king of ros

Chapter 337 Three years later
1066, October.

Three years have passed since the chaos that swept across Northeast Ross.

In the past three years, Northeast Ross has undergone many changes. Most of the changes are good. This land is now more prosperous.

For the Moscow government, the biggest victory is that the gangs active in Northeast Russia have finally been contained.

In the past three years, the army of the prince of Moscow has been fighting wits and courage with various gangsters in the countryside and on the roads. Various small-scale battles have continued. As a result of such battles, the gangsters have finally successfully downgraded from the level of a hundred people to less than a hundred people. .

The nature of these original rebels has completely changed. They no longer want to attack Christians and maintain their original way of life. Now they are wearing this layer of clothing to do evil in the countryside, which has turned the public from support to disgust.

However, due to the idea of ​​"no matter how rotten they are, they are our rotten people", although the people hate them, they will not be more enthusiastic about reporting and punishing them. Otherwise, no matter how powerful these gangsters are, their living space will disappear.

A series of policies of the princes of Moscow also contributed to this point. It is not easy to achieve this, and it has to be done in both military and economic aspects.

In the military, it is natural to continue to attack the gangs, so that the people realize that being a gangster has become a thing with no future.

In terms of economy, Rostislav desperately pulled the peasants on the vast land into the economic system of Northeast Rus.

The specific manifestation is to allow merchants to go to the village more frequently to receive goods and make trade more prosperous. It is also through this method that the power of princes is also continuously extended.

The registered population under the control of the Moscow regime has fully doubled. You must know that this is the data achieved after the chaos in 1063.

The chaos that year caused great confusion in the original population statistics of the princely government. This doubling was achieved under such circumstances. For this reason, the bureaucrats in Moscow were working overtime like crazy.

When merchants began to place orders from the villages and purchase various supplies in large quantities, many men who had nothing to do because they couldn't farm in the seasons had work to do.

Isn't it good to make some small things at home and sell them to merchants?The money is solidly earned, there is no problem, and there is no need to go out to take risks.

But it is a pity that this kind of trade activities can only radiate to a small area after all, and the number of merchants is limited after all.Moreover, they often go to the countryside under the escort of the princely army, which is treated like the tax collectors in Moscow.

But in the end, it still had a positive impact. The specific manifestation is that no matter how you say it, the number of people participating in gangs has actually decreased.

However, the reduction is a reduction, but the soil for survival is still there. People who are dissatisfied with feudalization actually exist, and they are still increasing.

As for those who want to rob with itchy hands, there are more.

Walking alone or in two or three people is still synonymous with danger and stupidity in this land. Rostislav is also very helpless about this, but considering that Northeast Russia has never changed on this point, nor has the prince of Moscow. Demanding something.

The prince of Moscow set a small goal for himself, hoping to stabilize the road along the road before he was 40 years old. As for the others, he really didn't think much about it.

On the Bulgar side, Rostislav was very happy to see that the Adam regime had finally stabilized this year and did not ask Moscow for military support.

Over the years, Adam Dulu's rule has been stumbling, and another wave of uprisings broke out when the Rus left in 1063. At that time, the Moscow battalion desperately suppressed the situation to maintain the situation.

As for the vassals and powerful people under Adam, they are essentially fools, and they are unwilling to contribute much.

And his headquarters must maintain control over the Bulgar cities, so the Moscow camp is the only one that can be used.

But even so, Rostislav continued to mobilize several times that year, sending 3000 men to help Adam.

As for the second year, that is, in 1064, as Rostislav transferred the Moscow Battalion, another round of uprising broke out as an opportunity.

This time it was the Islamic forces in the Bulgarian cities that launched the attack. At that time, several large Bulgarian cities broke away from the rule of Adam, and the situation of the Adam regime became extremely dangerous at that time.

Rostislav's response was to let Domnar lead 5000 people to Bulgar, and Domnar successfully completed the task and made the army rich.

As for 1065, Moscow sent thousands of troops to Bulgar three times in a row, but at this time the strength of the resistance had dropped, and the Bulgars were tired of resistance.

The "Sword of Justice" paid a huge price for these resistances. Basically, the uprisings were completed under their leadership, so they had to pay the price after they failed.

Now the "Sword of Justice" has been completely gangsterized, which is more thorough than Rose's Veles Gang, and has become a force for chaos in the countryside, but because they are the power of Islam after all, and the "Sword of Justice" The student leaders know better how to maintain a good relationship with the people than the uncultured gangsters in Northeast Ross, so they still have the soil for survival.

Adam's rule seems to be okay, his legal rationality is absolutely no problem, and Bulgar's industry is also growing steadily, and the stability of the situation is inevitable.

For Moscow, these wars are not all bad. Through continuous mobilization, the Moscow government has continuously increased its control over the registered population in its jurisdiction.

Of course, this is based on victory and short-term. The troops who went to Bulgar often return in less than a few months, and they still return with wealth, so naturally there is no dissatisfaction.

And the equipment and combat effectiveness have also been enhanced. Nothing can cultivate fighters like war.

This year, that is, 1066, there are only two months left in this year, and there is no information from Bulgar for help, which shows that Adam is really on the throne.

According to the information that Rostislav has learned, Adam has successfully used the Rus to break the barriers between the Bulgar cities in the past few years of suppression - through physical means.

For a long time, the huge problem of the Bulgar cities is that when the cities were established, they were often completed by each tribe, that is to say, a city was completed by a tribe, and the city also belonged to this tribe.

Therefore, the separation between the Bulgar cities is very serious. After all, the various tribes are opposed to each other, and this opposition has continued to the cities. As a result, the Bulgar Khan can often mobilize very limited forces.

But Adam followed the rule-breaking power of the Ross people, and made a large-scale population proposal for the cities, mixing the populations of different cities, and in this way, the management of the cities based on the tribal concept would naturally break down.

It was precisely because of his behavior that the city riots continued in 1065, but at any rate he completed this matter, so Bulgar's cohesion increased, and his power became stronger.

This made Rostislav very relieved. Finally, Bulgar did not need him to invest resources.

And now, instead, he needs Bulgar's help.

The smell of gunpowder in Ross began to resurface, and the witch princes began to move around, and the Polovets in the south seemed to have resumed their cohesion, and they were constantly testing Kyiv.

As a person familiar with the history of Rus, the Muscovite prince knew that the next round of chaos would erupt, and he must not stay out of it, nor could he stay out of it.

And amidst this round of chaos, the political situation in the Ross land will be reshuffled, a comprehensive reshuffle, and this is the moment Rostislav has been waiting for all the time.

For example, now, rumors about witchcraft princes sending troops to fight against Yaroslavitch have begun to spread, and the fireworks of war have begun to pervade, but most people are still slow to this, while rulers like Rostislav Those unusual movements have been noticed.

But it's a pity that he doesn't know when the prince of witchcraft will do it, so he can only wait.

But now, Rostislav's mind is not on this matter. He is concerned about something far away, concerned about Harald, Edward, and most importantly, Hastings.

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(End of this chapter)