Chapter 681 Surveying and Mapping and the Power of Mathematics
The ugly duckling became a swan. They returned to their hometown in a beautiful manner, and then left their biological parents.
Those people are farmers, and she is already the woman of the Prince of Rus...
The real palace had not yet been built, so the Rigus family's mansion became a palace.
Rigus, who was on crutches, was very happy to have his daughter Svetlana back. As for the girls from the same village who also lived in the house, he did not dare to reveal the unexplainable discomfort.
From Anna to Yulia, they slept together in the Chase Shop that night. Sisters Carlotta and Ella lived together.
Rurik stayed in his wife's old boudoir again, and the two of them lay flat on the bed after washing off the dirt on their bodies.
Lana's heart was pounding like a deer, the moonlight shone through the window on her husband's face, she wanted to say something but couldn't bear to disturb Rurik's dream.
She snuggled up to him and stayed silent all night, just enjoying the happy night and falling asleep peacefully.
Including her, thirteen female scribes have already been stationed in Novgorod.
Rurik didn't want to waste time, but even if things had to be done early, everyone who had endured the fatigue of the voyage would at least have a good night's sleep.
After this night, the official survey of the city of Novgorod, that is, the farmland belonging to the White Tree Manor, began.
The crowing of the rooster brings the sun, and the sleeping city wakes up.
Rurik yawned and sat up, his daughter beside him still curled up, her braided hair gently covering her face.
He teased Lana's cheek: "Female warrior, it's time to get up."
She twisted her body and hugged her husband in a daze. Suddenly she woke up and realized that she was in her old boudoir.
Lanna smiled and twisted her body like a cat in front of Rurik.
Her smile is like the winter sunshine, and her coquettish look is really endearing.
"Okay. Let's get up and start our great cause!"
After saying that, Rurik jumped off the bed.
In terms of dressing, today is indeed different from the past.
Since Rurik came to power, the residents of the Rus tribe have had trousers. The so-called clothing style designated by Rurik began to appear. It looks much slimmer than the previous robes, but in fact it is made to stretch the whole body smoothly during battle.
The little warriors trained by Rurik, both men and women, wore underwear. Of course, women could wear long skirts, but when they went to the battlefield, they had to wear trousers and put leggings on their calves with linen.
This was strange at first, but once everyone got used to it, they got used to it. By the first winter, anyone who wore leather pants or linen pants was pleased to find that the problem of frozen crotch no longer existed.
Maybe there are some difficulties in going to the toilet, but that doesn't matter.
Svetlana, she is dressed as a female warrior, if Valkyrie has an image, she should be.
The soft linen trousers fit close to the body, with long strips of cloth wrapped from the feet to the calves.
"I have thin legs like a skylark now. Do you... really like me like this?"
Lana already had the answer in her mind.
Rurik made leggings for her himself, then patted her knees and said, "Stand up."
"yes."
She jumped around the room, as light as a bird.
The attire of the upper and lower body is smart, refreshing and slim-fitting. The attire of this female warrior is indeed completely different from that of local peasant women.
There was a trace of hesitation on her face.
"What do you seem to be worried about?" Rurik asked.
"Dressed like this in front of people from my hometown, I...I'm shy."
"You actually care about their attitude? Don't care. I will personally accompany you for the big event starting today. Let me guide you."
"OK."
She is always a lively girl, and staying serious is contrary to her nature.
She is an easy-to-reach woman with an innocent nature. She does not have the hatred of the Carlotta sisters, the inferiority complex of the ten maids, the arrogance of Noren, and does not have the dark wall built in Rumia's heart.
If she becomes queen, it will be a good thing for the entire Principality of Rus.
The two of them walked out of the house as warriors, and after a while Rurik summoned all the female relatives.
The prepared clothes were all put on, and they all transformed into female warriors, as if they were out in the woods on the hillside of Fort Ross for today's training.
Rurik glanced at them and asked them to stand in the courtyard, "You all tie your braids firmly and cheer up. You will be very tired in the days to come. This is not training, it is beyond ordinary training. I will be with you.
Action, we will be divided into seven groups, let’s go after breakfast!”
Rigus and Otto were watching all this quietly.
Neither Rigus nor his old wife recognized their daughter, and Medved was also quite surprised. His sister looked so handsome dressed as a warrior, but it was a pity that she was a woman...
Breakfast consisted of boiled oats with honey, fried eggs, local cabbage soup, and some dark red dried raspberries.
The breakfast is very rich. Considering that everyone will consume a lot of physical energy today, this little breakfast is nothing.
A batch of dry food was prepared at the first step. It was a thick paste mixed with oat flour, wheat flour, honey, butter and fresh milk. It was a greasy and sweet meal cooked on a cast iron pot. The cost of it was the same as today's Nobel Prize.
The people of Vgorod are extremely tall.
This is the food of the nobles and has nothing to do with the common people. Rurik and his wives and concubines eat these. They are even obliged to eat these delicacies to show their nobility to the common people.
This is also a benchmark for the people to imitate. Anyone who suddenly becomes rich from poverty will immediately improve his diet. The elite soldiers of the Principality of Ross have begun to become picky in their diet. The next step is Novgo
The Slavs of Rhodes…
As for the premise, naturally the fertile area on the shores of Lake Ilmen was developed into the true breadbasket of the principality.
After dinner, people from all walks of life gathered outside the door.
There are horses here in Novgorod, but unfortunately these are not riding type. They are ponies, which are very good for carrying things.
The pony pulls a cart with two wooden wheels. The vehicle is very simple, but the fact that the reins are tied around the horse's neck is outrageous!
This is a horse-training skill that the East Slavs can learn. It is a technological inheritance that spread from the Romans and Greeks to the birthplace of the Slavs on the Vistula River. As for the horses that will choke their necks due to too tight reins, people can only regret it.
, they are unable to improve anything.
At least the horses are just pulling, and the wooden poles are fixed to the horses by belts and hemp ropes. This kind of wooden cart does not even have bronze bearings, so the load capacity is not large.
There would be no problem if a few children were seated in the vehicle, but if more than ten people were forced to sit on it, the vehicle's shaft would be broken. With just one glance, Rurik concluded that the locals needed indescribable huge technological innovations.
A lot of wooden boards were placed on the car, as well as a batch of linen to hold dry food.
There are a large number of hemp ropes coated with chalk mud and coiled in bundles. As long as the books are unfolded, they have a length of one hundred stikas (equivalent to 98.2 meters). This is the rope ruler, which New Roseburg relies on the Roseburg hometown to transport.
To make the instructive measuring tool, the hemp rope has one hundred stikas, and every ten stikas are painted with a cinnabar red line. Each stika is painted with toner and attached. The rosin glue is attached and reinforced to make the lines difficult to dissipate due to friction.
These measuring tools are actually relatively primitive. Rurik is fully capable of making more advanced ones, he just lacks time.
These measuring tools are sufficient. Up to ten rope rulers will accurately measure the length and width of various fields, and then rely on calculus to calculate the area of farmland of various shapes.
Calculating acres of farmland is a systematic task, and it is not as simple as calculating the length, width and area. Rurik needs to determine the macroscopic distribution of farmland outside Novgorod, align and number the areas, and then assign each group to be responsible for one area.
Regional services.
This job has nothing to do with the gender of the operator. Rurik requires his wives and concubines to be recorders of their emotions in this matter.
The recorder must record who owns the farmland, where they live, their name and nickname. Then the area of the farmland will be noted as the tax base. Therefore, during the statistics, the farmland owner must be present to report. If you don't want to come, don't do it.
It's my fault that the Duke doesn't show mercy to me. He treats the land as an ownerless wasteland and confiscates it to the Duke.
Rurik wanted to draw a "Novgorod Fish Scale Book", and he also conducted a census of the local people, so that the ruler himself could know the true strength of the principality.
This project is probably the first social research project since Ross became a principality, and it plays a milestone role.
A group of Rurik's mercenaries became guards. They received orders to strictly ensure the personal safety of the girls during the surveying and mapping work, and to better surround the data obtained by surveying and mapping, that is, to ensure the safety of those wooden boards.
There is also a group of local Slavs who are residents of the White Tree Manor and soldiers of the Slavic Flag Army. They even own land themselves. A group of people also serve as followers, and they are even the biological fathers of the girl...
However, there will be no actual surveying and mapping tasks on the first day.
The horse-drawn carriages loaded with wood planks, charcoal pencils and other materials must be transported to the field first, and local people will help build some rural sheds.
Rurik and the girls, guarded by a group of guards, measured the entire White Tree Manor with their feet.
On this day, they walked a lot and saw a group of people bending down to pick up things on the bare fields, people digging holes, and even local women wearing sweat-wiping headscarves sitting on the land chatting.
Some curious people followed the team, and a group of children always ran back and forth in front of Rurik, showing their original bright smiles.
There were also forest hunters coming back carrying the pine trees they had captured. Seeing this team holding up their flags, they subconsciously avoided it.
The leggings alleviate the pain in the calves, allowing people to walk long distances without pain. Although there is sunshine, the temperature is still low throughout the day, and everyone is aware that winter is approaching, and snowfall can fall at any time!
This was the first day. They had made a big harvest when they returned to their residence. For the first time, Rurik looked around and saw all the farmland in the White Tree Manor. The fields were easy to identify. They were the scars of the forest. There were patches of fields along the river.
Fields, the fields in the forest are the most numerous, but unfortunately they are not very coherent with each other.
Once you have a basic understanding, subsequent work will be easier to carry out.
On the third day, after collecting a batch of data, Rurik personally drew a structural map of the area, including the city of Novgorod, on a wooden board.
The drawings are still very careless, but most of the farmland distribution is quite accurately drawn on the wooden boards. The girls know the knowledge of quadrants very well, and they also know how to draw north and south on maps. Rurik can't make any mistakes in this regard.
A waste of words.
He divided four quadrants with Novgorod city as the center, and each quadrant was divided into two smaller quadrants.
The seven surveying and mapping teams were organized, and Rurik led two to handle them personally, while the remaining six were shared among the girls.
This is where Rurik's great project begins, and it's also a painful beginning.
The son was running around in the fields, and the daughter-in-law was dressed like a boy, running around pulling a very long rope.
Otto wants to help them, but he is indeed getting older. His physical strength that was once able to carry out expeditions on foot is now severely diminished. Is the end of the road really coming? He is unwilling to give in!
Otto's patience was limited. When he felt that the surveying and mapping work was boring, he simply returned to his residence and waited for relatives from far away to come and reunite.
The data that had just been measured had to be put into calculation immediately. Some wooden boards became the straw for verification. Rurik ignored the black toner in his hands and used a charcoal pencil sharpened with a knife to do data verification on the wooden boards.
The owner of the farmland is nervously waiting for the result calculated by the Duke himself. He will turn his head to see what the Lord has written. This is basically reading the heavenly book, or no matter what Rurik has written, the farmer sees it.
They are all heavenly books.
The farmers of White Tree Manor have been illiterate for half of their lives. They should not be like this, but unfortunately no teacher has taught them advanced knowledge. Even the concept of a teacher is inconceivable to them.
Rurik calculated the area of the irregular farmland by using fixed integrals. Svetlana really admired her husband's ability. Obviously, this was the wisdom of the divine world. Her husband was a saint who touched the gods!
She also has good abilities. She can still complete the work by disassembling the irregular field patterns into squares and triangles, although the calculation is a bit tedious.
Each surveying and mapping group is doing the same work. The girls in each group work tirelessly in the fields. They consume an amazing amount of physical energy every day. Fortunately, Rurik has already prepared over-the-top logistical supplies. Are you hungry?
Honey and butter wheat cakes, chrysanthemum tea, pine needle tea, and even local specialty kvass when thirsty. It was the latter that contained a trace amount of alcohol that made them suddenly feel energetic again despite their busy schedules.
They are all young girls. After a week of continuous surveying and mapping work after receiving the mission, we collected a lot of precious land information and residents' identity information, but their bodies were still damaged. Their fair arms became rough, and their hands and
Calluses appeared on the soles of my feet, there was an alarming amount of mud on my body, and my hair became scattered and solidified with crystallized salt particles.
Only by soaking in the bathtub and washing their hair with soap mixed with flower essential oils did they feel that their tired bodies finally relaxed.
The first week of work is completed. This week, the entire land area around Novgorod has been calculated, and finally the final data will be summarized by Rurik, the most powerful brain.
A heavy burden fell on the shoulders of the young Duke. Even at night, after lighting a few oil lamps on the table set up by surprise, Rurik was still doing statistics with a charcoal pen.
As for Svetlana, she stayed by her husband's side, her hands were also black, and she continued her calculation work.
The two looked at each other speechlessly, as did the other girls.
How can a huge amount of data be completed with a small group of subordinates? There are very few people who can work as scribes now, but the farmland surrounding the lake is very large.
Due to backward agricultural technology, local farmers can only adopt the strategy of planting extensively and harvesting little. The measured acre data is astonishing, but the production capacity is really low. The climate is one reason, but the biggest reason is poor technology.
Rurik took the White Tree Manor in Novgorod as a breakthrough. He truly saw the agricultural life of traditional European farmers in the ninth century.
A peasant family raised three or four children, and many of them actually died in infancy. The grain output can be estimated to exceed 3,000 Roman pounds per hectare (in good years). This number is indeed higher than that of their hometown in Northern Europe, but the population here is also
A lot. A farmer family can have a surplus of grain, so that a group of farmland is not planted with wheat, but with cabbage, yellow-rooted carrots, and even cold-resistant flax used for weaving.
Are the data from White Tree Manor completely reliable?
It is reliable, but only partially reliable. This manor has been the front line for the transfer of agricultural technology from Russia for several years. The people have not yet turned into small farmers. They still cooperate with each other, and a large number of agricultural tools are still easily lent to each other, so that everyone cultivates the land.
They all use Russian curved shaft plows, they harvest wheat with Russian sickles, and they all use Russian flails with copper rings for threshing.
Therefore, even if other farms have more fields than White Tree Manor, their production capacity must be lower.
Thinking of these inferences, Rurik became even more cautious, because he was about to take his men to the fields of the destroyed Pine Needle Manor, measure the farmland area there, and perform calculations and statistics on the data. It was really a torture for the brain.
Worse troubles are just around the corner. The existing wooden boards used to write White Tree Manor will be used up, and the land calculation and population information statistics of the old Pine Needle Manor will be exhausted.
Is it necessary to go to such great lengths to target other farms? It is definitely tiring, but writing materials must be innovated!
Rurik thought of the birch trees that could be seen everywhere here, and the corners of his mouth slightly curled up under the oil lamp...
, we will talk about it in general terms later, until the first snowfall, which is light snow. The project progresses to Novgorod and