Chapter 251 A Gradually Changing History
The Southern Chamber of Commerce suddenly received a huge sum of money, which surprised the president. He can continue to carry out excavation work in Suez, which is a costly job.
The various chambers of commerce are also organizing different caravans to go to Sicily, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia and other places to establish their own trade networks. Gradually accumulate their own wealth.
Peter also ended his visit to the West. During his visit to England, he met the current British King Henry IV. And had friendly talks with him. Now is not the era of Britain's take-off in 200 years, so a normal visit is completely in accordance with diplomatic conventions.
This is the first time that Rome has sent people to visit England, and Henry IV also attaches great importance to it, so Peter enjoys the highest treatment. Of course, he also met Henry, the 14-year-old heir to England, who will push Britain to the top in the future.
Of course, he also met Richard, Earl of Cambridge, whose son is an important figure in the future civil war. He whispered in Richard's ear: "Your descendants will become the king of England in the future."
Peter didn't know how influential this sentence was. After all, history could not be changed by him alone. After the visit, Peter left England by boat. They would go to the Netherlands first, and then use the Rhine and Danube rivers to return to Rome, passing through cities such as Cologne and Vienna. Counting the time, they have been gone for 4 months.
During this time, Peter did not forget the task of reproducing offspring, so Sophia became pregnant. Such seamless connection is very common in Europe. The most important thing for women is to give birth to royal offspring, and one is not enough, there must be several.
So Sophia was pregnant. For the safety of his wife, Peter first sent someone to send her back to Constantinople. Peter himself sent her across the English Channel and then went to the Netherlands. He was going to Hungary.
"Father should be able to dispel his doubts on this visit."
Peter said to Petkov on the boat because of the importance of intelligence, so he also brought him here.
"Your Highness, Sigismund has assembled his army to attack Buda. King Mary has sent a special envoy to ask for help from your Majesty and assembled all the troops at the same time. This is a life-and-death situation."
"I see. It seems that the key is still in Bozzoni."
Peter thought about the next situation. He must stand on Mary's side. I heard that she had some difficulties in government affairs, so how about letting him do it for her.
As Peter went to Hungary, the first diplomatic activity of the Roman Empire came to an end. Rome turned its attention to the East again. Seeing that the Ottomans were still in civil war, Mircea seized the opportunity and asked Adrian to send troops to attack the Sandarbey Kingdom in the north. Using the method of gradual compression to solve the Ottomans and the Turks, if everything goes well, it will be all solved in about 10 years and advance to the Armenian Plateau.
Mihaly also moved from Cyprus to Ukraine, formally accepted the title of Duke of Ukraine and a large piece of land. Count Yegor, who was responsible for assisting him, was also deeply trusted by Mircea. I believe he will be able to assist Mihaly well.
Crossing the Black Sea, Mihaly set foot on the land of Ukraine. There has been no large-scale development here, only endless grasslands, so everything has to start from scratch.
"It's worse than I thought, but at least you can live here."
Mikhail's wife also silently supported her husband. After seeing her husband become the governor, her own ambition began to emerge, but her goal was not Basilius (she also knew that this was impossible), but her brother's position, the Grand Duke of Moscow.
"Your Excellency the Duke, because some areas are under the jurisdiction of the emperor, your territory is like this."
Yegor pointed out to Mihajli with a map that the border from the west of the Don River to Lithuania is his fiefdom.
"Not bad," said Mihajli.
"Your Majesty deliberately exempted taxes here for seven years just to give the Duke more time to develop. You can choose any place as the town you rule, and all orders will be issued from here."
When he heard that he had to choose the capital, Mihajli did not dare to be casual. He had heard his brother say that the most important thing for a country is the capital, and a bad choice would cause a lot of trouble.
But he looked at several places carefully, and none of them worked. They were either too close to the nomads or the transportation was underdeveloped. It seems that I have to rebuild a castle.
"I plan to build a castle from scratch as a base of rule. Is there any place you recommend?"
Yegor immediately said yes, and pointed out that this place could be built into a fortress, and then pointed to the map. This point is located in the center of the Ukrainian Duchy, far from the border, and can effectively control the land.
"Then it's here."
After agreeing, Mihaly casually named this place Dehrim, which was the name of the city that Peter often told him, and used it on it. If this place is based on history, the place chosen by Mihaly will be called Donetsk in the future.
This area covers an area of more than 70,000 square kilometers and is the largest feudal state in Rome. But the population is unknown, the bureaucratic system has been initially established, and there are still a lot of things waiting for Mihaly. I hope he can hold on.
After resting in Azov for two days, Mihaly set off for the place he chose. He was accompanied by more than 2,000 craftsmen, slaves, cooks, servants, etc., all of which were equipped by Mircha. Worried that he would not be used to living in Ukraine, he also gave him a lot of living supplies. It seems that Mircha is also very optimistic about his son.
As for the places directly under the empire, a port was also established as a transit station with the Azov Fortress. Mircea also attached great importance to the newly conquered land and specially allocated 2 million lei from the treasury for governance. If it were not for the financial constraints, he could have allocated more.
The Cossack Emirate also sent envoys to establish closer relations with Rome, not only granting Rome military passage, but also increasing commercial ties. Rome gradually controlled the Cossacks in commerce and religion, while Lithuania, which was driven out of the south, set its sights on the east and north. Moscow and Teutonic became Vitataus' new targets.
Moscow has successfully annexed Pskov, and Novgorod has become the last obstacle to his unification. Vasily I personally led the expedition and planned to take it down personally, but the Golden Horde and Lithuania would not let him succeed, and decided to attack from both sides, forcing him to return to defend. In this way, Novgorod is temporarily safe.
Even if he could not annex Novgorod, Vasily did much more than the previous Grand Dukes. He achieved most of the unification of Russia and worked hard to get rid of the fate of being controlled by the Golden Horde. These things are enough to make him famous in history. His reputation is no less than that of Nevsky.