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Chapter 31 Capital Construction Expansion
At this time, Iasi has entered a state of full-scale construction. Under Peter's plan, a new town is turning from a blueprint into a reality.

Peter has endless energy. He personally visited every construction site in Iasi. In his eyes, buildings are rising from the ground, such as stone walls, churches, colleges, city halls, etc. All under construction.After all the construction is completed, the area of ​​Iasi will be enlarged by four times.

The chamber of commerce in Dobroga set up a business station here, and the steady stream of working people also made some businessmen see opportunities. They came with things and sold them food and daily necessities.There are also more pubs and hotels in Iasi.

The population news from the vicinity of Iasi also proved that Peter's conjecture was correct. Except for some villages near Iasi, there were no people in the farther places.It happened that the internal struggle in Lithuania gave him an opportunity. The Ruthenians living in Ukraine are a very good source of immigrants.

In order to attract them, Peter offered very generous conditions.There are very few policies in Eastern Europe, including tax exemption and free settlement, and it is also announced that no matter what your previous status is, you will be a free person when you come here.

Although this can attract immigrants, it will also offend the surrounding countries, Poland, Lithuania, and the Golden Horde across the board.None of them could fight well. For this reason, military construction was also Peter's focus.

Peter pardoned the peasants and soldiers conscripted by Roman, and sent them to the castle in the Chernivtsi region to defend against Poland.Hand over the private armies of the nobles and the mercenaries left by Mircea to the command of Alexandru, and let him succeed Constantine in charge of the defense of the Dniester River.

Peter confiscated the lands in the border areas to these soldiers, so that they could be developed while being able to defend them.

When Peter was building Moldova, two uninvited guests came here.They saluted Peter and announced their purpose.

"On behalf of Krakow Speaker Andrzej, we congratulate Your Excellency on becoming the ruler of Moldova."

"You are wrong. The ruler of Moldova is Grand Duke Mircea, and I am only acting on his behalf."

"Sorry, I was being rude."

Peter didn't pursue it either, and started asking them why they came.

"My lord, all the cities of our alliance have come to make a trade agreement with you."

"Trade agreement," Peter came up with interest.

"Yes, a kind of golden honeydew appeared in Krakow earlier. I heard from the merchant that it was produced in your territory."

Golden honeydew, that would really make a name.But Peter also understood that they wanted the exclusive right to sell maltose.

In fact, when maltose appeared in Krakow, it soon went to the tables of rich businessmen and nobles.Vasdiwaf is also a fan of maltose.

After some merchants got it, they didn't eat it, and directly sold it to other merchants, which directly earned five times the income.Especially in the two cities of Hamburg and Lübeck, the price has reached as high as [-] marks.

Such a huge profit, the Hanseatic League naturally wants to get it.After inquiring by a businessman in Krakow, he learned that this thing was produced in Wallachia.So the Hanseatic League held a meeting, led by Krakow, and asked the lord to sell all the maltose to them, and then sold it to others.

"My lord, if you are willing. The Hanseatic League is willing to pay you 3 Carolines every year." (Gold coins in the German region, 1 equivalent to 11 florins)

This is quite a high price, and Peter was already tempted after hearing this figure.After all, only Venice and Genoa in the south can compete financially with the Hanseatic League.

"Of course, if the adults are temporarily short of money, Krakow can also help with loans."

Fearing that Peter would not agree, the two hurriedly stated another condition.And Peter didn't intend to bargain, so he agreed.

"Our country welcomes merchants from the Hanseatic League to come to do business. Of course, our merchants also hope to trade with various cities."

"that's for sure."

The Hanseatic League bought the agency right of maltose at a price of 33 florins, which looks like a lot, but in fact it only needs to be distributed to various cities.Not too much.And Peter also received sufficient funds to build Moldova.

Serfs and civilians who escaped from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Golden Horde came to this land.They crossed the Transnistria and took their small fortunes to clear the land.

Perhaps because relatives gave too much money, Vita Taos wiped out the opponent's army in one fell swoop.However, the social turmoil it caused could not be recovered in a short time, and serfs and slaves took advantage of this to come to Moldova.Become a local workforce.

However, although there are many people coming from Lithuania.But there were also not a few from the other direction, the Poles and the Germans.Most of them are also farmers, unable to stand the oppression of the landlords and choose to come here to start anew.

In order to consolidate the faith in Moldova, Mircea appointed Joseph of Foksani as the Archbishop of Moldova, who then concurrently became the Bishop of Iasi.

Joseph, like Carol, was an Orthodox fighter.He wanted to keep the Orthodox faith at all costs. He integrated all the churches and monasteries in Moldova, and sent a large number of missionaries to convert new immigrants.

After Peter planned to build the Iasi Church, Joseph proposed to the believers that everyone should donate for the early completion of the church.This action has enriched the church's funds a lot, and Peter reciprocated.Intended to build a seminary in Iasi, and put forward plans to build 30 churches.

Peter divided Moldova into 11 districts, each of which was appointed by Peter himself and governed by people approved by Mircea.The construction of three official roads has also started, some Hanseatic merchants have also come to Iasi, and some goods from the Baltic Sea have appeared here.

The various affairs in Moldova have temporarily come to an end, no matter how hard you try, you have to have time to reflect.For this reason, Peter also looked at the situation elsewhere.

There is nothing serious about Dobroga, all work is going on, and Ottoman's continuous offensive has also brought more people north to Wallachia.More than 5000 people came to Dobroga in two months, and even people from the Principality of Diodoro and the Colony of Genoa smuggled to Dobroga.

It is said that the Principality of Diodoro is really short of money. The Chamber of Commerce has acquired the surrounding 6000 acres of land at a price of 1000 ducats three times in a row.The Chamber of Commerce used the escaped people to build here. It didn't take long for a town to be born here, and a wall was built outside to resist attacks.

In short, everything is developing to the good.

(End of this chapter)