Chapter 1137： Ross Yanwu

Even though the price of squirrel skins was kept low, the old Rus living in Mstissk still made a lot of money.

Even if the mistresses of the households and the concubines of the male protagonists are from other ethnic groups, ten years of life have become Rosified. Are they really Russ? No one bothered about it, because their children belonged to the real Rose.

Based on the tradition of Rus, every winter, every family should do everything they can to stock up on winter supplies. Hunting in winter has been the work of the brave since ancient times. A large number of Rus people are reluctant to take risks to hunt and cherish small beasts. Although high risks may bring high returns, women still hope that their families are safe.

Life is a hundred times better now than it was in the past, and people who have become wealthy have the ability to stockpile more supplies. They are no longer content to save their lives in winter with limited food, now they want to eat and drink well.

Although Novgorod has been selling cheese, they have to satisfy their winter first, so in the autumn Novgorod market, cheese often disappears, unless the steppe people bring new goods.

If you can stand the stinky smell of pickled shark, the smell of cheese is nothing.

They focus more on the richness of the cheese and the power that gives diners.

Any calorie-dense food is extremely welcome, as are all types of fats.

Every household should store the fat of reindeer and seals, even the fat of hunted bears. It is marinated with coarse salt to become lumps of salty oil that has been frozen soft and glutinous, and is eaten with bread. Or cut a piece and throw it into a pottery urn and simmer it with all kinds of reserved food.

The Ross people completed the interception of the Colts, and Carlota and others were also invited by Arik to his city to gather.

This place is still not Novgorod, until after entering the wooden wall, Quetzal sees the inside story.

have a look! The neatly arranged houses are similar in appearance and have some obvious features. The residence has a main house, a courtyard in front of the door, and a side room, and finally a building is wrapped with a fence.

The real Ross man is amazingly tall and has golden hair.

There are a large number of children running here. They seem to have grown up but their faces are still childish. The children don't seem to be afraid of the cold. They dress up as adults in thick clothes, and fight each other with wooden shields and wooden swords. It seems that they are trying to figure out who is the best fighter.

Prairie people pay attention to horse riding and archery in groups, and hunt prairie wolves to attack them. Ross's children are the same, the difference is that they always go together in two groups, build a wall with a round shield that can cover most of their bodies, and step on the snow to hedge at a neat pace. Barbaric games often turn into big fights. Although they are wooden "weapons", they seem to be really killing them, and they often watch some adults shouting cheers and occasionally swearing.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to be a guest in Mstisk, the Pecheneg noble Quetzal was able to see the winter life of the real Rus.

A large number of young children grew up fighting each other. According to the city lord Arik, the cubs had no end in exploring the East. The young people wanted to fight with real powerful enemies and become real men, so they used their companions as imaginary enemies to hone their hacking skills. . It's not impossible to fight with a real sword and a real axe, but some boys must be in a hurry to kill. If the real weapon can kill the companion, it will be beaten with wooden sticks, which will at most be bruised.

This was instructed by Aric, who longed for a new battle and decided that a new journey would soon follow.

In the War of 840, the old Rus lost a lot.

Some of his old buddies died fighting for Ross to expand the territory. Their children inherited the swords of their fathers and also inherited the legacy of their fathers who died in battle.

The first and second flag teams are mainly old Rus people, and the soldiers of the standing army are also similar.

Times have quietly changed, and the boys in Mstisk are entering the age of twelve on a massive scale. They have a large population, all of them have experienced physical education and cultural education, and have participated in productive labor since the age of ten. The high-intensity work and cooperation are far better than the meals of the parents, and this Nordic blood, although he is twelve years old, the height has reached 1.7 stika on a large scale, which is equivalent to 168 cm.

It is such a height, which is already slightly higher than that of the main Frankish soldiers.

Because he had fought against those powerful Western enemies, Arik really knew the enemy's situation.

When the children heard the call of the Lord of the City, they spontaneously launched a "winter performance". Fighting with each other and changing teams frequently is one aspect. Carrying an axe and two saws to the nearby forest, the loggers drag the tree trunk back abruptly, which is a means of exercising physical fitness and strength.

It was entirely due to physiological factors that the boys were tall enough and their muscles were not strong enough. It seemed that every boy was quite thin, not enough to fight the enemy on the front line.

This requires a lot of heart connection, a lot of oil and bread.

Objectively, this is also the reason why Mstisk bought the oil, honey, and cheese from the steppe and Kyiv.

There are many spacious empty fields in the city. When Quetzal inquired, he learned that it was a preset threshing field, and it was layered with a wonderful lime-cement lake, which seemed to be covered with flat stones. At present, such a venue is the best venue for martial arts, and fighting has become the most popular entertainment for boys.

Organized training of tribal children, Quetzal associates a lot.

Pecheneg nobles train their children like women, and women are no exception. This is similar to the principle of the Rus, the difference is that the young people of Rus are all performing martial arts, and the mobilization is much stronger than that of Pecheneg.

"No! You are clearly sharpening your knives! Which fat sheep are you targeting?!"

Quetzal was cautious and didn't dare to ask, and he didn't need to ask if he wanted to. Everyone is allies to each other. If they show it, they will join the Ross cavalry to fight side by side with their entourage, and they will get the war bonus.

The performance of the Mstissk boys was an omen. The children trained as if they were facing a big enemy, and Fisk and Carlota couldn't help but beat drums in their hearts.

"When I go back, I will also train soldiers."

Fisk's identity is still the captain of the First Cavalry of the Standing Army, which has been expanded and the main force is stationed in the Novgorod camp. How are those cubs trained, do they have the ability to fight? Might as well show some martial arts.

As for Carlotta, her principality is the vanguard strength of Ross going south, not to mention that all men are soldiers by default, and all young girls have to go to the battlefield when necessary. It is also necessary for the Principality of Ostara to perform winter exercises, with particular emphasis on cavalry training.

At the beginning of the period, the number of Slavic women who married the old Rus was limited. Fourteen years have passed since the initial marriage, and the woman who married Ros has no accident and gave birth to a child the following year. Women are giving birth continuously, and often the first baby starts to conceive the second baby as soon as the baby is weaned. Coupled with the war captives of Rus, thousands of Finnish tribal women became concubines and continued to have children.

After life got better, the Rus people let go of the savage tradition of abandoning babies and had enough food to raise all kinds of boys and girls. The population explosion began in 829.

Now, it's Hanukkah 842.

According to the old tradition, if the age of twelve is the standard of adulthood (including the virtual age), after Hanukkah, nearly a thousand boys and girls will reach adulthood.

Thousands of other children have grown up and some are married.

An old Ross man has more than one wife. In the past ten years, every family has at least five children. Some families place great emphasis on childbirth.

It would be an exaggeration to describe the exponential growth of the population of the old Rus tribe. From the initial scale of 4,000 to 40,000, it was inevitable to wait until AD 850.

Russ can really support such a population. After all, there are hundreds of thousands of Slavic people in the capital and Novgorod region. After everyone's life gets better, they are also trying their best to give birth.

This is the case in the agricultural era. As a true agricultural settler, the best wealth of a family is population, and fertility is to expand wealth.

The Slavic farms are the pioneers of logging and expanding land. The three-year tax-free reward and the tax holiday for land reclamation are superimposed, and they have a crazy driving force for pioneering land.

The vast Yin'ermen Lake has a large area of ​​marshes and near-shore flat land, but as a pasture for cattle and sheep, it is a waste of time. In the past, based on the clumsiness of tools, pioneering land was laborious and low-income, but now it is not the case. Even if the manpower is dragging the curved plough, the plowshare will be unstoppable once it passes. They are all very smart. What they "beg" from the forest are new fields with poor fertility. Of course, it can be improved with human and animal dung. It is better to renovate the lakeside without a main lake. Lake mud is also an excellent fertilizer.

They are the Slavs of Yinermen, and whoever dares to take away their fields will be met with desperate counterattacks.

Under the leadership of the Boyar nobles, each village set up a village group training in 840, to beware of the attack of the Smolensk people. Of course, if the king intends to send troops to attack the south, the nobles are also willing to organize group training to get the war bonus.

In the final analysis, they are farmers who are used to farming. Unlike the Rus, farming is necessary but not the only one. They are hunters and fishermen. The habits of the past cannot be changed in ten years. Fishing is the fundamental life of the old Rus people, and it will take a long time for farming to gradually change from a supplement to the main means of livelihood.

That's why Mstisk is training.

When the spring ploughing was completed in 842, young people could bring genuine weapons on the expedition.

In their cognition, the rise of Ross depends to a large extent on war and plunder, and no one knows better than the double sword Arik. Because, in the first battle of Ross's large-scale expansion, he took four hundred and fifty tribes Jianyong to attack Gotland, and returned with wealth and joy.

Rurik, as a king, can have a variety of ways to rise. For Arik, war and plundering were once the mindset.

Carlotta, the Duchess of Ostara, suffered from leg problems due to the war, but such a noblewoman went south to expand wildly for a year.

Bald Fisk died and his father was a poor man. Now he hit the legendary Gulf of Riga, forcing the local people to surrender peacefully.

How can Arik not be itchy?

The real Volga River has not yet been found, at least the Ross forces have almost reached Smolensk. Once the official contact is made, it will no longer be a horse team playing drum grass, but a real war to destroy the country. This is the kind of opportunity that the young New Ross warriors have been waiting for. No, the opportunity has come.

He assured Carlotta: "It's fine for you to kill the Polotsk nobleman Lombard, next year it's fine for you to take control of the place yourself. If you're worried about their resistance, I can send some boys under your command. Even my eldest son. Askard can also participate. The Vitebsk fortress you risked to build is very risky, and in the event of an attack by the Smolensk, I will send the boys to help you. I will explain this to Rurik, He will agree."

Carlotta received the promise of military aid, and she affectionately called Arik the eldest brother, which she did.

Now the daytime is very short, and the daytime in the Yinermen Lake area has rapidly shortened to only a quarter of the whole day. The limited daytime was expedited, and at night, most families lighted oil lamps and did some manual work.

Arik and the nobles chatted a lot, especially to record their families and relatives. If everyone is an alliance, it is necessary to talk about each other's relatives, and try to let each other get in touch to facilitate future cooperation.

Killing enemies on the battlefield, Arik, nicknamed "Double Swords", was so brave that he didn't need a round shield, dared to rush into the enemy's line with his bare back, and slaughtered like a berserker.

So Meng Jiang could not help but shed tears when talking about family matters.

Both parents have passed away, and the only living immediate elders are uncles and aunts. His uncle is the Supreme King Otto who has retired, and the poor uncle is also very old.

A true warrior should die in the last battle, sacrificing himself in sword fighting.

Can the uncle still raise his sword? Maybe barely.

To be fair, the rise of Ross is the great cause of his younger brother Rurik, and the leader of the expansion is the old king Otto. He was a hero and a great figure in a mass marriage that brought about a change in Ross' attitude towards the Slavs.

Now that the half-blooded Neo-Russ born of his will are growing up, the old king should be shown his masterpiece.

The mighty cavalry team still has a lot of goods to be transported to Novgorod, and Arik also gathered some young people from the city to join the cavalry army as infantry.

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Marching is also a part of martial arts, especially marching in a neat line with a full set of infantry weapons, which can better verify whether the army has basic discipline.

Arik gathered nearly 500 people, and asked them to carry his father's large shield, his father's sword or his own sword, and a spear. The rations and stomach water bottles have become a fairly regular "infantry flag team", and even the number of personnel is similar.

He thought of an excuse for the young cubs: we go to see the old king, salute him, walk around Novgorod, tell everyone that you are the new warriors of Rus, and although you are young, you are not inferior to your father.

Indeed, their fathers are all old Russ, and there are even brothers and twins who are not very different in age.

They were in neat ranks, and the people headed by UUkanshu also carried Ross flags, and they were all wearing newly sewed decorative small Ross shirts and hats with ferret fur. Just like the other Ross flags, white is the main color, and blue is the necessary accent. They are thickly dressed, and at first glance they look like the brave first flag team, but in fact they are all newcomers eager to make contributions.

Such good deeds are of course indispensable to Arik's eldest son, Askard. This boy who turned thirteen after Hanukkah participated in the Great War of 840. Even if he did not explicitly kill an enemy, he had the experience of witnessing a brutal war. , has grown significantly.

Askard fantasized about being the flag captain of this group of peers, and fantasized about making great contributions in future wars.

He longed for the approval of the king's uncle, and now he hoped for the praise of his grandfather Otto.

Dressed as an elite warrior as requested by his father Arik, he needs the encouragement of a true hero.

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