king of ros

Chapter 222
To Rostislav's disappointment, he found nothing next.

The clues have all been broken, and there is really nothing to find out.

But what pleased Rostislav was that he could see heavily armed patrolling soldiers on the street from time to time, watching out for all possible insurgents.

There are also soldiers who check pedestrians at the gates of the city, mainly to check whether anyone is carrying a large amount of firelight.

Now whatever the heretics try to do, they will have far higher obstacles than before.

Perhaps because of the sudden increase in vigilance, even the pagan ceremonies that were openly performed under the city wall before were gone, and those pagan sacrifices were not active.

The Hungarian priests were glad that this was what they had always wanted to see, without the hypocrisy of occasions when pagans performed those profane ceremonial worships under the holy temple of God.

But that's all. The prince of Moscow knew very well that the cessation of pagan activities was only temporary, they were just lurking now, and they were waiting for the opportunity to explode.

And what Rostislav can do is to have good subordinates and be ready to enter the city to quell chaos at all times. This is not the kind of preparation for deterrence, but serious preparation for fighting.

It's just that Rostislav can only wait and wait for the troops to quell the chaos. The princes of Moscow believe that they will cause chaos sooner or later.

But although he was waiting, he also found something for himself to pass the waiting time, that is, to understand how the meeting was going (noisy).

In the past few days when Rostislav was seriously investigating, their quarrel continued in Fechshwar's palace, and the quarrel was endless.

And the core of their discussion and game is whether Andrew's wife and children can obtain territory in Hungary.

In any case, as members of the Arpad family, even if the throne is usurped, Solomon and his younger brother are entitled to a piece of land in Hungary, which is their birthright.

And there are not many lands that they request to legally retain, that is, the Hungarian frontier territories that are still under their control. Both Ross and the Empire support this.

Uncles wanted their sisters and nephews to own the land, and naturally sided with their relatives in this regard.

The empire does not want their years of operations in Hungary to be destroyed. The decades-long intervention since Henry III cannot be destroyed. In any case, it is always a good thing to leave a few nails in Hungary.

Naturally, it was impossible for Bella to agree to this. By agreeing to this, she was causing trouble for herself, so that the elder brother, wife and children who were killed by him were still staying at the border?Isn't that indulging them to accumulate strength to rebel, and those dissatisfied and waiting nobles will definitely collude with them as Solomon grows up.

So Bella directly asked his brother's wife and children to get out of Hungary. As for compensation or something, that's impossible, and why it's impossible, just because he is the winner, and this is the privilege of the winner.

The King of Poland watched everything leisurely from the sidelines. Anyway, they don't need to intervene in specific affairs, and it has nothing to do with him.

So the two sides were at a stalemate like this, and everyone refused to give in to each other. They spat at each other every day at the meeting, or found those scholars with long beards to flip through old books to stand for themselves.

But the final result was nothing after all.

Rostislav could see what was going on. Both sides were asking for prices, and it was just a lion talking.

However, because it seems that the commotion is a bit real, everyone is now unwilling to give a step, which has led to the current embarrassing situation.

Obviously, at the beginning, the two sides just planned to make a little noise, but now they are in a stalemate, and now the council can't move forward. Everyone can only wait here and waste it, and it depends on who can't hold it back first.

It can only be said that there is still a lot of noise over there. It seems that Rostislav will not be subdued in a week or two, or he is a little afraid that these elders will fight if they are chatting. That was horrific.

But on the other hand, this is also good. They quarreled at the meeting and asked them to quarrel. He continued to investigate the case by himself. After the meeting was over, he had to participate in a series of complicated ceremonies, and he couldn't do anything at that time.

But Rostislav, who had no clue, didn't expect that the clue he had been waiting for would soon come to him on his own initiative.

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That day Rostislav was in the camp looking over and over again the logical diagrams of events and characters he had compiled, and just as he was troubled by this again, someone suddenly broke into his tent.

"My lord Rostislav, my lord Rostislav, we have finally found a clue! We have discovered the place where the heretics store their firelighters."

The person who rushed in was none other than Mieszko, and the face of the Polish nobleman was full of joy.

They have been cooperating with Rostislav's investigation for the past few days, but it's a pity that they are doing useless work at all, and they have worked hard but found nothing. Now they finally found something useful, and they are naturally happy to be freed from the complicated work.

"What? Where?"

This made Rostislav jump up immediately. During this period of time, he had been waiting for new clues, but he did not expect that there was news of the discovery of the firelighter warehouse. This is really a blessing from heaven.

"It's in the city, do you want me to take you right away?"

Does this answer still need to ask?Of course Rostislav had agreed, he had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

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When Rostislav arrived at the destination, he suddenly found that he was already late. The place where Myshko had brought them was already crowded with soldiers in red burqas.

Their destination was an old warehouse, which used to be built with wood by a businessman, but after the businessman went bankrupt, no one cared about it. Meshko said he found out that it had been abandoned for decades.

Now the gate of this warehouse has been destroyed, and the decayed gate has been turned into a pile of broken wood and dumped there, and soldiers continue to move out corpses from it, and there are dozens of corpses piled up.

These corpses were all dressed as civilians, with messy weapons in their hands, and no heavy equipment.

These naturally attracted the attention of many people, but they were all stopped by spears, and could only look at these in front of the soldiers, discussing what was going on in their mouths, and making various guesses and inferences.

Although this is a common time for death, it is still rare for so many people to die in peacetime, so it naturally arouses people's curiosity.

Rostislav looked at so many soldiers in front of him, and felt a little bad in his heart. This might not have attracted most of the guards from the entire city, compared to the fact that he only brought dozens of entourages with him.

After setting up his subordinates, the prince of Moscow walked straight in. Due to Rostislav's active activities in recent days, the soldiers naturally knew him, so naturally no one stopped him.

As soon as he crossed the threshold honed by the years, Rostislav could smell the smell of grease, the smell was overwhelming and so thick that Rostislav couldn't help covering his mouth and nose subconsciously.

Everything that came into his sight surprised him, and after the surprise, he was relaxed, and finally found these things.

I saw that the warehouse was full of various earthen jars, and it was self-evident what kind of liquid was filled in the jars, and next to these jars was firewood that was soaked in grease.

Although he has some ideas about the amount of grease stored by the pagans, Rostislav still feels exaggerated when he intuitively sees that they have collected a lot of firelight during this period of time.

There are passages between these firelighters, and now Magyar soldiers are walking in it, or carrying corpses, or making records, and of course counting the number of oil tanks.

There is nothing more relaxing than this scene, and after a sigh of relief, Rostislav pulled a soldier over and asked him what was going on and how all this was discovered.

The soldier obviously didn't know anything, and the prince's Magyar language was not very proficient, so the man looked extremely embarrassed in front of the prince.

Fortunately, Chief Magyar, who was in charge of the operation, saw the prince of Moscow not long after, and immediately rushed to explain to the prince.

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(End of this chapter)