The prisoners of war captured in the war against Karelia were divided among the Russian soldiers, so a large number of women moved to Novgorod with the victors.
A new group of black-haired women appeared in the settlement. Each of them had a master. The best ones were forced to have a relationship with the conqueror and then did hard labor.
As a prince, Rurik only made bottom-line requirements for his subordinates, because the labor force is too precious. The right to life of these women has been recognized by the prince. Deliberate abuse is prohibited. Once the If the report and investigation are true, the parties concerned will be fined.
What kind of waves can the Karelia people make again? A regional power has clearly had its backbone broken, so that once it falls down, it can never stand up again.
To be able to solve the threat from the north so easily, the Ross army suffered minimal losses in the war, and the greatest wealth they plundered were prisoners of war and deer.
Today, in Novorosberg and Novgorod, there are large reindeer populations in each area, most of which legally belong to the property of the princely family, and the work of deer breeding has been decentralized. , those who are deer herders are those deer farmers who surrendered early, or they are called Lapps or Sami people.
The most disadvantaged and least surviving group of people in this area, because they relied on the prince of Rus, the fate of the whole family changed. They generally have no ambitions and just want to live a stable life. If they can get a stable life by herding reindeer for the prince, they are willing to do it forever.
After all, the deer herders are a collective name for a group of scattered family clan micro-tribes. They will not belittle themselves because of the emergence of a high priest of the Ross Principality like Rumia, because they have not yet developed a national identity. However, They are just a large group of obedient people living in the area controlled by the Principality of Ross.
But there are a large number of people who have naturally recognized the concept of "Ross" since birth.
If a country exists because of the community imagined by the people, these people were born into this community.
Many years ago, the first batch of Slavic women who married into the Rus tribe had their eldest children grow up to seven years old. Even according to the tradition of the Slavic community, both boys and girls have a certain labor force by the age of five and are fully obliged to participate in family work and even participate in agricultural work on traditional farms.
The Principality of Ross goes one step further, because these children are the baby boomer generation!
The population of the principality is exploding, and the first batch of new forces has begun to take shape. Among them, there are 200 children aged seven and six, both male and female. When it comes to their bloodline, they are a mixture of North Germanic Rus and East Slavic Ilmen. Their fathers are both Rus, and they should be Rus.
Since you are a descendant of Rus, you must inherit the will of your ancestors. In particular, boys must have a strong body and be able to perform well in logging, fishing, hunting and war.
They are not only the children of their parents, but also belong to the Principality of Rus. Parents do not have absolute control over the upbringing of their childrenQuan, Rurik took the children away from their parents, organized wise men to educate them, and organized them for logging and military training.
A group of children, regardless of gender, will first become masters of chopping wood and wood, masters of archery, understand the Latin alphabet, and learn Latin, Norse and Slavic languages in a unified manner. They will understand the basic geography of their world, the location of the Principality of Rus in this area, and what countries exist around it. They will also learn mathematics, especially memorizing the multiplication tables.
What Rurik needs to do is primitive compulsory education, and the start time of classes is the non-farming period in the warm season. Since there is not much knowledge to be taught at this stage and special emphasis is placed on practicality, the young boys in the Sixth Flag Team who have received many years of education are all excellent teachers. There are also ten loyal Slavic maids of their own. In addition to their work as scribes and skilled workers, their job is to teach.
This measure targets not only the mixed-race children whose number is increasing year by year, but also the local Slavic children in Novgorod, who are also included in the scope of management.
It is difficult to take children away from their parents without giving them grace. Slavic parents would be frightened if force were to be used.
If children do not participate in family or farm work, they are simply raising rice bugs in vain and are pure consumers. If it were true that the children did not work or consume the family's food, the problem would be much less problematic.
At least the residents of Rus' headquarters happily handed over their young sons to Prince Rurik. After the policy has been implemented for so many years, the children can eat free meals at the prince's place, and they are raised to be strong, tall and tall. Healthy, parents save a lot of money on raising children.
This is a moral policy. The principality bears the food expenses of the educated during their studies, which is actually the largest expense of a person's life in this era of low productivity.
How many people under the age of fifteen are currently under direct jurisdiction in the principality? According to the statistics at hand, the number of children has exceeded 10,000, and will only soar further in the future.
This is an extremely exaggerated figure, and Rurik could not help but lament that after the overall improvement in life and the addition of a large number of fertile women, it caused a birth frenzy in all families.
Realistically speaking, Rurik was convinced that his treasury would not be able to feed all his children unless he increased various taxes and reclaimed wasteland to expand the area of wheat fields.
If this is the reality, then the next best thing is to manage a group of children in the notification core area first.
A group of capable men and women from the Sixth Banner were selected, plus his ten Slavic maids, and that John Invar, a total of forty people were summoned to Rurik Yunovgo. Ross Duma of Rhodes.
The spacious parliament court was full of young faces. Different from the carelessness of those old guys, this group of young guys showed a seriousness as a whole.
Rurik clapped his hands in front of everyone and announced the start of the meeting.
The so-called meeting was actually his speech: "You have all seen that I recently ordered a group of men to log wood. They will build another wall on a wasteland in the city. I will build a number of houses within the wall. , their only purpose is to educate your other Ross brothers and sisters, you will be their teachers, you will teach them language and calculation in the house, you will also take them to the open fields, train them in logging, archery, etc. . ”
Rather than saying they are teachers, they are just a group of children. Although they have an adult-like figure, their faces are particularly childish. They sat quietly, staring at the prince's face and listening attentively.
The speech was very brief. After speaking, Rurik raised his head and asked: "Do you have any questions? If you have any questions, just stand up and tell me."
No, John Invall took the lead. stand up.
"Do you...have questions or suggestions?"
"I...I'm just very surprised. My lord, do you really intend to make Latin widely available throughout Russia?" Language?" John Yingvall's surprised expression was written on his face.
"What? I have told you this a long time ago, but you think it is unrealistic."
"No! If you are willing to do it, you will definitely succeed. It’s just that Latin is the sacred language used by priests and the language of the Romans. As far as I know, a large number of Frankish nobles are proud to speak Latin. Do you really want to regain glory in Russia?”
"Recreate?" Rurik smiled contemptuously, "I just want to create a glory, not to mention reinvention. You! John Ingvar, you are the person who knows Latin best here, and I am most optimistic about your educational ability. However, Remember, your responsibility is only to teach, not to spread Frank's beliefs."
"Yes. Then, my own child..."
He asked. Rurik paused.
“Ah!” Rurik slapped his forehead, “I even forgot that you have a son. I remember that you priests are not allowed to get married, but I arranged that woman for you. It doesn’t matter, I agree. Your child is a Russian and will be properly educated. Don’t worry, I will pay you and you will become a wise man respected by the Russian people.”
Teaching and educating people is also labor, and it is a kind of work. Very great labor. The premise that they were selected by Rurik was that they were excellent in terms of "morality, intelligence, body, art, and work." Anyway, today's era is full of illiterates, and they are all young and wise men. If they don't become priests, who will?
These people, especially those from the Sixth Flag, will be temporarily separated from life there. In theory, if there is a war in the future and the Sixth Flag has to participate in the war, these people will not be recruited.
They are the first batch of priests in the Principality of Rus, and will start teaching history for the first time in 836.
No one in the entire Rus' Principality understands the importance of education better than Rurik himself. It is entirely because of his oriental soul that he understands that the education of children will bring high-quality talents to the entire country and the population of the principality. still few, in the current era, education can only improve the comprehensive quality of the people, thereby achieving the goal of strengthening the country.
However, ordinary people only pay attention to one thing and hand over their children to the prince. The prince is in charge of food and is willing to give food and meat.
Rurik made a contract with these too young priests, and they will be paid very high for their teaching work! The so-called remuneration was actually wheat, and they actually became the first civil servants in the principality to receive a salary, with a monthly salary of one hundred pounds of wheat. The salary level was equivalent to the salary paid by Rurik to ordinary mercenaries under his command.
This salary may seem like a lot, but it is not much. The so-called teachers themselves are allocated land in the city of youth, and all teaching work must be done during non-farming periods. Such a salary will bring 400 to 500 yuan to the family every year. Earnings from a hundred pounds of wheat.
And the teachers will eat together with the students, and the expenses for catering will actually be paid by the prince.
Their mathematics level is sufficient to calculate this problem. With a little calculation, they can come up with an astonishing number, and they lament that the prince spends a lot of wealth to support his children.
In fact, Rurik made careful calculations in this regard and came to the conclusion that as long as there is no war that consumes national funds, it is okay to raise 10,000 children every year on the basis of national food stocks.
Taking the opportunity of the meeting, he made further specifications.
The forty teachers each have their own division of labor, and Rurik also simply divided the subjects taught into: mathematics, linguistics, geography, and history. These four subjects will be taught in the classroom, with the largest number being outdoor sports.
Children in the principality, regardless of gender, have the obligation to join the army when they grow up. They must receive basic military training from an early age. This aspect is what teachers are really good at, and there is no need for Rurik to say anything.
How to educate a large group of children, Rurik has compiled teaching materials for these teachers.
The general knowledge Rurik possesses transcends the times, but he instills too much content into the children that they cannot understand and absorb, so education starts from the simplest aspects.
The most important educational work in the Principality now is literacy. The people must at least know basic mathematical operations and understand words. They must also understand their own past and the true international situation faced by the Principality of Ross.
He came prepared, and all the teaching materials needed for indoor education were ready!
The ash mixed with rosin and charcoal blocks is applied to the wooden board, solidified and then polished, and it becomes a fairly makeshift blackboard. The so-called chalk is even easier to make. It only requires a large amount of calcium carbonate stamping molds. The materials are easy to obtain and mass production is not troublesome.
A group of local carpenters received orders from the prince and were not only involved in building houses, but also making wooden tables and benches that exuded a strong rosin smell and were quite wet.
In fact, Rurik had to build the prototype of the school building in the early stage of the spring plowing operation. As many as 400 men and women have been hired, and all participants were paid in food.
The school is a system. Although the core is 40 teachers,There will also be a group of people who serve as faculty and staff. In particular, a group of professional cooks must be recruited to provide meals for thousands of children.
Rurik officially set the school entrance age at six years old. There was no special reason. He just felt that this year was the most correct. A child's indoor cultural education lasts from six to ten years old, and at higher ages he will receive purely physical education and military education. Because the mass production of paper is an indisputable fact, teaching paper is quite abundant, and the examination system can also be implemented.
Although the ancient Russian tradition of "contesting chiefs" has been abolished, at least the Russians are familiar with the competition for superiority, which is not essentially different from examinations.
The examination system will be introduced, and the best in cultural classes will be picked out by Rurik, who will be exposed to more advanced knowledge and transformed into a teacher.
For the time being, all Rick has on hand are some handwritten textbooks, which can only be in the hands of teachers. The children can only stare at the blackboard and listen to the teacher's words.
In a few months, the printing of mixed wooden movable type and engraving will be able to mass-produce teaching materials, making it completely feasible for students to have one textbook in their hands.
How to describe the school building? Rurik picked out the word "SCHOLA" from Latin. It originally came from ancient Greek and pointed directly to the concept of open-air schools advocated by Aristotle.
The meeting was just Rurik's lecture. As a prince, he officially institutionalized the "school" in 836.
He can be sure that all school-age children in White Tree Manor will enroll in school. No parent will be stupid enough to give up the opportunity to save living expenses, and smart parents realize that their children will become smart and healthy for this purpose. , why not.
Coupled with all the school-age children of Russian immigrants living around Lake Ilmen, it is very normal for there to be 1,000 to 1,500 students enrolled.
Such a number of students will definitely bring a lot of teaching pressure. Rurik remains optimistic because the system has been established and the general direction is completely correct. If there are problems along the way, he will fix them. Supplement, everything will get better...
"There is an alarming number of children who are only one or two years old. When those Karelian women have more children, the number of children in our country will only be more, and other settlements will Branches will also be set up, and more children will be enrolled. I must expand my productivity, otherwise I will not be able to fulfill my promise of taking care of food.”
Rurik can feel the pressure, at least not too much in recent years. Worry about this.
Children are not a large group of two-legged gold-eating beasts in their own hands. They will also participate in labor, especially the movement of logging and land reclamation to claim farmland from the forest. Two-person saws are given to weak children to destroy towering trees. With their combat effectiveness, they can also work on a large scale to collect tree branches, collect rosin, pick mushrooms, and peel bark. They are a major supplement to the principality's material production labor force. This work was completely adding wealth to the principality's treasury, and Rurik estimated that this would definitely be able to offset the wheat and meat he paid.
The school has five longhouse-shaped teaching buildings with one floor. Each building has four compartments, that is, four classes. Naturally, the design is such that fifty students can be crammed into one compartment. If there are too many students, Just stuff it hard. There is no independent canteen. Professional cooks will deliver the cooked meals directly to the classroom, and the children will use the desks as dining tables.
As for the toilet, it is a must. The urine and feces will be collected. The stench is a stench. They are fertilizers. Even though many people have no idea about fertilizers, at least the huge wheat fields they own can be used immediately to supplement nitrogen fertilizers.
The school will complete final construction after spring plowing, and Rurik has appointed his wife, Svetlana, as interim principal. When the school officially opens, he will also hold a ceremony and even speak to the children in person.
Spring plowing is about to begin, and children who are eager to go to school will transform into a labor force and provide logistical assistance to the adults who are sowing and working.
At that time, Rurik will also make a statement that he attaches great importance to agricultural production and personally operate the Quyuan plow to participate in spring plowing.
For myself, I am destined to be exhausted for some time to come. In the future, the royal power will continue to be strengthened, and all the blood and sweat will be worth it to make Ross stronger.
It was at this time that the Kiev horsemen took the long boat of the Ostara people and floated to Novo, a large city on the north shore of Lake Ilmen, with the precious and expensive Pecheneg Turk horses. Fugorod is also the end of their journey.
In this way, Rurik and Mark were both shocked by each other's appearance, and then an inexplicable sense of closeness led them to have friendly contact.
After all, who would say no to friendly business dealings? Only idiots do.