Rise of Rurik

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It has been two days since the huge team arrived in Novgorod, and the city has become extremely lively.

It was an exceptionally sunny morning, and even early risers could feel the warmth of spring.

In fact, the temperature at night still dropped below freezing point, which caused amazing ice under the eaves of every household every morning.

The ice is dangerous, early risers will knock it off, and when the sun rises high enough, the wooden eaves begin to trickle.

The whole world is thawing, and when the land becomes dry enough, spring ploughing will begin, and there is not much time left before tilling.

Rurik felt like he was the ass of the production team these days. Busy farming, organising immigration, calculating time and climate

He didn't stay in Novorossi for a few days at all, and this time he returned to Novgorod, to the parliamentary court here.

Rurik was seated in the main hall, with those entitled to the meeting lined up on either side.

They were officers of the First Flag Team, old guys from the Second Flag Team, and master farmers and craftsmen in the city.

Old Otto and the local governor Medved are present, and Carlotta is among them.

Today's conferences are all about farming, but at first glance they look like military conferences.

Rurik didn't do much preparation for this meeting, but he decided on some must-do things, even the preaching came with his mouth open.

"It seems that everyone is here. I won't say polite words. Let's go straight to the topic. Today! We are talking about farming! Beginning this year, Ross' young and middle-aged people will immigrate here on a large scale with their families. I decided to live in the old pine needle manor. A new settlement will be built there to settle the migrants. The first flag team will have priority over the land there, and when the snow melts, we will go over to demarcate the fields of each family..."

Rurik is repeating the policy so that the brothers of the first flag can really prepare themselves mentally.

He went on to preach: "When we Rus come, we will farm the land well. I found that the local people only claim to be good at using land, but in fact they only have a rough grasp. You can obviously produce high yields, but poor technology limits production. I'm not saying that the Rus people Just be good at farming. In my opinion, the farming methods we all know in the past are backward. Now it is different. I will directly interfere with your farming operations, so that your random seeding behavior will end forever. !"

Everyone thought that Rurik was just repeating some of the things that had been negotiated in the past at this meeting. how? Will he teach you how to farm?

He is a person blessed by God, so he should have obtained the wisdom of farming from God, right? It's really a good thing.

The words are mainly aimed at White Tree Manor, who are the current main population of Novgorod. The selected farming masters entered the venue, and they came arrogantly, but they were confronted by the prince and refuted for not knowing how to farm.

Self-esteem is naturally frustrated, but the prince should teach everyone new skills.

"Then, Rurik, how will you guide us..." Rigus asked in a hoarse voice. Here he is very old, he is Rurik's old husband, and he is an old guy who has been in the dirt for a lifetime. His inquiry represents all Novgorodians.

Rurik stretched out his hand to quiet the restless people.

"Many years ago, a batch of curved ploughs arrived here, and you started ploughing efficiently. I noticed that your grain output has increased, but it is very limited. In recent years, more agricultural tools have entered here, and the situation has not changed. , all because you don't know there are better planting techniques and tools."

"Is there a more beautiful way? And better tools? For example, let... the deer you brought to pull the plow?" Rigus asked again in amazement.

"Deer! Of course they have to pull plows, they are very reliable. Ploughing the soil is just loosening the soil, and then there is a way to sow the seeds. You used to have men, women and even children, each holding a tub full of seeds and lining up after the ploughing. It's stupid to sow seeds indiscriminately on your farmland, you're terribly wasting your seeds.

You are not allowed to do this from this year, I want you to sow the seeds into one thread after another. "

Sow into line? how so? What's the point?

Rurik made descriptions in Norse and Slavic, and everyone's doubts were all on their faces.

"I know you're confused, but it's necessary. You can understand it this way, our troops are always lined up to meet the enemy, our positions are neat, so we always win. The enemy, on the other hand, always stands in a mess. , was easily defeated by us. Why is this? Because our soldiers stand neatly, and no one can exert their abilities. So I want all the wheat seedlings to line up like soldiers, so that I can fully get the power of the sun. Oh yes, I'm afraid You still don't know why the wheat grows."

Arik listened to it for a long time, but he was bored when it was purely about farming, and when he mentioned the soldier's position, the guy was instantly energized.

Taking advantage of the moment when his brother was calm, he interjected: "You said that the wheat seedlings are lined up like soldiers, and you must start from sowing."

My cousin interjected to consolidate my mind, "Yes! I plan, when the plowshares run through a groove, the seeds will be sown in it, and we will sow the soil at the same time, which will save us a lot of time. At least you all know that, The timing of sowing is very important to us, and we cannot and dare not delay it.”

Everyone understands this description. Since soil ploughing and sowing started at the same time, it is also considered a pioneering work, that is, direct sowing in the groove, and the people of Baishu Manor have never done this in the past few years with the Quyuan plow.

"You mustn't think that by sowing the seeds, you can wait for the fall harvest. I know you at most do a little weeding, and don't take care of your fields otherwise. These are stupid things! When you raise cows and chickens Also worry about whether the poultry and livestock get sick, such as neglecting the seedlings when planting the land? You don’t even know how the wheat grows and how to scion.”

Speaking of excitement, he pointed to the sky: "The sun gives us the power of the sky, which is the incarnation of Odin and the incarnation of Peron. It is the sun that makes the wheat seedlings grow. If there is not enough sunlight, the wheat will be heading late."

He pointed to the earth again: "The mother earth also has great power, whether it is wheat or cabbage, there should be flax stalks, reeds by the river, pine trees everywhere, their rhizomes must absorb the power of the earth. Different regions, the earth contains The strength is also different, and this is the difference between good fields and bad fields."

This theological explanation is a simple and crude explanation of why the wheat grows, and no one has ever made such an explanation before! Rurik's identity is unusual, and everyone believes that he must have said the origin of all this!

Those master farmers realized the influence of sunlight, rain and the earth on the growth of wheat, but the priests of the farm did not give any explanation, saying that "the amount of harvest depends on the will of God", but it turned out to be a complete mess. Watch the day to eat.

Only Rurik has ever made a set of explanations that can be justified. There are naturally some elements of strange powers that he deliberately added, but if the so-called "power of gods" is understood as the laws of nature, everything makes sense.

They are all purely illiterate, the native Slavs have their own language, but no text available, at best some abstract drawings that represent meaning. The Norse rune script used by the Varangians such as Rus was already advanced, and Rurik was already teaching Ruth's cubs to read and write Latin.

And they say that the roots absorb nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to thrive, which is to say the book of heaven.

He explained it by himself: "We are born as human beings, and our existence itself is favored by God. Since wheat matures only when it receives the power of the sky and the earth, we also rely on the power of the sky and the earth to survive. Then our excrement is not complete. The stench is useless, there is some power in it, and they nourish the wheat seedlings."

This explanation seems to make sense, but when it comes to the word "feces", everyone suddenly burst into laughter.

If a person accidentally guesses dung, he will be laughed at by his peers. Now, the prince actually said that feces is still a treasure, which is really absurd and ridiculous.

Rurik also had to smile and remain calm, waiting for them to gradually shut up.

"The fact is that we eat wheat, and the wheat seedlings eat the dung. Also, the rotting reeds also contain strength, and when these stinky lake mud is put into the fields, the wheat seedlings will definitely grow better. We regard it as something stinky, But it's a delicious meal for wheat seedlings. Ask yourself, can you refuse barbecue?"

Some savvy people have had an epiphany, such as Carlotta, such as Medvedt.

The master farmers were even more brainstorming, and some people stood up directly happily: "My lord! I understand! When the wheat seedlings grow in a line, we can walk through the fields freely. We can drizzle some buckets full of sticky dung, Put this...haha...the smelly stuff on the roots. The wheat's...mouth can eat the dung and grow better?"

Rurik was overjoyed that someone had become enlightened.

But this description is also more comical, and the laughter is endless.

When the atmosphere stabilized a little, Rurik asked anxiously, "You are right. What's your name!"

"Mstidar Uglivic."

"Very well, Mstidar, I recognize your face now. Wait, I invited you..." Rurik looked at the invited "master farming experts", their other identity was local carpenter.

They are recognized as master farmers and have a direct relationship with their carpenter status. In the period of extreme lack of iron tools, the wooden shovels and plows they made were the best agricultural tools in the area, but of course the effect was far inferior to the iron tools provided by the Rus.

"I remember you were all carpenters. You can't leave after the meeting, Mstidal. All of you carpenters stay, and I want you to do something important for me."

If you can be selected by the prince, you will definitely get a lot of benefits immediately. Mstidar is also a half-old man. His son has been fighting for this young prince and has earned a lot of spoils. As a result, can he use it more?

He directly called the prince's greatness, and sat down again with a smile.

"You should all discover this. There will be many narrow passages among the neat wheat seedlings. It will be very easy for you to weed, and you will not have to worry about stepping on the wheat seedlings. If you drink water, the wheat should drink water! I know that you didn't water the wheat fields before, which is wrong. You can't fully expect rainfall. When the weather is dry, we will draw water from the lake to ensure that the wheat is not short of water.

I can promise you that as long as the wheat fields that act according to our resolutions, this year's harvest season will increase by half! You'll pay more tax and you'll get more output. In this way, you don't have to try your best to open up new land. It is the cheapest way to develop existing farmland to increase its production. "

Rurik said a lot, and everyone was completely stunned by his profound words, as if the god of agriculture was preaching to the farmers who were digging in the soil.

It's stupid to attribute all the gains to the gods, and they believe it, and Rurik will do whatever he wants.

He reiterated: "God brings wisdom to the world and gives power to individual people, that is me. I have the responsibility to guide you to explore the wisdom hidden by God, so that everyone's life will get better and better. In my opinion, spring ploughing will be very fast. There you go, as long as the warmth lasts for a few more days, we should start planting. Rigus, is your grain ready?"

"appropriate."

"Very good. Your land has been surveyed and mapped. I hope you will sow seeds according to my method. Rest assured, I will invent a tool for sowing, and sowing will become very easy."

sowing tool? Those with sharp ears sat up straight.

Rurik has explained why the wheat grows and matures from a philosophical level, and the theory needs to be proved by practice.

Any preaching is better than letting the farmers see the increase in production directly, but they had no new operations before, and Rurik knew that in order to convince them, he had to make a big show - the princes and farmers.

"I'll be working on the fields of the old pine needle manor myself, as well as in Novgorod. I'll use brand new tools, plowshares to turn the soil, tools to spread the seeds into the grooves, and the last tool to bury the seeds ."

This is simply a big cake, and everyone is muttering about what kind of new tool this will be.

The meeting finally dissipated, and since Rurik was a representative of the gods, he was not lying when he said that farming according to the new method would yield high yields.

Rigus and Medved walked out happily, father and son discussed the possible beauty of autumn, and then hurriedly checked the prepared crops.

Carlotta is even more hopeful, she has a lot of oats in her hand, and a small part of wheat (mainly experimental) supported by Rurik. She had already understood the new farming elements that Rurik had mentioned, and she had written it down directly on the paper in Latin vocabulary.

More than a dozen old farmers were deliberately left behind, all eager to see the miracle of an unprecedented bumper harvest at once.

Rurik did show a kind of miracle, that is, he suddenly took out a roll of paper and unfolded it to be a mechanical structural diagram.

Real carpenters can draw spatial maps in their minds, even if they have not received training, this is the accumulation of experience that allows them to directly make up the whole process.

Rurik's picture is not complicated, the principle is the transformation of the existing curved plough.

A wooden funnel is installed behind the ploughshare, and a wooden tube leads directly to the bottom parallel to the ploughshare, so that the grains of wheat leak out and just fall into the groove behind the reclamation.

The rear end of the funnel has an inclined wooden pole connected with a baffle, which acts as a shovel and can move the soil to cover the seeds.

The three of them are one. At first glance, the entire sowing process is just a matter of people and animals pulling the plough together and ploughing for many years.

Rurik asked them to look at the picture first, and then pointed at the picture with a wooden stick before preaching.

Whether they are master farmers or carpenters, they are proper intellectual talents in Novgorod, and they are the elites to be firmly attracted.

"I'll gather up the plows from the whole farm, and the ones I brought back recently. I'll probably have a hundred curved plows, and you'll have to remodel them. I know it's not a big deal for you, and it will take some time before the snow and ice melt completely. .I don't want to hear that it's too tight to finish, I'm going to pay you a lot of money. You only need to complete a plow modification and I'll pass the inspection and you'll get...five silver coins. Think about it Look, you might all get half a pound in silver."

Needless to say, Rurik's offer made them tremble with shock, and with the faces that couldn't stop smiling, this group of old guys seemed to be insane.

The combined use of plows and seeders, which has been done in the East for hundreds of years, as well as the use of irrigation and farmyard manure, ensures a good harvest of fifty seeds for one seed, unlike the traditional Slavs, where all nine Century is still a bad output for five or six sons.

Rurik was so confident that he felt that he was indeed the god of agriculture. In this way, the locals skipped a long period of agricultural development, and suddenly began to come into contact with intensive farming techniques. Even learning a fur would be much better than before. Of course, the cold climate here is bound to limit the ceiling for growth.

Even if they must learn it awkwardly at first, once they start implementing it, it's a huge leap forward. Their agriculture in the past was so backward that they no longer had to worry about what to lose.

The carpenter got into action, using a large number of tools provided by Rurik. They ding ding dong dong began to remodel the Quyuan plow on a large scale, and even lit night battles like never before for the reward of silver coins.

In a very short time, the first modified plow was produced! Its structure is actually very compact. The wooden "leaky mouth" of the seeds is almost attached to the rear of the plowshare, and the wooden partition mechanism controls the speed of the seeds falling.

Since the parts are mass-produced separately, the carpenters make one type of part separately. When the first plow is assembled and fixed, the following products will be continuously produced.

Although no large-scale experiments have been performed, Rurik has personally verified its reliability in the wooden shed.

Next, just wait for the modified plows to be completed, and the snow to melt, Lake Ilmen to thaw completely, and the land to dry out again.

Rurik had already made up his mind.

He didn't just instruct the craftsmen these days. He specially wrote some documents, which together are a set of books to teach the Rus people how to farm.

He wrote four copies in Runo Norse, Romanized Norse, Romanized Slavic, and Latin, and had his wives and concubines copy them for future distribution.

This will first benefit Rus immigrants, most of whom can understand Runwen. As for the local Slavs, the soldiers of the Slavic flag team have been ill-written with some words, and they can understand it even if they think about it.

Of course, they can read pictures! Rurik almost drew some cartoons, which were actually "farmers farming pictures", which made his wives and concubines more like gourds.

This is already a document of the nature of "Nongjing", and he once again felt that he needed a wood movable type printing machine.

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