eastern european eagle

Chapter 68
It's almost autumn, but summer is still exuding its last power.Of course, the one who felt the hottest was Prime Minister Angel.

After becoming prime minister, Angel had no leisure time.He needs to integrate various forces to assist the Grand Duke, and at the same time provide advice and suggestions for national governance.

"We must now improve the relationship between Poland and Hungary, and falling out with them will not lead to good results."

"The Grand Duke has approved it, and the most important thing now is the domestic issue." Angel said to the noisy executives.

"Our country has increased a lot of land and population, and the Grand Duke kindly reduced their tax burden. Then these expenses have to be found from other places."

After all, Angel looked at Arthur who was in charge of finances.And Artur also began to tell the financial situation of this year.

"Thanks to the development in the past few years, tax revenue has increased a lot compared to before, especially after the implementation of the new tax system last year, tariffs have increased, and this year there should be 60 lei in tariff revenue."

60 is already a lot, because it is a silver coin, and there are a lot of gold coins when converted.In addition, there are salt income, fixed taxes for subjects, and taxes on specific commodities, which will probably exceed 110 million lei this year.This is already a big improvement.

But in addition to income, expenses are also very large, including construction, military, and personal expenses.Especially the construction of the new capital, which is a lot of money.

"My lord, although there are many territories at present, there are not enough officials to be in charge of military and civil affairs. After all, the speed of territorial expansion is too fast."

Many people complained to them about the lack of manpower, even if it was transferred from the University of Constanta, it was still not enough.

"Everyone, what's the problem?" Grand Duke Mircea said and walked in.

"Grand Duke" "Grand Duke"

Mircea looked around and fixed her eyes on Prime Minister Angel.

"Angel Petrescu, tell me."

Angel, who was named, honestly explained the discussion just now.Especially the problem of insufficient manpower.

"Grand Duke, all provinces have sent letters, hoping to increase manpower. Especially Suceava and Pitesti provinces."

"Let's transfer from Dobroga Province first, talents are not available all at once."

Why doesn't Mircea know it? It's just that the country is in ruins and needs more time to develop.The current difficulties have to be endured.

Mircea then walked to the newly drawn map of the country.Under Mircea, the territory of Wallachia more than tripled, which is very impressive.

"Okay everyone, we have to do more things next." Mircea pointed to the map.

"Clear the forest for bandits and make trade regular."

"Drag the river, build the navy, and make it unimpeded."

"Build more universities, more churches."

"Encourage reclamation, Moldova still has a lot of land to be developed."

"Strengthen border construction to prevent Ottomans from making a comeback."

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Mircea said more than a dozen words in a row, which confused the minds of the ministers.

The "Grand Duke" military director Adrian spoke. "We also have to beware of Hungary. After occupying Moldova, the border between the two countries has doubled. We must have enough defenders to prevent their surprise attacks."

"I was negligent about this matter. Although the two countries are at peace, we still need to plan early."

Wallachia is located between the three big countries of Ottoman, Hungary, and Poland. These three are still larger than Wallachia, so they have to reduce their sense of existence.Now they need peace, even if it is ten years, or even five years.

"I know it's difficult for you, but the country is also difficult. Now we are like a woman waiting to marry with a large dowry, surrounded by people who want to get the dowry and are ready to grab the marriage."

"They thought well, but they didn't expect that this woman had an army. And they would fight them back."

Mircea used this metaphor to express his confidence that Wallachia would grow into a great country, and it would be a long-lived country.Unlike the Serbian Empire, it was gone in a few decades.

Apart from routine business, most of the delegates to the codification conference had arrived.They discussed all aspects, such as serfs, commerce, and society.

So, you can see boyars arguing with merchants, landlords and citizens arguing, and boyars with different interests arguing.It's hard to see such a scene in Eastern Europe, but I didn't expect it to happen today.

There were 263 representatives in the whole meeting, of which 79 were boyars, 32 were senior monks, and the rest were small and medium landlords and businessmen.Although the bourgeoisie predominates, it is still the boyar class that dominates.

The first common ground reached by the parties after the endless debate was the creation of a Supreme Court to oversee the implementation of the Code.He also granted Grand Duke Mircea the title of Father of the Nation, but was rejected by Mircea.

"I asked them to discuss the code, but they discussed my quality. Is this what the Senate of the Roman Empire said?"

Mircea asked them to formulate a law code as soon as possible, not only for him, but for all the people in this land.

As the longest reigning Grand Duke of Wallachia, it is not unreasonable for Mircea to be able to reign for more than 30 years.Such a move won the support of small and medium-sized landlords and citizens. At the same time, the devout religious belief made the church stand on his side. A few boyars wanted to do things, but there were not many followers.

And to celebrate the victory, Mircea ordered the issuance of gold leu coins.The ducat currency, which began with the Grand Duke of Basarab, officially withdrew from the stage of history and was replaced by the leu, which was exclusive to Wallachia.

After some initial discomfort, leu has become more and more widely used.Because of its high silver content, it is very popular with merchants.

Buy gold and silver ore from Transylvania, and then process it into currency, which is also the reason for the scarcity of precious metal mines in Wallachia.But that's good enough.After all, not everyone can mint coins, because you still have to let him circulate, and if the quality is not good, you will lose confidence.Unless you force circulation and suffer the loss of merchants.

Mircea also ordered the construction of a road from Bukuriesti to Sofia, passing through Giurgiu and Tarvorno, which, if completed, would be very good for military and trade.

The chancellor of the exchequer is the most difficult, after all, it is difficult to make money, but easy to spend it.It is also very expensive to build the road, but the news from Sofia that the governor paid half of the cost, which directly relieved a lot of pressure.

(End of this chapter)