Circassian summer, William's room. otbnkotgt The temperature this summer is as high as people's enthusiasm for the Crusades.
Drought caused by high temperature caused a reduction in wheat production to a certain extent, followed by famine, then desertion, displacement, and plague.
According to rumors from businessmen coming and going, some areas within the empire are no longer inhabited.
Those people either starved to death or became refugees.
In this way, this year, the Knights have once again raised a level in their refugee export business in the large border areas, even though the Crusade craze is still in the ascendant.
But for the Gothic knights who guarded the empire, it didn't have much to do with them.
At first, after hearing about the success of the Crusade, many Gothic knights who stayed in the country were quite excited.
I feel like my fortune has turned.
Although they did not catch up with the first batch, they felt that with the connection between the Crusaders and the Gothic Knights, they could happily join in the carving up of Ruthenia as long as they negotiated an intention to cooperate with Sibrandt. go.
However, they were disappointed.
Seeboland was never a generous man, nor a smart man.
Soon, the Gothic Knights received the latest news that their deputy leader "betrayed" the Gothic Knights.
He reorganized his followers and the knights under his command and formed a new armed order named the Knights of the Holy Sword of Ruthenia and Pilm.
The new order, known simply as the Knights of the Holy Sword, controlled large swaths of territory south of Ruthenia and Pyrm.
At the same time, it has an armed force numbering close to 50,000.
The status and power of Siboland, who claims to be the grand leader, are much stronger than those of the Gothic Knights who are still surviving in the empire.
In this way, the Gothic knights severed ties with Cyboland.
At the same time, out of anger and fear of the Knights of the Holy Sword, the noble crusaders in the north of Ruthenia and Perm also refused to accept the Gothic knights.
As a result, the Gothic knights' crusade road was completely blocked.
The Roman Church also went along with the situation.
Pope Pius IV publicly issued a statement in favor of the Knights of the Holy Sword, while denounced the Gothic knights remaining in the empire as cowards and false believers.
Pius IV used this method to express his goodwill to Siboland, hoping to gain the support of this prosperous Grand Master to save the declining situation of the Roman Church.
That's it.
Life became quite difficult for the Gothic knights.
After cutting off the Crusaders' dream of getting rich, they could only continue to do their own business.
That is to transport large numbers of refugees to large border areas.
Some of these refugees participated in the Crusades and became cannon fodder and serfs of the noble knights of the Crusaders.
To cultivate the abandoned lands of Ruthenia and Perm.
The other part was captured by William.
The Principality of Mystia, which had made a lot of war fortune, entered a period of rapid development.
On the first day of summer in 1747, William inspected the new pasture.
I took a look at the condition of the Romanov sheep.
Accompanied by Paul, the ranch director, William inspected the sheep, which originally had only about two hundred sheep when they were introduced.
After a year of reproduction, they had grown into a medium-sized herd of more than five hundred sheep.
"We checked the condition of the sheep, Your Excellency.
Then we castrated the rams with poor breeds.
Only the best sheep with the best wool quality were kept as breeding sheep.
This will ensure the wool quality of the next generation of sheep.
Get better.
And we’re figuring it out too. , and worked with the Asturian, Ottoman and Briton merchants.
Although it was very difficult, we still got a few pairs of fine sheep from their countries.
I promise you.
In one year, we can achieve better results.”
Paul stayed with William, bending slightly, looking timid and a little excited at the same time.
"I have checked your accounts and seen the situation of the ranch."
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William smiled and said to Paul: "You did a good job.
In the recent period, I have acquired more ranches and prepared to set up a livestock ranch." department.
If you work hard, you may have some competitiveness for the position of minister of this department.”
After hearing William's "promise", Paul's face flushed with excitement: "Yes, thank you, great Earl.
I will definitely do this well, I promise you."
In this way, William completed his inspection of the new pasture.
In the past few days, he has seen several new ranches like this.
The best among them was the ranch managed by Paul.
This made William secretly glad that accepting this guy before was indeed a treasure.
But, of course, a few hundred sheep might be a great asset to a rich man.
But for a man who actually controlled a principality, nothing was enough.
The development cycle of animal husbandry is much longer than that of planting.
So up to now, although the Principality of Mystia has also begun to produce a small amount of wool, butter, and leather products.
But this number is still too small.
It is completely unable to have an impact on the existing market, nor can it affect the principality's economy.
It was even less able to support the textile industry that William had envisioned.
"So, compared to wool, cotton is better.
It's just that the climate in the Principality of Mystia is not suitable for growing cotton.
In fact, on this side of the human world, I have never seen any country with large-scale planting.
It’s cotton, no, I should say, I haven’t even seen a cotton field.
Damn it,” William thought in his heart.
"According to this parallel world, there should be three cotton producing areas now, one is India in the extreme east, one is the New World far away from the ocean.
The other is the more distant Kingdom of Dragon.
No matter where it is, If it's not suitable, forget it.
In the short term, we will temporarily give up cotton textiles and stick to wool textiles as our development goal."
William thought in his heart and sighed secretly at the same time.
In addition to sheep and dairy farming.
The breeding of war horses is even more important.
In fact, compared to the resources spent by the first two, William invested at least twice as much in war horse breeding.
In various horse farms, thousands of horses are being raised and cared for with the best and most meticulous care.
A large amount of alfalfa, miscellaneous grain feed, broad plains and border Goths who were good at herding horses all made William's horse breeding industry prosperous.
As long as the situation allowed, William could arm thousands of traditional cavalry in the shortest possible time. and provided two new cavalry regiments for the new army.
That's it, the Principality of Mystia is thriving.
William also began to get involved in banking and animal husbandry.
But there is a fly in the ointment.
The real pillars of the principality are still grain and oil crops.
And this situation will not change in the short term.
William is constantly thinking of ways to increase the sown area of oil crops and food crops in the Principality of Mystia.
Acquiring manorial properties in Mazovia and acquiring refugees from the empire were all methods William did.
As long as weather conditions permit.
Then during the autumn harvest season, the production of grain and oil crops in the Principality of Mystia What's even worse is that there is no outlet to the sea in the deep interior of the principality.
This is one of the reasons why William is eager to join the United Province of Polotsk, which has the most developed commercial city in the Polotsk coastal area, the most complete market, and thousands of registered merchant ships of all kinds.
If the Principality of Mystia wants to develop further explosively, the fastest and most convenient way is to intervene in the neighboring United Province of Polotsk.
Of course, this "intervention" approach requires caution.
The businessmen of the United Province of Polotsk are very sensitive to outsiders, especially "nobles".
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If you are not careful, it will cause a war between the two sides.
In this case, using purely commercial means to intervene in Polotsk became the most convenient and safest tactic.
Just like what was said above.
William is shorting the Crusaders on a massive scale.
And after the Crusade failed.
Those Polotsk merchants who were too closely connected with the Crusaders must and had to transfer their markets to the successor of the Principality of Mystia.
But, this is not enough.
Yes, it is not enough.
After thinking about it carefully, William felt that the loss of normal commercial loans alone would not be a fatal blow to the businessmen and citizens of Polotsk.
He needs more, better, and more powerful weapons to plunder, destroy, and weaken Polotsk's power.
So that when Polotsk reshuffles the cards next, he can get more.
That's it.
In Polotsk, a new “investment business” began.
Through his agents, William began selling development stocks to Polotsk businessmen.
He named the stock Crusaders' Sacred Bonds.
The investment underlying this investment was, of course, the Crusaders' War Dividends. 160420oshow7: