Chapter 307 Conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean

Chapter 307 Conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean

After signing a peace treaty with Savoy, Peter returned to Verona with his troops. The Hungarian soldiers who cooperated with the Roman army said goodbye here and returned to Buda with rich loot.

Peter held a celebratory feast in Adige (Verona) for all the soldiers who had participated in the war. This war earned the empire enough money to avoid taxation for a year, and it also helped Rome avenge itself. Now Peter could be written into the history books as the Conqueror of Venice.

Although bringing Venice's territory in Italy under direct jurisdiction can allow the empire to regain influence in Italy, its actions on Italian soil will cause other states to commit PTSD and may encounter more resistance in the future.

"Your Highness, the Count of Tyrol sent someone to hope to have good relations with the empire."

Peter wanted to laugh a little, because he was worried that Rome would come to visit him without noticing. Although there is a silver mine there, he currently has no plans to expand. Making the stall too big is not a good thing.

It is not impossible to have a good relationship with the Count of Tyrol. After all, he is also a member of the Habsburg family. Maybe this one is still useful.

Mircea prepared a welcome ceremony for Peter. Constantinople had not had a great triumph for a long time. Now it's time to hold one to restore Rome's confidence.

Along with the news came a letter from his wife Sophia. Their second child Theodosius was one year old. It is full of her deep affection for her husband. She will also bring her two children to this triumphal ceremony to let them see what an amazing person their father is.

The war is basically over, and the conscripted troops will also be dispersed. In addition to Peter's own army, Mircea also allocated 10,000 standing troops to guard Dalmatia. Other armies were to return elsewhere, and Peter himself would proceed to Constantinople with his army and booty.

The entire Adriatic Sea had returned to Roman control, and as for the floating city of Venice, Peter did not completely destroy it. Based on various considerations, the city was turned into a naval base. The St. Mark's Basilica in the center was also forced to undergo major renovations, and other places were also renamed. For example, Ljubljana was changed to Napoca, and other cities were forced to change their names to Romanian names.

Since the Eastern and Western churches had already split and Rome had been robbed, Boniface IX waited until Peter left before issuing a proclamation announcing the excommunication of all nobles who were loyal to heretics. And called on other nobles to form a crusade to regain the land.

In Peter's view, such a move was an explanation to the forces that supported him. Who would spend huge financial resources and troops to do this now?

Besides, Aragon, who supports Rome, is fighting Naples to the death. England is too far away, and France will not let them pass. As for the largest HRE, let alone the internal chaos, many people sympathize with the Orthodox Church, and some people directly advocate the establishment of an independent church, especially in the Bohemian region. The archbishop asked all clergy to do their best to defend Catholicism, but the dean of theology department at the University of Prague refused to obey his orders. and conducted his ministry at nearby Bethlehem Church.

The Brandenburg area is smaller than that of Bohemia. The local Catholic Church still firmly holds a dominant position, but it cannot withstand the indiscriminate bombings of those who are interested. Peter knew that it was not enough to just criticize corruption, so he also wrote about other issues in HRE. For example, the nobles colluded with the Catholic Church to degenerate, plundering the property of farmers and citizens, relying on their own privileges to exploit without paying any responsibility, but the Catholic Church continued to require farmers to pray so that they could be reborn into good families in the next life.

The article written by Peter aroused great repercussions in the city, but there was no fluctuation in the countryside. The reason is very simple. Farmers are illiterate, and even if you post it, the other party will not be able to read it.

On the surface, Bohemia and Brandenburg are electors with great glory, but in fact they are just a bunch of aristocratic unions. Wenzel was already an imaginary king of Bohemia, as was Brandenburg of Jobst. It can be seen that Vlad will definitely have a battle of wits and courage with these nobles if he goes here.

In addition to this information, Mircea asked Peter to choose a fifth of the spoils as his personal reward. Mircea was very satisfied with this heir. The other sons either had their own fiefdoms or titles, or were still young and could not compare with Peter in terms of military exploits or political experience. More importantly, he is the eldest son.

The empire has established the system of primogeniture and cannot change it. Mircea was a little suspicious of Peter before, but now it seems that he is really paranoid.

Vlad learned a lot from Peter, especially when he wanted to rule an unfamiliar land, it was best to seize the most populous class in the place and the forces that supported him. If it is conquered, you can go on a killing spree, provided that the opponent does not have strong allies or other countries will not end up in trouble.

Most of the loot came by sea, but Peter traveled by land. He wanted to return to Zaregbu to see how his fief was doing.

King Martin of Aragon learned that all the Italian states had made peace with Rome, so he had no intention of confronting Naples. Although Sicily is also important to him, Catalonia can also produce Sicilian food. What's more, Laszlo has already led the army across the Strait of Messina, and he still needs to persuade the Aragonese Parliament to provide funds and troops for the war, but the members of the Parliament are obviously more interested in Granada.

In the eastern Mediterranean, the ten thousand Venetians on the island of Crete dwindled under siege by Roman soldiers. Their hometown was wiped out, and their last bit of willpower collapsed. After a period of stubborn resistance, they surrendered to the Roman Empire. The flying lion of San Marco, the symbol of Venice, was trampled underfoot by the Roman army. At this point, the Republic of Venice was destroyed and the country was founded in 706 years.

The recovery of Crete meant that the Eastern Mediterranean region was ruled by the Roman family. Although areas such as the Levant were still in the hands of pagans, Rome's influence caused countries such as the Mamluks and Ottomans to scramble to establish good relations with it.

The expanding land requires the washing of culture and religion year after year, and the continuous expansion of the number of main cultures can lead to long-term rule. The universities in Constantinople were restructured from their original private schools into government universities, providing a large number of intellectuals and officials together with other local universities, and because Wallachia directly became the Roman Empire, the proportion of Romanian began More than Greek.

Dacia, once conquered by the Roman Emperor Trajan, now became his master, and he had to learn the systems and culture they brought. I have to say that history can joke.