The Khanate wants to deploy its navy in Novgorod, and there is not much problem with supplies. There are many tall forest trees there and there is no shortage of wood. Long-term trade and shipping have also enabled local people to have relatively complete workshops and docks to build and maintain ships. The only difficulty is the personnel issue.
The Purple Horde Khanate could not maintain many troops here, nor could it mobilize the main force of the Greek navy. In fact, many people within the Khan's court did not want the Greeks to interfere in this matter and expand their power. The Novgorod people had to deal with wars in all directions and could not provide more manpower.
Therefore, the Purple Horde Khanate urgently needed more manpower to develop navigation.
After some selection, Beihai Province Pingzhang proposed that Mongolians could be recruited from the grasslands in the south to fill the manpower vacancies.
Because among the various ethnic groups and cultures around them, the Mongols are the most suitable for navigation.
This conclusion is not difficult to derive.
What is marine civilization? The first premise is poverty. Local resources are not enough to meet their living needs, so they can only venture around, expand, and travel to different areas in order to obtain more resources and improve their living standards.
In many civilizations, as long as they farm and produce diligently, they can support themselves, so they will not be idle and risk their lives. But the Mongolian tribes here are so poor that they don't even have a pot, so they can only wander around. Obviously, they have this prerequisite and basic motivation.
When sailing, the identity of the voyager is multiple. Maritime traders and pirates are often different identities of the same person. Developing navigation is not just about doing business, plundering other merchant ships or even plundering targets on shore is something that can happen at any time.
On the grassland, of course, the same situation exists. There is a complex relationship between the tribes. On the one hand, they trade, and on the other hand, they rob each other on a daily basis. The Mongolian tribes who are accustomed to this kind of life will be very adaptable to it.
Another important aspect is the tolerance for risk: although on the whole, maritime transport has brought huge wealth to cities along the route, the risks are also great. You may lose everything if you encounter a storm. In fact, you are very fragile. The so-called "adventure" has very high requirements on the ability to tolerate risks, which is indeed not easy for many people to accept.
But on the grasslands, the risks are equally high. A white disaster could wipe out the entire tribe. Mongolians who have been in this environment for a long time also have the same risk tolerance.
In the end, even if a profit was made, the lion's share of the proceeds went to the merchants and shipowners. Ordinary sailors, bumping around on the ship all day long, have a difficult life and limited income. If the Russians had a piece of fixed land, they would not want to live in such a bad life.
But the life of the Mongols is equally difficult. Many of them are slaves of tribal nobles. They bump around on horseback all day long and have little income. They were into sailing and their acceptance was much better.
Anyway, they originally lived a nomadic life with no fixed abode. The difference between sailing between ports and transferring between pastures is not very big. The herdsmen have long been accustomed to this, and it will not be too difficult to adapt to this rhythm of life.
It can be seen that there is only a wrong name, not a wrong Khan number. The Mongols are the real maritime nation.
Under the guidance of this idea, Beihai Province began to recruit a large number of Mongolian herders as sailors to fill the manpower gap.
Most of the so-called Mongols here are actually the local Kipchak, Cuman and Bulgar tribes. Of course, this is not a problem. The Purple Horde Khanate was very experienced in how to drive herdsmen.
The Khanate's management of the sea was very loose, just like the old Bulgar tribe in Kazan and the Cuman homeland in southern Russia. As long as you swore an oath to become a Roman citizen in front of the ancestor of the gods and paid regular tribute to Pasai Khan, you could enjoy extensive autonomy.
Novgorod divided the large non-core land in the north into several territories. It was originally intended to recruit Lithuanian nobles as vassals of the Republic and to serve as the northern barrier. But after the arrival of the Purple Horde Khanate, the Republic changed its mind and gave them to the provinces for direct jurisdiction.
Provincial officials selected several suitable places to build ports as camps for these maritime herders. Each ship is likely to be without people at sea for a long time, and is essentially an independent nomadic tribe. Therefore, according to the size of the ship, the captain is awarded official positions ranging from ten households to one hundred households, which completes the establishment of the management organization.
At the beginning, many herdsmen were not used to it and suffered heavy losses. But this time there was no shortage of people in the Khanate. Since they provided enough bounties and looting profits, many small tribes who were having a hard time came to join them.
Because the number increased so fast, the number of ships soon exceeded the needs of trade. With nothing to do, the Mongols wandered around in ships and plundered the coasts of Sweden, Lithuania, and Poland.
These European countries have a limited number of standing armies. They usually rely on the strength of each enfeoffed territory to deal with emerging enemies and ordinary pirates, and the results are pretty good.
However, the Mongolian pirates formed a large gang without any teachers, and from time to time they gathered a large number of tribes. Under the command of the leader and the old pirates, they purposefully selected breakthrough points and used engineers sent from the purple tents to destroy them. The defensive fortresses of various countries were then swarmed in and plundered all along the coast.
When encountering such a sudden large-scale invasion, it was difficult for the locals to resist, so the victims were quite serious.
The Purple Horde Khanate and Novgorod were both satisfied with this. Lithuania and Poland were attacked from behind and had to mobilize soldiers for defense, which reduced the pressure on the purple tent on the southern front. Because it worked so well, this system was retained.
The scope of Mongolian piracy activities has far exceeded the current jurisdiction of Beihai Province. Most of the imperial courts decided to upgrade their organization and change their names to more formal ones. So, through the relationship between Peach Blossom Stone Island, Guo found an old scholar to think about a good name.
The old scholar did some research and told them that they could choose a word that was related to water and had multiple meanings. "Wei Feng·Shuo Ren" says: "The river water is ocean", "Mao Shi Zhuan" says: "Yang Yang, grand"; "Daya·Da Ming" says: "Makino Yang Yang", "Mao Shi Zhuan" says: "Yang Yang, grand." "Guangye"; "Song of Lu·Zhen Gong" says: "Thousands of people dance in the ocean"; "Biography of Mao's Poems" says: "There are many in the ocean". Confucius said: "The beautiful water is so vast!" It can be seen that this word has always been a beautiful word related to water.
To study the meaning of the ancestors, "Beihai" should be changed to "Beiyang" to show the prosperity of the country's military power and the growth of the naval force.
Everyone felt that the old scholar was indeed very educated, so they followed his suggestion and changed the name to "Beiyang Navy".
Due to rapid expansion, Novgorod's shipbuilding workshops were in short supply, and the North Sea Province even went to Hamburg and Lübeck to order German warships. After a few years, the fleet was quite large.
At this time, a new war broke out.
The Kingdom of England was originally an important wool exporter in Europe, and the London Trading Post also played a very important role in the Hanseatic League. However, during the reign of King Edward III, the export of wool was prohibited and the import of foreign textiles was prohibited. Violators were subject to heavy fines.
Edward hoped to use this to force the development of the country's textile industry and convert wool exports into finished textile exports. But this policy obviously hinders the interests of foreign businessmen.
Flanders, which imported large quantities of wool for production, was the first to express dissatisfaction. Other cities in the Hanseatic League also strongly condemned this compulsory trade protection behavior by the British government and called on Britain to open up free trade.
But Edward III was a strong monarch. Not only did he intensify the original wool tariff, he even began to demarcate boundaries and prohibit shearing sheep within five miles of the coast. These measures made the businessmen very angry, but Britain was still very strong at the time and was beating France, so there was nothing they could do.
However, in the last years of his reign, Edward suffered a stroke and was no longer able to handle government affairs. In 1376 and 1377, the heirs "Black Prince" Edward and Edward III died successively. The subsequent heirs were incompetent, and the nobles were in constant infighting, falling into chaos for nearly thirty years.
The North Sea merchants embraced the Purple Horde Khanate and decided to take advantage of this good opportunity to use force to force Britain to open trade. France strongly supported this and provided a lot of sponsorship. It also sent people to Dadu to lobby the court for additional troops.
Under the French gold coin offensive, the Khan's court quickly agreed to their plan. Grand Duke Isaac Ducas personally led many followers and technical personnel to Novgorod to command the battle.
The following year, a large number of Mongolian pirates went south to join the fleets of allied cities along the way. They first defeated Denmark, their old enemy, and forced the king to declare neutrality. Subsequently, the Beiyang Navy sailed out of the Jutland Sea and attacked various ports in England.
King Richard II of England was not popular with the nobles. The great nobles, led by John, Duke of Lancaster, were happy to see the king in decline. They only wanted to protect themselves and refused to provide the king with any assistance other than verbal support. The big businessmen who originally supported trade protection began to waver when they saw the enemy's menacing attack and no longer wanted to stick to the end. Under a series of unfavorable conditions, the king's army could only face the Northern Navy at the mouth of the Thames River, but was defeated because it was outnumbered.
Many Mongolian pirates, Hanseatic mercenaries, and a large number of French people mixed in, successfully landed and entered London, plundering the city. Many parts of the city were burned down, and Richard II fled in panic and hid in Wales.
The military defeat further undermined the king's authority, and he was soon overthrown by John's son Henry, known as Henry IV. England was forced to reopen wool exports and remove high tariffs. The Hanseatic League and the Purple Horde expanded the trading houses originally located in London and obtained more privileges, making it essentially a state within a state.
No one had thought before that one action could have such great results. After tasting the sweetness, the cooperation between all parties became closer.
