Rise of Rurik Chapter 745

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At its coldest point in winter, the territory of the Duchy of Ross is immersed in thick snow.

The fleet anchored at the mouth of the Neva River looked like ice sculptures, and the towering masts were also covered with a lot of frost. The wooden hull ship is resistant to frost, but all the sails are unloaded and placed in a warm and dry house for storage.

The weapons of each ship, especially the torsion slingshot, were removed. They were replaced with new hemp rope, whale baleen and deer tendons, and oiled and maintained to maintain combat effectiveness.

The whole world is quiet, and only the Ross hunters are still cruising in the snowy forest.

They continue to hunt with a crossbow with unprecedented efficiency, in order to capture a large number of squirrels and mink to obtain leather and then make a fortune in the market. As for whether they are faced with the embarrassment of extremely low leather prices, no one has the foresight. At least, if you get a large amount of leather and entrust professional craftsmen to process it, you and your family can get warm leather clothes.

After the immigrants, the Ross natives plundered squirrel skins in the woodlands on the west bank of the frozen Lake Dajia Lake and around Lake Ilmen.

A large group of immigrants from Mälaren, who settled in the homeland of Roseburg, rushed to the north of Elronburg and then went further north to hunt polar bears, and even rushed to the Murmansk settlement to hunt elephant seals with big tusks.

The people of Narvik Port continued to be the salt boilers, and then formed a sled team to sell the salt to Roseburg along the frozen river, and traded ironware with the local blacksmith's guild on the spot.

Another leather trade route is also getting hot this winter. The trade route runs through the entire Orient (Finland), from Roseburg, to the city of Covenstad in the Principality of Ross (the mouth of the Oulu River), and then to the southern part of Finland. The Suomi territory (Finnish counties), arrived in Helminki, a coastal city on the Gulf of Finland, and finally arrived at Fort Shilla on the Neva River.

Ice and snow provide a golden path, and reindeer sleighs become the best means of transportation in winter.

If the journey is simply finished, a sleigh rider from Narvik Port can rush to Shilla Fort in at least one month, which is already a miracle of mobility at the moment. Compared to ocean transportation, the cost is still too high.

If it is not necessary, no sled team will travel long distances in the world of ice and snow.

As a result, Fort Shilla had almost cut off contact with the group of hunters in Bear Festival Town, even though they were separated from each other by an ice-bound Ladoga Lake.

In the autumn of 834, the army of the Rus Principality was conquered by Prince Rurik, which severely damaged the Karelian forces in the northern part of the lake, and maimed the northern king through frenzied killing.

If the number of people is large, they can dominate. The Karelians in the past can indeed step on the Suomi and Tavastia. However, the Rus Principality has a larger population, more sophisticated weapons, and a single soldier's combat effectiveness.

Maybe the principality really interrupted their backbone?

Originally, Rurik and many elites did not believe that a war could destroy a force, and no one admitted that it was a victory. The Karelians are cowards and usually flee. The Russ have come to the conclusion that the enemy's confession is only temporary, and they will make a comeback.

The town of Xiongji had to strengthen the defense of the settlements. When the warm season of 835 came, the construction of fortification of the settlements entered the fast lane.

The wooden wall should be thickened, the wall should be double-layered, and soil should be piled and tamped at the base. To dig a ring-shaped trench, a winch suspension bridge system must be built. To build two city gates, and control the lowering of the wooden gates with a winch.

One gate faces the forest plain in the north, and the other gate faces the dock and Ladoga Lake in the south.

Those who are really willing to settle here for a long time are only more than 60 old guys and more than a dozen old women. They are fishermen in summer and hunters in winter. As for their sons and grandsons, they are all thrown to Roseburg.

During the warm period, the number of people settled here was the least. It was during this period when the town of Xiongji was the weakest, and it was prone to attack by Karelians.

The construction of fortification of settlements has been completed. Although there are not many people left behind, everyone is not afraid. What's more, hunters who entered the forest explored a large area. For most of the past half a There is no other human being. Sometimes a black bear standing up and rubbing against the tree to relieve the itching poses a human appearance, but what is waiting is the hunter's crossbow shooting.

The Karelians were as if the world had evaporated. Lurik was worried that this group of people would launch a counterattack during the warm period. Only then did they deliberately order Jianyong of the First Banner to prepare for the battle, but in the end nothing was waiting.

The enemy has given up room for survival, and the Rus can freely plunder the resources of Lake Ladoga!

It is now the autumn of 835, and Rurik is busy with other affairs and has forgotten the existence of the settlement.

He is really a noble man, forgetting things...

The core of the Rus Principality has completed the migration, and the people will fully accept farming life. Even in winter, the development of settlements will continue.

The Ilmen Lake area is indeed warmer than the hometown. The time is December in the Julian calendar. The lowest night temperature occasionally reaches -10°C. The weather has been pretty good in recent days. People can obviously feel that the air is not cold in the afternoon. The water left outdoors will not freeze in the afternoon is proof of warmth.

Approaching the winter solstice, a grand ceremony is being intensively prepared amidst people's enthusiastic anticipation.

The prince ordered the construction of two wooden towers in Shilla Fort and Novgorod, and the wooden towers will be lit on the winter solstice.

The largest wooden tower will stand on the sandbar at the mouth of the Neva River, that is, Vasilyevsky Island. As for the current era, it is only affectionately called the "sandbar".

The sandbank is the place closest to the frozen sea. Since the Principality has used the erection of fire towers as a traditional project in winter over the years, it should be built in the place closest to the sea.

The real big temple is built inside the city, and an empty area has been reserved in the northeast of Fengshou Square for the construction of the temple. The Principality has an ambitious plan to build a temple. The general public also needs a clear psychological end. More importantly, no matter men or women, as long as they are qualified laborers, they will be hired. Anyone can contribute to the construction of this national wonder. Get a piece of the pie.

A large area of ​​snow was cleared, a group of laborers dug a neat and orderly pit, and the work of inserting the rough cedar downwards was slowly proceeding. This is the key pillar of the temple and has the responsibility of bearing weight. The base point of the stone stacking. Another group of people were handling the stone piers reasonably, pulling them to the sky with ropes, causing them to hit the ground fiercely, and perseveringly rammed the relatively soft soil of the Neva River.

Even if the Gulf of Finland is completely frozen, there is still a long distance from the mouth of the Neva River to the island of Gogeland where granite is produced. The stones that have been put into use in Shilla Fort come from there. Although the organization of a sled team can transport the stones, the transportation cost is so nonsense that Rurik gives up directly.

In fact, the general public has a high acceptance of the building materials of the temple, and no one thinks that a house cannot be built without stone.

Rurik is not the case, he boasted that he wanted to build a pure stone temple in Haikou, and he wanted to paste a layer of glaze on the outer shell of the building.

This, of course, will cost a lot of money and food, and indeed has a strong boost to the rule of the prince and authority, and even enhances the sense of glory of the people of the Duchy of Russ. It also integrates the Viking and Slavic beliefs based on the temple.

The construction of the fire tower is purely a Slavic ritual, and it is now carried forward in the hands of the Rus.

Some people say that the taller the tower is, the closer it is to Asgard, and the brighter the flame burns, the more it can be seen by God.

Last year, the Novgorod fire tower illuminated the entire Irmenslavian world, and now a larger tower stands on the Neva River.

Otto's beard body is decayed, and even if he is as old as he is, because of the New Year in his heart, he must go to the newest altar of the Rus to participate in the winter priest.

As many as three thousand Russian men, women, old and children took a large number of reindeer sleighs and formed a mighty team. They left their homes in Novgorod and Mstisk in early December. They were in the frozen Volho Huohe moved forward and successfully arrived in the capital of the Principality before the ceremony.

They arrived at Lurik without surprise, he teased his daughter and son because his wives hugged one by one.

As the festival approached, a meeting to prepare for the ceremony was held in the Winter Palace.

There are no twists and turns, everything is done as in the hometown.

So on the 28th of the Julian calendar, the date of the winter solstice is absolutely correct. The majority of people who experience the first Hanukkah in the New World for the first time noticed that there is no "completely dark day" here. The sun will hang in the sky, and none of it will set. Many people don't understand the reason, just as they don't understand why the winter solstice and summer solstice in their hometown have a whole day of light or darkness.

At least Rurik's wives and concubines, as well as the majority of children who received the prince's offerings, knew the truth.

Some of the children's parents also accepted the reason for the prince's naming, but they felt even more puzzled while feeling that the prince was full of wisdom. Is our Misgarde (the human world) actually a big ball?

Why do ordinary people know too much? Everyone just needs to support the prince.

Finally, even the winter hunters of Bear Festival Town, far away from Roseburg, crossed the entire ice lake and withdrew to join the high priest.

The number of people gathered in the city of Shilla Fort has actually exceeded 10,000, purely because some Suomi hunters also went to Shilla Fort to take advantage of the opportunity of the memorial event to sell the leather they recently caught. There are a lot of them. , Resulting in a large number of temporary wooden sheds in the open space outside the city, and even the starry bonfire array at night.

Standing on a high place, Rurik would look at his city. He was full of emotions. He would pull Lumia and let her take a good look at this ever-great city, and then zealously exhorted: "Such prosperity is to witness the greatness. Ceremony. Only you can preside over this ceremony."

The wooden tower built of pine and fir is gradually outrageous. It seems that it has been piled up to a height of 20 meters?

Obviously this is a fact. The center of the so-called wooden tower is a cedar tree that was felled by the roots. It was carried by more than fifty strong men. The craftsman of the ship used the technique of erecting the mast of the ship to make the wooden pole stick in the pit. . A large amount of fuelwood was piled up around this column, and almost everyone watching the bustle also chopped some branches and threw them toward the tower.

Before the ceremony began, the bazaar in Shilla Fort became hotly traded due to an unprecedented population.

So some bad things have also been discovered.

There will always be people who want to steal profits. As many as ten people have been arrested, and eight of them are Suomi. Even if Jeflo brought his beloved wife and baby son to meet the prince during the sacrifice, Rurik would not forgive the thief because of his face.

Many people clamored to chop off the hands of the thieves. In the end, ten thieves became lumberjacks in accordance with the "laws and regulations." They don't want to appreciate the grandeur of the fire tower, and they can't get their freedom until a hundred pine trees are cut down.

finally! Festival!

The winter solstice is today, and Rurik can confirm that today is the day with the shortest shadow from the "immediate" operation, which is in full agreement with Lumia's statistics.

The entire Shilla Fort was in joy. According to the Viking tradition, the native Roths and other people from the Viking tribe were drinking ale and kvass happily. Obviously the sun is still hanging in the sky, a large number of bonfire stalls have been set up, and the city is full of barbecue stalls, and the air is filled with a thick and greedy barbecue smell.

Rabbits, squirrels, chickens, mink, deer, fish, foxes, and domestic hunted animals are all on the barbecue menu. The meat is skewered on wooden strips, and then skewered with onions and sliced ​​carrots, making it a new barbecue experience.

The traditional Viking Hanukkah emphasizes indulgence. Although the Slavs are conservative, they also join the carnival.

It can be said that the Slavic and Suomi people who settled here will evade some crazy actions of the Rus people on their own. Pure Ross men and women will hug each other in public because of their excitement, and the connection between people will occur in the crowd. This is the ancient fertility worship, and there is a particular emphasis. The so-called gods bless Hanukkah, then the children born because of the joy of this day should not die in confusion.

The joy reached its peak in the evening, and the sacrificial ceremony is now!

A temporary stone ship altar was built on the sandbank, which is on the right of the wooden tower.

Still the traditional drama, Lumia and the sisters endured the cold, they wore plain clothes and sang carols together. Why does it set off the atmosphere? Noren and the band she cultivated also joined it. The bone flute and skin drum ensemble played melodious ethereal music, further highlighting the sacredness of the sacrifice.

God must be watching from high heaven. watch carefully! That is a faint green streamer! It's Spellosville, the parade of the Valkyrie!

Ten thousand people participated in the provincial capital, and dense crowds gathered in the sandbar.

The seven statues of gods stood in the altar, and there were as many as ten sturdy stags as sacrifices. They were killed by Rurik with a sword in front of the gods, allowing the blood of the deer to soak the entire altar.

Deer livers were cut out, and the drums became extremely dense at this moment.

Lumia examines all the livers, and then puts them in the bronze plate one by one.

Wearing a antler helmet, she raised the ancestral scepter of the priest Rose to look up to the sky, and she convulsed all over her body deliberately, and suddenly turned her face to the people: "Let's light the fire tower! Let the gods see our glory!"

People love to see the complication of the ritual. No, Rurik has to make some tricks even in the fire tower lighting ceremony.

Otto is no longer a spectator, he holds a burning torch tightly in his hand, at least it is no problem to lift this.

The same is true for Rurik. The two dukes of the Duchy of Ross will work together to light the wooden tower.

In the eyes of the public, the wooden tower was first filled with smoke. Although the smoke choked people, no one wanted to leave.

People scrambled to pay attention to the handsome man with a flowing ponytail under the dim starlight and moonlight, watching the branches at his feet first start to burn.

The fire ignited, and people's eyes began to see a beating flame.

Everyone just stood upright and watched quietly, and even the children were not crying mischievously.

It is because of mastering the power of flames that apes become humans. People worship fire deep in their souls. Even people who see flames have an instinctive sense of security in their hearts, as well as a kind of adding firewood to make it more prosperous. Desire.

The flames of the fire tower became more and more outrageous, and eventually became a small winter sun.

Even the altar is no longer a place for people to stay, and even the standing statues of the gods are baked into a frying pan.

People's faces were burned hot, even so, everyone just stepped back, always surrounding the fire tower and didn't want to leave at all.

The Roths and other Vikings from all walks of life just looked at it in a simple way, grateful for the warmth bestowed by the gods, and silently prayed for prosperity and peace in the coming year.

I don't know who screamed, that man must be a Slav.

"What are you doing in a daze? Dance!"

Originally, there were no local priests in the sacrificial activities of the Slavs who chanted a lot of hymns to the Slavic flame **** Peron~www.mtlnovel.com~ Besides, the Slavic priests had been disbanded by Rurik, and they became serving Odin. Servant.

Peron, the **** of fire, was absorbed into the mythological system by Rurik. He was already a member of the Nordic gods and was described as one of the gods of Asgard. In the same way, some Finnish tribal gods were also absorbed. Anyway, the legendary Asgard lives with gods, and there are a thousand gods that can be justified.

The Slavs couldn't restrain their desire to dance around the fire tower, and their enthusiasm infected everyone. Around the blazing fire tower, everyone froze hand in hand and formed five concentric circles.

Rurik joined the joy, the priests' wives and concubines were all dancing, and Noren stepped up to play cheerful music to further enhance the atmosphere.

Perhaps, only the believers of God in Johann Invar and Shilla Fort did not participate in this carnival.

They didn't even leave the city, they were celebrating Christmas Mass in a separate wooden house.

Everyone is celebrating the grand festival of the Winter Solstice in their own way. It is Hanukkah and Christmas.

The happy days are over, the fire tower is still burning, the happy people forget their fatigue, they see the sun of a new day!

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