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 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 house.
The noise of their conversation made the place resemble a beehive, or a wild bee dance. 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, making 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 leisurely and listen to the speakers. There are two rows of benches on the left and right, all set against the wooden wall. There is a podium in the center where Rurik will preach.
Designing a conference venue in this way is quite scientific, just like the concert hall is made into a rectangular shape 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 step off the stage and talk while walking along the central aisle.
Each Viking tribe has its own parliamentary chamber. The Ross parliamentary chamber named "Russian Duma" is unique in structure and has it in every major city. It is impossible for other tribes to do so.
In the past, 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 technology 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 by the locals as a wealthy local man, 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 fault 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 again 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, causing the room to heat up quickly. He took off his coat and showed himself 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 figure is still thin. The beard on his face is constantly growing like his father's. If left unchecked, it will soon turn into golden whiskers, just like the legendary beast "Rhine" that only exists in the far south.
Rurik stood here and let them judge him. He held his head high and looked arrogant. It was this posture that made everyone feel that he was an extremely confident prince. He is so confident that the immigration project will have 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 it is obviously the best choice to write out the important terms and read them out.
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 the Viking family. After learning about the real living conditions of the Ross people, they squeeze their heads and want to get in. No one would voluntarily give up their current life unless they made a mistake and were 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 Ross is expanding rapidly, and all old Ross people who are from the Ross tribe are naturally arranged by Rurik.
Older women basically arranged the work of tailors, doing rough processing of cloth and leather. There are also elderly women who are engaged in soap processing. The older men were once warriors of the tribe. They should have died silently at home after getting old, as they did in the past, or they would have stubbornly come out and finally sacrificed themselves to the sea. Now Rurik employs 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.
This is the case with the inner circle of the Principality of Rus. Women, children, old and young are all managed by a system. Rurik can guarantee that they will not die of hunger or freezing. But it is a luxury to want to suddenly become rich. By using taxes, lowering wages and other means, Rurik could make a lot of wealth, which was used to build ships, buildings, and especially food rations for more than 3,000 children.
The baby boom that Rurik dreamed of was still going on. It would 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 my own tribe, let alone myself, I am just a bull in April. Once life becomes stable, rich and promising for the first time in history, it is inevitable to work hard to have children.
After all, Roseburg is a narrow place, but for various reasons, the already overcrowded area is even more crowded.
As a prince, he is here to squeeze out those who defect to him. This will not be a good thing in the long run!
People from all the Southern Confederate tribes immigrated with their families. Although their number is not very large, their enthusiasm for childbirth is no less than that of Ross's own people. Only the orphans of Ross's own children who have been defined as "adopted" by Rurik can receive free meals, and the natives 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 so is allowing the powerful to keep slaves. They are poaching the corner of the prince's power.
But there were also actual "slaves" in the principality.
The various Vikings who joined from outside, the conquered Finns, and even the conquered Eastern Ilmenslavs are all being economically exploited by Rus's own group, which currently has a population of less than 10,000 people. Since the principality is now rising at a rapid speed, wealth is being created at a high speed, and the lives of the exploited are actually getting better than in the past, the internal contradictions 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 Johnson will continue to serve as the governor of Roseburg. His mediocre eldest son has no right to succeed in the future. The next governor is appointed young Kanuf. Rurik deliberately cultivated this cub who was basically the same age as himself. In a few years, this kid would have a body like a bear. By then Harold Zosen would have died of old age, and the post of governor would still be in the hands of someone he trusted. Rurik also emphasized that only the prince had the right to appoint the governor, and anyone who claimed to be a governor was a traitor to the principality. When the Great Migration 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. Rus would build larger temples out of stone and hardwood, and would cast even larger statues of gods when the time came. The temple is a place where hundreds of people can gather and kneel down to pray. There should be a square outside the temple where a huge wooden tower can be built during large sacrifices.
Third: All the ordinary residents of Ross's headquarters have relocated, taking their belongings and children with them to the East to reunite with their husbands and enjoy their own farmland. All widows whose husbands died also had the right to receive their own land in the name of their late husbands. Any man over the age of fifteen was eligible to receive a piece of land at the cost of leaving his original family. This group of immigrants had only one destination, near Novgorod on the warm shores of Lake Ilmen.
Fourth: Ross natives who were engaged in the leather processing business were entitled to a small piece of arable land, but they had to immigrate to New Rossburg and build a new leather processing workshop in the city. All resident craftsmen engaged in related industries and New Rus's leatherworkers who joined later can choose to immigrate to New Rus'sburg. The Rurik principle recommends that everyone immigrate.
Fifth: The blacksmith union, especially the Klavason 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 blacksmiths who immigrate to the east cannot obtain materials for smelting nearby. The future of Rossburg is to become a northern iron company in the Principality of Ross, using 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 give up the shipbuilding workshop in Rossburg, but it must send young people to build two shipbuilding branches in Novgorod and Novgorod inland on the lake.
Seventh: As servants of the prince, the deer herders continue to breed reindeer in Fort Ross. They pay tax on deer skins to the governor and the prince every year, and when there is a conscription order, they go out to fight for the prince.
Eighth: The great businessman Gould was not allowed to immigrate to the East with his family. The Gould family is responsible for all the principality's trade with the west, and is also the most important dealer of Russian ironware, glassware, wine, northern leather, etc. Snow White Fox inherited the main body of the great merchant family and was mainly engaged in trade with Sweden. The second son, Blue Fox, started 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 largely agreed upon, and it was obvious that Gould had a mouth.
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 is 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, and I still have many sons who 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 really 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 this large-scale immigration project was almost a great benefit to the people of Russia, and his essence was a guest. Even if he joined early and was accepted, his essence was still a "new Russian" .
If he 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 needs 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 really worried about his eldest son Bai Hu, but considering his old age, it was up to them to build their children's careers! At least the family can still control the privilege of iron trade. After all, the prince clearly described that there are no iron ores in the East, and the business families in the East naturally cannot make money in this way.
