Rise of Rurik - Chapter 1094

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In 841 Rurik had no plans for a large-scale war. He did not refuse the war, but authorized his subordinate nobles to take the initiative, and if he did well, he would acknowledge the merits, and if he did not do well, he would swallow the loss himself.

So when the Eastern European region, the Principality of Ostara began to go south and just arrived at Lukiholm. As for the Latvian tribes who built the Vitebsk fortress, took the initiative to attack the Polotsks, and entered and conquered the Gulf of Riga in a high-profile manner, none of this matters.

At the same time, the canal project that Rurik personally led had just been planned, and the project was already on the verge of starting.

As far away as Western Europe and Britain, Ragnar looted Kent in Wessex with his Danish hero, and the Gould family’s red and black fox brothers had just arrived in Utrecht to meet the immigrant Nassau family. meeting.

In the inland areas of Western Europe, the blue fox, who in fact became the chief of the village of Nassau, was busy with infrastructure construction, and the initiative to implement the rules of King Rurik had not yet been implemented.

A war in Northwest Europe has just ended, but it is only half a year after the end of the peace talks. The situation in Western Europe, Northern Europe, Eastern Europe and Britain has become more complicated.

The Rus Kingdom leads the entire northern world and continues to make breakthroughs in many aspects. The blue fox, who is far away in the middle reaches of the Yin River, has no time to take care of the actions of others. He focuses on the things in front of him and has experienced a lot of hard work. situation, now everything becomes familiar.

A new wooden fort stands in the riverside area, and it is aptly called “Nassau Castle”, but it will be the Ross garrison living in it.

The entire Nassau Village was originally undefended, and the villagers’ buildings were only mud walls and haystacks. The villagers’ living environment was not good, and they were not very particular about hygiene and cleanliness. In the past, the Nassau family never cared about this aspect. Now that the Blue Fox is in power, in the name of his younger brother Sophia Nassau, he forces the villagers to improve everything.

The mud walls and haystacks were pushed down, and the stones embedded in them collapsed.

Because the settlement Baden Ems is a quarry, the locals don’t really live in mud shacks.

However, there is a layer of mud on the lake outside the stone wall, so the house cannot be kept warm in winter, and the indoor environment is also very simple. The blue fox couldn’t imagine how this group of people survived the winter. Maybe it’s just that the local winter wind and snow are not cold.

He is not a good man, but he intends to improve all of this out of his own business rationality.

Nassau Village has a unique small culture since ancient times, the so-called wine making and dairy production, in addition to the other culture has been completely transformed by Catholicism. Since this small clan was annexed by the Franks, the chiefdom era is gone forever, and it has existed in the form of a barony for more than a hundred years, but the population has not grown substantially.

The cramped living space in the col, poor hygiene, lack of safety awareness, and even the harsh rebuke of the small baron by the big aristocrats have led to the current situation.

Now Henry left with half of the population, leaving Blue Fox and Sophia Nassau not much left.

It is this person who can’t expect a group of villagers to do anything. If they continue to suffer, Ross shops will have no prospects for development here!

It is precisely this person, as long as the traditional management methods of the Gould family are used, why not? !

In the past, no nobles could directly manage every villager in the territory. The normal situation was that the local church managed the daily life of the people. The lord was busy hunting and fighting, so he could just tour the territory every year to collect taxes.

This is not the case with the blue fox. He has regarded every male and female villager who is able to work as an employee, just like the professional sailors and servants raised by the northern world family.

The summer solstice is approaching, local priest Conrad is busy preparing for the holiday mass, and the construction of Nassau Village for the villagers has begun.

The villagers who have already gained a lot of sweetness are willing to work for the Rus. Although they are illiterate and have limited knowledge, they also realize that their future life should be better after building a new house. Because they really participated in the construction of the large and small wooden houses in the fortress, they were surprised by the unique design, and they couldn’t help thinking whether their own homes could follow suit.

At first, some villagers were just chatting about the matter, but at the end of June, a new construction operation really started.

There were only one hundred and fifty small families left to manage by the Blue Fox. Except for the families who lived in the settlements of Lanstein and Baden Ames, there were only a hundred or so families who settled in Nassau Village. The heads of each family are middle-aged men, and these people in Daxing Civil Engineering are the absolute main force. Of course, if going to war, these people are also the militias that are recruited first.

He rounded up the grown men and told them his new opinion. The limited dissent was drowned out by the cries of approval, after all, they all wanted to improve their lives quickly.

At the beginning, a small part of the old houses were demolished, and the strong labor of the whole village was organized, just like they built the “Nassau Castle” of the Rus, logging, sawing, laying foundations, and laying floors. To build their own new home, they have a high enthusiasm for construction, and the construction efficiency is also extremely fast.

Because the soil in the river valley is soft, the newly cut pine wood was bought into the newly dug water seepage pit, which is a load-bearing column, and then the small wooden stakes were smashed into the ground by a wooden hammer. The wooden walls of the house are made of mortise and tenon structures stacked on top of each other, and the wooden floors are directly laid of bark pine. The floors and walls are thick, and a lot of reeds are stuffed into the gaps in the outer walls. The gabled roof rests on a whole pine wood as a beam, followed by a gabled roof made of wood.

Different from the old houses, where a bonfire is directly lit in the house for heating in winter, stone fireplaces are placed, and newly built houses have chimneys higher than the roof.

This is a Russ-style woodcut building, a collection of Nordic longhouses and Slavic wooden houses, plus a stone fireplace. This construction is the absolute main force in the main settlement of the Rus, which has withstood the double test of the extreme cold in the north and the snow and mud in the spring. Blue Fox has no idea either. He doesn’t know if there is a more suitable building model. Obviously, it is no problem to transplant Ross’s set.

The native pine trees are inexhaustible, some of which are astonishingly towering. For safety reasons, the local people generally dare not take the risk of being crushed to cut down giant trees, but the guys at Blue Fox do not. They rely on “Viking logging” to cut down in a directional manner, combined with a double saw and a sharper steel axe. , it’s easy to handle these giant lumbers, not to mention the small ones.

They built the house in a rough way, but they resisted the smell of pine wood and moved into the new house. The pine resin smell could not suppress the joy of owning a new house.

The villagers are helping each other. In order to make the construction progress faster, Lanhu arranged for his own people to participate as much as possible, so that no one owes anyone else.

They have indeed reached a state of happiness, provided that Blue Fox has enough food to support this high-intensity infrastructure.

If there is not enough food to eat, go buy it! Funds are still relatively abundant.

“Or, go grab Koblenz.”

So from the perspective of the people left behind in Nassau Village, a highly armed outsider is exporting benefits on a large scale. As long as you continue to do things for these Rus people, you can continue to get benefits, and it seems that you will not be exploited by the lord.

Lord? Who is the lord now? Is that Sophia Nassau? Just a little girl.

Who is the real lord? It was clearly the Joseph Blue Fox from the Rus. This nobleman is said to be the earl of the north, just like the angel depicted in the scriptures. He was busy distributing money and food in Nassau, and now he is also contributing to improve everyone’s living conditions.

Because these people who have always lived in poverty have always maintained such a state of life, they do not know what is rich, and even feel that they are not qualified to covet the life of the lord.

They are always willing to be poor and humble, and adults will also teach their children to be farmers with peace of mind, and they must kneel by the roadside when they see the lord and his squires.

Now, they have tasted the sweetness of the Rus, and life is like heaven in their knowledge.

They don’t want to lose the happy days of having enough food and money every day, without even having to consume their own surplus food.

If this slightly fat blue fox invited everyone to go to war, would he go? Must go!

Indeed, the blue fox is not a good person, he is just using the usual tricks of the Gould family to treat these ordinary people who do things for themselves. Businessmen who can expand their careers must be honest, otherwise “they will be killed by the wild boar of Frey.”

In fact, he maintains a cooperative relationship with all the people of Nassau Village. The so-called “I give you money and you contribute” is a fair deal. In fact, he regards the villagers as living people, unlike some lords who regard the people of the territory as “fat sheep waiting for their wool”, and then arbitrarily extract benefits.

The fireplaces and chimneys of the newly built houses are smoking thick, and the villagers can cook some porridge in their own homes without worrying about making the whole house smoky. More houses are under construction, and Nassau Village is still a large construction site, and its appearance has undergone tremendous changes visible to the naked eye.

It is in this joyous atmosphere that Nassau Village Abbey completed the local summer solstice mass. This mass is not an important festival of the year, but at this unique time point, the villagers and the converted are the blue foxes who are enjoying themselves. The boys in the village sang hymns in unison, singing hallelujah, as to who is the saint? There is a group in front of them. Of course, there is nothing wrong with singing Hallelujah. The people must be sure that these foreign Russ must be the angels sent by the Lord.

The Barony of Nassau has actually formed a community of interests with Ross shops as the core, and Father Conrad has actually become a marginal figure. The latter didn’t want to say anything. After all, living with a thousand pounds of wheat given by others, the mere ten priests lived a good life like never before.

It looks like an idyllic idyll here.

Now that the grapes are ripe, the young girls in the village are trampling the grapes to a pulp in the big oak barrels with their bare feet, singing folk songs as they step on them. The blue fox and his subordinates were also happy to see this scene. After all, wine was extremely expensive in the north in the past. As for how to make blood-like wine, now everyone really understands it and feels even more delicious.

The Barony of Nassau is located in the northwest of the huge Black Forest mountains. The large and small cols in the mountains are settlements and the slopes are suitable for growing grapes. There are no large-scale vineyards near Nassau Village, and the village women carry rattan baskets to collect wildly cultivated crops, and it is not an exaggeration to call them wild grapes. These small-grained grapes are sweet and sour, but there is not enough juice. It is more efficient to tamper with a wooden hammer than to step on them with your feet. If an elderly woman stepped on it, the buyer would have a grudge against the glass of wine when the news reached the buyer. If a young woman stepped on it, the situation would be completely different.

To make wine in all parts of the Black Forest, the first is to organize some village girls to step on the grapes into a lake of pulp, and then put them into wooden barrels and put the lees used for winemaking before, and wait for the magic of time. All settlements did this, even Provence in the main wine-producing regions, southern Italy and Eastern Rome in Greece.

It takes time to drink wine. The wine that I bought by the last time I bought food has been drunk. Blue Fox can’t forget this delicious taste, so he just took the brothers to drink the grape juice directly. The brothers are also very comfortable, and they love Nassau to death when they think that wine that is precious as gold and silver in the northern world can now be drunk every day.

Not only wine is here, but the Baden Ems quarry in the lower reaches of the Nassau Village river has thermal resources attached to it. Natural hot water is extremely rare in the northern world. Everyone does not know why hot water can be poured out of the ground, and it can be led to a pond to weaken its enthusiasm. Then the brothers jump in and take a good bath, not to enjoy it. So they simply used local materials, piled the stones from the quarry into a mud pond, and created a hot spring pool in a short time.

Some of the new wooden houses in the quarry have also been transformed into complete saunas.

Hot springs, saunas, and grilled fish, porridge and wine, Baden Ems became a sanatorium.

Life is getting better, it is extremely stable, even if not far from the other side of the Inn is the Koblenz stronghold of the Middle Kingdom.

Of course, the blue fox did not forget the king’s order to cause trouble. This is the end of the construction. If there is no new situation, it is better to rest well first. It is like a fat seal lying on the shore with its belly open to bask in the sun and doing nothing.

Of course, he has ample reasons to be a seal, and the biggest reason is that his younger brother and the troops sent out did not return. “Even if I bring the villagers up, I can organize up to 300 people. What can the army do with this?”

But the black fox couldn’t stay in the lowlands for a long time. He couldn’t go to Nassau village with a bunch of people empty-handed, and then he took his own funds to buy a batch of agricultural products in wealthy Utrecht, and then took the Danes from Buy some pots and pans from Kent. He must be fully prepared, after all, he may have to stay in Nassau for a long time in his life, and the so-called baron of Nassau in the name of the housekeeper is really.

It has been lingering until late June, when the fleet carrying a large amount of living materials set off.

Some people really leave the village of Nassau where they have lived for generations to go to Utrecht, and some Utrecht villagers want to follow the fleet of Black Fox to Nassau.

In addition to the people who performed the transportation task before, there are now nearly 500 black fox nodules, including some lowland villagers whose whole families immigrated.

A typical Viking longship flies three flags: the Ross flag, the black cross on a white background, and the Three Lions flag of Charlemagne. Only the Ross flag, which has been deliberately explained as “Saint Andrew’s Cross”, proves the true identity of the fleet, and other flags are deceptive.

Thanks to the latter two flags, the settlements along the route of the fleet did not cause panic.

Some nobles in the Middle Kingdom were informed of the fleet’s transit, and based on the flag, they judged that they were Prince Ludwig’s people—the Danish mercenaries.

At present, the main battlefield of the Middle Kingdom and the Eastern Kingdom is still in the area centered on Strasbourg. The Middle Kingdom army stationed in Aachen is vigilant against the other side of the Rhine River, but will not take the initiative to attack. Who are the people on the other side? Mainly the Diocese of Cologne, they will not directly intervene in the kingdom civil war.

In fact, if it is a high-intensity economic blood transfusion, it is enough to change the battle situation of one side. The Diocese of Cologne lost a sum of money, but it gained the entire earldom of Westphalia. If the money is gone, it can be earned again. The direct control area is not good! Archbishop Hadbold felt that this was a brand-new “Pepin Consecration”, and he might be promoted to Pope of Rome in the future, or he might recommend his students to enter Rome. Because they are fed up with the disputes among the nobles, they are eager to use some peaceful means to take the nobles’ territory as their own and establish a peaceful heaven on earth. It was indeed a great victory to have all of Westphalia.

The problem is that this matter was recognized by the Eastern Kingdom. If King Lothair of the Middle Kingdom finally wins the civil war, the expansion of the Diocese of Cologne will definitely not be recognized.

The priests of Cologne intended to make a business transaction with the Rus people who were good at seafaring, and finally saw the Ross fleet passing through in extreme excitement, and then watched them leave quietly.

It seems that the Ross fleet has no idea about Cologne.

“Sophia! How beautiful are you? Is your village rich?”

The black fox looked at the city of Cologne on the boat. The city is indeed large. However, this young man is young and restless. He wants to make a contribution and is eager to welcome his own woman. In the future, even trading with Cologne is a matter of his younger brother, Red Fox. It is better for him to rush to Nassau Village as soon as possible.

So, the Ross fleet passed under the eyes of the defenders of Koblenz again. This time, the three lions of Charlemagne were flying on the mast. trick.

Only the true Frankish king was entitled to inherit Charlemagne’s Three Lions banner. The civil war was at its peak, and Lothair had unilaterally announced that he would take back the title of Duke Ludwig of Bavaria. Ludwig put on the three lion flag in a high-profile and sang the opposite stage with his elder brother, so that he was the orthodox. A group of nobles chose a side, all the nobles and even the parish who came to the north bank of the Inn River all supported Ludwig, and the nobles who came to the south bank of the Inn River all supported Lothair.

The defenders of Koblenz were actually only 200 people, and at most some militiamen were recruited.

This place has also changed hands. According to the old treaty, it was the fief of Charles the Bald of the West Kingdom, and Lothair forcibly occupied the West Kingdom enclave. The local villagers don’t care, the civil war of the senior nobles has nothing to do with them, as long as they pay taxes on time, how can they live?

Only the defenders were worried that the army of the Eastern Kingdom might cross the river and take the city, and Ludwig was motivated by this.

The defenders didn’t know that there was a fat young man of only sixteen years old standing in the fleet. The little fat man was standing on the stern deck, watching the long boat pulling the big boat struggling to paddle, while looking sideways at the city that was healthy on the mound.

“Is this Koblenz? The nail Henry Nassau suggested I pull out?”

Immediately, a “consultant” from Nassau Village replied, “Yes~ www.mtlnovel.com~ if you wish.”

“Yes! Of course I do. It seems that I have to discuss it with my brother. Now that I have a sword and a boat, won’t it be easy to take it?!”

As a result, the fishermen of Lanstein Village were the first to encounter the brand-new Ross fleet, and it was they who led the team into the Lan River and then successfully reached the end of the journey.

Heihu was obsessed with his fiancée he had never met, and when he finally saw the true face of Nassau Village, he was dumbfounded again.

“Unbelievable! Why do I think this village seems familiar?!”

“No! Brother, are you building this village according to what we did on Gould Island and Tombstone Island?”

Indeed, except for a three-story stone building, the rest of the buildings are full of the style of the Rus Kingdom. Whether it is a Ross-style wooden wall or a woodcut, coupled with the two pointed long boats moored at the pier, it is inevitable that the black fox will have an illusion.

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