Time flies very fast. Three months have passed since the day Kashen discovered the silver mine. These three months have been relatively peaceful, with no conflicts or wars. However, one place is developing rapidly and attracting people from all over the world.
Fang’s gaze.
And this place is Kashin.
In the past three months, Kashen's original rather crude exploration camp has turned into a new mining town.
When the news spread and was confirmed, many dignitaries in Northeastern Rus immediately sent out their teams, hoping to participate in the feast and get a share of the pie.
This is a silver mine, not the junk in the wilderness!
Rostislav is very happy to have them join. His plan is to bring in as many people as possible, speed up the development of the silver mine, and scare possible conspirators.
While the prince was developing the silver mines, he also used the favors owed to him by the various dignitaries to gather an army from the Rus cities in the northeast. He used this army to launch a crusade against the Visi people, and successfully recaptured White Lake City and captured
Capture a large number of Visi slaves.
After the heavy blow to the Weixi tribes, the Kashen area finally stabilized, which allowed the subsequent construction to start more quickly.
In addition to the powerful, there are also many farmers, citizens and even tribesmen who come here. They are either bankrupts or speculators, with a heart to make a fortune, and Rostislav never refuses them. This is why
People who need it.
The original wooden walls of Kashen have been demolished, and larger and taller wooden walls have been built outside. Inside the wooden walls are full of tents, shacks, a few simple wooden houses, and several blast furnaces for refining silver and melting it into hryvnia.
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Various mining wastes are piled up next to the blast furnace. They are by-products of refining silver. Most of these materials are lead ore, which can be used as auxiliary materials for making stained glass, so they are also collected.
Some craftsmen were curious about why so much lead ore was produced, but no one cared at all. After all, they were still producing silver ore. This was just an after-dinner exchange, and no one took it seriously at all.
The veins have been dug out of the mine. There are thousands of miners working here non-stop. Some of them are Russians and some are Finn slaves, but they all have to work non-stop. The mining picks keep knocking.
Down, the ore knocked down will then be sent out of the mine.
The military strength guarding this place is also very exaggerated. The prince has a full 200 soldiers stationed here, and the other chaotic armed forces add up to more than 400 soldiers alone. If all the men are mobilized, it will be enough to provide nearly 2,000 soldiers.
people.
Russian soldiers can be seen everywhere here. They are alert to all possible enemies and inspect the miners to prevent them from carrying ore. The silver mine is of great importance. Everyone knows this very well, so they dare not relax.
Outside of Northeastern Ross, in the past three months, the news of the discovery of silver mines in Northeastern Ross has been like a whirlwind, spreading throughout the whole of Ross and even outside of Ross. The speed of spread is staggering.
This is mainly because Rostislav sent envoys to tell all his relatives the news, not only his three uncles, but also King Harald of Norway, King Kazimierz of Poland, King Andrew of Hungary, and King Henry of France.
Invite these relatives to participate in this development.
This is the way Rostislav came up with to control the silver mine. Since someone may cause trouble, then I will completely mix up the water and introduce so many forces that it will be enough to make those people take action. In the face of the threat to the silver mine,
Looting him will also give you more power.
Moreover, Rostislav also directly exposed the scale of the silver mine that he knew based on the memories of later generations, in order to strengthen the confidence of the princes and nobles to join the development of the silver mine.
The uncles all expressed their blessings to Rostislav, because this represented the increase in Yaroslavich's power, and promised to send manpower to help develop the silver mine.
The congratulations of the uncle and the third uncle are sincere. They believe that Rostislav's strength will make the entire family stronger. They still regard the family as a whole. Since the strength of one part of the whole will inevitably make the whole stronger.
As for the second uncle, even if he has other ideas, he can only follow the crowd.
The uncles acted very quickly and mobilized a group of miners directly from the territory to join in the development of the mine, and Rostislav naturally promised his uncles a corresponding share of the output in return.
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"God, why do you treat that boy so favorably?"
Under the cross of the Chernihiv church, Sviatoslav said with melancholy.
He felt extremely bad. Vladimir's child was so lucky. If the child's envoy was right, then the size of the silver mine would be enough to make him the most powerful prince in Russia.
In comparison, he had only managed to get the nobles in the territory to express their loyalty, but that boy had discovered the silver mine, which made him feel unbalanced.
Moreover, this boy did his job flawlessly. Just as Rostislav had arranged, the Prince of Moscow’s decision to introduce a large number of forces made it impossible for the second uncle to intervene.
If Rostislav had done it alone, the second uncle could still "help" Rostislav on the pretext that the nearest elder would help, but now that he had brought in all the elders, there was nothing he could do.
However, the second uncle was not someone who could think of solutions. After adjusting his mood, he called out an attendant.
"Take this letter and message to the great Volga city."
"yes."
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Except for the three uncles, the remaining relatives had different reactions.
Some people responded indifferently, such as Henry of France. France was too far away from Eastern Europe. After Henry read it, he went hunting in Fontainebleau. Aunt Anna responded to her nephew with a rather gentle letter and added a few things.
Dispensable gold and silver jewelry to congratulate him on his discovery.
Some people reacted excitedly, such as Harald of Norway. The Heartless got the news on the battlefield. He was very happy about Rostislav's discovery. The king immediately sent people to give his nephew more help.
At the same time, it is also about digging for silver. Harald's war has been going on for so long. The more silver, the better.
Some people simply sent people to get a share of the pie, such as Poland's Kazimierz and Hungary's Andrew, but these dispatches not only wanted to gain profits, they also needed to get rid of some troubles in the palace.
In this way, Northeastern Rus suddenly became the center of the whirlpool, and forces from all sides poured into this land. Northeastern Rus, a land that was once no one cared about, has now become the center of the situation for all parties due to the discovery of silver mines.
And behind all this, there is a figure from the East who is sizing up the situation, weighing the gains and losses, and wondering whether to use the cruelest means, even if it means becoming an enemy of all countries...