Outside the city of Rostov, in a group of camels and horses loaded with goods, a businessman with a white turban on his head said this. His words were full of disappointment in Rostov.
Flying over this team is the fire-breathing dragon flag of the Volga Bulgar, which is the envoy of the Bulgar Khan. There are hundreds of fully armed Bulgar riders guarding the team.
These soldiers all wore pierced armor and chain mail, with long coats underneath, and a few even wore face-covering helmets from the grasslands.
The person who sighed was a slave merchant. There were many merchants like him in this team. It was safest to follow the national team through the dense forest between Rus and Bulgar. No tribe dared to provoke such a powerful and representative force.
Khan's authoritative team.
Abdul's disappointment was palpable. For him, who was used to seeing stone walls and brick walls in the south, Rostov's wooden walls and scale were very disappointing to him.
He thought he could see a big city like Bulgar City here, but what he saw was a city with a civilization level far lower than that of the Volga Bulgars.
Abdul couldn't help but doubt whether his trip to Ross was correct. This land didn't look like a place where he could make a lot of money. He just felt that it was too desolate and too barbaric along the way.
However, it would be nice if they could provide slaves anyway.
The businessman finally thought this way.
This businessman who believes in Allah is a Persian. His family once relied on political speculation to become the royal businessman of the Isfahan warlord, thus earning a lot of money.
But as the Seljuk army surrounded Isfahan, their original backers could no longer protect them. Abdul had no choice but to use all the manpower and material resources at hand to get a batch of goods to sell in the north.
On the one hand, Abdul was forced to go north by war and business rivals. On the other hand, he wanted to open up a new supply of slaves. Since the warlords in Isfahan were attacked, his original supply has been cut off.
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To this end, he ventured through the dangerous southern Russian grasslands, where rounds of melee were going on. He spent a lot of money to bribe the Polovets tribe on the route to pass safely, and finally arrived at Bulgar, the Pearl of the North, where
Sell some of the goods and move on.
In order to please those Russian dignitaries, the slaves he brought this time were all Russian Christian slaves purchased in the south. He took a lot of trouble to find so many Russian Christian slaves, and there were also many Persian specialties and even luxuries from the East.
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As they got closer and closer to Rostov, Abdul suddenly discovered that a sparkling armored team was passing through the city gate of Rostov. The majesty and posture of the Persian merchants had seen many emirs and even sultan teams.
Nothing can compare to it.
"Hey, it looks like we came at the right time."
Abdul thought of the news he heard in Bulgar about the new prince in Rostov, and he couldn't help but feel a little excited. It would be great to find the rightful owner.
But then his head subconsciously looked at the fire-breathing dragon flag above his head, and he couldn't help but shrink his head, realizing that no matter how anxious he was, he had to go to see the leader of the team before he could do it.
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"Allah is supreme, is that Rostislav's team? It seems that it should not be underestimated."
At the core of the Bulgar team, the Bulgar envoy Aleph, who was sitting on a camel, looked at the neat team and said.
As a messenger, Aleph was also a veteran soldier who had experienced many battles. He could tell at a glance that the soldiers in the queue in front of him were extraordinary.
"There are at least three hundred elites here... they are pretty strong."
The messenger murmured, and the guard in colorful clothes stepped forward upon seeing this, with a colorful shield hanging on his saddle, and put his head next to the messenger's ear.
"So are we?"
"No, what needs to be done still needs to be done. Let's try the quality of this Rus prince for Khan. If he is weak and incompetent, then the long-awaited expansion of Khan is right in front of us."
"yes!"
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"Charizard... Hey, why are the Bulgars here? They really came together."
When the Bulgars saw Ross's team, Ross's team naturally also saw them. Rostislav also noticed the flag of the fire-breathing dragon and snake at a glance.
As a visitor from later generations, Rostislav knew very well the past and present life of the country Volga Bulgar.
The Volga Bulgars were one of the branches after the disintegration of the Great Bulgar Khanate. After the death of the great Kubult Khan, his five sons divided up the Khanate. In the course of history, three of the branches have been
They were eliminated, and the remaining two established states elsewhere.
One group came to the Balkans, conquered the local Slavs, established the powerful Bulgarian Empire, and converted to Christianity. Although this empire has been destroyed by the Eastern Empire, the Bulgarian remnants are still there and are still a powerful force.
political power.
The other branch came to the middle reaches of the Volga River, where they conquered tribes, built cities, developed farming, relied on the wealthy Volga trade routes to rapidly grow, and became a dominant presence that cannot be ignored in the surrounding areas, and converted to the protection of Allah.
, it is Volga Bulgar.
The cultural development of the Bulgars was enough to crush the Rus, and they also absorbed the civilizational crystallization from Byzantium and Arabia.
The absorption of these crystallizations of civilization gave Bulgar a splendid civilization. They built beautiful mosques, tall minarets, and even institutions of higher learning that impart religious knowledge!
As for culture, medicine, and smelting, they are even more developed. The city size of Bulgar City is no less than that of Kiev, and the prosperous Volga trade makes its prosperity stronger day by day.
It can be said that no country in Eastern Europe has a level of civilization that can be compared with Volga Bulgar. It is the brightest light of civilization in Eastern Europe in this era.
Fortunately, although the Bulgars have a prosperous culture, they have poor martial ethics. The Bulgars have not completed national integration. Even in their core areas, there are still influences of tribal traditions, and there are many conflicts between cities.
Dirty, fighting for a better status, let alone ethnic groups other than the Bulgars.
Therefore, it always suffered defeats when facing Russia, but Russia was unable to cross the barbaric land to conquer the Bulgars, because the road was too difficult and difficult to walk. "Saint" Vladimir just let the Bulgars
Just bow your head.
"What a meeting, we all came together in a hurry."
After recalling the history of the Volga Bulgars, Rostislav said this, and then he saw the Rostov dignitaries who greeted him at the city gate in front of the guide. It seemed that he would be busy next.