Rowa? The Marquis had great expectations for Chipes, and he even had an envoy sent to Bucharest write a letter to Chipes.

For the promise of the Knight of Gerais, who had visited him before, Roy? I don't believe it.

Although, as Djilas said, if he does not actively respond and show his support for the Greek princesses, then they may turn to support someone else to become the king of Bosnia, but Roy? But he knew that if neither Gilas nor his princess could get help from others, their threat to him would be meaningless.

Because of this, after dealing with Djilas? He immediately sent a letter to Chippes, in which he not only relived the unforgettable times when he fought under Chipes's father, but also expressed his desire to form an alliance with the Grand Duke.

"We should not forget that your venerable father was martyred under the city of Bucharest, whether it was the Ottomans or the cowards who secretly betrayed him, they were all shameful murderers, it makes no difference."

In the letter Rowa? Inevitably, he mentions Tsepes's father, the famous Vlad III, who is known as the piercing man, and although his letter does not explicitly state the names of certain people, he believes that Nikolai Czepes could not have been unaware of what he was talking about.

Vlad III, Grand Duke of Wallachia, died in the battle of Bucharest, when Mehmed II's invasion frightened too many Europeans, forcing them to put aside their differences for a while and unite against an unprecedented enemy.

And Vlad III, Grand Duke of Wallachia, was one of these many European nobles.

It's just that his previous brutality made many enemies unable to forget the hatred of him, and because he had grown up in the Ottoman Empire as a hostage in his early years, even if he showed extraordinary bravery in all the battles with the Ottomans, people still did not want to believe this man who relied on the support of the Ottomans to become the Grand Duke of Wallachia.

To make matters worse, Vlad III's reputation was so bad that even if he used all those cruel methods against the infidels, one could not forget how he had dealt with his enemies in the war.

Many even say that Vlad III made an entente with the devil, because if it weren't for that, he wouldn't have done so many terrible things.

As a result of this hatred, Vlad III was inexplicably killed in battle during the First Battle of Bucharest, and rumors vaguely pointed out that someone in the coalition had plotted against Vlad III and betrayed him to the Ottomans.

In any case, the head of Vlad III was cut down by the Ottomans, pickled and sent to Constantinople, and then his head was hung on the city gates for a whole winter.

Rowa? It was felt that Chipes would be able to help him, at least this man would not fall to his enemies, because as far as he knew, among the opponents mentioned by Djilas who might have supported him to become the king's nobles, were those who might have plotted against Vlad III in the first place.

What makes Roy? I felt that writing such a letter to Chipes might have an unexpected effect.

The Marquis's idea was simple, but it was obviously correct, or he knew the character of those Bucharest nobles very well, and he knew that even if Chipes was willing to give up his previous hatred, those people should not trust him, and Chipes would be suspected in Bucharest, so he just had to wait for the contradictions between Chipes and those people to intensify, and then Chipes would naturally be able to throw himself on his side.

Wallachia was an important part of the resistance against the Ottomans in the East, and if Wallachia turned to the Sultan, it would mean that the Ottomans could attack Bucharest at any time through both Bosnia and Wallachia.

As for today's Bulgaria, it is already a grass, especially the current Bulgarian Grand Duke Borus IV, although he has great ambitions, he is also a cowardly fellow, so if he is slightly intimidated, he may submit to the Ottomans, if that is not only Bucharest but even the whole of Hungary may be in danger.

This is why Vladislas II came to Bucharest from the Prague court, and the King of Bohemia, apparently aware of this danger, had to come to Bucharest himself to preside over the situation.

But in this way, the importance of Tropes' Wallachia is also highlighted, which makes Rois? He was even more convinced that even if he was alienated and ostracized by the other nobles, as long as Wallachia remained an outpost against the Ottomans, Tzepes had a vital role in the eyes of those nobles, and his opinion must have been particularly important.

Rowa? The Marquis was confident in his judgment, and it turned out that he was not wrong.

Cepes did perceive the alienation and distrust of the nobles towards him, and he knew what it was for, and he knew that both Vladislas II and others were very close to him and Sophia, and he knew that they were worried that he might exert influence over the alliance that would be established through Sophia.

Vladislas II considered himself a matter of course, both in his status and in his efforts to assemble the alliance, and that the nobles were to do what he was told, and Sofia was a key tool in the alliance.

Vladislas II did not allow others to be too close to Sophia, even the Greek nobles who had been summoned in her name, he wanted them to be too close to her, let alone an archduke who might cause him to lose control of Sophia.

Because of this, when Cepes came to the castle with Morco, who was a messenger, and offered to meet Sophia, he was stopped by the Queen of Bohemia's men.

"I'm sorry Archduke, but the princess is not in the castle." The attendant was very respectful, but with a firm attitude, he stopped Cepes outside: "The princess has accompanied Her Majesty the Queen to hunt, and I don't know when she will return." ”

"The queen went hunting, which hunting ground did she go to?" Cepes frowned and asked, there are many forests outside Bucharest, some of which are hunting grounds for nobles, if you don't know the specific location, it is not so easy to find the queen and Sophia.

"I'm sorry, my lord, but Her Majesty didn't say it before leaving." The retinue was still respectful, but it was a clear sign that they should not expect anything from him anymore.

Cepes knew that Vladislas II's wife was still very fond of Sophia and often took her with her, but he didn't know if it was to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the opportunity to get close to Sophia, and now it seems that the queen's purpose for doing so was probably for this purpose.

"My lord has ordered me to send his greetings to His Majesty and the princess of Greece," said Molko to the retinue, who apparently did not know what was going on here, and only wished to complete his mission as soon as possible so that the young knight who could return to meet Aloxia announced his mission somewhat stubbornly, "If you can't see the princess, then you can meet your majesty." ”

The attendant looked at the young man in front of him, who had obviously traveled a long way, with a strange gaze, and he tried to think for a long time before he remembered who the Viscount Herva was that this man was talking about, and it was because he remembered what he had said about the Viscount that the attendant's face was even more indifferent than before.

"I'm sorry knight, I can't help your request," the attendant took a cold step back, as if it would make him uncomfortable to let this person get close to him, "His Majesty is very busy these days, and many emissaries from various countries are lining up, if you have anything to ask for an audience and wait patiently." ”

The smile on Morko's face that he had struggled to maintain slowly stiffened, and he could feel the coldness of the other man towards him, even more so than he had seen him walk with Cepes before.

Morko didn't know what this was, but he was keenly aware of the other party's attitude, and he looked at Cepes with some confusion, and didn't know how to continue for a while.

"If I were you, I'd find a place to stay first," Chipes no longer paid attention to the entourage, and under the seemingly polite greeting of the other party, Chipes turned over and walked towards the way he came, until Morco caught up with him behind him, and then said, "Believe me, you will be here for a lot longer than you think," he said as he looked at the depressed Molco and suddenly smiled, "Especially since you are the messenger of the Viscount of Helva, believe me here, you may not be welcome." ”

"But why?" Morco asked, puzzled.

"Your master has been expelled from Zagreb, and now Bucharest needs strong support, and those Zagreb nobles are more important to Bucharest than your master." The corners of Chipes's mouth twitched with a hint of sarcasm.

"But the king is a Catholic, how can he watch those vile Orthodox nobles kill the Duke and drive away his son?" Morco couldn't help but open his mouth to ask in surprise, but then his face turned red, and he thought that the Grand Duke in front of him seemed to be also an Orthodox Christian.

Tzepes didn't get angry because of Morko's words, he just glanced at the knight next to him, and then slowly urged the horse forward,

Morko looked at the back of the Grand Duke in front of him a little bewildered, until Chipes turned back to him and said, "If you don't have a place to go, you can go to my camp and stay first, of course if you don't care that I'm a vile Orthodox." ”

"I'm sorry, my lord, I didn't mean to offend you, but I need to finish my errand as soon as possible, knowing that there are still people waiting for me to return." Morco looked a little anxious, although he had been on the road, but the gradually warmer weather was reminding him that the time to come out was passing day by day, although his father had clearly told him that it was impossible to have a relationship with Alozia, but Morko still hoped to return to his beloved girl as soon as possible.

"Because of women?" Cepes sensed Morco's emotions, and when he saw Morco's look when he heard this, he nodded, "Women, this is the key to making a man either brave or stupid, and they themselves often sometimes don't even know what they are doing. ”

"Miss Aloxia will only make me braver," Morco said unwillingly to defend his sweetheart, and he said angrily at the disapproving look on Chipes, "I will not allow anyone to be so unreasonable to Miss Aloxia, not even a Grand Duke." ”

Chipes grabbed the reins and looked at Morco, and only after seeing the other party a little uneasy did he continue to walk forward: "Believe me, I'm not slandering women, I'm not slandering you, Miss Alosia, I'm just saying the fact that many women don't know what she's doing, even if she has actually hurt others. ”

Morco listened to Cepes's words as if he didn't understand it, and he didn't think that the Grand Duke's words were right, but thinking about the scene when Miss Alocia appeared inexplicably with the Count of Montina that night, he had to vaguely admit in his heart that Cepes's words might be right.

"Come to my camp," Cepes invited again, "and we need everyone's strength at this time, and of course if your lord is still the Duke of Zagreb, you will find that the treatment you receive is a different matter. ”

Looking at the young knight who had followed with a calm face, Cepes couldn't help but reach out and touch the place where the letter was placed under his clothes.

Rowa? Hoping that he would help him become king of Bosnia at the conference, the marquis made a seemingly tempting promise, but Cepes felt that this was not enough.

Does he know about Roy? Secretly supported the Orthodox nobles who overthrew the Duke of Zagreb, this is also Rova? The reason why he felt that he was qualified to be the king of Bosnia, because after that revolt nearly half of the Orthodox nobility in Croatia expressed their support for him.

But Chipes didn't want to make a decision so quickly.

As Morko said, both the Duke of Zagreb and Vladislas II were Catholics, and that alone was enough to make the situation unusually delicate.

Imagine how awkward Vladislav II would be if the Vatican knew that the King of Bohemia was openly supporting a group of Orthodox thugs who had killed a Catholic duke.

Cepes looked up into the distance, and there was still a hint of red afterglow in the west, as if he was reluctant to miss everything on the earth, while the east was now shrouded in a gloomy twilight.

"The Ottomans are coming."

Tsepes's gaze was farther away, from where of course the Ottomans could not be seen, but he could already feel the faint oppression and suffocation.

A soldier who looked like a local farmer in the clearing, except for the weapon in his hand, stood in the clearing, panting, and even his weapon was only a sharpened pitchfork, which made him a real farmer if he was not standing here but covering his mouth.

In fact, just a few days ago he was a farmer, and in addition to working in the fields, he was trying to figure out how to save more money so that he could bear the heavy double tax.

Although the Ottomans had not yet annexed northern Bosnia and Croatia, the sultan was already their monarch, at least nominally, and in order to fulfill their vassal status as a vassal of Yiwu, the southern Bosnians were forced to pay a harsh tax along with the so-called blood tax.

And the cruelty of the content of the blood tax made all Bosnians angry and desperate.

By order of the Ottomans, every family in Bosnia had to hand over one of their boys, who were sent to a place far from their homeland to be raised intensively, forced to undergo brutal training when they were just grown up, until they were sent to the battlefield to become an instrument of Ottoman conquest of the world.

The North, on the other hand, was temporarily exempted from this cruel policy of separating countless families, but was also ordered to bear unusually heavy taxes, while at the same time, the lords of the landowners were forced to collect taxes for the Ottomans and still levied heavy taxes on the peasants, perhaps simply out of the desire not to let the good things fall into the hands of the Ottomans, and the lords behaved more coldly and harshly than usual.

It was at this time that news suddenly spread from one village to another.

Farmers can reduce their tax burden by becoming soldiers, and even get a small but exciting commission.

Not many people believed the news at first, and even the messenger who gave the order to the lord was driven out of the village, until the farmer named Rona Pannoni appeared in the village with a group of villagers who had become soldiers.

At first it was still small, but there were people who walked out of the village with doubts, and when those who were selected pressed their handprints on a contract and received an advance payment of a silver coin, the number of people who left the village gradually increased.

And every day looking at the Balkan mountain people who signed up, Alexander said to his artillery commander: "Gompati, this is one of the best deals I have ever done. ”