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Chapter 10 Immigrants purchase land and phalanxes

On the Danube, on the way to Constanta, crowds of people walk.They were all people who came from Bulgaria. Facing the approaching Ottomans, they were unwilling to be ruled by them, so they left their homes in various ways and came to Wallachia.

In the border town of Mangalia in Dobroga, many people stopped here and waited for the formalities to be completed.

Most of them came from the Dobroga dictatorship. Although Wallachia took half of the territory, their vitality was not seriously injured, and their essence was in the south centered on Varna.It is also the most densely populated.

"Come, come, all the newcomers register here, and then go to get food."

Hearing the words of a man who looked like an official, all the refugees came to a building to register.Who asked the lord to give more?
Not only tax exemption for three years, but also food and money.This is unprecedented in the Balkans. After all, it is the greatest kindness for you to attract refugees to be tax-free for a few years, and you also send money and food.Many people think that the lord's mind is bad, but more farmers don't think so. They think that the lord is the best lord in the world, and it is a blessing from God.

What should I do if these farmers are illiterate? It doesn’t matter. It’s okay to answer simply, and it’s also okay to click a few points.At this time, there is no large-scale naming, so just remember a few points.The census only records the number of households, and the specific population can only be traced back to the upper class, so let's do it first for the bottom class.

After registering, a man went in the other direction and received some food and enough money to live on for a year.The reason why Peter is so generous is that these newly recruited refugees have to join his army training.

These recruits are similar to those of military households, but the difference is that soldiers cannot inherit, but land can.Now it is also a very means, wait for the population to increase and stabilize before getting other troops.

At the same time, Peter finally learned the news about Chiria Castle.The current lord is unable to make ends meet because of his daughter’s marriage and maintenance of his own life. As Kiria is located at a key node of the grassland trade route, a large amount of trade is carried out here every year, so the lord has greatly reduced the tax revenue of Kiria. The promotion caused complaints from the local people and businessmen.

However, Peter saw an opportunity. Since he was so short of money, why didn't he buy it?

The Chilia region includes the coastal town of Chilia and the surrounding rural and urban areas.Although small, it is an important port city in Moldova.So for this, Peter also very much hopes to get it.

Regarding territorial ownership, there are generally several types.

1. Inheritance, if you happen to have this title, don't worry about the others, what is your relationship with the previous generation of lords, no matter if he is your father, grandfather, uncle or mother, whoever is.According to inheritance law, the most common inheritance law in medieval Europe was primogeniture, and there were also young son inheritance and election inheritance (mostly seen in the Apennine Peninsula).

2. Purchase. If an aristocratic grandfather is unable to manage his own territory because his pocket is too small, then you can buy a new territory through auction or other means.The best example is the rise of the Hohenzollern family.

3. Marriage, through marriage, the man can share the property of the woman, and his descendants can inherit all the titles and lands of both.

4. War (Needless to say)

5. Holy wars, whether it is the Iberian reconquest or the Crusades, have brought a large number of new territories to the entire Catholic world.Nobles loyal to the nobles who participated in these military operations, or directly or indirectly participated in the nobles, generally received new territories.

6. Reward from the king.If a nobleman has achieved great success while working or fighting for his lord, he may be rewarded with a land.This applies to all nobles, regardless of their original lands.

7. Use claims to start wars and then claim them.

8. Due to the occupation of the original territory, the lord compensates for the canonization.The Ibolim family of the Kingdom of Jerusalem was occupied by the Saracens in the 12th century. In order to compensate him, the king of Jerusalem gave them a piece of land elsewhere.

9. Be a bishop, because the bishop has his own fief.

Since the other party is so short of money, let's exchange it with land.There should be some money from my own house.

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It is said that Peter is really not stingy with soldiers, not only has the most training, but also has the best equipment and salary in the Balkans.

Those wandering knights who were recruited had to undergo a lot of cavalry training every day. Although many people complained, they had no choice but to give too much.Moreover, the lord was still a child younger than them. After seeing him riding a horse with a weapon and cutting down the target, he became more motivated. They didn't want to be inferior to a child.

In order to reduce military expenses, it is also for centralization and military training.Peter also adopted some of the measures in Wang Anshi's reform to organize all peasants into a reserve team.Gather for military training during slack, and patrol at night to maintain law and order.It can not only make the strong men from all over the place receive military training and join the regular army to save military expenses, but also establish a strict security network and organize the people from all over the place to stabilize the order.At the same time, certain taxes are reduced or exempted during the war to reduce farmers' dissatisfaction with the lord.

In order to maximize the combat effectiveness of infantry, Peter decided to train the famous Spanish phalanx.

Relying on this phalanx, the Spaniards ran rampant in Europe for more than a century, and also forced the plate armor knights out of the stage of history.Later, that Earl Tilly, relying on the Spanish phalanx, became an earl from a small person, until he met the even more awesome Gu Erye...

Throughout the 16th century, the Spanish phalanx was the most powerful battle formation in Europe-until Morris appeared in the last few years and came up with an improved Morris phalanx from the Spanish phalanx...

The basic number of this phalanx is 1000 to 1500 people, with a large number of musketeers and spearmen.As long as the number of soldiers is sufficient, they will be arranged in several long square formations.

Although it is an invincible formation that can shoot bullets in any direction, the firepower in a specific direction is also reduced a lot. In addition, it takes a lot of time to arrange this formation, so the mobility is also poor.

However, this does not mean that the Spanish phalanx is bad.You must know that this phalanx will kill the Quartet in later generations. Neither the French army nor the Swiss mercenaries can break through the Spanish phalanx.

The reason why the early Spanish phalanx was so powerful was because of the extensive use of Spanish musket guns.This is a heavy musket weighing about 10 kilograms, twice as heavy as the musket in the war.Correspondingly, his caliber is also larger, and the projectile is heavier, weighing 50 grams, which is one or two.

One or two heavy lead bullets were fired by muskets, and hit the knight in plate armor at a subsonic speed of several hundred meters per second. In addition to powerful kinetic energy, there was also a powerful shock wave.Under such a powerful blow, the knight had to fall off his horse and be injured, or even die directly.It won't get better if you hit the horse.If it enters the body, one or two heavy lead bullets will cause wounds... plus the tumbling effect of the lead bullets... Hehe...you can directly arrange the funeral, there is no way to save...

Of course, there are still very few muskets at this time, so let's replace them with bows and crossbows first.Although the lethality is small, it should be done first anyway.

(End of this chapter)