Those spruce trunks that were deliberately sawn to be about ten meters long have been stripped of their bark and left for more than two months in the dry, extremely cold snow, while Rurik stayed in the extreme north for a long time. time.

A large number of tree trunks have been dried in the shade for a certain period of time. Although the tree trunks have been frozen hard, a large amount of water has been sublimated inside, and the whole tree trunk has become more rigid.

After all, the materials that will be used as masts are cedar trees that have grown for thousands of years. Their slow growth is not easy to describe. Just cutting and sawing them requires the joint work of multiple strong loggers, and it takes some time.

Now that these trunks have become shorter, Rurik made measurements on these trunks, which are relatively similar in length and diameter, on the eve of carrying them.

For small ships such as Caravel, it is just a major modification of the Viking cargo ship, and its length and displacement have not increased much. Its mast cannot be too long or too thick.

All the selected materials are at the front part of the trunk. The maximum diameter of the trunk is approximately 50 cm, and the minimum diameter at the other end is condensed to only 25 cm.

Therefore, these materials are similar to extremely long truncated cones, and Rurik holds a branch and makes simple mathematical calculations directly on the snow.

The large number of mathematical symbols really dazzled the onlookers. Only the girl Saiporava saw some of them in detail and told her curious father.

What the **** is Rurik doing? Metzasta did not understand. Oh, it seems that my daughter has already understood.

After all, Sepolava was in Roseburg and was taught some mathematics by Rurik like other children. After a long period of time, there is always nothing to do. Girls are naturally weaker than men. They are more like Corvin girls like Saiporava. She doesn't like to fight and kill by nature.

The minds of those children have developed to a certain level. Children over seven years old only need education to quickly gain a logical understanding of abstract knowledge such as mathematics. There is no difference between their minds and modern people a thousand years later. The only difference is the lack of teachers with extensive knowledge.

Rurik is happy to impart knowledge to his future wife and concubine. In this way, when one's children and grandchildren are all over the land, it is impossible to devote a huge amount of time to their children's education.

The trunk volume was calculated. Rurik estimated that if a stika and a meter are basically similar (he always found that the two measurement units are surprisingly similar by visual inspection), then the volume of six trunks is just over four cubic meters.

Compared with the previous big tree, the volume has been directly reduced by more than double.

In essence, the weight of the trunk has been reduced to less than two tons.

It is solid wood, flat on the snow, it really needs at least ten people to barely push it.

A group of burly men squeezed the linen cables almost as thick as their arms under the tree trunks, and the hemp ropes were fastened again so that they could be caught by the iron hooks of the crane.

Rurik doesn't expect to be able to carry it well with just one device. In order to be stable when loading the sled, he needs both devices to be activated at the same time.

After some preparations, the boom hooks of the two cranes hooked the ropes.

On the other side, three sledges are ready.

The brawny man who had been busy for a while was covered in sweat. Many people simply took off their leather jackets and wore sackcloth on their upper bodies, as if they were indifferent to the present of minus five degrees.

Jeflo was entrusted with a heavy responsibility. He stood in the squirrel cage and waited for his master's order.

More than five hundred people opened their eyes wide, and they just wanted to see the wonders they had never seen before in their lives.

"My lord! Let's start!" Yevlo urged loudly.

Rurik looked left and right and swallowed his saliva.

"Okay! Go!"

The huge squirrel cage finally began to rotate, and it was accompanied by a strong squeaking and twisting sound, during which there was a metal ratchet made of chrome iron ratchets.

In order to create a group of surprisingly tough Range Rover, the people of Elon Fort paid a lot of sacrifices. Rurik bought fishing nets from fishermen with wheat. The nets were dismantled and the slender twine ropes were twisted thicker and thicker. It's not over yet, in order to make it more resilient, all the ropes are soaked with seal oil and fish oil. The rope exudes some **** stench, but no one questioned its toughness.

Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner. In the stunned people, the extremely heavy solid wood is slowly leaving the ground.

Rurik came to the scene and stared at the cedar tree trunk, which was too high for more than one meter.

"Let's stop there!" He gave an order, and the squirrel cage stopped rotating, and the sturdy pawls stuck the squirrel cage so hard that the tree trunk was just hanging in the air.

"Mezzasta! It's your turn."

Mechasta was not a spectator. He was in danger and ordered the personnel on standby to push the two vacant sledges directly under the trunk.

Rurik looked at it again: "Start putting the line!"

After many previous experiments, the people in the squirrel cage turned around, and the person in charge of manipulating the pawls also began to reverse operations.

The trunk was being unloaded slowly and rhythmically, and finally steadily pressed on the sledge.

In fact, the big tree can of course be dragged directly by the cable, so that the reindeer herd will drag it all the time and slide to Roseburg. Rurik was too worried that such an operation would ruin the precious wood, and this operation was not necessarily labor-saving.

There is nothing better in Snow World than a sled, not to mention a batch of sleds built by the residents of Fort Elon, which can seat 20 adults on its own, and its economical and practical carrying capacity is at least one ton.

Rurik was to squeeze the potential of the sled, these two sleds were loaded with two tree trunks.

"Hey, it really feels like a semi-trailer."

The trunk is tightly fixed to the sled by cables, and the weight of the trunk itself makes it extremely stable.

Rurik began to jokingly call this a semi-trailer, dragging its front, of course, four reindeer.

Because the contact area between the sled board and the ice and snow is very small, the four reindeer can pull it away under the urging of the whip, and can maintain a very good inertial movement.

The loading work was completed in the jaw-dropping eyes of more than 500 onlookers, and it was just the beginning.

During this day alone, not only the six most critical spruce trunks were loaded, but also a batch of pine timbers began to be hoisted very quickly.

When night fell, ten sledges had already been loaded. In particular, the four full-time loaded pine tree trunks that were cut into two standard stikas were successively hoisted, five at the bottom and one at the top, stacked in a pyramid shape, and finally **** with a Range Rover.

Everyone had to face an exciting reality. The core personnel who completed the wood hoisting were the four guys standing in the squirrel cage. After completing the task, everyone couldn't see how tired he was, but Rurik still bestowed the four with the most abundant dinner.

Since the squirrel cage crane can come in handy, it should move more wood!

At night, the crane matter has become the most popular talk of boring people.

No, in Rurik's mansion, Metzastad's laughter had hardly been heard. Because he knew that if the jack stood at Fort Elon, it would never move away.

He didn't have the concept of "heavy equipment needs regular maintenance", thinking that it would stand here and serve Elronburg forever.

The mansion was brightly lit, and Mezzasta continued to be lazy after the meal, and couldn't help asking Rurik about the next arrangements.

"Now that the crane is a success, when will you leave?"

"Why? Expect me to leave?" Liliurik deliberately expressed displeasure.

Mezzasta hurriedly denied: "Why? I... I hope you continue to live here, you know, my people have all been favored by you."

"Blessing? If it's a blessing..."

The so-called favor here actually means that Rurik generously provided a large amount of wheat. In fact, it's nothing. Lurik must know the basics of modern nutrition, which, to put it bluntly, is the knowledge in the middle school biology curriculum. Their heavy physical labor is unprecedented, and the crane cannot be built unless a large amount of wheat is given.

Rurik has always had a vision that he hopes to be realized in the short-term, which is to ensure that every adult man and woman can eat a pound of wheat every day.

If there are 10,000 people in Ross, the annual wheat demand is 3.65 million pounds. In terms of reality, if the Ross people did not open up a large amount of farmland by themselves and rely on various means, it would be difficult to buy wheat of such an astonishing scale from the Mellaren people.

It can be said that the residents of Elronburg have taken the lead during this period of time to live the kind of life that Rurik hoped. But this kind of good life is about to come to an abrupt end, and they have to live the old way of only eating fish.

Rurik thought for a while, cheered up, "Frankly speaking, I have stayed so far to get a large amount of wood for shipbuilding, and I build cranes for this purpose."

"Now the crane is complete."

"Yes, so I am going to evacuate. I can load all the remaining wood in the next three days, and on the fourth day I can drive the reindeer herd and take my people to evacuate. The crane is here. There are many strong men who are eager to work hard in exchange for silver coins and wheat, and there are a large number of sleds that are vacant. Even if the weather is very cold, we still have to continue."

"Oh! That's great!" Mezzasta was eager for the wheat in his heart. Seventy thousand pounds of wheat was destined to be eaten in his stomach, and he wanted to be eaten by his own people.

Rurik continued: "I have to wait. I have to wait for the chieftain to come back."

"They...they went to the east." Mezzasta worried. "Maybe they go to my hometown again, maybe they will encounter a tribe who refuses to submit."

"Are you... worried about their failure."

"No!" Metzasta denied: "We don't know anything about the eastern world. They may have the most terrible bears and the most dangerous land."

"It's boring, so you are weak." Rurik murmured and sat upright again: "If they were really going east, they would see a sea frozen by ice and snow. It is not the end of the eastern world, just a piece of It's just the sea."

Mezzasta believed it to be true: "Master, you do know the composition of the earth."

"Of course! It's fair to say that the place we are in is definitely not a good place. If it weren't for a lot of leather, ore, salmon, and even a lot of shipbuilding wood, why should I build a city here? Listen, one day sooner or later We are going to the south and explain that I will let you settle down in a warmer world."

Sometimes Rurik would laugh at himself for vowing to be the King of the Bad Lands. This is true. The reason for this situation is extremely simple-the population is too small.

Since it is temporarily unable to obtain a large number of people from outside, it can only rely on their own people's desperate birth. This brings about another serious food problem, which will cause the Ruths to step up their expansion. Then, as an important tool for expansion, the ship needs to be manufactured quickly.

Rurik intends to wait a bit longer, and also took the opportunity to organize manpower to continue logging, and notify him to send someone to make more sleds.

The coldest January in the Gulf of Bothnia has passed, and the daylight hours are now rapidly increasing.

Time has reached the fifteenth of February in the Julian calendar, and more than half of this month has passed. The difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar seems to be that the calendar time is set a week later, so the vernal equinox in 831 is on March 28.

The temperature is no longer so aggressive. Even if there is a snowfall in the middle, the temperature is still rising quietly, and it will take a while to recover above the freezing point.

Finally, when it was about to arrive in March, a triumphant and full-loaded team returned to Fort Elon victoriously.

Who are they? It was the hunting army led by Otto.

Originally, Fort Elon was used as a refuge for the northern hunting team, but the hunting team moved toward the east like a flying arrow.

They are actually hunting wild deer, forest cats, ferrets and snow rabbits near the lakes in the upper reaches of the Kemi River. They set up a large number of traps to capture a large number of small animals, and they also hold a particularly useful crossbow to hunt wildly. Reindeer and other large beasts.

In addition, they did not encounter other hunters.

The fact is that they are actually active in the present-day Northern Bottom region of Finland. Even after a thousand years, this place is almost no man's land. Some hunters of the Kewen tribe once visited this area, but today the Kewen people are weak, and Ross's powerful hunters have looted the animal resources here for the first time.

They only made a batch of simple sleds, dragging a lot of furs of various kinds. Oatmeal is eaten a long time ago, fortunately, the captured animals are rich in muscle and fat. Otto's aging body was sitting on the sledge, being led by his own people, he didn't feel tired. He now cares most about the price at which the fur on hand can be sold.

Otto is back, and now Fort Elon is familiar and unfamiliar.

What are the two huge indescribable objects standing at the west gate of the city?

He didn't realize its dream until he saw that this thing could easily lift the extremely heavy wood and sat in the snow in shock.

The winter hunting was a great success. In the eastern forest and snowfields, the team obtained more than 300 deerskins and up to 2,000 mink, forest cat and snow rabbit skins. There are ten bear skins. Frankly speaking, if some bears run away cleverly, the Ross people will pull back more bear skins.

Ten ferocious bear heads and forty terrible bears that were decapitated are the best proof of strength.

The hunters eager for money sold the leather to the merchants stationed in Elronburg almost immediately. Since the cubs of the Goulds gave the best price, in this transaction, it can be said that the Goulds became the big ones. Winner.

Why? For more than three months, they stayed in Elronburg to enjoy the aurora every day, watching the cranes from scratch while traveling. Their waiting has brought a lot of profit. They are all second-tier traders. They will roughen the leather they buy, and then sell it to the tailor who makes the clothes.

Once this job, leather merchants were required to transport goods to Melaren for trading. For the Gould family, because with Fodegen, who owns the tailor's workshop that moved to Roseburg, Gould can immediately get income. His family seems to have only to buy, pack and supply.

Otto is back, and he is listening to his son's story about cranes and giant trees at the banquet in the mansion. He also told about his various adventures in the Eastern Snow Field.

"We are leaving, leaving with a huge amount of goods. What are you going to do when you go back?" Otto asked his son.

Rurik's answer was extremely straightforward: "Shipbuilding. I have stockpiled a huge amount of wood for shipbuilding."

"Wood? Can't the neighborhood of Roseburg satisfy you?"

"Of course! Those small trees are only suitable for fuel, and only the big trees in this area are the best materials. From now on, we will transport a lot of wood here every winter."

"Alright. I plan to stay for two days and leave, how about you?"

The old man was so anxious, Rurik thought for a while and nodded.

The two leaders of Rose will take their tribe to evacuate, and then Fort Elon will return to the same way. At first, Mezzasta was a little bit against their permanent presence, but now he is used to it, and he is eager for the leader, especially Rurik, to come often. Let's talk about the emotional relationship, because the daughter Seporava is destined to be the woman of Rurik. As the daughter's father, he naturally regards Rurik as his child.

Mezzasta certainly knew that Rurik was extremely noble~www.mtlnovel.com~ and he also felt obligated to do all he could to help.

In the end, twenty vehicles were filled with wood, of which three "semi-trailers" were the most eye-catching. The carefully selected reindeer became the core driving force for pulling the sled, and the task was completed instantly with only 80 bucks.

They walked along the front of the ice on the coast, and some of the 70,000 pounds of grain had not been eaten.

In addition to the remaining part of the reward for the residents of Elronburg, the rest of Rurik will be taken with him. Humans only eat a small portion, and most of the unprocessed grains are food for the reindeer along the way. Those are twenty sleds with a huge load. Without fine feed, the reindeer will soon be exhausted.

It doesn't matter for Rurik's small body. He is draped in thick leather and sitting on the top of the wood of a sleigh. He is riding on the highest pine, and paved under the crotch will not be cold.

He saw that the black and heavy transportation team gathered into a compact group and continued to trek, which was rather slow.

Finally, after walking on the ice for five days, they returned to Roseburg, four months away, and the time quietly entered March.