Rise of Rurik Chapter 118

Gould took out a pile of gold extremely readily, and Otto was already staring at this scene.

Originally, the businessman was willing to come up with more than four thousand silver coins to buy goods in Roseburg, which was already a masterpiece that shocked Otto. Never thought that this old guy was unambiguous with gold coins.

As everyone knows, it's just that Gould lost most of his judgment when he drank the wine. If he was sober-minded, he would not show his most precious treasure chest full of gold to the leaders of the Russ, nor would he cover up gold coins. desktop.

"Liurik, tell me!" Gould said with a trembling mouth. "Tell me the answer. From now on, the money will be yours."

"Okay! I'll just say it. You!" Rurik pointed directly at Gould with his tender hand, "To make pure wine, the raw material is the most common wine. You make a special pottery and pour the common wine into it. , Grill it gently with charcoal. The essence of ordinary wine becomes gas, and it becomes pure wine on the lid of the pottery. You make a tube to lead the pure wine into a small cup, and finally you get the whole A glass of pure wine. You...do you understand?"

"I probably understand." Gould scratched his head, he immediately understood where, but Rurik gave him a deep inspiration for the example of "boiled sea salt".

"Maybe you still don't understand." Rurik simply stomped his feet: "Just so. When you sell out the soap, you will import a lot of ordinary ale. You ship it in, and I will buy it all. Just use what I just said. Tell your skills, I will try to make spirits in the new year."

That's all. As soon as Rurik thought about it, he said boldly: "This is also part of Odin's wisdom. Those heroic spirits of Valhalla, they drink the spirits you tasted today. Just now. There was a voice in my head, maybe it was an oracle, telling me how to turn ordinary wine into burnable spirits. Gould, what you bought with a hundred gold coins is Odin's Wisdom, you have to feel...glorious!"

glory? Gould didn't quite believe this, he was aware of huge profits with a keen business eye.

"Are you serious?" Gould asked urgently.

"Yes. I want to do a business with you, right now..." Rurik felt more and more dizzy, and simply sat down, "Oops, I'm drunk. Gould, when I wake up, I want to talk to You discuss it."

After speaking the last word, Rurik lay down lazily.

Gould stretched his fat head and asked Otto nervously, "Is he okay?"

"It should be drunk. Gould, your wine is really amazing. Don't worry, he'll be drinking after a while."

"Well, what do you think about what he said? Your son wants to do business with me."

"Me? Don't ask me about my attitude. I have always supported Rurik."

"Okay." Gould nodded in a daze. He already understood everything and his worries disappeared.

A businessman is most afraid of variables in the transaction, the greater the transaction amount, the higher the risk.

After all, Rurik is a child, and a glass of strong wine can put him to sleep. The boy should obey his father when he grows up. It seems that Chief Ross and his son are not ordinary! Otto made a conclusive claim that he would not interfere with Rurik's belongings!

Gould poured himself another glass of wine and muttered: "I will pay soon. I will hand him the box containing the silver coins directly, together with the gold coins on the table. I will never break my word, and please the great After the leader awoke Lurik, he personally sent him to my mansion."

"Business relations? Yes." Otto nodded.

The dinner came to an awkward end.

Rurik chewed a little bit of beef, but the spirits forced him to fall asleep.

Otto returned home with his sleeping son, and Lumia followed closely behind.

Two strong warriors were sent by Gould, and together they carried a large wooden box and approached the shabby home of the leader of the Ross tribe.

A total of 4200 silver coins, and 100 gold coins, they are all very fine currencies. Whether they are gold coins or silver coins, they are all minted by Eastern Rome in the amount of one hundred a pound, and their weights are not much different.

A total of 43 Roman pounds of coins is equivalent to 17 kilograms for later generations. The oak box carrying them is not small, it weighs sixty pounds. Coupled with the bronze lock and key, the entire box has exceeded forty kilograms.

A strong samurai who can carry such a heavy cargo and carry him for a long distance can only be done by a strong man who is fed with beef and is full of muscles. Such a strong man is also rare in the Viking world.

Brave warriors often have strong upper limb muscles, because everyone spends a lot of time on the boat every year. Because people everywhere have not used the wind to the exquisite level, the boats everywhere use paddle and sail hybrid power, even if it is Otto must also personally participate in paddling.

Therefore, most people are born with unstable bottom line, which is also a weakness of the Viking Warriors.

After sleeping all night until the sky was about to brighten, the hunger urged Rurik, who had been sleepy for a long time, to wake up.

"I am asleep?"

He slowly got up, shocked that his early mother Niya hurried over.

"My son, you finally woke up. You shouldn't drink that **** wine. It's crazy, it's a burnable wine." Niya's words were pity and harshness.

Otto, who was eating beef from Gould last night, was deeply unhappy. "What do you know? Niya. Your son said that he can make that burnable wine. If he succeeds, we will be richer."

Speaking of Chania, he was very excited.

Wealthy like Otto, he has been the leader for so many years, only a thousand gold coins have been stuffed into his money box. As the "key holder" of the family's cash box, Niya is very aware of her savings.

After the winter, my son actually started earning money! Last night, Niya smelled the alcohol on his sleepy son and criticized her husband. But when she saw the big wooden box brought in, and wanted to see an astonishing number of gold and silver coins inside, the sense of happiness was the blood punch, Niya fainted in an instant.

When the son woke up, she rushed forward and kissed his son several times.

Lu Mia, who was always acting as a helper, could see clearly, and a burst of envy and sorrow suddenly rose in her heart.

Now Otto is very accustomed to calling her son's servants, such as getting her to cut meat, and she does it all.

After chewing a piece of meat, Otto turned his sleepy son on his face, "Rurik, do you remember your agreement with Gould?"

"Deal? I remember."

"That's good, come and eat some meat. Niya, make your son some baked wheat cakes, he is starving. And Rürich, I will show you to Gould again after daybreak. Make a promise. I hope you can become richer because of your actions."

Rurik nodded and moved to his father's side.

Baking bread in a clay oven is a hassle. If you want to eat cooked pasta quickly, you can eat crepes.

In fact, the so-called pancake is a kind of graham biscuits, or one of the oldest cookies. All the tribes of the Vikings will make such oatmeal, they invaded and settled in the colonies, and the food culture of their tribes is also integrated with the locals. The technique of making graham biscuits spread and continuously improved, and eventually evolved into a modern biscuit culture.

Niya grabbed a handful of Novgorod people's tribute, which is the whole wheat flour they ground, in a linen bag. She put flour into a stone mortar, poured water and sprinkled salt, knead it into a rough dough and patted it into a cake, then spread it on a rock that was heated by a campfire.

After a while, the noodles were cooked.

Nibbled on hard and rough dead flour cakes, nibbled on cooked beef without any salty taste, and drank a bit of salty soup made from messy wild vegetables (and even sun-dried pine needles).

It is a luxury for the chief family to eat breakfast like this. Many people eat two meals a day, and usually eat some dried fish and dried vegetable soup to solve the problem.

The sky is getting brighter, and I have eaten a lot of thick tea and light rice. This kind of diet can be called a weight-loss meal. People in later generations will feel that this kind of diet is healthy, but people in this time and space will always desire bread.

A big businessman like Gould has a large number of people in his family and a lot of wealth, so he has the opportunity to eat himself into a fat pig. It is not only that he eats himself into fat head and big ears, but his son and daughter have no possibility of losing weight.

It is precisely because of his bloated figure that he always takes advantage of the trade of the tribal alliance. Are you willing to believe that a rare fat boy must have a huge amount of wealth? Don't worry about his rhetoric and empty glove white wolf when trading with such a person.

Time is approaching the vernal equinox, and the daylight hours are already very long, but the climate is still cold.

The sea ice in the central part of the Gulf of Bothnia has begun to melt, and many seal hunters have also noticed significant changes in the ice layer through the digging ice cave. In the foreseeable future, standing on the ice to catch seals has become a very dangerous job.

Otto took Rurik's hand, and the two walked towards Gould's "mansion".

The two didn't come in time, or because of yesterday's strong drink, Gould slept very deep last night, the sun has risen and he is still asleep, and the servant explained this to Otto.

"Well, you go and wake up your master, and I will wait for him to come out to see me personally!"

There is a saying that people have to bow their heads under the eaves. The visitor is the chief leader of the Ross tribe. This trip is still to discuss trade matters.

Although it was very vulgar, a warrior who wore armor all day long broke into Gould's bedroom and awakened the big businessman who had been sleeping by two Briton maids, bluntly explaining that the leader was coming again.

"Yes... It's Otto. About trade? And Rurik? Ah! How worried are they?" Gould patted his face vigorously, wrapped his robe as quickly as possible, and walked out pretendingly. bedroom.

Gould's mind was still a little confused, he put on a smiling face, opened his arms, and politely said a compliment to Otto.

"Don't say any more compliments, let's continue with what happened yesterday. You see, I have brought Rurik, and the next thing is for you to discuss specific matters."

"Ah? What's the matter?" Gould pursed for a moment.

"Are you pretending to be confused? Of course it's about trade, Gould! Don't you want to make a bigger deal with us? Or is your mind still soaked in burning spirits?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm really drunk." Gould saw that he aroused the anger of the leader, so he slapped himself a few times like apologizing, and slapped himself soberly.

When Gould drank another glass of sweet and greasy wine and ate a small piece of sour rye bread, his whole spirit really recovered.

Everything was similar to yesterday, and the three were sitting in the lobby of Gould's mansion. In front of Rurik was another low table with some dried meat and fruit, and a glass of wine. Obviously, at this moment, Gould didn't treat Rurik as a child at all.

Gould cleared his throat: "Rurik, I remembered what happened yesterday. You claim that you have the ability to extract the essence from ordinary wine, and finally turn into burnable spirits. For this, I also paid you 100 gold coins. Let's listen to the production method. I'm sorry, I forgot the technique you described now. But it's okay. If you can make it, you must sell it to me. I'll pay a big price for it."

"It seems that you are very concerned about wine."

"Of course! I have already paid a hundred gold coins for this. Rurik, I won't regret the money I spent, I just hope that my huge amount of money will bring a gratifying return. As far as I know, you have taught me Make soap for the priests and teach the blacksmith to make steel swords. Now you can make a lot of money by making wine. I'm happy to be your seller."

Rurik nodded, the matter of the ultimate purification was meant to be on the agenda. But wine itself is a luxury consumer product. The original purpose of brewing it is to drink it. As for the use of purified wine for medical treatment or even as a weapon, that's something to be said.

Alcohol can't bring people heat, on the contrary, it can take away people's heat.

People in Northern Europe love to drink, the reason is very simple, after a small amount of it enters the body, the blood flows all over the body, and the warm blood warms the whole body. In a cold place, this kind of warmth is happiness.

Rurik estimated that the alcohol content of ordinary ale is only three to five degrees. If the alcohol content can be increased to fifty degrees and the impurity of the lees can be removed, it will be a combustible spirit.

A large urn is filled with turbid and frothy ale, and the price is at most two to three silver coins. If you condense the alcohol into a small bottle of spirits, not to mention ten gold coins, maybe five gold coins will be fine, right? Think about it this way, as long as Gould can provide a large amount of ale and create a set of distillation and purification system by himself, he can earn at least twenty times the price difference!

It is of course a good thing to have money, and simply hoarding gold and silver is not the purpose of staying in Rick.

A trade market, if there is no currency in circulation, the entire market will tend to shrink. Today's currency is precious metal, because it is very scarce, has a special color, is small enough and extremely difficult to be destroyed, people all believe that it has natural value.

If it is only used as a material for making jewelry, the beauty of gold and silver is naturally nothing to say. The Aztecs, who can't even make bronze weapons, have spontaneously smelted gold to make decorations.

Rurik never thought of being a miser. Simple silver coins and gold coins can't be eaten. Only when they are exchanged for food, wine, and other life needs, coins are meaningful.

Now that you have a huge sum of money on hand, it must flow! Making full use of them, allowing a large number of silver coins to continue to circulate in the Ross tribe and beyond, in exchange for what you want, is to bring vitality to the entire tribe.

Such is the charm of currency. It can mobilize everyone's desire for wealth, and sufficient circulation can promote the development of productivity.

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