Rise of Rurik

Kavey fully understood all of Rurik's atom-based explanations for the entire iron smelting principle, and he had believed these explanations by now.

Is there anything to doubt? Is there a more plausible explanation than this?

Even his father, the teacher of blacksmithing, Cravason, never told himself these deep things.

Before tonight, Kawi just felt that the charcoal burned the stone, and the last remaining red thing became iron by beating and beating. Why is this so? Probably Thor's miracle, or Odin's miracle.

After listening to Rurik's explanation, I'm afraid there are still miracles, but these miracles can be controlled by humans.

The ancestors say that Odin created man in his own image. In this case, perhaps people were acquiesced by Odin from the beginning to obtain and use some miracles.

He even asked by inference: "What if instead of calcining fifty times, we calcined a hundred times? Wouldn't it be harder?"

"No!" Rurik bluntly denied, "The sword will become very fragile if it absorbs too much carbon. A pure iron sword will be easily bent, and an iron sword that absorbs too much carbon will be especially easy to break. We must use iron. this characteristic, thus making the best weapons.

To make the whole sword absorb a certain amount of carbon, it has two characteristics, so my sword actually has a certain elasticity. Kawi, please help me try it. "

"I?"

"Yes." Rurik continued; "you hold the hilt and press down hard, you don't have to worry about anything at all. I can predict that it will not break or deform, it will break like a branch because of your strength. It bends, and it returns to its original shape because of your venting force."

"Okay! I'll try."

Seeing that Kawei was holding the sword at an acute angle with one hand, he began to exert his strength, and under Rurik's attention, the blade really bent. But looking at Kawi's hideous expression, this young strong man also used a lot of power.

Kawei let go of his hand and saw that the once bent sword bounced back to its original shape in an instant, and was also taken aback by the strength of the rebound.

"Wow! You really hit the mark." Kaway said excitedly.

And Kravason was even more excited, because this small experiment was an accurate proof of what Rurik just said.

Clavasson said sincerely: "Rurik, I am very aware of the iron sword I made in the past. As long as I use a lot of force to press it, the blade will bend in place. If it wants to return to its original state, it must burn red. Go back to the original from the new blacksmith! This sword of yours...you have shown me a miracle."

"Haha? Is this a miracle? You created it yourself, so is it a miracle?" Rurik shook his head, "I've already told you that the entire human world is made up of the smallest indivisible things. It's the smallest atom. Atoms make up new things in different ways, further making up everything we see."

Liuric paused for a while: "I answered Kawei's question accurately. What would happen if you continued to smelt and forge the iron sword? It absorbs too much carbon. After reaching a certain level, Kawei continued to press the sword, and the sword could directly Broken. Even when it was forged, the sword embryo was directly broken.

As blacksmiths, you now have to learn a brand new skill, which is to control the amount of carbon absorbed by the iron sword, which is entirely up to your own feelings.

I ask you to judge a good sword in the future. It should cut off a normal iron sword and return to its original shape after being bent. These two principles are the most important.

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The two blacksmiths nodded deeply, and at the same time a strong sense of excitement affected their bodies, causing their feet to sweat and trembling with excitement.

By now, Rurik believed that the two blacksmiths had understood the atomic theory they were talking about, and also understood the principle of making a steel sword.

Of course, Rurik's so-called "atomic theory" itself has a lot of loopholes.

The earliest "atomic theory" was born in Greece in the fifth century BC. Many philosophers discussed the composition of the world. A theory that the world is composed of the smallest indivisible things was also born in countless discussions, and was used by many philosophers. Arranged as a classical theory. This theory may only be regarded as an enlightenment. They even think that the flame is also an atom, which is the concept of the so-called "phlogiston".

The concept of phlogiston has been circulated in human society for more than 2,000 years since the classical atomic theory. It was not until the nineteenth century that the phenomenon of burning had a clear scientific explanation.

Rurik's so-called atomic theory is purely to take into account the comprehension ability of blacksmiths, making it more like "ancient Greek atomic theory". He also directly applied the results of modern atomic theory, where the actual meaning of atom is equivalent to proton.

Because of the special nature of their work, the blacksmiths know more about "natural philosophy" than the general tribal residents. In order to get useful copper and iron out of the ore, they have to ponder the composition of the ore.

It's very interesting that some ancient Greeks started to invent and fiddle with alchemy in order to get more gold, after all, bronze seems to be only a little darker in color than gold. If you add some metal to make it more like real gold in color, and make it look like the real thing, that's a real profiteering.

With the destruction of Western Rome, the whole of Western Europe entered a state of chaos, and it took the German chiefs hundreds of years to re-establish a new order under the authority of the Franks.

The large iron smelting factories of the Roman era disappeared, along with science and technology. The civilization of the Western European world has regressed greatly. A large number of Germanic blacksmiths only know that they can burn the ore red and knock it out to make iron. Many barbarian blacksmiths have not even had time to find the quenching technology from the Roman ruins.

Because of the lack of a teacher, most iron swords in Western Europe hope to improve the quality of their products, but there is no theoretical basis to support their desire.

Coupled with the general poverty of ordinary Germanic descendants in Western Europe in this time and space, there are not many professional blacksmiths, and more iron swords are part-time farmers. Smelting and blacksmithing are both amazingly heavy physical labor. Blacksmiths must eat more bread to have the strength to strike iron. Poor commoners are half hungry and half hungry, and they have no financial resources to hire blacksmiths to build good tools, nor do they have any. thought of these things. starter

The foundation of the Frankish Empire was maintained by a large number of homesteaders.

Many of these homesteaders were still at the end of their tribal society. The ancient Germanic tribal system was destroyed by the conquest and rise of the Franks, and the emerging small peasant class had to break away from the tribes that no longer existed.

They had to plough the wasteland to grow food themselves with wooden plows or even with their hands, and they built their houses out of wood crafting tools. The Frankish nobles were their administrators and had to collect certain taxes. The poor peasants accumulated their wealth with difficulty, and those bankrupt peasants would naturally become serfs of the nobles.

Craftsmen such as blacksmiths are more likely to be reduced to slaves of nobles. It's just that the nobles prefer blacksmiths to serfs who farm.

Nobles must have a strong army of their own, and only iron and bronze can make the army strong. The ancestors of the so-called Frankish nobles were German chieftains, and the ancestors of the peasants were just ordinary residents of each tribe. When the Franks fully adopted the system of feudal feudalism, this distinction between noble and inferior was further sanctified for the reasons of the church.

Nobles needed blacksmiths to strike iron, and they had to bring blacksmiths with them when they went out to war, so that they could repair weapons made of wrought iron, which was easy to bend and break, and believed that all weapons were like this.

Blacksmiths originated from peasants who lacked or lacked land. They inherited this labor-intensive job from generation to generation. They needed the support of the nobles very much. After all, the nobles were their biggest gold owners.

Especially in the current time and space, the residents of Norway and Denmark began to plunder the British region and the Frankish Empire on a large scale in the form of Viking pirates. The nobles needed those taxes from the commoners to survive, so in order to survive, they had to organize an army to counterattack all the Vikings.

Wars became more frequent, and the nobles needed blacksmiths even more.

The blacksmiths of Western Europe in the ninth century did not understand atomic theory, nor did they understand alchemy at all, let alone the ancient method of steelmaking from the East, which had been cultivated to the pinnacle in the classical period.

In the normal course of history, the invasion of the Mongol army brought many things.

The introduction of some steel-making techniques from far away China, and the return of practice techniques that continue to circulate in the Middle East, enabled Europe to finally manufacture low-carbon steel. The returning alchemists would rather risk being burned as sorcerers and do some crazy experimentation to create gold out of ordinary things.

The development of history finally began to deviate slightly in 828 AD.

In the beginning, it was a small deviation.

However, when the blacksmiths of the Ross tribe fully understood the core principles of making carbon steel, many things were going to be different.

Because of Rurik, he is not just a little angel who provides steelmaking. For him, it is not for a little wealth to have a blacksmith make a steel sword. The blacksmith has a whole new understanding of the world based on his "Rurikian atomic theory".

Although Rurik still claims that the world was created by Odin, it is no longer inexplicable and incomprehensible as to how Odin created the world.

Carbon steel has elasticity, which did not exist in the metal weapons used as weapons in Western Europe in the past.

Since it has good resilience, it can be made into a better weapon, such as a crossbow.

When Rurik saw the scene of Kawi struggling to bend his dagger, he instantly thought of the possibility of the steel-armed crossbow.

At the end of the Middle Ages, the most famous steel crossbow in Genoa was the steel arm crossbow. Its strength lies in the fact that it can pierce the armor of plate knights with heavy arrows within a certain distance.

Although the steel arm crossbow has its own many faults, it was manufactured in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when the arquebus was just starting, and it was another weapon that could effectively strike heavily armored units.

Weapons are such a thing, in a country of frequent wars, all forces will generally choose the most cost-effective equipment. The monarch does not require how fancy the weapon is. It must be able to achieve the result of defeating the enemy at a small price.

The climate in Europe is generally humid, and the black technology of the rib and angle compound bow is prone to embarrassment in a humid environment, which forces Europe to use a single straight wooden bow.

However, in the ninth century AD, in the wars throughout Western Europe, the use of bows was not common, not to mention the high-tech crossbow.

As for the Nordic world, the Vikings who are called savage by Western Europe, they don't even need bows. Throwing weapons, of course, also exist, that is, spears.

Humans have been making spears and using them as throwing weapons for tens of thousands of years. Any human in the world will have this innate ability. The Romans played javelin and spear throwing to the extreme.

Does the Ross tribe need to develop long-range weapons? Of course.

It's a pity that Rurik is still too weak. He always has countless ideas in his mind, and he has many lofty plans. He is also clear about the reason why he is too big to hurt his hips.

He is the kind of person with a calm temperament unique to the East. Even if he yearns for the stronger technology of the Ross tribe that he will be in power, he cannot do it overnight.

Rome was not built in a day, the stone road leading to Rome, each stone slab is also spliced ​​piece by piece by workers.

One of the things Rurik was most afraid of was that as he grew older, he accidentally forgot some of the most basic and important knowledge. starter

The night is already very deep, and in a few days, it will be the biggest festival of the Ross tribe, Hanukkah, and all the tribes will have a carnival to welcome the "longest night".

After the new Hanukkah, there must be a new beginning for the tribe, Rurik thought deeply.

Now, Kravason and Kawhi have learned a lot of what is called "Odin's knowledge."

Rurik looked at the two blacksmiths with a satisfied face and full of confidence in the future, and said profoundly: "Odin acquired knowledge at the cost of one eye, and then turned the giant corpse into countless atoms, and used knowledge to create us with atoms. The human world. We are all Odin's creation, so we can also understand some of Odin's wisdom. Now you have made new swords yourself."

"Yeah!" said Kravason excitedly, "for this reason my son and I will become very rich. I have decided that before Kawi goes to Novgorod with the leader, I must build a The steel sword (stelsvard) as Kawhi's saber."

"Dad, I will make it myself, you don't have to worry about it." Kawei said to himself.

"You? You'd better go to Novgorod to find a good woman and give me more boys. Since our family has obtained Odin's wisdom from the next leader, we must carry it forward."

"I will, the big deal is to grab one back."

Hearing them joking and bickering, Rurik didn't smile any more. Robbery is also a traditional skill of all Viking Nordic people, and this kind of behavior is not a good thing. It's not just because robbery is a crime that will accumulate resentment. From a purely rational point of view, improving the efficiency of the group's production of materials is obviously more cost-effective than robbery. In the sale of high value-added materials, the traditional way to get rich depends on this method. The Viking business aristocracy will also be born.

Overnight, Kavey and Klaverson made it clear that they would continue to develop the technology of "Hundred Steelmaking" and would perform the contract with absolute honesty.

But Rurik didn't want it to end so easily.

Exhausted, he asked Kawi: "Bring me another plank."

"What's wrong?"

"I'm going to carve something about what Odin actually created with atoms. I'll carve it on wood for you to study."