king of ros

While taming the church, Rostislav was also taming the people of Kyiv.

Here, the Grand Duke of Kyiv first implemented the guild policy, which can be said to be the most effective differentiation card in Rostislav's hands.

It's a pity that, like the situation in Novgorod, the effect in Kyiv is limited, even less effective than in Novgorod, because Kyiv's forces are more intertwined than any other place in Russia, even if it is Russia. The same is true for the Slavs who liquidated many wealthy merchants and nobles through war.

This time made Rostislav very worried, because he had only seen the destructive power of the Kyiv militia, which was so terrifying that the uncle's thousands of soldiers were useless. Get it done, this beast must be brought under control.

Only relying on those Greek and Rus officials could not control the unruly beast of Witcher. They could get power from Witcher in many daily affairs, but once the situation was urgent, they would be blinded.

As for whether Leo can suppress such restlessness, Rostislav knows that Leo is a skilled old bureaucrat, but he has passed a lot of stable time and is already old. If there is a problem, can he control it? It's all a question.

But now there is no such thing as the Ross faction and the Greek faction in the bureaucracy—more precisely, there is no such faction for the time being—the essence of the dispute between the two factions is that the local bureaucrats of Ross feel that they cannot be promoted.

And now, there are vacancies everywhere in Rus, and if you dare, Rostislav will dare to appoint them.

Under such circumstances, Rostislav's small bureaucratic group is becoming more and more united. After all, facing those citizens and noble businessmen, they are undoubtedly in the same trench.

Faced with such an embarrassing situation, Rostislav finally came to the conclusion that the only thing that could turn the situation around quickly was to form a standing army.

The essence of the standing army of Rostislav is to promote a privileged military class among the citizens. These people usually live around the palace of the Grand Duke, and their interests are bound to the Grand Duke. However, they are also citizens and staunch supporters of the Grand Duke. To a certain extent Up can also affect Witcher.

Therefore, the Kyiv battalion was directly expanded by Rostislav into a large battalion with thousands of troops, and the speed of recruiting soldiers was also very fast. Willing to fight for the Grand Duke.

Rostislav directly allocated the confiscated noble land around Kyiv to them. Even after some meritorious ministers were settled, there were a lot of these lands. As their fields, these were all cultivated land after development. The big ones bought people's hearts.

At the same time as the recruitment of the Kyiv battalion, crossbowmen are also being recruited. Rostislav will also build a strong team of crossbowmen in Kyiv. During the Battle of Buda, the crossbowmen on the tower of St. George's Monastery can be said to be Suppressing the entire battlefield, he saw it all.

Rostislav placed these people in the inner city of Kiev, that is, in Kiev on the cliff, and isolated them from other citizen groups-this is the most important part of this policy.

In addition, Rostislav carried out a major clean-up of the inner city of Kyiv, demolished the mansions of many liquidated nobles and wealthy businessmen, and cleaned up many ruins and useless buildings. This was not only to make room for the privileged class of the city he promoted. , and old people transferred from the north.

The Guardsmen and the Moscow Battalion were undoubtedly coming to Kyiv. These two teams had been with the Grand Duke the longest and were the most loyal to him, and Rostislav had to keep them by his side.

In addition, regarding the personal guards, Rostislav recently ended the disputes between the personal guards and the personal guards within the personal guards. Since the personal guards became Rostislav's personal guards, they were separated from the personal guards. This team is now more Acting as the prince's guard, of course, in some cases, power holders will also be born here.

As for the personal soldiers, it is still the original personal soldiers, Rostislav’s good comrades-in-arms, Rostislav’s good friends, and the personal soldiers have been expanding crazily since Rostislav took over Kyiv, and now their number of members has reached A full 800 people were killed.

Most of them used to be the soldiers of the second uncle and the third uncle. Rostislav didn't want these people at first, but if he didn't want them, wouldn't it be that these hundreds of armed men were operating in Ross?This is really a huge test for law and order, so Rostislav still recruited them.

He now understands why the second uncle took over most of the uncle's personal soldiers so directly, and the political screening work can only be done slowly in the future, which is also impossible.

But as long as he pays enough money, most people won't cause any trouble. Those who are still here must not be the "close comrades" of the uncles. Those people are following the sons of the uncles.

While trying to control the domestic situation, Rostislav was also busy communicating with foreign forces. For example, after several fruitless conflicts, Ross and Poland signed an agreement to stop the war-this was mainly because Rostislav mobilized other forces With the achievements made, Hungary, Bohemia, and even the empire are willing to cooperate with Ross to besiege Poland, a mad dog.

As for the south, that Saru Khan expressed a lot of goodwill towards Ross. He seemed to want to maintain peace with Ross for a period of time, and Ross also agreed. There is still a lot of cooperation between the two sides in terms of grassland trade.

But Rostislav knew that the peace on the grassland was temporary after all, and with his relationship with the Khan, he would have to make a comeback sooner or later.

For forces such as the Empire and Hungary, it is neither salty nor weak. The main point of cooperation between the two parties is to suppress Poland, and nothing else.

And the Eastern Empire didn't pay much attention to Ross after confirming that the trade agreement with Rostislav remained unchanged.

This is lucky for Rostislav, because none of the surrounding countries have any intention of interfering with Ross, and he can do his best to heal the trauma of the war to the country.

Rostislav knows that if this wound is not healed, he will not be able to eliminate the negative effects of the rule. There are always people who still remember that it was because of Rostislav's army that their relatives and friends left. Only time and life , in order to dilute these hatreds.

In addition, speaking of foreign countries, as a visitor from later generations, he knows that the recent battle of Manchiket is coming soon, and he is very clear about the far-reaching impact of this battle.

Under a series of chances and coincidences, it will lead to a complete liquidation of the long-lost elites of the Eastern Empire, an unprecedented battle.

This war will paralyze the Eastern Empire at one time. In the end, Komnene came out to save the country and saved the country that exploded.

Rostislav has no intention of getting involved in this war. Although he can use his wife as a claim to claim the throne of the imperial capital, he just doesn't want to. The Eastern Empire is a huge fire pit. Whoever wants to go, he, a barbarian, doesn't want it. Went to join in the fun.

But he can send some people there, there are always some staunch Yaroslavich supporters in Southern Ross, and those who ran to Temutorokan and fled back, rather than let them stay In Ross, waiting for them to rebel without knowing when, it is better to sell them to the Greek emperor as mercenaries.

At least a sum of money can be exchanged, and now the imperial capital is hurrying up to recruit mercenaries.

As for the life and death of these people, Rostislav doesn't want to care about them. These guys are potential enemies that are not easy to deal with. Rostislav doesn't care whether these people are dead or alive. It is best to die in Manchiket, and that Greek The emperor died together.

But this thought was just an episode after all. After being happy with his own thoughts, Rostislav still had to keep busy with his work.

Among these tasks, Rostislav felt that the responsibilities were getting heavier and farther. The place he was in was so exhausted and complicated that he didn't dare to entrust these tasks to other people, for fear of making some troubles.

However, he was just sighing, anyway, he was already prepared, and he just proceeded according to the plan.

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