I Peter III, Emperor of the Hexagon of the Goose Chapter 99 From ancient times to the present, the banks of the Neva River have been the site of the Mint!
Chapter 99 From ancient times to the present, the banks of the Neva River have been the site of the Mint!
"My goal is to capture Caspian Sea. As for why, you can understand it as the Holy Revelation of the Holy Mother."
Bestudev was stunned, it was Shengqi again.
Then he took a breath of air.
His Majesty actually said that if you want people, give money, and if you want money, give money. If 8 million rubles is not enough, you can continue to ask for it.
This is obviously not taken from the national treasury. How much money has your Majesty saved?
Looking at the green light emerging from Bestudev's eyes, Peter shook his head and said:
"I have earned the money with my hard work. Save some money and just treat it as what the national treasury owes me."
Bestudev immediately said:
"Yes! Your Majesty! Your Majesty uses your personal wealth to supplement the country. It is really a blessing for the country!"
Bestudev was very excited. Although he did not know whether this holy revelation was true, His Majesty has not made any mistakes so far.
And if he guessed correctly, if His Majesty wants to capture Caspian Sea, he must use troops.
fight!
The War of Austrian Succession has ended for some time, and His Majesty barely participated in this war. So what kind of changes can the war deployed by His Majesty personally bring to Russia?
Bestudev is even more certain that once it begins to occupy the Caspian Sea, the Ottoman Empire, which is also relatively close to the Caspian Sea, will not sit idly by.
The Ottoman Empire blocked the entrance to the Black Sea and included the entire edge of the Black Sea into its territory. Without the Baltic Sea, Russia would have become almost a landlocked country.
Since Peter the Great, having the Baltic Sea in the northwest and the Black Sea in the south has always been a strategic task for the country. Now that His Majesty finally has this information, how can Bestudev not be excited?
Time flies, and more than a month has passed.
The Urals, one of the most developed places in Russia's metallurgical industry, is nearly 2,000 kilometers away from Moscow. In the Urals, as early as the 4th to 3rd centuries BC, the Urals had a bronze metallurgy industry. Although primitive methods were used to make iron, the level of development was relatively high.
Starting from the 9th century, the green-blowing method was used to make iron, and during the reign of Peter I, 23 large-scale metallurgical factories were built in the Urals.
The ore seams in the Ural region are relatively shallow and easy to mine. The ores are rich in iron and have few impurities. They are rich in high-quality, fusible and shallow natural alloy ores. The forest belts are dense, providing abundant fuel for metallurgy.
There are also abundant waterways near the mine, which are suitable for building dams and reservoir hydraulic facilities, which can provide kinetic energy for smelting.
In the past, large factories in the Urals were mainly used for smelting iron, followed by copper, but this has been changing recently.
The Kalal family are workers affiliated with the Ural Nevyansk Factory. Since the establishment of the factory, their ancestors have been workers here. Their craftsmanship has been passed down from father to father, and from father to son. They have become very familiar with it.
But when the Carrals and sons came to the factory today, they found that the workers had all been gathered together, and the supervisor they were familiar with was shouting with a loudspeaker.
After listening for a long time, the Carrals realized that the supervisor was telling the workers that most of them should stop producing iron ore and instead make red bricks.
The workers were talking a lot:
"Master Pierre, you don't have to worry about selling the iron ore, but what's the use of burning these red bricks? If you spread them on the ground, you won't be able to gather them together. No one will buy them anywhere!"
"Yes, sir, we should still produce iron ore."
The workers looked at the stewards, all worried.
They are all industrial serfs. They do not belong to various noble lords, but belong entirely to the factory.
Compared with factories elsewhere, they can barely make ends meet by producing iron ore in the Urals.
After all, this is a metallurgical center, so even if the person in charge takes the lead, he won't be too harsh.
And all this is due to the fact that iron ore has no worries about marketability, but if red bricks are produced...
Red Brick and the others know that no one buys that thing!
Pierre, the steward, glanced around and was puzzled by the order from above. It was still half a year before the river transportation entered the freezing period. If nearly half of the iron ore blast furnace equipment was converted to fired red bricks at this time, if it was sold
What should I do if I don’t go out?
Pierre complained in his heart, didn't the noble master above know that this was just a blind decision?
But he was also helpless. He was just a steward. Seeing the reluctance written on every worker's face, he lowered his face and shouted:
"Just do it as you are told. It's not like you people have never baked bricks before. Now you are just going back to your old business. No matter how miserable you are, you can still have one meal a day."
Pierre didn't say anything, but when he did, he was even more resentful. The whispers of the workers gathered into a voice that could easily be heard:
"How can I still have the energy to work after one meal a day? In the past, we just burned red bricks and countless people starved to death."
"Those British deceived us into burning bricks and they lost the money. Then they didn't want the bricks they burned later. How many people died of starvation at that time? Mr. Pierre, please tell the gentleman above."
"Yes, sir, this is a matter of human life!"
About human life?
Pierre sneered, are these serfs worthy of life?
It seems that he was too good to them before.
Pierre picked up the horn and said in a cold voice:
"If you don't want to do it, just stand up. Ten lashes every day will be enough to make you forget about starvation."
The scene suddenly became quiet.
Carrard and his son looked at each other and felt bitter.
Little Carlal's daughter-in-law had just given birth and was in need of nutrition. Why did this happen to her?
At this time, in St. Petersburg, where the Neva River flows, mints were built along the river to facilitate operations.
Recently, workers at the mint have discovered that blast furnaces have been built not far away, which are as high as nine meters high.
Coin making requires copper smelting, and they, who are no strangers to blast furnaces, were immediately puzzled. What is being smelted in a nine-meter blast furnace?
Later, when the red bricks came out one after another, the people at the mint couldn't help but be stunned.
They are making coins here, but they are making garbage next door?
Count Arver of the mint was very dissatisfied. He rode his horse to the rough construction site, looked down at the circle and said:
"Which of you is in charge here?"
An old man with a dark face and thin body walked forward timidly, nodded and bowed:
"Noble sir, I, I am."
"What's your name?"
Avel felt a little bored. These people looked like serfs at first glance. Although the mint was basically serfs, they were much more pleasing to the eye than they looked.
After all, they are made in kopecks and rubles.
The swarthy old man replied respectfully:
"Sir, my name is Philpovich."
"Filpovich, I now order you to take your people and move away immediately. This is the territory of the mint, and you cannot refine these things if you want!"
Avel glanced condescendingly at the neat piles of red bricks, and an idea emerged, they looked pretty good.
But this idea soon disappeared. The banks of the Neva River have belonged to the mint since ancient times.