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A special sled team was set up as a surprise, and Rurik selected 20 people from his mercenary team and 10 people from the local residents of Shilla Fort.

Some of them are old Ross people from the fjord, and some are from Lake Mlaren.

Rurik feasted these people who were about to travel in his palace, eating roast venison and drinking ale with them.

He held a glass aloft and walked in the hall and said: "This year we are embarking on a large-scale immigration. Before that, we must let people in our hometown know about it. By the time the snow and ice of Shilla Fortress melted in April, the bay became suitable for sailing. We The fleet will return to Roseburg Fjord as quickly as possible. I want to ship the wheat seeds as quickly as possible. Brothers, your mission is very important. I want you to pass the original letter to Harrodsson and the merchant Gul. De's hand. When I reach Tombstone Island, I will see that a large number of wheat seeds must be settled..."

He stated the importance of the task and depicted a grand scene of an overwhelming golden wheat field. Especially to tell everyone that this is not a dream, as long as the information is delivered in a timely manner, starting from the golden autumn, everyone in the following years can become fat elephant seals due to eating too much wheat.

The adjectives that followed directly amused everyone.

Someone who was slightly drunk showed his slightly blackened teeth and shouted, "My lord, we are fighting for our lives! This is a cold expedition."

"Oh? Is anyone afraid to say that?"

"Fear? We have nothing to fear." Or this person, "It's just that there are risks..."

Rurik guessed that someone would suggest something, so he announced in public: "You can rest assured. I promise you 30 people to bring letters and a batch of goods to your hometown as quickly as possible, and each will receive 50 silver coins. . Don't worry, I know the difficulties, so I will give you food for the 15-day journey and oats for feeding the reindeer. Don't you think that this is just a simple letter delivery task. I need your achievements to prove one thing. , It is to open up a winter ice and snow transportation line, so that Ross Fort to Novgorod can be contacted."

They had a little understanding, thinking it would be a great trip to come here.

The prince has always kept his promise, and he can earn half a pound of silver just for the task of reporting the letter, and he does not have to pay for the food himself. Especially the mercenaries, they know best that they need to make new achievements in front of the princes for the greater good.

Rlik is not a random selection, the elite among the mercenaries have the right to participate.

The men selected from the residents of Shilla Fort are not tough. They know the routes during the warm period. Even if the sea is frozen now, there is no doubt about the control of the routes. They rowed to Novgorod for the first time with Otto when they were young, and now they are so old that they are no longer eligible to join the Second Banner. They still have important value, that is, the old horse knows the way.

Rurik personally determined a route for the sender, and wrote some letters on paper in traditional writing. In particular, a special document should be given to the left-behind Governor Harrodsson, which is to allow him to take out silver coins from the "national treasury" to pay the messenger. A piece of paper has the meaning of a silver ticket.

He even drew maps for the sled team. The Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, the land Islands, the Great Peninsula, and the East of Finland are all marked clearly.

Some nouns are written on the map, that is, where the sled team can get supplies. For example, the first supply point Helminki (Helsinki) you will encounter during the journey, as long as you walk along the frozen coast, she is not far away. This journey is not an endless walk along the frozen coast. The team arrives at Tombstone Island in the frozen Aland Islands, and everything will be fine. Because they will continue to go north by then, they will be able to meet a group of masters who excavate ice, fish and catch seals.

This will not be a lonely journey. If you can meet some people from your hometown along the way, psychologically, it will certainly eliminate the fear of ice, snow and freezing to death.

The climate is still cold, the branches covered by ice and snow are ready to move, and the grass seeds of the land under the snow will also germinate.

The southern part of Europe is already a scene of spring, and the whole area of East Rome has even completed their spring ploughing.

In the Nordic world, there is still the vast snow and the frozen sea.

The sled team led the order to prepare to set off. Thirty of them were divided into ten sleds, and as many as 40 reindeer were responsible for pulling.

Rurik hoped that they would complete the task as soon as possible, and they had made a lot of money in logistics. Fortunately, the warehouse in Shilla Fort had enough materials to deal with the excessive consumption needed by Rurik.

The sled pulled a large batch of oats, which are food for the deer.

People's ration is a lot of oatmeal cakes mixed with wheat, and dried venison and fish.

What awaits them is a thousand-kilometer expedition, which is very dangerous from any angle. Just so, a large amount of rations, dry charcoal blocks for fire, and materials that can be used to quickly build a tent are well prepared.

The most important letters are placed in a suitcase, and a batch of freeze-dried squirrel skins is also listed as a special cargo.

The main ships of the huge Ross Fleet are still trapped in ice and snow, and the ice layer is like a shackle. They are firmly anchored in the frozen Neva River.

A small sled team is ready to move forward. Each sled has a mast with a Ross flag stuck in it. This makes the team seem quite awe-inspiring, and it also ensures that everyone can see each other to avoid getting lost, and it can explain their identity to the settlements along the way.

The team set off and rushed towards the frozen Gulf of Finland under the watchful eyes of thousands of people.

Rurik stood on the frozen pier together with his wife, watching them gradually turn into spots on the ice field.

People took off their hats and cheered, saying only words of blessing.

"I always feel that the ice is about to melt, can they reach it smoothly?" Svetlana worried.

"They will, they will. Lanna..." Rurik murmured.

"Well."

"We should also prepare, and the next thing should be done as soon as possible. We have to return to Novgorod as soon as possible, with a large number of immigrants, this matter cannot be delayed."

A larger sled team is in preparation, and the entire Shilla Fort is lively.

Some early immigrants wanted to leave the city for more eastern regions. Everyone knows that Novgorod has more suitable fields for farming, but the land on both sides of the Neva River in Novgorod is not bad. When immigrants have nothing, or settle down in a region, and then set out to settle in a possibly better region, there are not many worries in my heart. The saying is that barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes.

However, the early immigrants reclaimed the land and signed a contract with the prince Rurik, are they still eligible for immigrants?

Once the Rus became farmers, they were unsurprisingly bound by the land itself. They have not lost their pioneering and enterprising spirit, but no one will boldly abandon the land they have actively developed and cultivated for many years, and are unwilling to take the risk of delaying farming to cultivate in new areas, unless the prince gives some kind of guarantee.

Rlic did not give the old immigrants a guarantee mechanism. Of course, old immigrants can freely buy and sell land, and buyers can pay taxes every year. It's just that the old immigrants go to Novgorod, don't think about getting the matured fields that have been developed, but logging and opening up new fields, Lurik is naturally very welcome.

Only all the Ostala people staying in Fort Shilla, they determined the total number of men, women, old and children (including infants) under the personal inventory of the Duchess Carlotta.

The Ostarans are indeed not too much, of course there are a group of female tribesmen, and more of them are men who are married by in-laws.

The people of various tribes are often not entangled in which tribe they belong to. They don't even have a surname. It is a great honor to remember the names of their grandparents.

Ordinary people live in a difficult life, so those who have not been destroyed by life are the strong through experience, which objectively makes the Varanga's overall combat effectiveness tenacious. If you find a more suitable environment for living, if there are no fetters and fetters, it is a good choice to drag your family and immigrate.

In recent years, the Scandinavian hometown has become more and more difficult.

Carlotta knows that the men under him are a group of Yilmalun and Gran. It doesn't matter, everyone has all moved to the far east than the land of the east, and they have separated from Sweden, and the merger with the tough Ross also eliminated all passive disputes.

More than six hundred people are willing to accept Carlotta's leadership, not just because she is the woman of Prince Ross, but also because of one thing she solemnly announced-she will be a mother, and the child in her womb must be a boy.

People naturally welcome a male leader, and it is purely expedient to have a female leader. Carlota knows this.

"We will move to Lake Ilmen in Novgorod. The most difficult place is that the environment there is exactly like our homeland. It is warmer there, with abundant water and grass for us to raise cattle, and fertile fields for us to grow wheat. Linen. There are no dangerous enemies there. People nearby are our allies. All of us can live freely."

Compared with the Ross people, the Ostara people have the most urgent desire for a stable life.

The first group of Ostara families who moved to began to publicly sell their cultivated farmland at the price of the expected five-year wheat output from the field. These people have not cultivated much of the land, and they are a little farther away from the city. Those fields are not fertile, and there is not much wheat production. Perhaps the only advantage is that they are concentrated and connected as a whole. This is convenient for early immigrants to cultivate, and now it is easy to sell them.

It is estimated that the output of five years will be used as the selling price, and the Ostras intend to leave all the land they have cultivated. In total, they have cultivated nearly ten hectares of land. Because it is a new field, the hectare yield has not even reached 1,500 pounds. They do have great development value, but the price given by the Ostara people is equivalent to nearly 60,000 pounds of oats, or sixty pounds of silver coins.

The ordinary Ross immigrants here now, they were the disadvantaged of Roseburg that year, so they have the courage to make a desperate move to emigrate. They are indeed weak, and they have not even enjoyed the war dividends of the Rus Principality over the years, only the dividends of survival and security.

Which family is currently able to come up with sixty pounds of silver coins at once? Even if the huge amount of hot money poured into the Russian society and the purchasing power of silver fell, sixty pounds of silver coins would be a huge sum of money, basically enough for the shipyard to build a complete Mercury-class sail destroyer.

Who has the ability to buy a field of this size at such a price?

Rurik has given the departure time of the brothers of the First Banner team and the Aostala immigrants. By then, more than a thousand people will sit on the huge sled team and head to Novgorod with all kinds of softness. .

It was a peaceful night, and Rurique, who was full of food and drink, was about to go to bed early, and Carlotta pursed his lips and hurriedly begged to see him.

The guard reported it as usual, and when it heard it was Carlotta, an embarrassing thought came to Rurik's heart.

"Lanna, look. Your sister is here, it looks like tonight..."

Svetlana suddenly felt jealous, and she still had a smile on her face: "I understand. I will avoid it tonight. It's okay for me to sleep alone."

She stood up and ran away in a hurry.

After a while, Carlotta approached his man.

"Something big?" Rurik raised his head, first moved away from the table with minced meat, wiped her hands with a cloth, and asked her to sit close to her.

She understood the love, so she obeyed the order. Unexpectedly, her man suddenly turned over and suppressed herself, and she also skillfully lifted her robe with one hand.

Rurik stared into her eyes with a smile: "Do it again before you leave? I ate stewed deer blood, and I was full of strength."

"do not!"

"Huh? What's the matter?"

"I actually..." Carlotta smiled kindly, "I already have it."

"We succeeded?!" Rurik sat up abruptly. "You didn't tell me earlier and made me almost doing something stupid." After he said, he slapped his heart again: "It's probably a boy, it must be a boy! That's it! Do whatever you want. You... are you here to tell me about this?"

"Yes! Nor." She slowly got up and patted her cheek to restore her serious expression as much as possible: "It's about the fields."

"Oh, it's Novgorod? That warm land belongs to you, and I do what I say."

"It's from Shilla Fort, I am here today... to represent the 600 men, women and children of Ostara, and seek a good buyer for our field."

(She described the field, the approximate area, and the price quoted)

Carlotta thought that his man would be very happy to unite, but he did not expect to see his frowned brow.

"What? The price I gave is too high?" she asked cautiously.

"Not high."

"Why do you hesitate? If... you don't buy, who can afford it. Do I have to wait until the people of Roseburg come to sell them? Rurik, I beg you to buy them quickly Let's get down! So our immigrants will have no worries."

The purchase of newly reclaimed land by the Ostara people was not part of Rurik's plan. In theory, the more land directly under the jurisdiction of the princes, the better, but the current situation is quite special.

Rurik wanted to deepen the farmland in the Novgorod region, and the focus of agriculture would also be placed here.

With the current agricultural conditions, Shilla Fort is not suitable for vigorously developing agriculture, animal husbandry, fishery, and even other handicrafts, shipbuilding and other industries.

These are the fundamental reasons. Secondly, Rurik is very self-aware, and he has no energy to cultivate the acres here.

But wait a minute! There is still a big turning point here!

Rurik thought for a moment, and gradually laughed.

Anxious Carlotta hurriedly asked: "Did you think about it?"

"I thought it over."

"So, when will I get the silver coins."

"No." Rurik looked into Carlotta's eyes again: "I don't know how to buy it myself. I can find a buyer for you now."

"who is it?"

"Of course it is Aslaqi. My dear, you want to revive your tribe, she wants to revive her family business. Let her buy the land, and you all have benefited."

"fair enough."

Rurik nodded: "If there is nothing more important, you can go back and tell your people now. Carlotta, it seems Freya has responded to your prayers, and I will not move you in the next few days. Body. You will give birth to your child safely in the new world of Novgorod~www.mtlnovel.com~ or it." Carlotta smiled with tears, then stood up, and then took a few riyks. The leftover meat was stuffed into his mouth and ran away happily.

Rurik breathed a sigh of relief and grinned again: "You can come out now. Lanna, I know you didn't really leave."

Svetlana stepped out from the darkness and nestled next to her husband very skillfully.

"You heard it all."

"Yes." She said, "Sister Carlotta finally fulfilled her dream, I..."

"You still don't think about it in a few years, but Regrav can leave it to you to raise."

"Me?" Lanna was taken aback and opened her clear eyes.

"This child has no biological mother as soon as he is born. You are my queen. You should learn how to be a mother in advance. When this child is weaned, you will raise him. In the future, he will be the king of Mercia, and he will still be willing to call you. Is a foster mother."

Think of poor Mary, poor Regrav. Svetlana, who has always been well protected by her maiden family, couldn't think of a poor noble like the Queen Mary. She didn't hate Mary at all, and planned to learn how to please men from her. It is a pity that everyone has their own destiny.

She moved with compassion and agreed to the king's fate.

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