Rise of Rurik - Chapter 758

[Chapter 759 Rurik’s Novgorod Industrial Capital]

Novorosburg and Novgorod are full of prosperity. According to the theory Rurik knows, the people will become rich because of the new way of life.

The two cities represent the core area of the principality’s eastern rule. They are essentially huge rural areas, and activities such as commerce are added to agricultural activities.

Planting crops, fishing and animal husbandry, the three rural areas maintain the foundation of people’s lives.

But if the general public spends their time on this, don’t think about further improving their living standards.

Once the busy season of spring plowing and autumn harvest is over, the Ross people and other Viking people must fish and hunt to increase their income.

As for the vast number of Slavs, of course they will do work such as weaving and chopping firewood. Their traditional slack period is really idle.

It’s not that they are lazy by nature, but that they really lack opportunities for further development, so they can only squat together at the entrance of the village and talk about the mountains in classic Slavic style.

Everything has changed now.

If the agricultural society wants to develop further, it must engage in industry. Based on the geographical conditions of the East, metallurgy is impossible. Any economic activity must be tailored to local conditions. The flat and huge Valdai Highland is most suitable for planting amateur animal husbandry, and can also raise more s population.

The manpower of the Principality is at odds with Prince Rurik’s grand vision as a whole, but the manpower of this area is higher.

Anyone who is idle should take advantage of it to develop the handicraft industry to increase the income of the people. Through the scissors difference, it can also increase the tax revenue of the Principality, and then subsidize the three large iron factories in the northern part of the Principality, Blast Furnace Town, Roseburg, and Elronburg.

Industry is a process in which capital has been empowered. If the principality did not launch an invasion war to plunder the resources of others, it could only plunder the resources of farmers.

However, the Rus group with Rurik at its core represents the strongest productivity in Northern Europe. By expanding the scale of the cake, the lives of the vast number of Slavic peasant families are rapidly improving macroscopically.

Just look at these Slavic women!

As a very cheap labor force, they were collectively bound in the house, and ten people were organized into a team to make finished clothes for Rurik.

Tailoring makes clothes. This kind of work has very low requirements for cultural knowledge and low requirements for manual skills.

Rurik didn’t intend to let these women embroider beautiful chrysanthemum patterns on the cloth, or clothes with more complicated structures.

The fifty transferred slaves all entered the country as group leaders.

Such a production team suddenly became fifty, and if a group of auxiliary staff were added, the number of workers in the “Principal Garment Factory” would reach six hundred!

The teams have their own division of labor, some are responsible for tanning raw animal hides, some are responsible for cutting leather and cloth, some are only sewing, and so on.

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They work from early morning to evening, and their salary is three meals a day. The high-quality food attracts them.

There is also cash compensation, but the Rurik plan will give each worker four silver coins on the first day of each month in the Julian calendar.

The director of the garment factory was that Verdegen, and he had nothing to say about Rurik’s way of hiring and remunerating.

The prince seems to be very benevolent, but considering the daily workload of the laborers, it seems that the prince is also very mean.

It is precisely because of this that Fodegen feels that he has no right to speak, because he and the prince have the same attitude, who doesn’t want to make a lot of money?

As for himself, he only needs to be supervised by the town hall, and he is happy to withdraw two pounds of silver every month.

According to Rurik’s plan, the garment factory is making a kind of robe to keep out the cold.

Its lining is made of soft linen, the middle layer is slightly fluffy burlap, the warm layer is stitched with as many as twenty sheets of red squirrel leather, and the collar is made of a bunch of squirrel tail hairs. As for the most layer, it is wear-resistant. of sackcloth.

This four-layer coat is not as cold-proof as wool, but it is very suitable for the current situation of the Principality of Ross.

Don’t look at the inner layer and the outer layer of clothes. At the current market price, the comprehensive material cost of a piece of clothing is at most three silver coins.

In this way, the monthly cash remuneration of the laborers is enough to buy a piece of ready-made clothing?

How else can we say that the industrial and agricultural scissors are poor?

Rurik’s official selling price is twenty silver coins. Another way of counting is that a laborer can buy a piece of clothing made by himself with the labor remuneration of the non-farm season and the unexpected warm climate.

Of course, things should not be calculated in this way. Even if they all sit on stools or sit cross-legged on leather mats to work, because the annual workload is set higher, they still have to put in a lot of energy, so the food is not treated well. The prince asked for his own loss.

Each laborer’s free meal is at least one pound of dry wheat with one fish, and the boiled vegetable soup is not included in the statistics.

Ten pounds of dry wheat is worth a silver coin, and twenty fish are worth a silver coin.

They worked six days a week, an average of twenty-five working days a month, and Rurik paid four silver coins per month for food.

The employment cost of ordinary mercenaries is the management fee plus ten silver coins. After converting the employment costs of these women, 600 workers are equivalent to more than 200 mercenaries.

For the wages of the laborers, food and other expenses, as well as the remuneration paid to the factory director Fodgen, the monthly labor cost of the garment factory has reached the equivalent of 5,000 silver coins, which is 50 pounds of silver.

As for the cost of raw materials, three silver coins per piece of clothing should be added to the selling price.

A piece of clothing is priced at 20 silver coins or 200 pounds of wheat, so only when the monthly production capacity reaches 300 pieces can the output value be justified.

How could they produce ten pieces a day at a slow speed with so many people?

Twenty out of the fifty teams are in charge of the final “final assembly”, and the rough-processed fabrics and leathers of other teams are transported here to be made into garments.

Two hundred women make clothes in a workshop-like manner. Each of them has to sew a robe every day. In practice, they can complete the task.

They must complete their respective tasks. If they fail, they will be hungry the first time, and they will be fired if they do it again.

There is no way, Rurik is really not doing charity this time. Food and drink are provided for labor for profit. Those who “sweat wool” must be expelled. After all, there are too many women eager to enter the garment factory.

In theory, a garment factory can produce 5,000 pieces of clothing in 25 working days per month, provided that the supply of raw materials is stable.

As far as the current situation is concerned, linen, a very important raw material, can be supplied for three months. As for squirrel fur, it is really an inexhaustible resource based on the current era.

The garment factory is a benefit that only Novgorod enjoys, and the women who enter the factory are almost all women from the White Tree Manor.

Other farms also get a share, but the job of those farms is to provide raw materials.

The food problem has been solved, because the people of the principality can also get a lot of fish on the basis of getting wheat.

Fish is naturally a food with a very short shelf life, with the exception of winter.

In the past, the majority of Slavs could not catch much fish based on poor technology. The arrival of the Russians brought new technology of trawling, which made the catch soaring. The severe winter was a big refrigerator, and the catch was piled up into the wall. The increased year-round food reserves.

To solve the problem of food, the most important thing to solve now is the problem of clothing.

The existence of garment factories objectively stimulates the entire downstream industry.

The flax planting area expanded, and hunters, both Rus and Slavs, also increased.

The production capacity of raw materials has increased significantly, causing the national purchase price to plummet.

At least they still make some money. In order to get more benefits, the people who used to sneak away from farming continue to work barebacked, such as logging to ask for land from the forest. Even if they can’t grow wheat in the first year, they will switch to planting flax.

All the farms unanimously chose to weave cloth extensively. Even if the purchase price in the Principality is very low, it is better to make a profit than to do nothing on weekdays.

The boats carried all kinds of raw materials to Novgorod, because there are not only garment factories, but also paper factories.

Even if the farms don’t get much flax, they can chop down trees and peel off the bark at will, cut reeds and rushes with a sickle, transport these materials to the paper mill by boat, and receive wheat rewards on the spot after leaving the goods.

The farms around Lake Ilmen are responsible for the supply of various handicraft raw materials, and the factories in Novgorod complete the processing and manufacture finished products.

Part of the finished product is digested in the principality, and the other part is shipped to Sweden, and the price is increased by a factor of two.

Just in the summer of 836, a set of handicraft industrial chains in the Principality had completed an ecological closed loop, and idlers during the slack period were mobilized on a large scale.

A benign system began to operate, although there were certain flaws that needed to be improved, it was flawless, and Rurik found that he no longer needed to interfere.

Many times the invisible hand will regulate, and he reserves the right to intervene directly when necessary.

The control of salt, iron, and granaries, which are related to the lifeline of the country, was tightly held by Rurik.

What is Rurik himself focusing on now?

As soon as he heard that the prince sent someone to educate the children and even take care of the food, and it didn’t matter whether it was a boy or a girl, the entire city of Novgorod sent out the children of the right age.

There are even five-year-old cubs who are brought in by their parents to be educated just because they look old.

Where do they have such a high awareness, it’s just that the prince’s management of food means that the family has less expenses.

School-age children end the comprehensive education of culture, physical fitness, and labor in the style of princes. Women are attracted to work in handicraft industries, and men start logging, burning charcoal, and making pottery to provide raw materials for the industrial chain, and even work for shipbuilding workshops. , Young children can only be thrown in the care of the elderly.

The use of labor in Novgorod City has reached its limit, and new wealth that is different from agriculture has begun to be continuously created.

There were as many as 2,000 school-age children from Novorosberg, Novgorod, and Mstisk, a number far beyond Rurik’s imagination.

Now that the children have been sent, he, as the prince, can only take them all in. At this moment, the census done by the way last year when counting the acres of land came in handy.

Each child has been made an identity file, which is clearly written into a roster, which in a sense is the child’s written school status.

The school’s teaching buildings were built, and facing a large number of children, Rurik had no choice but to be a teacher himself to cope with the shortage of teachers.

How to manage this group of children, how to let them understand the basic discipline?

It’s not a hassle.

Whether it is the Rus, the Slavs, or even the Suomi, all the ethnic groups under the principality adhere to a principle. Every individual in the so-called tribe does not have absolute freedom. Men and women have a major obligation to defend the tribe. In war, anyone who can afford a weapon goes to war.

Now this set of habits is used as the system of the principality, and look at this group of children. Once they reach the age of twelve, they are obliged to be fighters, regardless of gender. They must master combat skills at an appropriate age.

That being the case, it is even more appropriate to take advantage of the militarized management at a young age.

If a child behaves mischievously, he will be punished by standing and slapping his hands. If he still refuses to correct it, it is easy to deal with it. Just follow the roster to find his parents and ask for a fine.

Rurik is developing a compulsory education system similar to that of the Kingdom of Prussia, but due to the many problems faced by the Duchy of Ross, its development needs to be conservative.

Because just cooking for 2,000 children a day, Rurik had to hire as many as 50 cooks. In order to ensure the children’s three meals a day, the group of cooks was really busy from morning to night.

The most astonishing thing is that 2,000 children have a huge appetite when they get together, and they can consume up to 60,000 pounds of wheat every month. The key is that these inputs have not seen output for several years. Difficult to cover losses.

The Principality already has a lot of investment in education. According to accurate statistics, the food consumption of only 2,000 children and those cooks is at least 300,000 pounds in a five-month semester of a warm period.

The Principality taxed 4 million pounds of wheat last year, and purchased and plundered another 1 million pounds from other places. Considering the loss that poor storage has to face, Rurik estimates that there must be at least 450 pounds Thousands of pounds of wheat.

Based on this rough calculation, my investment in education this year and the investment in food alone are as high as 8% of last year’s agricultural tax.

If classrooms and teaching aids are included, the investment can only be more.

As for the fiscal revenue of the Principality last year, it certainly far exceeded the so-called five million pounds of real wheat.

However, because of the expedition to Karelia in winter, the war consumed a lot of food. Although a huge number of reindeer were plundered, deer cannot be killed casually for meat, and food is consumed every day.

The existing food in the national treasury must supply all the people who can eat the king’s salary, and it will be no problem to persist until this year’s harvest.

Of course, a major premise is that the principality completely eliminates troops temporarily.

Rurik is the prince and the largest controller of industrial capital in the Principality. The sharing agreement with the Blacksmith Union has always been valid. As a result, he not only enjoys 10% to 20% of operating profit sharing, but also charges a high commercial tax once a year.

There are also big taxpayers like the Gould family, in line with the routine of accepting three and inferring two, those small businessmen have no reason not to pay taxes.

Rurik controls the economic lifeline of the principality, and has also made some statistics. He is the person who knows the state of the country best in the entire principality.

The principality is actually very rich, or Rurik, as a prince, is very rich, but there is also a crisis, which is the increasing internal consumption.

Part of the reason why the principality can get higher taxes compared to the limited population naturally comes from the direct courage of Rurik, who is both intelligent and handsome, and another major reason comes from war and plunder.

The first test was in 827 AD, and from 828 to 833, the principality has been engaged in a war of betting on national games, and in the next two years it also fought a big war.

Fortunately, the Principality has won all the vicious battles. With the unprecedented seizure and the very safe external state, it has the opportunity to stay in the east and north this year and make a fortune in silence.

But Ross did not really give up war and plunder because of this.

During the day, Rurik had to go into battle to educate the children himself. It was the first time that ordinary people saw such a scene of the prince personally educating the children.

The public thinks this is a sign of the nobles being close to the people, but from Rurik’s point of view, it is really a factor of the serious shortage of teaching staff.

At night, he will organize all the wives and concubines, and even those young teachers who have been busy all day. He will continue to do some training and summarize the situations encountered in educating the cubs.

Forget about leaving those with good math skills to do economic calculations with me.

“I should train more clerks. I have to find out all the math saplings in the cubs. I must establish a suitable civil service system! Otherwise, the great country will gradually be unable to bring it back! I don’t want to be tired of being Emperor Yongzheng.” die.”

Originally, when Rurik arrived in Novorosburg, the real capital, the Ilmen Lake area where Novgorod is located showed strong economic strength. into flax.

She actually became the economic capital, so it is also the core area of handicrafts and education.

Economic geography dictates this outcome, unless Novorosberg’s commercial capabilities really add value beyond Novgorod.

The governors of various places will manage the territory well, the shipping traffic between the settlements has always been stable, and as long as there are lakes and two large bays, there are boats from the Principality of Ross fishing. The so-called East and North Baltic Seas and their land areas, the Principality People are actively engaged in economic activities.

Rurik even ignored the privateer and the explorer Spyut, and as a result, the Salmon Chief went retrograde on the Volkhov River under the pull of the oarboat.

The privateer is back!

Seeing that she needs as many as four long boats to be drawn by oars, and the obvious and amazing draft, Rurik arrived at the pier after hearing the news, and only took a look at the draft of the big ship before making a judgment with a smile: “Okay, Si Puyote. It seems that you have robbed a boatload of treasures to pay for a job.”

[End of this Chapter]