In the days that followed, human wall training became 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.
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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 a strong person? In Rurik’s view, a person must be brave enough to 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, an excellent 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 staying in this fjord since he was born, and he has never left Rossburg.
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 technical, variety 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 could cultivate more intensively, the output would definitely be better.
Maybe for them, intensive farming is superfluous.
They themselves are poor people who have never been rich and therefore are easily satisfied. They are also brave sea heroes. Rather than cultivating intensively and enhancing craftsmanship in order to increase labor output in all aspects, it is better to sail the longship south and go to those who are weak in combat.
It is convenient for the tribe to plunder.
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 become rich through farming, but it is possible to become rich through trade.
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, deer, minks, and squirrels further north on a large scale. While the tribe obtained a large amount of fur, it could also be trafficked to people in distant places.
It is entirely possible 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 in plundering in more than ten years, but they should exist as defenders of the tribe and defenders of trade.
Rurik had been keeping track of time since the day of Otto's voyage. He found a wooden board, and before going to bed every day, he carved a knife on it.
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, but now that the climate is getting colder and colder, they have not returned yet. 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 last glacial period 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 saltiness here.
And because a large number of rivers in Scandinavia flow into this nearly closed sea, the sea area where Roseburg is located has a lighter saltiness.
Therefore, the daily fishing activities of the Ross tribe 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 used clay pots to boil seawater. Even if the salt content of the local seawater was very low, they still had to do this. They used a lot of dead grass and branches as fuel, and spent a lot of firewood to get a little bit of sea salt. Even so
, the effort is still worth it.
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 became worried.
People's pressure gradually 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 that the world was dark.
"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 cut the venison that had been marinated for an unknown period of time with a knife: "You are so smart. Don't look any further, it's very cold outside. If you are curious, I will take you to have a look after eating."
"okay."
As for meat, Rurik still likes 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 head. After the raw fish is washed, it is put directly into the mouth without any cooking.
This way of eating is too pure, and Rurik has never tried it. However, 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, we usually eat a lot of wild venison. There is an indescribable monster about these venisons. After being cooked and pickled, they taste pretty good.
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 was filling, it was full of protein and had very low carbohydrate content.
Perhaps a thousand years later, this kind of meal will be promoted as a weight-loss meal. Now, it is really a compromise between the Ross tribe and nature. If possible, they would choose to eat bread every day, even if it is a little spoiled.