Chapter 495 The Temple of Ross was built and Rurik became a man
An old era ended with Vilia turning into ashes. On the ruins of the black altar, a brand new temple is under construction.
In the past, the Rus people did not have this awareness. An ancient stone ship altar is enough. Do you need to build more?
They did not even erect statues for the gods they believed in, nor did they have special temples to worship them.
Until the Ross army attacking Gotland saw the temple in Visby and the bronze statues in the temple.
Rurik wanted to build a temple to worship the gods, and everyone welcomed it psychologically. In reality, all the expenses for building the temple were paid by Rurik, and anyone with enough strength could sign up to become a builder.
Get money and food.
The old longhouse was demolished, and a batch of wooden beams were left behind. Except for the thickest one, which was used as the keel of the ship, the other wooden beams could be used as building materials for the temple.
Those old lower-level priests were buried with the high priest, which marked the complete collapse of the old priest group. Rurik no longer worried that those priests would interfere with his power. Now he has complete control over the divine power of Rus.
Therefore, those gods should be worshiped according to his will.
Building the temple was only part of the large-scale construction project. Rurik decided to build a new batch of wooden houses, asking for land from the surrounding mounds and pine forests, and integrating them into the city.
Such work is by no means a waste of money and money. The wealth lost belongs to Rurik himself, and the people will get a lot of job opportunities in the winter when there is already a lack of work.
Large amounts of gold and silver were a strong driving force for economic activities. Rurik began to implement careful plans. According to his own ideas, Rossburg was gradually developed into a walled coastal city, making the suffix "brug" become
A real fortress.
Men, women and children all take action.
Rossburg in the fjord has a narrow area. If the surrounding forests are cut down on a large scale, a large amount of land can be opened up.
Rurik never thought of developing this northern mother city into a densely populated city. A long-term population of up to 10,000 people would be enough. The population of Rus is bound to increase, and the new population must be actively filled.
to other settlements, notably Novorosberg at the mouth of the Neva River.
Moving the core of the Ross people to New Rossburg in the east is Rurik's final plan. However, even if the core area is moved, it does not mean that the old Rossburg will be abandoned and decline.
Strong people carried axes, while children carried double saws. They were destroying the forest at an extremely fast speed, and the hot atmosphere of construction made the coldness of the snow disappear.
The wooden wall surrounding Roseburg is under construction. They dug large pits and buried thick logs, using them as joints to gradually assemble the wooden wall.
Although the location of Fort Ross is too remote and the possibility of encountering an enemy attack is extremely low, coupled with the increasingly powerful Ross navy, there may not be much need for a wall to meet the safety needs of the people.
It’s better to be cautious! In a world full of conflicts, it’s never wrong to be cautious.
Rurik not only ordered a wooden wall, but its foundation also needed to be reinforced with stones. Scaffolding for people to move around should be installed on the wooden wall, and a tower should be built at regular intervals.
The wooden wall will completely surround Fort Ross, and for this purpose the wall will have to be separated from the port. So? Those merchants living on the coast? Especially the mansion of the Gould family, will be surrounded by this wall.
separated.
then what should we do?
Gould was very open-minded. After all, Lord Rurik decided to transform Fort Ross into a strong fortress. He knew very well about the army's attack on Visby, which was obviously a huge trading city? After the defeat in World War I?
If the remaining Visby people could hold on with their walls, the attack of the Ross army would take a lot of twists and turns. Unfortunately, those people did not have walls, and the invasion of the Ross army would be easy.
Did he also learn about last year's war? The fact that the Swedish coalition suffered heavy losses in the forced attack on Borgholm's high wall? Without the excellent siege weapons of the Russian army, it was almost impossible for the coalition to break the city.
Riding on the wave of large-scale construction projects and a new batch of land being opened up from the disappeared forest, the Gould family did not hesitate to spend their own money to build their own new mansion!
Now he has huge financial resources? There is a large amount of labor available in Roseburg, so it is not difficult to build a new mansion.
Time has entered March? Nearly twenty days have passed since the day of Villa’s funeral.
The weather is getting warmer day by day, although there was a cold rain during this period? The rainwater froze when it touched the ground, but it could not extinguish people's enthusiasm.
Freezing rain was followed by a small snowfall? The low temperature dropped severely? People are suspending construction work.
Is the temperature getting warmer now? Although the temperature during the day is still at freezing point, this is not cold for people in deep northern Europe.
The western mounds that Rurik once used to train young warriors, every tree in the pine forest here was dug out by the roots, and this place became a key construction site.
A number of palisade-style buildings with over-tall wooden piles are under construction, and they will serve as granary buildings one after another. Wheat grains can continue to be eaten if stored in a dry environment for three years. However, if exposed to water, they will rot or germinate.
It's just a matter of a short period of time. It is very normal to build a granary on a natural high ground. Not only that, Rurik also wants to build a large warehouse here to store money and other goods.
Soon, this former military training mound will become a heavily guarded forbidden area.
It was precisely at the mound that the foundations of a real palace began to be laid.
However, in this era, even the construction of wooden buildings takes a long time.
The architectural style of the Russians has also changed. The biggest change is that the houses have become three-dimensional. In particular, Rurik expected that the foundation of his palace must be made of rocks, and a large amount of wood would be piled on top of the rocks. The palace would be
An unprecedented three-story building. The so-called first floor is a huge living room, the second floor is also a specific dining room and bedrooms, and the third floor is very special. It is an available space under the herringbone roof, which naturally changes.
Become a place to store debris.
The palace plan was like this, and while a large number of new buildings used wood and stone on a large scale, a new type of material was also used unprecedentedly.
Cement! A sacred invention in the construction industry, an architectural treasure of the Romans, Rurik easily replicated it in Roseburg.
After all, cement is not an extremely sophisticated building adhesive. Once its recognition is known, mass production will be possible.
All the materials for making ordinary cement exist in the mountains near Roseburg!
The slag after iron smelting, the powder made by smashing iron ore, the lime burned in the fire, and the key river sand. Rurik sent the blacksmith apprentices and quickly collected a lot of them from the mountainous area and the frozen upper stream.
The Kravasen father and son had more important work. These very young blacksmith apprentices, under the leadership of the equally young Kamne and under the guidance of Rurik himself, went from mining materials to making usable cement, using only
for seven days.
Because these children, Rurik is indeed the Son of God in their eyes. They claim to have learned the nature of the world through the "simple periodic table of elements" carved on the wooden board, and the successful configuration of cement becomes "
Another evidence of the rationality of “short form”.
However, the successful deployment of cement did not cause too much trouble. The Ross tribe is different from other tribes. The tribesmen have been able to see a large number of new things every year in recent years. Everyone is interested in any wonderful things, even if they are owned by people.
Wings flying in the sky are no longer strange.
The so-called coastal temple is located within a wooden wall. Of course, this section of the wooden wall is very close to the sea.
The best building materials must be given priority to the temple, which must serve as the most sacred building in Roseburg.
Young boys and girls in Rus piled large and small stones on reindeer sleighs. The big stones required a strong man to pick them up, while the small stones were only as big as a fist. Among the stones were limestone and iron ore.
, copper ore, most of them are ordinary granite.
Still under Rurik's order, after Rumia personally performed a small sacrifice on the stone ship altar of the Rus, all the stones were dismantled and turned into the core of the foundation of the new temple.
The stones of the old stone ship altar were piled into a square outer shell, and a large number of small stones were piled in the center. Then the evenly mixed cement seeped into the gaps, and the construction workers used wooden tools to push out a platform that satisfied Rurik.
It took three full days for the foundation platform to finally solidify. The cold climate did not seem to affect the slow chemical reaction inside it. After all, the cement merged with a large number of stones and turned into a huge square floor!
The Russians never worshiped huge statues of gods. Of course, many people made some small wooden sculptures and regarded them as worshiping a certain god in order to receive blessings. What is the meaning of such worship? The gods in their hands
The statue is not only small, but also crude.
The Principality of Rus is already quite large, and the Rus people as the core must unify their thoughts.
Rurik did not hesitate to make a fuss about worshiping the gods. It was not enough to just verbally declare that he had the highest divine power of the entire tribe. He had to take adequate measures, such as erecting a beautifully cast statue in a gorgeously decorated building.
In the temple. In a sense, the temple built by Rurik is not fundamentally different from the one in the Buddhist temple and Taoist temple. It is just that the Buddha and the true king have become Odin and other Nordic gods.
It has to be said that anyone who kneels down to worship such a huge statue of a god will feel solemn, and the more they will hint in their heart that what they pray for will definitely be blessed by the god.
Now the question arises again, which gods should the Russians worship?
Rurik noticed that the Melalens, Hjelmarens, Uppsalas, and other tribes all believed in different gods. Everyone did believe that Odin was the greatest god, but they all believed that Odin was the greatest god.
The explanations for it are also varied.
This was the situation in Sweden's area of influence. Rurik learned from the old Danish Eric family, his sister-in-law Aslaki, and the Saxons from Borgholm whom he had met before that their attitudes towards gods were very different.
In other words, from the Arctic Ocean to the southernmost Schleswig, the people in the areas controlled by the Viking forces only reached unity on the issue of "Odin is the supreme god", and had various interpretations of other gods...
The Nordic mythology system is not unified at all in the current era! Rurik made a very clear judgment.
Since this was the case, Rurik, as a master of the wooden boards that recorded ancient events, appointed certain gods.
Odin, the king of the gods, bestowed upon the people of Russia the destiny of rising up and giving them invincibility in battle, and should be worshiped first by all.
Frigga, the wife of Odin, is the god of marriage and family, protecting the family peace of the Russians.
Frey, the God of Wealth, blesses the Russians to get better and better every day, and blesses the businessmen to make a fortune.
Freya, the goddess of fertility and health, blesses the population of Rus with increasing numbers and good health.
Thor, the god of craftsmen, agriculture, husbandry and fishery, blesses all production and construction work of the Russians smoothly.
Sperosvilia, the Valkyrie who belongs exclusively to the Ross people, the souls of all warriors who fight for Ross will be brought into the Hall of Valor by this god.
The first five gods are generally recognized by the tribe, and Rurik clearly defined the affairs they protected.
There is only one last god, Sperosvilia, she is the dead High Priest Vilia!
Viriya became a god and must be worshiped and worshiped by the Russians for a long time.
Therefore, Klavasen was assigned by Rurik the most critical job of casting the statue of the god! And this was not necessarily a very serious job.
When Clavarson learned the news, he no longer wanted to talk about the exquisite performance of the cement, but expressed deep doubts about the casting of six bronze statues at once!
"It's so crazy! How much copper does it cost to cast a huge bronze statue that's almost the same size as a human? I don't have that much material in a short time!"
Rurik did not embarrass the veteran blacksmith. He did not shout any words of encouragement, but directly pointed out the process of making the bronze statue.
The Russians have not yet learned the vivid sculpture techniques from the Greek area, and it is simply unrealistic to expect old guys like Klavasen to make exquisite large statues of gods. Rurik's requirements are not high, he needs six statues with different faces.
Half-length statues of gods, each statue is not a huge copper ingot.
He asked Clavarson to make a special clay mold and cast a layer of copper skin immediately. After all, the "Statue of Independence" is also assembled from a large number of irregular copper sheets, and there is a lot of space inside.
The statue that Rurik requested was exactly the same. The copper skin with complex rules had the facial features of the god, the beard and even the texture of the clothing. He did not ask Klavasen to cast it too finely, as long as there were some clear facial features of the characters on the surface.
As for the huge empty space behind the statue, it can be filled with clay afterwards.
Of course, only the statue of Sperosvilya, the Valkyrie, needs to be properly cast, because everyone knows what the old Viglia looked like.
He gave Clavarson a deadline to complete the casting before the vernal equinox.
With the cement stone base of the temple completed, the construction speed of the buildings on the platform was very fast.
The entire Roseburg is undergoing the largest scale of construction ever. As of the eve of the Spring Equinox, a small number of extremely strong wooden walls have been completed, and five standardized grain storage warehouses have been completed and filled with grain.
The permanent temple construction was completed on time!
Its appearance is very similar to the old priest's longhouse, but its length has been reduced, but it reveals novelty everywhere.
There is only one room inside the temple, and six statues of gods with different styles stand in the building!
When the temple was completed, the two huge wooden doors were deliberately opened by Rurik. Facing the thousands of people who gathered, he shouted in public: "This is the sanctuary! It's you and Asgard.
Communication tools! Look at these idols! Odin! Frigga! Frey! Freya! Thor! And our Sperosvilia! Kneel down before the idols! Offer a silver coin, there is always a god
Your prayers will be answered!"
The temple was brightly lit. Rumia, the Covin girl Lumi, and Rurik's ten Slavic maids were all under the command of Rumia and became priestesses who were completely obedient to Rurik's orders. Of course, they
Her other identity was that of a concubine. The power of sacrifice was actually firmly controlled by Rurik, and he even "invented" the concept of "incense".
The right of interpretation lies in Rurik's hands. It is said that if you pay a sum of money as a fund for prayer, the statue will respond in some form.
This had never happened before. Because of Rurik's explanation, all the tribesmen realized that they could really interact with the gods! Rurik must be the son of God. With his endorsement, his own
Praying will definitely bring results. Of course, Rurik also imposed restrictions. It is said that each Russian has only one opportunity to pray every month, and the funds paid are only one silver coin. There is no point in investing more.
The priestesses headed by Rumia, faced with the statue that had been plated with a layer of gold, the eyes were plated with silver, and the texture of the clothes was painted with lapis lazuli powder, they performed a sacrificial activity, which is the so-called "consecration"
.In this way, Rurik announced that these mortal gold and silver statues had gained spiritual contact with Asgard.
What do people live for? Ordinary men hope to get rich, and women hope that their families and children will be safe. Everyone hopes that their work will go smoothly, there will be no disease, their marriage will be happy, and their family will multiply. All the good wishes of people for a better life will be fulfilled by this vote of gods.
Yes! Of course, Sperosvilia, the Valkyrie born from the Rus, the door of Valhalla has been opened to all Rus warriors.
If you can get blessings from the gods by paying a silver coin, why are you still hanging around?
Not to mention, Rurik really turned the temple into a Buddhist temple. He placed a box containing silver coins outside the temple and put up leather mats. People paid the silver coins one by one and knelt down to pray.
The entire praying scene gradually became heated, and even businessmen who were staying there came over.
Guests like Biyoni from Balmok and old Eric's family from Denmark did not just act as spectators, but actively joined the prayer army.
The Russian people's spring equinox sacrifice in 832 lasted until late at night in the unusual excitement. People with silver coins rushed to the temple to kneel down and then left happily and contentedly.
No one questions that there is something wrong with this behavior, or that everyone needs a clear god deep in their hearts. In the past, the Ross tribe would crowd into the Stone Ship Altar for every large-scale sacrifice. Rurik was clearly aware of people's demands.
So the temple was built.
A small square was built at the temple, and there is absolutely no problem in squeezing in three to four thousand people. The future "Temple Square" will also be the best place to carry out public activities. The Spring Equinox Sacrifice is a special stress test. The results of the test are really good.
Awesome! Of course, what’s even more amazing is that Rurik obtained more than 4,000 silver coins through very reasonable means, which means that so many people participated in praying! He accumulated a fortune, and the people also
Got spiritual comfort.
Seeing everyone's smiling faces after praying, Rurik didn't feel guilty at all! This was not a lie. People paid a silver coin to buy spiritual comfort and hope for the future, while Rurik directly
A batch of funds has been recycled to make the finances more stable. Everyone can get what they need.
Time has quietly entered April, and the frozen sea is already showing signs of thawing. As the temperature has become warmer, the construction speed of Fort Ross has increased significantly.
The temple began to be guarded by Rurik's elite mercenaries, and the temple became open regularly. When it opened for the first time in April, a large group of people came to kneel down and pray with silver coins.
Mia was wearing an antlered helmet and holding a wooden staff, and she stood at the door of the temple for a whole day. Of course, in order to reward this hard-working woman who had made a lot of money for herself, Rurik also kneaded her hard that night.
Rurik's calf to relieve the pain of standing for a long time. Rurik fulfilled his words. After the priest's longhouse was demolished, Rumia was by Rurik's side every night. After all, from the beginning, Rurik's bedside
The position is reserved for this woman.
Rumia felt so comfortable after being rubbed that the pain in her legs almost disappeared, and even...
After the construction of the palace was completed, the whole family had to move away. Rumia was moved that she was Rurik's first woman, but she was still not a real woman.
"Rurik, why are you still a child? I have prepared everything, but you are still a child."
Rurik knew exactly what the girl meant, and he muttered softly in the night: "Why are you in such a hurry? I am powerless now. I am waiting for two years!"
"I don't believe it." Rumia said angrily, "You are decisive in killing. You are obviously a man. Why don't you give it a try? I will give you many children, and they will be hereditary high priests, and they will always be Ross.
"
Rumia's words were full of urging, and Rurik couldn't make up his mind for a moment.
"I……"
"You are a strong bear and I am a deer. I am lying here. Come on!"
Stimulated by these words, Rurik couldn't help but feel excited. He asked himself, he has a Nordic body, and the newly grown golden hair on his lips is not fluff, it is clearly a beard! And that place has already been
Now that I have hair, has my manly power awakened, but I was busy with other things and never noticed it? It should have...already awakened.
In the night, Rurik finally started his great attempt, and Rumia fully cooperated.
A miracle happened! In other words, this inevitable thing happened ahead of schedule beyond Rurik's own estimation!
After this night, on the second day of the Vernal Equinox, the high priest of the Rus gained the favor of Rurik, the son of the god, and she finally became a woman.
In the early morning, Rurik looked at the dark red color on the linen sheets and Lumia who continued to sleep soundly. He couldn't help sighing and beating his chest: "I am indeed a Nordic! What a precocious Nordic! I was born at the age of eleven.