Chapter 91： Initial silver capital

Lurik used a first-person plural term. Lumia didn't think much about it, she was happy for her master.

At this time, she, who was following Rürik, hadn’t realized that the owner had made up his mind to give her a gift.

Of course, in Lumia's eyes, it is a kind of gift, but in Lulik's eyes, it is really giving her the necessary reward.

So, how heavy should the 100 fine Roman silver coins Rurik have now?

The gross profit of fifty soaps is exactly one hundred silver coins, and it has just reached a very interesting digital node.

Because of the silver coins minted in Rome at the end of the eighth century, according to the order of the Eastern Roman emperor, one pound of pure silver should be smelted into one hundred silver coins.

Lurik is holding a pound of pure silver, can it not be heavy?

But silver, a metal, is always accompanied by lead when it is mined and smelted. Eastern Romans could purify silver ingots to an astonishing degree, but when they were smelted into silver coins, the mint had to add a little lead to it because of the desire for ink.

When the Empire inspected the finished product of the Mint, as long as the currency inscription is correct and the weight is basically qualified, it is the so-called best-quality currency.

As for the deliberate addition of lead, it is not the scope of consideration.

So this brings about a very bad situation. The quality of Roman silver coins is gradually declining. One reason is the corruption of the East Roman Mint. And every silver coin digs out a little bit of silver shavings, collects and re-smelts, you can make a silver ingot out of thin air.

In this time and space, and even in the next thousand years, silver can be described as the universal currency of the world. Whether it is in the East or the West, even South Asia, or even the new world in the future, silver has better liquidity than gold.

After all, silver is silver, it is a scarce metal, not as common as iron ore.

Therefore, silver coins and copper coins are the most widely circulated currencies in the European world. Among them, the Frankish Kingdom and Britain, silver coins are the most popular currency among the people. However, the Frankish kingdom has its own royal mint. They mint silver coins by themselves. In order to emphasize their uniqueness, the nature and taste are different from Roman silver coins.

Silver is silver, any blacksmith can melt it, separate the valuable lead from it, and cast the molten silver water twice. A blacksmith with a way to use a stamp imitating the use of the Frankish royal family stamped the silver coins forged privately with patterns and inscriptions.

Silver coins need to circulate freely. They are not as hard as bronze and iron. Pure silver has a relatively soft texture. Therefore, the process of use will inevitably face bad wear and tear, and the fineness is of course a rapid decline.

If you want to maintain the color, that is, to maintain the silver content, of course, you must melt it and add silver shavings to restore the silver content. Of course, there are also people who add lead to it in reverse thinking to maintain the weight. As a result, the lead content of the silver coins issued earlier becomes higher and higher, and the fineness plummets.

A good businessman can easily estimate its silver content-bite.

can bite the mark, it is a fine silver coin, although the lead content in it is uneven, I will not suffer too much.

Europeans add lead to silver coins to shoddy, and Orientals also have exactly the same routine. This leads to the guys in the shop, as well as the shop owners, who must be proficient in mathematical calculations. European balances and oriental weighings are also merchants. Essential equipment.

In the Baltic region around, silver coins from Rome, silver coins from Frank, and a variety of copper coins are the most commonly used currencies.

The amount of currency is sufficient, and there is no money shortage in this area. As the Danes' plunder of the South and Britain intensified, the hot money they looted has increasingly flowed into this area.

The Danes are happy to attack the Frankish Empire and Britain, which has already been fully integrated into the Frankish currency system. The large amount of Frankish currency they looted is squeezing the position of Roman currency in the Baltic Sea.

Why?

One of the most obvious reasons, because businessmen are not fools, although they all use silver coins, whoever puts less lead into them, they prefer to use them.

The Frank Empire issued the latest minted silver coin at the beginning of the eighth century, more than ten years before Rurik was born. Its silver content is as high as 99%. Although the weight is much lighter than Roman silver coins, the victory is that the silver content is really high. .

In the past two decades, the Frankish Empire and the British region, as well as the surrounding Iberia and northern Italy, as well as the Swiss mountains and some Western Slavic tribes, among them, powerful people understand the super high silver content of the new Frankish silver coin.

Although merchants must melt and recast old silver coins in order to eliminate wear and tear, they will inevitably add lead to them. Twenty years is too short, and the lifespan of silver coins generally does not reach the point where it needs to be recast.

In the Danish society, the common currency is gradually being monopolized by the Frankish currency. Although the Danes and the Northern Mind Sub-Tribal Alliance, which later became the Swedes, were more often in conflict with each other, their daily transactions have always existed.

Merchants are in the Baltic Sea. They don’t care which power the customer belongs to. They don’t want to betray the silver coins.

Franconian silver coins are already influencing the society of the thinking sub-tribe. Because the Ross tribe is too close to the north, the main hoarding of their tribe is Roman silver coins.

The Ross tribe knew of a new silver coin a few years ago, which was lighter than Roman silver coins and had better color.

Silver is silver. Currency is made of silver. Coins delivered by commercial activities are settled according to the weight of silver. This is the only reason why all kinds of silver coins in the European world can be circulated.

As long as the Ross tribe wants to do business with the brothers in the south, the proportion of Frankish silver coins in the tribe’s own cash box will rise quietly. If there is no major accident and the Frankish silver coin replaces the Roman silver coin, it will be a matter of time.

In the macro trade of Europe, a large number of silver coins flowing out of East Rome flowed into the Frank Empire. Frank’s official mint melted the Roman silver coins, and the silver water was cast into its own.

Maybe the Frankish Empire did not make a clear statement, they are trying to establish a hegemony of the Frankish Empire that covers the entire Europe, and their silver coins have spread rapidly throughout Europe.

Bringing a pack of silver coins, Rurik returned to the long house of the priest happily. He didn't spend much time coming back and forth, he couldn't wait to announce a good news as soon as he walked in.

"I've brought back all the silver coins! You are going to divide the money!" Rurik also deliberately showed off his linen pockets, and the tinkling of metal collision attracted the attention of the priests.

If all the soap is sold for money, everyone can get a fortune. As long as everyone prepares the grease used in the sacrifice in advance, all the excess grease will be made into soap!

The priests knew very well that boiling oil was the key to everything. As for making the green water, at this time, the child Rlick needs to give some guidance.

They boiled the oil happily, as if the pain in their arms had been relieved, and they were in a good mood. This time seeing Rurik return, they felt even better.

"Rurik, you! Did you bring the money back?" Bona hurried over, her face cracked with very ugly wrinkles because of joy. Starting

"Of course... of course."

For a moment, Rurik felt fear. This group of priestesses acted slowly when they performed the sacrificial rituals. When they heard the jingle of money, all of them became hyenas eager to eat fresh meat, and screamed and rushed over.

"It's up to you to fulfill your promise now." Bona said urgently.

"Okay. Just leave it later."

In order to ensure fairness, Rurik placed all the silver coins in a matrix of ten by ten on a leather cushion.

Even in the daytime, the long house of the priest still lit the oil lamp, and the lamp was shining on the silver coin, and the portrait of the Roman emperor on it was really shining.

The expressions of the priests fully proved their emotional excitement. If it wasn't for rationality to restrain their inner impulses, Rurik firmly believed that these priests would come to a hungry tiger to eat. For the ownership of silver coins, more than a dozen people could beat their heads.

At the critical moment, Veria stood up and presided over the overall situation, and she was shocked to see so many silver coins.

Why isn't she shocked?

Because in the thinking sub-tribe society, all tribes regard animal skins as a very important value standard reference object for commodity transactions.

Scandinavia has long provided high-quality animal skins for people in the South. As the wild animal resources are dying, they have to raise cattle on some small plains. There are also brave people who go to remote places to hunt wild reindeer, and even more. Cherished small fur animals, such as the rare and precious ferrets.

They raise cattle and cannot feed the cattle very large, so the product of the cut cowhide is not much different from that of an adult reindeer.

In the memory of the high priest Veria, when she was young, the cowhide and deerskin of an adult was the value of a Roman silver coin. Today, the value is roughly the same, about one-fifth of the value of a Roman ounce of silver.

The one hundred silver coins displayed by 　　Lurik, you can buy one hundred cowhide or deerskin.

For example, a piece of cowhide can be made into a high-quality leather jacket, as well as leather boots, gloves and hats.

Villa is here to supervise, and the more excited lower priests can only lick their faces and watch the distribution of wealth by Rurik who sat down.

Twenty silver coins were picked out in full view, and then piled up in front of Vilia.

"Grandma, you can count."

"Okay, my child."

The silver coins are so precious that even if Rurik seems to have allocated the number to the priest, it can be instantly distinguished by the naked eye, and Veria still has to count them one by one.

According to the "employment contract", the priests should be paid so much, and it is their own business how to distribute and use them.

Lurik believes that they will take care of the silver coins according to the new rules just made, but those are not very relevant to them.

The remaining huge amount of eighty silver coins is his initial silver capital.

It may be dangerous for a child to hold so many large sums of money.

Isn’t it dangerous? Youdao means that everyone is innocent and guilty. A person who lacks the ability to protect his property is a big fat sheep in the eyes of a strong man.

I was only seven years old, and my personal safety actually relied on the protection of the priests and parents. Now the priests of the church make soap and develop a means of collecting money for the priests who are actually poor. In fact, they are also strategically binding their own safety to the rights of the priests.

But will there be desperadoes who rob property? A child wandering around with a heavy silver coin, good people can see evil intentions, this is human nature.

The people of the Ross tribe are still simple. They will definitely not risk being hunted down by the whole clan to attack the leader's son or the leader's home.

In the past few years at least, Rurik has never understood that there have been robberies within the tribe, at most trivial disputes. The elderly coordinated, and the two sides have a common ancestor relationship to bridge the contradiction.

Therefore, the tribe has no legal provisions, only some "rules" that are passed down by word of mouth.

Next, Rurik collects the money. It seems that it is the safest to put them in his own cashbox.

The silver coin pocket was hung around his waist, and Ruriek continued to stay in the warm priest's long room.

He looked into the eyes of the waiting Rumia, and ordered: "Go to herd and drive the deer back when it gets dark. Tonight you don’t want anyone in the chief priest’s house, you follow me home, I will arrange you Some things. Well, some good things."

"Okay, I'll go as soon as I prepare." Lumia nodded.

Deer, they are their own deer! To drive the deer to escape from birth? That is very stupid and will die of hunger and severe cold.ァ新ヤ~⑧~1~中文网ωωω.χ~⒏~1zщ.còм

Lumia has found her new home, and she is pretty good as Rurik's servant.

Because the deer originally belonged to Lumia, the deer didn't feel nervous at all when they saw their old master.

The herd of deer was once a behemoth of three hundred individuals, but now it has shrunk to twenty. It is impossible for them to multiply to the size they used to be in every ten years!

Just as Lumia drove the deer to peel away the snow and nibble on the grass, Rurik was like a soap production engineer.

Now that the priests have gained benefits and desire more, continue to make them.

As long as the fat they hold can withstand consumption, wouldn’t it be beautiful to turn it into soap?

But their situation is obviously a bit bad. The key to the work of stirring the wooden stick to create the saponification reaction, their arm soreness can not be suppressed by willpower.

They boiled enough grease to make a viscous liquid soap that is enough to fill 35 wooden boxes.

Until the evening, no one's work satisfied Rurik. What to do? Keep stirring!

Lu Mia has drove the deer back home. The big mouths of these deer have been pushed out of the thick snow, one by one is the venison lawn mower, they gnawed hay, and each returned to the deer pen.

I don’t know how long it took, even Otto, who had eaten supper, came to the priest’s long house to find out.

Otto reported to Vilia that the huge rewards brought by soap also brought the people's strong desire for more.

Silver coins are not a problem, everyone needs spot.

"I saw that they are still making, and their condition is not very good." Otto asked worriedly: "Great priests, can they do thirty-five tomorrow?"

"This……"

Lurik is here, and Veria has already drawn a conclusion from him that the priests have limited power and they need to take a vacation.

She said in a hoarse voice: "My leader, you can ask your son well, he knows everything. He wants to go home and sleep tonight."

"Okay." Otto nodded.

The son has been soaking in the chief priest's house for some time, which is not suitable.

Otto called his son in and ordered a few words immediately.

"Dad, I will go back tonight. The priests will work for a while, and the soap can be poured into the mold, and it can be sold as a finished product tomorrow evening. Dad, you can't worry."

"I try not to be anxious." Stroking his son's forehead, Otto really felt more comfortable. Not only because of his old age, but also the reason why his son is a strange person.

The son washed his hair with soap, and his blond hair was so comfortable to touch, as if he was stroking a golden ferret fur.

Of course Otto and his wife Niya, both of them washed their hair with soap today. Those people who bought soap finally enjoyed the long-lost ultimate cleanliness today, shouting the value of the money.

In this way, those people who didn't buy the Sha, Otto came here to see his son, and to urge the goods.

Lurik couldn't help yawning. He untied his pocket from his belt and placed it on the palm of his father's big hand.

"Dad, these are all my money. For safety, they are all in our cash box. I think this is the most appropriate."

"This...this is your money, maybe you need a money box of your own." Weighed the son's money bag with the palm of his hand. The weight surprised the old man.

"Oh? Really?" Rurik pondered for a moment. It's okay to have a piggy bank. "Well, dad, you help me get a cash box, and I will use it to save money in the future. But my own cash box must be kept in our house."

"Of course, my child."

"Dad I have to supervise their work for a while. When the soap is all poured, a priest will **** me home. Now..." Lurik glanced at Lumia, "First Take my servant home. Dad, you have to tell mom that you must treat her well in the future and try to treat her as a daughter."

"Oh, isn't it? Okay, I will try my best." Otto nodded deeply, and tried to sit with Lumia who didn't want to cause trouble with a big finger, "Servant, come with me now."

Hearing this scream, Lumia shivered subconsciously, her eyes showing a strong sense of tension.

"Dad! You want to call her Lumia! Do you want to be rude?" Rurik protested.

"Well, Lumia, come here." Otto tried to be gentle with a servant.

What else can Lu Mia do, and now he can only listen to the mercy of the villain who hurt her family. It would be okay if Rurik was by his side, but now I want to listen to this villain?

Seeing her nervous face, Rurik used a funny color, and then softly comforted: "Don't be afraid, everyone knows that you are recognized by Odin as a member of our clan. You go back first, and you will give it to me when I go back. A gift for you."

A gift? A sense of security is the best gift.

Lumia nodded faintly, she followed Otto closely, walked out of the warm priest’s long house, faced the cold outside, and quickly walked towards the warmer chief’s long house.

Maybe today I am going to be a servant who pours wine and firewood to clean up the leader.

I hope Rurik, who will protect himself, will come back soon.