Chapter 354: Rurik at Fort Shilla on the Neva River
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A brand new city appeared at the mouth of the Neva River.
In the beginning, it was just a simple cold shelter built with twenty hits of wood and soil. With the arrival of the new spring, the city's development began to rush.
Brand-new farming tools began to be used for reclamation, and the sturdy and ingeniously designed curved plow, reclaimed the land full of weeds with unprecedented efficiency.
The immigrants and the Ross people have already opened up fertile land for the fertile riverside area.
In the first year, the immigrants were brought by the city lord Cornusson and set fire to prepare for farming. In the spring of the second year, they were transported by the mother city of Roseburg on the black river soaked by melting snow. The Quyuan Plow began to reclaim the land quickly and efficiently. .
Otto came with new immigrants and a large amount of supplies, and a larger-scale pioneering operation began.
A large amount of grassland was burned, and then after a man-powered Quyuan plough reclaimed the land, a large number of oat grains were thrown down at will.
Until now, the Ross people who work in agriculture do not know how to grow the fields well. They naturally think that farming is nothing more than spreading seeds into the soil, burning and reclaiming, and then a new field will be reclaimed. Does it require careful management? No one has experience, or everyone feels that further work is unnecessary.
They don't know how to irrigate, and they don't know how to fertilize.
But the sky is not thin to them.
The water flow of the Neva River is very large, which causes a large area of the two banks to be naturally infiltrated. There is no permafrost in this area, and the soil is a little moist. It can be said that the Ross people are farming in this area, so naturally they don't need to care too much about irrigation.
As for the issue of fertilizer, they have no concept such as using farmyard manure. Also because of traditional habits, they are willing to seal all human and animal excrement underground.
All the Ross immigrants have a small family with a married man, and made an agreement with the big leader Otto.
The immigrants are standing in the wilderness of hope. Even if the spring comes late in a few years, will the wheat seedlings still grow up?
The land is moist, and the occasional patter of rain makes all the riverside farmland even more moist.
According to the agreement, each household must pay a tax to the leader during the harvest season. Farmers who know a little about farming for 200 pounds of wheat per household estimate that the tax rate is about 10%. No one thinks that the tax rate is relatively high, and immigrants even generally think that the leader is kind and reasonable.
The various farming tools on hand, the large amount of wheat provided in advance, and even some poultry and livestock waiting to be reproduced, and even some construction materials. Such materials are all provided by the leader's family, and the price of getting them is to pay taxes to the leader's family for generations.
In their hometown of Roseburg, they can't rely on farming, fishing and living without a boat of their own, and going out to fight with weapons is terrible. Only in Shilla Fort, they found a future.
Originally, the earliest settlement on the Neva River in history was just a tiny trading stronghold for the Varangans. Hundreds of years later, the Kingdom of Sweden established a fortress here. After the Great Northern War ended, Rose made great efforts here, and it has long become her heart.
The Ross people couldn't think of what the younger generation would do, but what they are doing now is to let a historical fact come out in advance.
Otto intends to operate Shilla Fort as the core area of the future Ross people. Based on this psychological consideration, he should have withdrawn directly to Fort Ross in July with the tribute he got from Novgorod. This summer Simply staying on the Neva River will not leave.
The warm summer is always so short. Taking advantage of the pleasant climate, Otto personally led the people to step up the construction of everyone's city.
More and more wooden houses appear on both sides of the river, especially the houses at the mouth of the river.
A group of residents of the Novgorod region, they had to obey Otto's orders, take their family members aboard the Russian ship, and settle down in the "distant" Fort Shilla.
The vast world fully accommodates the pioneers of the Rus and Slavs.
Otto forcibly took away a group of Slavs to open up wasteland, in order to facilitate the collection of taxes in the future. He feels that these guys live together with the Ross people. They can’t follow the orders of the manor of their hometown, but just follow the orders of the local Conuson, who has been ordered to govern the local area. They have been cut from the past. They are already a new kind of Ross people-tax people.
In the end, the large and small Slav manors around Lake Ilmen are not monolithic.
Because Pine Needle Manor took the lead in rebelling, it was the worst victimized by the Ross people. The rest of the manor expressed obedience and were not looted madly. Manor owners of average strength envy Rigus of the White Tree Manor, which was originally a manor that was squeezed out of the "Round Ilmen Lake Farming Area". They did not expect that they were not only happily being the dogs of the Varange. Wagging his tail happily.
Now, those guys are already using brand-new ploughs and huge amounts of iron tools to start cutting wood and clearing wasteland.
The owners of the manor admire Rigus, who is a dog, but due to practical factors, they dare not flatter. After all, the Ross people come two or three times a year, but see you every day at Pine Needle Manor!
Even after a blow, the contrast between the strengths and weaknesses of the estates in the Ilmen area has not changed in essence.
The owners of the manor have to consider some regional political factors and choose which person to follow.
Ordinary people don't think so much, their first thing is how to live.
Most people fear the Ross people and feel that their promise is just to trick everyone into becoming slaves. Where is such a good thing in the world? Is the right to use farm tools returned indefinitely? The most important thing is that only 200 pounds of wheat are collected each year as a tribute, that is, tax.
There are always some farmers who consciously can't survive decided to take the risk. They announced that they had left the former dealers, and got on the ship of the Ross people in the cynicism and even curse of relatives and friends. Now, the large area of farmland opened up by these people is about to bear fruit.
Shilla Fort has been under rapid construction.
A small group of people went all out to cut wood to build houses, and some people hunted wild animals such as the active rabbits here and even the clever snow rabbits on a large scale.
The chickens brought from Novgorod, after the whole winter, the poultry began to reproduce rapidly, so that after a whole year, the first chickens have multiplied a huge ethnic group, so that they emigrated. Every household is raising 20 or 30 animals, and the number is still increasing. Just can't expect how fat this group of firewood chickens are, because the white feather chicken with the highest feed conversion rate was born in the 20th century.
The time was still in mid-August, and in those farmlands that were first cleared and sown, the oats showed signs of earing.
It has to be said that the climate in Shilla Fort is better than that of Lake Mälaren, so the wheat harvest here is earlier.
After all, this year is cold, and all the new crops in Fort Shilla have suffered various degrees of reduction in production and lack of harvest. This serious decline in agricultural production certainly occurred in Novgorod.
It was God who brought disasters and reduced agricultural production.
The Slavs of Lake Ilmen made sacrifices, eager to get the help of the lake **** to tide over the difficulties.
However, they did not wait for the Lake God to come, but returned to the Ross army who plundered food.
Otto can't manage so much. The grains that each manor has to pay must not be less than a grain of wheat. There are also a batch of leather and a batch of honey that must be paid.
Except for the White Tree Manor.
It's amazing to say that when Otto saw Svetlana, the youngest daughter of the owner of the White Tree Manor, she looked a little more beautiful after three months. She was smart and showed closeness to herself, which really warmed Otto's heart. She is the destined wife of her son, and she is the most important one.
Otto reduced and exempted White Tree Manor's tribute, almost to the point where only a symbolic payment was required.
The owner of the manor, Rigus, felt that this was the strategy of the Rus, and he still had to cultivate a fan who was extremely loyal to the Rus in the Ilmen area.
The result was destined to be so, but the cause was not what he thought. It was entirely because of the beauty of Svetlana that Otto was in full bloom, loving the house and Wu, and simply let the residents of the entire White Tree Manor reduce the pressure of tribute.
It's a pity that this girl is only eight years old, and at least according to tradition, she has to be engaged to her son Rurik after four years. Oh, if you follow the Slav tradition, it is not an engagement, but a marriage.
What does the girl's old father think? Rigus wanted his little daughter to marry that Rurik now. He had already reaped great benefits for his estate from the marriage of the eldest daughter. If the little daughter...
Rigus’ thoughts Otto could have imagined that he gave Rigus a strange order when he brought a large amount of looted materials and the abducted Slavs who ordered the reclaiming in Shilla Fort to open. : "Educate your little daughter well and train her to be a good wife, so that she can be worthy of my son."
Otto’s fleet returned to Fort Shilla smoothly, and the entire fleet simply docked on the Neva River. After they unloaded a batch of supplies, they carried out the autumn harvest under the leadership of Otto.
The wheat and a batch of vegetables have been harvested, and Otto also began to count the various leathers obtained by the immigrants. It takes time to come and go. When will the work be solved? I'm afraid it will be delayed until October.
Looking at the prosperous scene of Shilla Fort, he admired his own vision. This place is flat and fertile, and it is even a little regretful. Why didn't he lead his tribe to open up the land a few years earlier?
Otto is still sitting in Shilla Fort, urging his subordinates to complete statistics on the collection of wheat taxes and statistics on various leathers. At the same time, he is also investigating the entire settlement and surrounding areas.
It was still in September. One day, a northerly wind blew suddenly, and the raging cold wind swept across the flat ground. At this time, there was some haze in the sky, and the sudden extreme cold made him feel very bad.
"It's **** cold! At least a wall must be built for the settlement!"
Originally, Shilla Fort did not have an urgent need to build a wooden wall.
Just like Moscow City, where the first wooden wall defense system was established in the history of Ross, the reason why the local nobles built the wall was to guard against attacks from neighboring powers. They called it the "Kremlin." Sure enough, only half a year after the wooden wall was built, the Lithuanian army smashed into the city of Moscow. Relying on the defense of the wooden wall, the Muscovites froze and persisted to the end.
But the two banks of the Neva River and no-man’s land are unintentionally in this era. The only thing that can really threaten the security of Shilla Fort is probably the bears. As for the recent forces of Karelians, because of some coincidence, the Rus did not meet these people living on the northern shore of Lake Ladoga, and the two sides knew nothing about each other's existence.
Otto decided to build a wall to protect the people from the wind and cold, and by the way, to prevent wild beasts from sneaking into the settlement at night. After all, today's days are not as good as before. Even if the year is bad, the Ross immigrants still harvested a batch of wheat, and protecting the grain from the destruction of the beasts and rats has become an important task for them during the winter.
Just as the wooden wall was being gradually built under Otto's supervision, the appearance of the three long ships caused a large number of people to be instinctively vigilant.
"What? Three ships came? Maybe it's our ship? Could it be a messenger?" When Otto learned of this information, things went strange.
He stopped inspecting the construction site and took more than 30 people straight to the sandbank at the entrance of Haikou.
Sure enough, three long boats approached quickly.
"Brothers, it may be a messenger from my hometown, or it may be another friend. We are here waiting for them to land."
Originally, many people were instinctively worried. In this boundary, any unidentified person, the ordinary Ross immigrants acquiesced that it was the enemy.
Otto, who has experienced many battles, has full self-confidence, and he puts his hands together and stands up like a sculpture, as if Odin descended from the earth.
His stalwart and heroic posture has long been seen by the Rurik brothers.
"Hey, if there were also Peugeot oars on my sails, they would know that it was a companion." Arik was a little regretful.
The cousin's words really reminded Rürich, especially the "stone island" that just passed by, which is actually Kotlin Island. The so-called if the Ross people want to build a Baltic fleet, then the current position of the fleet belongs to the port area. Of course, a fleet must have a unified banner, first of all to distinguish friends and enemies in war, and secondly for honor.
If the education level of the tribe is high enough, the colorful flags representing the letters can be hung on the cable to piece together greetings, and the two parties can negotiate at a very long distance.
Thinking too much is wishful thinking.
But at this juncture, Rurik already has a plan to start shipbuilding this winter, so specifying a style of flag is really extremely important.
"St. Andrew's naval flag? Oh, how does that flag resemble our crossed oars? Is it a coincidence? Yes! Just do it. The diagonal stripes, just The oars representing the Ross people." Thinking of this, Rurik smiled.
Rurik had already figured out what to say to his father after the ship docked, and now the ship is about to land.
The sturdy long ship rushed directly onto the soft sandbank, and Otto on the shore was overjoyed and surprised at the same time. How could there be about a hundred soldiers from his hometown land?
Otto can judge this way for a reason, because he knows some faces.
Suddenly, two more familiar figures miraculously appeared.
"Ruriek! Arik! You guys?! Am I dreaming?"
In his desperation, Otto didn’t care about the majesty of the leader. He was happy like a two hundred catties fat man. Hahaha ran over and lifted his precious son up. Rurik was also "suddenly gone to heaven "The operation was taken aback.
"My dear, why are you here?" Otto put down his son and asked with a smile.
"Yes, I'm here, I just came to see you." Rurik lied immediately. "The high priest is right, Dad, you are here."
"It's Veria? She's a brilliant plan, but I'm leaving for a voyage in a few days. Rurik, you never miss me coming to me in person?" Otto is eager for a touching answer from his son.
"Yes, I miss you, and I came to see our Shilla Fort. Ah, she is not far away." Rurik has seen part of the standing wall.
Arik's appearance is also very strange. Standing in front of his uncle, he has to express himself more. This is a whistle, and a partner throws down some wheat in his pocket.
"Ah, this is?" Otto asked, pointing.
"It's wheat~www.novelhall.com~Huh? Are you going to transport supplies here? By the way, the wheat of the Mälaren people has been harvested."
"No! This is the big leader snatched from the Baltic people. We met those people on the road. We defeated them. Haha, we won again."
This matter was unheard of by Otto, he asked a little bit, and got proof from Rurik.
"Oh, things have become amazing. The difficult Baltic people were easily defeated by you? You are here, I am very happy. Let's go, let your boat continue up, our Shilla Fort pier has been built long ago Okay. Tonight we... By the way, the rabbits are everywhere here. Tonight we chew rabbits, I hope your little teeth are still chewing."
He heard that Rurik couldn't help squeezing one of his shaky front teeth and the other teeth that were beginning to loosen. He was afraid that he would turn into a tooth with too much force. He doesn't have any dental problems, especially because there is a lot of meat in his life, and Rurik doesn't even have dental caries.
It is completely that this Northern European body has a faster development. The nine-year-old Rurik has entered the period of tooth loss. The permanent teeth buried in the lower jaw are just like the wild aspirations of their owners.
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A brand new city appeared at the mouth of the Neva River.
In the beginning, it was just a simple cold shelter built with twenty hits of wood and soil. With the arrival of the new spring, the city's development began to rush.
Brand-new farming tools began to be used for reclamation, and the sturdy and ingeniously designed curved plow, reclaimed the land full of weeds with unprecedented efficiency.
The immigrants and the Ross people have already opened up fertile land for the fertile riverside area.
In the first year, the immigrants were brought by the city lord Cornusson and set fire to prepare for farming. In the spring of the second year, they were transported by the mother city of Roseburg on the black river soaked by melting snow. The Quyuan Plow began to reclaim the land quickly and efficiently. .
Otto came with new immigrants and a large amount of supplies, and a larger-scale pioneering operation began.
A large amount of grassland was burned, and then after a man-powered Quyuan plough reclaimed the land, a large number of oat grains were thrown down at will.
Until now, the Ross people who work in agriculture do not know how to grow the fields well. They naturally think that farming is nothing more than spreading seeds into the soil, burning and reclaiming, and then a new field will be reclaimed. Does it require careful management? No one has experience, or everyone feels that further work is unnecessary.
They don't know how to irrigate, and they don't know how to fertilize.
But the sky is not thin to them.
The water flow of the Neva River is very large, which causes a large area of the two banks to be naturally infiltrated. There is no permafrost in this area, and the soil is a little moist. It can be said that the Ross people are farming in this area, so naturally they don't need to care too much about irrigation.
As for the issue of fertilizer, they have no concept such as using farmyard manure. Also because of traditional habits, they are willing to seal all human and animal excrement underground.
All the Ross immigrants have a small family with a married man, and made an agreement with the big leader Otto.
The immigrants are standing in the wilderness of hope. Even if the spring comes late in a few years, will the wheat seedlings still grow up?
The land is moist, and the occasional patter of rain makes all the riverside farmland even more moist.
According to the agreement, each household must pay a tax to the leader during the harvest season. Farmers who know a little about farming for 200 pounds of wheat per household estimate that the tax rate is about 10%. No one thinks that the tax rate is relatively high, and immigrants even generally think that the leader is kind and reasonable.
The various farming tools on hand, the large amount of wheat provided in advance, and even some poultry and livestock waiting to be reproduced, and even some construction materials. Such materials are all provided by the leader's family, and the price of getting them is to pay taxes to the leader's family for generations.
In their hometown of Roseburg, they can't rely on farming, fishing and living without a boat of their own, and going out to fight with weapons is terrible. Only in Shilla Fort, they found a future.
Originally, the earliest settlement on the Neva River in history was just a tiny trading stronghold for the Varangans. Hundreds of years later, the Kingdom of Sweden established a fortress here. After the Great Northern War ended, Rose made great efforts here, and it has long become her heart.
The Ross people couldn't think of what the younger generation would do, but what they are doing now is to let a historical fact come out in advance.
Otto intends to operate Shilla Fort as the core area of the future Ross people. Based on this psychological consideration, he should have withdrawn directly to Fort Ross in July with the tribute he got from Novgorod. This summer Simply staying on the Neva River will not leave.
The warm summer is always so short. Taking advantage of the pleasant climate, Otto personally led the people to step up the construction of everyone's city.
More and more wooden houses appear on both sides of the river, especially the houses at the mouth of the river.
A group of residents of the Novgorod region, they had to obey Otto's orders, take their family members aboard the Russian ship, and settle down in the "distant" Fort Shilla.
The vast world fully accommodates the pioneers of the Rus and Slavs.
Otto forcibly took away a group of Slavs to open up wasteland, in order to facilitate the collection of taxes in the future. He feels that these guys live together with the Ross people. They can’t follow the orders of the manor of their hometown, but just follow the orders of the local Conuson, who has been ordered to govern the local area. They have been cut from the past. They are already a new kind of Ross people-tax people.
In the end, the large and small Slav manors around Lake Ilmen are not monolithic.
Because Pine Needle Manor took the lead in rebelling, it was the worst victimized by the Ross people. The rest of the manor expressed obedience and were not looted madly. Manor owners of average strength envy Rigus of the White Tree Manor, which was originally a manor that was squeezed out of the "Round Ilmen Lake Farming Area". They did not expect that they were not only happily being the dogs of the Varange. Wagging his tail happily.
Now, those guys are already using brand-new ploughs and huge amounts of iron tools to start cutting wood and clearing wasteland.
The owners of the manor admire Rigus, who is a dog, but due to practical factors, they dare not flatter. After all, the Ross people come two or three times a year, but see you every day at Pine Needle Manor!
Even after a blow, the contrast between the strengths and weaknesses of the estates in the Ilmen area has not changed in essence.
The owners of the manor have to consider some regional political factors and choose which person to follow.
Ordinary people don't think so much, their first thing is how to live.
Most people fear the Ross people and feel that their promise is just to trick everyone into becoming slaves. Where is such a good thing in the world? Is the right to use farm tools returned indefinitely? The most important thing is that only 200 pounds of wheat are collected each year as a tribute, that is, tax.
There are always some farmers who consciously can't survive decided to take the risk. They announced that they had left the former dealers, and got on the ship of the Ross people in the cynicism and even curse of relatives and friends. Now, the large area of farmland opened up by these people is about to bear fruit.
Shilla Fort has been under rapid construction.
A small group of people went all out to cut wood to build houses, and some people hunted wild animals such as the active rabbits here and even the clever snow rabbits on a large scale.
The chickens brought from Novgorod, after the whole winter, the poultry began to reproduce rapidly, so that after a whole year, the first chickens have multiplied a huge ethnic group, so that they emigrated. Every household is raising 20 or 30 animals, and the number is still increasing. Just can't expect how fat this group of firewood chickens are, because the white feather chicken with the highest feed conversion rate was born in the 20th century.
The time was still in mid-August, and in those farmlands that were first cleared and sown, the oats showed signs of earing.
It has to be said that the climate in Shilla Fort is better than that of Lake Mälaren, so the wheat harvest here is earlier.
After all, this year is cold, and all the new crops in Fort Shilla have suffered various degrees of reduction in production and lack of harvest. This serious decline in agricultural production certainly occurred in Novgorod.
It was God who brought disasters and reduced agricultural production.
The Slavs of Lake Ilmen made sacrifices, eager to get the help of the lake **** to tide over the difficulties.
However, they did not wait for the Lake God to come, but returned to the Ross army who plundered food.
Otto can't manage so much. The grains that each manor has to pay must not be less than a grain of wheat. There are also a batch of leather and a batch of honey that must be paid.
Except for the White Tree Manor.
It's amazing to say that when Otto saw Svetlana, the youngest daughter of the owner of the White Tree Manor, she looked a little more beautiful after three months. She was smart and showed closeness to herself, which really warmed Otto's heart. She is the destined wife of her son, and she is the most important one.
Otto reduced and exempted White Tree Manor's tribute, almost to the point where only a symbolic payment was required.
The owner of the manor, Rigus, felt that this was the strategy of the Rus, and he still had to cultivate a fan who was extremely loyal to the Rus in the Ilmen area.
The result was destined to be so, but the cause was not what he thought. It was entirely because of the beauty of Svetlana that Otto was in full bloom, loving the house and Wu, and simply let the residents of the entire White Tree Manor reduce the pressure of tribute.
It's a pity that this girl is only eight years old, and at least according to tradition, she has to be engaged to her son Rurik after four years. Oh, if you follow the Slav tradition, it is not an engagement, but a marriage.
What does the girl's old father think? Rigus wanted his little daughter to marry that Rurik now. He had already reaped great benefits for his estate from the marriage of the eldest daughter. If the little daughter...
Rigus’ thoughts Otto could have imagined that he gave Rigus a strange order when he brought a large amount of looted materials and the abducted Slavs who ordered the reclaiming in Shilla Fort to open. : "Educate your little daughter well and train her to be a good wife, so that she can be worthy of my son."
Otto’s fleet returned to Fort Shilla smoothly, and the entire fleet simply docked on the Neva River. After they unloaded a batch of supplies, they carried out the autumn harvest under the leadership of Otto.
The wheat and a batch of vegetables have been harvested, and Otto also began to count the various leathers obtained by the immigrants. It takes time to come and go. When will the work be solved? I'm afraid it will be delayed until October.
Looking at the prosperous scene of Shilla Fort, he admired his own vision. This place is flat and fertile, and it is even a little regretful. Why didn't he lead his tribe to open up the land a few years earlier?
Otto is still sitting in Shilla Fort, urging his subordinates to complete statistics on the collection of wheat taxes and statistics on various leathers. At the same time, he is also investigating the entire settlement and surrounding areas.
It was still in September. One day, a northerly wind blew suddenly, and the raging cold wind swept across the flat ground. At this time, there was some haze in the sky, and the sudden extreme cold made him feel very bad.
"It's **** cold! At least a wall must be built for the settlement!"
Originally, Shilla Fort did not have an urgent need to build a wooden wall.
Just like Moscow City, where the first wooden wall defense system was established in the history of Ross, the reason why the local nobles built the wall was to guard against attacks from neighboring powers. They called it the "Kremlin." Sure enough, only half a year after the wooden wall was built, the Lithuanian army smashed into the city of Moscow. Relying on the defense of the wooden wall, the Muscovites froze and persisted to the end.
But the two banks of the Neva River and no-man’s land are unintentionally in this era. The only thing that can really threaten the security of Shilla Fort is probably the bears. As for the recent forces of Karelians, because of some coincidence, the Rus did not meet these people living on the northern shore of Lake Ladoga, and the two sides knew nothing about each other's existence.
Otto decided to build a wall to protect the people from the wind and cold, and by the way, to prevent wild beasts from sneaking into the settlement at night. After all, today's days are not as good as before. Even if the year is bad, the Ross immigrants still harvested a batch of wheat, and protecting the grain from the destruction of the beasts and rats has become an important task for them during the winter.
Just as the wooden wall was being gradually built under Otto's supervision, the appearance of the three long ships caused a large number of people to be instinctively vigilant.
"What? Three ships came? Maybe it's our ship? Could it be a messenger?" When Otto learned of this information, things went strange.
He stopped inspecting the construction site and took more than 30 people straight to the sandbank at the entrance of Haikou.
Sure enough, three long boats approached quickly.
"Brothers, it may be a messenger from my hometown, or it may be another friend. We are here waiting for them to land."
Originally, many people were instinctively worried. In this boundary, any unidentified person, the ordinary Ross immigrants acquiesced that it was the enemy.
Otto, who has experienced many battles, has full self-confidence, and he puts his hands together and stands up like a sculpture, as if Odin descended from the earth.
His stalwart and heroic posture has long been seen by the Rurik brothers.
"Hey, if there were also Peugeot oars on my sails, they would know that it was a companion." Arik was a little regretful.
The cousin's words really reminded Rürich, especially the "stone island" that just passed by, which is actually Kotlin Island. The so-called if the Ross people want to build a Baltic fleet, then the current position of the fleet belongs to the port area. Of course, a fleet must have a unified banner, first of all to distinguish friends and enemies in war, and secondly for honor.
If the education level of the tribe is high enough, the colorful flags representing the letters can be hung on the cable to piece together greetings, and the two parties can negotiate at a very long distance.
Thinking too much is wishful thinking.
But at this juncture, Rurik already has a plan to start shipbuilding this winter, so specifying a style of flag is really extremely important.
"St. Andrew's naval flag? Oh, how does that flag resemble our crossed oars? Is it a coincidence? Yes! Just do it. The diagonal stripes, just The oars representing the Ross people." Thinking of this, Rurik smiled.
Rurik had already figured out what to say to his father after the ship docked, and now the ship is about to land.
The sturdy long ship rushed directly onto the soft sandbank, and Otto on the shore was overjoyed and surprised at the same time. How could there be about a hundred soldiers from his hometown land?
Otto can judge this way for a reason, because he knows some faces.
Suddenly, two more familiar figures miraculously appeared.
"Ruriek! Arik! You guys?! Am I dreaming?"
In his desperation, Otto didn’t care about the majesty of the leader. He was happy like a two hundred catties fat man. Hahaha ran over and lifted his precious son up. Rurik was also "suddenly gone to heaven "The operation was taken aback.
"My dear, why are you here?" Otto put down his son and asked with a smile.
"Yes, I'm here, I just came to see you." Rurik lied immediately. "The high priest is right, Dad, you are here."
"It's Veria? She's a brilliant plan, but I'm leaving for a voyage in a few days. Rurik, you never miss me coming to me in person?" Otto is eager for a touching answer from his son.
"Yes, I miss you, and I came to see our Shilla Fort. Ah, she is not far away." Rurik has seen part of the standing wall.
Arik's appearance is also very strange. Standing in front of his uncle, he has to express himself more. This is a whistle, and a partner throws down some wheat in his pocket.
"Ah, this is?" Otto asked, pointing.
"It's wheat~www.novelhall.com~Huh? Are you going to transport supplies here? By the way, the wheat of the Mälaren people has been harvested."
"No! This is the big leader snatched from the Baltic people. We met those people on the road. We defeated them. Haha, we won again."
This matter was unheard of by Otto, he asked a little bit, and got proof from Rurik.
"Oh, things have become amazing. The difficult Baltic people were easily defeated by you? You are here, I am very happy. Let's go, let your boat continue up, our Shilla Fort pier has been built long ago Okay. Tonight we... By the way, the rabbits are everywhere here. Tonight we chew rabbits, I hope your little teeth are still chewing."
He heard that Rurik couldn't help squeezing one of his shaky front teeth and the other teeth that were beginning to loosen. He was afraid that he would turn into a tooth with too much force. He doesn't have any dental problems, especially because there is a lot of meat in his life, and Rurik doesn't even have dental caries.
It is completely that this Northern European body has a faster development. The nine-year-old Rurik has entered the period of tooth loss. The permanent teeth buried in the lower jaw are just like the wild aspirations of their owners.
A brand new city appeared at the mouth of the Neva River.In the beginning, it was just a simple cold shelter built with twenty hits of wood and soil. With the arrival of the new spring, the city's development began to rush.Brand-new farming tools began to be used for reclamation, and the sturdy and ingeniously designed curved plow, reclaimed the land full of weeds with unprecedented efficiency.The immigrants and the Ross people have already opened up fertile land for the fertile riverside area.In the first year, the immigrants were brought by the city lord Cornusson and set fire to prepare for farming. In the spring of the second year, they were transported by the mother city of Roseburg on the black river soaked by melting snow. The Quyuan Plow began to reclaim the land quickly and efficiently. .Otto came with new immigrants and a large amount of supplies, and a larger-scale pioneering operation began.A large amount of grassland was burned, and then after a man-powered Quyuan plough reclaimed the land, a large number of oat grains were thrown down at will.Until now, the Ross people who work in agriculture do not know how to grow the fields well. They naturally think that farming is nothing more than spreading seeds into the soil, burning and reclaiming, and then a new field will be reclaimed. Does it require careful management? No one has experience, or everyone feels that further work is unnecessary.They don't know how to irrigate, and they don't know how to fertilize.But the sky is not thin to them.The water flow of the Neva River is very large, which causes a large area of the two banks to be naturally infiltrated. There is no permafrost in this area, and the soil is a little moist. It can be said that the Ross people are farming in this area, so naturally they don't need to care too much about irrigation.As for the issue of fertilizer, they have no concept such as using farmyard manure. Also because of traditional habits, they are willing to seal all human and animal excrement underground.All the Ross immigrants have a small family with a married man, and made an agreement with the big leader Otto.The immigrants are standing in the wilderness of hope. Even if the spring comes late in a few years, will the wheat seedlings still grow up?The land is moist, and the occasional patter of rain makes all the riverside farmland even more moist.According to the agreement, each household must pay a tax to the leader during the harvest season. Farmers who know a little about farming for 200 pounds of wheat per household estimate that the tax rate is about 10%. No one thinks that the tax rate is relatively high, and immigrants even generally think that the leader is kind and reasonable.The various farming tools on hand, the large amount of wheat provided in advance, and even some poultry and livestock waiting to be reproduced, and even some construction materials. Such materials are all provided by the leader's family, and the price of getting them is to pay taxes to the leader's family for generations.In their hometown of Roseburg, they can't rely on farming, fishing and living without a boat of their own, and going out to fight with weapons is terrible. Only in Shilla Fort, they found a future.Originally, the earliest settlement on the Neva River in history was just a tiny trading stronghold for the Varangans. Hundreds of years later, the Kingdom of Sweden established a fortress here. After the Great Northern War ended, Rose made great efforts here, and it has long become her heart.The Ross people couldn't think of what the younger generation would do, but what they are doing now is to let a historical fact come out in advance.Otto intends to operate Shilla Fort as the core area of the future Ross people. Based on this psychological consideration, he should have withdrawn directly to Fort Ross in July with the tribute he got from Novgorod. This summer Simply staying on the Neva River will not leave.The warm summer is always so short. Taking advantage of the pleasant climate, Otto personally led the people to step up the construction of everyone's city.More and more wooden houses appear on both sides of the river, especially the houses at the mouth of the river.A group of residents of the Novgorod region, they had to obey Otto's orders, take their family members aboard the Russian ship, and settle down in the "distant" Fort Shilla.The vast world fully accommodates the pioneers of the Rus and Slavs.Otto forcibly took away a group of Slavs to open up wasteland, in order to facilitate the collection of taxes in the future. He feels that these guys live together with the Ross people. They can't follow the orders of the manor of their hometown, but just follow the orders of the local Conuson, who has been ordered to govern the local area. They have been cut from the past. They are already a new kind of Ross people-tax people.In the end, the large and small Slav manors around Lake Ilmen are not monolithic.Because Pine Needle Manor took the lead in rebelling, it was the worst victimized by the Ross people. The rest of the manor expressed obedience and were not looted madly. Manor owners of average strength envy Rigus of the White Tree Manor, which was originally a manor that was squeezed out of the "Round Ilmen Lake Farming Area". They did not expect that they were not only happily being the dogs of the Varange. Wagging his tail happily.Now, those guys are already using brand-new ploughs and huge amounts of iron tools to start cutting wood and clearing wasteland.The owners of the manor admire Rigus, who is a dog, but due to practical factors, they dare not flatter. After all, the Ross people come two or three times a year, but see you every day at Pine Needle Manor!Even after a blow, the contrast between the strengths and weaknesses of the estates in the Ilmen area has not changed in essence.The owners of the manor have to consider some regional political factors and choose which person to follow.Ordinary people don't think so much, their first thing is how to live.Most people fear the Ross people and feel that their promise is just to trick everyone into becoming slaves. Where is such a good thing in the world? Is the right to use farm tools returned indefinitely? The most important thing is that only 200 pounds of wheat are collected each year as a tribute, that is, tax.There are always some farmers who consciously can't survive decided to take the risk. They announced that they had left the former dealers, and got on the ship of the Ross people in the cynicism and even curse of relatives and friends. Now, the large area of farmland opened up by these people is about to bear fruit.Shilla Fort has been under rapid construction.A small group of people went all out to cut wood to build houses, and some people hunted wild animals such as the active rabbits here and even the clever snow rabbits on a large scale.The chickens brought from Novgorod, after the whole winter, the poultry began to reproduce rapidly, so that after a whole year, the first chickens have multiplied a huge ethnic group, so that they emigrated. Every household is raising 20 or 30 animals, and the number is still increasing. Just can't expect how fat this group of firewood chickens are, because the white feather chicken with the highest feed conversion rate was born in the 20th century.The time was still in mid-August, and in those farmlands that were first cleared and sown, the oats showed signs of earing.It has to be said that the climate in Shilla Fort is better than that of Lake Mlaren, so the wheat harvest here is earlier.After all, this year is cold, and all the new crops in Fort Shilla have suffered various degrees of reduction in production and lack of harvest. This serious decline in agricultural production certainly occurred in Novgorod.It was God who brought disasters and reduced agricultural production.The Slavs of Lake Ilmen made sacrifices, eager to get the help of the lake **** to tide over the difficulties.However, they did not wait for the Lake God to come, but returned to the Ross army who plundered food.Otto can't manage so much. The grains that each manor has to pay must not be less than a grain of wheat. There are also a batch of leather and a batch of honey that must be paid.Except for the White Tree Manor.It's amazing to say that when Otto saw Svetlana, the youngest daughter of the owner of the White Tree Manor, she looked a little more beautiful after three months. She was smart and showed closeness to herself, which really warmed Otto's heart. She is the destined wife of her son, and she is the most important one.Otto reduced and exempted White Tree Manor's tribute, almost to the point where only a symbolic payment was required.The owner of the manor, Rigus, felt that this was the strategy of the Rus, and he still had to cultivate a fan who was extremely loyal to the Rus in the Ilmen area.The result was destined to be so, but the cause was not what he thought. It was entirely because of the beauty of Svetlana that Otto was in full bloom, loving the house and Wu, and simply let the residents of the entire White Tree Manor reduce the pressure of tribute.It's a pity that this girl is only eight years old, and at least according to tradition, she has to be engaged to her son Rurik after four years. Oh, if you follow the Slav tradition, it is not an engagement, but a marriage.What does the girl's old father think? Rigus wanted his little daughter to marry that Rurik now. He had already reaped great benefits for his estate from the marriage of the eldest daughter. If the little daughter...Rigus' thoughts Otto could have imagined that he gave Rigus a strange order when he brought a large amount of looted materials and the abducted Slavs who ordered the reclaiming in Shilla Fort to open. : "Educate your little daughter well and train her to be a good wife, so that she can be worthy of my son."Otto's fleet returned to Fort Shilla smoothly, and the entire fleet simply docked on the Neva River. After they unloaded a batch of supplies, they carried out the autumn harvest under the leadership of Otto.The wheat and a batch of vegetables have been harvested, and Otto also began to count the various leathers obtained by the immigrants. It takes time to come and go. When will the work be solved? I'm afraid it will be delayed until October.Looking at the prosperous scene of Shilla Fort, he admired his own vision. This place is flat and fertile, and it is even a little regretful. Why didn't he lead his tribe to open up the land a few years earlier?Otto is still sitting in Shilla Fort, urging his subordinates to complete statistics on the collection of wheat taxes and statistics on various leathers. At the same time, he is also investigating the entire settlement and surrounding areas.It was still in September. One day, a northerly wind blew suddenly, and the raging cold wind swept across the flat ground. At this time, there was some haze in the sky, and the sudden extreme cold made him feel very bad."It's **** cold! At least a wall must be built for the settlement!"Originally, Shilla Fort did not have an urgent need to build a wooden wall.Just like Moscow City, where the first wooden wall defense system was established in the history of Ross, the reason why the local nobles built the wall was to guard against attacks from neighboring powers. They called it the "Kremlin." Sure enough, only half a year after the wooden wall was built, the Lithuanian army smashed into the city of Moscow. Relying on the defense of the wooden wall, the Muscovites froze and persisted to the end.But the two banks of the Neva River and no-man's land are unintentionally in this era. The only thing that can really threaten the security of Shilla Fort is probably the bears. As for the recent forces of Karelians, because of some coincidence, the Rus did not meet these people living on the northern shore of Lake Ladoga, and the two sides knew nothing about each other's existence.Otto decided to build a wall to protect the people from the wind and cold, and by the way, to prevent wild beasts from sneaking into the settlement at night. After all, today's days are not as good as before. Even if the year is bad, the Ross immigrants still harvested a batch of wheat, and protecting the grain from the destruction of the beasts and rats has become an important task for them during the winter.Just as the wooden wall was being gradually built under Otto's supervision, the appearance of the three long ships caused a large number of people to be instinctively vigilant."What? Three ships came? Maybe it's our ship? Could it be a messenger?" When Otto learned of this information, things went strange.He stopped inspecting the construction site and took more than 30 people straight to the sandbank at the entrance of Haikou.Sure enough, three long boats approached quickly."Brothers, it may be a messenger from my hometown, or it may be another friend. We are here waiting for them to land."Originally, many people were instinctively worried. In this boundary, any unidentified person, the ordinary Ross immigrants acquiesced that it was the enemy.Otto, who has experienced many battles, has full self-confidence, and he puts his hands together and stands up like a sculpture, as if Odin descended from the earth.His stalwart and heroic posture has long been seen by the Rurik brothers."Hey, if there were also Peugeot oars on my sails, they would know that it was a companion." Arik was a little regretful.The cousin's words really reminded Rrich, especially the "stone island" that just passed by, which is actually Kotlin Island. The so-called if the Ross people want to build a Baltic fleet, then the current position of the fleet belongs to the port area. Of course, a fleet must have a unified banner, first of all to distinguish friends and enemies in war, and secondly for honor.If the education level of the tribe is high enough, the colorful flags representing the letters can be hung on the cable to piece together greetings, and the two parties can negotiate at a very long distance.Thinking too much is wishful thinking.But at this juncture, Rurik already has a plan to start shipbuilding this winter, so specifying a style of flag is really extremely important."St. Andrew's naval flag? Oh, how does that flag resemble our crossed oars? Is it a coincidence? Yes! Just do it. The diagonal stripes, just The oars representing the Ross people." Thinking of this, Rurik smiled.Rurik had already figured out what to say to his father after the ship docked, and now the ship is about to land.The sturdy long ship rushed directly onto the soft sandbank, and Otto on the shore was overjoyed and surprised at the same time. How could there be about a hundred soldiers from his hometown land?Otto can judge this way for a reason, because he knows some faces.Suddenly, two more familiar figures miraculously appeared."Ruriek! Arik! You guys?! Am I dreaming?"In his desperation, Otto didn't care about the majesty of the leader. He was happy like a two hundred catties fat man. Hahaha ran over and lifted his precious son up. Rurik was also "suddenly gone to heaven "The operation was taken aback."My dear, why are you here?" Otto put down his son and asked with a smile."Yes, I'm here, I just came to see you." Rurik lied immediately. "The high priest is right, Dad, you are here.""It's Veria? She's a brilliant plan, but I'm leaving for a voyage in a few days. Rurik, you never miss me coming to me in person?" Otto is eager for a touching answer from his son."Yes, I miss you, and I came to see our Shilla Fort. Ah, she is not far away." Rurik has seen part of the standing wall.Arik's appearance is also very strange. Standing in front of his uncle, he has to express himself more. This is a whistle, and a partner throws down some wheat in his pocket."Ah, this is?" Otto asked, pointing."It's wheat~www.novelhall.com~Huh? Are you going to transport supplies here? By the way, the wheat of the Mlaren people has been harvested.""No! This is the big leader snatched from the Baltic people. We met those people on the road. We defeated them. Haha, we won again."This matter was unheard of by Otto, he asked a little bit, and got proof from Rurik."Oh, things have become amazing. The difficult Baltic people were easily defeated by you? You are here, I am very happy. Let's go, let your boat continue up, our Shilla Fort pier has been built long ago Okay. Tonight we... By the way, the rabbits are everywhere here. Tonight we chew rabbits, I hope your little teeth are still chewing."He heard that Rurik couldn't help squeezing one of his shaky front teeth and the other teeth that were beginning to loosen. He was afraid that he would turn into a tooth with too much force. He doesn't have any dental problems, especially because there is a lot of meat in his life, and Rurik doesn't even have dental caries.It is completely that this Northern European body has a faster development. The nine-year-old Rurik has entered the period of tooth loss. The permanent teeth buried in the lower jaw are just like the wild aspirations of their owners.
