Rise of Rurik - Chapter 680

[Chapter 681 Surveying and Mapping Actions and the Power of Mathematics]

The ugly ducklings became swans, and they returned to their hometown in a beautiful posture, and then left from their biological parents.

Those people are farmers, and they are already the women of Prince Ross…

The real palace has not yet been built, and the house of the Rigus family has become a palace.

Rigus, who was on crutches, was very happy that his daughter Svetlana was back. As for the girls from the same village who also lived in, he dared not show his inexplicable discomfort.

From Anna to Yulia, they slept together in the Datong bunk that night.

Sisters Carlotta and Ira live together.

Rurik lived in the old boudoir of his first wife again, where he washed the dirt off his body and lay on the bed for two.

Lanna’s heart beat like a deer, and the moonlight shone on her husband’s face through the window. She wanted to say something but couldn’t bear to disturb Rurik’s lucid dream.

She snuggled up and fell silent all night, only enjoying the happy night, and fell asleep peacefully.

Including her, thirteen female scribes have already entered Novgorod.

Rurik didn’t want to waste time, but even if things had to be done early, everyone who endured the fatigue of the voyage could at least get a good night’s sleep.

After this night, the official survey began for the city of Novgorod, which is the farmland belonging to the White Tree Manor.

The rooster crows to bring the sun, and the sleeping city wakes up.

Rurik yawned and sat up, the daughter next to him was still curled up, her face was lightly covered by her braided hair.

He teased Lanna’s cheek: “Female warrior, it’s time to get up.”

She twisted her body, hugged her husband in a daze, and suddenly woke up, realizing that she was in the old boudoir.

Lanna smiled, and twisted her body in front of Rurik like a cat, acting like a baby.

Her smile is like the sunshine in winter, and her coquettish appearance is really endearing.

“There we go. Let’s get up and start our great business!”

After saying that, Rurik jumped off the bed.

When it comes to dressing, today is certainly not what it used to be.

Since Rurik came to power, the Ross tribesmen have owned trousers.

The so-called Rurik-appointed clothing style began to appear. Compared with the previous robes, it looked very slim, but it was actually made for the whole body to stretch smoothly during battle.

The little warriors Rurik trained, both male and female, wore underwear.

Of course, women can wear long skirts, but when they go to the battlefield, they must wear trousers and leggings with linen on their calves.

It was weird at first, but people got used to it.

In the first winter, anyone who wore leather pants or linen pants found that the problem of frozen crotch no longer existed.

Maybe there are some obstacles to going to the toilet, that’s all indifferent.

Svetlana, she dresses up as a female warrior and divides her image. If Valkyrie should have an image, she should be like this.

The soft linen trousers are close to the body, from the foot to the calf, and are wrapped in long strips.

“I have lark-like slender legs again. You… really like me like this?”

Lanna already had the answer in her heart.

Rurik made leggings for her himself, just patted her knee, “Stand up.”

“yes.”

She jumped up and down the room, light as a bird.

The clothes on the upper and lower body are capable, refreshing and self-cultivating. The dress of this female warrior is indeed completely different from that of the local peasant women.

There was a hint of hesitation on her face.

“What do you seem to be worried about?” Rurik asked.

“Dressing like this in front of people from my hometown, I… I’m shy.”

“You actually care about their attitude? Don’t care, I will personally accompany you in the big event starting today. Let me guide you.”

“OK.”

She is always a lively girl, the so-called seriousness is against her heart.

She is a very accessible woman with an innocent nature.

She didn’t have the enmity of the Carlota sisters, the inferiority complex of the ten maids, the arrogance of Noren, and the dark wall built in her heart like Rumia.

It would be a good thing for the entire Ross Principality if she came to be the queen.

The two walked out of the house as warriors, and Rurik summoned all the female relatives in a moment.

Wearing all the prepared clothes, they all turned into female warriors, as if they had emerged from the woods on the hillside of Fort Rose, and were about to conduct today’s training.

Rurik glanced at them and ordered him to stand in the courtyard, “You all put your braids in place and cheer up. You will be very tired in the days to come. This is not training, it is beyond normal training. I will be with you Action, we will be divided into seven groups, let’s go after breakfast!”

Both Rigus and Otto quietly witnessed all this.

Both Rigus and his old wife couldn’t recognize their daughter, and Medved was quite surprised. The younger sister looked too handsome dressed as a soldier, but unfortunately she was a woman…

For breakfast, there are boiled oatmeal with honey, fried eggs, local cabbage soup, and some dark red dried raspberries.

The breakfast is very rich. Considering that everyone will consume a lot of energy today, this breakfast is nothing.

A batch of dry food is prepared at the first level. It is a thick paste made of oat flour, wheat flour, honey, butter, and fresh milk. It is a greasy and sweet meal cooked on a cast iron pan. The cost of it is the same as today’s Novgorodians are extremely high.

This is the food of the nobles, and has nothing to do with the common people.

Rurik and his wives ate these, and they were even obliged to eat these delicacies to show their nobility to the common people.

This is also a benchmark for the public to imitate. Anyone who suddenly becomes rich from poverty will immediately improve his diet.

The elite fighters of the Principality of Rus have become picky about their diet, and the next step is the Slavs of Novgorod…

As for the premise, the fertile area on the natural lake of Seilmen was developed into the real granary of the principality.

After the meal, people from all walks of life gathered outside the door.

There are horses here in Novgorod, but unfortunately these are not riding type, they are ponies, which are good for carrying loads.

The pony horse pulls a cart with double wooden wheels. The vehicle is very simple, but the reins are tied to the neck of the horse, which is outrageous!

This is the horse-training skill that the Eastern Slavs can learn, and the technical inheritance that spread the Romans and Greeks to the birthplace of the Vistula Slavs. As for the horses being suffocated by the tight reins, people only have regrets , they are powerless to improve anything.

At least the horses are just pulling, and the wooden poles are fixed to the horses by straps and hemp ropes.

This kind of wooden car doesn’t even have bronze bearings, so it doesn’t even have a heavy load.

It would be no problem for a few children to sit on the vehicle, but if more than ten people were forced to sit on it, the shaft of the vehicle would definitely be crushed.

From this glance alone, Rurik concluded that the natives were in need of an indescribably great technological innovation.

Many boards were placed on the cart, and there was also a batch of linen for dry food.

There are a large number of hemp ropes coated with chalk mud and coiled in bundles. Once the book is unfolded, they have a length of up to one hundred stikas (equivalent to 98.2 meters).

This is the rope ruler, which is made by New Roseburg relying on the guiding measuring tools shipped from Roseburg’s hometown. The hemp rope is 100 stikas long, and every ten stikas are painted with a cinnabar red pattern, and each stika is painted with toner and attached. .

Pine glue is attached and reinforced, making it difficult for the texture to dissipate due to friction.

These measuring tools are actually relatively primitive and foolish. Rurik is fully capable of making more advanced ones, but he just lacks time.

These measuring tools are enough, as many as ten rope rulers will accurately measure the length and width of various fields, and then rely on calculus to calculate the area of farmland in various shapes.

Calculating acres of fields is a systematic work, and things are not as simple as counting the length and width to calculate the area.

Rurik wanted to determine the macroscopic distribution of farmland outside Novgorod, align and number the sub-regions, and then send each group to take charge of a region.

This work has nothing to do with the gender of the operator, and Rurik requires his wives and concubines to be the recorders of their emotions in this matter.

Who owns the farmland, where they live, what their name is, and what nicknames they have, all must be recorded by the recorder.

Then indicate the area of its farmland as the tax base.

Therefore, when counting, the farmland owner must be present to report. If he is unwilling to come, it is no wonder that the Duke does not give me favor, and the Duke will confiscate it as unowned wasteland.

Rurik wants to draw a “Novgorod Fish Scale Book”, and then conduct a census of the locals, so that the ruler himself can know the true strength of the principality.

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This project is probably also the first social research project after Ross became the principality, and it has played a milestone role.

A group of mercenaries from Rurik became guards. They were ordered to strictly guarantee the personal safety of the girls during the surveying and mapping work, and better surround the data obtained by the surveying and mapping to ensure the safety of those wooden boards.

There is also a group of local Slavs, they are the people of White Tree Manor, and they are also soldiers of the Slavic flag team. They even own land themselves, and a group of people also serve as followers, and they are even the girl’s biological father…

However, no actual surveying and mapping tasks will be carried out on the first day.

The horse-drawn carts loaded with materials such as wooden boards and charcoal pens must first be transported to the field ridges, and some rural sheds will be built by local people.

Rurik and the girls, under the guard of a group of guards, measured the entire White Tree Manor with one pair of feet.

On this day, they walked a lot, and saw a group of people bending over to pick up things, people digging holes on the bare fields, and even local women sitting on the land and chatting with sweat-wiping headscarves.

Some curious people followed the team, and a group of children always ran around in front of Rurik, showing bright smiles of the original ecology.

There were also forest hunters who came back carrying the pine trees they had captured. Seeing this team with the flag up, they subconsciously avoided it.

Leggings relieve the pain in the lower legs, enabling people to walk long distances without pain.

Although there is sunshine, the temperature is still low throughout the day, and everyone can feel that winter is approaching, and snow will fall at any time!

This was the first day, and they had a great harvest when they returned to their residence. For the first time, Rurik saw all the farmlands of White Tree Manor. Fields, the fields in the forest are the most numerous, but unfortunately they are not very coherent with each other.

With the basic understanding, the follow-up work is also easy to carry out.

On the third day, Rurik, who had collected a batch of data, personally drew a structural map of the area including the city of Novgorod on a wooden board.

The drawing is still very sloppy, but the distribution of most of the farmland is quite accurately drawn on the wooden board.

The girls knew quadrants very well, and they also knew how to draw cartography from north to south, so Rurik didn’t need to waste any more time on this.

He drew four quadrants centered on the city of Novgorod, and each quadrant was divided into two smaller quadrants.

After the seven surveying and mapping teams were stipulated, Rurik led two of them to handle it himself, and the other six were shared by the girls.

It was here that Rurik’s great project began, and it was a painful beginning.

The son is running in the field, and the daughter-in-law is also dressed like a boy, pulling an extremely long rope to run.

Otto wanted to help them, but he was indeed getting old, and his physical strength, which used to be able to go on expeditions on foot, had declined badly. Was it really the end of the day?

Not reconciled!

Otto’s patience is limited. When he felt that the surveying and mapping work was boring, he simply returned to his residence and waited for his relatives from afar to come and reunite.

The data just measured had to be put into calculation immediately, and some wooden boards became the straw paper for checking calculations. Rurik didn’t care about the black toner in his hands, so he used the charcoal pencil that was cut with a knife to check the data on the wooden boards.

The owner of the farmland nervously waited for the result calculated by the Duke himself, and he would turn his head to see what the Lord had written.

Looking at it from this point of view, he was basically reading a book from the sky, or in other words, no matter what Rurik said, what the farmer saw was a book from the sky.

The farmers of Whitetree Manor lived half their lives illiterate.

They shouldn’t be like this, but it’s a pity that no teacher has taught them advanced knowledge.

Even the concept of a teacher is inconceivable to them.

Rurik, an irregular farmland, relies on fixed points to calculate the area. Svetlana really admires her husband’s ability. Obviously this is the wisdom of the gods. The husband is a saint who touches the gods!

She also has good abilities. By dismantling irregular field patterns into squares and triangles, the amount of calculation is a bit cumbersome, but she can still complete the work.

All the surveying and mapping groups were doing the same job, and the girls in each group worked tirelessly in the fields. They had to consume astonishing physical energy every day. Fortunately, Rurik had already prepared a completely excessive logistical supply.

If you are hungry, you can have honey cream oatmeal, if you are thirsty, you can have chrysanthemum tea, pine needle tea, and even kvass, a local specialty.

It was the latter containing a small amount of alcohol, which made them, who were so busy, suddenly regain their energy.

They are all young girls. After receiving the task for a week of continuous surveying and mapping work, we collected a lot of precious land information and residents’ identity information, but their bodies were still damaged.

His white arms became rough, calluses appeared on his hands and soles of his feet, his body was covered with an astonishing amount of mud, and his hair became disheveled and solidified by crystallized salt grains.

Only after soaking in the bathtub and washing their hair with soap mixed with flower essential oils, they felt that their tired bodies finally relaxed.

The work of the first week is complete, and the calculation of the entire area around Novgorod has been completed this week, and the final data will be summarized by Rurik, the most powerful brain.

The heavy burden was on the shoulders of the young duke. Even at night, with a few oil lamps lit on the table set up in the raid, Rurik was still doing statistics with a charcoal pencil.

As for Svetlana, she was by her husband’s side, her hands were also dark, and she continued to do her own calculation work.

The two looked at each other and were speechless, as were the other girls.

Huge and complex amount of data can be done with a small number of subordinates?

Now there are very few people who can work as scribes, but the area of farmland around the lake is very large.

Due to the backward agricultural technology, local farmers can only adopt the strategy of wide planting and low harvest. The measured field data is amazing, but the production capacity is really low. The climate is one reason, but the biggest reason is the poor technology.

Rurik took Novgorod’s White Tree Manor as a breakthrough point, and he really saw the agricultural life of traditional European farmers in the ninth century.

A farmer’s family raised three or four children, and actually died many of them.

The grain output can be estimated to exceed 3,000 Roman pounds per hectare (in a good year). This figure is indeed higher than that of the northern European hometown, but there is also a large population here.

Peasant families can have a surplus of grain, so that a batch of farmland is not planted with wheat, but with cabbage, yellow root carrots, and even cold-resistant flax for weaving.

Is the data of White Tree Manor completely reliable?

It is reliable, only partially reliable.

For several years, this manor has been the first line to undertake the transfer of Ross’s agricultural technology. The people have not yet turned into small farmers, they are still cooperating with each other, and a large number of farm tools are still easily loaned to each other, so that everyone is using the twisted shafts produced by Ross. For the plow and the harvesting of wheat, sickles made by Rus were used, and flails with copper rings made by Rus were used for threshing.

Therefore, even if other farms can have more fields than White Tree Manor, the production capacity must be lower.

Thinking of these inferences, Rurik became more cautious, because he was about to take his subordinates to the fields of the destroyed Pine Needle Manor, measure the area of the farmland there, and calculate and count the data. It was really a torture to the brain.

And even worse troubles are in sight, the existing wooden boards used to complete the calculation of the acreage and population information of White Tree Manor and Old Pine Needle Manor will be exhausted.

Is it necessary to spend so much trouble targeting other farms?

Tired is definitely tiring, but writing materials must be innovated!

Rurik thought of the birch trees that can be seen everywhere here, and the corners of his mouth slightly turned up under the oil lamp…

Generally speaking, until the first snow, it is light snow.

Works carried out to Novgorod and

[End of this Chapter]