Chapter 625： This is the power of capital

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Compared to other forces, the Ross people do have a very strong power of action.

This is not that they have any deep beliefs that transcend others. To a large extent, their enthusiasm for action lies in wealth.

After discussing the countermeasures with the blacksmiths, Rurik hurriedly counted his money treasury.

A large number of wooden boxes and suitcases are piled up in the well-prepared house. Inside are only gold coins, silver coins and copper coins obtained by various means. Among them, the silver coins produced in Old Rome and Frank are the largest. Not only money, but a large number of physical materials are the solid backing for his administrative order.

That is food!

A large amount of grains have been piled up literally, and the population directly controlled by the Principality of Ross is far more than in the past, and there are more than 20,000 people including infants.

However, Tombstone Island, Elronburg, Fiskburg, Covenstad and Shilla Fort, these permanent settlements are completely self-sufficient, and the consumption of local people is much lower than their economic output.

The largest settlement in the Duchy of Ross is Roseburg. Although Rurik had long wanted to completely move his capital to New Roseburg at the mouth of the Neva River, due to practical factors, he found that he still needed to vigorously develop the prosperous place of Roseburg.

Roseburg has the largest population and is also the industrial, commercial and cultural center of the Principality. The strongest combat effectiveness of the Principality is also located here.

The city can be further developed. Since the fjord environment once hindered development, log on the spot and open up new land. This is of course only one way. The other way is the piles of grain and coins in the warehouse.

The people of Roseburg really want to spend most of their time on food production like fishing and hunting as they have done in the past seven to eighty years? The grain that is enough for everyone to eat for a whole year is in the warehouse. Although it is close to the sea, the overall dry and cold environment naturally brings advantages in grain storage. The people in Roseburg do not need to produce food. All the people living here do high-value-added jobs. For food problems, blood transfusions from other regions are enough.

Looking at the amazing food and wealth, Liu Li Ke is full of confidence!

Entering the moment of December, Roseburg’s daylight hours have actually plummeted to a mere four hours. Everyone knows the shortness of the day, and the extreme cold at night makes people reluctant to go out.

To build a small town in such an environment and organize a large number of people to dig ore is really a joke of human lives.

Time is always precious. The blast furnace that keeps burning can't stop suddenly. The first two furnaces have to continue to devour ore.

Moreover, even if the severe winter is not suitable for building new earth blast furnaces in new areas, at least the woods must be cut down and basic blacksmith sheds must be built.

In spite of difficulties, Rurik did not want to linger.

Because the Hanukkah of the Ross people and the entire Nordic world is not far away.

On December 10 of the Julian calendar, the men and women who stayed in Roseburg relied on the mad news before, and they walked out of the house and moved closer to the three-story mansion of the Duke.

Most of the strong men went to the north, especially entrenched in Elronburg, using it as a "base", carrying rations for winter hunting in search of precious furs.

Most of the people who stayed in Roseburg were young and old men and women, and even many outsiders. When it comes to a strong labor force, there are naturally also the mercenaries that Rurik valued, as well as Heliger and his Mellaren permanent residents.

Even the Tavastia women who were allowed to walk out of the warehouse. They became much healthier because of the continued good food, and now they all changed into the rewarded leather clothes, and they stood in the crowd with doubts and caution. In front of the huge ducal palace.

Thousands of people of all colors gathered, and the crowd also attracted many foreign businessmen. Regarding the construction of a new town, the news about encouraging logging and mining has made many ordinary people itchy, and their hands have become even more itchy.

People have heard a lot of news. Based on Lord Rurik’s past, all the promises made by the Lord will be fulfilled afterwards, and it must be inevitable this time.

This was also questioned. After all, if so many people were encouraged to work, the Duke was bound to suffer financially. Adults should pay all participants. This is not much.

The severe winter still makes many people so boring to stay at home.

In the past, the majority of Russ were poor, and this poverty was directly reflected in the thinness of clothing. Nowadays, men and women are wearing leather clothes, each of them is furry. Keeping warm is no longer a problem, but shyness in the pocket is the big problem.

The roaring sound outdoors began before the sun rose, and Rurik was in a good mood, but his wives and concubines complained endlessly.

He simply ate some dried meat, and immediately changed his wives and concubines into neat and decent leather clothes.

The elites of Rose gathered in the rare and solid concrete floor of the Duke’s mansion.

Harrodsson saw the old Otto and embraced him like a brother, his face glowing with enthusiasm as if it were a holiday.

"Brother, the whole Roseburg is boiling. Everyone is waiting to make a fortune, and Rurik should be completely trustworthy."

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"Of course." Otto was still a little dizzy because of yesterday's problem with liquor. He plucked his fur again, and the cold hit him and his whole spirits swelled, "Wait for a while, Ric will come out, you and a group of brothers will quickly set up a table for me, and he will give another speech."

"Just outside the yard? How about building with snow?"

"Yes, do it quickly."

Otto’s old guys hurriedly set up a podium for Rurik, and when the winter sun completely shone on the frozen Roseburg, Rurik stood on the makeshift podium set up for him in furry clothes.

In front of him, there were enthusiastic smiles from thousands of people.

He stretched out his hands and gradually calmed down the commotion among the people, and then looked around at his head and kept repeating a simple word with his changing voice.

"Build a town! Work! Rich! Everyone! Every day! A silver coin! I will give you food, and you will get the money!"

He kept screaming at these very short phrases. The sentence is so simple, and the content is so tempting!

Shouting a bunch of tirades? At this time when there is no loudspeaker and papermaking technology has not yet been made, the public announcement of the decree should indeed be concise and concise.

Rurik felt that he had to rely desperately on a few words and phrases to explain his commands, and the facts proved that he was successful again.

For the blacksmiths to build new towns, only some people with strong bodies are eligible to participate, and those who have gathered here have known in advance. Those old Ross men who are not too old and even some strong women are labors that need to be used, and they are all eligible to receive a silver coin for this day!

How generous is the reward? The Duke also promised that he would provide food, and the reward would be paid daily.

In this way, would any worker not earn enough money to buy ten pounds of oatmeal and nine pounds of wheat after working for a day? On normal days, such food is enough to live a person for half a month.

Although the inflow of a large amount of silver coins into Ross has caused the prices of many consumer goods to skyrocket outrageously, the prices of wheat and meat are still low. They don't understand what is the macroeconomic regulation and control of the economy. In fact, Rurik also lacks knowledge in this area, but Rurik has the only granary and the only treasury in Roseburg, and only he has formulated a very low guide for the materials of the national economy and the people's livelihood. Especially for salt and iron, Rurik actually completed the monopoly. These are the most core things related to the survival of the Principality are in his hands, and he feels that he opens up and throws the remaining things on the market, allowing all kinds of merchants and producers to coordinate themselves.

How is this not an opportunity to make money? If the construction of a town takes one hundred days, the brawny who participates will not only get a hundred days' worth of food, but also get a pound of silver in his hand.

Just this pound of silver is enough for myself, his wife and children to live a beautiful year.

They are completely lack of economic knowledge, but their arithmetic skills are all talents. They inherited the arithmetic skills of traditional Vikings, and they immediately realized the huge benefits of this. Men and women were uttering Viking roars, and the roars were all praising the Duke's mercy.

This was a cheering voice, and the majestic voice deeply shook the heart of the Queen Mary, and also shook the other wives and concubines of Rurik again.

In fact, Mary was the one who touched the rally the most. What she saw with her naked eyes was that in the hometown of the Vikings, a heroic king was supported by countless people.

Merely this matter is the only legend left in Mercia's hometown. It seems that the old Mercia king two hundred years ago had the support of the people in a flash, but unfortunately, his cheap father Wigraf was clearly a faint king.

She unconsciously clutched her belly, and then stared at Rurik who was standing on the snowdrift and continuing to give orders. She didn't know whether to talk about a major event.

Because the Queen Mary hasn't seen the menstruation for more than two months, and the only man close to each other after the last menstruation was Rurik.

Perhaps at most 1,500 people participated in the infrastructure construction of Blast Furnace Town. How long is the construction period? It may last for two months, or even the short construction period due to sunshine time.

He also knew that some gag guys would get in there, and there would be laborers who fished and paddled.

It is of course necessary to arrange a handful of supervisors for them, but some non-essential wear and tear also need to be tolerated.

Compared with the future when Blast Furnace Town is completed and put into production, what is the money paid now? Even the focus is not on the construction of cities and towns at all, but on how much ore the mobilized Ross people can dig in the mountains.

Rurik doesn't worry that the ore will dry up one day, if there is, it will be thousands of years later!

It is an iron ore vein extending from Denmark to the Arctic Ocean. It is the best iron ore vein in Europe. It is a vein that cannot be dug for tens of thousands of years by simply relying on hammer chisel and thermal expansion and contraction.

People chatted lively because of silver coins and food problems, and the rumbling sound continued for a while.

Rurik waited for them to become quiet, and then officially announced the mining.

The new speech is still extremely simple and more penetrating.

"Anyone! Mining! I will buy it at the market price!"

Rurik kept repeating these phrases, as if an arrow hit the hearts of all men, women and children.

What is generosity, this is great generosity!

Rurik’s declaration confirmed all the previous rumors that everyone in Roseburg who can handle a hammer and pickaxe now has the qualifications to mine and make money.

So, when does the work start?

Just on the 12th of the approximate calendar!

Rurik deliberately chose this date for no special reason, just because "Double Twelve" can be interpreted as a good luck literally.

However, when Rurik made all the declarations, the assembled people ran away cleanly.

Rurik was dumbfounded at seeing himself, and he laughed out of silence for a while.

"Damn it, what did these guys do? They didn't run as fast as they did when they were in the war." Otto snapped.

Leurik quickly went down the snow hill, he was refreshed and his throat felt dry.

"Everyone has finished running, what do you think." Otto asked immediately.

"Nothing. They are all busy going home to get tools and go mining in the mountains." Rurik said with a smile. As a father, Otto was stern this time.

Otto knew instinctively that Rurik's tossing must be a hemorrhage of wealth, and this kid now has huge wealth in his hands to be eligible to spend it. Otto simply did not hold it properly, so he explained his doubts straight to the point.

What else can Rurik do? He shrugged: "They can make money, and I won't lose. You will wait and see, next year we will be stronger at this moment."

Hearing it, Otto didn't say anything anymore.

Rurik's judgment was completely correct, and the people who had promised rushed towards the mountains with tools and their sleds. Most people claim to know what the iron mine looks like, but the number of women dispatched is staggering, and many people are obviously following blindly.

The old people, teenagers, young women, and even all old women, the guys who stopped weaving in their hands, rushed to the mountains with tools.

To be fair, Rurik was indeed shocked by the enthusiasm of such a group of blind movers. The chaos pointed out by the old man is a fact, but the chaos will soon stabilize.

It is completely because iron ore needs to be hardened by itself, and they are rushed in by the trend of interest. Only some people can really dig iron ore and successfully bring it back.

Rurik also explained that the ore should be sold at the market price. To put it bluntly, the price was actually set by himself and the Blacksmiths Union together and controlled the pricing power. This is the sharp sickle for harvesting labor.

What's more, the entire population of Roseburg knows real iron ore? If ordinary granite is excavated, it will naturally not be able to pay the high price of iron ore.

Rurik anticipated many things, which were fulfilled in the short day of the next day.

In fact, many people are afraid of the cold at night, avoid being frozen to death and simply give up mining. One by one, two dingy people withdrew home that night, working as a weaving buddy. At least hiding in a warm home and weaving with an oil lamp, the money will be a lot less, at least it will not be frozen to death.

Those who simply set up sheds in the mountains for the night did indeed bring back a batch of ore. Unfortunately, the blacksmiths only took the real ore after sorting, and the granite only paid for the price of ordinary stone.

Even for iron ore, it was purchased by the Blacksmith Alliance at the market price, and its price plummeted by half. There are many spontaneous miners who are very angry, so what's the problem? No one is forcing everyone to mine. If you can't stand this low price, don't do it.

However, the large group of Tevastia women were left to dig for mines, even if the women were really not suitable for digging with an axe and chisel, their current status was a slave labor. Mining and transporting ore to earn silver coins? Don't think about it! However, their accommodation, food, and clothes were all provided by the Duke of Ross. Their labor was the price of obtaining these materials, and they had no bargaining power.

Even if this group of women has not been taken to mining, on December 11th of the Julian calendar, Rurik reiterated their fate in a language they all understand: "You will all be Balmerks. Women, you will not be slaves! You must work for me in exchange for the food, clothes and housing that I give you. When the weather becomes warmer, I will lead you to faraway places. Tavastia is dead, you You bear the scourge of the old leader's wrong decision, but I am not a villain. You will eventually get a stable life, as long as you do things for me honestly now."

Any one of them is free now, in fact, they are completely able to escape, but none of them dared to do so. Where can I escape? Be the prey of the beasts on the ice field? Tavastia is indeed dead, where is his home?

They still don't understand what a bright future is. At least for now, they can only get food by working according to the orders of the conquerors. The wise people are naturally going one step at a time.

It is exactly this night ~ www.novelhall.com~ After careful statistics, a total of 450 young women from Tavastia were given out small axes and chisels. Some of them were obviously forced to have long handles. Draft axe. A group of mining women should set off tomorrow.

This night, many men and women are also preparing, even if the "invisible hand" has screened out those who are not suitable for mining in Roseburg on this day, there are still many people who still plan to work hard to mine ore to make money, even if they dig by mistake. granite.

Except for the chiseling, fishing, seal hunters, Parla and others who make soap, those who are busy weaving, leather and clothing manufacturers, and other people with their own jobs, any idle labor in Roseburg is mobilized.

No, on December 12 of the Julian calendar, only young children, mothers who cannot escape, and the truly infirm did not participate in it. The labor force of Roseburg is mobilized.

Even Lumia was ordered to make sacrifices to the statue of Thor alone, and to encourage the people on a spiritual level.

The noisy people brought their tools to pull the sled, and walked mightily to the west of Roseburg.

An unknown worker also laid the first stake for Blast Furnace Town...