Rise of Rurik - Chapter 662

[Chapter 663 The New Mill in New Roseburg]

Compared with the new war that the soldiers participated in and will soon participate in, Asraqi, who brought her son to New Rose Fort, hoped to witness the family take root and revive here.

She took the baby to live in the new shop that her father, Harald Sr., built within the wooden walls of New Roseburg.

When Gustav, who was less than two years old, came here, he was immediately regarded as the jewel in the palm of his grandfather Harald the Old, and even the only hope for the revival of the family.

Even ignore the daughter’s contribution and ambition.

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

Old Harald was not mortally threatened during Ross’s conquest of Gotland, and his beautiful daughter married the conqueror so that the family was incorporated into the Principality of Ross.

Because he immigrated to New Roseburg with a sizable batch of supplies, the old Harald seemed to be alone for a time, and now he has recruited some poor Ross immigrants as servants, and even recruited the niece of the Slavic immigrants as maids.

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

Why does the father’s new mansion have obvious crying sounds of babies.

The old Harald pointed out with a little embarrassment that he was his daughter’s half-brother, but according to the traditional illegitimate status, he would not be recognized.

“Forget it. For the family’s business, I am willing to admit the boy’s identity. He will not inherit the family wealth, but he can inherit the name, and then expand the business for the family.”

Asuraki, are these words of wisdom?

Old Harald couldn’t believe it.

But he also noticed that his daughter’s belly was obviously showing his bosom again, and he was moved by the majesty of his son-in-law Arik, so he had to think again about his daughter’s words.

The daughter has never been a bouquet of flowers that can make the house beautiful. Her thin shoulders are about to revive the whole family. It is not just her strong stomach, but her ability!

There is no stone near New Roseburg, which is why the city still uses wood for its walls and all its buildings.

Asuraki came here empty-handed. After she arrived in New Roseburg, she learned about the new home and shop her father had created, and immediately began to fight for her mill project.

There is no local stone for a mill?

Where can I find the stone?

There is a small group of three islands named “Stone Island”, which is a suitable source of stone.

That’s the group of islands that any boat going into New Roseburg on the Gulf of Finland will pass through, and that’s Gogran Island, the beach and the interior, and the topsoil is a mass of granite.

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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 a stone wall is built in a new city, the stone from this island must be used.

However, quarrying and transporting stones is a troublesome job. The people who built New Rose Fort were naturally in awe. Since the big trees at your fingertips have already created a solid wall and all the buildings, why use stones to replace them?

The duke couldn’t force his brothers to do such a thing without thanking him, unless the duke paid a huge price, which the duke didn’t.

Upon hearing the news, Asuragi immediately used the family funds to hire fishermen to carry the stones.

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

In fact, those are just three big granite rocks, each of which is not light. The fishermen said that it was four people working together to move the stones to the boat one after another.

The stone began to be chiseled, and was gradually chiseled into a cylindrical state, and a bow drill drove an iron drill bit to forcibly chisel a through hole on the stone pillar.

One of the largest stones was chiseled, polished, and finally made into a fairly flat table.

Asuraki hired local carpenters and helpers who had done stoneware and pottery to complete the first stone mill in New Roseburg.

She even bought a batch of trophy ponies, lamenting that the foals were pack animals in Gotland and were still used here as draft animals.

Stone mills rotating in a circle, this is a gathering of grain processing that has never appeared in Gotland.

Of course, wheat is also processed on the island. Old Harald only knows about stone milling rods and stone milling discs, both of which can be easily operated by children, 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.

“Can this work, my dear?” asked old Harald.

“It will work. I’ve had great success in Roseburg! Our family will be revived by it.”

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

A batch of short and thick wheat grains different from oats was placed on the stone plate, and the pony was driven by Asuraki himself with a whip, and the small stone mill was driven by the horse to transport it in an endless circle.

Visible to the naked eye, the wheat grains are turned into coarse flour, and then sieved through a sieve made of fine hemp rope, most of the coarse bran is filtered, and the remaining yellowish flour is mixed by Asuraki The water was finally kneaded into a fat dough in the pottery urn.

It is not surprising to make the dough, and the process of kneading the dough is her forte.

Old Harald, who had always been proud of his daughter’s ability to make bread, also realized that it was wheat that was being sprinkled profusely on the millstone.

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 Asuraj’s mill in New Roseburg opened.

She began to take over the work of local farmers grinding oat flour. Pulling the mill was the job of the pony, and her father’s maid was responsible for watching the horse and filling new wheat kernels, earning some labor fees from it.

This job doesn’t make money.

After the birth of a clay oven, the “Queen of Bread” started her specialty.

Oat flour and wheat flour are mixed together in a ratio of one to one to make bread.

Pure oatmeal is what she uses for her scones.

The mixed-wheat bread tastes 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 oats.

Good bread is made from pure wheat flour with no oats, barley or rye mixed in.

Asuraki knows this well, so she can make good bread, not because she really has miracles in this regard.

Mixed wheat bread is also delicious?

forget it!

She noticed that the locals had never eaten delicacies, so they thought the mixed wheat bread was delicious.

She really had to make mixed wheat, all because she didn’t buy much wheat from Roseburg’s warehouse. Except for her own food, she used mixed wheat for external sales.

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

The Ross people or other Viking tribes do not over-process oats. The main reason is that it takes a long time for the traditional stone mill to grind the oats into subdivisions, which consumes a lot of energy. Compared with the mere improvement of the taste of wheat cakes, the gain outweighs the gain.

The oatmeal cake sold by Asuraki 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 a complete shape. Even so, it is the first choice for people who just need dry food.

Those hunters, no matter if they were Russ or Slavs, if they didn’t have copper or silver coins, Asuraki didn’t mind charging rabbit and squirrel furs at all.

These people can completely let the women in the family make wheat cakes by themselves, but Asraki clearly supplies finished wheat cakes every morning. Hunters go out early in the morning with bows and arrows, and they can directly buy finished products with better taste and pay more What’s wrong with the price tag?

Asuraki is making money from the mill and the supporting shops. She has just started. When Rurik’s counter-insurgency army returns, her mill will only add two new stone mills.

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

It is a sunny summer morning.

The returned Rurik had checked the granary in the center of the city yesterday.

There is a lot of surplus grain in the households of the people. Although there is not much surplus grain in the granary, it is the grain tax collected locally by the duke, and legally it is actually the wealth of the duke himself.

Of course, the interests of the duke are bound to the interests of the principality and the people, which is also recognized by everyone.

No one covets the grain, which now supplies the assembled army.

In many cases, the amazing mouth of an overly strong army can wear itself down, so that the generals will have to attack because they have run out of food and know that going to war is not good for them.

Sufficient fishery resources maintained the confidence of the Ross army. Those sail destroyers did not stop too much, and then sailed in the Gulf of Finland, going back and forth between Kronstadt and the mouth of the Neva River, turning into trawlers to plunder the local herring resources.

Large ships have been added to catch fish, and the advanced fishing mode has allowed a large amount of fresh herring to be transported to the city. The Ross army of pure Viking blood currently owned by Rurik can eat fish to make a living. However, everyone has fallen in love with buying fish during the counter-insurgency war. What a coincidence that the Goddess of Bread, Aric’s second wife, is in New Roseburg!

Arik 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 in support of the mill.

After all, this is related to the problem of eating for the brothers. As long as everyone eats well, they will have strength in war, right?

Accompanied by his confidants, Rurik enthusiastically inspected the mill promised by Asuraki.

Old Harald and all the servants welcomed the young and promising Duke of Ross Principality with great respect.

The way the old guy nodded and bowed made Rurik a little uncomfortable.

She doesn’t look like Asuragi in a graceful manner, presumably the main reason is 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 little narrow, please worry about your legs when you go in, and don’t fall along with it.”

“It’s all right. Harald, it seems…” Rurik half-spoken, he stepped in with his left foot first, sneezed violently, and the horse started to walk quickly in shock.

How could the poor pony, bound by ropes and bridles, get out of the mill?

It circled in vain, and the stone roller followed suit.

Just like that, Rurik saw clearly that the stone mill was indeed operating steadily, and some grains of wheat were being crushed into fine powder.

“It seems that you have indeed succeeded.”

“That’s true. There are two houses in this house, both of which can work well.” Asuraki 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 undertake the next tasks.”

“Should I still 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 Asuraki’s eyes almost at the same level.

Startled by a gesture called the King, Asraki retreated subconsciously, showing a trace of nervousness on his face: “My lord…”

“With your fastest speed, process all the remaining oats in the granary into flour, and immediately bake them into wheat cakes.”

“Ah! It’s a… very tiring job.”

“Are you refusing?”

“I didn’t.” She said firmly.

Rurik nodded: “Since you don’t have one, go do it. I don’t know your processing speed, I order you to start working today, even at night. If the horse is tired, let your servant push the stone by himself. Grinding. I want you to process oat flour as quickly as possible. I don’t ask you to make wheat cakes, but flour! I want to see the surplus grain in the warehouse turn into powder in the shortest time! For this, you will get rich Remuneration, and even your family’s own farmland.”

When mentioning the farmland, the old Harald immediately noticed it.

He focused on asking about the farmland, but Rurik simply said: “The traitors have all been wiped out, and a large number of farmlands have been left vacant. They will belong to those who have made great achievements. For example, your family!”

Rurik stared into the eyes of old Harald who was nodding and bowing: “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 half an hectare of farmland as a gift. Sow the wheat.”

Farmland is capital!

Rurik intends to reward the old Harald family with some real estate, such as farmland.

He deliberately supported 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 mainly worked as second-hand leather dealers in the past, they actually had some experience in farming, otherwise Asuraki would not have taught himself the superb baking skills from the old servants.

The meaning of the 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 does seem so.

Following the example of a man, Asuraki hit his chest with his right fist, vowing that he would complete the task.

Although there were only two stone mills, Rurik didn’t force her to spend time making scones after grinding the flour. The former was indeed not difficult, while the latter was the most time-consuming.

During this visit to Rurik, three conclusions were drawn: Asilaki has the ability to produce usable stone mills in a short period of time, Asuraki has the ability to process wheat around the clock, and the old Harald family has the ability to rapidly expand production capacity.

The granary was opened, including a batch of surplus grain seized from the Pine Needle Manor, which was sent to Asuraki’s shop one after another.

Her family was empowered that the duke’s granary was free to move the wheat itself.

In fact, she could be greedy for some wheat, and even Rurik couldn’t pursue it if she was greedy.

She refrained from doing such things in good conscience, not because she was an extremely upright person, but because on the road to family revival, any stupid move would ruin her future, even if her husband Arik was the duke’s cousin.

It is precisely because of this kinship that she cannot do so.

The fairy who makes bread is responsible for the production of rations for the entire army!

The good news immediately spread throughout New Roseburg.

The assembled warriors were busy training, logging, and fishing, and the Finnish army, including those servants, was doing the same.

The pure Viking warriors, the main force of the Ross army, were ordered to cut wood extensively 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 Konuson.

The soldiers’ labor was all for the construction of Fort New Rose, and their labor was actually purchased with Rurik’s money, and the rewards they paid were actually free meals.

Those stone-milled oats can be easily cooked, and the soldiers’ physical strength can be quickly restored by eating the oatmeal with salt added. It would be wonderful to add two grilled herrings.

In the safe place of Novosburg, the army had enough time to eat oatmeal, and the expedition to Karelia still had to rely on effective dry food.

Asuraki has suspended the work of selling wheatbread and bread to the outside world. She is still making these dry foods, but they are all stored after they are ready, so that they all become hard objects that resemble blocks of wood.

A lot of oatmeal is processed every day, even though her mill has only two stone mills.

Rurik chose to wait. He did not dare to go north to attack because of insufficient food and grass preparations.

He was waiting, firstly for the girls in his hometown, and also for the news from Arik who went north for armed investigation.

His most important waiting was the wheat fields around Novorosberg and Novgorod.

When the wheat was harvested, the army, with the joy of the harvest, took control of the information obtained by Arik, and launched a full-scale raid against the Karelians.

Would Arik turn an armed reconnaissance into a reckless raid?

That guy dared to attack Gotland with 400 people in his hand. What else would he not dare to do?

Rurik was not worried about the armed investigation of his cousin and the brave First Banner. He first greeted the big ship returning from the execution order, the Salmon Chief came back!

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

A group of girls in plain clothes stood tall and graceful on the middle deck, and everyone who greeted them saw their demeanor.

Countless people whispered about how these beautiful fairies arrived in New Roseburg.

Someone pointed the way: they are all the duke’s women.

However, the details are unknown…

Rurik greeted them personally, and Ella stepped off the boat with ten maids and sisters at light steps.

They are capable, beautiful and confident.

They kept smiling all the time, and when they saw Master Rurik standing here, they stepped forward to greet him with big strides.

Ella, she hugged her sister Carlotta directly.

All of them knew the purpose of this trip, and all of them understood the burden on their shoulders and the glory of completing this task.

Ten maids, who left the hometown of Novgorod dirty to meet a possible tragic fate, but now return as fairies, will rely on the knowledge taught by the Duke to complete the statistics of the area of the land for the Duke, Become a meritorious person in the principality.

They all want to complete this job perfectly. Compared with showing off in front of people in their hometown, how much sense is it to show how extraordinary they are in front of their biological parents?

What they want most is to be close to their owners, and many are approaching the traditionally big day.

They want to become women and bear children for the duke, so as to conform to the beautiful destiny they have arranged.

Especially maid girls like Anna and Bella who have been cared for before, they really only hate that they are underage, and they just want to grow up quickly so that they can kneel in front of the Duke and take off their long gowns and ask for service.

As soon as they got off the boat, they competed to express their opinions in front of Rurik, which also made Rurik happy that he didn’t have to lecture them anymore.

They were unrestrained and enthusiastic, and everyone’s eyes were full of admiration for the Duke.

Now that the task is known, all that is left is to target them, and then make an intensive study of calculations, and even make a sudden assault on measuring tools and birch boards for writing, and this is another story …

[End of this Chapter]