Chapter 788 The Son of the Prairie Is an Eye-Opener
From Kotlin Island to the mouth of the Neva River, a huge area is covered by a solid piece of ice floes.
The ice layer is more than half a meter thick, and the large ships parked in the port are firmly trapped by the ice layer.
Strips are attached to snow, and the towering wooden walls are covered with ice, and the whole city is like an ice sculpture, standing in the bay of the Northland.
The sun shone on the ice dazzlingly, and the teams running on the ice generally wore sunglasses to shield them.
The team marched forcibly in the sun, and the whole scene had an indescribable poetic quality.
It is no secret that the Maharajas will personally participate in this year's Hanukkah. As the festival is approaching, the people of Novgorod have long been ready to welcome visitors from Novgorod.
However, before that, a group of guests from Rosberg's hometown had already arrived at the port with supplies before the sea was completely frozen. Even after the sea was frozen, there were still sporadic sleigh teams transporting goods for sale.
In terms of resident population, Novgorod is next to Novgorod. Due to the arrival of a group of merchants and hunters, the population of the city exceeded 8,000 on the eve of the festival.
Eight thousand people living together is considered a big city?
Indeed, a thousand-year-old residential complex, rows of hundreds of meters high "pigeon cages" can even swallow tens of thousands of people. Although the Duchy of Rus now has the ability to build high-rise buildings, at best, only wealthy people like the prince can build three- and four-story wooden attics. Some resident wealthy people did indeed build large-scale construction in the city of New Roseburg, and the three-story wood carvings with herringbone storage rooms began to appear in large numbers.
High-rise buildings are limited to the urban area within the walls, and outside the walls are large-scale wooden houses.
The expansion of the city is completely a pie model, and even so, there are still a lot of vacant land left in the city.
So the first image that King Ross King City gave Kagan was her hugeness.
A huge city must have a lot of treasures, and a huge population can live in the extremely cold north. The Rus people must have their ingenuity. He was desperate to buy some treasures in town, especially good salt.
The city wall was in sight, and a dense group of wood carvings appeared on the south bank of the frozen river. A large number of people walked out of the house and waved to the team.
The whole group slowed down, and at this opportunity Kagan jerked on the reins and drove his horse into Rurik's sleigh.
"Your Majesty, are the prices you set absolutely stable?"
"You? What do you want to buy in town?" Rurik shouted excitedly.
"Salt!"
"Salt? One pound of silver and ten pounds of good salt, buy as much as you like! Just don't be too public in the market, you must remember that you are visitors, and there are also a group of foreign visitors in the market. You are all warriors, thousands of Don't have disputes with others, if something goes wrong, I won't favor you."
Kagan agreed with a full mouth, and it was a bit strange to think about the prince's words carefully.
There are still many foreign visitors in the market, is it still not the northern end of the world where you are?
How big is this world?
The team finally reached the end of the journey. After hearing the news, the governor, Konusson and his son, gathered the militiamen from the city defense patrol to put on their costumes, and then led a group of people to gather at the frozen pier to welcome the return of the prince.
A pregnant woman with a bulging belly wears a deerskin robe and a helmet with huge antlers on her head.
She was dressed like a wild elf in the forest, and her youthful face was slightly hidden by her rough clothes. She was more anxious than the others, and gathered at the dock with a team of priests she had trained.
Rumia is still the same Rumia, and she must be the presiding high priest for this year's Hanukkah, even if her second child is about to be born, which makes the event more inconvenient.
She hadn't seen the prince for several months. As a noble person, she felt extremely lonely inside. Both her daughter and the prince were in Novgorod, and the two cities were not far away.
She lives the amber-studded staff of the former high priest, a relic of the duchy, a testament to her nobility.
Around the high priest stood more than a dozen lower priests wearing plain clothes and white fox fur hats, as well as an honorable deputy, Rumi, the daughter of Chief Kewen.
I saw a tall and handsome young man walking off the sleigh surrounded by many cavalry soldiers, and to be honest, seeing a large number of Ross warriors on horseback, Rumia was shocked.
More than her, the onlookers never dreamed that the Principality actually had a cavalry unit. How dreamy! The war horses are generally wrapped in white cloth stitched with blue stripes, which seems to have the effect of keeping the horses warm. The riders wear Ross standard shirts and are also holding Ross flags.
Hunting with flags and flags on the ice, horses and deer dressed violently, the cavalry in the sun has a feeling of coercion like a hill, the fact is that tall Nordic men riding tall Turkic horses give people absolute strength feeling.
A man stepped out of the majestic team and became a mighty background, which also brought out the powerful strength of Prince Rurik.
The governor and his son, who were trembling under the coercion of the powerful aura, walked cautiously and involuntarily asked about the origin of the cavalry.
"This? This is what I have done in Novgorod over the past few months. I tell you, our cavalry will be more and more. When the cubs of Novolais grow up, I will recruit a group of people. Become a cavalry and enrich our army's land forces." Rurik made a grand prospect.
Little Cornuson will be the next Governor of New Roseburg, or mayor, without any accident. At the same time, he also has the obligation to organize the citizen army to respond to the call of the prince and fight in person.
Seeing those pretty boys riding tall horses, how could little Konusson not be curious?
Because, there is a rider who is clearly Arik!
They are all of the same age, and they are all brothers who came out of Roseburg Fjord. Why is this guy so beautiful? The other brothers had to learn to ride, and New Roseburg had to have a standing cavalry, at least for the day-to-day patrol.
The brief chat was broken by the woman who thought she had lost her composure.
Rumia came hurriedly, ignoring the chats of the men, her big belly, and even the words of the onlookers.
"Mastra!" she shouted until she rushed to her man.
She fell into her man's arms under the gaze of many eyes, her eyes were full of tears...
The prince who was blessed by the gods held the high priest in his arms, who dared to say that they were not cherished.
Only Rumia has the right to call Rurik Mastra, the so-called master. This is what Rurik had appointed back then. It was the exclusive power of Rumia, and it was also a symbol of friendship.
Such an intimate scene made Svetlana and other girls jealous, and the other concubines had their own knowledge, but as a queen, Lanna saw that the prince and the high priest were intimate now, what was the repression in her heart? She patted her face hard and forced a calm smile.
Rurik was a head taller than Rumia, and she was obviously twenty years old, crying like a child.
Rurik buried his mouth in his side ear: "Obviously I'm going to be a mother again, and I'm taking risks to welcome me if I don't cultivate in the temple."
"I... just miss you. And our daughter."
"I miss you too. I will live in the city for a while, the other women will go away, and we will be with you day and night for a while in the future." Rurik made a promise, in exchange for Rumia crying even more Sound, she was howling with excitement.
No, the four-year-old Velika came over and hugged her mother's leg, calling her mother with milk in her milk, and Lumia, who was overjoyed and burst into tears, exerted astonishing strength, stunned to lift her daughter up. He kissed him violently, and then shoved it into the arms of Rurik, his father.
Noble princes should pay attention to ostentation and need to set an example for the public. What’s more, Rurik was shocked to learn that a group of Swedish allies simply took their goods to Novo Rosberg for direct trade in winter, so-called saving freight and purchasing cheap oriental leather. In this way, the prince is even more ostentatious!
A small triumph becomes extremely important.
Just like the first crusade against the Karelians that year, the Rus army assembled in Novo Rosso, the army lined up in a matrix in the Harvest Square outside the palace to be reviewed by the prince, and then walked around the city twice around the road under the city wall, and the army was beautiful. Run to the battlefield of the expedition with extremely high morale.
This time is naturally the first show of the cavalry of the Principality of Ross, and it must leave a very positive impression on thousands of people.
Rurik, riding a sleigh, turned into a knight, and he personally led the entire cavalry into the city and walked on the Nevsky Prospect.
The tall wooden wall blocked the grand occasion in the city, and the Pecheneg people on horseback were probably brought into the city with weapons to strengthen the prestige of the prince.
Check out this city!
Kagan's eyes widened, he saw a group of double-storey wooden houses on both sides of the road, and some even had three floors. Some houses even have stone bases, or are simply stacked with stones (bricks). As seen in Novgorod, there are also drainage ditches on both sides of the main road in Novgorod, which is obviously the key to keeping the city clean, even now the ditches are frozen.
Residents cheered, whistled on both sides of the road, and even found a variety of things to beat to create momentum, such as a young boy picking up his father's round shield, holding it in his left hand and hitting it with a wooden stick in his right.
The cavalry team was followed by the reindeer sleigh team, and the entire team entered the city one after another in a long snake formation.
Eventually, people gathered in Harvest Square, which has become a winter market.
What business are the merchants doing now? A group of people dressed as bears watched this majestic cavalry, and the prince Rurik received endless glory...
In fact, it was this square that gave Kagan a huge shock. Although it was a boundless flat land on the southern Russian grassland, a huge and very hard flat appeared in the city, which gave him a huge shock.
Because this flat is really unusual!
Governor Konusson and his son have been carrying out the orders of the prince. At least for now, the father and son have not dared to embezzle madly out of the honor of morality and tribal warriors. meal needs. New Rose Fort itself is a huge tax source. Businessmen must pay taxes for their economic activities. This tax was set in their hometown of Rose Fort and has been implemented for many years now, and the tax amount of businessmen is adjusted every year.
The economic development of Rurik in the agricultural region of Novgorod, the taxation work of Novgorod, was fully appointed by the Governor Konusson.
Konuson actually became a taxpayer. He was ordered to build a magnificent city for the prince. The infrastructure must be invested with all the capital, and try not to rely on the national treasury to complete the construction, and try to rely on the tax of the region to complete the construction, and these are Konusong Pine needed to report to Rurik himself.
A part of the Harvest Square is paved with cement, and as long as you pry off the solid snow that has been stepped on, you can see the hard gray road below.
The "square cementation project" can be said to benefit the country and the people. After complete cementation, it will be a super-large threshing farm, which can basically meet the work of drying oats in the area. The same non-agricultural busy period is transformed into a harvest square for the market, and businessmen and customers do not need to Worry about muddy potholes.
The base of the wooden fence continues to be reinforced with cement, and the cementation of all roads in the city is slowly proceeding.
Rurik did not lack the financial resources to hire people to lay cement, because the key lime, iron ore slag and sandstone came from different places, and they needed to be transported to Novolaosburg by ship. Not only these three materials are transported, but the barges are also transporting whole blocks of granite and pebbles into the city. The transportation of these heavy materials depends entirely on the summer transportation of the marked transport ships. The severe winter and the freezing sea for half a year have greatly limited the efficiency of the construction of New Roseburg.
What better way to do this? Both sides of the Neva River and even the huge Valdai Heights, including Novgorod, are full of too soft mud, and the most scarce is stone, because this huge area has no mountains at all. Of course, it was precisely for this reason that Rurik felt that he had to train a cavalry. In winter, when the convenience of the water network in summer was lost, cavalry was the key to ensuring the Principality's winter operations.
Even with slow construction, Rurik is very satisfied with the results of the current construction.
He was very happy that a lot of scaffolding had been erected in the open space next to the Winter Palace he had ordered, and although a batch of stones was scattered on the ground, the granite base was indeed being put together.
The original Winter Palace is a large longhouse that combines the advantages of woodcut and Viking longhouses. According to Rurik’s new needs, the new Winter Palace should have the style of the old palace of Rosberg’s hometown, which is essentially an enlarged version. Wooden four-storey castle with stone plinth. The tenon and mortise structure, which is widely used in ship construction, is used for palace construction. The new Winter Palace in Rurik will be displayed with a stable structure similar to a pyramid. It is also the tallest building in the city, and even the tallest building in the Nordic region!
Naturally, the palace is not worried about the wood for construction, and the giant red pine and spruce everywhere in the area provide sufficient materials.
They are also good materials for shipbuilding. Except for the keel and the ribs of the ship, which are made of oak stems found in the forest area, the other parts are made of spruce. Therefore, there is a walled area on the riverside, which is where the Hortra family's "Neva Shipyard" is located. The huge spruce stands on the soft riverside to form a frame structure, and two indoor shipbuilding workshops are completed and put into operation. Standard cargo ships from Novo Roseburg have been launched and put into the eastern and northern Baltic trade networks, and new cargo ships are still under construction.
The new Winter Palace just built the base and erected a large number of load-bearing spruce columns, and the winter construction of migrant workers was proceeding step by step. Behold, wooden beams have been stretched between some load-bearing columns, and the frame structure of the second floor is already under construction.
Kagan couldn't imagine the grand occasion when the new palace was completed, he noticed some other magnificent buildings!
Just like the largest temple in the Principality of Rus, a temple made of stone inlaid with countless gems that reflects violently in the sun.
The first temple of the Principality has been completed, and the sculptures of gods and gods inside are scattered, and there are hundreds of people who can kneel and pray in the interior.
The people call the first temple the "jewel house", and some people praise it as "the Valhalla in the world". It has been pasted with a layer of colored glass and colored glass. These crystal clear objects with messy shapes are mass-produced, and they are not valuable in themselves. The hope of the temple.
Harvest Square can be described as the core area of New Rose Fort. The square is surrounded by the old Winter Palace, the new Winter Palace under construction, the huge Rose Duma parliamentary court, the magnificent First Temple, and the heavily guarded granary area on the artificial heights.
After the long journey, the people finally settled down, and after the daytime scenery, the cavalry, including the Pechenegs, enjoyed a feast of roasted venison.
Military events, festival rituals, these major events can be formally discussed in Ros Duma tomorrow.
Everyone needs a good meal and a good night's sleep tonight.
After the scenery, Kagan and other Pecheneg people handed over their horses, and all the horses were managed uniformly. At the same time, he also learned that there are 20,000 reindeer wandering around the New Rose Fort, which are domesticated creatures, most of which are domesticated. It is the property of the prince's family. There is an ethnic group called "deer keepers" who are loyal to the prince's family and are instructed to take care of all the deer. Even the high priest of the duchy is also a "deer keeper".
There are too many wonderful things, and what Kagan has seen and heard is inexhaustible freshness. He is like a poor boy who has just arrived in the big city. He is novel and has a little inferiority complex. It really takes a little time to get used to it.
More than Kagan? Ragnar, who was in exile a few months ago, was not allowed to enter Novgorod because of his identity as a Dane. The whole family of women and children was "detained" in Novgorod, and only then did they enter the big city of Rus with the 30 brothers accompanying him. .
In a trance, Ragnar had a hallucination that in a sense, this big city resembled the Frankish Bremen that he participated in burning down. The same is the big square, the same is the structure of the noble residence and the great temple, as well as the pier on the river and a large number of ships. Just in terms of size, New Roseburg is the most magnificent city he has ever seen.
In fact, because Rurik built Novo Rosburg according to the old city structure of St. Petersburg and Moscow in his impression, she has been carefully planned from the very beginning as an inner city. The structure of residential areas in the outer city is understandable. Straight, just like her "harp city" title, straight roads are like strings, there are a lot of standard crossroads, and even the harvest is a square place.
The palace of the prince is called the Winter Palace. Without him, the Winter Palaces of the two planes are in the same location. The Senate Council of St. Petersburg in another plane, this plane is the Duma Council of the Principality of Rus.
Even the small sandbar just north of the Winter Palace is also called Rabbit Island. There is indeed a small wooden fortress built there. While guarding the mouth of the Neva River, it collects taxes on the ships of merchants, except the ships of people from Rosbourg. (temporary).
Of course, the people wandering here all believe in the Nordic gods such as Odin, Thor, Freya, and at most one Slavic fire god Peron.
This is the famous northern city favored by Odin, at least Odin will not reject the warriors who believe in him.
Ragnar is more self-aware than the sons of the grasslands such as Kagan. He signaled that his subordinates should not run around in the city, not to mention the fact that he is a Dane.
The returning people have eaten a big meal and took a steam bath. The soap of the essential oil of flowers washes away the dirt all over their bodies, and even their body odor has become a scent of flowers. After the labor of boats and cars has been eliminated, the whole person is also paralyzed. When will they not sleep at this time?
A large number of people lived in warm vacant warehouses. Lagra and his brothers collectively built the floor. The fireplace warmed the air of the house. Kagan and other Pechenegs slept in another vacant warehouse. Naturally, their weapons were temporarily kept, and only the money to buy supplies was left on them.
Those young Ross cavalrymen are all well treated, and they are directly arranged by the governor to the dormitory of the patrolling soldiers, which is a warmer room, and it is convenient to use the toilet or eat supper. As for the destination of the horses and deer, they are naturally in the deer pen, and they also enjoy a very sufficient supply of hay and oats for their hard work.
This night, the pot-bellied Rumia hugged her Rurik, and the two's eldest daughter, Velika, slept in the middle, twisting her body mischievously, enjoying the rare parental love.
So close is worth a thousand words, as if they were the closest family, really Mushalurik's other wives and concubines.
Svetlana, Noren, Carlotta and others, as well as Seporava, who came from Elrond on purpose, all the girls were happy to chat and laugh together. to welcome the new dawn.