After a long voyage, it was almost evening.

Throughout the day, the fleet went north against the coast. Everyone could see the coast from a distance. They had already seen the deserted islands dotted on the sea and the ice on the islands that had not completely melted.

In fact, up to now, there is still a lot of snow in the destination of Rurik, because the so-called destination is called Kemi by another name, and Jucheng is still the hometown of Santa Claus.

The fleet approached the mouth of a small stream, and ships docked here one after another.

There are only thirty fishing boats, and they followed Rurik's fleet closely. In fact, they are trying to find the fishing resources in the northern waters to get Rurik's good fortune protection. Now they continue their work, they are still ready The torch to attract the bait, and finally cast a net to pray for one by one.

Can they be successful? Of course it is impossible!

In the northernmost part of the bay, the so-called seawater here has almost no salty taste. A large number of freshwater fish can live here, but the herring and cod, which the Ross people like, will not risk their lives to survive in this place.

The only thing fishermen can look forward to is the so-called migratory salmon tide, but that is also September. Besides, the Corvin servants claimed that the annual salmon tide scene was not seen by the Ross people. In other words, everyone has seen salmon flooding into the fjord, but it is definitely not as exciting as the scientific people claim.

All the people in the fleet spent the night on the shore, and those who suffered from seasickness finally had a good rest.

In fact, by now, the route ahead is very clear.

A brave and slightly smaller young soldier climbed up the mast, and he saw the looming coast just north.

This soldier had participated in the "North Hunting", and the whole world was frozen in ice last time. When he saw the northern coastline this time, a familiar and unfamiliar feeling naturally came to his mind.

He made a prepared report to Rurik, but Rurik knew it well. Everyone believes that tomorrow morning everyone will set foot on the voyage again, and it may only take a while before the destination is reached.

The next day, the moored fleet embarked on the journey again.

They quickly saw the northern coast, and the entire fleet adjusted the angles of the sails and the center axis of the ship. Following the leading flagship of Rurik, they all started a big turn.

The fleet began to sail in the crosswind, and the Ross people on each boat began to control the south wind, and this way of sailing brought the fastest speed when they could use the wind, just because of this crosswind sailing routine. A little learning about the wings of an airplane.

Everyone knows that the destination of the fleet is about to arrive. This strong sense of expectation has become extremely strong after everyone has experienced the estuary of the first large river.

Rurik was also excited, and everyone on the flagship was gazing at the coast, looking for the abrupt mine.

It is as if the Ross people searched for their homes through the hills near the fjord, and Rurik and his men are also trying their best to scan the peculiar bulge of the flat horizon.

I have to say that the clear air is good enough for eyesight and people standing on high places can see important landmarks 30 kilometers away. However, after the Rus people experience the first big river estuary, they are no less than 30 kilometers away from the target.

Gradually, the scene ahead became particularly clear.

Hills! It's there!

The flagship, even with all the ships, became a commotion.

"We have arrived! Brothers, get ready to go ashore!" Rurik shouted.

Without trouble, he issued the order, the various personnel on the fleet, especially the Ross soldiers brought by Rurik, and the professional sailors provided by the Gould family. These professional personnel have already begun to maneuver the ship and prepare a series of landings!

Soon, everything became clear.

The fleet arrived at the mouth of the so-called second big river. The fleet shuttled through some deserted islands and ran towards the flat left bank (to the east) through the river mouth that had become a bit turbulent due to the melting of snow and ice. This is because this is the camp where the North Hunter's army was fighting at the beginning of the year! Some people on the boat even saw the traces of sleeping on their own, and the wooden shelves of the tents that had been built were still crooked and twisted there.

The long ship with a low flat bottom began to wash up the beach, and the long ship behind followed closely, and only the cargo ships were still slowing in.

Not far in front of them, there was a low and stocky mine, and it was also the place where Rurik fought for the first time.

"I'm finally here!"

Rurik took a sharp breath and brought the boat to a steady state. The hard oak keel was stuck in the mud. Rurik and his companions jumped off the boat and stepped on the soft ground covered with moss and newly budding grass.

Regardless of whether his emotions have stabilized, Rurik yelled: "Let's get started! A settlement!"

He walked towards the increasingly solid land, looking at his back, everyone could feel the enthusiasm for this construction.

A group of sturdy men jumped off the side of the ship, they caught the dropped cable and began to pull the ship ashore.

For a while, their leather boots stepped into the silt, and after a lot of walking, they finally boarded the relatively hard land, and the long ship became empty, leaving a deep mark.

Soon, the people of the Grey Squirrel Tribe also stood in this completely unfamiliar land with their luggage.

More and more materials are being unloaded, such as a large number of burlap pockets, which are loaded with a large amount of oats, charcoal blocks, and burlap that has not yet been cut for tents.

Rurik found the former camp.

He squatted down, holding the wet traces of the campfire with his little hands. He stood up again and looked at the mines with a large amount of snow in the distance, as well as the ice lumps everywhere in the surrounding area.

The whole world is extremely humid, but there is not the slightest heat.

The world is still cold, just as there are a large number of ice lumps floating on the sea, and there are many dangerous ice packs of shocking size.

Rurik noticed that those who were wading on the shore quickly took off their wet boots. They were sitting on the wet ground, pressing the young grass leaves that had just emerged, and covering their hands because they were poured into the cold water. Keep your feet cold and try to give warmth.

Rurik was a little grateful that he hadn't waded, but his boots had been covered in a lot of black mud.

"Black mud? Looks like the land in this place is fertile? It's too cold, any hardy crops will freeze to death,"

Everyone has landed, and Rurik can't help but order the next thing himself.

When they were still on the boat, all the people of all colors were given their tasks. They had already gone ashore, even if it was to warm their cold feet from the water, they had to start construction immediately.

The Rus and their servant Grey Squirrel tribesmen began to build settlements on the basis of the temporary camp abandoned five months ago, at the mouth of the river not far from the mine.

Without more words, they began to work hard, and even waited for the settlement to be built before the sun went down.

Those Ross fighters, they estimated that they would not encounter any enemies during this trip, and all they could do was provide a lot of wood for the new settlement.

Rurik was not stupidly generous. To get the ten silver coins a month, he had to act according to his requirements.

Since the war chief of his own age is in charge of the food, he has no complaints.

Strong warriors remove their leather armor, even if the temperature is low, they only wear a loose linen shirt, tied with linen strips with their hands, and manipulate an advanced low-carbon steel heavy Nordic forest axe built for logging.

The sharp axe blade was polished to be shiny, and with just one heavy blow, a tree with a big mouth was almost cut down in half.

Even just three heavy blows, a pine tree was cut down.

The Ross people use their own prowess to deal with the huge red pine that needs two people to hug together.

The strong lumberjack smashed one side of the tree trunk with a steel axe, creating a dangerous but not collapsing section. Then he lightly chiseled the other side and added a special iron wedge. The lumberjack knocked on the wedge, and the tree finally collapsed along the largest section!

It was really a feeling like the shaking of the earth, which shocked all the tribesmen of Grey Squirrel! I saw that the dense pine forest not far away that could almost block the sun was experiencing terrible changes. The ground was shaking violently, and even some ice blocks on the ground were shattered by the shaking.

The tribal people quickly understood everything in shockthe Rus were cutting down trees that were almost impossible to chop down.

The Ross people did it. Before the sun went down, as many as thirty huge red pine trees were cut down, plus a batch of small trees that were cut down. The once dense woods became very difficult in just half a day. That's all.

These pine trees can produce a large number of pine cones, and theoretically their fruits can be used after processing. It's not that Rurik has thought about using the pine trees everywhere in the area to develop pine nut resources, which is to open the hard nut shell, but it takes some skill.

Rurik now only hopes to use the pine resources in the region. Although oak has much better performance than pine, the biggest advantage of pine is the extremely low cost of developing it.

A group of Ross soldiers took the wood brought back by their companions, and immediately manipulated the axes and scrapers to begin fine processing.

They began to build a large number of wooden houses. As the Novgorod-style wooden house construction concept spread to the Russians, the old mode of building wooden walls and adding beams at random has been eliminated. It is a pleasure to live in knowing that you build a house with wooden planks and wooden beds.

The Ross soldiers like the brand-new wooden houses, and Lurik also gave an order to everyone: the houses in the new settlement must have floors.

This request is difficult for the people of the Grey Squirrel tribe. They originally planned to dig a pit and build a semi-crypt house on the basis of their own traditions.

The leader Mezzasta tried to dig down, and after digging a thin layer of moist soil, he flatly denied his idea.

Why?

Only need to dig down to the extent of thirty centimeters, the shovel will begin to touch the hard frozen ground.

These people had no choice but to learn how to build a house from the Ross people, and in the process, they realized how backward they were again.

The gray squirrel tribe is an ambitious ethnic group, and the remaining men hold metal tools in their hands, and they begin to learn the house-building skills of the Rus people with all their strength.

In fact, as far as building houses are concerned, the Novgorod people are more capable than the traditional Rus people. Even if they use a limited iron axe and a large number of stone axes, they still cut down large trees and perform fine processing.

The young fighters of Ross learned a number of unique construction methods, and compared to those from the East, they had a huge advantage in tools.

The residents of Novgorod didn't need iron nails at all. They chiseled the trunks of similar thickness to approximate lengths, and then chiseled both ends of the thick solid wood strips, hardly chiseling out tenons.

Since they are building wooden houses, there is really no way for the Ross people to be more cost-effective than the Novgorod people. Because the model of this type of wooden house has completely changed the "relatively leaky" image of the Russ's treatment of wooden houses. The woodcut of the tenon-and-mortise structure perfectly uses the thermal insulation capacity of thick wood, and then uses some moss and linen to plug the final gap, even if the outdoor is already minus 40 degrees, separated by a wooden wall, the indoor life is still warm.

A large number of wooden stakes that were cut into awl heads were smashed into the deep permafrost by the Ross warriors who were manipulated by the huge and hard oak sledgehammer.

Take a typical new-style wooden house as an example, it is built like this.

According to the process established by the Rus people combining the construction techniques of Novgorod and their own tribe, construction starts with piling.

Sixteen short and thick wooden piles (the number is not limited, the more the house is, the more stable it is) form a matrix. The ends of the wooden piles are chiseled out with tenons, and then four parallel processed wooden poles are placed.

Then, a large number of square wooden strips processed by the scraper began to be neatly laid to form a solid wooden floor.

In this way, a fairly flat construction platform is completed! The next thing couldn't be simpler.

Those prefabricated wooden strips with tenon joints begin to pile up like wood, completing the tenon joints with each other, and the wooden walls are piled up and taller.

Finally, a traditional Russ herringbone frame was installed on the roof, and a large number of wooden ribs were laid~www.mtlnovel.com~The planks were laid on the wooden ribs, and finally a layer of thatch was laid. A wooden house is almost complete.

Of course, not all the fighters selected by Rurik are young people. Among them, there are no less than ten veteran fighters who are older. These people are actually carpenters. They have experienced the wildest youth. Now fighting and looting can be regarded as side jobs. . With these few, what Rurik needs are their skills. Because they are all involved in the construction of the leader's new house, and they have sufficient experience in building Novgorod-style woodcuts.

Those gray squirrel tribesmen who are about to enjoy the new housing treatment, they join the construction team, and there are a large number of children under Rurik, who are also doing what they can.

For a time, as many as twenty-five hits have completed the construction of the foundation, and many have even completed the laying of the floor. Anyone with a discerning eye understands that the next job is to stack wooden slats with tenon and tenon joints. It may take three or four days to complete all the wooden houses under construction.

At first there were only twenty-five hitting woodcuts, which of course is far from enough!

Rurik longed for this town under construction to become the largest iron smelting center controlled by the Rus tribe. Don't see if it's been here in May or ice and snow can be seen everywhere, the heat of iron smelting will protect the people who live here, and the settlers will become prosperous because of iron and steel.