king of ros

Chapter 92 Vulnerable

After a short period of excitement, Rostislav calmed down again. Although he thought of developing a silver mine, it didn't mean that he could do it right away. Before that, he had to keep his feet on the ground and strengthen his control over the land. Take control of the nearby villages.

After thinking about it, Rostislav sent out nomadic cavalry under his command. These cavalry basically came from Varu's subordinates. Nobility of Ross.

Of course, Varu's people are mainly to provide force deterrence, and of course the main messenger of the propaganda is the prince of Rostov—or the prince of Moscow. After all, Rostislav did not plan to take office as a prince in Rostov—the nobles of the Ross under his command, they Bring in various objects as a boon given to each village.

Another reason why Rostislav chose Moscow to build the city is that the population here is relatively dense and basically inhabited by Russians. It is much easier to bring these people into rule.

The prince's policy can be said to be a combination of carrots and sticks, and under such circumstances, if the village community is still unwilling to pay Rostislav's authority and pay taxes to him, then Rostislav's clerks will write down all these villages. Ruthlessly liquidate them.

As for the local walled masters of Rose, they took the initiative to curry favor with the prince when they saw the prince coming. For them, the prince's arrival was a huge help to them and was conducive to the implementation of their power.

Faced with this sudden and powerful force, most Ross villages chose to submit to the authority of the prince. After all, most of the villages just want to live a life, so let’s pay some taxes.It is impossible for them to beat those cavalry, and the tax is not very heavy, even lower than the usual tribute, and they can still get the protection of the prince.

Yes, protection, in return for the taxes that Rostislav offered them.

In the wild Northeast Ross, the naked jungle law is followed in the wilderness. It is never uncommon for villages to fight with various ordinary conflicts, and even the tragedy of massacring villages and families. As for the oppression of powerful villages on weak villages, that is It is even more routine, and now the prince can restrain these things.

Of course, this is for most ordinary villages. For the kind of local overlords who collect tribute from ten miles and eight towns, the appearance of princes will undoubtedly destroy their invisible supremacy in the area. The villages in the village did not make offerings, and there were princes who pointed fingers at them. The situation was really bad.

But they also knew that they were powerless against the powerful princely regime, so they just drove away the envoys sent by Rostislav, showing a non-cooperative appearance, but in private these villages were constantly uniting and gathering various dissatisfied people.

For example, Dacun, who also felt uncomfortable, and farmers who fished, hunted and logged in the forest, they were unwilling to submit to the prince's regime.

Gradually, their plans became more and more excessive, and even a large number of public gatherings appeared to attack Moscow, which was still a construction site.

From the perspective of the rebels, they would definitely be able to defeat the damned invaders in the forest. Raids in the forest were the norm in Northeast Russia. How could those city people from Kyiv defeat them.

And Rostislav reacted quickly to this, since they wanted to rebel, he could only punch hard.

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Rostislav's first battle after coming to Northeast Rus was very easy.

When the shield wall of the personal soldiers advanced, when the personal cavalry rushed out from the rear, and when the heavy rain of arrows fell, these Northeast Ross natives collapsed. They gathered nearly a thousand people, but they could not fight after dozens of people were killed.

In the eyes of these farmers and toubob, the battle should be a raid and melee in the forest. In the end, the side with more courage will win the final victory, instead of facing a solid shield wall and a sky full of arrows, and fighting from behind. The cavalry who came out.

So they lost. At this moment, these guys who were always immersed in their pride finally saw the gap between them.

In the dense forest, Rostislav's troops advanced relentlessly. Even the densely covered trees could not disintegrate the solid shield wall. In front of the shield wall were fleeing farmers. If they ran slowly, their fate was waiting. He was knocked down and tied up, and made a slave ever since.

The cavalry criss-crossed among the deserters. They used ropes to tie up the deserters one after another, making them roll in the mud in embarrassment.

The archers have stopped shooting, they are calmly adjusting the bowstring and repairing their equipment.

"This is really, really amazing."

Dill followed behind the shield wall, and beside him were the villagers in the village community. They were basically farmers who obeyed Rostislav.

Rostislav's original plan for recruiting these people to the battlefield was very simple. He wanted to show his new subjects his strength, dampen their possible resistance psychology, and make them realize that resistance is absolutely impossible.

"Of course, now you know why I didn't take the battle in the north seriously for so many years. After seeing the real battle, who would value that little surprise attack?"

A smug voice came to mind beside Dill, the voice was full of smugness, it came from Dill's one-handed father, he carried the sword with his still intact hand, and even the lock he wore when he served in the army First.

Dill's village is also considered a big village, but they are more willing to be themselves than enslaving other villages, so they didn't provoke those right and wrong.

When Rostislav's envoy arrived, the village had a heated discussion about it, and in the end it was under the influence of Papa Dill that they chose to turn to Rostislav.

After hearing the news of Prince Rurik's arrival, Dill's father was very excited. He took the initiative to meet the prince who built the city. For this, he was given a silver armband, which he was wearing on his arm to show off.

The veteran has always been proud of his status as a soldier of Rurik. He was also a fierce warrior under the command of the wise man back then. If he hadn't lost his sword hand, how could he have retired.

The soldier originally thought that he would spend his whole life nesting in the village, but now he still has the opportunity to be loyal to Prince Rurik, which made the soldier feel like he was born again.

Compared with the proud words of his father, Dill was more fortunate in his heart. If he had chosen to stand opposite the prince, the people in his village who were slaughtered and caught like dogs would be the people in his village.

"Well, Dad, you're right."

Thousands of words, and then converged into this sentence. This is the first time that Dill agrees with his father's words for so many years since his father retired.

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(End of this chapter)