Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 359 This is too much!
Mustafa wants to take the position of Sultan, but Mustafa can't bear to kill Selim III directly - apart from the relationship between the two uncles and brothers, the more important thing is that Mustafa needs Keep Selim III alive.

A living former abolished sultan can well maintain the image of Mustafa as a kind and friendly benevolent monarch, which is far more useful than a dead abolished sultan.

But Selim III didn't think much about it. After all, Selim III could be regarded as growing up in the hands of a woman in the deep palace since childhood, and his political and political means may not be stronger than Guangxu Neng.

If you really think about it, Daqing and Osman really deserve to be a pair of troubled brothers. Not only were they beaten by Europa to the point of doubting their lives, but even their respective later monarchs were very similar. For example, Selim III was very similar to Guangxu of Qing Dynasty. resemblance--

Guangxu wanted to revive the Qing Dynasty, and Selim III also wanted to revive the Ottoman Empire; Guangxu's throne was not passed down from his own father, and Selim III's sultan was inherited from his uncle; Kong had ideas but no real skills, and was suppressed everywhere, while Selim III had good ideas in all aspects but couldn't implement them, and was constrained by the traditional nobles of Ottoman everywhere.

It's just that Selim III is somewhat stronger than Guangxu. After all, Ottoman's traditional conservative nobles just don't want their own interests to be damaged, and no one really hopes that Selim III, the Ottoman Sultan, is a pure Two idiots, and Guangxu was raised as a tool man like a idiot since he was a child.

This can be seen from the reform plans Selim III formulated for Ottoman.

However, it was precisely because Selim III didn't think much about it, so he didn't intend to let Mustafa leave just like that.

Selim III grabbed Mustafa's hand and said, "It just so happens that Mekhail is back, why are you so anxious to leave? In fact, I still want to hear your opinion—in any case, we It is all for Ottoman's strength, there is no doubt about it."

Seeing that the time was getting closer, Mustafa simply frowned and said: "Since you already have your own plan, why should you listen to my opinion? In an empire, there should not be two different voices." .”

Selim III shook his head and said, "One arrow can be easily broken, but ten arrows are hard to break. The future of the Ottoman Empire is not just my business."

Before Mustafa could say anything, Selim III went on to say: "As the special envoy of the Ottoman Empire, Mekhail has already agreed to the conditions proposed by the Ming people. I want to know how you feel about these conditions." watch?"

Mustafa unconsciously raised his head to look at the sky outside the palace, and thought to himself, how can I see it?How can I see with my eyes!Time is running out, big brother!In case those traditional and conservative nobles launch an attack in advance, then the two of us brothers will have to go on the road together later?

Besides, although these conditions are disgusting, Ottoman has been going downhill over the years, and has signed treaties with the Kafir countries in Europe, and there are many more disgusting treaties among them.

In contrast, the conditions proposed by the Ming people, except for the delineation of a concession in Istanbul, the rest of the conditions are within the acceptable range of Ottoman.

After thinking about it, Mustafa, who became more and more anxious in his heart, simply snorted and said: "Since Mekhail agreed to the conditions proposed by the Ming people on behalf of Osman, and the Habsburg family has also agreed, then I still have to What can you think?"

"However..." Mustafa suddenly changed the subject, and said after deliberation: "Although I don't agree to learn from Ming, England, and France in all respects, but I have to admit that they do have There are some places worth learning, so I agree to send some overseas students to Ming Dynasty or England or France to learn their strengths."

Selim III smiled immediately and said: "Look, don't we brothers want to go together now? The true god said that even though the knowledge is far away in China, we should seek it - even the true god encourages us to take the initiative to go there Ming people learn, then we should learn from Ming or other countries, learn their strengths, turn their strengths into our strengths, get rid of our weaknesses, and make us stronger."

Mustafa suddenly felt speechless.

"Although learning is far away in China, you should seek it" is indeed what the true god once said, and it is clearly recorded in the classics. Selim III used the words of the true god to promote the dispatch of overseas students to Ming. Things, then Osman really has no good reason to object up and down.

Selim III went on to say: "I hope you can appease those traditional, old-fashioned, and almost decadent nobles after you go back, and tell them that although the contract signed with the Ming people this time has many disadvantages for Ottoman, but we You can’t just see the bad and not see the good.”

Mustafa said with a gloomy face, "What good can there be in it?"

But after he finished speaking, Mustafa suddenly realized that he couldn’t see any benefits in it, so he would become the kind of traditional, old-fashioned, almost decadent aristocrat that Selim III said ?
Selim III didn't notice that Mustafa's face was getting worse, but he laughed instead: "There are too many benefits in this."

After releasing Mustafa's hand, Selim III walked around and said excitedly, "The first benefit is that we Ottomans can also send overseas students to the Ming Kingdom."

"As the true God said, although learning is far away in China, you should seek it."

"It was fine if we didn't have this opportunity before, but now we have the opportunity—compared with the most powerful Ming country, neither England nor France is a little bit behind. Since we want to send overseas students to learn from other countries strengths, of course we should learn from the most powerful Ming country.”

"The second benefit is, of course, that you can start a formal exchange with Ming."

"You know, Mustafa, if you want to make Osman stronger, you can't do without money."

"It just so happens that the Ming country is very rich, and now the whole world is doing business with the people of the Ming country, and a large amount of silver is flowing into the Ming country, and we Ottomans have the most oil reserves on the small broken ball. We can definitely get oil Come and exchange everything we need with the Ming Kingdom."

"The third benefit..."

But before Selim III finished speaking, Mustafa interrupted Selim III impatiently: "It is the Ming country that has the most oil reserves on the small broken ball, not us Ottoman."

"Don't forget, in the contracts signed between Mekhail and Ming, several oil producing areas occupied by Ming have been leased to Ming - what is the difference between this and direct cession? Maybe it's just in name Sound better?"

Selim III argued: "We also have more oil fields, and oil fields that are easier to extract."

"As for the oil production areas that have been leased or ceded to the Ming people... how many people do you think the Ming people can send to mine oil? Can the extracted oil meet the needs of the Ming people?"

Mekhail said in a timely manner: "As wise as Sudan, the oil produced in those places alone cannot meet the needs of the Ming people. In fact, the Ming people are now buying oil all over the world, and we Ottoman has the largest oil reserves in the world, and no one can meet the needs of Ming people except us."

Mustafa sneered, and asked back: "Then what about the Ming Dynasty itself? Could it be that their country has no oil?"

Mekhail didn't know how to answer Mustafa's question.

After staying in Daming for such a long time, Mekhail is not as ignorant of Daming as before.

Mekhail knew very well that Ming also had oil in its own country, but Ming seldom exploited or did not exploit their own oil at all, and would rather spend money to buy it from other countries.

Based on the newspapers he read in the Ming Dynasty and the information he inquired from people in other countries, Mekhail finally came to a very surprising conclusion: oil is probably a non-renewable resource, and the Ming Dynasty Now there is no need for so much oil at all, they just want to extract all the oil back as a reserve.

If this inference is correct, then the truth hidden behind it is amazing-assuming that oil is non-renewable, it means that every barrel produced will be one less barrel, and when the oil in other countries is exhausted, then the words of oil will be exhausted. The power is naturally in the hands of the Ming people who have the most oil reserves!
However, Mekhail did not dare to express his inference directly. After all, he had signed a contract with the Ming people. Once his recommendation came true, he would be the biggest sinner in Ottoman history!

Thinking of this, Mekhail's taste was as bitter as eating three catties of yellow lotus.

Signing a treaty with the Ming people, he may be the biggest sinner in Ottoman history.

If you don't sign a treaty with the Ming people, you will be the sinner of Ottoman's subjugation.

Perhaps, this is his own life?Was it specially arranged by the true god?
After thinking about it secretly, Mekhail said: "Ming people really have a huge demand for oil. Even though many countries in the small pot are selling oil, they still can't meet the needs of Ming people."

After thinking for a while, Mekhail added: "According to the information I have heard, it seems that it is because of the oil that the Ming Dynasty launched a war against us Ottomans."

Selim III didn't feel the slightest surprise at what Mekhail said, but Mustafa was almost driven mad.

This is too fast!
You Ming country needs oil, so why don’t you buy it directly? We Ottomans didn’t say no to selling it. Why do we have to use war to solve the problem?
Okay, it doesn’t matter if you want to fight in the Ming Dynasty, we Ottomans can just accompany you, but you also gathered sand geese and silly thief eagles and other gangsters to bully more and less, not martial arts!

Because of this bullshit news, the more he thought about it, the more he worried that the traditional conservative nobles outside the Topkapi Palace would launch an attack on the palace in advance, so Mustafa simply said with a dark face: "Ming people It’s really deceptive, I don’t want to know the benefits of signing a treaty with them, I only care about when Osman will be strong enough to let Ming beg us to sign a treaty!”

When Mustafa said this, Selim III and Mekhail were immediately stunned.

Want to eat fart!

Not to mention that China is now the most powerful country in Xiaopoqiu. Even England, France and the like in Ming Dynasty cannot compete with Ottoman, who is now going downhill!
Seeing the atmosphere getting more and more tense, Selim III also lost interest in continuing the conversation with Mustafa.

Selim III waved his hand and said: "Okay, you can leave first, but I still hope that you can persuade those traditional and conservative nobles - Ottoman's reform will not cause them to lose too much benefits, and they will get more benefits in the future, I take this as the guarantee that Sultan can give them."

Mustafa obviously had no interest in hearing Selim III talking nonsense here.

For Mustafa, as long as he does not take the position of Sultan for a day, his own interests are consistent with those of Ottoman's traditional conservative nobles.

Don't say that the loss is too much, even the loss of a Keqie is enough to make people feel heartbroken!

Not to mention that there will be more benefits in the future-anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Ottoman Empire is now declining. Who can guarantee that Selim III's reforms will be successful?

What if it fails?Will Osman's situation be worse than it is now?Will the big guy's loss be more serious?

After thinking about it, Mustafa finally bowed slightly and stroked his chest, and greeted Selim III: "Please rest assured, I will persuade them."

Selim III smiled gratifiedly, and said: "That's good - if our reform can succeed, it will definitely make Ottoman strong again. One day in the future, maybe we will be able to march east? By then , I will definitely canonize you as the governor of China!"

Just after Mustafa left, Selim III's face darkened.

Mekhail was a little confused by Selim III's change of face, but Makhail wisely didn't ask, but brought the topic to the contract with Daming: "Sultan, The Ming people allowed us to send no more than 500 foreign students to study abroad this time, but all the expenses of the foreign students need to be borne by ourselves, which is the same as France, England and other countries."

(End of this chapter)