Returning to Ukraine, he behaved very carefully and even served as a military clerk. However, due to his participation in the rebellion of Ostranitsa, he was demoted to the rank of centurion of the Chigirin regiment.
Around 1644, King Vladislav set out to end the war with Tursha. He foresaw that the willfulness of the lords and internal disorder would lead Poland to destruction and that it could only be saved by strengthening the royal power to the detriment of the lord's rights. The king wanted to start a big war with the TFM, so that the Sejm would completely destroy the foreign army, which, together with the Cossacks, would give him the opportunity to curb the lords and the Sejm by force after the end of the war.
The king kept all this secret, but since the war with Turshcha began, it was impossible to do without the Cossacks; They were supposed to subsequently help the king against the lords, and therefore the Cossacks had to be positioned in their favor and, most importantly, strengthened.
Vladislav promised the Cossacks to increase their number by 12 thousand people, i.e. in total up to 20 thousand with the registry, for which he gave them a charter or privilege secretly from the lords.
Instead, the Cossacks were given, through their elected officials, a red adamashev banner with a white eagle and 6,000 gold coins for the construction of seagulls. Khmelnitsiy was among these elected officials.
However, the lords found out about the king’s plans, did not allow him to hire foreign troops and renewed the peace treaty with Tursha. The war did not take place.
“Senior” (hetman) Cossack Barabash, seeing how the king’s attempt ended, calculated that the gentlemen were stronger than him and it was necessary to please them; and not the king, so he
RO a hid the royal charter and banned the Cossacks. build seagulls and prepare for wars.
Khmelnytsyu, having learned that Barabapt had hidden the royal charter, decided to take it away in order to announce it to the Cossacks. He invited Barabash to visit him and, when he got drunk the last day, he sent his dzhur (as the young Cossacks who served the old ones were called) to Barabash’s wife with a request, as if on behalf of her husband, to give the paper that he received from the king.
Dzhura rushed to the elder’s farm at night and woke up Barabashikha with a loud knock on the gate.
“Pani,” said Dzhura, “the silty lady and your master will chop it up, so they sent wine, so that they give you the rights that the king sent you.” “He was so tired that he wanted to hang out with Khmelnitsky,” answered the frightened Barabashikha. “From there, in the stipi, I’ll go with a gate in a remote kintsi near the pussy into the ground!”
Jura found the cellar, took the letter and galloped off. The eldest, waking up from drinking, found out what trick Khmelnytsyu had done to him and hated him for it. Barabash was afraid that the Cossacks would kill him for not declaring the certificate. He began to slander Khnomelnitsky, the elders of Chigirinsky Konetspolsky.
The Pole Chaplinsy took advantage of the fact that Konenpolsk, thanks to Barabash’s slander, strongly suspected Khmelnitsky of rebellious plans, and begged him to allow him to take away the Subbotovo farmstead from Khmelnitsky. Chaplinsky had long been in a quarrel with Khmelnitsky over some Polish woman whom he had taken into his house after the death of his first wife. Chaplinsky with a gang of armed men, in the absence of Khmelnitsky, attacked Subbotovo, set fire to the mill and broke into the house. He pinpointed Khmelnitsky’s little son to death, and the Polish woman whom Khmelnitsky he called her his wife, grabbed her, took her home and a few days later married her according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church.
Khmelnitsky received a complaint, but unsuccessfully, and even because of Chaplinsky’s slander he was sent to prison; soon, however, he was released at the request of Chaplinskato’s wife. In vain did Khmelnytsky complain to the Sejm; it only laughed at him, and he turned to the king. Vladislav answered him: “I see that your cause is right, but I cannot help; you have sabers, get the truth yourself.”
After this, Khmelnytsyu finally decided to raise an uprising: he was slowly returning from Warsaw. Through the Russian lands, inspecting cities and fortifying, he stopped in almost every village, started conversations and acquaintances, talked about his childhood, excited the inhabitants with a fiery speech, encouraging them with speedy revenge and God's punishment over the seducers. In particular, he revealed his plans to clergy, knowing their impact on the people.