Rise of Rurik

"The Rise of Rurik ()"!

When Rurik arrived at the river wharf, Arik had already disembarked with people.

Kartenika, the elderly female leader of Vips, determined the scale of the Great Lake for the first time. She was on the south bank of the lake, entered a large river with a boat, and saw the towering walls on the riverside and the endless water world in the west. It was the first time she saw a walled city. If it weren't for the activities of a large number of people, it would be hard to believe that this was actually a human residence.

She got off the boat with apprehension and curiosity, and was terrified when she stepped on the solid ground.

Many blond-haired women gathered around, as well as many people wearing headscarves, and even many children running around laughing and joking to join in the fun.

This is the home of the Ross people? They were not all strong warriors, but there were also a large number of women and children.

Kalteneka consciously lived for 60 years without knowing that such a powerful ethnic group existed in the south of the Great Lake, and after a closer look, they were not that scary.

The female leader knew nothing about the life of the Ross people, and she tried to hear some news from Travis at the first time, and Benzu held the boy's arm tightly.

Telavis could feel the old lady's fear: "It's the first time I've seen the Ruth people...the city of the Ruth people. It's normal for you to be afraid."

"I want to see your leader, and I want to have a good chat with him."

"Beware, our young leader is here. Fear not, the leader is a good young man."

Young leader? Perhaps an excellent young talent. If the leader of Ross is really a good person, and the Vipus can be servants at ease in the future, life will be as stable as before. One of the main purposes of her coming is to ask the ruler of Ross how much peace and stability are worth.

The group of them waited near the shore first, and more and more people came to watch. The Ross soldiers who came back early were already chatting and laughing with the brothers who were stationed.

The net bag hanging from the human crane at the pier has been extended to the parked ship. The onlookers saw that a large number of bundled leathers were removed from the cabin, thrown into the net bag and quickly landed on the shore.

It turned out to be high-quality leather, and the long and plush tail proved that it was a bundle of fox fur.

The eyes of the onlookers stared straight, rationality controlled their minds, everyone simply envied Aric's successful armed reconnaissance, no one dared to step forward to loot, there was a buzzing sound at the pier, and the onlookers whispered to each other, some people claimed that Arik took his brothers Great victories have been achieved,

More exaggerated claims are also circulating that the Karelians have been directly defeated by the brave Arik.

Karelia was defeated, only partially.

Arik and Yevro meet, and the two meet each other shoulder to shoulder.

Evro still tied his forehead with a piece of cloth. He tossed his black hair and said excitedly: "Haha, some brothers speculate that you have won. I saw a large number of your seizures, and the Karelians have already failed." .”

"They failed, I destroyed their sacrificial center."

"Oh? There is such a feat?" Yefro was taken aback. To be honest, he was very envious of such a result and wished he could accomplish this feat by himself.

"That's right. We still have important seizures, and we've discovered new servants." Arik twisted his neck, motioning his subordinates to push the Vipus female leader over.

The old lady leaned on a cane, and she glanced cautiously at a black-haired warrior, feeling an inexplicable sense of intimacy spontaneously.

"Is that her?" Geefro asked.

"That's her, the chief of the Vips. I remember you, my friend, as a Suomi. Maybe you know."

Yevro shrugged: "As you know, I was kidnapped by the Danes when I was a child. I am a Suomi, but... whatever..."

Although Yevro didn't know the Vipus, the latter knew the names of the Suomi.

The Suomi people refused to accept Karelia, and the two sides had been fighting for a long time. Kaltenika took the initiative to ask, and Jefro immediately responded in Old Finnish. The Vipus and the Suomi did not communicate. Since the Karelians are the common enemy of both sides, the two sides have the prerequisites for cooperation.

Yevro did not hesitate to make clear his status among the Suomi people. He is a top Suomi nobleman, and also a subordinate and close comrade-in-arms of Duke Ross.

This explanation immediately appeased the anxiety of the female leader.

But the thing really made Yevro feel strange. It wasn't because he discovered the Vipus. He approached Arik and asked with a malicious smile: "People say you are a decisive person, but you haven't wiped out the whole Vipus." Si tribe. You can do it!"

"Yes. But their women are too enthusiastic, and their men are also loyal dogs. I'm not stupid enough to attack the servants." Arik said with an awkward smile, and Yefro guessed that things were not that simple.

Knowing what was going on, Telavis simply did not participate in the chat between the two of them. He raised his head, followed the sudden commotion in the crowd, and saw Rurik himself coming.

"It's the Duke, here he comes!"

When Rurik arrived, the young Duke rolled up his sleeves, his hands were covered with dust, his forehead was covered with sweat, and his clothes were still mixed with a lot of awns and bran.

The noble duke personally participated in the autumn harvest. The conquered Slavs who settled in New Roseburg naturally felt that this was close to the people. Many people who were originally from the bottom of the Ross tribe also felt that Rurik cared about everyone the most, but there were still many people who thought that A noble duke should not be engaged in these menial jobs, a noble man must be pampered.

Indeed, the emperor of Zhou must also act in accordance with the system of rites and music. Even though some actions can be described as close to the people and sympathetic to the lower nobles, the emperor has an inviolable honor, and doing these things is a self-denial of honor.

Rurik didn't want to cut himself off from the people. When the principality was first established, there were many things waiting to be done. Even if it was a show, it had to show off in front of the people.

Rurik was indeed putting on a show, but in fact he also had reasons to kill boredom.

He held up the wooden flail and rammed the stacked oat stalks. Only when he kept ramming could he break out the oat grains wrapped in the lemma husks in the bent wheat ears, which is the characteristic of European husk oats. If you want to eat new wheat, you have to work hard to thresh the grain first.

Seeing the supreme leader of the Ross people for the first time, Kartenika couldn't believe that the leader was the boy in front of him.

Arik had a good chat with his younger brother. First, he briefly described his conquest of the Veps and the assault on the altar of the Karelian bear. All these things were said in a big way, and the gray-haired old lady in front of him immediately attracted Rurik's attention.

The pier is indeed not a place for discussion.

Rurik was very surprised, the elder brother actually softened his heart now, and it was good to be soft-hearted, so that Ross would have an extra tribe of servants, which would not help the beauty of the principality.

Kalteneka was allowed to enter the walls of New Roseburg. She looked around and saw a large number of wooden houses, as well as this smooth road, and a particularly spacious certificate land!

Harvest Plaza is not big, but it is not small either.

Rurik defined an area nearly the size of a standard football field, which should be laid with a stone floor or even a layer of cement to make it extremely level.

The reality is that he can't complete this feat within a few years, but the whole field has been rammed, and the soft ground has been rammed hard, becoming an unprecedented threshing ground.

This is the Harvest Plaza, where thousands of people thresh the grains. In the future, the oats in New Roseburg will be threshed and even dried here.

Kartenika knew about wheat, and when she was on a boat, she saw that there were stretches of farmland near the river. It's a pity that the Vips people don't have the ability to farm, so they can only make a living by raising deer, hunting, and fishing.

She literally means that Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden. A Nordic city continues to rise, and the current scale of the city deeply shocked a female chief of the forest tribe.

She had already made her own judgment: the Russians were far superior to the Karelians.

There is a huge wooden house in front of you. It is said that this is the place where the Ross people discuss major issues?

The Karelians also have similar buildings. Obviously, in terms of scale and house structure, the Rus is better.

The duke's palace and Ross Duma in New Roseburg were built too thickly, but that's fine. Standing under the thick and huge buildings, individual people will feel their own insignificance, and naturally have a sense of awe.

Rurik actually wanted to build taller buildings, not just his own palace and the Ros Duma, which served as a parliamentary court. With the continuous development of Fort New Rose, the shipping business here will become more and more developed, which requires a particularly tall tower head, not only to be a lookout, but also to set up an oil pan to light at night to act as a lighthouse.

Urban construction still needs to be done, Harvest Square needs to be paved with concrete, and the wooden city wall can give way to solid stone. This is still the work of the future.

Who are the Vips?

Rurik wiped his face and washed his hair, changed his clothes, and met his returning cousin and the Vipus female leader in a gesture of jewels, gold ornaments, and noble furs.

Ross Dumane, the generals of the Ross army are all here.

With so many tough people present, Kartenika was trembling with anxiety.

Rurik was not in a hurry to talk to the old woman, because everyone urgently needed to hear the report on the results of Arik's armed investigation.

This was a wonderful report, and Arik's words directly explained why there were so few people and ships back. He really implemented the consistent style of the Principality of Ross, and the new areas he conquered were controlled and developed into new territories.

The name Bear Altar no longer exists, and her Norse name is Bjornwistad, the Bear Festival Town. According to the Slavs, it was Medvetramskoye.

The meaning of the settlement has not changed. Since it is a place to sacrifice bears, the Ross people can follow suit.

It's just that the Rus will sacrifice bears to Odin there.

Everyone reached a consensus in an instant, Rurik couldn't hold back the joy in his heart, and praised: "Brother, your victory is too insulting to them, so they will definitely attack together."

Arik smiled, very proudly: "Isn't this what we all hope? Fight a decisive battle with the Karelians, so that your heavy weapons will be useful."

The generals are gearing up, and the decisive battle that everyone dreams of seems to be just around the corner.

There are three hundred brothers stranded at the Bear Altar to build the Bear Festival Town, and explore the surrounding environment by the way. No one thinks that they will be in danger. If the enemy can't stand the humiliation and suddenly a large army overwhelms the border, the remaining troops can just take a boat and evade for the time being.

Arik reported a very interesting piece of information, that is, the water power of the Karelians is indeed weak, but they are just some canoes, which are not qualified as fishing boats. How can we talk about water warfare? The Ross people have the advantage of ships, so it can be said that they can advance, attack and retreat.

However, the actual situation is more in favor of the Ross army. Regarding a waterway leading to an inland lake, the remaining troops only realized after being attacked by Karelian scouts, and Arik did not know about it.

The biggest achievement of the attack on the Bear Altar was the capture of an astonishing number of deer, and a batch of deer was given to the Vips who led the way and participated in the battle. Rurik was very satisfied with his cousin's actions.

How many deer are there? Three thousand? !

The army stationed at the bear altar still has 3,000 deer? !

When this number was brought out, Rurik and the others were astonished, and then fell into ecstasy.

"Brother, I'm not greedy. The high-quality leather and most of the deer belong to you." Arik said in public.

Arik himself didn't care, but these words made Rurik a little embarrassed. It is true that the sovereign is entitled to the greatest spoils, but...

The cousin also had good intentions, and Rurik corrected loudly with his head held high: "It's not just mine, it's from the Principality of Ross. It's like the central granary in the city, it's the food for all of us! It was Odin who gave me the qualification to come Manage our wealth."

Arik shrugged: "As you like. Brother, this is my experience. The brothers who stayed behind are still waiting for the army to arrive. Now, about the female leader of Vipus."

The topic has changed, and Rurik is no longer entangled.

Although this is an old lady, since she is the female leader of Vipus, she has come here to obtain a formal relationship of submission. As the monarch, Rurik should maintain an inviolable dignity.

"Someone make her kneel in front of me!" Rurik ordered.

After a while, Kartenika, who put down her crutches, knelt down and stated her servant's intentions in her language.

Up to now, everything is just a formality, and Rurik has already regarded the Vips people as his new servant force in his heart. But he was also taken aback when he asked about the other party's population.

Only six or seven hundred people? Just so few people? !

Sure enough, this kind of miniature tribe can only develop stably if it depends on the strong, but this kind of surrender will not be very loyal. They are clearly following whoever is strong, and they are actually the wisdom of a small tribe to survive.

But they are really smart, knowing that if they can't beat the Ross army, they will surrender in an instant, and they will serve the new conqueror by various means.

Are they born slaves?

Not really. Used well is an excellent servant army, an excellent labor force. Since they have seen the strength and might of the Ross army, they don't need the "big stick", and they can use some "carrots" to make use of it.

Kartenika was offered to sit down by Rurik, and the old lady immediately sat down on a buckskin cushion.

After all, she is an old lady whose time is numbered. No matter how stubborn she is, the chance of her life lasting another ten years is not high. The Veps should have a new chief, or rather a lord.

Who is suitable to be the lord of the Vips? The answer is already there.

Rurik gestured for Telavis to come up to the stage and make him sit down.

"Telavis, your fate is that you cannot succeed the leader of the gray squirrel tribe, let alone the governor of Eronburg. The son of Seborava will inherit these titles." Rurik deliberately explained these things. Lavis already knew it well.

Rurik changed the subject: "I just heard that the granddaughter of the leader of the Vips is already your woman. She is a very good woman, right? Very good! You will be the leader of the Vips, and your heirs will be hereditary. You , is there any other request? If so, I will try my best to meet it."

Things were a little sudden, and Telavis thought about it, this is probably the best destination for him.

He is not stupid, he knows that he can't make some unreasonable demands, but he feels really uncomfortable if he doesn't say some things.

Ask yourself, he was the one who persuaded Arik not to kill first, and he persuaded the Vips to surrender, and now he himself is the hereditary leader of Vips, which is really a good thing. There were some things that Telavis secretly would never tell Rurik, and he was delighted with this arrangement.

There is only one request, he hesitated and said: "Add the suffix of Orawa. Vips wants to add the suffix of Orawa."

Rurik found it funny when he heard it, and said with a smile: "You still can't forget the squirrel. Vipsalava. It's fine, as you like."

"Your Excellency is wise!"

"Very good! Then when we wipe out Karelia, we will have to live with Vips." Rurik turned his head and asked the female leader again: "You can basically understand the language I speak, and I can guess it too. Many of your customs. Do you have any objection to him as your new chief?"

Kalteneca was very excited: "I do! Telavis is the best boy."

"Very good. From now on, Telavis will be the hereditary leader, Earl Vipus, and his descendants will be hereditary."

It is great that no one disagrees with the arrangement of Telavis in this way. Rurik was secretly pleased that he had resolved a potential problem, and Telavis the Covin was still the noble leader of another tribe, so he would not covet the status of his sister's heir in the future. Telavis will make a cut with the Corvins, and will also lead the Vips to develop quietly on the west bank of the Great Lake.

The Vips have surrendered, and the upstarts have also completed their canonization. The Duchy of Ross is obliged to protect the safety of the Vips. Rurik swore not to bully all the Vips, and the other side has the right to follow the rules of the Duchy of Ross. Ayutthaya trade, like other rights enjoyed by subjects.

So, at what cost?

The price is that when the Duke summons an army to carry out a war, the Veps should send troops to join the war. The Vipus should also pay tribute every year. Due to their population size, Rurik decided to refer to the rules set for the Kewen people to ask for tribute. That is, 20 fawns and 1,000 squirrel skins per year, no more.

As far as the current production efficiency of the Vips is concerned, Rurik can't think of any more wealth they can provide. This kind of tribute scale will last for many years, and the tax increase will not be raised until the population size expands.

Is that all? Kartenika was quite surprised. Didn't the Ross people ask for slaves?

Since the young leader of the Ross people only had this request, she was afraid that her stupid question would arouse the greed of the other party, so she simply agreed and dared not ask anything else.

Rurik did not intend to ask the Vips for slaves, and even that kind of "talking animal" hardly existed in the Ross Principality in the current era. Rurik tried his best to rule all the conquered tribes in a harmonious way, gaining benefits through regular taxes and tributes, and gaining more tax revenue in the future by donating and selling advanced production and living tools. The so-called development problem should be solved by development, and forcing the subject to be a slave is generally rationally speaking. Rurik didn't want to force out a Khmelnytsky.

The appearance of the Vips was purely accidental, and they will be rewarded for leading the way.

The old lady Kartenika was dressed in rags. She was also a female leader. Rurik rewarded her with a beautiful Slavic patterned gown and a well-made white fox fur cap.

For these rewards and the "very small" share of tribute, the former Karelian chiefs were insatiable, and the young Duke of Ross is the good guy.

In the courtroom of the Ross Duma, the old lady was moved to tears secretly. She saw the great city, a large number of large ships, and an amazing number of brave warriors, as well as the declaration of the Duke of Ross. She was sure that she was about to witness Karelia. With the destruction of Ah, the stable days of the Vips will also come. As for those tributes, they are nothing compared to what the Vips can get.

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