Rise of Rurik

Compared with the new war that the warriors participated in and was about to participate in, Aslaqi, who came to New Roseburg with her son, wished to witness the family's roots and revival here.

She moved into a new shop built by her father, Harald Sr., inside the wooden walls of New Roseburg with the baby.

When Gustav, who was less than two years old, came here, he immediately regarded his grandfather Harald as the apple of his eye, and even the only hope for the rejuvenation of the family.

Even ignoring her daughter's contribution and ambition.

There is no difference between a grandson and a pro-grandson, especially this child will inherit his name and all careers.

Old Harald was not fatally threatened in the war of Rus' conquest of Gotland. The beautiful daughter married the conqueror to make the family merge into the Duchy of Rus. Because he immigrated to Nova Rosberg with a large batch of supplies, old Harald seemed to be alone for a time, but now he has recruited some poor Rus immigrants as servants, and even recruited Slavic immigrant nieces as maids.

The so-called maids, in a sense, are exactly like wives and concubines.

Why does the father's new mansion have obvious baby cries.

Old Harald pointed out with a slight embarrassment that it was the half-brother of his daughter, but the identity of the illegitimate child would not be recognized according to the tradition.

"Forget it. For the sake of the family's business, I'm willing to admit the boy's identity. He won't inherit the family's wealth, but he can inherit the name and expand his business for the family."

Asraki, is this a wise word? Old Harald couldn't believe it. But he also noticed that his daughter's belly was obviously pregnant again, and he was impressed by the majesty of his son-in-law Arik, so he had to think about his daughter's words again.

Daughter is never a bunch of flowers that can make the house beautiful. Her thin shoulders are about to revive the whole family. It is not just her belly, but her ability!

There is no stone near New Rose Fort, which is why the city still uses wood to build the city wall and all buildings.

Asraqi came here empty-handed. After she arrived at New Roseburg, she learned about the new home and store created by her father, and immediately began to fight for her mill project.

There is no local stone to make a mill? Where can I find the stone?

There is a small island group of three islands called "Stone Island", which is a suitable source of stone.

That's the group of islands that any ship entering Novo Rosberg from the Gulf of Finland will pass by,

That's Gogran Island, beach and inland, with large granites under the topsoil.

The island was once inspected by Otto himself, and the stone resources that can be seen everywhere on the island gave him a full understanding: if the new city is to build a stone wall, the island's stone must be used.

However, mining and transporting stones is a cumbersome job. The people who built New Roseburg naturally knew that since the readily available trees had already created a solid wall and all buildings, why should they replace them with stones? The Duke could not force his brothers to do this kind of thing thankfully, unless the Duke offered a huge price, which the Duke did not.

When Asraki heard the news, she immediately used the family's funds to hire fishermen to carry the stones.

In just three days, a long ship of stones was unloaded.

In fact, they were just three large granites, each of which was quite heavy. According to the fishermen, it was four people working together to move the stones to the boat one after another.

The stone material began to be chiseled, and was gradually chiseled into a cylindrical state. Another bow drill drove an iron drill bit to cut through holes on the stone pillars.

The largest piece of stone was chiseled and polished to produce a fairly flat countertop.

Asraqi hired local carpenters and servants who had made stone tools and pottery to complete the first stone mill in New Roseburg. She even bought a batch of trophy ponies, and lamented that the foal was a pack animal in Gotland and was still in service here.

Stone mills that turn in circles, this is a gathering of grain processing that has never appeared in Gotland. Of course, wheat is also processed on the island. What Old Harald knows is only stone grinding rods and stone grinding discs, all of which are easy for children to operate, but it is extremely difficult to process flour.

A wooden house that was temporarily idle and intended to be used as a warehouse was occupied by a stone mill, and even a pony was brought in.

"Honey, will this work?" asked old Harald.

"It will work, I've had great success in Roseburg! Our family will be reborn as a result."

Aslaqi was full of confidence because of her success, and old Harald and a group of idlers who heard the news competed to observe this new thing.

A batch of short and coarse grains of wheat different from oats were placed on a stone plate, the pony was driven by Aslaki himself with a whip, and the small stone mill was driven by the horses, making a circular transport with no end in sight.

When visible to the naked eye, the wheat grains are turned into coarse flour, which is then sieved through a sieve made of fine hemp rope. The water, in the end, was kneaded into a fat dough in the pottery urn.

Making the dough is not surprising, the process of kneading the dough is her specialty. Old Harald, who had always been proud of his daughter's ability to make bread, also realized that it was wheat that had been splattered all over the mill. He and other onlookers were amazed at the mass production of flour, and said that the processing efficiency of this stone mill is definitely better than that of twenty women!

There was no grand ceremony, and Aslaki's mill in New Roseburg opened.

She began to take over the job of a local farmer grinding oat flour. Pulling the mill was the job of the pony, and her father's maid was responsible for watching the horses and filling them with new grains, earning some labor fees.

This work is not profitable.

After a clay oven was born, the "queen of bread" began her forte.

Oat flour and wheat flour are mixed together in a one-to-one ratio to make bread. She uses pure oat flour to make scones.

The mixed wheat bread is soft and sticky. The locals have hardly eaten wheat. When they feel the sticky taste, they fall in love with the bread, even if it is mixed with half oatmeal. Good bread is made from pure wheat flour, with no oats, barley, or rye mixed in. Aslagi knows this very well, so it's not that she really has miracles in this area that she can make good bread.

Mixed wheat bread is delicious? forget it! She noticed that the locals had never eaten delicacy, and thought the mixed wheat bread was delicious.

She really had to make blended wheat, entirely because she did not buy much wheat from the Rosburg warehouse. Except for her own consumption, she should use blended wheat for external sales.

As for those wheat cakes, they are baked with pure oat flour.

The Rus people or other Viking tribes did not over-process the oatmeal. The main reason is that the traditional stone-grinding rod must take a long time to grind the oatmeal into subdivisions, which consumes physical strength. Compared with the only improvement in the taste of wheat cakes, it is indeed worth the loss.

The oatmeal cake sold by Asraqi tastes much better, but it is still rough, and the addition of a very small amount of wheat flour is only to ensure that it can maintain its complete shape. Even so, it is the first choice of dry food for people who just need it.

If those hunters, whether they were Russ or Slavs, didn't have copper or silver coins in their hands, Aslaqi didn't mind charging rabbit and squirrel fur as a price. These people can make the women in the family make their own wheat cakes, but Aslaqi is clearly supplying the finished wheat cakes every morning. The hunters go out with bows and arrows in the early morning, and they can directly buy the finished products with better taste and pay more. What's wrong with the price tag?

Aslaqi is making money from the mill and supporting shops. She has just started. When Rurik's counter-insurgency army is about to return, her mill will only add two new stone mills.

And this is simply the urgent ending for the Karelian army to be expedition!

It's a sunny summer morning.

The returning Rurik had already inspected the granary in the center of the city yesterday. There is a lot of surplus grain in the households of the people, and although the surplus grain in the granary is not much, they are all grain taxes collected by the duchy locally, and legally they are the wealth of the duke himself. Of course, the interests of the duke are bound up with the interests of the duchy and the people, and this is also recognized by everyone.

No one coveted the grain, and now the stockpile was just to supply the assembled army.

Many times, an army with an excessively strong force can drag itself down with this amazing mouth, so that the generals have to attack because they have run out of food and grass, knowing that it is not good for them to fight.

Sufficient fishery resources maintained the confidence of the Rus army. Those sailing destroyers did not stop too much before sailing in the Gulf of Finland, going back and forth between Kronstadt and the Neva Estuary, turning into trawlers to plunder the local herring resources.

Large boats join fishing, and the advanced fishing mode enables a large number of fresh herrings to be transported to the city. Rurik's current army of pure Viking Rus can eat fish to survive, but everyone has fallen in love with buying in the war against rebellion. The army ration of Arik, the goddess who does not ask for high-quality bread and bread, and the second wife of Arik is in New Roseburg!

Arik was only temporarily reunited with his beloved wife and father-in-law on the way to suppress the rebellion, and then left in a hurry with the army. He raised his hands to support the mill.

After all, this is related to the food of the brothers. As long as everyone eats well, they have the strength to fight.

Accompanied by his cronies, Rurik enthusiastically inspected the mill that Aslaki had promised.

Old Harald and all the servants welcomed the young and promising duke of the Principality of Ross with the utmost respect.

The old guy nodded and bowed, making Rurik a little uncomfortable.

Unlike Asraqi's sloppy appearance, the main reason must be because she is an older sister (sister-in-law), right?

The wooden door had to be opened, and Rurik took a closer look. There seemed to be a room of dust floating in the slightly dark room, and a donkey-like animal neighed.

No, that's a pony.

"My lord, our mill is a bit cramped. Please worry about your legs when you go in, and don't fall with it."

"It's fine. Harald, it seems..." Rurik stopped talking for a while, stepped in with his left foot first, sneezed fiercely, and was so startled that the horse quickly walked away.

How could the poor pony, bound by the rope bridle, escape the mill? It circled in vain, and the stone mill rolled with it.

Just like this, Rurik saw that the stone mill was indeed working steadily, and some of the grains of wheat were being milled into powder.

"It seems that you have indeed succeeded."

"That's true. There are two rooms in this room, and they both work well," Aslaqi introduced.

"It's just not as good as your mill in Roseburg! I just think this place is too cramped, and I'm worried that you won't be able to take on the tasks that follow."

"Still let me process the flour?" she asked with a smile.

"That's right. I..." Rurik didn't care about other people's eyes, he walked into his cousin, and stared into Asraqi's eyes with an almost head-to-head attitude.

A gesture called a king made Aslaki retreat subconsciously, with a nervous expression on her face: "Sir..."

"Use your fastest speed to process all the oat surplus in the granary into flour, and bake it into wheat cakes immediately."

"Ah! It's a . . . very tiring job."

"Are you refusing?"

"I don't." She was determined.

Rurik nodded: "If you don't have it, then do the problem. I don't know your processing speed. I order you to work all the time from today, even at night. If the horse is tired, let your servant push the stone yourself. Grind. I want you to process oat flour as fast as possible, I don't ask you to make oatmeal again, but flour! I want to see the warehouse surplus turn into powder in the shortest time! For this, you will get rich Rewards, and even the farmland that belongs to your family."

Mentioning farmland, old Harald immediately noticed.

He focused on asking about farmland, but Rurik simply said: "The traitors are all wiped out, and a lot of farmland is left vacant. They will belong to those who have made meritorious deeds. For example, your family!"

Rurik stared into the eyes of the old Harald who nodded and bowed: "Thank you for your daughter, she is the hero of your family's revival. Process the wheat for me, and I will give your family an additional half hectare of farmland for you to use. sow wheat."

Farmland is capital! Rurik intends to give some real estate, such as farmland, to the old Harald family. He is deliberately supporting a new "big businessman" in the east of the principality to check and balance the dominance of the Gould family.

Even though the old Harald family used to work mainly as a leather second trader, they really had some experience in farming, otherwise Asraqi wouldn't have taught herself superb baking skills from the old servants. Daughter's baking bread is the meaning of the family's private kitchen, but now it has become a new starting point for the rise of the family? It seems so.

Asraqi imitated a man's appearance, slapped her chest with her right fist, and swore that she would complete the mission.

Although there were only two stone mills, Rurik did not force her to take the time to make scones after grinding the dough. The former was indeed not difficult, and the latter was the most time-consuming.

This visit to Rurik came to three conclusions: Aslaqi has the ability to make a usable stone mill in a short time, Aslaqi has the ability to process wheat around the clock, and the old Harald family has the ability to rapidly expand production capacity.

The granary opened, including a batch of surplus grain seized from Pine Needle Manor, which was delivered to Aslaqi's shop. Her family was authorized to carry the wheat in the duke's granary.

In fact, she can greedy ink and lose some wheat, and even Rurik can't be held accountable for greed. She refrained from doing this kind of thing with her conscience, not because she was an extremely upright person, but on the road to family revival, any stupid move would ruin her future, even if her husband Aric was the Duke's cousin. It is precisely this relative relationship, and she can't do it even more.

The fairy who makes the bread undertakes the rations for the entire army! The good news spread all over Nova Rosberg at once.

The assembled fighters were busy training, logging, fishing, and the Finnish army, including those of servitors, was doing the same.

The pure Viking warriors of the main force of the Rus army were ordered to cut wood to exercise their bodies. A large amount of wood was piled up outside the city, either to make charcoal or to build new houses, according to the preferences of the governor Conuson.

The soldiers' labor was all for the construction of New Rose Fort. Their labor was actually purchased by Rurik, and the payment was actually free meals.

Those stone-milled oats became easily cooked, and the salted oatmeal batter quickly recovered the warrior's strength, which would be wonderful with two grilled herrings.

Just as the army in the safety of Novo Rosso had plenty of time to eat oatmeal, the expedition to Karelia still had to rely on effective dry food.

Aslaqi has suspended the sales of wheat cakes and bread to the outside world. She is still making these dry food, but she reserves all of them after they are done, so that they are all hard and solid like wooden blocks.

Large amounts of oat flour are processed every day, even though her mill has only two stone mills.

Rurik chose to wait. He did not dare to attack north because of insufficient provisions. He was waiting, first for the girls in his hometown, and also for Arik, who went north to the armed investigation, to bring back news.

His most important waiting is the wheat fields around Novgorod and Novgorod. When the wheat was harvested, the army brought the joy of the harvest, and then controlled the intelligence that Arik had discovered, and launched a full-scale raid against the Karelian people.

Will Arik turn armed reconnaissance into a reckless raid? That guy dared to attack Gotland with four hundred people in his hands, what else would he dare not?

Rurik was not worried about the armed reconnaissance of his cousin and the valiant First Flag Team. He first ushered in the big ship that returned from the order, and the Salmon Chief was back!

The big ship was docked, and the long and narrow planks were lowered.

A group of girls in plain clothes stood slim and on the middle deck, and everyone who greeted them saw their style. Countless people whispered, wondering why these beautiful fairies arrived in New Roseburg.

But someone pointed out the maze: they were all the duke's women.

However, the details are not known...

Rurik personally greeted them, and Ella got off the boat with her ten maid sisters at a light pace. They are capable, beautiful and full of confidence.

They kept smiling, and when they saw Lord Rurik standing here, they took big strides to greet him.

Ella, she even hugged her sister Carlotta directly.

All of them know the purpose of the trip, all of them understand the heavy burden on their shoulders, and the glory of completing this task.

Ten maids, who left Novgorod's hometown dirty to meet a potentially tragic fate, but now return as fairies, relying on the knowledge taught by the Duke to complete the statistics of the land area for the Duke, Become a man of merit in the Principality.

They all want to complete this job perfectly. What is the significance of showing off their extraordinaryness in front of their biological parents rather than showing off in front of their hometown people?

All they want to do is get close to their owners, and many are approaching their traditionally big day. They want to become women and bear children for the Duke, so as to conform to their arranged beautiful destiny. Especially the maid girls like Anna and Bella who had been cared for before, they really only hated that they were underage, they just wanted to grow up quickly to kneel in front of the Duke and take off their gowns and ask for service.

As soon as they got off the boat, they competed in front of Rurik to express their opinions, which made Rurik happy that he would not be able to scold them again.

They were unrestrained, each was full of enthusiasm, and each one's eyes were full of admiration for the duke.

Now that you know the task, the rest is to target them, and then make some intensive study of calculations, and even make a rope ruler and a birch board for writing, and this is another story. ...