Otto made an agreement with the great businessman Gould. He told his son Rurik exactly what happened, and he also informed the priests about the huge order for soap.
According to the agreement, the priests will be rewarded with 800 silver coins for producing a thousand bars of soap before the sea ice melts.
The person who earns the most here is Rurik himself. The big businessman’s order fee is four thousand silver coins. Rurik himself does not need to provide any production costs and worker fees, just because he provides the so-called " Wisdom from Odin", he got 80% of the wealth from the simple priest, that is, as many as 3,200 silver coins.
It’s not over yet.
Rurik even signed an agreement with the blacksmith Klavason. Although this agreement was far less violent than soap, he earned five or six silver coins for each steel sword, which added up to A big gain.
A full month has passed since Otto took more than a dozen elites from the tribe to make an appointment with Gould.
In just thirty days, great changes have taken place within the Ross tribe.
Rurik, his own small wooden box can no longer hold the influx of silver coins. He had to replace it with a bigger box and a bigger lock.
It’s interesting to say that he got both the box and the lock because they were gifts from the big businessman.
And Rurik himself soon saw the true portrayal of the "rich Swedish businessman" in this time and space.
Over thirty days, the yellow-white sulfur soap, which exudes a special odor, was neatly piled up in an independent dry and constant-temperature cabin.
In late March of the Julian calendar, the time was ripe. Otto personally took his son and brought Gould, who was attracted by his reputation, into the room.
That’s a lot of yellow-white solid matter! They exude a stench, just like the neatly knocked and stacked stone bricks used to build a stone house.
Otto introduced very proudly: "As you can see, they are worth one thousand two hundred yuan. As long as you continue to wait, more will be created."
"Wow, there are already so many, I thought you didn't even..."
"Doubt our strength?" Otto deliberately showed off, "Our strength is not comparable to that of your Angkras tribe. Up and down, we are very capable."
"No! You are really strong, maybe even stronger than the Melalen tribe. You know, great leader, you have gone from strength to strength because of these yellow and white soaps. I earned 3,600 silver coins in my hands!" Gould's words clearly expressed his praise.
Then, this well-dressed businessman began to examine the texture of these soaps with his delicate and fat hands, and couldn't help but touch them with his hands to feel the delicacy.
He walked around the wooden house two or three times and suddenly asked: "Chief, are these actually created based on Rurik's wisdom?"
"Of course."
"Oh. It's wonderful."
Gould turned around and approached the short Rurik with a big belly. There was no lack of excitement.
He suddenly took off his broad ferret hat, which instantly revealed the nature of his bald head, and placed the hat on Rurik's head.
"Future leader Rurik, just accept my expensive hat."
Otto felt something was wrong for a moment. If it was just a ferret, it was not actually a hat. It's not extremely expensive. The most important thing is that this hat is decorated with a sapphire.
"Gould, is it suitable?"
"Very suitable. Great leader. Don't you think today's scene is very special? There are so many yellow people in this world." White objects are piled up here, and it turns out to be an excellent washing tool. In fact, you don’t have to tell me, but you definitely used sulfur to make this thing. How amazing it is that sulfur turns into a treasure for cleaning clothes. Traces!"
Rurik endured the bald man's oily smell, lifted up his huge velvet hat, revealed his big blue eyes, and watched the businessman Gould shaking his fat body and dancing. .
Gould jumped for a while, then continued to look at Otto and asked: "Are they all these yellow and white ones? There should be some ordinary brown ones."
"Yes, They are stored in another wooden house."
Hearing this, Gould couldn't help but swallowed deeply: "Is it also that many?"
"No. Hundreds of dollars, Gould, compared to these, those are not of high quality."
"That's right. Compared to the one I originally bought, the appearance you make now has become very good. It’s smooth, and each piece actually has the name of your tribe on it.”
After all, four months have passed since the soap was produced in late March of the Julian calendar!
The Russians living in Northern Europe seem to be a very backward and barbaric group of guys. After all, they are all living people, and their IQ is not fundamentally different from that of humans a thousand years later. They both have the same wisdom, but the difference is that people after a thousand years have generally received a good education, and they can also obtain various advanced knowledge that has been born since the Renaissance.
The current Russians cannot enjoy the happiness of acquiring a lot of knowledge at all, but if they can get a little bit of the powerful imagination that they have as humans, they can use it to develop something.
The wooden molds used by the priests to make soap are made of oak boards and then glued together with pine gum. Each small piece of board has been finely polished to make the box quite smooth, so that the soap bar that comes out of the mold is no longer just a cube as it was originally.
The most subtle thing is the word "RUSSOPA" spelled out with rune letters, which changes from the yang script to the yin script. Just because the priest carved the bottom wooden board, thisNot that it was a bother, the words on the soap eventually became legible and indelible.
Coupled with the pure air-drying and dehydration treatment in a constant-temperature darkroom, the surface of the huge amount of soap bars piled in front of Gould remained smooth, and cracks did not exist at all.
In fact, the huge orders forced the priests to devote all their time to soap production, and they had to find ways to improve efficiency.
The priests who became somewhat wealthy were led by Poona. In the name of priestly work, she recruited some girls from the tribe and gave their parents a silver coin as a reward, so that the girls continued to work until when the sea ice melts.
The Ross tribe is very similar to other tribes in their attitudes towards boys and girls. Many girls are cruelly abandoned by their parents when they are still infants, just because they cannot become future warriors and bring huge wealth to their families.
There are also some who are not so cruel. They will raise their daughters until they are at least twelve years old and then hastily get engaged to them in order to get some betrothal gifts.
Life is such a reality. A girl who thought she could be a seamstress at most actually has a chance to enter the holy realm of priests? ! The priests even promised that the girls would play important roles in the spring rituals! Because by temporarily handing over his daughter to the priest, not only does he not have to worry about the food his daughter consumes, but he can also get a silver coin for it, which is much more valuable than buying and selling.
So Rurik was surprised to find that Bona's mentality changed very quickly when faced with huge production pressure.
In the small world of the Priest's Longhouse, the situation here essentially made Rurik feel for the first time something familiar from the world a thousand years later.
Perhaps, this is a "soap company" in the world and a sprout of capitalism.
Rurik thinks that it is crazy to get huge profits by providing "intellectual property rights", so what Bona is doing now is even more crazy.
There were not many girls in the tribe, something Rurik had always regretted. He knew the tribe's attitude towards girls of his own tribe, and felt extremely uncomfortable with the barbarism of the tribesmen in this regard.
If you become the leader, you must punish any family that dares to abandon their babies. However, the essence that forces many families to abandon their daughters is that in the distribution of extremely limited materials, an optimal solution that is beneficial to the family must be achieved. No moral ethics can soothe the horrific hunger caused by a large family. feel.
If tribal girls can earn some wealth for the family through labor at a young age, and even the employer will provide food and accommodation, then the native family will have to abandon their daughters.
Bona didn't think her decision was so great. Seeing that Vilia was getting older, she, Bona, would soon be the new high priest.
She recruited ten tribal girls and ordered them to participate in the arduous work of boiling oil and stirring soap.
Who thinks it’s inappropriate to exploit child labor in this time and space? On the contrary, because children suddenlyAlthough you can work to earn money to support your family, this is actually an improvement compared to older times.
Of course, when some ethnic groups realized that their children determined their future, the act of squeezing children's labor was prohibited by legislation.
The orders from the priests stimulated the tribesmen to rush to dig holes in the ice to catch breathing seals. The priests bought the seals whole at a low price, and a large amount of seal blubber was boiled into oil, leaving the rest The seal meat became everyone’s food.
The most precious seal liver was enjoyed by the priests. Those girls ate a lot of seal meat, and they felt that their lives were not bad.
In Rurik's view, they were the most pitiable child laborers. The priests did not hesitate to squeeze their value. In addition, the priests personally went to battle to obtain these huge amounts of soap.
As of now, soap is thrown into production.
Ryurik doesn’t want to change anything for the time being, let alone want to carry out some social transformation of the Ross tribe, relying on the title of “Odin’s Blesser”? No! If you don’t have money in your pocket, that’s absolutely impossible.
Gould looked at those ordinary soaps again, and they were indeed not as comfortable as sulfur soap in appearance.
Gould is a businessman who gets things done quickly, and he is also facing a certain amount of pressure now.
There are as many as 3,000 foreigners living in the Ross tribe. Among them are a group of fur hunters who are eager to capture more ferrets in the north. This is the fur processing industry and a number of professions spawned by northern fur. cobbler.
There are also some professional shipbuilding customers living here. They just want to find huge pine trees in the area north of Roseburg to make bigger ships. Because when the Russians made long boats, their keels must be made of a special-looking oak tree. This kind of wood is really hard to find. However, the biggest requirement for ship ribs and ship planks is that the cross-sectional area of the big tree must be large. Over hundreds of years, as the Vikings' navigation skills became more advanced, the demand for "shipbuilding wood" among all Viking tribes also increased. Going to remote areas to find good shipbuilding materials was the motivation for many shipbuilders.
Some craftsmen make a living from this.
Different from those huge warships, ordinary fishing boats are only four to five stikas, which are only four to five meters. They do not need any special-shaped oak keels. The whole body is made of pine wood, the main parts are spliced together using a mortise and tenon structure, and some gaps are fixed with rivets and sealed with pine glue. A good pine fishing boat is completed.
Such a fishing boat would cost thirty silver coins at the very least.
Shipbuilding is tiring work, and craftsmen always make themselves sticky when applying pine oil. Soap is the perfect solution to the most disgusting things they face when building ships. This winter, at least fifty fishing boats are under construction in coastal docks, and all of them will be taken south and sold.
The shipbuilder family was another group of wealthy people. They bought a lot of soap, and many of them decided to buy more in order to transport the soap to the south and sell it at a good price.
Now, Gould brought more than twenty followers with him, including strong and brave warriors, people who specialized in inquiring about information, and two maids to serve him.
Gould was very grateful that Otto did not sell the huge amount of soap to others, and he had no intention of raising the price.
"Everything is in accordance with our original agreement. Great leader, I will live in my residence for a while, and I will give you all the money. But after that, please help me take care of these soaps until the ice and snow have melted. When the time comes, I will send someone to transport them to my ship."
Otto nodded deeply and praised deeply: "I just appreciate your generosity. I also want to thank you for giving it to my son. The hat is just too big."
"No! This is a symbol of our friendship and my friendship with Rurik." After that, Gould patted Rurik's thin hat. shoulder, and further praised him in front of the child's father. "My youngest son is not only not as beautiful as Rurik, but he is also not loved by God. But Rurik gave me the opportunity to gain greater wealth. He and I are already friends, don't you think so?"< /p>
Rurik looked up at the old guy who longed for wealth and nodded slightly. "We are friends. If you pay the money now, we will be best friends."
"Aha! You really love money." Gould laughed unrestrainedly, causing Otto also laughed.
Gould is actually very satisfied. As for businessmen, it is too hypocritical to talk about the comradeship of bloody battles like soldiers. As a businessman, we talk about business, handing over the money and delivering the goods, and happy transactions are complementary. Owe, this is the "friendship of businessmen". Although Rurik is young, he is obviously wiser than many adults.
"Then it's settled, I'll give you the money soon. Just so, wise Rurik, and the great chief. When evening comes, I invite you into my mansion, I will entertain you with the best food and wine."
Drink? Otto was almost instinctively elated.
"Gould? Is it a lot of mead?"
"Oh, it was available at the time. It was our favorite." Gould said with a smile, "I There are some other tricks."
"What is it?"
"Red wine, cranberry wine. I bought it at a high price. It is a genuine product from my private collection. I enjoy it personally. Great leader, looking at more than a thousand pieces of soap, I am happy to share these treasures with you."
Otto drank the wine and knew that it came from the so-called " The southern world that is “never cold” actually refers to Eastern Rome.
Originally, wine was not expensive in the Mediterranean, and the Eastern Romans did not think it was precious. However, just like the cheap salt in Eastern Rome and Italy, it would suddenly make huge profits when transported to the northern interior.
Wine is even more so! Following the land trade route northward, adventurous merchants sold it to the Danes for huge profits. Danish profiteers seek greater profitsSell it secretly to the hostile Siiyazhong tribe.
Otto really understands the preciousness of wine, and he is eager to try it at the dinner.
However, this Gould, the most precious wine in his collection, is not as simple as wine!