Chapter 481： Have a lot of sunglasses

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The sea is frozen, and the world is plunged into a snowy field.

The sky is still gray, and the world seems to be in dead silence.

The snow layer began to loosen, and some people got out of the snow nest.

Rurik finally pushed open the thick wooden door. He stayed in the cave like a rabbit for a long time. Seeing the outside world, he felt dreamy for a while.

The dormant Ross people appeared one after another. They marched hard in the waistless snow. Once the two met, they yelled and praised that they had survived the blizzard.

"This year's snow is really amazing. Rurik, go to the house and wear a hat." Ottomu in the room endured the cold wind pouring into the warm "cavity", calling for his breathable son.

Rurik immediately put on another layer of leather, and at last he jumped and was buried by the soft snow, disappearing without a trace.

Then he poked his head out, his white face was under the white woolen cap, and a snowball appeared on the snowy ground.

The Ross people don't like snow. What they like is always a warm land where wheat can be grown steadily, and a good harbor that doesn't freeze all year round.

The world is frozen, and people must struggle to survive in the world of ice and snow.

Fortunately, unless the stocks in Roseburg this winter are extremely sufficient, everyone is safe to eat and hardly worry about keeping warm.

It is because of this exaggerated snow that people's winter life encounters extremely rare and huge obstacles. Because compared to the snow in previous years, it is not as extreme as this winter.

Life still has to go on, especially winter hunting still needs to be done.

The gray world blows a stern wind like a knife, and there is almost no snow on the frozen sea, and all the snowflakes are blown to the shore. There are snow hills everywhere in Roseburg, and there are buildings under the snow hills. houses.

The woodcarvings are stronger than the long houses in the past. People still worry that if there is another blizzard, their houses will be crushed by the snow, and then everyone will still turn into ice sculptures in the severe cold. Besides, the snow at the doorway and in the intricate streets and lanes has made life difficult for people.

After a bit of freezing, Rurik's head was completely awake.

Unable to let him or Otto personally order, the Ross man who was reluctant to go out already took a wooden shovel to clear the snow.

If there are advanced large-scale snow removal equipment, the snow in Roseburg will be quickly cleared, at least to ensure that there will not be too much snow in people's living areas.

Mechanical equipment does not exist, and people can only rely on their own hands and simple shovel and rake.

The native residents of the Ross tribe, all kinds of permanent immigrants from outside, and various powerful merchants who live temporarily in seasons, they are the current residents of Roseburg, and their population has exceeded 9,000 people abruptly! Among them, the number of captured Gotland people and people from Lake Mälaren was as large as three thousand. The residents of Roseburg were forced to lead a cramped life, and their lives were even more cramped after the snowstorm. Fortunately, this terrible situation would immediately change due to the return of the spring.

More than 6,000 of these 9,000 people are capable of working (most children are also included). A snow-clearing task officially ordered by the Duke of Ross and taken the lead was carried out on the first day after the snow stopped. it has started.

People clearing snow are everywhere on the roofs of the streets. They first cleared a lot of small roads in Roseburg. The road was covered with hard snow, and a lot of reindeer sleighs ran on the **** road.

Just near the shore, a snow mountain is forming!

The reindeer sleigh came here with a full deck of snow, unloading the snow and pulling new ones right away. The reindeer herd that Rurik ordered the breeding and cultivation once again played their huge strategic role. In this era, they are the "truck fronts" of the Ross people.

There are not only reindeer, but also more than a hundred well-bred ponies seized from Gotland. These full-time carts and sleds of livestock carrying snow are just a sideline, and soon they will have to travel to the far north Elronburg to do the most critical work.

The work of clearing the snow will go on for a long time. In the first five days, the Ross people cleared most of the snow in Roseburg and nearby areas.

More than 6,000 laborers continue to work, even if the daylight hours are very short, they are still working in the dark. A huge snow hill about twenty meters high appeared. It was a total behemoth, and it quickly became a playground for a group of children.

Under the snow hills, the Ross people have set up some large pottery urns, which have been boiled with oatmeal and various vegetables.

The people saw that the generous Duke Ross gave all the people who dumped the new snow at the snow hills a comfortable meal. Clearing the snow should be part of the job. Once it becomes profitable, the enthusiasm of the people reaches its peak.

Finally, the Ross people were able to walk freely in their home port, but it was a pity that all the ships were sealed by frost, and the great Aphrodite was also unloaded. She was embedded in the thick ice of the dock, like a confinement. Fairy in the snow. On the coast, there are long ships deliberately stranded, arranged in a dense matrix. No one is worried that they will fall from the fixed position, just because they are also sealed by ice.

The winter life of the Ross people has begun, and the strongest and most ambitious men are ready to move.

Reminiscent of the winter hunting in the past few years, every hunting has essentially evolved into an expeditionary behavior. Hunters huddled together. They hunted and killed various animals such as wild deer, bears, wolves, white foxes, and ferrets. They also actively discovered other human strongholds. Discovery means war, war means making a fortune, and even more glorious battle.

A group of men were imprisoned in their own homes. In addition to desperately planting seeds for their women, they also used the soft light of oil lamps to carefully repair their weapons. In the eyes of women, their husbands are going to do an expedition in winter!

The captured women of Gotland who were forced to marry the Roses were already shocked by the legendary Roseburg's impressive scale, and now they see their new man's behavior, one is puzzled and the other is worried. Life has been like this. Most women admit the reality. They rely on their new men extremely pragmatically. They are afraid that the sword-sharpening man will accidentally die outside in the winter expedition. In the final analysis, they are worried about losing shelter.

The sun finally returned, it swept away the haze of the world, and it also made the world of ice and snow extremely dazzling.

The violent light caused Rurik to collapse, but the times have changed after all!

Cravason’s blacksmith shop once again showed a scene of enthusiasm. All five blacksmith shops in Roseburg had their chimneys gushing with smoke.

It stands to reason that these blacksmiths have accumulated a lot of wealth in the past few years, and they do not need to continue to work hard.

However, Lord Duke gave orders to work, and orders from the tribe forced everyone to be very busy.

Among all the blacksmiths, the older Klavasen is a versatile. Now he is no longer a simple blacksmith, but a master of more than twenty apprentices.

He is indeed not a blacksmith, but the first "Master of Engineering" of the Rurik who is recognized by Rurik. Even if this person does not possess much technical ability, he has integrated a series of abilities of the Nordic craftsmen of this era.

Rurik provided creative design and process drawings, and the Kravassen family was responsible for turning the drawings into real objects. The cooperation between the two parties has been very smooth for several years.

Rurik took a few entourages to set up Clavasson, and he came here to inspect, and secondly, he also asked the blacksmith to solve a small object immediately. But this small object is not for Klavasen to do it himself, Rurik wondered if his fellow Kamni could do it by himself.

The heat of the blast furnace quickly melted all the surrounding snow, so the blacksmith’s mansion showed a scene of very close cabinets. When other people’s houses were still covered with some snow, only the various houses of the Cravason family were always exposed to herringbone. Roof.

The blast furnace resumed operation, and the large amount of coal reserves, piles of ore, and piles of clay molds were sufficient for smelting and casting for a long time.

Kawei is already an engineer's hand. He stood on a high ground and yelled at the hired workers, waiting on this magical giant stove. When Rurik inspected, the second pot of molten iron in the winter had already emptied the slag, and the pottery mold casting operation was underway.

Kawei is supervising the casting of a large number of axes. This wave of casting will consume the entire furnace of molten iron, which will eventually turn into as many as two hundred axes. Such crazy efficiency is what anyone dared to imagine if you had no oil in the past. For this batch of axes, one end is a blade and the other is a hammer. The utensils cast from pig iron are certainly not suitable for swords, but they are suitable for axes.

It is already one of the leading products sold by the Ross people, but the price is closely following the market price.

Of course, Rurik knew that the Gran tribe in the kingdom was also producing and selling their own ironware, but they were still using extremely primitive methods to make them, and their production capacity was really low. They are not worthy of being rivals to the Russ, or the iron production capacity of the various Viking tribes in the entire Nordic world is no better than this soil blast furnace in Roseburg.

The Ross people have upgraded the iron smelting process to the fry steel method, and now Rurik sees the blacksmith apprentices he has ordered to train, they are working completely as blacksmiths.

More than 20 people gathered in a shed, under the shed are a large number of small stoves. They cooperated in pairs, one was responsible for desperately turning over the pig iron blocks, and the other was responsible for pumping air continuously with the bladder blower. Although they are all children in their ten years of age, for the past two years or so, Rurik has named and rewarded them with excellent food. These Slavic boys should have been destined to have a hungry and full childhood. In Roseburg, they did have meat all the time, and now there is a continuous supply of oatmeal and barbecue.

After all, they are Europeans, and the 10-year-old children receiving such good food have shown that they are different from ordinary people.

In other words, all the children who received the rewards and benefits from Rülik have become strong. This remarkable feature has made the people of Roseburg's age full of praise.

Cravason was not idle himself, the workers he hired kept turning a wooden turbo blower, and the small stove in front of him was blazing into the sky. He is still doing his own way, finally turning the carbon steel sword embryo into a good sword.

Rurik is a distinguished guest!

Kravasson suspends his work, recalls Kawei, the overseer, and Kamnier, who is speculating on steel, and invites Rurik to a comfortable mansion.

The warm woodcut was shining with a bright matrix of oil lamps. Klavasen and his old wife sat cross-legged on the wooden floor, while his daughter-in-law Lilia held her son Kuznetslav, who could just walk. Kawei smiled like a silly, and Kamnier was very cautious when he saw his master, Rurik, for a while.

Lurik highly praised the blacksmith's immediate resumption of work after the snowstorm, which embodies the strong support of the Cravassen family for the development of the strength of the Ross Principality and is a manifestation of loyalty. He is highly concerned about the output of various metal appliances in the future, and he also verbally praises all the blacksmith apprentices.

All these are correct polite remarks, but to be honest, the scene of their active work is definitely not acting, they are indeed actively producing, and Rurik took a reassurance.

"I am very happy now! I think you all know what will happen in the future."

Clavasson yelled proudly: "Go hunting in the north! Many guys who ordered steel swords said that the Duke intends to hunt down a group of white bears, and let a group of elite warriors use bear heads full of fangs as helmets. Such a gathering. The pile will scare the silly enemies, haha!

"Of course, but I have a little problem."

"Oh? What problem can you have?" Clavasson poked his head. "You are a recognized hero. It is my honor to be able to solve problems for you."

"It's not a trouble." Rurik shrugged. "I need some special stained glass."

After all, what Rurik needs are sunglasses.

Through his enthusiastic explanations, Clavassen, Kawei and Kamnier, the three of them have come to understand. Because these three people have long been fans of Rurik’s "atomic theory", they believe that this is Odin’s wisdom. With the help of the "atomic theory", they not only look at the various minerals at hand and have new ideas. He also began to consciously "make things".

They have directly bypassed the alchemy set, and instead headed straight for chemistry.

Add ruby ​​to the liquid glass, and the glass will eventually turn light red. According to this approach, the Kravasson family, the only glass manufacturer designated by the Principality of Ross, accepts Rurik's new task, and this time it is no longer a simple stained glass.

It turns out to be a pair of black lenses for the eyes of travelers in the land of ice and snow!

Cravason actually moved this idea after he first discovered stained glass. After all, the glass with a large amount of lead is blackened as a whole, and it seems that the more it is added, the darker the color.

The glass continues to darken, isn't it because the sunlight on the snow is not dazzling anymore?

The cheapest material to dye lenses gray-black is black copper oxide. Rurik thought of a set of chemical methods for preparing relatively large amounts of copper oxide that can be achieved with current materials and equipment. The core copper material is the large amount of copper coins that have been seized.

Although the steps are a little more complicated, Kravasson still took a day to make a very black substance like toner that was enough to fill a small cloth bag. It had a strange metallic smell, essentially It is a special kind of patina. Indeed, as far as coloring materials are concerned, copper oxide is a glass colorant that Russ can now efficiently produce, and compared to lead, it is not toxic.

They started work, Clavasson was in charge of mixing the raw materials, and Lilia and Kamnier had already taken on all the remaining work.

The viscous molten glass was cast on a well-polished iron ingot, the hot red was dispersed, and the dark glass pieces showed his clues. Compared to the previous stained glass, it is even darker!

Rurik didn't even need to experiment further. He took the cooled irregular glass sheet and placed it outdoors. He saw the dark world of ice and snow, and the sun was no longer dazzling.

Not only that, but Rurik's mind also thinks of huge business opportunities.

Grinding the lens into two square glass pieces of similar size is not troublesome, and it is not troublesome to create the wooden holder and the hanging ears to carry the glass pieces.

Two days later, Rurik came to Clavasson's house again. Not only did he get the sunglasses he requested, he also brought another piece of news to the blacksmith.

"Do you like it?" Kravasson asked knowingly.

"It's amazing." Although Rurik felt that the sunglasses were a bit heavy, he was completely relieved considering the beauty of its practical use.

A group of people gathered at the blacksmith's house again, and everyone felt very happy.

Rurik wearing sunglasses has completely changed his temperament. The viewers feel from the heart that he is set off by the sunglasses more heroic. It seems that for anyone who wears them, men become handsome and women become heroic.

Facing her future brother-in-law, Lilia was generous, and her dark circles exposed many things: "I am already a woman who is good at making glass. I have been working for a long night, and now I have made a batch of black ones. Glass. Rurik, I can guess what you are going to do."

"It's great. Don't force yourself." Rurik nodded and looked at Clavassen: "My father talked with some people in the tribe yesterday. Everyone must go hunting in the north this year. The days are not far away. I also went to the shipbuilding workshop of the Hotla family to take a look. You are also very clear about the situation there. The two large ships urgently need to install new mastsMaterials must be shipped from the north. !"

"So, you need me to make a batch of excellent eye protection sunglasses before people leave?" Kravasson asked with a smile.

"Exactly! This is a request from me."

"Oh don't do that, your order is very important, and I will complete it anyway." Clavasson slapped his chest again, looking like he was bound to win.

"That's great. Making the frame requires carving wood, which is a somewhat delicate work. The winter hunt is scheduled to start on the 20th of November, and I have to order at least one hundred pairs of sunglasses. Remember my words. , Is to order."

"Really?" Klavasson fully understood Rurik's intentions: "So the buyers are the people of North Hunter? How do you decide to set the price?"

"This...I thought about it, twenty silver coins for a pair of sunglasses."

"Huh?" Cravason was slightly surprised, "Is it..."

"My price is high? I think it's a huge favor. It's the old rule. Your family will get a proportion of the money. All the money I got is in our Ross people's big money box. After all, mine. The mission is to lead the Ross people to become bigger and stronger. I don't like the money. All the money will eventually be used for everyone."

"Oh, you are such a great person."

Rurik curled his lips: "This sounds a bit questioning."

"I can not."

"Then do it quickly. Soon I'm going to Elronburg myself, Kawei, you follow. And you. Rurik's little hand pointed again: "Camnier, you follow. We rushed back before the Hanukkah festival on the winter solstice, but we have to bring back a lot of shipbuilding wood and a lot of chromite! Make your sunglasses well, and those who own them don't need to squint their eyes all the time during the long journey to the ice field. "