Chapter 84 Various Actions of the Bulgarian Governor and the Ottoman Sultan

Chapter 84 Various Actions of the Bulgarian Governor and the Ottoman Sultan

After deciding to help Moria, Peter asked about the tyrannical princess.

"12 years old, educated in Constantinople. Personality..."

Peter has regarded her as his future wife. After all, if he wants to inherit the Roman Empire, marrying a member of the royal family or becoming a co-emperor is the fastest way.

What's more, he is a Vlach, and marrying a Greek royal family can minimize the emotions of the Greeks and turn the conqueror in their impression into one of them.

"Sir, this is the report from Director Alexander." Nicholas handed Peter the quick report from Constanta.

Peter's treasury was in Constanta, and Alexander was responsible for the daily income and expenditure. If it is needed urgently, it will be provided through exchange.

Peter's small treasury already has more than 500,000 ducats, and the bulk of his money is still maltose. Because it is limited every year, the price is getting higher and higher.

Others include refined salt trade, chamber of commerce dividends, bank dividends, etc. Although expenses have also increased, they are still more than enough.

Strong finances were the basis for Peter to implement various reforms and constructions, and Peter was obsessed with inherent assets such as land, so on the one hand he intercepted part of the confiscated land, and on the other hand he vigorously reclaimed other land. So I currently have a small amount of assets, not much, just 10,000 acres.

These are the results obtained in the past few years. The cultivation of small farmers is too weak, and only the lords can protect their property from loss. And that's what Peter did.

Reclamation is mainly divided into material means of production and non-material ones. The material ones mainly include seeds, farm tools, funds, etc. The non-material ones mainly include legal protection, agricultural knowledge, etc. Peter has all of these, and there are quite a few.

There are already large and small settlements between Uxhall and Transnistria. The lords had greater power over these lands than before, and the defense line established in Transnistria fended off attacks from nomadic tribes, which allowed farmers to settle down and engage in production.

Peter is not a ruler who climbed up from the bottom like Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang. He cannot protect the farmers in all aspects, but it is still possible to alleviate conflicts to a certain extent.

At the same time, he also vigorously promoted iron farm tools. If farmers could not afford them, they could rent them and return them the next year. The same is true for seeds and cattle. This is the first time for farmers to see such a lord.

Water conservancy facilities are also fundamental to agriculture. Using water from rivers such as the Prut and Transnistria to irrigate farmland can produce more food. Therefore, vigorously building water conservancy is also one of the agricultural tasks.

Beyond these, Peter learned more about expansion. There were not only the most common wars and redemptions, but also the colonization of northern Italian city-states. However, expansion was easy, and how to govern the new land became a problem. Here, you can rely on the bureaucracy and the church for control, but what about Anatolia? Further afield, there are places like the Levant, Syria, Egypt, or southern Italy and Sicily, where pagans are the majority.

Peter began to have the idea of ​​forming an order of knights, like the three major knights, using religion to rule the local area. In addition, immigrants must be immigrated to guard the border and assimilate in order to achieve stability.

However, Peter turned around and found that the Orthodox Church did not have the characteristics of armed pilgrimage, which was very embarrassing. In addition, the scope of the Orthodox Church is very small, and even fewer soldiers can be summoned.

Peter also consulted the Bishop of Sofia, who said he could help him gather people to recover the lost lands. This was actually like a Crusade. However, Peter was still prepared to convene an ecumenical council to establish it.

A church council is when representatives of the universal church or local churches come together to discuss church matters in order to reach a unanimous decision. There are many types of church conferences, such as bishops' conferences, patriarchal conferences, or local conferences, among which those representing the entire universal church are called ecumenical councils.

After the Great Schism between the Eastern and Western Churches, neither religion recognized the ecumenical council convened by the other. The last meeting of the Orthodox Church was decades ago, so Peter planned to hold it at a time in the future.

The Bulgarian Church began to integrate into the Wallachian Church. Archbishop Carol had been made Patriarch in a religious conference chaired by the Grand Duke, and the Archbishop of the Castle was helpless.

There are now three patriarchs in the Balkans, one is the Serbian Patriarch, one is the Patriarch of Castel, and the other is the Patriarch of Wallachia. The areas under the control of the three Patriarchs varied along the borders, but there is no doubt that the Wallachian Church was the most active Church in the Balkans.

Patriarch Carol directly gave Mircea the title of Patron of the Orthodox Church and Defender of Christianity, which enhanced Mircea's prestige in the Orthodox world. And preached that Orthodox Christians should unite and drive out the heretics.

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After the great victory, Bayezid and his ministers discussed the next trip in Bursa.

"Sultan, Blankovic's tribute has arrived."

"Um"

This time Serbia's tribute was as high as 15,000 gold coins. In order to get Osman to support him, Branković took out all the surplus. He used the money to gain Ottoman's support.

"Grand Vizier, tell me your next plan." Bayezid turned to Ali Pasha. At this time, the Sultan had learned his lesson and began to listen to the advice of the Grand Vizier.

"Sudan, we currently have an agreement with Wallachia, so the two countries will not be at war for the time being. Take advantage of this time to send troops to the south and east, attack Hungary, and then send people to Poland and other countries to make peace, so that Wallachia can Ya was alone, and then the Sultan led the entire army. No matter how capable they were, they would definitely fail.”

Bayezid approved the plan. He had underestimated Wallachia before. Faced with a superior force, they were able to win with less. During the expedition to Anatolia, he carefully thought about the situation in the past few months and found that the fundamental reason for its failure was the dispersion of troops, which gave the enemy opportunities to defeat them. .

So he decided to directly concentrate his forces in one place and advance together to prevent the other party from taking advantage of it. According to his idea, he first asked one person to lead Sipasi to pretend to attack Sofia and Niš. After attracting the opponent, he led the main force to attack Burgas directly, and then attacked Varna until Constanta. Then began to encircle and suppress the exhausted Wallachian army. Forced the Grand Duke to surrender.

This plan is much better than last time, and everyone has learned how to attack the east and attack the west. Moreover, Bayezid plans to add the vassal states of Anatolia. If everything goes well, he will be able to draw 100,000 troops in five years. With so many troops, let's see what Wallachia can do to fight him.

"Everyone, this treaty is our shame and the shame of Allah. We want to wash away the shame and show those infidels that the children of Allah will not be defeated by this failure."