Rise of Rurik

Only in March of the Julian calendar does the Gulf of Bothnia begin to thaw, and by the time it's thawed enough to be safe to navigate, it's already April.

Hanukkah ended with the first rays of sunshine in AD 829.

The return of the sun announced many things, and as the days got longer, the tribesmen had more daylight hours for work.

The tribe also has another tradition, that is, one hundred days after Hanukkah, when most of the sea ice melts, people usher in another festival.

In this picture of the Ross tribe, which has been around for nearly half a year, their longships can sail freely on the thawed sea again. A long period of time consumes a lot of food reserves. Even if many people hunt in winter, when the thaw is approaching, the food reserves of each household will become stretched.

Now, clan members face new problems.

Only a part of the whole tribe is rich. The rich tend to be the strongest men and the most experienced fishermen. These people are eager to have a steel sword of their own, and also want to continue to buy soap plots themselves.

In addition, they also need to obtain other consumer products to meet their needs.

The long ships hidden in the docks are being repaired, and some new ships are being built in the log cabins. Fishermen, eager for greater wealth, hope that the sea ice will melt soon, and their newly repaired hemp rope fishing nets are about to show their talents.

Those foreigners living in Roseburg are also looking forward to it.

They, already in action in the snow-covered fjords, before the sea ice thaws, for the new year's trade.

The cobblers of all colors living in the tribe were very busy in the winter of 828. The arrival of a huge amount of fresh hides made all cobbler families extremely busy.

Some cobblers are short of capital, and they can only get some remuneration for leather processing, and the tanned leather must be returned to the owner of the leather.

Other cobblers naturally own capital and have large families. For a time, the whole family, young and old, participated in leather processing.

The owner of the household invests in the purchase of fresh leather at the beginning, and after processing it further, for example, into clothing, the wealth obtained is even more attractive.

However, if the results of the leather processing industry are only sold domestically, it is not a huge profit at all.

The only way is to sell the finished leather to the south. Clothes are made from deerskin and trimmed with fox fur on the collar and cuffs. A leather jacket can even sell for a gold coin.

If you take the risk and sell it to the area controlled by the Danes, pretending to sell it as a local, it is also possible to sell for two gold coins.

There is a saying that wealth is sought in danger, and everyone knows this truth.

That is, once it is seen by the powerful among the Danes, this life is afraid that it will be on the southern coast of the ocean.

Most cobblers don't dare to take risks, they just want to sell their skills safely and start a small business. Life is like this day by day, unless there is some realistic pressure forcing them to live, the cobbler will loot as a pirate.

The craftsmen of the tribe have such an attitude towards life.

But for the foreigners who lived there, the situation was completely different.

Aliens would not and could not really join the Ross clan, they were allowed to live in Ross Fort, but were ordered not to clear the land and grow things.

Of course, the Russ own the most varieties of onions that are cold-resistant and can mature quickly, and they will not deliberately plant anything else.

The guests did not feel that they were discriminated against at all.

Because their identities are always very similar - fishermen, or pure businessmen.

Otto needed these guest merchants, who were an important medium for his tribe to communicate with allies in the South.

With the presence of these guest merchants, Otto felt that he could not personally organize a fleet to go to the important activity area of ​​the Siya Tribal Alliance, that is, Lake Meralen, and personally sell goods from the far north.

Over the years, residents have sold what they have left over to guest merchants, and when the ice and snow melts, the merchants transport them to the south for sale. starter

In this way, the Russ people do not have to take the risk of being attacked, and the goods in their hands can be quickly turned into silver coins. Why not do it?

Besides, everyone is more willing to look to the East for opportunities.

Many clansmen, they sold all the small animals they caught in winter, the meat was eaten, the leather was immediately replaced with silver coins, and even a big lump of soap.

The silver coins from the guest merchants finally gathered in Rurik's hands in great quantities.

Now the situation has changed again, and a large number of silver coins have begun to flow into the blacksmith's shop in Kravatsen.

After Hanukkah, the entire clan realized that Rurik's daggers were made for the Kravasen family, and a flood of orders followed.

Kravatson encountered what could be described as the most prosperous business opportunity since his ancestors began blacksmithing. He engraved all the orders on the wooden boards and charged a tenth of the deposit. He never thought that the deposit alone was as much as one hundred and twenty silver coins.

To forge a new stelsvard, the so-called steel sword, it costs sixty silver coins to have one. Each sword is very expensive, but it can cut through all the iron swords unscathed, and the huge tactical advantage makes all warriors flock to it.

The poor warriors are envious and eager to get more money in the new year. The wealthy warrior paid the deposit as soon as possible, eager to get the steel sword as soon as possible to try it out.

Time has entered January, and life is still cold and boring for Rurik.

There is a saying that the coldest period in the northern hemisphere is winter, and the bizarre arctic edge of the Roseburg area has an even harsher climate.

Even so, the clan is still operating with low efficiency. Although there are still cases of people freezing to death, people with a little wealth are still alive and healthy.

The severe cold forced Rurik to stay in a warm place. He decided to do something new, that is, while he had a lot of time, he first did some knowledge training for Rumia.

To make her step up the study of the Rune alphabet and Roman alphabet, and be able to achieve smooth character conversion.

She began to teach her the logic of writing and using Arabic numerals. Since she was actually learning for the first time, everything had to start with the addition of single digits.

On a peaceful evening, Rumia, who had returned to the long priest's house after grazing, sat obediently in front of Rurik.

"Masta, I'm back. About what you gave me."

"Have you reviewed everything?" Rurik asked with a sullen face.

"I will. I accept the test of masta." Rumia sat down cautiously, her subconscious frown clearly showing her nervousness.

Hehe, her cautious look is really cute.

In front of them was a dry pine board, which was actually leftovers from shipbuilding. Rurik needed something brighter than oak for writing, even rough yellow paper. Now, this whitish pine board might be better.

Paper can be made! Rurik knew that in theory, all the materials for making paper should be available. He tried to purify various fibers from plants and smashed them into pieces. The flocs of the fibers were precipitated into a thin layer, and after dehydration. That's the original paper.

The so-called paper is probably an accidental invention in the processing process of China's silk handicraft industry. Up to now, the paper industry in the East has been very developed.

The Western world did not invent it out of thin air. It is not surprising that the Eastern Romans still think that the so-called silk is made of a special plant, just like flax can weave cloth.

Rurik cut some black charcoal blocks with a knife and cut some carbon pens.

Early sketch painters, the brush in his hand is a piece of charcoal that has been carefully carved, and Rurik is not wrong to do so, that is, wash his hands after use.

He has already instilled basic arithmetic skills in Rumia's cramming style. After two weeks of cramming-style teaching, Rumia not only distinguishes the writing of all numbers from 0 to 9, but theoretically she already understands calculations within a hundred.

"I'll give you ten questions, and you have to figure out the right answer for me. If you get one wrong, give me ten squats. One wrong adds ten!"

"Okay... okay."

Rumia swallowed her saliva deeply. In the past few days, she has been subjected to corporal punishment by the little master for her mistakes. There are ten questions every day. If you make a mistake, you will move your arms forward, squat down and stand up ten times. The worst time is that you do fifty consecutive times!

It was really a bad feeling. I was so tired that I was out of breath, and my stomach was suddenly hungry. The worst thing was that the little master would not give him any food compensation.

Ten arithmetic problems were written on the pine board, and these problems were calculated instantly in Rurik. Addition and subtraction within a hundred or so, it is really stupid if you can't calculate the answer quickly.

But for Rumia, it was a severe test, as simple as 20+25, she had to think about the correct answer.

It can't be said that her IQ is stupid, just because she should have been exposed to these things when she was five or six years old, but because of the limitations of the times, she was afraid that she was illiterate all her life in her original life. A ten-year-old child is equivalent to the fourth grade, and she can master multiplication no matter what.

Rumia, she already knew what a plus sign was, what a minus sign was, and what an equal sign was.

Pure digital symbols are too abstract, so she had to use a thin wooden stick as a pen on one side of the dry land to perform simple calculations.

Yes, Rurik also gave her the method of checking, so that the addition of ten digits was split into two additions of single digits. She hooked her head and checked her calculations, her movements could be described as clumsy, with a few strands of blue silk hanging down on her forehead, and the braids on her shoulders, she looked really cute.

"Ah! Why do I feel like I'm helping my daughter with her homework? This girl is enough to worry about... It's just that she is relatively quiet, very good, very good..."

Rurik just watched her movements, the hesitant way she was writing, and the sudden frown on her young face. Adults feel that the results that can be easily obtained by sadness must be a disaster for children.

"Write quickly, don't hesitate."

After a sentence, the girl's nervous right hand drew a deep horizontal line directly behind the equals sign.

"Erase it and write the answer." Rurik's solemn order made her even more nervous.

She finally completed the ten questions, put the charcoal pen on the ground, stretched out her hands full of toner, and raised her head cautiously: "masta, I... I'm done."

"Very good. This time you got them all right the first time."

"Ah I!"

"You did it, Rumia."

Rurik's deliberately tense face showed a smile, and Rumia's tense face also turned into a long-lost smile.

"Now that you have successfully completed addition and subtraction within a hundred, you are faster than I thought. I will give you some rewards, Rumia, and you should also have a new summer outfit. I will buy you one. The most appropriate."

a dress? Rumia had also thought about these things, and since the little master had a heart, she immediately knelt down to express her gratitude.

"Get up, Rumia. Don't think this is a big victory. It's just the beginning. I'm going to teach you multiplication now. There's a lot more that other people don't even know."

In this time and space, the original intention of an ordinary person to take the initiative to learn mathematics is probably for better accounting. The boys of the Ross tribe always follow their fathers and grow up with basic math knowledge to use in their future lives. After all, everyone uses a variety of currencies, which in a sense are actually gold, silver and copper of different specifications. Using the weight of precious metals to measure prices, the boys, as the future head of the family, do not want to be tricked by profiteers, so they can only learn arithmetic.

It's just that the mathematical knowledge for ordinary trade is too low-end, just basic arithmetic in complex mathematics.

Mathematics, it can be described as the foundation of all kinds of science!

In business dealings between Rus and allies, multiplication and division are not often used.

Rurik is not. He insists on teaching a woman multiplication and division, and he also teaches more advanced things, including but not limited to pi, plane geometry, trigonometric functions, and solid geometry. and elementary analytic geometry. In short, the mathematics knowledge that an Eastern High School student can get access to, no matter how much, let this poor Rumia be instilled in a short period of time.

What's the new trick of promising father Otto? This is the new trick!

In a short period of time, cramming teaching and cultivating Rumia into a child with high IQ is her goal.

So Rurik started teaching Rumia the multiplication formula.

Wiping the toner-laden pine board vigorously with a burlap, Rurik quickly drew a table and wrote numbers on a matrix. As long as it is not intentionally wiped off, the multiplication table of this wooden board can be naturally preserved for a long time.

Rurik's task for Rumia was to learn it in the shortest time possible. starter

This is a major task. In order for her to master it earlier, I will give her the multiplication formula first!

Ancient Norse, counting from zero to nine, was pronounced highly similar to modern English millennia later. There are also two syllables in the Norse number pronunciation, but this is not an obstacle to the implementation of the multiplication formula. On the contrary, because of the two-syllable pronunciation of numbers, the formula can be arranged into RAP, and the interesting sense of rhythm is beneficial to the learner's memory.

It took Rurik two days to get Rumia to master the basics. After all, she is already a ten-year-old child, although it is the first time to learn, her brain is better developed than a five-year-old child, and she is more receptive to knowledge. This is the so-called child who goes to primary school at the age of nine or ten for some reason, can learn all the courses of primary school in three years, and successfully catch up with the progress of junior high school.

Rumia has only just learned to use the multiplication table, and it still takes a lot of practice to understand abstractly and give quick answers to Rurik's questions.

Luckily, Rumia doesn't have to learn anything else, she can take this multiplication table board to take time to study all day apart from sleeping and eating, even when she is grazing.

She didn't dare to disobey the little master's order, she just wanted to learn about this hard and boring job earlier.

She is not an emotional learning robot.

A cold and boring grazing day, the days are still short. Now there is no priest to monitor him, and no one is worried about his escape, and no one helps him manage the deer herd.

There were only fifteen deer the herd had seen, and each had a wooden sign around its neck and an iron piece that would tinkle when the deer moved.

The deer were leisurely digging through the snow and grazing the grass. Rumia leaned on a pine tree, paying attention to the deer and the planks.

"The deer didn't run away. They...what's the matter with them. Three piles of five each? Huh? trefemarfemton."

The stanza of the multiplication table of the Norse pronunciation version came, and now, Rumia opened her eyes wide, as if she had found a treasure, and the way she looked at the road had completely changed.

From Xiaozhu, she learned that multiplication and division can perform more complex operations. She has understood that she learns knowledge that ordinary people of these tribes can't handle at all, and her purest purpose is to help her master manage his growing wealth in the future.

She couldn't understand the meaning of Rurik's decision for a while, but now the group changes of the fifteen deer when they were grazing leisurely, she had already realized the true meaning of multiplication on her own.

"If the deer herd gets bigger, I'm sure I won't be able to handle it alone. I've learned to multiply and divide the deer into many small herds, and I'll quickly know how many deer I have! Ah, I'm so smart. No! Rick is so smart."

The boring study suddenly became interesting. She took the reins of the deer and artificially grouped the deer to verify the correctness of the multiplication table.

The calculations are all correct, and her mind is no longer abstract numbers, but a living deer. She closed her eyes and read the multiplication table silently, thinking about a group of deer making various matching combinations.

Everything suddenly clears up.

The time was February 15 of the Julian calendar, a cold evening, after Lumia happily drove the deer back. She wiped her hands with the snow, rushed to the priest's house excitedly, found Rurik, who was helping Bona's group make soap, and told him that she had fully mastered the multiplication table.