After telling everyone, without the need for the Grand Lama Wang's orders, Pronsky probably understood his intentions.

"Then after I go back, I will also organize everyone to investigate carefully." He said: "In the future, we must have a foundation for recruiting soldiers. If this set can be organized, I believe it can provide many advantages. ”

"The main problem is that the Rus region should still be dominated by growing grain." Fr. Marco said: "Grain is not the same as cloth, these products are not easy to transport, and there is no profit from long-distance large-scale trade. So it can't connect different regions like cotton, olive oil, and tea. ”

"It's more than that." Pronsky shook his head and said, "The grain-producing areas can provide soldiers." This is also 'hard currency'. ”

Others thought about it and felt that it seemed to make sense.

"Also, I spent a lot of time there when I was younger, so I kind of know the local political environment." He told the crowd: "In that place, the soldiers recruited in your way are not only a by-product of economic development, but they will soon have a deep influence on the political balance of the countries." ”

"Because in the traditional Rus' political model, the regular army was limited to the city-dwellers – or rather, the city-dwellers themselves were settled regular troops." "When Rurik came here, the Varyag soldiers that he and the other leaders brought were the first inhabitants of the city," he explains. ”

"I feel that way too. Their city is actually the king's tent. Father Leo said.

"That's right." Pronsky was very frank about this: "The conditions there are very backward, and the so-called city is actually a stockade to put it bluntly. The prince himself and his guards were stationed there, and they were engaged in production and trade, and when necessary, they gathered the citizens and formed an army. ”

"The citizens are the 'headquarters' of the princes, so the weapons and equipment, the level of training and the degree of loyalty are relatively high. And the various village communities, although they are often ordered to provide soldiers, but when you think about it, you know that these people are definitely unreliable. ”

"This is the system of the Western Zhou Dynasty." Guo Kang commented: "At that time, many vassal states were called 'Xia Jun Yimin', and the Rus' countries could actually be called 'Rus' Jun, Slavic people'. And those in the city are their countrymen. That's easy to understand. ”

Guo Kang even felt that if the Ming Dynasty sent some historians to Europe, it was estimated that it would be able to greatly promote historical research and solve many unsolved cases. They can be called living fossils of the social system here, and anything ancient can be touched......

"Actually, it's still different." Pronsky thought for a moment and said, "I've heard my wife talk about this – you all seem to like to think in this direction. But it seems to me that the situation in the Ross region is not quite the same. ”

"In the ancient times of Seris, there were also ruling institutions outside the city. I don't remember the name, but the literature there clearly says that there is. There's no such thing in the Ross region. ”

"Moreover, the 'Xia' and 'Yi' are just their own distinctions." He shook his head and said, "The people over there are too thin. If it seems to us that these two types of people are simply the same group. But it's not the same on our side. Rus' and Slavs, there is really a big difference. ”

"Even after the expansion of the city, the number of areas controlled by the princes increased, and many Slavs joined the city, and they were in a different cultural environment from the rest of the city. If you have to compare, the relationship between the towns and villages of Rus is not the relationship between the countrymen and the savages, but the relationship between the vassal states and the barbarian countries. ”

"Can a village community be considered a country?" Guo Kang asked.

"In terms of independence and the relationship between the two sides, I think it's pretty much the same." Pronsky shrugged: "Cities are big countries, village communities are small alien countries, and big countries demand regular tribute from small countries - this is their relationship." I think that it is necessary to add up the countrymen and savages in order to correspond to the city of Rus. ”

"That means that if we go to investigate the land and crops and build new farms, it means that there are many more vassal states in this place, right?" Grand Lama Wang asked.

"And it was a vassal state that was closer to the Roman court and had direct contacts." Pronsky added: "They were self-sufficient in food and were protected by the imperial court. The original city, not only could not ask for tribute from the new village community, but even had to curry favor with others - who made the background hard. ”

"That would completely break the order that has been maintained here since the beginning of the state." Father Mikhail looked completely understood, and said with some apprehension.

"Definitely." Father Andrei said: "To put it bluntly, for the citizens, since they followed Rurik south, for the sake of the princes, their ancestors have been fighting for hundreds of years, isn't it just to be a master? Now I suddenly can't do it, but what can I do? ”

"I don't think a lot of people will accept it peacefully. This is the biggest change in hundreds of years. ”

Guo Kang also nodded in support. He even felt that Father André was underestimating the weight of change. Without Rome, it would have been a great change unseen in a millennium—even five hundred years later, in the time of the Red Horde, cities and villages were hierarchical. Even the city sent troops to the village of Sogon, which can still be seen.

The sudden appearance of such a thing is indeed too out of time for the Rus.

"The key here is that the Rus region is vast and sparsely populated, and it stands to reason that the imperial court has encircled a few pieces of land, which is not a big deal - they may not be able to control this place themselves. But once the new village community is established and has a demonstration effect, what should we do? Pronsky asked.

"That's a problem......" Father Marco seemed to realize.

"We can't just look at the phenomenon, we have to look at the reasons behind it." "The villagers look lazy and stupid, but they are actually very cunning. They seem lazy, just because diligence is useless; Appear stupid, just to fool boyar. Once the other communities see that the life of the Roman village community is better, I don't believe that they will still hold on to the previous 'principles'. ”

"The villages and communities in the Ross region are closed, but they are by no means completely devoid of information exchanges. On the contrary, the priests themselves, go back and forth often. He looked at the two Ross priests and said:

"When the time comes, there will certainly be a large number of village communities, discarding their previous traditions of opposing domination and industriousness, and begging to join in. In order to better promote the new system, the imperial court will definitely accept them. But in this case, it is completely in conflict with the city. ”

"And what if we step in?" Fr. Marco asked: "For example, to strictly delineate the scope of solicitation and expand the scale of the farm in stages?" Let's talk about these things to everyone first, so that too many people don't come over when you get it, and it's a problem whether you collect it or not. ”

"I don't think it's possible." Pronsky shook his head, obviously thinking that he was too naïve: "When the signboard is fought, the banner is erected, and the spread of influence is not up to him." When people come to seek refuge, will they still drive them away? Isn't that the same as the Song Dynasty? ”

"Is the Song Dynasty so famous...... Guo Kang muttered.

"Unless the other Rus' nobles are also willing to draw boundaries with you, as they were then, and stipulate that 'the people of the village will return to the village, and the citizens will return to the city,' things will definitely be uncontrollable." Pronski said: "We can't expect that there will always be such people on the other side." ”

(End of chapter)