Chapter 789 The strength of the empire was originally just a meeting to discuss the title of the third daughter of the emperor of Quanxu, and in the process of convening, this meeting was crooked!
Everything discussed is about the Nile, as well as the Ottoman Empire.Quan Xu briefly introduced the geographical location of the Nile Delta, and then briefly described the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire.For the history of the Ottoman Empire, Quan Xu can tell it, and there are many wild history forums on the Douyin account of later generations, and there are different opinions.If there is a direct connection between Turkey and the Ottomans, it is equivalent to the connection between China and the Yuan Dynasty, and it is also a history of the subjugation of nations and governments.Of course, there is no doubt about whether the Oghuz tribe was Turkic, and the Turks began to rise in the Altai Mountains when the Tumen Khan fought against the Rouran Empire, including the Persian Empire, the Sassanid Empire was destroyed by the Arabs and the Western Turks.Of course, this is not to blame on the Western Turks, mainly because the Sassanid Empire has been fighting with the Roman Empire since its establishment, so the eastern Sassanid Empire has always been very empty.The Western Turks have been fighting and fighting, and they have occupied this part of Persia.Earlier, Lao Cheng also raised a question, that is, when the Huns were strong, the entire grassland was Huns, even if they were not Huns, they would call themselves Huns.In fact, neither the Turkic Khanate, nor the Mongol Khanate, nor the then Jurchens, can be regarded as a tribe linked by blood, but as the basic form of a state.The Oghuz tribe of the Western Turks, who originally submitted to the Turks and called themselves Turks, rose up and subdued the Turks, and the Turks disappeared from history, and they either merged into the Mongols or fled to Europe.The Ottoman tribe quickly became independent by chance, and by the time of Osman I, Osman I, like Temujin, was expanding and becoming stronger and stronger.It is also because of chance, friends who are familiar with world history should know that the Crusades at that time turned Europe and Central and Western Asia into a pot of porridge, killing and wounding tens of millions of people, so the Byzantine Empire during this period was also very weak.On the eve of the fall of the Byzantine Empire, there was a powerful minister (John Chop Takuzun), at that time, in order to call the Ottoman tribesmen, they used the Ottomans and Serbia, Serbia during this period was the Orthodox Christianity of the Yugoslavs, the Eastern Slavs (Tsarist Russia or tribes) but as mercenaries the Ottomans needed John to pay, but the ministers had no money, John as long as the cub sold the field was not distressed, he gave a place to the Ottomans.At that time, the people of the Byzantine Empire had to pay three taxes, namely religious tithes, landlords' rents, and state taxes and servitude.In Chinese parlance, it is called harsh government and fierce tigers!
The Ottomans levied very little tax and had no conscription, and the Byzantines in the surrounding Gallibaldi were fried.It doesn't really matter what faith you believe, what matters is that the Ottomans had few taxes, and in the way of Chinese history, they belonged to the hearts of the people, and sure enough, the Byzantine peasants revolted one after another to welcome the arrival of the Ottomans.Soon the Ottoman principalities became stronger.This aroused the alarm of John to cut the Takuzun, and by this time, the situation had become irreversible, just like the peasant uprisings of the Chinese dynasties, where the Ottomans passed, burned castles, killed Byzantine noble landlords and government officials, and seized grain and wealth, they kept a part of it for themselves and distributed it to the Byzantine peasants.In the eleventh year of the Yuan Dynasty, Orhan died, but the foundation of the Ottoman Empire had been laid, just like Liu Bang, using his ministers and troops to begin to expand unscrupulously in Europe, and his influence in the Balkans developed to the maximum.Europe's complacency in the Middle Ages, coupled with the fact that it was drained by the Crusades, in the Fifth Crusade, the Ottomans used three years of fighting to defeat the Crusaders and achieve a real imperial transformation.However, as a nomadic empire, the Ottoman Empire, like the Manchus, had a very backward social system, and now it still adopted a slave system and maintained an army of one million people all year round.After all, Quan Xu's understanding of the Ottoman Empire comes from the historical records of later generations or miscellaneous records of wild history, in fact, whether it is the official history or the wild history, they are all from the perspective of the spectator, and there are different degrees of interpretation of the same history.There is nothing but right or wrong.With Quan Xu's preliminary introduction, the cabinet ministers of the Cabinet of the Ming Dynasty found that this Ottoman Empire was simply a copy of the Ming Dynasty of the Zhu family.Unlike the ministers of the Zhu dynasty, Quanxu's cabinet ministers were all vested interests, and Quanxu shared the dividends of expansion, and the peasants could get more and cheaper land.Merchants could gain access to new markets and sources of raw materials, and officials could be promoted without having to engage in infighting, kill opponents, or rank seniority, as was the case with the Zhu dynasty.Zhu's Ming has six departments in three provinces and thirteen provinces, while the whole Ming Dynasty is nineteen departments, as for the provincial-level units, there are more, respectively, the six northeastern provinces of Liaoyang Province, Heishui Province, Andong Province, Huining Province, Boli Province, Beizhen Province (both eastern Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia one), the three northern provinces of Tianshan Province (most of Outer Mongolia), Hanhai Province (Lake Belga), Snow Plains Province (Siberia), Northwest Ningxia Province, (including internal Ordos, Baotou and other places), Gansu Province (including Qinghai Province), plus Henan, Shanxi, Hebei Province (including central Inner Mongolia), Shaanxi and Sichuan (including Chongqing, Guizhou, most of Yunnan), Luzon, Taiwan, Hainan, Central and South five provinces, so far, the whole Damingguang provincial levy unit, there are 24 provinces, which does not include Huguang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangnan Province.There are more official positions, and there are more ways out for officials who want to be officials, especially the Royal Army and the Royal Navy, in this war of unification, the 16th Division, seven of which were mobilized, and nearly half of the troops did not have time to do it at all.If there is no war, it means that there is no war exploits, and they also want to make their wives and sons.Helena was a little dumbfounded.The Ottoman Empire is an unprovoked existence even in Europe, as powerful as the Spanish Empire, God vs. the Roman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire can be dodged and avoided.However, the cabinet ministers of the Ming Dynasty, who were not martial, showed a green light in their eyes after raising the Ottoman Empire, as if the Ottoman was a piece of fat."
I'm going to send a fleet to the Nile to build the Princess's Mansion!""
Minister's approval!""
Agreed!""
The minister seconded the proposal!"
Helena thought that the ministers of the Ming Cabinet would consider the strength of the Ottoman Empire and reject Quan Xu's very ridiculous proposal.In fact, Helena is still very willing to Catherine in Daming, even if it is just a deserted island, it is enough for the citizens of the Venetian city-state republic to have a way out.Although Catherine is still only a two-year-old girl, and when she can't survive anymore, the Republic of the Venetian city-state changes its form of government and becomes the Kingdom of Venice, making Catherine the queen and ensuring that no one objects.It's just that Jeon Wook is too child's play, how can he seal Catherine in the Nile Delta?
It was one of the few richest places in the Ottoman Empire, and it had a population of more than thirty Venetian city-states.The Ottoman Empire will not give up this territory, the main thing is that this is not only a rich granary, but also the throat of the empire, if the Quanxu faction occupies the Nile Delta, it will be equivalent to a sharp dagger on the waist of the Ottoman Empire.It's just that after Shen Mingze's statement.Yang Yandong said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the minister can lead the first fleet and the second fleet to the west, and carry 20,000 craftsmen with the army, and the minister dares to guarantee that within half a year, a huge princess mansion will be built!"
”Helena almost choked on her own saliva.Yang Yandong is the commander-in-chief of the navy and leads a fleet twice the size of the Spanish Invincible Armada?
This is to destroy the country, right?
With the strength of the Ming navy, let alone using one-third, even one-tenth of the scale, the Ottoman Empire probably has no chance of winning.Of course, this proposal was quickly sprayed back by the General Staff.If Yang Yandong goes to Europe, then the Royal Army can't wait, at least send ministers of the same level, but Fu Zonglong has already entered Sichuan, so he can't let Zhu Zhaoyi, the chief of the general staff, go!"
Kill chickens with a knife!"
Zhu Zhaoyi shook his head and said, "In this way, transfer four main warships from the first, second, and third fleets, and transfer twenty Exocet warships to form an escort fleet!"
”"Our Marine ......"
"Transfer a regiment to each!""
Our Royal Army!""
The Sixteenth Division will transfer a brigade!"
After the ministers said a few words, as if they were chatting during a meal, they were quickly settled on a combined fleet under the guise of caravan escort, including twelve new warships of the Sea Shark IV, armed with the most advanced naval guns of thirty-five times one hundred and thirty millimeters.Even the Exocet had a terrible twenty-eight guns, and the entire escort fleet had seventy-two warships, and the marines accompanying the fleet included four regiments, almost six thousand men.The 113th Brigade of the 16th Division of the Royal Army, with a total of more than 8,500 people and more than 14,500 marine soldiers, requires almost 20 thousand-ton transport ships.In this way, the escort formation would need to have seventy-two warships, forty troop carriers, and more than sixty supply ships.Well, more than a hundred armed merchant ships, plus seventy-two warships.Helena was a little at a loss: "Is this the power of a great power?"
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