In the days that followed, human wall training was the norm, but under Rurik's command, many children began to do more complex training.
But they are still children, they have great potential, and now they are extremely weak.
Now Rurik is still a little worried. He is too young and his only charisma can only recruit the existing group of peers.
There are many children over ten years old in the tribe. They don't bother to run to the hills. Instead, they are used to playing "games" on the beach and venting their strength on the gravel. As a result, they always go back to their homes with injured faces. .
That kind of solo fighting is the ancient tradition of the Ross tribe, and the best among them will have a particularly famous name.
Russians, they worship the strong!
Let’s talk about the strong, what is the strong? In Rurik's view, the bravery of an ordinary man is not the only one who can tame a group of warriors into obedience and train a group of stragglers into a whole. Such a person is truly strong.
Not only that, a good leader has reason to intervene in the affairs of the entire tribe. The greatest obligation of a leader is to ensure the survival of the tribe, and the second is to bring happiness to the tribe.
Rurik has been in this fjord since he was born, and he has never left Rosberg.
Observing the Ross tribe allowed him to estimate the situation of the entire European continent in this era. The cruel reality was before his eyes. The tribe was too poor!
People are poor and use simple tools for production and life. Although there are excellent shipwrights and blacksmiths, the manufacturing technology is not outstanding, so the daily necessities produced are relatively simple.
Using these simple tools, fishing and planting are not easy, especially during the warm period, when planting cold-resistant vegetables on the barren land on the hillside, the harvest is always very bad due to technology, varieties and climate reasons.
The Ross tribe planted some onions, cabbages, and other cold-resistant vegetables, but they didn't know how to fertilize them at all, and they didn't even bother to water them. If they can farm more intensively, the output will definitely be better.
Perhaps for them, intensive farming is superfluous.
They themselves are poor people, and they are easily satisfied because they have never been rich. They are also brave sea heroes. Rather than intensively cultivating and enhancing craftsmanship in order to increase labor output in all aspects, it is easier to control the longships to go south and plunder those tribes with weak combat capabilities.
But the problem came again.
A group of poor guys take advantage of their thick arms to rob another group of poor people. In a sense, they are like beggars robbing each other of steamed buns. This is not a long-term solution at all, and the tribe will not develop.
Rurik deeply realized that as he took the position of leader, the entire tribe's raiding culture needed to be cut off and replaced by production to accumulate wealth!
The so-called production can be through hard work or peaceful trade.
Looking at the geographical location of Roseburg, it is impossible to get rich from farming, but it is possible to get rich from trading.
A wise soul resides in a seven-year-old body. For the Ross tribe, what they need most is knowledge!
Rurik thought of some strategies, such as organizing manpower to hunt bears and deer, or martens and squirrels further north on a large scale. While the tribe obtains a large amount of fur, it can also be trafficked to people in distant places.
It is entirely feasible to make a fortune through trade, but in order to ensure the peace of trade, it must be defended by a well-trained military force.
Therefore, when I train a group of children here, I do not expect them to become the main force of plundering in more than ten years, but they should exist as defenders of the tribe and defenders of trade.
From the day Otto set out on his voyage, Rurik kept track of time. He found a wooden board, and before going to sleep every day, he carved a knife on the wooden board.
Thirty days have passed since the fleet set off. Compared with previous Sorgon voyages, this autumn's voyage seems particularly long.
After all, according to precedent, they should return within thirty days after departure. Now the climate is getting colder and colder, and they have not returned. No matter what the reason is for this situation, their return will face greater difficulties.
The water in the Baltic Sea is too fresh. It was the influx of melted snow water after the end of the last glaciation that created the huge and complex Baltic Sea. The time it took to form was too short, so that the normal saltiness of the Atlantic Ocean has not yet had time to adjust the salinity here. And because a large number of rivers in Scandinavia flow into this nearly closed sea, the sea area where Roseburg is located is lighter in saltiness.
Therefore, the Ross tribe’s daily fishing activities are related to the tribe’s food problem. As a result, people can always catch a large number of freshwater bass.
The most caught herring are some freshwater-tolerant species, and the catch of this fish can basically meet the tribe's subsistence needs.
Simply eating fish is still too monotonous for humans. Tribes still like to eat bread, only it makes people more powerful.
The people of the tribe still store food for the winter as usual. They catch a large amount of fish and smoke and process it for long-term storage.
They even boil seawater in clay pots. Even if the salt content of the local seawater is very low, they still have to do this. Using a lot of dead grass and branches as fuel, it took a lot of firewood to get a little bit of sea salt, but even so, it was still worth the effort.
The days of waiting slowly turned into torture. Everyone wanted to believe that they would be safe and sound. As time went by, people inevitably had to worry.
People's pressure began to build up, and many people began to seek help from priests.
One gloomy morning, Rurik got up sleepily. He pushed open the animal skin door of the wooden house and saw a gray world.
"Is it going to snow?"
A wave of cold air came, and he subconsciously retracted the tent, and then boldly stuck out his little head. He saw some tribesmen, moving their bodies covered in animal skins in the dim world, and actually walked slowly towards the priest's pointed wooden house. Walk away.
"Mom! There are many people outside, what are they doing?!" Rurik turned around and asked.
"Have you discovered it yet? They want to find a revelation."
"Is it about when dad will come back?"
Niya smiled slightly and continued to use a knife to cut the venison that had been marinated for an unknown period of time: "You are so smart. Don't look any further, it's cold outside. If you are curious, I will take you to have a look after the meal."
"okay."
As for meat, Rurik still prefers fish, especially herring.
The Ross tribe has a very wild way of eating, which is to scrape off the fish scales with a knife, remove the fish's internal organs, and finally cut off the fish's head. After the raw fish is cleaned, it is put directly into the mouth without any cooking.
This way of eating was too pure, and Rurik never tried it. But the grilled herring is really delicious, and the bubbling and fragrant fish oil will make you salivate just thinking about it.
In addition to fish, I usually eat a lot of wild venison. There is an indescribable monster about these venisons, and they taste pretty good after being cooked and pickled.
Rurik ate a small piece of venison and drank a small bowl of soup with onions and some unknown wild vegetables cooked by his mother. Although this meal is filling, it's packed with protein and very low in carbohydrates.
Perhaps a thousand years later, this kind of meal will be promoted as a weight loss meal. Now, it's really the Ross tribe's compromise with nature. If they could, they immediately chose to eat bread every day, even if it was a little spoiled.
