king of ros

Chapter 149
The audience of the prince is usually composed of nobles, merchants, farmers, etc., and sometimes there are envoys from other places. They have waited for an hour to meet the prince, and the prince will accept their audience now.

As a custom, Zoe, who is the wife of a prince, accompanied her. When she saw her husband who had hurriedly changed his clothes, Zoe gave Rostislav a slightly angry look, annoyed that he made the audience wait so long .

Rostislav couldn't see it at all, he didn't bother to explain it to his wife, and most of the time his wife's temper really baffled him, and he couldn't figure it out at all.

Zooey turned her head away angrily, her earrings fell to the ground when she pulled them apart, and the fragile and expensive jewelry fell to pieces.

And it was at this moment that the muezzin announced the entry of the audience. The prince and his wife ignored these matters and sat upright to deal with the next affairs seriously.

Audiences came in with their questions, nobles and merchants basically coming for a trade agreement or a monopoly on a certain commodity.

The prince's attitude towards this is very firm. A trade agreement can be negotiated, but it is absolutely impossible to monopolize such a privilege. He has not yet reached the time to sell that privilege for cash.

The problem after trade is to ask for support. Every Ross town is not considered rich, and many infrastructure constructions need support from the capital. Rostislav has to carefully weigh this and then allocate resources.

There was only one thing Rostislav would not even think about appropriating money for, and that was the construction of roads and bridges between the northeastern Rus cities.

The prince regards completing this task as his top priority. Northeast Ross is a land divided by forests and river networks. It is naturally suitable for separatism. If you want to effectively rule such a vast and vast land, building roads and bridges is the only choice. .

And this is a costly thing, after all, it goes without saying how difficult it is to open a road from the ocean of the forest.

Fortunately, Zhucheng is willing to invest resources in this matter. As a city where trade accounts for an important income, Zhucheng understands that with the improvement of roads, business will flow faster, and flowing business routes bring flowing gold and silver. When the maharaja said he would take the lead in planning, every town expressed support.

For the prince, these roads will make the connection between the cities closer, the adjustment of the prince's army will be more convenient, and his power will be enhanced.

Some merchants will sell their luxury goods to the prince, but the prince has no interest in this, he just introduces these people to his nobles.

After the nobles and merchants, the next to meet are the walled city owners, citizens and farmers.

The walled city owners basically came to seek help from the poor. These people were enfeoffed near Moscow, and they were enfeoffed for their achievements in the battle with the Bulgar.

For these people, the prince can only give a little hryvnia as a routine, and he can't help much. The prince's army will only be dispatched after a bad event such as the killing of the city wall master.

The Walled City Masters were dissatisfied, but it was better than nothing.

As for the things brought by the citizens and farmers, it is much more cumbersome. Due to the recent small attempts made by the princes to improve the organization of urban production and agricultural technology, there are many citizens and farmers who come to meet with them. They come to respond to various problems and hope that Get support and help.

For these matters, the prince directly pushed them to his professional bureaucrats, that is, the clerks brought out by Leo. These scholars in the imperial capital and Kyiv have now mastered the corresponding professional skills, and they are naturally handy in handling these matters.

As for those who asked the prince to adjudicate disputes, they couldn't come at the beginning, because the prince had set up a court to handle civil and criminal disputes on his behalf. This court would patrol the countryside every month to judge things and promote the authority of the prince.

After dealing with these internal things, the next step is naturally the external ones, mainly to receive messengers from all walks of life.

At first, what the prince saw was the envoy he sent to Bulgar to ask for a ransom. The envoy brought good news that Bulgar was willing to pay the ransom, even if he had no money to redeem himself, Khan would pay for it.

And he also brought a surprising news that Bulgar Khan had a substitution.

Akkad Moska Dulu, the prince's defeat has become the new Bulgar Khan.

After returning to Bulgar, this loser went south to master the border garrison. He took this army to the Bulgar capital, took control of the city, and killed the old khan who stood on the side of the old khan after a fierce battle. Father and Khan.

Now this khan is called a kinslayer, because the two old men of the Tulu family he killed were all relatives of him.

Of course, no one dared to advance these in front of him.

The new Khan assured everyone that their families could return to them, which appeased the people who were disturbed by the coup and fighting. For the people, the most important thing right now is to let their families return from foreign lands smoothly.

The prince was quite surprised by this, and also felt a little uneasiness. That clumsy general launched a rebellion so decisively. The neighbors are very difficult to get along with...

But fortunately, buying so many captives would cost a lot of money, and if all the money was spent on these things, Bulgar would not have the energy to start a war within a few years, and the days of peace could still continue.

In the Bulgar news brought by the envoy, there was another thing that Rostislav was very concerned about, that is, Adam Dulu, the son of the original Khan, was missing.

There are rumors in Bulgar that the prince has escaped from Bulgar with the help of Aleph, the Khan’s confidant...

Intuition told the prince that this is a good opportunity, and he always felt that this opportunity to intervene in Bulgar would fall into his hands...

As the envoys to Bulgar retreated, the next envoy was a Russian envoy from Novo, who brought news that excited Rostislav.

The teacher of the prince of Moscow, Luka Zygata, has been appointed bishop of Moscow and is on his way to Northeast Ross, and is expected to arrive in a week.

Regarding the establishment of the bishop of Moscow, Rostislav has been fighting for a long time, but because Kyiv has to notify Constantinople and get approval, he spends a lot of time on the road.

Now that Constantinople has approved it, Luca will naturally perform his duties.

The prince is very happy that his teacher is coming, and the teacher will definitely bring a lot of clergy, and the shortage of manpower in the Northeast Ross Church will be alleviated by then.

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