Rurik was not idle throughout the day. He estimated that if he could sell a piece of soap for two silver coins, this would be a very violent way to make money.
The principle of making soap is not difficult, but it requires a certain amount of chemical knowledge to understand the entire process.
With his first success, Rurik continued to act.
He wants to make more, but there are currently two problems limiting production capacity. One is the supply of materials and the other is the workers.
Looking at Rumia’s lazy look, does she still have to work hard to stir with a wooden stick? For a ten-year-old skinny kid, the requirements are really too high.
There seems to be no shortage of materials, the key lies in the workers.
The priests who boiled oil once again attracted Rurik's attention.
Shortly after Otto left, the hall of the priest's longhouse was filled with the aroma of frying oil. The oil fumes are sometimes very choking, and the hair of the priests is always covered with sticky oil and dirt. If they are not cleaned up in time, the hair will become swollen and hardened, which cannot be washed away with clean water.
They have done experiments. Soap has magical power and can easily wash away the damn grease.
They are still boiling oil, but their mood has changed.
I don’t know how long it took for the oil to boil. The three bronze pots that Bona and her two sisters managed at the beginning had turned into dregs and dangerously hot grease.
They have begun to carefully pour the hot oil into the clay pot, trying their best not to let the residue fall in.
Rurik came over upon seeing this: "Bona, I suddenly thought of something."
"Is it a good thing?" Poona asked with a smile.
"Yes, it's still about soap. My plan is to do more, but you see." He pointed at Rumia, who was still curled up like a puppy. "My servant was exhausted yesterday. I can’t use this helper for the time being.”
“We?” Poona was very puzzled, “What else can we do for you? Make soap?"
"Of course."
"But the soap is not made with magic power... No! It is made with magic power given by Odin."
This sounds very funny. If you think about it carefully, these people spend the rest of their lives worshiping illusory gods, and they have completely believed in them.
Rurik took advantage of the trick and explained: "Actually, mortals can make it. I have no magic power and only gained Odin's wisdom. Now I feel it is necessary for me to teach you the technology."
< p>"Ah? Is this really possible?" Poona was greatly surprised.Rurik nodded deeply, looking extremely serious: "We should talk about this matter. I also want to talk to the high priest. Now Bona, are you still in the longhouse?" Call all the priests to come.”
Villa regained consciousness, and the priests gathered together for the first time under Rurik’s organization. The scene was really interesting.
"My child, you wantIt is my pleasure to teach you all the wisdom of Odin. Tell us what you think. "Vilia said kindly.
"Okay, it's about many things. All priests, I need your help to finally get a lot of soap.
Making soap requires intelligence, it does not require any magic at all, I must stress this.
So you can all make it, and I also invite you to help me make it, and you will all get paid for it. "
Remuneration? Many priests are moved by this.
These women in special professions are generally poor people who have lost their husbands and children. It is really a good idea to worship Odin in the priest's longhouse. A realistic way to survive.
But they have almost no personal property and rely entirely on the tribal distribution and festival offerings.
Rurik did not fully understand this. , don’t understand how important it is to them to own private property.
“I want to make an agreement with you. You help me make soap. This will be a relatively hard job, and I will give you a satisfactory reward. "
"How much is the reward? ! "Bona suddenly stretched her neck and asked, and only returned to her sitting position after Villa's deliberate coughing.
"The amount of the reward? How about 20%? For every five silver coins I earn, one of them will be yours. "
How?! Rurik got more than ten shocked expressions in an instant.
"What? Less pay? "
"No! A lot... really a lot. "Bona stared, because she exchanged the silver coins for 240 ordinary copper coins to buy fish from fishermen, which was enough for two months.
Vilia knocked on her crutches, "Child, you The reward may be too high. If you think it's okay..."
"Of course, I think the ratio is appropriate. Because all the materials need to be provided by you, what I mainly provide is technology, which is Odin’s wisdom. If you think it is feasible, then according to this ratio, can I ask you to work immediately? ”
“I support it. "Bona was the first to agree, "With more soap, each of us can wash our hair cleanly and keep it beautiful for a long time. ”
She, the priest, added what she said later, and everyone else followed suit.
After all, Rurik and Rumia had to work hard all night to make seventeen soaps. The more you produce, the more you will produce.
Could it be true that Rurik sold one soap for two silver coins and sold the remaining fifteen for thirty silver coins? What he just said is that everyone will be divided into six silver coins.
This is already a large amount of money. If converted into copper coins, it will be distributed to everyone involved in the work, at least a hundred copper coins. .
It would be a big loss not to do this kind of business.
Things went very smoothly. Rurik said with satisfaction: "Very good, we need to really make one for this." Agreement. I think, IWe must carve the agreement between you and me on the wooden board, and swear to God that we will not violate the decision. ”
“Okay. "Vilia replied on behalf of all the priests, "We do need a written agreement. ”
A very great change is taking place in the Ross tribe. Since the existence of the tribe, the first pure employment contract was born!
Of course, looking at the future, Rurik's performance in this matter is the most evil capitalist.
Rurik does not consider costs at all. He can just provide technology to obtain profits, which in a sense is the so-called "royalty". , coupled with the fact that I went back to work as a salesperson and sold the products, I earned 80% of the total profit.
Even so, the priests sold their labor to prepare all the raw materials themselves, and they still felt that they were doing it themselves. Earned a lot of money.
But this is the power of capital and technology, which can earn huge profits for the employer.
This "employee" is extraordinary, and his employees are extraordinary. Naturally, he feels that he is the "son of God" and can use "God's wisdom" to make good things for his own use.
Everything is worth it if he can clean himself up.
Vilia chanted a sacred incantation, and at Rurik's request, she carved the main body of the contract document in rune letters on an oak board.
She also engraved a few lines to the effect. It was "the agreement to get Odin's witness"
But Rurik didn't make things absolute.
He thought about it carefully, maybe the price of soap was two silver coins a piece. It seems too expensive, and the material cost is obviously not high, so the situation of a few hundred profits may not last long.
So the contract focused on the sharing ratio between Rurik and the priests, and also stipulated that the sharing should be shared by everyone. The priests share it equally.
In order to be more scientific, each person also contributes 10% of the priests' share of the collective wealth to support the priests' festival sacrifices.
This operation is really novel.
Villa asked strangely: "Child, do you think we still need a separate box to contain everyone's wealth? ”
“It is not everyone’s wealth, it is the priest’s wealth, your special wealth as a group. Could it be that the priests still don’t have their own wealth reserves? "
Villa pinched her withered chin and said, "You are talking about my wealth. I also have a lot of personal wealth. If the money is not enough for the sacrifice, I will put in some money myself. In the future, this money will be inherited by the successor. "
Her implication was that Pola would inherit the "biggest money box."
Rurik only found it incredible, "I mean special wealth is packed in special boxes. It does not belong to any of you, it is only used during festivals. Each of you has the right to use it, but not to possess it alone. Your personal property is yours alone, special property is the priest's. ”
After talking for a long time, Rurik looked at them with strange expressions. These people obviously did not understand the meaning of public funds.
Also, the Ross tribe is still a blood-related union of hundreds of small families. It is still quite loose in nature. Even the leader is selected through a competition, and it has not yet become the inheritance of the chief family. advanced routines.
But things have to start with oneself and evolve into hereditary leadership.
If you want to change, make a big change.
Anyway, Rurik let Vilia and Bona know the benefits of setting up a "public money box" so that the money for sacrifices can be taken from here. As long as the use is recorded with a wooden board, it will be fine. You won't have to worry about corruption.
The biggest advantage is that the priests do not have to pay for their meager personal assets, and everyone does not have to fight for the position of high priest to earn a lot of blood. Ah, the high priest will inherit the big money box, and the life of a poor ordinary priest will end immediately.
Who wouldn’t like a greater good?
The vocabulary of special money boxes was also engraved on the wooden board. Inadvertently, Rurik also made major improvements to the financial problems of the priesthood.
People! Man is pursuing his own status with nature. Man has been looking for a position. Therefore, the ancients found gods one after another. If there was no god, they invented one. So the inhabitants of the East elevated their ancestors to gods. The tribes of Rus and their brother tribes, and even the hostile Danes, elevated the brave to the status of gods.
In the later world, when people established large and advanced countries and found their identity as citizens, they generally did not need illusive gods.
What remains unchanged is probably people’s pursuit of wealth.
Priests are not born to live a life of poverty and can reasonably acquire large amounts of wealth. They will not hesitate to dress up beautifully and then ask for more.
After the employment contracts between Rurik and the priests were signed, production began.
Those priests, who once had nothing to do but boil oil, suddenly became busy.
Rurik asked them to take out the unused clay pots, and used them to start boiling water on a large scale, and then prepared a large amount of plant ash water. This process was quite critical, so he didn't bother to explain the complex chemical principles involved, he just asked them to do it honestly as he told them.
Rumia, who was sleeping soundly, was also forcibly woken up. She did not have to do any hard work, and Ryuri ordered him to follow her.
This time, Rumia will be a spectator and carefully review every step.
Just because Rurik has more things to do for her, such as making soap, if there are priests to do it for her, there is no need for such a child to mess around, but She at least needs to hear and understand the entire production process, and there may be a need for it in the future.
Twenty pottery urns were filled with plant ash water. In the evening, Ryuri ordered the priests to carefully pour the brown water in the pottery urns into clean urns..
After that, there was the routine of recording the location of flooding with wooden sticks. Rurik had the last successful experience. He tentatively determined that as long as the ashes were from the embers of the fire, since they were put in according to the approximate amount. When the pottery jar is basically full, the solution precipitation rate is the same. Just bake the solution in the new pottery urn according to yesterday's method, and the water level will evaporate and drop to a reasonable position, and you're done.
"Bona, you must remember that it is very critical to succeed in this step. The water turns brown because there is something special in the water. It can be a lot but not too little."< /p>
"Yes, I remember everything." Bo Na responded despite the pressure.
But the air in the chief priest's house was really not that good. The air was always filled with the burning smell of fat, coupled with the strong smell of charcoal fire.
In the pottery urn set up on the first fire, the water level of the boiling solution has dropped to the required level.
"Can I move it now?" Poona asked.
"Okay. Use a tool to remove it, pour all the prepared seal oil in, and then stir it with a wooden stick."
"Huh? That's it. "
"Of course!" Rurik nodded deeply, "Do you still think that making soupa is an extremely complicated task? , this is soap."
Rurik told them in a childish voice: "The thing that turns water into brown comes from ashes, and this thing can turn grease into brown. Yellow baby, we just need to stir. Now start, Bona." Exactly the same as last night, the unknown but definitely not low concentration of lye and seal oil appeared in the urn immediately. A chemical reaction visible to the naked eye. Rurik thought it was ordinary, but they, the priests, found it incredible.
"Ah! Is it magic?! Do we know how to do magic?" Bona's expression was dull and stunned, and the wooden stick in her hand did not stir at all.
She and the others hesitated for a while before starting at Rurik's urging. Since the stirring started, the complete saponification reaction made them tremble.
"Add a little salt at the end." After saying that, Rurik threw in a handful of coarse salt.
There is nothing wrong with him using salt as a stabilizer, but the price of salt in this time and space is quite high. Since salt is used to make soap, it is understandable that one piece costs two silver coins.
After Rurik sprinkled the salt that made them all worried, he said: "You continue to stir, and when you feel it is ready, use a spoon to dig the paste into the wooden box. You will have to do more in the future More wooden boxes as molds, now we can only rely on existing ones." "I understand. What then?"
"Then, just put the wooden box close to the bonfire, not too close or too far." Rurik thought about it and realized that his words could not be too general. He saw that Rumia’s bedding was not yet available.Put it away and pointed casually: "The place where my servant sleeps is just right away from the fire. Place the wooden box in a similar position, bake it overnight, take out the soap, and find a quiet place for long-term storage. Of course it has been It's ready for use. I suggest you store it for a while."
"Okay, we will make a good deal about it..." Poona asked cautiously.
"I will abide by it, and you must abide by it too. Great priests!" Rurik deliberately used honorifics: "You don't have to fight to plunder a lot of wealth like men do. . If you make soap with peace of mind, you will all become rich."