Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 353

After Louis XVI left, Zhu Jinsong couldn't help sighing slightly.

From the very beginning when he was ambitiously preparing to kill Osman, holding the entire oil barrel of the small broken ball in Daming's hands, and now having to set up a concession area, Zhu Jinsong's heart is like being trampled by a hundred thousand alpacas Just as messy.

Plans never change fast.

No one thought that George III would take the initiative to transfer Tianzhu to Daming.

No one could have imagined that Louis XVI would actually sell Louisiana to Daming.

If Ottoman is captured again, then the territory owned by Ming will be unprecedentedly large, and in order to effectively occupy these territories, Daming has to relocate people to these territories——to achieve the effect of effective occupation, the relocated people Not to mention one hundred million, at least tens of millions, right?

However, the crux of the problem is that the current population density of Ming Dynasty itself is in a state of sparsely populated land. If tens of millions of people are relocated to these sites, the result will be a further decline in the population density of Daming. The population density is not much higher.

Then there will be a lot of chain reactions.

Should the army be stationed there?If troops are stationed, how many are there?Is it to reduce the number of troops in the Ming Dynasty, or to recruit new troops?If the number of troops in the Ming Dynasty is reduced, will it bring risks to the safety of the Ming Dynasty?If a new army is recruited, can the current number of people in Ming Dynasty afford the sudden increase of hundreds of thousands of troops?Does the Ministry of Households need to adjust its financial plan?Does the project plan of the Ministry of Industry have to be adjusted?
The combination of the messy problems made Zhu Jinsong have to suspend the military plan against Ottoman.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Jinsong came up with the game of the concession, and used the slogan to vent their anger on Louis XVI and the others-Louis XVI and the others would feel that it would be beneficial to follow the big brother Daming, and Daming would also The same will not lose half a penny of interest.

Of course, there may not be some selfishness of Zhu Jinsong in this. After all, the countries that established the concession at the entrance of the Central Plains included several countries controlled by the Habsburg family.

As for Ottoman...

Sometimes Zhu Jinsong couldn’t help complaining—Old Dog Qian Deaf obviously shouldn’t have Louis XVI as his pen pal, but should have Ottoman’s Sultan and Selim III as his pen pal.

Ottoman existed from the beginning of the 14th century to the beginning of the 20th century. It spanned more than 600 years between the Ming and Qing dynasties. Its territory reached 550 million square kilometers at its largest period, spanning three continents, Asia, Africa and Europe.

It's a pity that Osman and the Great Mosque are a pair of difficult brothers and sisters——

In the Qing Dynasty, Cheng Liang’s filial son became self-reliant, and Ottoman was split from the Roma Sultanate, which was defeated by Mongolia during the third Western Expedition;
The Qing Dynasty was nearly wiped out by Emperor Liting of Chenghua, and Osman was beaten by the lame Timur to the point of annihilation. I'm afraid that Osman has already sung cool;
The Qing Dynasty was called the sick man of East Asia, and Ottoman was the famous sick man of Europe;
The Qing Dynasty was beaten to cede territory by the big powers to pay compensation, and Ottoman was also beaten to dismemberment by the big powers;
The Qing Dynasty had engaged in the Westernization Movement before it was cool, and Ottoman had also engaged in a Europa Movement when it was going downhill. Ottoman Sultan Selim III designed a package of reforms for the entire country, including diplomacy, education, taxation, and Local management and so on are all in line with Europa;
The Westernization Movement of the Qing Dynasty failed, and the Ottoman Europa Movement was doomed to failure from the very beginning. In order to restore its former status and style, the first thought of the Ottoman court headed by Sultan was military reform, but the problem just happened. on military reform.

Conservatives want to return to the ancient Ottoman military traditions, thinking that only in this way can the glory of the Ottoman Empire be revived, while middle-of-the-roaders only hope to learn from Europa's military technology, and do not need to reform in other aspects. Selim III hopes to carry out thorough reforms. It is believed that the current army has no value for reform and needs to start anew.

In fact, just as the Qing Dynasty's Westernization Movement will affect the interests of the Eight Banners, the Ottoman Sultan Selim III's Europa Movement will also affect the interests of the old Ottoman nobles and the Imperial Guard.

As the saying goes, cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, so Selim III's Europa Movement also failed.

Of course, Osman is not completely as useless as Qing Dynasty.

As we all know, the twelve Ming emperors and holy masters of the Qing Dynasty were all blown out by the coated ahas. In fact, they were little spicy chickens who ceded land and paid compensation for generations. It can't beat Burma, and it can even be exported by a small country like Nibo and stationed in Wusizang.

Compared with the Qing Dynasty, the Ottoman monarchs were very different.

Starting from the fourth Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, the Ottoman sultans would kill all their brothers immediately after ascending the throne to prevent them from seeking to usurp the throne. Sultan Murad II fixed the matter of killing his own brothers and sisters after he ascended the throne as a law, and named it the "Karicide Law".

Murad II's reason was: "Any of my sons, chosen by Allah to be Sultan, are justified in killing his brothers for the sake of a better world order. To become an Ottoman monarch, one must You must work hard to govern, be full of martial arts, be cruel and ruthless to the enemy, lead your subjects to prosperity and prosperity, and know the importance of the survival of the country. Those weak and incompetent people who live in poverty cannot control the huge power and the future of the country at all, only blood Only the killing can eliminate them."

Murad II was not just talking, but he really did what he did - after the heir was determined, Murad II really killed dozens of his sons, including his daughters.

Since then, this law has been recorded in the "Law Book of Mehmet II", and the subsequent sultans also used this as a basis to kill all their brothers after they ascended the throne.

Of course, there is a problem with the "law of killing relatives"-sultans also have many wives. If there are more wives, there will be more sons born, but there is only one position for sultans.

Therefore, as long as the old sultan decides who is the new heir, the other princes will be in panic all day long. Many princes are thinking that they will die after the new sultan ascends the throne anyway, so it is better to find a way before the sultan ascends the throne If you kill him, you may still have a chance to survive.

So when the 9th emperor Selim I came, a new "family killing law" appeared: not only the new sultan who came to the throne had to execute all his brothers, but the old sultan had to put his brother to death after he selected a prince as his heir. The rest of the princes were all killed.

Selim I also practiced the same as Murad II - after he came to the throne, he first implemented the "Killing Law" established by his grandfather Mehmet II, sent troops to hunt down the remaining male members of the royal family, and killed his brother Kaurkud and five nephews.

Later, after Selim I selected his son Suleiman as his successor, he killed all his other biological sons, even the youngest son who could not walk, and killed more than 20 of them.

For this reason, Selim I also said: "A carpet is enough for two Sufi believers to live in, but this world is too small for two sultans!"

As the saying goes, if people are not ruthless, they cannot stand firm. The Ottoman sultans were not only ruthless to the clan, but also more ruthless to the nobles of the Ottoman Empire.

When Osman first started his business, it was an era when there were strong men like clouds. In that era, there were ruthless people such as Zhu Yuanzhang and Timur, and there were powerful countries such as Ming, Beiyuan, Byzantium and Seljuk.

To make Osman stronger, he must be ruthless.

The sultans discovered that it was not the enemy that really made the Mongolian Golden Family decline, but the internal struggle for power.

For this reason, the sultans not only had to kill their own children, but also restricted the rights of nobles - they could not marry or have children. Titles and the like all depend on whether there is credit.

It can be said that the Sultan, who can stand out in this cruel environment, is far more reliable than the prince of the Qing Dynasty. After all, it is a fight for benevolence if he fails, and no one dares to be careless. Those generals of Ottoman They are also more powerful and fierce than the Eight Banners masters of the Qing Dynasty.

On the contrary, the princes of the Qing Dynasty are very crotch-the so-called "nine sons seizing the heir" sounds awesome, but the loser may not necessarily die, especially after the game of the posthumous edict came out, the princes of the Qing Dynasty There is no need to fight anymore, all they have to do is to win the favor and approval of the previous generation of slave chiefs.

Not to mention the masters of the Eight Banners, the four words "hardcore crops" are enough to explain everything.

For example, what is funny is that the Qing Dynasty was killed by the slave chieftains and the Eight Banners, and Ottoman was almost the same by the Sultan and the Imperial Guards.

Osman's "kin killing order" was not terminated until Ahmed I came to the throne in 1603, that is, in the 31st year of Wanli. It was from this time that Osman slowly began to go downhill. Like the Qing Dynasty, he was beaten up by the European powers.

Osman's final fate was even worse than that of the Qing Dynasty. After all, he could never be stitched together after being dismembered.

Because the Qing Dynasty belonged to the back garden of the European powers, so the powers did not intend to kill the Qing Dynasty. Instead, they needed a middleman like the Qing Dynasty to seize the interests of the central plains. After all, there are so many people Treaties, the powers also worried that changing the court would affect the implementation of those treaties.

And Osman belongs to the kind of thorn in the side and thorn in the flesh that must be killed-first of all, Osman does not have that much interest value for the great powers, and secondly, Osman's geographical location.

As a powerful country across Asia, Europe and Africa, none of the European powers wants to see a complete and powerful Ottoman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire always wants to expand to Europe, and has participated in Europa many times. This caused irreconcilable contradictions between the two sides.

The main reason lies in the beliefs of both parties, and they understand everything.

Of course, Zhu Jinsong doesn't care about Osman's beliefs, nor does he care how far Osman's downhill road has gone. He just covets Ottoman's oil, but because Daming really can't actually occupy it, That's why I chose the concession game.

To put it bluntly, Daming's current comprehensive strength has expanded to its peak, and it is not enough to support Ming's further expansion to the Ottomans. It is better to use the concession method to grab Ottoman's oil for Daming's use.

After sitting in the chair and pondering for a while, Zhu Jinsong simply asked Zeng Cheng and other big shots to be called over.

When Zeng Cheng and others arrived at the palace, Zhu Jinsong straight to the point said: "Louis XVI's side has been settled, and George III, Paul I, and Jefferson's side should be fine."

"That is to say, apart from the matter of King Qin and King Jin going out to sea, the Ottoman Concession is more important. After solving the problem of the Ottoman Concession, we only have the problem of the number of people in Ming Dynasty. .”

As soon as they heard the words "the number of people", Zeng Cheng, Liu Huaiwen and other bigwigs' faces collapsed.

These four words are mentioned every year, and they are said every month, and they have almost become the most concerned and troublesome issue of the Ming Dynasty. The common people are leeks, which can be harvested one after another, but the common people are not leeks. , cannot grow one after another.

At the very least, the growth cycle of common people is much slower than the growth cycle of leeks. Within a few decades, the population will not develop at all.

Fortunately, in a few more years, Ming Dynasty will usher in the first population explosion—since the Great Qingliang was deaf to Qian 50 years ago, the living conditions of the people in the Central Plains have ushered in a wave of qualitative leap , the number of births also rose sharply, and the Ming court vigorously encouraged births in the following ten years, and it has been more than ten years now.

Calculated according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, in a few years, the number of Dingkou in the Ming Dynasty will skyrocket.

If the Ming court headed by Zhu Jinsong is willing to be more patient and wait another 30 years, I am afraid that the population of Ming Dynasty will indeed usher in a double growth.

If the population increases from [-] million to [-] million, Zhu Jinsong is confident enough to stabilize the existing territories; if the population increases from [-] million to [-] million, Zhu Jinsong is confident enough to take down the entire Ottomans.

If it can grow to a billion...

Marching into space is a bit of a joke, but Zhu Jinsong dared to change the name of the little broken ball to the pigsty!

Because these common people who grew up after 50 years of Qian Deaf grew up listening to "One day in the 48th year of Qian Deaf, His Majesty the Emperor led people to pass by Xiaoxuzhuang..." When they grew up, they all listened to "Youth Strong" "Ze Daming is strong" grew up listening to "Jiading, Jiangyin, Yangzhou" and watching the launching of one after another of the Ming warships!

(End of this chapter)