Chapter 185： Speculation caused by a "big money box"

Otto informed his son that he had received 30,000 silver coins, and told him more bluntly: "From now on, the public wealth of the priests will be managed by the chief. Now, the high priest still has close to 20,000 silver coins. , As well as some gold coins and gems. I will take care of them now. In the future, if you take over my position, you will take care of them."

"Ah?! That is, their money. I..." Rurik was a little confused. He felt that he needed to make a stand, that he should obey Veria, even if the priests did some measures, he did not covet them. money.

But it is obvious that Rick Gu’s reputation should not be left behind in this matter.

Otto covered Rurik’s little head with his big hand: "Tell you, these are all orders from the high priest. The existing priestesses are unreliable! Son, you need to train your own priestess, and you need to replace the priests in charge of the priests. Money. To prevent the priests from using their brains, they must be in charge of the money. I think you are so smart, you should understand."

Lurik, does he understand? Of course understand.

The chief has secular public power, and the high priest has the ability to control thoughts. In this time and space, the discord between these two forces in many countries is a major cause of civil unrest.

To eliminate the possibility of such chaos, the chief leader must firmly control the priests. Now Rurik understood from his father's words, the high priest Veria, who was almost dead, made a major decision when the oil was exhausted. The so-called group of priests will become vassals of the chief leader.

Lurik has only one word in mind—centralization.

Since he has the right to control the finances of the priests as the chief leader in the future, why doesn't the chief leader control more? If you control money and food, you can control a large number of people. In this era that is still wild, it's time for the Ross tribe to bid farewell to the tribal era. The big boss, when upgraded to a monarch, the Ross tribe should be upgraded to a kingdom.

The problem is here, since it must be upgraded to a kingdom, there should be a treasury.

But now he is not a big leader, let alone the king of the kingdom.

Facing his father, Rurik felt that he needed to give his father a major suggestion that would benefit the tribesmen on the issue of the use of money. In other words, it was a kind of innovation.

Liu Rick's little face became serious.

"Dad."

"I'm here."

"About the priests' money, and yours. You mean, our family, you and I can control as much as 70 thousand silver coins. It's a huge sum of money."

"Hey." Otto continued to rub his son's head, "Sooner or later, it will be your money."

"Really? But." Rurik raised his head and said solemnly: "But, the priest's money is not my money."

"It is true, but you can use it."

Rurik shook his head: "Even so, it is still not my money. Now, Dad, I just want to make one thing clear. If it is not my money, I can use it. In what name should I use it? Is it used as a big boss, or something else?"

For a while, Otto couldn't figure out his son's intentions.

Rurik simply made his attitude clear: "I think we need a great money box, which contains a lot of treasures. These treasures belong to our Rus tribe and are the wealth of all the people. But the right to use it lies in the use of it. In the hands of the big leader."

"Huh? Your thoughts are so strange." Otto shook his head.

"Weird? In the past, the priests had a common money box. The wealth belonged to all priests, and the right to use was in the hands of the high priest. I think this system is possible and should be extended to the entire tribe. In my opinion, priests The existing 20,000 silver coins and other belongings are counted as the belongings of our tribe's big cash box. With this money, we can do many things."

Otto still feels a little strange to this day: "Go on, for example, what to do?"

"Well, for example, repair the roads and houses for the poor people. We can use the money to improve the lives of our people."

"Are you sure you want to do this? It's their own business to be poor or rich. Do you plan to care about the poor? They have hands and feet, so they can naturally go fishing and fight. If they do these things, will they still be poor? ?"

The words came out of his father's mouth, he is the leader of the tribe!

Lurik felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Of course, the young and strong warriors of the tribe can carry an axe to plunder the enemy tribe to gain wealth, or they can float on the sea to fish for fish. A healthy young man is certainly capable of supporting himself and his family, but once they are old, they cannot maintain the same living conditions they used to be.

Especially those warriors. If they die in battle, their wives and children will almost cut off their financial resources.

Lurik had thought of many things. For example, some women of the tribe would bury their husbands who died in battle. There might also be economic reasons. For a woman who has lost her husband, her life will become extremely difficult, and death is probably a kind of relief.

He asked, "Dad, don't those weak people in our tribe deserve your attention?"

"They?"

"For example, some older people, or children who lost their fathers?"

Regarding this, Otto never thought about it, so he said casually: "Human destiny is doomed. Some people are born noble, and some people are born with misfortune. For example, you, you are the happiest person."

"So, Dad, can you let them die early? Or have you been waiting for death in the days of starvation?"

Otto was startled, and hurriedly replied: "No, I don't mean that."

"But you really didn't make some decisions. You are the big leader, but there are still many people in our tribe who live in the most dilapidated houses and live with limited food. Now you still support us to implement at least five The ten-year rule of dividing the spoils has been changed. Those who did not participate in the war or sailing in Sorgon, their families will not receive much money. This is not right."

was criticized by his son, but Otto was upset. But he can question his decision, which shows that this child definitely has other ideas.

Regarding the change of the tribe’s dividend model, Otto has his own reason: "Rurik. Our Roseburg is in a bitter cold place, and only the strongest can survive. Our tribe needs new heroes and the brave. Those who are weak are all. You are about to die. Only the strong deserve all the power. You are a smart boy, I think you can understand."

"So, those weak should die early?" Rurik issued a soul complaint.

Otto is also unwilling to show weakness: "This is the root of our strength. Only the strongest group of people can survive, and those who can participate in the battle are also the strongest. If we are weak, we are long gone. Remember. Is that grove? Some children are born weak, and they are abandoned when they are born. Rurik, the weak are not worthy to live. Even if they survive by luck, they will die of disease when they are young."

Natural selection, survival of the fittest? It's so cruel.

Lurik understood what his father meant. Based on this wild era, at one time, Roseburg’s material resources should only support the survival of a group of the strongest. But the tribe is still a behemoth of four thousand people.

Because of the tribe’s long-term "wide dividend system", people who struggle to walk can also share a cup of lingering soup from the results of the Sorgon voyage.

Times have changed. What Rurik has learned over the past few months is the serious wealth inequality inherent in the tribe. Now the situation has gotten worse, such as his fellow Fisk, who died of his father, which also prevented the family from participating in the war, let alone sailing to Novgorod. The tribe's two major operations this year have made huge profits, but this obviously has nothing to do with the Fisk family.

There are many other family tribes like this. If it were not for his own relief, Rurik would dare to assert that Fisker would most likely not survive to adulthood.

Father Otto’s "Social Darwin" words, Rurik does not agree with him at all. Based on his own thoughts, he would never agree with this idea.

If the wealth and supplies of the tribe are scarce, the only way for the tribe to stay strong is to sacrifice the weak and the strong take all.

Now, are the supplies of the Ross tribe really scarce? of course not!

"Dad, I still don't agree with you." Rurik said surely, "I want to help the weak of the tribe. I think that as a leader, there is a reason to help them. Anyway, they are our tribe. Even if they are. They are weak, and we must also help them."

"I heard, your one hundred and fifty buddies, you eat them every day. Do you think this is correct?"

Lurik nodded deeply: "Some of them have their fathers died accidentally or died in battle. I can't bear to starve them! I will always give them food, which will be available to me when they grow up."

"But this, it takes too much money!"

"Dad, do you still doubt my ability to make money up to now? I pay a sum of money to support the poor, and I still have the confidence to make my money more and more."

At the question of the soul, Otto looked at the transparent cup on the table and smiled sly.

Rurik continued: "Dad, as far as I know, almost everyone in the tribe believes that I am a child blessed by Odin. My identity is noble. This is the identity that Odin bestowed on me, and you bestowed it on me. I have a noble identity, but I’m not here to enjoy the blessings. My mission is to lead our tribe to prosperity. I want to make the strong stronger and the weak to live without worry, and I also want foreigners to surrender to we."

For a moment, Otto thought of his son's attitude many years ago when he had just learned to speak. Looking back on that year, the shock is still in my heart.

"So, you will spend a lot of money to help the poor?"

"Yes!" Rurik said firmly: "We must have a big money box, which belongs to all the members of our Rus tribe. In my opinion, we will win the battle and the tribute of the Sorgon sailing. Go into this big money box. The money in the big money box is to help the poor people exist."

Otto patted his forehead: "Hey! Isn't this the same as before?"

"Very different! This money is controlled by the big boss, who to fund and how it is funded are also arranged by the big boss. Not only that, the big boss can use the money to hire craftsmen of his own race and foreigners to build new houses. , Build a dock, or simply build a big ship. I think that the big leader has many obligations to the tribe, not only to lead the tribe to victory in the war, but also to ensure that no tribe member will freeze to death or starve to death."

Lurik consciously said something magnificent, and he expected Otto to be moved.

The reality is that Otto, the current leader of the Ross tribe, was not touched by his son's great ambition.

Otto felt that, after all, his son was still planning to take the initiative to feed the poorest and weakest in the tribe. As for the "big money box", isn't that still son's money? Under a new name, it is still the money of the son of a new generation of chieftain.

Because of Otto, I really can’t understand my son’s ideas. He could not determine whether his son's ideas were great and noble, or based solely on the consideration of maximizing his own interests, or both.

Chief? Being a big boss is to enjoy the great feeling of having power, and it can also bring tangible economic benefits. With money and power, the tribesmen will create a "competition meeting" where the strongest will fight through a duel to beat the blood for this noble status.

As for the big bosses need to fulfill the obligations to the people.

Otto felt that he was directing the tribe to win battles, leading the tribe to open up a new living space, and even found a companion for the young boys of the tribe. Aren't these very great and wise decisions? Can the leaders of the past have their own wise and great? !

Do not! Those seniors are basically really indulging in their own enjoyment, are masters of fighting, nothing more.

Taking this opportunity, Otto listed his wise actions. UU reading

was the son's shaking his head in exchange. Just one sentence-not enough!

Because of Rurik’s thought, it is still Oriental.

In the East, the army is a national weapon, and the granary is also a national weapon.

The power of living comes from the sky. This so-called sky is a kind of "the highest level of great existence". What the monarch has is the "mandate of heaven", which is a kind of authorization from the great existence.

The monarch has the right to collect taxes from his subjects and place them in the treasury. This treasury is more often referred to as the big granary.

Subjects should respect the monarch as they respect their father. The monarch is more obligated to care for his subjects as a father cares for his children.

The monarch must not waste the national money for no reason. When the subjects encounter a famine, they must open a warehouse to release food to help the people.

In this way, the monarch and his subjects have a relationship similar to a family.

Leurik, he appreciates this relationship model more.

Because what he saw in the West in the ninth century, especially this remote Roseburg, was a wild place at all.

Carefully and in detail, the strong men of the tribe decided to start now and no longer share the war dividends with the poor and weak of the tribe.

A batch of looted or simply bought populations are added to the tribe, and the population composition of the tribe is quietly changing.

The once tribal society is irreversibly changing rapidly.

Is the tribal society of Roseburg really more advanced as it changes?