Rurik really wished that his men would grow up in an instant, even if they could grow strong and tall enough quickly.
He saw the huge economic and political benefits brought by the expansion of the Rus people in the past year, and also realized the major worries of the tribe behind this sudden prosperity.
The law of the jungle is the political ecology of Northern Europe in this time and space. Of course, various tribes can form alliances, and the power of the parties entering into the alliance is of course unequal.
Tribes that lack strength either take the initiative to attach themselves to more powerful tribes, or are defeated and annexed by the other party.
The strength of the Ross people lies in their years of shrinking, which allows the tribe to control a large number of strong men. They are the key to supporting the tribe's combat effectiveness.
Those elites had already suffered losses. To make up for it, Rurik had to step up training of his young men.
As the times move forward like a torrent, some things must change, especially the Rus' treatment of other non-alliance tribes that speak other languages. The two sides must build a new alliance.
The Kewen people came, and so did a group of deer farmers.
Slave them? No! If it is to revitalize Russia and establish a strong regional power, the act of slavery can be said to be digging a grave in advance for its own destruction.
Imitate the Svia Tribe Alliance?
The Melalen tribe is entirely due to its large population, dual ability to do business and farming, and its unique geographical environment. Their prosperity comes from these few necessary conditions, thus becoming the leader of the alliance.
If just because of its large population and relatively strong overall strength, it can serve as an alliance leader, why can't the Russians replace it?
Rurik felt that he could not really enslave the Kovin people and the deer herders. Since the purpose was to obtain greater benefits, he could use more advanced and efficient means to make them particularly willing to work hard. .
Because they are all human beings and they all have the desire to make their lives richer.
Give them a contract, that is, surrender is not shameful, and cooperation brings prosperity. As the one who controls the power, he must also abide by this contract.
Although the children of the Ross tribe are somewhat resistant to the sudden appearance of foreign boys, after all, these children dream of becoming those battlefield heroes and excellent warriors. They admire a certain kind of people very much. ——A good warrior.
How well can a bow-wielding hunter use a short wooden bow?
At the boys’ training ground, Tyravis used the short bow made by the Russians and hit the target with three iron cluster arrows forty stikas (about 39 meters) away. The target is a small piece of tattered leather the size of a snowshoe hare.
It was not luck that the arrow hit. Tyravis shot ten arrows in a row, and each one hit the target.
The most amazing thing is that one arrow hit the tail of the other and split it into two pieces.
"robinhood! "Rurik held his head in his hands and exclaimed.
The boys and girls who were watching were all yelling and making noises because of the experience. Rurik really protected his head with both hands, and his whole body could not help but tremble.
He was a little scared. Maybe if the kid had aimed more accurately at that time and ran slower, wouldn't he have been injured?
It was all about his archery skills. He has established his own status in the game, including his sister Saipolava, who also gained the respect of the girls through her accurate archery performance.
Is it possible that all the children of the Kovin people are good at archery? During the siege, the mail armor of the Ross army was once covered with enemy arrows. Rurik felt that his judgment was completely correct.
After only three days, the situation was relatively stable. Rurik issued an order to the Kovin gray squirrel tribe and the small group of deer herders, requiring them to hand over their children, boys and girls, between the ages of six and ten.
At first, Gray. Mechasta of the Squirrel Tribe and Alsaka, the leader of the deer herders, felt that there was a conspiracy in this order. Even if they expressed their surrender, it was mostly for the expediency of survival. They spoke of loyalty, but how could the estrangement in their hearts be the same? Disappear in an instant?
Although the Russians provided a lot of resources, it cannot be said that this is a huge favor, and they need to be willing to do everything
More than 20 boys and girls. Due to Rurik's recruitment, they are a mixture of deer farmers and Kovin people. In the final analysis, they are all "ancient Finns" and there is no real language barrier between them.
Telavis. Naturally, she became the commander of the boys, and Saipolava became the commander of the girls.
The Covins, deer herders, and even the Finns are naturally relatively short people. Maybe this is the case. Being relatively small cannot be changed by eating a lot of meat and milk. Being small also has small advantages. Since they are not suitable for being on the front line and attacking other Viking tribes head-on, their best position on the battlefield is on the battlefield. Provide fire support and long-range output from the rear
Rurik’s biggest request to Terravis and Cyberlawi is very simple: “You take your own people to shoot arrows seriously, and I want your people to be able to do it. Be Robin Hood. ”
Yes, Rurik gave “the speeding arrow split the arrow in front in half”, Rurik gave this unique skill a clear word, Robin Hood, but they didn’t understand the culture behind this word. They think this is just one of the many new words invented by Rurik.
It is difficult to complete such a skill without long-term training and hundreds of millions of talents. < /p>
Rurik has more subordinates, and the training direction of the personnel has begun to diverge.
He keeps his promise and implements the rules he set, even if the ice and snow have not yet melted. Training has resumed, and the cafeteria has basically ended its existence as a temporary classroom.
Those stocky wooden buildings often ended.Soak up the aroma of your food.
More than 300 children have their own seats. They have their own wooden bowls, wooden spoons and wooden forks. Many of them imitate their "boss" Rurik using two wooden sticks. as an extension of the hand. They regard learning how to use chopsticks as a toy to pass the time. When they can control the stick to pick up stones, the children will take the initiative to show off.
From the beginning, Rurik had relatively high requirements for hygiene. He ordered his men to clean themselves regularly. Among the clothes distributed, linen clothing needed to be washed regularly with soap, and individuals also needed to wipe their bodies regularly.
Wash your hands before meals, be sure to wash your clothes after training, and wash your face and hair frequently. Rurik will take advantage of the opportunity of the review to punish the dirty ones among them. The method is very simple and straightforward, that is, today's free lunch will be cancelled.
Similarly, it is also considered a mistake to touch food directly with your hands while eating, and Rurik requires his subordinates to supervise each other.
These strict requirements before and after meals have a completely ritualized feel. Children always feel that it is unnecessary, but they cannot fully understand Rurik's good intentions.
Every year, a number of very young children of the Ross tribe die. Most of these children die of colds and diarrhea. In short, they are not well protected from the cold and have bad stomachs. Even though many families have bought soap and used it in daily life, and expected everyone to use it to wash their hands, Rurik knew that he had overestimated his tribesmen. Soap is still precious, and people use it prudently. Washing hands with soap is a bit of a luxury, but washing clothes that emit a strong sour smell has become a must.
Rurik's men have always been very healthy, and it is rare for anyone to even get sick.
No one really pays attention to this matter, or in other words, they all have a happy-go-lucky attitude towards illness and death.
Oh! When a person dies, it must be his destined fate, nothing more.
No one connected the disease with poor sanitary conditions. Rurik could only build a ritualized sanitary work to passively cultivate his subordinates to a level comparable to that of most tribesmen. The hygiene concept called "stomatophilia".
The Terravis siblings were shocked by the affluence of the Russian people, because they and their sister had eaten wheat porridge and vegetable soup for many years, as well as large mouthfuls of seal meat and fish. He originally thought that the first time he ate this kind of food was a gift from Rurik, but he never expected that all children were eating such high-quality food.
Gradually, he felt that this was the normal life of the Russian people. Since children can eat so well, wouldn’t it be better for the elderly?
A sense of inferiority deeply accompanies Taravis. He is a strong person, but what he feels is the backwardness of the people of Covin.
How to rectify the names of Kewen people? That is to do your own thing well and impress the Russian people. This is what he thinks, and he is eager to make the Russian people praise him by making great contributions. The people of Kewen can also be very good..
Winter is still here, and Roseburg is thriving!
Almost everyone is preparing for the upcoming trade season. Due to the influx of huge amounts of furs, the whole tribe's leatherworkers have gone into battle and begun a round-the-clock struggle.
The merchants took this opportunity to find ways to get goods.
Most businessmen spend the winter in the colder Roseburg every year in order to collect furs and work as second-hand dealers to earn the price difference. In essence, these people are porters, and their work lacks technical thresholds.
Those very few businessmen with relatively large financial resources can all be regarded as entrepreneurs in a sense.
Rurik easily learned that the great businessman Gould was focusing on those things.
The severe cold is still there, but it cannot interfere with Gould's ambition, even if this guy feels that life is like the sunset. He wants to make a lot of money in the last stage of his life, and while accumulating more wealth for his family, he will live a happier life for the rest of his life!
This old guy will always like young girls, but he has no right to marry another girl from the Ross tribe.
Otto and Rurik believe that the girls of their tribe are a special "strategic material" that can prevent baby girls from being "thrown into the woods to fend for themselves" and get engaged when they are twelve years old. , the younger girls have all joined Rurik's Valkyrie Legion.
But as an old pervert, Gould was as energetic as a tireless shrew when it came to giving birth to more heirs of wealth. This was the second priority in his life after making money. What fun.
He married his eighth wife, who was also the daughter of a foreigner. He only asked Gould for cash flow problems, so he offered his daughter to conclude a loan deal.
His eldest son Snoleva is truly Gould’s biological son. He also married the daughter of a visiting merchant from the Melalen tribe and became his second wife. To put it bluntly, he felt that only by getting more married would he have a greater chance of having a son.
After all, in the huge Gould family, only men have absolute inheritance rights. As the eldest son, Snoleva bears a great responsibility.
So, under the surface, all businessmen are enduring the problem of payment tribes and trying every means to expand their transactions.
The Ross people have provided so many kinds of goods this year. They are the producers of northern materials. Compared with last year, this year’s economic activities are so prosperous that the Ross tribe’s limited economic market has emerged. The strange phenomenon of the currency tribe was revealed.
It is clear that the Russians looted more than 200,000 silver coins, and a large number of copper coins with small purchasing power also flowed into the market.
The lack of money is a real thing and things get a little magical!
After all, they are Russians. The main body of the Russian people at this stage is pure Vikings. As Vikings, it is completely normal to hoard silver.
There are only two people who own the craziest silver coins here, Rurik and Gould.
In order to combat the huge hard expenditure, the first thing Rurik thought of was to return the coins to the "big money box", which was in a practical sense the tribal "treasury".
The free lunch launched by the tribal leaders is aimed at Rurik’s men. There are more than 300 mouths waiting for food. To feed them, the monthly expenditure is more than 600 yuan. Silver coins.
Rurik summoned the women of the tribe to work as tailors, so that each of his subordinates had a decent outfit. One thing to say, this costume requires a high investment in the beginning, and the later stage is basically some sewing and repair work.
Even if you hire tribesmen as construction workers and chefs, the salary expenses are not much. What's more, for those mercenaries and slaves, Rurik only needs to provide a small reward, and he can reasonably ask them to work more.
Among all the expenses, the two largest ones are the cost of raw materials for Rurik’s own handicraft workshop, such as a large amount of seal oil and charcoal blocks.
As well as a large amount of grain and vegetables purchased from Gould.
A large amount of money actually flowed into Gould's pocket, and Gould, in turn, needed to spend money to buy soap, glassware, and brand-new spirits from Rurik.
So this trade has reached a magical closed loop. If the Ross tribe wants to calculate GDP, then the transaction between Rurik and Gould must account for half of the GDP.
Of course, the third wealthy household is a newly rising family and represents a new force of craftsmen. They may also account for one-fifth of GDP.
After signing an agreement with his colleagues, the blacksmith Klavasen shared the skills of refining hundreds of steel. He also monopolized the glassware manufacturing of the Ross tribe. Now a large number of children from the Kewen tribe have become full-time blacksmith apprentices, they are no longer even on Rick's military training call list.
The Clavarson family is rising, and the Clavarson father and son have made huge fortunes from their blacksmithing work. By March, they controlled more than 20,000 silver coins!
With this small amount of coins, Klavasen naturally set up a sturdy room in the Novgorod-style wood carvings that he had already built in his home to store his huge amount of silver coins.
Without banks in this era, everyone’s wealth can only be protected by themselves. Even if the Rus have long stipulated that those who steal people's money will be punished by having their fingers chopped off, beaten with a stick, expelled from behind, or even beheaded, how can theft be eradicated?
It’s not that people’s hearts are not simple enough, it’s simply that they are born with a desire for wealth, which makes some people take risks. After sitting on huge wealth, the risk of being targeted by thieves and robbers is even greater.
Clavason was sitting on a huge amount of money that he had never thought could be controlled by his family. He did not even think about spending it. Instead, he began to drive a large number of new children to become so-called miners, ordering Ka Wei, Kamne beltLead them on a hired reindeer sleigh to dig iron ore in the distant mountains to complete a large number of orders.
They are more focused on producing more metal products, especially completing orders for more steel-armed crossbows from Rurik and steel swords for tribal young men.
10% of the silver coin income is returned to Rurik's money box in a tax-like manner. Even so, the Klavassen family's wealth is still increasing rapidly.
In this way, two money-making masters, one big and one small, objectively have very necessary economic ties with each other, which somewhat inhibits the free economic and trade of the Russians.
Small businessmen are somewhat short of working capital, and ordinary Russian families are also generally short of funds.
But the future of trade this year is really wonderful. Since there is a lack of liquidity, even if it is bartering, transactions must continue. Anything of value can be used as a medium of transaction, even the marriage rights of their own daughters. In order to make a lot of money, those businessmen feel that they have completely risked their lives to seize the opportunity to make a fortune.
Rurik, how could he be aware of this situation so early? Perhaps it is just because the core population of the Ross tribe in this era has expanded to 5,000 people, including a large number of newborns. Those Kewen people who surrendered can only be regarded as allies with a very special relationship, and the number of deer farmers they control is only ten.
Free market? Do you need just this few people? Rurik felt that it would be better to control all the small families by himself, just like building a medium-sized enterprise with a population of four to five thousand people including family members. To manage so many people, it does not require an overly complicated organizational structure. .