Vlad Tepes Page #4

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-Ladislau must leave the throne!

The Kingdom of Hungary's crown

is for Iancu of Hunedoara.

Iancu gave us fame.

Now all Christendom respects us much more.

His successors should be our Kings,

not an incompetent.

Szilagyi has sworn not to put the sword

into the sheath until he replaces the king

with Iancu's son.

And it will be as Szilagyi wants.

Aside from the powerful counts,

we all are on his side.

Should be mister,

I said otherwise?

- Are you passing through Brasov?

- Yes, through Brasov.

Take care, they are

are loyal to the King.

The Brasovenians have stopped the carriages

and imprisoned the merchants.

Why?

Szilagy's revolt has extended

in whole downside of Transylvania.

Because of this we cannot give back

the carriages to His Highness.

Neither Valahia nor our Lord

has anything to do with Szilagy's revolt.

You didn't make any effort to stop it.

As King's vassal His Highness

should intervene.

If he doesn't, this means

he's on the side of the rebels.

The goods of the rebels

or their supporters

are being seized by the King.

His Highness never agreed to any covenant

of vassalage with Hungary's King.

This is one more evidence

that His Highness is against the King.

We do not say this.

But the high royal princes say this.

So... as a proof of our benevolence

we'll free the merchants.

But we can't free the carriages

no matter how much we want.

The King will take us as rebels.

Regarding those fugitive boyars

that His Highness demands,

we can't touch them for the same reasons.

As long as they are in Transylvania

they are under the King's protection.

His Highness must ask for them

from the King.

Mhm, so this is the gratitude

of merchants from Brasov?

They want to force us to buy

tools and armament from them,

for which we pay ten times more.

That's why they attacked us

and our iron and steel crafting.

Let's take away their privileges.

No.

When you are pushed to get back

what you gave with one hand,

you ought to take back with the other one.

The carriages are worth 100 times

less than our merchandise.

Take their chariots

and give us the merchandise.

From now on you won't pass

the customs at Wallachia

with merchandise that can be

found in our country as well.

You won't pass however much, but as much

as merchant from my country will go to Brasov

or through there towards other places.

Oxen, horses, wax, fabrics, copper,

silver, iron - are all found in Wallachia.

What else will we sell to the Turks?

Silver and gold lace?

You shouldn't have stopped

the carts.

Dracula was kind with us.

To a hand which reaches out to you,

you don't answer with a fist.

We had to stop them.

This road links the West and the East.

What passes through our hands,

must stay in our hands.

If we share it, we share the earnings,

the wealth and the power.

There is no road.

Dracula cut it.

He cut it wrong.

The Turks sell veils to us, gems,

carpets, silk, lemon, rice, spices, oil.

Can we find any of this

merchandise in Wallachia?

Buy all Turkish merchandise from the Danube.

Fill up the warehouses.

If we do not give merchandise in exchange,

we lose profit.

We'll raise the prices in the West

and blame Dracula for that.

Wherever you go, tell everyone

that he is a tyrant,

a devil thirsting for blood

and his only pleasure

is to impale innocent people.

Tell them that he is feasting

in front of the stakes,

and finds great pleasure

in seeing them suffering.

Tell them he burnt the poor,

instead of being charitable.

Tell them he slaughtered 300 merchants from

Brasov together with their wives and children.

The merchants don't walk on the roads

with women and children, like the gypsies.

Everybody knows that.

Tell them once, twice or a hundred times

and they will end up believing you.

Picture him as a demon, an evil spirit.

Turn the whole of Christendom against him.

You slander a man.

You want to cover one evil with another.

There is plenty of room for all merchants

from Brasov or Wallachia.

Send the carts with steel to Targoviste.

A delegation should go apologize

and everything should be as it used to.

There is a war here,

without swords and spears.

In any war there is no room

for both us and them.

The law of war is one: either us or them.

How do we get to the Danube?

He won't allow all our merchants to pass.

Only a few.

It is enough that one of ours should pass.

He will buy for all.

Dad, why do they call him Draculea?

How else? Draculea - the son of Dracul (the devil), as they used to call his father - Vlad Dracul.

- Was he a devil?

- He was a man. A good man.

If he was a good man,

why did they call him Dracul?

Because he had a dragon around his neck.

What dragon?

Why are you fooling the boy?

-That was "dracon".

-Dragon. That's how call it His Highness.

He had received it from the Germans

and it was a sign of great honor.

Dad!

What do you want?

Was it a dragon or not?

It was as your grandad says, because he had been in the princely guards and knows better.

Silk, fabric. Buy cheap raisins!

What is their price?

The same as ours.

The road is closed with 7 locks.

Only a sword could reopen it.

Let's open it by sword.

Us?

No.

To his majesty, the King of Hungary.

Who gave us the Duchy of Amlas and Fagaras.

Cheers!

Cheers!

Gentlemen!

Thank your king for his support

in conquering the throne of Wallachia,

which as a grandson of Mircea

I have the right to possess.

I will wait patiently the right time.

You have now all the high ranks,

Your Highness.

You have also chosen your administration.

It is a real princely court.

Just one thing is missing: the country.

But it will come...

Until then, address your needs to the

brave German merchants, who will help you.

What do you decide, Your Highness?

How can you make the most

of what was given to us?

We must gather an army

and this means great expense.

Didn't you hear?

The German merchants

will administer Amlas and Fagaras.

It is the king's will.

Let them be bothered.

To us they will assure our basic needs

and soldiers. When the time comes.

- What are we supposed to do, Your Highness?

- We'll go hunting.

Look how far they pushed their bravery.

If Mircea the Old could knew that foreign

kings give Romanian land as reward

to those with royal blood

in exchange for their loyalty

he would turn 7 times in his grave.

Let's send a messenger to the King.

To ask him to drive

these pretenders to the throne

out of our borders.

Why do you push the king in this matter?

You looked at the documents

from the office?

Is there a treaty between us and king

to let him have Amlash or the Fagarash?

None.

Surround the castle!

Your Highness's cousin

is running pretty fast.

Quick, to Targosviste. Let His Highness know!

Manzila, take half of the country's army,

join them with those from Targosviste

and smash the Turks.

A messenger from Szilagyi.

Szilagyi is sending word to Your Highness

that the king has asked for an armistice.

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