Chapter 726： Tonastad

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People who walked out of the forest took their stone axes to chop and smash big trees, and a small amount of iron axes and knives were used to finish the wood.

Men and women use bow drills to create flames, burning reeds and bristlegrass everywhere at once, and regularly open up waste beaches on the moist deserted beaches by the lake.

They work together to open up new homes, just like their way of life in the forest.

They dug the soil into the pile foundation and laid logs directly on top of it. Build a framed wooden shed around the pile foundation, wrap the outer layer with moss and lake mud, and then paste a layer of wood on the outermost layer. Straight pine trees are used as beams, and the herringbone roof is first laid with a layer of thin branches, and then a lot of fresh reeds are piled up, and finally some soil blocks are thrown to fix it.

Most of the farm buildings in the forest are like this. As long as these people are given enough time, they can also build their houses neat and tidy with simple tools at hand.

However, their disadvantages are obvious compared to the strong farms that live on the lake.

Many people have lice and fleas on their bodies, so the first thing most people do after they get to the lake is actually to take a bath.

Although they were old commoner and leather jackets, they couldn't give up these only shame and protection from the cold. Clothes that could be soaked in water had basically washed away the parasites, and the clothes were scorched on the fire to solve the problem.

The women began to weave ropes with the vines they found, and the men not only used wooden ploughs to open up wasteland, but also **** rafts to fish in the waters near the shore.

Some masters know the art of unarmed fishing, sowing bait to attract the fish. The big perch cruises here in an attempt to swallow the bait, but the fisherman who has been waiting for a long time grabs the fish’s mouth and grabs the fish from the surface of the water.

The fishing nets used for fishing in streams also came in handy. Unlike forest stream fishing, they began to catch large fish in Lake Ilmen. What is more shocking is that the large bass here seems to be unsuccessful. Absolutely.

In the beginning, the Neo-Slavic immigrants who left the forest were very afraid of the Varangian ships cruising on the lake. The bowed keel of the ship was the most obvious feature. Thinking of these outsiders killing the overlord Pine Needle Manor of the region overnight Exhausted, I am afraid that I will encounter accidents.

They are willing to believe in the safety guarantees offered by the Ross people of Varango. More importantly, when everyone realizes that life on the lake is much better than in the past, no one wants to escape back to the jungle again.

When there was peaceful contact, the neo-Slavic immigrants abandoned their past ideas almost instantaneously.

The Ross people are burly and blonde, and the fishermen look very young, and they generally speak some Slavic languages.

On the other hand, both men and women are short and small, even men are thin and weak.

Life in the dense forest is not good. About half of the newborns can eventually live to the age of marriage. Even so, the so-called adult men eat too poorly during the growth stage, and their stunted body generally can barely reach about 160 cm. Their food is almost only oats and a small amount of rye, the overall food reserve is not much, and meat is a complete addition.

The soldiers of the Old Pine Needle Manor occasionally went into the forest to exploit. The villagers did not dare to resist. They could only swallow their teeth silently and hand over the little food.

Just a few years ago, the exploitation of Pine Needle Manor suddenly intensified, and the life of the forest people was even more miserable.

What they didn't know was that Pine Needle Manor was mostly disdainful of entering the forest to exploit the poor. It was all because of the exploitation of the Ross conquerors, forcing Pine Needle Manor to think of tricks to get more oats to deal with.

The villagers in the forest regard the hegemony of Pine Needle Manor as a natural disaster, but the bear attack has to be prevented. Those black-skinned, ferocious beasts will treat farmers who chop wood and wood as their prey. Bears will even hunt children directly. If a bear rushes into the village, all the men will pick up stone spears and expel them.

The bureau of the forest environment has prompted people in the forest to be attacked by bears from time to time. On the other hand, in the lakeside area, since the field of vision is wide enough and there are many flat areas, if bears are infested, people can spot them early.

The new homeland by the lake is fertile and the climate is pleasant. It seems that as long as the people of Ross are obedient to the people, there will only be a stable life in the future.

It is said that the largest leader of the Rus will arrive during the autumn harvest season, and all the people who have been forcibly emigrated want to see what the king who conquered himself looks like.

Is it true that, as the so-called Novgorod soldiers said, it was a blonde boy, a young hero who received the favor of God?

They dare not expect too much, because there are two important things at hand that must be done. One is to wait for the right time to organize the village males under the supervision of the Slavic soldiers stationed in the Principality of Russia to return to their old places to grab the wheat, and the other is to continue construction. The village bears the winter that comes two months later.

This kind of forest farm has no class differentiation. The strong and wise are elected as villages. All production and life are coordinated by all male and female villagers. I don’t know where this way of life started, but the villagers feel that they can live forever like this.

But the ships of the times have rushed over, and these newly emerged Slavic people have no independent choice. They must submit to the Duchy of Rus and not serve in the Duchy.

As many as eleven villages that were forced to emigrate were connected to each other, and the leaders of each village secretly held small meetings. No one proposes to oppose the new conquerors. They all just want to live their new lives. The so-called meeting is to delimit their respective living areas and ensure that they do not dig up the soil on other people's lands when opening up wasteland.

The raft drifting on the lake encountered the approaching fleet!

In the eyes of the fish farmer, the Aphrodite-class sail cruiser is a behemoth beyond the Three Views, and cannot be described in words.

All the working villagers saw the strange fleet approaching, and the most fresh thing in their memory was the flying flags.

They recognized these flags, and the soldiers who escorted them out of the dense forest displayed the blue flag with a white background.

Those who came were all the conquerors of the Ross from far away, and many people were thinking about how to meet the leader of the Ross who was about to disembark. No one felt the danger, curiosity defeated all fear.

It's just that those big ships are just floating near the shore, seeming to only show their existence?

The sailors were ordered to maneuver the fleet to make an appearance in front of the villages of the new immigrants. The ships dropped anchor in about the afternoon, and then all the sailors lay on the deck after watching the group of people gathered by the lake for a while. Sleep.

The sailor had completed his mission, and when the prince’s land army arrived at the first Neo-Slavic village they encountered, they received a brand new order, and they raised their anchors and continued to cruise south along the east bank of the Great Lake.

Rurik led his army in the rear. During the long march, even the youngest fighters had plenty of physical fitness due to their usual training. What's more, they were parade armed with no heavy weapons and armor at all.

Without heavy equipment, there were horse-drawn carts and deer carts to assist them. The army marched on the flat lakeshore, and they soon reached their first destination.

"Stop all!" The leader of the team, Rurik, told the horn-bearing fighters to blow the horn and suspend the entire army.

What happened? Is there a ruined village in the distance? There are also some scattered thatched houses. There are large mature fields here, they have been sown with oat seeds, and the wheat seedlings are heading.

The young men and women were whispering, and then they heard the orders of the whole team.

Arik took his two hundred veterans to stand quickly, and these people watched as a large group of boys and girls lined up quickly, and they were discussing with each other while being relieved.

Four hundred children are indeed children, and the height of boys and girls cannot be underestimated. Girls usually carry short wooden bows and hang quivers around their waists. There is also a long-bladed dagger for self-defense. The linen backpack is stuffed with dry food, and there is a curled linen blanket on the outside. The boy's arms had been unintentionally with the adults, and their backpacks were still hung with large wooden round shields, as if they were carrying a tortoise shell. A long sword, a small hand axe, and a dagger were hung from his waist, and a war halberd was held in his hand as a marching battle.

Rurik said again: "Fisk! Get out!"

A sixteen-year-old young and strong soldier stabilised his helmet and hurriedly ran to Rurik.

"grown ups……"

"People are all due? Can someone fall behind along the way?"

"Not at all." After that, Fisk smiled honestly.

Everyone stands in a matrix. According to the rules, thirty people organize a "one ship". In the Russian army, it is a "platoon-level combat unit", and it is also the organization that can perform combat tasks at least independently in Rurik's plan.

He used this to make everyone reorganize the team, forming a neat "square", and after reviewing it, there were a lot of confirmations.

He cleared his throat, and now the sun was shining, the iron helmet and the towering spear shone, and the army was unspeakable.

"Brothers! Do you know where this is?" Rurik yelled deliberately.

Everyone just watched the gorgeously dressed prince walk around in front of everyone and give orders, and they continued to listen to his talk.

"There was a farm here, but they took part in the rebellion! The village was burned down and the traitors were executed! The farmland here is still fertile, and I have ordered other Slavs to sow wheat seeds. Look! The wheat is about to mature! I do want to. Taking you to frighten those weak who leave the forest is also a demonstration of our force. But now, I want to announce another thing, I want to build a new settlement here! Mstisk cannot exist alone, the city There is a need for another to take care of it. So, who will build this new city?"

Rurik's eyes had already met Fisk, and he roared, "Fisk!"

"grown ups?!"

"I've decided, you will settle here with your young brothers and sisters! Ross's young people build a youth city."

This decision really surpassed everyone's imagination. Although there has long been news that when everyone is old enough, they should live independently. Is it the time that the prince is determined to let it go? !

The boys' view of honor and disgrace determines that they are unwilling to live by the prince all the time. They are eager to pay off their debts by making military exploits, working for the prince, and paying taxes.

Fisk's mood was a little confused. He asked weakly on behalf of everyone: "My lord? Do you mean to give this wheat-grown land to... us?"

"How? Are you still not satisfied?" Rurik deliberately smiled.

"Satisfied! Very satisfied! This favor is too great!"

"Of course! I not only rewarded you with the right to cultivate the land, but also gave you the wheat for nothing. Fisk, you are sixteen years old and you are already eligible to be included in the First Banner. I saw it in front of me. Standing a young and powerful army, you should form a flag team yourself." At this point, Rurik couldn't help but pinch his fingers to calculate, "Let’s do it, you are the Sixth Banner Team. Or call it the Youth. The flag team. Fisk, no one is more suitable to be the leader of the flag team than you."

Things are developing very fast, Fisk realized that he has a great honor and shoulders its important and determined burden.

He simply knelt down in front of Rurik and swears to the prince that he is loyal to the reward.

"Get up," said Rurik.

"Yes."

Although Rurik is only fourteen years old, this fast-growing body basically has the form of a strong man. Rurik still seemed assured as a whole. As he developed, he could still attach a lot of muscles to his bones, but now he looks very strong with a relatively fluffy suit.

He completely looked at Fisk, who was two years older than himself, and continued to order: "When we finish this parade, you will bring your brothers and sisters to build settlements here. I will provide you with various building materials and also Organize a group of Slavic architects to help you build houses. But when your life settles down, I will cut off the material rewards given to you. Fisk, your childhood is over. I selected you because you are already grown-ups."

Fisk hurriedly took over the words: "Yes! The true Ross warrior will always break new ground on his own. We are very grateful for the favor of His Majesty. In the future, we can only return with endless loyalty."

"Repay me? That is a must. You should never forget, most of you are orphans for various reasons, or you would have died without my assistance. Now you are all from the Ross, you can't forget the past. Suffering. So when you see other children starving and homeless, try your best to bring them back and raise them."

"Yes."

"One more thing. In principle, women are not suitable to be fighters. Unless the current situation forces them to have insufficient forces, I will recruit female soldiers. There are currently more than one hundred girls in the Sixth Banner. You must join together! They must be The boys’ regular wives, as for the boys who are not married, I will find some local girls for you. We can even find some new villages through this armed parade..."

Rurik decided to build a new city, and the young children supported it.

Will boys and girls who have received military training together and fought side by side on the battlefield be married? That's really a great thing.

They have a general feeling of mutual affection, which Rurik has known for a long time, and sensible, mature Ross people are happy to see this kind of union. Many sons and daughters of middle-aged people are actually in this team, just because the children have eaten the food given by the duke for many years, the parents of the children are consciously at a loss if they want to interfere in the children's marriage.

The children of the New Sixth Banner Team are all loyal to the prince, and only the prince has the highest interference in their marriage.

Secretly, these children have matched each other a long time ago, and the eldest group of individuals has secretly had a relationship. There is a de facto marriage here, but it is not authenticated by a wedding ceremony involving priests.

After the harvest, there must be a carnival. The local Slavs will priest their Saturnians, and the Ross people who have immigrated should naturally follow this tradition and use the faith of the priest Ross to rule the "economic development" God Frey.

Taking advantage of the harvest festival to hold weddings is also a reserved item for locals, not to mention this year's situation is very special.

After the harvest, it was the first anniversary of Rurik and Svetlana's marriage.

The children admire the farmland here, and express their feelings about the vastness of the land.

What I have to say is that Lurik finally gave them great favors. The population of the village that originally lived here was as high as 2,000 people, and the acres they owned could feed at least 2,000 people. On the other hand, the young men and women brought by Rurik are only four hundred men and women. Even if these people combine to marry foreign women, they can only form about 250 couples in the end. If they do not join new immigrants to fill them in the future, These children need to wait until the third generation to develop a settlement of two thousand people.

Naturally, Lulik will not let that day come later because there are still a group of young cubs growing up, and they naturally fill here when they reach their age.

Until this settlement has a large enough population, it is time to consider building a new city.

For this reason, the right of ownership of farmland was held by Rurik. All he rewarded everyone was the right to use. Every family could only get one hectare of ripe land for the time being. If some families commit crimes, farmland The right to use will be withdrawn. Another reason why Rurik did not fully reward the right of belonging is that these children lacked military exploits. Only those who have made great contributions to the principality have the right to obtain private land with full rights and interests from the princes!

But the output of this land this year will all belong to this group of children. This is regarded as the last blessing of Rurik as the prince, just as the old father gave the children the start-up funds for their children's future life.

For the time being, Fisker and his guys have theoretically lost the qualifications to be recruited to fight. Their biggest task is to build cities and develop agriculture, and build the youth city enough to return the capital of the Principality in the form of taxes.

The city of youth is called Tonorstardt according to the Norse dialect of Ross, and it is described in Slavic with the place name suffix "Skoye", which means the city of youth on the lake.