Rise of Rurik

The prisoners of war captured in the war against Karelia were divided among the Russian soldiers, so that a large number of women migrated to Novgorod with the victors.

A new group of black-haired women appeared in the settlement, each with their own masters, none of whom were forced to have sex with the conquerors, and then went to hard labor.

As a prince, Rurik only made bottom-line requirements for his subordinates, because labor is too precious, and the right to life of these women has been recognized by the prince. Deliberate abuse is prohibited. The parties will be fined.

What other waves can the Karelians make? A regional power has clearly broken the backbone, so once he gets down, he can't stand up again.

With such a simple solution to the problem of the northern threat, the Ross army suffered very little damage in the war, and the greatest wealth plundered was the prisoners of war and deer herds.

Now in Novgorod and Novgorod, there are a large population of reindeer in each of the two regions, most of which are legally the property of the prince's family. The deer farmers who surrendered early, or the Lapps, or the Sami.

The most disadvantaged and lingering group of people in this area, because of their dependence on the prince of Ross, the fate of the whole family has changed. They generally have no ambitions, they just want to live in peace and stability, and if they can get a stable life by grazing reindeer for the prince, they are willing to do it forever.

After all, the deer breeder group is a collective name for a group of scattered family clans and micro-tribes. They will not belittle themselves because of the high priest of the Rus Principality like Rumia, because they have not yet developed national identity, but they are just a large group controlled by the Rus Principality. Just 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 a community imagined by the people, these people are born into this community.

Many years ago, the first Slavic women who married the Rus tribe had their eldest children all seven years old. Even according to the tradition of the Slavic community, both boys and girls have a certain labor force when they are five years old, and are fully obliged to participate in family labor, and even participate in agricultural labor in traditional farms.

The Duchy of Ross goes a step further because these kids are baby boomers!

The population of the Principality is exploding, and the first batch of new forces has begun to take shape. Among them, seven- and six-year-old children, both male and female, have reached 200 people. When talking about blood, they are a mixture of North Germanic Rus and East Slavic Ilmen, and their fathers are both Rus and should be Rus.

Since they are descendants of Rus, they must inherit the will of their ancestors.

Boys, in particular, must be physically strong enough to excel in logging, fishing, hunting and warfare.

They are not only the children of their parents, but also belong to the Principality of Ross. Parents do not have absolute custody of their children. Rurik took the children away from their parents, organized wise men to educate them, organized them for logging and military training.

All children, male and female, will first become masters at chopping wood, master at archery, know the Latin alphabet, and learn Latin, Norse and Slavic languages ​​in a unified way. They will understand the basic geography of the world in which they live, the location of the Principality of Rus in this area, and the surrounding countries. They will also learn mathematics, especially memorizing the nine-nine multiplication table.

What Rurik has to do is primitive compulsory education, and the start time of classes is the busy non-agricultural period during the warm season. Since the knowledge to be taught at this stage is not much and the practicality is particularly emphasized, the young boys of the Sixth Banner Team, who have been educated for many years, 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 is not only aimed at the mixed-race children whose number is increasing year by year, especially the local Slavic children in Novgorod, but also within the scope of admission management.

Really taking children away from their parents is hard to do without grace. Slavic parents would be terrified if an act of force was used.

If the child does not participate in the labor of the family and the farm, it is a pure white rice bug and a pure consumer. If the children did not work or consume the family's food, the problem would be much less.

At least the residents of Rothben are happy to hand over their young sons to Prince Rurik. The policy has been implemented for so many years. Children can eat free meals here. They are raised strong, tall and healthy. As parents, they save a fortune. Large childcare expenses.

This is a good policy. The principality bears the cost of meals for the educated during their studies, which is actually the biggest cost of living alone in today's productive era.

According to the statistics at hand, the number of children under the direct jurisdiction of the Principality has exceeded 10,000, and it will only increase further in the future.

This can be described as an extremely exaggerated data, and Rurik had to sigh with emotion that after the overall improvement of 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 various taxes and expanded his wheat fields.

If the reality is like this, then take the next step and manage a group of children in the notification core area first.

A group of capable men and women of the Sixth Banner was selected, and together with his ten Slavic maids, as well as that Johann Invar, a total of forty men were called to Rosduma in Rurik Yunovgorod.

Young faces were sitting in the spacious parliamentary court. Unlike the carefree ones of the old guys, this group of young cubs showed a seriousness as a whole.

Rurik clapped his hands in public and announced the start of the meeting.

The so-called meeting was actually his preaching: "As you all saw, I recently ordered a group of men to go logging. They are going to build another fence around a wasteland in the city. I'm going to build a group of houses within the fence, and they exist. The sole purpose is to educate your other Ross brothers and sisters. You are their teachers, and you will teach them language and numeracy in the house. You will also take them out into the open and train them in logging, archery, and so on."

They are not so much teachers as they are just a group of children, although they have the shape of adults, their faces are particularly childish. They sat quietly, staring at the prince's face and listening intently.

The speech was very brief, and when the words were finished, Rurik raised his head and asked, "Do you have any questions? If you have any questions, stand up and tell me."

No, John Ingvar stood up first.

"You... have questions, or suggestions?"

"I... I'm just very surprised. Your lord, do you really intend to make Latin widely available throughout Ross?" John Invall's surprised expression was written on his face.

"What? I told you about this a long time ago. Could it be that you think this is unrealistic."

"No no! If you will do it, you will succeed. Only Latin is the sacred language used by the priests, the language of the Romans, and as far as I know, a large number of Frankish nobles pride themselves on speaking Latin. Do you really desire it? Restoring glory in Ross?"

"Reconstruction?" Rurik smiled contemptuously, "I just want to create a glory, what about reinvention. You! John Invall, you are the most Latin-speaking person here, and I am most optimistic about your educational ability. But You remember, your duty is only to teach, not to spread those Frankish beliefs."

"Yes. Well, my own child..."

His question actually stopped Rurik.

"Ah!" Rurik slapped his forehead, "I forgot that you still have a son. I remember that you priests are not allowed to marry, but I arranged that woman for you. It doesn't matter, I recognize that your child is a Russ, You will be properly educated. Rest assured, I will pay you and you will become a wise man respected by the people of Rus."

Teaching and educating people is also labor, and it is a very great labor. They were selected by Rurik on the premise that each "moral, intellectual, physical, and beautiful labor" is excellent. Anyway, today's era is full of illiterate people. They are all young and wise. Who will do them if they don't become priests?

These people, especially those from the Sixth Banner Team, will be temporarily separated from their lives there. In theory, there will be wars in the future and the Sixth Banner Team will have to participate in the war, and these people are not within the scope of recruitment.

They were the first priests of the Duchy of Rus and would begin their first lectures in history in 836.

There is no one in the entire Principality of Rus who understands the importance of education better than Rurik himself. It is entirely because of his oriental soul that he understands that the education of children will bring high-quality talents to the entire country. The population of the Principality is still small, and the current In the era, only education can improve the overall quality of the people, so as to become a powerful country.

However, ordinary people only pay attention to one point and hand over their children to the prince, who is in charge of the meals and is willing to give food and meat.

Rurik made a pact with these overly young priests who would be well paid for their teaching work! The so-called remuneration is actually wheat, and they actually became the first batch of civil servants in the duchy to receive a salary, with a monthly salary of 100 pounds of wheat, and the salary level was equivalent to the salary that Rurik paid to his ordinary mercenaries.

This salary seems to be a lot but not much. The so-called teacher's family and the city of youth have been allocated land, and all teaching work must be during the non-agricultural busy period. Such a salary will bring an annual income of 400 to 500 pounds of wheat to the family.

In addition, the teachers will have meals with the students, and the expenses on meals are actually paid by the prince.

Their mathematical level is enough to calculate this problem, and they can come up with an astonishing number with a little calculation, and they feel that the prince has spent a lot of wealth in supporting the children.

In fact, Rurik made a careful calculation in this regard, but he came to the conclusion that as long as there is no war that consumes national funds, it is possible to raise 10,000 children every year on the national stockpile.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the meeting, he made further specifications.

Forty teachers have their own divisions of labor, and Rurik also simply divides the subjects they teach into: mathematics, linguistics, geography, and history. These four subjects will be taught in the classroom, with sports being the most prominent.

Children of the Principality, whether male or female, have the obligation to join the army when they grow up. They must receive basic military training from an early age, and this is where the teachers are really good at, and Rurik doesn't need any elaboration.

How to teach a large group of children, Rurik has compiled a textbook for these teachers.

The general knowledge that Rurik possesses is beyond the times, but he instills too much content in the children and they cannot understand and absorb, and education also starts from the simplest aspects.

The most important educational work in the Principality now is literacy. The public must at least understand basic mathematical operations and read words, as well as understand their own past and the real situation of the international situation facing the Principality of Rus.

He came prepared, and the textbooks needed for indoor education are all ready!

The ashes ground from pine gum mixed with charcoal blocks are smeared on the wooden board, solidified and polished, which is a fairly improvised blackboard. The so-called chalk is even easier to manufacture, but it is made of a large number of calcium carbonate press molds, and the material is easy to obtain and mass production is not troublesome.

A group of local carpenters received orders from the maharaja, not only to participate in the manufacture of houses, but also to make wooden tables and benches that exude a rich turpentine smell and are quite wet.

In fact, Rurik had to build the prototype of the school building in the early stage of the spring ploughing operation. As many as 400 men and women have been hired, and the participants can receive food rewards.

The school is a system, although the core is 40 teachers, there will be a group of staff as teaching staff. In particular, it is necessary to recruit a group of professional cooks to feed thousands of children.

Rurik officially set the age of entry at six for no particular reason, he just thought it was the most correct year. A child's indoor cultural education lasts from the age of six to ten years old, and at a later age, he will receive pure physical education and military education. Because the mass production of paper is an indisputable fact, the teaching paper is quite abundant, and the examination system can also be implemented.

Although the ancient Rus tradition of "competing for chiefs by martial arts" has been abolished, at least the Rus are familiar with the competition for superiors, which is not fundamentally different from the exam.

An examination system will be introduced, and the best in the cultural class will be picked up by Rurik, who will be exposed to more advanced knowledge and transformed into a teacher.

For the time being, Rurik had some handwritten textbooks on hand, and they could only be in the hands of the teacher. The children could only stare at the blackboard and listen to the teacher's words.

After a few months, the mixed printing of wood type and engraving can mass-produce teaching materials, making it completely feasible for students to have one teaching material in their hands.

How would you describe the school building? Rurik extracted the word "" from Latin, which originally came from ancient Greek, referring directly to the concept of the open-air school advocated by Aristotle.

The meeting was merely a preaching by Rurik, who, as prince, officially institutionalized the "school" in 836.

He can be sure that all school-age children at Whitetree Manor will go to school, and that no parent will be stupid enough to pass up the opportunity to save on living expenses, but wise parents realize that their children will become smart and healthy, so why not do it.

Add in all the school-age children of Russ immigrants who live around Lake Ilmen, and it's quite normal to have a school of one thousand to fifteen hundred students.

Such a number of students will definitely bring a lot of pressure on teaching. Rurik remains optimistic, because the system has been established and the general direction is completely correct. If there is a problem in the middle, just fix the problem and everything will be fine. ...

"It's just a staggering number of children who are only one or two years old. When those Karelian women have children, there will only be more children in our country, and other settlements will have branch schools and more children will be enrolled. I have to expand productivity. Otherwise, the promise of managing meals will not be fulfilled.”

Rurik can feel the pressure, at least in recent years not to worry too much about this.

Children are not a large group of two-legged gold-devouring beasts in their own hands. They will also participate in labor, especially the movement of logging and pioneering forests to ask for farmland. Double saws give weak children the fighting power to destroy towering trees, and they can also grow big. Picking branches, collecting turpentine, mushrooms, and bark work in the range is a major supplement to the labor force for material production in the Principality. And this work was all about adding wealth to the duchy's treasury, which Rurik reckoned would certainly offset the wheat and meat he paid for.

The school building has five one-story longhouse-type teaching buildings, each with four compartments, that is, four classes. In terms of design, one compartment is naturally packed with fifty students. If there are too many students, it will be crowded. As for the independent canteen, there will be professional cooks who will deliver the cooked meals directly to the classroom, and the children will use the desks as dining tables.

As for toilets, this is a must, urine and feces will be collected, the stench will be stench, they are fertilizer. Even if many people lack the concept of fertilizer, at least the huge wheat fields they own can immediately use it to supplement nitrogen fertilizer.

The final construction of the school will be completed after the spring ploughing, and Rurik has appointed his first wife, Svetlana, as the interim principal. When the school officially opened, he would also hold a ceremony and even speak to the children himself.

The spring ploughing is about to begin, and the children who are in urgent need of school will become the labor force to provide logistical assistance for the adults who are planting and working.

At that time, Rurik will also make a statement that he attaches great importance to agricultural production, and personally controls the curved plough to join the spring ploughing.

For myself, it is doomed to be exhausted for a period of time in the future. In the future, the royal power will continue to be strengthened. For Ross to be stronger, the blood and sweat will be worth it.

It was at this time that the Kyiv horses floated to Novgorod, a big city on the north bank of Lake Ilmen, on the longboats of the Ostarans, with their precious and expensive Pecheneg Turks. The end of the journey.

In this way, Rurik and the horse were both shocked by the appearance of each other, and then an inexplicable sense of intimacy brought them into friendly contact.

After all, who would refuse friendly business dealings? Only fools do.