Rise of Rurik

The sun went down and the afterglow dissipated below sea level.

The world was covered with stars, and the temperature was extremely low. Opposite to the low temperature is the liveliness of Roseburg.

A large amount of wood waste, branches, and dead wood were piled up, and a huge wooden tower was successfully piled up. The towers have become a new nation. The so-called burning towers are gifts to the gods, and each household must contribute a little firewood.

No matter where they came from, they are now Russ, and the worship of fire is welcome to all.

The time has come, all the stars return, the aurora is a green streamer, and suddenly a shooting star crosses!

Someone raised their hand to the sky: "That's the cruising Valkyrie!"

But the meteor suddenly dissipated, and some people were stubborn, raising their hands and insisting that they saw the meteor, and also saw the smile of the old priest who transformed into the Valkyrie.

People use words to elicit empathy, regardless of whether they actually saw a meteor, his family just said that they saw the image of the old priest.

The rumors are getting more and more outrageous, and some people even claim that he has personally been blessed by the gods.

"Maybe there is a god. Vilia, you are indeed a Valkyrie. We all agree that you are a Valkyrie." Rurik did not comment on the rumors, but he hoped that these beneficial rumors would spread more and more. wider.

A rising principality, people from at least three cultural groups have gathered to form a new Rus.

It is the native Rus people who have united a principality by force of conquest, so she naturally has the possibility of splitting. Unless, all the populace revere the same thing, such as fire.

Under the wooden tower, all the people living in Roseburg gather here. Not only them, but also people from Elrond Castle, Coventstad and Tombstone Island, who came to the event in reindeer sleighs and horse sleighs.

The men put on their arms with awe-inspiring aura, and the women put on floral clothes and tried their best to dress themselves up in various colors. A large group of children were running around, and the swaddling baby was screaming and crying.

There were lit torches everywhere, and a wreath of flames burned on the wooden walls of Roseburg.

Rumia stared at the antler helmet again and chanted the rite, and Rurik killed five reindeer himself.

The handsome face of the young man and the beard that had just grown were stained with the blood of the deer,

Rurik held a flaming torch aloft and threw it with all his might to the dry pyre.

Under the stars, moonlight, and aurora, smoke billows from the frozen beaches of Roseburg.

Soon, the initial flame ignited, and the pupils of more than 10,000 spectators also ignited flames. They stood and stared at the flame and gradually turned into a fire dragon, and then felt the refreshing warmth...

The fire tower was burning all the time, and the firewood was constantly being piled up.

Until a new dawn cuts through the pre-dawn darkness, people no longer need a fire tower to illuminate the darkness.

The soft light of the morning light spread on the faces of tens of thousands of people watching the sunrise on the ice field.

Welcome to 834 AD!

Daylight is still very short for a few days after sunrise, after which it lengthens rapidly to take up half of the day over a three-month period.

Year 834 of the Julian calendar has arrived.

As the highest noble of the Principality, his childish face is attractive enough, but now his eye sockets are very obvious, and his eyes have become deep and sharp.

This Nordic body began to grow vigorously with golden fluff. Only the wives and concubines knew where the clothes were wrapped. Only the cheeks, lips and chin were clearly visible.

Many old guys who grew up with Otto thought of Otto back then when they saw this young child.

Otto was also a beautiful boy back then, and he was also a good fighter. It was because of this that he had the right to marry the beautiful Niya.

That is the distant past, and Ross is no longer the small clan that lived on its own.

Today, all the known worlds north of Tombstone Island are completely the territory of the Duchy of Ross. The people living there, their own family members, or their servants, no longer have any forces that can threaten the power of Ross.

If there is, it is the Karelian people who are in desperate need of conquest.

So this year, according to the promise made to the Suomis last year, the Karelians will be operated on?

Rurik had no intention of concealing his ambitions, and he began to deliberately release harsh words, shouting a slogan that made all the strong men excited: "Use Ross's sword and shield to compete for the living space under the sun."

The Duke is at war again! How can there be any enemies in this world that make brothers fear?

The Danes are clearly unsubstantiated, Svealand's group of allies are crestfallen losers, and the British guys are all idiots.

Ross is stronger than ever, because among the mercenaries ordered to do the logging work is a group of Balmers born and raised. Everyone believes in Odin and has exactly the same warrior culture.

Balmerk mercenaries are not just for money, they feel that following Rurik will continue to achieve themselves in victory after victory, and finally become heroic spirits.

How can good things just let themselves take up? There is still a vote of brothers who are unwilling to immigrate to Britain in their hometown. Wouldn’t it be better for everyone to directly raise the flag of Ross?

The work that was suspended due to the extreme cold has fully resumed as the day lengthens.

In early January, another small-scale cold snap descended to the south, giving the already frozen world another serious snowfall. Fortunately, the snowfall lasted only three days.

What does this count for? As usual, people swept the snow piles in front of their doors and built them into snow piles, and then shoveled the blood clots onto sleds and pulled them out of the city.

After the snow, the construction speed of Blast Furnace Town has been greatly accelerated.

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The stakes at the core of the wall were all built, and all that was left was to build the walls around these sturdy stakes. Inside the fence, not only have the wood-cut corrugated wooden piles been constructed, but also began to stack wooden walls to build wooden floors.

In terms of building wooden houses alone, Ross not only learned the techniques of the Slavs, but also made improvements and innovations based on them. In Rurik's view, these are not innovations, but relying on the existing technical level to create the traditional wooden dwelling styles common in Europe before the electrical age.

A large number of wood carvings are for the living and living of craftsmen, and the large wooden houses that are obviously simple are basically warehouses.

An open space was deliberately left, and the original tree roots were dug out. The land was leveled, and some simple sheds with air leakage were placed on it.

Here will stand the blast furnace, as well as a large number of auxiliary small stoves.

A hill of iron ore is being built up, and the ore dug from the mountain is covered with a layer of snow, which makes the ore more magnificent.

With regard to the construction of the blast furnace town, the mining of ore, the transportation and processing of wood, the making of traditional leather and linen, the manufacture of soap, and even the construction of ships, Rurik could no longer oversee himself.

Even he can't supervise. Tens of thousands of people are doing their own work to create a pair of invisible hands. The economy of Rosburg is operating in a healthy way.

Rurik was convinced that what he had to do personally was to hold on to the most essential things, namely precious metals, metalware, salt and grain.

These physical resources are actually the basis for his personal dominion, and the so-called divinity is the icing on the cake.

In the past days, all kinds of people made a lot of money by selling their labor. Rurik also took out more wheat and salt in a timely manner in January, and the restrictions on purchases were also loosened, so that the silver coins that were basically sent out were recovered.

Lots of wheat! Today's wheat is a small profit for the ruler of Rus.

Plundering from Britain, harvesting grain in Novgorod Sorgon, reclaiming new farmland at the mouth of the Neva River, there seems to be only transportation labor costs. Only in the area around Lake Mälaren costs a fortune to buy food.

For the first time, the military operation of 833 solved the food problem for the coming year. More than two million pounds of wheat had been taken from the captures and sorgons, and after paying the soldiers what they deserved, Rurik got this amount of grain in vain.

In Rus, the anchor for silver coins is food. There is a large consumer market within the Principality of Ross, but it is still very closed to the outside world.

A total of more than three million pounds of grain is essentially the property of the duke's family, and is the property of Rurik himself. It is very ironic that he is the only one who realizes that such a large amount of food has the power to shake the earth, while ordinary people simply think that if they listen to the duke's request, they can get coins for granted, and they can buy delicious wheat. , other than that he had no other idea.

Now, vast quantities of grain far outweigh large quantities of gold and silver.

As a principality, Ross is actually implementing a grain-based economic system.

This is a wonderful thing in Europe at the same time, or the spiritual core of Rurik's oriental people. The deepest part of the soul is to plant the land. From the perspective of the oriental world, enough food is the bottom core element of a country's long-term stability. .

The Rus people are indeed consuming food quickly, and they are creating a lot of things with long-term significance and value, and their personal physique is stronger because of enough food in the cold winter.

The old blast furnace will still be the main smelting force in the next six months, and the two old blast furnaces will also have a vigorous end.

The furnace has been producing brittle gray cast iron. Entering the new year, the task of casting cast iron tools was stopped by Rurik, but the gray cast iron was still being made, but the irregular iron pieces formed after casting were smashed by a sledgehammer. into pieces. These scraps of iron with too high carbon content are immediately thrown into a small ordinary furnace, and continue to be calcined by fire to remove part of the carbon and achieve low carbon steel that can be forged.

This is the method of frying steel, and it is also a technique popularized in the workshops of the Blacksmiths Union.

Rurik was not worried about technology leaks at all, even though many merchants from southern allies were visiting Ross.

Even Roseburg may be mixed in with Melaronian finesse. How is that? If they can learn the blast furnace technology, it can be said that the gods help, unless Melalen also has a traveler.

Do not! This is my world, my stage!

Almost all of the more than fifty young apprentices were from Novgorod. They were all about the same age as Rurik, and they were his own iron slaves.

Their identities are humble in principle, and seem to be only in principle. They were also a group of teenagers. Compared with other children, they were all strong men, which changed the traditional Rus' impression of the weak Slavs by Lake Ilmen who had been conquered long ago. Maybe this is one side of the water and soil to support the other person? Rurik was very satisfied with the achievements of this group of scumbags. The 500 individual Tavastian female miners had limited mining capacity, so the number of people who worked hard led to a qualitative change, which directly changed the work and rest of the ironsmith.

The teenagers can stand by the fire all day and sweat, and they use their own efforts to flatter the master Rurik.

In fact, the original intention of their efforts was not for advanced ideas such as self-realization. Their investigations were extremely ordinary.

Lord Rurik made a promise, and he will definitely fulfill his promise!

Not to mention that they are all teenagers, and the muscles on their arms are already very terrifying.

The smashed iron blocks are sent in, and after two consecutive days of processing, a flexible carbon steel sword embryo is completed! As for grinding and edging the blade, as a low-cost mass-produced device, it is only polished with a manual grinder.

The price of its inferior steel sword was fixed by Rurik at half a pound of silver.

Such a price is no longer extreme for the vast majority of Ross men and mercenaries today. They either sell their labor to make money or accumulate rewards, and it doesn't take too long to buy another steel sword. As for further repairing it, even making a gilded hilt, or even a wooden scabbard with engraved patterns, this aspect is too personal, and the cost is also a bottomless pit, and Rurik can't do anything about it.

Fifty young blacksmiths were responsible for the most critical processing steps. As the master, Rurik directly set them a demanding task—each person produced ten polished and qualified sword embryos per month.

He also ordered Kamne to be the leader of the blacksmith. If the 6,000 steel swords accumulated in the whole year cannot be completed, everyone will forget about arranging his wife!

In fact, this was their destiny, and Rurik realized that the effect of his decision was immediate.

Rurik did not dig the bones and wash the marrow and asked his men to really produce according to the efficiency of one sword in two days. They will definitely evolve into a furnace for carburizing ten sword embryos at the same time, and will use various means to reduce the process to complete the task ahead of time. The rest of the time can be used for some rest, and this time is also used to make some other weapons, such as participating in the mass production of carbon steel arrow clusters.

"Are they empowered by Thor?" Old Clavason couldn't help sighing.

Not only these blacksmiths, but also a group of professional carpenters in Rosberg were assembled and accepted Rurik's arrangement.

His arrangement was extremely purposeful, and he asked Kawei to be the technical guide. After the group made the parts, they built the new torsion slingshot and bull catapult.

As for numbers, Rurik wanted thirty slingshots and five catapults a month.

Difficulty is certainly there, and their enthusiasm is immediately mobilized by the ding ding dong dong sound of money. This group of carpenters has reached a tacit understanding with the Blacksmiths Union in the past few years. They have already undertaken the manufacture of heavy weapon parts and some wooden parts of ships. Now it is just Rurik bypassing the blacksmiths and giving them directly. Orders, and he pays the rewards directly.

If mining, logging, wind canvas, cable making, shipbuilding, etc. are also included, the Rus' "combat readiness service" personnel have reached as many as 2,000 people. They are male and female, and most of them are skilled. body.

Rosberg has become the only real arsenal in Europe in this era. Rurik's strong gold and silver and real materials are the guarantee, which guarantees people's hard work, and also guarantees that this arsenal can continue to emit black smoke!