The army of the "North Hunter" returned to Roseburg at the end of February. The official status of the Corvins who were hunted is the slaves of Rurik. This is recognized by all the Ross people. It is precisely based on this point. No one would dare to harass the "property" belonging to the chief's family.

Although they are slaves, their lives are not at all like the kind of precarious slaves who are bullied.

The population of the gray squirrel tribe shrank to barely two hundred people, and they lived temporarily in Roseburg as slaves.

After the war and the long journey, all the old and frail people died, and some women were taken away by the Ross people to become women of the Ross warriors and accidentally got rid of the status of slaves.

Compared to the women who went to be those warriors, it seemed that being a slave to Rurik made life better.

Yes, life is like this, can it get worse?

The leader of the tribe, Mechasta, is still the leader of the tribe. Since his pair of young children have received the attention of Rurik, it is clear that the future of the Grey Squirrel tribe will not be bad.

Everyone knows their true destiny in the future-going to the north.

"Woimakashad, really unexpected. You brought the mine that your brothers discovered and brought disaster to the tribe. Soon, the whole tribe will move to settle there. It seems to be a good thing for the tribe."

Thinking of this, Metzasta always put down the axe given by the Ross people. He stood in the woods and looked north.

Yes, after these tribesmen set up their own tents, they began to build a batch of warm wooden houses covered with mud and withered grass. Rurik lent them a batch of iron axes for cutting wood, scrapers for cutting wood strips, and even drafts and shovel for plowing.

These are just hardened wrought iron tools. They are stronger and more durable than purely broken wrought iron tools in other regions, but compared to the low-carbon steel tools that the Russ began to popularize, they are a bit out of the times.

In fact, as long as the furnace is heated to red and then carburized, a large number of ironware held by the Ross people can be turned into carbon steel appliances.

But as far as the actual effect is concerned, the iron axe is completely sufficient for just logging work. The so-called is not so much an iron axe cutting down a tree, it is better to say that the tree was broken by a less sharp axe.

The gray squirrel tribe must relocate to a mine in the north, and rebuild the tribe there, and permanently accept the control of the Ross tribe, or the family of the chief Ross.

Legally, the gray squirrel tribe is already Rurik's private property, as are all tribesmen, he can call them as he pleases, and he will not encounter other people's criticism.

Rurik had no intention to abuse them and even gave them preferential treatment.

He and Mechasta made a verbal promise that they would give the Buraku people food, and the price the Buraku people paid was to cut wood for the Ross people.

The people of the gray squirrel tribe began to cut down the pine and oak, and then used a scraper to remove the bark. After that, Rurik sold it to the tribal boatbuilder who worked all night, in exchange for some silver coins, and used money to buy a little dry oats from Gould. And buy fish from tribes who insist on ice-cutting and winter catching. He gave grain and fish to the tribal people of Grey Squirrel, thus reaching a closed loop of the transaction.

In this circular transaction, all parties earn a little bit of labor value of the gray squirrel tribesmen.

For the Burakumin, they really feel that the Rus are not as bad as they once had been.

Even many people think that the true leader of the tribe is obviously Rurik, even a child.

That is a noble boy. Since you can get food and safety as long as you do things for him, why not do it?

Buraku people are working harder and harder, and some of them with special skills are beginning to show up.

After all, the men who surrendered on the battlefield were hunters themselves. They were allowed to re-equip their bows and arrows, and swore that they would not aim the arrow at any Roth, and the offenders apologized with death.

They re-made their short wooden bows with carefully selected flexible oak branches, and borrowed the iron clusters of the Ross people to make the highest quality arrows, and started hunting around the mountains near Roseburg.

They dragged the little sleigh off, claiming that they would not escape.

The hunters really have no intention to flee, after all, there are still a large number of tribes remaining in the territory of the Rus as hostages!

Hunters of the grey squirrel tribe shoot all the prey they find near the hills. Compared with Ross hunters who love to lay tripnets and other traps, these Corvins prefer to shoot directly with their bows.

The long-legged snow rabbits, the alert ferrets, and even the occasional arctic foxes, they hunted down some. The meat of the prey is naturally distributed to the hunters, the leg bones of the prey are made into bone clusters, and the leather is given to Rurik.

There are also some tribal people who are artisans who know how to make charcoal. The crooked branches of the oak were cut off, and the relatively straight trunks were "tributed" to Rurik, and those branches were naturally processed into charcoal blocks by the way.

There are only 200 surviving Buraku people. How did they use so much charcoal? They will "tribute" the excess carbon burned and pray for more food.

Rurik was a little surprised at these changes, and their many reasonable requests naturally supported them.

Is this flattery? may be.

They are not eager for preferential treatment, they just want to live a better life.

The Kewen people and even the deer breeders, two ethnic groups with a common source, joined the Rus camp for different reasons and are so obedient, working very hard for themselves. How to explain this? Rurik felt that it could only be explained by the mentality of the so-called "strange fanaticism".

Compared with the Belarusians, they are all others. In order to prove that they are useful to the new master, they are desperately proving their worth.

If they are in this state of mind, things are obviously very good!

Rurik appreciates the skilled craftsmen among this group of people, and he manages all the children in a centralized manner.

After all, the entire gray squirrel tribe will be completely absorbed by the Ross tribe, and their descendants will eventually think that they are the real Rosses. Even now, Rurik consciously cannot declare them to be "New Rosses." They are still a group of slaves, and the duty of slaves is to be obedient. If rewarding some of the necessities of their lives can be exchanged for their obedientness, Rurik would be happy to have something last time and reap even greater benefits for himself in the foreseeable future.

The time finally came to May, and in the shock of the Kewen people and the deer breeders, they saw a spectacular sight.

More than five hundred ships of all sizes, old and new, covered the sea of the fjord, and their huge sails covered the sky!

Those who confined the concept of boats to canoes were completely stunned by the sight in front of them.

After a short period of time, the gray squirrel tribe of Corvin, who had made some mental preparations, finally waited for the official order from the master-our expedition is about to begin!

The great businessman Gould personally led a huge commercial fleet southward, he took away all the goods in the inventory, and also took away most of the geographical cadres.

The wharf that Gould built by himself temporarily became deserted, and soon it suddenly resumed its liveliness.

Two young, fat boys, who are Gould's other sons, were ordered to manage the mansion after he left, as well as to manage the relationship between the family and the leader of Ross, and the life of the family.

With great humility, the two of them faced the noble Rurik, and followed the orders of the old father to satisfy all the requirements of Rurik without reservation.

It was another good weather, and it was precisely this day, the date of the expedition that Rurik decided.

On May 20th of the Julian calendar, all preparations are in place!

It was almost the summer solstice, and there was no night in Roseburg that day. Now the daylight hours have become very long, and the entire fjord is immersed in the warmest period of the year.

But the sea is still relatively cold, and only the courageous guys dared to throw their clothes and swim in the sea. This is an act of proficiency, and most of the fishermen in Ross are reluctant to do it because of their awe of the sea.

Early in the morning, the awakened Rurik slapped his smiling face with both hands and got up from his mother's arms.

He felt sorry for the mother who was lying on his side, because her only son was going to take a group of people to the north to build as a "war chief".

Although this matter has nothing to do with war, after all, it is a pioneer in an unknown field. Which mother is not worried?

Niya has already said what he should have said.

After she woke up as usual, she prepared a little breakfast for the child who was about to leave, as if today was a normal day.

Rurik sat cross-legged close to the dining table, gnawing oatmeal and jerky, staring at his mother who didn't think about tea and rice.

He can understand the mother's mood.

"Mom, I know you are still worried. There is nothing to worry about, you just stay here, and I'll be back when I finish my work."

What is "work done"? Niya didn't know, she faintly pushed her granola to Rurik: "Eat, eat more."

"okay."

There were actually four children sitting in front of Niya, except for Rurik, Carlotta, Ella, and Sepolava. The three girls were destined to be his wives and concubines, but he clearly hoped that his wives and concubines could become female fighters, not the delicate ones.

They ate it sullenly, and Niya didn't say anything anymore.

After a while, the outdoor world has become lively.

Although it is said that the good departure crowd will gather at the Gould's wharf, such as Fisk, Kanuf and other Rurik's best friends, they gathered all of them, including themselves, and were selected to participate in the "Expedition." "The fifty little soldiers, armed with iron weapons issued by Rurik that are only suitable for adults, gathered in front of the leader's house.

There were also the ten maids, from Anna to Yulia, who stopped making soap, and took up wooden bows and arrows, and came to see themselves as "Valkyrie Warriors" The commander Carlotta and his master Rurik.

Thirty mercenaries with iron swords and axes hanging around their waists and crossbows in their hands are also here. The leader of the mercenaries, due to Jeflo's temporary departure, has become an archery instructor, Frazer . At the same time, this Fleiser still has to take on the management of all the children, just like a normal training, accepting the supervision of his important task.

This time the "expedition" Liurik has a group of capable men by his side.

He, the war chief, has the power to mobilize hundreds of soldiers to fight the enemy, but Ding Kemao mobilized a hundred pure-bred Ross soldiers except for the mercenaries. Not to mention the small number of these soldiers, they are veterans who participated in the "North Hunting Operation" and fought with the coalition forces of the Kewen tribe.

Originally, Rurik mobilized them simply considering that everyone had fought side by side, and the existence of this comrade-in-arms relationship, he could better call them.

But in most eyes, this is a little bit of Rurik's strategy.

Even if Rurik agrees that those Corvin slaves will not rebel, it seems to everyone that those Corvins who can pick up iron axes and spears after receiving the gift are really full of the possibility of rebellion, so they need strong Ross fighters. Suppress them with momentum.

After the meal, Rurik, consciously energetic, put on his gorgeous clothes and appeared in front of the waiting people with high morale.

"It looks like you are all ready! I won't say anything, let's start."

He didn't make much fighting and shouting, but his little soldiers yelled "wuraaaaaaah" in response to his war chief.

Rurik swaggered and led a group of people to the beach, hoping to meet with the Corvin people waiting to board the boat there.

He didn't look back at his mother, but Niya stared at his son's back, and the golden ponytail that was shaking under the snow fox's hat, and then she joined the team.

Rurik is going to take a group of people to the north to open up the legendary iron mine? It is said that the iron ore is better than the ore in the small hills near the Fortress of Ross? ! The blacksmiths of the tribe were all jealous of this resource, but Rurik specially selected Kawei to participate in the operation.

The reason is nothing else, just because Kawei, a young man, discovered the secret of the iron ore mine. At the same time, there were Kamnier, as well as ten other blacksmith apprentices who were under ten years old from the tribe of the Corvin Salmon Lord. What's interesting is ~www.mtlnovel.com~ Because of his early learning skills, Kamnier is the big brother of this group of Kewen children.

In fact, after two months of all-weather study, although the new boys did not have the strength to pick up the hammer and participate in ironing, they all did what they could to help. They are generally full of admiration for the work of blacksmiths, and they observe the essentials of ironing all day while doing agile and helpful work.

It can be said that from the very beginning, these children are learning one-stop skills from prospecting, beneficiation, smelting sponge iron, wrought iron, carburizing, quenching, and polishing. The Ross people are really exporting science and technology to the Kowen people. In the final analysis, they are cultivating a completely new group of blacksmiths for the Ross tribe that can be completely controlled.

After all, reality is a bit funny. The native Ross boys prefer to be brave warriors rather than blacksmiths who work all day long.

What can Rurik do? He can only arrange for obedient slaves or surrenders to learn how to be a blacksmith.

One day, the entire tribe of Grey Squirrels must make iron smelting their main life. Rurik arranged for his slaves to explore these industries, and it was also his primary purpose of opening up the mines.

Going bigger, the future of the Ross people will be inseparable from the huge chromite mine in the north.