Chapter 334
In response to the Mamluk threat, Peter accelerated military construction and troop deployment to Anatolia, and minimized Ottoman support. Assuming that the Ottomans and Mamluks formed an alliance, he would either find allies to fight in groups, or fight with one another. Two enemies.
After years of war, various military constructions have also been improved. The emergence of military ranks, like the examination system, made it possible for ordinary people to rise. Soldiers who re-emerged in order to reopen newly conquered lands and granted land increased their wealth. Soldiers are no longer a profession that people despise, and they can be a way to improve their own class. Since you can't take the exam, you can join the army.
The original spirit of dedication to Rome reappeared. Whether civilians or nobles, churches or merchants, they all gathered around the emperor, and soldiers were ready to fight for the empire.
Those nomads have also gained a certain status improvement. Their children can study in mission schools, and those who meet the conditions can take exams. These are things that other regimes cannot achieve.
The blood tax imposed on the infidels gained the greatest value on them, and the empire received from it a Turkic cavalry who knew the other side well. They believed in the Orthodox Church, received higher education and treatment, and were unstoppable on the battlefield, and the tribal leaders would also side with Rome because of the rewards. Because of an accident, these things belonged to the Cossacks.
Among all the petitions Peter received, there was a proposal from the East India Company's board of directors, asking Peter to remove Mason, the Eastern Governor, on the grounds that he had misappropriated the funds that the company was about to transfer. Now that regular dividends could not be paid out, the shareholders were angry. .
For this document, Peter had two words: reject. If a shareholder gets angry, just sell your shares to him, otherwise just stay there.
"I don't know how he is doing."
Peter thought in his heart, and after comforting Alexander, he also began to care about the Mason family. When he heard that he was going to marry a famous local businessman in Thessaloniki, he sent someone a gift to express his feelings.
"Your Highness, the Duke of Orleans of France has sent a letter."
Peter opened it and looked at it. Inside were some greetings and matters concerning the alliance between the Orleanists and the Empire. It seems that they are determined to drag the empire into trouble in this civil war.
The struggle between the Duke of Orleans and the Duke of Burgundy has entered a fever pitch, and the two sides began to engage in small-scale battles. The Duke of Orleans was accused of seducing and raping Margaret of Bavaria, Duchess of Burgundy. He was also considered to be the queen's lover, and Louis' relationship with the queen was indeed very close. He also obtained many benefits from the King of France and received help from the king in times of crisis. 6⃞ 9⃞ s⃞ h⃞ u⃞ x⃞ .⃞ c⃞ o⃞ m⃞Finally he succeeded in expelling the Burgundians from Parliament.
The new Duke of Burgundy, John, was stripped of his power by Louis. He took advantage of taxpayers' dissatisfaction with the royal family's abuse of taxes and began to incite the masses. He thus won support from businessmen, universities and others.
And John was indeed a straight-tempered man. When he saw that the other party was hindering him, he immediately went to assassinate him. The Duke of Orleans' servants and guards were unable to protect him. Because John had the support of the citizens of Paris and the university, he could openly admit to his murders.
After Louis' death, his son Charles inherited the title and property of the Duke of Orleans. He wanted to avenge his father's death, and with the help of his father-in-law, Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, he succeeded in convicting some of the nobles responsible for the murder. However, John was never punished.
This made him very angry. After much thought, he would be much better off if he could get support from foreign forces, so he went to Rome.
"He wants to find the empire to support him. Why?"
Charles stated in the letter that if he could be supported, Flanders controlled by Burgundy could be given to Rome.
"Do we have anyone in England?"
Peter asked Petkov, who answered immediately. "We have agents in Yorktown and London."
"Since there is going to be a war within France, there must be a war within England as well."
Although it is quite powerful to start a civil war, it is still a bit out of reach based on the current strength of the intelligence network. If you want the Duke of York to rebel, you need the suspicious character of the king.
In addition to the war against the Ottomans, the attack on the Mamluks must also be arranged as soon as possible, otherwise he would not be worried about occupying such a key position.
Therefore, in addition to mobilizing troops and supplies in Anatolia, Peter also ordered to mobilize excess food from the Balkans and Wallachia to Crete and Cyprus, using these two places as future supply positions. .
In response to Rome's battle in the Eastern Mediterranean, Peter named it the War of Eastern Roman Unification. This will be a long-term struggle, not only the expansion of territory, the surrender of local people, the unification of culture, language, religion, etc. If possible, he would also like to unify the empire in five years like Emperor Aurelian, but at this time, it is no longer possible .
Rome has achieved good results in assimilation in recent years. Taking the Balkans as an example, although some people speak two or even three languages, the number of people who only speak Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, and Hungarian has been greatly reduced. The spread of Romanian was greatly accelerated, with people with different accents speaking the same language, indicating the success of the empire's assimilation policy.
Except for some ethnic groups that are difficult to assimilate, other ethnic groups are more or less transforming into Romanians. Farmers and herders are supportive because their lives have become stable; businessmen are supportive because they can go to more places to do business. The citizens also support it. They can join the bureaucracy and have more power.
But those nobles, especially the old nobles, were not satisfied. The enlightened nobles had invested in industry, commerce and shipping and moved to the cities, while those who were unwilling to change continued to stay in their manors in the countryside, relying on land output as their main income. In a country with a growing economy, their funds will gradually dwindle and they will eventually become beggars.
Compared with being economically inferior to citizens, the reduction of political rights is more fatal. The emperor and Caesar said that this was to allow them to take care of their estates and industries with peace of mind. In fact, it was to turn the empire into a completely centralized state. Moreover, Bartlan was not like the previous Comnenus and Valleolo dynasties who compromised with the nobility. They really wanted to eradicate the powerful local nobility, so they used a large number of officials to rule the local area, and they also had specialized agencies responsible for tax collection and the army. The deprivation of all the rights of the nobles made those nobles very unhappy, but under the pressure of the emperor, they could only endure it.