Rise of Rurik

Otto told his son that he had been offered 30,000 silver coins, and told him more bluntly: "In the future, the public wealth of the priests will be managed by the chief leader. Now, the high priest still has nearly 20,000 silver coins. , as well as some gold coins and gems. I will take care of them now. In the future, if you take over my position, you will take care of them."

"Ah?! That's their money. I..." Rurik's mind was a little confused, he felt that he needed to make a position that he would obey Veria, even if the priests took some measures, he did not covet them money.

But this matter obviously should not be left to Rick to make a name for himself.

Otto covered Rurik's little head with a big hand: "Tell you, this is the order of the high priest. The existing priestesses are unreliable! Child, you need to train your own priestess, and you need to replace the priests to manage the priests. Money. To prevent the priests from thinking about it, you have to manage the money. I think you are so smart, you should understand."

Rurik, does he understand? Of course I understand.

The high chief has secular public power, and the high priest has the ability to control the mind. In this time and space, the discord between these two forces in many countries is a major cause of civil strife.

To eliminate the possibility of this chaos, the chief must keep the priests firmly under control. Now Rurik understood from his father's few words that the high priest Veria, who had almost died, made a major decision when the oil was running out. The so-called priest groups will become the vassals of the great leader.

Rurik had only one word in mind—centralization.

Since he has the right to control the finances of the priests as the great leader in the future, why doesn't the great leader control more? By controlling money and food, a large population can be controlled. In this still wild era, it is time for the Ross tribe to bid farewell to the tribal era. Great leader, when upgraded to monarch, the Rus tribe should be upgraded to a kingdom.

The question is, since it must be upgraded to a kingdom, there should be a treasury.

But now he is not the big leader, let alone the king of the kingdom.

Facing his father, Rurik felt that he needed to give his father a major suggestion on the use of money, which was beneficial to the tribal residents, or, in other words, an innovation.

Rurik's little face became serious.

"dad."

"I am here."

"About the priests' money, and yours. You mean, our family, the money you and I can control, is already up to 70,000 silver coins. What a huge amount of money."

"Hehe." Otto continued to rub his son's head, "Sooner or later, it's your money."

"Really? But." Rurik raised his head and said solemnly: "But the priest's money is not mine."

"It's true, but you can use it."

Rurik shook his head. "Even so, it's not my money. Now, Dad, I just want to make one thing clear. If it's not my money, I can use it. In what name am I supposed to use it? ? Is it used as a big leader, or something else?"

For a time, Otto couldn't figure out his son's intentions.

Rurik made his attitude clear: "I see, we need a great money box, and this box contains a lot of treasure. These treasures belong to our Ross tribe, and are the wealth of all tribes. But the right to use it is in In the hands of the great leader."

"Huh? Your idea is really strange." Otto shook his head.

"Very strange? In the past, the priests had a common money box, and the wealth belonged to all the priests, and the right to use it was in the hands of the high priest. I think this system is OK and should be extended to the entire tribe. In my opinion, the priests The existing 20,000 silver coins, as well as other belongings, are counted as the belongings of our tribe's big money box. With this money, we can do a lot of things."

Otto still feels a little strange to this day: "Go on, for example, what to do?"

"Well, for example, repair roads and improve houses for poor people. We can use this money to improve the lives of our people."

"Are you sure you want to do this? It's their business whether they are poor or rich. Are you going to care about those poor people? They have hands and feet, so they can go fishing and fighting. If they do these things, will they still be poor? ?"

The words came out of his father's mouth, he was the big leader of the tribe!

Rurik felt a little uncomfortable.

Of course, the young and strong warriors of the tribe can take an axe to loot rival tribes to gain wealth, or they can keep fishing at sea. A healthy young man certainly has the ability to support himself and his family, but once they get old, they can't maintain the state of life they used to be.

Especially those warriors, if they die in battle, the family's wife and children will almost lose their financial resources.

Rurik had thought of many things. For example, some women of the tribe would bury their husbands who died in battle. I am afraid there are also economic reasons. For a woman who has lost her husband, her life will become extremely difficult, and death may be a relief.

He asked, "Dad, aren't the weaklings in our tribe worthy of your attention?"

"them?"

"For example, some older people, or children who lost their fathers?"

About this, Otto never thought about it, so he said casually: "The fate of people is doomed. Some people are born noble, and some people are born unfortunate. For example, you, you are the happiest person."

"So, Dad, can you just let them die early? Or wait for them to die while starving?"

Otto was startled and hurriedly replied, "No, I don't mean that."

"But you really didn't make some decisions. You are the big leader, but there are still many people in our tribe who live in the most shabby houses and live on limited food. Now you still support us to implement at least five The ten-year-old rule of splitting the spoils has changed. Those who didn't get involved in the war, who didn't get involved in the Sorgon voyage, their families won't get any money. That's not right."

After being criticized by his son, Otto was upset. However, he was able to question his decision, which showed that the child definitely had other ideas.

Otto had a point about changing the tribe's dividend pattern: "Rurik. Our Rosberg is in a bitter cold, and only the strongest will survive. Our tribe needs new heroes, the brave. The weak are all Dying, all power, only the strong deserves. You are a smart boy, I think you can understand."

"So, those weak people should die early?" Rurik issued a soul complaint.

Otto is also not to be outdone: "This is the root of our strength. Only the strongest people can survive, and those who can participate in the battle are also the strongest. If we were weak, we would have already perished. Remember The grove? Some children are born weak, and they are abandoned. Rurik, the weak do not deserve to live. Even if they survive, they die of disease at a young age."

Natural selection, survival of the fittest? It's so cruel.

Rurik understood what his father meant. Based on this wild era, once, Rosberg's material resources should only be able to support a group of the strongest to survive. But the tribe is still a behemoth of 4,000 people.

Because of the tribe's long-term "broad dividend system", people who are struggling to walk can also get a share of the lingering soup in the results of the Sorgon voyage.

Times had changed, and what Rurik had learned over the months was the deep inequality of wealth that existed within the tribe. Now the situation has gotten worse, such as his buddy Fisk, whose father died, which also prevented the family from participating in the war, let alone sailing to Novgorod. The clan's two major operations this year have been hugely profitable, but this obviously has nothing to do with the Fisk family.

There are many such family tribes. Had he not accepted his relief, Rurik dared to assert that Fisk would most likely not have survived to adulthood.

Rurik did not agree with the words of his father Otto's "Social Darwin". Based on his own thinking, it is impossible for him to agree with this idea.

If the wealth and materials of the tribe are scarce, the only way for the tribe to remain strong is to sacrifice the weak and the strong take all.

Now, is the material of the Ross tribe really lacking? of course not!

"Dad, I still don't agree with what you said." Rurik said firmly, "I want to help the weak of the tribe. I think as the chief leader, there is reason to help them. No matter what, they are our tribe. Even if they are vulnerable and we have to help them too."

"I heard that your one hundred and fifty guys, you treat them to dinner every day. Do you think this is correct?"

Rurik nodded deeply: "Some of them have fathers who died unexpectedly or died in battle. I can't bear them to starve! I will always give them food, and I will use them when they grow up."

"But this, it takes too much money!"

"Dad, do you still doubt my ability to make money now? I pay a sum of money to support the poor, and I still have the confidence to make my money more and more."

Affected by the question of the soul, Otto looked at the transparent cup on the table and smiled naively.

Rurik continued: "Dad, as far as I know, almost everyone in the tribe believes that I am a child blessed by Odin. My identity is noble. This is the identity that Odin gave me, and you gave me. I have a noble identity, but I am not here to enjoy happiness. My mission is to lead our tribe to prosperity. I want to make the strong stronger, the weak to be able to live and breathe, and I want to make foreigners surrender to us."

For a moment, Otto thought of his own attitude that his son had said many years ago when he had just learned to speak. Looking back on that time, the shock is still in my heart.

"So, you're going to give a lot of money to help those poor people?"

"Yes!" Rurik said firmly: "We must have a big money box, which belongs to all the members of our Ross tribe. In my opinion, in the future we will win the battle and the tribute of Sorgon's voyage will be divided and put away. Put it in this big money box. The money in the big money box is to help the poor clansmen exist."

Otto slapped his forehead: "Hey! Isn't this the same as before?"

"Very different! This money is under the control of the big boss. Who and how to fund it is also arranged by the big boss. Not only that, the big boss can use the money to hire craftsmen from his own family and foreigners to build new houses. , build a dock, or simply build a big ship. I think the big leader has many obligations to the tribe, not only to lead the tribe to victory in the war, but also to ensure that no tribe will freeze to death or starve to death. "

Rurik consciously said something grand, and he hoped that Otto would be moved.

The reality is that Otto, the current leader of the Ross tribe, was not so moved by his son's great ambition.

Otto felt that, after all, his son still planned to take action himself to feed the poorest and weakest in the tribe. As for the "big money box", isn't that the son's money? With a new name, it is still the money of the son of the new generation of big leaders.

Because of Otto, he really couldn't understand the idea of ​​his son. He could not decide whether his son's ideas were great and noble, or based solely on his own best interests, or both.

Big boss? Being a big boss is about enjoying the great feeling of having power, and it can also bring real economic benefits. With money and power, the clansmen will come up with a "martial arts tournament", in which the strongest will fight through a duel for this noble status.

As for how much obligation the big leader needs to perform to the clansmen.

Otto felt that he was commanding the tribe to win battles, leading the tribe to open up a new living space, and even finding a partner for the young boy of the tribe. Aren't these very great and wise decisions? Can those former leaders have their own wise and great? !

Do not! Those seniors are basically indulging in their own pleasures, they are masters of fighting, that's all.

Taking this opportunity, Otto listed his wise actions.

In exchange, the son shook his head. Just one word - not enough!

Because Rurik's thinking is still oriental.

In the East, the army is the state's official tool, and the granary is also the state's official tool.

The power to live comes from the sky. This so-called sky is a kind of "the highest level of great existence", and what the monarch possesses is the "mandate of heaven", which is a kind of authorization from the great existence.

The monarch has the right to collect taxes from his subjects and put them in the treasury. This treasury is more often referred to as the big granary.

Subjects should respect the monarch, just as they respect their father. The monarch is more obliged to take care of his subjects as a father takes care of his children.

The monarch cannot waste the state money for no reason. When his subjects encounter disasters and famines, they must open warehouses and release grain to help the people.

In this way, the monarch and his subjects have a relationship similar to that of a family.

Rurik, he appreciates this relationship model even more.

Because what he saw in the ninth century West, especially this remote Roseburg, was a wild place at all.

Careful and detailed, the strong people of the tribe decided to start now, and no longer share the war dividends with the poor and weak people of the tribe.

A group of looted or simply bought populations have joined the tribe, and the population composition of the tribe is quietly changing.

The tribal society of the past is irreversibly changing rapidly.

Is the tribal society of Roseburg really changing and becoming more advanced?