Rise of Rurik Chapter 1119

The hot lead water is poured into the bronze mold, and after it is naturally cooled, it is knocked out, and then the edges are trimmed with carbon steel hairpins, and calipers are used to ensure that the styles of all the bar-shaped lead ingots cast in batches are consistent.

The most critical thing is to carve out the inscriptions of the letters on the lead ingots. Kamne's thick and big hands are not suitable for this delicate and delicate work, but he can learn it, but he feels that a rough person is not suitable for this job.

There are indeed such talents in the blacksmith team. After all, not everyone can only work in blacksmithing for a lifetime. The patriarch of this group of people pointed directly at the old Ross blacksmith Clavasen. Although this old guy has retired from the world, he has tried his best to teach future generations his various techniques.

Clavasen is a part-time gem craftsman, and the craftsmanship of carving amber and beeswax rough stones into gemstones is no problem for carving metals.

The blueprint for the text defined by Rurik for Ross is exactly

"Classical Roman Alphabet", this set of letters depicts the church classics, which means that Ross directly applies the writing system of the Roman Empire.

Therefore, j, u, and w do not exist at all. Due to the needs of actual use, u and w are absorbed, and j is not used.

Ross's set of characters is even more divided into uppercase and lowercase. The two sets of alphabets are basically the same in appearance, and it seems that there are only big and small differences.

The production cost of lead movable type is low, and a layer of oxide film is naturally formed on the outer layer of lead ingot, which makes it extremely corrosion-resistant, and it is the most cost-effective as the printing core.

Kamne really received a big job. Rurik asked for as many movable types as possible. The uppercase letter version can be less, while the lowercase version requires at least 500 movable type blocks, and the most commonly used five A vowel requires a thousand.

If he uses it carefully, he doesn't need to ask for too many movable type blocks. Considering the possibility of his subordinates doing things sloppily and the factors of the lead blocks being bumped and worn, he should have as many spare lead blocks as possible.

Casting and cutting took a little more time. After a large number of finished products were produced, they could be placed in batches in wooden formwork, and the bottom of the formwork was brushed with a layer of pine glue, making the living board a temporary fixed board. For batch printing of "Ross Saga".

This matter cannot be completed in a month or two. Kamne's team is still forging all kinds of carbon steel agricultural tools and weapons.

The work of cutting lead blocks is not difficult in the hands of a few professionals, but the amount of work is really huge, Rurik has to pay these guys high salaries, and there is even news in the city that a group of people who want to make quick money The gemsmiths in the area swooped in to get the job.

Continue to wait in the capital? The king is obliged to tour his territory to visit the people, and the territory of Ross is torn apart by the Baltic Sea, so the king's regular inspection is even more necessary.

What he saw in the capital was a thriving scene. He saw the high priest doing his own work step by step, and his eldest daughter Verika was there, and the little girl had grown taller.

Verika is the eldest sister of the royal family, and her status has also been promoted to the deputy priest of the First Temple. Noble bloodlines and positions require higher talents to match. Rurik has high expectations for his eldest daughter, but after returning this time, he found that her Latin language has not improved much, which is not acceptable.

The capital city is a scene of prosperity and peace for the people. Governor Konuson is a bit older. He can still walk around freely with a wooden stick, but his voice is a bit hoarse, although he claims to be suffering from the wind and cold in the coming autumn.

"It's obviously the warmest season. You... are still old." Looking at this old Ross man, father Otto's childhood playmate, even in summer, an inexplicable sadness arose spontaneously.

"This old man can still serve the king. Fortunately, I have someone who succeeds me, and my son can successfully take over the duties of the governor." The Konusson father and son said a lot of beautiful words, and Rurik loved listening to them. He also saw that the capital was under his management Continued prosperity without trouble.

The security is good, and the sanitation in the main city is also good. Because there are two markets in the Waiguo area, the local people are complicated, and there is nothing to do if the sanitation is messed up.

The so-called dirty is not a place full of feces and urine, but that the stalls of the vendors are placed in a mess except to ensure the smoothness of the main road. Because there are more debris on the ground, the most criticized thing is the scraped fish scales and kicked. The lost animal meat is useless scraps, and even a large number of onion skins left on the spot by merchants who came to sell onions from other places. No one thinks it is dirty, and neither does Rurik.

It's like the seaside market in Roseburg's hometown, or the old Mellaren market, everyone is mutual.

Chacha Rurik felt that this was very fireworks, and the three-year tax exemption made the merchants more unscrupulous, so the market was also a symbol of prosperity.

The coastal sandbar acts as a tide-proof slope. After the Gulf of Finland converges to Kotlin Island, it is a trumpet-shaped structure macroscopically, and the tides are rough every day.

Most of the merchant ships that come and go are traditional long boats. After entering the sandbar, the neva estuary has a trivial terrain, and it directly rushes to the beach in the area close to the market. It can set up a stall and do business after paying a berthing fee.

In fact, the berthing fee included the customs tax, and the governor's mansion and the royal family shared half of it. Taking advantage of the opportunity, the de facto governor Konuzon Jr. contracted the accounts, and then gave the royal family's share of income.

There are many documents to be submitted by Konuzon, including the income from mooring fees, deforestation and acre expansion, the market price of major commodities in the market, and the approximate population of residents and residents.

On the whole, Rurik is quite satisfied with these reports, except for one statistic that Konusson clearly did not count.

"The statistics are very good! I will give you another task to count the number of male settlers aged 12 to 20 in the capital." Little Konusson had a keen sense of smell: "My lord, is this going to raise troops?"

"Prepare for future military operations. According to my king's plan, the next step is to further intervene in the Frankish civil war, and give young people the opportunity to make meritorious deeds and make a fortune." Little Konusson smiled unceremoniously, then pursed his mouth and said he was absolutely do it.

The resident population of New Roseburg and its surrounding areas has swelled to nearly 20,000 people. Faced with this statistic, Rurik felt that although it was watery, he went to inspect and estimated that the population was indeed considerable.

Let's say there are 20,000 people! The main city is guarded by a solid wall, and the people living inside are mainly old Ross people, while the settlers in the Outer Guo area are diverse.

The Swedish relatives and tribes from the Lake Mälaren area are a large group, and the Suomi people from Finland are another large group because of their proximity.

Although the number of settled Slavic immigrants is small, its population has been growing steadily. Of course, the settlers here have a large number of children. It is estimated that Konusson tried his best to include the babies in the swaddling and womb forcibly in the statistics, so he came up with a very beautiful data report.

Rurik will live in the capital until mid-August. He has arranged a schedule for himself. This autumn's sacrifice will not be held in the capital. When the wheat harvest starts in the capital area, he will set off for the Great Temple of Uppsala before returning to visit Ross. Fort's hometown, Elonburg in the north, inspected the production and life of the main settlements before the Gulf of Bothnia was frozen, and finally spent the winter in the capital.

It is now the end of July in 841, and the fields near New Roseburg have begun to harvest. The first thing to harvest is only some vegetables, and the varieties of vegetables are very limited, just cabbage, yellow root carrots, and onions.

There are also thyme and sage, which are ground into crumbs and sold. Smart sellers deliberately open up vegetable gardens to grow only these herbs, and after harvesting, they are dried and ground for sale, earning some money.

When the Rus who were poor in the past became richer, the first priority was always to satisfy their appetites. A poor diet is not advisable. It must be eaten with spices to make it more comfortable. If there is demand, it will be provided, and there will be a corresponding market.

The streets and alleys in the inner city of the capital are structured like a harp, but Rose's old harp has long since been damaged, and even when the harp was still intact, the priests forgot how to play it.

Now here comes Noren, Countess of Narvik. There are a group of Balmerks settled in the city, they are the tribe of Noren.

They fished in the capital for a living, and then sold their hard-earned labor to all kinds of employers. There are many strong men with bald heads deliberately shaved on the pier, with golden braids on their temples. There must be some blue patterns tattooed on the bald heads, so that people can clearly recognize their identities.

The Balmerks in the port of Narvik were the only Norwegians incorporated into the Kingdom of Ross, and the local ruler was Noren, one of Rurik's wives.

Obviously, she still prefers her hobbies to governing her own people. The capital has better conditions, where she can expand her musical interests and use local artisan resources to make brand new oak harps and wooden flutes, which also takes time.

The attic of the palace, which has been cleaned and maintained, was indeed deserted when there were no people there. When the king came back, the place became lively.

The ground floor was where the banquet was held, and the returned Rurik spent several days entertaining his cronies in the capital.

Afterwards, he called together wealthy businessmen in the city, took the opportunity of drinking to inquire about their business conditions, and relied on a small strategy to expect them to tell the truth after drinking, and he also wanted to learn some additional news.

The palace is not majestic and inaccessible. Although there are guards on the walls and guards standing guard in turn, in a sense Rurik feels that his palace is still a palace.

"The Landlord's Courtyard". There is a standing army flag team in the capital, and they are all products of the expansion of the army after the war. The banner team is very young, and a considerable number of soldiers are only thirteen years old. Their life trajectory follows the expansion of the kingdom. They don't know the hardships of the past era. All they see in their short life is the expansion of the kingdom and the army's transition from victory to new victory.

They ate wheat early on, and then they ate a lot of fish and vegetables.

They have all received the most basic two years of cultural education and physical education. After being selected and entered the standing army, their daily tasks are military training and patrolling. Task.

These standing army soldiers are all infantry. Obviously, with a peacetime force of more than 300 people, their existence can only participate in maintaining the law and order of the capital.

Mere infantry is not enough! Now the 300th cavalry of the second cavalry has arrived, and the same very young cavalry has arrived in the capital through a new inland river route. The new cavalry and new travel are really eye-catching.

The garrison troops in the capital increased greatly, and the cavalry was deliberately arranged to gallop in groups in the Harvest Square to show off their force to the people, which stimulated the innovation of a large number of young people who grew up in costumes.

Rurik deliberately placed the second cavalry in the capital, so that the two major cities of the kingdom would have two standing army mobile units, one step at a time, and one at a time. If there was a problem internally, the two armies could solve the problem.

This is not enough, the kingdom also needs a real navy. In the beginning, the Ross people were all naval fighters.

The identities of fishermen, pirates, merchants, and soldiers are very well defined. As long as the leader gives orders, Jian Yong of the Ross tribe can pull out a fighting force by jumping on the longboat.

The times have changed, and the tribal armed model, which is maintained entirely by blood, cannot cope with the current form at all.

There is a split between the new generation of Russians and the old Russians of the old era. Just in terms of their bloodlines, the mother clan of a large number of new generation of Russians are Slavs and Finns. This population is now in the hundreds of thousands. Only more.

Ross has the embryonic form of a serious navy. It started as a professional sailor raised by the big businessman Gould in the old days.

In all the combat operations of Ross in the past, the Gould family contributed money and effort, and in the end its sailor team was completely absorbed by the royal family.

Objectively speaking, Rurik's sailor team has always served as a professional navy. However, the kingdom needed victory and glory, and those sailors were not forced to admit that all armed sailors were warriors until the expedition in 840 due to insufficient troops in the later period.

Without honor, they are just a group of official ship runners with salaries. Their daily task is to control the armed cargo ship and maintain the connection between the capital and the regular trading points in the Baltic Sea.

Rurik has a huge amount of internal affairs to be implemented in front of him. Several years of wars have delayed what should be done. Now he feels that it will be too late if he does not start to implement.

Thus, the two departments were established at the beginning of August of this year. Ross's battleship was parked at the berth at the mouth of the Neva River, and it would have been floating if there were no major incidents, becoming a beautiful scenery of the capital.

Both sail destroyers and armed cargo ships are responsible for cargo transportation, and the ships will not run empty every time they go on a long voyage.

Iron nails, leather, stones, rare woods, fish catches, and even minke whales were dragged back abruptly.

Each ship has the positions of captain, chief mate, and ordinary sailors. A ship corresponds to a team. On the shore, the traditional model of master leading apprentices is still implemented.

Young people who come to be professional sailors get the salary of the king, and they are definitely able to live without much. Even the sailor group also follows the traditional Nordick system. The soul of professional sailors is the old Ross group. They are proud of serving the king and receiving a stable salary. Transport, negotiate with governors and lords of various trade points.

However, they have no honor. Now Rurik himself honors them! The wheat harvest in the Novorosberg area is later, when the scythe has been sharpened in the Novgorod area, the ears of wheat are still green here in the capital.

The wheat harvest is about to begin, and when the new wheat enters the warehouse, the fleet will begin to transport grain to various places. This was an opportunity. When most of the professional sailors were gearing up on the shore, Rurik summoned them.

Old and young, blondes and brunettes. The sailor team has the spiritual core of the old Ross people, and has also absorbed all kinds of people, especially the old sailors raised some orphans on board, which may be orphans from Sweden or Suomi people.

They stood together densely, and Rurik stood on the high platform piled with wooden boxes in all his clothes, looking at his subordinates who received their salaries.

It was only when they finished gathering that Rurik could see their numbers intuitively. He asked the speaker: "Is everyone here?"

"Yes. In addition to the gathering of some brothers on Tombstone Island, there are also a few floating in the sea, most of them are here."

"Very good. You are the leader of this session, and everyone admires you. You were also the first ones to follow Gould, and you were included in this king to work for me very early."

"yes."

"Very high, Goldlund, I recognize you as the War Chief of the Seas!"

The term "War Chief" is widely used in Ross. It is the title of Boyar's superior, which means military commander and earl.

For the old Ross people are too aware of the meaning of this name,

"Ocean War Chief" means that this Godelund is authorized to command all the warships of Ross. Godelund is overjoyed and keeps beating his chest to declare his loyalty.

Rurik had to speak loudly enough, with the cool sea breeze blowing in front of him, he raised his voice and loudly announced his proposition.

goelund became

The "Ocean War Chief" is authorized to command the warships for a term of three years. The captain of each battleship becomes

"Navy Boyar", which is further divided into three levels, the captain who controls the big ship is

"Superior Navy Boyar", the one who controls the armed cargo ship is just

"Inferior Boyar". The status of boyars at all levels is not hereditary. They also have a three-year term. After the expiration of the term, there will be an internal election within the team. Whether a newcomer will be selected to succeed or be re-elected, the final result will be reported to the king for decision.

Of course they can implement the traditional Nordic system. Rurik holds the highest power, and only after he finally decides on the new admiral can he take office.

This is still an act of delegating power, but it seems inappropriate. Considering that this model has been in operation for twelve years, Rurik feels that as long as It is enough to tinker with the traditions of the past.

Because what he promised to his subjects was that there would be no national war in 841, but next year would be different. The truce period would end in the spring of 842, and then he would further interfere in the Frankish Civil War to gain benefits.

The Ross Navy was officially established in this way, and the news spread in the city, just as Rurik expected, without causing much discussion.

Public opinion claims that this is the honorary status given by the king to the hard-working sailors, so that they can act in high-profile actions wearing the battle robes of the Ross Army.

They are not marine soldiers, the first thing they should do is to win the sea battle and overcome the wind and waves~www.mtlnovel.com~ They must be different from the marine soldiers in dress, and this important difference is reflected in the hat.

The three-cornered hat was originally the large sun visor hat of the Imberian voyagers. The leather felt sun visor hat is loose and folded, and it becomes a three-cornered hat. As long as it is released, it is a good sun visor hat. There is no such hat in this era, but hats with brims are not uncommon.

Out of his own preference, Rurik still likes his naval power to wear a leather felt tricorn hat with dyed feathers on it, which is unique.

Making a batch of leather felt hats took no trouble at all, but within a few days, all the leather tailoring workshops in the capital produced 500 finished products.

When the sailors, big and small, assembled again, they were all wearing blue-patterned burqas with white background, leather boots, buckskin belts around their waists, and three-cornered hats on their heads.

Looking at their background again, five sail cruisers and four sail destroyers are moored in the steel, and there are also a large number of single-masted armed cargo ships standing in a row.

All this made Rurik feel dazed for a while, as if this was not the ninth century, but the seventeenth century.

Chapter end