Chapter 1118 New Rose Fort deserves to be the economic center of the Rus Kingdom
In Eastern Europe, the Principality of Ostara was authorized to open up territory for Russia, and a new situation developed in Rurik that was completely unexpected.
Frank's civil war entered a new phase, and the Russian forces took the opportunity to fish in troubled waters and even made significant progress.
There is not much going on in the small island of Britain. The malicious large-scale plundering of King Ragnar of Denmark completely disrupted Wessex's plan to invade Mercia in the north.
Looking back at the entire Baltic Sea region, most of the areas are calm, peaceful trade is in full swing, and it seems that everyone is heading towards an era of prosperity.
It was impossible for Rurik himself to understand the great changes in Eastern Europe and the Frankish world in real time. The geographical isolation forced him to appoint trusted nobles to open up new territories.
He took his most important wives and concubines with him, Prince Osborne in his arms, and made a large circle on the newly opened inland river route to reach New Roseburg.
He set a very grand mission for himself. The capital city where he was located first deliberately carried out a ostentatious parade around the ring road to announce the arrival of the king to thousands of people, and then he was busy with his own major affairs.
As the autumn wind sweeps across the world, the New Roseburg Port Area is still developing its prosperity.
In the dry dock outside the city, the Sea Monarch, the largest sailing ship in Ross' history, is still undergoing deck laying work. The battleship's mast base has been built long ago. Because the ship is so large, the main mast must be installed by splicing and placed on the
The outdoor masts have to be installed layer by layer in a stacked manner. This will be a time-consuming and laborious task, and it is also the final major project in building a large ship.
For this big ship, Rurik has invested a huge amount of money, and will continue to invest in the future. She is a big money eater. When she is launched in the spring of 842, she will immediately become the new flagship of the kingdom, and she can immediately carry out military operations.
Business tasks.
This ship is the epitome of the glory of the entire Ross shipbuilding industry. Currently, only the Hortra family has been improving its shipbuilding capabilities as it has accepted high-specification orders one after another. Manufacturing sail cargo ships has always been the family's specialty, and now this ability has reached
new heights.
But the family's old business was never thrown away, but the family's shipyard in the capital strategically abandoned the plan to build small ships. Stein Hotla was responsible for the establishment of the capital, and only relied on the money earned from the construction of this big ship.
He and the entire team have made a lot of money from the fees. A large number of his apprentices are directly slaves of the king. What he is worried about is that these apprentices belonging to the royal family will be alone in the future, fearing that the disciples will starve to death.
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Slave does not necessarily mean suffering.
These apprentice slaves are all the king's ministers, and they will all become figures in the future.
An open secret is that King Rurik's earliest male slave, Kamne, was already the head of the royal smelting factory in the capital.
Kamne is a Slavic. His brown hair is unique enough in the "golden world" of Northern Europe. His arms are as thick and hard as stone, even stronger than his two legs. He is thick at the top and thin at the bottom.
The human form is very peculiar, all due to the fact that he has a strong upper body through regular exercise. He is as strong as a bear, and his family is happy. His generous salary has indeed brought significant output of metal appliances, and his hard work ensures a stable income for the royal family.
The shipbuilding industry in Russia is becoming more and more prosperous day by day, and the peaceful situation in the Baltic Sea makes people from all walks of life want to go to the ocean to explore.
There is a demand in the market and the environment is full of available shipbuilding materials.
The tide of the Gulf of Finland washed away the sandbar at the Kronshtadt anchorage day after day, and most private shipbuilding workshops were located on the sandbar (today's Vasily Island).
Private shipbuilders adhere to traditional Viking shipbuilding skills. Even Danish shipbuilders set up shops in New Roseburg. They took advantage of the tax holiday window to set up their stalls and make a few quick bucks with their shipbuilding skills.
Live a good life here.
The most traditional Viking longships still have a huge market. After all, most of the buyers are ordinary farmers. They have no plans to engage in ocean-going bulk commodity trade. Fishing is the right way to go and transport some goods along the way. Traditional longships perfectly meet the demand.
The difference from the past is that the entire new longship is still assembled using a mortise and tenon structure, while a large number of iron nails are used in non-essential areas. Even the most critical cables for stabilizing the mast have been replaced with iron chains.
The shipbuilding industry in the capital is like this, but the shipbuilding industry in inland Novgorod has new tricks.
The traditional long boats are still used as miniature boats suitable for fishing in quiet lakes. Barges made by assembling long boats have a different market. Even human-powered water steamers that rely on pedals to drive large water wheels are also being manufactured.
Everyone in the industry knows that in order to extend the life of a ship as long as possible, drying the oak keel and ribs for ten years is a key.
Even if we are now aggressively looking for oak wood to be cut down and dried in the shade, we will not have to wait ten years for a very long life.
This is why Ross's original big ship, the Aurora, had to be decommissioned after ten years of use. She can now only be used as a training ship. This old ship is no longer useful.
Even the largest ship under construction, the Sea Monarch, was bound to face this problem when it was born.
Rurik is not unscrupulous and really expects this new ship to be domineering for fifty years. She has a lifespan of ten years. The Sea Monarch is the first galenic ship in Russia. It is very important to build her and accumulate shipbuilding experience. So far, it seems
Nothing major went wrong.
The prosperity of the shipbuilding industry has led to the prosperity of the materials market. Logging, textiles, linen cultivation, metal processing, and any industry that contributes to shipbuilding are prospering like never before. People have something to do, and a group of industrial people who are divorced from agricultural production are born in the capital.
Even if most of them are engaged in handicraft industry, the value generated can be much better than farming and fishing.
They consume money as soon as they earn it, and the market for consumer goods is also developing.
What Rurik sees now is that the capital is developing every day. The business atmosphere here is strong. Since it is a free seaport, all ethnic groups in the kingdom can do business here. The three-year tax holiday granted by the emperor even attracted people from Pussy.
Cobh's guest.
The capital city has reached a considerable scale. Although the written rules have been promulgated and the core provisions are still standing in the square and made public, all this is not enough.
Just like what I said to the queen when she stood on the top of the palace attic and had a bird's eye view of the entire capital and harbor.
Although Rurik was intoxicated with the prosperity and prosperity of the capital he founded with his own hands, he was also very worried that it would become increasingly difficult for him to control this prosperity.
Perhaps the biggest worry in his heart would be completely eliminated with the printing and publication of "Russian Saga", he hoped.
"Rossaga" is a collection of myths and legends from the Viking world that Ella painstakingly collected and organized. Finally, Rurik personally reviewed, revised, and even added some new content. Its target is each "Gospel"
, making "Los Saga" a classic of the kingdom and unifying its thinking.
There are heroes, there is courage, there is sacrifice, there is love, there is the beginning of all things and there is Ragnarok. Rurik deliberately made up a wonderful Asgard and defined what kind of people can go to this destination of the soul.
There is always a lack of entertainment in daily life, and a book is a treasure that everyone desperately needs to pass the time.
The key to the problem is how to turn the manuscript into a real book. This is a problem and not a problem. Rurik knew that what he had to do was to create an organization-the Royal Printing Office.
Wooden movable type printing technology was born at the same time as papermaking technology, and they must demonstrate their strong strategic value.
In the capital, all the printing equipment was made by the royal smithy. The strong-backed Kamne was the person in charge, and his main job was to be responsible for the smelting and forging of various iron tools.
In the past few years, there were only printing workshops in the capital, and there were no big orders. The workshops printed some vulgar jokes and posted them in public exhibitions, and then printed some so-called newspapers, which also printed simple pornographic jokes, and some from far away places that had passed.
Current news, limited sales of this information to earn a little profit. The printing workshop is managed by Governor Conuson, but the Governor is unable to cope with the increasingly expanded capital. Rurik, who returned, noticed that even if he printed some pornographic jokes
, the printing workshop has not been doing much work recently, and a few workers are picking their feet with their salaries.
A few workers are living on empty wages, and they are not wrong at all. The crux of the problem is that the workshop is just a workshop, and they do not have a responsible manager whose rights and responsibilities are currently unclear.
What will happen in the future? This is the fundamental reason why Rurik must bring the "Supreme Clerk" Ella with him.
Ella didn't know how to be the director, and the group of subordinate scribes she had trained had reached the point where they had to take charge of their own affairs. With her move, the two followers who endorsed the manuscript fell under Rurik's eye.
Don't waste these two people. One was appointed as a principal and the other as a deputy. After that, they took root in the capital, married a wife, and had children. Their job was to manage the Royal Printing Bureau, making everything regular and turning it into a true printing and publishing department.
The vision was wonderful, and Rurik rolled up his sleeves and really started to implement it.
First, low-cost wooden movable type and clay movable type must be replaced by strong and durable lead movable type, and the production of standard styles of lead movable type must be implemented by blacksmiths loyal to the royal family.
The strong Kamni knelt down on one knee to salute the inspecting King Rurik as a warrior. The blacksmiths were also of the same shape. They were all shirtless and wearing one-piece suspenders, with a large, strong hairless head hanging on their chests.
Protected by deerskin, the arms that should have been thickly hairy have become bare. Apparently, the hairy arms have been burnt to death due to long hours of forging iron in a hot environment.
These guys were loyal to him, and Rurik felt at ease with them. After all, most of them were legally his slaves.
The blacksmith slaves have a very high standard of living. When we took them in, we saw a group of skinny little boys. Now they are as strong as bears, and their biceps are too thick.
Rurik had promised them long ago that those who are loyal and obedient will get wives when they grow up.
He has implemented it in this way. The earliest batch of blacksmith slaves have already married and had children, and the backward people are also full of hope. Their descendants will receive cultural and military education, and then inherit their father's business and continue to blacksmith for the king. But it is not just
Blacksmithing, once there is a war in the kingdom, these technical talents will immediately participate in the war as engineers. In this way, the more technical arms, the better. After all, just look at their extremely strong arms. This kind of people wear heavy armor and carry
The two maces used in blacksmithing and charging into the enemy formation are the unparalleled berserkers.
Kamuni has been ordered by the king to use lead as an additive in smelting, but now he is making a large number of movable types alone. To make lead movable type is to smelt specific bar-shaped lead ingots. Kamuni has done this in the past, and now he wants to make more to cope with future big events.
The need for large-scale use. Therefore, it is not a transformation from zero to one, but an expansion from one to a hundred.
The lead obtained by the Russians is purely a by-product of northern mining. Iron is the most important mineral, followed by copper. Then there is Glauber's salt, lime and lead. The production capacity of lead is the smallest, unless silver mines can be found in the north. After all, silver mines are often associated with lead mines.
, the accompanying situation of other minerals lead is really not ideal.
Lead acetate has a pleasant sweetness, and no one in the north really wants to make it. The kingdom has a better choice - honey. Honey from Novgorod is produced in more than a year. This is also because
Rurik's strategic layout many years ago, the villages living along the lake need to increase their income and have big customers to buy their own agricultural products. Beekeeping in tree holes is a traditional livelihood in the area near Yin'ermen Lake, because the kingdom is growing day by day.
Due to demand and real cash, every Slavic farm that could afford it began to expand this business.
Beekeeping in tree holes does not require the full attention of professional beekeepers. The hibernation of bee colonies in winter seems to have never existed, and in spring, swarms of bees are active in the woods. Wheat harvest time is also the time to collect honey. Slavic farmers wearing veils like this
Then he went to various marked tree holes and collected honey in wooden boxes, keeping some for himself. Most of them were sold in Novgorod, and eventually most of the honey was gathered in the capital.
The ships transporting pig iron ingots from the north are transported steadily, so the blacksmith shops in the capital are always busy with workers.
At least iron is absolutely state-owned, and it is difficult to stop private mining and smelting of iron by the public. However, large-scale smelting institutions are all under the control of Rurik. The absolute advantage of scale prevents private blacksmiths from taking advantage.
In the north, the hometown of Roseburg, Ironburg, and Rurik set pig iron ingot purchase guide prices for local institutions. Naturally, the local area can also produce low-carbon steel and wrought iron finished utensils, and the prices of related products have also been set.
If the pig iron ingots produced by the northern blast furnace cannot be digested by local workers, there will be no need to ship them to the capital for secondary processing. Roughly processed iron ingots or finished utensils will be transported to the capital with an extra layer of freight, so customers
If you want to buy finished equipment in the capital, it must be higher than in the place of origin. The higher price is not much, and the transportation fleet also has a scale advantage in terms of transportation capacity, which makes the products of private iron smelting always lack a price advantage.
The northern iron smelting agency transported the goods to the capital, and the capital agency immediately paid for the complete delivery of the materials. After the northern agency received the cash, it purchased the grain, linen, etc. needed by the north on the spot.
The old Russian people left their hometown in large numbers, and Rossburg, the hometown that had carried the Russian people's life for hundreds of years, was completely transformed into a fiery smelting center.
Prisoners of war and criminals worked as slave labor here, while some nomadic deer herders (Lapps) gathered here to work as miners, and some other deer herders turned summer settlements in the northernmost Murmansk into permanent settlements.
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Different from the battles and adventures in the southern world, the depths of the Gulf of Bothnia in the north are peaceful. Ice, snow and heat are the themes here, and iron and leather are the specialties here.
Now, the Swedish world in the narrow sense is completely integrated into this commercial and trade territory.
The kingdom's stalls are very large, and labor is needed everywhere.
Those Swedish young people who were imprisoned in a small space, as the second and third sons in the family, were destined to leave Lake Mälaren and explore. In the past, the way for such young people to rise was to directly participate in war and plunder. Now they have a wealth of resources.
If you choose, those who are daring can go directly to the Danish world, or even immigrate to Rotterstad at the mouth of the Inn. To pursue a stable fortune, rely on your own strength and go to the northern mines to work as a miner or iron smelter, or go to the capital of Rus, New Rus.
Fort does a variety of jobs.
They needed job opportunities, and Rurik gave them the opportunity.
Smelting iron to produce large quantities of high-quality ironware is the basis for Rurik's three-year tax exemption. It controls almost all the steel production capacity in the northern world. It makes continuous profits for the state treasury and provides livelihoods for all kinds of people.
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Smelting requires good carbon. Before the development of coking coal, carbon was still the only smelting fuel. With the support of the blower, the earthen blast furnace can make the charcoal melt the molten pig iron. Its efficiency is not good, but once the blast furnace is burned, it will not be fully
The reason is that it cannot be interrupted. It is like a charcoal-eating beast and requires a stable supply of large amounts of charcoal.
Due to this rigid demand, the forests in the area near Novorosberg are disappearing. A number of charcoal-burning workshops have appeared on the banks of the Neva River. Loggers personally transport newly cut wood to these workshops. Due to real involution factors, the market for wood has
The price is not high, but even so, this is the easiest business for ordinary people to make money.
Even Finnish tribes such as the Vips and Rudy who live in remote areas, and even the Finnish Counties with a large population. They just have to wait for the sea and Lake Ladoga to freeze, and the land will be covered with ice and snow again.
In this way, they were dressed as thickly as bears, so they could drive their own reindeer and drag felled pine trees to glide on the ice and snow directly to the capital efficiently.
Among them, the most valuable one is the oak tree. As the easiest kind of oak to find locally, the small ones are sold to the Huotra family's shipbuilding factory, and the small ones are sold to self-employed shipbuilding businesses. They will peel them off in advance.
The bark can be sold at a better price as a raw material for papermaking, and shipbuilding workshops of all sizes are more willing to buy the peeled oak wood.
Metallurgy, shipbuilding, and leather textiles are the three main economic pillars of New Roseburg, from which dozens of businesses, large and small, are derived.
As forests continue to be cut down, more farmland and grazing pastures appear, further stimulating the capital's planting and animal husbandry industries.
New Rossburg is worthy of being the economic center of the Ross Kingdom. It integrates the east, west, north and south of the kingdom, and its development is still continuing.