Chapter 113 Human Resources

The conversations of these Bohemians in the tavern attracted the attention of the patrol. Fortunately, someone tipped them off so they were not caught.

Peter paid and left the tavern. He understood the situation of the Bohemians and roughly understood what they should need.

Peter came to the tavern again the next day, disguised as a businessman and began to promote the East.

"Everyone, since life is so bad, why don't you try your luck in the East?"

The people who were about to complain began to listen to this person's bragging. Anyway, it would not be true, especially in the East. As far as they knew, it had been occupied by pagans. Wouldn't it be like going there to die?

And looking at this person's clothes, he must be from another country, or a human trafficker.

"I say, you don't have to work so hard. We won't go there." A hired worker said.

"Well, so you are prepared to stay here for the rest of your life, with endless work, never more pay, and never enough bread on the table?"

Peter's three consecutive questions stimulated the other party, and the other person was obviously convinced and asked where this East was.

"Maybe you don't know that a year ago, those pagans were defeated by a country called Wallachia and signed a peace treaty. Now they are safe."

When they heard that the pagans were defeated, everyone was incredulous. How could this be possible.

"Is it true that they were defeated?"

"Of course, you can ask those who have relatives in the East. The news has spread here."

Now they have to believe it, after all, how could these mud legs have relatives in the East. And seeing that this person is so confident, it is likely to be true. If it is true, immigration should be possible.

Peter saw that some people had been shaken, so he decided to add the last fuel to the fire. He told everyone that there was gold and unowned land everywhere, and the local lords also had tax exemption measures. Such preferential conditions are something you will not get even if you wait for decades.

Some people planned to pack their bags and go to the East. When asking Peter how to go, Peter said that there was a Wallachian Chamber of Commerce in Brno, and they could go there to ask.

Peter said a lot of words and his mouth was dry, and of course the translator he hired was also dry. However, it can be considered as a gain to persuade some people.

In addition, the local Catholic Church has been corrupted to an alarming degree, and the great schism of the Catholic Church has intensified the competition for Bohemia, which is actually a money bag.

Because the economy of Bohemia is relatively developed, it is an important region for the pope to receive money. The popes of the two regions are competing for it. As a result, the long-term division of the church and the exploitation of the people in Bohemia have caused people to lose their faith and trust in this religion. The prestige of religion has gradually disappeared, and dissatisfaction has become the main emotion of the people towards the church.

Moreover, Bohemia is not only home to locals, but also has some Germans living here. The local rulers gave some important positions in the country to the Germans.

However, they did not reciprocate, but forced the teaching and dissemination of their own country's culture, changing the original way of life and learning of the Bohemians. This has led to very sharp social and ethnic conflicts in Bohemia.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with expanding territory and changing culture, but the method must be used correctly. It is natural to cause dissatisfaction if you keep squeezing to death, but they have never learned their lesson.

As the second largest city in Bohemia, Brno has a relatively developed textile and metal processing industry. There are also many skilled craftsmen here, but they can also live a better life here, so they refused the invitation to go to the East.

Of course, only a few farmers have the right to settle freely, so those who want to go to the East to try their luck are the poor in those cities.

Peter's next goal is Prague, the capital of Bohemia, but this is another 200 kilometers away. He has to keep going.

Compared with that Peter, his journey is really not good. After all, in this era, industrial technology has not yet opened up the gap. The most advanced places are Italy and Constantinople, and other places are actually the same.

Vienna was also Peter's destination at first, but he felt it was not appropriate, so he didn't go. He only needed to go to Prague, then go to Dijon and Paris, and finally take a boat to Aragon and Italy.

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The news that Wallachia defeated the Ottomans and signed a peace treaty did reach here, but it was only limited to the upper rulers, and the lower-level people had no way of knowing it. Because the Catholic Crusades they founded were defeated, and they spent hundreds of thousands of gold coins to redeem them. But Wallachia, an Orthodox country, actually annexed a large area of ​​territory and forced the Ottomans to agree. This made them feel unbalanced.

So, they vigorously publicized their failure and said nothing about Wallachia's victory. This prevented the news of victory from reaching Central Europe.

And Wallachia's public relations team did publicize it, but the direction was in the East and the Balkans. Those Orthodox Christians ruled by the Ottomans and the small Turkish countries that paid tribute to the Ottomans were the most severely publicized, and soon they knew that the Ottomans had suffered a defeat.

In this case, don't blame them for being rude. Several small Turkish countries, led by Karaman, attacked the Ottomans to the west, and the Orthodox Christians under Ottoman rule launched several uprisings to resist the head tax and blood tax. But they were all suppressed by the Ottomans.

Among them, the newly annexed places such as Thessaloniki reacted the most. Even the former capital Edirne had such a situation, and the governor Suleiman adopted a policy of terror, killing everyone no matter how many people there were.

And he continued to oppress pagans, confiscating their land and distributing it to Turkish immigrants. This is contrary to the previous policy, but it is a way to firmly rule here.

However, the Turkish immigrants are all counted. Most of them in the Balkans are Orthodox Christians, and such a policy naturally caused their resistance.

Suleiman had to deal with more than a dozen riots in Plovdiv every day. He directly approved the use of force without any compromise. Wallachia took advantage of this to absorb these refugees, but did not expect that the Ottoman policy would actually help itself.

At present, the entire Balkans has a maximum of 3 million people. If the area cannot be expanded at present, then expand the population.