Chapter 307 Conquering the Eastern Mediterranean

After signing a peace treaty with Savoy, Peter led his troops back to Verona. The Hungarian soldiers who cooperated with the Roman army said goodbye here and returned to Buda with rich spoils of war.

Peter held a celebration banquet in Adige (Verona) for all the soldiers who participated in the war. This war earned enough money for the empire to avoid taxation for a year, and also helped Rome to avenge. Now Peter can be written into the history books as the conqueror of Venice.

Although the direct jurisdiction of Venice's territory in Italy can allow the empire to regain influence in Italy, its actions on Italian soil will cause other states to suffer from PTSD, and they may encounter more resistance in the future.

"Your Highness, Count Tyrol sent someone to hope to make friends with the empire."

Peter wanted to laugh a little, because he was worried that Rome would visit him without noticing. Although there is a silver mine there, he has no plans to expand it at present. It is not a good thing to spread too much.

It is not impossible to have a good relationship with Count Tyrol, after all, he is also a member of the Habsburgs. Maybe this person is still useful.

Mircea prepared a welcome ceremony for Peter. Constantinople had not had a big triumphal ceremony for a long time. Now it was just right to hold one to restore Rome's confidence.

Along with this news came a letter from his wife Sophia. Their second child, Theodosius, was already one year old. It was full of her deep affection for her husband. She would also bring her two children to this triumphal ceremony to let them see how great their father was.

The war was basically over, and the recruited troops had to be dispersed. In addition to the army formed by Peter himself, Mircea also allocated 10,000 standing troops to guard Dalmatia. The other troops had to return to other places, and Peter himself would go to Constantinople with the army and the spoils of war.

The entire Adriatic Sea had returned to the control of Rome, and as for the water city of Venice, Peter did not completely destroy it. Based on various considerations, the city was turned into a naval base, and the St. Mark's Church in the center was forced to change greatly, and other places were also renamed. For example, Ljubljana was changed to Napoca, and other cities were forced to change to Romanian names.

Since the Eastern and Western churches had split and Rome had been robbed, Boniface IX issued a statement after Peter left, announcing the excommunication of all nobles who were loyal to heresy. He also called on other nobles to form a crusade to recover the land.

In Peter's view, such a move was to give an explanation to the forces that supported him. Who would spend huge financial resources and troops to do this now?

Besides, Aragon, which supported Rome, was fighting to the death with Naples. England was too far away, and France would not let them pass. As for the largest Holy Roman Empire, let alone the internal chaos, many people sympathized with the Orthodox Church, and some people directly advocated the establishment of an independent church, especially in Bohemia. The archbishop asked all clergy to do their best to defend Catholicism, but the dean of the theology department of Prague University refused to obey his orders. And he preached in the nearby Bethlehem Church.

The Brandenburg region is smaller than Bohemia, and the local Catholic Church still firmly occupies a dominant position, but it can't withstand the bombing of those with ulterior motives. Peter knew that it was not enough to just criticize corruption, so he also wrote about other problems in the Holy Roman Empire. For example, the nobles colluded with the Catholic Church and degenerated, plundering the property of peasants and citizens, relying on their privileges to exploit them without taking any responsibility, and the Catholic Church was short of asking peasants to pray so that they could be reborn into a good family in the next life.

Peter's article caused a great response in the city, but there was no fluctuation in the countryside. The reason is simple. The peasants are illiterate, and they can't read it if you post it.

Bohemia and Brandenburg are electors with boundless glory on the surface, but in fact they are a group of nobles. Wenzel is already a hollow king of Bohemia, and so is Jobst's Brandenburg. It can be seen that if Vlad goes here, he will definitely fight wits and courage with these nobles.

In addition to these news, Mircea also asked Peter to choose one-fifth of the spoils as his personal reward. Mircea was very satisfied with this heir. The other sons either had their own fiefs or titles, or were still young, and could not compare with Peter in terms of military exploits or political experience. More importantly, he is the eldest son.

The empire has already established the primogeniture system, and it cannot be changed. Mircea had some doubts about Peter before, but now it seems that he is really paranoid.

Vlad learned a lot from Peter, especially when ruling a strange land, it is best to seize the most populous class in the place and the forces that support him. If it is a conquest, you can kill appropriately, provided that the other party does not have a strong ally or other countries will not be affected.

Most of the spoils went by sea, while Peter went by land. He wanted to go back to Salageb to see how his fiefdom was.

King Martin of Aragon learned that the Italian states had already made peace with Rome, so he had no intention of confronting Naples. Although Sicily was also important to him, Catalonia could also produce Sicily's grain. Moreover, Laszlo had already led the army across the Strait of Messina, and he had to persuade the Aragonese Parliament to provide funds and troops for the war, but the members of the parliament were obviously more interested in Granada.

In the eastern Mediterranean, the 10,000 Venetians on Crete gradually dwindled under the siege of Roman soldiers. Their hometown was destroyed, and their last bit of willpower collapsed. After a period of stubborn resistance, they surrendered to the Roman Empire. The symbol of Venice, the flying lion of St. Mark, was trampled under the feet of the Roman army. So far, the Republic of Venice has perished, and it has been established for 706 years.

The recovery of Crete means that the eastern Mediterranean region is the world of Rome. Although the Levant and other regions are still in the hands of pagans, Rome's influence has made Mamluks and Ottomans scramble to establish good relations with it.

The expanded land needs to be washed with culture and religion year after year, and the number of main cultures must be continuously expanded to rule for a long time. The University of Constantinople was transformed from a private school to a government university, and together with other local universities, it provided a large number of intellectuals and officials. And because Wallachia directly became the Roman Empire, the proportion of Romanian began to exceed Greek.

Dacia, which was once conquered by the Roman Emperor Trajan, has now become his master, and has to learn the system and culture they brought. It has to be said that history can play jokes.