Rise of Rurik

The people on the shore took over the tossed cables and pulled the Salmon Chief to the trestle of the pier. All the cables were tied in place and dead-knotted, and the ship, still adrift on the Volkhov, was completely stable.

The rocker was put down, and Spuut, who was clinging to the side rail, hurriedly disembarked with his men to accept the curious questions of the people of Novgorod.

After all, most of the Novgorod people did not know about the privateering of this ship. Since the Principality has built a fairly complete clothing processing industry chain in the Ilmen Lake area and Novgorod City, they subconsciously feel that this ship is here for delivery.

"You ask me if I brought leather or linen? It's all wool!"

Spuut is in a showdown, and he and the guys don't need this pile of wool. Half of it belongs to the prince, and the remaining half is to be sold to the prince.

The people who disembarked rested for a while, then boarded again, and the unprocessed wool, packed tightly and heavy in sacks, was taken out of the cabin, put into the net pockets suspended by the human-powered crane that had been lowered to the deck, and was carried ashore one by one.

Those laborers are well aware of the fact that the so-called that everyone can continue to eat the king's salary and receive four silver coins a month is based on the stable supply of textile raw materials. If the supply is not smooth, the result will naturally be a decline in production capacity. For this reason, the Maharaja will announce a temporary holiday, and the cooks do not want this.

In Danish business culture, goods such as wool default to 100 pounds in a sack, which is actually the weight of linen. Such an arrangement is actually an unspoken rule, which is convenient for trading statistics and for weighing on a large scale. These wools are cut and bagged, and some leaves and weeds will naturally be mixed in. After it is bought by the buyer, the first step is to boil it, and the impurities are also degreasing.

Spuyut sent people to look after the wool, eager to meet the prince and sell it as soon as possible.

As for the blue fox, even if he resumes a high-calorie diet in the past few days, it is impossible to return to a fat head fish in a short time.

Even the feeling of being thin is wonderful, and the whole person can no longer accept the obesity of the past.

Because of the combat power, he was able to hook his head and see his toes, which was unimaginable before. After losing weight, I feel relaxed, I can run fast, and I can jump to catch tall branches, all of which I couldn't do in the past.

There is even another miracle!

He often feels inferior to the shortness of his third leg, he never imagined that after losing weight this time, that leg would still be longer. As a man, nothing makes him more confident.

He is ambitious,

Shortly after arriving at Tombstone Island, he found a family maid for a relationship experiment, and then he accepted it as his servant. Not to mention, this man will be affectionate.

Arriving in Novgorod today, the blue fox changed his outfit and returned to the image of a Rus businessman. Gorgeous clothes are worn on the body, and the beard is renewed. As for those beliefs, they should be put aside first.

The various performances of the blue fox naturally caused Esquil to feel uncomfortable. He never imagined that this Joseph blue fox had not changed in the slightest, and was still the barbarian businessman.

However, the blue fox will not give up his faith, there is still a cross hanging on his chest, and at the same time, there is also a statue of the goddess Nimf, and he even bought a miniature wooden statue representing the god Frey from a woman on Tombstone Island. He didn't know about Bodhisattva and Buddha, otherwise he would have to add more pendants on his chest.

Eskil could not tolerate such a thing, and if one did it in Frankish territory, he would be sentenced to hanging.

But he has done such a serious thing and still has a teaching status, and Eskill will not choose to report it.

He was wise and selectively ignored it, because the old guy didn't dare to do anything that might offend the Ross people because of his experience back then.

It was also the first time that Esquill came to the hinterland of Eastern Europe, and he was keenly aware that the men and women onlookers were definitely not Viking fanatics like the Rus just from their appearance. Their hair is generally brown, unlike the taller blue waves and deep eye sockets of the Rus. These people have slightly flat facial features and generally pointed chins.

Nor did they speak Norse, and Eskil couldn't hear their conversation at all.

But this is indeed the territory of the Duchy of Ross. Could it be that this was the ruling Slavs in the eastern territories that Prince Rus had described in the past?

Rurik arrived late with a lot of pomp, armed mercenaries dispersed the crowd, and he put on a gorgeous outfit to come to the dock area to find out.

"Speuter, you actually got here directly. It's okay, so I don't have to go to New Roseburg to summon you again..." Rurik said politely.

Look at Speuter, this guy is very direct, pointing directly at the brown sacks piled up like a mountain, and he stutters because he is too excited.

"Look! These things! These are the treasures we robbed in the Danish waters."

"Baby? What is it?"

"It's all wool!"

"Ah! Wool?!" Rurik pulled out his dagger, and hurried away, angrily stabbed a cloth bag, the pressure of the compacted wool was instantly released, and a ball of hair simply "sprayed" " came out.

"These sacks are all wool? Haha!" The man who took the sword slammed into Speuter's chest and praised happily: "When I was most short of raw materials, you sent a boat of wool, you are the hero of the principality ."

"We also killed a lot of people, and..."

After a while, that sailing day was held in the hands of Rurik, and Speuter continued to laugh: "I'm sorry, my lord, I still can't use your favorite Latin alphabet. I recorded it in our traditional script. Please take a look at your past combat experience."

"Very good. I will study it as soon as possible. It seems that your actions did kill a lot of enemies and did follow my orders."

"That's natural!" Speuter was waiting for the prince to say this, he snapped his fingers, put on the waiting three and began to pull a cable together.

At first no one felt that the cable was pulling, but it went all the way to the river beyond the stern.

They gritted their teeth and tried hard, and before they watched the crowd's favor, the stench that was enough to induce vomiting spread first.

Rurik was someone who had gone through a bloody battle. He sniffed the breath and immediately covered his neck. His excited face instantly frowned, and then he looked at the stuff that looked like a pile of round cantaloupe hanging in the net pocket, and instantly understood that it was a head.

Because the Nordic folk sects are all blond, and even gradually turn white as they grow older. The face of the deceased would gradually turn grey and then grey-brown, but the hair remained blond.

"Damn it! I know you kill a lot of enemies, but I can't think of you... Let them put these stinky things back in the water. When you leave, it's time to throw them into Lake Ladoga."

"But……"

Rurik didn't want to say more, and hurriedly said: "I will give you a bounty, and now stop the spread of the stench."

Spuut made a gesture, and the stench gradually dissipated. The effect of this encounter can be called an explosion. Many of the women onlookers fainted directly, and many people squatted down and retched.

The mercenaries were ordered by Rurik to drive away all the idlers and others, which made it too obvious for the thin man in gorgeous clothes and another thinner man in black robes to stand.

"You? Who are you?" Rurik noticed the two and raised his hand and asked.

The gorgeous skinny man walked straight up, taking off his hat to reveal his age-inappropriate Mediterranean baldness. In fact, this is not always the case. This person's head was forced to shave off the blond hair, and dense golden hairs are sprouting on the top of his head.

"My noble prince, although I have almost changed my body, I am Braleva Gouldsson, and I am the blue fox! The person in charge of the Danish market you appointed!"

"Are you a blue fox?!" Since the person in front of him had a slender, square face, which was completely different from the big fat-headed fish head of the blue fox with memory, Rurik subconsciously stepped back, and naturally he didn't believe it at all.

Blue Fox shrugged: "Indeed, I was besieged by a thousand Danes, and even though I killed many of them, my men and I failed. Thanks to the tunnel dug at the beginning, I managed to escape. As for the later , I escaped to the Franks, spent a year in exile, and now come back to you at last."

When he said this, Rurik had a little belief that these descriptions were too fantastic to think about.

When it was a matter of fact, the thin old man in black robe came with a crucifix and a cane. Needless to say, this guy was dressed like a typical missionary.

Looking at this man's face, Rurik immediately thought of the old guy: "Don't talk about it! Let me think about it. To be able to arrive at Ross on my ship and meet me, I only give the privilege of a Frankish man. You, Esquil! The one who kept persuading me to believe in your goddamn bastard!"

Was scolded by the prince all at once? As soon as Eskil's inner anger was a flame, it was suppressed by his own faith, because according to what he believed in, the rage in the Seven Deadly Sins must be restrained.

Eskil saw the grown-up Prince Rurik, and if it was as described, the prince had the appearance of a real man, became tall, and covered a thin golden beard from cheek to chin. The beards are still deliberately trimmed.

He hurriedly explained his identity, and publicly revealed: "There was a terrible war in Hezeby, and there were dead people everywhere. I took in the blue fox in distress, but I was almost killed by the Danes. But you asked me to do yes. Everything is done, I... also want to have a good chat with you."

Esquier hinted that it was clear that the pier was not a parliamentary place. In a short period of time, a huge amount of external information came, and Rurik had to sort out his head, especially to investigate whether the "gorgeous thin man" was really the fat-headed fish.

The wool was divided in two, and Spewte sold his share at a very low price, in exchange for the prince not asking about the other spoils.

For three months before and after the overseas privateer, they did not grab a lot of silver coins except for the seizure of wool in one cabin. This year, I can go to the Danish waters again. Considering that the local wheat harvest is also in August, I can make another profit in the autumn trade boom.

Spuut and the others were resting in Novgorod, buying daily necessities from the prosperous city.

The ready-made robes that were publicly sold immediately caught the attention of the "royal pirates", who were not fools, knowing that these tailoring's intricate clothes had a very good ability to keep out the cold and were very decent to wear. This is the flagship product of the state-run garment factory in Rurik, now bought for pirates at the ex-works price for twenty silver pieces. Not only did they buy this, but also the leather boots, leather gloves and hat, and an additional blue-and-white sea soul T-shirt simply sewn from the garment factory.

With such a purchase, Rurik can clearly know that they actually got a lot of silver coins. According to the agreement, they will naturally collect half of the money and return it to their own money. Now, isn't it still reaping the wealth they looted by commercial means?

Spuut's affairs were left unconcerned by Rick for the time being, and only the content of this book of sailing days attracted his attention.

The ten wives and concubines transcribed the content into the Latin alphabet overnight, and finally organized the translated documents and placed them in front of Rurik.

Now Rurik finally understands what they were doing in the Danish waters, and even the fact that they came across Eskil and his party.

But compared to the adventures of the blue fox, these seem nothing.

Rurik, Old Otto, Blue Fox and Esquier, the four had in-depth talks in Ross Dumane in the city. And there was Svetlana sitting on the side to record the content of the meeting.

About the war of Hazelby, the follow-up actions of the new Danish king Horrick, the tough attitude of the Franks towards Denmark, and the market life of the Franks, especially the East Franks, are all within the scope of the talks.

In contrast, the question of the religious status of Rurik's de facto eldest son Regraf was indeed confirmed, and Esquil took out the Pope's approval and wrote it on parchment in a graceful Latin font, the entire document. It was then signed and confirmed by Archbishop Sinkmal of Reims, who recognized Regraff's religious status, whose religious name was John, and was the first heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Mercia, and later recognized the deceased Mary as Queen of Mercia.

There is a reason why the Holy See is so happy. If Frank despised the Viking barbarians in the north, the attitude of the Holy See was reversed. In the past two hundred years, the Romans sent priests to the north to spread the faith on a large scale. The incident, that is, "the principality of Rus in the north is expected to convert the whole country", and pointed out that this is the credit of him alone.

Naturally, these are all the bragging of the old Esquier, and it is also a beautiful long-cherished wish, not to mention that this guy also denounced the convert Horrick as the king of Denmark and turned his hands as a betrayal.

The Principality of Rus came quickly to become an enemy of Denmark, and the Holy See did not have the strength to fight against the rebels, but they were happy to see the Frankish army launch a crusade. If the Rus people are included again, the situation will be very good.

It's not that the Holy See is not really involved in secular power. They are in the Apennine Peninsula and are now a country of their own. Even if it is a heaven on earth, there are too many worldly troubles.

Regardless of whether the child's father is a barbarian or not, the child has been baptized and is indeed a descendant of the orthodox Mercian kingdom. Mercia doesn't have a legitimate king now, they do need an official papal sanctuary The development of events is beyond Rurik's imagination, when the retreating people point out that the Danes destroyed the Ruth shops, Rurik's attitude before getting any new information It is pure rage, and when the time is right, a large-scale revenge is bound to be launched.

Regraf has a high-ranking noble status, and the Duchy of Ross has the legal qualification to directly control that small kingdom.

But things in Denmark are too complicated.

Unexpectedly, the international situation has become turbulent, not only the Ross store in Hazelby, but the entire Hazelby has become a battlefield.

Because Esquil had left from Bremen, the local count got Prince Ludwig's army withered. In addition to bringing all his retinues, the earl also recruited a group of peasants and organized an army to respond to the call. It seems that the main forces of the East Franks are being mobilized, at least the order received by the Count of Bremen is to attack Denmark.

Is it because of some actions of the new Danish king that led to the outbreak of the Frankish-Danish War? In this way, even if the Danes don't do anything about the Russ shop, the Frankish army will do the same.

The war made Rus lose the Danish market, and on Rurik's position, the enemy expanded from pure Denmark to adding a Frank.

The tongue-in-cheek meeting made Rurik sweat, and the amount of information forced Svetlana to write down ten pages.

But the thin blue fox kept winking at the meeting, obviously this guy has more private information to explain.