When spring returns to Scandinavia, the "trading season" of the year begins again, and of course, trade is often accompanied by conflict.
The longships that had disappeared in the bay suddenly appeared.
The Danes and Norwegians once again explored Britain or headed south along the coast.
In addition to the inevitable conflicts with the Danes at sea, the Siaya tribe also began to conduct regular trade with the Baltic people on the other side of the sea.
The same goes for the Rus tribe here, who trade with their relatives in the south and with the Baltic people further south.
The only difference is that the Ross tribe has mastered a secret route to a waterway deep inland.
It is a long route, and the Sorgon voyage last autumn was attacked by Gotlanders, making the once safe route dangerous. Even so, as long as the army spreads out its battle axes and beats the shields with its battle axes, the powerful aura will make the locals in Novgolov obediently take out their treasures.
In fact, if they are some ethnic groups with strong fighting power, the Ross tribe will obediently engage in peaceful trade with them and try their best to avoid conflicts.
But those people were rich but weak. In the Baltic region of the ninth century, which lacked clear laws, might was the truth!
In fact, they never considered robbery a sin.
In early May of 822 AD, the spring Sorgon voyage was launched again under the leadership of leader Otto. This time the fleet was very smart and sailed along the coast of the Finnish territory, slipping to the mouth of the Neva River. The next road was smooth. .
Otto demanded a tribute, but those Swegs were still as cowardly as ever. At least that's what Otto thought.
Otto and his warriors were very happy with the Sweg people's groveling. Out of their kindness, Otto gave the family leaders a small piece of amber to each of them for the first time as a reward.
Does this little amber herald a subtle change in the relationship between the Rus tribe and the Sveg people of Novgorod?
Maybe yes, maybe not.
Otto just rewarded a few family leaders with amber, which is more common in Scandinavia, out of his own pleasure.
But for the Sweg people, perhaps this is the beginning of a warmer relationship after their encounter with the Rus.
As early as 754 AD, explorers from the Rus tribe headed west to find the mouth of the Neva River. The place is desolate, covered with thatch under the snow. There are some bears and deer active here, and obtaining their furs is probably the only value of this place.
But as they found the river deep inland, a warm land appeared in front of them.
They went upstream, and at first they also traded with the huge village of Novgorod, until they discovered that the people here were not excellent warriors, and evil thoughts arose.
In the first few years, trade between the two groups was normal, until Otto's grandfather's area began to trade with swords.
If they could be forced to hand over their wealth through physics, it would be a waste of money.
Besides, the Ross tribe did not want to occupy the territory of the Sweg people. As long as they got enough treasure, the people would return to the dragon-headed warship and sail away.
In 822 AD, both Sorgon voyages were successful.
By 823 AD, the situation was still the same.
Otto was pleasantly surprised to find that as long as he was given some symbolic amber, the Sweig people would be very happy to take out a lot of treasures.
This is completely different from the normal transactions in the past, and different from robbery without capital and profit.
As long as the tribe really only needs to give out some insignificant financial resources in a symbolic way, the Sweg people will be very generous in giving out their treasures.
Novgorod is a large settlement, a small city with many surrounding villages.
They are dominated by various families in the city, and the remaining small villages are vassals of Novgorov.
The population of the entire region has exceeded 200,000, and the land there is at least more fertile and the climate is milder. They were able to produce more wealth and actively trade with other Sweg tribes in the south.
Every year, a large amount of wealth in Novgorod flows into the pockets of the Rus tribe, which has a population of less than 8,000 people.
Today, as long as there is no conflict with the Danes, under the leadership of Chief Otto, the wealth of the Ross tribe has been expanding, right?
Otto returned triumphantly with a large number of treasures, and he once again became the hero of the tribe. The entire tribe is also full of confidence in surviving the new winter.
Liuli is now two years old and has had to accept his unique identity as Rurik.
"Rurik, Rus. What the hell, am I destined to have such a fate? To lead these Vikings to Eastern Europe to establish Kievan Rus?"
"Is this possible? Look at these people, they're Vikings! Aren't they supposed to be raiding England?"
"Really, they actually named me Rurik."
Two-year-old Rurik has a real adult living in his tiny body.
In the past two years, he has basically figured out where he is and the fact that he is a Viking.
Liu Li knew very little about the historical development of Russia. As for the concept of Vikings, they were a group of sea madmen wearing horned helmets, holding round shields and battle axes.
Vikings, they seem to be a group of pirates who do all kinds of evil.
However, the facts completely subverted Liu Li's imagination.
The tribe he belongs to is called "Russ", which means "rower". He estimated that the only city-state in the tribe was Fort Ross. After some estimation, the population of the settlement was not large.
They didn't have any horned helmets, but they had a lot of helmets made of leather and iron with eye and nose protection.
However, the classic dragon-headed warships, forest axes and painted round shields are real.
And the most real thing is probably their food.
In the past two years, Liu Li was weaned early. He felt that he must eat meat before he was even a year old. In the days that followed, there were only a few opportunities for him to eat bread that didn't taste very good. Most of the time, the only food he could eat was all kinds of meat.
right! A variety of meats, and none of them carefully cooked.
He witnessed tribal fishermen hunting Baltic seals, casting nets for herring, cod, and even sharks.
Maybe the land here is too barren, and people's food mainly depends on fishing from the ocean and trading cattle and sheep with people in the south. As one of them, Liu Li also had to eat the same meals as them.
A sheep's skin would be stripped off to make clothing, and all the mutton would be eaten, followed by almost all the internal organs, and the bones of the sheep might also be used further.
The food tastes crazy, but Liu Li, who is extremely young, has no choice but to bite the bullet and eat these weird-tasting meats, even shark meat.
Historically, Rurik would establish a Slavic state in Eastern Europe and name it after Rus.
Moreover, Rurik was invited by the locals to become a prince.
Liu Li thought it was absurd, but his name definitely sounded like "Rurik", and "Russ" was the name of his tribe.
He was very happy that his biological father, the son of a tribal leader, was a very strong white man, but he always had a strong and annoying smell. But he should be a qualified father. According to his biological mother Niya, his biological father is also a qualified leader.
The entire tribe is full of respect for their biological father, and they are already full of awe for themselves, a baby.
The situation is definitely not that he is the son of the leader, but because of a prophecy from the tribe elders - the leader's son will bring prosperity to the tribe.
"Well, I don't know what kind of life Rurik should have had in history. If my destiny is to become a leader in the future and lead them to immigrate collectively to the vast plains of Eastern Europe, they can indeed prosper. But by that time, their The descendants would no longer be Vikings.”
Liu Li kept all his thoughts in his heart.
