After leaving Hagia Sophia, Rostislav immediately made the following arrangements.
The first is negotiation with the church, or to be precise, with the Monastery of the Cave.
And why is it the Cave Monastery? Because the Russian Church can actually be equated with this monastery. Except for those Greeks, the entire Russian Church is from the Cave Monastery. The influence of this monastery is unprecedented.
However, the new Grand Duke of Kiev did not settle accounts with the Cave Monastery. Instead, he recognized the land occupied by the monastery and the monastery established during the Svyatoslav period.
Because to be honest, without them occupying the land to build a monastery, God knows when this land would be developed.
What the monastery has to pay is very simple, that is, obedience, unconditional and complete obedience.
The monastery agreed to this request very readily, and Dean Fyodor behaved very submissively in front of Rostislav. Anyway, the Church of Russia could not survive without the prince of Russia. After all, they could only rely on the prince's political power.
There is only one Prince of Russia now, and this person is Rostislav.
The settlement of the Cave Monastery also meant the settlement of the entire church, and the church began to raise its flag against Rostislav's rule.
However, it was not as powerful as it was during the Svyatoslav era, and Rostislav also understood this. After all, his second uncle was really welcomed by the church.
But it doesn't matter, for the church, as long as he starts donating, he will become a saint that the church crazily touts.
In addition, Rostislav also fought for a lot of benefits for the Russian church and gave them some carrots, such as sending envoys to the imperial capital to ask the imperial church to recognize the two native saints of Russia, Boris and Gleb.
The Ross Church has always longed for local saints. Although they have canonized themselves, it is a pity that they are not recognized by the imperial capital.
The imperial capital agreed to Rostislav's request smoothly. After all, the imperial capital church has always been accustomed to ruling the Grand Duke of Rus, especially when the rulers of Rus changed. These are just small requests.
All the rituals were done very well.
In addition, he also decided to invest some more resources in the construction of the Cave Monastery, build some magnificent monastery buildings, and make the Cave Monastery, the first monastery in Russia, as gorgeous and glorious as possible.
Oh, by the way, regarding the funeral arrangements of his second uncle, Rostislav did not directly tell him about his assassination of his brother, because after all, he was Rurik and had the same surname as him.
The Grand Duke of Kiev only plans to make some verbal hints when recording this period of history in the future - after all, he still wants to leave some information to future generations.
After solving the church, Rostislav was busy restarting the court academy of the Yaroslav era. This was a very important step in his plan.
In Yaroslav's time, Kiev's Palace Academy had always been very famous. It basically represented the highest academic level in the entire northern world. Characters like Harald, Edward, and Andrew all studied here, but after my grandfather
After his death, the academy was gradually closed, turning it from a academy for nobles into a private classroom for the Kiev royal family.
Rostislav has now fully revived the academy, recalling the teachers who were dismissed during the Yaroslavich era, inviting teachers from the imperial capital, and borrowing manpower from the Cave Monastery. Its scale undoubtedly exceeds that of the Yaroslav era. .
Then, the Grand Duke of Kiev used his Red Mansion as the basis and transformed it into a college. He also gave the college a name, Vladimir College, in memory of his father - but many people thought that Vladimir College Kimir was referring to the "saint", not Rostislav's father.
But even after the Fuxing Academy, its scale is not very large. It can accept a few hundred students at most, and it may not be able to recruit all the people. In many places, the city lords and nobles are known for their brains and muscles. , they have never been interested in learning anything.
Rostislav, on the other hand, took a drastic step and directly gave various places an indicator, asking them to send how many noble children to receive education every year. In addition, he also opened education channels to wealthy citizens so that the people can also receive education and expand the education of Russia as much as possible. Educational groups.
Of course, education cannot be limited to Kiev. Rostislav also plans to build colleges in other areas, but it is just an idea now. He will not promote higher education in other areas until everything in Kiev is implemented.
Rostislav's large-scale investment in education was not for anything else, but to strengthen education and inject Kiev's culture into the wealthy classes of Russia and into the hearts of these local nobles.
The so-called construction of culture is such a subtle thing. Only after witnessing the glory of Kiev will they yearn for Kiev after returning to their hometown.
Try to imitate Kiev as much as possible in words, deeds, appearance and behavior, and imitate standard Russian culture.
However, Rostislav actually doesn’t know what this standard Russian culture is. After all, the standard Russian culture itself is a chaotic body, but just follow this trend, and future generations will summarize it.
In addition, he also plans to provide Ross with basic education, but he is still at a loss as to how to advance it and is still groping.
These are very small tasks. Rostislav did not invest huge resources from the beginning. The main reason was that he felt that this volume expansion was already enough for Rostislav and it would take several years to digest it.
He has absolutely no money to spend, and has a lot of resources at his disposal, but what he wants to do can only be done slowly, and he can wait until a few years later to talk about the next expansion.
There is also the fact that Rostislav is hurrying up his writing and has to finish the work he has been preparing for a long time as soon as possible. If he wants to promote cultural development, it is impossible without excellent cultural works.
In addition, he also plans to send people to study in the Imperial Capital. In any case, the Imperial Capital is a representative of the development direction of this era. There is nothing wrong with imitating the Imperial Capital. This is also the direction in which Ross should develop.
This can also deepen the connection with the imperial capital, which is undoubtedly beneficial and harmless. The Eastern Empire and Rus are highly connected economically, and deepening the connection can only benefit everyone.
Rostislav has already made up his mind. Next, he will build Ross in a ten-year cycle to develop Ross' future. He is only in his early thirties now. He still has plenty of time and he can afford to wait.