Rurik really wished that his men would grow up in an instant, even if they could quickly grow strong and tall enough.
He saw the huge economic and political benefits brought by the expansion of the Russian people in the past year, and also realized the major worries of the tribe behind this sudden prosperity.
The law of the jungle is the political ecology of Northern Europe in this time and space. Of course, various tribes can form alliances, and the power of the parties entering into the alliance is of course unequal.
Tribes that lack strength either take the initiative to attach themselves to more powerful tribes, or are defeated and annexed by the other party.
The strength of the Rus lies in the fact that they have been shrinking all year round, allowing the tribe to have a large number of strong men, who are the key to supporting the tribe's combat effectiveness.
Those elites had already suffered losses. To make up for it, Rurik had to step up training of his young men.
Times are moving forward like a torrent, and some things must change, especially when the Russians treat other non-alliance tribes that speak other languages, and both parties must build a new alliance.
The people from Kewen came, and so did a group of deer farmers.
Enslave them? No! If it is to revitalize Russia and establish a strong regional power, the act of enslavement can be called digging a grave in advance for its own destruction.
Imitate the Svea Tribe Alliance?
The Melalen tribe had a large population, dual capabilities in business and farming, and a unique geographical environment. Their prosperity came from these necessary conditions, and they became the leader of the alliance.
If it is just because of its large population and relatively strong overall strength that it can serve as an alliance leader, why can't the Russians take its place?
Rurik felt that he could not really enslave the Kovin people and deer herders. Since the purpose was to obtain greater benefits, he could use more advanced and efficient means to make them particularly happy to work hard.
Because they are all human beings, and they all have the desire to make their lives richer.
Give them a contract, that is, surrender is not shameful, and cooperation brings prosperity. As the person who controls the power, you must also abide by this contract.
Although the children of the Ross tribe are somewhat resistant to the sudden appearance of foreign boys, after all, these children dream of becoming those battlefield heroes and excellent warriors. They admire one kind of people very much - good warriors.
How far can a bow-wielding hunter use a short wooden bow?
When Tyravis was at the boys' training ground, he used the short bow made by the Russians themselves and hit the target, which was a small piece of land, forty stikas (about 39 meters) away with three iron cluster arrows.
A snowshoe-sized piece of tattered leather.
The arrow's hit was not due to luck. Tyravis shot ten arrows in a row, and each one hit the target.
The most amazing thing is that one arrow hit the tail of the other and split it into two pieces.
"Robin hood!" Rurik exclaimed while holding his head.
The boys and girls who were watching were all yelling and hooting because of the experience. Rurik really protected his head with his hands, and his whole body could not help but tremble.
He was a little scared. Maybe the kid's aim would have been more accurate at that time and he would have run slower. Wouldn't he be injured?
Relying entirely on his archery skills, Taravis established his position among boys, including his sister Saipolava, who also won the respect of girls through his precise archery performances.
Are all the children of the Kovin people good at archery? Thinking of the fact that during the siege battle, the mail armor of the Ross army was once covered with enemy arrows, Rurik felt that his judgment was completely correct.
Just three days later, Rurik issued an order to the already relatively settled Gray Squirrel tribe of the Kovin people and the small group of deer herders, requiring them to hand over their children between the ages of six and ten, regardless of whether they were boys or girls.
At first, Mechasta of the gray squirrel tribe and Alsaka, the leader of the deer herders, felt that there was a conspiracy in this order. Even if they expressed their surrender, it was probably for the expediency of survival. They spoke of loyalty, but in their hearts
How can the barriers between us disappear in an instant?
Although the Russians have provided a lot of resources, it cannot be said that this is a huge favor. You need to be willing to do everything unconditionally.
More than twenty boys and girls accepted Rurik's recruitment. They are a mixture of deer farmers and Kovin people. In the final analysis, they are all "ancient Finns" and there is no real language barrier between them.
Taravis naturally became the commander of the boys, and Saipolava became the commander of the girls.
The Kewen people, deer farmers, and even the Finns are naturally relatively short ethnic groups. Perhaps this relative shortness cannot be changed by eating a lot of meat and milk. Being small also has small advantages. Since they are not suitable to be in the first place
Line, and other Viking tribes attack the enemy head-on. Their best position on the battlefield is to provide fire support and long-range output from the rear.
Rurik's biggest request to Terravis and Cyberlawi is very simple: "You take your people to archery seriously. I want your people to be able to be Robin Hoods."
Yes, Rurik gave "the speeding arrow split the arrow in front in half". Rurik gave this unique skill a clear word, Robin Hood. They didn't understand the cultural characteristics behind this word. They thought it was just a left-behind word.
One of many new words invented by Rick.
On the other hand, it would be difficult to complete such a skill without long-term training and hundreds of millions of talents.
The number of Rurik's subordinates increased, and the training directions of the personnel among them also began to diverge.
He kept his promise and implemented the rules he set. Even if the ice and snow have not yet melted, now that training has resumed, the cafeteria has basically ended its existence as a temporary classroom.
Those solid wooden buildings are often immersed in the aroma of food.
More than 300 children have their own seats. They have their own wooden bowls, wooden spoons and wooden forks. Many of them imitate their "boss" Rurik and use two wooden sticks as extensions of their hands. They will
Learn how to use chopsticks as a toy to pass the time. When you can control the stick to pick up stones, your child will take the initiative to show off.
From the beginning, Rurik had relatively high requirements for hygiene. He ordered his men to clean their bodies regularly. Among the clothes distributed, linen clothing needed to be washed regularly with soap, and individuals also needed to wipe their bodies regularly.
Wash your hands before meals, be sure to wash your clothes after training, and wash your face and hair frequently. Rurik will take advantage of the review opportunity to punish the dirty ones among them. The method is very simple and straightforward, that is, today's free lunch will be cancelled.
Similarly, it was considered a mistake to touch food directly with your hands while eating, and Rurik required his subordinates to supervise each other.
These strict requirements before and after meals have a completely ritualized feel. Children always feel that it is unnecessary, but they cannot fully understand Rurik's good intentions.
Every year, a number of very young children of the Ross tribe die. Most of these children die of colds and diarrhea. In short, they are not well protected from the cold and have bad stomachs. Even though many families have bought
Soap is not used in daily life, and everyone is expected to use it to wash their hands. Rurik knows that he has overestimated his people. Soap is still precious, and people use it cautiously. Washing hands with soap is a bit of a luxury, and will
Washing clothes that emit a strong sour smell has become a must.
Rurik's men have always been very healthy, and few of them even get sick.
No one really pays attention to this matter, or in other words, they all have a happy-go-lucky attitude towards illness and death.
Oh! When a person dies, it must be his destined fate, nothing more.
No one connected the disease with poor hygiene. Rurik could only build a ritualized hygiene work and let his subordinates passively develop a hygiene concept that can be called "stomatophilia" compared to most of the tribe.
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The Taravis siblings were shocked by the affluence of the Russian people, because they and their sister had eaten wheat porridge and vegetable soup for many years, as well as large mouthfuls of seal meat and fish. He originally thought that the first time he ate such food was Luli.
It is a gift from Gram. I never thought that all the children would be eating such high-quality food.
Gradually, he felt that this was the normal life of the Russian people. Since children can eat so well, wouldn't it be better for the elderly?
A sense of inferiority deeply accompanies Taravis. He is a strong person, but what he feels is the backwardness of the people of Covin.
How to rectify the reputation of the Kevin people? That is to do their own thing well and impress the Russian people. This is what he thinks, and he is eager to make the Russian people praise him by making great contributions. The Kewen people can also be very good.
Winter is still here, and Roseburg is thriving!
Almost everyone is preparing for the upcoming trade season. Due to the influx of huge amounts of furs, the whole tribe's leatherworkers have gone into battle and begun a round-the-clock struggle.
Merchants took this opportunity to find ways to obtain goods.
Most businessmen spend the winter in the colder Roseburg every year in order to collect furs and work as second-hand dealers to earn the price difference. In essence, these people are porters, and their work lacks technical thresholds.
Those very few businessmen with relatively large financial resources can all be regarded as entrepreneurs in a sense.
Rurik easily learned that the great businessman Gould was focusing on those things.
The cold is still there, but it cannot interfere with Gould's ambition, even though this guy feels that life is like the sunset. He wants to make a lot of money in the last stage of his life, and while accumulating more wealth for his family, he will live a happier life for the rest of his life!
This old guy will always like young girls, but he has no right to marry another girl from the Ross tribe.
Otto and Rurik believed that the girls of their tribe were a special "strategic material" that could prevent baby girls from being "thrown into the woods to fend for themselves" and were engaged when they were twelve years old. The younger girls were all
Join Rurik's Valkyrie Legion.
But as an old pervert, Gould was as energetic as a tireless shrew when it came to giving birth to more heirs of wealth. This was the second greatest pleasure in his life after making money.
He married his eighth wife, who was also the daughter of a foreigner. He only asked Gould for cash flow problems, so he offered his daughter to conclude a loan deal.
His eldest son Snoleva was really Gould's biological son. He also married the daughter of a visiting merchant from the Melalen tribe and became his second wife. To put it bluntly, he felt that only more marriages would make him more successful.
There is a greater chance of having a son.
After all, in the huge Gould family, only men have absolute inheritance rights. As the eldest son, Snoreva bears a great responsibility.
Therefore, under the surface, all merchants are enduring the problem of payment tribes and trying every means to expand their respective transactions.
The Ross people have provided so many kinds of goods this year. They are producers of materials in the north. Compared with last year, this year's economic activities are so prosperous that the Ross tribe's limited economic market has seen the strange phenomenon of the currency tribe.
It was clear that the Russians looted more than 200,000 silver coins, and a large number of copper coins with small purchasing power also flowed into the market.
Money shortage is a real thing and things get a little magical!
After all, they are Russians, and the main body of the Russian people at this stage is pure Vikings. As Vikings, it is completely normal to hoard silver.
There are only two people who own the craziest silver coins here, Rurik and Gould.
In order to combat the huge hard expenditure, Rurik's first thought was to return the coins to the "big money box", which was in a practical sense the tribal "treasury".
The free lunch launched by the tribal leaders was aimed at Rurik's men. There were more than 300 mouths waiting for food. To feed them, the monthly expenditure would be more than 600 silver coins.
Rurik summoned the women of the tribe to work as tailors, so that each of his subordinates had a decent outfit. One thing is that the clothing was a high investment at the beginning, and in the later period it was basically some sewing and repair work.
Even if he hires tribesmen as construction workers and chefs, the salary expenses are not much. What's more, for the mercenaries and slaves, Rurik only needs to provide a small amount of compensation, and he can reasonably ask them to work more.
Among all the expenses, the two largest ones were the cost of raw materials for Rurik's own handicraft workshop, such as a large amount of seal oil and charcoal blocks.
As well as a large amount of grain and vegetables purchased from Gould.
A large amount of money actually flowed into Gould's pocket, and Gould, in turn, needed to spend money to buy soap, glassware and brand-new spirits from Rurik.
As a result, this trade has formed a magical closed loop. If the Ross tribe wants to calculate GDP, then the transaction between Rurik and Gould must account for half of the GDP.
Of course, the wealthy households in the third place are newly rising families and represent a new force of craftsmen. They may also account for one-fifth of GDP.
After the blacksmith Klavasen signed an agreement with his colleagues to share the skills of refining steel, he also monopolized the glassware manufacturing of the Ross tribe. Now a large number of children from the Kowen tribe have become full-time blacksmith apprentices, and they do not even
Keep it on Rick's military training call list.
The Clavassen family was rising, and Clavassen and his sons had made huge fortunes from their blacksmithing work. By March, they controlled more than 20,000 silver coins!
With this small amount of coins, Klavasen naturally set up a sturdy room in the Novgorod-style wood carvings that he had already built in his home to store his huge amount of silver coins.
Whether there are banks in this era, everyone's wealth can only be protected by themselves. Even if the Rus have long stipulated that stealing people's money will be punished by chopping off the fingers, being beaten with a stick and then expelled from behind, or even being beheaded.
How can it be eradicated?
It’s not that people’s hearts are not simple enough, it’s simply the natural desire for wealth that makes some people take desperate risks. After sitting on huge amounts of wealth, the risk of being targeted by thieves and robbers is even greater.
Clavarson was sitting on a huge amount of money that he had never thought could be controlled by his family. He did not even think about spending it. Instead, he began to drive a large number of new children to become so-called miners, ordering Kawei and Kamne to lead them.
, sitting on a hired reindeer sleigh, going to the distant mountains to dig iron ore to complete a large number of orders.
They are more focused on producing more metal products, especially completing orders for more steel-armed crossbows from Rurik and steel swords for tribal young men.
10% of the silver coin income is returned to Rurik's money box in a tax-like manner. Even so, the Klavassins' wealth is still increasing rapidly.
In this way, two money-making masters, one big and one small, objectively have very necessary economic ties with each other, which somewhat inhibits the free economic and trade of the Russians.
The working capital on hand of small businessmen is somewhat scarce, and the funds of ordinary Russian families are also generally scarce.
But the future of trade this year is really wonderful. Since there is a lack of liquidity, even if it is barter, the transaction must continue. Anything of value can be used as a medium of transaction, even the marriage rights of one's own daughter. In order to earn
Big money, those businessmen feel that they have seized the opportunity to make a fortune and have completely risked it.
Rurik, how could he be aware of this situation so early? Perhaps it is just because the core population of the Ross tribe in this era has expanded to 5,000 people, including a large number of newborns. Those who surrendered
The literati can now only be regarded as allies with a very special relationship, and the number of deer farmers they control is only ten.
Free market? Is there enough use for just such a few people? Rurik felt that it would be better to control all the small families by himself, just like building a medium-sized enterprise with a population of four to five thousand people including family members. To manage such a
With multiple people, it is true that there is no need for an overly complicated organizational structure.