The deep Gulf of Finland is a fishing ground occupied by the Rus Kingdom. After the grand and short triumphal ceremony, the fishing boats of all sizes sailed freely in the sea again.

Many ships prefer to travel thousands of miles to the Central and South Baltic Seas in order to catch big fish. They will use Gotland and Bornholm as their bases, and pickle and dry the fish on the shore. sell away.

Because the geographical structure of the Baltic Sea is determined, the more the sea area is, the lower the salinity of the Denmark Strait is, and then it reaches the old place of Roseburg and the ocean facing New Roseburg. It is really thankless to boil salt with such water.

It takes more money to buy good Atlantic salt from the Norwegians in Balmerk, the port of Narvik. After all, people's needs for salt need to be solved as much as possible.

In this day and age, as the production of oats, rye and wheat continues to rise, new ways of eating are born.

Boil oatmeal and other wheat into a paste, sprinkle a handful of salt, and eat it with a wooden spoon. This was the usual diet of ordinary people during the Roman Empire, even gladiatorial slaves often ate it.

The traditional way of eating in the Italian region has become a luxury in northern Europe due to insufficient food production. As Rus completely owns the Novgorod agricultural area, eating boiled wheat every day has become the norm.

Regardless of whether the Vikings led by the old Rus wanted to eat wheat, the Slavs even wanted to eat wheat. Eat boiled wheat and eat salt, as long as conditions permit, they will pay more for the problem of eating. Simply sprinkling some salt into the cooked wheat is not enough! Just add some vegetables, mushrooms and other accessories when cooking, if you can add meat, it will be better.

Sun-dried salted fish is hard and can be stored for up to two years or even longer after processing, as long as the eater ignores the strange smell of "zombie-grade" dried fish.

Its mixture of fish meat and salt used to be a must-have dry food for the old Rus people on voyages. For the Slavs who were very salt-deficient in the past, this dried fish of the Rus was quite a delicacy.

Stew salted fish and wheat together, no matter how hard the dried fish can be boiled, and boiled oats form a bowl of delicious meal.

The people of various Slavic manors not only have a huge demand for salt, but buying dried salted fish directly from the voyage fishermen is really a choice for the best of both worlds.

Since there is a huge demand in the agricultural area, it drives the fishermen to frantically rush to the saltier South Baltic Sea.

This was simply not possible in the past few years, but Ross' monarchy has got there. Fishing boats from Ross identify themselves by hanging their flags on their masts!

One of them was a royal fishing team that belonged to the king, and each cargo ship rushed to the southern sea area with large fishing boats.

Some of the twenty fishermen's families who signed a contract with Rurik more than ten years ago had their children involved in the expedition in 840, or simply fishing.

The contract is eternal, unless Rurik intends to end it.

Why end the contract? At least the fishermen are eager to keep the pact forever.

They were the tenants who worked for the king, and the contract Rurik made with them was touching. The old and broken fishing boats in the past were replaced by slender armed cargo ships (taking into account the fishing boats), and each family had the right to use them. The contract required a minimum monthly catch, and of all the income from the fishing, the king took half and the remaining half. Also acquired by the king.

It was a bargain, and twenty families of fishermen became rich, so much so that some families had ordered their own fishing boats.

The royal fishing team has become full of talents. In the past, for safety reasons, they could only fish in the Central Baltic Sea between Tombstone Island and Saaremaa Island. Now they dare to rush to the south.

Since all the fish caught will be dedicated to the king for profit, and the catch will eventually enter the belly of the thousands of kingdom cubs raised by the king.

Those cubs are all descendants of the old Rus! have a common direct ancestor with themselves.

Starting this year, because the royal fishing team will arrive in distant waters, it has been unable to transport enough fresh fish to New Roseburg. The salted fish processing that was originally going to be carried out in New Roseburg could not be done. They planned to cook salt and dry the fish on the coast of Gotland Island, and finally offer tons of dried salted fish to the king.

Rurik allowed all this, and the once dangerous South Baltic Sea and even the Denmark Strait are now open to all Ross fishing boats. Everyone has the right to plunder the catch there, and that is one of the war bonuses the kingdom has.

In the future, a large amount of dried salted fish will be transported to the capital, and then distributed to the Finnish region, the area around the Ladoga Lake, and the Novgorod region with a huge population base. The common feature of these three regions is that it is difficult to obtain salt far from the sea. The huge salt gap cannot be solved by small-scale trade unless the Ross occupies the high-salinity sea and enables the people to cook salt spontaneously.

Thousands of fishing boats, large and small, leave the Kronstadt mooring, they will join the fishing boats from the Gulf of Bothnia, and the large number of boats gushing from the Mlaren Lake, the boats from the three waters at the T-junction. Tombstone Island merged and gradually filled the South Baltic Sea.

The fishing industry, once suppressed by tribal strife, has burst into incredible vitality. The "Northern Alliance Treaty" has clearly defined the Baltic Sea as a sea for all members of the alliance, and all fishing boats can fish freely. considered a pirate that must be fought.

The concept of exclusive economic zone does not exist, but from another perspective, the Baltic Sea is the exclusive economic zone of Rus.

Because, no Viking force can compete with Ross in shipbuilding.

The huge fishing industry demand is here, and the huge amount of hot money is pouring in. It is natural for people of all kinds to get rich to order a boat of their own out of national tradition.

No matter how downhearted, a Viking family can control a boat to drift away to explore new life possibilities, and a boat itself can ensure that the whole family does not starve to death.

Such a wonderful phenomenon appeared in New Roseburg immediately. The shipbuilding professional households in the whole city received a large number of orders. The orderers were eager for a standard long boat. If not, a much smaller ordinary fishing boat can also make do.

The Longtou Longboat is still the ship with the most comprehensive applicability in rivers, seas and lakes, but when a lot of hot money is circulating in the market, shipbuilders are unparalleled in raising the price.

The fact is that all commodities have gone up in price, and the triumphant warriors who have a lot of loot don't care. They continue to spend a lot of money in the largest trading city in the kingdom, and they can buy all the daily necessities on the market in a short time.

Rurik dumped the spoils in his own capital. He is not dumping indiscriminately, especially the large number of captured Frankish weapons cannot be simply sold to the people. He is absolutely worried that if the people get weapons, there is a possibility of chaos. It is precisely because these seized weapons are seriously damaged, what is the use of exaggeratedly bent broad-edged swords? It is better to re-make iron ingots, carburize them into low-carbon steel, and remanufacture them. Earn more by selling steel swords.

Only 2,000 pieces of horse hides were left behind. These rotten horse hides of average quality were left by him on purpose. Even so, these horse hides had a larger area and more processing potential than deerskins.

It is impossible to try to replicate the operation on Tombstone Island. A considerable number of leather craftsmen in the capital are old Ross's folks, and tricking them into committing suicide. Besides, these horse hides exude a stench, and more mirabilite and grass ash are used to process them, which increases the cost.

Rurik dumped 2,000 pieces of middle and low-grade horse hides at the price of deerskins. It is precisely because of the large area of these hides that the merchants who bought them always laughed and thought that they had made a profit, and ignored the stench it gave off. taste.

Among the many unloaded loot, only one large cargo was still stuffed into the cabin.

A large quantity of wool was seized from the Flanders region, which was still compressed in burlap sacks and kept dry.

The capital city inherited the traditional leather processing industry of Old Rus, while wool spinning and linen spinning, although the materials are different, the spinning pattern is basically the same, and this is the strength of the 200,000 Slavs in Novgorod. Novgorod is the center of the textile industry of Rus, the excellent quality of Flemish wool, and even the lambs kidnapped from the local area will certainly continue to consolidate and develop its economic position.

The war dividends made New Roseburg enter a new period of prosperity. People sincerely praised the king and the triumphant army, and revered and revered the sacrificed warriors.

Because all the people of the kingdom have benefited.

Some people can only get small profits, while others not only make huge fortunes, but what awaits them is undoubtedly a wonderful future.

Karl Hortrasson, the second eldest of the family, who owns the largest shipyard in the capital, has been building a huge ship for the king.

Even with the rush to order boats now, he turned down anyone who tried to order them and continued to lead the team to focus on building.

No, King Rurik brought his entourage to visit in person!

Rurik, dressed in military uniform, led his cavalry on horseback. They all wore fluffy white fur, all with dyed feathers.

I saw that the craftsmen who were riding on the wooden scaffolding and holding the tools stopped their work one after another, and their eyes were watching the approaching cavalry.

The earth was shaking abnormally, and the king came on horseback.

"Call the brothers to temporarily stop work, and take off their hats to greet the king on the spot!" Karl hurriedly ordered the foreman under his command, and immediately put on his own fur and bearskin coat, and went to meet the king in a very respectable way. .

He bowed slightly to the king on horseback, covered his heart with his right hand, and then took off his hat to greet him.

Rurik was very satisfied to be so respectful.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for coming to inspect my messy place. I'm so sorry, we rushed to welcome you."

"It's fine. I just came to see the battleship! I saw a huge hull, let your craftsmen continue to work! I... want to have a good chat with you."

Having said that, Rurik dismounted, and ordered his subordinates to dismount and stand by.

He clapped his hands and continued to look at the hull with interest.

"When the fleet returns, this large hull is an eye-catching sight. There is no shed to cover it. The workers must work outdoors. Maybe you are still working in winter!"

"That's right. I'm also going to report to the king." Carl continued respectfully.

"Okay. Let's talk as we walk."

Rurik watched the hull with a smile all the time. He walked around slowly, and his ears were full of Carl's report on the warship profession, especially the estimates of the various characteristics of the "Sea Sovereign".

Rurik was willing to call her a Galen ship, but in Karl's case, she was an enlargement of the largest ship type inherent in Ross.

The borders of Fort New Rose are surrounded by forests, some of which grow into giant umbrellas of oak.

The search for qualified lumber from undeveloped forests has begun since the establishment of a permanent settlement in New Roseburg. As the Hortra family who had been here for a long time, due to the professional habits of the industry, they found a batch of qualified boat materials in the dense forest, cut down the big trees, and transported them to their processing workshops in various ways.

So when Rurik made a surprise inspection, there were still large and small pieces of wood piled up on the ship.

No one is better at building large ships than this family. Rurik has installed a group of young cubs as Karl's apprentices. They are cheap labor for the shipyard, and they are the shipbuilding talents that Rurik intends to cultivate. The Hortra family is equally as worthy. After all, there were not many orders for the construction of Kirk boats (old-fashioned cargo ships) in the past. The usual orders were to build leading longboats and smaller fishing boats.

There is no need to think hard to improve technology in building these ships. Even if a smart craftsman has an idea, he would rather not do it because he cannot afford the cost of trial and error.

King Rurik took care of the Hortra family, and the second son of the family took up the task of building the largest warship!

At least he hoarded the most critical oak material in advance. Such a strong hull frame can be completed, just like a human skeleton. The rest of the task is to install various parts as a whole.

Even if they kept searching, they couldn't find a giant oak tree with a height of 50 meters in the dense forest in the south. The oak tree is the most common oak raw material in the local area. Its trunk always grows skewed. The trunk of some oak trees can be chiseled into a whole thick wooden pole. The length of nearly 30 meters is enough to make a good aphrodisiac. The core keel of the Lclass battleship.

Today's sea monarchs have longer keels. Originally, Rurik hoped that the keel could reach 60 meters, but he still lost to reality.

The two oak trees were chiseled with straight wooden poles and assembled together in a tenon-and-mortise structure, reaching a height of nearly 50 meters.

Next is the installation of the bow keel and bulbous bow, which are also combined with the main keel in a tenon-and-mortise structure.

The stern keel is almost a column posture and tenon and tenon on the main keel.

In this way, the "vertebrae" of the battleship are assembled, and the dense oak ribs are assembled on the main keel, which are taken from the natural bent wooden poles of oak trees.

Carl kept complaining that collecting these materials requires luck and physical strength. What this guy Rurikton meant was that he wanted to give more money when checking out, and he didn't mention the remuneration for the time being.

The assembled keels are all oak trees, and the wooden boards wrapped in the hull are all oak trees.

They have undergone shade-drying treatment and continued to receive wind during the construction period. When snow falls in winter, they are decisively cleaned up by craftsmen.

The wood of the hull must be dry, so that it can absorb water and foam well after watering in the dry dock.

The external hull adopts the tenon-and-mortise technique, and does not use a single iron. The workload is quite huge. This is the real hull. It has been a whole year since the beginning of construction, and it is still a huge hull.

Carl was a little timid about this, constantly complaining about his belief in his work and the many technical challenges faced by craftsmen.

"Let me go directly to the hull to see what's inside!" Rurik insisted on observing from a distance, so he climbed the scaffolding to the inside of the hull.

"Very good! It's very good." He patted his clothes and looked around. "Standing outside, I don't think the cabin will be very big, so it looks extraordinary."

"Absolutely can squeeze out two hundred soldiers." Carl boasted.

"You underestimated! In my opinion, 400 people can fit in. That is... is this the entire transparent cabin?"

Carl didn't understand what the king meant, so he mumbled, "What's wrong?"

"You just said that you have encountered a lot of technical problems. In my opinion, this ship does have a big technical problem."

"what?"

Rurik pointed with a big finger: "The whole cabin is big, but this ship is also too big. She is destined to have a deep draught, so it is easy to hit the reef. I just worry that once it hits the reef, the incoming sea water will flood the entire cabin. We can't Take this risk and take action."

"Then don't hit the rocks," Karlu muttered timidly.

Rurik pouted and shook his head: "Only a fool is willing to take the initiative to hit the rocks, but my Sea Sovereign is qualified to travel far and wide to explore the end of the world. What if it encounters danger? Therefore, the full-body cabin should be divided into three sections."

"I... I don't understand."

"You don't understand." Rurik continued to order: "The bilge is divided into three separate compartments, such that one compartment hits the rocks, and the flooding will not engulf the remaining two cabins. Even if our ship is full of water, Isn't it equivalent to carrying some more cargo, and finally it can sail without sinking. Smart as you. Carl, you should understand."

It is now 841, and the watertight compartment technology has been widely used in the East. Its essence is to ensure that large ships can only damage part of the hull after being submerged in water, and will not collapse overall.

Karl Hotrasson got it, and his mind created a picture. He was not surprised, after all, the Hortra family had never used watertight compartment technology, because it didn't make sense for small ships.

Precisely because he had no concept in the past, he still felt that the King's request was a bit redundant. No one wants things like hitting the rocks. It's better not to experience this. What if it happens? Then just ask yourself to be blessed.

It is not surprising to die in the sea. Karl has already understood the technical concept of watertight compartments today, and he does not understand what it means because he has not experienced it. Of course, people can only experience one accident on the rocks, and the result is almost drowning. Those who survived call this the means of Egil, the evil **** of the sea.

Thanks to the hull still in full swing with the hull planks, the work had to use oak planks from oak trees that had been dried in the shade, for which they needed to freeze-dry the planks in a shady warehouse throughout the winter. There are a lot of redundant wooden poles, which can be used as deck materials. Now it is more suitable to assemble the partitions of the watertight compartments.

According to Rurik's additional requirements, the large cabin at the bottom of the ship is divided into three small cabins, and each cabin is equipped with an independent patio and a ladder.

The original design of this ship is still trans-epoch, in addition to the lower cabin, there is also an upper cabin.

In order to ensure the center of gravity, the cross section of the upper cabin is indeed a trapezoid.

If the bottom cabin is on the first floor, then the real deck is on the third floor.

She still has to install the forecastle, as well as step up to the double-story poop. So for the **** deck, that is the fifth floor.

She would install four masts, the shorter foremast, the largest aft mainmast, the smaller **** mast, and the foremast with a forward thrust. There will be a large number of cable structures to fix these masts, especially the thrusting foremast, its main purpose is to give a lot of cables a base point for bundling, and also can hang the sails to catch the wind at the lower end of the boat.

The Hortra family has full experience in building Avroolclass ships imitating the Caravel. The Galen and the Caravel are also in the relationship of inheritance and improvement. When the ship gets bigger and bigger, the Galen is born. .

Just like building the Avrora ten years ago! Today's Avroola can no longer be used as a flagship in the 840 years of war. She is already a veteran who has worked hard and has completed her final swan song.

The Avrora will be repaired and replaced with a lot of parts, but no one can say whether the core keel will continue to be strong. She will operate in the Gulf of Finland as a training base, and will only be called up when necessary.

The Sea Sovereign is Ross's first Galen-class warship. She has a strong experimental significance and is worried about whether her sea trial is a great success in Rurik.

What is certain is that even if all the materials for shipbuilding are ready, 841 is by no means her launch day. This warship will be launched in 842 at the earliest, leaving a lot of time for the Hortra family.

So, how much did this ship cost?

Karl kept holding back his words, and Rurik stood in the cabin himself, and he, the noble king, was the first to ask the price.

"You are very willing to use materials, and I can understand your hard work. In the past, the price we negotiated was a thousand pounds of silver coins. Looking at your expression, I know that you are a little dissatisfied and hope to increase the price. Let's do it! I will pay you in the end. Two thousand pounds!"

As soon as these words came out, Carl's drooping hair suddenly swelled, his scalp tightened like a cat with fried fur.

"Your Majesty?! You! Seriously?!"

As soon as the words fell, Rurik regretted that he didn't shut the door, but unfortunately it was a little late to take back the words. He had an idea and said: "The ship itself is worth a thousand pounds, and you will earn a lot even so. Why should I pay an extra thousand pounds? That is to pay your research allowance, and you have developed a new technology. , it is worth paying more for this king. The Sea Sovereign is just the beginning, and I will build more such ships. Likewise, the Avlora and Planetary classes will be built in the future. You have sufficient technology and manpower. It will only be faster to build in the future.

The king will not brag, the king desires a more powerful fleet, and the king does have a lot of wealth to pay for the huge sums of money for shipbuilding.

Carl didn't know the king's ultimate dream, and he didn't dare to ask questions. He can be sure that his family will be further developed, and the wealth he will earn will not be spent in eight lifetimes.

"I would like to serve the king." Calhotrasen knelt down halfway and only paid tribute to King Rurik with a warrior salute. March, early spring.

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