Chapter 31: Funding, Construction, Expansion

At this time, Iasi has entered a state of full construction. Under Peter's planning, a new town is turning from a blueprint into reality.

Peter has endless energy. He personally visited every construction site in Iasi. In his eyes, one building after another is rising from the ground. Stone walls, churches, colleges, town halls, etc. are all under construction. After all the construction is completed, the area of ​​Iasi will be expanded four times.

The Chamber of Commerce of Dobruja set up a business station here. The constant flow of working people also gave some businessmen opportunities. They brought things to sell them food and daily necessities. There are more taverns and hotels in Iasi.

The population news from the vicinity of Iasi also proved that Peter's guess 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 the Ukrainian region were a very good source of immigrants.

In order to attract them, Peter offered very generous conditions. Including tax exemption, free settlement and other policies that are very rare in Eastern Europe, and also announced that no matter what your previous identity was, you are a free man when you come here.

Although this can attract immigrants, it will also offend the surrounding countries, Poland, Lithuania, and the Golden Horde across. None of them can be defeated, so military construction is also Peter's focus.

Peter pardoned the peasant soldiers recruited by Roman and sent them to the castle in the Chernivtsi area to defend Poland. The private armies of the nobles and the mercenaries left by Mircea were handed over to Alexandru to replace Constantine and be responsible for the defense of the Dniester River.

Peter gave the land in the border area to these soldiers, so that they could develop these lands while being able to obtain defense.

Just when Peter was building Moldova, two uninvited guests came here. They saluted Peter and told him their purpose.

"We congratulate you on becoming the ruler of Moldova on behalf of Andrzej, the speaker of the Krakow Parliament."

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

"Sorry, I am being rude."

Peter did not pursue the matter and directly began to ask about the purpose of their visit.

"Sir, we are here on behalf of all the cities of the alliance to reach a trade agreement with you."

"Trade agreement", Peter became interested.

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

Golden honeydew, what a good name. But Peter also understood that they wanted the exclusive right to sell maltose.

In fact, when maltose appeared in Krakow, it soon became the table of those wealthy businessmen and nobles. Vasdivaf is also obsessed with maltose.

And some merchants did not eat it after getting it, but directly sold it to other merchants, which was a five-fold profit. Especially in the two cities of Hamburg and Lübeck, the price has reached 30,000 marks.

Such a lucrative thing, the Hanseatic League naturally wanted to get it. After inquiring from Krakow merchants, they 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 sell it to others.

"My lord, if you are willing. The Hanseatic League is willing to pay you 30,000 carolins a year." (Gold coins in the German region, 1 is equivalent to 11 florins)

This is a considerable price. Peter was tempted when he heard this number. After all, only Venice and Genoa in the south can compete with the Hanseatic League in terms of financial strength.

"Of course, if your lord is temporarily short of money, Krakow can also help with loans."

The two were afraid that Peter would not agree, so they quickly said another condition. And Peter did not 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 purchased the agency rights of maltose at a price of 330,000 florins. It looks like a lot, but in fact, as long as it is distributed to various cities. It is not a lot. And Peter also obtained 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 Dniester River and went to reclaim the land with their limited wealth.

Perhaps because of the excessive money given by relatives, Vitatus wiped out the opponent's army in one fell swoop. But the social unrest caused by it could not be restored in a short time, and serfs and slaves took advantage of this to come to Moldova. Became local labor.

However, although there were many people coming from Lithuania. But there were also many people coming from the other direction, that is, Poles and Germans. Most of them were also farmers, and they could not stand the oppression of the landlords and chose to come here to start over.

In order to consolidate the faith of Moldova, Mircea appointed Joseph of Focshani as the Archbishop of Moldova, and then he also served as the Bishop of Iasi.

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

After Peter planned to build the church in Iasi, Joseph asked the believers that everyone should donate in order for the church to be completed as soon as possible. This move greatly enriched the church's funds, and Peter reciprocated the favor. It was planned to build a seminary in Iasi and plans were proposed for the construction of 30 churches.

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

All affairs in Moldova have come to an end for the time being, and no matter how hard you try, you have to have time to reflect. To do this, Peter looked to other places as well.

There was nothing major going on in Dobroga, everything was going on, and the Ottomans' continued offensive also brought more people north to Wallachia. More than 5,000 people came to Dobroga in two months, and even people from the Principality of Theodoro and the colony of Genoa smuggled themselves to Dobroga.

It is said that the Principality of Theodoro was really short of money, so the Chamber of Commerce acquired 1,000 acres of surrounding land three times in a row for 6,000 ducats. 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 for the good.