king of ros

Chapter 382 Bay New City
While the fighting was raging across Novgorod, life in Rostislav was relatively easy.

Because the prince of Moscow only needs to sit in the city, as long as Rostislav is there, it is enough to spread his prestige to this land.

So the prince wrote a book and sorted out the documents. He read all kinds of documents produced by Novgorod in the past ten years to deepen the description of the city and most importantly understand his income as a prince.

For things like income, you have to know it yourself. After all, you can’t know whether the people below will cheat or play tricks. If you don’t read the documents, you will be a puppet or a puppet over time.

The prince of Moscow occasionally wrote to his uncles in the south to communicate with them about the affairs of the whole of Russia. Novgorod is not as remote as Northeast Russia. It itself is an important part of the Russian trade system, so it must communicate with other parts regularly Communication - especially to the South.

The whole of Russia is now calm. Vseslav, his son, and a bunch of Polotsk nobles were escorted to Kyiv. Without this thorn, there would naturally be no possibility of war.

Svyatopolk became the prince of Polotsk. This young man was quite brave in the battle of Minsk, and people thought he was very suitable to become the prince of Polotsk.

After the armed demonstrations in Polotsk, the whole of Rus is now sincerely surrendering to Yaroslavich.

In the letters of his uncles, Rostislav saw what they thought would be at least ten years of prosperity and peace.

The biggest threat is just those nomads, and what can they do?The Rus could beat them before, so they can now.

But Rostislav knew otherwise, especially when he saw his third uncle mention the increasing activity of the Polotsk people on the border.

Novgorod's side was relatively stable. During this period, Rostislav even went back to Moscow and stayed there for two months. By the way, he let the group of Red City troops who followed him go home and replaced them with another group.

In fact, Rostislav didn't need to come back, but since he became the prince of Novgorod, people have been rumoring that he will live in Novgorod from now on, so he must come back to live for a while to calm people's hearts.

Because of the rumors, people in Moscow were a little turbulent, and some quick-witted guys even started to plan to move to Novgorod, all in order to be closer to the political center.

And such people are generally social elites, and Rostislav does not want the social elites in Moscow to go away, so that the stable environment in Northeast Russia that he has worked so hard to build will undoubtedly be destroyed.

This measure only temporarily solved the problem. As for the future capital issue, to be honest, Rostislav didn't think about it.

At present, his decision is to stay in Novgorod and Moscow for half a year each. These two regions cannot lack him, and we will talk about it in the future.

Two months later, Rostislav set off again to return to Novgorod, and the reason was simple. The seaport he ordered to build four months ago had now been completed, and he had to see it for himself.

This time the prince left his wife and children in Moscow, indicating that he did not abandon Moscow, and then went to Novgorod alone with his personal team and the Rostov battalion to check and accept the results of his orders.

In February 1068, Rostislav came to the bay which was later called the Gulf of Finland, and came to the place he chose to build the seaport.

After four months of heavy construction, this port, which Rostislav called Ivangorod, already has a general appearance. Ten trestle bridges have been built, and more are under construction.

There are some ships parked beside the pier, all of which are long ships in good condition. As for the number of fishing boats, there are more, all of which were purchased by Rostislav from Novgorod. There is also a dock to be completed. After completion, the local You can build your own ships.

There are many workshops next to the dock, and many people are carrying the caught fish inside, and it seems that many people are busy inside.

The residents who moved here have already built their houses, but there are still a lot of open spaces here, which are all prepared for future expansion.

The locals have already started fishing, which is the main job that Rostislav needs them to do.

There are still many clogged wooden barrels in the port that are being transferred by the residents, and they don't know what's inside, but the residents obviously attach great importance to this thing, and they are very attentive when transferring.

The Maharaja's authority was proclaimed by a two-story brick building, a solid building with many shooting ports in the walls and the banner of Rurik's trident and St. George slaying the dragon flying from the roof.

Outside the settlements, wooden walls have already been built. If you don't build a wooden wall in the first place to build a city in Ross, you will be courting death.

The place where Ivangorod is located is a small bay with wide sea and deep water. There is no doubt that this is a good place to build a port, and it is for this reason that the prince of Moscow chose this place.

Looking at the built port, Rostislav felt a surge of ambition in his heart. His ambition was to start from this simple place.

It looks inconspicuous here now, but it will definitely prosper in the future.

The mayor of Novgorod, Gavrila, followed the prince to this place. He came here at the request of the prince. For this reason, he postponed today's work a lot.

But the mayor still didn't understand why the prince brought him here, just as he didn't understand why the prince wanted to build Ivangorod.

As the chief executive under the Prince of Novgorod, Gavrila knew very well that the Prince of Moscow invested most of the wealth he obtained in Novgorod into the construction of this harbor, but he did not know why

Then there were more operations that confused him. Rostislav recruited skilled fishermen to immigrate to Ivangorod at a high price, and Gavrila didn't understand. Why did he call so many fishermen?Are you fishing?
But what's the use of hunting so many fish, these fish will soon rot, even if they are made into salted fish.

But princes do this all the time, and Gavrila can't say anything to refuse. He regards this as the prince's whim. It's normal for a big man to have such a behavior, as long as he doesn't do anything wrong.

And it would be nice to have a port for Novgorod in this way. Gavrila has always regretted that Novgorod does not have a real fleet, but as he is doing to save the city, these appeals are fundamental. Nobody bothered.

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(End of this chapter)