eastern european eagle

Chapter 176 New Means
In the face of the encirclement network formed secretly, Wallachia also has countermeasures. Although there are many countries, each has evil intentions.

Wallachia adopts a policy of breaking down one by one. Facing Hungary and Poland, Wallachia adopts the method of supporting agents to deal with. Transylvania and Masovia are carefully selected opponents. The Teutonic Knights got in touch.

As for Genoa and Venice, Wallachia introduced the Hanseatic League and the three forces of Florence and Milan to fight against them, and spread the news that Genoa was ready to sign a better treaty, further breaking the relationship between the two countries.

For Osman, it was a punch.A large number of light cavalry harassed the border, which caused some difficulties for Osman, but they did not go too hard, which gave Osman the illusion that Wallachia would not attack them for the time being.So he put all his strength in the east and confronted Timur.

At this time, Wallachia strongly supported economic development, and all walks of life were flourishing.These provided the basis for the expansion of the Wallachian army.Farming well is the kingly way.

After capturing Serre, the Knights continued to strengthen the castle and prepared to attack Thessaloniki.The local Ottoman administrator was a little scared and had already transferred his property to Anatolia, ready to run away at any time.

In the face of the enthusiasm of the people for jihad, the higher authorities tried their best to restrain themselves.They don't know how many troops and supplies will be needed to resume the fighting, and they don't know when it will end. They will fight the Ottomans, but not now.

And just after Peter's wedding, Mircea also found the future husband's family of the youngest daughter.Filippo Maria Visconti, the second son of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, ruler of Milan in Northern Italy.

In 1262, family member Ottone Visconti was promoted to Archbishop of Milan by Pope Urbano IV, and his nephew Theobaldo became Pope Gregory X in 1271, further promoting the family power. In 1277, under the confrontation of Ottone and other small princes, the de la Torre family who ruled Milan was overthrown, Ottone took power, and the Visconti family began to rule Milan. Ottone adopted a strategy of supporting the nobles, using In order to consolidate the rule of himself and the whole family, unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Guido de la Torre of the Della Torre family defeated Ottone's nephew Matteo I Visconti in 1302 and exiled him , the de la Torre family was restored, but he did not rule for long, and was forced to flee because he incited the people to fight against the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII. With the support of Henry VII, Matteo I returned to Milan to continue to rule. Appointed as agent of the empire, he expanded his power to Pavia and Cremona.

Gian, the current ruler of Milan, is a brutal, cunning, and unscrupulous dictatorial careerist, but also a shrewd politician who governs the country. Zuolia, Emilia, and Tuscany, most of them used intrigue to acquire cities, but they rarely broke cities by force.In order to promote business, he built a canal from Milan to Pavia, which greatly developed agricultural irrigation and transportation, which also led to rapid growth in dairy processing and commodity grain production within 20 years.Significant progress was also seen in the handloom industry.

Marrying with the Visconti family would not only allow one more ally, but also use the Milan area to intervene in Shinra's affairs. As long as the other party agreed, he sent someone to Milan to find out the other party's attitude.

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In cities such as Buda and Pécs, local residents found that the prices of Hungarian leather and other products had risen too much. After inquiring, they found that the nobles and residents in Wallachia liked Hungarian clothes and products, so the prices of these products soared. rise.

Wallachian merchants bought products in large quantities, Hungarian nobles also ordered farmers to produce them, and townspeople also joined this army.

Moreover, the rulers of Wallachia had a brain convulsion and actually banned the production of this kind of thing by the people of the country. Violators have everything from fines to prison packages.Such a great thing fell on Hungary.

Farmers gave up producing food in favor of leather and textiles.Aristocrats and merchants hoarded a large amount of food for sale, and no one forgot to produce food, and no one produced these low-margin products.But they didn't know that all of this was a conspiracy, a conspiracy that existed hundreds of years ago.

Europe does not have the concept of a trade war now, nor does it have the execution power to resolve the consequences of a trade war, but for Peter, these are relatively simple. Although he does not know the result of the execution, as long as Hungary is weakened, Wallachia will make money. .

Moreover, the currency in circulation in Hungary has increased several times recently. Some people think that there are counterfeit currency, but they can't find it, so they change their minds and think that Hungary has a developed economy and more currency.

Nonsense, how could counterfeit money be spotted so easily.Generally speaking, counterfeiting coins is to add more lead, but Peter is going to play a big game-silver coins without silver.

How can it be free of silver?It is not enough to use copper and lead alone.Just copper and lead, it becomes bronze, not like silver coins at all.But if you switch to copper-tin alloy...

An alloy of lead and tin, in which the lead content accounts for 37%, and the tin content accounts for 63%.The appearance of the solder is silvery white, very nice, looks like silver, and is very soft.At the same time, because of its high lead content, its density is also very high, which can be used to pass off as silver.

After calculation, if 10% copper is added to the "silver coin" to increase the hardness of the "silver coin".Then, adjust the proportion of lead and tin to achieve the same density as the imitated silver coin.In this way, coins of the same size are as heavy as real money, have the same silvery white appearance, and are not bad in hardness, which is difficult for outsiders to see.Unless...someone burns this "counterfeit money" on fire...

However, as long as someone puts the coin into the furnace and heats it to more than 200 degrees, he will be surprised to find that the "silver coin" has melted, but there are not many such boring people in the world who will throw silver coins into the fire to heat... …

After several attempts, Peter was finally able to produce silver coins that did not contain silver.Because it does not contain expensive silver, the cost is very low.Even, the prices of lead and tin are lower than copper at this time.Therefore, the cost of this kind of counterfeit money is lower than that of silver-copper alloy counterfeit money.Mass production will definitely make a lot of money...

The only disadvantage of this kind of counterfeit money is that it cannot be exposed to high temperatures.Once it encounters a high temperature of nearly two hundred degrees, the currency will soften or even liquefy.However, in this day and age, generally no one goes crazy and throws coins into the fire.The small high temperature of a hundred degrees is still not exposed.Only the high temperature of nearly two hundred degrees in the fire can test out the problem.By the time the counterfeit money was discovered, Peter had already shipped it.If it is discovered, it will be the Hungarian market that will be in chaos in the end.And this is exactly what Peter wants to see...

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