king of ros

Chapter 257 Select Funding
Yegor was soon taken away by Leo, and the prince handed over the execution of the task to the Moscow bureaucrat.

After Yegor left, the audience continued, and Gevalan's voice announcing the audience continued.

However, the following things are generally a bit boring, and they are all routine government affairs issues.

For example, requesting materials and manpower from Moscow, and presenting various ideas to the prince for funding.

For these requests, Rostislav also, as always, gave some reasonable support. After all, they traveled so far to Moscow to obtain resources, and it would be very bad if they didn't give anything.

So more or less has to be given, he doesn't want to get a reputation for being stingy like the uncle.

However, some people found this and came to Rostislav to beg for food, all kinds of tricks and abductions, but Rostislav endured it three times, and hanged him directly the fourth time.

The princes of Moscow can give some supplies to these beggars, but if the ruler of Moscow is a fool, then Rostislav will say that his sword is very sharp.

And it was precisely by relying on this decisiveness of killing that Rostislav deterred many greedy people from filling his court with such beggars.

Those who did not come here to sue, the Rostislav circuit court has been established for so many years, everyone knows who to turn to for arbitration in case of disputes, even people who don't know to go to the court will be guided there.

Over the years, the circuit courts have more or less established their prestige in Northeast Ross. These judges and their entourage wander around the countryside every month to deal with some legal affairs that need them to deal with.

It was in such small matters that the authority of the Moscow regime was manifested, and Rostislav had always been satisfied with it.

Compared to dismissing those beggars, the conversation with the representatives of Vecher took a lot of time. The conversation with these people gave Rostislav a headache, and their requests always made him feel troublesome.

The guild's request is roughly that the Vecher side wants to strengthen the control of the guild area, so they hope to obtain some privileges, some privileges that can allow their status to override all non-governmental organizations in Moscow.

As a grassroots unit in Moscow, Wecher is very dissatisfied with the guild district, a country within a country. The existence of the guild district has greatly damaged Wecher's power, making Wecher feel that their control over the grassroots has been extremely limited. big threat.

Although it is said that Vecher is only a mass self-government organization in Moscow in nature, with its operation, and the appointment and powers of grassroots sheriffs, tax collectors and militias are clarified, the grassroots organization of Vecher already has its own will and interests , it will naturally act to maintain these.

Moreover, those guilds were under Wecher's management at the beginning, and even the guild masters were elected by the guild organization. Now that these guild areas are independent of Wecher's sphere of authority, they are naturally extremely uncomfortable.

They felt even more uncomfortable after the guild made the city more prosperous. It should have been their credit for all this, but the prince used his privileges to separate the guild area from Wecher's management. Now it is very difficult for Wecher to even go to this area .

As for this, Rostislav chose to continue talking with the mud. He asked the representative of Weicher to talk to the masters in the guild area, and then come to me after you have finished talking, otherwise don't say anything.

On the surface, Rostislav gave the guild so many privileges in order to promote the production of the guild area-yes, there is indeed a reason for this, but he did it not just for this.

What's more important is to separate the guild. If Weicher still has the support of a powerful group of guild craftsmen, then the authority of the prince is really dangerous.

Rostislav didn't want Moskvicher to become as strong as Novgorodvicher, so he chose artificial splitting, and the effect was very effective.

The guild area is a precious treasure for this power, so there is no doubt that its loyalty to the prince has reached a higher level, and Witcher has also been established as a powerful enemy, enough to make it toss for a long time.

This answer made Weicher's representative look as ugly as if he had eaten a fly, because saying what he had said meant he hadn't said anything.

If the guild area was willing to give up its privileges and return to the rule of Vecher, the trouble would have been resolved long ago, and they would not have been coming to trouble the prince all the time.

After the representatives of Vecher said that they could not persuade the guild, they were directly ordered by Rostislav to retreat. If they could not be persuaded, what did they come to him to say? Anyway, don’t come to me about your affairs—this is Rostislav’s best way to shirk this matter. Good excuse.

The audience continued, and out of the many audiences, only one came to Rostislav's attention and received his patronage.

The man's name was Prolev, and he was of mixed Norse and Rus descent.

He sailed the Baltic Sea all year round, but he didn't have his own ship, and he hoped that the prince would fund a large sum of money enough for the voyage, so that he could recruit men and order ships.

In fact, Prolev himself had saved a lot of gold and silver during his sailing career, but it was a pity that he was still too far away from obtaining the resources he wanted, so he went to see the princes everywhere to try his luck, hoping to find someone willing to support him.

And now he has been running all the way to Northeast Rose, which shows how much this person has been rejected. After all, the place he said is too illusory, and many people have never even heard of this land. There is a name in people's mouth - Wenlan.

And Prolev hopes to go to that land, to explore the scenery and land there.

This mixed-race child grew up in all kinds of magnificent legends of distant lands. His goal has always been to set foot on distant lands, explore everything unknown, and satisfy his exuberant curiosity.

That's why he chose Vinland as the destination of the voyage, the land that can only be reached across the vast western sea. The scenery there will definitely amaze him and satisfy his restless desire for exploration.

In this regard, as a visitor from later generations, Rostislav certainly knows what kind of land Vinland is, and it will be America in the future.

Vinland, that is, America, has been discovered by Norse people for a long time in this era. They even colonized this land, but they were quickly driven out by the aborigines, and since then no one has cared about this land. stand up.

The prince of Moscow was very interested in Prolev's request, because he had a perspective from later generations, so Rostislav didn't mind funding this man who seemed absurd to everyone in the hall.

Although it is said that the colonization of America did not have the technical conditions and was not necessary, Rostislav still wanted to leave his name in the history of the discovery of America.

So he funded this person and gave him a very exaggerated amount of gold and silver, enough for him to order a powerful ship, the kind that is not stingy in materials, and experienced sailors, who can make him Build the strongest long-distance ship of this era.

Prolev himself was very surprised. He subconsciously thought that the ruler would still reject him, but he did not expect to get funding, which made him almost jump for joy.

But everyone else in the audience hall was surprised. Rostislav really changed his temper when he did this. Shouldn't he be dismissed with a few silver coins according to the usual practice?
It was also because of Rostislav's sex change this time, and no one raised any objections to this request. It was rare for the prince to let his temper mess around, so everyone had to show face.

Facing the strange eyes of everyone, Rostislav didn't care.

These people didn't know the meaning of exploring Vinland, but he knew, he knew that doing so would give him an even greater reputation in history.

And after giving such a huge sum of money, Rostislav also sent several personal soldiers to follow the ambitious sailor all the way to ensure that he spent all the money on building ships and recruiting sailors.

In this way, Prolev thanked him and left the audience hall, but at this moment Rostislav did not expect that it would be 11 years before he saw this person again.

What the Prince of Moscow didn't even know was that Prolev would go deeper into the American continent than Rostislav could have imagined, and everything in America recorded and witnessed by the adventurer would become a powerful material for his creation.

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