The prisoners of war captured during the war in Karelia were divided among the Russian soldiers, and a large number of women moved to Novgorod with the victors.
A new group of black-haired women appeared in the settlement. Each of them had a master. The best ones were forced to have a relationship with the conqueror and then did hard labor.
As a prince, Rurik only made bottom-line requirements for his subordinates, because the labor force was too precious. The right to life of these women was recognized by the prince. Deliberate abuse was prohibited. Once the matter was reported and investigated, it was confirmed.
The parties involved will be fined.
What kind of waves can the Karelia people make? The backbone of a regional power has been clearly broken, so that once it falls down, it can never stand up again.
Being able to solve the threat from the north so easily, the Ross army suffered minimal losses in the war, and the greatest wealth they plundered were prisoners of war and deer.
Nowadays, in Novorosberg and Novgorod, there are large reindeer populations in each area, most of which legally belong to the property of the princely family. The work of deer breeding has been decentralized, and those who are deer herders are
The deer herders who surrendered early may be called Lapps or Sami.
The most disadvantaged and most desperate group of people in this area, because they relied on the prince of Rus, the fate of the whole family changed. They generally have no ambitions and just want to live a peaceful life. If they can get a stable life by herding reindeer for the prince, they are willing to live forever.
Keep doing it.
After all, the deer herders are a collective name for a group of scattered family clan micro-tribes. They will not belittle themselves because of the emergence of a high priest of the Principality of Ross like Rumia, because they have not yet developed a national identity. They are just a large group controlled by the Principality of Ross.
They are just obedient people living in the area.
But there are a large number of people who have naturally recognized the concept of "Ross" since birth.
If a country exists because of the community imagined by the people, these people were born into this community.
Many years ago, the first batch of Slavic women who married into the Rus tribe had their eldest children reach the age of seven. Even according to the tradition of the Slavic community, both boys and girls have a certain amount of labor force by the age of five and are fully obliged to
Participate in family work and even participate in agricultural work on traditional farms.
The Principality of Rus goes one step further, because these children are the baby boomers!
The principality's population is exploding, and the first batch of new forces has begun to take shape. Among them, children aged seven and six, both male and female, have reached 200. In terms of blood, they are North Germanic Rus and East Slavic Ilmen.
They are of mixed blood, their fathers are both Russians, and they should be Russians as well.
Since they are descendants of Rus, they must inherit the will of their ancestors. Boys in particular must have a strong body and be able to perform outstandingly in logging, fishing, hunting and war.
They are not only the children of their parents, but also belong to the Principality of Rus. Parents do not have absolute custody of their children. Rurik takes the children away from their parents and organizes wise men to educate them and organize them for logging and military training.
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A group of children, both male and female, will first become masters of logging and splitting firewood, masters of archery, understand the Latin alphabet, and learn Latin, Norse and Slavic languages in unison. They will understand the basic geography of their own world and understand where the Principality of Rus is located.
They will also learn mathematics, especially the multiplication table.
What Rurik wants to do is primitive compulsory education, and the start time of the class is the non-farming period in the warm season. Since the knowledge to be taught at this stage is not much and the emphasis is on practicality, the young boys of the Sixth Flag Team who have received many years of education
, they are all excellent teachers. They also have ten loyal Slavic maids. In addition to their duties as scribes and skilled workers, their job is to teach.
This measure is not only targeted at the number of mixed-race children, which is increasing year by year, but especially the local Slavic children in Novgorod, it is also within the scope of admission and management.
If we really want to take children away from their parents, it will be difficult to implement it without giving them favors. If force is used, Slavic parents will definitely be afraid.
If the children do not participate in family or farm work, then they are just raising rice bugs for nothing and are pure consumers. If the children do not work and do not consume the food at home, the problem will be much less.
At least the residents of Rus' headquarters are happy to hand over their young sons to Prince Rurik. The policy has been implemented for so many years, and the children can eat free meals at the prince's place. They are raised strong, tall and healthy, and parents save a lot of money.
A large amount of child-rearing expenses.
This is a virtuous policy. The principality bears the food expenses of the educated during their studies, which is actually the largest expense of a person's life in today's low-productivity era.
How many people under the age of fifteen are currently directly under the principality's jurisdiction? According to the statistics at hand, the number of children has exceeded 10,000, and will only soar further in the future.
This can be described as an extremely exaggerated figure, and Rurik had to lament that after the overall improvement in life, a large number of fertile women joined the family, causing a fertility frenzy in all families.
Realistically, Rurik was convinced that his treasury would not be able to feed all his children unless he increased various taxes and expanded the area of wheat fields.
If this is the reality, then the next best thing is to manage a group of children in the notification core area first.
A group of capable men and women from the Sixth Banner were selected, plus his ten Slavic maids, and that John Invar, a total of forty people were summoned to the Rus Duma in Rurik and Novgorod.
The spacious parliament court was full of young faces. Different from the carelessness of those old guys, this group of young guys showed a seriousness as a whole.
Rurik clapped his hands in front of everyone and announced the start of the meeting.
The so-called meeting was actually his preaching: "You have all seen that I recently ordered a group of men to cut trees. They will build another wall on a wasteland in the city. I will build a number of houses within the wall. Their existence
The sole purpose is to educate your other Ross brothers and sisters. You are their teachers and will teach them languages and calculations in the houses. You will also take them to the open fields and train them in felling wood, archery, etc."
Rather than saying they were teachers, they were just a group of children. Although they had an adult-like figure, their faces were particularly childish. They sat quietly, staring at the prince's face and listening attentively.
The speech was very brief. After speaking, Rurik raised his head and asked: "Do you have any questions? If you have any questions, just stand up and tell me."
No, John Invall stood up first.
"You... have questions or suggestions?"
"I...I'm just very surprised. My lord, do you really plan to make Latin widely available throughout Rus?" John Ingvar's surprised expression was written on his face.
"What? I've told you this a long time ago, but you think it's unrealistic."
"No, no! If you are willing to do it, you will definitely succeed. But Latin is the sacred language used by priests and the language of the Romans. As far as I know, a large number of Frankish nobles are proud to speak Latin. Do you really want to
Recreate glory in Ross?"
"Recreation?" Rurik smiled contemptuously, "I just want to create a glory, not to mention reinvention. You! John Ingvar, you are the person who knows Latin best here, and I am most optimistic about your educational ability. But.
Remember, your responsibility is only to teach, not to spread Frank's beliefs."
"Yes. Then, my own child..."
This question actually stopped Rurik.
"Ah!" Rurik slapped his forehead, "I even forgot that you have a son. I remember that you priests are not allowed to get married, but I arranged that woman for you. It doesn't matter, I recognize that your child is a Russian.
You will be properly educated. Don't worry, I will pay you, and you will become a wise man respected by the people of Russia."
Teaching and educating people is also labor, and it is a very great labor. The premise for them to be selected by Rurik is that they are excellent in "moral, intellectual, physical, artistic and labor". Anyway, today's era is full of illiterates, and they are all young and wise men.
, If they don’t become priests, who will?
These people, especially those from the Sixth Flag, will be temporarily separated from life there. In theory, if there is a war in the future and the Sixth Flag has to participate in the war, these people will not be recruited.
They are the first batch of priests in the Principality of Rus, and will start teaching history for the first time in 836.
No one in the entire Rus' Principality understands the importance of education better than Rurik himself. It is entirely because of his oriental soul that he understands that educating children will bring high-quality talents to the entire country. The population of the principality is still small, and the current
In this era, education can only improve the comprehensive quality of the people, thereby achieving the goal of strengthening the country.
However, ordinary people only pay attention to one thing and hand over their children to the prince. The prince is in charge of food and is willing to give food and meat.
Rurik made a contract with these too young priests, and they would receive very high compensation for their teaching work! The so-called compensation was actually wheat, and they actually became the first civil servants in the principality to receive a salary, with a monthly salary of
One hundred pounds of wheat, the salary level is equivalent to the salary Rurik paid to ordinary mercenaries under his command.
This salary may seem like a lot, but it is not much. The so-called teachers’ families are allocated land in the City of Youth, and all teaching work must be done during non-farming periods. This salary will bring an income of 400 to 500 pounds of wheat to the family every year.
Moreover, teachers will have meals with students, and the expenses for meals will actually be paid by the prince.
Their mathematical skills are sufficient to calculate this problem. With a little calculation, they can come up with an astonishing number, and they are impressed that the prince spends a lot of wealth to support his children.
In fact, Rurik made careful calculations in this regard and came to the conclusion that as long as there was no war to consume national funds, it was okay to raise 10,000 children every year on the basis of national food stocks.
Taking advantage of the meeting, he made further specifications.
The forty teachers each have their own division of labor. Rurik also simply divided the subjects taught into: mathematics, linguistics, geography, and history. These four subjects will be taught in the classroom, and the largest one is actually outdoor sports.
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Children of the principality, both male and female, are obliged to join the army when they grow up. They must receive basic military training from an early age. This is where teachers are really good at, and there is no need for Rurik to elaborate.
How to educate a large group of children? Rurik has compiled teaching materials for these teachers.
Rurik's general knowledge transcended the times, but he taught his children too much content that they could not understand and absorb, so his education started with the simplest aspects.
The most important education work in the Principality now is literacy. The people must at least understand basic mathematical operations and understand words. They must also understand their own past and the true international situation faced by the Principality of Ross.
He came prepared, and all the teaching materials needed for indoor education were ready!
The ashes ground from rosin gum mixed with carbon blocks are applied to the wooden board, solidified and then polished, and it becomes a quite passable blackboard. The so-called chalk is even easier to make, but it requires a large amount of calcium carbonate stamping molds, and the materials are easy to obtain and mass production is not troublesome.
A group of local carpenters received orders from the prince and were not only involved in manufacturing houses, but also in making wooden tables and benches that exuded a rich rosin smell and were quite wet.
In fact, Rurik had to build the prototype of the school building in the early stages of the spring plowing operation. As many as 400 men and women had been hired, and all participants were paid in food.
The school is a system. Although the core is forty teachers, there will also be a group of staff as teaching staff. In particular, a group of professional cooks must be recruited to cater for thousands of children.
Rurik officially set the school age at six years old. There was no special reason. He just felt that this year was the most correct. A child's indoor cultural education lasted from six to ten years old. At higher ages, he would receive pure physical education.
Education and military education. Because the mass production of paper is an indisputable fact, teaching paper is quite abundant, and the examination system can also be implemented.
Although the ancient Russian tradition of "contesting chiefs" has been abolished, at least the Russians are familiar with the competition for superiority, which is not essentially different from examinations.
The examination system will be introduced, and the best in cultural classes will be picked out by Rurik, who will be exposed to more advanced knowledge and transformed into a teacher.
For now, all Rick has on hand are some handwritten textbooks, which can only be in the hands of teachers. The children can only stare at the blackboard and listen to the teacher's words.
In a few months, the printing of mixed wooden movable type and engraving will be able to mass-produce teaching materials, making it completely feasible for students to have one textbook in their hands.
How to describe the school building? Rurik took the word "schola" from Latin, which originally comes from ancient Greek and refers directly to the concept of open-air schools advocated by Aristotle.
The meeting was just a lecture by Rurik. As a prince, he officially institutionalized the "school" in 836.
He could be sure that all school-age children in White Tree Manor would attend school. No parent would be stupid enough to give up the opportunity to save on living expenses, and smart parents realized that their children would become smart and healthy for this purpose, so why not.
Adding this to all the school-age children of Russian immigrants living around Lake Ilmen, it is very normal to have between 1,000 and 1,500 students enrolled.
Such a number of students will definitely bring a lot of teaching pressure. Rurik remains optimistic because the system has been established and the general direction is completely correct. If there are problems along the way, just fix them and everything will get better.
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"There are an astonishing number of children who are only one or two years old. When those Karelian women have more children, the number of children in our country will only be greater. Branch schools will be set up in other settlements, and more children will enter school. I must expand my productivity
, Otherwise, we will not be able to fulfill our promise to take care of the food."
Rurik can feel the pressure. At least in recent years, he should not worry too much about this aspect.
Children are not a large group of two-legged gold-eating beasts in their own hands. They will also participate in labor, especially the movement of logging and reclaiming land to claim farmland from the forest. The two-man saw gives the weak children the fighting power to destroy the towering trees. They can also grow bigger.
The work of picking branches, gathering rosin, picking mushrooms, and peeling bark is a major supplement to the principality's material production labor force. And this kind of work is completely adding wealth to the principality's treasury, Rurik estimates that this will definitely offset his
Pay for wheat and meat.
The school building has five one-story longhouse-shaped teaching buildings, each with four compartments, that is, four classes. Naturally, the design is such that fifty students can be crammed into one compartment. If there are too many students, they will be crammed in as hard as possible.
There is no independent canteen. Professional cooks will deliver the cooked meals directly to the classroom, and the children will use the desks as dining tables.
As for the toilet, it is a must. The urine and feces will be collected, and the stench is stench. They are fertilizers. Even though many people have no idea about fertilizers, at least the huge wheat fields they own can be used immediately to supplement nitrogen fertilizer.
The school will complete its final construction after spring plowing, and Rurik has appointed his wife, Svetlana, as interim principal. When the school officially opens, he will also hold a ceremony and even speak to the children in person.
Spring plowing is about to begin, and the children who are eager to go to school will transform into a labor force and provide logistical assistance to the adults who are sowing and working.
At that time, Rurik will also make a statement that he attaches great importance to agricultural production and personally operate the Quyuan plow to join the spring plowing.
For myself, I am destined to be exhausted for some time in the future. In the future, the royal power will continue to be strengthened, and in order to make Ross stronger, all the blood and sweat will be worth it.
It was at this time that Kiev horsemen took the long ship of the Ostarans and floated to Novgorod, a large city on the north shore of Lake Ilmen, with precious and expensive Pecheneg Turk horses. It was also they
The end of the journey.
In this way, Rurik and Mark were both shocked by each other's appearance, and then an inexplicable sense of closeness made them come into friendly contact.
After all, who would say no to friendly business dealings? Only a fool would.