Rise of Rurik - Chapter 1129 Rurik at Elon Orava Fort

Ross needs to step up his preparations for the war, and what to do in detail, everything can be reproduced as much as possible according to the armament plan in 839.

Rurik stayed in Rosberg for three days. He inspected the town of Blast Furnace. He personally felt the heat of the place, smelled the strong smell of coke, and also watched the cast iron once.

The **** is like magma, with a slow flow and a thick texture. The molten iron is really like water, and the "water" that is so hot that it looks a little whitish flows into the preset pottery mold. Those pottery molds were made in different shapes and shapes, and apparently they were only used for collecting solidified pig iron ingots.

If mild steel tools can be obtained, no one wants to use wrought iron or cast iron, the former is too soft and the latter is too brittle, and a carbon steel axe is required for felling large trees.

Blast Furnace Town did a small amount of pig iron processing. Now, taking advantage of the king's stay, all furnaces in Blast Furnace Town are producing at full capacity, and all solidified iron ingots are planned to be brought back to the capital by the king's ships.

There is demand in blast furnace town, and mines in mountainous areas must increase the transportation of raw materials.

The charcoal-making and pottery-making workshops are a fiery scene. The king is more willing to give money when there is demand, and the laborers have a strong motivation.

As for who was displeased, those slave laborers who consisted of prisoners of war could only endure the cold and fatigue and continue to work hard.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to inspect, Kawit put together a speech for the king to raise his eyebrows.

All the laborers who could make a move were gathered in one place, and they could easily see the king's golden crown, and then the king's tall and straight shadow.

I saw Rurik standing at a high place and ignoring the cold wind that pierced through the fjord, and he raised his voice abruptly to cover the wind.

"You must ramp up production! Try to be as efficient as possible this winter! Ross is facing a whole new challenge, and a whole new war is ahead. We will make a fortune in this new war! For you, war needs enough ordnance, Don't think that you are just adding charcoal to the stove at the rear and it has nothing to do with the war. No! Whether the army can win the battle is half from the courage of the soldiers, and the other half from your iron! Work hard! This king's need for iron is inexhaustible, You can produce as much as you like, and this king will buy it with silver coins or food of the same value..."

It is necessary for Rurik to elevate the status of these heavy industry talents. Of course, his current status is high, and this high-level speech is indeed a show.

What do you think of this show? Naturally, it was a clapping applause.

The king asked to work hard, and even continued to do it despite the harsh winter. As long as you have enough money and food, you can do anything. Now, the king does have enough money and food to support his agitation.

The Governor has a solid record of how many registered laborers are in Blast Furnace.

The number of husbands who only work in metal smelting is as large as three hundred, and those who provide ores, charcoal and pottery molds are not among them.

The former means that the registered people are entitled to a salary. In principle, they can’t work when they are old, and they can receive some food every month for the old age. They are the people who directly contribute to the interests of the royal family and the Blacksmiths Union in the true sense, and they are treated the best.

Those who provided the raw materials came from a variety of sources, and a considerable number of laborers were slaves. Even children as young as five years old can take part in providing raw materials, and anyone with a chisel or axe can go to the borderless mountains to dig open-air iron ore.

When it comes to the current excavation efficiency of Roseburg, although thermal expansion and cold contraction have been widely used to destroy rocks, it is still not as pleasant as using violent tools such as detonators. They don't have advanced technology, using fire and watering tricks, the amount of ore mining has been far removed from the past.

For the craftsmen, they are all aware of this rapid efficiency. For Rurik, no one knows the power of steel better than him, and he is not satisfied with the current mining efficiency, but there is no way.

Even with such poor technology, even after a thousand years of digging, the open-pit mines in the northern region could not be dug out.

And the long and narrow central mountain range of Scandinavia, which was squeezed and lifted by plate movement, pushed an extremely high-quality iron ore vein to the superficial bottom layer. If you dig underground, you can dig out better quality ore, but it's very unnecessary.

Roseburg is indeed prosperous, but there are not many people who really devote themselves to ore mining. Mining is a laborious thing to hurt the body. The ore itself is worthless. It is just a stone on the ground, and it is indeed the key to the smelting industry. Simply relying on the supply of ore from Roseburg cannot feed the earth blast furnace matrix in Blast Furnace Town, so a second source of ore is needed - Fort Elronorava.

That was also the last stop of Rurik's northern inspection.

Compared to Roseburg in the Col, Fort Elronorava is on a flat riverside.

A thicker wall tightly wraps the city, the riverside piers are neatly repaired, the waterwheels forged by water are constantly buzzing, and the rat cage jacks standing beside the city walls are also busy working.

This place is the gateway to the northern ice and snow world and the core of Ross' entire "Arctic Ocean Economic Belt".

The disappearing fishing boats are all over the place, and Rurik arrived with his family just after the busiest fishing season.

The baby roe is collected, pickled with coarse salt, and processed into a salty and greasy sauce for dinner.

The fish that has been gutted from the head is spread out, and then skewered with hemp ropes and grilled on a bonfire on a large scale to be processed into the most traditional jerky. "Fish cakes" will be roasted hard enough, and there is also the wild act of roasting venison, rabbit, fox, wolf, and even bear meat.

This is what the cold land in the north can provide. Like all northern tribes, the old Rus and the northern tribes have a similar traditional way of life due to the harsh climate, and now they live together as a family.

The battleship rarely had a chance to rush to the deepest part of the Gulf of Bothnia, where there were already signs of freezing. It was certain that the minimum temperature at night had reached zero degrees, so it could be seen that the dead grass on the banks of the river was always frosted in the morning, and the white flowers were all around.

It is very bad that Rurik has entered the Arctic Circle, there is only one polar night in Roseburg, and for Elrond, the polar night will last for several days.

The winter solstice is still some time away, and now the hours of daylight here are rapidly decreasing.

The polar night is nothing, and the Lapps and Kovans are used to this winter life.

The Lapps prepare for reindeer herding in winter. They bring deer skins, bones, walrus tusks and other items to exchange iron and salt at Elronborg, as well as other necessities of life.

The Kewen people, or the Kewen people, who are mainly dominated by the gray squirrel tribe, have long since said goodbye to the hunting life of the past.

They have never been poor tribes who can only live by hunting and fishing. Whenever they have the opportunity, they will definitely change their way of life to make life better.

Originally Kewen's tribe of salmon masters discovered the large mines of Elrond Castle. The unique chromite here allows Ross to manufacture some extremely high-quality stainless steel products, although the technical output is not high.

In the end, the Salami Lord Tribe finally obtained the resources of the Oulu River Basin in the eastern region, and the Grey Squirrel Tribe was collectively migrated to Elronborg.

This is Rurik's intention. The two tribes were originally hostile. The reason for their hostility was the competition for limited resources. Now that they are separated from each other, there is no reason for hostility at all.

More than ten years have passed since the war, and the name of the Grey Squirrel clan has also been changed to "Iron Squirrel", which is the original intention of Fort Elronorava.

Due to Ross's direct participation in the war, the population of the Grey Squirrel Division suffered heavy losses, and their population recovery efforts have paid off in ten years.

The premise that there is a righteousness is the hatred of the country and the family. The premise is that there must be a country and a family. Their choices are more pragmatic. Based on the principle of joining if they can’t beat them, they are now incorporated into the Ross system. Governor Mechasta, the tribal chief, has a good life not bad.

The tribe needs to revive the population. After a large number of men were killed, the remaining women of the tribe shouldered the heavy responsibility of revival. They took the initiative to have relations with the Rus who came to the north to hunt. This kind of situation like a dewy couple will definitely happen with the annual winter hunting. .

In Elronborg, a large number of brown-haired children appeared, and in this environment, they spoke the Norse language in general, and the Kowen dialect of Finnish was extremely fluent. They are half-blooded Cowens, and almost no one knows the identity of their Russ or Melalen fathers, only that the Governor is their own chieftain. They have now also learned that the High Chief's daughter, Seporava, has given birth to a child for King Ross, a noble half-blood boy who will be the next Chief.

Due to the deep draft, Rurik's large ship could only drop anchor near the shore, and then landed in Elrond in a small boat.

Looking around, except for the huge low hill to the northwest, the mountains in the distance can be clearly seen through the clear air.

Are the mountains far? At least one hundred kilometers.

The king came suddenly, the open-air market was completely empty, and a miscellaneous crowd gathered near the shore to watch the excitement.

I saw Governor Mechasta and his guards separated from the crowd of onlookers, and ran wildly on the boardwalk.

He had a lot of questions to ask the king, and at the time of the meeting, there was a flurry of inquiries, and he couldn't wait to hear about his daughter and grandson.

He was really anxious, especially when he saw the presence of the queen, the prince, and the future high priest Velika.

Goodbye to the old fellow, Rurik was quite surprised. It seems that life is really richer than before. This old guy has gray hair, but his whole person eats a round head, which is not enough to describe it as a fat-headed fish. The cheekbones unique to his North Asian blood are slightly protruding and have been inflated. The fat is basically covered up.

"Your Majesty, my daughter... didn't come?"

"Sepolava, she needs a good recuperation, and Tibetan is too young to withstand extreme cold and wind and waves."

"Boba, is my grandson's name called that? It's a good name."

"Of course, you can rest assured that she cultivated in the warm Novgorod, ate well and slept well."

Mechasta is happy that his grandson has a traditional Kovin name.

Mechasta, who used to be brave and good at fighting for the survival of the tribe, will eventually face irreversible aging when he is young and strong. The king in front of him was more heroic than two thousand years ago. He also learned too much news about last year's war. Since the published "War Chronicles" articles were spread to various settlements, Mechasta read the original text, and also from the returned one. The clansmen learned a more detailed battle situation.

Since the number of troops sent by the Kovins is very small and they are all longbowmen, they are all commanded by the great chief of the Suomi tribe, that is, the count of Finland. .

Everyone needs glory, and the Kewen people can say that their tribe followed King Rus all the way to Denmark, and even to the Frankish world.

In the war against the Franks, those Corvin archers clapped their chests and claimed that what they said was true.

But the scale of the war is far beyond the concept of the old leader Mechasta. For example, he has rarely seen horses several times in his life. Although he knows the existence of cavalry units in the Ross Army, he thinks of two thousand iron armored cavalry. The charge, he was powerless. People cannot imagine things they have never seen before.

When you arrive at Elronborg, you must taste the special salmon here.

The so-called salamander, or salmon, is more appropriate.

It is also important to eat fish. The large-sized salamander caught here will be offered as a sacrifice to the river **** to thank the gift. This is an old rule of all tribes of the Kewen tribe.

Unlike the Rus, who may burn the offerings, the Kovan tribes usually give the offerings to the most honorable people in the tribe after completing the priesthood.

The priestess of Elronborg, Rurik remembered this woman dressed in a special costume covered with feathers, dressed as an owl, dancing a wonderful dance by the bonfire, playing the harp to make "ancient electronic sounds" and imitating birds called it.

Governor Mechasta warmly entertained the royal family with a whole fish feast, including Rurik's entourage who were also open to eating fish.

The fish is fried in oil and served with pickled caviar. The food here is too "ketogenic", and Rurik doesn't say anything. There is no shortage of wheat in Elronborg. This is the northernmost mine. People who work hard need a lot of wheat. In order to ensure the production of ore and the logging of good wood in the north, the granary built by Elrond is full of wheat. In this state, a grain of wheat can be preserved for years.

Mechasta just wanted to present a whole fish feast to reflect the local characteristics, so he did not prepare wheat cakes at all.

Every time she went to the new land, she had to eat and drink. The little baby of the ceremony came over.

Queen Svetlana was instinctively wary of her, but the middle-aged priestess hurriedly went straight to the inexplicable Velika.

"You...what are you doing?"

The priestess did not speak for a while, took out her treasure from her arms and put it in her mouth. The next step was to keep fiddling. The wonderful sound of the mouth yellow qin attracted Velika's eyes, and Lanna, who was holding her son, was also curious.

"You are the future high priest of Ross, and I am the high priest of Kewen. Children, communicate, this is called a mouth yellow qin, you can play with it. Well, you can also give it to you."

Curiosity drove Willika to find it, and after wiping it, it was stuffed into his mouth, and then his eyes widened and the pornographic film was constantly fluctuating...

All this was arranged by Governor Mechasta, only to make the relationship between the Corvins of Elrond and Ross closer.

Rurik noticed that his daughter was playing with that gadget, and he was slightly drunk again, and the "ancient electronic music" in his ears made the wooden house of the banquet add a different feeling, as if the time and space were dislocated.

He has already stuffed a stomach full of fish meat and fish oil, and now he really can't eat it.

What can two well-fed men talk about together? Talk about their own family affairs, and finally, return to the "big event" that men care about most.

"There is a situation now," Rurik said bluntly.

"Could it have something to do with us?"

"Exactly. How are you producing ore now? I know that in winter, this place will be covered with ice and snow, and your water forging workshop will be shut down. Although the only blast furnace is still spewing fire, I'm afraid it's over there in the mine..."

"I understand a little bit. We won't mine in extreme cold. After all, I lack slaves here, and let the tribe risk freezing to death to mine... I'm very worried."

"I don't see it." Rurik shrugged, "I see it! There are brown-haired boys running around. They speak Finnish. I can't believe they are really afraid of the cold."

"This... they are indeed much stronger than my generation." Mechasta is telling the truth. The oldest mixed-race child in the tribe is already eleven years old. When it comes to height, a boy of this age is almost equal to I agree. Maybe they couldn't grow up to be as burly as the blond pureblood Rus, and far better than their own parents.

"You must give young people a chance. It's a pity that they are still too young now."

"Your Majesty, is there something in your words?"

"Yes~www.novelbuddy.com~ This king is preparing for a new war, and these boys of yours are also recruited."

"Ah! They are indeed young. So, who is the king going to fight?"

"Fight Frank again." Rurik rudely knocked on the table. "However, the situation is not enough for us to start a full-scale war. There are many things to consider when launching an expedition with a large fleet, and your boys are indeed not suitable for participation. Only, no It's suitable for next year's participation. They will grow up soon, and in five years at most, they will be qualified fighters. Listen..." Rurik continued to probe, his golden eyebrows tightened into a line: "I won't let your When people go to fight, you train the boys to be archers. You make them work harder for strong arms, understand?"

"Oh! I basically understand."

"No, you still don't understand."

"how?"

"What better way to exercise the strength of your arms than to dig ore with a pickaxe? This king is expanding his army, and you and Rosberg will do your best to provide ore. Be bold this winter, dig as much as you can, and pile the ore in Wharf, I will come to pick it up next spring. Don't worry, money and food will be indispensable to you."