Chapter 1033： Current Situation of Incoming Textile Industry in Novgorod Region

Rurik tried to establish a "compulsory education" system in his core control area, but this was a great undertaking after all, and he could not escape the current challenges and difficulties overnight.

For the children of Old Ross and White Tree Manor, they should focus on basic cultural, physical and military education after they are all gathered. These children are the descendants of the highest-ranking people in the kingdom. Through education, they are loyal to the king, and they inherit and strengthen Ross's pioneering and enterprising consciousness.

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That's all Rurik can do based on national strength. The school's teachers can at most satisfy 5,000 people studying at the same time, and the quality of teaching cannot meet his expectations.

The average child has only two school years of literacy education, focusing on mastering the use of the Latin alphabet, ensuring that the Norse and Cyrillic languages ​​spelled in that alphabet can be understood. In just two years, it is very difficult for them to be proficient in Latin, especially the serious "church Latin". It is not difficult for them to learn basic spoken language in this era when the number of names is not abundant.

Second, there is mathematics.

The so-called Vikings' overall high level of mathematics is relative to the pure illiteracy of the vast majority of Western European peasants. Business, especially the work of designing loans, is considered blasphemous to the faith by the church.

The pope in the West imagined an idyllic life, and the commoners and nobles abide by it, so that the world that fell into darkness after the fall of Rome can restore the tranquility of the Yindian-like years.

So there is a bizarre contradiction here.

People who engage in business must grab benefits from this behavior, and the behavior of obtaining benefits is defined as a kind of unearned gain. But the life of the nobility and the church requires merchants to provide a lot of supplies, and even church groups in various places have evolved into big business owners.

In this contradiction, the society of Western Europe developed slowly, and gradually established a set of life different from that in Roman times.

Their commercial trade is not as frequent as in the northern world. Vikings from all walks of life are just accustomed to doing business, and have cultivated very good mental arithmetic skills in their daily lives.

Determining the transaction in the form of a written contract inevitably involves a very precise digital conversion of the commodity. For numbers alone, the Rune script in the northern world directly spells out the words describing numbers in letters, while the Western European world uses the inherent Roman numerals.

In terms of numbers, the two sides can be described as a bunch of crouching dragons and phoenixes, all pulling the same hips.

Rurik had already popularized mature Arabic numerals in his own kingdom, and he couldn't make it proficient in the people of the whole territory in a short time. This alphabet system is used by children, and the skilled use of four arithmetic operations and ninety-nine multiplication tables is an important assessment mode.

An eight- or nine-year-old child can use this number system proficiently in a short period of time by making up for it. Even in Norse, the nine-nine multiplication table can be thoroughly mastered.

The parents of the children were surprised that their children had exaggerated mental arithmetic ability, as if they had given birth to a little genius.

Among the thousands of children, some of the elite are bound to receive a higher education.

For Degen, who was hired as the director of a state-run garment factory, his children of all ages had already completed the digital system.

After all, Fodgen is old. He wandered half his life as a travel merchant, and he really settled down after joining the Ross tribe.

He has a son of his own, Harald Ferdgensen, who is ten years old. This child was destined not to be a warrior, but was given great importance by his old father.

The son will inherit everything from the father. As long as there is no accident, the child can inherit the job of the factory manager.

This matter was acquiesced by Rurik.

Rurik didn't know Harald Verdergensen, or Verdergen the Younger. A ten-year-old child has not yet had the opportunity to be on his own. This "little golden retriever" is almost a secretary by his side. A ten-year-old child has already completed the knowledge of cultural lessons in school. Little Verdegen's mathematics level far exceeds his father's. He is running a huge clothing workshop, which seriously challenges his management skills. This kid still needs many years of learning experience.

Among the many sons, Fodgen also selects the best. Harald was more talented than his other siblings and was thus focused on training, and Verdegen was sure that only such talents would be employed by the king.

The state-run factory in Rurik also has another technical director, Broma, the mother of bald Fisk.

That was the 832 Battle of the Duchy of Ross against Gotland, part of the entire Swedish-Danish War. The Ross army captured many prisoners of war, and Fisk also captured a pair of twins and became his two wives. In the following tribal war against Tavastia in Finland, a local girl became Fisk's third wife.

In today's War of 840, Astrid, the daughter of a Jönköping merchant, is his fourth wife.

Astrid was pregnant, and Fisk had already become a father, and he had three lively children, and his return was going to be a joyous time with his wives. Fisk's family has a certain blood relationship with the royal family. He proved during the war what is true loyalty and goodness. Such a loyal and good family has a lot of fertility, which is very beneficial to the royal family.

Fisk's four wives, regardless of their ethnicity, were counted as Old Rus if they married. Even though most of them were victims of Rus' conquest, when their status changed to the victor's wives, even if they were saddened by their past experiences, it was impossible for them to give up their present life.

Even pregnant Astrid was offered work by her mother-in-law, Broma.

All four wives entered the state-run garment factory and were appointed by Broma as overseers. They did not have to work in person but could receive a salary. This kind of work is not leisure, and they have also made up for mathematics, and they have to do statistics for Bromma and Verdegen.

Of course, after the change of identity, Fisk's first three wives eventually became arrogant, completely forgetting that they were prisoners of war, and began to boss the slaves.

They only have the courage to do this to the slave workers in the garment factory. There are more female workers in the old Ross identity. They still have to be polite. Especially for working Danish women, they have to be ordered to be polite.

Because those Danish women were already the direct descendants of the Danish king, and no one dared to destroy the relationship between the Kingdom of Rus and the Kingdom of Denmark.

The reindeer carts pulled a large number of sacks to the factories in the city one after another, and some strong men took commissions and carried the sacks on their shoulders.

Facing the piles of sacks in the empty field, Fodgen ignited a fire in his heart.

He ordered all the working workers to suspend their work and walk out of the workshop to take a look.

No, women of all ages, hair colors, and heights raised their heads, staring at the pile of burlap pockets, discussing what was inside.

Most people estimate that the linen is linen, and some people who know the goods estimate that it is wool. Whether linen or wool, it is the raw material for textiles. Just looking at the sack, some women are already elated. Raw material means finished product, and output means more salary.

Fodgen is still capable of getting older, he smiled and climbed onto the pile of sacks, feeling the power of the thick wool, and stood on a high place to announce to all the workers.

"These are the spoils that the king sent. All you see is wool! This is the first time we have got so much wool. The king ordered us to process it into yarn and knit it into sweaters in large quantities."

Just saying these words, the female workers onlookers were already crowded, and the roar of discussion was like wild bees dancing.

Fodgen could see clearly their cheerful smiles and eyes full of desire to make a fortune.

Because spring ploughing is over, a shortcut for women who want to continue to make money to support their families is to work in a garment factory. The women of Old Ross rowed their children from Mstissk to Novgorod. The children went straight to school and enjoyed free board and lodging, and they worked in the garment factory.

They were not worried about their husbands and their eldest son, who must be over ten years old.

Aric, the war hero and the king's cousin, received the new task assigned by the king, that is, to lead Jianyong and the aggressive young cubs to rush to the east to continue their exploration. A fleet of armed expeditions will set off to visit the source along the Msti River, and a large number of men are about to launch a new expedition. Only God knows how much mink furs a husband and son can get or find other good things. What we can be sure of is that as long as you are qualified to work in a state-run garment factory, this piece-rate work is a piece-rate job, and you will never get paid if you have a job. deficit.

After all, state-run factories reopened after a suspension during the spring ploughing period, and the flax reserves in stock last autumn were basically depleted before spring ploughing.

There is absolutely no need to question their desire to make money. No one knows more about the textile industry in the Yinermen Lake area than Fodgen and Bromma.

Standing on the pile of wool, Fodgen waved to everyone to be quiet, and then announced loudly: "The king asked us to make wool into clothes as much as possible, and the king will solve all the sales problems! So! Our task is to finish it as soon as possible! You guys It is important to realize that our flax will be harvested before the golden autumn wheat harvest. All of you will be very busy after the autumn harvest as long as you are willing to continue working in the factory. We must complete the processing of all wool before the flax harvesting season, It's going to be hard work."

"But, we're not afraid of being tired!" Broma, who was standing in the crowd, said loudly. This move echoed Verdegen's words and cheered the female workers.

So Bromma went on shouting: "Women! We need more wool and more flax, we can do any tailoring work, we don't want to be idle! We! Desire to make a fortune through labor!"

The female workers responded with their own Viking battle cry. At this moment, there was no ethnic distinction. They hoped to prove their worth through labor, and even saw that it was completely feasible to make money and raise children through labor. As long as you have money, you can buy better decorations and daily necessities, and you can buy enough food to support yourself and your children. My position at home has raised Ao Ao, so I don't have to let my husband's various demands go unchecked.

Once they grasp the opportunity to make money, they can't go back...

Even without heavy equipment, the labor-intensive textile industry without steam engines or electrical equipment could still operate.

All the products of the state-run textile factory in Novgorod do not worry about sales at all. It has essentially become a royal factory for the royal family. The products are first purchased by the royal family, and then directly supplied to the army and schools.

Various Slavic farms in the Yinermen Lake area are growing flax, of which the "Flax Manor" at the southern end of the lake, near the city of Novo Ostara, is one of the best. The soil in the area where the hundreds of people live on this farm is too wet to grow oats, but there is no problem with growing flax. The village could not digest its own flax output. They used to sell linen cloth for food. Since the trading partners were other farms and their economic level was half a pound, the flax farms could only make do with it.

The kingdom's state-run factories seemed to have an unlimited demand for raw materials, and flax farms began to reclaim the middle flax, and other villages were doing it. After all, compared to developing qualified crop fields, the technical cost of transforming wasteland into flax fields is very low, and flax looks like reeds by the water at first glance. Harvest by month.

But the Rus Kingdom did not have a high-level spinning wheel, and women still worked with very primitive sitting looms. Women sit on leather mats, the so-called machine is footed at one end and tied around the waist at the other end, and each threading is a sitting and lying precursor. Their waists are passively trained to be very flexible, and the efficiency of weaving is really bad.

Even so, the entire Novgorod region has always had a great demand for flax raw materials, and the current flax production capacity expansion is still not enough.

But animal husbandry in the area around the lake is rapidly rising, and the number of sheep breeding in New Ostara is rapidly expanding. The end of spring ploughing is the wool cutting season. The amount of wool that the Ostarans can process is limited, and the remaining wool is naturally shipped to Novgorod for delivery to state-run factories, and the proceeds are extracted from the state treasury and brought home. After all, the Duchess of Ostara is the king's wife, and the two sides have an extremely close economic relationship.

Even if the women in the state-run garment factories weave at a low speed due to the inefficiency of backward machines, at the same time the number of laborers is large enough, so that the final output can be high.

For the Slavs by the Yinermen Lake, who have transformed into a pure farming nation, their clothes are almost all from flax. Even if they know a very dazzling dyeing technique, they still produce flax.

In the face of harsh winters, flax is far less resistant to the cold than wool.

As for the craft of spinning woolen yarn, this is the traditional craft of various Viking tribes including the old Rus. Completely different from the processing mode of the old loom, they can knit a large number of sweaters with only two wooden needles, and they are very efficient. It is also possible to weave sails from wool. This is due to practical needs. Ross has always used linen and boat hemp to make a durable hybrid canvas. A very real reason, so canvas doesn't get too heavy when it absorbs water, wool doesn't.

This is the reason why the eyes of the majority of women shine. Their labor remuneration depends on their individual talents. Based on the fundamental principle of getting more for more work, they have to divide the big cake that belongs to themselves from a huge cake. share.

The wool that Rurik had plundered from Flanders was a great gift, and at the same time that New Ostara, at the southernmost point of the lake, was entering their wool-cutting period, and a large quantity of local wool would soon arrive.

"Then let's get started! Let's knit sweaters!"

Verdegen completely changed the labor plan of the entire factory, and the number of simultaneous laborers in the factory has exceeded 1,000. It is not difficult for Fodegen to manage such a large crowd. Just as the king manages a huge army through the mode of flag team, centurion, "ship" team and small team, the factory is also implementing a similar production team and workshop mode.

As the saying goes, there is something new under the sun. If you want to increase output, you must either hire more workers, increase working hours or pay more.

All three of these measures are being implemented by state-run textile mills.

As if the heavy textile work could be thrown at the slaves, Rurik did not implement this system from the beginning. He still does not like slavery in his heart. On the one hand, he has deep-rooted cognitive problems, and more is because of the current economic situation. Since the most simple purpose of starting a state-run textile factory is to make life better for people from old Ross, of course, job opportunities should be reserved for their own people.

Ross has always killed too much in previous wars, and Rurik likes to mention the nickname of the King of Slaughter, which is considered extremely domineering by the clansmen, but such wars also made the army not capture many slaves at all. At present, the development of slavery in the kingdom lacks the most fundamental conditions. Second, it is more and more difficult to solve the work and life of the 12-year-old cubs in the face of the growing population of the old Rus ethnic group. Serious questions.

If young children do not have a proper livelihood, either take them on expeditions to war, and if there is no war they will become idle.

This is also one of the reasons why Rurik supported his eldest brother to take Jianyong to explore the East. The so-called better eastern settlements were so-called, and men and women who had grown up according to Viking traditions were sent to them to develop towns.

In addition, the domestic development of the manufacturing industry, especially the employment of female population, will definitely have a calming effect on the entire kingdom.

A state-run garment factory alone is not enough! There will be a second factory, a third factory and more.

Whether it is plundered wool or locally produced wool, the wool has not undergone any processing, and it is also mixed with a lot of dead leaves and dust. The raw materials must be processed from scratch to process the raw materials, so the city of Novgorod began to be filled with a peculiar smell and a strong smoke of fireworks.

A large number of pottery urns or iron pots are set up, and the hair is boiled and degreasing in boiling soapy water. After degreasing, the white wool is air-dried and then rolled. The wool is wound by a wheeled machine and wound into a bobbin. The finished yarn is thus obtained, which can be immediately woven or re-dyed in various shades. Of course, the Slavs of the Novgorod region had excellent textile dyeing techniques, and they could get blue, yellow, red, black, and green mixed with blue and yellow. Color mixing is the technology of the local Slavs, who have been producing floral fabrics since ancient times, and now they can also produce floral sweaters.

The work of wool processing has officially started, and many women feel that they can make a fortune sitting in their current homes this year. This was simply unimaginable in the past!