Rise of Rurik

Chapter 588 This is a mass wedding of a thousand people

Who will get those five hundred Suomi women? Is it someone willing to pay a sum of money?

According to tradition, Rurik can set up a yard for a public auction. It's just that this kind of behavior is repulsive in his heart, and if he does this, it is also a violation of the agreement with the Suomi people.

They are all very young, all just grown up to be mothers, and in their hometown of the lake, the Rus people tell them that they will be the wives of Rus men.

They will all be allocated, and the method of allocation is very particular.

When Rurik explained his decision, the elites at the meeting also agreed.

This night, a large number of newly built warehouses have become the best place to house these young women, Yevlo instructed, and rushed to announce Duke Ross's decision before they went to sleep.

The disturbed girls are still wondering if the Russ are actually good people? They provided a batch of fur coats and meals, and we all gathered together and whispered, feeling like it was just a means of pulling.

Yevro came to visit suddenly with someone, startling a group of girls who had already fallen asleep to get up one after another, and then leaned on each other to seek a sense of security.

The familiar local accent came, and under the light of the torches, it was Yevlo's typical Finnish face.

"Don't be nervous, girls! The Russ have arranged a safe future for you. All of you are about to get married, and your husbands are Russ."

"Don't worry, your husbands are all young people, they are all the same age as you or just a little older! Even, you are older."

These remarks hit the hearts of many girls, who were afraid that they would be an old man in their husbands. In fact, that kind of thing is not uncommon in the hometown, because the financial debt is paid off by the daughter's marriage.

But who wants to be an old man in a husband? The Yevluo in front of him married the youngest daughter of the leader Uko. Everyone thought that the sister was going to suffer. After all, Yevluo, who was nominally of the same clan, looked like a strong and energetic stag.

It would be great if my husband was only in his teens, and if the Russ really followed through on such a promise.

They experienced the first night in Roseburg. No one felt cold that night. Everyone lived together and could rely on and encourage each other, and gradually ignored the anxiety. If there is some inconvenience here, it is forced to go to the ordered wooden house to use the toilet. There is a pungent smell there, and you have to wash it off with prepared clean water afterwards, and you have to wash your hands with a pungent smell (sulfur soap) to finish.

Could it be that this is the way of life of the Rus, are they so particular about going to the toilet? They must have even stranger customs.

On a new day, 500 girls were only asked to stay in the current warehouse, and they were restricted from walking around like deer in a herd. Everyone was guarded, and another girl was whispering. The so-called Russ's words were coaxing, and in the end, everyone was sold as slaves. They were intimidated by themselves, and the warehouse was full of noise, which made the bearded Ross warriors who looked after them depressed.

"A group of girls who don't care, why are you making such a fuss? Do you still want to be our woman?" Some soldiers complained and broke into the warehouse, shouted at the door a few times, and shouted something they still couldn't understand If so, stop everyone on the spot.

No matter how noisy, when a few wooden barrels for selling boiled wheat were brought, the girls chattered together again.

After a while, they saw a young woman with antlers on her head leaning on a jeweled cane, standing resolutely under the "guardian" of more than 20 strong women wearing coarse cloth headscarves.

They are not stupid, this woman dresses too much like those priestesses in her hometown, presumably she is also a priest of the Rus, but...

It was Rumia who came. Although she still had to nurture her daughter herself, the work of the high priest could not stop now.

Rurik expected that all Suomi girls would be worried about their future,

They asked Rumia to read Ross's policy to them while the food was being distributed.

The wooden stick was shoved into the soft sand and gravel by Rumia, and she slowly took off her antler helmet again, revealing her black hair and a complete slightly grayish-yellow oval face, a face familiar to all girls.

"Sisters! I am the High Priest of the Duchy of Ross! I am from the same place as you, and we have a common ancestor! You will marry the boys of Ross, they are strong and trustworthy people. And I will be You all have a wedding. Eat now, in Rose you get such wonderful food every day, and live in a warm house with your husband, in comfortable clothes. Listen, the wedding is tomorrow! Today , you must be full!"

wedding? so suddenly?

Rumia's accent was rather strange, but they still understood it completely. When she left, the girls were whispering again, but everyone's mind was on the wedding. It seemed that today was the last day before the wedding.

At the same time Rurik issued a decree to all Roseburg in the name of the duke.

The men began to gather on the beach, and many of them were going to go out to sea early in the morning to fish, but they were all waiting for Lord Rurik's order.

Rurik stood on a long boat that had been intentionally stranded, facing the gathered crowd. He roared as hard as he could. Of course, the business couldn't overwhelm everyone's noise.

After all, the order is still conveyed. It can be said that some people are happy and some people regret it.

The whole Roseburg is still boiling, the Duke is going to send wives to all young people of the right age? The recipient of this honor only needs to pay a token silver coin to pay for the freight and food to bring the woman back from the East.

Today, the Rus people are in a state of separation, but the main body of the blond Rus people still lives in Roseburg, and a large number of young people still stay here.

All Rus men from fifteen to twenty-five years old will enjoy this gift, no matter whether they have wives or concubines, getting another Suomi wife is not as simple as getting a gift from the duke, they all have one task on their backs.

Just like the general ancient society, the characteristics of the population structure are that there are many young people and few old people. Today's Ross has changed a lot, that is, the number of infants and young children is extremely alarming, and the number of elderly people has also increased due to the improvement of sanitary conditions and food supply.

It's just that due to the continuity of the past era, the young and middle-aged population in Rus society is still small.

Rurik just couldn't get five hundred pure blond Russ men between fifteen and twenty-five years old! The lower limit of this range was simply opened, and it was suddenly lowered to the so-called twelve years old, the so-called lower limit of the age at which a man was obliged to fight on the battlefield.

In this way, five hundred Ruth men were invited to gather in the smooth concrete plaza in the courtyard of Rurik's palace.

He himself stood on the third floor of the palace, opened the window, and accompanied by Otto, Harrodsen, and several other famous old men, formally announced his decision.

Everyone in the audience knew about the reward of the Duke, and they hoped to get a woman home immediately.

In this case, does the Duke need to nag a few more words?

Yes, Rurik had to speak up against them.

The scene gradually quieted down, and a pair of eyes were fixed on Rurik's handsome face standing on a high place.

"Brothers!" he said, "I will reward you with a group of women! All of you here will get a Finnish wife, and I will give you a mass wedding! The day is tomorrow!"

Having said this, the audience cheered.

Rurik opened his hands to signal everyone to calm down, saying: "I want to make a promise with you! I want to tell you that the land of the East is Finland, and I have conquered the whole of Finland, but the people there are not slaves, but Our servants! Just like the relationship between the Kovins and the Lapps now! The Kovins and the Lapps are also a part of the Finns, so I want you to treat your Finnish wives well!"

He paused again: "I know that many of you kidnapped women in your victory against the Tavastians, and they will soon arrive in Coventstad and soon to you. In front of you. These are not in the way, and they will not affect my reward to you at all."

"I! Duke Rus! Odin has a request for me and us!" Rurik's right hand pointed to the sky again, "Odin asked us to conquer Finland, and asked us to marry their woman to be our woman. When the marriage relationship is concluded , all Finnish women, whether from Tavastia or Suomi, they are Rus women and will be under my protection. You remember, once married, they are our people, and the children they bear are Rus. Any act of exclusion, abuse, insult is against the will of God! Maybe Odin will not punish the wrongdoer immediately, then I will do the punishment on behalf of God! Be kind to your Finnish wife, if I hear bad news, the abuser When exiled to Elrond, worked to the death as a lumbering slave."

Rurik spoke heavily, and everyone was nervous when they heard it.

No one would treat their own women badly. After all, in the past, it was extremely difficult for a man to have a wife, let alone a group of wives and concubines. Everyone's simple morality is not to treat his wife badly, and treating his wife slowly is also considered cowardly.

Rurik prided himself on explaining his words to them, and the rest was up to their performance.

The crowd began to disperse, and a pair of big hands were also on Rurik's body.

Otto took a deep breath and asked, "If a man beats his Suomi...Finnish wife, what would you do? Is that what you said?"

"Of course! But as far as the matter is concerned, once I learn the news, I will personally interrogate it. Whether it is exile or other punishment, I will follow our most traditional rules."

Otto let go of his hand and nodded in satisfaction.

Until now, the Principality of Ross still does not have its own written code, or in other words, given the current population size, since all kinds of things can be resolved through negotiation with the people, it is not necessary to carve out the rules and regulations now.

However, Ross and other Viking tribes, when judging whether a person is guilty and how to punish them, generally still invite a group of elites to quell the rebellion, which is also part of the work of "thing". It's just that Rurik realized that his current prestige was already at its peak, and that one victory after another further strengthened the myth of his "Son of God". Why doubt? Is it necessary to question? It was a handsome young man, an invincible young leader, a great hero who went from one victory to another, and everyone was enjoying the huge benefits brought by victory.

Rurik knew that he could be a dictator, an Eastern-style monarch who had theocratic, military, financial, and administrative powers.

However, he said that a mass wedding of unprecedented scale should not be too grand. The fact is that Rurik had to end it early due to many factors.

It seems that a hero who is constantly being pulled forward by the wheel of the times, Rurik felt that he should not stop, but took advantage of his energy to quickly expand his power, just like the very young Alexander directly attacked Persia and let the empire The edge of the Dahan's sphere of influence touched by the frontier.

Besides, he saw the Russ and Slavic women in the scattered roads of Rossburg, which one was not holding a baby, and even many of them were obviously holding their stomachs.

With such a large population, if the wheat cannot be plundered from Britain, it will be impossible to eat wheat all the time this winter and next year.

How Rurik did not know that taking the initiative to wage war was accompanied by great risks, but he had no choice. It is like the nomadic army that suffered the death of livestock and countless starved to death in the strong wind and snow, and attacked the Central Plains madly in order to survive.

The next morning, 500 Suomi girls lined up to walk out of the walls of Roseburg and enter the west side with nervousness, surprise or excitement after eating the morning's thick soup of stewed wheat and vegetables and surimi. In one of the woods, the stone boat altar of the Rus people was reached.

After a while, those selected young men also showed up.

This is the largest mass wedding of the Rus people. A total of 1,000 men and women participated in the ceremony, which attracted thousands of people from the entire Roseburg to watch the meeting on the spot.

People were laughing, the children in the arms of the women were crying, and a group of young children were running around in the crowd.

A rare gathering of crowds, the small merchants in Melalen, who decided to stay in Ross all year round, took the opportunity to put up carpets and sell small commodities such as wood carvings and small pottery, and even some people sold dried herring as a snack to make a profit. pen money.

The highlight of course is the men and women gathered in two groups, and in the middle of them is Ross's stone boat altar.

Rumia, who wears the antler helmet, and the ten Sla couples and concubines of Rurik are now priests, and the object of worship in this stone ship altar is indeed Freya.

Freya is in charge of love, fertility and marriage.

She is the legendary example of the perfect woman, for this sacrifice must not have any blood wet the sand in the altar.

A large number of petals were sprinkled on the altar in advance, an ordinary steel sword was inserted on the ground, and two barrels of ale were placed.

As the prayer carols were sung, Rumia announced the official start of the wedding ceremony.

The so-called ceremony, it must be simple and have a minimum sense of ceremony.

Ross's boys accepted the order and passed through the stone boat altar one by one, went to the opposite side to grab the arm of a girl they liked, and the two entered the altar again.

Rumia asked Suomi girl to raise her steel sword with words she could definitely understand, and when it was, Rumia blessed again in Norse: "May your child become a warrior."

That's all, the man took a small cup of sweet ale, drank the rest by himself, and fed the rest to the woman. At this point, the ceremony was over, and the marriage between the two was established under the attention of almost all the people of Roseburg.

Of course, the ceremony can be a little more complicated, but today a ceremony that is meaningful to any one of the 500 couples is to be held, so the content of the ceremony must be symbolic.

The ceremony began at noon, and when the sun went down for the last couple to complete the ceremony, they had to complete the final wedding in the bonfire.

But the joy doesn't end there.

In this era of lack of entertainment, both men and women are very happy to watch other people's weddings. Blessings to the newlyweds are secondary, and the lively atmosphere is what everyone likes.

At the wedding of five hundred couples at once, the serious young Ross men in the entire Roseburg have a new love, most of the small families are welcoming new family members, and there is joy throughout the intricate streets of Roseburg. 's whisper.

I saw that bonfires were lit on the streets, and there were people dancing around the flames...

Rurik was standing on the third floor of the palace, looking into the distance through the wooden windows and enjoying the joyous scene.

Rumia, who had just finished breastfeeding her daughter, endured her painful calf from standing all afternoon and approached her man.

"Then you are satisfied. Five hundred girls, they will soon be mothers."

"Yes." Rurikla grabbed her hand and said casually, "How about we have another one?"

"This... this is inappropriate. Velika is still so young." Rumia was immediately ashamed, but she was actually looking forward to it.

Rurik glanced back, then turned his head to look into the distance. Now only the Gurdot has made it to Lake Mälaren, the Avrolla, the Duke of Ostara, the Speroviglia and the Balmerque, their towering masts and large The hull is still visible.

"Soon, I'm going on an expedition again," he said.

Rumia was taken aback, and subconsciously kept Rurik from behind, "The expedition just ended isn't it? Are you leaving again?"

"Yes. This time it is to attack Britain. The plan has been made. I have to act quickly."

A woman certainly does not want her man to take frequent risks, but, as a high priest, she is also powerless to be her young heroic husband.

Rumia let go of her hands, sighed deeply, and murmured, "Go and fight, don't worry about it here."

"Then come with me." Rurik took Rumia's hand and took him back to his room...

In the end, she was her first woman, and the one she cherished the most, even if Rumia wasn't amazingly beautiful and her background was not noble. If you like it, you like it, even if his father, for political reasons, appointed Svetlana of Novgorod as his wife, this Rumia is the most important woman in Rurik's heart.

This night, they are...

The next morning, the sun came out. Rurik couldn't say anything about what happened at night, and seeing that Rumia didn't complain, he didn't ask any more questions.

"It's time for me to take care of Willika." She dressed and left with a smile.

Rurik noticed the movement of her left hand covering her stomach involuntarily, and she couldn't help showing a hint of pleasure, but then she became a little more serious.

Because the time for the expedition to plunder Britain is a little tight.

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