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Chapter 32 Development of Dobroja and Industry in Moldova

Reaching a trade agreement with the Hanseatic League can not only promote the development of Moldova, but also obtain the funds needed for development.The refined salt and maltose produced are in high demand.

After Mircea returned to Kemplong, the Hungarian envoys came to the court immediately.He asked why Moldova was annexed, but was fooled by Mircea with trade sanctions.

In fact, Hungary also expressed an attitude.You can annex it, but the expansion stops here, and then you must jointly send troops to fight against Ottoman.

Mircea agreed, as long as Hungary recognized the expansion, that would be fine.Then you have to face Osman.

Bayezid was still running wild in Asia Minor, and Suleiman Pasha attacked Bulgaria and Varna in the Balkans. His main force was the Serbian army except for some Sipahi.The Serbian monarch Stefan has been leading troops to fight against Bulgaria, and Bayezid is very satisfied with this.

At this time, Grand Vizier Ali Pasha was still persuading the Sultan to go north to attack Wallachia.The annexation of Moldova proved his idea even more, Wallachia is a difficult enemy to deal with.

But not only did the sultan dislike the idea, Suleiman Pasha didn't want to hear it either.It's hard to deal with. Isn't the Serbian Empire, which once controlled half of the Balkans, also defeated by Ottoman? Wallachia is nothing.

In Constanta, the first printing and paper mills were built, and they started printing Bibles and other books in large quantities.Faculty study numbers are also on the rise.

In the late Middle Ages, intellectuals were still a very small minority.And large-scale territorial governance cannot leave them, so they are very sought-after.

In the East, the only place where a large number of intellectuals can be found is Constantinople.Although the Valleolio Dynasty was not military, it was the most prosperous culturally.The University and Library of Constantinople are the cultural essence of the entire Eastern Rome.

Those who saw the crisis in Rome and could not change it were recruited to Wallachia, and they put their lifelong knowledge to use. These included architects, artists, and officials with great enthusiasm.They speak the local language and build this Balkan Orthodox country.

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By midsummer, Iasi was already taking shape.Bazaars, mills, and shops have been built, and some merchants and craftsmen have come to settle here.

Outside the city, farmers work hard on their land.Some farmers began to switch to iron farm tools, and they had to receive military training from adults or engage in engineering construction during their slack.Unlike labor, public works employ employment, which makes those people willing to sell their labor in exchange for some money.

The Boyar meeting has also been normalized into a government meeting, and Peter turned this into his own advisory body.In order to check and balance the old boyars, Peter brought three religious personnel and six new boyars into the meeting.Together with those defectors and centrists, they can suppress each other.

Some people are going to ask, is dictatorship bad, and why there is a meeting to decentralize power.

First, as an outsider, do you rely on these nobles to get familiar with this land?You are governed by these boyars that grow in this land.

Second, even a dictator must have a consulting agency to help you.Whether it is Ottoman or Russia, there is an imperial meeting or a meeting of nobles to provide consultation. You are not Lao Zhu, so you can't do everything yourself.

Having a consultative body is very important, which is why Peter has made boyar meetings a regular occurrence.

Seeing that they could not make waves, the Boyars either operated within their own territory, or obeyed the Governor, and offered advice and suggestions at the Boyar Conference.

And the mineral exploration team sent by Peter also sent back news that they discovered a clay mine in the south of Moldova.This can be regarded as picking up treasure.

In the era of the Roman Empire, the Egyptian lead-glazed pottery technology was introduced to Italy, and continued production until the tin-glazed pottery technology was introduced.The production technology of tin-glazed pottery was spread from the Middle East to Italy via Mallorca in southern Spain.Tin glazed pottery produced in Italy is called Majorica.

The main feature of Italian tin-glazed pottery is that the painted decoration was originally painted in multiple colors, and then when the glossy color was introduced from Spain, the glossy color was mostly used to make the product golden yellow.Italian tin-glazed pottery has a simple shape, which is quite suitable for the exertion of the painter's talent.Venice produced tin-glazed pottery from the 16th to the 18th century, and the products often imitated Chinese Ming Dynasty porcelain, forming a new style with oriental flavor.

The history of porcelain is relatively late. Around the end of the 8th century, Chinese porcelain began to spread to the west.It first arrived in the Middle and Near East, and had a great impact on the pottery production there. At the end of the 14th century, Syria was able to imitate Chinese blue and white porcelain.Around the Yuan Dynasty of China in the 13th to 14th centuries, Chinese porcelain spread to Europe and was immediately appreciated by Europeans. At the same time, many manufacturers rushed to imitate it.However, due to the inability to correctly select the flux raw materials, the imitation has not been successful.

According to their speculation, the reserves of this clay mine are very large.What are you waiting for, mine and make it.

Wait, there are materials and funds, but he has no craftsmen.This is worrying again. The pottery technology in northern Italy is controlled by various small countries, so it is not easy to poach people.

Since pottery requires digging people, then glass is not needed.The exploration team also found a sand mine suitable for glass production, which should be no problem for building a glass factory.

In the 12th century, with the development of trade, Venice became the center of the world's glass manufacturing industry.In order to monopolize glass manufacturing technology, the government at that time concentrated glass artists on the island of Murano across the sea from Venice.But some craftsmen escaped and hid in Bohemia, Genoa, Constantinople and other places. If they are found, the glass industry can start.

If you can't find it, don't worry.There is another glassmaking center in Europe: Bohemia.A kind of dark green glassware is produced locally, which is called "forest glass".The typical work is a kind of wine glass with a small convex ball all over the body, a high ring bottom below, and an outstretched edge at the top.Known as the "Rhine glass".

In any case, he will not give up glass and ceramics.He sent the order to the chamber of commerce, asking him to go to Italy to find a glass ceramic craftsman, no matter how high the price, he must win it.

　Vaccination, I am not very good at war scenes, so I do more farming.Sorry readers.

　　
　
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