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Chapter 227 The Courage to Attack

Regarding the expedition to the Golden Horde, Mircea regretted a bit after making this decision. Why didn't he take down Anatolia first and then go north, now that all parties have a little land, and he will definitely lose sight of it.

But the arrow is on the string, and he has to send it. As long as the other party proposes peace talks, he will withdraw his troops. After all, the future will be long.

In order to prevent Ottoman's surprise attack, Peter put the reconnaissance team on the border before leaving, and at the same time used businessmen to collect Ottoman's intelligence.The recruitment of the legion was reopened, and it was carried out in strict accordance with Peter's requirements.The firearms factory has also been expanded, and gunpowder is stored in a dry place, as well as weapons of mass destruction such as rockets and landmines.Let him see who will bump into their iron wall with no eyesight.

The days in Constantinople are both tense and leisurely. After dealing with political affairs, Peter would visit the tombs of the previous Roman emperors and pay for their repairs, because most of the tombs were destroyed in 1204. .

This time Peter came to the cemetery of Basil II. He was not buried in the Byzantine traditional royal mausoleum, but in his cavalry training camp.Peter restored the tomb for him and engraved the previous inscription on it.

From the moment God gave me dominion over the lands of the great empire,

My life is always on the alert,

To defend the children of New Rome,

March boldly into the West,
Straight to the farthest edge of the eastern frontier,

Along Abbasco, Ismail, Arrapis, Isbel,
The Persians and Scythians testify to this.

Good man,
In return for my conquest,
Watch over my grave and reward me!
Peter also added a few words below.

God's people take up their swords and shields again,
Fierce heretics are still eyeing,

The great new Rome will not repeat the same mistakes,

We are God's subjects,

The glory of the empire will not fade away,
Constantinople will always be here waiting for his master.

These few words are like a declaration, announcing that the prosperity of Rome has begun to return.It is also Peter's determination to push East Rome to the top again.

In the absence of Mircia, Peter carried out drastic internal affairs construction.He promoted the land distribution policy that the Roman Empire did not maintain. In addition to soldiers, those civilians who transported materials to the front line of the war would also be rewarded accordingly, of course, in the case of victory in the war.Nobles can also get land and manors with their contributions.

This is actually the European version of the military merit system. The implementation of the military merit system is attractive mainly because of the incentives behind the title.Correspondingly, the supply of material resources is extremely important.As there are more and more wars, more and more people will benefit from them, and the amount of resources needed will increase.Driven by such a tide of resource supply, the requirement for material resources is particularly important.It is conceivable that if there is not enough resource supply, the military merit system will inevitably lose the basic meaning contained in the original design intention.In other words, resource support determines the scope and depth of the implementation of the military merit system.

If there are not enough resources to support it, it is impossible to form a military merit system.There is also a relative satisfaction of resources.Regardless of whether it is the East or the West, the reward that soldiers want to get when they join the army is land. Wallachia's continuous conquest of the East is the best motivation for them to join the army.

After stabilization, Anatolia has gradually integrated into the governance of Wallachia. Benefiting from its geographical location, the local customs revenue has directly increased from 30 to 90.The population also increased considerably, and commerce and agriculture resumed.

On the fiscal question of greatest concern, reliance on the deportation of Jews was somewhat mitigated.Although there will be cases of officials and soldiers enriching their own pockets in the process, most of them will be handed over to the government obediently.Iasi alone received an amount of 90 lei, not including real estate.

After these Jews were deported, they moved to Poland and Lithuania, which were more tolerant. The capital of Lithuania, Vilnius, was even called Eastern Jerusalem, where they could get a better living environment.

The money was invested in local construction, the vacancies of the Jews were filled by other businessmen, and the taxation of various places was also carried out in an orderly manner. As long as it entered the treasury, it could persist.

In addition to granting land, Peter's second order was to abolish some torture, including amputation of hands and feet, and replace it with exile, so that labor can be accumulated to develop remote areas.Of course not all forms of torture have been abolished, such as blinding the eyes.However, the scope of application of torture has been narrowed, and it is only used for people with certain assets such as nobles and officials.Civilians are mainly executed and exiled.

Secondly, the Wallachia code was implemented, and other Roman laws were compiled and deleted.Abolish some outdated laws and formulate more balanced and flexible regulations.And set up courts and judges in various places to ensure the good operation of the law.

For important industries such as mining, shipbuilding, shipping, metallurgy, and military industry, Peter specially established protection laws.Using state funds to set up factories, other light industries adopt trade protection policies to restrict imports and encourage exports.Use trade barriers to block large exports from other countries, especially the Italian city-states.

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At this time, Mihai in Cyprus had already begun to learn how to govern the region, from politics to economy to military affairs, all of which were linked together.

This expedition confiscated many lands of Latin nobles, which were allocated to the expeditionary army and local peasants who led the way according to Peter's order. Those Orthodox slaves and serfs were also freed.Their burst of productivity is higher than the previous decades combined.

Mihai toured Nicosia and nearby areas every day to see the progress of their construction.In the evening, I discussed the joys of life with my wife. Maybe it was because the climate in Cyprus was not suitable, so I was sweating profusely every time.

Since Cyprus is close to the Levant, he gets some news about the Middle East every day.For example, Timur, who captured Bayezid, quelled the rebellion in other places. A guy named Kara Yusuf was expelled from the Mesopotamia by Timur to Mamluk, and Timur was killed by Timur in Syria. The population is sparsely populated and severely underpopulated.

Timur's ruthless Mihai was also shocked, but after thinking about it, could he use such methods on those heretics?He asked the Knights of the Dragon recuperating in Cyprus. The head of the group believed that it was not advisable to treat heretics with both hardness and softness.Mihai had no choice but to give up.

(End of this chapter)