The ugly duckling became a swan. They returned to their hometown in a beautiful manner, and then left between their biological parents.
Those people are farmers, and she is already the woman of the Prince of Rus...
The real palace had not yet been built, so the Rigus family's mansion became a palace.
Rigus, who was on crutches, was very happy to have his daughter Svetlana back. As for the girls from the same village who also lived in the house, he did not dare to show his unexplainable discomfort.
From Anna to Yulia, they slept together in the Chase Bunk that night. Sisters Carlotta and Ella live together.
Rurik stayed in his wife's old boudoir again, and the two of them lay flat on the bed after washing off the dirt on their bodies.
Lana's heart was pounding like a deer, the moonlight shone through the window on her husband's face, she wanted to say something but couldn't bear to disturb Rurik's dream.
She snuggled up and stayed silent all night, just enjoying the happy night and falling asleep peacefully.
Including her, thirteen female scribes have been stationed in Novgorod.
Rurik didn't want to waste time, but even if things had to be done early, everyone who had endured the fatigue of the voyage would at least have a good night's sleep.
After this night, the official survey of the city of Novgorod, that is, the farmland belonging to the White Tree Manor, began.
The crowing of the rooster brings the sun, and the sleeping city wakes up.
Rurik yawned and sat up, his daughter beside him still curled up, her braided hair gently covering her face.
He teased Lana's cheek: "Female warrior, it's time to get up."
She twisted her body and hugged her husband in a daze. Suddenly she woke up and realized that she was in her old boudoir.
Lanna smiled and twisted her body like a cat in front of Rurik.
Her smile is like the winter sunshine, and her coquettish look is really endearing.
"Okay. Let's get up and start our great career!"
After saying that, Rurik jumped off the bed.
In terms of dressing, today is indeed different from the past.
Since Rurik came to power, the Rus tribesmen have had pants. The so-called clothing styles designated by Rurik began to appear. The overall look was much slimmer than the previous robes, but in fact they were made to allow the whole body to stretch smoothly during battle.
The little warriors trained by Rurik, both men and women, wore underwear. Of course, women can wear long skirts, but when they go to the battlefield, they must wear trousers and put leggings on their calves with linen.
This was strange at first, but once everyone got used to it, they got used to it. By the first winter, anyone who wears overall leather pants or linen pants will happily find that the problem of frozen crotch no longer exists.
Maybe there are some obstacles to going to the toilet, but that doesn't matter.
Svetlana, she is dressed as a female warrior, if Valkyrie has an image, she should be.
The soft linen trousers fit close to the body, with long strips of cloth wrapped from the feet to the calves.
"I have thin legs like a skylark now. Do you... really like me like this?"
Lana already had the answer in her mind.
Rurik made leggings for her himself, then patted her knees and said, "Stand up."
"yes."
She jumped around the room, as light as a bird.
The clothes on the upper and lower body are smart, refreshing and slim-fitting. The clothes of this female warrior are indeed completely different from the local peasant women.
There was a trace of hesitation on her face.
"What do you seem to be worried about?" Rurik asked.
"Dressed like this in front of people from my hometown, I...I'm shy."
"You actually care about their attitude? Don't care. I have to accompany you personally for the important events starting today. Let me guide you."
"OK."
She is always a lively girl, and staying serious is contrary to her nature.
She is an easy-to-reach woman with an innocent nature. She doesn't have the hatred of the Carlotta sisters, the inferiority complex of the ten maids, the arrogance of Noren, and she doesn't have the dark wall built in Rumia's heart.
It will be a good thing for the entire Principality of Rus if she becomes queen.
The two of them walked out of the house as warriors, and in a moment Rurik summoned all the female relatives.
The prepared clothes were all put on, and they all transformed into female warriors, as if they were out in the woods on the hillside of Fort Ross for today's training.
Rurik glanced at them and asked them to stand in the courtyard, "You all tie your braids firmly and cheer up. You will be very tired in the days to come. This is not training, it is beyond ordinary training. I will be with you. Action, we will be divided into seven groups, let’s go after breakfast!”
Rigus and Otto were watching all this quietly.
Neither Rigus nor his wife recognized their daughter, and Medved was also quite surprised. His sister looked so handsome dressed as a warrior, but it was a pity that she was a woman...
Breakfast includes boiled honey oatmeal paste, fried eggs, local cabbage soup, and some dark red dried raspberries.
The breakfast is very rich. Considering that everyone will consume a lot of physical energy today, this breakfast is nothing.
A batch of dry food was prepared in one step. It was a thick paste mixed with oat flour, wheat flour, honey, butter, and fresh milk. It was a greasy and sweet meal cooked on a cast iron pot. The cost was the same as that of today's Nobel Prize. The people of Vgorod are extremely tall.
This is food for nobles and has nothing to do with common people. Rurik and his wives ate these, and they were even obliged to eat these delicacies to show their nobility to the common people.
This is also a benchmark for people to imitate. Anyone who suddenly becomes rich from poverty will immediately improve his diet. The elite warriors of the Principality of Rus have begun to become picky in their diet. The next step is the Slavs of Novgorod...
As for the premise, the naturally fertile area on the shores of Lake Ilmen was developed into the true breadbasket of the principality.
After dinner, people from all walks of life gathered outside the door.
There are horses here in Novgorod, but unfortunately these are not riding types. They are ponies, which are very good for carrying things.
The pony pulls a cart with double wooden wheels. The vehicle is very simple, but the fact that the reins are tied around the horse's neck is outrageous!
This is a horse-taming skill that the East Slavs can learn, a technological inheritance that spread from the Romans and Greeks to the birthplace of the Slavs on the Vistula River. As for the horses that will choke their necks due to too tight reins, people can only regret it. , they are unable to improve anything.
At least the horses were just pulling, and the wooden poles were fixed to the horses by leather straps and hemp ropes. This kind of wooden cart does not even have bronze bearings, so the load capacity is not large.
It will definitely be fine if a few children are seated in the vehicle, but if more than ten people are forced to sit on it, the vehicle's shaft will be broken. With just one glance, Rurik concluded that the locals needed indescribably huge technological innovations.
A lot of wooden boards were placed on the car, as well as a batch of linen to hold dry food.
There are a large number of hemp ropes coated with chalk mud and coiled in bundles. Once the book is unfolded, they have a length of one hundred stikas (equivalent to 98.2 meters). This is the rope ruler. It was made by New Roseburg based on the guidance measuring tools shipped from Roseburg's hometown. The hemp rope is one hundred stikas long. Every ten stikas are painted with a cinnabar red line. Each stika is painted with toner and attached. . The rosin glue adheres and reinforces, making the lines difficult to dissipate due to friction.
These measuring tools are actually relatively primitive. Rurik is fully capable of making more advanced ones, but he just lacks time.
These measuring tools are enough. Up to ten rope rulers can accurately measure the length and width of various fields, and then rely on calculus to calculate the area of farmland of various shapes.
Calculating acres is a systematic task, and it is not as simple as calculating the length and width and calculating the area. Rurik wanted to determine the macroscopic distribution of farmland outside Novgorod, number the areas in an aligned manner, and then send each group to take charge of an area.
This job has nothing to do with the gender of the operator. Rurik requires his wives and concubines to be recorders of their emotions in this matter.
The recorder must record who owns the farmland, where they live, their name and nickname. Then indicate the area of its farmland as the tax base. Therefore, during the statistics, the farm owners must be present to report. If they are not willing to come, then don't blame the Duke for not being kind to me. The land will be regarded as ownerless and wasteland and will be confiscated by the Duke.
Rurik wanted to draw a "Novgorod Fish Scale Book" and also conduct a census of the local people, so that the ruler himself could know the true strength of the principality.
This project is probably the first social research project since Ross became a principality, and it plays a milestone role.
A group of Rurik's mercenaries became guards. They received orders to strictly ensure the personal safety of the girls during the surveying and mapping work, and to better surround the data obtained from the surveying and mapping, that is, to ensure the safety of those wooden boards.
There is also a group of local Slavs who are residents of the White Tree Manor and are soldiers of the Slav flag. They even own land themselves. A group of people also serve as followers, and they are even the biological fathers of the girl...
However, there will be no actual mapping tasks on the first day.
The horse-drawn carriages loaded with wood planks, charcoal pens and other materials must be transported to the field first, and local people will help build some rural sheds.
Rurik and the girls, guarded by a group of guards, measured the entire White Tree Manor with a pair of feet.
On this day, they walked a lot and saw a group of people bending down to pick up things on the bare fields, people digging holes, and even local women wearing sweat-wiping headscarves sitting on the land chatting.
Some curious people followed the team, and a group of children always ran back and forth in front of Rurik, showing their original bright smiles.
There were also forest hunters coming back carrying the pine trees they had captured. Seeing this team holding up their flags, they subconsciously avoided it.
Leggings relieve pain in the calves, allowing people to walk long distances without pain. Although there is sunshine, the temperature is still low throughout the day. Everyone is aware that winter is approaching and snowfall can fall at any time!
This was only the first day. They had made a major harvest when they returned to their residence. For the first time, Rurik looked around and saw all the farmland in the White Tree Manor. The fields were easy to identify. They were the scars of the forest. There were patches of fields along the river. Fields, the most numerous fields in the forest, but unfortunately they are not very coherent with each other.
With basic understanding, follow-up work will be easier to carry out.
On the third day, after collecting a batch of data, Rurik personally drew a structural map of the area, including the city of Novgorod, on a wooden board.
The drawing is still very rough, but most of the farmland distribution is quite accurately drawn on the wooden board. The girls knew the quadrants very well, and they also knew how to draw north and south on maps, so Rurik didn't have to waste any time in this regard.
He divided four quadrants with Novgorod city as the center, and each quadrant was divided into two smaller quadrants.
The seven surveying and mapping teams were organized. Rurik took two of them personally to deal with them, and the remaining six were shared among the girls.
Here Rurik's great project begins, and this is also a painful beginning.
The son was running around in the fields, and the daughter-in-law was dressed like a boy, running around pulling a very long rope.
Otto wants to help them, but he is indeed getting older. His physical strength that was once able to carry out expeditions on foot is now severely diminished. Is the end of the road really coming? Not willing to give in!
Otto's patience was limited. When he felt that the surveying and mapping work was boring, he simply returned to his residence and waited for his relatives from far away to come and reunite.
The data that had just been measured must be put into calculation immediately. Some wooden boards became papyrus for calculation. Rurik ignored the black toner in his hands and used a charcoal pencil sharpened with a knife to check the data on the wooden boards.
The owner of the farmland is nervously waiting for the result calculated by the Duke himself. He will turn his head to see what the Lord writes. This look is basically like reading the Heavenly Book, or in other words, no matter what Rurik said, what the farmer saw was the Heavenly Book.
The farmers of White Tree Manor have remained illiterate for half their lives. They shouldn't be like this, but it's a pity that no teacher has taught them advanced knowledge. Even the concept of a teacher is inconceivable to them.
Rurik calculated the area of the irregular farmland by using fixed integrals. Svetlana really admired her husband's ability. Obviously, this was the wisdom of the divine world. Her husband was a saint who touched the gods!
She also has good abilities. By disassembling the irregular field patterns into squares and triangles, the calculations are a bit tedious, but she can still complete the work.
Each surveying and mapping group was doing the same work, and the girls in each group worked tirelessly to run around in the fields. They expended an amazing amount of physical energy every day. Fortunately, Rurik had already prepared completely excessive logistical supplies. If you're hungry, you can have honey and butter wheat cakes; if you're thirsty, you can have chrysanthemum tea, pine needle tea, and even kvass, a local specialty. It was the latter that contained a small amount of alcohol that made them suddenly feel energetic again while they were busy.
They are all young girls. After a week of continuous surveying and mapping work after receiving the mission, we collected a lot of precious land information and residents' identity information, but their bodies were still damaged. The fair arms became rough, calluses appeared on the hands and soles of the feet, there was an alarming amount of mud on the body, and the hair became scattered and solidified by crystallized salt particles.
Only by soaking in the bathtub and washing their hair with soap mixed with flower essential oils did they feel that their tired bodies finally relaxed.
The first week of work is completed. This week, the entire farmland around Novgorod has been calculated, and finally the final data will be summarized by Rurik, the most powerful brain.
A heavy burden fell on the shoulders of the young Duke. Even at night, after lighting a few oil lamps on the table set up by surprise, Rurik was still doing statistics with a charcoal pen.
As for Svetlana, she stayed by her husband's side, her hands were also black, and she continued her calculation work.
The two looked at each other speechlessly, as did the other girls.
Can a huge amount of data be handled with just a handful of people? There are very few people who can work as scribes now, but the farmland surrounding the lake is very large.
Due to backward agricultural technology, local farmers can only adopt the strategy of planting extensively and harvesting little. The measured acre data is astonishing, but the production capacity is really low. The climate is one reason, but the biggest reason is poor technology.
Rurik used the White Tree Manor in Novgorod as a breakthrough. He truly saw the agricultural life of traditional European farmers in the ninth century.
A peasant family raised three or four children, and many of them died in infancy. It can be estimated that the grain output can exceed 3,000 Roman pounds per hectare (in a good year). This number is indeed higher than that in the Nordic homeland, but the population here is also large. A farmer's family could have a surplus of grain, so that a piece of farmland was not planted with wheat, but with cabbage, yellow-rooted carrots, and even cold-resistant flax used for weaving.
Are the data from White Tree Manor completely reliable?
It is reliable, only partially reliable. This manor has been the front line for the transfer of agricultural technology from Russia for several years. The people have not yet turned into small farmers. They still cooperate with each other, and a large number of farm tools are still easily lent to each other, so that everyone is using Qu Yuan produced in Russia for farming. The plows and harvesting wheat were all made with sickles made in Russia, and the flails with copper rings made in Russia were used for threshing.
Therefore, even if other farms have more fields than White Tree Manor, their production capacity must be lower.
Thinking of these inferences, Rurik became even more cautious, because he was about to take his men to the fields of the destroyed Pine Needle Manor, measure the farmland area there, and perform calculations and statistics on the data. It was really a torture for the brain.
Worse troubles are just around the corner. The existing writing boards can be used up to complete the acreage calculation and population statistics of White Tree Manor and Old Pine Needle Manor.
Do we need to go to such great lengths to target other farms? It is definitely tiring, but writing materials must be innovated!
Rurik thought of the birch trees that could be seen everywhere here, and the corners of his mouth slightly curled up under the oil lamp...
, in general terms from now on, until the first snow, it is light snow. Works were carried out on Novgorod and
