Latest website: Facing his father in golden armor, Rurik walked slowly up the line step by step. Under the attention of countless soldiers, common people, and wealthy businessmen, he knelt down on one knee and saluted the "Great King".

"Father! I'm back."

This kneeling touched the old king a lot. Otto's body was shaking violently, which the soldiers supporting him could clearly feel.

"Get up! My son! Come here, let me take a good look at you..."

In stature and countenance, Rurik was almost the same as Otto in his youth. The old man stroked his son's face, stroking his golden beard up to his neck.

Otto knew that all the glory today belonged to his son. As a father, he was very proud of this matter, but as a man, he also felt a little jealous.

After all, in his youth, Rose was still in a safe place, but now everything has changed.

Compared with Otto's deepness, Niya couldn't hide her excitement, and tears came out of her excited eyes, and she threw herself directly on her son to enjoy this moment of happiness.

The Ross royal family is already a huge family, and this glimpse is the high-profile ego warriors of the royals.

All Rurik's wives and concubines in Novgorod took part in the event with their children in their arms.

The younger children were generally somewhat unfamiliar with their father, but several older children eagerly broke free from their mother's shackles, happily ran to their father, and hugged Rurik in a hug.

Karl, Osborn, Oleg, the three half-brothers are the older princes of what is now Novgorod.

Regalaf is the eldest son of the truth, the most legitimate king of Mercia recognized by the western countries and priests, he has long been

Arranged to go to the Frankish world.

In a sense, Reggraf is just a passer-by in Rurik's life. This son has status and status, but Ross will no longer provide him with huge resources.

Legolaf's well-being must be fought for by himself, and his double aristocratic blood and the recognition of Western aristocrats are his political capital.

As for what kind of achievements this kid will achieve in the end, Rurik no longer wants to ask.

Of course, if this kid suffers a serious disaster in the western world, as the father king, he will give him a hand.

Now, the three brats hugging him are the three with the highest status.

Among all the princes, Osborne was the most noble.

Rurik picked up his son high and carried it directly on his shoulders, as if he was holding up the sun of tomorrow.

He deliberately gave Queen Svetlana a wink, winking is worth a thousand words...

The hustle and bustle of the city continues and the market reopens in the afternoon, busier than ever.

The soldiers of the four new flag teams are mainly from the two cities of Novgorod and Mstisk. Although the military camp is in the big city of Novgorod, Rurik immediately fulfilled his promise. Disbanded after the king completed the big city swagger.

All the soldiers participating in the expedition will have a two-week holiday, and no assembly orders will be issued during this period unless necessary.

The task of the young fighters is to stay at home. They have to recharge their batteries, eat and drink well, check their weapons, and finally meet new challenges in the best condition.

Even if the holiday starts in the afternoon, the soldiers can go home immediately or stay in the barracks.

Every fighter enjoys a

Some trophies, especially some fine Frankish and Eastern Roman silver coins looted from the southern world.

Although the Kingdom of Ross has been troubled by imported inflation over the years, this trouble is being overcome by development.

On the one hand, there are not many fighters who have plundered a lot of cash by relying on war dividends.

On the one hand, there are Slavic and Finnish farmers with extremely large populations and extreme shortages of cash.

Ross itself does not produce silver. In the past ten years or so, most of the currency in circulation in the Baltic Economic Circle has finally fallen into the hands of Ross. The food standard strategy is a means of hedging against excessive silver coins. To really stabilize commodity prices, either the royal family's treasury should store a large amount of cash and not flow out unless necessary, or the coins should flow into the hands of the largest number of farmers in a normal commercial form.

In this era, the cost of long-distance trade is beyond the reach of ordinary farmers. A farmer on an ordinary farm would not go to Novorosberg hundreds of kilometers away to do business unless necessary. For them, Novgorod is already a "super city" in their life circle, and even so, they still have the mentality of going to the market. , It is enough to go to the doctor twice a month.

The official exchange ratio of silver coins to grain is defended by the authority of the king and a powerful army, and batch after batch of graduated scribes conduct statistical calculations, so as to ensure that each farm can use silver coins to exchange smoothly every month according to the official price. food within the quota.

As for how much grain is stored in the granary, it has its own records every month.

The extreme inequality of wealth is naturally easing, and it is not even a matter of saying that it has eliminated the contradictions.

So the commercial significance of Novgorod and Novorosberg

Extremely huge, the more prosperous the business of the two cities is, the more social conflicts can be resolved.

To be fair, the soldiers who participated in the southern expedition to Smolensk did not get the expected huge wealth.

The local aristocrats had all real estate and physical assets, and there were not many gold, silver and jewelry that everyone liked most. After dividing the spoils according to the proportion, the individuals got not many coins.

Even so, it was a windfall.

The young warriors immediately began shopping in Novgorod. They bought new clothes, boots, hats, belts and cloth bags, and bought honey, dried fruit, frozen meat and wine.

People welcome these big-spending boys very much. There is nothing more so-called war dividend than this, and all businessmen who set up stalls in the big city have to share the benefits.

The dividends of the war were transmitted layer by layer. Those women who were busy doing needlework in winter all got silver coins by selling their goods quickly, and then used the money to go to the farm to buy other necessary materials to improve their lives.

Such prosperity will last for many days! After all, they are a group of young people who have just entered the battlefield. It is their first time to fight their swords and get spoils. They have a strong desire to consume to prove that they have the "right to dominate".

Food and drink must be bought, as well as new clothes and new equipment.

In particular, they want to buy more belts, cloth bags and boots, which are excellent specialties of this city.

They have to buy more. After all, the king will only issue one set of these small items or not. Brothers are just citizen soldiers. In principle, all equipment except a set of standard weapons must be prepared by themselves, so it is natural to prepare more. harm.

Who is eligible to participate in the Frankish expedition after spring plowing?

Although the king

Not to mention, the situation is actually very clear. The sudden southern expedition was a massive counterattack, and it was also an iron-blooded test for the new flag teams. Each team has completed the trial, which means that everyone has obtained the right to expedition.

It has been half a year since the expedition last September, now who would question the inadequacy of a group of thirteen or fourteen-year-old mixed-race boys?

Only God knows how many new difficulties will be encountered in the expedition to Frank, and it is worthwhile to prepare for it.

For every soldier, there are two things that require the most attention: food and clothing.

The experience of the Winter War made them understand that food and clothing are more important than weapons and equipment.

How was the rebel Vadim finally defeated?

Everyone who has experienced the war has his own judgmentthat guy came aggressively, and after suffering a loss, he quickly made frequent moves. The main reason was that this guy was running out of military rations, and he was anxious to find a warm shelter after the snow fell.

Only God knows how long the new crusade will last.

Askad's Seventh Banner and the elite standing army are still fighting in Frank, and no one knows what happened to them. They must still be fighting, it's just that their war has lasted a full year now.

Energy-dense honey, pickled fat, and slightly smelly cheese are swept away.

The leather boots on the market were sold out within a few days.

The four flag teams and the cavalry represented nearly 3,000 fighters, who had a lot of cash and a strong desire to buy.

As consumable leather boots, after half a year of fighting, the soldiers' first pair of shoes were basically damaged, and everyone was reluctant to throw them away, so they kept them at home and repaired them. Just because soldiers put on their own spare boots one after another

, so that everyone basically does not worry about losing combat effectiveness due to freezing feet.

(In fact, a group of soldiers who did not participate in the Pskov expedition had frostbite on their feet because of damaged shoes, and had to go home with the Ostara army ahead of time).

Such experience has made everyone reach a consensus in this regard - at least three pairs of leather boots must be prepared.

Suddenly, there was a huge market for leather boots in Novgorod. Could it be true that around Lake Ilmen could produce 10,000 pairs of leather boots in a short period of time?

There are not enough craftsmen in this city to meet this demand in just one month, and all family workshops rushed to work for profit.

As for the soldiers who urgently need to be recruited, you can wait a little longer.

After buying all kinds of things, promising young people return to their homes to share happy moments with their families.

The sons who went to war returned intact, they grew into real men, and brought back a batch of spoils, and more importantly, they will also go on an expedition to Frank.

Rose's youth was either on an expedition or preparing for an expedition.

The father of the child is already old, and many young people are actually the second son in the family. Their fathers are either Old Ross or New Ross who immigrated from other Swedish tribes. What they have in common is that they speak Norse and marry Almost all of them are Slavic wives.

Adhering to the North Transmission, the second son should go out and make a living by himself. This seemed cruel to the child's Slavic mothers, who preferred their sons to stay with them, cultivate the land and grow rich from agriculture.

The children who possessed the soul of Varyag could not stay, and the younger son watched his elder brother get rich because of the expedition, and the cultural atmosphere of the whole city of Mstiskfa was like this.

Therefore, it also spread to various farms and Novgorod, a large city dominated by Slavs.

When war and plunder has become a business with a high success rate, very fast income, and can quickly improve the family's living conditions, who is willing to farm and fish honestly?

Now it is still the descendants of a few people who have the power of expedition. These "minorities" are giving birth crazily, and the largest number of Slavs are also giving birth to the poor, making the right to go to war still the privilege of a few people.

But the "minority" here is not too small.

The standing army should be cavalry as much as possible, and now there is a heavy-armored berserker-style infantry flag team and four cavalry teams.

There are as many as eleven citizens' flag teams.

There is also an independent naval force.

Theoretically, this army with a strength of nearly 10,000 people will come to Rurik at any moment. They are under the orders of the king himself, and they also hold the right to start the war on Ross.

To maintain such a huge army, just the maintenance cost is huge for the current kingdom. Fortunately, Ross's standing army that really consumes the state's money is smaller. The largest number of citizen soldiers have to prepare almost everything by themselves, and the markets at all levels of the Kingdom can meet the various needs of soldiers.

They are soldiers and producers, and the families behind them are farmers, fishermen, hunters, and people engaged in various handicraft workshops. It is precisely because the king invested little in these citizen soldiers that in order to save their lives on the battlefield, they would spend a lot of money preparing their own armed and logistical supplies in peacetime. After all, only people can earn money if they are alive.

The prosperity of Novgorod really opened the eyes of Olafin, Bohm and others.

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Both have a larger population than New Roseburg, and the whole environment resembles Pskov, and the people coming and going speak a mixture of Norse and Slavic. The relationship between the two races is obviously very harmonious. Presumably this is why there are a large number of mixed-race people in the local area?

Thirty families in the small Danish community of Pskov have the right to choose. They can live directly in Novgorod and become ordinary people to enjoy "modern life" immediately, or they can follow Olafin to stare at Lubans Lake in the future. In the name of nobility, go to the blue thread.

Out of very practical considerations, some families decisively settled in the city, and the names of the whole family were registered and recorded by the scribes, and marked as "merchant" in the column of identity.

As long as there is one experience, they now know the inland trade route of Pskov-Novgorod, and transport the good products of Novgorod to Pskov, the local Kremlin. The villagers of the Rivech people must sell a large amount of agricultural products in exchange, and then transport the leather they bought locally to Novgorod. Simply being a second-hand dealer can make money at both ends. There is such a good thing in the world.

That's what Bohm thought. As for how many years he can continue to do long-distance trade, do you know?

At least the family should enjoy a stable life. The son can continue to be a businessman and trade when he grows up, and the daughter can marry nearby when he grows up, so that the family can find a backer in Novgorod.

Although Olafin and a few of his old buddies are tempted, considering the canonization of King Ross for himself, and even the prospect of becoming an earl in Lake Lubans is even greater.

At least that's an earl! No money to earn, was inherited by King Ross

The recognized title of nobility cannot be bought with money.

These people either settled or stayed in the city of Novgorod, and it was up to them to decide when the Orafin tributary left.

Rurik's thoughts were no longer on the accompanying travelers.

All the Theron boys who came as protons, their fathers were boyars of Rurik, and they themselves would inherit the title in the future. After the children arrived at the finish line, they were sent by Rurik to a trustworthy foster family in this city.

The people of White Tree Manor are the main body of this big city, and the people are not stupid. When they learned that these little boys are all future lower-level nobles, people who are eager to get in touch with the nobles are vying for the right to send samples.

What kind of wishful thinking are these people playing? Rurik and Governor Medved know each other perfectly.

The little boys will receive a full set of education in this city, and they will be "Rossified", and they will definitely want to return to their hometown in the future. Even if they were the unheard of Selons, they were still a group of minor aristocrats appointed by King Ross. It is said that their territory was sandwiched between Riga and Polotsk, but they were not people far away.

Raise the boy as a son and betroth his own daughter. It is best to hold a wedding in accordance with the Slavic tradition when the two reach the age of twelve to fully establish their relationship. Such an ordinary family in White Tree Manor has transformed into an aristocratic background.

This is what Rurik is very happy to see. I think those Therons will become fans of Ross in the future, which is equivalent to the royal family's tentacles in the lower reaches of the West Dvina River, which lacked direct control capabilities for a period of time.

A pair of siblings is the most important of all children.

Witness with

Kostis, they are a pair of grandchildren of the leader of the Therons.

Eight-year-old Vitnes will be the next Earl of Theron, with his future wife to choose from among the Rose girls.

Six-year-old Kostis can marry a Ruth nobleman.

Such large and small Theron forces have established blood ties with Ross.

However, Rurik would not foster the two brothers in an ordinary family. Anyway, the royal family has a lot of children, and it would not be wrong to have another pair of young brothers and sisters.

Now, Rurik is the foster father of the siblings, and Svetlana is their foster mother.

Otto, who is more than seventy years old, also has a pair of grandchildren~www.mtlnovel.com~ But the population of the Ross royal family is still increasing, and will continue to increase.

Queen Svetlana's belly is already too big. She was pregnant when Ross went south in winter, and now half a year has passed, and if the expected date of delivery is calculated, the child will be born around the time of spring plowing. It will be the second child of the direct line. A prince or a princess.

But Rurik is not limited to this.

The pulping season in April is not far away, and after it comes spring plowing, followed by the Ross expedition.

Rurik counted the days, and when he personally led the army to intervene in the Frankish civil war, it would have to be around the summer solstice at the earliest. It's not too early but not too late.

What is the "April Bull"? Rurik's nickname is not a joke, everyone knows that their king can control those eighteen wives and concubines, and now it is strange that the returned king does not use his ability.

Rurik is not so impatient, Svetlana is the real wife, and it is the right way to accompany her right now.