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Chapter 235 Romania’s influence on the West

In addition to serving in the government, Peter devoted more attention to navigation and commerce.

In the Golden Horn of Constantinople, a fleet was parked quietly.The Romanian flag was flying above, and the crew members inside were full of energy and ready to set off at any time.

"Your Highness"

Mason, who is responsible for dealing with other countries, has made preparations and will take over the task from Peter before leaving.

"This search for the east is to get rid of the obstacles of the pagans. God has given us a good harbor to explore the blue land and the country flowing with gold and spices."

After talking a lot, Peter handed Mason some documents, which were all diplomatic letters submitted to the local rulers after arriving in the new country.One of them was not only written with the highest quality ink and paper, but also full of compliments.

The fleet set off, because it was going to cross Egypt, so the scale was not very large, there were only 50 ships. They planned to find a place to build a shipyard with a dock as a forward supply position after crossing Egypt.Then explore east.

As for the news from the investigation in Suez, they traveled around the area along the ancient road and finally concluded that it would take at least 100 million people to work continuously for 50 years before it can be reopened. This is still a preliminary result. The specifics are You have to wait until you do it yourself.

Last year's financial summary has also come out. Romania's income finally exceeded the 1000 million mark, reaching 1042 million silver lei, which is 100 million gold coins.

The biggest increase in revenue is from tariffs and taxes on salt, wine, and beehives. Romania's trade is growing rapidly, among which beeswax, wine and other commodities are sold the most and earn the most revenue.

Then came the land tax and poll tax, both of which also increased significantly due to Romania's encouragement of reclamation and immigration.Then came the industrial and commercial taxes, craftsmen from Ottoman and Italy contributed to economic development in cities such as Constantinople, and luxury goods industries such as weapons, armor, and jewelry were restored and developed.

Relying on the wealth gained from the 10-year reform, Mircea and Peter can continue to expand the army and invest in other areas.The training level of the standing army beats the surrounding countries, and Mircea attaches great importance to this army, so it continues to expand.

In addition to expanding its army, Romania began to increase its influence in the West.In Hungary, Queen Mary reused Transylvanian nobles and officials, and even used leu as currency. Originally, this move made the nobles dissatisfied, but under her rule, the situation in Hungary improved. The economy was also relatively stable, and the small and medium-sized nobles and citizens supported her, so Mary could continue to secure her position as king in Buda.

"Your Majesty, Zigmund has already assembled a large number of troops and will attack Buda soon. Judging from the current strength of the kingdom, it cannot withstand it. We must ask for reinforcements."

Her ministers hoped to be rescued, and Mary thought so too. The troops brought from Transylvania were not enough to protect such a large territory, and Croatia in the south was also preparing to make a fortune from Hungary. Looking ahead, , only Romania can help them.Mary sent an envoy to Constantinople to request reinforcements. In addition, she wrote a letter in her own hand and asked someone else to secretly deliver it to Peter. She knew very well that if he could agree, then half the battle would be won.

Mary also made a lot of efforts to promote the integration of Hungary and Romania. For example, she established Orthodox Christianity as the state religion, began to use Greek and Romanian for writing and translation, and used Lei and Romanian weights and measures. Due to the currency crisis and civil war, , these policies were implemented without much effort.If everything goes well, Hungary's annexation to Romania will be a hundred years from now.

In Bohemia, which is adjacent to Hungary, the great nobles jointly attacked Wenzel. Wenzel was worried that they would attack his family and sent his wife and daughter to Bavaria, but the Duke of Bavaria refused them to enter, so he had to turn to Constantinople, hoping to keep them safe.

In Bohemia at this time, calls for religious reform intensified.Wycliffe's writings entered Bohemia under the cover of the Orthodox Church, and the prestige of Catholicism dropped to a freezing point.

In Naples, King Laszlo used his relationship with Romania to centralize power and win over the church and citizens to deal with the nobility, while the nobility had close ties with the Papal States and other forces.Laszlo's marriage was even more attacked, and the struggle between the two parties was intensifying.

As for Croatia and Bosnia, which are sandwiched between Hungary and Naples, Romania has long regarded them as their own.No matter how noisy they are, it's just a splash, and it disappears immediately.

----split line----

In Augsburg, Sigismund, a strong contender for the Shinra throne, signed an agreement with Albrecht, the self-proclaimed Archduke of Austria, to marry Sigismund's daughter Elizabeth if the Archduke of Austria had a son in the future , and if Sigismund had no sons, the daughters would inherit all his titles.

With this document, Albrecht was very happy. He wanted to make a good man, strive to realize this agreement as soon as possible, and reproduce the glory of his ancestor Rudolph.At the same time, in order to continue to please Sigismund, Austria continued to provide him with soldiers and political support.

Bartram also gave a lot of support. For example, Sigismund owed 50 silver coins one after another. Because he had no ability to repay and the other party had a professional debt collection team, he could only continue to use the title and city of Hungary as collateral.The towns and cities in the Pozzoni area were all mortgaged in, and the local residents had no choice but to accept them, thinking that they couldn't be worse than Sigismund.

Then, the bank directly auctioned off the land, and finally an oriental nobleman named Ceausescu bought the land and the title of Duke of Pozzoni for 60 silver coins.Become a small local independent force.

This ruler usually did not show up and appointed a governor to govern the area. Moreover, he was an Orthodox Christian and funded the construction of a series of churches, missionary schools, road repairs, tax reductions, etc. Pozzoni quickly restored prosperity.The residents all wanted to meet Duke Ceausescu, but no one thought that the Duke was in Constantinople to discuss other matters.

Seeing that Constantinople did not fall, those voices asking the West to send crusaders disappeared a lot, replaced by Romania's voice to continue to recover the lost ground.Like Iberia, the land was recovered in Christian hands.However, militarism is not a good thing. What Romania needs now is to rest for two years and stabilize its rule. Military operations should be added to the itinerary first.

(End of this chapter)