Chapter 964 The Sick Man of Europe
Xinming won the world immediately. Although he did not need to rule the world immediately, for the emperor, he needed to master the army through military merits, and to control the army through military industry and control those generals.
After all, the army is a violent machine, and it is not just the imperial power that makes them surrender. They may surrender to the imperial power, but when the imperial power is also covered by military achievements, basically no one can shake it. The emperor's mastery of the army.
The army is the basis of all rule!
When Zhu Heyu was very young, his father instilled this idea in him.
Why did the Ming Dynasty have the dominant civil officials and almost underestimated the emperor before the Chongzhen Dynasty?
Because the heroes became decorations, the military officers became vassals of civil servants.
If you cannot control the army, the imperial power will naturally be undermined.
The emperor needs to master the army and balance it by mastering the army. The relationship between civil and military affairs is the biggest difference between the father and the Yizong, and it is also the fundamental reason why the father can "respond to the holy heart".
From the reminder of the father, Zhu Heyu, who understood the reason, pondered for a while and asked again.
"Then why are the Ottomans? They are so far away from us. If we want to make military achievements, wouldn't it be better for Jiannu to expeditions in the West? Didn't the father build the railway just for the expeditions in the West?"
Faced with his son's confusion, Zhu Guoqiang said with a smile.
"Heyu, have you seen the "Kunyu Wanguo Map"?"
"The Complete Map of Kunyu and Ten Thousand Nations"?
What's on it?
After thinking for a while, Zhu Heyu replied.
"Father, do you mean the color above?"
Anyone who stands in front of the "Kunyu Wanguo Map", he will definitely notice that the green area between Europe and the Shenzhou is not a country, but their colors are the same, the same green, and it is only a little red. It is the vassal states and colonies of the Ming Dynasty in India.
But they were "drown" in that green.
And green symbolizes the Tianfang Green Sect.
As can be seen from this map alone, the Green Church is the master of this planet to a certain extent. Unlike Europe's expansion into the ocean, Green Expansion is rampant in Central Europe towards the Ottoman Turkey on the mainland, they ravaged Hungary and besieged Vienna. Thousands of miles away, another Green Empire, Mughal Empire, is also expanding its empire southward. If there is no external force to stop them, they will inevitably become conquerors of the entire peninsula.
Green green is widely spread among the nations in Africa, Central Asia and Southeast Asia as a belief. The ones that make them proud are the Ottoman Empires and the Mughal Empires.
Perhaps the Safi Empire between the two was destroyed, but the two empires of the Ottoman and the Mughal Empire still looked up to the whole world. They could be proud of the European Christ world in terms of economy, military, political and cultural aspects, and even a high-ranking mentality towards the Chinese world.
Among them, the Ottoman Empire was the most powerful. It was named because the founder was Ottoman I. The ruler was the Ottoman people who originated from the Turkic nomadic tribes in Central Asia. At the end of the 14th century, when the leader of this group of Turkic leaders, that is, the man named Ottoman, declared independence, no one at that time had ever thought of such an inconspicuous small country named after the bandit leader, who would later defeat the Eastern Roman Empire and occupy Constantinople, which became a nightmare in Europe since then.
It can even be said that without the technological changes in the 17th century and the subsequent industrial revolution, perhaps the Ottoman Empire would be another "Attila" and another whip of God, perhaps...
Perhaps, more than a decade ago, Ottoman expansion was stopped in Vienna.
But the Ottoman Empire was at its peak in 1665. It was a great country spanning three continents and with a population of tens of millions. The entire Europe, whether Central Europe or Southern Europe, had to face threats from it. The expanding Ottoman Empire was a nightmare for the whole of Europe. It was like a ball of fire that could burn the entire world at any time.
This is the world of nature, the world of Christ. Their awe of the Ottomans originated from the Turkish military power. In the past two hundred years, the Turks have fought all the way from the Middle East to the hinterland of the Christ world. Many areas in southern Europe were occupied by the Ottomans, and millions of Christians were forced to change their faith. The "Romans" became Albanians, Kosovos and Turks hundreds of years later...
"Father, is the reason why I chose Ottoman because he is strong enough?"
"That's right!"
Zhu Guoqiang nodded.
"For Europeans, in their eyes, the Ottoman army is the most powerful in the world. They have artillery guns and many locusts. Even if they rely on European craftsmen to cast cannons for them and Christian musketeers and gunners, it still does not hinder the Europeans' awe of them. The Ottoman Empire, as the old enemy of Europe, is indeed very powerful!"
When talking about the power of Ottoman, Zhu Guoqiang couldn't help but raise his lips lightly, his eyes full of contempt.
"But this powerful is just a joke. The seemingly powerful Ottoman Empire is actually just a colonial empire. It is the slavery of the Ottomans to the various ethnic groups in southern Europe, Bulgaria, Greeks, and Hungarians. They divided the people of the entire country into different levels, not only because of your nation, but also depending on which religion you are. If you are a Christian, then you are not qualified to sue the Greens; you cannot ride a horse in front of the Greens; you cannot steal other people's business when doing business with the Greens; you have to pay special taxes just because you are not a Greens. In short, there are still many things that cannot be done. If it is a general in the Balkans, you cannot steal other people's business; you have to pay special taxes only because you are not a Greens. In short, there are still many things that cannot be done. If it is a general in the Balkans, you have to pay special taxes.
Through the people, his children would be kidnapped by the Sultan, which is called "blood tribute". The children were sent to Constantinople for training, and excellent people could enter the army, and even promoted to Pasha, who was a senior slave of the Sultan. If a scientist, if he dared to say that the sun was the largest and the earth was just an asteroid around the sun, then wait for death because it blasphemed the gods. Before, there was an Ottoman astronomer who was executed because he wanted to see the observatory. From then on, there was no scientific progress there. If he gained the status of a high-ranking official, the Sultan asked him to lead his troops to attack a certain place. If he failed, the executioner from the court would strangle him with a rope and take his head back. This was the fate of the failed generals attacking Vienna..."
In fact, the words Lenin said, "Imperial Russia is the prison of all ethnic groups" are undoubtedly even more used in the Ottoman Empire. The sharp opposition between the various ethnic groups there has never been eased, and the rulers are extremely cruel.
The population of the Ottoman Empire was even worse than that of Eastern Rome. The population of the newly separated Eastern Rome was conservatively estimated to be 26 million. The area of the Ottomans was nearly twice as large as that of the newly separated Eastern Rome, with a population of less than 20 million! This is still not conservative estimate. If it is conservative estimate, they would have a population of at most 12 million... It is worth mentioning that even after experiencing the great plague, the population of the Eastern Rome was larger than that of the Ottoman Empire in the mid-17th century. It is suspected of insulting the Olympics.
What about the big city?
The first time Constantinople surpassed the heyday of Dongluo was in the 19th century. After the Industrial Revolution... The sewer and reservoir left by Dongluo were not built. One of the major reservoirs was broken, and one was filled with one. There was no way. It would not be built for a thousand years. In the 17th and 8th century, the Sultan recruited expedition teams from Sweden to explore the sewer of Dongluo, and ruled Constantinople for two or three hundred years, and did not even draw a sewer drawing.
What about the region with abundant resources in the Eastern Roman era?
Egypt, known as the "Roman Granary", brought the Ottoman population back to the Central Kingdom. Yes, it was directly back to the Central Kingdom period. The lowest point was directly less than the population of the ancient kingdom.
This is comparable to the "Qing Tartars" governance of China, which resulted in the "Qing Tartars" and the Xia Dynasty's level four thousand years ago. Even Zhu Guoqiang felt that everything was "insulting the Qing Dynasty" compared with the "Qing Tartars" and the Ottoman people's governance.
Chapter completed!