Rise of Rurik Chapter 374

Elon Orava Fort, the settlement of the Rus people, was built in the area of ​​Kemi, Finland, or closer to the village of Kantola near Kemi.

The site itself is not particularly significant. What is really important is the only chromium mining area on the European continent, five kilometers east of the settlement.

It has to be said that the Ross people did not build towns at the mouth of the river, but settled down deep into the river. The reason for this choice is that those who are good at sailing must take into account the tides. The construction of piers along the coastline may not be suitable for the current ship conditions. If the piers are built in the river, there will be no problem.

They must take into account the severe erosion effects of tide fluctuations on piers and embankments. It is also the tide, even if the entire Gulf of Bothnia is frozen, the tide is still pushing the sea uplift. What results did this bring? Sea ice will be slightly fragmented due to tidal forces, and the cracks will freeze quickly. Also because the ice itself expands, the tides exacerbate this expansion. After going back and forth, the sea ice in some areas became thicker and thicker, and finally a few meters high and long distance ice lumps were formed.

The heavy snowstorm lasted for more than ten days, even if the blizzard basically stopped in the next few days, the whistling north wind was like a whisper of the devil, warning the people nestled in the thick solid wood house that they would die if they went out.

No brave hunter dare to brag about his fearlessness in the blizzard. Of course, there are such people, and they are finally lost in the wind and snow, and when the snow melts, they become food for the hungry brown bears that have ended their hibernation.

Gradually, it seems that the gale is no longer bitter?

Rurik, who had nothing to do at the beginning, was nestled in the mansion of the leader these days and had to give Mezzasta and Seporava, and even Jevlo, regardless of their age or interest, Rurik told They instilled some knowledge that seemed inscrutable and incomprehensible.

He was telling stories to kill the boredom, but he really refreshed the three of them's understanding of the world.

To say that the world is a big ball is nothing more than to say that there is no sea at the end of the world. A sturdy ship is placed in the extreme north of the sea, and it can discover a new world as long as it drifts all the way to the west. What's there? There are huge golden grains, huge plant rhizomes, small red fruits that are more exciting than onions, sturdy bison, and...

So, what is the name of that new world? Is it always called Asgard?

"That's a place of miracles. Only when we really set foot there will miracles become reality."

As Rurik explained it, Mezzasta, who had little knowledge of the scope of the world, couldn't help asking: "Can the ship of the Rus really pass through the endless sea?"

"Of course not."

"So, how can we get there?"

"I'm sending people to build a big ship. Only it has the ability to go to the miraculous land. And you, Mezzasta, you will make an important contribution to the great ideals of our Ross people."

Metza Staben was a little confused, and he soon came to his senses. Rurik did give himself a task, and that was logging.

Logging is not arbitrary logging. Choose red pine or spruce with extremely straight trunks and the right thickness. The tool for logging is not just an axe, a new tool will be made as soon as the wind and snow is over.

Go to America? The original meaning of America is "a miracle." This word is pronounced as "attmirakker" in the Ross dialect of the Norse language.

For the Norwegians and Danes, their long boats have the currents along the North Atlantic Ocean, first to Iceland and then to the Green Island. Starting from Green Island, you can easily drift to Hudson Bay, and it is very possible to come into contact with the Algonquin-speaking natives. In fact, they did.

If these things happen, it would be too dreamy.

Rurik wants to be more pragmatic. If the tribe continues to develop north, not only will it visit the Arctic Ocean, which is the so-called "sea at the end of the world", but also Murmansk, which will never freeze. It is best if the Rus can form an alliance with the Norwegian residents of Narvik. Even if an alliance is not possible, the northernmost port of the Rus should be established in Murmansk.

This port is really good.

As long as this port is developed, the Ross people will have the ability to kill Britain, and it is almost a theoretically feasible starting point for the new world of the West.

The wind and snow finally stopped.

The outdoor world was silent, as if the entire Elon Orava was frozen.

The thick wooden door was gently opened, and the cold was pressing, and Yvlo hurriedly closed the door again.

"Master, please change your clothes."

"Are you worried that I'm afraid of the cold? Absurd." Rurik had already buttoned his ferret hat on his head as he spoke.

His whole body is white fur, plus his already fair face, as long as he doesn't deliberately expose his blond hair and nest in the snow, he will become one with the silver world.

The wooden door was completely opened, and the heating accumulated in the room instantly dissipated. The outdoor sunlight provided great visual stimulation to the people who lived in the cave in the century. Rülik went out boldly and squinted under the "scorching sun" in the winter.

The sunlight is not soft at all, but the light is too dazzling. He can't wait to wear sunglasses. Of course, the Ross people already have the ability to make sunglasses-add some ore to the molten glass.

No one can really happily complete pure hibernation in their own homes. When the wind and snow stopped, people started to let their bad hearts fly in the open air.

Of course, they also have special practical needs. Chickens carry an axe to chop wood and chop it into pieces to cope with the coldest days.

In fact, a heavy snowstorm caused the lowest night temperature in Elronburg to approach minus 20 degrees.

This is really an unexpected situation, and no one thought that a heavy snowstorm could last for half a month. If someone hadn't been carving wood to record the time, people would have forgotten the date of the Julian calendar.

Once the blizzard passed, the temperature began to warm up slowly, but it was impossible to return to the days before the blizzard.

Winter comes in this way, and winter life begins immediately.

The Corvins and the settlers of Ross had to obey the command of Rurik, the most dignified person in essence. They obeyed his orders and accepted their respective jobs.

Some people are responsible for cleaning the debris in the walls, some people are responsible for climbing up the roof to push down the snow, some people are responsible for rolling down the snow on the ground, and some people are responsible for cooking for the workers.

In a very short day, more than 300 people cleaned the most threatening snow on the roof. The children of the tribe also held hands, and Rurik asked him to step on as neatly as possible to flatten the snow on the ground, and he was the leader.

Rurik was on a show. His body was not outstanding among a group of steel squirrel tribe children. When he got warm, he took off his hat and two beautiful golden pony tails. He walked in circles around the wall, and all the laborers mainly came to him.

At night, people who work for a day desperately eat the fish reserves. In order to get more energy, they have to gnaw the fish crazy. However, fish meat is fish meat, and its calorific value is only one-third of the same weight of oats. It is a mentally problematic behavior to expect to be able to perform high-intensity work after eating fish.

Rurik estimated that the most tiring guys, who worked hard to keep their house from collapsing, probably consumed four thousand calories today. To make up for this loss, four kilograms of pure salmon must be eaten.

"It seems that I am going to bring over 70,000 pounds of wheat, maybe I will bring less."

They spent a day organizing their internal affairs. The next day, the thick wooden door was pulled open by the strong Ross fishermen and mercenaries, who were pulling hemp rope as thick as their forearms.

Because of design factors, the wooden doors of Fort Elon all open inward. It was originally designed as a last resort, but it has played a key advantage in the present.

Why?

A huge wooden door was opened, and Rurik and the others saw that it was a wall of snow that was one person high!

"Ah?! What's going on? Is there really a snow disaster."

"Master, it seems that we are not easy to go out, and we can't even walk in the snow." Yevlo said worriedly.

Rurik gritted his teeth: "I don't care, take me brothers, carry a shovel or something else, and make a way for me in the snow."

"This……"

"Hurry up."

At first, Jeflo was reluctant. Considering his status as a mercenary, even for the sake of professionalism, he had to work hard.

They were trying to dig a path in the snow wall. Yevlo thought it was hard work, but he didn't expect the road to be dug soon.

Because of overwork, he and the guys were already sweating. They took off their warm leather jackets and held long-handled soil shovel in their hands. After walking through this snowy road, they saw snow that was knee-less everywhere. That is, the wall behind him has become a little astonishing. The large amount of snowflakes entrained by the north wind has created a circle of snow slopes on the wooden wall.

"Not bad, I can leave."

Evlo panted heavily, and was called by his partner: "Look at the south! The sea! There are also rivers! It's all ice!"

After he lifted it up, following the direction of the man's finger, "Ah! There should be... the sea."

"The sea is completely frozen, we have to tell the master."

"Let's go back first." Yevlo shook his neck and walked back to the wooden wall.

Soon, everything became clear, and Rurik understood his situation thoroughly.

There is a saying that freezing three feet is not a day's cold, what if it is an extreme cold for two consecutive weeks? It's not uncommon for the sea to be frozen, with a layer of ice one meter thick.

If it hadn't always been a record, Rurik wouldn't know that today was November 15th in the Julian calendar.

The fact that the sea is frozen is still new to the inhabitants of the Iron Squirrel Tribe. They were forced to cross the ice sea only last year, and now they have completely become coastal residents. They are actually more accustomed to living in the woods, and men are also good at hunting in winter.

As long as they don't risk going too far, men are not afraid of snow. They will be logging and hunting in the snow. Women and children should stay in a warm home.

But Rurik must implement his plan.

It's another new day, it's short and very important.

Rurik was short, standing on a reindeer sleigh, facing all the adult men who had been summoned.

There are steel squirrel tribesmen, Ross settled fishermen, and his own mercenaries.

All the boys in Elronburg are here, waiting for the command of the leader.

People are not really social animals, but they can develop the habit of obeying orders and show strong organization. In essence, this is a mutually beneficial measure, especially in extreme harsh conditions, everyone has to follow a smart person to keep warm.

After rectifying the internal affairs of Fort Elon, everyone believes that the children of the keeper will not mess around.

Rurik spoke. He didn't want to be pestered here like a sculpture in the cold weather, and what he said was concise and concise: "Blacksmiths, clean up the stove, raise the fire, and continue smelting. Charcoal maker, continue to burn charcoal, Satisfy the needs of smelting. Woodworker, I need a lot of big sleighs that can sit on twenty men. I will build them right away and I will pay for them. Lumberjacks in Ross, carry your axes and show your skills, I Let the big tree collapse and then pull it to the coast."

Everyone was a little surprised, and Rurik didn't want to explain: "You do it now. Soon, a large number of people will rush to Elronburg. They will drive away the deer and carry a lot of oats. Don't have any doubts. , Complete my request, and I will reward you with the oats you won."

As long as you have tasted oatmeal with salt, you can understand that it can give people in the extreme cold a graceful warmth.

They fought for the oats. Just today, the earth began to shake, and there was a loud rumbling noise in the woods.

Rülik had planned to wait for the saw blade to be built before organizing the manpower to log efficiently.

Who could have imagined that a ruthless blizzard actually took up half a month? Rurik felt that his precious time was shamefully wasted.

Fortunately, the Ross fishermen, they all know a little carpentry. They lack the ability to finish wood, but they almost only need brute force to serve. Those small pine trees with only thick thighs can only be used as raw materials for firewood and charcoal, and they can also be cut by a strong man with a dual-wield Nordic forest axe in two or three strokes.

There are also quite a few extreme trees here, with a diameter of one meter or more. It was a towering spruce that had grown for more than a hundred years, and it was a terrifying existence that collapsed and smashed people into flesh.

No, Mezzasta originally took his tribe and carried a small chrome-iron hand axe to cut wood, with the purpose of collecting charcoal materials. They want to cut down some big trees, they can move to them with the existing materials, but the time is too much.

The so-called big tree he understood was the existence equivalent to about 30cm in diameter. In the eyes of the lumberjacks of the Ross people, it was also a kind of small tree.

For the first time in their lives, they had the honor to see Carpenter Ross performing a magical logging technique.

I saw a big spruce that couldn't be held by hands at all. Its bottom trunk had been seen by the Ross people as a huge depression. The Ross woodcutter was already joking and chopping the other side?

Are they going to cut down the tree like this? It doesn't seem to be a problem, but the big tree collapses, and whoever hits it will die.

As a result, ~www.mtlnovel.com~, a lumberjack inserted a piece of wood into a small gap that was deliberately cut. He slammed the piece of wood frantically. In the end, the giant tree collapsed in a directed direction without injuring anyone.

It was the first time Mezzasta saw Viking-style logging, and the settled fishermen were actually a group of excellent loggers! Not only are they tall and powerful, they also have wisdom.

When the tree collapsed, the earth was trembling violently, and Mezzasta was sitting directly in the snow. In a large area, the snow stored in the branches of the pine and fir branches fell down in an instant, and Metzasta was all over, but he looked at the collapsed body of the giant tree and was too lazy to shake the snow off his body, just sitting Looking up on the ground while giggling.

Mezzasta has seen huge collapsed trees in his life. Those are dead trees. After they fell in the forest, they found them after the autumn rain. A bunch of mushrooms grew on the trees. Collecting edible mushrooms is also a job of tribal women. What made him regretful was that although there was an alarming tide of salmon here in Fort Elon, it was a pity that there were too few mushrooms.

In fact, with the current technology, Rurik can quickly produce mushroom farming. He did not expect this, because it is completely unnecessary. Growing mushrooms is to get valuable protein. However, the Ross people, who actually control most of the fishery resources in the Gulf of Bothnia, lack carbohydrates, not protein.

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