Chapter 493 Bad News for the Alliance

For the split of Moscow, the Patriarch of Moscow stood up and announced that Moscow could not split, calling on the two to reach an agreement in Ryazan.

But in fact, the contradiction between the two sides was already quite deep. It depends on who can't hold on first. Yuri cut off the food transportation of Novgorod, and the Hanseatic League acted as a food supplier.

At this time, the Cossacks in the south were attacking Kiev. The lords in the south of Lithuania desperately defended, and Vytautas needed to transfer the army to the south as soon as possible.

In the castle of Stuttgart, Duke John of Burgundy was meeting guests, including Archbishop Charles of Mainz, Count Rupert of the Palatinate, Elector George of Saxony, Duke Louis of Bavaria...

John cleared his throat when he saw everyone was here, and said, "I personally lead 22,000 troops in the army, 14,000 troops from the three archbishops of Mainz, Cologne, and Trier, 8,000 from the Count of Palatinate, 10,000 from the Duke of Bavaria, 5,000 from the Duke of Saxony, and about 62,000 from other people, not including the garrison."

At this point, John glanced at everyone present, and everyone nodded slightly to show that they had no objection to this number.

He continued, "At present, Rome has broken through Innsbruck, and Munich is in danger. In addition, Rome is also attacking La Spezia and Parma from the direction of Milan, and the situation in the entire south is not optimistic."

"What!!!"

With the prosperity of trade between the Ming Dynasty and countries such as Japan and Korea, Rome's position as a middleman has gradually become important. The Ming Dynasty's finances cannot be separated from Rome's foreign trade. The income of the Shimazu family is also inseparable from Rome's trade, not to mention Korea.

Such military expansion continued to increase financial pressure. Fortunately, the Egyptian Sultan relieved some of the pressure by collecting 350,000 lei from the land and 200,000 lei from the eastern colonies.

The archbishop knelt on the ground, opened his arms and roared to the sky. He had never been so pious in his life.

Everyone was also sad, because not only was the Western Mediterranean handed over to someone else, but more importantly, it said that because the navy was destroyed, their army could only enter the Apennines through France, which would definitely delay time. The plan of multi-party siege was no longer necessary.

The Romans also explored more islands with the help of local tribes. In the year when Peter ascended the throne, the Roman Noble went east along Java Island and discovered a bunch of islands rich in spices. All kinds of spices could be produced here. Noble named this place the Spice Islands and officially brought it under the governance of Rome.

"Okay, everyone, let's save Munich first."

"His Majesty the King has discussed negotiations with Peter to delay time. We need to strike quickly so that we can have an advantage in future negotiations."

As soon as the voice fell, a messenger ran in hurriedly. "My lord, it's news from Genoa."

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Seeing that everyone was a little discouraged, Rupert encouraged everyone: "Don't worry, we still have Poland, Lithuania, and Iberia. In addition, the Duke of Orleans's army is on the way. We only need to delay the enemy for a month. When the time comes, we will fight them to the death and we will definitely succeed."

"God, look at your people, are you really going to abandon us?"

Everyone pricked up their ears to listen, hoping that there was good news, but they were disappointed.

In the colonies in Southeast Asia, sugarcane is the main crop. In addition to shipping the white sugar produced back to Rome, it will also be sold to local or other countries. Under the influence of Rome, local minerals were also developed, and the output of tin, copper, iron and other minerals increased.

In Formosa, Rome did everything it could to recruit immigrants from other places to cultivate land here, and conquered many tribes with gentle means. Coupled with its geographical location, the local area quickly prospered.

"The Iberian fleet fought against the Roman fleet near Cagliari seven days ago. Except for 12 ships that escaped, the rest were wiped out."

At the same time, the five-yearly transportation of East Asian trade income was also sent to Constantinople. In the past, it was collected once a year, but at that time, too many resources were occupied and the colonial tension was changed to once every five years. And this time the income was handed over a total of 2 million lei.

In Rome, the celebration of regaining Jerusalem and conquering Egypt had not yet passed, and the government introduced a new military expansion plan. The Roman Empire increased from the original 120,000 standing army to 200,000, and added camel artillery units in Syria.

Since profits were handed over only once every five years, local Roman merchants began to use this money to do other businesses, such as lending, foreign exchange, or recruiting immigrants to expand colonies.

As soon as this was said, everyone agreed. Because they knew that it was impossible to completely defeat Rome, and the most important thing was to cease fire when it was beneficial to them. However, Archbishop Mainz still said a few hard words due to the Catholic position, although it was useless.

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And those living in the tribes also knew what these Roman merchants wanted, so they kept collecting them in exchange for the other party's gold coins and other things. Roman wine became the favorite of tribal chiefs, and some glass products were used to exchange for minerals, wood, spices and other things.

After all, he was quite good at reading and chanting, but he was only able to understand the battlefield situation. The aggressive attitude of Rome was really unbearable for them. They thought that Rome had begged them to send troops to repel the pagans, but now they had become pagans, no, heretics. Not only were they beaten back step by step, but they even lost Rome. When had they ever been so cowardly?

Archbishop Mainz exclaimed, the fleets of the three Iberian countries were gone? That was the most powerful fleet in the western Mediterranean, with a history of hundreds of years, but it was completely annihilated by a fleet that had been redeveloped for ten years. Are they still alive?

John gave up his current idea. At present, Rome would soon attack, so he had to think about how to deal with it.

With the participation of the Romans, East Asian trade became more complicated and prosperous, and a large amount of profits flowed into the pockets of Roman merchants and local Chinese merchants. Due to the emperor's tolerant policy towards the Seres, many Chinese followed the Roman merchant ships to Constantinople. They converted to Orthodox Christianity, changed into local costumes, married and had children, and became a special nation.

Eastern trade had become Rome's most important source of income, allowing it to persist longer than other countries in a long war. It was also able to mobilize more troops without affecting production, something that other countries had not experienced.