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Chapter 84 Various actions of the Bulgarian Governor and Ottoman Sultan

After deciding to help Morea, Peter asked about the princess of the despot.

"12 years old, educated in Constantinople. Character..."

Peter has already regarded her as his future wife. After all, to inherit the Roman Empire, marrying a member of the royal family or becoming a co-emperor is the fastest way.

What's more, he is a Vlach, and marrying the Greek royal family can minimize the emotions of the Greeks and turn the conquerors in their impression into one of them.

"My lord, this is the report from Supervisor Alexander." Nicholas handed Constanta's quick report to Peter.

Peter's treasury was in Constanta, and Alexander was in charge of the daily income and expenditure.If you need it urgently, you will use exchange to meet the emergency.

Peter's small coffers already have more than 50 ducats, and the big money is still maltose.Because it is limited every year, the price is getting higher and higher.

Others include refined salt trade, dividends from chambers of commerce, and bank dividends. Although expenses have also increased, they are still more than enough.

Strong finances are the basis for Peter to carry out various reforms and constructions, and Peter is obsessed with inherent assets such as land, so on the one hand, he intercepted part of the confiscated land, and on the other hand, vigorously cultivated other land.So at present, there are small assets, not many, just 10000 acres.

These are the results obtained in the past few years. The cultivation of small farmers is too weak, and only the lords can protect their property from loss.And that's what Peter did.

Reclamation is mainly divided into material means of production and non-material ones. The material ones mainly include seeds, farm tools, funds, etc., and the non-material ones mainly include legal protection, agricultural knowledge, etc. Peter has all of these, and there are many.

Between Uxhall and Transnistria, large and small settlements have been reclaimed.The lords had more power in these lands than before, and the defenses established by the Transnistria against raids from nomadic tribes allowed farmers to go back to production with peace of mind.

Peter is not a ruler who climbed up from the bottom like Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, and he cannot protect farmers in all aspects, but it is still possible to ease conflicts to a certain extent.

At the same time, he also vigorously promoted iron farm tools. If farmers could not afford them, they could rent them out and return them in the coming year.The same is true for seeds and cattle. This is the first time a farmer has seen such a lord.

Water conservancy facilities are also fundamental to agriculture. Using water from rivers such as the Prut and Transnistria to irrigate farmland can yield more food.Therefore, vigorously building water conservancy is also one of the agricultural tasks.

In addition to these, Peter learned more about expansion.There are not only the most common wars and redemptions, but also the colonization of northern Italian city-states, but expansion is easy, and how to govern the new land has become a problem.Here, the bureaucracy and the church can be relied on to control, but what about Anatolia?Farther away, the Levant, Syria, Egypt, or southern Italy, Sicily, these places are dominated by pagans.

Peter began to have the idea of ​​forming a knight order, like the three major knight orders, using religion to rule the local area.In addition, immigrants must be guarded and assimilated, so as to be stable.

Peter, though, rummages around and is embarrassed to find that the Orthodox Church has no armed pilgrimage.In addition, the scope of the Orthodox Church is very small, and there are even fewer soldiers that can be called.

Peter also went to consult Bishop Sophia, who said that he could help him gather people to recover the lost land, which is actually like the Crusades.But Peter was still planning to call a council to establish it.

A church synod is a meeting of representatives of the universal or local church to discuss church affairs and reach a consensus decision.There are many kinds of church councils, such as bishops' synods, patriarchal synods, or local councils, among which the one representing the entire universal church is called the ecumenical council.

After the Great Split between the Eastern and Western Churches, the religions of both sides did not recognize the ecumenical council held by the other.The last meeting of the Orthodox Church was decades ago, so Peter plans to hold it sometime in the future.

The Bulgarian church began to integrate into the Wallachian church. Archbishop Karol had become the patriarch in the religious council presided over by the Grand Duke, and the Patriarch of King Castle was also helpless.

There are now three Patriarchs in the Balkans, one is the Serbian Patriarch, one is the King Castle Patriarch, and the other is the Wallachia Patriarch.The areas controlled by the three patriarchs depended on the frontier, but the Wallachian Church was without a doubt the most active church in the Balkans.

Patriarch Carol directly gave Grand Duke Mircea the title of Guardian of the Orthodox Church and Defender of Christianity, which boosted Mircea's prestige in the Orthodox world.And preach that Orthodox Christians should unite and drive out heretics.

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After the great victory, Bayezid and the minister discussed the next itinerary in Bursa.

"Sultan, Brankovitch's tribute has arrived."

"Um"

This time Serbia's tribute was as high as 1.5 gold coins, and Brankovic used all the surplus in order to get Osman to support him.He used the money in exchange for Osman's support.

"Grand Vizier, tell me about your next plan." Bayezid turned to Ali Pasha. At this time, the Sultan had learned his lesson and began to listen to the advice of the Grand Vizier.

"Sudan, at present we have signed an agreement with Wallachia, so the two countries will not be at war for the time being. Taking advantage of this time, send troops to the south and east, attack Hungary, and then send people to Poland and other countries to make friends. Ya is a lonely family, and then the sultan leads the army of the whole country, no matter how capable they are, they will definitely fail."

Bayezid, who had previously underestimated Wallachia, approved the plan.Facing a superior force, they were able to win more with less. During the conquest of Anatolia, he carefully thought about the situation in the past few months, and found that the root cause of his failure was the dispersion of troops, which gave the enemy a chance to defeat each other. .

So he decided to directly concentrate one force and advance together, so that the opponent would have no chance.According to his idea, let one person lead Sipaxi to attack Sophia and Nis first, and after attracting the opponent, he leads the main force to attack Burgas directly, and then attack Varna until Constanta.Then began to encircle and suppress the exhausted Wallachia army.Force the Grand Duke to surrender.

This plan is much better than the last time, and I have learned to make noise.Moreover, Bayezid intends to add the vassal states of Anatolia. If it goes well, an army of 10 can be drawn in five years.With so many troops, let's see what Wallachia will fight against him.

"Everyone, this treaty is a disgrace to us, a disgrace to Allah. We must wash away the disgrace, and let those infidels see that the children of Allah will not be defeated by this failure."

(End of this chapter)