The Eagle of Eastern Europe

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

Peter had endless energy. He personally visited every construction site in Iasi. In his eyes, buildings were rising from the ground, including stone city walls, churches, colleges, city halls, etc. All under construction. After all construction is completed, the area of ​​​​Iasi will be quadrupled.

Dobroga's Chamber of Commerce set up a business station here, and the constant flow of working people also made some businessmen see opportunities. They came with things to sell food and daily necessities to them. There are also more pubs and hotels in Iasi.

The population news coming back from near Iasi also proved that Peter's conjecture was correct. Except for some villages near Iasi, there were no people at all in places further away. It happened that the internal fighting in Lithuania allowed him to see an opportunity. The Ruthenians living in Ukraine were a very good source of immigrants.

In order to attract them, Peter made very generous offers. Including tax exemption, free settlement and other policies that are very rare in Eastern Europe, it also announced that no matter what your previous status was, 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 way. None of them can be defeated. For this reason, 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. Put the private armies of the nobles and the mercenaries left by Mircea under the command of Alexandru, and let him replace Constantine and be responsible for the defense of the Dniester River.

Peter granted these soldiers land in the border areas, which could be defended and developed at the same time.

While Peter was building Moldova, two uninvited guests arrived. They saluted Peter and told him their purpose.

"On behalf of Speaker Andrzej of Kraków, we congratulate you on becoming the ruler of Moldova."

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

"Sorry, I was rude."

Peter did not pursue the matter and directly began to ask them the purpose of coming.

"Sir, we are here to reach a trade agreement with you from all the cities in the alliance."

"Trade Agreement", Peter became interested.

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

Golden honeydew, this really knows how to name it. But Peter also understood that they wanted the exclusive rights to sell maltose.

In fact, when maltose appeared in Krakow, it quickly appeared on the tables of wealthy businessmen and nobles. Vasdivav is also a maltose addict.

After some merchants got it, they didn't eat it and directly sold it to other merchants, which directly made five times the profit. Especially in the two cities of Hamburg and Lübeck, the price has reached as high as 30,000 marks.

Naturally, the Hanseatic League wanted to get such a huge profit. After inquiring from a businessman in Krakow, I learned that this product 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 per year." (German gold coins, one is equivalent to 11 Florins)

This is a considerable price, and Peter was already tempted after hearing this number. After all, the only countries in the south that could compete with the Hanseatic League for financial resources were Venice and Genoa.

"Of course, if you are temporarily short of money, Krakow can also help with a loan."

The two of them were afraid that Peter would not agree, so they quickly stated another condition. And Peter didn't intend to bargain, so he agreed.

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

"that's for sure."

The Hanseatic League purchased the agency rights for maltose at a price of 330,000 florins. It looked like a lot, but in fact it only needed to be distributed to various cities. Not 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 Dniester River, taking their meager wealth with them to clear the land.

Perhaps because his relatives gave him too much money, Vitatus wiped out his 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 labor force.

However, there are many people coming from Lithuania. But there were also many people coming from the other direction, namely Poles and Germans. Most of them were farmers who couldn't stand the oppression of the landlords and chose to come here to start over.

In order to consolidate the faith in Moldova, Mircea appointed Joseph of Fokshani as Archbishop of Moldova, who later also served as Bishop of Iasi.

Joseph, like Carol, was an Orthodox warrior. Determined to preserve the Orthodox faith at all costs, he integrated all churches and monasteries in Moldova and sent a large number of missionaries to convert and baptize 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 matters in Moldova have come to an end for the time being, and no matter how hard you try, you still 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.