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Chapter 19 Trade and Shipyards

In addition to enfeoffment and ruler ownership, part of Wallachia's land relationship is the village community system handed down from the Slavic nation, consisting of one or several small villages that used to share agricultural land.The village commune is the master of the land and regularly redistributes the land among peasant households.

Without the permission of the village community, farmers have no right to sell or transfer their own land, and have no right to leave the village community without authorization.The village community collects state taxes from farmers in accordance with the principle of environmental protection to ensure state tax revenue.Landlords are the "protectors" of the village community, who have the right to supervise and maintain order and security within their land, have the right to remove the village head or other public officials, and have the right to propose to the village community to expel farmers until they are expelled from the village community .Without the permission of the landlord, the village community shall not change the form of crop rotation and reclaim vacant land.

This kind of land system is also the goal of Peter's breaking, because the village communal system restricts the flow of farmers, and also invisibly strengthens the power of the land aristocracy.

Grand Duke Mircea began to conduct an inventory of land, and divided the national land into four types: noble land, private land, church land, and palace land.And it is ordered that only the Grand Duke himself can give land to the church from now on, and the land dedicated to the church by others is invalid.

This approach is to prevent the Church from dominating, and Archbishop Carroll did not say anything.Because the land output of monasteries and churches is rounded up by the chamber of commerce, the church also has enough money to carry out commercial activities, and the church also obeys the ruler, which is one of the reasons why the reform is so peaceful.

And Mircea and Peter's policy of cultivating citizens has achieved initial results.Wallachia had 5 people living in the cities and towns, and 1 in the capital.This was a huge breakthrough in Wallachia, with a population of only 50.

In addition to Kemplonge and Constanta, towns such as Foksany, Giurgiu, and Galati also developed.The textile industry is the most important industry in the town, with more than fifty thousand ducats worth of textiles being shipped abroad every year.The expanding textile industry was accompanied by expansions in sheep farming and flax farming.

Wallachia also had trade relations with Black Sea countries such as Trebizond and Georgia.The main items of trade are grain and salt, which are necessities.And the quality of Wallachia's production is good, so they also buy in large quantities.

Through Constanta, the countries along the Black Sea began to trade with it.Wallachia's trade volume is also increasing, and the scale of industry and commerce continues to expand.Everything is going in a good direction.

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Krakow, the capital of Poland.

The city is an example of a European capital in the Middle Ages, developing from a single castle to two dynamic boomtowns, a characteristic of Krakow's urban development.including commerce.

Due to its location on the upper Vistula River, Krakow also joined the Hanseatic League.As a result, it got a ride on the economic development, and now, Krakow has become the trade center of Eastern Europe.

The Wallachian Chamber of Commerce also had a trading post here, and their grain and salt were top sellers.Especially table salt, high-end is outrageous. Princes, nobles, wealthy businessmen, gentry and common people all like to use Wallachia’s table salt, and the consequence of this is that the table salt imported from England and other places is reduced, and the income of some members of the Hanseatic League reduce.

The Wallachian Chamber of Commerce brought Krakow a lot of income after it came to the city, and the King of Poland was willing to see more merchants come here.

The Chamber of Commerce also brought something different this time besides salt.Some bottles and cans.

They put one of the cans on the booth and opened the seal, and its sweet smell spread to many places along the wind.

Many businessmen came over after smelling the smell, and they saw the golden things on the booth.It is his scent.

These maltoses were commissioned by Peter for sale, in order to be able to sell quickly.Peter also engaged in marketing. After all, sugar is in short supply. No matter what kind of sugar it is, those merchants will buy it.

Sure enough, under the temptation of sweetness.A businessman paid for a small jar and eagerly opened it.

"It's so sweet, it's a different kind of sugar."

With this merchant at the beginning, many people bought with money.I am afraid that these delicacies will be taken away by others.And after they got it, they didn't think about eating it, and reselling it to other people. Those nobles must like it very much.

Not only in Krakow, but also in Buda, Galata and other places, maltose is very popular.Especially Galata, the price is getting higher and higher in order to be able to grab a bit.The trade income of Galata is 7 times the annual income of the entire Roman Empire. It can be said that the merchants who come here to do business are all huge sums of money.

Maltose sold out quickly, and at this time they came up with another kind, boiled sugar from beets.However, this sugar production is scarce, only a little bit.So it will only be exported to Galata.

Beet sugar is much inferior to sucrose, but some people still like to buy it.Who would think too little?

Peter also began to pay attention to the problem of shipbuilding.Both the navy and ocean-going trade are inseparable from shipbuilding, so he plans to build a shipyard in Constanta.

At present, the ships used by various countries are Clark sailing ships, which can realize ocean voyages.The four masts on the ship are hung with triangular sails and square sails, which can provide enough power to increase the speed of the ship, and it will not hinder the sailing even when the wind is headed.

However, when encountering strong winds, its huge size will easily tilt its center of gravity, causing the ship to collapse.

Therefore, Peter decided to let Clark's successor, Galen, appear in advance.

Galleons are powered by sails, and a galleon is usually equipped with three to five masts.Most of it is equipped with square sails as sails except for the last mast which uses jib sails.Galen sailboats with a wide range of uses can also be easily converted into commercial and military sailboats.

However, galleons generally use oak (for the keel), pine (for the mast), and some hardwood for the hull and deck.However, it is expensive to make a Galen sailing ship, and it takes dozens of carpenters, blacksmiths, and shipwrights to complete it for several months.

Although expensive, the quality is also good.Do a few first to see.

When it comes to expenses, apart from the more than 20 gold coins that Peter obtained for military training and construction, there is still a lot left.

So Peter started buying land again, this time, he set his sights on the Principality of Theodoro.

In fact, the Chamber of Commerce is doing business better.At the price of 1000 gold coins, he bought a piece of land in the southwestern coastal area of ​​the Principality of Theodoro to use as a storehouse.Using this place, Peter spent some money and bought all the nearby places.And this place was called Sevastopol in later generations.

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