Chapter 728： Rurik in Nova Aostara nad Lovati

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It was the evening, and the soldiers who had been walking for an afternoon suffered because the calves of the men and women were bandaged to avoid muscle soreness. Everyone was still tired, so they began to unload from the carriages and deer carts full of supplies. A large iron pot is placed on a pottery pier, and a thick porridge mixed with wheat and vegetables is boiled in the stove. They also started to cut trees to get branches and set up field tents on the spot.

This undoubtedly surprised the villagers who had just built a few wooden sheds.

The Conqueror of Ross of the Varangans is by his side. The King of Conquerors is a young boy. The king's warriors are both male and female and very young.

Not only did the conquerors have no malice towards everyone, they even rewarded salt and ironware.

The prince is really a good man. The children in the whole village have got some strange food. It seems that it is made by wheat and it is delicious...

The benevolence won the hearts of the people, and the village chief’s attitude changed drastically. He was anxious to work for Prince Rurik in exchange for rewards, and he hurriedly put his youngest daughter into the prince’s arms.

The villagers are simple and innocent and full of desire. It is entirely because they had a hard time in the past. A King Varang who can speak Slavic has already taken practical actions to swear that he will lead his subjects to live a good life. The villagers use their feet. vote.

The village was named "Eleventh Village", and the head of the village who hurriedly gave off his daughter was also remembered by Rurik.

The Russian army and the villagers lived together overnight, and the sailors all went ashore to rest. By the way, they brought a batch of seabass caught by trawling nets and let them cook.

The "peace parade" throughout the day was suspended, but it has just begun.

The bonfire on the lakeside here is densely lit like stars, which can be seen from far away, right?

Many people were already lying in their tents and slumbering, Rurik was willing to stand by the lake for a while.

Arik patted his brother on the shoulder: "What are you thinking about? You...this year is entirely your performance."

"I'm looking at the south, those Ostala people."

"I miss your Carlotta."

"Yes. I also want to see how well the construction of New Aostara over there is. Tomorrow I plan to board the boat and cruise the village behind by water. We will spend the night in New Aostara again, hope Carlos Tashe can provide us with some yogurt and cheese."

"Can she get enough cows?" Arik yawned and shrugged. "Better rest early."

"Also."

Rurik created a new image among the newly surrendered Slavic people. The Varangans are a general term for a group of people. Although the Ross people are one of them, they are more reasonable than the other Varangans and are also building a stable order. These people are willing to surrender to a monarch who helps and shelters them. They don't care whether Prince Rurik is really a "son of God". As long as the prince fulfills his promise, then he is a "son of God."

The same is true for the new subjects, and the same is true for the old subjects who surrender.

But Rurik will no longer give those old subjects in-kind rewards. Of course, they can still get a batch of advanced production supplies, provided that the grain is exchanged.

Lake Ilmen is considered to be a large lake in the interior of Eastern Europe. The eleven villages of the new subjects are relatively close to Mstisk, the settlement of the Rus. The next voyage has become Rurik’s inspection of the old subjects. .

The fleet suddenly appeared, and the people of the manor along the way were all onlookers.

The boat was released, and Lurik took a group of soldiers ashore. The prince visited the fast-heading wheat field, accompanied by the respectful **** of the farm boyarbi, and reiterated the taxes that the manor should pay this year and the specific time of tax collection according to the statistical data of the acres. The prince further pointed out the relationship between the monarch and his subjects, focusing on the fact that Mstisk in Hubei is the largest settlement of Russ in the region, and welcomed the village name to trade useful supplies with his own production surplus. .

In the face of the absolute majesty of the Rus army, thousands of people bow to the ears of any farm.

Each surrendered old farm has its own unique livelihood. The fleet has entered the southern shore of the Great Lake. The farms distributed here pay more attention to raising sheep and planting flax, and raising more black-haired cows.

Rurik’s fleet has drifted to the so-called very southern flax farm, where people grow flax in addition to wheat. This year's flax stalks have been harvested, and when Rurik arrived, a strange smell filled the village.

Let's see! The two thousand men, women, old and children of the entire farm are serving the hemp stalks. The strange smell is emitted by the hemp stalks in the pottery urn that is tossing in the boiling water. The coarse fibers of the jute stalks are disintegrating into filaments, boiling. The decolorization of the hemp rod was also done by the way.

You can also do business on a cruise. Salt is a hard currency that is more beautiful than silver in this lake area. He took out a pound of salt and easily changed to a large amount of rough-finished twine.

Making thin twine into a cable is a good thing for the Ross people, or all the Viking tribes are good at doing this, but everyone usually lacks the opportunity to get flax.

Flax Manor originally produced crude flax for personal use, and sold the surplus products to other tribes. The Pine Needle Manor, the largest buyer in the past, now the consumers of that manor are all turned into bones in the mud, seeming to have lost a big buyer, but now they get Prince Rose, a more crazy buyer.

"You should continue to open up wasteland and grow flax for me. The flax you produce can replace oats as tax. I also order you to sell all the surplus goods to me every year. Oh! I changed my mind! You will use flax to deduct tax this year. , Pay at ten times the tax weight of oats."

The farm Boyar and the general public fully welcome the Prince's request for tribute, and all of this is indeed in line with the previous contract. The prince did not admit his death and reason only to recognize wheat as a tax, and any equivalent can be used as a tax.

They can keep a lot of rations, and according to the contract, they really paid a batch of crude flax as tax, and everyone did not lose much.

Not only that, since the prince revealed that the principality has a huge demand for linen, Boyar and the village people immediately reached a consensus that this year, except for the linen made for cloth, whether the rest of the linen is processed, take advantage of the prince’s fleet to stop. By the lake, they were all sold easily. The people have also received salt and a batch of new iron tools, especially a curved plough, which will have a huge positive effect on next year's land reclamation.

Now that the linen manor is already there, it should be New Ostara to the south.

The Lovati River, West Dvina River and Dnieper River, the three rivers originated in the same area.

As long as the Lovati River flows upstream to the source, the second wide river that the explorer finds must be the West Dvina, and its mouth is the Gulf of Riga, which is the traditional territory of Latvians and Lithuanians.

If the explorer finds the third wide river further south, there is no doubt that it is the Dnieper River. As long as you travel a short distance along the river, a huge settlement is in front of you. That is Smolensk built by the Klivic branch.

In any case, Carlotta and her people are essentially Vikings, and when they arrive in a whole new field, exploration becomes an urgent task.

She was pregnant with the prince's child, and no one dared to oppose her power.

She is also a very ambitious duke. She was not like that at the beginning, but the current situation forced this young woman to become a hero.

The Ostarans are also Varangas. They are part of the Duchy of Ross. The female leader is also one of the prince’s wives, and the son in the womb is also the prince’s cub. The nearby farms are in awe of the Ostara people, even if their population is not more than 700 people.

As far as the level of technological development is concerned, the Ostara people are still better than the nearby farms, but they are really behind in terms of farming skills.

However, the Ostala people hardly farmed land in Scandinavia, even though the shores of the Grand Lake they controlled could grow wheat at that time.

Almost all the people of Ostara put the technology tree on raising large livestock and making dairy products. After immigrating to the new world, Carlotta's first thought was to buy cattle and sheep from nearby farms. She resolutely took tough measures and brought a small group of armed fighters to buy cows forcibly, especially the cow calves.

How dare those farms resist, they had to hand over a batch of cattle and sheep. However, the money Carlota gave them greatly eased the anger of the people who lost their cattle and sheep.

This is the era that color cows do not exist, and European primitive cows have not yet become extinct.

Even domestic cattle still have some wildness, no matter the male and female are mostly pure black coat, the sharp horns of the bull are straight forward. If it is frightened or caused by anger, the bull will charge with brute force, and if it is used on the battlefield, too A powerful combat tool.

But the Ostara people are the best at herding. Even though the old Ostara tribe has a hundred women left after the war, the production and life experience of the tribe is basically controlled by the women, and the tribe’s skills in raising calves and making dairy products are not lost. . They deliberately kept a small number of bulls. Because they didn't understand cattle farming techniques, most of the bulls were eaten during the calf period. All the cows will be kept, they will be circulated and replaced in the continuous gestation and colostrum.

Life is getting better, settlements have risen from the ground, and a walled town with piers by the lake of Pihe stands at the mouth of the Lovaj River.

It is the breeding period of cattle. Carlotta now has sixty cows in his hand, but only ten bulls. There are another forty cows that can be bred immediately. They must survive the winter safely, and the calves will be born early in the summer of next year. Only at that time can the Ostala people make yogurt on a large scale.

The Ostarans must wait. Their cattle and sheep are like walking and longevity farms. The harvest is next year. Now they must rely on fishing and buying wheat from neighboring farms for the winter.

Of course, Carlotta firmly believes that his man will cross the Great Lake and send enough food for the tribe to survive the winter.

Her body has undergone very obvious changes, and her enlarged belly can be covered with clothes for the time being. She is unwilling to cover up, and her belly getting bigger day by day is simply an oath of power.

It didn't take long for her to show her affection. The women were planning the big day for their duchess. It is likely that when a male Duke Ostara will fall to the ground in the spring ceremony next year, her status will be completely unshakable. Everyone is looking forward to the birth of this child. The birth of a boy means the rebirth of Ostara.

The women used the linen cloth they bought to weave, used knives and axes to make wooden furniture, and they chopped wood and piled them outdoors to form a "wood wall" to store fuel for heating in winter. A large number of reeds were harvested, and they piled up into haystacks. According to past experience, women holding scythes are now beginning to store food for cattle and sheep over the winter.

There are also a large number of wooden stakes in the city of Nova Ostara, and densely scaly sea bass hung on the hemp rope pulled up. They are naturally dried and used as one of the people's staple food in winter.

The men contribute a lot to the construction of the city, and they don’t have much time to open up wasteland when they are busy cutting wood. Only a small amount of wasteland has been reclaimed, and wheat seeds will be sown only in the spring of next year. However, some crops have been produced on these lands-yellow root carrots.

Cruising on the lake is a fishing boat belonging to Ostara. They are traditional long boats. The boss of the boat invites ten fishermen to work together to manipulate the large net to carry out trawl fishing. They were ordered by the duke to catch fish, and all the catches should be shared by all the people. There are five fishing boats cruising in this way.

A fleet is approaching in the distance, and the fishermen squinted their eyes and paused to look at it. They all guessed who came, until they could see the flags flying on the masts, and smiled.

"Brothers hang up the Bullhead flag, the Ross people are here!" the ship boss ordered.

Rurik had noticed the long ship a long time ago. They hung a familiar flag to prove their identity. He stood on the bow of the ship and looked at it. The dark green forest in front of the lake reflected a city with wooden walls. appear!

The fishing boat met the fleet, and soon, the prince’s parade army arrived at the most important rest stop of their journey.

Considering that the small wharf in the city of Nova Aostara was not enough to dock the fleet, all the big ships anchored near the shore, and everyone landed like this after releasing the boats.

Carlotta is a strong woman. She can still jump and run around. Hearing that Rurik has come in person, how does the sudden good thing make her want to continue her lunch break?

Under her leadership, the people in the city all went to greet the guests, especially as she ran all the way, and finally a sturdy bear hug Rurik in her arms.

But Rurik was taller and stronger.

"I said." He looked at his woman affectionately, "I have completed the immigration job, and then I will come to see your New Ostara."

Because of being overly excited, Carlotta was already in two lines of tears: "It's great. Everyone has come to this warm new world, I..."

"You are crying. Don't cry, even if you are very happy. I will stay here for at least a whole day, and I will accompany you well. Let you taste the taste of being a woman..."

The meaning of Rurik was very obvious. Carlotta gently hooked his head with shyness, grabbed Rurik's right arm with one hand, and slowly brought it under his robe.

Rurik just touched and then he was startled with excitement.

"Sure enough... you finally succeeded."

"Women say that the child will be born next spring. This is your son."

"I know it all." Rurik was too lazy to say, he suddenly used his force and directly hugged his woman and the child in his belly as a princess in his arms.

Carlotta is very young in the end. Even if she has square cheeks, her overall youthful posture is enough to attract Rurik. Moreover, she is legally still a girl adopted by the first Duke of Rose Otto. It is Rurik. Sister who is called.

Otto’s actions were based on good intentions, and on the other hand they were also extremely politically motivated. The Ostara people who are now being revived are indeed strong fans of the Duchy of Ross. They essentially guard the southernmost part of the existing controlled area of ​​the Duchy. They hold the Duchess of Ostara, Rurik heard it all The voice of "Long live Prince Ross".

Obviously, the people who have immigrated here not only welcome the prince, but also clarify the fact that everyone is the subjects of Prince Ross first, and the subjects of the duchess second.