Chapter 32 Development of Dobruja 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 great demand.

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

In fact, Hungary also expressed an attitude. You can annex, but the expansion ends here. Next, you must send troops together to fight against the Ottomans.

Mircea agreed, as long as Hungary recognizes the expansion, that's it. Next, we have to confront the Ottomans.

Bayezid was still running wild in Asia Minor, Suleiman Pasha attacked Bulgaria and Varna in the Balkans. His main force, in addition to some Sipahi, was the Serbian army. Serbian monarch Stefan had been leading troops to fight Bulgaria, and Bayezid was 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 further proved his idea that Wallachia was a difficult enemy to deal with.

But not only was the Sultan displeased with this idea, Suleiman Pasha also didn't want to hear it. It was difficult to deal with. Wasn't the Serbian Empire, which once controlled half of the Balkans, also defeated by the Ottomans? What was Wallachia?

In Constanta, the first printing house and paper mill had been built, and they began to print Bibles and other books in large quantities. The number of students studying in the academy was also increasing.

In the late Middle Ages, intellectuals were still a minority. And large-scale territorial governance could not be separated from them, so they were very popular.

In the East, the only place where a large number of intellectuals could be found was Constantinople. Although the Palaiologos dynasty was not good at military affairs, it was the most prosperous in culture. The University of Constantinople and the library were the cultural essence of the entire Eastern Roman Empire.

Some people who saw the crisis in Rome but could not change it were recruited to Wallachia, and they used their lifelong knowledge on it, including architects, artists, and officials with great enthusiasm. They spoke the local language and built this Balkan Orthodox country.

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By midsummer, Iasi had begun to take shape. The market, mills, and shops had been built, and some merchants and craftsmen had settled here.

Outside the city, farmers worked hard on their land. Some farmers began to use iron farm tools, and they had to receive military training from adults or engage in engineering construction during the slack season. Unlike labor service, public works were hired, which made those people willing to sell their labor in exchange for some money.

The Boyar Conference has also become a normalized government conference, and Peter has turned it into his own advisory body. In order to check and balance the old boyars, Peter replaced three religious personnel and six new boyars in the conference. Together with those who surrendered and the centrists, they can suppress the other side.

Some people will ask, isn't dictatorship good? Why do we need a meeting to divide power?

First, as an outsider, do you rely on these nobles to get familiar with this land? You have to rely on these boyars who grew up on this land to govern.

Second, even if you are a dictator, you need a consulting agency to help you. Whether it is the Ottoman Empire or Russia, there are imperial conferences or gentry conferences to provide advice. You are not Zhu, so you can't do everything yourself.

It is very important to have a consulting agency, which is why Peter normalized the boyar conference.

The boyars saw that they could not make waves, so they either operated in their own territories or obeyed the governor and made suggestions at the boyar conference.

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

In the Roman Empire, Egypt's lead-glazed pottery technology was introduced to Italy, and production continued until the introduction of tin-glazed pottery technology. The production technology of tin-glazed pottery was introduced to Italy from the Middle East via Mallorca Island 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 multi-colored, and then when the gloss color was introduced from Spain, the gloss color was mostly used to make the product golden. Italian tin-glazed pottery has a simple shape, which is quite suitable for 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 colors.

The history of porcelain is relatively late. Around the end of the 8th century, Chinese porcelain began to spread westward. It first arrived in the Middle East and the Near East, and had a great impact on the production of pottery there. At the end of the 14th century, Syria was able to imitate Chinese blue and white porcelain. Around the 13th to 14th century, during the Yuan Dynasty in China, Chinese porcelain was introduced 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 never been successful.

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

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

Since pottery making requires recruiting people, then glass making does not need it. The exploration team also found a sand mine suitable for glass production, which should be no problem to build 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 Murano Island across the sea from Venice. But some craftsmen escaped and hid in Bohemia, Genoa, Constantinople and other places. If they were found, the glass industry would be able to start.

If you can't find them, don't worry. There is another glass production center in Europe: Bohemia. A kind of dark green glassware is produced locally, which is called "forest glass". The typical work is a wine glass with small convex balls around the body, a high ring bottom below, and an outward edge at the top. It is called "Rhine glass wine glass".

In any case, he will not give up glass and ceramics. He sent an order to the Chamber of Commerce to find glass and ceramic craftsmen in Italy, no matter how high the price is, they must be taken down.

Vaccination, I am not very good at war scenes, so I am more engaged in farming. Please forgive me, readers.