Chapter 1052： Businessmen realize that logistics efficiency determines economies of scale

Harvest Square roared constantly, and there were crowds watching the lively everywhere. The king is finally back in the capital, and God knows what new decree he will issue.

The news about the tax exemption has already been carried to the capital by the merchants, and the three-year tax exemption will be applied to all subjects. Is this true? The people of the capital also need the king's promise here.

The high priest Rumia wore an ancestral helmet with antlers and pulled her daughter Velika, the mother and daughter were delighted. Rurik hurriedly dismounted, as did the soldiers behind him.

Rumia saw it, Queen Svetlana, along with Noren, Bejasil and Ella. She was a little lost, it seemed that she could not enjoy her man alone.

She is a high priest, but she is still small and thin. She approached Rurik in the eyes of people: "You are finally here, now that the summer solstice sacrifice is over, you are late."

"It did take some time. But..." Rurik squeezed her cheek lightly: "Okay, you are indispensable for important events. You see, Ella is here too, and the compilation of "Rossaga" is completed. You...know what that means."

Hearing that, Rumia opened her eyes. She understands so well! The current group of priests has expanded greatly, but it lacks a universal classic.

"Rossaga" is the classic that the high priest needs most!

He couldn't help asking: "It's already bound? You can give it to me immediately, and I'll organize others to study immediately. And...I want to take a good look."

"Don't worry." Rurik said, "There are more things to be done."

The governor, the old Conuson, was waiting on the side and did not dare to interrupt, and now the little Conusson, who was a little late, also arrived.

The old man personally led the king's horse, and also winked at the rare prince, which made Osborn smirk.

The prince in old Konusson's memory was a baby. At that time, the king also swaggered around the city to let the people see the royal style. Now that the prince has grown, his small body not only rides a horse, but also stands on solid ground and leans against his mother's body.

His eyes glanced at these cavalry warriors, their childish faces could not be concealed. "They are all newcomers!" A consciousness emerged in his head, and the old Konusson concluded that this was a brand new cavalry team.

Finally, Rurik turned his head sideways: "My governor, is everything okay? I see the capital is peaceful."

"Yes, I govern according to the king's orders, maintain law and order, punish thieves, and collect customs duties according to the treaty."

"Very good." Rurik nodded.

"Then, this cavalry." He couldn't help it.

"Oh, they? All new."

"New? Also, how did the king come? It seems that he arrived on horseback?"

"That's natural. You, father and son, have come at just the right time, Konuson. Go and gather all the most important people in the city. Tonight in Rosduma we have a meeting. I will announce a major event and get as many people as possible to participate!"

Rurik deliberately betrayed him, and he also took some time to sort out the language, and he also wanted to accompany his high priest in the capital.

She was her first woman and had two children. She does not have a peerless appearance, and her status is even higher than that of the queen.

The returning Rurik arranged for the garrison of the second cavalry corps to rest in the barn in the city for the time being. All the war horses were pulled to the shed of the "state-run reindeer breeding base" outside the city, where they were fed grass and oats.

Although riding for a long time is painful, the young warriors have been enduring, and they most need to lie down and sleep after eating bread. They were given vacations, brought their own bedding and gear, and slept in broad daylight in the dry, spacious barn.

Even the five-member group from Pskov, who were guests and were temporarily assigned to the private room. Different from tired warriors, they have full motivation to walk around in this big city. It was only a parade around the city, and they still didn't move. Why did the young "war chief" have such a great reputation that the people of a large city cheered him.

Look at this outrageous reputation, his own boss, the leader of Pskov, Gorsig Famsson, is really less than a tenth of it.

Someone couldn't help but wonder: "Could that guy be King Ross?" Such speculation was unbelievable before. Based on the current situation, the group of five can at least conclude that this person is at least the only heir to the leadership position. The group of five was very fortunate. After they left the small river, they collectively carried the boat and took a dry road to reach another river. It was their fate to meet the Ross cavalry.

Five people were offered food and drink, but they were in fact under house arrest in this log cabin. The Governor's Office received an order that these five people are non-Alliance outsiders. They are not qualified to travel freely in the capital, and they cannot travel without permission. If they are allowed to go out, they must be accompanied by patrolling soldiers.

Not being able to go out was really uncomfortable, but the Rus provided fluffy oatmeal and a lot of ale. It was not ordinary ale, but deliberately blended with vodka-based liquor.

Cast bronze stills have the ability to distill ordinary ale to an alcohol close to 96°. Purely drinking this thing is just looking for death, distilling this thing or making the base wine for bartending, or providing it to priests.

The group of priests has the responsibility of saving the dead and the wounded. Alcohol is already a commonly used disinfectant, and spirits are anesthetics. They are becoming more and more good at dealing with trauma in practice. In this era, one of the reasons for the sudden death of civilians is scurvy from wound infection. Nowadays, the so-called "curse in fever" is no longer an extreme disease. All this is possible because distillation technology and utensils have become more and more perfected in the continuous production of materials.

It is rare to drink, and the blended high-level ale is obviously also blended with honey. They were so drunk and conscious of happiness that they didn't want to go out and run around, which Rurik did on purpose.

The royal family has its own enjoyment of the royal family. The attic palace has been cleaned all the time. When Rurik came back here, he was still facing a clean but deserted residence.

He checked the hidden objects in the high places, and there were quite a few important objects. The team of servants left behind are mostly selected from local women. They are older and manage the Governor's Palace. Cleaning the palace and Ros Duma all day long is their major task. And the cooks are good at cooking. Their daily job is to cook for the office workers of the Governor's Palace, and even to provide meals to the soldiers at the cost of their hands. Now they are cooking for the returning king.

Ross's national treasury is still in accordance with the old rules. It is controlled by the priest group and uses the so-called "sacred buff" to disperse people's malicious intentions.

Rurik was the only one who didn't worry about the priest's **. No, the high priest who had eaten has been put into a separate bedroom by Lurik, and he even declined the queen.

"One more. Velika and Oleg need a younger brother."

"What if it's your sister?"

"Then we have more priests and cardinals."

Rurik wanted to learn the Catholic way, so-called bishops and cardinals, and bishops everywhere, who knew each other. Ross could follow suit, but high priests had better have royal blood.

Let her experience the joy of being a woman again, and Rurik knew what Rumia was thinking, and satisfied her desire on the first afternoon of his return.

She fell asleep in happiness from exhaustion, and the energetic Rurik began to think about how tonight's meeting would announce something big with those guys.

So after an afternoon of deliberation, the good news spread wildly among the people, and it seems that some of the previous claims are true.

Not all cats and dogs can participate in the Duma Council, the participants are either holding important positions in the capital, or important property owners, or wealthy owners with more financial resources. Only the residents of the capital city and some subjects of the Rus Principality who have lived here for a long time have the right to participate. Most of the miscellaneous matters in daily life are discussed and resolved in the Dumari, and even some regulations applicable to the local area are voted.

The traditional "Nordic democracy" was further developed in New Roseburg, subconsciously welcomed by people from various Viking tribes. There is an endogenous self-management model in the capital area, and it is accepted by everyone, which is one of the reasons why Rurik can let the local go.

Then it is quite amazing that, as a king, facing the extremely large population of Slavs in the area around Yinermen Lake, he behaves more like a king who can speak a word. Because the locality has fully evolved into an agrarian economy, the locals need a supreme arbiter.

Rurik was clearly aware of the difference between the two. As a king, he was extremely kind in the capital, and even if he wanted to do something, he would discuss it with the rich and noble gentlemen.

The longhouse of Ros Duma is full of local powers. They are leaders from all walks of life. Some of them are relatives and servants of the royal family, as well as a large number of collaborators.

Then in the endless anticipation, King Ruili clone reappears.

He is here to announce two things of great importance.

"Regarding the three-year tax exemption you learned about. It is true and has been fully implemented in Novgorod. You are the local elite, even if you are not farming, you are taxed as usual. The king's decision is fair. Yes, you are all subjects of the principality part and enjoy this benefit."

The emotions that had been suffocated all burst out, and when the king announced this, it seemed that the roof of the house was about to be overturned by the sound.

After the boiling soup pot gradually cooled down, Rurik took out the speech he had written temporarily, and said the second important thing in person—promoting the canal and the second shipping route.

There is already a second road to Novgorod? Not even having to cut down trees to make roads in the forest anymore?

And the main reason for all this is that there were fishermen from the old Ross native who spontaneously explored and discovered the inland waterway by accident?

This matter was suspicious, but because the king personally proved the existence of the waterway with his cavalry in reverse, it instantly became extremely credible.

The fact is that there is no smooth waterway, and if it is not considered to be an intervention, a necessary passage is a dry road. If the boat is sailing, the big deal is that the traveler drags the boat over, or buckles it and carries it away.

The digging of canals is too bizarre, because in the past, people never realized that they could directly transform the earth with their hands, such as digging trenches to create rivers.

Then some local businessmen eager to try, stood up and raised their voices in the warm atmosphere: "It doesn't matter whether the artificial waterway is reasonable! The big deal is that my people rowed over, and the boat brought their own carts. We can reach Novgorod too. At least, we don’t have to go backward on the Neva.”

People who use words like "robust" and "endurance" to paddle can be blamed, but it's not their voluntary choice. Sail down if the wind is strong, and prefer a gentle runoff if you have the option.

Most of the merchant-proprietor families of Old Rus and New Rus contributed their sons to the king as a standing army. The children went through war to become real men, and learned extraordinary cultural knowledge under the king, which then only began to give back to their fathers.

Just like opening God's perspective, many leaders already understand the geographical structure of northern and eastern Europe. They all understand drawing abstract maps, it doesn't matter why the world is a game, they are more concerned with whether the business path is reasonable.

So Rurik made a wonderful metaphor based on the status quo.

He saw his sister-in-law Asraki and his son Gustav were here, and he made a big fuss about his family's property.

"It's like our water mill, the plank drain on the water wheel has made a full turn and is going back to its original point. As businessmen, you don't have to rush through the violent Neva and Volkhov after the snowmelt in the spring. You can take the Reed River in the west. Even if you sail against the current, the gentle current will not find you much effort. You will complete the voyage in a shorter time, and there will be as many as three supply stations along the way, and the riverside area is everywhere. All can be used as a temporary resting place. You can finally pass the canal and pay a toll to enter Yinermen Lake safely.”

Smart businessmen know how to make trade-offs and compromises. It is a good thing to give a small sum of money in exchange for time. After all, in the past period, small-scale caravans bit their heads to retrograde the Neva River during the wet season. The Ross tribes all formed large groups to go retrograde, relying on more people to paddle and use the wind to offset the flow of the Neva River.

In the spring, we will take the inland river route in the west and pay the canal toll to enter Yinermen Lake. The route is expected to be completed within a week. Staying in Novgorod to complete the trade, bringing freshly purchased agricultural products to Novgorod, using the high flow of water in traditional waterways, it is necessary to return to Novorossburg from the east at low cost. In this way, the water wheel completes a rotation cycle.

Everyone was said to be in a hurry!

Even for the Aslaki family, who monopolized the Great Mill, she produced cheap instant breakfast oatmeal for the capital, and even some high-end honey scones and cakes, inventing delicious meals with existing materials in a twist. Ordinary fishermen and hunters buy the cheapest storable dry food, and the rich buy high-end delicacies. Sustaining the industry depends heavily on imports of wheat, oats, honey and dairy products from the Novgorod region.

As a relative of the royal family, she spends money from the national warehouse to exchange for a limited amount of cheap wheat each month. If she wants to expand production, she must import surplus grain from the people. Due to cost considerations, in addition to sending a ship to the Mälaren Lake District in Sweden to import a batch of local wheat in autumn, the most stable way is to buy from the Slavic farms in the lake area. A very real reason is that the best ingredient to make a good meal is wheat, and now various Slavic farms are starting to expand.

As long as there is a chance, people want to satisfy their appetites as much as possible, and Asraki does what he likes. The common people have to earn money, and the rich have to earn even more. Her family is a pioneer in the food industry in the kingdom, and the future has great prospects. The current development bottleneck that is visible to the naked eye is the contradiction between the need to expand production capacity and the efficiency of raw material import.

Wisely, she stood up abruptly, jubilantly praising the king's decision in a shrill voice.

Everyone present could see that she was not cheering for the king because she was a relative, but completely stood in the position of a businessman and pointed out the great prospects.

Leaders from all walks of life combined their own industries, and UU reading have come to the exact same conclusion.

The so-called logistics efficiency determines the economic scale. Everyone reached a consensus and began to think about optimizing their own caravan structure based on new traffic conditions. The canal is now being excavated, and it is expected to be completed as soon as next autumn, which means that by 843 AD the second channel will be completely penetrated, and it will not be a problem for a small boat to rush to Novgorod in seven days.

Smart people have optimistic estimates that with the most efficient sailing and efficient dumping and purchasing in Novgorod, from Novgorod, the big commercial city, to Novgorod, the main producing area of ​​various materials and raw materials, a set of processes is the fastest. half a month.

Wealthy merchants can organize several more caravans to carry out non-interfering sailing cycles on the two routes. The most optimistic estimate is to organize at least two caravans to set off at least a week apart, so that the second caravan will set off after the first caravan arrives in Novgorod. Fugorod.

Every week, another batch of supplies arrives. If three caravans are organized, the time interval between arrivals can only be further shortened.

Only the dredging of the second route and the canal can make it happen. Once it is implemented, the eastern part of the Rus Kingdom can enter a period of rapid economic growth, and everyone sitting in the Rus Duma meeting will enjoy dividends.