Chapter 175

"This is the university, the place with the strongest cultural atmosphere in Constanta."

Peter brought Sophia to Constanta. For his new wife, Peter used the most money. Clothes, cosmetics, perfumes, as long as she liked, Peter bought them all.

However, Sophia was not interested in these. She was really interested in academics and literature, so Peter brought her to the University of Constanta.

In the past few years, the university has developed rapidly. On the original basis, four subjects were added: astronomy, alchemy, weapons research and craftsmanship. The latter two were added by Peter himself. He believed that the research would be faster.

Sophia was instantly fascinated by so many books. Some texts that only existed in Constantinople appeared in Constanta, and many of them were original manuscripts.

"This is really great, I have never seen so many books."

"Do you like it? I can sell it to you at a lower price."

"Okay, but I don't have money."

"What a pity, but fortunately there is another way to pay."

"What is it?"

"Be my wife, forever."

Sophia blushed instantly and hid shyly in Peter's arms. Peter just smiled and hugged her.

During this time, Peter took Sophia to many places, Iasi, Suceava, Benderi, and Sophia, who has the same name as her. For the princess who never left the house, this was an unprecedented experience.

In just a few years, Wallachia expanded from a country of 80,000 square kilometers to the Balkan hegemon of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers. Such a country is very attractive to those who want to take risks, and the surrounding countries are also desperately trying to obtain intelligence in order to obtain the greatest benefits in the future.

The marriage with Sophia is not only to obtain the declaration of the Roman emperor, but also to gain the support of the Greeks. You should know that after the Fourth Crusade, the Greeks hated Western Europeans, especially those who spoke Latin. Coincidentally, the language of Wallachia belongs to the Latin language family, but after a long period of influence from the Eastern Roman Empire, it became the most alternative language, belonging to the Eastern Roman branch of the Latin language family.

In order to ease the relationship with the Greeks, Wallachia took a lot of measures, including encouraging Orthodoxy and promoting the revival of Greek literature. The marriage with Sophia was also the most important step. Many Greeks living in Morea and Constantinople came to Wallachia to serve. However, most of them were scholars.

These measures eased the emotions of the Greeks, and they gradually regarded Wallachia as their second home. A large number of talents were used by Wallachia, which improved the local culture, economy and other aspects, making Wallachia more like a country.

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In Cluj, Grand Duchess Mary had returned to Transylvania after attending Peter's wedding. She still had to make all preparations to take Hungary back.

However, her ministers are not concerned about this at the moment. Instead, they are more concerned about her marriage.

Marrying Mary, even if there are no children, the man's family can obtain the claim of the entire Transylvania and Hungarian crown with this relationship. How can they not care about this, so they recommend candidates for marriage to Mary every day, which makes her very annoyed.

"Gentlemen, I already have a candidate for marriage, please stop doing this."

This surprised the ministers and they hurriedly asked who the man was. Mary directly said that he was a nobleman in Wallachia. But she refused to reveal his name. They had to give up.

Mary didn't know much about governing the country, but fortunately she had nobles and churches who were willing to work. In order to protect the hard-won results, everyone from peasants to nobles united to build Transylvania together. This made the Hungarian nobles feel unprecedented pressure.

Sigismund was also distressed. He finally finished the wedding, and there were a lot of things in Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire. What's more terrible is that his stupid brother has met with ministers very frequently recently. What's the purpose?

In order to maintain the army and his own expenses, Sigismund could only borrow money crazily. He even went to the bank of Wallachia and obtained 130,000 ducats with Hungarian tariffs as collateral. The money was really not enough.

Affected by the division of Hungary, many nobles lost their land and mines. There was no place for them to stay in other places, so they could only borrow money to survive. Sigismund took this opportunity to use money to win them over and gradually expand his power.

The differentiation of the nobles brought about the flow of the people. A large number of peasants fled to Transylvania and Wallachia. Even if they were captured by the army every day, it would not help. The number of peasants who fled only increased and did not decrease. Hungary's agriculture stagnated and exports began to decline.

Transylvania was thriving, a large amount of land was developed, the mines were re-mined, and several copper and silver mines with large reserves were found, which brought a lot of income. Mary invested the income in the army and construction, and also bought artillery and muskets from Wallachia to imitate them to form an army. Her revenge was unbearable.

Such a situation in the Balkans frightened Serbia. Brankovic personally brought gifts to meet Grand Duke Mircea and surrendered to him permanently. He also transferred the tribute originally paid to Hungary to Wallachia. Mircea's patience with this traitorous country had come to an end, and he planned to annex it completely to save him from trouble.

Bosnia still follows Hungary as always. Perhaps it is dissatisfied with the Orthodox Church represented by Wallachia, or it may be that they are still afraid of the oppression of the Eastern Roman Empire. They ask Hungary for protection and offer their gold and silver to make them think that they are still useful.

The Ottomans are still busy annexing the land of Anatolia and promoting Ottoman as their leader. They are all brothers and should unite. It sounds good, but in fact it is just to obtain their wealth and manpower. Who would really say that they are as close as a family?

The overall situation in Southeast Europe has been determined, and the entire Balkans are holding their breath. Everyone knows that Wallachia wants to unify the Balkans, and no country can stop him. Some opposition parties can only hope that Wallachia can quickly split after the death of the monarch like the once powerful Serbia. The so-called great unification is only a flash in the pan.

Not only that, even Venice and Genoa, which had signed a treaty with Wallachia, began to secretly contact anti-Walachian forces, because Wallachian merchants were constantly eroding the interests of their two countries in the eastern Mediterranean, especially Genoa. Wallachia almost accounted for half of the Black Sea trade, and the most profitable slave trade had gradually declined. This was all caused by Wallachia.