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Chapter 203 Imperial Power
In order to maintain the rule of Anatolia, Peter asked his helper in Constanta.

"Your Highness"

"Oh, my dear Alexander, I hope you can bring me good news."

At this time, Alexander had become the financial director of Anatolia. This down-and-out businessman had delivered a satisfactory answer in his previous career as an official, so Peter transferred him here in the hope of being able to plan Anatolia's economy.

Alexander did not disappoint him either, quickly enacting decrees on industry, commerce and trade for the situation in Anatolia.Protect local factories, encourage exports, reduce imports and increase tariff revenue by reducing or exempting taxes on textile and leather industries.At the same time, it also supports high-end industries such as printing and dyeing and silk.

"Your Highness, if all goes well, Anatolia's customs duties can be increased by 30 lei this year."

"The increase in income is not small"

"Yes"

The economic crisis is temporarily resolved, and the next step is construction.

"My lord, the road from Kizicus to Smyrna has been planned. It is expected to take six months to complete."

Originally thought that it would take a long time to build the road, but during the survey process they discovered that the Roman Empire and the Nicaean Empire built the Von road system, so only the previous road system needs to be repaired and reinforced to form a new road.

As for the workers, they were served by captives, and there were many captives in the war in Anatolia.Now is their time to shine.

Wallachia is working hard, and Ottoman next door is naturally putting on a good show of brothers fighting against each other.Suleiman attacked Isa, Musa attacked Muhammad, and the whole of Anatolia has been smashed.

Not only these four people, Trebizond also went to attack after seeing this situation, regaining part of the Black Sea coast, and the Mamluks supported Muhammad so that he would not be wiped out by his brothers.Other big and small forces are also scrambling to expand their territory. On this small peninsula, a big chaos is going on.

In the Balkans, the links between Wallachia and Morea grew stronger.Whether it is trade, transportation or culture, they all develop together.Seeing that expansion was the limit, Theodore began to encourage cultural development.

Athens became a new cultural center, and they used the culture of ancient Greece and Rome to oppose the theocracy and asceticism of Western Catholicism.Even the Orthodox Church got in on the act.

In order to show the difference between the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church, the church used Andrei to hype the corruption of the Catholic Church and the incorruptibility of the Orthodox Church.And try to reduce too much interference to the lives of the people, and at the same time cling to the thigh of the Grand Duke of Wallachia, only in this way can he not be hit.

After the iconoclasm movement, the Eastern Church gradually obeyed the emperor, while the Western Church established the Papal State with the help of Pepin. In the 12th century, the power of the Catholic Church reached its peak. The church was the tallest building in the city, the bishop held the right to interpret the Bible, and the pope was the representative chosen by God in the world.Like moths, the church absorbs a lot of money from the people every year to enrich itself. Although some people proposed reforms, they were all suppressed by the popes of Rome and Avignon.

The Orthodox Church took advantage of the struggle between the two old men in the West to take root in Bohemia and Naples, and used them as bases for missions to the west.and spread among the general public.

Laszlo should be the first Western monarch to convert to the Orthodox Church. After he saw the excessive interference of the Catholic Church in politics, he had a good impression of the Orthodox Church, which quietly studied theology, literature and medicine, so he secretly converted and accepted baptism.He attacked the Catholic Church and the Catholic nobles, and demanded the crown of Croatia, but Louis ignored him at all. Coupled with the instability of the domestic nobles, Laszlo turned internally and would not fight foreign wars for the time being.

The strange situation in Naples made the Papal State restless. The Pope secretly bribed the nobles of Naples to let them assassinate Laszlo. After all, it is really worrying to keep such a bomb by his side.Especially after he adopted an Orthodox Christian, the Pope felt that this was an agreement he had reached with Wallachia, and they were going to fight Rome.In this case, assassination became their only way.

In northern Europe, the Polish Orthodox Church and the Bohemian Orthodox Church began to spread the religion.Especially in Bohemia, clean churches are more popular.The people at the bottom of the society converted to Orthodoxy and opposed Catholicism, but the high-level nobles believed in Catholicism and suppressed Orthodoxy.Religious contradictions are plaguing this Shinra's number one elector.

In contrast to the decline in the prestige of the Catholic Church is the strengthening of the authority of the Orthodox Church.After the death of Patriarch Anthony IV of Constantinople last year, Basilius should have appointed the patriarch, but the church directly sent people to Bukuriesti to seek Wallachia's opinion. In the end, Bishop Theodosius, who belonged to the Orthodox Church, became the patriarch.

After the Council, the Ecumenical Patriarchate began to be reestablished.The connection between the three Patriarchates of Antioch, Jerusalem and Alexandria and King's Castle was re-established.There is a great tendency to catch up with the Catholic Church.

Mircea also imitated the titles created by the Roman Empire. He canonized Peter as the Duke of Western Anatolia, the Earl of Smyrna, and the Governor of Anatolia, which provided legal principles and claims for the expansion of Wallachia.

At the same time, Mircea appointed Peter as the commander of the Anatolian army, truly realizing the truth on the land of Asia.At the same time, the power of the Boyar Council and the local nobles continued to be weakened, and the centralization of power was strengthened.Another centralized empire will soon emerge.

The centralization of Wallachia was largely influenced by the Roman Empire, first of all the Orthodox Church's unity of man and nature.As a faction of Christianity, the Orthodox Church has its own characteristics. For example, "it maintains the ancient and past orthodoxy, maintains the sanctity of the belief, and it has its uniqueness in preserving the tradition of the belief." From another perspective, the Orthodox Church has "more mysticism. There are more mysterious and intuitive ways here."This is in line with the Roman imperial rule.

The second is the influence of the orientalization of the Roman Empire.Long before the division and division of East and West Rome, the development of the eastern part of the Roman Empire had been significantly different from that of the western part of the Roman Empire. One of the important reasons for this major difference was that the vast eastern part of the Roman Empire was originally the Hellenistic world.In addition to being characterized by the spread of Greek culture, the Hellenistic world inherited the traditions of despotism and supremacy of the monarchy from the original Eastern countries, including the deification of the monarch and the worship of the monarch.

After Justinian, the empire became more and more oriental. This was due to the need to consolidate imperial power, including deifying imperial power, making court rituals mystical, and making imperial power above everything else.The Principality of Kievan Rus, the Principality of Wallachia, and the Principality of Moscow accepted the Easternization factors of the Roman Empire while accepting the Orthodox Church.It can be said that Wallachia is the successor and savior of the Eastern Roman Empire.

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