Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 30 The Mongolian One Piece
The Khanate wants to deploy a navy in Novgorod, so there is no big problem with supplies.There are many tall trees there, and there is no shortage of wood.The long-term trade and shipping has also enabled the locals to have relatively complete workshops and docks to build and maintain ships.The only difficulty is the problem of personnel.

The Purple Horde cannot maintain too many troops here, nor can it transfer the main force of the Greek navy.In fact, many people within the Khan Court do not want the Greeks to intervene in this matter and expand their power.And the Novgorodians had to deal with wars in all directions, and they couldn't provide more manpower.

Therefore, the Purple Horde urgently needs more manpower to develop navigation.

After some selection, Pingzhang, the province of Beihai, proposed that Mongolians could be recruited locally from the grasslands in the south to fill the manpower vacancies.

Because among the various ethnic groups and cultures around, the Mongolians are the most suitable for sailing.

This conclusion is not difficult to derive.

What is a marine civilization?The first prerequisite is poverty.Local resources are not enough to meet their living needs, so they can only venture around, expand, and travel between different regions in order to obtain more resources and improve their living standards.

In many civilizations, as long as they farm and produce diligently, they can support themselves, so they will not gamble and run around with nothing to do.But the Mongolian tribes here are so poor that they don't even have a pot, so they can only wander around.Obviously, they have this precondition and basic motivation.

When navigating, the identities of the navigator are multiple.Maritime merchants and pirates are often different identities of the same person.The development of navigation is not just about doing business, robbing other merchant ships and even robbing targets on the shore is also something that may happen at any time.

On the steppe, of course, the same is true.There is a complex relationship between the tribes. On the one hand, they will trade, and on the other hand, they plunder each other daily.Mongolian tribes who are used to this kind of life will be very compatible with it.

Another important aspect is the degree of risk tolerance: although overall, shipping has brought huge wealth to cities along the route, the risks are also great.If you encounter a storm, you will lose everything. In fact, you are very fragile.The so-called "adventure" has very high requirements for the ability to tolerate risks, and many people are really not easy to accept.

But on the grasslands, the stakes are equally high.A white disaster may destroy the entire tribe.Mongolians who have been in this environment for a long time also have the same risk tolerance.

In the end, even if profits were made, the bulk of the proceeds belonged to the merchants and shipowners.Ordinary sailors live a rough life on the ship all day long, and their income is limited.If the Ross people have a fixed piece of land, they don't want to live in such a bad life.

But the life of the Mongols was equally difficult. Many of them were slaves of tribal nobles, bumping on horseback all day long, and had little income.They are engaged in sailing, and the acceptance is much better.

Anyway, they originally lived a nomadic life with no fixed place.Sailing between ports, and transitioning between pastures, the difference is not too big.The herdsmen have long been used to this, and it will not be too difficult to adapt to this rhythm of life.

It can be seen that there are only wrong names, but no wrong names.The Mongols are the real ocean nation.

Under the guidance of this idea, Beihai Province began to recruit a large number of Mongolian herdsmen as sailors to fill the manpower gap.

The so-called Mongols here are actually mostly local Kipchak, Kuman and Bulgar tribes.Of course, this is not a problem.The Purple Horde Khanate is very experienced in how to drive herdsmen.

The management of the Khanate on the sea is very loose, just like the old Bulgar part of Kazan and the old place of Kuman in southern Russia. As long as you swear to become a Roman citizen in front of the gods and pay tribute to Bai Sai Khan regularly, you can enjoy a wide range of benefits. autonomy.

Novgorod divided the large non-core land in the north into several territories.It was originally planned to recruit Lithuanian nobles, as vassals of the Republic, to play the role of the northern barrier.But after the arrival of the Purple Horde, the Republic changed its mind and gave them to the provinces directly under their jurisdiction.

The provincial officials selected several suitable places to build ports as the camps for these sea herdsmen.Each ship may not see people for a long time at sea, and is essentially an independent nomadic tribe.Therefore, according to the size of the ship, the captain was awarded official positions ranging from ten to one hundred households, so that the establishment of the management organization was completed.

At the beginning, many herdsmen were not used to it, and suffered a lot of losses.But this time the Khanate was not short of people. Due to the sufficient rewards and looting dividends, many small tribes who had a hard time came to join them.

Due to the rapid increase in the number, the number of ships soon exceeded the needs of commerce.The idle Mongols wandered about in ships, plundering the coasts of Sweden, Lithuania, and Poland.

These European countries have a limited number of standing armies, and usually rely on the strength of each enfeoffed territory to deal with the enemies that appear and deal with ordinary pirates, and the effect is not bad.

However, the Mongolian pirates formed a big gang without a teacher, and gathered a large number of tribes from time to time. Under the command of the leader and the old pirate, they purposely chose a breakthrough point, and with the help of the engineers sent by the local Zizhang, destroyed The defensive fortresses of all countries then rushed in and plundered all along the coast.

It was difficult for the locals to resist such sudden and large-scale intruders, so they suffered quite seriously.

Both the Purple Horde and Novgorod are very satisfied with this.Because Lithuania and Poland were attacked from behind, they had to mobilize soldiers to defend, which made the pressure on the purple tent on the southern front much less.Because of the good results, this system has been retained.

The scope of Mongolian pirate activities has far exceeded the current jurisdiction of Beihai Province.Most of the imperial court decided to upgrade their ranks and change their names to more formal names by the way.Therefore, Guo found an old pedant through Taohuashidao's relationship to figure out a good name.

The old pedant did some research and told them that they could choose a word that was related to waters and had multiple meanings. "Wei Feng·Shuoren" says: "The river water is Yang Yang", "Mao Shi Zhuan" says: "Yang Yang, grand also"; "Guang Ye"; "Lu Song · Xi Gong" says: "Thousands of dancing Yang Yang", "Mao Shi Zhuan" says: "Yang Yang, many people".Confucius said: "The water is so beautiful!" It can be seen that this word has always been a beautiful word related to water.

To pay attention to the meaning of the ancestors, "Beihai" should be changed to "Beiyang" to show the prosperity of the country's military power and the strength of the navy.

Everyone felt that the old pedant was indeed very educated, so they changed the name to "Beiyang Navy" according to his suggestion.

Due to the rapid expansion, the shipbuilding workshops in Novgorod were in short supply, and the North Sea Province even went to Hamburg and Lübeck to order German warships.After a few years, the fleet was quite large.

At this time, a new war broke out.

The Kingdom of England was originally an important wool exporter in Europe, and London trading houses also played a very important role in the Hanseatic League.However, when King Edward III was in power, the export of wool was prohibited, and the import of foreign textiles was also prohibited. Violators were severely punished.

Edward hopes to use this to forcefully promote the development of the country's textile industry and convert wool exports into exports of textile products.But this policy obviously hinders the interests of foreign businessmen.

Flanders, which imported a large amount of wool for production, first expressed dissatisfaction.Other cities in the Hanseatic League also strongly condemned the compulsory trade protection of the English government and called on Britain to open up free trade.

But Edward III was a strong monarch. Not only did he intensify the original wool tariff, he even began to draw a line, prohibiting shearing within five miles of the coast.These measures made the businessmen very angry, but Britain was still strong at the time and was beating France, and there was nothing anyone could do.

However, in the last years of Edward's reign, he suffered from apoplexy and was unable to manage the government anymore. In 1376 and 1377, the heirs "Black Prince" Edward and Edward III passed away successively. The subsequent heirs were fatuous and incompetent, and the nobles fought endlessly, falling into chaos for nearly 30 years.

The North Sea merchants embraced the thighs of the Purple Horde Khanate, and decided to take advantage of this good opportunity to use force to force Britain to open up trade.France strongly supported this, provided a lot of sponsorship, and sent people to Dadu to lobby the imperial court for additional troops.

Under the French gold coin offensive, the Khan court quickly agreed to their plan.Grand Duke Isaac Dukas personally led many entourages and technical personnel to Novgorod to command operations.

In the following year, Mongolian pirates went south in large numbers, meeting with the fleets of allied cities along the way, first defeating the old enemy Denmark, and forcing the king to declare neutrality.Subsequently, the Beiyang Navy sailed out of the Jutland Sea and attacked various ports in England.

King Richard II of England was not welcomed by the nobles. The nobles headed by John, Duke of Lancaster, were happy to see the king deflated. They just protected themselves and refused to provide the king with any assistance other than verbal support.The big businessmen who originally supported trade protection began to waver when they saw the enemy's menacing approach, and they didn't want to stick to it.Under a series of unfavorable conditions, the king's army could only face the Beiyang Navy at the mouth of the Thames, but was defeated because of being outnumbered.

Many Mongolian pirates, Hanseatic mercenaries and a large number of French mixed in among them successfully landed and entered London, looting wantonly.Many places in the city were burned, and Richard II fled in a hurry and hid in Wales.

The military defeat led to a further erosion of the king's authority, which was soon overthrown by John's son Henry, known as Henry IV.England was forced to reopen wool exports and remove high tariffs.The Hanseatic League and the Purple Horde expanded the original trading post in London and gained more privileges, making it a virtual country within a country.

Everyone didn't expect that an action would have such a big result.After tasting the sweetness, the cooperation between all parties became closer.

(End of this chapter)