king of ros

Chapter 339
In the past three years, Moscow has changed a lot.

The biggest change is that the outer walls of Moscow have now been updated. The original wooden walls have disappeared, and now they have become a solid brick wall, a red brick wall.

After the riots in 1063, Rostislav decided to upgrade Moscow's city defense after learning from the pain. Therefore, building brick walls has become Moscow's top priority since that year.

With Rostislav's massive investment of resources, it took three years, and finally in July of this year, the brick wall in Moscow was completed.

Because of the existence of this unique red brick wall in the entire Ross, the name of the red city, which was originally only in the inner city of Moscow, now covers the whole of Moscow, and it is also known as the city of red bricks.

Of course, the name of the inner city of Red City is still there, after all, the name of the Red City comes from this.

The residents of Moscow are very proud of their city walls. Such a beautiful and tall red brick wall is already a spectacle for many Russians. The red tower and the red city wall complement each other. St. George Slaying the Dragon is flying above the tower. The flag looks so magnificent.

The moat as wide as a lake flows slowly under the brick walls. The princes of Moscow built wooden bridges at various city gates to facilitate travel. After these bridges fell, Moscow became an isolated island.

Looking outside, you can see sparse houses and vast suburbs of farmland, enough to see the prosperity of Moscow's agriculture.

Rostislav carried out a large-scale transformation of the suburbs of Moscow, moving a large number of residents living near the city walls back a certain distance to facilitate the widening of the moat.

At the same time, this is also to prevent too many houses from growing under the city wall to affect the defense of the city, and to prevent the enemy from setting fire outside the city into the city.

But even now, Rostislav still stipulates that once an enemy army comes, all the houses in the suburbs will be burned immediately, and the shooting range will be set aside for the towers and city walls, and no barriers can be left for the enemy.

With the completion of this magnificent city wall, Moscow has naturally become the safest city in Northeast Russia, and the safety is enough to attract the population.

Especially in the environment where gangsters are everywhere in this countryside, not to mention that it is the political and economic center of Northeast Ross.

A large number of people were attracted to Moscow. Farmers in the river bends, residents in the forest, and even people from various cities left their hometowns for Moscow. The momentum of Moscow's development made people subconsciously concentrate here.

In this regard, Alexei's troupe played a big role. It was precisely because of the troupe leader's continuous fast traveling performances in the countryside that the news about Moscow's prosperity spread quickly, and people came with Moscow dreams.

And Moscow can indeed give them some feedback, because this is a growing city, as long as they are willing to work, they can get rich.

All the cities have complained a lot about this, complaining that Moscow has attracted their best craftsmen and citizens, but they can only complain, who dares to confront the flourishing prince of Moscow?Who dares to do anything to Rostislav?
Moreover, Rostislav never took the initiative to encourage the population of Zhucheng to move to Moscow. This is the choice of the people themselves.

Within the city walls, many vacant blocks have been filled with houses and workshops. The new population has filled these areas waiting to be built. The streets are full of vigorous immigrants, and the entire city is constantly growing.

Although a lot of farmland can still be seen in the city, under the planning of Weicher officials, these farmlands look so neat and orderly, and it is not against the beauty of the city.

Moreover, many farmlands have been converted to vegetable cultivation. After all, there is more and more food outside the city, and when the citizens will grow some to make more money, vegetables are one of them.

As the economic growth point of the city, the guild area is more prosperous. The land allocated to them by the princes has now been built, and the scale and industry of the guild have also been expanded. The various products they produce have been continuously supplied The princes of Moscow provided funds.

Among the many guilds, the blacksmith's guild has maintained continuous prosperity. The size of this guild has tripled in the past three years, and the ironware produced is supplied to the entire Ross.

Now pure iron farm tools can be used in many places in Northeast Ross, thanks to the efforts of the Blacksmiths Guild.

However, the guild is still most famous for the various weapons and armor it produces. Because of its rich output in this area, Moscow also has a name, the city of weapons.

This reputation made many warriors come to the north, wanting the master craftsmen in the guild to make weapons and armor for them. Uncles and even foreign princes also came to order. It can be seen that the reputation of Moscow's equipment has been successfully spread.

The population of Moscow has exceeded [-], and there are still many people who have failed to pass the entry requirements. They can only build houses outside the city walls and reclaim farmland. Although they cannot enter behind the city walls, being close to Moscow itself means safety.

As a city established in 1053, it took only 13 years for Moscow to become a big city that can rank in the top five in the whole of Russia. It has to be said that the development is really rapid.

Moscow Vecher is also more developed. This civil self-government organization has now been thoroughly organized. Moscow is divided into orderly constituencies. Each electoral district will elect their district chief, and the district chief will represent the interests of the respective constituencies to the Vecher. Express views.

As a special condition of Ross’s democratic politics, Witcher’s meeting has not been refined and programmed. It is still a scene of people crowding the entire venue, and decisions are made based on who has the loudest voice as always.

Every time there is a meeting, Rostislav has to let the standing army surround the meeting place, lest the people in Witcher, who are so noisy that they are about to fight, gather the people in their respective neighborhoods to start a group fight. This is also the normal state of Witcher politics. But that was not what the prince of Moscow wanted to see.

Rostislav is also very sorry about this. It seems that this attempt to tame Wecher has failed, but this is also expected. Partially organizing Wecher is already a victory.

But even though Moscow is so prosperous, the essential reason for the large population gathering is the rampant gangsters in the past three years.

In 1063, the war gang of the Veles gang still had the idea of ​​fighting for the gods and the people, but they have now completely degenerated into gangsters, and they are the villains of Northeast Ross alongside the eye-gouging gang.

The support of the people has disappeared, and everyone only has aversion to gangsters. If it weren't for the fact that the people think that the princes and tax collectors are even more hateful, they would have lost their living space long ago.

They robbed villages, harassed towns, robbed caravans, and forcibly collected supplies in the name of overthrowing Christians. They also made rural city owners spend a lot of time fighting gangs, because these gangs could threaten their survival. .

From a macro point of view, although it cannot cause any large-scale damage, these sudden looting is the most disturbing.

They come and go without a trace. After all, once they are caught, they will be wiped out.

Although the prince's army continues to carry out large-scale encirclement and suppression, they can always let some of their backbones run away, and these backbones can easily pull up another team. This is Northeast Ross, and the most important thing here is the outlaws. and rebels.

In the past three years, there were a few reckless guys who started several large-scale rebellions. The number of participants reached as many as hundreds, but they were still quickly suppressed in the end.

The Villes gang no longer has the ability to riot in many places, they can only concentrate their strength, and this concentration also gives the Moscow government a chance to attack them.

However, after several blows, the gangsterization of the Veles Gang became more thorough.

Among the cadres trained by Lev who were willing to continue his great ideals, they died one after another during the uprising, and the rest are naturally some bad people.

Bad people will naturally do bad things. If it is said that the previous Villes gang still has a piece of anti-tiger skin, then they have completely become the same kind as the eye-gouging gang, but they have not yet developed into the eye-gouging gang. in various acts of cruelty.

But what is interesting is that the two are still hostile to each other, and the battle is more intense. Leo believes that this is the result of the two competing for the ecological niche. Now that the Veles Gang has also become a gangster, the struggle with the Eye Gouging Gang must be fierce. .

The activities of these criminals caused a lot of population to flock to the Muscovy Princes, in all fairness the casualties and damage caused by these gangster activities were not many, but it was annoying, the people wanted to live in safety, not to be caught in the chaos of war.

This was a pleasant surprise for Rostislav. He never expected to have such an effect. This greatly enriched the population of Moscow and allowed the city to expand faster.

And because of the common pagan background of those gangs, these new immigrants are also very willing to convert, but even if they don't convert, they are still double believers. If it weren't for this, Rostislav would not dare to accept so many people.

Another product is the increase in crime, and the sharp increase in immigration has also led to an increase in criminals, so the prison built by Rostislav came in handy.

However, this prison not only detains prisoners in the Moscow area, but also recidivists from all over Northeast Russia will be sent to Moscow. This is a policy of Rostislav to strengthen the royal power.

As for the criminals who were arrested, they were all sent to one place.

The Gulag prison on the lake island in the center of the Moscow River is facing the city of Moscow and forms part of Moscow's defense system, but the difference between them is extremely huge, one is a bustling city, and the other It is a prison hell that follows the law of the jungle.

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