Rise of Rurik - Chapter 751

[Chapter 752 The First School]

The prisoners captured in the war against Karelia were divided up by the Russian soldiers, so a large number of women moved to Novgorod with the victors.

A whole new breed of black-haired women appeared in the settlement, each with their own masters, and the best of them all were forced to have sex with the conquerors, and then to do hard labor.

As a prince, Rurik only made bottom-line requirements for his subordinates, because labor is too precious, and these women’s right to life is recognized by the prince. Deliberate abuse is prohibited, and once it is reported and investigated, it is true. The parties will be fined.

What kind of waves can the Karelians make again?

The backbone of a regional power has clearly been broken, so that once it gets down, it can never stand up again.

With such a simple solution to the threat from the north, the Ross army suffered little damage in the war, and the greatest wealth plundered was prisoners of war and herds of deer.

Now in Novorosberg and Novgorod, there is a large-scale reindeer population in each of the two regions, most of which legally belong to the property of the princely family. Those deer breeders who surrendered early were either Lapps or Sami.

The most disadvantaged and most surviving group of people in this area, because of relying on Prince Ross, the fate of the whole family has been changed.

They generally have no ambitions and just want to live in peace and stability. If they can get a stable life by herding reindeer for the princes, they are willing to do it forever.

After all, the deer breeder group is a collective name for a group of scattered family clans and miniature tribes. They will not underestimate themselves because of the appearance of a high priest of the Duchy of Ross like Rumia, because they have not yet developed national identity, but they are just a large group controlled by the Duchy of Ross. They are just obedient citizens living in the area.

But there are a large number of people who have naturally recognized the concept of “Ross” since birth.

If a country exists because of the community imagined by the people, these people are born into this community.

Many years ago, the first batch of Slavic women who married the Ross tribe had their eldest children grow up to seven years old.

Even in accordance with the traditions of the Slavic community, no matter boys or girls, they have a certain labor force when they are five years old, and they are fully obliged to participate in family labor and even agricultural labor in traditional farms.

The Principality of Ross goes one step further, because these kids are the Baby Boomers!

The Principality’s population is exploding, and the first batch of new forces has begun to take shape. Among them, children aged seven and six, regardless of gender, have reached 200 people.

When it comes to their blood, they are the mixed blood of the North Germanic Rus and the East Slavic Ilmen. Their fathers are all Rus, and they should be Rus.

Since they are descendants of Ross, they must inherit the will of their ancestors, especially boys must have a strong body and be able to perform outstandingly in logging, fishing, hunting and warfare.

They are not only the children of their parents, but also belong to the Principality of Ross.

Parents do not have absolute custody of their children. Rurik takes the children away from their parents, organizes wise men to educate them, and organizes them to log and conduct military training.

A group of children, regardless of gender, will first become masters of logging and chopping firewood, masters of archery, understand the Latin alphabet, and learn Latin, Norse and Slavic together.

They will understand the basic geography of the world they are in, the location of the Principality of Ross in this area, and what countries exist around it.

They will also learn about mathematics, especially keeping the nine-nine multiplication table in mind.

What Rurik has to do is the original compulsory education, and the class starts during the non-agricultural busy period in the warm season.

Since there is not much knowledge to be taught at this stage and the emphasis is on practicality, the young cubs of the Sixth Banner Team who have been educated for many years are all excellent teachers.

There are also ten loyal Slavic maids of their own. Apart from their work as scribes and skilled workers, their job is to teach.

This measure is not only aimed at the mixed-race children whose number is increasing year by year, especially the local Slavic children of Novgorod, which are also within the scope of admission management.

To really take children away from their parents is hard to do without favors.

Slavic parents would have been terrified if an act of violence had been resorted to.

If children do not participate in family and farm work, they are pure white rice worms and pure consumers.

If the children did not work and consume the family’s food, the problem would be much less.

At least the residents of Ross Town happily handed over their young sons to Prince Rurik. The policy has been implemented for so many years, and the children can eat free meals at the Prince’s place. They are raised strong, tall and healthy. Large childcare expenses.

This is a benevolent government. The principality bears the food expenses of the educated during their studies, which is actually the biggest expense of a person’s life in today’s era of low productivity.

How many people are under the direct jurisdiction of the Principality and are under the age of fifteen? According to the statistics at hand, the number of children has already exceeded 10,000, and it will only soar further in the future.

This can be described as an extremely exaggerated statistic, and Rurik has to feel that after the overall improvement of life and the addition of a large number of fertile women, it will cause a frenzy of fertility in all families.

Realistically speaking, Rurik was convinced that his treasury would not be able to feed all the children unless he raised various taxes and cleared land to expand the wheat fields.

If this is the reality, then the next best thing is to manage a group of children in the notification core area first.

A group of elite men and women from the Sixth Banner Team were selected, together with his ten Slavic maids, and John Ingvar, a total of forty people were summoned to Rurik in the Rus Duma in Novgorod.

Young faces were sitting in the spacious parliamentary courtyard. Different from the carelessness of those old guys, this group of young cubs showed a kind of seriousness as a whole.

Rurik clapped his hands in public, announcing the start of the meeting.

The so-called meeting is actually his preaching: “As you have seen, I recently ordered a group of men to cut wood. They will set up a wall around a piece of wasteland in the city. I will build a group of houses inside the wall. They exist The sole purpose is to educate your other brothers and sisters of Ross. You are their teachers, and will teach them languages and calculations in the house. You will also take them out into the open, and train them in logging, archery, and so on.”

Rather than saying that they are teachers, they are just a group of children. Although they have a figure similar to that of an adult, their faces are especially childish.

They sat quietly, gazing at the prince’s face and listening.

The speech was very brief. After finishing speaking, Rurik raised his head and asked, “Do you have any questions? If you have any questions, stand up and tell me.”

No, John Ingvar stood up first.

“Do you… have questions, or suggestions?”

“I… I’m just very surprised. My lord, do you really intend to make Latin widely used throughout Ross?” John Ingvar’s expression of surprise was written on his face.

“Why? I told you about this a long time ago. Could it be that you think it’s unrealistic?”

“No no! If you are willing to do it, you will be able to succeed. It’s just that Latin is the sacred language used by priests, and it is the language of the Romans. As far as I know, a large number of Frankish nobles are proud to be able to speak Latin. Don’t you really want to Restoring glory in Ross?”

“Re-engineering?” Rurik smiled contemptuously, “I just want to create a glory, so I don’t talk about re-creating. You! John Invar, you are the person who knows Latin best here, and I am most optimistic about your educational ability. But Remember, your duty is to teach, not to spread the Frankish beliefs.”

“Yes. My own child, then…”

His question actually stopped Rurik.

“Ah!” Rurik slapped his forehead, “I even forgot that you have a son. I remember that you priests are not allowed to marry, but I arranged for you that woman. No problem, I recognize that your child is from Ross, You will be properly educated. Rest assured, I will pay you, and you will become a wise man respected by the people of Ross.”

Teaching and educating people is also labor, and it is a very great labor.

The prerequisite for them to be selected by Rurik is that all the “moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor” are excellent. Anyway, today’s era is full of illiterates. They are all young and wise. If they don’t become priests, who will do it?

These people, especially those from the Sixth Banner, will temporarily leave their lives there. In theory, there will be wars in the future and the Sixth Banner will have to participate in the war, and these people are not included in the recruitment.

They were the first clergymen of the Duchy of Ross, who would begin the history-making first lectures in 836.

No one in the Principality of Ross understands the importance of education better than Rurik himself. It is entirely because of his oriental soul that he understands that the education of children will bring high-quality talents to the entire country. The population of the Principality is still small, and the current In this era, education is the only way to improve the overall quality of the people, so as to become a powerful country.

However, ordinary people only focus on one point and hand over the children to the princes, who take care of the food and are willing to give food and meat.

Rurik made a contract with these too young priests, they will be paid very high for their teaching work!

The so-called remuneration was actually wheat, and they actually became the first batch of public servants in the principality to receive a salary. They were paid one hundred pounds of wheat every month, and the salary level was equivalent to the salary that Rurik paid to ordinary mercenaries under his command.

This salary seems to be a lot, but it is not much. The so-called teacher’s family has also been allocated land by the City of Youth. All teaching work must be during the off-season. This salary will bring the family an income of 400 to 500 pounds of wheat every year.

Moreover, the teacher will have meals with the students, and the expenses for meals are actually paid by the prince.

Their mathematics level is enough to calculate the problems in this area, and they can get an astonishing number with a little calculation, and they feel that the princes use a lot of wealth to support their children.

In fact, Rurik did a careful calculation on this aspect, but he came to the conclusion that as long as there is no war that consumes the national funds, it is possible to raise 10,000 children every year by relying on the national stockpile.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the meeting, he made further specifications.

The forty teachers each have a division of labor, and Rurik also simply divides the subjects taught into: Mathematics, Linguistics, Geography, and History.

These four disciplines will be taught in the classroom, with outdoor sports taking the lion’s share.

Children in the principality, regardless of gender, have the obligation to join the army when they grow up.

They had to receive basic military training from an early age, and this was where the teachers really excelled, and Rurik didn’t need to say anything.

How to educate a large group of children, Rurik has compiled teaching materials for these teachers.

The general knowledge possessed by Rurik has surpassed the times, but too much content is instilled in children for them to understand and absorb, and education starts from the simplest aspects.

The most important educational task for the Principality now is literacy. The people must at least understand basic mathematical calculations and understand text, as well as understand their own past and the real situation of the international situation facing the Principality of Ross.

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He came prepared, and all the teaching materials needed for indoor education have been prepared!

The ashes ground from pine gum mixed with charcoal are applied to the wooden board, solidified and then polished, which is quite a decent blackboard.

The so-called chalk is even easier to manufacture, but it is made of a large number of calcium carbonate dies. The material is easy to obtain and mass production is not troublesome.

A group of local carpenters received an order from the prince, not only to participate in the manufacture of houses, but also to make wooden tables and benches that exude a strong smell of turpentine and are quite wet.

In fact, Rurik had to build the prototype of the school building in the early stage of the spring plowing operation. As many as 400 men and women have been hired, and all participants can get food compensation.

The school is a system, although the core is 40 teachers, there will be a group of people as teaching staff.

In particular, it is necessary to recruit a group of professional cooks to cope with thousands of children’s meals.

Rurik officially set the school age at six, for no particular reason, he just thought it was the most correct year.

A child’s indoor cultural education lasts from six to ten years old, and at a higher age, he will receive purely physical education and military education.

Because the mass production of paper is already an indisputable fact, the teaching paper is quite abundant, and the examination system can also be implemented.

Although the ancient tradition of “competition for chiefs” of the Ross people has been abolished, at least the Ross people are familiar with the set of competition for superior positions, which is not fundamentally different from the exam.

The examination system will be introduced, and the best in the culture class will be picked out by Rurik, who will be exposed to more advanced knowledge and transformed into a teacher.

For the time being, all Rurik has are some handwritten textbooks, which can only be held in the hands of the teacher. The children can only stare at the blackboard and listen to the teacher’s words.

After a few months, the mixed printing of wooden movable type and engraving can be used to mass-produce teaching materials, making it feasible for students to have a textbook in hand.

How would you describe the school building?

Rurik extracted the word “SCHOLA” from Latin, which originally came from ancient Greek, referring directly to the concept of open-air schools advocated by Aristotle.

The meeting was only the preaching of Rurik, who, as prince, formally institutionalized the “school” in 836.

He could be sure that all the school-age children at Whitetree Manor would go to school, that no parent would be foolish enough to pass up the chance to save money on living expenses, and that wise parents knew their children would be wise and healthy for it, so why not.

Add that to the school-age children of all the Ross immigrants living around Lake Ilmen, and it’s not uncommon for a thousand to fifteen hundred students to enroll.

Such a number of students will definitely bring a lot of teaching pressure. Rurik remains optimistic, because the system has been established and the general direction is completely correct. If you encounter problems in the middle, you can fix them and everything will be fine. …

“It’s just that the number of children is only one or two years old. When those Karelian women have children, there will only be more children in our country, and branch schools will be established in other settlements, and more children will go to school. I must expand production Otherwise, we will not be able to implement the promise of managing meals.”

Rurik can feel the pressure, at least in recent years, don’t worry too much about it.

Children are not a large group of two-legged gold-eating beasts in their own hands. They will also participate in labor, especially the movement of logging and pioneering to ask for farmland from the forest. The two-person saw gives weak children the fighting power to destroy towering trees. The work of picking branches, collecting pine resin, picking mushrooms, and peeling bark is a major supplement to the labor force of the principality’s material production.

And the work in this area is completely adding wealth to the principality’s treasury, and Rurik estimates that this will definitely offset the wheat and meat he paid for.

The school building consists of five one-story longhouse-style teaching buildings, each with four compartments, or four classes. Naturally, it is designed to accommodate fifty students in one compartment.

As for the independent canteen, there is no such thing as a professional cooker who delivers the prepared meals directly to the classrooms, and the children use their desks as dining tables.

As for the toilets, it is a must, the urine and feces will be collected, and the stench is the stench, they are the fertilizer.

Even though many people lack the concept of fertilizer, at least the huge amount of wheat fields owned by them can be used immediately to supplement nitrogen fertilizer.

The final construction of the school will be completed after the spring plowing, and Rurik has appointed his wife Svetlana as the temporary principal.

When the school officially starts, he will hold a ceremony and even speak to the children himself.

It will be spring plowing soon, and the children who are eager to go to school will become the labor force, providing logistical assistance for the adults who are planting and working.

At that time, Rurik will also make a statement that he attaches great importance to agricultural production, and he will personally manage the Quyuan plow and join the spring plowing.

For myself, I am destined to be exhausted for a while in the future.

In the future, the royal power will continue to be strengthened. For Ross to become stronger, it is worth the blood and sweat.

It was at this time that the Kyiv horsemen drifted to Novgorod, a big city on the north shore of Lake Ilmen, on the long boat of the Ostara people with the precious and expensive Pecheneg Turkic horses. end point.

In this way, both Rurik and Ma Ke were shocked by the appearance of the other party, and then an inexplicable sense of intimacy made them friendly contact.

After all, who would say no to friendly business dealings?

Only fools do.

[End of this Chapter]