king of ros

"Well, go ahead, don't be too hasty when doing things, this matter will be very long." Rostislav couldn't help telling his son a few more words, "Oh, after all, we are too lacking in the ability to interfere with that land."

Rostislav's exclamation was right on point. Facing Monomakh's career, to be honest, he can do too little, and he doesn't even have a node to invest in. Doesn't that mean he can just sit back and watch? developed.

And Rurik just nodded silently, and then continued to retreat silently, this is his habit all the time, he doesn't like to talk too much.

Seeing his son receding, Rostislav also sighed, not lamenting for anything, but just sighing because of the growing boredom of this kid.

Then, the Grand Duke of Ross randomly found a few documents from the pile of documents that Rurik had brought casually, and began to read them. These documents are a summary of various situations in the whole of Ross.

Although Rostislav has pushed out a lot of work, he has read more documents, and this is one of the main ways he maintains his power influence. He has been reading these records and archives, and he can Noticing the problem, those below couldn't fool him with word games.

And Rostislav also likes to read these things, because every time he sees them, he feels a strong sense of accomplishment.

It is now 1082, and Rostislav has ruled Rus for 11 years, and these 11 years are enough to show the long-term working role of some relational societies, which can even be traced back to the time when Rostislav was a Muscovite prince.

For example, the average living conditions of Ross residents have changed considerably compared to ten years ago. According to the statistics available in towns and some areas near towns, there is an average extra bar of salt on the dining table of the people. Fish, and various types of food are also a little more.

The main reason for this phenomenon is the advancement of salted fish preservation technology. Rostislav has spent so much effort to popularize this technology for this reason. Cheap sea fish and river fish can now be sent to all parts of Russia along the well-developed waterways of Russia. , resulting in a general increase in food intake.

Rostislav has ruled for so many years, of course he knows how difficult it is to achieve this, so he is happy and excited for such an achievement.This is good for the people and good for his regime, everyone gets what they want.

In addition, this technology has also supported the Free Trade Alliance. The sale of salted fish is now the cash cow of the Free Trade Alliance. After all, only one Ross can produce salted fish in large quantities, and the entire Free Trade Alliance now relies on this salted fish trade to make money. .

While transshipping salted fish, the free trade alliance is still expanding its hands to other commodities. Now the free trade alliance is steadily moving towards the status of North Sea-Baltic trade monopoly.

There are quite a few forces who have opinions on this, and the most prominent of them is the Kingdom of Denmark. After all, he controls the key strait between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Such an identity gave the king great confidence, so the Kingdom of Denmark Conflicts with free trade alliances are also on the rise.

Rostislav knew that sooner or later the alliance would have to fight the Kingdom of Denmark, but it was obviously not now, as all parties were still testing each other.

After talking about the preservation technology of salted fish, the next step is to mention the impact of Rostislav’s implementation of iron farm tools for more than ten years. According to the information collected from various places, the area of ​​land cultivated by farmers in Rostislava has become widespread. It has risen a lot, and the three-field system has become more and more popular.

Although Rostislav did not bring much technological progress, the popularity of tools and advanced agricultural systems has changed a lot, enough to allow farmers to obtain more things.

The direct result of this is that there are more agricultural products on the market, but there is no such thing as cheap grain hurting farmers, and thus hitting people's production motivation. This is mainly because an imperial capital has been consuming their own food from Ross during this period, so the land Reclamation is still rising steadily.

Of course, of course, the biggest impact on all of this is the peace of Ross these years. Rostislav has always been careful to limit the direct impact of the war to the borders of Ross. Under the nourishment of global peace, Ross is moving towards The direction Rostislav wanted.

The title of Rostislav in China is also changing. Over the past ten years, everyone has seen the changes in life. In the past, people always called Rostislav a conqueror, and everyone remembered him. War, but now, they call him "Prosperity Builder".

The prosperity of Ross attracted many immigrants from the surrounding area. Many Poles brought Ross to escape the civil war, and Rostislav resettled them in the cities of Chervin.

Many of the losers of the southern nomads took root on the frontiers of Kyiv, and Rostislav made them a frontier garrison.

Many Greeks had come for peace, and Rostislav had them come and teach them all that they knew of the skills of that empire.

Now Ross has prospered to the point that many princely governments have revised the law. Over the years, Ross has changed too much. The original "Ros Code" is no longer enough to cope with this society. Almost every class of society is demanding new laws.

And Rostislav is indeed organizing a law-editing team. The current preliminary team list includes the Church of Ross, jurists from the imperial capital, and representatives of various social classes in Ross. Rostislav wants to leave some laws that have a great impact on future generations.

Ross is getting better and better. Rostislav hopes that in the future, when people mention Ross, they will feel yearning and fear. Now, these feelings only appear in him.

For this reason, he has never lost his strength in the construction of the military system. He must leave a system for future generations to make them toss—yes, toss. That's it.

The most important of these are two things, one is to organize the Zhucheng standing army, and the other is to strengthen the military service roster.

The essence of organizing the Zhucheng standing army is to create a privileged military class in Zhucheng that supports the princely regime. This class is separated from the people and has a high degree of loyalty to the prince.

As for strengthening the military service roster, Rostislav intends to write this matter into the law as a rule, and it has to be re-checked every four years to ensure that the state has control over the army.

This conquest of Constantinople was able to pull out so many people, and the military service list played a big role. Officials and envoys from all over Russia passed on the information according to the list, and then everyone came to gather with weapons. Ross, it is difficult to pass the information on so smoothly.

However, Rostislav also knew that things like the military service roster more or less violated the rights and interests of powerful people everywhere, and they didn't want their princes to know the situation so clearly.

Rostislav couldn't understand this either. He wasn't worried about Rurik. With this kid's personality, this would go on no matter what, but what about Rurik's son?his grandson?
So at this time, it is likely to have to rely on the inertia of the system, which is why Rostislav said he hopes it can be managed for 100 years.

And there is also his division of Ross. Now Rostislav has also figured it out. Now the connections of Ross's various places are much stronger than in history in his efforts, but his sons did not need to count on it at that time.

The enfeoffment of the sons will be implemented after the two stinky boys in the south come back. They have to go to various parts of Russia to spread the culture of Kiev and determine the influence of Kyiv, but at the same time it also causes the growing separation of the local area and Kyiv.

Of course, if you don’t want to do this, then you don’t have to divide the princes, but the direct impact of this is that it is very likely that the concept of Ross cannot be popularized among the people-princes have always been the main spreaders of Ross culture-then the future of Ross will be Completely broken.

Therefore, instead of waiting for Ross to split, it is better for him to divide Ross first, start preparations for this, and start to build a three-capital system, Kyiv-Novgorod-Moscow, and use their political and economic connections to maintain this. system.

As for how long this system lasts, it depends on his sons and their descendants.

But there is a saying that you can come to whatever you want, and when Rostislav was thinking about the descendants, a piece of news came.

Rurik's wife finally became pregnant.

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