Chapter 384： Set up a mast for the 100-pound lady

Otto, the big leader of the Rus, finally felt that the days could return to peace for a while, and he could take a good rest for a period of time, and then arrange to go to Novgorod Sorgun this spring. As a result, the entire tribe was about to become restless again, and the reason was that it only came from the dream of the son.

The atmosphere in the warm home is solemn, and Rurik sits here with a firm attitude.

One thing Otto was angry about was that his noble son wanted to be a boat builder.

Otto made no secret of his displeasure: "You want to build a ship, but you can't do it. You actually want to be a craftsman yourself? Carrying the hammer yourself. You can give pointers as to how to mix with the children of the shipbuilders? You? Think this is a pastime? Or do you think you can mingle with them and make you feel happy? Listen, you will only make many people think that you are not noble enough."

"Huh?" Rurik, who had a slight smile on his face, froze awkwardly on the leather cushion.

"Go ahead, do you still want to continue?"

"I..." Rurik played with it, but Otto could see his thoughts clearly. If you think about it, a leader really blends with the craftsman, and the leader will be satisfied with his actions that are close to the people. As for whether he touched everyone, perhaps it is as Otto said.

Even so, Rurik made up his mind.

He cheered up: "Dad, this is my decision. What I want to build is my boat, and it only makes sense if I personally start it."

In fact, Rurik still has an idea, but because of his own bad taste, he is eager to cater to history. Because Peter the Great was an apprentice in the shipyard and later became the Holy Lord of Ross. History chose Rurik to lay the foundation for Ross, and he consciously deserves this responsibility. Participating in shipbuilding in person has a strong symbolic meaning, but others don't feel the resonance.

"Okay! That is your decision, my attitude is still opposed, but I will not stop you. There is only one thing you must understand."

"What is it?"

"You have to worry about a group of warriors who are good at carpentry, and you have to pay them at least daily food. Is it worth it? I checked, and the one million pounds of food is now less than 200,000 pounds. Just continue to consume it. Going down, the grain will soon be eaten. The grain can be exchanged for 20,000 silver coins, do you want to give it to them? Then this ship is really extremely expensive."

Rurik hesitated. He thought of something and immediately made clear his attitude: "Dad, this is my decision. In the future, you will understand that the ships that we have paid a huge price to build will also bring us huge I don’t want to describe an overly beautiful future. I just hope you don’t worry about anything. I just want to get your approval and let you summon everyone to build the ship in the name of the leader."

Otto strained his stubble mouth: "At this moment, you just need to raise your arms and shout. Do you still need me?"

"But you are the leader."

"Hehe, I thought you forgot." Otto gave a wry smile, then sighed with a trace of sorrow: "You've grown up. Okay, I'll help you."

Otto's attitude really made Rurik a little uncomfortable, he noticed his father's old age for the first time. Otto's arms are still strong, and his strong beard does not conceal the masculine power he still exudes. In recent years, his aging is obvious.

No one is older than his heart. Seeing that his son is so active, Otto also deliberately delegates power in order to be a happy rich man. Xianyun Yehe is an extravagant hope, he is the big leader, just as the rule-knowing Rurik said, summoning the entire tribe to do some important things, only the big leader's words can be effective.

No, Otto immediately took his son, and even a group of people who spoke importantly in the tribe gathered together. In the end, he issued the convening order. At the moment when the temperature was still cold, more than a thousand men and women dressed in heavy leather clothes gathered in front of the leader's house cheerfully.

Some news about speeding up shipbuilding went viral among the tribes in the first place, and these news were also that Rurik asked his mercenaries to deliberately speak out, so as to propagate the shipbuilding matter.

Those rumors had obviously turned into legends. A large group of people were vomiting a thick white mist, looking at the leader standing on a high place, thinking about what benefits they could get in shipbuilding.

Otto has finally spoken!

A man holding a patterned steel sword, his slicked blond hair and sunken eyes further set off the weight of his words: "You know some things! Shipbuilding! Aphrora must be installed with a mast within ten days. It is not enough to rely on those shipbuilders. For our cause, I am calling you now. You are the best people of the Rus tribe. Only you can build our largest ship. I order you! Go shipbuilding!"

In an instant, the crowd boiled!

This lively mood infected the entire Roseburg, and even the people who climbed onto the snow-covered roof, heard the roar and clenched their fists to join in the fun.

Up until now, Otto’s actions against Liurik have been criticized as a “stupid waste”. Otto has lived for half a century. How can he not know that heavy labor will inevitably lead to serious food consumption? Especially in this **** winter, even women will become big stomach kings. He just thinks that his son's generosity is a bit of a reputation.

Because as far as shipbuilding is concerned, as a leader, Otto can issue an order to order people to bring their own food and tools to participate in shipbuilding matters. As for the rewards they can get, of course they will participate in this year’s Sorgon voyage. qualifications.

Since the son insisted on taking out the food, he couldn't say anything else.

Otto decisively brought Liu Likla to his side, and in full view, the future leader of the tribe announced the specific work of shipbuilding and the rewards for those who participated in it.

Rurik solemnly announced his plan according to his own ideas and even the results of discussions with the shipbuilders.

The big ship has to rush to work, and it is absolutely impossible to recruit people who are good at fishing and paddling or those who are infirm.

The other shipbuilders in the tribe, as long as they are willing to participate, Rurik will hire them all. The results of it? All the local boat builders are here! Behind Rurik's great surprise, he couldn't think of this group of people for a while.

What do the local boat builders think? There is a saying that foreign monks can recite sutras. The Ross people have never had the ability to build cargo ships for decades. They can only build long ships with extremely low shipboards. Who would have thought that the Hortra family and their friends immigrated from Melaren? , The first ship that the group built in Roseburg was a behemoth.

Only fools will ignore the "building wonders" of their peers and let them go. They just take the opportunity to learn technology secretly.

As for the brawny men with muscles, their registration is obviously very simple-the boring winter is idle and the wife is pregnant, which makes life even more boring.

A person with a strong experience will not decide to visit for a month just because of a long hunt. An ambitious person receives a bounty and desires more. They are all careerists, hoping to perform well in front of the leaders to gain new possibilities for the future of themselves and their children. Of course, one of the most direct reasons is that Rurik can be called crazy food supply.

To build a big ship, Rurik would not provide them with even a silver coin.

But before the mast of the ship is erected, he will provide two pounds of wheat per person per day.

Although one silver coin can buy ten pounds of wheat, the exchange rate set by the chief family has been stable for more than half a year, but now the grain inventory is getting less and less, and the amount of grain released by the warehouse is also much less. Even if they have money in their hands, it has become difficult for them to buy even a pound of food.

As the saying goes, what the human body lacks most, the instinct of the body will drive the mind to acquire it. The daily diet of the Ross people is almost occupied by fish. They are extremely deficient in carbohydrate intake. Therefore, after eating a large amount of wheat as never before, they cannot bear the pain of losing it, because it really comes from the DNA from the depths of every cell. Shout.

Rülik recruited more than five hundred people, who were either shipbuilders, or wood masters, or good at wood carving, and even several powerful men who claimed to be able to pull long boats ashore by close to a rope.

Rurik does need a large number of hunks, because the first task given to this group is extremely challenging!

A staggering number of blond brawny men gathered in front of Hotla’s shipbuilding plant. With such a crowded scene, the head shipbuilding craftsmen did not know what had happened.

As Hortra walked out of the factory to negotiate with Rurik, he quickly smiled.

In this day's work, the brawny men who assisted in shipbuilding have come? !

The entire majestic crowd moved into action. They have been divided into groups by Rurik, relying on the more prestigious person among them as the so-called team leader and confessing their respective duties.

Some groups specialize in logging, targeting the small pine trees near the tribe that are only suitable for firewood and charcoal.

Some teams are responsible for twisting the existing thin cables into large arm-thick cables.

Some groups began to use various tools to further cut the spruce poles used as masts.

Some groups used double saws, axes and scrapers to cut the northern pine wood into planks.

The work of some groups is very strange, as if it has nothing to do with shipbuilding, they are responsible for digging pits in an area designated by Hotra.

There are only some participants, they participate in a very special posture.

Building a big ship, how can such a major event be without the help of the blacksmith alliance of the Ross tribe? How can we lose the most capable Klavasen and Kawei?

The first earthen blast furnace of the Ross tribe, it just completed a casting operation during the severe winter. Those blacksmith apprentices from Novgorod braved the severe cold and brought the reindeer herd carrying the ore back. With just one casting, Kravassen completed all the ore smelting. He can't expect the power of a group of children to smash the mine with a pickaxe, nor can he expect the team to transport back how much ore.

After all, a batch of ore was transported back, and a batch of iron ingots was created in just one smelting in a blast furnace with a huge stomach sac.

Because of the understanding of "atomism", the blacksmiths of the entire Rus tribe understood the difference between pig iron, steel and wrought iron.

They are blacksmiths, just like shipbuilders. Although their group that believes in Thor is a relatively different existence in the Ross tribe, they also represent the tribe's highest technology.

They are innovative, especially after learning about the "atomic theory" from Rurik, their worldview was greatly subverted.

Kawei, he didn't even need to give instructions by Rurik. The so-called knowing the main components of air and the main components of cast iron, this young man has realized the "frying steel method" of steelmaking.

However, it cannot be said that Kawei is a genius with an IQ of 200. He tried to forge the cast iron with a hammer. As a result, he was so strong that he smashed the iron ingot into a pile of fragments. This was angrily throwing these things into the small. stove. He counted on constantly blowing, so that the so-called "O" gas would take away all the **** "C" in the iron ingot. As a result, these small iron pieces were fused into a lump in the furnace, and when they were fished out, they could finally be forged. With more and more proficiency, Kawei's use of the steel frying method has become more effective, and the efficiency of forging steel swords has been greatly improved.

The father and son Kawei and Kravasson were busy making steel swords, Lilia was also staring at the die-casting of glassware in the nursery's free time, and Kamnier stared at the distillation of spirits wholeheartedly while watching the baby.

Until returning, Rurik gave the blacksmith an order: make a batch of nails.

Of course the Ross people know what nails are. They used to be very expensive. What's more, the tribal boat builders all use tenon and tenon structures. Why do you need any nails?

Only now, Rurik needs a lot of nails, but they are not used on the boat.

The heavy preparation work was the first job of the brawny. They received the death order from Rurik, which was actually the death order from the chief leader. Due to the unquestionable majesty, everyone went out.

They were desperately desperate, but the preparation work continued for as long as seven days!

Rurik fulfilled his promise. He actually paid up to 8,000 pounds of oats to make up for the physical loss of the strong men. Even so, the strong men are still eating their own reserves of dried meat, or buying frozen seal meat and cod meat from hunters.

As usual, Rurik also mobilized the group of children under him, but what can these children do? They just obey the arrangement, collect the branches and wood chips everywhere, use them as fuel for cooking, and do as much auxiliary work as possible. Even gather together to sing the folk songs of the Ross people, or hum some beautiful melodic songs that Rurik taught them urgently to relieve the tension and anxiety of the heavy work of the brawny.

The most onerous work here is two kinds.

A group of personnel was using scrapers to cut the mast wood about half a meter in diameter into one-third stika, and the other end to only one-fifth stika. According to Hortra, even this big ship does not need too much mast.

There is also a group of people. They are actually making the accessories for the mast, that is, a beam with fifteen stika-long beams, which is the "crossbar on the mast". Its design requirements are too long, so it has to be two woods. The tenon and tenon joints must be tied together with twine.

Any Ross long ship has a horizontal beam, only the one made now is very special, because it must be slanted and hung with sails, so that it becomes a huge spinnaker when it sets sail, which is the so-called "Latin Sail". Its advantage is obvious, that is, it allows Caravel-style boats to have extremely fast speed, but also has the ability to move fast in any wind direction.

Another kind of heavy work is to build a mast standing on the sand and gravel, and a scaffold with a sloping slope.

A spruce of about ten meters long that was not processed further was dragged to the front of the pit by more than thirty strong men. Then thirty strong men lifted it and 30 strong men pulled the rope to stand it up. In the pit. In fact, this work is a rehearsal of the mast erection of a large ship, to ensure the safety of the hull, no one dares to act recklessly.

The sloping scaffolding was made to transport the mast wood. The height of the ship must reach three stikas through the Aphrora. It is also the tallest ship that all the people of Ross have ever seen! For the rapid establishment of this scaffolding, Lurik did not have time to tolerate his subordinates using the tenon-and-mortise structure to grind the work, and a batch of iron nails made assault was put to great use.

Until the eighth day, everything is ready!

A hundred strong men and thirty sturdy bucks were appointed, especially those pretentious strong men, who sought benevolence and benevolence, and Rurik placed them in the most critical place.

The ground is still covered with snow, although the wind is not so aggressive, its cold still freezes the clean water.

Everyone had a meal of porridge in the morning for an unprecedented time. This was Rurik's order!

At the same time, there were at least four thousand people, men, women, children, young and old, and even those merchants living in Roseburg, who gathered in the vicinity of the shipbuilding factory of Hortra, and even wherever they could enjoy the wonders.

"It's now, let's start!" It was Otto who gave the order. In front of him, there were a group of aggressive men with bare golden **** and a group of reindeer.

Someone roared, and the whole team began to move slowly.

At this moment, Rurik, even his Carlotta, Ella, and even Lumia took her Lumi, standing at the top of the scaffolding, looking at the hull of a big ship, and being slowed by the Ross people. Drag it out slowly.

The Ross tribe has no dry dock yet, any ships must be built on the shore and then pulled into the sea by manpower. Rurik estimated that the standard displacement of the Aphrodite, which imitated the Caravel ship, was only 50 to 60 tons, which means that the ship was a 50-ton Big Mac!

Fortunately, there are snow and ice everywhere. There are many people in the Ross who tow the boat. The hull of the boat is like a cicada that has just shed its hull. It leaves the factory that created her little by little, just under the attention of thousands of people In the roar of their red heads, they were pulled to the right position.

The hull came to a halt, and the strong men hurried in to catch their breath and rest. Another group of people acted immediately and placed the prepared pine wood on the lower end of the ship's keel to act as a sleeper.

There is no need to doubt these sleepers, they surround the hull of the ship, but they make her a tumbler on the snow.

"Now it's your turn! Hotla! You come to command!" Rurik, who was standing on the scaffolding, gave the order and evacuated immediately.

All the crazy efforts are for now, Hotla slapped his old face vigorously, ordering those who are fully prepared to start.

The rope is wrapped around the prefabricated mast, its volume has been reduced a lot, and the actual weight has been weak to only 800 kilograms.

This is still extremely heavy wood, no way, it must be the core wood of spruce, which is the toughest and hardest part. It is processed so that it can be inserted into the base in the cabin, and the installation work has begun!

The mast, which has long been pestle on the ground, is also eight meters above the ground. It is a strong fulcrum to hold the cable. In this one, there are thirty strong men dragging the rope, plus more than ten people pushing and pulling at the rear, the mast quickly tilted to the thickest end of the deep cabin, and smoothly resisted the preset baffle. .

The next thing is that the principle of leverage solves the problem. In fact, if it were not for this mast to be heavier than ever, the Hortra family would not have come up with this idea. They installed masts on the cargo ship and made a scaffolding, but it was just a scaffolding, a technique that the native Ross shipbuilders could not.

Those Rose shipbuilders who got into it and learned skills are now laughing in their hearts.

In the end, as many as one hundred strong men participated in the handling of the mast, the heavy mast became frivolous, and its stable posture just stuck in the preset position.

The mast is completely perpendicular to the keel, it is so vertical, completely because of the "pendant method" used by the Hortra family.

The mast stabilized, it hooked up against the sky.

The scene fell into a temporary silence after a muffled sound, and everyone cheered for it.

"Ah! We made it!"

"It's God! God has taken care of us!"

"The ship is equipped with sails and it will be able to sail soon!"

"The unprecedented big ship is in Ross..."

There was a lot of cheers, and Rurik looked at the mast that he had put up so hard and paid a great price. He wanted to laugh wildly, but he couldn't laugh for a moment.

If it hadn't been for Lumia to hug him with excitement and cheers, Rurik could barely smile.

This smile is a wry smile...

To be honest, it's weird that Rurik can indulge and laugh. Count the money invested in Elronburg (the grain is also counted, equivalent to 70 pounds of silver coins), and the funds invested in surprises these days (the grain is equivalent to nine pounds of silver coins), plus the rewards promised to the Hortra family (reductions) Version) of the eight-pound silver coin The current investment of this Aphrodite is 87 pounds. .

Wait a minute! Eighty-seven pounds is still less! Rurik estimated that if she added the subsequent laying of the ship's plank and a huge sail, her actual price would not be one hundred pounds?

The Aphrodite is really a one-hundred-pound eldest, and her cost is already ten times over budget!

In fact, this is the case, but all the research and development costs and the costs of supporting equipment are added to it.

Rurik thought about it, if he built a ship’s torsion slingshot, it would be another sum of money!

"The navy is so expensive, even if it is a big ship, it has a big stomach for swallowing gold!" By now, Rurik really understands why the navy is a noble arm. Just a Caravel-like ship, the first ship is twenty times more expensive. Ordinary cargo ship!

Think about it. At least the Ross people have finally increased the tonnage of a single ship to the fifty-ton level in practice.

Even if she only floated on the sea, Rurik believed that Aphrola could dominate the entire Baltic Sea.