Chapter 227 The Courage to Attack

As for the expedition to the Golden Horde, Mircea regretted it after making this decision. Why didn't he take Anatolia first and then go north? Now that each side has a little land, he will definitely lose one while taking care of the other.

However, the arrow is on the string and has to be shot. As long as the other side proposes peace talks, he will withdraw his troops. After all, there is a long way to go.

In order to prevent the Ottomans from attacking, Peter placed the reconnaissance team in the border area before leaving, and used merchants to collect intelligence on the Ottomans. The recruitment of the legion was reopened and carried out strictly in accordance with Peter's requirements. The firearms factory was also expanded, and the gunpowder was stored in a dry place, as well as rockets, mines and other weapons of mass destruction. Let him see who will hit their iron wall without long eyes.

The days in Constantinople are tense and leisurely. After handling political affairs, Peter will go to see the tombs of the previous Roman emperors and repair them at his own expense, because most of the tombs were destroyed in 1204.

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

From the moment God gave me the right to rule the land of the great empire,

I have been vigilant every moment of my life,

to protect the children of New Rome,

marching bravely to the west,

to the farthest end of the eastern border,

along Abbasgo, Ismail, Arapis, Isber,

the Persians and Scythians testified to this.

Kind people,

in return for my conquest,

take care of my grave and repay me!

Peter also added a few words below.

God's people picked up their swords and shields again,

the vicious pagans are still eyeing them,

the great new Rome will not repeat the same mistakes,

we are God's subjects,

the glory of the empire will not dissipate,

Constantinople will always be here waiting for its master.

These few words are like a declaration, announcing the return of Rome's heyday. It was also Peter's determination that pushed the Eastern Roman Empire back to the top.

Without Mircea, Peter made drastic efforts to build up the internal affairs. He promoted the land distribution policy that the Roman Empire had not maintained. In addition to soldiers, civilians who transported supplies to the war front would also receive corresponding rewards, of course, if the war was victorious. Nobles could also get land and manors if they worked hard.

This is actually the European version of the military merit system. The implementation of the military merit system is attractive mainly because of the interest stimulation behind the title. Correspondingly, the supply of material resources is extremely important. As more and more wars occur, more and more people will benefit from it, and the amount of resources required will increase. Driven by such a tide of resource supply, the demand for material resources is particularly important. It can be imagined that if there is not enough resource supply, the military merit system will inevitably lose the basic meaning contained in the original design. In other words, resource support determines the scope and continuous 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 here. Regardless of whether it is the East or the West, the most wanted reward for soldiers to join the army is land, and Wallachia's continuous conquest of the East is the best motivation for them to join the army.

After stabilization, Anatolia has gradually been integrated into the governance of Wallachia. Benefiting from its geographical location, local tariff revenue has directly increased from 300,000 to 900,000. The population has also increased a lot, and commerce and agriculture have been restored.

In terms of the most concerned financial issues, the expulsion of Jews has been relieved to a certain extent. Although there will be officials and soldiers who pocket money in the process, most of them are still handed over to the government obediently. Iasi alone received 900,000 lei, not including real estate.

After being expelled, these Jews moved to more tolerant Poland and Lithuania. Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is even called the Jerusalem of the East, where they can get a better living environment.

The money was invested in local construction, the vacancies of Jews were filled by other businessmen, and taxes in various places were 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 physical punishments such as cutting off hands and feet, and replace them with exile, so that labor can be accumulated to develop remote areas. Of course, not all tortures were abolished, such as blinding the eyes. But the scope of application of torture was narrowed, and it was only used on people with certain assets such as nobles and officials. Civilians were mainly subject to death penalty and exile.

Secondly, the Wallachian Code was promoted, and other Roman laws were compiled and deleted. Some outdated laws were abolished, and more balanced and flexible laws were formulated. Courts and judges were set up in various places to ensure the smooth operation of the law.

For important industries such as mining, shipbuilding, shipping, metallurgy, and military industry, Peter specially established protective laws. Factories were set up with state funds, and other light industries adopted trade protection policies, restricting imports and encouraging exports. Trade barriers were used to block large exports from other countries, especially the city-states of Italy.

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At this time, Michael in Cyprus has begun to learn how to govern the place, from politics to economy to military, all of which are closely linked.

This expedition confiscated a lot of Latin nobles' land, which was distributed to the expeditionary army and local farmers who led the way according to Peter's order. The Orthodox slaves and serfs were also freed. Their explosive productivity was higher than the sum of the previous decades.

Mihaly inspected Nicosia and nearby areas every day to see their construction progress. In the evening, he discussed the joys of life with his wife. Maybe because the climate in Cyprus was not suitable, he was sweating every time.

Since Cyprus is close to the Levant, he can get some news about the Middle East every day. For example, Timur, who captured Bayezid, was suppressing rebellions in other places. A guy named Kara Yusuf was expelled from the Mesopotamian Basin to the Mamluks by Timur, and the Syrian region was sparsely populated and seriously underpopulated by Timur.

Timur's cruelty Mihaly was also shocked, but he thought about it and wondered if he could use such means on those pagans. He asked the Dragon Knights who were recuperating in Cyprus, and the leader of the group believed that it was necessary to use both hardness and softness to treat the pagans, and that blindly killing them was not advisable. Mihaly had no choice but to give up.