Rise of Rurik

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Since this snowstorm, winter life in the north has begun.

The heavy ship-shaped coffin was transported to Rurik's flagship, which led the other ships out of port.

The ships removed the adhering snow, and then opened the packed sails. A relatively large fleet assembled off the coast of Tombstone Island, and each ship accompanied the flagship to the depths of the Gulf of Finland.

Even in winter, there is a land line of reindeer sleigh transporting supplies to the eastern world. However, this kind of eastward advance in the freezing weather is not pleasant, which makes the communication between New Roseburg and the West very limited during the winter.

The fleet this time gathers goods from the north and Sweden. This is the last large-scale delivery of materials to the east this year. When the goods arrive, all ships will be smashed into the berth and frozen in silence.

The sea has begun to freeze, starting from the north and south coasts, and finally the ice in the middle of the Gulf of Finland is thick enough for people to run wild.

It was also thanks to the wind and snow that had just ended. Although the temperature was cold, the violent sea waves made it difficult for sea ice to gather. Now the north wind is still bitter, and the fleet is still drifting to the depths in the ups and downs of the waves.

From the observation post at the top of the mast, you can see the snow-capped view on both sides of the Gulf of Finland.

Snow can hide the world, but never the walls of New Roseburg.

There, white and black are intertwined, and the Neva River, which looks almost inky, is still flowing quietly.

After docking at the port, the fleet quickly began to unload, and these batches of production materials from the Western world met the needs of the capital well.

A large number of iron ingots are transported down, so the state-run blacksmith shop has no worries about the production capacity in winter.

A large amount of thenardite was unloaded, and all the cobbler workshops in the city were able to "full fire".

A large amount of flax, a small amount of kenaf and hemp from the Swedish region, and a batch of pure wool from the Flanders region are sold immediately after unloading. The textile families in the capital know what a good product is, and they buy it after inspection. Then quickly put into production.

The great merchant Gould died, and his death was most tragic for his family, and Rurik, the king of Ruth, an old friend of the deceased.

In the capital, no one cares about the boat-shaped coffins with exquisite carvings and drawings. People live their own lives. Now life is much better than before. The rapid rise of handicrafts has brought prosperity, and the residents of the capital have more or less asset balances. The past is unimaginable.

They want to consume when they have spare money. Buying ale has been a fun for everyone since ancient times. Considering the needs of winter, now is the period when everyone spends money to buy firewood.

The poorer people took their axes and went to distant places to cut wood, and then pulled them to the two outer markets in the capital to sell them.

Those Lapps who keep deer have to seize this opportunity. Now that the snow covers the earth, the reindeer sleigh, which was not available before, just has a role to play. When they were grazing, they cut wood ahead of time. No one was a fool. All kinds of trees were stripped of their bark to make paper. Pine wood was cut into small pieces and stored first. The oak that was found was kept intact. They are eventually all shipped to sleds to form a team of sleds, the pine is sold as firewood, the oak is sold to the shipyard, and the bark is put at the end, the so-called wait until the Volkhov and Ladoga are frozen enough The prepared bark was transported to Novgorod.

The current firewood trading market is very hot, and the capital city has a large population. All families with some financial resources have to build houses with fireplaces and chimneys, which has spawned a huge winter firewood market.

And ale makes people warm, the kind of ale blended with some vodka is the most cost-effective, this is a small way to make money for the royal brewery.

No matter what tribes the residents of the capital come from, most of them have one thing in common - people who speak the Norse language.

We are all Vikings, and the habit of eating fish is almost the same.

There are two kinds of smoked fish jerky, salted and original. When it comes to cost-effectiveness, the original smoked fish is more popular with the general public. Like the clay furnace of a charcoal kiln, there are a lot of fresh herring steaks and cod steaks hanging from a large number of hemp ropes. They are smoked and dehydrated as much as possible, and finally become hard fish that test the bite muscles.

It is exactly the same, many people often eat this kind of long-lasting meat to cultivate strong cheeks and round heads.

But now everyone has more choices.

Aslaqi has been expanding her own mill and scones workshop. For her, even if she doesn't do any other business, just relying on the one-stop shopping of grain, grinding flour, and selling flour products, the single profit of scones and bread is not enough. Gao, relying on her large amount, she can make a steady profit without losing money, and the royal family also relies on her to slowly consume the aged grain in the warehouse.

Traditional families stocked up on dried fish and scones, and even if they were placed in their own granaries, they would dry out and become as hard as wood. Every family has and reserves food. Considering the cost of cooking wheat porridge in winter, the cold is also making people lazy, and people are more accustomed to having ready-to-eat and ready-to-drink food reserves at their fingertips. Unappetizing? No problem.

When the king came back, a large number of people gathered at the pier. They did not want to see the glory of the royal family. After all, it was a large fleet that returned. A discerning person could judge that there was a lot of storage by looking at the draft of those armed cargo ships.

People with spare cash hope that the fleet will bring back some new tricks, but no, there are good things.

The good news spread quickly throughout the capital—there were ten barrels of wine to sell.

The wealthy households in the city quickly rushed to the Harvest Square in the inner city, where the blue fox policemen set out to fight.

The wine he returned was not much, not too little, and some of the wine needed to be further fermented and had no sale value. Even if the follow-up liquor can be sold, there is no need to sell it.

The blue fox is very good at life. Since he has received the king's favor, it is no problem to donate some of the wine to the royal family as a tribute.

He only sold ten barrels, and marked a higher price. Those wealthy households liked to buy it or not. As a businessman, he estimated that some of those guys would definitely pay a high price to buy it for the sake of face.

Rurik didn't care about the business behavior of the blue fox and the red fox in the capital. He had a lot of business to do. Currently, the most important thing was to complete Gould's final funeral.

Behold! In an open space in Harvest Square, those well-dressed cavalry are gathering.

A sleigh pulled by four horses is like a ship being checked. Do not! It's not a boat, it's a coffin.

Who exactly died? Who is qualified to make the king participate in his funeral.

In an instant, the city was full of rumors, and even a daring guy murmured nervously: "It is very likely that the old king Otto passed away."

Otto is indeed old, so he won't die suddenly, right? In the past few years, I have only known that he is very old, and there is no bad news such as illness. The old king has been staying in the warm Novgorod to retire, I am afraid that even if he passes away, he will be buried by the lake.

Until, official sources pointed out that it was Gould, the great Rus businessman who was originally from the Ankras tribe.

That old guy as plump as a seal? So he died? He died, what does it have to do with me.

Not many people in the capital are willing to go to the Chengnan Cemetery to watch the funeral, but there are more than a dozen merchants from the Melalen tribe who are small businessmen. Considering that they have too much business dealings with the Gould family, they will send the old guy for the last ride. .

The king took all his wives, concubines, and children who lived in the capital to participate, and the high priest Lumia brought almost all the priests, Noron and her newly trained musicians.

The musicians played a solemn ensemble with wooden flutes, bone flutes, horns, and leather drums. The long and penetrating music seemed to guide the dead to Asgard.

The High Priest led the entire team, all women, and led the way, followed by the Russ cavalry lined up with flags.

The royal family walked beside the boat-shaped coffin on foot, and Rurik was going to walk on foot to show respect for this old guy.

For this reason, the blue and red foxes of the Gould family, with their entourage, followed the royal family slowly to the cemetery in thanks.

A stone tablet has been withered and carved, it is the bust of the old guy Gould. However, the Swedish carving industry in one period was not good enough. They couldn't make a statue almost like a real person from a piece of marble in the East Rome, so they tried their best to reflect Gould's fat head like a chubby fish, half body. The statue was still carved on schedule. Gould's life is briefly described on the inscriptions spelled in Rune and Latin letters on the stele.

Gravediggers dug deep pits and filled them up to form a tomb bag. The tomb bag was then piled up with a large number of stones, and finally a layer of cement was placed on the lake.

The stone tablet is placed in front of the tomb, making this tomb unique among cemeteries.

Just as Rurik was inspecting the north and even taking shelter from the blizzard on Tombstone Island, the matters he had arranged in the capital were proceeding in an orderly manner.

The supreme scribe Ellaji was eager to report the good news to the king that the event had been accomplished, and her happy smile said it all.

When Gould's final funeral was dealt with, Rurik took another day off and headed straight to the royal printing office in the city he ordered.

To this end, Ella has brought her own gifts to wait for the arrival of the king.

Without any courtesy or greetings, Rurik asked his entourage to wait outside. He had already learned that the "Rossaga" that he had ordered to be printed had already started printing, and he came here to see the finished product and confirm that the news was true.

"Where's the book? Where is it?" Rurik, who broke in, was shocked that the printers stopped their work.

Ella was holding a bound book with an oak plank cover.

"That's it." She smiled and handed it to Rurik's hand.

Looking at this book, I have to say that it is very interestingly bound.

The production cost of the main body of the lever-type pressing printing machine is very low, and the key lies in the huge amount of movable type, and the current printing industry is busy with mass production of this. The lead movable type assembly array has been proofread, and the movable type is lightly glued with loose glue. Each edition corresponds to a page, so all the pages needed for the entire Ross Saga are assembled here.

Ella had to recruit a lot of workers, and now the two heads of the printing bureau are objectively in charge of all operations, Ella's presence is more of a supervision.

Due to the thicker paper, each page is hard, and due to technical reasons, only one side can be printed. Even if the text on the page is as dense as possible, the content of the "Rossaga" book is not too much. very thick.

Thickness has a great advantage, that is, it makes readers feel that it is heavy and durable.

The essence of the lever printing press is a human press made of wood. After the pages of the book to be bound are sorted, the front and rear oak board book covers are pressed hard by the press, and then the bow drill is drilled with a small drill bit. Take the hole for threading.

Glue binding seems to be simple, but it actually requires more technology. Drill holes and wire them, this is the best cost-effective solution that Ross can achieve. The pure paper should be firmly bound, the oak board book cover should be installed, and the hemp rope should be loosened for readers to read.

Rurik immediately flipped through the pages, and the situation was better than he thought. Paper with birch bark as the main raw material absorbs ink just right, although the overall printing quality is a bit puzzling, because the whole text is phonetic letters, it does not affect it at all.

"It's the Norse version in the Latin alphabet, which is fine. You've done a very good job."

After listening to the king say this, everyone who was a little nervous was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, and some people simply jumped for joy.

"We will continue to work hard, and the paper that will be brought by this winter will be exhausted." Ella said with a smile, the implication of which is the high number of Rurik - continue to supply paper and ink steadily.

Rurik could hear her appeal: "Very good. You keep doing it, don't worry about printing materials. I ask you to print at full capacity before Hanukkah, just to give us our current needs, you have to print an additional fifty runes first. version."

"Huh?" For a moment, Ella frowned slightly in doubt: "Now that the stall is spread out, we are working hard to make the Latin alphabet version. Now we need to change the version, and the work needs to be adjusted."

"Worried about wasting efficiency? I get it. Don't worry, you'll change the print version in December. Listen, there are too many people in the capital using traditional letters. The rune version is suitable for sale here, and the Latin version ships to Nuo. Fugorod, haha ​​this book will be used as a textbook for the children."

If the king stayed at the printing office for long periods of time, the workers were prone to errors due to their intense distractions.

After confirming that their work was fruitful, Rurik ordered ten silver coins to be given to all the workers and withdrew.

If there is no lead movable type, everything will be avoided. Facts have proved that those movable type are very well polished. If anyone should be rewarded the most, the huge team of blacksmiths under his command should be rewarded the most.

reward them with money? No, maybe that's too vulgar.

These young blacksmiths all have slave backgrounds, at least being the king's slave is a good thing. Rurik knew exactly what his fellows needed. They needed the status of a royal servant and used it to gain social status.

The burly Kamne led his child to half-kneel to salute the king, and then reported that he had completed the urgent task on time and began to be busy with ordnance manufacturing.

Just look at Kamne! The small furnace matrix of the state-owned blacksmith shop has obtained a large number of iron ingots, and they have sufficient production raw materials, which can be busy throughout the winter. Kamne went out on his own. He was shirtless, with thick leather imitation ironing clothes hanging on his chest and belly. The dense hair on his arms had long been burned off, and his body was sweaty. The wet hair forced him to twist it with sackcloth. The rope was wrapped around the head to stop the sweat from stinging the eyes.

The pig iron ingots were smashed into small pieces, and they were continuously stirred with the heat of the high-temperature small stove made by the ancient fan. If the processing continues, the high-carbon pig iron ingot will eventually turn into a lump of almost carbon-free wrought iron.

This is not the case with the blacksmiths. Although they were young, they were engaged in this work when they were children. Now they are over twenty years old and work almost all year round, and their technical level is very high.

Carbon steel bars are the most common semi-finished products, which can be further processed into steel swords, steel arms of crossbow, ribs of iron helmets, and iron pieces cut into scales.

But now Rurik craved plate armor.

The state-owned blacksmith shop is full of firepower~www.readwn.com~ They are actively producing and repairing the necessary weapons for the future for the king.

This work of blacksmithing is not only done by the royal family. Although Rurik has completed a monopoly, this monopoly is not derived from "people who dare to sell and kill their heads", but rely on quantity and quality to crush small private workshops.

To be fair, making tools such as nails and small forks does not involve state-run institutions. The latter's revenue-generating fist products are still weapons and those tools shared by soldiers and farmers.

Now that there are enough iron ingots in the capital, it is okay to sell them to some small workshops. Because Rurik was sure that when he sent another trip to the north in the spring of next year, more iron ingots would be brought in again.

Rosburg, Novgorod, Elronborg, and Novgorod are the four productive cities in Rus, each of which has residents who are engaged in high-value-added jobs away from agricultural life.

In a sense, Rus has heavy industry and numerous handicrafts, and their prosperity is based on the stable supply of food.

Now that all the granaries in the capital city are full, some grain-carrying ships can only be parked at the berth to become sea warehouses.

In the final analysis, sufficient food supply supports the steel industry in Rurik, and now the time is ripe, the blacksmith can try to produce the whole plate armor made of wrought iron, so as to replace the troublesome scale armor to load and unload, and the chain armor becomes cost-effective. Better armor combo.

After all, once the main force of the Russ army officially ends and intervenes in the Frankish civil war, the army must have a higher armor rate than the Frankish army! And the use of Ross's smelting is to make higher-quality armor.

The pig iron ingots were slowly fired into pig iron ingots, then beaten into iron sheets, and then molded to match the upper body of an adult strong man. Technically, this is not a problem. Kamnee has already assigned people to start the work...

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