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Chapter 213 Foreign Policy
After regaining Antalya, the Crusaders continued east to the Cilicia region.Along the way, many people came to vote, and a large part of them were Armenians.

After the demise of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, the local Armenians could only accept the rule of pagans. After Timur came, he suffered a catastrophe. Now that Wallachia has come, many people think that they are all Christians. , would not beat their own brothers, so they joined the army one after another, causing the Crusaders to grow bigger and bigger like a snowball.

Wallachia adopts a policy of monitoring the Armenian church. Except for beliefs and language, everything needs to be changed, but it is not mandatory.

Mircea was also very happy when he got the news of Antalya's recovery. If it wasn't for his busy schedule, he even planned to go to the front line to fight in person.To express his encouragement, he promoted the military ranks of many people and sent the navy to ensure supplies.I hope that they will fight all the way to Antioch, another holy city will be recovered, and the fragments of the five Patriarchate districts will be increased by one.

After two busy months, Constantinople finally has the appearance of a capital.Mircea ordered 120 noble families to be moved here first, not only to facilitate surveillance, but also to increase the prosperity of the city with the entourage and property they brought.Various craftsmen, scholars, and businessmen came back to the city, which made the local residents feel hopeful.

Although John VIII was still the emperor, he could only show up when receiving foreign guests, and he didn't usually see anyone.Mircea completely controlled the situation, and he brought his family to enjoy the supreme glory together.

As the co-emperor, Mircea naturally began to plan to regain the lost land.Everything seems to be going well so far, but with the increase of land and the promotion of status, diplomacy has become the most important action in Wallachia when facing more and more countries.

"Now our progress to Anatolia is very smooth, those western countries will not attack us because of heretics, but Hungary and Transylvania are also our goals, but they will not just watch us annex. "

The diplomatic director was the first to stand up, and he told Mircea about the current diplomatic situation in Wallachia.

"Currently Naples, Moscow and Transylvania are supporting us, Milan and Bohemia are neutral, England and France are not interested in the East, Venice and Genoa may be undermining."

"Those two only have interests in their eyes. As long as they use trade to stabilize them, they will not stop them."

"By the way, Your Majesty, King Laszlo of Naples wishes you to support his actions in Italy."

"Why, is he going to Rome?"

It really made Mircea right. When Laszlo was forced to leave Naples, the Papal State had written it. For revenge and expansion, he was going to attack Rome.

At the same time, he demanded that he have the right of succession to the Count of Provence, and he planned to establish a powerful Italian kingdom that would integrate the entire Apennine Peninsula.Before that, he needs to prepare for war.

The population of the Kingdom of Naples is about 300 million, but the available army is only about 3, because the current military system is still dominated by noble conscripts, and the king's control over the nobles directly affects how many troops he can get.After Laszlo returned to Naples, he set out to form a new type of army. They directly obeyed the king's orders and used the fire purchased from Wallachia. The fighting power was several times higher than that of the conscripts.

Now that the army was formed, it was time to practice his skills, and finally he set his sights on the Papal State.

The Papal State continued the feudal system of the Lombard Kingdom, and there were many feudal fiefdoms of counts and marquises in the Pope's territory, all of whom were almost independent lords.Ravenna and other places are waiting for him to conquer.

He wrote to the Grand Duke of Wallachia, no, it should be the co-emperor of Rome now, proposing to allow the spread of the Orthodox Church and the land in Dalmatia to support his military operations.

Mircea thought for a while and said.

"The alliance between the two countries is indestructible. Our country supports his territorial claims on Provence and heresy, but he must ensure that our country will go to war with Venice in the future. He must firmly support our country."

Mircea is ready to completely regain control of the Eastern Mediterranean. An alliance with Naples is an extra security, and the same is true with Milan.

In addition to the West, Mircea also paid attention to the Northeast.Like Moscow, he also covets large tracts of land in Eastern Europe, especially the Ross region occupied by Lithuania. Rich resources and cultural heritage are the most suitable places for expansion.It's just that Lithuania took the lead.

In order to obtain the lands in Northeast Europe, Mircea began to discuss the partition results with Vasily I of the Duchy of Moscow.Vasily believed that Moscow needed to restore all the lands of the Kievan Rus period, but this was not realistic, so he made concessions for reasons, and Wallachia could get the former Rus territories south and west of Kiev.

But for Wallachia, Moscow has not even loosened the shackles of the Mongols, and Donskoy's counterattack is currently only a flash in the pan.What's more, the Novgorod Republic in the north is still eyeing, and Lithuania in the west is also planning to expand. This makes Wallachia feel that Moscow's current strength is not worthy of his ambitions, and Wallachia now has Constantine. Fort, he has defeated heretics many times, so he has the responsibility to protect all Orthodox Christians, Kiev and the others should get it.The big deal is for Moscow to take Livonia and Sweden, they are not interested in the northern regions.

The agreement between the two countries fell short, but the relationship did not break down.After elevating the bishop of Moscow to patriarch, Basil I also wrote a letter praising Mircea as the savior of the Orthodox world.

The Golden Horde can no longer control the land of Ukraine. Some people attacked Crimea again before, but all failed.After the city of Kaffa was sold, the whole of Crimea was acquired by Wallachia.And this also angered the nomadic tribes who depended on the slave trade for survival, and they were ready to avenge Wallachia at any time.

Seeing that Crimea was completely recovered, a new province was born.Relying on its geographical location, it has become a gathering place for east-west goods and a transit point for population, and it is preparing to continue to expand northward.

The opportunity came quickly, and Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania and King Wladyslaw of Poland won the opportunity given by the Pope to organize a crusade against the Mongols.This move officially declared to Western European countries that Lithuania and Poland belonged to the Christian world, and the knights had no excuse to attack Poland and Lithuania.

The two countries assembled the whole country's army, and had achieved success in the previous two expeditions. Vytautas believed that this time would be the same, and a steady stream of wealth and honor would flow into Vilnius.

(End of this chapter)