The Roths, they didn't care about Gould's business in the south, or even a military counterattack launched by the Danes.

It's as if the series of major geopolitical times that took place in the south have nothing to do with the Ross people.

Although a series of abnormal changes were brought about by the Rus.

It was like the curse of the Gotland businessman who was about to be killed: "You started the war!"

The war has never been suspended, it's just that the campaign-level combat hasn't happened for a long time. The Rus attacked the Gotland, and the Danes were too shameless. The Danes did not have the ability to attack the Roths, who did not even know the specific location, and the Danish army was unable to prepare for the attack on Mlaren in a short time.

The Danish army attacked a relatively weak tribe under the Northern Alliance. It seemed that it was just a tribe that was destroyed. In fact, it brought about a large-scale retreat of the southern border that had been maintained by the Northern Mind Sub-Tribe Alliance for decades.

The destruction of Ostara brought about the right of the people of the Alliance to control Yotaran.

At this point, the people who left Gotland and immigrated to the Gotaland area can finally call themselves "Gustav", which is the concept of "the mainstay of the Gotaland", that is, to announce to their ally the Danes that the Gotaland It's Gotaland who belongs to the Gotland people.

After the Northern Alliance lost their southern stronghold, this trend of thought quickly revived in the hearts of Gotland immigrants.

After all, they don't want to be loyal dogs to the Danish army. The alliance with the Danes is just a stopgap measure.

Even everyone doesn't really want to stay out of touch with the guys in the Svealand Plain. If you can get more benefits from them, it's not impossible to deviate from Denmark.

The political ecology of the Vikings can be described as "there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests".

The Gotland people, their internal factions are intricate, and the big families have ghosts in their hearts. After all, everyone has a simple concept-one's own business should not be disturbed by power, or in other words, oneself should become a powerful power to defend one's own interests.

But the Gotlanders were wrong.

The Ross people will never forget their blood feuds, perhaps they are inherently more upright than other tribes.

To make matters worse, before the Gotlanders could not predict how their enemies would retaliate, they also set up more enemies.

This year's South is very lively, and the strategic layout of the Rus people here is also wonderful.

Otto, the current leader of the Ross people, made a series of far-sighted decisions. The Ross people are no longer a mysterious existence tucked away in a fjord.

The population of the tribe also began to skyrocket because of these determinations.

In July, the first woman from Novgorod gave birth to a mixed child, a boy, a future warrior.

What excites Otto even more is his niece.

Peravina's belly is already very big, and the women of the tribe are all speculating on the date, and it is concluded that the date of her childbirth is in August.

It is said that the bigger a woman's belly is, the more evidence that she is pregnant with a boy.

Otto even asked the high priest Veria, who was obviously faint, and got the answer that he would get a grandson. Yes, the son born to the deceased brother's daughter-in-law is equivalent to Otto's grandson.

Life is full of hope, but also full of challenges.

Year after year, when the weather is still the warmest summer, the Ross people have already begun to prepare winter supplies in advance.

The first thing to do was to push a large number of pottery urns to the beach. They set up a large number of firewood and began to cook salt with the traditional and inefficient seawater.

A half-person tall pottery urn is often filled with about forty liters of seawater, which is heated by burning wood and charcoal blocks.

Cooking salt is also a handicraft. There are some experts in the tribe who already know how to control the temperature of boiling salt, so that the first crystals that precipitate out are good salt with the least bitter taste.

More people, they boil salt to marinate fish or other meat. Bitter taste? It doesn't matter! This bitterness is completely insignificant compared to the fishy taste or even the shark meat taste. It's good to eat with salt, so why bother with it?

Due to the salt content of the seawater in the Gulf of Bothnia, the seawater of a pottery urn boiled the water dry in the roughest way, and only half a pound of coarse salt was squeezed out of the urn. As for those who only want low bitterness and good salt, because they dumped the excess brine, the hard-cooked product is only one-third of a pound of salt.

Due to the obvious differences in the cost of the input material, time, and even human energy, the salt with the least bitter taste has the highest price.

To pickle a lot of food to survive the coming spring, every family needs a lot of salt. Ordinary families, of course, choose to boil the sea water directly to dryness, just because it can use inferior salt. Of course, if you eat coarse salt containing magnesium chloride and the like all the year round, your life span will be greatly reduced.

Clan people are qualified to worry about this? No. They should be careful not to lose their lives suddenly because of a fever. The vast majority of people are not eligible for retirement, even if it is the leader Otto, his estimate of the upper limit of his life is only sixty years old.

Fortunately, the Rus are like other tribes. All the Viking tribes are adherents to this traditional salt cooking technique, and the well-established families will always eat the fine processed salt.

Coupled with the seemingly inexhaustible forest resources of the entire Scandinavia peninsula, the Ross people can unscrupulously chop down trees to make charcoal, and obtain large amounts of salt by extravagant means.

All the costs add up to a lot, and the Ross people are fully able to bear the pressure.

Salt is a good thing, but it is a pity that the people of Novgorod can only buy someone else's at a high price unless they can reach the sea. For the residents of Novgorod, this intention is almost tantamount to death.

In Novgorod, Otto actually completed the clever operation of pulling one faction and fighting another faction.

The White Tree Manor has completely become a loyal dog, so that the residents there feel that the guys in the White Tree Manor are particularly willing to dedicate their women to the Ross people.

For such loyal dogs, it is very necessary to give bones full of scum!

Realistic pressures forced Otto to advance the date of the autumn Sorgon voyage planned.

Aoban calculated to give some rewards to the faithful dogs in the White Tree Manor, and then he had to get a lot of food from them very reasonably. Otto persuaded his people that a large amount of food will be delivered to the first immigrants living in Shilla Fort this year.

Does everyone support the leader's decision?

Do not!

This decision touched the cake of some people, even if it was for the future of the tribe. However, the vast majority of tribesmen have no authority to look at tribal development from the position of leader due to poor information. They cannot be said to be stupid. It is just that they pay more attention to their own three-acre land out of their own living conditions.

At present, those potential opponents can only bury their grievances in their hearts, because now, it is of course possible to openly oppose the leader, and it is of course possible to be expelled in the end. Is there anyone who has been expelled? Of course there is.

No one knows the status of those expelled, maybe they have long been treated as fat sheep alone, and there is no scum left on them.

In fact, the situation is not so bad. Many deportees went to Semelia Island and even mingled with Latvians to live their lives. Even in the city of Riga, there are Viking immigrants who defected from their tribes and settled. Objectively they helped the civilization development of the local Latvians.

The returned Otto is arranging the next stage of development of the tribe according to his own decision. He even referred to his son's opinion, saying that since the financial power of the priests is completely controlled by the leader himself, the priests don't need so much money, why not use the money for the construction of the new stronghold?

Otto did indeed do this. He temporarily decided to take out 10,000 silver coins, especially in his own name, announcing that the money should be used as a subsidy to Shilla Fort.

Ten thousand silver coins are just a bottom line for spending. As for how much it will cost in the end, Gould is not clear.

A large number of merchants are like migrating reindeer herds, bringing a large amount of goods around the end of August every year. The Ross people have needed these business partners since ancient times, especially the grain and linen that arrived. Everyone needs these necessary commodities to live.

This year, the situation has become very special.

His son Rurik has already made a lot of money, because the servants have devoted themselves to work, and the soap industry abandoned by the priest has not only recovered in the hands of the servants, but has even exceeded the previous production capacity. Who could have imagined that a group of Novgorod little girls brought back by them could already help their owners make money quickly.

Otto took it for granted that merchants would buy soap unscrupulously, so the son's servants did not make soap, they were a steady stream of gold and silver coins!

In addition, the son also has many ways to earn money.

Up to now, including the income of the tribal blacksmiths, the son used the contract document to get a piece of the pie from the blacksmiths in the name of "God's Witness".

This is by no means as simple as Rurik making money, the entire Ross people are also reaping real benefits from the "steelmaking revolution." Since the Ross people who have experienced life and combat equipment made of low-carbon steel, they can no longer accept the past.

The warriors got their new swords. The first thing they had to do was to cut off their old iron swords with a brand new steel sword, and then immediately sold the broken old swords to the blacksmith, and then processed them into daggers, axe heads, etc. Mild steel appliances. Since there is no need to smelt ores, the broken sword can be directly used for forging plasticity and carburizing. The blacksmiths charge a processing fee that everyone feels fair. In the end, it is the entire Ross tribe who gets the benefits.

Professional loggers, boat builders, and carpenters can't stand their soft wrought iron axes and hammers.

Low-carbon steel production tools were the first to be used in the shipbuilding industry, which immediately brought very gratifying results.

For example, a Nordic planer forged from mild steel. The shipbuilder was surprised to find that the guy in his hand suddenly did not have a sharp edge, and he had processed an unknown number of logs, and the planer was still as sharp as ever.

Because there is no need to sharpen the knife frequently, the wear of the knife is almost beyond the naked eye.

This summer, because of the large-scale innovation of tools, the already thriving shipbuilding industry of the Ross people has become even more hot.

Originally, the Ross people also built ships according to the traditional Viking craft, that is, the wooden boards are stacked one by one along the ribs. This kind of operation takes special consideration of the performance of the knife.

The steel axe can cut wood faster, and the steel planer and steel scraper can efficiently process very flat plates.

An ordinary fishing boat, its production efficiency has increased nearly three times! The boat builders of the entire Ross tribe got magic tools. The first thing they thought about was to increase productivity. In order to sell the boats better, they chose to lower the price.

The price of newly launched fishing boats has dropped a lot. Once a small fishing boat cost 30 silver coins, now it only costs 20.

Wouldn't this bring about a bigger chain reaction?

Many families in the tribe who did not get a lot of wealth in the previous series of actions, their lives almost depend on going out to sea to sustain themselves. Fishing boats are the foundation of their lives, and they are also treasures that they must carefully maintain.

Many fishermen saved up some money due to the addition of the big seller of the catch, Rurik.

These fishermen saw the price of fishing boats cut. They bought new fishing boats that were cheap but of high quality with their reluctant spending, because even nails have now become steel nails. There are also many fishermen. They no longer need to work as helpers for other fishing boats. They finally dared to buy their own boats.

There are more and more fishing boats of the Ross people, and they can only be more in the foreseeable future!

More fishing boats went out to sea. The Ross people cruised across the Gulf of Bothnia, and the fleet of herring salvage reached the estuary of Lake Mlaren as far as the sea. They even sold fresh catches at extremely discounted prices. My own family in Tombstone Island.

The two natural fjords on Tombstone Island were first used by fishermen as a safe haven. Tombstone Island itself has become a resting stop for Ross fishermen to venture into. Before it became a real military base, its commercial value had already begun to be discovered by Ross fishermen.

The number of Russian fishing boats has indeed increased a lot. During the warm period, Roseburg was immersed in Dingdingdongdong, winding roads, and often more than a dozen people were moving together carrying huge timbers.

Just comparing the vast Gulf of Bothnia, the Ross people and all their affiliated populations, now together they have reached the size of 8,000. It is completely different from hunting on land. How can such a small number of people sweep the entire sea of fish?

The reality is that in the twice-daily fish market in Roseburg, the prices of the main catches have dropped a lot.

The only thing that will not change is whale meat. It takes luck and courage to capture them.

Usually tribal fishermen are not so keen on whaling. Everyone knows that whale brain oil is a good raw material for lamp oil. After all, every household does not need much. Alternatives such as seal oil are not difficult to obtain.

Lulik needs a lot of oil to make soap. Before large-scale winter seals can be caught, whale brain oil and other parts of whale oil are the best raw materials. Because of this demand, fishermen began to become willing to hunt whaling.

When a large number of new fishing boats and new fishermen participate in marine fishing, the price stability of the fish market is completely broken. Whale meat was immediately favored by fishermen due to its stable price, and the fishermen's enthusiasm for whaling has increased. Lurik is happy to see this result. Because Rurik doesn't worry about the soap production efficiency of his servants and the little girls. What he is always worried about is that his supply chain will be disrupted and the troubled soap workshop will stop.

Rurik didn't care much about his father's many decisions, after all, those decisions were nothing more than running a new settlement. It seems that we have to increase efforts to recognize the loyalty of White Tree Manor? Okay! Thinking of this, Rurik thought of his fiancee whom he had never met.

During this period of time there are many gratifying things, such as the reproduction of the reindeer herd, which makes him very gratified.

In the beginning, there were only fifteen deer, and those female deer gave birth in May. It is said that they arrived at Roseburg with fawns.

The fawn grows strong enough to run around, and the herd size has reached more than twenty heads.

Lumia told Rurik that by September, all the existing doe would inevitably be conceived again. By the spring of the following year, the herd of deer would of course reach 30. Although the behemoth that has become a herd of three or four hundred deer is too far away, Rurik can foresee that this herd of deer probably originally lived in Lapland or Murmansk, but now it is clearly alive in the area of Roseburg. well.

The whole body of a reindeer is a treasure, and the most precious thing is its leather. If the deer herd becomes a behemoth in the true sense, the Ross people will be prosperous just by processing and selling deer skins.

The cardinal number of the deer herd is too small. Rurik knows mathematics very well. The small cardinal number is temporary. In the days to come, waiting for his own control of the herd should increase exponentially.

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Rurik couldn't forget the agreement between himself and Gould-making spirits.

Ross people! Just drinking turbid ale, can you be considered a Rose? The Ross people should drink strong alcohol, the kind that can be eaten at one point.

Finally, on the first day of August in the Julian calendar, on the eve of the completion of his new home, Rurik ran to the blacksmith's shop in Clavassen and suddenly proposed his new idea.

As long as some special utensils are used, the best quality crafted ale can be refined into the best wine again? ! Can it even be completely transparent like pure water?

Clavasson had no concept of "distilling high spirits" at all, and he fully supported Rurik's determination.

But Rurik, his idea is not just to create a few bottles of Erguotou to show off the so-called "I can" to Gould. Because of alcohol, it can bring changes to human society. Satisfying alcohol addiction is nothing more than an unhealthy "happiness need", and Rurik sees the many benefits of alcohol.

He acted personally!