A feathered bird skin appeared in the market, and together with the bird's head, Rurik quickly realized what it was.

It is not a penguin, but it has the real name of a penguin - auk.

Asking about its capture point, it was on the rocks near Murmansk, a stronghold in the far north. Rurik was not completely familiar with this bird. At that time, he personally completed the first Murmansk expedition and survived in a pit in the Arctic Ocean.

After a polar night, while capturing elephant seals for their big tusks, I also saw this flightless bird.

The auk is not extinct now, and Ross's hunters have just begun to capture it. Its leather is very delicate, but Ross still likes the good skin of small animals like ferrets. The feathers of the auk are a good material for making arrow feathers, considering

The poultry raising operation encouraged by Ross has been very effective. There is no shortage of arrow feather materials in the kingdom, and eggs are no longer rare. The black feathers of these great auks seem more suitable as decorations for feathers.

The most leather the Rus Kingdom can provide is reindeer!

Nearly six years have passed since the crusade against the Karelian tribal alliance. The existing reindeer herds, combined with the tens of thousands of captured reindeer, have multiplied into a herd of up to 100,000 deer. The base is huge, and all of them are owned by the royal family.

.All Lapps are essentially related by blood to the high priest Rumia. They still live a herding life, because the whole family is legally the herding slaves of the royal family, so they have huge and powerful backers.

A large number of reindeer were captured in past wars, and the king shared the trophies with the soldiers. Many Russian families raised their own herds of reindeer. The number was small and they were mostly used for transportation, so-called pulling carts in the summer and pulling sleds in the winter. Some families who were not good at management used it as transportation.

The trophy reindeer was hastily slaughtered and now there is nothing left.

Rurik controls the largest deer herd. Relying on the absolute advantage of scale and the loyalty of all Lapps, this advantage is still expanding. Due to the destruction of the Karelia tribal alliance, the remaining Karelia people all

They rushed eastward and fled to a place called Perm to live with their relatives. They had escaped from the sphere of influence of the Kingdom of Rus. After they disappeared, they fled to the north of Lake Ladoga, around the White Sea, and even to the Kola Peninsula.

, these barren northern lands suitable for reindeer herding have completely become the activity space of the Lapp people.

There is no need for Russian explorers to find the path. These nomadic Lapps must wander around the Murmansk stronghold in the far north and the area around Lake Ladoga. Their production and lifestyle are such that relying on a pair of feet has already become the basis for the Russians.

Discover a different land transportation route to the North Pole.

The king has a large amount of reindeer financial resources to support his grand ceremony of "ninety-nine deer" sacrifices.

The people in the capital have polished sickles, and the oat fields outside the city are in harvest time. It is an open secret that the king collects human and animal excrement to make fertilizer and even cultivate fire salt. The fire salt to support combustion no longer has to be collected from naturally rotten wood.

You can get some from the dung pile, but it feels disgusting. In the past, people just threw the excrement into the river or sold it. The Russians hated the presence of these filth around their living areas.

The king collected the excrement of people and animals in Novgorod to make fertilizer to fertilize the fields. The royal family's farmland output has always been gratifying. Not only did the news spread, but the people with land in the capital also began to collect it after learning about it. They could only use it on a small area of ​​land, and overall the

It is said that due to the comprehensive adoption of drill sowing, supplemented by weed pulling, and water trucks transporting water from the Neva River for irrigation, the production capacity of oats has indeed increased on the Neva River, which is barely able to cultivate land.

Maybe this is because of the worship of gods!

Rurik ordered ten reindeer to be taken out, and at the high place of the public altar, the high priest Rumia looked up to the sky with a jeweled wooden staff and shouted words of prayer.

Noren, Ella, Bayasil and Queen Svetlana happened to be in the capital, so the four women took the opportunity to dress up as priests to participate in the ceremony.

With a golden laurel crown on his head, Rurik received the attention of the people. He first raised a steel sword inlaid with precious stones, and then took the hand of his eldest daughter, Velika, who was also the deputy priest. The guards controlled the deer and beheaded all ten of them.

According to tradition, deer blood must be integrated into the altar and into the earth. The following ceremony is too thrilling.

The livers of the deer were cut out, and then the high priest confirmed the good fortune. The livers were placed on a bronze tray and enshrined in front of the gilded statue of God Frey that was moved from the great temple. At this moment, the high priest solemnly addressed the crowds of people watching the ceremony.

Announcement: God Frey promises us a good harvest.
Chapter completed!