Rurik, who arrived at the Bear Hunting House, met his cousin Arik again by chance. The adventures of the two brothers were not over yet, and they exchanged adventures and knowledge, especially when the accompanying scribe took out a solid action log, and the "fog of the map" gradually dissipated. , the land of Eastern Europe has become cleaner.

Even if the real main channel of the Volga River has not been found, it is undoubtedly a great feat to find the source of the Musta River.

However, Lake Villiers, where the Bear Hunting House is located, is actually connected to a certain extent by Lake Valdai in the north, so that Rurik had to go to Valdeskoye to take a look at the adventure of the fishermen.

The two large lakes are connected by streams and trivial small lakes.

"Maybe there is no way to build a canal between the two lakes."

Seeing people trying to drag their boats into the mud, Rurik on horseback felt embarrassed for a while. Let the young warriors drag the boat forward with ropes, which is really a review of the old tradition of the Ross people.

Rurik and Beyahir rode across the gap between the two lakes at a faster speed, and he finally arrived at Valdeskoye, the first settlement of his kingdom in the east for the first time.

Bears, squirrels, ferrets, foxes, fantastic leathers are all here.

The large number of grouse and wild ducks caught by his cousin during his expedition to the East provided a lot of feathers, and the abundance of materials for making arrow feathers also opened Rurik's eyes.

But no matter whether it is the Bear Hunting House or Valdeskoye, the people who hunt and fish here do not get anything more wonderful.

Everyone's hunting activities will come to an end in the autumn harvest period. People who obtain leather to make a fortune must transport it to the nearest trading city of Novgorod to realize it. At the same time, they must participate in the autumn harvest as a strong laborer at home.

At the beginning of August in the golden autumn, the autumn harvest in Novgorod is three weeks earlier than in Mlaren, Sweden.

Oats are the first to be harvested, followed by rye and buckwheat, and finally wheat.

This year, people are full of expectations for the widespread planting of peas, and things are indeed developing further in the direction people expected. At first, the seedlings grow vigorously, and then bloom beautiful small flowers. After the flowers fade, seed pods are born, and the seed pods become bigger and bigger, and finally the swollen seed pods are peeled off to peel off peas.

Just as Queen Svetlana announced, these green beans are boiled, smashed into a slurry lake with a wooden stick, and sprinkled with a little salt is an extremely soft and delicious meal.

Ordinary people have never eaten this, as long as they eat it for the first time, they will never forget the beauty of sticking teeth between their teeth.

The horizontal sword was immediately in the city of Valdeskoye, and Rurik was facing the huge Valdais Lake. He knew that there were so many more lakes near this lake, that the Highlands were close at hand, that where the horseshoe trod the watershed of the Eastern European plains.

The hunters who have harvested a lot are returning home one after another, and many of them have even gone back to participate in the autumn harvest.

"I... should go home too."

Rurik rested by the lake for two days. Like many hunters, he ate the smelly bear meat, drank bear oil, and even licked the bitter bile.

Anyway, the mighty expedition team forcibly towed the boat to the Valdai Lake in the north, and from here passed through the well-proven and familiar waterway to enter the more familiar Musta River, and then proceeded downstream , everyone's end point is their homeland - Mstisk and Novgorod.

The cavalry and fleet assembled at the Valdeskoye pier. Rurik's expedition merged with that of his cousin Arik, and was accompanied by explorers who wished to leave together.

The little nephew Jill was pulled on the horse's back by Ruri, and the boy mischievously pulled his uncle's beard, laughing and appearing extremely energetic.

The assembled soldiers were talking and laughing, and the long boats piled up a lot of leather.

"If this continues, the price of leather will plummet. You are exhausting the water again. Next year... I am afraid that you guys will rush to the source of the Musta River to continue plundering? If this leads to the discovery of the main channel of the Volga River, it will be a good thing. Thinking of this, Rurik couldn't help showing a smile.

Suddenly, there was a mighty cry from the pier.

"Rurik! Are you leaving now?" The speaker was his cousin Arik.

Rurik looked around again, "Then let's go!"

So the horn sounded loudly, and the cavalry and the fleet headed for the main channel of the Musta River not far away.

The largest wave of homecoming in Lake Valdai is now. Perhaps thousands of young and middle-aged people have missed the busiest time of autumn harvest, so that the women at home have to go to battle in person and spend money to hire some Slavs to come. work.

The explorers are very shrewd. Facing a pile of fur goods, they can earn more by selling them directly to Fort New Rose before the winter. No matter how you think about it, the income is much better than simply farming. In the eyes of many ordinary people, a certain amount of surplus food at home is enough, and more wealth should be preserved in the form of gold coins and silver coins.

Coins are then used to buy various daily necessities, tools, and weapons.

Because the boys in the family are thriving and the girls are approaching marriageable age. It is the duty of parents to buy weapons for their sons, and it is also their duty to prepare gorgeous clothes for their daughters before they get married. They don't know the concept of imported inflation. Bustling New Roseburg buys more.

Expenses are needed in all aspects, and the reality is that people are forced to find ways to increase their income.

As a man, he must continue to hunt in the east in order not to catch precious animals and skin them for money.

Or use the tried-and-tested method of the Ross people-launch a war of plunder.

The people who are still stranded by the Great Lake obviously want to hunt again before the rainy season in early autumn. Most of these people don't worry about farming at home, or they don't have much extravagant hopes for farming.

The large immigration of the entire Ross tribe is expected by everyone, and it is unrealistic to think that all fishermen will become farmers in the warm new world. Some people just like the fishing and hunting life since ancient times. They lease the land to the Slavs or the Rus of the same family, and collect part of the wheat when harvesting, and don't care about anything else.

Everyone has their own pursuits. When everything started, the situation of land annexation has quietly appeared, but now all this is just a trivial matter, and it is still a lease that can be negotiated between the same clan. Everything is different from the lease in the Nordic hometown There is no essential difference in matters.

If anyone is the largest landowner in the kingdom, it is Rurik himself.

This year, as in previous years, Rurik outsourced the work to the farmers of Novgorod White Tree Manor from sowing to harvesting, and even irrigation in the middle.

They were all the queen's natal family, and they were the first Slavs to surrender. With this relationship, he believed that these people would work hard. In exchange, Maike gets his portion of the grain according to the proportion of the contract after he plows in the spring and harvests in the autumn.

The royal land of the royal family is used to support the standing army, and part of it is provided to the school in Novgorod, providing free food for educated children every day.

However, the added value generated by these agricultural incomes is too low. What can really cope with the normal operation of the royal family and the state machinery is still the transactions of various handicrafts, salt, and metal utensils.

Relying on the difference between industrial and agricultural scissors to exchange surplus grain from ordinary farmers is a matter of course.

The royal family's paper mills, printing plants, garment factories, large iron factories, three major shipyards, blacksmith complexes, northern quarry mines, northern iron mines, breweries, glass factories, soap factories, and reindeer breeding complexes, these high-profit The agency was under Rurik's control. The cronies who are equivalent to the existence of "professional managers" are either distant relatives of the same clan, direct mail, or foreign relatives and blood relatives who are in control.

Cronyism is by no means a problem in this era. It is precisely by blood and in-laws that Rurik has established a pyramid-shaped management structure that is responsible for all of this. It is fair to say that this management system is very rough based on the current era. At least the management framework has been established, and it seems that there will be no major problems. Any minor problems can be discussed and repaired in the Ros Duma meeting.

While these various industrial complexes supported a large number of people, factories demanded more raw materials, which promoted the employment of more people. People are plundering clay, mud, wood, and lime, and especially the plundering of wood has created piece after piece of wasteland.

Because when the fall harvest begins, everyone should seriously think about fuel for the winter.

Before lignite was mined, wood was the only heating fuel, and the chimney-style wood carvings popularized by Ross made every family have fireplaces, which further promoted the use of wood.

As a result, more and more people rely on logging and splitting firewood to sell finished firewood.

Either the Slavs or the Finnish Suomi did the work.

This year, in the autumn harvest season of AD 842, such long ships left Helminki, the trading port of the Counties of Finland.

It was a large number of traditional long galleys ordered by the Finns from the shipbuilders of New Roadsburg, as well as standard cargo ships on special order.

The County of Finland is an important customer of the shipyards in New Roseburg and Old Roseburg. Now that the Sovereign of the Seas ordered by the royal family has been launched for sea trials, everything is normal. After the kingdom has conquered all the invincibles in the Baltic Sea, the kingdom does not need to spend huge sums of money to buy new ships.

Even though the hard-working Aurora is already covered with scars, as the original battleship, she is still cruising in the Baltic Sea as a naval training ship.

Different from the warm waters in the south, there are very few barnacles, shipworms, and shellfish that can survive in the Baltic Sea where the water is very cold and the climate is too cold. The problem of parasites on the bottom of the ship is not necessary to consider at present, which makes the early construction time a little rushed ships are still sailable.

The Counties of Finland ordered oarboats and cargo ships. These ships were warships and even troop carriers in wartime, and now they are all cargo ships.

The Suomi tribe lived in the southern swampland divided into countless lakes, puddles, and rivers. No iron ore was found there, but Earl Gevlo found the most suitable goods for trading: squirrel hide and wood.

The "ash tree" or Nordic extension tree was transplanted many years ago near Helminki after being found in large numbers on Gogran Island in the Gulf of Finland.

It is completely different from other woods. For this kind of tree, Yevro waits for other trees to be cut down in four or five years. The "Ash Grove" is the private property of the earl's family, and the only use of wood is to make bows. It can make a long bow with a long range, and it is also the most cost-effective bow arm material for wooden arm crossbows.

A tree is cut into multiple pieces, and the bark is peeled off and dried directly in the shade.

The "ash forest" was actually transplanted artificially in 836. The Finns attached great importance to the growth of saplings and kept exploring from distant forests. Whenever they found "ash trees", they tried to move them to the count forest.

Now, the strategic value of "Ash Forest" has long been revealed and continues to increase.

In the autumn of 842, this Finnish transport ship organized by as many as 20 ships of various types was escorted by the slightly aged Evro to New Roseburg. Just this spring, he sent away the leader of the tribe and his eldest son, expecting the Finns to make great contributions in the assault on Aachen.

The eldest son is fighting in another world, while Yefro has to work hard for his clan and family power.

He is well aware of the arm length of the Russian army's standard wooden arm crossbow: a stika. This length is half the arm span of a Finnish man and one hand longer, and Geflo ordered the trunk to be cut at this length.

In the end, as many as 500 "ash tree poles" of basically the same length were bundled with hemp rope. It was the original embryo for making a bow. If it was not used as the bow arm of a crossbow, it alone could quickly make a short wooden bow.

But any wooden arm bow has the problem of hanging weight. When the durability reaches a certain level, it becomes a fire stick, and experienced hunters have to change their weapons regularly.

The hunters of Ross and other races have an insatiable demand for bows. Now that they are exploring the unknown east in droves, the Counties of Finland cater to their growing demand for equipment.

This time Yefro was full of confidence. After all, each of the 500 original wooden bows could make a small profit.

However, other wood materials are too simple. A large number of pine and fir trees are cut and bundled, and they are just wood for fire. Trafficking this fuel is really thin, and the living area of the Suomi people in Finland has endless trees, and the easy-to-use water transportation makes the wood easy to transport.

Their own lumber needs were easily met, but up-and-coming New Roseburg was a different story.

Evro, with his wife who was as fat as a ball, and his youngest son Satuli, led a ship full of firewood and fur goods to the berth of Kronstadt where the main fleet was moored.

The Monarch of the Sea, which is as big as a mountain, stops here, and it seems that other ships have become sampans.

Now the farmland near New Roseburg is also fully harvested, and the Finns arrived just at this time.

In New Roseburg, there was already a Finnish settlement community, and a large number of people sold their labor in the capital all the year round. When they gathered in autumn and winter before the Gulf of Finland froze, they happily returned to Suomi's hometown with all kinds of daily necessities purchased with labor wages.

Yefro's coming this year in person is no different from the needs of the clansmen. The proceeds from this transaction will basically be turned into the earl's family's private property, allowing him to upgrade equipment for the earl's limited standing army and donate a sum of supplies to various villages If the leader strengthens his rule, his family life will be better.

Of course, the Gulf of Finland will not freeze until November. He can sponsor him in the capital, and after King Rurik finishes his affairs in Novgorod in the south, he can meet the king in the capital.

In addition, he also has a small personal long-cherished wish - to visit Gould's grave.

After all, it is the old master who is kind to himself, even though it was all thirty years ago.

More than a dozen shipments of timber from the country of Finland were snapped up by the public as soon as they landed, because Gavlo didn't know much about this year's timber market, and he didn't bother to inquire about it, so he offered a price below the market price. Although it was bought out by the people of New Roseburg.

If it was just for living, the Finns would stop hunting enough squirrels and peel off the leather to make leather goods for their families. After all, no matter how many squirrels were caught at that time, it was meaningless if the leather could not be sold.

The pine trees in the forest seem to be inexhaustible. At the same time as the sudden visit of the Finns, more and more transport ships from Novgorod floated on the Neva River to Novorosberg. A variety of leathers obtained.

Together with the oriental explorers, the Finns greatly stimulated the prosperity of the leather industry in the capital, but they also kept the prices of leather goods extremely low this year.

Everyone wanted to quickly sell the leather for cash, and now Yevro realized that he sent people to spread traps in the forest to catch squirrels, but in the end he didn't get much profit.

"Rurik once said that any price fluctuation is controlled by an invisible hand, which is the natural regulation of the market? Who knows? It should be Frey, the God of Wealth of Ross, who is doing the regulation? It seems that I should go to The great temple prays to the **** Frey."

Indeed, compared to the ever-growing Finnish port of Helminki, the Ross capital, Novorosberg, is the real big city.

As the Count of Finland, Gevlo had his own small mansion in the capital for his guest residence, and around this mansion outside the city, a Finnish-dominated community was also built.

He took his wife and son to eat and drink in the capital. It is said that a large amount of inexpensive wine from Nassau will arrive in the capital this year. Just buy a few barrels and take them home to enjoy.

He still has to wait, so-called if the goods from Nassau arrive in the capital, it should mean that the expeditionary army returns, and the eldest son and the Finnish soldiers sent out should also return triumphantly with all kinds of Frankish trophies, right? !

Evro took the money he earned from selling the goods, took out a pound of silver coins as a gift to the God Frey, entered the first temple covered with glass, and knelt down to the gold-plated statue of Frey God to pray for wealth.

is that useful? Maybe he won't get rich this year, but the country has been developing along with the Kingdom of Ross. The gods bless Ross, and his country should be able to make a fortune and live a good life in the future.

So, he took spirits to Gould's grave to visit him, and lived in the capital to inquire about strange stories. The pure Rus people from Novgorod brought important information about Rurik. The so-called King Rus personally organized an expedition to the East and there are not small discoveries.

And some trivial news about the Principality of Ostara.

The so-called Kiev and Pecheneg horsemen this year have not yet arrived in Rus, and the Australians, with the king's permission and the support of sending troops, almost rushed to the far south.

"Carlotta, the disability of your right leg doesn't affect your mind at all. You really are a Valkyrie living in the world."

What else can I say? Yefro can only use "Valkyrie" to evaluate the duchess who has gone through hardships in her childhood.

On the other hand, I am already forty years old, I am afraid that there are at most twenty years left in my life.

"Unless I am blessed by the gods of Ross because of my loyalty to the Rurik family. Like Otto, maybe the gods intended him to live to be eighty years old. They can also grant me a long life."

The fact is just as Evro guessed, most of the Rus people and later immigrants believed that it was not a miracle that the old leader of the Rus tribe and the Supreme King Otto lived to be seventy years old, and everything was arranged by the gods.

When Evro took his family on a comfortable vacation in Novorosburg, and chatted and laughed with Governor Konusson and High Priest Rumia, he took the cavalry along the Musta River and returned to Novgorod. Rurik, after a brief inspection of the grain harvest that went well this year, returned decisively to the Novgorod Palace.

Dad is obviously older, but mother's condition is much better.

After seeing a large group of children running or crawling towards him, as their father, Rurik now had difficulty determining the names of each child.

Fortunately, he can easily tell the mothers of the children.

In the palace, Svetlana, as the main wife, must be the most favored. For this reason, Beyahir, the steppe princess who accompanied Rurik all the way on the expedition, had no choice but to stand aside for the time being.

Beya Hill was satisfied enough, and here she picked up her son Hasal, who was placed here and raised carefully, and believed that she should be able to give birth to Rurik after the "sweet adventure" in the past. child. "Perhaps a daughter would be better."

But she was still a little disappointed.

She saw with her own eyes that Rurik, who was as tall and strong as a bear~www.mtlnovel.com~ easily put Queen Svetlana in her arms and spun around in circles. To the bedroom, it is self-evident what can happen.

"Oh. You are the real couple..."

Regrets are regrets, as the princess of the prairie is such a fate.

At least for this expedition, I have a brand new identity for myself who has no identitythe Countess of Demyansk, who controls a waterway leading to the East, a stone mine that can make a fortune in the future.

The Hafen River, where Demyansk is located, is a completely barren land. Even if there are conditions for building settlements, his eldest son will grow up when he builds a certain scale.

Beja Hill is not a fool. It is true that he has a title and a fief. In fact, because of this position, he has passively left the power center of the Ross Kingdom.

In this way, as the king's third-rank concubine, he is completely unable to get involved in the power of Queen Svetlana. Although she never wanted to get involved.