Rise of Rurik

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The Slavic people around Lake Ilmen fell into poverty and boredom when they ended their busy farming period each year.

The climate in this area is naturally far less than the Ukrainian steppes in the far south, and at least slightly better than the fragile agriculture in the Nordic region. However, primitive agriculture has forced the existence of a small-scale peasant economy, and all farmers can only build collective farms, relying on mutual help to take care of large-scale farmland.

Now that you have paper made of birch bark, transcribing the information written on the board on the paper is the important follow-up work for Rurik and his wives.

The copying work was carried out in an orderly manner, and the special issues regarding land ownership were exposed.

Because there is no smallholder in the full sense here, even the White Tree Manor still has the ownership of some areas belonging to "all of us". That's everyone's land, it's the public field. Everyone should go farming together, so that regardless of the bumper harvest, the families participating in the farming will get an even output.

As for the ownership of the freely developed land, the farmer family must be responsible for its own profits and losses, and sell it if it can't continue to operate it.

Therefore, out of the consideration of maximizing benefits, the farmers of White Tree Manor are both public and private. The primitive communal agriculture is spontaneously disintegrating, and the small-scale peasant economy is developing.

But are the vast forested areas of northern Eastern Europe suitable for small-scale farmers?

In other words, any agricultural economic activity is formed by the actual geographical factors, and people are selfish. Isn't the farmers holding groups for warmth because they go out alone and have limited benefits and huge risks?

In this land of Eastern Europe that Rurik knew, the agricultural reform carried out by Tsar Alexander II was to dismantle the old farm system and turn it into overwhelming small farmers, so that the Tsar could directly collect taxes on the farmers. In theory, this is a kind of progress, and the result has spawned a large group of new landlords and millions of bankrupts. Thousands of bankrupts have lost everything, forming another torrent...

"The farm system cannot be changed. To let them go it alone is to let them die. They must be reunited and warm, but the big deal is that I will organize a production team for them, give them farm tools, and let them choose the leader by themselves. I use the area of ​​their farmland every year, Taxes are collected in proportion to the average yield per mu."

Rurik breathed a sigh of relief. He really didn't make statistics in person. He took it for granted that they were the most small farmers. In fact, the White Tree Manor was still a primitive commune, and the situation in other farms was similar.

Those canonized a large group of Boyar aristocrats may not be far ahead of the rest of the farm when it comes to wealth.

The farms are more of a system of mutual assistance, but some nobles have been born, they are stronger than ordinary farmers, and they can only get stronger in the future.

"Is this a good thing? It would be a good thing if they can let the farm where they are located pay me rent and tax."

If each farm is divided into public land and private land, a distinction must be made statistically. Now that paper already exists, there is no need to worry about storage when recording these contents. The cut paper has changed from about the size of A3 paper to A4 paper. It has been reduced by half, and it is more dexterous to hold it in your hand.

The area of ​​the paper only becomes smaller. Because Rurik asked his wives and concubines to write down the information small enough, only one side of a piece of paper is enough to record an astonishing amount of information than before.

The textual information is recorded in classical Latin, and a large number of numbers are Arabic letters.

Why must we use Latin? Rurik can look at these things from a long history, just as the official script of the East can keep the writing and meaning unchanged for two thousand years, and the classical Latin in the West can also preserve the meaning for two thousand years. Classical Latin is not dead. It is a writing system used within the clergy group. The scriptures transcribed by it have been confirmed by the Emperor Constantine. In order to determine the purity of faith, the priests of the past ensured the spelling and meaning of this language. Does not drift.

The wives and concubines have gone through the whole winter of last year. They have learned the use of common classical Latin vocabulary from John Invall. They can use seven or eight hundred words. Various patterns can be applied well. They have already dealt with daily use. enough.

What's more, the teenager John Invar has been taken to Novgorod, who happens to be a linguistic consultant, and Rurik is also willing to save the official documents of the Rus Principality in classical Latin in the future.

He firmly believes that as long as he does this, the paper documents will be kept, even if the documents are really decayed and damaged, they will continue to be copied in Latin, so that they can be preserved for thousands of years and let distant descendants know their ancestors.

Because these documents, even the initial "field survey report", are extremely critical historical data. They are the documents that constitute the soul of the Russian nation.

The Western Empire has been dead for four hundred years, and the Eastern Empire is still insisting on it.

Just like there is no Rome after 1453, just like Rome is everywhere after 1453.

If the classical Latin of Rome was fully resurrected in the elite aristocratic circle of the Duchy of Ross, Rome was not resurrected in Northern Europe, but it would be equivalent to a certain resurrection.

Why didn't the Romans do this kind of spiritual behavior?

In the long run, as long as Latin is popularized, descendants of the principality will have cheap information exchange tools.

Whether it’s the Vikings from the various tribes (including the Roths) who came to Northern Europe, the Pan-Slavs everywhere, and the Pan-Finns with a limited population, everyone speaks as many as three languages, including their own dialects. How messy? A country should have a language that everyone can accurately recognize each other, even if the majority of the people still speak their own language, at least everyone in the upper circle can speak Latin. If everyone learns it, the governance product of the principality will also plummet.

Even from the root cause, the possibility of the separation of the three ethnic groups was cut off.

With his oriental thinking, Rurik just doesn't like the pattern of small countries and few people.

He wanted to do this a long time ago, but last year he implemented it among his wives and concubines, and the results have been perfectly reflected this year. They are writing the official documents of the Principality of Ross in Latin, which is tantamount to further deepening their memory.

The descendants of their children must inherit all of this, and pass it on to future generations.

Even Noren from Narvik Port took up a quill pen to write Latin. She lacked knowledge of Rome and was too lazy to understand, but lying on the desk, relying on the light of the oil lamp to write the crooked letters on the paper, this This feeling is really amazing. This is the job of the bookkeeper. It will be a thousand years later to record the information, so that future generations will remember that there was a beautiful girl named Nolan in the distant past. It is really exciting to think about it.

The work of copying did not take too long. After all, the information they obtained from surveying and mapping was not as huge as imagined, at least for now.

The copy of the information is finished before the paper is used up, and the wooden boards can probably be burned as firewood.

"Burn it? Is it necessary? We have put in a lot of effort." Svetlana was persuaded on behalf of everyone with puzzled emotions.

"In addition to occupying the entire room, is there anything necessary for them to exist?" Rurik asked rhetorically.

"But, we transport them so carefully..."

"Yes. But we have better paper. These boards can be destroyed. The boards that record ancient stories stored in our home in Ross need you to copy them on lightweight paper. We will have to wait for the snow to melt. For further surveying and mapping, we need a huge amount of paper, and the new papermaking work is about to begin!"

With paper, there are unlimited possibilities!

This is not only as simple as recording and disseminating knowledge, but also because it requires manpower and material resources to produce it, and it provides job opportunities for the local Slavs who are bored after the busy farming period.

The new round of snowfall occurred in the first ten days of December in the Julian calendar. This time it did not last long, but the scale of the snowfall was a bit more serious.

Lake Ilmen is not small. When the forest was covered with white snow, the snow on the frozen lake was blown clean by the harsh north wind.

In the past, local residents lacked the ability and willingness to dig ice and fish.

The Ross people are different. They spent the winter here for the first time, carrying a big axe and digging a big hole in the ice half a meter later.

Rurik allowed the mercenaries he had brought to do this kind of thing, and Old Otto ordered some of his old buddies to do the same.

The Ross people’s winter fishing work in the depths of the Gulf of Bothnia was reproduced in the glacial lakes of Eastern Europe. A number of large holes were dug out, which slightly disturbed the lake surface, which gave the perch under the lake a strong stimulation. In winter, the fish under the ice layer are generally a little hypoxic. They can perceive the breath of fresh oxygen, although when the ice layer breaks, fish schools will swarm.

No, the crazy bass even jumped directly out of the hole, and the ice-cutting Rossman laughed out of the hole and waited for the fish.

This situation is also silly for the local onlookers Slavs, or the Ross people have supernatural power to make the fish jump out by themselves, or it has nothing to do with supernatural power but directly related to strength.

If there is the first person who eats crabs, he can be sure that the harvest of ice-cutting and fishing for fish is amazing. Even if ice-cutting is a very heavy physical task, the local Slavs are willing to do it.

They are not like the strength of the bear-like burly Rus, they cherish limited ironware, and they are afraid of the cold and dare not leave the farm too far, and even the poor fish-fishing technique in the warm period leads to the misconception that there are not many fish in this lake. know. Many factors led them to see the miracle of winter catching performed by the Ross people.

Actually? After the rebellious Pine Needle Manor was brutally attacked, the regular troops from the Ross Principality’s hometown swept the lake area with advanced trawlers, which proved that the lake was presumptuously surrounded by farms, and the Great Lake was almost undeveloped.

After the heavy snowfall in December, the walled city of Novgorod began to smell of grilled fish.

The Ross people also didn't invent the "Chagan Lake" winter fishing technique. Although Rurik knew this method, he only knew a little about it. Research and implementation of it may not be necessary, because traditional fishing methods have already achieved remarkable results.

A special city wall appeared in Novgorod, and the bricks that made it were frozen fish. Grilled fish is the most traditional way of eating. People from various Viking tribes have to go out and catch fish in ponds, pinch the head and tail to cut the internal organs, and put them on the branches and sprinkle salt and roast the fish to make an authentic meal. Viking picnic.

The same is true for the Rus, but the local Slavs’ practice is to stew fish.

Due to the environment, the locals guard an almost infinite forest, and they have more time to pick mushrooms throughout the year, especially in the forest after the rain in September. Men and women of all farms are willing to pick mushrooms.

The most common oyster mushrooms are the rare and delicious chanterelle mushrooms, truffles, lacto mushrooms, and so on. Most girls picking mushrooms have picked edible fungi. As for the existence of poisonous mushrooms, it is a small probability event to eat poisonous mushrooms.

Unlike the Viking tribes, they deliberately eat poisonous mushrooms in order to have hallucinations in order to communicate with the ancestors living in Asgard.

They use sun-dried and dried mushrooms to stew with fish. The most commonly caught sea bass from Lake Ilmen is delicious and tender, and the guanylic acid and glutamic acid contained in sun-dried mushrooms make it more delicious. The upper level makes up for the local people's long-term regret that it is difficult to obtain salt due to geographical limitations.

The Ross people are here, and the Ross people want to settle, and the problem of salt supply will be greatly improved! Stewed sea bass with mushrooms, put more salt in response to the severe cold, together with onions brought from my hometown and locally picked and dried thyme, such a pot of soup can be described as a delicacy of this era.

Only the nobles were able to enjoy this kind of delicious meal. The people living in the White Tree Manor in Novgorod did not lose money. Rurik sold a batch of salt, and now he simply remunerated it with salt and recruited a group of slack farmers. Continue to make paper by yourself.

These farmers are not others, they are the soldiers of the Slavic flag team, and Rurik's move is to give his soldiers a chance to benefit.

All the hemp boiled tycoons were used, and the pottery craftsmen of the farm also smelled the breath of profit, and new tycoons began to make.

All these measures require logging and charcoal production, which further stimulated the enthusiasm of the people who were forced to idle.

Logging will wear out the axe, and the locals who had been taught skills by Kawei began to awkwardly work as a blacksmith. The so-called blacksmith is still unable to make tools from the ore, at least there is no problem in repairing the worn axe.

As for the locals who saw the Russ manipulating the double saw to cut the big tree simply and rudely, that was another kind of shock.

It is almost the Hanukkah for the Rus, and it is also a major festival for the Slavic people around Lake Ilmen.

The Eastern Slavs consist of multiple tribal alliances, and this group in Lake Ilmen is the northeastern ethnic group. In this colder place, they worship Peron, the **** of fire, and for example, the Radmic tribe living near Pripet Swamp, they have to pay tribute to the swamp **** Cherno to avoid disaster.

Of course, the local **** Peron must be revered, but the males of the entire White Tree Manor have fought many bad battles for the Duchy of Rus, and they have paid their blood and made great achievements. The dead were finally cremated with the rituals of the Russ. Asgard and even Valhalla Temple. They are already fighters of Odin in the real sense, and they have the right and must participate in the sacrifice to Odin!

Indo-European tribes living in different regions will have grand days on the winter solstice day. The reason for the coincidence is not only that they have a common ancestor, but also that this day is too characteristic.

On this day, the daylight is extremely short, and people at high latitudes can most notice it. People can even feel that the daylight hours will get longer and longer after this day. Such a unique day must be arranged by the gods. It would not be justified if there were no sacrifices.

What's more, this year was indeed extraordinary. The presence of Rurik made the local priests who were good at painting their faces secretly retreat.

Which foolish fool would dare to compete with Lord Duke for theocracy? The priests also noticed the change in the people’s mentality. The men claimed to be New Ross people, and their dependents claimed to be so. The originally boring winter was suddenly bustling, and the people did not fear the cold to work in order to get what they saw from the Duke. See tangible benefits, such as exciting salt and silver coins.

Rose’s army easily destroyed Pine Needle Manor. Isn’t the issue of rituals in White Tree Manor this year's Lord Rurik's final say?

It just so happened that the winter solstice on the 28th of the Julian calendar was approaching. The rituals of the Slavs, Rurik, knew a lot from his beloved wife Svetlana. If he were to be a high priest himself, Can finish the job, after all, being a priest has done so many times in the stone ship altar of Roseburg.

and many more! The stone ship altar?

Novgorod lacks a stone ship altar here!

Is this okay? Build one quickly. Since the local granite is scarce, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com used wooden stakes to piece together one.

Also consider the feelings of the local Slavs, a wooden tower should be erected and then lighted!

In this way, a cow was sacrificed at the "Wooden Boat Altar" to sacrifice Odin, and the fire tower was lit to sacrifice Peron of the Slavs.

As for the priest, his wives and concubines have served as priests, and the priests here this year are only missing Lu Mia.

"It's no problem. Sooner or later, Fort Rose will become a pure iron smelting and shipbuilding city. New Roseburg is the capital of a country. A permanent and larger temple will be built in Fort Rose and the golden statue of the temple of Roseburg will be built. Move over and let Lumia sit down, and this will be done next year."

Rurik has already decided on his ideas, and Rigus can only welcome this, and he and his son Medved are indeed fully supporting it.

Moreover, the princess of the Principality, the future high priest Veria, she is the gift of winter, and the grand festival of Hanukkah on the winter solstice is also her birthday. Is this sacrifice worth her?

Rurik intends to make his daughter show off at the ceremony.

And another good news came along with a woman’s pain and wailing...

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