Chapter 789： Holiday eve

Ragnar took his guys to live up to expectations, and some selected tall spruces were chopped down with the exquisite Nordic logging under the forest axes of their brothers.

The collapse of a nearly fifty-meter-high giant tree caused violent shocks, and the snow in an area also shattered.

The risk of cutting a giant tree is very high. The big tree that requires two people to hold hands together will collapse, and the miscellaneous will become fleshy.

Of course, if such a big tree burns, the torch that turns into is expected to burn for seven days and seven nights, which is exactly the effect that Rurik hopes.

Since the first fire tower was installed on Hanukkah many years ago, the construction of wooden towers to burn them during the festive season has become an indispensable item for the festival.

The open-air stone ship altar outside the city has stones moved from the hometown. The core of the altar is an animal slaughter platform, which is the main place for slaying deer and offering sacrifices to the gods with deer blood. A black and lacquered open space is deliberately set up next to the open-air altar. For all the annual festivals that need to light the fire tower, this is the place of the burning tower.

As a result, the ice and snow from the ground were pushed aside to reveal the crystallized ground. In fact, because part of the soil had been burned into terracotta, the four standing wood pits deliberately left seemed extremely hard.

The four spruces were stripped of their bark and all their branches, and after being pulled out of the forest by Ragnar, they turned around and were pulled away by the reindeer. Scaffolding was set up at the altar, and the column at the core of the wooden tower was quickly erected, just like the mast of a big ship.

A wooden tower is being built quickly, and its height will inevitably exceed all the buildings in the entire Shilla Fort, so the flames it ignites can also give the entire city warmth.

The people in the city showed signs. They personally cut wood and cut firewood, and even took out their own reserve of dry firewood. Various combustibles were stacked around the frame of the wooden tower.

In particular, the flammable Pinus tabulaeformis branches pile up and become the core "building material" of the wooden tower. However, a huge hollow is deliberately set up in the center of the wooden tower, which is the chimney of the tower.

The burning of the fire tower is not something that you can expect warmth when you light a fire. It is a major project of the festival, and the project must add some new tricks every year.

The so-called chimney effect, the scorching wind soars into the sky in the central hole, which can bring the flames to a height of 100 meters, like a flame snake rushing towards Asgard. It must be an amazing experience for the people!

Rurik thought very well, so he arranged for his subordinates to pile up fuel according to the plan.

The whole city is preparing for the festive season, especially the carnival on Hanukkah!

Even if it was a barren life in the past, every family in Hanukkah must eat and drink and enjoy the indulgence that is only once a year. Now that life is getting better, the degree of indulgence will only be more violent.

Folk customs are created without folk customs, and there has never been a fixed custom, and the new regulations have become custom after a few years of implementation.

The building of the fire tower is a clear proof, but Rurik hopes to add some oriental sentiment.

The Hanukkah of the Viking ethnic groups such as Ross is like the New Year's Day in the East. The Slavs, various Finnish tribes and Pecheneg people also regard the winter solstice represented by Hanukkah as the beginning of the new year.

Ordinary people don’t care about what they eat and drink to celebrate the holidays. At least the prince’s family wants to eat some special delicious meals.

The largest mill in the Principality is in Shilla Fort, where Aslachi is rooted. After a summer of full development, the mill's scale has expanded, and the output of rolled flour has reached a considerable scale.

The high-gluten flour made from high-gluten wheat from Britain is absolutely perfect for making dumplings!

Aslaqi's generation is the "Second Sister-in-law", Rurik then gave the order as a prince, and when she heard it was to make a brand new meal, she promised to make the ingredients.

The old Harald family took root in the new eastern world, and Yasraki was among the top nobles in the duchy through the marriage relationship of the direct blood of the Rose Prince family. She is deeply involved in the family's food processing industry and is the number one contractor for the grain processing of the "granary of the Principality", the highest level of processing in the entire Principality.

The wheat flour specially supplied to the Duke’s family was sifted and sifted, and finally the light yellow refined noodles without any bran were left. After mixing the dough, use a wooden pole to roll the dough into a thin dough. The employed woman uses a bronze ring tool to press a round dough on the dough. Reluctantly, none of these women learned the technique of rolling dumpling wrappers.

Dumpling fillings are also exquisite. The finest venison is chopped into minced meat, mixed into the carrots that are ground into a paste, there are bisporus mushrooms, matsutake shavings, and a lot of thyme shavings and parsley shavings. Salt is essential. In order to increase the viscosity of the filling, a batch of eggs are also beaten in.

Employed women make dumplings lavishly, and then send them directly outdoors to store them as quick-frozen dumplings.

The traditional Vikings would stockpile food for the winter every fall. At that time, no one had to choose. Now the people who immigrate to Shilla Fort are qualified to be picky.

The princes raised more than 20,000 deer, and the deer herd was taken care of by a team of professional deer breeders, which allowed the population to expand steadily. The Principality needs a lot of deer skins, as well as venison and deer bones.

Fresh venison is sold openly at the market. Its price is equivalent to that of a beluga, but the butcher often doesn't put blood clean, and the buyer's taste is too fishy if it is not cooked properly. But buyers buy fresh meat that is always pickled with heavy salt, thyme and onions, and then hung on wooden beams to be smoked and grilled. The unique style of Rose bacon was born.

In this regard, Aslaqi, who has the priority of materials, did not hesitate to organize manpower to mass produce bacon. She smoked more than venison, but also rabbit, chicken, cod, and mass-produced the most traditional extremely hardened herring.

Processing these "hard vegetables" and then selling them is not a profit, or what she wants is not to make a lot of money, but to further open up her reputation and become the largest businessman in Shilla Fort in a curved way.

Rülik is aware of more than this. He praised his sister-in-law's actions. The so-called female labor force is mobilized. They participate in the food processing industry and consume when they are paid. What stimulates the consumer market in the Principality. They can raise their children and subsidize the family by remuneration alone. A Viking family from a non-Ross native can no longer rely on farmland to earn money from hunting and fishing by their husbands, and even their wives are making money directly in the city as they find jobs.

These people are the first group of bourgeois in Shilla Fort, and they are also a group of petty bourgeois.

This is the beginning of a dream, because the immigrants who come again, or the children of the old immigrants, are inextricably difficult to obtain new arable farmland from their hometowns. They either organize them to go to the frontiers to reclaim wasteland, or they are in the city. The establishment of more state-owned and private workshops, based on the latter strategy, gave birth to a group of purely proletarian laborers in the Principality.

A large group of children running around in the snow will be young men with strong spirits within ten years. They have endless strength, and they can be heroes of the sea, kings of land warfare, and even mighty cavalry. They should also work in state-owned factories, even if it is an intensive handicraft industry that concentrates human resources, these labors are also necessary.

Just before the festival's grand ceremony, Rurik held a meeting on the national conditions in the parliamentary court of Shilla Fort.

Including the governor and his son, where are the leading figures in the new Roseburg sitting in the Chamber of Parliament? Everyone first listened to Governor Cornusson's summary of the construction of New Roseburg in the past year.

Of course, how can this old guy list a batch of detailed data and then talk about it based on the data?

In his mouth, the business situation in Shilla Fort is very good, the construction industry is very good, logging and reclamation are very good, hunting and fishing are very good...

As for that point, it’s not very good. It is probably because the prince himself has been deeply involved in the construction of Novgorod. Is it a bit of negligence for the real royal city of Shilla Fort?

It's a good time to report the good and not the worry. If the situation is all good, then there will be a ghost. For example, Rurik clearly learned that the purchase price of animal skins this winter plummeted because of too high production capacity, and the hunters did not get the hopeful windfall.

Numerous figures praised Rurik himself in every possible way, and business representatives from Finland took the lead in reiterating that the prince was indeed a saint who enjoyed the blessing of Odin.

Countless words of praise can simply melt the ice, tell the dead tree to open new buds, and tell the spring back.

The report by the old Cornuson was really done or in vain, and Rurik was not angry, at least this guy had calculated the tax data.

In another sense, this meeting on the national conditions held by the Roseduma Parliamentary Chamber was the hajj of various servants and officials from all over the territory. Including the 18-year-old Telavis simply wished the Principality prosperity on behalf of the Vips as the Earl of Vips.

The Wife and Concubine Seporava who attended the meeting represented this Elonburg.

It is rare to personally **** the Atlantic salt to the port of Narvik Helafide personally and his brothers traveled far and wide, and immediately attended the meeting as a representative.

The big blacksmith Cavay represented the homeland of the Roseburg Fjord, which was turned into a "steel and comprehensive mineral base", to attend the meeting.

Covenstad, at the mouth of the Oulu River, a direct settlement point for residents of the Ross headquarters, also sent representatives of merchants to the meeting.

Not only the Governor of Tombstone Island at the crossroads of the ocean sent people to Sillasburg to participate in the festival and enter the venue, but also the merchants of Mellaren, Järmalen, Uppsala, and Ankras, who have taken guests from all walks of life to Sweden’s allies. , And then the meeting narrated the friendship and looked forward to the future.

We can’t get the precise economic data of Fort Shilla Rick, he at least received the congratulations of various strengths, and the attitude of absolute obedience.

Taking advantage of this meeting, the cavalry issue that attracted the attention of the participants, everyone was surprised that this mighty force appeared suddenly, and the appearance was the surprise of the four, bringing great glory to the Principality.

As a result, Kagan, who was forced to keep a low profile at the venue, could finally take off his hat and show everyone his true face.

Rurik will introduce two heroes at the venue, and Kagan is the first one he launched.

"Seeing you praise me so, I will tell you the origin of the cavalry. Look at this brother, he comes from the far southern grassland, all the good horses are brought by these Pecheneg brothers. He is Kagan, and I am a half-brother, and we swear to Odin to form an alliance, and our cavalry force will grow rapidly in the future..."

This was a surprise to everyone, anyway, the man Kagan was indeed a dwarf in the eyes of the many Nordic men present.

The wise man changed his mind to think that this "dwarf" must have something to do with being so highly regarded by the handsome prince. For example, Jeflo, this guy is also a small man, the means of hacking and killing is so harsh, and the achievements made are enough to convince the public.

People quickly learned of Kagan's noble status. "Prince" and "Khan" are the same noble titles. This Kagan is the next Khan of the Pecheneg, and he holds at least 10,000 cavalry. The strong. These remarks were naturally described by Rurik himself, and the so-called "dominance of ten thousand cavalry" was casually said. He knew that the prairie men and women were all soldiers, saying that 10,000 cavalry were really conservative. Even so, everyone in the meeting was greatly shocked, and they all signaled disrespect.

Even if many people are businessmen, the reason for participating in the meeting is that Rurik needs the business value they bring. But they are essentially Viking warriors. Blue Fox Gouldsson is a case in which the seemingly fat-headed businessman turns into an unparalleled warrior. As long as he is willing, the transformation is extremely rapid.

Merchants must always use absolute powerlessness to protect themselves. Like pure warriors, they respect the awe and fighting madman.

Kagan didn't understand Gnosse at all, he just learned a few words, said a lame greeting in the meeting, and sat down. But he could see that the Ross people had a respectful attitude towards themselves.

Immediately afterwards, Ragnar Sigurdsson was elected by Liurik.

When the identity of the leader of the exile in Denmark had been exposed, there was an uproar in the venue, and even representatives of businessmen from Lake Mälaren subconsciously drew out the knife! Some local representatives even asked in a low voice: "Prince, the Danes have killed too many Swedish fighters. Is it not wise for you to allow a Danish chief to enter the sacred parliament."

Rurik had no intention of reproaching him. He was convinced that he had pinched the people of Ragnar to death. What could this exiled leader do while standing here? Don't listen to the death of the prince.

Ragner appeared to say that he was not so stupid that his life was hacked to death by the old Swedish king Olekin, but deliberately emphasized that he had no intention of being an enemy of his neighbors in the north. The king of Denmark slaughtered. A brave soldier described this with a grim face, and everyone saw that his face was full of tears.

Ragnar’s tears were not pretentious. He was saddened by the disasters of his tribe, and the revenge expressed in public was immediately full of glory.

No one cared about his identity anymore, many people raised their fists high and declared that they must avenge the King of Denmark.

This is what Rurik is waiting for!

Carl Hortrasson, the second child of the Hotla family of shipbuilding family, was ordered by the prince to build a shipbuilding workshop in Shilla Fort, and now his business is fully on track.

Rurik stood up with Carl, and declared to everyone that the Principality would establish a second "Royal Pirates" force. He hired Ragnar as the leader and maneuvered a brand-new light warship to launch an attack in the Danish waters. The Danish king’s ship focused on hitting its marine economy.

This style of play has been criticized by some fighters adhering to the traditional beliefs for being a little bit mean, and Liu Rick took it seriously and publicly declared: "We must use the current peaceful situation to strengthen our strength, just like a small eagle can fly with feathers. To conquer Denmark, we must be fully confident. Before that, I will find a way to make them tired. We must win a perfect victory."

The meeting has an ending that is not an end, and some unresolved issues should be discussed after the holiday.

But Ragnar himself is qualified to take his brothers to visit the shipbuilding workshop. They took the order of the prince, even if the Neva River is frozen, everyone must first learn the use of standard armed cargo ships in the shipbuilding workshop.

Even a standard armed cargo ship has a crushing tonnage advantage over traditional long rowing boats, not to mention that it will be equipped with Ross's torsion slingshot (monkey version).

It is impossible for Rurik to give up the best battleship of the Principality. He still defended Ragnar. Therefore, the Pirate Ship was an improved cargo ship, equipped with high-quality weapons, and had a small number of performance cuts. Ragnar knew this. Even so, he was already satisfied, just because he was standing in the huge shipbuilding factory of the Ross people, he saw a big ship under construction, and his understanding of the shipbuilding industry had been completely subverted.

At the door of the factory, Ragnar assembled his own staff and mobilized impassionedly. He was not at all afraid that the craftsmen of the shipyard would inform the prince Liurik, after all, what he said came from the bottom of his heart. UU reading www.uukanshu. com

That day and night, Rülik comforted himself and ate the dumplings, and the messenger from the shipyard entered the palace to give a secret report in person.

"It turned out to be so, go down."

When the messenger left, Lumia couldn't help but walked up, sitting down and saying, "It seems that Ragnar is trustworthy."

"Maybe." Rurik shrugged: "The real beast is unwilling to be in a cage. He will use us again. It just so happens that I also want to use him. He can provoke the Danish civil war the best, but I also have to guard against it. If he gets older, he might backfire me."

"Who can beat you?" Lumia sneered and laughed.

"Indeed, no one can beat me unless I stop and give others the opportunity to surpass. How are you... how are you preparing for the sacrifice?"

Lumia replied straightforwardly: "Everything is in place, but you are required to hold the torch to light the fire tower."

"Okay, the day after tomorrow will be the festival, and some of us stay up late..."