Rise of Rurik Chapter 220

The wheat harvest has brought the ultimate prosperity of the Lake Mälaren economic circle!

Compared with other tribes, Mellaren's territory is close to the Great Lake, and the climate in its geographical location is also milder. The soil here is also more fertile.

Merlaren farmers reclaimed farmland on a large scale along the lake, but due to the physical strength of the farmers, each farmer can cultivate an area of ​​about one hectare. Compared with the farmers of Novgorod in the far east, the farmers of Mälaren really have the advantage of farming tools.

The Mellaren people still don't know how to make fertilizers with human and animal dung, nor do they understand deep plowing techniques and advanced seeding techniques.

They are people who pull the iron plow to reclaim the fields and sow seeds on a large scale without a clear purpose. The rest of the time, it really is a pure sense of relying on the sky to eat.

Generally speaking, the climate of the Svealand Plain is relatively stable due to the existence of the vast Baltic Sea, and the ocean's climate regulation effect is there. However, the latitude here is too high, and the sun cannot provide enough energy for oats and rye. Temperature It is also very bad for all crops.

However, it is completely different from the barrenness of Roseburg. In the north, Roseburg can only grow some hardy varieties of onions, and the yield is not high.

Melaren's food has begun to be harvested, or the entire Mind Subtribe Alliance's food has begun to be harvested in an all-round way.

From the westernmost Anclas to the strongest Mellaren, the wheat in various places enters the harvest period. The men of all tribes took action, the women all participated in the logistics work, and the children went down to the farm to pick up scattered ears of wheat.

The so-called "Reaper's sickle" is the wheat-cutting artifact of the entire European nation that smelt iron in the lake.

In the hands of the strong man, the long-handled sickle swept down a large piece of yellow wheat in an instant, and was gathered aside by the sickle. Next, the woman and the child gather the wheat. Either carry them on their shoulders or put them in their own two-wheeled trolleys, pull them to their own threshing ground, and then ram the wheat with their huge flail.

Later, the giant sickle for harvesting wheat was described as a symbol of death. The threshing flail has also become a soldier's weapon.

The oats shook off the wheat ears. After a farmer repaid the debt with grain, the remaining grain was not only the family's ration for the next year, but also a medium for trading other daily necessities.

Ordinary farmers do not know the basic business knowledge.

When they saw other farmers peddling wheat, they fell into a panic, and they also began to peddle their own wheat. Another reason that forces them to sell grain quickly is that they do not have good grain storage technology.

Large households can build excellent granaries to minimize accidental losses during grain storage. The ability of ordinary farmers is really limited, it is more effective to turn it into money.

All farmers are selling wheat kernels, and then it naturally becomes a carnival for merchants.

The price of dried oat kernels is usually stable at the level of ten pounds for a silver coin in general years.

In order for farmers to earn more money, this period of time can be described as the plains of Mellaren, and everywhere has become a drying field. It is really beautiful. The sunny days for many days have made the work of food drying very good.

One mu of oats of the Mellaren people can reach a harvest of 100 catties (after drying), and the yield per acre is more than that of allied farmers. This is also the key to the strength of the Melalen people.

Mellaren ushered in a bumper harvest, and the farmers' faces were filled with joy of harvest.

It's just that everyone is selling and selling wheat. The purchase price quickly plummeted to the point where a silver coin can buy fifteen pounds, and even the price war has intensified.

As usual, Gould doesn't need to talk to farmers, because the pricing power is actually in the hands of the merchants.

The merchants did not form a commercial organization with each other. Everyone was dominated by the "invisible hand". It was seen that there was a lot of wheat in the market. The farmers tried their best to get rid of the wealthy wheat, and the merchants took the opportunity to lower prices. The price has gradually reached a level that is more acceptable to everyone.

Gould is also following the trend, as an old world, he knows the rules of the market.

In Mellaren, he acted at the market price and finally when the price plummeted to a silver coin for seventeen pounds of oats.

Large amounts of wheat were put into burlap bags, and bags after bags of oats were carried to Gould Island, so much so that they piled up into hills.

Gould was actually a little worried about the financial resources of the Roths, and he did not overestimate his financial resources.

In fact, Gould sold all the soap, and the gross profit was more than 20,000 silver coins.

Adding his other income, he roughly estimated that his net profit reached 30,000 silver coins. Three hundred pounds of pure silver.

Coupled with all the family savings, Gould's wealth barely reached the level of one hundred thousand silver coins.

Although having such a wealth of wealth, compared with those big family members in Gotland, they are not really rich.

The question is who is compared with, compared to the Danish alliance, the Mind League is indeed poor.

Gould's budget for buying food is as high as 10,000 silver coins. Specifically, he will spend so much money to buy food in the hands of the Mellaren.

For the people of his hometown, he also bought it at a high price of 5,000 silver coins as a final gift before leaving. From then on, he left Anklas and became a native of Ross.

Regarding this, Uncles Chief Ungriffe did not regret that he had left a powerful businessman, and even the businessman did not forget to make a profit on the issue of buying food before he left. In his opinion, the relocation of the Gould family is a good thing for the best of both worlds.

How much food did Gould buy?

He bought 170,000 Roman pounds in Mellaren, which is equivalent to 66 tons of new dried oats.

He bought sixty thousand Roman pounds in his hometown of Anklas, which is another twenty-four tons.

The two total up to 90 tons of wheat. How can they not pile up into hills?

So, what is the order of magnitude of the grain output of the strong Melaren people? The land cultivated by the Mellarians reached a scale of 8,000 hectares. In a sense, the boundary between the Mellarians and the Vikings gradually disappeared. Although the Mellaren people would do some robbery, there was no urgent need at all.

The geographical environment of Lake Mälaren determines that the people living here become more restrained. If you can live a comfortable life just by farming, why bother to rob you at the risk of death? Besides, the Danes are not easy to mess with, and the Gotlanders are not weak.

Based on this economic status quo, Olekin, the leader of Mellaren, chose to be strategically conservative, and it is truly excusable. He could never lead his tribe to seek revenge from the Gotland and Danes, and ruin his own harvest season. He also believes that the Danes did not expand the war, the main reason is that the Danes dare not foolishly ruin their harvest season.

In August, the fiercest pirates will also suspend their hacking operations, return to their hometowns to mow the wheat, and then stay in their own homes to face the entire winter.

The annual output of Mellaren's oats and rye can reach 6,000 tons. In addition, there are a large number of dedicated farmland for growing vegetables, especially yellow-rooted carrots and onions. They do not know the concept of vitamins, only that vegetables are also food.

Everyone's favorite is wheat, and it is impossible for the people of Mellaren to consume so much wheat. Merchants from all walks of life often start to act immediately after buying wheat kernels, rushing to transport them to the tribes lacking wheat in the alliance before the winter.

A "grain route" to deliver wheat to the Russians has always existed, but the market price of food in this world is always low.

The Ross people are not triumphs. Who would spend a silver coin to buy only ten pounds of wheat in August and September? For the new wheat shipped to Roseburg, it is normal for a silver coin to sell for twelve pounds. Only in spring will the price stabilize at ten pounds a silver coin.

Buying 230,000 pounds of wheat for 15,000 silver coins, plus the old wheat left over before, Gould laughed when he saw the pile of grain piled up in the mountains.

The Ross people should fulfill their promises! Then he will get a huge sum of 30,000 silver coins.

There are also a large number of Ostara refugees and various people gathered by himself. Gould thought that he would have to earn 10,000 silver coins in this regard.

He feels that he is also doing slave trades, but he always believes that because all the conquered people have been taken care of, they are likely to be accepted as clansmen when they come to the Rus. They will always be well taken care of, so they will be taken care of. Not a real slave trader, but a good man.

If you get a huge amount of wealth, you can also reap your reputation, and even guarantee the safety of your family's future.

Gould wakes up with a smile when he thinks of these dreams!

The problem now is that the day of departure is approaching.

Gould knows very well that when it comes together in September, the Roths will start the "Sorgon Sailing" again. The date of grain harvest in Novgorod is a bit later than in the Mälaren Lake area. Even if Novgorod is located on the shore of Lake Ilmen, it is inland after all, and the locals suffer from the geographical disadvantage.

Since Gould came into contact with the Russ, he has known the traditional skill of the Russ twice a year-searching for the Novgorods.

Times have really changed, and the Russian National People's Congress has a tendency to annex Novgorod.

He set the departure date on August 20, and I have to say that it was really late.

Moving is not a trivial matter after all, and now it seems that Gould Island can hardly hold people and goods.

Now the Gould family has only a small number of mercenaries and a small amount of property left in their hometown, watching people go to the empty old house, a fleet of more than 30 ships, carrying people and supplies from the hometown, dangling Arrived at Gould Island.

Through hiring, Gould hired ten more transport ships. Together with the left and right ships, he organized a huge fleet of 140 ships of various colors, employing as many as 1,000 oarsmen. Five hundred!

For this reason, Gould had to pay two silver coins per oarsman to go to the flagship of Roseburg, and the gold owner also had to provide a ration of no less than one pound of wheat per day. The final statistics on employment expenses also surprised him. Who could have imagined that a job of moving house and shipping goods would actually become costly and terrifying. At the same time, all mercenaries, together with their own family members, and the Ostara refugees, must participate in paddling, so-called cost savings.

August 19, a night with a warm lake breeze.

Under the cool breeze is the lively night of Gould Island.

Carlotta and Ella adjusted to their new life on Gould Island. During this period, they landed on the trading island of Fordgen and saw their separated people. Everyone in the meeting recalled their suffering, and they all cried.

It is precisely because of this that the identity of the granddaughter of the two girls' chiefs was confirmed by all the refugees, and the refugees also fully accepted Carlota as the chief female. They were somewhat uneasy about the relocation of the whole family to the territory of the Russ, but they also There is no good choice.

It was late at night, in a delicate wooden house, Carlotta, whose leg injury was healed only with a huge dark red scar, was lying quietly. She was surrounded by her dear sister, and the two girls were wrapped in a soft sheepskin blanket. They are not sleepy, they can't fall asleep completely because of excitement.

"Sister, we will leave tomorrow, Ross people, will they be... really good to us?"

"Do you believe it?" Carlotta stroked her sister's braids.

"I... I don't know. I'm just scared."

"Believe them, we can only believe now."

"Believe Rurik, that man is also a child. Just like us."

"No, he is different." Carlotta let out a sigh. She really had high expectations of Rurik.

During this period of time, out of curiosity and spying on information, Carlotta pestered Gould to learn a lot about Rurik. As a result of knowing more, Carlotta feels more and more bizarre, and may only be described as "the child blessed by Odin".

A person who is blessed by God must be a good person.

"Ella, sleep quietly..."

"Ok."

In the middle of the night, Carlotta still kept her eyes open under the faint moonlight, and her sister finally fell asleep, her own mind was still thinking about too many things.

After all, they are children, even if they are already the leader of the Ostara tribe, they basically can't help Gould at present, but all the tribesmen need Gould's continuous help.

Fortunately, this old guy is also a doer, and his fat body hasn't worn his mobility.

Among the 140 ships, there are more than 30 ships provided by Fodgen, on which all Ostara refugees sit, as well as 300 sets of coats made of cowhide, and one hundred Many pairs of leather gloves carefully sewn with leftover materials, and even more than fifty black cowhide hats covering most of their heads.

Flax was also harvested in July and August. Gould has been busy collecting grains, but Verdegen seized the opportunity and collected nearly five tons of flax, which was only crudely processed. As for the textile work, that is the work of the Russ. thing.

Of the ships here, 30 are loaded with oats and 10 are loaded with vegetables. There are also more than forty ships carrying the Gould family's various daily necessities, and even the most precious treasure.

There was even Gould bought twenty oak barrels of ale in it. Winter is not a good time to make wine, but one cannot live without wine. The long winter needs it even more!

The family members, the hired Mellaren oarsmen, mercenaries, the gathered beggars, Briton slaves, and even the friends of the merchants, all walks of life, together, have formed a behemoth of 1,900 people.

To describe it in one word is madness.

Gould's huge fleet even shocked the leader of Mellaren.

The chief and the main military generals under his command subconsciously believed that this group of people wanted to seek revenge from the Danes spontaneously. After investigating, they didn't think they were going to Roseburg.

Gould's actions have played a role as a benchmark. His propaganda with great fanfare that he wants to immigrate to Roseburg and become a Rose has attracted the attention of many businessmen.

Originally, just the Mälaren tribe, there are more than a thousand people like migratory birds every year to "overwinter" in Roseburg. The number of people from various tribes who went northward often reached three thousand people. Among them, there were many merchants who belonged to the small businesses of the Melalen tribe.

At the end of August every year, a large number of ships full of supplies leave Lake Mälaren, the destination is Roseburg.

This has become accustomed to the leader of Mellaren, and leader Olegin has never regarded the Rus as a miraculous existence.

Only this year, he felt an inexplicable threat-something must have happened to the Ross people.

Otherwise, how can the scale of the northbound fleet be unprecedented? !

No, the leader dispatched his own cronies, and Qiao Zhuang dressed up as an ordinary businessman and mixed in the northbound team. The leader's meaning is very simple. He does not want his subordinates to contact the Ruth leader in the name of leader Mälaren. He ordered his cronies to do ordinary business as ordinary businessmen, and by the way, went deep into the lives of the locals to conduct investigations to verify what they were. What attracts a large businessman to relocate, even moving with a huge amount of food.

Gould, he didn't care whether the leader of Mellaren had any intentions, he only cared about the unprecedented huge fleet that he had mobilized to reach the fjord of Roseburg safely.

On August 20th, Carlotta and Ella, they stood on the trestle of Gould Island, and stepped onto the ship's rocker into the large cargo ship.

The two children wore white fox fur hats on their heads, and they also wore white fox fur coats. This suit is actually the clothes of Gould's granddaughter. Since several girls have become playmates (which Gould is particularly happy to see), Carlotta wears comfortably.

In the end, Fodgen did not return Amber, Carlotta did not feel that she was at a loss, she stood at the bow of the ship, and soon led her tribe to start a new life.

In front of her were boats covering the lake, she couldn't help thinking of the terrible scene of Danish warships covering the entire Bulow Bay attacking Ostra.

But these ships are gentle, they are just cargo ships with big bellies, and none of the ships have terrible dragon head decorations. Some are just the horizontal bar lying flat on the bow, which serves as the fulcrum of the cable.

"Don't look anymore, Carlotta, Gould of the El **** boat dragged his robe and panted and said loudly.

Carlota turned her head immediately: "My lord, are we leaving now?"

"Soon. When I raise my sails, my flagship leads all ships in action."

"Is it time?"

"Probably here." Gould didn't dawdle any more, he didn't even bother to make sacrifices before sailing. Because he felt that since he had been entrusted by Rurik and now he obviously had overfulfilled the task, would God still bring disaster? It should be a blessing!

He even felt that God would suddenly blow a gust of south wind, so that the fleet could go northward and reach its destination unimpeded.

However, many of the accompanying oarsmen, they still cooperated with the priest of Mellaren, and slaughtered a cow on the shore to sacrifice for safety of navigation.

The balance sail was lowered, and the excellent oarsman held the direction of the sail, the boat moved slowly, and then the oarsman sat down and began to paddle hard.

The flagship took action, and the other ships set sail after hearing the wind.

Gould's fleet of 140 ships formed a mighty army, and the cargo on it was amazing.

If there is nothing more astonishing than the stern ships. It was a large number of merchant ships, like migratory birds. Thousands of people gave up their determination to go northward freely after hearing Gould's move. This time everyone followed Gould on a spectacular scale.

As a result, an "army" composed of as many as 400 diversified ships rushed towards the mouth of the lake by Olekin, the leader of Mälaren and all the residents of Mälaren~www.mtlnovel.com~ Gould didn't expect that the "mighty army" he led would soon crash into the Russ ship wandering in the present-day Stockholm.

That is the Ross people stationed in the stronghold on Tombstone Island.

Gould felt that he was really protected by God, and in the final analysis, it was the happiness brought by Rurik.

The Ross people built a stronghold, and now the people in the stronghold become their own navigators to Roseburg.

The Ross people were of course even more surprised.

Who could have imagined that the visitors who returned to Roseburg this fall were actually behemoths made up of four hundred ships. The size of the fleet made the Ross people feel terrified, and after a cautious inspection, they all laughed.

The wandering Ross ship is very willing to be a pilot ship, even spontaneously armed escort.

Because no one refuses to carry large quantities of goods with merchants.

With the arrival of these merchant fleets, the people of Roseburg will cheer for them, and this cheer will turn into a carnival.

Chapter end