Chapter 365: Aphrora Shipbuilding Project
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The Ross tribe is actively expanding. However, due to the limitation of strength and traditional way of life, the power of the tribe cannot enter the vast inland areas at this stage.
The settlements built are all adjacent to the sea, and the tribes that have been conquered are all living along the river. In short, all the places where the Rus people set foot can be reached by boat.
The Ross people at this stage are obviously a typical maritime nation, and sailing and fishing have long been the lifeblood.
In order to maintain the stable and smooth flow of materials and personnel exchanges in the settlements, and to ensure the increasingly important commercial routes, the Rus must plan ahead to build a maritime force that can protect their own interests.
It may be too early to build a navy, but the tribe must have one or more ships so that all tribesmen can feel at ease when they see them.
Since the best shipbuilders in the alliance were recruited by themselves, they must use the existing shipbuilding materials to build a huge ship hull.
This ship must cross the ages.
Rurik did not dare to say that if the ship had the ability to drift all the way to the Americas after being successfully launched, it would at least be able to swim seamlessly across the Baltic Sea.
Opposite to Rurik's ambition is Otto's suspicion. He stared at the keel carefully, doubting the reliability of future ships with the navigator's instincts.
"Rurik, are you sure that this works? It's too long. I doubt that the spliced keel is reliable."
This matter can’t help but Rurik speaks, the shipbuilder Hotra, who swears that he will win with his vicissitudes of life: "The chief, for this boat, my family and I have gambled on the honor of our generations. If I fail. , My soul will be guilty forever."
"Ah?! You have such an attitude?" Unexpectedly, for a boat, the boatbuilder can also swear an oath like some warriors.
"We have this attitude. We are willing to believe in Rurik that we will...build the ship strictly according to his requirements. Since he is the one who has received the blessing of Odin, then our ship construction will also go smoothly."
At this moment, Otto focused his gaze on his son.
"Rurik, tell me your plan. Oh no! I think you've been calculating this shipbuilding plan a long time ago."
"Hey, Dad, you really know me."
On this point, Rülik admires Otto very much. He is an old guy who has been blown by the sea breeze.
He began to enumerate the many ideas he wanted to use on the new ship: "This ship will be pure sail power, a cargo ship with a huge load, and a strong warship. She will use a lot of pine and oak to assemble it, and it will be a lot of Use pine glue. She will have a real deck to protect the cargo and provide a place to sleep for our sailors. The stern and front of the ship will be built with wooden houses. The bow wooden house is a resting place for distinguished people, and the stern The wooden house is the cabin that controls the rudder."
After just saying this, Rurik noticed that his father had been so pleasantly surprised from ear to ear. Some nouns may appear in this world for the first time, and Rurik didn't dare to speak too professionally, so he had to gesticulate and use more vocabulary to describe one concept after another.
"It also needs to have a huge mast, which will be a spinnaker. I plan to place a mast on the bow of the ship, so that we can use the wind at the bottom of the ship after it is hung on the balance sail. I also want to be at the stern. Put on the second mast to make better use of the wind. She will have the tallest mast of all our ships and will be the fastest sailing."
The son is making up a beautiful dream for himself. It seems that this dream only needs a winter's waiting to see the result next year. Otto guessed that maybe he couldn't wait so long. Look at these Mellaren shipbuilders who came from afar and needed to do their best. They didn't seem to be busy at all as if they were planning to spend the winter in peace and boredom.
Snow and ice must not interfere with their plans, presumably Ruriek will always supervise them.
While Otto was satisfied, Otto was also a little curious: "Rurik, do you always call the ship her? Is the ship still a woman? Or is it just because you love ships so much that you treat the ship as your woman."
The old man's words made Rick want to laugh, but there is nothing ridiculous about "taking the boat as a woman" after thinking about it carefully.
"Because the Romans called ships women, they even named ships after the goddess."
"Huh? Romans? Rome again, do you know them a lot?"
Otto’s words reminded Rürich, think about it, everyone’s understanding of Rome is still a piece of hearsay. wrong! Most of the people simply disdain and have no chance to learn about Rome.
Rurik immediately lied: "The sheepskin book is a Roman relic. I saw the above record, they just called the ship a woman."
"Well, it's a weird custom." Otto shrugged. He himself had read the sheepskin book, but the text on it could not be understood. Otto was a little shy, and wanted to forcefully express that he understood a lot. He put on a posture of teasing a child: "My dear, what name do you plan to marry your woman?"
first name? Name my woman?
Rurik almost laughed.
It is indeed funny to think of a ship as a wife, and it is true that the Romans took the lead in giving the ship a feminine name. All forces in Europe are interested in competing for the legacy of the Roman Empire and are eager to obtain a noble identity. It is also reasonable to inherit some of the legacy of the Roman navy.
Otto did not think it was important to name the ships. He learned that his son had marked the fishing boats with clear numbers, which was an unprecedented move. Now he wants to marry a single ship with elegance. Your name? If you must do this, why not take a domineering name? ! Just like the invincible Red Dragon announced by the Danish leader.
Since it is named, what name should be given to the first pure sail-powered ship of the Ross people?
Since she is an epoch-making product, she should have a resounding name.
"Yes! Just call her Aphrola!"
"Huh? Aphrora? I thought you would have a louder name."
Rurik also wondered: "Is she not elegant enough? This ship will be born in winter, and the Aphrora in the sky will shine. That is the parade of the Valkyrie. Dad, this ship is not only a cargo ship, but also a ship. A special warship."
"Is that so?" Otto thought about it again, "Isn't it better to name it directly after the Valkyrie? Such as Valkyrie, Brunhild, or Norn."
"Absolutely!" Excited Rurik slapped his thigh wanton, his blue eyes ignited like flames. He immediately looked at the shipbuilders and said loudly, "Listen, I named this ship Aphrora. After we finished her, the construction of the second ship will start. They will be named after the Valkyrie. ."
Hortra's wrinkled face began to twitch violently. He was not agitated, nor was he inappropriate for naming the ship a woman. He cautiously suggested: "Ruriek, maybe this is not appropriate. I am afraid that God will be angry. , We shouldn’t name the ship after the Maid of Odin.”
Rurik shook his head: "Really? I don't think it's necessary. Hotla, I let you build the ship. Next year! When the Aphrora starts to sail, if Odin is really angry, she will capsize. I Think, Odin will not be angry about this."
He is willing to believe in a great existence, but he doesn't believe in any weird powers.
Aphrora, which is recited in the Norse language according to the dialect of the Ross tribe, is basically just a noun describing the Northern Lights. In fact, in the final analysis, this vocabulary comes from ancient Indo-European language, and finally evolved into a vocabulary describing "Europe".
Of course, Rurik named this ship, which is still in the keel state and whose construction plan has been basically completed, as long as it still comes from his evil taste.
The Ross tribe really needs a ship called the Northern Lights to be the treasure of the country.
Otto Lik and others stayed here for the longest time. After all, this place is an extremely important place for Otto to inspect the tribe. He must examine the wintering conditions of all the ships of the entire tribe, and even the winter work plans of all the shipbuilders in the tribe.
In winter, the sea is frozen, and the action of fishing has turned into burrow fishing in the ice sea, and even the special short spear "guards the hole and waits for the seal."
Otto was fascinated by Rurik's dreamy plan, and he was even more surprised that his son could make plans with the shipbuilder in a short period of time. Do not! The planning must be done at the time of Mellaren. Some thin wooden boards are engraved with traces, the traces are not blindly carved, it is the blueprint of the shipbuilding plan! The ships were made according to the patterns described on the wooden boards, coupled with their exquisite craftsmanship of shipbuilding, and the most important thing was the direct participation of the sacred man Rurik.
Otto believes that this will be a huge success. What positive impact will the launch of the Aphrodite bring? Otto couldn't make any estimates at all.
Because the situation is more special than Otto can imagine!
What Rurik deliberately built this time is a highly imitation Caravel-type sailing ship.
Because of some nautical games he encountered on that plane, Rurik had a little understanding of the history of ship development in Europe. The Caravelle, in the language of the Iberian people who built it first, is the "oak boat". It has learned a lot from the experience of the Eastern Great Sea-Eater on the sail system, and combined with the local hull, it has created such a treasure with ocean-going navigation.
The cargo ships of the various tribes of the Viking family are the originators of European sailing ships! The hull of the Caravel ship in history was born from the continuous transformation of the Viking cargo ship for five hundred years.
Caravel’s huge spinnaker, of course, can’t achieve the maximum downwind sailing efficiency like a balance sail. It is better at being able to steer freely at a small angle, and can even steer any wind direction. A series of refined operations means that as long as there is wind, she can sail freely.
A great dream is being realized, and Rurik is very relieved of those boat builders.
Only in terms of expenses, Rurik didn't plan to tell his father the truth.
For a conventional cargo ship, the price offered by the Hortra family is already an astonishing five hundred silver coins. The Aphrora under construction is more complicated to manufacture and requires more costs. Also, because it must be manufactured forcibly in winter, the labor costs are also huge.
Hotra gave a very high offer: three thousand silver coins.
And this is just the cost of the shell.
In order to build the ship's hull, the Hortra family had to hire some Ross people to cut and process wood, and even buy the finished products of local carpenters and blacksmiths. The consumption of pine glue, which is used as a wood gap adhesive, is also huge, and it has become one of the important reasons for the cost. Most of the three thousand silver coins will fall into the hands of the Russian laborers. In the end, the boat builder's profits are not amazing.
When the hull is finished, a large number of strong men must be gathered and dragged to the outdoors along the slide. At that time, a pine tree from Elronburg in the north was transported and turned into the main mast of the ship.
It is a normal decision to use straight red pine as the main mast, so can it be used as a keel?
If only ordinary ships are made, pine wood can certainly serve as the keel. Since this is a huge ship that challenges the strength of the shipbuilder, it must be built with stronger oak.
Shipbuilding has always been a very expensive business, and how big a ship can be built is also an evaluation mark of a country's manufacturing level.
It is logical that Rurik would ask these people to dig a pit and build a waterproof dam with wood and sand. This is a dry dock, and it is the key to building a large ship.
Obviously, in the current situation of assault construction, there is no time to dig the dry dock.
The Aphrora had to be built on flat ground, but fortunately, it would not be extremely large, and the existing manufacturing process could serve such a behemoth.
Rurik is still unable to estimate the true cost of a large ship. If the cost of the expensive hull will account for most of the finished product, the final cost of the Aphrora would have to be four thousand silver coins.
It seems that this amount of money is not much for Rurik, but he is currently unable to control even a silver mine. Since the roots are that the Rus people cannot issue currencies that are accepted by all tribes, it will be inevitable that food will become a special currency. Four thousand silver coins correspond to forty thousand pounds of grain.
The Caravel-type sailboat itself is a small boat, with a displacement of about 50 tons, but a full load displacement can reach an astonishing 80 tons. She is a small ship that can carry cargo in her belly. Because she has a slightly flat hull, the center of gravity of the ship is extremely low after it is loaded with cargo or ballast, and she stands on the sea like a tumbler.
What Rurik expects most is such an effect, even if the ship will cost himself a lot of money.
The huge amount of money to build the Aphrodite must have a milestone significance. How many ships of the same class will be built in the future? Rurik had an expectation in his mind.
"I have to have at least ten ships, or more. This type of ship will become the main transportation force in the future. Of course it is very expensive. If I can sell more high-value goods, I will buy a huge amount of grain from Melaren. , The problem is not big."
The ship building plan started with the Aphrodite, and what can support her and the subsequent sisters' construction is, in the final analysis, food.
On this day, Otto led his men to complete the tribal inspection. He stayed in key areas for a long time, and he naturally withdrew after a few glances at the less important places. For example, Otto hasn’t realized until now, what does it mean to emigrate female slaves like Fodegan with a ticket to be good at sewing?
In Otto's concept, it is impossible for the women in the family to make all kinds of clothes for men. Otto does not have this concept of making money by processing ready-made garments and opening a tailoring factory.
Rurik thinks this is of great significance. Fordgen’s tailoring workshop and Holtra’s large shipbuilding workshop are clearly a kind of enterprise. They can create more wealth, and as the chief family, they have the right to collect more taxes.
The balance of the "big cash box" is seriously insufficient, and maintaining a large amount of advanced reserves is the wealth backing of the series of plans carried out by Lurik. Although the backing has now become a huge amount of food, it is still very important to control a large number of silver and copper coins that can be used flexibly.
On the second day of Otto’s inspection, a food market arranged by the chief’s family was formed on a cold beach.
A large group of tribesmen who were interested in buying oats gathered together with their money in a mess. It was shocked that Rurik felt that the tribe was going to carry out a violent looting for a while, and even lead to a trampling accident.
Fortunately, with the experience of distributing trophies, neither Otto nor Liurik could sit and watch the tribe in a coma.
The mercenaries obeyed the leader's order to maintain these. They gradually formed a line, waiting for the opportunity to buy food for themselves in the constant complaints.
The huge balance finally collected a hundred pounds of fresh wheat~www.novelhall.com~The buyer put it in a pottery urn or took it away in a burlap pocket.
This time the upper limit of food distribution is one hundred thousand pounds of food, which is enough for 1,000 people to receive one time, and Lurik will recover 10,000 silver coins from the sale.
Rurik disagreed with his father's plan to distribute grain on a large scale. It is said that the grain is the private property of the leader's family, and more is still the private property of Rurik. How to use it should be arranged by the property owner.
The people of the tribe do not have a reliable granary. They do have a lot of silver coins and rush to put a lot of food. They will damage the food because of their poor storage, and they will lose more than the gains.
Slowly releasing the food, Rurik boasted of a strategy. When the people of the tribe have almost eaten their food, they will release the next wave of 100,000 pounds, for example, every two months, so that 800,000 pounds of food can really be carried through a special distribution method. The next harvest season, in a sense, is to use limited grain reserves to achieve the magical result of "wheat all year".
Of course, this is still an expedient measure when the food reserves are extremely low. If the food is really large, then the Ross people should make a full-scale wine. It is not uncommon for drunks to lie down and snoring in the end.
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The Ross tribe is actively expanding. However, due to the limitation of strength and traditional way of life, the power of the tribe cannot enter the vast inland areas at this stage.
The settlements built are all adjacent to the sea, and the tribes that have been conquered are all living along the river. In short, all the places where the Rus people set foot can be reached by boat.
The Ross people at this stage are obviously a typical maritime nation, and sailing and fishing have long been the lifeblood.
In order to maintain the stable and smooth flow of materials and personnel exchanges in the settlements, and to ensure the increasingly important commercial routes, the Rus must plan ahead to build a maritime force that can protect their own interests.
It may be too early to build a navy, but the tribe must have one or more ships so that all tribesmen can feel at ease when they see them.
Since the best shipbuilders in the alliance were recruited by themselves, they must use the existing shipbuilding materials to build a huge ship hull.
This ship must cross the ages.
Rurik did not dare to say that if the ship had the ability to drift all the way to the Americas after being successfully launched, it would at least be able to swim seamlessly across the Baltic Sea.
Opposite to Rurik's ambition is Otto's suspicion. He stared at the keel carefully, doubting the reliability of future ships with the navigator's instincts.
"Rurik, are you sure that this works? It's too long. I doubt that the spliced keel is reliable."
This matter can’t help but Rurik speaks, the shipbuilder Hotra, who swears that he will win with his vicissitudes of life: "The chief, for this boat, my family and I have gambled on the honor of our generations. If I fail. , My soul will be guilty forever."
"Ah?! You have such an attitude?" Unexpectedly, for a boat, the boatbuilder can also swear an oath like some warriors.
"We have this attitude. We are willing to believe in Rurik that we will...build the ship strictly according to his requirements. Since he is the one who has received the blessing of Odin, then our ship construction will also go smoothly."
At this moment, Otto focused his gaze on his son.
"Rurik, tell me your plan. Oh no! I think you've been calculating this shipbuilding plan a long time ago."
"Hey, Dad, you really know me."
On this point, Rülik admires Otto very much. He is an old guy who has been blown by the sea breeze.
He began to enumerate the many ideas he wanted to use on the new ship: "This ship will be pure sail power, a cargo ship with a huge load, and a strong warship. She will use a lot of pine and oak to assemble it, and it will be a lot of Use pine glue. She will have a real deck to protect the cargo and provide a place to sleep for our sailors. The stern and front of the ship will be built with wooden houses. The bow wooden house is a resting place for distinguished people, and the stern The wooden house is the cabin that controls the rudder."
After just saying this, Rurik noticed that his father had been so pleasantly surprised from ear to ear. Some nouns may appear in this world for the first time, and Rurik didn't dare to speak too professionally, so he had to gesticulate and use more vocabulary to describe one concept after another.
"It also needs to have a huge mast, which will be a spinnaker. I plan to place a mast on the bow of the ship, so that we can use the wind at the bottom of the ship after it is hung on the balance sail. I also want to be at the stern. Put on the second mast to make better use of the wind. She will have the tallest mast of all our ships and will be the fastest sailing."
The son is making up a beautiful dream for himself. It seems that this dream only needs a winter's waiting to see the result next year. Otto guessed that maybe he couldn't wait so long. Look at these Mellaren shipbuilders who came from afar and needed to do their best. They didn't seem to be busy at all as if they were planning to spend the winter in peace and boredom.
Snow and ice must not interfere with their plans, presumably Ruriek will always supervise them.
While Otto was satisfied, Otto was also a little curious: "Rurik, do you always call the ship her? Is the ship still a woman? Or is it just because you love ships so much that you treat the ship as your woman."
The old man's words made Rick want to laugh, but there is nothing ridiculous about "taking the boat as a woman" after thinking about it carefully.
"Because the Romans called ships women, they even named ships after the goddess."
"Huh? Romans? Rome again, do you know them a lot?"
Otto’s words reminded Rürich, think about it, everyone’s understanding of Rome is still a piece of hearsay. wrong! Most of the people simply disdain and have no chance to learn about Rome.
Rurik immediately lied: "The sheepskin book is a Roman relic. I saw the above record, they just called the ship a woman."
"Well, it's a weird custom." Otto shrugged. He himself had read the sheepskin book, but the text on it could not be understood. Otto was a little shy, and wanted to forcefully express that he understood a lot. He put on a posture of teasing a child: "My dear, what name do you plan to marry your woman?"
first name? Name my woman?
Rurik almost laughed.
It is indeed funny to think of a ship as a wife, and it is true that the Romans took the lead in giving the ship a feminine name. All forces in Europe are interested in competing for the legacy of the Roman Empire and are eager to obtain a noble identity. It is also reasonable to inherit some of the legacy of the Roman navy.
Otto did not think it was important to name the ships. He learned that his son had marked the fishing boats with clear numbers, which was an unprecedented move. Now he wants to marry a single ship with elegance. Your name? If you must do this, why not take a domineering name? ! Just like the invincible Red Dragon announced by the Danish leader.
Since it is named, what name should be given to the first pure sail-powered ship of the Ross people?
Since she is an epoch-making product, she should have a resounding name.
"Yes! Just call her Aphrola!"
"Huh? Aphrora? I thought you would have a louder name."
Rurik also wondered: "Is she not elegant enough? This ship will be born in winter, and the Aphrora in the sky will shine. That is the parade of the Valkyrie. Dad, this ship is not only a cargo ship, but also a ship. A special warship."
"Is that so?" Otto thought about it again, "Isn't it better to name it directly after the Valkyrie? Such as Valkyrie, Brunhild, or Norn."
"Absolutely!" Excited Rurik slapped his thigh wanton, his blue eyes ignited like flames. He immediately looked at the shipbuilders and said loudly, "Listen, I named this ship Aphrora. After we finished her, the construction of the second ship will start. They will be named after the Valkyrie. ."
Hortra's wrinkled face began to twitch violently. He was not agitated, nor was he inappropriate for naming the ship a woman. He cautiously suggested: "Ruriek, maybe this is not appropriate. I am afraid that God will be angry. , We shouldn’t name the ship after the Maid of Odin.”
Rurik shook his head: "Really? I don't think it's necessary. Hotla, I let you build the ship. Next year! When the Aphrora starts to sail, if Odin is really angry, she will capsize. I Think, Odin will not be angry about this."
He is willing to believe in a great existence, but he doesn't believe in any weird powers.
Aphrora, which is recited in the Norse language according to the dialect of the Ross tribe, is basically just a noun describing the Northern Lights. In fact, in the final analysis, this vocabulary comes from ancient Indo-European language, and finally evolved into a vocabulary describing "Europe".
Of course, Rurik named this ship, which is still in the keel state and whose construction plan has been basically completed, as long as it still comes from his evil taste.
The Ross tribe really needs a ship called the Northern Lights to be the treasure of the country.
Otto Lik and others stayed here for the longest time. After all, this place is an extremely important place for Otto to inspect the tribe. He must examine the wintering conditions of all the ships of the entire tribe, and even the winter work plans of all the shipbuilders in the tribe.
In winter, the sea is frozen, and the action of fishing has turned into burrow fishing in the ice sea, and even the special short spear "guards the hole and waits for the seal."
Otto was fascinated by Rurik's dreamy plan, and he was even more surprised that his son could make plans with the shipbuilder in a short period of time. Do not! The planning must be done at the time of Mellaren. Some thin wooden boards are engraved with traces, the traces are not blindly carved, it is the blueprint of the shipbuilding plan! The ships were made according to the patterns described on the wooden boards, coupled with their exquisite craftsmanship of shipbuilding, and the most important thing was the direct participation of the sacred man Rurik.
Otto believes that this will be a huge success. What positive impact will the launch of the Aphrodite bring? Otto couldn't make any estimates at all.
Because the situation is more special than Otto can imagine!
What Rurik deliberately built this time is a highly imitation Caravel-type sailing ship.
Because of some nautical games he encountered on that plane, Rurik had a little understanding of the history of ship development in Europe. The Caravelle, in the language of the Iberian people who built it first, is the "oak boat". It has learned a lot from the experience of the Eastern Great Sea-Eater on the sail system, and combined with the local hull, it has created such a treasure with ocean-going navigation.
The cargo ships of the various tribes of the Viking family are the originators of European sailing ships! The hull of the Caravel ship in history was born from the continuous transformation of the Viking cargo ship for five hundred years.
Caravel’s huge spinnaker, of course, can’t achieve the maximum downwind sailing efficiency like a balance sail. It is better at being able to steer freely at a small angle, and can even steer any wind direction. A series of refined operations means that as long as there is wind, she can sail freely.
A great dream is being realized, and Rurik is very relieved of those boat builders.
Only in terms of expenses, Rurik didn't plan to tell his father the truth.
For a conventional cargo ship, the price offered by the Hortra family is already an astonishing five hundred silver coins. The Aphrora under construction is more complicated to manufacture and requires more costs. Also, because it must be manufactured forcibly in winter, the labor costs are also huge.
Hotra gave a very high offer: three thousand silver coins.
And this is just the cost of the shell.
In order to build the ship's hull, the Hortra family had to hire some Ross people to cut and process wood, and even buy the finished products of local carpenters and blacksmiths. The consumption of pine glue, which is used as a wood gap adhesive, is also huge, and it has become one of the important reasons for the cost. Most of the three thousand silver coins will fall into the hands of the Russian laborers. In the end, the boat builder's profits are not amazing.
When the hull is finished, a large number of strong men must be gathered and dragged to the outdoors along the slide. At that time, a pine tree from Elronburg in the north was transported and turned into the main mast of the ship.
It is a normal decision to use straight red pine as the main mast, so can it be used as a keel?
If only ordinary ships are made, pine wood can certainly serve as the keel. Since this is a huge ship that challenges the strength of the shipbuilder, it must be built with stronger oak.
Shipbuilding has always been a very expensive business, and how big a ship can be built is also an evaluation mark of a country's manufacturing level.
It is logical that Rurik would ask these people to dig a pit and build a waterproof dam with wood and sand. This is a dry dock, and it is the key to building a large ship.
Obviously, in the current situation of assault construction, there is no time to dig the dry dock.
The Aphrora had to be built on flat ground, but fortunately, it would not be extremely large, and the existing manufacturing process could serve such a behemoth.
Rurik is still unable to estimate the true cost of a large ship. If the cost of the expensive hull will account for most of the finished product, the final cost of the Aphrora would have to be four thousand silver coins.
It seems that this amount of money is not much for Rurik, but he is currently unable to control even a silver mine. Since the roots are that the Rus people cannot issue currencies that are accepted by all tribes, it will be inevitable that food will become a special currency. Four thousand silver coins correspond to forty thousand pounds of grain.
The Caravel-type sailboat itself is a small boat, with a displacement of about 50 tons, but a full load displacement can reach an astonishing 80 tons. She is a small ship that can carry cargo in her belly. Because she has a slightly flat hull, the center of gravity of the ship is extremely low after it is loaded with cargo or ballast, and she stands on the sea like a tumbler.
What Rurik expects most is such an effect, even if the ship will cost himself a lot of money.
The huge amount of money to build the Aphrodite must have a milestone significance. How many ships of the same class will be built in the future? Rurik had an expectation in his mind.
"I have to have at least ten ships, or more. This type of ship will become the main transportation force in the future. Of course it is very expensive. If I can sell more high-value goods, I will buy a huge amount of grain from Melaren. , The problem is not big."
The ship building plan started with the Aphrodite, and what can support her and the subsequent sisters' construction is, in the final analysis, food.
On this day, Otto led his men to complete the tribal inspection. He stayed in key areas for a long time, and he naturally withdrew after a few glances at the less important places. For example, Otto hasn’t realized until now, what does it mean to emigrate female slaves like Fodegan with a ticket to be good at sewing?
In Otto's concept, it is impossible for the women in the family to make all kinds of clothes for men. Otto does not have this concept of making money by processing ready-made garments and opening a tailoring factory.
Rurik thinks this is of great significance. Fordgen’s tailoring workshop and Holtra’s large shipbuilding workshop are clearly a kind of enterprise. They can create more wealth, and as the chief family, they have the right to collect more taxes.
The balance of the "big cash box" is seriously insufficient, and maintaining a large amount of advanced reserves is the wealth backing of the series of plans carried out by Lurik. Although the backing has now become a huge amount of food, it is still very important to control a large number of silver and copper coins that can be used flexibly.
On the second day of Otto’s inspection, a food market arranged by the chief’s family was formed on a cold beach.
A large group of tribesmen who were interested in buying oats gathered together with their money in a mess. It was shocked that Rurik felt that the tribe was going to carry out a violent looting for a while, and even lead to a trampling accident.
Fortunately, with the experience of distributing trophies, neither Otto nor Liurik could sit and watch the tribe in a coma.
The mercenaries obeyed the leader's order to maintain these. They gradually formed a line, waiting for the opportunity to buy food for themselves in the constant complaints.
The huge balance finally collected a hundred pounds of fresh wheat~www.novelhall.com~The buyer put it in a pottery urn or took it away in a burlap pocket.
This time the upper limit of food distribution is one hundred thousand pounds of food, which is enough for 1,000 people to receive one time, and Lurik will recover 10,000 silver coins from the sale.
Rurik disagreed with his father's plan to distribute grain on a large scale. It is said that the grain is the private property of the leader's family, and more is still the private property of Rurik. How to use it should be arranged by the property owner.
The people of the tribe do not have a reliable granary. They do have a lot of silver coins and rush to put a lot of food. They will damage the food because of their poor storage, and they will lose more than the gains.
Slowly releasing the food, Rurik boasted of a strategy. When the people of the tribe have almost eaten their food, they will release the next wave of 100,000 pounds, for example, every two months, so that 800,000 pounds of food can really be carried through a special distribution method. The next harvest season, in a sense, is to use limited grain reserves to achieve the magical result of "wheat all year".
Of course, this is still an expedient measure when the food reserves are extremely low. If the food is really large, then the Ross people should make a full-scale wine. It is not uncommon for drunks to lie down and snoring in the end.
The Ross tribe is actively expanding. However, due to the limitation of strength and traditional way of life, the power of the tribe cannot enter the vast inland areas at this stage.The settlements built are all adjacent to the sea, and the tribes that have been conquered are all living along the river. In short, all the places where the Rus people set foot can be reached by boat.The Ross people at this stage are obviously a typical maritime nation, and sailing and fishing have long been the lifeblood.In order to maintain the stable and smooth flow of materials and personnel exchanges in the settlements, and to ensure the increasingly important commercial routes, the Rus must plan ahead to build a maritime force that can protect their own interests.It may be too early to build a navy, but the tribe must have one or more ships so that all tribesmen can feel at ease when they see them.Since the best shipbuilders in the alliance were recruited by themselves, they must use the existing shipbuilding materials to build a huge ship hull.This ship must cross the ages.Rurik did not dare to say that if the ship had the ability to drift all the way to the Americas after being successfully launched, it would at least be able to swim seamlessly across the Baltic Sea.Opposite to Rurik's ambition is Otto's suspicion. He stared at the keel carefully, doubting the reliability of future ships with the navigator's instincts."Rurik, are you sure that this works? It's too long. I doubt that the spliced keel is reliable."This matter can't help but Rurik speaks, the shipbuilder Hotra, who swears that he will win with his vicissitudes of life: "The chief, for this boat, my family and I have gambled on the honor of our generations. If I fail. , My soul will be guilty forever.""Ah?! You have such an attitude?" Unexpectedly, for a boat, the boatbuilder can also swear an oath like some warriors."We have this attitude. We are willing to believe in Rurik that we will...build the ship strictly according to his requirements. Since he is the one who has received the blessing of Odin, then our ship construction will also go smoothly."At this moment, Otto focused his gaze on his son."Rurik, tell me your plan. Oh no! I think you've been calculating this shipbuilding plan a long time ago.""Hey, Dad, you really know me."On this point, Rlik admires Otto very much. He is an old guy who has been blown by the sea breeze.He began to enumerate the many ideas he wanted to use on the new ship: "This ship will be pure sail power, a cargo ship with a huge load, and a strong warship. She will use a lot of pine and oak to assemble it, and it will be a lot of Use pine glue. She will have a real deck to protect the cargo and provide a place to sleep for our sailors. The stern and front of the ship will be built with wooden houses. The bow wooden house is a resting place for distinguished people, and the stern The wooden house is the cabin that controls the rudder."After just saying this, Rurik noticed that his father had been so pleasantly surprised from ear to ear. Some nouns may appear in this world for the first time, and Rurik didn't dare to speak too professionally, so he had to gesticulate and use more vocabulary to describe one concept after another."It also needs to have a huge mast, which will be a spinnaker. I plan to place a mast on the bow of the ship, so that we can use the wind at the bottom of the ship after it is hung on the balance sail. I also want to be at the stern. Put on the second mast to make better use of the wind. She will have the tallest mast of all our ships and will be the fastest sailing."The son is making up a beautiful dream for himself. It seems that this dream only needs a winter's waiting to see the result next year. Otto guessed that maybe he couldn't wait so long. Look at these Mellaren shipbuilders who came from afar and needed to do their best. They didn't seem to be busy at all as if they were planning to spend the winter in peace and boredom.Snow and ice must not interfere with their plans, presumably Ruriek will always supervise them.While Otto was satisfied, Otto was also a little curious: "Rurik, do you always call the ship her? Is the ship still a woman? Or is it just because you love ships so much that you treat the ship as your woman."The old man's words made Rick want to laugh, but there is nothing ridiculous about "taking the boat as a woman" after thinking about it carefully."Because the Romans called ships women, they even named ships after the goddess.""Huh? Romans? Rome again, do you know them a lot?"Otto's words reminded Rrich, think about it, everyone's understanding of Rome is still a piece of hearsay. wrong! Most of the people simply disdain and have no chance to learn about Rome.Rurik immediately lied: "The sheepskin book is a Roman relic. I saw the above record, they just called the ship a woman.""Well, it's a weird custom." Otto shrugged. He himself had read the sheepskin book, but the text on it could not be understood. Otto was a little shy, and wanted to forcefully express that he understood a lot. He put on a posture of teasing a child: "My dear, what name do you plan to marry your woman?"first name? Name my woman?Rurik almost laughed.It is indeed funny to think of a ship as a wife, and it is true that the Romans took the lead in giving the ship a feminine name. All forces in Europe are interested in competing for the legacy of the Roman Empire and are eager to obtain a noble identity. It is also reasonable to inherit some of the legacy of the Roman navy.Otto did not think it was important to name the ships. He learned that his son had marked the fishing boats with clear numbers, which was an unprecedented move. Now he wants to marry a single ship with elegance. Your name? If you must do this, why not take a domineering name? ! Just like the invincible Red Dragon announced by the Danish leader.Since it is named, what name should be given to the first pure sail-powered ship of the Ross people?Since she is an epoch-making product, she should have a resounding name."Yes! Just call her Aphrola!""Huh? Aphrora? I thought you would have a louder name."Rurik also wondered: "Is she not elegant enough? This ship will be born in winter, and the Aphrora in the sky will shine. That is the parade of the Valkyrie. Dad, this ship is not only a cargo ship, but also a ship. A special warship.""Is that so?" Otto thought about it again, "Isn't it better to name it directly after the Valkyrie? Such as Valkyrie, Brunhild, or Norn.""Absolutely!" Excited Rurik slapped his thigh wanton, his blue eyes ignited like flames. He immediately looked at the shipbuilders and said loudly, "Listen, I named this ship Aphrora. After we finished her, the construction of the second ship will start. They will be named after the Valkyrie. ."Hortra's wrinkled face began to twitch violently. He was not agitated, nor was he inappropriate for naming the ship a woman. He cautiously suggested: "Ruriek, maybe this is not appropriate. I am afraid that God will be angry. , We shouldn't name the ship after the Maid of Odin.Rurik shook his head: "Really? I don't think it's necessary. Hotla, I let you build the ship. Next year! When the Aphrora starts to sail, if Odin is really angry, she will capsize. I Think, Odin will not be angry about this."He is willing to believe in a great existence, but he doesn't believe in any weird powers.Aphrora, which is recited in the Norse language according to the dialect of the Ross tribe, is basically just a noun describing the Northern Lights. In fact, in the final analysis, this vocabulary comes from ancient Indo-European language, and finally evolved into a vocabulary describing "Europe".Of course, Rurik named this ship, which is still in the keel state and whose construction plan has been basically completed, as long as it still comes from his evil taste.The Ross tribe really needs a ship called the Northern Lights to be the treasure of the country.Otto Lik and others stayed here for the longest time. After all, this place is an extremely important place for Otto to inspect the tribe. He must examine the wintering conditions of all the ships of the entire tribe, and even the winter work plans of all the shipbuilders in the tribe.In winter, the sea is frozen, and the action of fishing has turned into burrow fishing in the ice sea, and even the special short spear "guards the hole and waits for the seal."Otto was fascinated by Rurik's dreamy plan, and he was even more surprised that his son could make plans with the shipbuilder in a short period of time. Do not! The planning must be done at the time of Mellaren. Some thin wooden boards are engraved with traces, the traces are not blindly carved, it is the blueprint of the shipbuilding plan! The ships were made according to the patterns described on the wooden boards, coupled with their exquisite craftsmanship of shipbuilding, and the most important thing was the direct participation of the sacred man Rurik.Otto believes that this will be a huge success. What positive impact will the launch of the Aphrodite bring? Otto couldn't make any estimates at all.Because the situation is more special than Otto can imagine!What Rurik deliberately built this time is a highly imitation Caravel-type sailing ship.Because of some nautical games he encountered on that plane, Rurik had a little understanding of the history of ship development in Europe. The Caravelle, in the language of the Iberian people who built it first, is the "oak boat". It has learned a lot from the experience of the Eastern Great Sea-Eater on the sail system, and combined with the local hull, it has created such a treasure with ocean-going navigation.The cargo ships of the various tribes of the Viking family are the originators of European sailing ships! The hull of the Caravel ship in history was born from the continuous transformation of the Viking cargo ship for five hundred years.Caravel's huge spinnaker, of course, can't achieve the maximum downwind sailing efficiency like a balance sail. It is better at being able to steer freely at a small angle, and can even steer any wind direction. A series of refined operations means that as long as there is wind, she can sail freely.A great dream is being realized, and Rurik is very relieved of those boat builders.Only in terms of expenses, Rurik didn't plan to tell his father the truth.For a conventional cargo ship, the price offered by the Hortra family is already an astonishing five hundred silver coins. The Aphrora under construction is more complicated to manufacture and requires more costs. Also, because it must be manufactured forcibly in winter, the labor costs are also huge.Hotra gave a very high offer: three thousand silver coins.And this is just the cost of the shell.In order to build the ship's hull, the Hortra family had to hire some Ross people to cut and process wood, and even buy the finished products of local carpenters and blacksmiths. The consumption of pine glue, which is used as a wood gap adhesive, is also huge, and it has become one of the important reasons for the cost. Most of the three thousand silver coins will fall into the hands of the Russian laborers. In the end, the boat builder's profits are not amazing.When the hull is finished, a large number of strong men must be gathered and dragged to the outdoors along the slide. At that time, a pine tree from Elronburg in the north was transported and turned into the main mast of the ship.It is a normal decision to use straight red pine as the main mast, so can it be used as a keel?If only ordinary ships are made, pine wood can certainly serve as the keel. Since this is a huge ship that challenges the strength of the shipbuilder, it must be built with stronger oak.Shipbuilding has always been a very expensive business, and how big a ship can be built is also an evaluation mark of a country's manufacturing level.It is logical that Rurik would ask these people to dig a pit and build a waterproof dam with wood and sand. This is a dry dock, and it is the key to building a large ship.Obviously, in the current situation of assault construction, there is no time to dig the dry dock.The Aphrora had to be built on flat ground, but fortunately, it would not be extremely large, and the existing manufacturing process could serve such a behemoth.Rurik is still unable to estimate the true cost of a large ship. If the cost of the expensive hull will account for most of the finished product, the final cost of the Aphrora would have to be four thousand silver coins.It seems that this amount of money is not much for Rurik, but he is currently unable to control even a silver mine. Since the roots are that the Rus people cannot issue currencies that are accepted by all tribes, it will be inevitable that food will become a special currency. Four thousand silver coins correspond to forty thousand pounds of grain.The Caravel-type sailboat itself is a small boat, with a displacement of about 50 tons, but a full load displacement can reach an astonishing 80 tons. She is a small ship that can carry cargo in her belly. Because she has a slightly flat hull, the center of gravity of the ship is extremely low after it is loaded with cargo or ballast, and she stands on the sea like a tumbler.What Rurik expects most is such an effect, even if the ship will cost himself a lot of money.The huge amount of money to build the Aphrodite must have a milestone significance. How many ships of the same class will be built in the future? Rurik had an expectation in his mind."I have to have at least ten ships, or more. This type of ship will become the main transportation force in the future. Of course it is very expensive. If I can sell more high-value goods, I will buy a huge amount of grain from Melaren. , The problem is not big."The ship building plan started with the Aphrodite, and what can support her and the subsequent sisters' construction is, in the final analysis, food.On this day, Otto led his men to complete the tribal inspection. He stayed in key areas for a long time, and he naturally withdrew after a few glances at the less important places. For example, Otto hasn't realized until now, what does it mean to emigrate female slaves like Fodegan with a ticket to be good at sewing?In Otto's concept, it is impossible for the women in the family to make all kinds of clothes for men. Otto does not have this concept of making money by processing ready-made garments and opening a tailoring factory.Rurik thinks this is of great significance. Fordgen's tailoring workshop and Holtra's large shipbuilding workshop are clearly a kind of enterprise. They can create more wealth, and as the chief family, they have the right to collect more taxes.The balance of the "big cash box" is seriously insufficient, and maintaining a large amount of advanced reserves is the wealth backing of the series of plans carried out by Lurik. Although the backing has now become a huge amount of food, it is still very important to control a large number of silver and copper coins that can be used flexibly.On the second day of Otto's inspection, a food market arranged by the chief's family was formed on a cold beach.A large group of tribesmen who were interested in buying oats gathered together with their money in a mess. It was shocked that Rurik felt that the tribe was going to carry out a violent looting for a while, and even lead to a trampling accident.Fortunately, with the experience of distributing trophies, neither Otto nor Liurik could sit and watch the tribe in a coma.The mercenaries obeyed the leader's order to maintain these. They gradually formed a line, waiting for the opportunity to buy food for themselves in the constant complaints.The huge balance finally collected a hundred pounds of fresh wheat~www.novelhall.com~The buyer put it in a pottery urn or took it away in a burlap pocket.This time the upper limit of food distribution is one hundred thousand pounds of food, which is enough for 1,000 people to receive one time, and Lurik will recover 10,000 silver coins from the sale.Rurik disagreed with his father's plan to distribute grain on a large scale. It is said that the grain is the private property of the leader's family, and more is still the private property of Rurik. How to use it should be arranged by the property owner.The people of the tribe do not have a reliable granary. They do have a lot of silver coins and rush to put a lot of food. They will damage the food because of their poor storage, and they will lose more than the gains.Slowly releasing the food, Rurik boasted of a strategy. When the people of the tribe have almost eaten their food, they will release the next wave of 100,000 pounds, for example, every two months, so that 800,000 pounds of food can really be carried through a special distribution method. The next harvest season, in a sense, is to use limited grain reserves to achieve the magical result of "wheat all year".Of course, this is still an expedient measure when the food reserves are extremely low. If the food is really large, then the Ross people should make a full-scale wine. It is not uncommon for drunks to lie down and snoring in the end.
