Chapter 115 The Birth of Ross Soap Industry

Otto made an agreement with the great merchant Gould, and he told his son Rurik exactly what he had done, and he also informed the priests about the huge order of soap.

To produce a thousand bars of soap before the sea ice melts, according to the agreement, the priests will be paid eight hundred silver coins of these.

The one who earns the most here is Rurik himself. The big merchant's order fee is 4,000 silver coins. He Rurik himself does not need to provide any production costs and labor costs, just because he provides the so-called "wisdom from Odin", He got 80% of the wealth from the simple priest, that is, as many as 3,200 silver coins.

It's not over yet.

Rurik signed an agreement with the blacksmith Kravasen. Although this agreement was far less violent than soap, he earned five or six silver coins for each steel sword, which was also a great gain in total.

A full month has passed since Otto brought a dozen elites from the tribe to make an appointment with Gould.

In a mere thirty days, great changes have taken place within the Ross tribe.

Rurik, his own little wooden box could no longer hold the swarms of silver coins. He had to replace it with a bigger box and a bigger lock.

It's interesting to say that he got both the box and the lock, just because these were gifts from big merchants.

And Rurik himself quickly saw the true portrayal of the "Swedish rich businessman" in this time and space.

Thirty days of neatly piled yellow-white sulphur soap, which exudes a special odor, were neatly stacked in a separate dry and constant temperature hut.

At the end of the third month of the Julian calendar, the time was ripe, and Otto personally brought his son and brought Gould, who had come here, into the room.

That's a lot of yellow-white solid matter! They exude a stench, like the very neatly beaten stone bricks used to build the stone house, stacked extremely neatly.

Otto introduced very proudly: "As you can see, they cost 1,200 yuan. As long as you keep waiting, there are more to be made."

"Wow, it's been so much, I thought you guys didn't..."

"Doubt our strength?" Otto deliberately showed off, "We are comparable in strength to the Ankras tribe you belong to, and we are very capable."

"No! You are really strong. Probably stronger than the Meralen clan, you know, great leader, you have earned 3,600 silver coins from me for these yellow and white soaps!" Gul De's words express the praise bluntly.

Then, the well-dressed big businessman began to use his delicate and fat hands to check the texture of these soaps.

He walked around the wooden house two or three times, and suddenly asked, "Boss, are these actually created according to Rurik's wisdom?"

"certainly."

"Oh. It was wonderful."

Gould turned around and approached diminutive Rurik with a big belly, with excitement in his eyes.

He suddenly took off his wide ferret hat, revealing the nature of his bald head in an instant, and fastened the hat to Rurik's head.

"Future leader Rurik, just accept my precious hat."

Otto felt that something was wrong for a while. If it was just ferret, it was not extremely expensive. The most important thing was that the hat had a sapphire decoration.

"Gould, is that right?"

"very suitable.

great leader. Don't you think today's scene is very special, there are so many yellow and white objects piled up here in this world, and it is actually an excellent washing tool. In fact, you don't need to explicitly say that I also know that you definitely used sulfur to make this thing. what! What a miracle the sulphur turned into a baby for washing clean clothes! "

Rurik endured the greasy smell of this bald head, raised the huge velvet cap, exposed his big blue eyes, and watched the businessman Gould shaking and dancing with his plump body.

Gould danced for a while, then continued to look at Otto and asked, "All these yellow-and-white ones? There should be some plain brown ones as well."

"Yes, they are stored in another log cabin."

Hearing this, Gould couldn't help swallowing deeply: "Is it so much?"

"No. Ordinary soap is only five hundred, Gould, and those are not of the highest quality."

"That's true. Compared to the one I originally bought, the shape you've made now has become very smooth, and each piece has your tribe's name on it."

After all, it has been four months since soap production started in late March of the Julian calendar!

The Rus people living in northern Europe seem to be a very backward and barbaric group of guys. They are all living people, and there is no essential difference between the IQ and the human beings a thousand years later. They all have the same wisdom, but the difference is that people after a thousand years generally received a good education, and they were able to obtain all kinds of advanced knowledge that was born after the Renaissance.

Today's Rus can't enjoy the happiness of acquiring a lot of knowledge at all, but they can get a little bit, and the powerful imagination that they have as human beings can allow them to develop something.

The latest wooden moulds for the priests to make soap, they are made of spliced ​​oak boards and then pine glue. Each small plate was finely ground, making the box quite smooth, so that the soap bar that came out of the mold was no longer a reluctant cube as it had originally been.

The most subtle is the word "RUSSOPA" spelled out of rune letters, which has changed from positive to negative. It's no trouble because the priests carved the wood on the bottom layer, and it ended up making the writing on the soap indelible.

Coupled with the pure air-drying and dehydration treatment in the constant temperature dark room, the surface of the huge amount of soap bars piled in front of Gould remained smooth, and there was no cracking at all. New 81 Chinese website updates the fastest mobile terminal: https:/

In fact, the sheer volume of orders forced the priests to devote all their time to soap production, and they had to find ways to be more efficient.

The priests who became a little rich were led by Bona, who, in the name of priestly work, recruited some young girls in the tribe and gave their parents a silver coin to make the girls work until the sea ice melted.

The Ross tribe is very similar to other tribes in their attitudes towards boys and girls. Many girls were cruelly abandoned by their parents when they were baby girls, just because girls could not be future warriors and could not bring huge wealth to their families.

There are others who are not so ruthless, who will raise their daughters until they are at least twelve years old and havetily betrothed to them, in order to get some dowry.

Life is such a reality, a girl who thought she could be a tailor at most still has a chance to enter the sanctuary of priests? ! The priests even promised that these girls would play important roles in the spring sacrifices! Because he handed over his daughter to the sacrifice for the time being, not only did he not have to worry about the food consumed by his daughter, but he could also get a silver coin because of it, which was so much more valuable than buying and selling.

So Rurik was surprised to find that Bona's mentality changed very quickly in the face of huge production pressure.

In the small world of the High Priest's House, the situation here essentially made Rurik feel, for the first time, some familiarity from a world a thousand years later.

Perhaps, this is a "soap company" in the world, and it is also a bud of capitalism.

Rurik thinks it's crazy to make huge profits by providing "intellectual property", so what Bona is doing now is even more crazy.

The number of girls in the tribe is small, which Rurik has always regretted. He knew the attitude of the tribe towards the girls of his own tribe, and he felt extremely uncomfortable with the savagery of the tribe.

If you are the leader, any family who finds that they dare to abandon the baby must be punished. But the essence of forcing many families to be willing to abandon their daughters is that in the distribution of extremely limited materials, an optimal solution that is beneficial to the family must be reached. No moral and human relations can soothe the horror and hunger caused by the large number of family members. sense.

If the girls of the tribe can earn a little wealth for the family through labor when they are still young, and even the employers will provide food and accommodation, then the original family will abandon their daughters when they are overwhelmed.

Bona didn't feel how great her decision was, seeing Villa's aging, she Bona would soon be the new high priest.

She recruited ten tribal girls and ordered them to participate in the grunt work of boiling oil and stirring soap.

Who thinks it's inappropriate to squeeze child labor in this time and space? Quite the contrary, because children can suddenly work and earn money to support their families, which is actually an improvement over older times.

Of course, when some ethnic groups realize that their children determine their own future, the exploitation of children's labor force is prohibited by legislation.

The orders of the priests stimulated the tribes to go to the ice and dig holes to catch the breathing seals. The priests bought the seals as a whole at a low price, and a large amount of seal fat was boiled into oil, and the rest of the seal meat became everyone. food.

The most precious seal liver was eaten by the priests. Those girls ate a lot of seal meat, but they felt that life was not bad.

In Rurik's point of view, they were the most pitiful child laborers. The priests did not hesitate to squeeze their value. In addition, the priests personally went into battle to obtain these huge amounts of soap.

By now, soap is thrown in production.

For the time being, Rurik doesn't want to change anything, not to mention that he wants to carry out some social transformation on the Ross tribe, close to the name of "Odin Blessing"? Do not! It is absolutely impossible to have no money in your pocket.

Gould looked at those ordinary soaps again, and the appearance was indeed not as comfortable as sulfur soaps.

Gould is a happy businessman, and he's under a certain amount of pressure right now.

There are as many as 3,000 foreigners living in the Ross tribe, including a group of fur hunters eager to capture more ferrets in the north, the fur processing industry spawned by northern fur, and a group of professional cobblers.

There are other shipbuilding professionals who live here, looking only to find giant pine trees in the area north of Roseburg to build larger boats. Because the Rus people make long ships, the keel must be a special-looking oak, which is really hard to find. However, the biggest requirement of the rib and deck is that the cross-sectional area of ​​the tree must be large. For hundreds of years, as the Vikings' navigation skills became more and more superb, the demand for "shipbuilding wood" of all Viking tribes also increased. Going to remote areas to find good ship materials is the motivation of many shipbuilders. starter

Some artisans make a living out of it.

Different from those huge warships, ordinary fishing boats are only four to five stikas, that is, only four or five meters, and they do not need any special-shaped oak keels. The whole body is made of pine wood, the main parts are spliced ​​with tenon-and-mortise structure, and the gaps are fixed with rivets in some places and sealed with loose glue. A very good pine fishing boat is completed.

Such a fishing boat would have to sell for thirty silver coins at the last time.

Shipbuilding is tiring work, artisans always make themselves slimy by applying pine oil, and the soap is the perfect solution to the most disgusting thing they face while building a boat. This winter, there are at least fifty fishing boats under construction in the docks along the coast, all of which will be pulled to the south and sold.

Boatbuilders' families were another rich group of people who bought a lot of soap, many of whom decided to buy more, in order to ship it to the South and sell it for a good price.

Now, Gould has more than 20 entourages by his side, including strong and brave warriors, full-time inquirers, and two maids serving.

Gould was very grateful that Otto did not sell a huge amount of soap to other people, nor did he have any intention of raising the price of himself.

"Everything is according to our original agreement. Great leader, please come to my house in a moment, and I will give you all the money. But after that, please help me to look after these soaps, and when the ice and snow are almost melted, I will be bad. They were transported to my ship."

Otto nodded deeply and praised deeply: "I just admire your generosity. I would also like to thank you for the hat you gave my son, but it is too big."

"No! This is a symbol of our friendship, and a symbol of my friendship with Rurik." After that, Gould tapped Rurik's thin shoulder and further praised in front of the child's father. "My youngest son is not only not as beautiful as Rurik, but he also does not receive the love of God. But Rurik has given me the opportunity to obtain greater wealth. I am already friends with him, don't you think?"

Rurik looked up at the wealthy old fellow and nodded slightly. "We're friends, and if you pay now, we're best friends."

"Aha! You really love money." Gould laughed unrestrainedly, causing Otto to laugh too.

Gould is actually very satisfied. Merchants, it is too hypocritical to talk about bloody camaraderie like soldiers. As a businessman, you are in business, paying money and delivering goods, and trading happily to complement your debts. This is the "businessman". their friendship". Although Rurik was young, he was clearly smarter than many adults.

"Then it's settled, and I'll give you the money soon. Just like this, wise Rurik, and the great chief. When evening comes, I invite you into my mansion, and I will use the best food. Treat you with fine wine."

drink wine? Otto was elated almost instinctively.

"Gould? Is it a lot of mead?"

"Oh, there was, and it was our favorite," Gould laughed. "I have other tricks."

"What is it?"

"Red wine, cranberry wine. That's what I bought at a high price, and it's the real thing I've kept for my own personal enjoyment. Great leader, looking at over a thousand bars of soap, I'm glad to share me with you. these treasures."

Otto had drunk wine and knew that it was from the so-called "never cold" southern world, but in fact it was referring to Eastern Rome.

Originally wine was not expensive in the Mediterranean, and the Eastern Romans did not think it was precious. However, just like the cheap salt in eastern Rome and Italy, it will suddenly make huge profits when transported to the northern inland areas.

Even more so with wine! Following the overland trade route north, adventurous merchants sold it to the Danes for huge profits. Danish profiteers secretly sold it to the rival Symphoon clan for a greater profit.

Otto really understands the value of wine, and he is eager to try the dinner.

However, this Gould, the most precious wine in his collection, is not so simple as wine!