Novorosberg and Novgorod are prosperous. According to Rurik's theory, people will become rich because of their new lifestyle.
The two cities represent the core area of eastern rule of the principality. They are essentially huge rural areas first, with commercial and other activities adding to the agricultural activities.
Growing crops, fishing and animal husbandry, agriculture, rural areas and farmers are the basis of people's lives. However, if the general public spends all their time on these, they should not think about further improving their living standards.
Once the busy farming period of spring plowing and autumn harvest is over, the Rus and other Viking people must fish and hunt to increase their income.
As for the vast majority of Slavs, they can certainly do work such as weaving and chopping firewood, and their traditional slack period is really leisure. It is not that they are born lazy, but that they really lack opportunities for further development, so they can only collectively do the classic Slav squatting.
We have to gather at the entrance of the village to talk about the mountains.
Now everything has changed.
If agricultural society wants to develop further, it must engage in industry. Based on the geographical conditions of the East, metallurgy is impossible. Any economic activities must be adapted to local conditions. The flat and huge Valdai Highlands are most suitable for planting and amateur animal husbandry, and can also raise more
The population. The human resources of the principality are in conflict with the great vision of Prince Rurik as a whole, but the human resources of this area are higher. Anyone who is idle must take advantage of it and develop handicrafts to increase people's income.
Increase the tax revenue of the principality, and then subsidize the three large ironworks in Blast Furnace Town, Roseburg, and Ellenburg in the north of the principality.
Industry is a process in which capital becomes the power. If the principality does not launch an invasion war to plunder the resources of others, it can only plunder the resources of the farmers.
However, the Russian group with Rurik as its core represents the strongest productivity in Northern Europe. By expanding the size of the cake, the lives of the vast number of Slavic farmer families are rapidly improving on a macro level.
Look at these Slavic women!
As a very cheap labor force, they were grouped together in a building. Ten people were organized into a group to make finished clothes for Rurik.
Tailors make clothes. This kind of work requires very little cultural knowledge and low manual skills. Rurik has no intention of asking these women to embroider beautiful chrysanthemum patterns or more complex structures on the cloth.
clothing.
The fifty transferred slaves all served as team leaders when they entered the country. Such production teams suddenly became fifty. If a group of auxiliary personnel are added, the number of workers in the "Principal Garment Factory" will reach
Six hundred people!
Each group has its own division of labor, some are responsible for tanning raw animal hides, some are responsible for cutting leather and cloth, some are only sewing, etc.
They work from early morning to dusk, and their reward is three meals a day. The high-quality food attracts them. There is also cash reward, but the Rurik Plan will give each worker four dollars on the first day of each month in the Julian calendar.
A silver coin.
The director of the garment factory is the same Vodgen, and he has nothing to say about Rurik's method of employment and remuneration. The prince seems to be very kind, but considering the daily workload of the workers, it seems that the prince is also very mean. Exactly.
It was because of this that Fo Degen felt that he had no right to speak, because he and the prince had the same attitude. Who doesn't want to make a lot of money? As for himself, he only needs to supervise the market, and he likes to bring in two pounds of silver every month.
According to Rurik's plan, the garment factory is making a large-scale production of a cold-proof robe. Its lining is soft linen, the middle layer is slightly fluffy hard linen, and the cold-proof layer is made of as many as twenty sheets of red squirrel leather.
The collar is made of a bunch of squirrel tail hairs, and the last layer is made of wear-resistant coarse linen. This four-layer structure coat is not as good as wool in keeping out the cold, but it is very adaptable to local conditions and suitable for the current situation of the Principality of Rus.
Don't look at the clothes. There are layers on the inside and layers on the outside. At the current market price, the comprehensive material cost of a piece of ready-made clothing is at most three silver coins.
In this way, the laborer’s monthly cash remuneration is enough to buy a piece of ready-made clothing?
How else can we say it is a scissor gap between industry and agriculture? The selling price set by Rurik is twenty silver coins. To put it another way, a laborer can buy a car with his labor remuneration during the unexpectedly warm period during the non-agricultural period.
A piece of clothing made by myself.
Of course, things shouldn’t be calculated like this. Even if they all sit on stools or cross-legged on leather mats to work, since the annual workload is set at a high level, they still have to put in a lot of effort. Therefore, the prince is the one who is short-changed in terms of food.
You are asking for losses. The free food for each worker is at least one pound of dry wheat and one fish. The cooked vegetable soup is not included in the statistics.
Ten pounds of dry wheat is worth one silver coin, and twenty fish are worth one silver coin. They work six days a week, and the average working time in a month is twenty-five days. Rurik pays each person's food expenses per day.
The month also has four silver coins.
The hiring cost of an ordinary mercenary is a rice cook plus ten silver coins. Calculating the hiring cost of these women, 600 workers are equivalent to more than 200 mercenaries.
In terms of labor and food expenses, as well as the remuneration paid to the director of the factory, Fordegen, the monthly labor cost of the garment factory reaches the equivalent of five thousand silver coins, which is fifty pounds of silver.
As for the cost of raw materials, each garment costs three silver coins, which must be added to the selling price.
A piece of ready-made clothing is priced at twenty silver coins or two hundred pounds of wheat. Therefore, the output value can only be achieved if the monthly production capacity reaches 300 pieces.
How can they produce at such a fast rate of ten pieces a day with so many people? Twenty of the fifty groups are responsible for the final "final assembly", and other groups cut and wait for the rough processing of fabrics and leather to be shipped here to be made into garments.
.Two hundred women made clothes using a workshop-style processing method. Each of them had to sew a robe every day. In actual practice, they were able to complete the task.
They must complete their respective tasks. If they fail, they will be starved for the first time and fired for the second time.
There is no way, Rurik is really not doing charity this time, he is providing good food and drink for the laborers for profit, and the guys who "gather wool" must be expelled. After all, there are so many women who are eager to join the garment factory.
Theoretically, in twenty-five working hours per month, the garment factory can produce five thousand pieces of clothing, provided that the supply of raw materials is stable.
As far as the current situation is concerned, the very important raw material linen can be supplied for three months. As for squirrel skin, it is an inexhaustible resource based on the current era.
The garment factory is a benefit that only Novgorod enjoys. Almost all the women who enter the factory are women from the White Tree Manor. Other farms can also get a share of the pie, but the job of those farms is to provide raw materials.
The food problem has been solved, because the people of the principality can also get a lot of fish on the basis of getting wheat. Fish is naturally a food with a very short shelf life, with the exception of winter. The majority of Slavs could not catch much in the past based on poor technology.
Fish, the arrival of the Russians brought the new technology of trawling, which greatly increased the catch. In the severe winter, it was a big refrigerator, and the catch was piled up into a wall. In this way, the food reserves were increased throughout the year.
As for the solution to food, the key issue now is to solve the problem of clothing.
The existence of garment factories has objectively stimulated the entire downstream industry. The flax planting area has expanded, and hunters, both Rus and Slavs, have also increased. The production capacity of raw materials has increased significantly, causing the state's purchase price to plummet. At least they still have
In order to make some profits, in order to get more benefits, people who once had a leisurely time in farming continued to work bare-chested, such as cutting down trees to obtain land from the forest. Even if they could not grow wheat in the first year, they would plant flax instead.
Each farm unanimously chose to weave fabrics. Even if the purchase price of the principality was very low, it was better to make a profit than to do nothing on weekdays.
Small boats carried all kinds of raw materials to Novgorod, because there were not only garment factories but also paper mills. Even if the farms couldn't get much flax, they could chop down trees and peel off the bark, and use scythes to cut reeds.
, rushes, and boats transported these materials to the paper mill, dropped the goods and received the wheat payment on the spot.
The farms around Lake Ilmen are responsible for the supply of various handicraft raw materials, and the Novgorod factory completes the processing and production of finished products. Some of the finished products are digested within the principality, and the other part is transported to Sweden, and the price is doubled.
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In the summer of 836, a set of handicraft industry chains in the principality had completed an ecological closed loop, and idlers during the slack period were mobilized on a large scale.
A benign system began to operate. Although there were certain flaws that needed to be improved, the flaws were not concealed. Rurik found that he no longer needed to interfere.
In many cases, invisible hands would make adjustments, and he retained the power to intervene directly when necessary. The control of salt, iron, and granaries, which were related to the lifeblood of the country, was tightly held in Rurik's hands.
What is Rurik himself focusing on now?
As soon as they heard that the prince sent people to educate the children and even take care of the food, regardless of whether they were boys or girls, the entire city of Novgorod sent out children of appropriate age. There were even cubs who were clearly five years old, just because they looked old enough.
He was brought in by his parents and asked to receive an education.
How can they have such a high level of consciousness? It's just that the prince's management of food means that their family has less expenses.
Children of school age have ended the princely style of culture, physical fitness, and comprehensive labor education. Women are attracted to work as handicraft workers. Men start logging, burning charcoal, pottery, etc. to provide raw materials for the industrial chain, and even work in shipbuilding workshops.
Young children can only be left to the care of the elderly. The use of labor force in Novgorod City has reached its limit, and new wealth that is different from agriculture has begun to be continuously created.
There are as many as 2,000 school-age children from Novorosberg, Novgorod, and Mstisk. This number far exceeds Rurik's imagination. Since the children have been sent, as a prince, he can only accept them all.
, at this moment, the census that was done during the count of acres last year came in handy.
Each child was given an identity file, which was clearly written in a roster. In a sense, this was the child's written school record.
The school's teaching buildings were built, and faced with a large number of children, Rurik had no choice but to become a teacher himself to cope with the shortage of teachers.
How to manage this group of children and how to let them understand basic discipline?
This is no trouble.
Whether they are Rus, Slavs, or even Suomis, all ethnic groups under the principality adhere to the same principle. There is no absolute freedom for every individual in the so-called tribe. Men and women have a major obligation to defend the tribe. Once something happens,
In war, anyone who can afford a weapon must go to the battlefield.
Now this set of habits is regarded as the system of the principality. Looking at this group of children, they are obliged to be warriors once they reach the age of twelve, and it does not matter their gender. They must master combat skills at the appropriate age. In this case, it is even more important to take advantage of them.
At a young age, management tended to be militaristic.
If a child is naughty and misbehaves, he or she will be punished by standing still and slapped on the hand. If the child still refuses to change, it is easy to deal with it. Just follow the list to find his or her parents and ask for a fine.
Rurik is developing a compulsory education system similar to that of the Kingdom of Prussia, but due to the many problems faced by the Rus' Principality, its development needs to be more conservative.
Just to cook for two thousand children every day, Rurik had to hire as many as fifty cooks. In order to ensure that the children had three meals a day, the cooks were really busy from morning to night.
The most astonishing thing is that two thousand children have a huge appetite when they gather together. They consume up to 60,000 pounds of wheat every month. The key is that these inputs will not produce results for several years. Even if they are required to do voluntary labor, the results of their labor will
It is also difficult to cover the losses.
The principality has invested a lot in education. According to accurate statistics, during a five-month term in the warm period, the food consumption of just two thousand children and those cooks is at least three hundred thousand pounds.
The principality taxed four million pounds of wheat last year, and purchased and plundered another one million pounds from other places. Taking into account the losses that poor storage had to face, Rurik estimated that there would be at least no less than four hundred and fifty pounds.
Thousands of pounds of wheat.
Based on this rough calculation, my investment in education this year, including food alone, is as high as 8% of last year's agricultural tax. If classrooms and teaching tools are also included, the investment can only be even higher.
As for the principality's fiscal revenue last year, it certainly far exceeded the so-called five million pounds of real wheat.
However, due to the winter expedition to Karelia, a large amount of food was consumed in the war. Although a huge number of reindeer were plundered, deer cannot be killed for meat casually, and food is consumed every day. The existing food in the treasury needs to be
There is no problem in supplying all the people who feed the king's salary until the autumn harvest this year. Of course, a major prerequisite is that the principality can completely eliminate its troops temporarily.
Rurik is the prince and the largest controller of industrial capital in the principality. The share agreement with the blacksmith union has always been valid. As a result, he not only always enjoys 10% to 20% of the operating profit share, but also collects high business taxes once a year.
.There are also large taxpayers like the Gould family, who follow the principle of collecting three things and making mistakes, so there is no reason for small businessmen not to pay taxes.
Rurik holds the economic lifeline of the principality and has made some statistics. He is the person in the entire principality who knows the national situation best. The principality is actually very rich, or in other words, as a prince, Rurik is very rich, and the crisis also exists, that is,
Growing internal consumption.
Part of the reason why the principality can obtain higher taxes compared to its limited population naturally comes from the direct courage of Rurik, who is both wise and handsome. Another important reason comes from war and plunder. The first test was in 827 AD, and then
From 828 to 833, the principality had been engaged in a war to gamble on the fate of the country, and also fought a war in the next two years. Fortunately, the principality won all the fierce battles, relying on unprecedented seizures and a very safe external state.
, only then can you have the opportunity to make a fortune by staying in the east and north this year.
But Ross did not really give up war and plunder because of this.
During the day, Rurik had to personally educate the children. This was the first time that ordinary people had seen this kind of personal education by the prince. The people thought that this was a sign of the nobles being close to the people, but in fact, from Rurik's point of view, it was really education.
Serious shortage of staff.
At night, he had to organize all his wives and concubines, and even the young teachers who had been busy all day, and continue to do some training to summarize the situations encountered by the young people in education. In addition, he also wanted to keep those with good math skills to work with him.
Doing economic calculations.
"I should train more scribes, I have to find out all the math geniuses in my cubs, and I have to establish a suitable civil service system! Otherwise, this huge country will gradually be unable to carry it! I don't want to live as Emperor Yongzheng.
So exhausted."
Originally, Rurik had arrived at the real capital, Novorossberg. However, the Lake Ilmen region where Novgorod is located showed strong economic strength. It is a major grain-producing area and can provide 80% of the staple food and 90% of the principal grain.
of linen. She actually became the economic capital, and therefore the core area of handicraft industry and education. Economic geography determines this result, unless the value brought by Novorosberg's commercial capabilities truly exceeds that of Novgorod.
The governors of various places will manage the territories well, and the shipping traffic between the settlements has been stable, and as long as there are lakes and two large bays, there are ships from the Ross Principality fishing. The so-called eastern and northern Baltic Sea and its land areas, the Principality
People are actively engaged in economic activities.
Rurik even ignored the privateer and the explorer Spyut. As a result, the Salmon Chief actually sailed backwards on the Volkhov River under the tow of the rowing boat. The privateer actually came back! Look!
She needed as many as four long boats to row and pull, and the draft was obviously astonishing. After hearing the news, Rurik arrived at the dock. He just took a look at the draft position of the big boat and made a judgment with a smile: "Okay, Sipu
Ute, it seems that you have snatched a boatload of treasures to deliver."