Chapter 336 The Impact of the Emperor’s Visit

Chapter 336 The Impact of the Emperor’s Visit

Mircea received a warm welcome in Prague, where all the local nobles, big and small, showed up. In order not to look down upon the emperor, the city government used most of its savings to hold banquets and celebrations for the first time. And drove out all the beggars in Prague.

The Roman emperor and the Bohemian king had a lively conversation. Although Wenzel had no real power, he could still talk quietly with Mircea.

For these nobles, Wenzel did not hide his disgust for them at all, and could only keep saying that he would do his best to ensure that Vlad and Anne would inherit the throne.

There are currently strong calls for religious reform in Bohemia, and Wenzel intends to use this incident to enhance his power.

The whole of Prague is immersed in a sea of ​​joy. The upper class is constantly consuming beer and food, while the common people at the bottom can only beg for a little money or food from them. The strong class gap made some people completely disillusioned with the local aristocracy. Some of them went to Brno, while others stayed here, intending to use the city council to fight.

For this in-law, Mircea also gave enough face and gifts. He directly said that if Wenzel gets into any trouble, he will definitely bring his army to help.

This is a warning to those with ulterior motives not to take advantage of him. And even if the nobles were dissatisfied with the Roman Empire, the poor citizens had a very high favorability towards Rome.

The southern cities headed by Brno continued to develop and grow in trade with Rome. The grain, beeswax, textiles and spices produced from Constantinople were the bulk of their imports, and a large amount of their silver coins were also sent to Constantinople. The result was the birth of a number of pro-Roman groups.

There is an undercurrent surging in Bohemia now, and all forces want to win in the next struggle. The arrival of the Roman Emperor at this time is very special. Who knows if he came to support some people, but it turned out that the emperor did not express support, nor did he not say support. How to say this specifically, I will just say it.

This can only leave the nobles and citizens to guess what the emperor means. Does he support the king, or does he intend to depose the king and then take the throne himself? After all, they can see Mircea traveling around and they don't believe that the emperor has no other purpose.

But in fact, the emperor did come here to travel. Either have a banquet today or go hunting tomorrow, and have a lot of fun.

It's no wonder, after all, from the Grand Duke to the Emperor, he has never gone out to play once. If there is still official business in Hungary, it is just pure fun in Bohemia. If the money is not enough, just ask those people to go to Constantinople to settle the matter.

In fact, there is no need to do this. Peter has asked Baptiste to take 500,000 lei from the treasury and give it to the emperor so that he can have fun. By the way, I also brought things that needed his approval for him to sign. You can play, but you have to approve these things first.

The emperor's tour also led to the development of the situation in Europe, and Poland was the most worried. Wladyslaw suddenly found that he was half surrounded. From Rome to Moscow, if Bohemia came back, he would have to jump across the Baltic Sea. So he must let this siege be destroyed.

Moscow is already the territory of the Orthodox Church, which directly becomes unrealistic for itself, so it is enough to support someone in the country to become the Grand Duke. For Bohemia, Sigismund is a good choice.

Because Lithuania lost a lot of land, Vytautas had a hard time in recent years. Although they had successfully taken back Kiev by exploiting internal conflicts among the Cossacks, they still lost nearly one-third of their land. Under such circumstances, alliance with Poland is the last resort.

Vytautas and Wladyslaw promoted the integration of the two countries many times, and Sejm members in Krakow and Vilnius had to marry each other to strengthen themselves. In order to extract more money and soldiers, Vytautas promulgated the Vilnius Decree, which devolved some judicial and taxation rights to local governments. He also announced that local serfs were not allowed to move, and landlords had the right to permanently pursue escaped serfs.

As the last land purified by Christ, Lithuania's political system is still in a backward era. Whether it is Poland or Moscow, everything in Lithuania is backward. Thanks to the marriage of Jagiellonian and Anjou, otherwise it would be worse than Rurik. behind.

Vasily I also kept an eye on Lithuania. Although the partition treaty signed with Rome gave Kiev to Lithuania, it also gained a lot, including a large area of ​​land in the north and the Baltic Sea outlet, and the Scandinavian Peninsula was also allocated to him. These places are enough for him to digest for a while.

After receiving Rome's promise, Basil began to push Moscow to break away from the rule of the Golden Horde. He began to form the principality's army and hired his brother-in-law, Duke Michael of Ukraine, as a mercenary general. The re-establishment of the Amber Road brought the relationship between Rome and Moscow closer. The Moskva, Volga, Don and Dnieper rivers were used for trade, and the exchanges between the two sides further increased. Roman artillery also entered the Moscow army, and this weapon would become a unique weapon against the nomads.

Kraków was also planning to find other countries to form an alliance against Rome. Wladyslaw learned the lessons of Venice and began to look for those strong countries. Aragon hated Naples and Rome because it lost Sicily and Malta. Austria also lost its outlet to the Adriatic Sea. Plus Poland and Lithuania, that's four countries.

In addition, Burgundy can also join the anti-Romanian alliance, as long as it finds a way to make the Duke of Burgundy think that Rome will help his archenemy, the Duke of Orleans. Others could make promises, such as letting England inherit the throne of France, letting the Papal States rule Constantinople, and letting Castile rule Greece and Naples. As long as he dares to say it, what he does next is the other party's business.

By the way, Sigismund, the future Emperor of the Shinra, also had to join in. As long as he recognizes his throne of Bohemia and Hungary, then only Moscow is left, and Lithuania is aggrieved and aggrieved, so let's take it all.

Talent, really talent. Let’s not talk about whether these countries will join. With your powerful nobles and landowners, can you raise an army of 50,000 like Rome and continuously transport supplies to the front line? Unless you are willing to form an alliance with the Ottoman Mamluks, But do you dare?

Poland had better solve the Teutonic problem first, otherwise it would be unjustifiable. I know it's not easy for you, but who has it easy in Eastern Europe? Western Europe has resisted the Mongols and other nomadic forces, resisted the pagans, and resisted all powerful forces.

As a result, Western Europe began to gradually recover from the tragic situation after the fall of Western Rome, followed by great navigation, Renaissance, expansion, explosions, and wars. In Eastern Europe, only Russia's future expansion will be successful and it has a lot of resources. Unfortunately, the temperature is too cold. In order to break through the Mediterranean, Rome must control two places, one is Suez and the other is the Persian Gulf. Only by controlling these two places can the empire truly achieve a successful breakthrough.

Now that Rome has started the Suez Canal project, commercial trade in places such as the Levant is expanding rapidly. All they need to do is find an opportunity to make the Mamluks obey, and this leg is enough.