Rise of Rurik

Latest website: "Is this Goyle's residence?" Standing under a longhouse with carved beams and painted buildings, Rurik, who dismounted from his horse, looked it up and down.

The subordinate hurriedly reported: "Yes, Your Majesty. Among them, you even gave Gore a... gift."

"A gift? Some glasses? Well, I don't think he likes my things."

As he spoke, Rurik glanced back at the wooden pole temporarily standing on the snowdrift, and Goyle's half-opened head was almost no longer bleeding.

"Come on, let's go in. For the time being, this will be my residence."

The room was messed up, and the glasses were scattered and broken. At first, Rurik felt that occupying this residence symbolized the possession of the highest power in Pskov, but it was too bad to really spend the night here.

Rurik couldn't help but stroked his beard and pinched his chin, thinking that the life in the Gower Tributary was really not enjoyable, and he was classified as the chief of a region, and his life was too traditional—it was like a man who lived twenty years ago. Danish chieftain.

This reminded Rurik of his experience of sleeping on the ground in leather as a child.

Today, even in the Danish Kingdom of Ragnar, the newly built city of Copenhagen and the city of Malmö across the strait, the new city buildings have large-scale construction of wooden floors. Living accommodation has always been how comfortable it is. The Danish nobles who used to sleep on the floor began to pay attention to high standards.

It may be the backwater Pskov, a dark corner where the descendants of Danish immigrants still live based on tradition.

However, with the physical disappearance of these people, the situation in Pskov will change rapidly.

Rurik looked again, "Fortunately, the

Some people have carried out the king's order, and it's good that no one set fire. Now you guys clean up this room and throw away all the mess. Including the broken cup presented by the king. "

Today in Ross, glassware is no longer expensive. Of course, its price has not dropped to the same price as clay pots, and its price is easily affordable by ordinary Ross families.

The soldiers are not rare on glassware, but they are very careful when picking up these broken pieces, lest they hurt their hands.

The warriors of Deling were going to clear a room for the king to use as a hall for summoning his subjects, and the longhouse of Goyle was the best building in the Greater Neighborhood, and it was spacious enough for some formal work.

To get rich by plundering, the warriors have great enthusiasm.

The main city of Pskov was quickly looted. After all, the high-value and portable supplies in this place were limited, and the looting ended in the afternoon. Since Rurik did not issue an order prohibiting the slaughter of cattle and sheep, the soldiers slaughtered the plundered cattle and sheep on the spot. Anyway, they were newly plundered "fresh meat". The ultimate destination is the stomach of a soldier.

There are cattle and sheep slaughtering scenes everywhere, fresh leather is peeled off, soldiers demolished some houses to obtain dry wood to live on the spot, and after lighting a batch of bonfires with huge smoke and dust, they didn't care too much, and even directly picked up blood dripping meat with their sabers Blocks are roasted on the fire.

Fighting and looting, the tired warriors don't care about roasting fresh meat, half-cooked meat is the most delicious, so they hold up the sword and eat the meat, even if the juice is squirting.

The scene stunned the female captives. They were all delirious after their hands and feet were bound, and now they were curled up in deerskins.

The group quietly watched what the Ross people did. What's next? have no idea. They saw the beheaded head of Boss Gore with their own eyes, and now they saw a lot of dead bodies.

Pskov is over! All is lost. They would rather die in battle, would rather be killed, but for one reason or another they did not fulfill their wishes.

There are only twenty prisoners of war. The army can execute these people, but a nobleman has already ordered them all.

Bejahill, she didn't feel sorry for these Danish descendants of Pskov. In fact, her own country of Demyansk still exists only in theory, and it urgently needs a large number of people who obey her orders to fill it up.

The core of my uncle's country is the fifty cavalry slaves who are the personal guards. These steppe people all marry wives and have children in Novgorod. This is something that cavalry slaves never dared to think about in the past.

Fifty Knights obeyed Beja Hill's words, and she also needed the support of these people. In addition, the Demyansk County is in urgent need of population. Instead of recruiting farmers from the villages of Novgorod, it is better to find a way to let your subordinates marry more wives and have more children.

The shortcut to marrying a wife is war and plunder. It is normal to rob relatives on the prairie. The so-called "beauty is only for the strong". As a female nobleman, Beja Hill also supports this set, because it is extremely beneficial to herself now.

The young Ruth warriors had already had forced **** with these women, and that was the reason for many to be in a trance. Rurik acquiesced in this matter, but Bejacier thought it was a good thing.

After these women were finally transported back to Novgorod, they turned into slaves of the native place of Demyansk. Beja Hill

I wish they could get pregnant quickly and give birth to the child next winter, so that the slaves will become subjects, and the children they give birth will grow up to be their own little soldiers.

It's a pity that Beyahir is a woman. If she was a man, she would be eligible to compete for the Khan of the Pecheneg Khanate. Even if the competition failed, she would still be Khan Kagan's right-hand man.

Now she is Rurik's right-hand man, an excellent cavalry general, and a qualified wife.

Bejacir wished to have another child herself. She was not trying to please Rurik. The child was almost born for herself, and only with a large number of nobles in the county could it resist the unpredictable risks of the future.

But on this issue, Rurik actually maintained great restraint.

Without him, Bejahill, as the Countess of Demyansk, and her fifty elite cavalry under her command are already in Rurik's expedition plan, and she must maintain a good condition to fight on the Frankish land again.

The young warriors handed the whole roasted meat to the women, and they untied the captives' hands. The instinct to eat under hunger made them gnaw quickly, but they were **** again after eating the meat.

Rurik seized the limited time to inspect Gore's grain storage warehouse on the spot. They obviously didn't have much grain, but there was also a lot. The storage method was extremely pleasing.

An undeveloped piece of land on the banks of Lake Pskov, it was planted with flax, and the locals made clothes from these crops, and its rough products were roughly woven and sewn into sackcloth, which was a tribute, Gower Just use it to store a lot of food.

Rurik stands here with his brothers,

In front of them are many wooden houses dedicated to storing grain. Only here is the wooden plank that is obviously moisture-proof, and the brown and yellow sacks that are stuffed are piled up here to form the wall.

Rose's steel sword pierced a cloth bag, and he pulled it out again. A large amount of oat grains piled up in the bloodletting groove of the sword. When you pinch it a little, you can see that the wheat has not only been hulled, but also very dry and suitable for long-term storage.

"Very good. In this way, our military rations will be more secure."

Seeing that the king is so happy, the soldiers are also quite gratified.

Someone laughed and said, "This is a gift from Gore to the king. Since we got these, we don't need to ask the local villagers for tribute anymore, right?"

"Sacrifice? When did I say that I don't want their tribute?" Rurik glanced at the talkative subordinate, and the man retreated slightly in fright.

"However, we will have smarter ways to force them to give up some good things."

Rurik's words were somewhat meaningful. He understood that the local Krivitches had always resisted Gower's tyranny and were still unable to oppose him. Does Ross mean savior to these people? Or does it mean the arrival of another hegemon?

Comparing their hearts, Rurik believes that he is the latter in their hearts.

He ordered his subordinates to start moving the granary immediately, pulling all the vacant reindeer sleds that were parked into the city. Of course, the surplus food that the soldiers plundered from the houses could be thrown on the sled to become a common property, and of course they could also be taken with them as private surplus food.

There is only one purpose-the army packs all the valuables in the entire city of Pskov that can be taken away smoothly.

The order has been issued, and the city that was silent after the war has returned.

It became lively, and the faces of the resting soldiers were filled with the joy of harvest, and the empty sleds gradually filled up.

The cleanup of the battlefield has not yet started, and Rurik thought about it, but there is no need for his subordinates to do it.

The Russian army will not stay in Pskov for a long time. At best, everyone is a passer-by. To put it more arrogantly, eliminating Gore is just a matter of little effort by Ross.

Pskov was brightly lit that night, and the Russian army lit bonfires and set up barbecue stalls in various open spaces.

Since the captured cattle and sheep could not be taken away, Rurik decided to slaughter all the ponies except the ponies that could be used after a good balance. Chico.

The servant army did not participate in the battle at all, and it is not yet eating barbecue with the Ross army.

In the eyes of Mancheko and the armed villagers he brought, life has become extremely magical. Pskov changed overnight, and the local Danish immigrant forces collapsed. Now they are devouring the fresh meat of those people.

Just as Mancheko was laughing and chatting with the guys, Rose's messenger arrived and ordered him to go to the king's temporary palace to participate in the grand event.

Just in Gower's mansion, a long house that has been cleaned up and looks empty, it is brightly lit and arranged as a very nice meeting place. Rurik would definitely not stay here, he planned to stay with Bejahir in the sleigh that accompanied the army tonight.

He was sitting with the captains of each banner, and his eyes suddenly stared at Mancheko who had just started, which made the old man back again and again in shock, because the eyes had a fierce look, which made him unanimous.

Thinking of what the Ross Army had done during the day, he broke out in a cold sweat.

But Mancheko inevitably became the protagonist of the interim meeting.

He has no right to refuse, and the booty he obtained while taking advantage of the chaos is not for nothing—since the leader of Rope Village has been awarded the title of Boyar, he must fulfill his obligations for the king.

The task Rurik gave this man was not difficult, but it was to visit villages, large and small, near Pskov, so that the chiefs came to the meeting.

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For those neighboring villages, they all learned about the war in Pskov from the refugees. The refugees were all Krivichs living in the city. They were servants of the people of the larger Danish community, and there were also some small businessmen who went to live in the city temporarily.

Hundreds of villages are the supporters of the entire city of Pskov, but the population of these villages is small. If they can really unite, they can indeed become a powerful force.

Because, the entire area around Lake Pskov, including all the settlements in the upper reaches of the Velikaya River that nominally surrendered to Pskov, are a group of mysterious people who live in the forest and do not compete with the world, and do not contact outsiders unless necessary. village. The total population of this self-contained community is on the order of 100,000.

It is not a problem for Mancheko to inform those villages. After all, everyone is of the same family as Krivich, and they have been in contact with each other. In addition, everyone has to pay tribute to Gor, which forces the relationship between the villages to be closer.

Mancheco and the people he brought were sitting on Rose's reindeer sleigh, and they raised the flag high and walked along the path he knew best. This move was too high-profile, which immediately aroused the panic of the villagers, and even the

Armed resistance caused by fear.

Until those insightful people saw that the person who came was Mancheko, the boss of Rope Village, they were still wondering why this person was flying the so-called Ross people's flag with white background and blue stripes.

The person in charge of the village walked out, and after talking with Mancheko, he had to take a decisive measure in consideration of the future of his village—board a sled and follow.

The source of the speaker in each village is either elected by all the male villagers, or the most wealthy person in the village becomes the leader because of his obedience. The attitude of these people can represent the attitude of the whole village. The people in charge of each village boarded the sled one after another, planning to rush to Pskov, who did not know what it would look like, in order to show their allegiance to the new ruler, King Rurik of Rus.

As for providing tributes and so on, it doesn't matter, the most important thing is to survive, isn't it?

Mancheko moved quickly, and he assembled as many as thirty village chiefs in one day. Of course, this does not represent all the villages of Pskov, but the main villages of the region have sent people.

The Ross army was resting throughout the day, and Rurik planned to re-establish the relationship with the village leaders before the army marched away. It is easy to break an order, but difficult to establish a new one. Rurik does not plan to garrison troops in Pskov immediately, and even if he plans to establish a governor's mansion to control the local area, it is not something to do now.

What is the future of Pskov?

"Just like the Novgorod Republic, if a large number of villages with comparable strength gather together, and the village leaders meet together to decide certain major issues, then there is no need for a supreme leader to control them? This is a matter of expediency after all. plan, but order

It is in my interest for Skov to be temporarily republican. In this way, when I am free, I can naturally send a governor to govern the local area, and if I think about it, I will not encounter fierce resistance from the villagers who cannot really unite..."

In fact, Rurik has realized that what is a good life for the local villagers? A life without Gore is a good day.

I'm afraid that as long as Rose doesn't do too much in the future and does some kind things that Goyle won't do, the villagers will support him.

Rurik felt that Mancheko would return the next day, and he would be killed by angry villagers as a traitor if he was not guaranteed.

I didn't expect this guy to move very fast, and he returned with a group of men of different ages who were dressed as bloated as bears before the evening. Obviously, this is the local leader of the Krivich people.

They got off the sled one after another, and Rurik had to be amazed at the sheer number of them. As for these leaders, they were also shocked by the strength of the Ross army. Obviously, this is also a large group of Varyags who speak the Norse language, but... are they really Varyags?

Ross, is it the noblest and most powerful existence among the Varyags? It seems so.

Because they saw the real cavalry unit, the Russian cavalry riding on the Turkic horses with many manes and extremely cold resistance, each man and one horse seemed to be huge. Rurik rode as if he were a king, and he especially shone with his hair of pure gold, and indeed he was crowned with a golden laurel wreath of which he was proud.

He looked down at these Crevicians from a high position, guessed their exact number with his eyes, and made some plans in his mind.

"This is the great King Ross. Kneel quickly when you see the King!" Mancheko greeted everyone at the right time.

"A matter of duty".

Then, in Rurik's eyes, a group of people knelt on the ground to show their submission, and the skilled appearance made him a little uncomfortable.

"Get up, all of you!" Rurik ordered in Slavic with a strong accent.

Seeing those people couldn't help being startled, they slowly got up.

As long as he simply heard the news, Rurik could figure out the population situation in this area. The villages behind the 30 chiefs in front of him were better than the Rope Village in Mancheco, and the rest were only populations. More than a hundred small villages, large and small, are distributed like pies in the flat area at the mouth of the Velikaya River.

As for how many villages are there in this place? Obviously more can be done.

It was claimed that about fifty other villages had not come, an astonishingly large number.

"Are those guys against me? Or don't they know what happened in Pskov?" Rurik's question was unanswered, and seeing these men's submissive appearance, he couldn't help thinking, "I'm afraid these people are Very well controlled."

Like a herd of domesticated cattle and sheep, Rurik was worried that the local villagers would revolt fiercely. It seems that the dead Gore actually did something for Ross in advance.

Perhaps, the Krivich villagers in the Hukou area have become accustomed to having a higher-ranking person who rules them like a god.

Of course the situation was a bit more complicated than Rurik wanted.

It is fair to say that the Russian army did not hunt down the Krivich fighters in Pskov any more during the battle. Besides, the Krivich fighters who were killed were all from the city of Pskov. These people belonged to the Gower Group Servants, most people and villagers outside the city

There is already a gap between them.

Even for villages that are closer to the big city, they saw the battle and chose to flee with the whole village for a while, but fled back to the safe and sound village that night.

Instead, they discovered that the compatriots who escaped from Dacheng were eating and drinking secretly, so they had to control it. After learning the reason, they could only temporarily resettle them.

The Ross Army did not attack the Krivich villages, so for this battlefield, the villagers with the largest number have always been spectators. Gore and his forces suddenly disappeared, and the brand-new Rus of the Varyags appeared violently in such a way. They had already made some preparations in their hearts, so they saw Mancheko's sleigh the next day, and the village leaders Only then did they climb up one after another, hoping to face King Ross the Conqueror and pay his allegiance to him.

Because they had hope in the complex emotions-the Ross army may indeed be targeting Gore and his forces, and may really have no intention of attacking us Crevicians.

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Although thirty chiefs came, this has exceeded Rurik's estimate.

He never extravagantly hoped that a hundred chiefs would come to worship and pay homage to him. These thirty chiefs represented thirty of the most elite local villages. Unexpectedly great success.

Therefore, in their view, to enter the old longhouse of Gore, one must pass in front of the majestic Ross Army ceremonial array. There were a large number of soldiers in uniform, with murderous eyes in their eyes. Everyone dared not look at the faces of those people, and only looked at their beautiful, gorgeous and heroic clothes from the corner of their eyes.

Enter

The longhouse, Rurik, the king of Ross, is high above.

Everyone was allowed to have a glimpse of the king's honor, and only then did they really see that King Ross was a young man with blond hair and a blond beard, and he was a hundred times more youthful than Goyle. As for Goyle, here he is, more specifically a head.

The leaders met King Ross under the watchful eyes of the Ross warriors. On one side was the noble king, and on the other was the gray head of the former ruler, Gore, who died with regret.

Those who were allowed to sit cross-legged felt like they were sitting on pins and needles, vigilant against any disturbance, for fear that those soldiers would suddenly draw their swords and make themselves decapitated like Goyle. But Gore's head is here, and they understand that a powerful old force is really coming to an end.

Regarding these people, Rurik will definitely not discuss with them. The leaders can only be honest and obedient, and things are moving in a good direction...

"The king has ruled Pskov, and you and your villagers are the subjects of Rus! You are like a group of lambs, and I am the shepherd, so you provide some wool for me to use, in exchange Rus protects yours. Safe, that's reasonable." Rurik used this metaphor to describe the meaning of "tribute" or "tax".

"But! This king has no intention of managing you now, and will not force you to do something beyond your power. You are all the leaders of the villages. In the past, you surrendered to Gore, and now you surrender to me! Now I seal all of you as Boyars, you have all become nobles of equal rank. No one is more noble among you, the city of Pskov, the great city you share, and you can live freely in this land

live…"

Boyars are just the lower-level nobles under Ross's hierarchy, and the fact that a village leader was granted the title of hereditary boyar really gave the reason for the hereditary leadership of the family of this generation of leaders. Who doesn't want to be hereditary? As long as you hold the leader position all the time, you can occupy the best resources in the village. In this regard, they understood Gore's actions, but they had been exploited as weak people at that time, but now, they can still become exploiters?

This is the new order in Pskov that Rurik wants to create immediately.

The Great Danish Community, which represented the Sovereignty, fell apart, and its inhabitants were either killed or made slaves to be taken away.

As for the small community that has been separated from it for a long time, Olafin, who holds the title of earl (war chief), will take the folks in the small community to the Lubans Lake area to establish their earl country after the dust settles. Everyone will also have the title of Boyar, because this kind of title is actually the full power of Oranfen.

Some boyars were village chiefs, while others were simply heads of merchant families.

This title is more like a ticket, so that people who are not old Ross can get the opportunity to develop to the upper level of the Ross Kingdom.

Here, the various chiefs are wise. They all knew the concept of the "Kingdom of Rose" from the news that came back last year, and they also heard that she was "extremely powerful". How powerful is it? Just look at the large number of unburied corpses of the war dead to understand everything-the Ross army killed the Gower forces as easily as slaughtering sheep and cattle.

They shouted long live, whether it was under pressure or out of sincerity, they were all lamenting the wisdom of the king.

Look at them, Rurik

The deliberately serious face gradually returned to a comfortable smile.

Because that's what checks and balances are.

In the future, the Governor's Mansion will be the highest authority in the Pskov region, and the Governor will be someone who is related to King Ross himself. In fact, Rurik has already wanted to find a favor for his actual second son Oleg. The way out, that boy will be twelve years old in seven or eight years, and the boy who was born aristocrat needs to participate in the governance of the kingdom.

Where did Oleg arrange to go? Putting it in Pskov might be a good idea.

The Governor's Mansion represents the will of the king, and there will no longer be an earldom here, but there will be boyars and their villages, large and small. No boyar has the power to covet the highest power in the region, and of course they cannot do so. Rurik feels that he has already limited their upper limit of development. Even if the population of these villages develops in the future, Ross can still easily suppress them. The presence.

A republic was temporarily formed among the boyars, and a day without Gore came.

As a token of gratitude, it is not an exaggeration to give King Ross and the Ross Army a batch of food-based tributes.

Originally, these people had the idea of ​​spending money to buy peace. It is not unacceptable to go to the extreme and organize some girls in the village to donate to Ross—in order to survive, the villages will adopt some extreme methods.

However, UU Reading www.uukanshu. com They never thought that while offering "tribute", King Ross also had a saying called "reward".

Is this still a one-sided tribute? Isn't it a business transaction? It's just that the performance of the name is different, but the inner meaning is still a transaction.

All kinds of trophies are exchanged for a batch of food for local villagers

However, even if the Russian army obtained a large amount of food after detailing the city, the army did not lack it at all. It is not uncommon for the Russian army to have better steel products for the same spoils of war.

At least for a large number of local villages that lack iron, even rusty iron ingots are very precious.

oppression? humiliation? In the presence of King Ross, the thirty chiefs felt for the first time that the new King Ross was worthy of the titles "sva" and "skoi".

Rurik was already a young saint in the eyes of these Krivichs.

Without him, because what Rurik, the king of Ross, is showing is indeed much better than the Dane Gower.