Russia: till 1580
Under Ivan the 4th Grozny
Ivan the terrible
Lithania was forced to sign a peace agreement with Russia after all of her lands were taken by Russia. Ivan took a lot of provinces and still was eager to expand. First there was to deal with some heretic cities in the east. These were to be converted. After the necesary missionaries were dispatched to the east. Russian Strelet troops followed quickly. These troops had received the personal order of Ivan 4th to go and conquer all Siberian lands.
War was declared on Siberia and they were annexed in less than a year. Ivan still wasnt happy. "Theres a lot of catching up to do!" he said.
Crimea followed soon after Sibir was annexed. The 2 Provinces of this minor Muslem country were taken.
Ivan was happy for now, But then he heard something about the colonizing western nations? Ivan knew this would cause dramatically increase of income for those countries. Ivan decided that the russians could not stay behind. Quickly he sended colonists to the east. Conquistadors allready explored a lot of eastern steppes, and this became usefull now.
Colonists were expensive to send out to every eastern province... and inflation was allready high enough.. Ivan saw himself forced to leave his colonial plan for a while. Inflation was to high. and the census taxes were insufficient to go on and only focus on colonizing. This was because of the fact that armies were needed for the defence of our borders. And so the colonial plan of russia was put away, and there was decided to only invest in it when this was possible. Safety goes before expansion.
Armies were risen and Ivan became more and more worried of the international tensions felt in western europe. Ivan felt if he wanted to expand into europe the time was now. The army was standing along the lithuanian borders doing nothing. while at any moment sweden or some other country could get their hands of the last of lithuanian possesions. Lithuania was Attacked once more... for the last time...
Lithuania's end was near
Pike battles on the lithuanian soil.
All of the Lithuanian possesions were turned in to the russian empire. exept for the lithuanian capital. However soon after Lithuania was incorporated into Poland.
After this war. time and money was invested to promote bailifs in the new lands. accidentily loans were lagged in. these first had to be repayed before anything else was done.
During the repayment of these loans. The russian allies, Austria & Venice were in war against France & The Netherlands. Austrian forces won the war as it seemed. But after a while the austrian civilians were revolting as they werent happy with the long ongoing war. Ivan thought he could not help his allies... because Russia it self had financial issues to deal with... But after a while one of his advisors talked to him about the war and told him about the military access Russia had with Sweden, and the revolt that was going on in the southern baltics. Ivan was glad with such a good advisor. And asked military access to Austria soon after. The Swedish revolters were struck down for our Swedish friend who was clearly happy with it. Ivan dispatched a 40k army to support Austrian in Suppressing their revolts. So Austria would have more armies available to fight the war out against France and The Netherlands. Soon after the Russian Forces had arrived in Austria the war was ended...
(After this i was subbed by the AI
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During this session:
All money was invested in infrastructure.. in order to fight inflation as soon as possible... MY INFLATION IS TO HIGH
AAR reward: -#%inflation (its to high any way 18,5%
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