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Chapter 217 The Gap in the North

Mircea ate, paid and left.He walked along the sea wall to the Hagia Sophia, and all the way was full of smiling people. In their view, it was a wise choice for Wallachia to take over Constantinople. Those heretics and heresies have already converged. Many, this is the first time they have raised their eyebrows, and they don't want to live that humiliating life anymore.

Mircea paid for the renovation of the Hagia Sophia. The original dilapidated scenery has disappeared, and everything is getting better.He prayed in the cathedral and prayed for the safe return of his son in Anatolia.

"How is that guy today?"

Back at the palace, Mircea asked about John VIII.

"That one is very obedient, but she keeps clamoring to see the former queen mother."

Mircea's face darkened, as expected, it was difficult to control the older ones, and he had to speed up his actions.

Since moving into King's Castle, Mircea has sent Queen Mother Jelena to the monastery in the name of recuperation, and the two children have been handed over to the church for upbringing, but John has been refusing to obey, but Theodore is quite cooperative.

Mircea has been reducing the Western Europeans in an orderly manner, but there will always be some fish that slip through the net. Jelena communicates with them through the monastery's transport convoy, and goes to Galata to contact the Western European countries, preparing to overthrow Wallachia in one fell swoop. Asia, and divide their lands.

These people must be eradicated as soon as possible. Fortunately, their power is only in Junbao and a few small islands in the Aegean Sea, so it is very convenient to deal with.

"Your Majesty, this is the list of materials submitted by the governor, please read it."

Mircea took the paper, and he was surprised by the total amount of supplies inside.The total value of all kinds of things exceeds 220 million lei, half of which is the salary of the new recruits.

"Your Majesty, there are only 50 lei left in the national treasury. The newly collected taxes will not be collected until autumn, and there is really no way to allocate them."

The Minister of Finance complained that since Mircea had not yet become the only Basilius, there were two political systems, but the process of integration began to accelerate, and this situation would soon disappear.

"I understand your difficulties, but now is the right time, we can't let go of this opportunity."

The co-emperor's order caused the Minister of Finance a headache. The best way now is to transfer part of the money from the treasury in Iasi, Suceava and other places. Fortunately, there is no one-time request. I hope these can last until autumn.

For the Ukraine region, Mircea felt that it would take a shot.He knew that an organization called Ross Company was currently in charge of reclamation, and it was currently relying on commercial bases for expansion, but Mircea felt that he could go one step further and occupy part of the land while the Lithuanian army was marching eastward, which was also in line with Eastern policy.

At this time, the army led by the Cossack chief had occupied the vast area between the Dniester River and the Dnieper River.This made Vytautas very anxious. He only hoped to defeat the Golden Horde quickly, and then return to the army to expel the Cossacks.

But the Great Khan would not give him this opportunity. He already knew Lithuania's plight, so he decided to wait for changes and lead the Lithuanian army to seek a decisive battle near the Volskra River.They also sent light cavalry to harass the opponent's supply line, so that they could not concentrate on responding to the enemy. They even planned to call Moscow to beat up this ignorant guy, but they were afraid that the opponent would ask for something, so they didn't call.

Having obtained such a large area of ​​land, the Cossack chief found a very embarrassing thing. He had no way to integrate the acquired land. The reason why he was able to obtain such a large area was to reach an agreement with other Cossack tribes to distribute the land after the war Work.Relying on this promise, 15 larger Cossack tribes formed an alliance to attack Lithuania, but when they were about to divide the fruits of victory, their differences emerged.

The chiefs of each tribe think that their own tribe has done the most and wants to get the most land.But they didn't want other tribes to get it. The meeting of chiefs was held for 10 days without any progress.As time went by, two tribes even secretly contacted Vilnius. If this continued, Lithuania would push back, and all previous efforts would be in vain.

The Cossack tribe in the lower reaches of the Dnieper River has close ties with Wallachia. The chief decided to ask for their help. This conquest was also initiated by him. The weapons and materials used were all imported from Wallachia. It can be said that there is no tile. In Lachia, there would be no Dnepr and Zaporozhye Cossacks today.

As the main promoters of the Northern Expedition, the power of the Dnieper Cossacks and Zaporozhye Cossacks accounted for three-fifths of the entire alliance.Wallachia has a close relationship with these two ethnic groups. Not only are a large number of ethnic groups employed by Wallachia, but sometimes even disputes are resolved with the Grand Duke.This time they thought the same, and only Wallachia could solve the problem this time.

The fighting continued, and the Cossacks were also harassed by another force on the steppe: the Tartars.They originally settled in Crimea, but after Wallachia occupied the whole territory, some of them were assimilated and stayed here, while the rest left Crimea and moved north.In order to expand their territory, they targeted the Cossacks who had acquired a large number of places, harassed them frequently, and also expressed their loyalty to Lithuania, willing to do their best for them.

The ruler of the Principality of Kiev couldn't sit still at first, and he decided to take this opportunity to expand his sphere of influence.While the Cossacks had no time to take care of it, they attacked south under the slogan of recovering the lost land. This is really chaotic in the north and south of the Black Sea.

Although the political situation is chaotic, it does not affect economic and trade exchanges.A group of merchants headed by the Rus Company traded along the Dnieper, and everyone profited from it, so there wasn't much to stop them.

At this time Vytautas had come to the Volskra River, where the two sides fought a decisive battle.Vytautas' army fought very well at first, but when the Great Khan divided part of his troops to follow Vytautas' rear, the coalition forces were in chaos and defeated.At least 20 princes, including Wladyslaw II's two brothers, were killed, only Vytautas survived.This brought a thunderbolt to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

This failure directly made some principalities in the country ready to move, and Vytautas temporarily had no time to take care of the land occupied by the Cossacks.Life-saving is the first.Seeing this, the Great Khan directly invaded Lithuania. In his opinion, this was an excellent opportunity to enhance his prestige. Now that the Lithuanian army has been disabled by him, if he can take the opportunity to recover a large area of ​​the Golden Horde territory, then It couldn't be better.

(End of this chapter)