Rise of Rurik Chapter 828

King Bjorn of Sweden, he insisted on standing in the middle of Harvest Square in Shilla Fort!

　　 The entire plaza has basically completed the paving of Portland cement. Although the workers who laid the floor did not build it very well, for people who are used to seeing mud and rugged roads, the plaza is too flat.

　　 Now the whole world is covered with snow. With a pair of feet and a roaming reindeer sleigh, the square is pressed with a layer of hard ice and snow.

　　 The King Bjorn looked around and opened his eyes wide, saying that the Ross people have a great city.

There is a winter market in 　　 square, where leather and cold fish are always traded.

　　 On one side of the square is the palace of Prince Ross, which is still being built. What led him to his surprise was that the building had been repaired to the third floor. A group of men continued to carry wood and hammered nails with hammers. The foundation and the first floor of the palace are piled with stones, and the second floor is made of pure wood.

　　Pure wooden buildings are not surprising in Yilmalen, but the Ross people want to build a four-story building. Maybe it can be built even higher, which is incredible.

　　 "Are you planning to see the sky and connect directly with Asgard?"

　　The tall building will replace the current residence of the prince and become a real palace.

　　 The Ross people built a large temple near the palace. What is shocking is that this masonry building has a crystal clear outer layer. For the divine nature of the temple, they spared no expense to decorate it with gems? Because the sun shining intensely on it, the sacred dare to say nothing. In this way, the Uppsala Great Temple in Sweden has been completely inferior.

　　 At this point, the Uppsala messenger felt more shocked than Bjorn.

　　 The Great Temple and the Roseduma Council Chamber are the most important public buildings in the city.

　　 The highlands in the city center are the most unusual. A large number of special buildings are wrapped in stone and wood walls and guarded by soldiers. It is said that that is Rose's granary, and the land of wealth for the young man Rurik.

　　 Bjorn had a certain arrogance as a king before he came, but now he thinks his arrogance is a joke. Therefore, it is a misjudgment for the Swedish people to be inferior to Ross in the navy. Now it seems that Sweden is not as good as others.

　　 Not to mention anything else, it is just that the Ross people have a large number of winter laborers, which is impossible in the frozen Mälaren Lake area in winter.

　　 Mälaren Lake District in Sweden and the trading hub of Birka Port, people generally stay at home to "hibernate", and the Hanukkah carnival on the winter solstice is three days. The prosperous trading port is sluggish in the winter, and the people of Ross are completely different here. It is possible that the port of Ross is prosperous all year round.

　　Lurik is now in his loyal capital, and the capital ships of the Russian Navy are all staying at the so-called Kronstadt anchorage.

　　 When King Bjorn used the Loros ship to break the thin ice and passed by Kotlin Island, he saw large ships moored in clusters at the anchorage at the mouth of the Neva River. The ice and snow will freeze the sea extremely hard, the ice will not swell and break the hull, and ships of all sizes will be unable to move.

　　 Bjorn didn't know how many boats the Ross people had. He asked the white fox who was accompanying him, but the white fox didn't know this question either.

　　 "There are probably five thousand ships. There are our own, and there are trophies. Ships are not rare in Ross." The white fox casually said, like a warhammer, it hit Bjorn's heart hard.

　　 is that Liurik allowed a group of old friends and envoys from Sweden to visit Shilla Fort freely. They then visited everywhere, and everyone's focus was different.

　　 There are too many reindeer rare in Lake Mälaren. Ice and snow covered everything, but large areas of farmland were still clearly visible due to the obvious field borders. They still showed a clear square shape, seeming to be all the same area, which surprised the messengers.

　　 It is not only the princes and princes who enjoy multi-storey buildings in the city, but ordinary people also build high houses on both sides of the road.

　　 The Swedes are not all small fish hiding in Lake Mälaren. Some messengers who have seen the world are convinced that the Ross people must have learned the building skills from the Franks.

　　This is indeed the case, because stone and clay bricks are the strongest, coupled with the continuous supply of Portland cement from the maharaja's cement workshop, the construction of double-layer stone-brick-wood mixed houses has become a necessity in this growing city.

　　 Several Swedish princes who are theoretically at the same level as Rurik have come in person, and now I have seen too many new things, and the inferiority complex in my heart has reached an irrelevant level.

　　All the Swedish messengers are inferior. At the same time, some people put their previous ideas on the table. The so-called brothers no longer want to recognize the Mellaren tribe of Bjorn as their bosses!

　　 is the messenger from the hometown, or even the comrade-in-arms who fought side by side many years ago.

　　Although his father, Otto, is still in Novgorod, Rurik intends to raise a glass of nostalgia for his father and this group of people.

　　Leurik's oriental soul, he rewarded these messengers with comfortable accommodation, clean new clothes, special meals and wine, as well as the enjoyment of bathing in the sauna. Except for the absence of Miki, there are all other hospitality.

　　 All these seemingly free, are all in Rurik's calculations.

　　 Although he has never had the ambition to be king in his native place in Sweden, he also knows that as long as he is willing to send his army to Lake Mälaren, the princes of various tribes will come to negotiate in-depth cooperation.

　　 Even if you don't claim the title of king, the economic and trade relations with your homeland need to be deepened. Now the North Baltic Sea is completely peaceful, and tens of thousands of people died are a catastrophe, and the living can enjoy the peace under Ross. Although this land is barren, marine resources can still feed a large number of people.

　　 Once the people of all tribes in Sweden freely enter and exit the estuary of Lake Mälaren, the population of Sweden will rise rapidly due to the large amount of fish income. These new populations will be able to buy Ross's supplies, and Ross's massive output needs these new buyers.

　　 The Principality of Ross should have the right to dump goods unscrupulously in the Swedish homeland. Rurik is convinced that only by shocking this group of old world nobles in all directions can they accept the hegemony of the Principality of Ross.

　　Olekin, the former king of Sweden, showed his domineering, relying on the army to blackmail the tribes for tribute, suppressing or expelling those who disobeyed. Why should Rose learn from this old bastard? Relying on the trade surplus, Rose can grab huge profits and win the reputation of good people.

　　Lurik patiently waited for them to complete the whole day of appreciation. The waiting time was a bit boring, and he would not be idle.

　　 The eldest daughter Velika ran around in front of her, and her son Regrave also learned to speak.

Let's also say that Regrav, who has experienced the "Caesar cut" before he came to the world, his birth deeds, and the fact that he was given a name by the Pope of Rome, have been brought to Britain by the queen pirate Spuyut. Rurik can be sure that No. The Broken Arm King of Sembria already knew about this, and Ella, who was waiting to take over the throne, had to admit that the future king of Mercia was this Regalaf.

　　 Caesar's deeds are widely circulated in the European countries, even the British countries where the barbarian came from are the heroes who know the Romans.

　　 Caesar was born by a Caesarean section, for which his mother died. The birth of Regrav is exactly the same!

　　 Spuyote clearly introduced the expressions and feelings of the Broken Arm King to Lulik. In addition to shock, there was also a sense of shock.

　　 But the situation in northern Britain has stabilized. A large number of Norwegians rushed to the Kingdom of Viking York, just as the Anglo used this route to establish Greater Northumbria in this area three hundred years ago. History repeats itself in the same area. Norwegian immigrants are frantically fishing North Sea herring in Hunter Bay and other waters facing the east. Norwegian immigrants are also pioneering wasteland farming.

　　 Righteous brothers Rurik learned that both of his brothers had suspended expansion, so there was no further military friction with Northumbria and Messiah, whose territories were severely shrinking.

　　 He looked at Regrave running around: "Poor boy, waiting for you to come to Mercia will cause a **** storm."

　　 Lei Graf was raised by the pregnant Queen Svetlana, and Rurik deliberately did this. First, he was pitying his de facto eldest son, and he also gave his beloved wife an internship as a mother.

　　 After all, this kid is the eldest son, the eldest grandson of the old Otto couple, and he has more preference for him.

　　 It's just that Regrav has already faced a big problem growing up-he must learn to speak Anglo.

　　 Spuyute brought back a young priest by the way, and Rurik thought with his toes to know that this person was assigned by the Broken Arm King. The old guy who is about to die is not military, but his political skills are okay. Sending people from his own kingdom to guide the legal monarch of the future neighboring country Mercia is ultimately for his national interests.

　　 It just so happened that Regalaf needed a male Anglo teacher and a priest by his side.

　　 Children's education should start with dolls, and Rurik decided to cultivate Gnostic, Latin, Slavic, Finnish and Anglo for his children. Learning so many languages ​​will be a little troublesome, but for the rule of the family, especially Latin, the children must learn.

　　 Another three-year-old child learns Latin too early. But the six-year-old Velika must start school. Now the opportunity is good. Rülik has a lot of time to educate his eldest daughter.

　　 Velika must study hard, because Rose's next high priest must be a wise man.

　　 The visit of those noble envoys has ended, including King Bjorn knowing that Prince Rus will hold a meeting tomorrow.

　　 The meeting should be held in the Chamber, and I never thought that the kid Rick would do it in the old palace. The messenger made it very clear that the prince wanted to entertain everyone with a state banquet in the Principality. The lunch was extremely rich and the time was set at noon.

　　The latitude of Fort Shilla is much lower than that of Lake Mälaren, even so the current daylight hours are as little as seven hours.

　　 The long nights are also the reason why it is difficult for Vikings from all walks of life to live in winter. For profit, the Ross people have developed the habit of winter production.

　　 The sun has not yet risen, and King Bjorn, who has fallen asleep wrapped in extremely comfortable wool, can hear a very clear ding-ding-dong. That is the shipbuilding workshop of the Rus people, and it is also the purpose of this one.

　　 But for the other messengers, especially the elder King Ungriffe of the Ankras tribe, this old guy has already thought about things now!

　　 In the middle of the night, he and his entourage explained: "I have already decided. When we see the boy Rurik, I will admit that he is the Venerable."

　　 "But he is still a child." Someone murmured, implying something wrong.

"It's okay. I'm going to die. For our benefit, I must choose a new backer. Look at the Gould family, living with the Roths, and now it's a great place to make a fortune. We Ankraths can't do it anymore. Let go of this opportunity."

　　 The followers looked at each other and reached a consensus. If everyone is asking Old Otto to be the boss of the Venerable, no one thinks it is wrong. Now I'm going to worship an eighteen-year-old man... forget it! Living a good life is more important than anything else.

　　The messengers of all the tribes have similar thoughts. Some mini-tribes are really small and poor in the country. There is no psychological concern about worshiping a new venerable, and even hundreds of people from the whole clan can be directly immigrated!

　　 They have their own ideas, but Rurik's queen's kitchen is busy making a group.

Many of the many cooks are women who had been looted from Britain and Frank before. Ruriek was unwilling to do bad things. These female prisoners continued to work as cooks and servants and were rewarded for serving the prince. A handful of Slavs and deer breeders.

　　 They are all salary recipients, their children are entitled to free education, and their economic life is completely tied to the royal family. Life is better now than in the past, they are not willing to betray their class.

　　 A lot of ingredients are piled up in the kitchen. Some people are in charge of roasting meat, and some are kneading noodles. Cabbage, yellow-rooted carrots, onions and a small amount of peas are processed, and dried straw mushrooms bisporus are foamed...

　　 How can this kind of state banquet lose the mill and bakery of Asraki? As the prince's sister-in-law, she also made desserts for the prince in addition to making rations for the army expedition.

　　 Egg white, milk, butter, and honey are foamed into sweet cream. Mix the sifted flour with eggs to make a cake. Although it was not done exquisitely, Rurik still saw the tiramisu cake which he thought was a good fit.

　　 Indeed, the Ross people should be as good at making tiramisu as they have been in history.

　　 There are tiramisu, honey bread, cheese bread, and even venison pie.

　　 Because materials are more abundant than last year, Rose can play huge tricks at the state banquet. After all, cooking requires imagination. As an "Oriental foodie", Rurik is indeed "imaginative."

　　They love to drink ale, so they give them ale, vodka spirits, mead and kvass.

　　 They love to eat wheat, so they give them various breads and cakes made of wheat.

　　 They love to eat barbecue, so they give them the traditional hard dish roasted deer.

　　 Side dishes, hot dishes, hard dishes, staple food and drinks, Rurik prepared more than twenty kinds for this surprise. You have to prepare more, and you have to have a lot of tricks! To use inventory of ingredients, this state banquet needs a strategic hemorrhage! In terms of eating and drinking, old friends in the old world must feel deeply that they lived like wild animals in the past, and let them yearn for a good life like the Ross people.

All this is the sugar-coated shells prepared by Rurik. He is not worried that a group of big stomach kings will eat up and wipe himself out. On the contrary, Rurik wants to entertain these noble envoys throughout the winter, and he can achieve "reluctant to think of Shu". The purpose is even better.

　　 So, many honorable messengers received the news and happily came to the banquet. Several Swedish princes have already thought that they will publicly respect Rurik as their venerable. Even if Rurik does not claim the title, he will declare that Ross is higher than himself and promise that if there is war, Ross will send troops to help.

　　 King Bjorn's excited colleagues are also very worried. He is not as arrogant as the two previous kings, but Rose's amazing strength makes him jealous. If you want to withdraw your throne, it is not impossible to let Rurik of Ross be the king~www.mtlnovel.com~ But Mellaren must get the benefits, and the purchase of the Ross ship must be done well.

　　 Before everyone was in place, they smelled the intoxicating fragrance in the air.

　　 They entered the old palace of Rurik for the first time and entered the hall of the main hall. They saw a dazzling array of delicious meals, as well as the head of a ferocious bear hanging the entire room or two hundred giants, and the slow-burning bronze oil lamp on the top of the bear's head.

　　Meals are just small dishes, and even so, they feel very rich.

　　 Two young men, a man and a woman, sat at the table in the deepest part of the hall. They were none other than Rurik himself and his queen.

　　Lurik also clapped his hands in good time, and a group of elites of the Ross people appeared from the side door! The men and women are all dressed up, all sitting around Rurik.

　　 The remaining positions are for many messengers.

　　The table position emphasizes respect and inferiority. At this moment, King Bjorn of Sweden realized that he wanted to sit down. Needless to say, he felt unhappy and helpless. Obviously, in the eyes of Rurik, he is not a great king at all, he is only at the same level as other Swedish princes!

　　 So what can it be? Business still has to be discussed, not to mention that I didn't want to compete with the Rus for hegemony in the Baltic Sea.

At this moment, Rurik said politely: "Old friends from Sweden, please take your seat. Whether you are an aristocrat or an envoy of the aristocracy, you all represent a Principality, and I treat you equally. I will give you all that you can't finish. You can't finish your meal and drink. Just tell me if you have anything. Let's talk while eating and drinking."

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