Rise of Rurik Chapter 853

In Birka Bazaar, news of Rurik's reign was spread.

　　 Rose's shops here are the most provocative, but the news is too stimulating, and Merlaren's merchants and the large families are amazed.

　　 So, the huge Russian fleet is heading straight to Uppsala? That man Rurik wants to be king in Uppsala?

　　 Mellaren's big family finally waited for Bjorn, these big landlords still respect Bjorn as king, just because they looked at him very ambiguously.

　　 The atmosphere in Mellaren's chamber is extremely delicate, and many local nobles urgently need Bjorn's explanation.

　　 A pair of eyes fell on this weak king, Bjorn was publicly scrutinized, and then he faced friends in his hometown and made an analysis of Mellaren's future.

　　 "The Ross people have promised to sell us the big ship, I have ordered five ships! This matter is according to your wishes."

　　 When he opened his mouth, he attracted everyone's attention, because the purchase of the ship was negotiated by everyone.

　　 "What about the price?" Someone suddenly asked harshly, restlessly and unceremoniously.

　　 Bjorn glared at the man: "Speaking out will scare you."

　　 "It's never too expensive." There was another human saying.

　　 "It's slightly more expensive. A boat from the Ross wants us two hundred pounds of silver coins."

　　 is this kind of money? The numbers are really surprising. People who were very confident are now also worried.

　　 Someone is itching with hatred: "That **** Rurik sets the price so high, wouldn't my conscience?"

　　 Someone asked with hatred: "Conscience? Those Ross merchants are also worthy of conscience?"

　　 They whispered and talked, Bjorn cleared his throat again, and screamed to stabilize the audience.

"Ross are indeed greedy. You guys, if we stand in the realm of Ros, would you ask yourself, would you not become more greedy? I ordered five ships, and I also know that we can hardly come up with a thousand in one go. Pounds of silver coins. However, Rurik of Ross claims that we can use the new oatmeal to repay the debt by August."

　　The big families have long recognized the situation. The war is not as fierce as the Ross people, and Mellaren can't have an advantage on the battlefield. In peacetime, you should not swell your face to fill your body.

　　 They all believe that the glory that belongs to Mellaren is over. However, even if Mellaren wants to end the hegemony of Sweden, it must end with dignity and even preserve as much as possible some of the political legacy of the strong period.

　　 "It would be better if you can use oatmeal to repay the debt." Someone continued to ask, "Where is the boat? Where is the boat we bought?"

"Just anchored in Uppsala." Bjorn said immediately: "When their fleet entered our great lake, among them were the big ships that were sold to us. As for why the Ross fleet went directly north to Uppsala. , You all know the news. Yes! The man Rurik wants to be king."

　　 "We have accepted that Rurik is king. What shall we be from Mellaren? And you, Bjorn? What shall you be? Let go of your king title willingly?"

　　 The speaker actually had some worries in his heart. He was afraid that Bjorn's head would get hot, and he refused to give up the king's title and drag Mellaren into an inappropriate war. Because this group of big families are big landlords first, and merchants second. Mellaren is a cultural concept, not an imagined community that must be guarded! And when Bjorn changed the name of the bazaar to "Birka", the major families and Bjorn himself were a certain degree of similarity.

　　 Many local nobles had the same idea, but they didn't say anything.

Bjorn didn't think much about it. Since they mentioned this matter, they would just pick and understand: "I will remove the king's title, and I will personally participate in Rurik's throne ceremony. Friends, the strength of the Rus is for us. Everyone can see it. Just in the far east, I saw the huge city they built. I went to a very distant place. The people I saw didn't speak our language, but they all called Rose the ruler. We must recognize the fact that the Mellaren people are inferior to Ross in all respects."

　　 This is not self-defeating, but just stating a basic fact, that is, both the speaker and the listener are very uncomfortable.

　　 Until Bjorn mentioned in public the private conversation with Rurik himself on the frozen ship in the frozen sea.

　　 All the powerful big landlords of Mellaren were present. These big families controlled Mellaren's power together. Because Bjorn was not a powerful one, the big families had checked and balanced each other to a great extent and reached a kind of republic.

　　 To make the former overlord recognize his traditional allies as the new king, and then accept the result peacefully, the hearts of the nobles of the old overlord are extremely painful.

　　 At first, someone sighed in public, and was not happy about the content of the secret conversation between the two kings.

　　 Even if Rurik became the king, Mellaren still maintained a considerable degree of hegemony, or in other words, there will be no definite changes to the Mellaren people in the days to come.

　　 Even the kid Rurik made it clear that the future Mellaren people would not pay tribute to the king.

　　 Is this reasonable? Rurik's move is by no means a good man. If it is not profitable, why does he do it?

　　 is based on the absolute tax exemption right of Ross merchants to do business anywhere in Mälaren.

　　 At that time, under the rule of the Olegin chief, anyone who dared to set up a stall on the road had to pay tribute, forcing the Ross merchants to open shops on the island. It was not until Bjorn's coup d'état came to power with the Ross people that the Ross shops could open up to the Mellaren Bazaar.

　　If only the power to collect taxes from the Ross people is lost by Mellaren, then lose it.

　　 Although everyone still thinks that Rurik must have a conspiracy, based on the information obtained now, the Ross people do not intend to vigorously squeeze the wool against Mellaren's sheep, admitting that Rurik is king, the situation will not be too bad.

　　 After this meeting, all the great nobles in Mellaren breathed each other. Bjorn had secret discussions with Rürik and reached some secret agreements with each other, which made Quan Mellaren quite obedient on the issue of "factual remittance."

　　 However, the situation in other tribes has become quite subtle.

The Unkras tribe relied on the tribe to walk out of the Gould family. With this example of "to make a fortune", the leader Old Ungriffe summoned the tribe, and everyone quickly reached a common ideto support Rose Is king.

　　Yelmalon, another big tribe, they are located in a separate lake in the south and are largely self-contained.

　　 The all-powerful messenger sent away informed the old leader who was about to die. The old leader's ears were back and the figure was rickety, and the soldiers of the past were finally overwhelmed by the years.

　　 After all, it was the powerful man Longstall who made up his mind for everyone.

　　 This Langstall is already the actual ruler of Yilmallen. According to their own rules, when the old leader is dead, he will succeed the title of duke.

He is already a substantial duke. As the duke's name is strictly given by Olekin, the king of the "Merlaren Dynasty", the future artifact will change hands, and the Rus will become a great king. Whether the title of duke is recognized is still a question. . Valley

　　 The Yilmalun people quickly came to have a shallow contact with the Rus due to geographical reasons. The most recent contact was that they sent troops together against Denmark many years ago, and since then they have lost contact with each other.

　　 The plenipotentiary claimed that Ross had struck out a large territory in the Eastern world, and that the people in Rurik's hand reached tens of thousands, and clearly pointed out that they not only had a huge fleet, but also a large number of cavalry units. A situation that is easily overlooked by everyone was also emphasized by the plenipotentiary. The so-called Rus has a huge number of young children!

　　Child, is the future of a tribe. Even if the child's death rate is high, as long as the base is large enough, a large number of children will grow up to take up arms and fight.

　　 The Ruths are strong and full of stamina. This is a great thing for the Russ themselves. For the Yelmalen, the first thing they think of is a strong military threat.

　　 The past Mellaren will not invade Yilmallen in the south, so what will the Ross people do? Although they had severely damaged Denmark, they had indeed become a monster who couldn't feed themselves. After all, in the traditional knowledge of the Yilmalun people, the Ross people are the fur-producing tribes living in the far north fjords, and they have laid a huge territory in only ten years. If they had reasons, it would not be easy to swallow the Yelmalon tribe.

　　 Among the large and small tribes in Sweden, it is the Yärmalen tribe who maintains a strong sense of vigilance.

　　 There are a lot of tribes with a very small population and holding a duke title. A few hundred people form a small fishing village, and the leaders are also on the list of invited to participate in the ceremony of the King of Rose. The micro-tribes need to rely on a strong one to grab benefits. They have seen it very openly since ancient times. They have always been strong with whom. For their own benefit, it is not a problem to pay a batch of tributes in exchange for military protection.

　　 Of all the tribes, the Yilmalon people who are in the south and master the Lake Yilmalun face the most internal and external problems.

　　 The north undergoes a violent political reshuffle, and the Yelmalen people do not know what will be brought about by the Ruths who are king.

　　 Their more southern domain name is Götaland. As the tribes on the southern border of the Swedes have all moved north due to the frenzied Danish attack ten years ago, the abandoned living space was immediately occupied by the people of Götaland.

　　 Those Götaland people speak the same Gnostic language, but their blood is highly related to Denmark, and the dialect they speak is biased towards the Danish world. They are no longer Danes who have entered Scandinavia. The tribal alliance formed by the Gotaland people continues to encroach on the traditional territory of the Swedes to the north, but the trend has not changed.

　　 The current situation does not tolerate the Yilmalun people not listening to things outside the window, and they are quite vigilant in the silence.

　　 In this way, I bought a large Ross ship to anchor on Lake Yärmalen, thereby enhancing everyone's self-confidence. It is recognized that the Russ ship is strong in combat effectiveness, and a large ship is also in the hands of the Yilmalun. In this way, if the Gotalans go north to provoke, a large ship can also make the enemy in the south suffer.

　　The promised ceremony of proclaiming the king and enthroning is on the summer solstice day of the Julian calendar.

　　 Before that, all the Swedish nobles took their missions and rowed a long boat to the north.

　　 They clearly arranged an appointment, so that the not-wide Ferrys River was full of boats.

　　 In the past, Uppsala did not have any record of attracting aristocrats from all over Sweden to visit. Hundreds of boats gathered in the inner lake owned by the locals, and thousands of people from the south arrived with the boats.

　　Because any event is an opportunity to do business, the Uppsala people do not collect taxes on the vendors. The Merlaren people who do small business will naturally row a boat straight to the north, taking advantage of their lives to make small business.

　　 This situation was completely unexpected by Swinned, who was newly promoted to the duke and changed his name to the governor! It's a pity that looking at your own strength, you can't stop the people in the south from plundering and trampling your own small lake.

　　 More than a month, the Uppsala tribe has changed forever!

　　 The Great Temple changed its posture, and a city built by the Ross people rose from the ground. The huge Ross fleet has been anchored in the inner lake, like Uppsala has become a military port of Ross.

　　 Swinned and his cowardly son Hergon were appointed as two generations of governors of father and son. The local nobles of Yilmalun lost the title of duke and all their powers as a duke. Liurik worried that the locals would have rebellious feelings because of the loss of some honors, which required real materials to appease.

　　 Not to mention the enthronement ceremony, Rurik personally designed some glorious projects.

　　 A big scene where the king needs Zhaomin to cheer, why does it attract a large number of people to cheer? This requires the mobilization of thousands of local Uppsala men, women and children.

　　 It is foolish to force them to cheer, as long as you give each of them a real deal of wheat, everything will be fine.

　　 More than four thousand Uppsala people even count babies, one counts one, and each rewards one pound of wheat. Although this reward is very weak, the nobles in the past would never offer it.

　　 The locals don't even know the concept of "gifts", and now pound after pound of wheat has fallen into their own hands. Rurik also explained the reason in due course: "As a man blessed by Odin, I was told by Dream Rioddin that you bowed down sincerely and worshiped the golden statue. The gods were very satisfied. I hereby request Rurik of Rose to reward the pious person with a pound. wheat."

　　 Therefore, the person who gave wheat is not only Rurik, but Odin, the king of the gods. Regardless of whether this statement is reliable or not, the ordinary Uppsala people who have been living ordinary lives have never been taken seriously by noble heroes like a few days.

　　 Ships from many cities of Ross arrived in Uppsa with hundreds of Ross citizens of different identities. Many foreign aristocrats only need to log in and ask for a while, and they learned many things about Rurik from the mouths of the locals.

　　 The incident surprised Bjorn who arrived the second time.

　　 "I remember that you were very resistant to the arrival of the Ross people before, so why are you all complimenting you now?"

　　 "What? Swinned is no longer a duke? He became the governor of the Ross people."

　　 "The Uppsala Temple? Has it become the private property of the Rus? Are you Uppsala crazy?"

　　 Bjorn never thought that he would return home for a month. What happened in Uppsala can only be described as a dramatic change.

　　 The locals smile enthusiastically, which shows that they not only accept the new situation, but also enjoy it.

"Rurik! You are a clever man, I really don't know what you used." Bjorn is deeply moved ~www.mtlnovel.com~ This situation is also fully demonstrated in the actual leader of the Yelmalen. In front of Stoll, he couldn't share happiness with the locals, but noticed that the local duke had gone to the knighthood, and he was willing to become the governor of Rurik. A good duke must have been ordered by the Rus to give up power, and Uppsala will inevitably lose his power afterwards. She has died in name only and has become a part of the Rus Principality.

　　 Will the Russ use this method to rule the entire Sweden?

Langstall urgently needs an explanation from Ruriek, but he basically knows nothing about Ruriek himself. It is too abrupt to rush to see him. It is better to be patient and wait until formal occasions to ask him generously about many matters. .

　　 Yälmällen is Sweden's de facto largest tribe in the southern border, and is born with the responsibility of defending the southern border of the Swedish world. After getting off the ship, Langstall soon met various nobles with well-dressed and gorgeous clothes. Even the shabby tribal leader had to put on a chain mail and a ferret hat and a helmet. Wild goose feathers are used for decoration.

　　 There are also some nobles active here, and there are many nobles decorating themselves with extremely rare emerald green peacock feathers.

　　 Many nobles gathered at the temporary pier. They came at different times. They all approached the messengers sent by Prince Rurik. After that, they invited the whole mission to the current temple and asked to set up tents near the holy tree.

　　Langstall and his Yalmalen mission camped near the sacred tree of the Great Temple, and they showed up a banner with the words "YLMALEN" written in runes, proclaiming their existence.

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