Rise of Rurik

Extremely sharp, hard, wear-resistant chrome steel tools began to appear, that is, after the first axes, Kawi began to smelt deeply, and now he is finally no longer fighting alone. In Rurik's plan, the entire Iron Squirrel tribe should be turned into professional ironsmiths. He ordered Kawei to teach these people skills, and Kawei supported this, while Mechasta and his minions, even more so. It is full cooperation.

In an instant Kawei became a technical advisor, and Rurik's knowledge of smelting made him useful as an advisor himself.

For a time, a batch of small clay stoves sprang up like mushrooms after a rain. They are building on the river beach with convenient access to water. In order to avoid rain, all the furnaces are urgently built to shelter from the wind and rain.

In the beginning, the craftsmanship of the Kewen men was very unfamiliar and clumsy, but they knew that as long as they mastered the advanced tools, their tribe could be as powerful as the Rus. They have a "converter fanaticism" mentality, so-called show their fighting spirit in order to gain Rurik's respect.

After all, Rurik provided them with a lot of high-quality meals indiscriminately. Such behavior of Rurik paying for himself was naturally interpreted as positive feedback by them. There were no less than thirty grown-up students in Kawei in an instant, and they at least built a handful of useful tools, such as the very important shovels, chisels, drafts, axes, scrapers, meat cleavers, and a very small number of spearheads.

In production and processing, people have noticed that all chrome steel products have excellent hardness and rigidity, but almost no elasticity.

Rurik knew that the elasticity of chrome steel was very bad, and then gave up the idea of ​​making a steel arm crossbow from it, but gave birth to another chrome steel short sword. Rurik didn't expect chrome steel to make longer swords, or a special weapon for Teutonic men like the "Doppler Greatsword". The reason is that chrome steel lacks toughness, even if it is annealed, this bad Resilience doesn't save either.

As a metal tool and cold weapon, hardness is basically the most important. The steel-armed crossbow can be said to be a wonderful work in the war that uses the imagination here.

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For the Kewen people, of course, they expected to have a sword to show their goodness to the villagers.

But that was too unrealistic, and they were second to none, wanting a good spear of their own.

They were Cowen after all, and this claim came from a special short spear with a hook that they liked to equip. Now, obsidian and iron ore spearheads are no longer used, and they began to build chrome steel spearheads on Rurik's order.

Rurik knew that in terms of weapons alone, nothing was more cost-effective than a short spear. I am afraid that the short spear is also the most crucial weapon for the human species to go from obscurity to dominating the Blue Star.

Considering his huge consumption of supplies during this period, Rurik began to consider making weapons and selling them.

Legally, the entire Iron Squirrel surviving tribesmen are their own slaves, and Rurik has the right to demand unlimited amounts of money from them.

Rurik did not take things to such extremes. He first ensured the safety of these people's housing and food supply. As for their other labor values, of course, they had to take all their labor. How to measure their labor surplus? That's the output of chrome steel tools!

He is determined to sell these tools in exchange for the fruits of others' labor to supplement his own consumption, thus achieving a stable positive cycle.

So, who are the buyers? !

There is a saying that fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders. Of course Rurik knows that iron tools are a kind of huge profit, and he also understands that he needs to be hard on his own.

You must first meet the needs of your tribe's personnel for tools and weapons, and then sell them to the outside world after the limited domestic demand market is saturated.

What's the biggest problem right now?

Rurik saw that even if he controlled a super mine, due to his current limited technology and stretched labor force, it would be difficult to quickly discover its wealth and value.

Currently, the most consumed material in settlements is food.

Rurik is a little fortunate, because the residents of the settlement, and even the population of a huge area, are only between 10,000 and 20,000 people, so that the pure natural products in this area can basically feed everyone.

The premise, of course, is that the fishermen work hard! Rurik has been rapidly depleting his silver coin inventory to get more catches with limited production capacity. During this period, the daily consumption of fresh fish in the settlement exceeded 1,000 pounds. In addition to other wear and tear, Rurik calculated by himself that the daily financial expenditure was close to 200 silver coins.

Rurik could of course spend a long time with high consumption, but he did not fully expect Gould, a super-dealer, to make a huge fortune for himself in the south with the past commodities, thus making up for the wear and tear of the north. .

This expectation is clearly an act of chasing the end.

All the symptoms point to one very clear and utterly nasty problem - I'm underwhelming, and they're not three-headed and six-armed work monsters, even if I whip them.

What should I do? !

mechanical!

After two weeks of construction, a miniature city almost entirely made of wood has risen from the ground through extensive use of wood. In fact, it is only the completion of the construction of a single-story wooden fence. If you look closely, the fence is still riddled with holes and needs more wood strips to reinforce.

There are a large number of Novgorod-style woodcuts in the wood city by the river, but there are also some semi-crypt wooden sheds that were quickly excavated and built by the Kovins.

Eight alert watchtowers have also been erected, and although these wooden towers make Rurik feel shaky, their presence does allow well-sighted sentries to stand on the watchtowers and see far away, such as the northern winding. The meandering river, and even some whitish and wriggling spots that suddenly appeared in the distance, were polar bears.

Every day, loggers come back with their prey, and it has even become an industry.

The appearance of the crossbow makes children have the terrifying hunting ability!

However, a small Kewen hunter like Telavis is very good at using wooden bows. He proudly uses a large number of iron cluster arrows, which greatly improves the efficiency of hunting. In contrast, his fellow Rus of the same age, such as Fisk, Kanuf and other children who were brought to the north by Rurik to meet the world, they found how clumsy their hands were, and admired the exquisiteness of Telavis. When archery, brotherhood deepens.

Even children, they worship anyone of the same camp who is capable of fighting, even if it is a Kewen man.

Rurik didn't want to interfere with the hunting behavior of his subordinates for the time being. They were a group of little eagles that were scattered out. It would be better if they trained their martial arts through their own hunting. If there are casualties, it will only be self-sufficient. Because this is the true Nordic survival law, in the boreal forest, either the hunter wins or the prey wins.

The results of it? Rurik soon learned of such things.

Telavis and his Ross friends, using two crossbows in the forest, killed three brown bears and one white bear in just one day, and the other was hunted by the sharp-eyed Telavis. Twenty vigilant snow hares changing their summer coats.

Their growth was gratifying, but Rurik was saddened by the slow growth in chrome steel tool production.

Finally, he decided to make a little change.

A warm night with a bright bonfire.

At the end of the day, Kawei, who was working hard, gathered with those strong mercenaries to chat and laugh. Now Rurik is willing to pay more for the iron-smithing mercenaries, who have become more cooperative over the past few days with chrome steel axes.

Now, they had just eaten a dinner of almost all kinds of roast meat, waiting for Rurik's new decision.

Rurik sat cross-legged on a soft bearskin in front of the surging flames. Flames flickered in his eyes, and everyone looked forward to his new ideas.

"Maybe...I'm a little bit desperate for quick success. Now we're in a big dilemma, our chrome steel production is just too low."

Kawi murmured softly: "So what? We still lack blacksmiths. I also have a dilemma. Those people bring ore with them every day. Now the ore is piled up into hills, and my furnace can't finish the processing well."

"This is the problem, so we have to take countermeasures." Rurik straightened his back and stressed.

"Strategy? What's your strategy? In my opinion, the strength of the brothers is like this, and you can't force everyone."

Rurik felt that Kawhi was thinking linearly, which was not unusual.

He didn't want to make any more crooked things, and his little hand pointed directly at the river that was churning under the night sky not far away: "Just the power of water! Kawei, your predicament is actually the lack of masters in blacksmithing! Then, I will let the big river come. As the new blacksmith!"

"What? Dahe is a blacksmith?!" Kawei was stunned for a while, then laughed.

This unbridled laughter is Kavey's distrust of absurd things, and it is also to express his fatigue during this period of time with laughter.

The absurd laughter quickly attracted the loud and strange laughter of all the mercenaries.

Infected by this laughter, Rurik's taut mouth also grinned.

Rurik didn't feel any ridicule at all. Indeed, even if it was a relatively simple hydraulic machine, this group of people who had almost no concept of machinery, they felt ridiculous because they had never seen it before.

Laughing also laughed. When the happy atmosphere settled down, Kawi asked earnestly, "Rurik, are you really serious?"

"What am I lying to you for?! I want you to do it for me tomorrow, and you!"

Having said that, Rurik stood up, and he continued to speak with his hands on his lips.

"I, you dig a small waterway by the river, and I want to build a house by the waterway. I want you to cut down a tree that will be straight by then, and let it stand in the middle of the house by the river, and it will be washed by the water and keep spinning. I want You make some fixed hammers, so that the rotating rod will drive the hammers to forge..."

It's hard to explain it to them just by words. Rurik saw that he had spent a lot of time talking, and Kawei was still half-understood, so he didn't bother to talk.

The reality is so real, even the experienced Kavey, his initial concept of machinery is limited to the "lever-operated manual glass die-casting machine" at the Kravason blacksmith's shop.

Presumably other people, or Kawei may be the first to explain.

This night, Rurik arranged the tasks of the mercenaries, and then got together with Kawei. By carrying a small wooden stick, he drew a simple picture on the killing of the enemy. Rurik hoped that in this way, let the Kawei has an abstract understanding of "waterwheel forging".

After Rurik's unremitting efforts, Kawei can be regarded as enlightened!

"Ah! It's really yours!" Kawi, who finally understood some fur, slapped Rurik on the shoulder excitedly,

"Do you understand?!"

"Understood. It's like the wheel of my cart! Well, you should have talked about the wheel earlier, let the water turn the wheel, and the axle inside has a fixed raised peg. This protrusion turns to the long handle of the hammer, just Press the hammer up, it leaves the correct position and the hammer falls. Is that the truth?!"

Hearing this, Rurik was moved to tears. His little face was heated by the bonfire, because after a lot of talking, he finally let his dear blacksmith figure out the state, and his face became even hotter because he was happy.

The next day, a brand new construction operation started quietly by the river.

Anyway, there are no buyers now. Of course, the newly-made tools are the first to meet the labor needs of the builders. Those built heavy chrome shovels and ferrochrome drafts that were not carburized but only quenched and heat-treated, began to be put into the excavation of the river.

Some Kewen people cast curious glances, they really don't understand what Lord Rurik is going to do to the river. It seems that this strange action makes no sense. Some women speculated that perhaps Lord Rurik wanted to create a trap to make reasonable fish swim to the preset water hole spontaneously.

In the Oulu River Basin, the hometown of the Kowen people, various tribes know how to fish and cast nets, and they are also good at scooping water from cofferdams.

What happened next was unexpected.

A new straight stream appeared, dug for the mercenaries. It exceeds the depth of a stika, and due to a modification of the inherent channel upstream of it, the water flow in the small channel is a little more turbulent.

In the next three days, a unique wood carving stood up by the river, but this is by no means the most curious thing.

A straight but not very thick pine is felled, it is a carefully selected wood and a good material for wooden shafts, because it is almost a cylinder with very small tolerances.

Rurik actually had a hard time accepting a bearing that was not a pure cylinder. Because of this era, he could only endure this imperfection.

However, once the first practical waterwheel mechanism of the Ross tribe, which he participated in the design and supervision of construction, is put into production, it will not only complete a technical gap of the tribe, but will also bring about a revolution! Because of how this wooden shaft rotates, it is a little crooked, and it is also another center of rotation, which is enough.