Rise of Rurik

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The Slavic people around Lake Ilmen, when they ended their annual busy farming season, fell into poverty and boredom.

The climate here is naturally far less favorable than the Ukrainian steppe in the far south, and at least slightly better than the fragile agriculture of northern Europe. However, primitive agriculture made it impossible for the small-scale peasant economy to exist, and all farmers could only build collective farms and take care of the large-scale farmland by helping each other.

Now that there is paper made of birch bark, transcribing the information written on the wooden board on the paper is a major follow-up work for Rurik and his wives and concubines.

Transcription work was carried out in an orderly manner, and the special problems of land ownership were exposed.

Because there are no small farmers in the full sense, even in White Tree Manor, there are some areas that belong to "all of us". That is everyone's land, it's public land, everyone should go to farm together, so that no matter whether there is a good harvest or a bad harvest, the families involved in the cultivation will get the output equally.

As for the ownership of freely developed land, they are their own, and farmers and families must take care of their own profits and losses.

Therefore, out of the consideration of maximizing profits, the farmers of Baishu Manor planted both public fields and private fields. Primitive communal agriculture is disintegrating spontaneously, and the small-scale peasant economy is developing.

But are the vast forested regions of northern Eastern Europe suitable for smallholder farming?

In other words, any agricultural economic activity is formed by the actual geographical factors, and people are all selfish. Isn’t it because the farmers who go out to warm themselves have limited benefits and huge risks?

The 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 an overwhelming number of small farmers, so that the Tsar could directly collect taxes on the farmers. In theory, this was an advance, and the result was a swarm of new landowners and tens of millions of bankrupt people. Tens of millions of bankrupt people have lost everything, forming another torrent...

"The farm system can't be changed. Letting them go it alone is to let them die. They must be reunited and warm. The big deal is that I will organize a production team for them, give them farm tools, and let them choose their own leaders. Taxes are levied in proportion to the average yield per mu.”

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

Those canonized large groups of Boyar nobles, maybe when it comes to wealth, they can't really surpass the rest of the farm.

Each farm is more of a system of mutual assistance, but some nobles have already been born. They are already stronger than ordinary farmers, and they will only become stronger in the future.

"Is that a good thing at all? If they can get my farm to pay my rent, that's a good thing."

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

The area of ​​the paper is only reduced, because Rurik ordered his wife and concubines to write down the information to be recorded small enough, and only one side of a piece of paper is enough to record an astonishing amount of information than before.

Textual information is recorded in classical Latin, and a large number of numbers are in the Arabic alphabet.

Why do you have to use Latin? Rurik can look at these things from a long history, just like the Eastern official script can keep the writing style and meaning unchanged for two thousand years, and the Western classical Latin can also retain the meaning for two thousand years. Classical Latin is not dead, it is a writing system used within the clergy group, and the scriptures transcribed by it have been confirmed by Emperor Constantine. In order to confirm the purity of the faith, the priests of the past dynasties guaranteed the spelling and meaning of this language. Does not drift.

The wives and concubines have been through the hardships of last winter, and they have learned the use of words commonly used in classical Latin at John Invall,

Can use seven or eight hundred words, all kinds of lattices can be applied very well, and it is enough for daily use.

What's more, the young man John Ingvar has been dragged to Novgorod. This person happens to be a linguistic consultant. Rurik is also very willing to keep the future official documents of the Principality of Rus in classical Latin.

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

Because these documents, even if it is just the initial "field investigation report", are extremely critical historical materials. They are the documents that make up the soul of the Rus nation.

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

It's like there is no Rome in the world after 1453, just like Rome is everywhere in the world after 1453.

If Roman classical Latin is fully resurrected in the elite aristocratic circles of the Duchy of Rus, Rome is not resurrected in Northern Europe, but it is also equivalent to some kind of resurrection.

Why didn't the spiritual Romans do it?

In the long run, as long as Latin was popularized, the descendants of the principality had an inexpensive means of communicating information.

Whether it is the Vikings of various tribes from Northern Europe (including the Rosborne), the Pan-Slavs everywhere and the Pan-Finns with a limited population, everyone speaks up to three languages, including their own dialects, really What a mess? A country should have a language that everyone can accurately identify with each other, even if the broadest population still speaks their own language, at least everyone in the upper circle speaks Latin. If everyone learns it, the governance of the duchy will plummet.

It even cut off the possibility of the separation of the three ethnic groups from the root.

Rurik, with his oriental thinking, did not like the pattern of small countries and few people.

He had wanted to do this for a long time, but last year it was only implemented among his wives and concubines, and the results have been perfectly reflected this year. They are writing the official documents and files of the Principality of Rus in Latin, which means that they are further deepening their memory.

The descendants they bear must inherit all this, and the children and grandchildren continue to pass it on.

Even Noren of Narvik Port took up a quill to write Latin. She lacked knowledge of Rome and was too lazy to understand, but lying on the desk, relying on the bright paper of the oil lamp to write the crooked letters. It's an amazing feeling. This is the job of a scribe, to record information and pass it on for a thousand years, so that future generations will remember that there was a beautiful girl named Noron in the distant past. It is really exciting to think about it.

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

Before the paper was used up, the information was transcribed, and the wooden boards could probably be burned as firewood.

"Burn it? Is it necessary? We put a lot of effort into it." Svetlana persuaded everyone on behalf of everyone.

"Are they necessary for their existence other than occupying the entire room?" Rurik asked rhetorically.

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

"Yes. But we have better paper, and these boards can be destroyed. There are also boards that record ancient stories in our home in Ross, and we need you to transcribe them on lightweight paper. After the snow melts, we will For further mapping, we need a huge amount of paper, and a new papermaking job is about to start!"

With paper, the possibilities are endless!

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

A new round of snowfall occurred in early December of the Julian calendar. This time it did not last long, but the scale of the snowfall was 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 fierce north wind.

Once, local residents lacked the ability and willingness to ice fish.

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

Rurik allowed his mercenaries to do this, and old Otto ordered some of his old buddies to do the same.

The Rus people replicated the winter fishing work deep in the Gulf of Bothnia in the glacial lakes of Eastern Europe. A number of large holes were dug out, and the lake surface was slightly stirred, which was a strong stimulation for the perch under the lake. The fish under the ice in winter are generally somewhat hypoxic, and they are keenly aware of the breath of fresh oxygen, although the fish will swarm when the ice breaks.

No, the crazy bass even jumped out of the hole, and the ice-chiseled Ross people laughed and came out to guard the hole and wait for the fish.

This situation also makes the local Slavs onlookers stupid, or the Rus people have the magical power to make the fish jump out on their own, or this has nothing to do with the power of the gods, but also has a direct relationship with the power.

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

They don't have the strength of the burly Rus people like bears, they cherish the limited iron tools, they are afraid of the cold and dare not leave the farm too far, and even the poor fishing skills in warm times lead to the misidentification that there are not many fish in this lake. Know. Many factors led them to see the miracle of winter capture performed by the Rus.

Actually? After the crusade against the rebellious Pine Needle Manor, the regular troops from the hometown of the Principality of Ross swept the lake area with advanced trawlers, which proved that the lake is surrounded by a group of farms, and the large lake is almost undeveloped.

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

The Rus also did not invent the "Chagan Lake-style" winter fishing technique. Although Rurik knew about this method, he only knew about it. It is just unnecessary to study and implement it, because fishing with traditional fishing methods has achieved remarkable results.

A special city wall appeared in the city of Novgorod, and the bricks that formed it were frozen fish. Grilled fish is the most traditional way of eating. Viking people from all walks of life have to go out on their way. When they encounter a pond, they fish out the fish, pinch the head, remove the tail, cut off the internal organs, put it on a branch, sprinkle salt, grill and eat the fish, which is an authentic dish. Viking picnic.

The same goes for the Rus, although the local Slavs do it by stewing fish.

Due to the environment, the local people guard the almost infinite and extensive forests, and have more time to pick mushrooms throughout the year, especially in the forests after the rain in September. Men and women from various farms are willing to pick mushrooms.

The most common oyster mushrooms, the rare but delicious chanterelles, truffles, pine milk mushrooms, and so on. Most of the girls who pick mushrooms have picked edible mushrooms. As for the existence of poisonous mushrooms, eating poisonous mushrooms is a small probability event.

Unlike the Viking tribes, there are cases where they deliberately eat poisonous mushrooms in order to have hallucinations and communicate with their ancestors living in Asgard.

They use sun-dried and dried mushrooms and fish to stew together. The sea bass most often caught in Lake Ilmen is already delicious and tender. The guanylic acid and glutamic acid contained in sun-dried mushrooms make the umami more delicious. To the next level, it makes up for the long-term regret of the local people that it is difficult to obtain salt due to geographical limitations.

The Rus people are coming, and the Rus people are going to settle down. The problem of the supply of salt has been greatly improved! Stewed sea bass with mushrooms, add more salt to cope with the severe cold, with onions brought from home and locally picked dried thyme, this pot of soup can be described as a delicacy of this era.

Only the nobles have the ability to enjoy this delicious meal, and the people of the White Tree Manor who live in Novgorod City are not at a loss. Rurik sold a batch of salt, and now he simply uses the salt as a reward, and recruited a group of slack farmers. Keep making paper yourself.

These farmers are none other than the soldiers of the Slavic flag team, and Rurik's move is to give his soldiers an opportunity to benefit.

All the hemp-boiled tycoons used it, and the pottery artisans in the farm also smelled the benefits, and new tycoons began to make them.

These measures all require logging and charcoal production, which further stimulates the enthusiasm of those who are forced to idle.

Logging wears down the axe, and the natives, whose skills have been spread by Kawai, start clumsily as blacksmiths. 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 seeing the Russ manipulating the double saw to simply and rudely saw off the big tree, it was another shock.

It's almost Hanukkah for the Rus, and it's also a major holiday for the Slavic people around Lake Ilmen.

The Eastern Slavs are made up of several tribal confederations, and this group in Lake Ilmen is the northeastern group. In this colder environment, they worship Peron, the god of fire, and, for example, the Radmic tribe living near the Pripet Marsh, they have to make offerings to the swamp god Cherno to avoid disasters.

Of course, the local god Peron should be respected, but the men of the entire White Tree Manor fought many vicious battles for the Duchy of Rus, and made great contributions with their blood. The dead were finally cremated with the etiquette of the Rus. The so-called soul has gone. Asgard and even the Temple of Valhalla. They are already Odin's warriors in the real sense, and they have the right and must participate in the sacrifice of Odin!

The Indo-European tribes living in different regions will have a grand day on the winter solstice. 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 days are extremely short, and people at high latitudes are most aware of it. People can even feel that the daytime will get longer and longer after this day, such a unique day must be arranged by God, if it is not sacrificed, it is impossible to justify.

What's more, this year is indeed extraordinary. Rurik's presence has caused the local priests who are good at smearing their faces with chalky mud to quietly retreat.

Which blind idiot dares to compete with the Duke for divine right? The priests also noticed the change in the people's mentality. The men called themselves New Rus, and their dependents also called themselves the same. The boring winter suddenly became very lively, and the people went to work despite the severe cold. See tangible benefits like exciting salt and silver coins.

Ross's army easily destroyed Pine Needle Manor. This year, the question of offering sacrifices at White Tree Manor isn't the final decision of Lord Rurik?

It happened that the winter solstice sacrifice on December 28th of the Julian calendar was approaching. Rurik already knew a lot about the ritual rituals of the Slavs from his beloved wife Svetlana. If he was the high priest himself, he would also It can get the job done, after all, being a priest has done it too many times at the stone boat altar in Roseburg.

and many more! Stone boat altar?

Novgorod is missing a stone boat altar here!

Is this worth it? Build one now. Since the local granite is scarce, a wooden stake is used to piece together one.

Also consider the feelings of the local Slavs, a wooden tower should be built and then set on fire!

In this way, a cow was slaughtered at the "wooden boat altar" to sacrifice to Odin, and then a fire tower was lit to sacrifice to Peron of the Slavs.

As for priests, their wives and concubines were already serving as priests, and this year, only Rumia was missing from the priests.

"It doesn't matter. Sooner or later, Roseburg will become a pure iron smelting and shipbuilding city, and New Roseburg is the capital of a country. Build a permanent and larger temple in New Roseburg, and put the golden statue of Roseburg's temple on it. Move over, let Rumia sit in charge, and this matter will be done next year."

Rurik had already made up his mind, and Rigus could only welcome it, and he and his son Medvedt were indeed fully supportive.

What's more, the eldest princess of the principality and the future high priest, Willia, is the gift of winter, and the grand festival of Hanukkah on the winter solstice is also her birthday. Does this sacrifice miss her?

Rurik planned to make his daughter stand out at the ceremony.

And yet another good news comes with a woman's wail of pain...

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