Chapter 755： Pure state-owned garment factory

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Just before spring plowing, Rurik completed the transaction with Kyiv Marcus.

The two males and eight females of the steeds, according to Ma Ke Sakyi's statement, the total price is equivalent to ninety pounds of silver coins, which is nine thousand silver coins after conversion!

How could ten horses be worth this money?

In private, Rysakyi confided that the total price of these horses was up to forty pounds.

"You mean you feel guilty of cheating on me? You suspect that I am a stingy noble? The deal has been set, and I will not get the price back. You will get the money immediately, and I also encourage you to purchase our country’s local products. Materials, so that you can earn at both ends." Rurik said so generously, and Sakyi was shocked again and grateful.

The point of this transaction is not at all what the price of ten horses is. Rürik feels very profitable.

Because intelligence information is also a huge asset, it is difficult to measure with money. For the first time, the Principality of Ross received information about the geopolitical relations in the southern region, which helped to formulate an appropriate roadmap plan for future conquests.

In this way, the Sakyi group still serves delicious food, but they must now spend their own money to buy good meals, and even trade in the market.

The time has come to April. At the end of March, most of the ice in the waters near Fort Shilla had melted, and everyone was looking forward to the ice breaking and sailing.

As a high priest, Lumia offered sacrifices to the gods on the vernal equinox of the Julian calendar. She is going to preside over a ceremony to worship seven gods, and now it involves the melting of snow and ice to resume sailing. For the so-called safety of navigation, sea gods and sea monsters should also be sacrificed.

Ten years ago, the Russ were also stunned to sacrifice to the gods, because there weren't many large-scale births, and it was extremely extravagant to take out five deer.

Times have changed, and now the sacrifices are all Shilu started.

The Duchy of Ross inherited the custom of the traditional Viking, and there are two grand sacrifices throughout the year. Sacrifice to Odin on the winter solstice, which is equivalent to the Chinese New Year. Offering sacrifices to the gods and the ocean during the Spring Festival is actually a celebration of the beginning of production and life.

Shilla Fort is fully recovered, and fishermen, farmers and merchants are fully prepared!

However, because Ross lost the Danish market, the average price of all kinds of leather goods in the leather goods market in Shilla Fort had plummeted.

The fact has really become "leather slow-sales help us."

This was the time for hunters, and Liurik ordered the Governor-General Conusson and his sons to act immediately, holding the treasury money to buy the hunters' goods as much as possible.

The prince and the merchants completed the acquisition with their own hands, and as many as 100,000 large squirrel skins, 5,000 ferret skins, 2,000 fox skins and 200 polar bear skins entered the bag.

As usual, merchants will transport their leather to Lake Mälaren, at least Ross has not lost the Swedish market!

Rurik has at least 50,000 squirrel skins, as well as a thousand mink skins and all 200 polar bear skins. What he actually paid the hunter was part of the silver and copper coins, as well as a higher proportion of the real wheat.

Lake Ladoga has dissolved, and thousands of streams and Lake Onega poured water frantically here, directly causing the Neva River to increase its water volume!

This situation directly caused the waterway traffic between Novgorod and Shilla Fort to become responsible. It would be extremely fast to move down the river, and to go retrograde would be an uphill battle with the river.

But the prince ordered that a large amount of leather must be shipped to Novgorod.

What does Rurik mean? Without him, only because tens of thousands of Slavic women will suddenly take free time after the busy farming. In fact, they also do auxiliary life work such as cutting grass, weaving baskets, and making wooden utensils. The value of the labor produced is difficult to measure with money. In other words, this kind of labor cannot be exchanged for tangible food remuneration.

A leather-carrying fleet is advancing against the Neva River, and a distinguished "great tailor" is ordered by the prince to move with his full set of handicraft workshop personnel.

Times have changed, and Fodgen is no longer the owner of a small tailor's shop in Lake Ladoga. He has as many as fifty slave laborers under his command, and he has also explored a set of strategies in production, which is to divide the personnel into groups, thereby improving the efficiency of making leather clothes.

Since the Principality can produce carbon steel, it is also possible to make steel needles. It's just that the Principality doesn't have the fine processing technology of the East, so it can only make some hardened steel needles that are generally thicker.

Although this kind of needle cannot reach the level of embroidery, it is already very suitable for sewing leather and linen.

The production of clothes does not require high technology. Even without a sewing machine, pure handwork can guarantee good efficiency.

The entire workshop staff set off with the fleet, and ten long rowing boats together drove three standard armed cargo ships towards Novgorod.

Leather and finished ironware are two major products. Slavic women will earn real wheat from participating in leather processing. Finished ironware directly enhances the work efficiency of Slavic men.

More importantly, the Novgorod shipyard needs a large number of iron tools, such as steel axes, scrapers, and planes, as well as steel consumables such as nails.

In addition, soap, glassware, and pottery are also on the shipping list. At this stage, they are all affordable commodities for the Ross immigrants. They can be less in variety but must be available because the people need to consume them.

A small domestic demand market is expanding, such as making leather into clothes, first of all to meet the needs of the people of the Principality of Russia. This market is temporarily small, and as the population grows rapidly, it will expand rapidly!

After all, the Lake Mälaren market in Sweden is only 50,000 people, and the Principality of Ross will soon be able to surpass it in theory.

Losing the Danish market will not be able to take it for the time being, and Rurik can only comfort himself that tomorrow will be better. At least this year, the mixture of leather and linen will cause a batch of Novgorod to change into new clothes. Changing clothes was a good thing to show off everywhere in ancient society. With the help of this generated domestic demand market, one can earn some scissors profit.

For Vodgen, Novgorod is a novel place. In consideration of his heart, he is unwilling to move to a new area just after he settled down in Shrosburg. Obviously he can run the workshop in Shrosburg. Very good, why leave?

Since the prince issued a request in the winter, he did not dare to disobey, and now the fleet also enters the Volkhov River, which runs north-south.

The small team from far away is really a distinguished guest. The arrival of Fodegen with the entire professional team did not cause much disturbance, but Rürik was very happy. What makes him happy is not even the roots of Buddha, but the group of skilled workers under his command.

There is such a small group, they are all female slaves, and their own value is very pure. They are professional tailors, a group of tailors who have completely separated from land production, relying on making clothes for their masters to survive, so even if they have excellent skills, they are still being frantically exploited by the masters. As the owner, Fodgen felt that he was a great benevolent. The so-called not having his own leader, many women had long ended miserably.

Rurik received the nervous Fodegan with a grin, and invited him into the palace after a greeting from the dock, and talked secretly in a separate room.

Such a move made Fodgen even more nervous.

The room is almost airtight, the outdoors is sunny, the interior is quite dark, and oil lamps are still needed.

"My lord, what do you mean by talking to me about a secret matter?"

"Exactly. I... ask you to make a concession." Rurik hesitated for a moment, and still described firmly.

"What is it? It will never be me building a workshop in Novgorod. You have a new decision? You can do it. In fact, I am very willing to build a workshop in Novgorod."

"Oh? You can't look down on here?"

"No." Verdegen hurriedly denied and agreed: "I can have today's wealth thanks to your help. Under your protection, there is no problem with the safety of my wealth."

"Yes, you are getting old too."

"Me? I'm older, at least much younger than the old guy Gould."

"You are still getting old, and you should use events for life."

Rurik was obviously trying to make things clear, Fodgen was a little impatient, but he didn't dare to ask more, so he had to test it out: "What do you mean?"

"Then I will make it clear. I think you are all female slaves."

"Ah? They? You..." Buddha wanted to say that it was ridiculous, as if the princes were attracted by the looks of the slaves. Wait a minute, those are a group of old women, how beautiful they are at all. It was because he realized the absurdity, that Fodgen was afraid that he would fail to talk too much and hurriedly shut up.

"It's the female slaves. Me!" Rurik patted his chest vigorously, "decided to buy them."

"Ah! You!?" Verdegen understood everything in a moment, and his face became savage and terrified when he stood up suddenly, "You want to take away my wealth? That's my lifeblood, I'm a clothing merchant. ."

"Sit down first!" Rurik yelled, and the other party hurriedly collapsed with fright. "Do you think I'm killing you? Absurd. I was afraid that you were too nervous before meeting you in the secret room. If you think my request is outrageous, then talk slowly. I tell you clearly that you still have to be in Nov Gorod built a permanent clothing workshop, but it will become very different from what you understand."

In this way, Rurik showed his attitude. Because the core of the garment workshop is the female slaves, they are a group of skilled workers, whoever controls them can immediately build the factory. As far as financial resources are concerned, no one can challenge the prince, and this operation by Rurik is to directly nationalize the purely private self-financing workshop.

Rurik described the grand occasion with gestures with both hands: "You don't have to pay for the construction of the factory yourself, and you don't have to pay a series of payments such as accommodation and food for the slave labor. I will not charge even a copper coin for your existing wealth. On the contrary, I have to pay you a sum of money to buy this group of slave labor. You are still in this business, and I hire you as a life-long manager, and I will pay you generous remuneration and not collect taxes. Isn’t this very good? Well, your purpose of setting up a workshop is to make money. You do it according to my approach. You don't have to take any risks, you will only get paid continuously, and you will be a respected master tailor."

"Huh? Then our previous contract..."

"Is the previous contract more favourable by my current proposal? You are a smart person, and it is time for us to revise a better contract."

People like Fordgen belong to the early industrial capitalists, and they are also the cornerstone of the Hanseatic League. As a businessman, he rushed to calculate an account. Although he thought it was peculiar, it must be a business that won't lose money.

I think I have fallen into the hands of the prince, and if I want to refuse, this kid will find a way to do it.

Prince Rurik is not like a handsome man on the surface. He is a fierce madman who must not be deceived by the kindness he is now showing. The Prince's orders must not be disobeyed.

With a long sigh, Fodgen felt that his great life had come to an end, and the next step was to be forced to work for the prince.

Just after landing, a secret agreement was signed and it directly replaced the old contract.

Fordgen’s clothing workshop that has been in operation for 20 years does not exist in a sense. The factories in the former site of Roseburg or Birka Bazaar are all sold. The clothing workshop no longer has any heavy assets. , There is only a group of soft workers that can be moved quickly and a group of slave laborers. These are light assets.

For a long time, the clothes of the Slavs in the Novgorod region are all family workshops. It is nothing more than women sitting at home, using primitive looms to make linen and making clothes. In principle, they all hope to make better clothes. Although they have mastered the very advanced technology of weaving fabrics, due to the lack of materials and tools, they cannot sew high-end goods, especially the lack of leather and woolen garments.

In fact, leaving aside the roots of Verde, Rurik was able to appoint Blomma, the mother of his close comrade Fisk, as a master tailor, quickly pulling out a professional textile team.

Now that Fodgen agrees with the new policy, it is necessary to fake a state-owned textile workshop and hire these two as managers (factory directors) and one as technical director.

Reluctantly happily stayed on the issue of paying for money. Naturally, the biggest reason was that his treasury was always full because of past wars and plunder. He bought the ownership of all female slaves in Fordgen at a price 10% higher than the market price. The next move is a fantasy.

For those slave laborers, they are very happy to be the dependents of the prince himself. Everyone praises that working for the prince is always rewarding, and everyone's treatment will be better if they want to come.

On the second day of Fodgen’s arrival, all fifty slave laborers were led to the entrance of the palace, a small open area.

Rurik directly announced in public: "You! All textile slave laborers! You will have the opportunity of complete freedom! Work for me for five years, and you will be free. Once the five-year period is over, you can still continue to do it. For the work of a tailor, I will give you extra pay at that time..."

The prince never broke his words. He promised board and lodging and one day of rest a week, especially the absolute freedom gained after five years, including the possibility of marriage. Therefore, some young slave laborers can still marry and have children. According to the promise of the prince, they will become completely "Ross" and belong to the first echelon of subjects in the Principality's hierarchical society.

They were so touched that they were so moved that they put aside the things of freedom for the time being, and the princes would provide more living supplies for everyone, perhaps promising a rest day every six days. Fodgen would not give all of this. After all, in the eyes of that man, the sisters were destined to be bulls and horses for a lifetime.

But they still can't rely on Fordgen's management. Although everyone does not understand, we still have to see each other day and night.

To build a new factory in the city, fortunately, Novgorod closed a lot of open space when it was enclosing the wall. The city is not the city of White Tree Manor. The population of other ethnic groups is almost all technical people. They are destined to fill the space of the city.

A plaque covered with chalky mud and coated with carbon black is made first. It is marked with three words, and together it is "the tailor's factory of the Principality."

This is the first state-owned textile factory in the Rus Principality. All assets belong to Rurik individuals. Of course, on the principle of "I am the country", it is also state-owned.

The final form of leather is to become a variety of clothing, in which there are processing profits and logistics profits in each link. Lurik has directly opened up the upstream and downstream of the industry, from catching small animals to making leather coats, completing the closed loop of the industrial ecology. Wipe away the profits that an industry can make.

The workplaces are some large long houses with woodcut styles, which combine two types of Viking-Slavic architecture, which are most suitable for intensive workshop-style hand tailoring work. The same construction principle applies to the same dormitory area. Workers will sleep in Datongpu, but the houses built are built to accommodate 200 people at once.

How can a state-owned factory be just a small workshop with fifty people? The factory dormitory can only accommodate 200 people, and this is just a response to the current manpower.

The plaque is currently hung on the newly laid pile foundation pillars, and the load-bearing wooden piles of the first batch of houses can be described as rapid construction under the great reward.

Now there are two large construction sites in the city: a school and a garment factory.

More than a thousand male and female villagers were employed. Among them, the men received a pound of wheat a day. As for labor, Lurik provided food.

The thriving urban construction also led to the rapid destruction of the forest outside the city. Eventually, people threw out the roots of the trees and leveled the land. This is the so-called "asking for farmland from the forest." The urban construction and the pioneering movement were carried out at the same time, and everyone who participated in it got profits, and Rurik himself also gained more prestige. It is really a solution to four birds with one stone.

This scene made the Kyiv horses amazed. They saw that the horses they sold were already involved in the cart work, and they fixed their eyes on those horses that were all mares.

Where are the two stallions? The Mack noticed that the people of the Rus Principality were waiting for the farmland to become harder, and they had prepared all kinds of farm tools. The horse guest is authorized to visit the farming channels, and is promised to also get a free meal through labor.

While waiting, they found two stallions by accident. Speculation comes true, the Ross people are indeed using Pechenegg horses to breed local pony horses!

Finally, spring plowing in 836 began!

The Ross people, who have made sufficient preparations, sowed wheat seeds for this spring in various places. Compared with last year, more wheat seeds were sown this year. In addition, because a large number of people in the Ilmen Lake area have burrowed out of the forest to open up the land, more people have been sown. Put into agricultural production. Counting the various levels of acres in the lake area, as many as 30,000 hectares of fields have begun to plant a variety of crops, of which oats, wheat and rye are naturally the absolute mainstream. Onions, yellow-rooted carrots, and cabbage, the youngest of these vegetables, also need to be planted in batches.

Naturally there are flax, they are widely planted in the southern part of the lake.

As a noble prince, Rurik set up a model He is farming by himself, and for this reason, he also writes boastful articles on the paper to promote it to the public. He personally manipulated the image of Quyuan Plow and was painted by himself. Not to mention, compared with a group of "handicapped" people, Rurik, a talent who knows a certain amount of sketching knowledge, properly drew a "picture of spring ploughing."

This show is to draw in the feelings with the most populous Slavs, and also to personally experience the effects of the use of the plough, sowing, and burying of seeds.

He even used a technique, that is, to get ten Kiev horses to try the beauty of the Quyuan Plow and the bound planter.

Almost in an instant, his goal was achieved.

Maksakyi asked the dusty Rurik directly in the field: "My lord, this kind of plow is very beautiful, how much is it, let's buy it!"

"You want to buy? Why bother. I'll give you a set! Wait a minute, this is for your Kiev chief. Especially you!" Rurik patted Sakyi on the shoulder. "You will return soon. You tell your leader what you have seen and heard in Ross, and you tell him about our support for peaceful trade. We look forward to more merchants coming to Ross with goods."