Chapter 84 Various Actions of the Bulgarian Governor and the Ottoman Sultan

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

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

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 a Greek royal family can minimize the emotions of the Greeks and turn the conqueror in their impression into one of them.

"My lord, this is the report of Alexander's supervisor." Nicholas handed Peter the quick report of Constanta.

Peter's treasury is in Constanta, and Alexander is responsible for daily income and expenditure. If there is an emergency, he will use foreign exchange to deal with the emergency.

Peter's small treasury has more than 500,000 ducats, and the main source of money is still maltose. Because it is limited every year, the price is getting higher and higher.

Others include refined salt trade, chamber of commerce dividends, bank dividends, etc. Although the expenses have also increased, it is still more than enough.

Strong finances are the basis for Peter to implement various reforms and constructions, and Peter is obsessed with inherent assets such as land. On the one hand, he intercepted part of the confiscated land, and on the other hand, he vigorously reclaimed other lands. So at present, he has a small asset, not much, just 10,000 acres.

These are the results obtained in recent years. The reclamation of small farmers is too weak, and only the lords can protect their property from loss. And Peter did so.

Reclamation is mainly divided into material means of production and non-material means. The main material means are seeds, farm tools, funds, etc., and the main non-material means are legal protection, agricultural knowledge, etc. Peter has all of these, and not a small amount.

Between Uxhall and the Dniester River, there are already large and small settlements for reclamation. The lords have greater power over these lands than before, and the defense line established by the Dniester River has resisted attacks from nomadic tribes, which allows farmers to settle down and engage in production.

Peter is not a ruler who climbed up from the bottom like Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, and cannot protect farmers in all directions, but it is still possible to ease the contradictions 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 and return them the next year. The same was true for seeds and oxen. This was the first time that farmers had seen such a lord.

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

In addition to these, Peter had a better understanding of expansion. Not only are there the most common wars and redemptions, but there are also colonizations of city-states in northern Italy. However, expansion is easy, and how to govern new lands has become a problem. Here, you can rely on bureaucrats and churches to control, but what about Anatolia? Further away, the Levant, Syria, Egypt, or southern Italy and Sicily, these places are mostly pagans.

Peter began to have the idea of ​​forming a knightly order, like the three major knightly orders, to use religion to rule the local area. And immigrants must guard the border and assimilate, so that stability can be achieved.

However, Peter turned over and over and found that the Orthodox Church did not have the characteristics of armed pilgrimage, which was very embarrassing. In addition, the scope of the Orthodox Church is very small, so even fewer soldiers can be called.

Peter also consulted the Bishop of Sofia, who said that he could help him call people to recover the lost territory, which is actually like the Crusades. However, Peter still planned to convene a great council to establish it.

A church meeting is a gathering of representatives of the universal church or local churches to discuss church affairs so as to reach a unanimous decision. There are many kinds of church meetings, such as bishops' meetings, patriarchal meetings, or local meetings, among which the one representing the entire universal church is called a great council.

After the Great Schism of the Eastern and Western Churches, neither religion recognized the great council held by the other. The last meeting of the Orthodox Church was decades ago, so Peter planned to hold it at a future time.

The Bulgarian Church began to integrate into the Wallachian Church, and Archbishop Carol had become the Patriarch in the religious meeting presided over by the Grand Duke, and the Patriarch of Constantinople was helpless.

There are now three patriarchs in the Balkans, one is the Patriarch of Serbia, one is the Patriarch of Constantinople, and the other is the Patriarch of Wallachia. The control areas of the three patriarchs depend on the borders, but there is no doubt that the Wallachian Church is the most active church in the Balkans.

Patriarch Carol directly gave Grand Duke Mircea the title of Orthodox Guardian and Christian Defender, which raised Mircea's prestige in the Orthodox world. And preached that Orthodox Christians should unite and drive out the pagans.

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

"Sultan, Brankovic's tribute has arrived."

"Yeah"

This time Serbia's tribute was as high as 15,000 gold coins. In order to get Ottoman support, Brankovic took out all the surplus. He used this money to exchange for Ottoman support.

"Grand Vizier, tell me about the 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.

"Sultan, we have signed an agreement with Wallachia, so the two countries will not fight for the time being. Take advantage of this time to send troops to the south and east, attack Hungary, and send people to Poland and other countries to make friends. In this way, Wallachia will be isolated, and then the Sultan will lead the entire country's army. No matter how capable they are, they will definitely fail."

Bayezid approved this plan. He had underestimated Wallachia before. They were able to win with fewer troops in the face of superior forces. During the conquest of Anatolia, he carefully thought about the situation in the past few months and found that the fundamental reason for their failure was the dispersion of troops, which gave the enemy the opportunity to defeat them one by one.

So he decided to directly concentrate the troops in one place and advance together, leaving the opponent no chance to take advantage of. According to his idea, he would first let one person lead the Sipahi to feint to Sofia and Nis. After attracting the opponent, he led the main force to attack Burgas directly, and then attacked Varna until Constanta. Then he began to encircle and suppress the exhausted Wallachian army. Force the Grand Duke to surrender.

This plan is much better than the last one. They have learned to make a feint to the east and attack the west. Moreover, Bayezid plans to add the vassal states of Anatolia. If all goes well, he can pull out an army of 100,000 in five years. With so many troops, let's see what Wallachia can do to fight him.

"Everyone, this treaty is our shame and Allah's shame. We must wash away the shame and show those pagans that Allah's children will not be defeated by this failure."