king of ros

Chapter 95
"Aha, this is Rose's city? It looks so simple."

Outside the city of Rostov, in a team of camels and horses loaded with goods, a businessman with a white turban on his head said so, his words were full of disappointment with Rostov.

Flying above this team is the Volga Bulgar's fire-breathing dragon flag, which is the mission of the Bulgar Khan, and there are hundreds of fully armed Bulgar riders guarding the team.

These soldiers were all wearing armor and chain mail, with long coats underneath, and a few of them even wore face-covered helmets from the grassland.

The person who sighed was a slave merchant. There are many merchants like him in this team. It is safest to follow the national team through the dense forest between Rus and Bulgar. No tribe dares to provoke such a powerful and representative force. Khan authority team.

Abdul's disappointment is palpable. For him who is used to seeing the southern stone and brick walls, Rostov's wooden walls and scale are very disappointing to him.

He thought that he could see a big city like the Bulgar City here, but what he saw was such a city, the level of civilization was far lower than that of the Volga Bulgars.

Abdul couldn't help wondering whether his trip to Ross was correct. This land didn't look like a place where he could make a lot of money. He just felt too desolate and barbaric along the way.

However, it would be nice if they could provide slaves anyway.

The businessman finally thought of this.

This Allah-believing businessman is a Persian. Their family used to rely on political speculation to become the royal businessman of the Isfahan warlord, and thus made a lot of money.

But as the Seljuk army surrounded Isfahan, the original backer could no longer protect them. Abdul had no choice but to use all his manpower and material resources to get a batch of commodities to sell in the north.

On the one hand, Abdul’s going north was forced by war and business opponents, and on the other hand, he wanted to open up new sources of slaves. Since the warlord in Isfahan was attacked, his original source of goods has been cut off. .

For this reason, he ventured across the dangerous southern Russian grassland, where rounds of scuffle battles were going on, and he spent a lot of money bribing the Polovite tribe on the route to pass safely, and finally came to Bulgar, the pearl of the north, where After selling some of the goods, move on.

In order to please those Ross nobles, the slaves he brought this time were all Ross Christians bought in the south. He did not spend much effort to find so many Ross Christian slaves. There are also many Persian products and even luxury goods from the East. .

As they drew nearer to Rostov, Abdul suddenly saw a procession of shining armor passing through the gates of Rostov, with the dignity and posture of many emirs and even sultans that Persian merchants had seen. Nothing can compare with it.

"Hey, it looks like we've come at a good time."

Abdul recalled the news he had heard in Bulgar that Rostov had a new prince, and he couldn't help but feel a little excited. It would be great to find the rightful lord when he came up.

But then his head subconsciously looked at the fire-breathing dragon flag above his head, and he couldn't help shrinking his head, realizing that even if he was in a hurry, the leader of this team had to go to see that one.

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"Allah is supreme, that is the Rostislav team? It seems that it should not be underestimated."

At the core of the Bulgar team, Aleph, the Bulgar envoy sitting on a camel, looked at the neat team and said.

As a messenger, Aleph is also a veteran soldier who has experienced many battles. He can see at a glance how extraordinary the soldiers in front of him are.

"There are at least three hundred elites here...the strength is not bad."

The envoy murmured, and the accompanying guard in colorful clothes saw him approaching, with a colorful shield hanging on his saddle, and put his head against the envoy's ear.

"So are we?"

"No, what needs to be done still needs to be done. Let us try the quality of this prince of Ross for Khan. If he is weak and incompetent, then the long-awaited expansion of Khan is just around the corner."

"Yes!"

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"Charizard... Hey, why are the Bulgars here? This really came together."

When the Bulgars saw Ross's team, Ross's team naturally saw them too, and Rostislav noticed the flag of the fire-breathing dragon snake at a glance.

As a visitor from later generations, Rostislav is well aware of the past and present of the country of Volga Bulgar.

The Volga Bulgar is a branch of the Great Bulgar Khanate after the disintegration of the great Kuburt Khan. After the death of the great Kuburt Khan, his five sons divided the Khanate, and in the following long history, three of the branches have been Annihilation, and the remaining two established countries in other places.

A group came to the Balkans, conquered the local Slavs, established a powerful Bulgarian Empire, and converted to Christianity. Although this empire has been destroyed by the Eastern Empire, the Bulgarian survivors are still there, and they are still a powerful force. political power.

And the other branch came to the middle reaches of the Volga River, where they conquered tribes, established cities, developed farming, relied on the rich Volga trade route to grow rapidly, and became an overlord that cannot be ignored in the surrounding area, and converted under the protection of Allah. , it is the Volga Bulgar.

The cultural development of the Bulgars was enough to crush Rus, and they absorbed the crystallization of civilizations from Byzantium and Arabia at the same time.

The absorption of these civilization crystallizations allowed Bulgar to have a brilliant civilization. They built beautiful mosques, tall minarets, and even institutions of higher learning that impart religious knowledge!

As for culture, medicine, and smelting, they are even more developed. The city size of Bulgar City is no less than that of Kyiv, and the prosperous Volga trade makes it more prosperous day by day.

It can be said that there is no country in Eastern Europe whose level of civilization can be compared with Volga Bulgar. It is the brightest light of civilization in Eastern Europe in this era.

But fortunately, although the Bulgars have a prosperous culture, they are opposite to their poor martial arts. The Bulgars have not completed the integration of the country. Dirty, fighting endlessly for better status, not to mention peoples other than Bulgar.

Therefore, when facing Ross, it always suffered defeats, but Ross was also unable to cross the barbaric land to conquer Bulgar, because the road was too difficult and difficult to walk, and the "Holy One" Vladimir was just letting the Bulgars Just bow your head.

"It was a good meeting, and we all rushed together."

After recalling the history of the Volga Bulgar, Rostislav said so, and then saw the Rostov dignitaries who greeted him at the city gate before the guide, it seems that he will be busy next.

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(End of this chapter)