Rurik got a full rest in his mansion, and when he woke up again, he had to express his feelings about the need for such a good building to change its purpose of existence.
He had already calculated that with the relocation of the political center, the palace in Fort Ross, the only three-story attic in the city, had the value of serving as the center of local administration, and it was perfect as the governor's palace.
He listened to the servant's report and understood the demands of those old guys who couldn't wait to hold the meeting.
Since everyone is eager to hold a meeting, let’s hold it as soon as possible.
"Ross Duma" is a large long house. When Rurik officially gave the order to hold a meeting, the wise men from all Rossburg came one after another, almost filling the empty and dusty building.
The noise of their conversation made the place resemble a beehive, or a scene of wild bees dancing wildly. Everyone had their own thoughts and many words they were holding back, eager to express to the prince.
Rurik came well prepared for this meeting. As early as when he was in Novgorod, he wrote down one arrangement plan after another on hard paper with a quill pen.
Amid everyone's expectations, Rurik joined hands with the high priest Rumia and walked into the house lit by oil lamps.
The appearance of the two people turned the already noisy house into a pot of boiling water.
People cheered, stamped their feet, beat their chests or clapped, and made various noises to vent their excitement.
In such a lively scene, Rurik could only watch them having fun for a while with a smile.
The overall slender long room is equipped with a large number of benches, so that if there is a lengthy meeting, the participants can sit down and listen to the speakers talking endlessly. There are two rows of benches on the left and right, both of which are set against the wooden wall.
, there is a central podium inside, where Rurik will preach.
It is quite scientific to design a conference venue in this way, just like the concert hall is made into a rectangle because of its excellent acoustics. The Rus Duma built under Rurik's order is a similar construction model in any Rus city. It is actually like a
Teacher, Rurik can preach on the stage very comfortably, and he can also walk down the podium and talk while walking along the central aisle.
Each Viking tribe has its own parliamentary chamber. The Rus's parliamentary chamber named "Russian Duma" is unique in structure and is available in all major cities. It is impossible for other tribes to do so.
In the past, the Russians could only dress themselves in gray, white, black cloth and brown-gray leather. The love for beauty drove everyone to long for colorful clothes. In the past, they could not get it due to conditions, but now everyone is covered in colorful clothes.
The Slavic people's technique of weaving floral cloth has spread. Participants generally wear colorful cloth robes wrapped in leather jackets, with a large number of colored glass beads hanging on their bodies, and even the velvet hats on their heads are also hung with glass beads and amber.
If such a person were to stand in a small Frankish city, he would definitely be regarded as a wealthy local man by the locals, and he would even seduce the local lords into evil intentions.
Seeing that the people in his hometown were so wealthy, pride easily rushed to Rurik's head. He could proudly say that it was entirely his own credit that Ross was where he was today.
However, he also saw that many of the old friends sitting here are always gorgeous, and their decline cannot be concealed.
The heroes of the past are all getting older, while the heroes of the new era have not yet had plump feathers.
Ask yourself, it is obviously unwise to continue launching foreign wars under such circumstances.
This is why Rurik decided not to launch an army against the Karelia people this year. His bottom line is that as long as the Karelia people do not take the initiative to attack the principality’s northernmost stronghold on Lake Ladoga, Bear Festival Town, Ross will
Choose conservative defense.
He stood in front of everyone. The climate was already relatively warm, but now dozens of people gathered in the house, which caused the room to heat up quickly. He took off his coat and showed himself to others wearing only a long gown.
After not seeing each other for half a year, the prince is still the man with the flowing golden ponytail. The fourteen-year-old prince obviously has muscular arms, but his body is still thin. The beard on his face is as vigorous as his father's.
If not taken care of, it will soon turn into golden cheeks, just like the legendary beast "Rhine" that only exists in the far south.
Rurik just stood here and let them criticize him. He held his head high and looked arrogant. With this posture, everyone felt that he was an extremely confident prince. He was so confident that he would be able to do the immigration project if he wanted to.
Get perfect results.
When the atmosphere finally calmed down, Rurik calmly opened the bag and took out a dozen papers with a lot of text inside.
He can give a speech without a script, but he is afraid that there will be mistakes in his words, so writing out the important terms and pronouncing them is obviously the best option.
The lecture notes were placed directly on the desk, and he sat on a square stool with his arms resting on the desk in a relaxed posture, like a teacher facing his students.
"Old friends from my hometown, please be quiet. How about a happy celebration? Wait till night, I will invite you to drink ale, eat barbecue and eat bread. Now you must listen to my preaching on immigration work. Because this is related to your
future!"
He was afraid that his words were not serious enough, so he deliberately repeated it three times. What was announced today was not only the future of the principality, but also related to the future of everyone present.
When Rurik began to preach, everyone straightened their backs and listened attentively. When they heard the key parts, they were either happy or nervous, and even felt a little regretful.
On the stage, he easily observed everyone's emotions, and their expressions were probably within his estimation.
Is Russia a free country? Yes and no.
Anyone who joins Ross can actually choose to leave, but the situation is completely different from ordinary people of other Viking families. After learning about the real living conditions of the Ross people, they squeeze their heads and want to get in. No one will take the initiative to give up their current situation.
Life, unless you make a mistake and are expelled.
Since living in Ross's social life, everyone must abide by Ross's set of life rules.
Of course, Ross has a hierarchical system. The princely family and the elite families in the past were the upper core of the principality in the tribal era.
Nowadays, the population of Rus is expanding rapidly, and all old Rus people who are from the Rus tribe are naturally arranged by Rurik.
Older women basically arranged work as tailors, doing rough processing of cloth and leather. Some older women also did soap processing. Older men were once warriors of the tribe, and they should have been silent as they grew older.
They died at home, or they stubbornly came out and finally sacrificed themselves to the sea. Now Rurik hired them as official fishermen, granary gatekeepers, and weapon repairers.
As for the children with Rus's bloodline, their meals are entirely provided by Rurik.
As for the large number of women who married into Rus in their prime, they actually no longer need much experience in raising children. They also took on many jobs that men did, such as fishing, logging, and mining, and for this they received payment from the prince.
salary.
The core circle of the Principality of Rus is like this. Women, children, old and young are all managed by a system. Rurik can guarantee that they will not starve to death or freeze to death, but it is just a luxury to want to suddenly become rich. Using taxation, lowering wages and other means,
Rurik could make a lot of money, which was used to build ships, buildings, and especially food for more than 3,000 children.
The baby boom that Rurik dreamed of is still going on. It will give the principality strong national strength in the future, but now these more than 3,000 gluttonous mouths have also made the finances quite tight. The number of children will only increase further, not to mention the people of his own tribe, let alone
Aren't you just a bull in April? Once your life becomes stable, rich and promising for the first time in history, it is inevitable to go all out to give birth.
Roseburg is a narrow place after all, but due to various reasons, the already overcrowded area is even more crowded.
As a prince, just trying your best to exploit those who defect to you, this will not be a good thing in the long run!
There are people from various Southern Alliance tribes who immigrated with their families. Although their number is not very large, their enthusiasm for childbirth is no less than that of the Ross people. Only the children of the Ross people have been defined as "adopted" by Rurik.
Orphans can receive free meals, and members of the family can also receive a stable source of income. This is a privilege that latecomers cannot enjoy.
In Rurik's view, there are no real slaves in the principality, and he does not allow this. This is not because of his benevolence, but because of Russia's current economic situation. Slavery is a waste of the economy, and allowing powerful people to own slaves is also a waste.
Undermining the power of the prince.
But there are also actual "slaves" in the principality.
The various Vikings who joined from outside, the conquered Finns, and even the conquered Ilmenslavs of the East are all being economically exploited by the Rus' group, which currently has a population of less than 10,000. Because now
The principality is rising at the speed of an arrow, wealth is being created at a high speed, the lives of the exploited are actually getting better than before, and internal conflicts can be ignored.
Therefore, the residents of Ross proper have reason to leave Rossburg, where they have lived for nearly eighty years, and settle in the wonderful East.
The speech made by Rurik made arrangements for various groups and major affairs in Roseburg.
First: Harold Zosen will continue to serve as the governor of Roseburg. His mediocre eldest son has no right to succeed in the future. The next governor will be the young Kanuf. Rurik intends to cultivate this son who is basically the same age as himself.
In a few years, this kid will also have a body like a bear. By then, Harozolson will have died of old age, and the position of governor will still be in the hands of someone he trusts. Rurik also particularly emphasized that only the prince himself has the right to appoint the governor, and anyone who calls himself a governor
They were all traitors to the principality. When the Great Immigration began, the Governor's Palace was moved to the old palace.
Second: The great temple will be relocated, and all the statues will be moved to New Rossburg at the mouth of the Neva River. Ross will use stone and hardwood to build a larger temple, and will also choose the opportunity to cast larger statues. In the temple
Hundreds of people can gather to kneel and pray. There should be a square outside the temple for building a huge wooden tower during large sacrifices.
Third: All the ordinary residents of the Ross area have relocated, taking their belongings with them, and their children will go to the east to reunite with their husbands and enjoy their own farmland. All widows whose husbands have died also have the right to receive their own land in the name of their deceased husband. Any
Men over the age of fifteen are eligible to receive a piece of land, but the price is that they must leave their original family. This group of immigrants has only one destination, near Novgorod on the warm shores of Lake Ilmen.
Fourth: Ross natives who are engaged in leather processing business are entitled to a small piece of arable land, but they must immigrate to New Rossburg and build a new leather processing workshop in the city. All guest craftsmen engaged in related industries will join later.
New Rus's leatherworkers can choose to immigrate to New Rus'sburg. The Rurik principle recommends that everyone immigrate.
Fifth: The blacksmiths' union, especially the Klavassen family, cannot immigrate to the East, because there are no mountains in the Eastern world, there is a lack of stone and ore cannot be found there, and the blacksmiths who immigrate to the East cannot get materials for smelting nearby. The future of Roseburg is to become a castle in the Principality of Ross.
Northern Tiecheng uses local iron ore and copper mines to continuously produce ironware. Therefore, the supporting pottery making and charcoal making workshops will not be relocated.
Sixth: The shipbuilding group represented by the Hotla family cannot abandon the shipbuilding workshop in Rossburg, but it must send young people to build two shipbuilding branches in Novorosberg and Novgorod, inland on the lake.
Seventh: As servants of the prince, the deer herders continue to breed reindeer in Fort Ross, pay taxes on deer skins to the governor and the prince on a regular basis every year, and go out to fight for the prince when there is a conscription order.
Eighth: The great businessman Gould cannot immigrate to the East with his family. The Gould family is responsible for all the principality’s trade with the west. It is also the most important dealer of Russian ironware, glassware, wine, northern leather, etc. White Fox Snorrie
Vadang inherited the main body of a large businessman family and was mainly engaged in trade with Sweden. The second son Lan Hu started the trade with Denmark and looked forward to a bright future.
These eight arrangements are the most important, and Rurik also made arrangements for many craftsmen, as well as other arrangements.
These arrangements were generally agreed to by everyone, and it was obvious that Gould was talking.
Gould was indeed getting older, and he even felt that he was not going to die soon, so he publicly asked Rick, his close friend, in Ross Dumari: "Why can't my family run the trade in the East? This is not appropriate!"
Rurik naturally used those words to excuse himself. Iron trafficking was an important means for the Principality of Ross to make money. The Gould family who was ordered to monopolize this made many small businessmen extremely jealous. After all, this Gould was also a small businessman back then, but
It was only through being promoted by the prince that he achieved his current status.
"I still can't figure it out. I'm almost dying of old age. I still have many sons. They are qualified to go to the East!"
Rurik's face suddenly darkened: "Gould, let me tell you clearly! You can't be too greedy! This is my order, you can't ask for too much!"
Gould was truly stunned. In fact, he was not afraid of Rurik personally, but was afraid of the military and political power tied to Rurik. He could only comfort himself, because the purpose of this large-scale immigration project was almost completely opposite.
It is a great blessing for the people of Russia, but their essence is that of a guest. Even if they join the group early and are accepted, their essence is still a "new Russian".
If he had only thought about this once, Gould would not be worthy of being an old fox. He actually guessed that the fundamental reason was because of that woman—Asraqi Haraldot.
Because Ross cannot have one dominant businessman, there need to be multiple business families controlled by the royal family.
Gould chose to shut up. He would lose a large part of his leather trade income because of the large-scale immigration project, and Aslaqi's family would get rich from the leather trade and other industries because they were relatives of the prince. He was actually the eldest son.
Bai Hu was worried, but considering that he was old, the children's careers would depend on them! At least the family could still control the iron trade privileges. After all, the prince described clearly that there were no iron ores in the East.
Naturally, business families cannot rely on this to make money.