king of ros

Chapter 384 Initial Listing
In the end, Rostislav and Gavrila coordinated the issues of materials and infrastructure. For example, the salt of Rusa and White Lake is undoubtedly what Ivangorod urgently needs, and there is a construction from Ivangorod to Novorod. Fugorod road, the exchanges between these two cities will be very close in the future.

Rostislav did not intend to let Ivangorod replace Novgorod. Ivangorod was more of a supplement to Novgorod, so the road had to be built.

With the development, there must be changes in the future. After all, Novgorod is not close to the sea, but by that time Rostislav must have only bones left, and it has nothing to do with him. Let future generations solve it. .

For Rostislav's request, Gavrila naturally agreed to all of them, and then hurried to coordinate.

He had put everything else behind him now, and what could be more important than the future of Novgorod.

Looking at the back of the mayor of Novgorod leaving excitedly, a smile appeared on Rostislav's face. Things are going well. As long as this plan is completed, the loyalty of Novgorod will not matter. problem.

As for what happened behind him?He, Rostislav, is still young, at least he has 30 years to live, so why think about such distant things now.

Development is still the first priority now, and he must expand his power as much as possible to deal with the possible changes in the future. He knows that the next era will be an era of drastic changes. He needs strength and needs to increase his strength.

The mayor of Novgorod was quick to do everything the prince ordered him to do as quickly as possible.

Spreading technology, building roads, and deploying materials, he also asked the dignitaries of Novgorod to invest funds in this project to share the financial pressure of the prince.

The reason for his persuasion so hard is very simple. If Novgorod wants to ensure that Ivangorod will not catch up with him, he must actively participate in it from now on, giving the city their label, and at the same time sharing the benefits. .

Although as a city heavily invested and established by the princes, the rulers of Ivangorod must be the princes, but they can exert influence on the city within the scope of the prince's power.

But Gavrila sacrificed his old face in order to get many people to join.

Many people can't see the future of Ivangorod, and not everyone has the ability to be like the dust. Seeing that the prince is behind Gavrila, he decisively participates.

More people still only look at immediate interests, and they joined the project under Gavrila's guaranteed profit.

Of course, there must be some who don't believe this, so they are unwilling to join the investment. Most of them are unhappy with the sudden rise of Gavrila, so they made this decision.

Gavrila didn't bother to talk to these people, because if they didn't seize this opportunity, they would inevitably become supporting roles in Novgorod's political and economic arena in the future.

So Novgorod began a vigorous salted fish campaign. Under the temptation of rewards, fishermen went out to sea more frequently than before. They would never catch so many fish before, and then they made them according to the order of the prince. , a large amount of salted fish was produced.

With the use of a huge amount of salt, the manufacture of salted fish now depends on the salt production of Rusa and White Lake, and these two places are also working hard to expand production. They have sold all the old salt in previous years, but they cannot meet the strong demand of the market. .

Although it is temporarily possible to rely on overseas salt purchases, it is not a long-term solution after all.

At present, the two places can do it by expanding production capacity, but it is a pity that no matter how to expand, it will take time.

However, with the current production capacity and the materials Ivangorod has stored in the past few months, Ivangorod has an exaggerated amount of salted fish, but the next sale encountered a big problem.

If you want to sell these salted fish on a large scale, you still have to rely on sea transportation, because the speed of sea transportation is fast and the volume of goods is also large.

But the ships in Novgorod's hands are limited after all. After all, this city is not a harbor city and does not have its own large fleet.

And Ivangorod's fleet is still under construction. Although it can transport some salted fish for sale, the amount is too small after all.

Therefore, we can only rely on foreign merchants as the main sales force, but the foreign merchants are also dubious about Novgorod's words that this salted fish can be kept for a year, and they are not willing to buy it at all.

Moreover, Gavrila's opponents are obstructing, saying that it is all Gavrila's bragging. In fact, these salted fish can't be kept for that long at all, which further reduces sales. No one wants to buy a boat. smelly fish.

Only a small number of businessmen noticed the profits, so they bought a lot of them, and they obviously cared more about how to establish a stable long-term relationship. After all, this business has to be done in order to continue to make money.

In order to save sales, Gavrila almost used up all his face, begging for help everywhere, so some merchants reluctantly bought some salted fish, but the accumulation was still very serious. After all, no one wants to buy a bunch of salted fish and find that they are rotten halfway through. Lose.

In the end, he could only invite Rostislav, and ask the prince to come out and solve this problem himself.

And Rostislav's solution was so straightforward that even Gavrila was surprised by the prince's decision.

Rostislav directly stated that all these salted fish are free, and anyone can come and get as much as you want, but the chance is only this time.

In addition, Rostislav also ordered his caravan to send some salted fish to Moscow, where they will be sold. With the increase in the number of converts, the demand for salted fish during the fasting period in Moscow is also very high.

There is no doubt that this immediately opened up the situation, people will not refuse free things, and soon these salted fish are quickly taken away under the busyness of countless people.

Rostislav is mainly for the future. After these merchants discover the quality of the salted fish, the purchases will naturally continue in an endless stream.

And the price is not making much money, and the dividends to investors are pitifully small.

Rostislav is making a big deal. Although the investment cost is high, the cost that can be recovered is also high. This is the cost that only a ruler like Rostislav dares to pay.

It's just that this caused a lot of trouble for Gavrila. After all, many of these salted fish were invested by the dignitaries of Novgorod. Now Rostislav gave them away for free. What they earn is originally because of Gavrila came here for the sake of face, and he crazily guaranteed that he would definitely make money before investing, but now he can't get back any money.

These people agitated angrily on Wecher, and at one point they gathered many people to attack the mayor's mansion, but Rostislav immediately dispersed them with thunder.

The prince is not used to these guys who regard blocking the door as eating and drinking water. When it is time to do it, do it. The atmosphere in Novgorod must be eliminated.

Then the prince said to the rich and powerful investors that it is only a temporary payment now, and everyone will get sweet returns for it in the future.

Rostislav had all the good things to say, after all, he had risked their money, but it was too difficult to get these people to buy a sentence.

They are still making troubles, constantly inciting the people to riot, causing fights, and making the city restless.

Gavrila was also very tough. How come these people don't understand the benefits that temporary sacrifices can bring, and finally the relationship between the two parties is getting worse and worse.

Supporters on both sides also fight in the street every day, during which there were several deaths.

In the end, it was Rostislav who gave Gavrila his back, and used his coffers to give Gavrila the money back for these rambunctious fellows.

And once the money was paid back, they also quit the industry. What's worse, they were also blacklisted by the prince of Moscow. If they made such a fuss to Gavrila, wouldn't this be a slap in the face of him?
With the end of this wave of salted fish sales, the farce in Novgorod has temporarily come to an end, and the production of salted fish is still going on.

Rostislav and Gavrila used their power to promote this kind of salted fish in their jurisdiction, while some of the Novgorod dignitaries looked at them as a joke.

Gavrila was very angry, Rostislav was very calm, just some idiots who couldn't see the situation clearly.

The real wealthy families in Novgorod actually sided with Rostislav this time. Most of them were very supportive of Rostislav's policies, and all of them invested a lot of money this time.

They also bought salt from the cities of Cherven and even Poland to support the city's salted fish industry.

This is also thanks to his father's governance of Novgorod. During his father's governance, there were never many Novgorod dignitaries who accepted his kindness. In addition to Rostislav's heroic performance, his support has always been Not too little.

With the emergence of salted fish trade, economic activities have also increased, and the increase in economic activities has naturally reduced wars.

Many tribes found out that making salted fish can make so much money, so they more or less started to do this work. Some tribes have some small amount of salt resources in their hands, and they can just use them.

But with things to do, there will be less time to go out to rob. In short, under the influence of this industry, even the war has calmed down a lot, and this is exactly what Rostislav hopes to see.

However, the salted fish industry is not without problems. The biggest problem is the production capacity of salt. Rostislav can't find a good solution for this. Now he can only wait for the expansion of Rusa and White Lake.

But even so, the production of salted fish in the Novgorod region is still considerable, enough to support the sustainable development of the industry.

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