our White Tree Manor are here, and they can be your women's husbands."

A huge boulder fell to the ground. The leader didn't dare to believe it too much, and now he couldn't beat him. If all the villagers had to freeze to death and starve to death in the dense forest this year to become bear food, he had no choice at all.

Some people say that the leader is a waste of compromise, but they really don't dare to fight one by one.

A lot of news circulated among the passive immigrants, saying that they are already the eleventh village that has been forcibly relocated.

It is also said that the escorted soldiers proudly claimed that because the White Tree Manor chose to form an alliance with the Varangas early, as today is a good day, but as long as they join the villages of the Varangros, life will be better.

They move forward with mixed emotions and are unable to walk far every day. The fertility of their farmland in the dense forest is extremely low, and the low grain output makes them already in the summer famine.

If someone starves to death in the middle, the prince will get angry when he learns it! Medvedt had no choice but to ask the soldiers to come up with dry food to help.

Food is of course not free, and it is only natural to provide food for harvest benefits.

A large number of women in White Tree Manor were married to the Ross people, and most of the most beautiful women in the farms around the lake were taken away by the Ross people! It is even more difficult for the males of the manor to marry their wives. Now that they have the opportunity, they must look for women among the people hiding in the farm.

There are still a large number of small villages hidden. Continue to search for more to find, but the autumn harvest season of White Tree Manor is approaching, and Medvedt has suspended work.

The prince can't break his promise. The Ross people want to bring the people from their hometown. They have used this as their new home. From then on, the Ross conquerors have permanently mixed with the Slavs.

Once, the Irmenslavs settled next to the lake. Because the rapid population expansion triggered a civil war, a large number of people were forced to escape into the forest.

Finally, an open world appeared in front of them, and the sparkling sight in the distance shocked these people.

Only a few older people still remember the beauty of Lake Ilmen. Since their birth, more people only know the forests full of crises and opportunities, and the creeks that provide water sources. It seems that the world is the village in the forest and the cramped farmland nearby. Many people now realize for the first time that the world is actually huge.

The leader was shocked by the sight in front of him, unconsciously walked to the lakeside field, to the reeds, finally walked into the big lake, and then screamed excitedly.

More people rushed over, cheered in the talk, and deliberately played with splashes...

Medvedt and the soldiers were busy drinking the lake to quench their thirst, and then they laughed and watched these rare and weird guys playing in the water.

The leader made himself wet and his clothes still smelled of mud. He approached Medvete with a hippy smile: "My lord, can we really settle here? No one will expel us anymore?"

"Are you a fool?"

In a word, the leader was dumbfounded by the question: "I..."

"Have you never seen a lake?"

"My grandfather has seen it, and I... it is indeed the first time I have seen you."

Hearing this silly language, Medvedt took off his helmet and laughed again.

No matter, he pointed to the north: "Look carefully, there is a settled village there. We are going north, and when I say enough, you will stop and settle here. Listen, I allow your man Afterwards, go back to harvest the wheat, but if you escape, you must consider the safety of women and children."

"Don't dare! We don't dare to escape, we will immediately open up settlements."

It seems that Shunchang’s rebellion really happened. On the way, the governor Medvedt only verbally threatened and promised. The soldiers covered in iron did not use force. It seems that they did not intend to commit violence, and the people who were forced to emigrate. There is no rage.

Everyone is a pragmatic person, if the current situation is not forcing anyone who wants to live in a sea of ​​woods isolated from the world.

It is said that the White Tree Manor has been transformed into a Varang, and tens of thousands of Varangs have already dominated the north.

This is the eleventh village to be forcibly emigrated. The population of each village is around 200. Life in the forest is very difficult. They are desperately giving birth to offset the high mortality rate of children. However, every winter, some people will freeze to death due to long-term weakness due to poor eating.

If you live by the lake, everything will be fine.

Since this is the permission of the Rose Prince of the Varanga, the villages are willing to accept its rule. Of course, the premise is that the amount of tribute paid each year does not force everyone to die.

The first people to be forcibly emigrated have met with Ross fishermen on a limited basis. The encounter with each other is harmonious as a whole, because these fishermen generally speak some Slavic languages. Since they can communicate effectively, there is virtually no barrier.

Most of these fishermen are young people in the First Banner. They have a lot of savings in their hands. They have a high self-esteem. They are arrogant and pity for these people.

So some fishermen took out cheap and mass-produced cast iron hammers and harpoons, and from these people they switched to young women to take Mstisk as his wife.

Within a mere month, the soldiers of the First Banner brought fifty women, and this was what Arik wanted to report to Ruriek.

Just as the Ross Fleet finally arrived at Lake Ilmen, Medvedt had just emerged from the forest.

When the eleventh farm began to lay the foundations of the new houses, and just started to treat the weeds with stone sickles, Medvedt also led the main army to continue north.

All eleven new villages of Medvedt are left with garrisons. The people who left the forest did not have a clear hatred of the White Tree Manor. Back then, each other was forced to leave the Great Lake by Pine Needle Manor.

These fighters who stayed there are often not married. How is this not good news for new immigrants? The leader of the village immediately gave his daughter, and then selected a good-looking woman from the village to give it to the soldiers, in order to obtain further security promises through marriage.

On the first night after Rurik’s landing, Mstisk was indeed a sea of ​​revelry. There were lit bonfires and dancing crowds everywhere. The strangely bright scene was seen by those Neo-Slavic immigrants. They couldn't help but be amazed. Only the soldiers who stayed proudly pointed out that it was the settlement of the Rus people.

Mstisk was full of drunk men, and even many women were drowsy. The ale and kvass from Novgorod, the soldiers of the First Banner team got a lot. And because they have more wheat in their hands, they can make a lot of wine.

They have no choice in this era, and alcoholic beverages are almost the only cheap drinking pastime. Drinking and eating grilled fish, the reunited Ross family is so cathartic. Once this carnival can only be done on Hanukkah. Now that the material is full and the harvest is approaching, there are too many reasons and solid material foundations for everyone to splurge.

Arik blushed with the drink, and Rurik's condition was also terrible.

This is the first time that Rurik has drunk so much, it is entirely because the old man has mixed honey and strong vodka in his ale. The sweetness of honey concealed the pungency of alcohol, when Rurik realized that the problem was already spinning...

At least when he was sober, Rurik learned of the good news from the south. The so-called Medvedt had been implementing the task, and the villagers who were picked out were all willing to accept the rule of the prince.

Are they really obedient? When he was awake, Rurik reviewed the village women who had recently married. They were of course timid to meet themselves, and Rurik, who had a lot of imperial women, could tell from the eyes of these women that they were actually very satisfied with their current lives.

Arik put it very bluntly: "They hide in the forest and often go with hunger. Once the wheat is eaten, they can only go hungry, so people starve to death every year. But here, they have wheat and fish every day. eat……"

A lot of the news described by the old brother revealed his arrogance, and the brothers looked at the Slavs who were picked out with pity. Apart from that, no one persecuted them.

Maybe it's really a rich conscience? Rurik didn't think this was true, but those people were too poor to make the Ross people feel bad. As for arresting people as slaves, the unspoken rule that has emerged in the Ross society these years is to exclude pure slaves.

The brothers still got a new group of people, they traded iron tools for women, and their transactions were fairly harmonious.

When Lurik is sober, he will even go to these new lakeside farms for an armed parade to show the local village chiefs the demeanor of Prince Ross.

Just do it!

Rülik stayed in Mstisk until the third day. After the hustle and bustle of that night, all the emotions of the tribesmen who had been holding back for more than half a year vented.

Oats and wheat are growing well, they have just begun to head, and the earliest harvest time is two weeks later.

During the interim period of at least ten days, I had a lot to do, so I decided to gather the army to visit those farms.

The horn was blown, and the souls of the soldiers moved!

Arik hurried to Rurik’s temporary residence early in the morning and asked whether the prince, who was dressed in a gorgeous furry suit, was going to fight.

"Who shall we assemble the army to fight?! Could there be an enemy attack?"

"No, I still want to assemble an army. Well, at least assemble two hundred people for me. Let's take a boat to those new villages and see."

Arik scratched his head and didn't think there was any cleverness in this. "I probably understand that we want to parade armed like those poor people?"

"Yes! It is to show my existence."

"Oh, then they will think that God is in the world!"

"This is just what I want."

Arik shrugged. Since it was his younger brother's order, he executed it, and showed the poor and weak that what he gained from martial arts was nothing but vanity. He didn't like it.

What Rurik wants is not vanity. He really wants to show his strength to those people. By the way, he also takes his "young cubs" to explore their future living space on the spot, and see if they can solve the marriage of some boys. problem.

One farm has always been the old pine needle manor **** alliance, the former was banished and the latter was even banned.

A small farm is only left in ruins, but the land is not deserted.

Part of the area there was rewarded to the soldiers of the White Tree Manor after the war. They cultivated oats and sowed all the land they saw when they planted them.

The wheat there has a master, and the master is Rurik. Liuli decided to give that piece of land to the youngest fighter, form a new flag team, and build a new city.

The princes have been feeding a large number of children. When the children are over twelve years old, according to tradition, boys should make a living on their own, and girls should consider marrying.

It is impossible for Rurik to really cut off the supply of such young children. They still have to cooperate with each other to survive, but it is time for the prince to cut off the free food supply.

When the children grow up and feel guilty, they really need to make a living on their own, and they have to pay the debts of the prince to the prince.

Rurik intends to build a "city of youth", a total of nearly 400 men and women of the right age (male to female ratio of about 2:1), they have received cultural education, physical training, wars, carpentry, these people can be described as The best offspring of the Principality needs to flex its muscles in the new world.

Their other existence is also as a Rus army to take care of those Slavs who leave the forest. It seems that those people cannot rebel, and the Rus army must be around them in case of accidents.

An army of six hundred people was assembled, and Rurik was gorgeous and brave. The soldiers generally did not wear heavy chain mail ~ www.novelhall.com ~ The weapons on hand were quite complete.

There are as many as twenty flags of Ross, and each standing halberd (with the axe tied under the spearhead) of about three meters is tied with blue and white cloth strips, and the soldiers are uniform and tidy.

This unit is placed in Frank, and any lord will treat it with caution. It is very bluffing only in the visual sense, and their strength is indeed strong.

Rurik wanted to show off his strength, this time it was waterways.

Since the main force of the Russian navy happened to be in Mstisk, the professional sailors who came ashore and recuperated held the fleet and cruised south, berthed in front of the people of the new villages to open their eyes, and then the army that was good at expeditions swaggered. arrival.

Rurik thought about it too, and Medvedt's method of forcing them to leave the forest was really crude. Then giving them a little iron is a kind of comfort.

Everything seems to be ready.

Rurik looked at his army again, checked the wagons and deer carts with camping supplies, and finally ordered: "Let's go! Show the newcomers how good we are!"