king of ros

Chapter 544 Economic Operation
"Victory! The emperor has won at the frontier! That presumptuous adventurer and the pagan sultan have both been defeated by the emperor! We have won! Of course their entire army was wiped out!"

People in purple walked through Constantinople's Goldsmiths' Street in a high-profile way, horseshoes kept raising dust, and even on the bustling Messe Avenue, people did their best to get out of the way and let the messengers pass by.

After the messenger passed by, the citizens of the imperial capital discussed excitedly, "The emperor has defeated the adventurer." "The war will definitely come to an end next time, so much of the eastern territory has been recovered." "Ha, this kind of thing Who else knows?"

Yuri looked at the lively crowd and the discussion about the war in their mouths, and began to think about it, remembering the report he heard before, well, this is a bit different from what he knew, and it seems to be a classic language art too.

As Prince Rurik, Yuri, who is studying in Constantinople, has people coming back every two days to report to him the recent important events, such as the news of the emperor's victory, he has known it for a long time, and he knows it in great detail .

The emperor had indeed won the war, but the opponent in question could also claim that he had won the war.

In this fierce decisive battle, Alexios' army blocked the advance of the adventurers and forced them to abandon their strategic plan to invade the imperial territory, but the death of the Greeks was twice that of Monomach's side.

Now it is Alexios who declares his victory by achieving his strategic goals, while Monomacher declares his victory by using casualties. Well, strictly speaking, the arguments of both sides are tenable, Anyway, it's all about the use of language arts.

But Yuri didn't keep thinking about this matter for a long time, and soon he put it behind him, because he might as well care about his own affairs more than those political events.

Today, he came to hang out on Messe Boulevard just to complete the task assigned by his grandfather. His grandfather told him to take a good look at Constantinople, this big city in the Christian world, especially go to the market.

If it weren't for his grandfather's request, Yuri wouldn't even come to this place. He was regular and orderly in the University of Constantinople, and he really didn't have much interest in the colorful world of Constantinople. Hagia Sophia It’s enough to take a look at places like the Grand Racecourse, and it’s just a glance at Messer Avenue.

Now that he took a good look at this avenue, Yuri discovered many details, and some understood why his grandfather insisted that he take a good look at Constantinople.

The prosperity of Messer Avenue is still amazing. The market in Kyiv is not as prosperous as this avenue. As the Goldsmiths Avenue in Constantinople, it is also the place where the flow of gold and silver is the most exaggerated in the city.

Although it is said that this is Goldsmith Street, it does not mean that there are only gold and silver craftsmen here. In fact, there is everything here, and everything can be seen on the street here, from the simplest daily necessities to the curiosities of the East and the West. Treasure, everything is here.

The streets are not limited to the citizens of the imperial capital, but also nobles and rich people from the Christian world and even beyond the Christian world. Luxuries, gold and silver are concentrated in this huge city.

Yuri noticed that the various raw materials that the local people bought from the Rus had passed one hand in Constantinople, and the price was at another level, which made him very concerned.

For example, after Ross's fur was made into a fur coat, the price immediately doubled several times, and the fur coats also sold from Ross would not reach that price.

For this reason, Yuri also spent money to sell two coats for comparison, and found that although Rose's coat was also a finished product, it could only be regarded as inferior in quality compared to the works of the imperial craftsmen.

This situation also applies to those expensive fur products that are completely used for decoration. The craftsmen of Ross are really inferior to those of the imperial capital.

Therefore, Yuri had a special talk with the merchants of Rus in the imperial capital. At first, they didn’t pay attention to the young Yuri, thinking that he was just a young Rus who came to the imperial capital to make friends. Then they found out that he was the eldest grandson of the Grand Duke of Kyiv. Hurry up and invite him into the guild hall.

Compared with the obvious style of the Italian guild hall, the Ross guild hall is obviously very following the Romans. It is completely a typical Constantinople apartment, but in fact it is the gathering place of Ross businessmen.

After talking with the merchants in the guild hall, Yuri finally understood why such a situation happened, that is, Ross’s finished products are not very competitive in the imperial capital under normal circumstances, so they can only be sold at low prices, and sometimes they are even cheaper. Gotta lose money selling.

Ross's handicraft industry has indeed made a lot of progress over the years. They have achieved a lot in the export of some simple daily necessities, but they have lost sight of more advanced and more profitable things.

The level of Ross craftsmen rarely reaches the level of the imperial capital. In most cases, the things produced are much inferior to those of the imperial capital. The handicraft industry group in the imperial capital has existed for thousands of years, and the number of many technologies and masters is not stronger than other places. too much.

And if the tax is heavy, although the Grand Duke won commercial privileges for Ross from the Greeks, the Greeks are masters at playing word games, so Ross's finished products are charged high taxes.

In this way, Ross's products are naturally not very competitive in the big city of the imperial capital, and the gold and silver that can be earned are not very much.

Moreover, people often refuse to buy products when they hear that they are not from the imperial capital. The imperial capital has long added huge added value to the products made here.

However, Ross's finished products were also popular in the imperial capital, that is, the period of war in the empire. The war caused great damage to the production and life of Constantinople, so people can only choose some not so good things—— —Because there are only those things on the market.

It was only at this time that Yuri really understood why his grandfather was always stumbling the empire while providing a large number of mercenaries to the empire, because if there were problems in the empire, then the commercial market in Ross would become more and more prosperous.

But once the situation in the imperial capital returns to normal, Ross’s manufactured products will be defeated, and the profits of trade will be getting lower and lower. Yuri remembered that his grandfather and father had discussed how to rescue some emerging factories in Kyiv. Alas, it’s a pity now. Why didn't you listen more at that time, and you could analyze more things by listening more.

The businessman was dejected when he mentioned these things. It seemed that the situation in the imperial capital put them under a lot of pressure, but there was one thing mentioned in his words that made Yuri very concerned.

That is to say that Dagong is looking for new markets for Ross's products, and after discovering new markets, Ross's finished products, those ready-made clothes, candles and other industries can be slowed down for a while.

It's a pity that the businessman doesn't know where the higher-ups are going to dig. Yuri feels that if he can ask the target, he may know the strategic focus of the elders.

After obtaining everything the merchants knew, Yuri also left the Rose Guild Hall. He gained a lot from this trip, and he really understood why his grandfather asked him to look at the market in the imperial capital. He also realized the meaning of the bustling market. Horror—the Imperial City was sucking gold and silver from all of Christendom, and Rose was the one who was sucked especially hard.

In the past, Yuri really felt very low about this, and even felt that some of his grandfather’s resistance and targeting of the imperial capital was a rejection of civilization, but now he understands that this is an act responsible for the interests of Ross. Such an idea of ​​embracing the imperial capital in an all-round way, Ross is afraid that it will become an economic colony of the imperial capital through and through.

But it's not a loss to become this colony. The Grand Duke Ross before my grandfather came here like this, but my grandfather didn't want to.

Recalling these events that touched him a lot, Yuri returned to his residence at the University of Constantinople. As the son of an important imperial ally, he had a separate villa, and he especially called this place his red house.

It's just that Yuri ran away immediately after seeing the purple-clothed girl carved in pink and jade at the entrance of the red house. He knew that Anna was coming to trouble him again, and planned to enter through the back door.

Since the time in the library, Her Highness Anna has been looking for him every now and then, and the purpose of looking for him is to attack and confuse Yuri. He really doesn't know what the hostility is about.

However, although Anna came frequently, she was easy to deal with. Anna, a girl, mainly despised him in terms of knowledge and language, but Yuri came to the Imperial Capital to study these things.

So Anna often retreats, and then gets angry. I have to say that she is still very cute when she blushes, like a kitten with fried hair, but this kind of thing is annoying too much.

But he didn't dislike Anna either—mainly because she was a pretty girl.

So now when he saw Anna Yuri, he ran away subconsciously and went directly to the back door, but what he didn't expect this time was that Anna had arranged guards to block the back door.

No way, Yuri can only face that annoying eldest princess.

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(End of this chapter)