king of ros

Chapter 265 Unexpectedly
After sending the letter to the imperial capital, Rostislav thought it would be a long time before he received a response.

The imperial capital is always full of opportunities, and you don’t know how many requests for support you have to deal with every day. It is normal to wait for a long time.

In addition, it would take a lot of time on the road, and it would be at least half a year to wait. Rostislav only hoped that the envoy from the imperial capital would arrive at the moment he dispatched troops.

This experience is also the result of many exchanges between Ross and the imperial capital. After all, the Ross church is largely a place where the imperial capital exiles losers. Regarding the affairs of Ross, the imperial capital is more or less negligent.

And the Church of Ross can only endure this. From this aspect, the Church of Ross is very hard-pressed. On the one hand, it faces various compromises requested by the princes and the people, and on the other hand, it is not valued by the imperial capital.

However, if history develops according to the normal time, the imperial capital will find that the Church of Ross, which they looked down upon before, will become an indispensable and important component of the imperial capital, and even fall into disputes in order to go to Ross to make money.

But that's later, let's talk about the present.

Unexpectedly this time, the speed of the imperial capital this time is much faster than before.

Just six months after Rostislav sent the letter, that is, half a year later, the imperial capital sent a team to the remote northeastern Ross.

So in July 1062, Rostislav was standing in front of the gates of Moscow, waiting for the imperial procession, and beside him was the other host of the meeting, Adam, both dressed in their most magnificent costumes .

The prince of Moscow didn't wear a hat, but the luxurious fur cloak was covered with golden chain mail, which was quite enough for the prince's prestige.

Under him are a group of majestic red war horses, and the war horses are also wearing a thick blue linen horse coat.

Adam is wearing a robe embroidered with various gorgeous animals, which is a luxury product from Persia, and his hands are full of gold and silver rings, showing his wealth.

There are a lot of gold and silver jewelry on his head, and the face supporting him is even more beautiful. If they only look at this face, many people will even think it is a girl.

Although his face was a bit girly, even riding on a majestic war horse, it was difficult to conceal such a temperament, but his temperament did not fall at all. In the eyes of the public, Adam was full of the majesty of a ruler.

This is actually the result of the training of Rostislav and Zoe. Anyway, the prince of Moscow has always believed in a saying that the king is not born. It doesn’t matter whether you are a king. The key is whether you look like a king. Nothing matters.

In order to set off the power of these two rulers, there are naturally armored warriors all around. Needless to say, Rostislav's subordinates have never lacked iron armor, and many of them even wear uniform armor.

And Adam's side was a bit shabby, Bulgar warriors with different armors stood there, even though they were all armored, but compared with Rostislav's team...

Although it's not that it's not majestic, it just looks a bit low-spirited, but Rostislav and Adam don't care much about it.

In front of them were the clergy of the Moscow Church. In order to welcome the team from the imperial capital, Bishop Luca took out all the good things of the Moscow Church.

All kinds of expensive candles are placed beside the road like money, and the air is filled with the smell of top-grade incense. These things are not cheap, because there is almost no way to produce them in Northeast Ross, and they can only be taken out during religious festivals on weekdays .

As for the priests, almost everyone put on embroidered cassocks, and the various instruments in their hands were also made of gold and silver.

Seeing this scene, Rostislav wanted to hit the church, but he quickly suppressed that desire because it was unnecessary.

The church in Moscow looks resplendent now just because they squeezed out all the good things that could be squeezed out. As for how rich this church is?That can only spread hands.

As the prince of Moscow, Rostislav was very aware of these.

After the clergy, there were a large number of spectators. They heard that the envoys from the southern imperial capital were coming, and they all wanted to see the scene in the distance and see what these visitors from the imperial capital were like.

However, almost an hour has passed since the wait from the beginning to the present, and the team from the imperial capital has not yet arrived, which caused a lot of commotion in the crowd, and some impatient people are now wondering whether the imperial emissary is fake.

However, Rostislav did not waver about this, because the Imperial Capital team had sent envoys to inform Rostislav that they needed to change their clothes, so it would be delayed for a while.

"It's coming! It's coming."

Finally, following the shouts of the people, the imperial capital's team appeared in front of everyone.

The first thing everyone saw clearly was the purple flag and the Orthodox cross juxtaposed with it, and then, the team from the imperial capital appeared in front of everyone.

The main body of the team was priests wearing black cassocks. They either held gold and silver canes or gold and silver instruments, marching in a neat line.

Many servants scattered among the clergy held banners, and embroidered banners of various colors fluttered above their heads, forming a sea of ​​colors.

The leader is riding on a horse. His cassock is also black, but there are shawls embroidered with crosses on both sides of his shoulders. As for the shepherd's staff in his hand, it is even more elaborately carved, showing the technical level of the craftsmen of the imperial capital.

On both sides are the escorting warriors. The entire body of these armored warriors is wrapped under the armor, and they are still riding extremely expensive war horses.

Undoubtedly, this team showed the majesty of the imperial capital. Looking at the gorgeous robes, many of them were made of velvet and silk. As for the textile craftsmanship, Ross was even more incomparable.

And behind this team, there are many people in ragged clothes. These people are pilgrims who followed along the long way. When they saw this huge religious team, they followed up spontaneously. There were even some Greeks and Bulgarians.

Looking at such a team, Rostislav couldn't help but raise his eyes, because the number of priests and their guards in front of him far exceeded his expectations.

The prince of Moscow thought that there were only a hundred people at most, but there were clearly three or four hundred, or even five hundred and six hundred people who appeared in front of him. How could there be so many people?The imperial capital also pays too much attention to them.

Just when Rostislav was having such doubts, in front of him, these clergymen from the southern imperial capital had already confronted the welcoming Bishop Luca and the others.

Both parties stepped forward in accordance with etiquette, and then exchanged etiquette in Greek. Rostislav could understand what they were talking about, which was roughly about identity confirmation, routine greetings and other routines and rituals.

Rostislav has always disliked too many and complicated ceremonies, but anyway, this is a matter of the church, and this is their internal ceremony, and he is too lazy to take care of it, so just wait.

However, Rostislav was very surprised to say that Bishop Luca had not been in contact with his southern counterparts for so many years, but he was still so clear about these rituals and carried them out without any hesitation.

Rostislav was not the only one who didn't like all this. In fact, almost everyone at the scene was like this. Most of them couldn't understand Greek, and they only saw the priests chattering there.

Rostislav felt bored even if he could understand it, not to mention the audience, they just felt baffled, but the scene generally satisfied them, even if their princes were not that luxurious.

Fortunately, their ceremony did not last long, and then Bishop Luca brought the leader of the team to Rostislav and Adam. Only then did they see clearly that the leader of the team was a black-haired and black-eyed man, A strong middle-aged man.

"Salute to you, Lord Rostislav, and Lord Adam."

To Rostislav's surprise, the next person spoke in Russian, and it seemed that this person was already proficient in the language.

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(End of this chapter)