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Rise of Rurik - Chapter 663

Published at 21st of September 2022 05:47:27 AM


Chapter 663: The New Mill in Shilla Fort

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Compared with the warriors participating in and about to participate in the new war, Aslaqi brought her son to Shilla Fort, she hopes to witness the family rooting and rejuvenation here.

She carried her child into the new shop built by her father Harald in the wooden wall of Shilla Fort.

Gustav, who was less than two years old, came here and immediately regarded his grandfather Harald as the jewel in his hand, and even the only hope for the rejuvenation of the family.

Even ignore her daughter's contribution and ambition.

There is no difference between a grandson and a pro-grandson, especially since this child will inherit his name and inherit all his careers.

The old Harald was not fatally threatened in Ross's war to conquer Gotland. The beautiful daughter married the conquerors and merged the family into the Ross Principality. Because he had immigrated to New Roseburg with a large number of supplies, the old Harald seemed to be alone for a time. Now he has recruited some poor Ross immigrants as servants, and even recruited Slavic immigrant nieces as maids.

The so-called maid, in a sense, resembles a wife and concubine.

Why is there obvious baby crying in my father's new mansion?

Old Harald was a little embarrassed to point out that he was the half-brother of the daughter, but according to the tradition, the identity of the illegitimate child would not be recognized.

"Forget it. For the family's business, I am willing to recognize that boy's identity. He will not inherit the family wealth, but he can inherit the name, and then expand the business for the family."

Aslaqi, is this a wise word? Old Harald couldn't believe it. But he also noticed that his daughter's belly was obviously showing off again. He was impressed by the majesty of his son-in-law Arik, and he had to think about his daughter's words again.

My daughter is never a bouquet of flowers that can make the house beautiful. Her thin shoulders are about to rejuvenate the whole family. It's not just her stomach, it's her ability!

There is no stone near Shilla Fort, just like that, the city still uses wood to build the city walls and all the buildings.

Aslaqi was empty-handed here. After she arrived in Shilla Fort, she learned about the new home and new shops created by her father, and immediately began to fight for her mill plan.

There is no local stone to make a mill? Where to find the stone?

There is a group of three small islands called "Stone Island", which is a suitable source of stone.

That is the island group that any ship going into Fort Shilla in the Gulf of Finland will pass through, that is, Gogeland Island, the beach and the inland, under the top soil is a large granite.

The island has been inspected by Otto himself, and the stone resources that can be seen everywhere on the island give him a full understanding: if the new city builds a stone wall, the island’s stone must be used.

However, mining and transporting stones is a cumbersome work. The people who built the Shilla Fort are naturally very good. Since the handy trees have created strong walls and all the buildings, why bother to replace them with stones? The Duke cannot force the brothers to do such a thing thanklessly, unless the Duke gives a huge price, but the Duke does not.

Asraqi learned of the news and immediately used family funds to hire fishermen to move the stones.

In just three days, the stones of a long ship were unloaded.

In fact, it was just three large granites, each of which was not light in weight. The fishermen said it was four people working together to move the stones to the boat one after another.

The stone began to be chiseled, and it was gradually chiseled into a cylindrical state, and the iron drill bit was driven by a bow drill to drill a through hole in the stone pillar.

The largest piece of stone was chiseled and polished, and finally a fairly flat table top was made.

Aslaqi hired local carpenters and helpers who had done stoneware and pottery to complete the first stone mill in Shilla Fort. She even bought a batch of trophies ponies, feeling that the foals are the livestock of the pack in Gotland, and they are still serving here.

The rotating stone mill is a gathering of food processing that has never appeared in Gotland. Of course, wheat is also processed on the island. Old Harald only knows about stone grind sticks and stone grindstones, which can be easily operated by children, but it is extremely difficult to process flour.

A wooden house that was temporarily unused and intended to be used as a warehouse was occupied by a stone crusher, and even a pony was brought in.

"My dear, can this work?" Old Harald asked.

"It must be possible. I have achieved great success in Roseburg! Our family will be rejuvenated by this."

Aslaqi was full of confidence because of his success, and old Harald and a crowd of idlers who had heard the news scrambled to observe this new thing.

A batch of stubby grains that are different from oats are placed on a stone tray. The pony is driven by the whip by Aslaqi himself, and the small stone mill is driven by the horse to carry it in a circle with no end in sight.

When visible to the naked eye, the wheat grains are turned into coarse flour, and then sifted with a sieve made of fine hemp rope. Most of the coarse bran is filtered, and the remaining yellow flour is mixed with Aslaqi. The water, in the end, was kneaded into a chubby dough in the pottery urn.

It's not surprising that the dough is made, and the subsequent kneading process is her specialty. Old Harald had always been proud of his daughter's ability to make bread, and at this time also realized that it was wheat that was sprinkled so much on the mill. He and other onlookers were surprised by the mass production of flour, and said that the processing efficiency of this stone mill is definitely better than that of twenty women!

There was no grand ceremony, and Ashraqi's mill in Shilla Fort was opened.

She began to take on the job of grinding oat flour by a local farmer. Grinding was a pony's job. Her father's maid was responsible for staring at the horses and filling new grains of wheat to earn some labor fees.

This job is not profitable.

After the birth of a clay oven, the "Bread Queen" started her specialty.

Oatmeal flour and wheat flour are blended in a ratio of one to one to make bread. She uses pure oatmeal to make scones.

The mixed wheat bread tastes soft and sticky. The locals have hardly eaten wheat. When they feel the sticky taste, they fall in love with bread, even if it contains half of the oats. Good bread is made of pure wheat flour, without oats, barley or rye. Aslaqi knows this well, so being able to make good bread is not really a miracle in this regard.

Mixed wheat bread is also delicious? forget it! She noticed that the locals had never eaten delicacies, so she thought mixed wheat bread was delicious.

She really had to make mixed wheat, all because she didn't buy much wheat from the Roseburg warehouse. Except for her own consumption, she used mixed wheat for external sales.

As for those oatmeal cakes, they are made of pure oat flour.

The Ross people or other Viking tribes do not over-process the oats. The main reason is that the traditional stone grinder must take a long time to grind the oats into subdivisions, which consumes energy. Compared with the taste of wheat cakes, the improvement is not worth the gain.

The taste of the oatmeal cake sold by Asraki is much better, but it is still rough. The incorporation of a very small amount of wheat flour only ensures that it can maintain its complete shape. Even so, it is also the first choice for people who just need it.

As for those hunters, whether they are Ruths or Slavs, if they don't have copper or silver coins in their hands, Asraki doesn't mind charging rabbit or squirrel fur at all. These people can make the women at home make wheat cakes by themselves, but Yasraki clearly supplies finished wheat cakes every morning. The hunters go out early in the morning with bows and can directly buy products with better taste and pay more. What's wrong with the price code?

Aslaqi is making money from the mill and the supporting shops. She has just begun. When Rurik's counterinsurgency army came back, her mill had only added two new stone mills.

And this is simply an urgent need for the end of the Karelia army to be expedition!

This is a sunny summer morning.

Reurik, who had returned, had checked the granary in the center of the city yesterday. People have a lot of surplus grain in their homes. Although there is not much surplus grain in the granary, they are all grain taxes collected locally by the Principality. Legally speaking, they are actually the wealth of the duke himself. Of course, the interests of the duke are bound to the interests of the duchy and the people, and this is also recognized by everyone.

No one covets these grains, and now these stockpiled grains just supply the assembled army.

In many cases, an overly strong army can drag itself down with this amazing mouth, so that the generals have to attack because they run out of food and straw, knowing that it is not good for them to fight.

Sufficient fishery resources maintain the confidence of the Russian army. The sail destroyers did not make too many stops, and then sailed in the Gulf of Finland to and from Kronstadt and the mouth of the Neva River, turning into trawlers to plunder the local herring resources.

The big ship joins the fishing, and the advanced fishing mode makes a large number of fresh herrings transported to the city. The Russian army of pure Viking descent currently owned by Rurik is completely able to eat fish to survive, but everyone has fallen in love with buying during the counter-insurgency war. The second wife of Arik’s second wife, the goddess who does not ask for high-quality bread and bread, is in Shilla Fort!

Arik was only temporarily reunited with his beloved wife and father-in-law on the way to counter the rebellion, and he hurried away with the army, and he raised his hands to support the mill.

After all, this is related to the eating problem of the brothers. As long as everyone eats well, there is strength to fight.

Accompanied by his cronies, Rurik enthusiastically inspected the mill that Asraki had promised.

Old Harald and all his servants welcomed the young and promising Duke of the Duchy of Ross with extreme respect.

The look of the old guy nodding and bowing made Rurik a little uncomfortable.

Unlike Aslaqi's generous appearance, the main reason must be because she is a sister (sister-in-law), right?

The wooden door had to be opened, and Rurik glanced intently. There seemed to be a room of dust floating in the slightly gloomy room, and an animal that looked like a donkey screamed.

No, that is a pony.

"My lord, our mill is a bit cramped. Please worry about your legs when you go in and don't fall along with it."

"It doesn't matter. Harald, it seems..." Rurik said halfway for the time being. He stepped in first with his left foot and sneezed fiercely. The horse was startled and started to walk quickly.

Poor pony, bound by a rope bridle, how can it escape from the mill? It was spinning in vain, and the stone roller was rolling along with it.

Just like this, Rurik saw that the stone mill was indeed operating stably, and some wheat grains were being milled into powder.

"It seems that you did succeed."

"It's true. There are two houses in this house, and they both work very well." Aslaqi introduced

"It's just not as good as your mill in Roseburg! I just think this place is too cramped and makes me worry that you will not be able to take on the tasks that follow."

"Should I still process flour?" she asked with a smile.

"That's right. I..." Rurik didn't care about the eyes of other people. He walked into his cousin and stared at Asraki's eyes almost flatly.

A gesture called the king shocked Asiraqi subconsciously backed down, her expression showing a trace of tension: "My lord..."

"As fast as you can, process all the oat surplus in the granary into flour, and bake it into oatmeal immediately."

"Ah! This is a...very tiring job."

"Are you declining?"

"I didn't." She was sure.

Rurik nodded: "Since there is no problem, go to the problem. I don't know your processing speed. I order you to keep working from today, even at night. If the horse is tired, let your servant push the stone. Grinding. I want you to process oat flour as fast as possible. I don’t require you to make wheat cakes, but flour! I want to see the surplus grain in the warehouse turn into powder in the shortest possible time! For this, you will get rich Remuneration, even the farmland belonging to your family."

Speaking of farmland, Old Harald immediately noticed.

He focused on asking about farmland, but Rurik also simply said: "Traitors have been annihilated, and a large amount of farmland is left vacant. They will belong to the people who made the merits. For example, your family!"

Rurik stared at the eyes of the old Harald who nodded and bowed in particular: "Thank your daughter, she is the hero of your family's revival. For processing wheat for me, I will give your family an extra half a hectare of farmland and let you Sow wheat."

Farmland is capital! Rurik intends to reward the old Harald family with some real estate, such as farmland. He deliberately supported a new "big merchant" in the east of the principality to counterbalance the Gould family's dominance.

Even though the old Harald family used to work mainly as leather dealers, they have some experience in farming, otherwise Aslaqi would not learn superb baking skills from the old servants. Daughter baking bread is the meaning of the family's private kitchen, but now it has become a new starting point for the rise of the family? It seems so.

Asraki followed the appearance of a man, hitting her chest with her right fist, swearing that she would complete the task.

Although there are only two stone mills, Rurik does not force her to spend time making scones after grinding the noodles. The former is indeed not difficult, and the latter is the most time-consuming.

This visit Rurik came to three conclusions: Aslaqi has the ability to produce usable stone mills in a short time, Aslaqi has the ability to process wheat all-weather, and the old Harald family has the ability to rapidly expand production capacity.

The granary was opened, including a batch of surplus grain seized from Pine Needle Manor, and sent to Aslaqi's shop. Her family was authorized to carry the wheat in the Duke’s granary.

In fact, she could greet the ink and lose some wheat, and even if she greeted the ink, she couldn't pursue it. She relied on her conscience not to do such a thing, not because she was an extremely upright person, but on the road to family rejuvenation, any stupid actions would ruin the future, even if her husband Arik was the duke's cousin. It is precisely this relationship that she can't do.

The bread fairy bears the entire army's ration production! The good news immediately spread throughout Shilla Fort.

The assembled soldiers were busy training, logging, and fishing, and the Finnish army, including the servants, was doing the same.

The pure Viking fighters, the main force of the Russ army, were ordered to cut wood aggressively to exercise their bodies. A large amount of wood was piled up outside the city, either making charcoal or building a new house, according to the preferences of Governor Cornusson.

The soldiers' work is all for the construction of Fort Shilla. Their work is actually purchased by Lurik, and the rewards they pay are actually free meals.

Those oats that have been stone-milled can be easily cooked, and the strength of the soldiers can be quickly restored by eating the oatmeal paste with salt. This is wonderful if you add two grilled herrings.

Just in the safe place of Shilla Fort, the army has plenty of time to eat oatmeal, and the expedition to Karelia still depends on effective dry food.

Aslaqi suspended her sales of wheat biscuits and bread. She is still making these dry foods, but reserves all of them after making them, so that they all become hard objects that look like blocks of wood.

A large amount of oat flour is processed every day, even if her mill only has two stone mills.

Rurik chose to wait. He didn't dare to go north because of insufficient preparations. He was waiting. First, he was waiting for the girls from his hometown, and he was also waiting for the news from Arik, who was under investigation by the armed forces in the north.

His most important wait is the wheat fields around Novgorod and Novgorod. When the wheat was harvested, the army, with the joy of the harvest, took control of the intelligence discovered by Arik, and launched a full-scale raid against the Karelians. It was really good at the right time and place.

Will Arik turn armed investigation into a rash attack? That guy dared to attack Gotland with four hundred people in his hand, what else he didn't dare to?

Rurik was not worried about the armed investigation by his cousin and the brave First Banner. He first ushered in the big ship returning from the execution of the order, and the Salmon Chief was back!

The big ship docked at the dock, and the long and narrow planks were lowered.

A group of girls in plain clothes stood tall and slim on the middle deck, and the people who greeted them all saw their demeanor. Countless people were whispering, wondering why these beautiful fairies arrived in Shilla Fort.

Someone pointed to the maze: they are all women of the duke.

But the details are not known...

Rurik greeted them personally, and Ella took his ten maid sisters and disembarked at a light pace. They are capable, beautiful, and full of confidence.

They kept smiling, seeing Master Rurik standing here, stepping forward to greet them.

Ella, she hugged her sister Carlotta directly.

All of them know the purpose of this trip, and all of them understand the burden on their shoulders and the glory of completing this task.

Ten maids, UU reading www. uukanshu.com They left Novgorod’s hometown dirty to meet a possibly tragic fate, but now they return as fairies. They will rely on the knowledge taught by the Duke to complete the statistics of the land area for the Duke. A man of merit in the principality.

They all want to complete this job perfectly. Compared with showing off in front of their hometown people, showing off their extraordinary in front of their biological parents, how significant is it?

What they want to do most is to get close to the owner, and many people are approaching the traditional big day. They want to become women and have children for the Lord Duke, so as to conform to their good destiny. Especially for maid girls like Anna and Bella who have been cared for before, they really only hate that they are under age, they just want to grow up quickly to kneel in front of the Lord Duke and take off their gowns and ask for service.

When they got off the boat, they rushed to express their stance in front of Rurik, which made Rurik happy that he couldn't make any more of it.

They are unrestrained, each full of enthusiasm, and everyone's eyes are full of worship for the duke.

Now that the task is known, all that is left is to target them again, make a more advanced study of calculations, and even make a rope ruler and a birch plank for writing text. This is another story. …




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