The prisoners of war captured during the war in Karelia were divided among the Russian soldiers, so a large number of women moved to Novgorod with the victors.
A new group of black-haired women appeared in the settlement. Each of them had a master. The best ones were forced to have a relationship with the conqueror and then did hard labor.
As a prince, Rurik only made bottom-line requirements for his subordinates, because the labor force was too precious. The right to life of these women was recognized by the prince. Deliberate abuse was prohibited. Once the matter was reported and investigated, it was confirmed. The parties involved will be fined.
What more waves can the Karelians make? A regional power has clearly had its backbone broken, so that once it falls down, it can never stand up again.
Being able to solve the threat from the north so easily, the Ross army suffered minimal losses in the war, and the greatest wealth they plundered were prisoners of war and deer.
Today, in Novorosberg and Novgorod, there are large reindeer populations in each area, most of which legally belong to the property of the princely family. The work of deer breeding has been decentralized, and those who are deer herders are The deer herders who surrendered early may be called Lapps or Sami.
The most disadvantaged and least surviving group of people in this area, because they relied on the prince of Rus, the fate of the whole family changed. They generally have no ambitions and just want to live a stable life. If they can get a stable life by herding reindeer for the prince, they are willing to do it forever.
After all, the deer herders are a collective name for a group of dispersed micro-tribes of family clans. They will not belittle themselves because of the emergence of a high priest of the Principality of Ross like Rumia, because they have not yet developed a national identity. They are just a large group controlled by the Principality of Ross. They are just obedient people living in the area.
But there are a large number of people who have naturally recognized the concept of "Ross" since birth.
If a country exists because of the community imagined by the people, these people were born into this community.
Many years ago, the first batch of Slavic women who married into the Rus tribe had their eldest children grow up to seven years old. Even according to the tradition of the Slavic community, both boys and girls have a certain labor force by the age of five and are fully obliged to participate in family work and even participate in agricultural work on traditional farms.
The Principality of Ross goes one step further, because these children are the baby boomers!
The principality's population is exploding, and the first batch of new forces has begun to take shape. Among them, children aged seven and six, both male and female, have reached 200. When it comes to their bloodline, they are a mixture of North Germanic Rus and East Slavic Ilmen. Their fathers are both Rus, and they should be Rus.
Since they are descendants of Rus, they must inherit the will of their ancestors. In particular, boys must have a strong body and be able to perform well in logging, fishing, hunting and war.
They are not only the children of their parents, but also belong to the Principality of Rus. Parents do not have absolute custody of their children. Rurik took the children away from their parents, organized wise men to educate them, and organized them for logging and military training.
A group of children, regardless of gender, will first become masters of cutting wood and splitting firewood, becoming masters of archery, knowing the Latin alphabet, and learning Latin, Norse and Slavonic languages in a unified manner. They will understand the basic geography of their world, the location of the Principality of Rus in this area, and what countries exist around it. They will also learn mathematics, especially memorizing the multiplication tables.
What Rurik wants to do is primitive compulsory education, and the start time of classes is the non-farming period in the warm season. Since there is not much knowledge to be taught at this stage and special emphasis is placed on practicality, the young boys in the Sixth Flag Team who have received many years of education are all excellent teachers. There are also ten loyal Slavic maids of their own. In addition to their work as scribes and skilled workers, their job is to teach.
This measure targets not only the number of mixed-race children, which is increasing year by year, but also the local Slavic children in Novgorod, which are also included in the scope of management.
It is difficult to take children away from their parents without giving them grace. Slavic parents would be frightened if force were to be used.
If children do not participate in family or farm work, they are simply raising rice bugs in vain and are pure consumers. If it were true that the children did not work or consume the family's food, the problem would be much less problematic.
At least the residents of Rus' headquarters are happy to hand over their young sons to Prince Rurik. The policy has been implemented for so many years. The children can eat free meals at the prince's place. They are raised strong, tall and healthy. As parents, they save a lot of money. A large amount of child-rearing expenses.
This is a virtuous policy. The principality bears the food expenses of the educated during their studies, which is actually the largest expense of a person's life in today's low productivity era.
How many people under the age of fifteen are currently under direct jurisdiction in the principality? According to the statistics at hand, the number of children has exceeded 10,000 and will only soar further in the future.
This is an extremely exaggerated figure, and Rurik can't help but lament that after the overall improvement in life and the addition of a large number of fertile women, it caused a fertility frenzy in all families.
Realistically, Rurik was convinced that his treasury would not be able to feed all his children unless he increased taxes and expanded wheat fields.
If this is the reality, then the next best thing is to manage a group of children in the notification core area first.
A group of able men and women from the Sixth Banner were selected, and together with his ten Slavic maids, and that John Ingvar, a total of forty people were summoned to the Rus Duma in Rurik and Novgorod.
The spacious parliament court was full of young faces. Different from the carelessness of those old guys, this group of young guys showed a seriousness as a whole.
Rurik clapped his hands in front of everyone and announced the start of the meeting.
The so-called meeting was actually his preaching: "You have all seen that I recently ordered a group of men to cut trees. They will build another wall on a wasteland in the city. I will build a number of houses within the wall. Their existence The sole purpose is to educate your other Ross brothers and sisters. You are their teachers and will teach them languages and calculations in the houses. You will also take them out to the open fields and train them in felling wood, archery, etc."
Rather than saying they are teachers, they are just a group of children. Although they have an adult-like figure, their faces are particularly childish. They sat quietly, staring at the prince's face and listening attentively.
The speech was very brief. After speaking, Rurik raised his head and asked: "Do you have any questions? If you have any questions, just stand up and tell me."
No, John Invar stood up first.
"You... have questions or suggestions?"
"I...I'm just very surprised. My lord, do you really plan to make Latin widely used throughout Ross?" John Invar's surprised expression was written on his face.
"What? I've told you this a long time ago, but you think it's unrealistic."
"No! If you are willing to do it, you will definitely succeed. But Latin is the sacred language used by priests and the language of the Romans. As far as I know, a large number of Frankish nobles are proud to speak Latin. Do you really want to To create glory again in Ross?”
"Recreate?" Rurik smiled contemptuously, "I just want to create a glory, not to mention reinvention. You! John Ingvar, you are the person who knows Latin best here, and I am most optimistic about your educational ability. However, Remember, your responsibility is only to teach, not to spread Frank’s beliefs.”
"Yes. Then, my own child..."
This question actually stopped Rurik.
"Ah!" Rurik slapped his forehead, "I even forgot that you have a son. I remember that you priests are not allowed to get married, but I arranged that woman for you. It doesn't matter, I recognize that your child is a Russian. You will be properly educated. Don’t worry, I will pay you, and you will become a wise man respected by the people of Russia.”
Teaching and educating people is also labor, and it is a very great labor. The premise that they were selected by Rurik was that they were excellent in terms of "morality, intelligence, body, art, and work." Anyway, today's era is full of illiterates, and they are all young and wise men. If they don't become priests, who will?
These people, especially those from the Sixth Flag, will be temporarily separated from life there. In theory, if there is a war in the future and the Sixth Flag has to participate in the war, these people will not be recruited.
They are the first batch of priests in the Principality of Rus and will start the first teaching in history in 836.
No one in the entire Rus' Principality understands the importance of education better than Rurik himself. It is entirely because of his oriental soul that he understands that educating children will bring high-quality talents to the entire country. The population of the principality is still small, and the current In this era, education can only improve the comprehensive quality of the people, thereby achieving the goal of strengthening the country.
However, ordinary people only pay attention to one thing and hand over their children to the prince. The prince is in charge of food and is willing to give food and meat.
Rurik made a contract with these too-young priests, and they would be paid very well for their teaching work! The so-called remuneration is actually wheat, and they have actually become the first civil servants in the principality to receive a salary. They are paid one hundred pounds of wheat per month, and the salary level is equivalent to the salary paid by Rurik to ordinary mercenaries under his command.
This salary may seem like a lot, but it is not much. The so-called teachers’ families are allocated land in the City of Youth, and all teaching work must be done during non-farming periods. This salary will bring an income of 400 to 500 pounds of wheat to the family every year.
Moreover, teachers will eat together with students, and the expenses for catering will actually be paid by the prince.
Their mathematical skills are sufficient to calculate this problem. With a little calculation, they can come up with an astonishing number, and they lament that the prince spends a lot of wealth to support his children.
In fact, Rurik made careful calculations in this regard and came to the conclusion that as long as there was no war that consumed national funds, it was okay to raise 10,000 children every year on the basis of national food stocks.
Taking advantage of the meeting, he made further specifications.
The forty teachers each have their own division of labor, and Rurik also simply divides the subjects taught into: mathematics, linguistics, geography, and history. These four subjects will be taught in the classroom, with the largest number being outdoor sports.
Children of the principality, regardless of gender, are obliged to join the army when they grow up. They must receive basic military training from an early age. This aspect is what teachers are really good at, and there is no need for Rurik to say anything.
How to educate a large group of children, Rurik has compiled teaching materials for these teachers.
Rurik's general knowledge transcended the times, but he instilled too much content into his children that they could not understand and absorb. Education also started from the simplest aspects.
The most important educational work in the Principality now is literacy. The people must at least understand basic mathematical operations and understand words. They must also understand their own past and the true international situation faced by the Principality of Ross.
He came prepared, and all the teaching materials needed for indoor education were ready!
The ash mixed with pine rubber and charcoal blocks is applied to the wooden board, solidified and then polished, and it becomes a fairly makeshift blackboard. The so-called chalk is even easier to make. It only requires a large amount of calcium carbonate stamping molds. The materials are easy to obtain and mass production is not troublesome.
A group of local carpenters received orders from the prince and were not only involved in manufacturing houses, but also in making wooden tables and benches that exuded a strong rosin smell and were quite wet.
In fact, Rurik had to build the prototype of the school building in the early stage of the spring plowing operation. As many as 400 men and women had been hired, and all participants were paid in food.
The school is a system. Although the core is 40 teachers, there will also be a group of staff as teaching staff. In particular, a group of professional cooks must be recruited to provide meals for thousands of children.
Rurik officially set the school entrance age at six years old. There was no particular reason. He just felt that this year was the most correct. A child's indoor cultural education lasts from six to ten years old, and at higher ages he will receive purely physical education and military education. Because the mass production of paper is an indisputable fact, teaching paper is quite abundant, and the examination system can also be implemented.
Although the ancient Russian tradition of "contesting chiefs" has been abolished, at least the Russians are familiar with the competition for supremacy, which is not essentially different from examinations.
An examination system will be introduced, and the best in cultural classes will be picked out by Rurik, who will be exposed to more advanced knowledge and transformed into a teacher.
For now, all Rick has on hand are some handwritten textbooks, which can only be in the hands of teachers. The children can only stare at the blackboard and listen to the teacher's words.
In a few months, the printing of mixed wooden movable type and engraving will be able to mass-produce teaching materials, making it completely feasible for students to have one textbook in their hands.
How to describe the school building? Rurik picked out the word "SCHOLA" from Latin. It originally came from ancient Greek and pointed directly to the concept of open-air schools advocated by Aristotle.
The meeting was just a lecture by Rurik. As prince, he officially institutionalized the "school" in 836.
He could be sure that all school-age children in White Tree Manor would attend school. No parent would be stupid enough to give up the opportunity to save on living expenses, and smart parents realized that their children would become smart and healthy for this purpose, so why not.
Adding this to all the school-age children of Russian immigrants living around Lake Ilmen, it is very normal for there to be between 1,000 and 1,500 students enrolled.
Such a number of students will definitely bring a lot of teaching pressure. Rurik remains optimistic because the system has been established and the general direction is completely correct. If there are problems along the way, just fix them and everything will get better. …
"There are an astonishing number of children who are only one or two years old. When those Karelian women have more children, the number of children in our country will only be greater. Branches will be set up in other settlements and more children will be enrolled in school. I must expand my productivity , otherwise we will not be able to fulfill our promise to manage food.”
Rurik can feel the pressure, at least not to worry too much about this aspect in recent years.
Children are not a large group of two-legged gold-eating beasts in their own hands. They will also participate in labor, especially the movement of logging and land reclamation to claim farmland from the forest. The two-person saw gives the weak children the fighting power to destroy the towering trees. They can also make big trees. The scope of work includes picking branches, collecting rosin, picking mushrooms, and peeling bark, which is an important supplement to the principality's material production labor force. This work was completely adding wealth to the principality's treasury, and Rurik estimated that this would definitely be able to offset the wheat and meat he paid.
The school building has five one-story longhouse-shaped teaching buildings, each with four compartments, that is, four classes. Naturally, the design is such that fifty students can be crammed into one compartment. If there are too many students, they will be crammed in as hard as possible. There is no independent canteen. Professional cooks will deliver the cooked meals directly to the classroom, and the children will use the desks as dining tables.
As for the toilet, it is a must. The urine and feces will be collected. The stench is a stench. They are fertilizers. Even though many people have no idea about fertilizers, at least the huge wheat fields they own can be used immediately to supplement nitrogen fertilizer.
The school will complete final construction after spring plowing, and Rurik has appointed his wife, Svetlana, as interim principal. When the school officially opens, he will also hold a ceremony and even speak to the children in person.
Spring plowing is about to begin, and the children who are eager to go to school will transform into a labor force and provide logistical assistance to the adults who are sowing and working.
At that time, Rurik will also make a statement that he attaches great importance to agricultural production and personally operate the Quyuan plow to participate in spring plowing.
For myself, I am destined to be exhausted for some time to come. In the future, the royal power will continue to be strengthened, and all the blood and sweat will be worth it to make Ross stronger.
It was at this time that Kiev horsemen took the long ship of the Ostarans and floated to Novgorod, a large city on the north shore of Lake Ilmen, with precious and expensive Pecheneg Turk horses. It was also they The end of the journey.
In this way, Rurik and Mark were both shocked by each other's appearance, and then an inexplicable sense of closeness led them to make friendly contact.
After all, who would say no to friendly business dealings? Only idiots do.
