Rise of Rurik - Chapter 1342

[Chapter 1441 The Great Tetrarch and Count Wladyslaw of Gdynia]

If the Russian army had not entered Gdańsk, Bogosław’s son Casimir might have been just a Kalami in this tiny place.

Because Kashub is a larger popular group, and although Gdansk is its largest part, the leader here may not necessarily be recognized by people in other regions.

Bogslaw himself has gained a lot of power in the local area. It is not known whether his son can successfully inherit and hold on to the family business.

If this boy fails, adding the “Sław” suffix to his name will become a scandal.

This is what Bogslaw has always been worried about – he is the only son who is still alive.

The meeting continued, and Rurik asked the young man again: “Are you married? Do you have children? Answer truthfully.” “Yes. I have a son.” Casimir replied.

Although such an honest answer might have prompted the Russians to ask for “hostages,” Casimir knew he had no choice, and Bogslaw even more so, even if the Russians did ask for his own grandson as a hostage.

Liuli Pants nodded and looked at Bogslaw again: “My Duke, you are really lucky to have a grandson at such a young age. Fortunately, my old father is equally lucky. So, what do you think of me? How many children should I have?” It sounded like King Rus was trying to get close.

“I don’t know. You are a young hero, so… there are many?” “Yes, there are many.” Rurik shrugged. Now he looked at everyone present, deliberately expanded the layout, and asked again: “You guys What do you think of Frank? Especially you, my lord the Duke?” “I have heard their names and learned about their strong strength.” After all, Bogslaw only knew Frank through hearsay. He and his Friends had never really seen him, so they repeated what they had heard, thus describing Frank as an unshakable behemoth.

“You are ridiculous. They are clay-footed giants.” Rurik waved his hand and said: “I got married very early. When I awakened as a real man, my woman soon gave birth to children for me. I love me children, so I realized that protecting sons and daughters in the palm of my hand was actually harming them. A boy needs strength to become a real man! Therefore, I had already sent my first son to the distant Frankish expedition, followed by My nephew, as well as many of my descendants. I have fought against the Frankish army many times and achieved success. This time I will definitely achieve greater success! I will also see my sons and nephews who were sent in advance in Frank. They They must come to me with their military exploits. If they are all in Frank and accomplish nothing, I will whip them.” A smart person can understand the profound meaning of Rurik’s words. He was addressing all the local nobles present, and even His own daughter and adopted daughter, and even Beyah Hill, who is a female general.

Originally, Casimir felt that Rosrao’s visit had nothing to do with his future. When they left tomorrow, Gdansk would return to its original state and his life as a young master would continue.

“Casimir, I know you must be eager for honor. You see, I am only a few years older than you and I am already the king of the powerful Rus. I have won this honor with my own hands! As long as you follow me, you are destined to inherit Gdansk can share with me the honor of Russia’s victory. As long as you bring your people to join my army, I can treat you as my brother.” The weight of the words here was a bit too heavy, Casimir didn’t know How could King Rus think so highly of himself?

King Rus has already given a huge favor, and he would be stupid not to accept it.

Casimir was not moved to tears, at least now that he was standing here as an outsider, the King of Rus, he did not have any resentment and became more and more admiring – that’s what a man should be like.

Rurik paid so much attention to Casimir, who was relying on his father’s glory and had no glorious achievements, which shocked all the village leaders present.

Gdańsk is a large conglomeration of villages, often with more than a dozen large families put together to form a village. Among them, the head of the family with the best personnel serves as the village leader in a tacit understanding of everyone.

The times have reached a subtle juncture, and the peaceful days of Gdansk people have come to an end.

Rurik noticed the increasingly eager faces of these men, and realized that the time was right, so he announced: “You old people are all local nobles. I will make your leader a duke, and Ross will not ignore you!” Because ” Behind the title “Duke of Gdansk”, this nobleman can truly unify the entire Kashubian ethnic group.

For a moment, Rurik felt that the title given to Bogslaw was too big, even though this guy’s power was indeed beyond the title of “count”.

“Oops, the title given to him is too high. If Casimir follows me and really launches some attacks in Frank, his family will grow stronger in the future, and his dominance has nothing to do with me. It’s just that he is too powerful for me to reap the benefits.” Rurik thought for a moment and decided to just make a big enfeoffment.

He counted and found that there were as many as fifteen village leaders sitting here, so he came up with a plan: “I have decided that all of you will be named earls! You all have titles.” What is an earl? ?

In the northern world represented by Ross, earl means war chief.

However, in order to let these village leaders truly understand the meaning of this word, Rurik decisively gave an example to compare.

“In this way, the fifteen of you are of the same rank as the nobleman who has been stationed at the port for the past six months. You are of the same rank as Count Swinder of Bornholm, but your strength is not the same. But I still admit that you are all counts.” Regarding the hierarchy of Ross, Rurik took advantage of the situation to do some popular science with them.

The highest title is the king, the next highest title is the duke, and the next highest title is the earl and governor.

The governor directly takes orders from the king on major matters, while the earl and his territory are highly autonomous and do not even need to pay tribute to the king. The earl has almost only one obligation to the king: to organize an army to perform necessary services for the king.

The lowest class were barons or boyars. Given their strength, it was enough to reward them with the title of boyar. Giving them the title of earl was really too much.

This kind of title system is basically comparable to Frank, and it also has Ross’s characteristics.

Rurik knows very well what kind of monster the current Rus has become in twenty years: she is a military empire with centralized power in the core area and extensive enfeoffment in the peripheral areas.

Military expansion is Rose’s destiny. Once she stops expanding, the internal evils in Rose will come back to bite her huge body, and that will be a long time later.

In order to face his destiny decades later, Rurik felt that what he had to do was to continue to expand, enfeoff a large number of nobles in the newly conquered areas, add another group of nobles to the already unified area, and disrupt the original local politics. Ecology, but under the “impact of fate” a few decades later, the local nobles will be scattered in large numbers. No matter what, the core of Ross will be unable to be destroyed by then, and it will become easier for the core to annex local places.

Such enfeoffment was a shock to all the chiefs.

Some villages have only a few hundred people, nearly half of whom are children.

UU Reading www.SonicMTL.net Given the sanitary conditions in Gdansk in this era, it was difficult for a large number of boys and girls to live to their traditional adulthood of twelve years old. People’s attitudes towards death were therefore very subtle.

They had to counteract the high mortality rate of their children by having many children, so Gdańsk sat on a large area without a large population.

The fact that each village with such a size has the title of earl is really high in the eyes of King Rus, and this honor also comes with a price.

Continuing the topic just now, Rurik mentioned that Bogslaw organized a militia team composed of local people and at least fifty people who could ride horses. Rurik suddenly said again: “I suggest that each of your villages Send your nephews to join the army and give your children the best equipment. I don’t ask you to give them horses, Ross will rent them war horses. Each of your villages can piece together fifty people who can ride horses, and each village can provide three. , we must gather here before the end of today’s day.” The incident happened suddenly, but everyone happily agreed.

Here is a village leader who is still unknown in this era, or it is time to call him “Count Gdynia”.

The large-scale enfeoffment was really a sham. The highest leader was a duke, and the village leader was a count. Those settlement leaders of the Kashuben clan who would not participate in this coastal regional meeting due to their geographical distance would have no titles. .

Internally, Gdansk has become a spectacular image of large hills, and their merger has suppressed the status of the people of the tribe. The Kashuben tribe, represented by Gdansk, has become more and more hostile to its eastern neighbor Prussia. The people, the Llutich people, their neighbors to the west, and the Poles, their neighbors to the south, have a mental advantage.

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