Chapter 4 The War in Phetria
Marriage can forge a strong alliance and turn hostility into friendship.
Alexander paid 3.5 million solidus as a gift for his marriage, and then paid 8 million solidus every year as daily expenses for the Queen of Russia to maintain her daily life.
The Roman Empire mobilized an army of more than 80,000 people and paid a large amount of wealth. In return, the Roman Empire consumed at least more than 100 million solidus. In return, it brought the conquered lowland areas along the Black Sea coast to the empire, and gained
It acquired part of the surrounding territory. The area included from the Dnieper River highlands to the Black Sea coast. According to land measurements, this dowry covered 186,000 square kilometers.
In the Polish Kingship War a few years ago, the Russian Queen gave hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land to a lover. This time the Russian Queen married Alexander with a dowry of 180,000. I have to say that this is a bit shabby. But these
This is not all of the marriage treaty. The empire will return Kharkov to the Kingdom of Russia, remove the fortresses and strongholds established by Rome within 30 kilometers nearby, and demolish the city of Kiev. Russia will hand over the list of Cossacks they have to Rome.
, providing the Roman Empire with five thousand war horses every year.
Isn’t this how the Roman Empire spent money to buy peace?
Just when I was wondering, Alexander said again, "This is not all of the treaty."
Based on this treaty, the King of Poland recognized that the eastern lands of the Kingdom of Poland would henceforth belong to the territory of the Roman Empire, the Slavic Orthodox Church accepted the leadership of the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Orthodox Church, and finally, the next emperor of the Roman Empire, Alexander the Great
Ofano was the king of Russia, and the Roman Empire, as the suzerain state, declared the king of Moscow to be the king of all Russians. The queen of Moscow was the queen of all Russia.
The identity of the suzerain country?
I, Constans, gasped in unison.
"What are you doing? What's so surprising?" Morris didn't understand.
"Do you know how big the Kingdom of Russia is?" Constans asked tremblingly.
Morris asked: "How big?"
I held out two fingers, then thought wrong and held out three, and Constans replied: "About 3 million!"
Valens denied Constans's answer at this time: "It can be said vaguely that the current territory of the Russian Kingdom exceeds 9 million. The area is about 11 million. You know, they claim all the land in the east.
For our own territory, although no one recognized it in the past, it is different today."
Does that include the Siberian wilderness?
I couldn't help but swallow my saliva. Suddenly, Philetria's body in front of me softened and she almost fell to the ground. I quickly went over to help her, so that she wouldn't be embarrassed. Morris on the other side was already two
His eyes were dazed. Constans opened his mouth several times, but no sound came out.
"11 million..."
"The dowry of 11 million lands..."
"11 million square kilometers of dowry..."
"God, am I dreaming?"
Feletelia must have been struck by the tycoon, the Queen of Russia, and the sound she made subconsciously was more like a painful moan.
"In a sense, I have achieved a conquest that even Alexander could not achieve." Alexander put his hands behind his back and seemed very proud, but there was no smile in his eyes. "A total of 11 million land, this
Probably no one has done it to this extent."
"However, the territory that can really be considered controlled by the Kingdom of Russia is not only 3 million, or even less than 300. Isn't it?" Constans was still struggling with that number.
Alexander said: "Constans, for our empire and for us Theofano, the bigger the territory, the better, even if those lands are not yet in our hands."
"But is it really okay to spend eight million a year just for these numbers?" I asked.
The treaty was signed. As the airborne king, Alexander had no foundation in Russia, no power and no soldiers, so how could he influence Russian policy? It was not possible to rely on the Russian queen. She had to become a bus herself and let her lover help to secure the throne.
.On the contrary, the Russians seem to be able to let go without worrying about the Roman Empire in the south.
Heartland and the Kingdom of Sweden are fighting on the northern battlefield. At the same time, with the alliance, they can better digest the fat they swallowed from Poland! Ten years, or twenty years, no matter how long it takes, what's more important is
They will burn bridges across rivers in the future. With Alexander, the Russians will have an excuse to ask for the throne from the Roman Empire in the south.
"What do you want to say?"
"For the sake of the number 11 million, we are planting the seeds of a civil war in the empire." I said bluntly in front of Alexander, "If they are your heirs, regardless of gender, I will keep their throne even if I risk my own life.
, but we cannot guarantee that the child the Russian Queen will give birth to in the future will be your child, after all, she has so many lovers."
Alexander smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about that."
Nonsense, can I not worry?
I shouted: "Civil war! That's a civil war! Have you forgotten the civil war in the Roman Empire from the third to the fourth century AD? How many emperors died in total, and how much blood and wealth was wasted in the empire! Why are the imperial legions in the later period everywhere?
They are all barbarians, and it is not because of the civil war in the Imperial Legion that in order to replenish troops, the regional governor and those generals were forced to use barbarians."
Alexander said: "I said that in this era, a claimant to the throne who relied on foreign troops to try to seize the throne had already lost the moment he entered the competition. The pride of the Romans, the pride of the Anatolian Romans
Pride will not let those barbarians extend their dirty hands to our Constantinople."
Please, pride cannot be eaten as food!
"Moreover, this matter was decided by Caesar, and we can only obey his will."
Alexander silenced me with just one sentence.
"Is the Russian Queen beautiful?" I asked coldly. The next second, my waist was pinched. When I lowered my head, I saw a girl gnashing her teeth retracting her arm. I didn't expect that these words would be given to this person.
The effect of the girl's blood regeneration. Then... my stomach hurt so much, she actually gave me an elbow kick!
Alexander looked at Philetria, who suddenly regained his fighting spirit in my arms, with a slightly strange look in his eyes, as if he wanted to laugh but was holding back.
"Woman, how do you feel now?"
"Now, I am the king of Russia. The entire Russian Kingdom is mine, and Poland is also my subject and vassal. Apart from being my territory, your Prussia seems to have no other use." Alexander walked up.
The seats he set up in the big tent were intimidating no matter how they looked.
I felt Feletelia's body tremble, and I looked up at Alexander. I haven't seen this guy for two years, how come he likes to play with people so much?
I was about to speak.
Alexander gave me a look from across the street.
Shut up...
Damn...
"I have a different opinion about your idea that you can annex us Prussia."
"Why?"
"Because you are a Roman. Although you are the king of Russia, you will be the emperor of the Roman Empire in the future. Will you infringe on the interests of your Roman Empire for the benefit of Russia?"
"But I have no need to keep your Kingdom of Prussia."
"On the contrary, it is necessary for our Kingdom of Prussia to exist. From what you just said, I can know that your Kingdom of Russia does not belong to you. You are just a nominal Russian king. Your Roman Empire only spent huge wealth in exchange for it.
A beautiful number. The only thing of real value is 180,000 pieces of land, the hundreds of Poles living on that land, and the 5,000 horses. But I'm not saying that your deal is a stupid deal.
."
"You entered the Kingdom of Russia through war, marriage, and I think the reason why this was successful is because there are different factions within Russia. The Russian Queen may want to use the power of Rome to break the balance. That's why.
To ask for such a huge betrothal gift, she would probably use the money to build a real army.
It is her own army. Then with the backing of Rome, she can completely control Russia. Because Rome is restrained by France, the Russian queen is very likely to do it. If Rome does not want to give the seeds of civil war to Russia in vain,
Chapter completed!