king of ros

Chapter 158 Leisure time
Moscow, May 1055.

After a full day of official duties, Rostislav always likes to come to a high place and look at the city that can be said to be built by him.

The first thing the prince saw was the inner city of Moscow. At this moment, those brick and tile towers stood proudly. This is a rare sight in Northeast Russia. It once surprised the people, but now it is commonplace.

Parts of the wooden walls of the inner city have begun to be demolished, and the brick walls are being built next.

These towers and walls were designed by a Germanic man named Roberto, a Catholic with a beard, who is now the great engineer of Moscow.

This Germanic man also had a rough fate. He was forced to leave his hometown because of persecution and wandered around Europe, building castles for local lords while learning architectural art from various places.

He traveled to many places, including France, Spain, Italy, and even Byzantium. He worked in these areas and learned all the local architectural techniques worth learning.

It's just that when he left the imperial capital, he unfortunately encountered a group of Ross pirates, so he was taken to the northern land as a slave and sold to the slave market in Nuo City.

Because he didn't know the local language, no one noticed his technology, and Rostislav found out that he was also lucky, because this person was locked in a cage and had nothing to do to draw on the ground. It was a very complicated engineering drawing, which made him The prince discovered his ability.

Rostislav bought him and found he had found a treasure, a man well versed in Byzantine and Italian architecture, the style the prince wanted to learn.

Rostislav told him that he could use architectural design to redeem himself, and the Germans naturally would not let go of such an opportunity.

So he became a great engineer in Moscow, and the prince had only one request, that is, to mix a little Ross' style on the basis of the original technology as much as possible.

The inner city is still very wide, and there is still a large area of ​​open space. This is the land for future construction. Rostislav is looking forward to filling this area with buildings designed by Roberto in the future.

After seeing the inner city, the next step is the outer city. Today is the market day in Moscow this month. The farmers outside the city bring a lot of agricultural products to the city to sell in exchange for the handicrafts they need.

Now the streets of Moscow are full of people, and there are citizens bargaining with street vendors everywhere. The caravans loaded with goods are advancing in an orderly manner. Vecher's soldiers are maintaining order while looking at the colorful lights around them.

All kinds of sounds come together to form a symphony called prosperity.

Rostislav liked this scene very much. He finally brought out some civilized atmosphere in this wild land.

And with such a scene, Rostislav ordered his relatives to move the chair, and he was going to start creating.

Many things happened in these four months, and these things lightened the burden on the prince of Moscow in an instant, and allowed him to start his own hobbies.

Negotiations with the Bulgars had been completed, and the captives were sent back after the ransom had arrived.

Rostislav still remembers the scene when he was calculating the ransom that day. Boxes of dirham silver coins and silver ingots were placed in front of him like this. It was like a sea of ​​silver.

With this money, the pressure on Rostislav's construction was also relieved. This money promptly filled the shortfall caused by the start-up expenses and the war, and gave compensation to relatives.

After spending the money, the prince still has a lot of funds in his hands.

As for those who did not come to redeem them, they were the Finns and nomads who joined the army, and the prince screened them.

Some of the peaceful and willing to obey were all dispersed and scattered in the settlements centered on Moscow, while the other part of the hardliners were sold through Abdul.

The nobles of the Seljuks inherited the habits of the Abbasid dynasty, and they also liked to buy foreign slaves as guards. These slaves would have a good market in the south.

And thinking of Abdul, Rostislav couldn't help but sigh a little, this businessman relied on a single speculation, which allowed him to obtain an incomparably huge wealth.

Abdul's current net worth has expanded tenfold compared to when he first came to Northeast Ross, and he still has more than 300 slaves in his hands. If he sells these people, it will be a big fortune.

The Persian merchant has been away from Rus for several months, and when he returns, he will bring the talents the prince needs.

Rostislav is looking forward to that moment. Although Northeast Ross is thriving, there are still a lot of talent gaps.

But in general, these are not very urgent, what is needed now is time, waiting for everything he arranged to be implemented over time.

Whether it is the implementation of the guild system, the control of the countryside, or the construction of infrastructure, these can only be consumed slowly over time.

And after the burden on his shoulders was so much lighter, the prince naturally picked up the pen and continued his writing.

At present, the prince of Moscow is recording his pioneering history. The prince has recorded all the big and small affairs since he came to Northeast Ross in 1053. His purpose of writing this book is very simple, to leave this historical reference for future generations.

This will be a very long job, because in the view of the prince of Moscow, at least ten years will pass before the work is considered to be over.

So in another way, this is also the diary of the Muscovite princes, recording the history of the pioneering of this wilderness.

What the prince of Moscow is writing now is the story of Valin. The story of the walled lord is a typical example of the prosperity of the common people. acquired more land.

Rostislav is thinking whether it is appropriate to spread the story of Varin and encourage people to come to Northeast Ross to start a business. After all, such a story is really inspiring and can be set as a model.

The prince didn't write it for a long time. After all, although he wrote it as a diary to some extent, it wasn't really a diary. What he recorded were all kinds of influential things, not something similar to what he ate today.

Putting the books on the other side, the prince picked up a frontier epic from the imperial capital and began to read to pass the time. This was from the batch of books presented to him by his grandfather and third uncle.

The so-called frontier epic describes the battle between the warriors on the eastern frontier of the Eastern Empire and the fanatical Ghazi of Arabia. This is a literary form that is very popular in the Southern Empire.

Although the whole book is written in Greek, it does not affect the prince's reading. He has been learning this language since he was a child.

It's just that the more you look at the prince's brows, the more frowning, because the content of this book is all kinds of wild and unconstrained, and it is full of vulgar and eclectic plots. It is not so much frontier literature, but it is not the frontier in the eyes of cultural people in the imperial capital.

And thinking of this, the prince couldn't help but think of Kyiv.

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