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Chapter 1353, The situation in Eastern Europe

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    In the Kremlin of the Principality of Moscow, the young Grand Duke of Moscow Vasily III is frowning and full of sorrow.

    A few years ago, he forced his father Ivan III to pass the position of Grand Duke to himself through a coup. He inherited his father's will and ambition, and was also deeply influenced by his mother, the last princess of Byzantium.

    ??Inspire to unify the entire Slavic state, establish a powerful country, continue to expand externally, and incorporate surrounding city-states into Moscow's territory.

    On the Western Front, successive wars were launched against Poland and Lithuania, all of which were victorious. The Principality of Poland and Lithuania had to beg for peace from the Principality of Moscow and cede large areas of land to the Principality of Moscow.

    On the eastern front, Vasily III was never satisfied with the status of a vassal state of the Kazan Khanate, and was committed to annexing the Kazan Khanate to the territory of the Principality of Moscow.

    But this time it was not that easy. The puppet Amin supported him actually got rid of his control and defeated the Muscovite army. The two sides turned against each other.

    On the southern front, he actively led the Muscovite army to fight back against the plunder of the Crimean Tatars, organized troops to fight back against the Tatars many times, and severely wounded the Tatars several times.

    Logically speaking, everything is still going smoothly. The Principality of Muscovy is also prospering under his governance. Slavic city-states continue to merge in and become stronger and stronger.

    However, things took a major turn a few years ago.

    A powerful empire that had never been considered or considered before, the Ming Empire, its huge influence spread to the land of Eastern Europe. ãá reduce &#555zw*.co m ãá

    The Ming Empire first defeated the Ottoman Empire, causing the powerful Ottoman Empire to lower its proud head and pay compensation to the Ming Empire.

    Then the Ming Empire began to vigorously support the Crimean Tatars, not only providing weapons, food, cloth, salt, etc. to the Tatars, allowing the Tatars' strength to grow rapidly.

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    However, with the help of the Ming Dynasty, these barbaric Tatars suddenly exchanged their guns for cannons, and actually had terrifying cannons and surprisingly powerful gunpowder. The solid walls of the Slavs could no longer withstand the Tatar attack. A large number of  The town was looted by the Tatars.

    What¡¯s even more abominable is that the Ming Dynasty also bought slaves from the Tatars at high prices, which gave the Tatars a taste of the sweetness. They constantly attacked the Principality of Muscovy, plundered the population, and then sold all these people as slaves to the Ming Dynasty.

    The rapid loss of population and the rapid growth of Tatar strength were the things that worried Vasily III the most.

    Originally, the Tatars posed a huge threat to the entire Eastern European plains. Every autumn, threshing of valleys caused heavy losses to the Muscovite Principality. Now, with the intervention of the Ming Dynasty.

    The Tatars are no longer limited to paddy harvesting in autumn. They have paddy harvesting teams all year round. After all, compared to grazing, the returns from paddy harvesting are much faster and much higher.

    It is said that a slave sold to the Ming Dynasty could be sold for more than ten taels of silver, which was enough to easily exchange for a large amount of grain, salt, ironware, tea, etc., allowing the Tatars to live a prosperous life.

    Who is still working hard to herd animals?

    For this matter, Vasily sent a mission to the Ming Dynasty to express his dissatisfaction and anger to the Ming Dynasty people, and strictly demanded that the Ming Dynasty people must stop such behavior.

    It¡¯s just that the people of the Ming Dynasty didn¡¯t bother to bother you at all. The mission was sent back just here in Nanyun Province. It didn¡¯t even arrive at the capital of the Ming Dynasty. It was said that it was tens of thousands of miles away.

    In addition to the Tatars in Crimea that worried Vasily III, the Ottoman Empire south of the Black Sea kept Vasily III awake day and night.

    "Compared to the Tatars, the Ottoman Empire is more powerful and more ambitious.

    The Ottoman Empire, which had been ceded territory and paid compensation by the Ming Dynasty, was committed to expanding westward. The powerful Ottoman Empire swept almost the entire Eastern Europe, beating the Hungarians and Austrians to pieces, and even captured Vienna, heading towards the Christian world.  Center Roman March.

    To this end, all countries in Europe had to unite to resist the invasion of the Ottoman Empire. Millions of troops from both sides fought bloody battles on the vast European battlefield centered in Vienna.

    On the Eastern Front, the Ottoman Empire's troops were directed at the Principality of Lithuania. This proud and arrogant principality was retreating steadily. In some areas, the Ottoman Empire was even frozen.?He became furious.

    ??This Tatar now has no rest throughout the year. He comes to plunder his own principality from time to time, and treats his own Muscovite principality as a grassland?

    In the past, threshing of grass paddy was done once a year, but now it is done once every ten days and a half month. Even in this summer, people are not idle, and they even come to plow paddy. The Ryazan area has become a deserted land, and even Moscow often  A Tatar army was attacking from the valley.

    How could Vasily III not be angry?

    Si minus 7 5zw.com Si.  "It's not good, it's not good, Your Majesty~"

    Just when Vasily was extremely angry and decided to organize an army to fight back against the Tatars, another minister hurriedly walked in, with sweat on his forehead, looking very anxious.

    "What happened?"

    Vasily looked at the other party and asked quickly.

    Mi He Mi.  "Your Majesty, something big happened in the east. I just received news that the Ming Empire sent troops to destroy the Kazakh Khanate and the Siberian Khanate. The troops were directed at the Kazan Khanate and the Astrakhan Khanate. Once these two khanates  If we are annexed by the Ming people, we will face the Ming Empire directly!"

    "What?"

    When Vasily III heard this, he couldn't help but open his eyes wide

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