Rise of Rurik

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Those who were eager to try and couldn't wait to get out of the crowd struggled to get out of the crowd. They lifted their warm robes to reveal the blue-printed shirts on a white background.

The first flag team was brave enough to do this. They first gathered in a group to draw a line with other people watching the fun, and then lined up neatly under Arik's order.

A flag team is divided into four squadrons, which are actually four centenarians.

The centurion restrained his subordinates, and the blue-dyed feathers on the leather helmets on the heads of the four became the most striking feature, which not only allowed the subordinates to clearly see the neat formation, but also made Rurik really see it.

The originally quiet scene was a little noisy again, and Rurik stretched out his hands to signal everyone to be quiet.

How can the order be accurately communicated to the assembled people?

Rurik made his wife stand back with a blank face, and he stood alone on the platform, letting the wind blow his ponytail.

He pointed to Conuson to bring him to power.

What can Conuson do? When things were not done well, I couldn't hold my face, and when I saw the duke, I apologized: "My lord, I didn't expect all the residents of the city to come and let you see the chaos. I am guilty."

"It's true that you didn't do things well. You went to appeal to the idle people to wait for them to go home. You came to direct some men and let them persuade others to leave. Tell the people that what happened today is only related to the first flag team."

"Yes!"

Konusson stepped back, and Rurik pointed precisely at Carlotta, who was clearly coming for the show.

The girl hurriedly walked to the platform with a smile on her face, but what she unexpectedly received was the iron-faced reprimand from the man she loved.

"Did I... let you come? All the clansmen who brought you back! Quick!"

"Ah? I..." Carlotta was at a loss for a while, and reluctantly explained: "I told the people about it. Everyone praised you as the greatest person, and they came to look at your face specially."

"The little mouth is rubbed with honey." Rurik's mood was slightly relieved, "You are all satisfied now? Let them back off, stop staying in the cold outdoors, and be careful of illness."

Rurik didn't want to get entangled with other people, because a contract site in the palace had already been set up, and there were already temporary maids and personal guards guarding it.

He watched Carlotta return to the ranks of the Ostarans, and watched them leave reluctantly.

Now that a group of people left, other people watching the fun felt bored, and because of Konusson's persuasion, some people started to go home one after another.

Many people's faces were filled with disappointment. Women scolded the children who ran away to go home, and some complained about why their elderly husbands were cowardly to fight. There are also those New Rus from Sweden and the Slavs from the south who have joined in recent years. They really regret the difference between the princes, but what can be done? This is the territory of the Duchy of Rus. The old Rus is the most noble, nobler than the other Varyags, and the young warriors among the old Rus are the noblest of the noble.

The sun was very high, and the cold of the morning had largely dissipated. There is still no sign of snow melting in the whole world, and the city of New Roseburg is also white. As a result, the soldiers of the first flag team have put on wooden-framed sunglasses, and their shirts are indeed a beautiful landscape, and even a little more. Bizarre.

The idle people waited to retreat, and Rurik reiterated his claim.

"Brothers! I will fulfill the promise! Each of you! One counts as one, and you are entitled to farmland of 100 stika in length and width! You all have the right to grow wheat on your own land, and you all have the right to bring your family to live there. The good days of eating wheat last year..." Everyone already knows these things, and now the prince preaches it again to confirm it again.

"Brothers! I will sign a contract with each of you! Everyone will enter my palace and sign a written contract face to face with me. This sacred contract will be recognized by Odin, and your future good days will also be blessed. Attention all centurions! First centurion of the first flag team! Enter the palace with your men.

Don't worry about others, everyone's contracts will be signed before noon! "

The people burst into astonishing shouts, the contract has not been signed, and their own land has not even been trampled under their feet, and their faces are already filled with the joy of harvest.

The once chaotic scene was restored to order, and the soldiers of the First Flag Team entered the Maharaja's "Winter Palace" majestically for the first time.

Tables are placed in the rather spacious hall, and a large number of contract documents are stacked. The beating flames of dozens of oil lamps made the entire hall exceptionally bright, but also brought comforting warmth. The 100th team entered here, and the soldiers looked left and right.

This is the prince's palace, it is not spacious or even a bit shabby. This is very different from the description of the legend. The palace of the prince should be covered with bear heads, decorated with a lot of gold and silver, and there should be a throne full of gems, but there is no one here.

There are bear heads, they are not many, and this is almost the only thing that shows the nobility of the prince.

Indeed, the "Hermitage" in Novo Roseburg is currently Rurik's residence. Rurik likes this location, but he doesn't like this retro longhouse-style building. Now that Rose has the ability to build a three-story building with wood, stone, and cement, the prince's palace has reason to be built tall, preferably the first building in New Roseburg, so that her monarch can overlook the entire city.

Maharajas need splendid palaces to show their majesty. Maybe it's extravagant, but the current palaces are indeed rudimentary.

The construction to be built here is temporarily put aside, Rurik has been daydreaming these days, that is, in the autumn of this year, he can walk in the endless wheat fields, watch the wind blowing the wheat waves, and touch the wheat ears with his own hands.

Dreams can be realized, and it starts from today's "Great Contract".

The first time they saw the paper and the densely written text on it, the soldiers were not shocked, they were joyful and obsessed. Who is not curious about rare things? This cloth-like and wood-like thing completely surpassed their imagination. Everyone's mental preparation was to take away the wooden board full of words. Unexpectedly, there is no wooden board here, only the neatly stacked thing called paper.

Paper can be looped and tied with rope, and can be folded without breaking. Its only disadvantage is that it is afraid of water. It doesn't matter, the fear of water is just a minor annoyance. Besides, the charcoal ink is painted on the wooden board, and the color will fade if it is stained with a lot of water. It is necessary to protect the wooden board of the contract from water, so this paper must not be wet, otherwise it will be sorry for the neatly written rune letters on it.

Both the rune and the Roman alphabet are derived from the ancient Greek alphabet, and the two even have a contrasting relationship with each other, which can be transcribed almost without obstacles. Therefore, in theory, those Rus people who understand the traditional script, they can accept the Roman alphabet in a short time.

As long as you can speak and understand the pronunciation of alphabetical comparison, you can spell it out. If the monarch further regulates the spelling method, a text will be completed.

The 100th team of the first flag team, each soldier got a contract document.

Rurik made them read the few terms, and declared that because it was a reward, the recipient had no right to argue, and after reading the terms acceptable, they came to sign a contract with him one-on-one.

He really did not force his subordinates, this contract was not mandatory from the beginning. After signing the contract, you must pay 11 taxes every year. It doesn't matter if you don't sign it, you can continue to be a fisherman in the old days.

They can weigh the pros and cons, and the land that the duke prizes comes from the rebellious pine needle manor that was sacked. They directly participated in the war, and they know best that those fields are downright fertile!

One of the big goals of the old Rus people walking out of the cramped fjords is to find warm and fertile farmland for two days. Before they know the fertile black Ukrainian land, the old pine needle manor in Novgorod is the best fertile land!

After a brief discussion, the 100th team signed with Rurik one-on-one.

The soldiers wrote their names, father's name, and the flag team centurion on the paper with beautiful wild duck feathers.

Rurik also wrote his full name here: Rurik Ottoson Principoulos.

Almost all the people of the Principality of Rus do not have surnames, or attribution names at the end of their names. Surnames are necessary for a small group to strengthen its status after an ethnic group develops to a higher stage.

As they signed their names, the issue came to the fore again.

Just like doing a census by the way in Novgorod's surveying and mapping fields, the Slavs of White Tree Manor, their names are also the same problem. At least some Russ will reinforce their uniqueness with something that acts like a surname, and some big families already use actual surnames.

Ordering the people to give themselves a surname, it seems that this kind of thing can't be rushed for the time being.

Rurik couldn't ask their group of fighters to invent a surname for themselves immediately, so they made them write more detailed information about their identity, preferably with a nickname.

No, just as Rurik estimated, a group of domineering and sidelined nicknames appeared on the paper.

"Skull Crackers", "Stone Crushing Hands", "Feared by the Gotlanders", "Whale Hunters"...

Every traditional Russian man has a nickname, and Rurik doesn't bother to give himself some strange names. He only has one name, which is "Principle", the only prince in all of Russia.

In fact, among the people, he already has a series of names such as "Son of God", "Wise Man", "Relentless Butcher", "Conqueror of the Sea" and "Danish Nemesis".

If every name is turned into a medal, then Rurik will have a pair of sturdy fish scales.

Smart people realize the great value of signing this contract, that they and Rurik are a community of destiny in various senses.

Paying taxes to the prince is the obligation of the contractor, and the contractor is also obliged to join the army to fight for Rus.

The prince also has his obligation, that is, to protect the life rights of the contractor and his family at any time, and even if there is a disaster, he will also ensure that the contractor and his family will not die of starvation and death.

Over the years, the prince has taken care of all the children of the brothers who died in battle, and even most of the children in the Ross native have been raised by the prince.

The princes are young and promising, and their credibility is guaranteed, and their contracts are signed happily.

The four Centurions signed at such a fast pace that Rurik was worried that they hadn't actually read the terms.

They do, but it's not necessary to scrutinize the terms. There are not many clauses written in black and white, and the whole article is in vernacular. It is really clear at a glance.

The people who signed the contract were asked not to leave, just because the prince had to announce a decision that would benefit everyone.

Rurik deliberately sold off, which really stifled the appetite of the brothers.

The noisy hall finally quieted down, and he harvested a lot of contract documents. Rurik knew that he had also done a census of the soldiers of the first flag team by the way.

Judging from the name alone, there are many of his most capable subordinates named Bjorn, Harold, Ivar, Carl, etc. It is no wonder that these praise words are very popular, but they are too similar to each other. Fortunately, their nicknames are varied and even bizarre, and there is no shortage of witty elements among them.

They gathered outdoors to discuss a lot, but in fact, many people have already learned the news.

The news was revealed by Arik, and the co-author Wang Gong wanted to buy the squirrel skins in everyone's hands.

By now, the market in New Roseburg has no one willing to buy leather anymore, and the market here is saturated. It’s okay to force the leather to sell, and that kind of selling that is almost free of money can indeed sell off all the leather on hand. But who would be so stupid to do that? Fifteen or sixteen silver coins, at this extremely low price, no one is willing to continue to lower the price.

Now the situation has become responsible. Many people originally planned to transport the leather to their hometown after the ice and snow melted, or transport it to Tombstone Island and sell it directly to the local guest merchants. will earn less.

But now that the contract with the prince has been signed, everyone cannot go to the West now. And some of the brothers' fathers signed another contract with the prince, so he couldn't leave.

There are many reasons for not being able to leave. The First Banner Team is the backbone of the Principality. Everyone has to go to Novgorod to cultivate their own land, and they must accept the call at any time and wait for an opportunity to attack the Karelians.

If the prince bought everyone's leather and sold it at such a low price, many people weighed it again and again and felt that this was a helpless move.

Because many squirrel skins are simply peeled off from the meat, because there is too much leather, the fat layer under the skin has time to scrape off. Such leather would start to rot and stink into useless filth within a few days in the warm season, but now it's freezing cold and the leather is as hard as slate. Objectively, because the leather is frozen, it has a certain freeze-drying effect, and the leather loses water and is more resistant to storage.

New Roseburg lacks the processing conditions for tanning leather. The veterans of leather processing are all in their hometown, and the necessary thenardite is also mined from the stone piles in the mountainous area of ​​the hometown.

What's very bad is that the most lacking thing in New Roseburg is the stone material. There is not even a mountain in the nearby area, only the endless forest and the squirrels that can't be caught.

Without thenardite tanning, the weather warms up and all leather becomes worthless.

Rurik's calculations are all in Rurik's calculations. He deliberately did not talk about the purchase of leather first, and then waited for the contract to be signed. According to the agreement, the brothers of the first flag team should pack their bags and ride on a reindeer sleigh to Novogo. Rhodes is waiting for spring ploughing. Rurik promised them that since the big immigration project is going to be carried out this year, their wives and children will board the fleet and go from their hometown to the Novgorod family to reunite. As husbands, they want to build a new home in Novgorod and welcome family members who come with tenderness.

It became very important to turn the wealth of hunting into silver coins that could be easily carried.

Rurik finally came out again, and he ordered four centenarians to form a matrix around the rammed earth platform on the square, so that his speech could be heard accurately by everyone.

"I heard you've caught a surprising number of squirrels, but there aren't enough buyers here. Now here I come, I'll buy all your squirrel hides and other hides! I've got silver coins in hand now! Right here! In the afternoon, you bring the leather, and I will buy it at the price of fifteen silver coins!"

Rurik didn't want to say anything else. Anyway, after the weather warmed up, it was impossible for this group of fighters who couldn't go to the West to let their leather rot.

So Rurik really had a lot of cash on hand?

Of course not. The boxes containing a lot of silver coins are all in the hometown of Roseburg. Rurik has a lot of wealth in New Roseburg, which is the abundance of oats in the granary.

There was indeed someone who had a fortune on hand, and that was the Asuragi family.

Her father, Harald Sr., has been actively revitalizing the family, and Aslaki's mill business has brought new impetus to the family's revival. The biggest leather buyer in New Roseburg is old Harald. He has done this kind of business in Gotland. Now he is just going back to his old business, but he has lost too much. Due to practical reasons, it is impossible for him to deal with a large number of goods in a short period of time. leather. Besides, the processed leather still has to be sold, and it is impossible for Old Harald to consume all the silver coins on hand to go to Stud. Even with the extremely low price of leather, he announced that he would stop buying after running out of thenardite, which further pushed the market down.

Their family still has silver coins, and there are still a lot of them.

Maybe the brothers still have 20,000 hides on hand? Rurik, as a prince, ordered Asraki to give out fifteen pounds of cash, and he was indeed forcing his second sister-in-law to do this.

But Aslaqi was not a loss, Rurik paid the price by promising to give out fifteen thousand pounds of dried oat grains, and another thousand pounds of oat grains as extra interest.

The oats would be ready in a few days, and Rurik got the money that day.

In the afternoon, thousands of people gathered in Harvest Square again, and they saw the warriors of the first flag team came with wooden poles, on which were tied with hemp ropes an astonishing number of squirrel skins that had been frozen hard, sled skin.

Paying money with one hand and goods with one hand, everyone saw the great prince of Ross buying leather, the afternoon sun was very gentle, and onlookers saw the smiling faces of those soldiers holding silver coins, and the brilliant light reflected by the silver coins.

It’s not just that the group of them went hunting. There were many Slavic immigrants who came to settle in the city in the early years. Everyone was human, and they had been with the Rus for a long time. The hunting skills of this group of Slavs also improved.

By the evening Rurik was about to close the stall, and as a result more than a hundred Slavic men were dragging their sledges with some unsalable assorted leathers on them, begging the duke to buy them mercifully.

This was not what he expected, and his guards also wanted to expel these people on behalf of the master.

It would be detrimental to one's own prestige to expel them.

Rurik immediately asked in Slavic: "If I give you oats, would you like it? Ten pounds of oats are exchanged for one silver coin. The exchange principle I have formulated is fair and stable."

Everyone nodded one after another, hurriedly offered their leather, and sighed with laughter, "The gods will always bless you."

Rurik expected to acquire 20,000 pieces of various small animal leathers, but the results did not meet expectations, and in fact it was basically completed. The price is very low, and the total consumption of this and 18,000 pounds of oats.

If all the leather was finished, wouldn't it cost two silver coins to ship to the Danes? Do not! I am afraid that a large amount of leather will enter, and the local leather market will be messed up. All of them must be sold at low prices.

Dumping is no problem, even if the price drops to a silver coin for two pieces of leather, I still make a lot of money.

Is this a prince being a profiteer? Rurik didn't think so, and business was what the Vikings were good at. He knows the core reason why he can make a lot of money from it - the first water transportation capability of Europe in this time and space of the powerful Ross fleet.

The acquired leather will be transported back to the hometown with the entry of the Ross Navy, and the tanning can be completed in a short period of time.

The efficiency of logistics, which determines the success or failure of business, is as common in this era.

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