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Text Chapter 1150 The Sword Points at Suez

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    *** The little Britain once controlled almost all of the world¡¯s major sea lanes, as well as colonies that were nearly two hundred times larger than its homeland. The span of time it controlled was so long, and its influence was so far-reaching.  ¨R So, with Da Qin¡¯s current strength, can¡¯t it do this?  In terms of technology, Daqin is already far ahead of the West. In terms of shipbuilding and weapons, it is also far ahead. Now the Ordnance Supervision has produced a front-loading rifled cannon, which has a longer range and higher accuracy.  And a breech-loading rifled gun is being developed, which has been successfully adopted after a large amount of manpower and material resources have been invested.  More importantly, mathematics, physics and chemistry have begun to become popular under the strong promotion of Emperor Qin Mu. With China's huge population base, the emergence of engineering talents must be unmatched by other countries, and natural science and technology will also see a blowout.  style development.  The prosperity of maritime trade has accelerated the accumulation of capital, and the industrial revolution is bound to come quickly.  ¡°In addition, under the leadership of Qin Mu, the awareness of sea power throughout the country is constantly strengthening. With its strong national power, it is not necessarily difficult to dominate the world like the United Kingdom.  And to control maritime hegemony, Suez must not be ignored.  Qin Mu¡¯s original plan was to force the Ottomans to cede the Suez region through Li Ding¡¯s campaign, but now it seems that this is unlikely.  From the words of the Ottoman scholar, it can be seen that the Ottomans have clearly seen the root of the empire's decline, and they have begun to strengthen naval construction in the Arabian Peninsula. This further proves that the scholar's words have been recognized by the Ottoman high-level officials.  .  Although the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire were both countries in the Islamic world, due to their different environments, the strength of the navies of the two countries was also very different.  In the past, Safavid¡¯s main enemies were the Ottoman Empire and the Uzbeks, plus the Mughal dynasty, whose relations were good and bad.  These threats all came from land, so all Safavid's energy was invested in the construction of the army.  The navy was very weak, and it would be easy for Qin to bully the Safavid Empire.  Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, is located on the strait, and the entire southern coast of the Mediterranean is also his territory, and these require a powerful navy to resist attacks from the Christian world.  Therefore, the Ottoman Empire attached great importance to the construction of its navy. Their navy was enough to compete with the navies of Spain and many European countries in the Mediterranean.  In the Red Sea region, they also maintained a relatively strong naval force. Once they even went to Sumatra in Southeast Asia to help the small Islamic countries on the island fight against the invasion of Europeans.  It was just before Da Qin¡¯s ocean-going fleet advanced into the Indian Ocean.  The main naval force of the Ottoman Empire in the Indian Ocean was defeated by the Dutch, so they have been relatively quiet in the Indian Ocean this year.  Now the Ottoman Empire understands that the Red Sea trade channel is related to the prosperity and decline of the entire country. It will definitely not be that easy to regain the east-west trade channel and let them spit out Suez.  And if such a huge empire fully develops its navy, it will pose a great challenge to Qin in the Indian Ocean.  Of course, this is something Qin Mu cannot tolerate.  The Suez area must be captured.  The question is how to capture the Suez area?  Suez is too far away from the Qin Dynasty. As the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse.  The Ottoman Empire was so huge and valued this place so much that the navy's warships sailed over and even temporarily captured this area.  The Ottomans will definitely fight to recapture it, and they will have to station a large number of troops at that time. There will still be continuous wars in the Suez region.  In this way, Da Qin will spend a lot of energy and wealth in this place.  Therefore, taking it by force through war is not the best policy.  The left minister of the Ministry of War said: "Your Majesty, if we, the Qin Dynasty, send troops to seize the Suez region directly by force, there will be great consequences and hidden worries. I have studied the Ottoman system. The Ottoman rule of such a vast territory mainly relies on the Timar system. This  It is a ruling system similar to feudal fiefs. The Ottoman Sultan awards land to meritorious soldiers as compensation for military service. Timar territories are usually divided into two types based on their income: Annual income is less than 20,000 Akce.  Those with an annual income of between 20,000 and 100,000 Akche are called Zeamet, and their lords are called Zaim, both of whom are collectively called Sipaxi.  Feudal cavalry. Their possession of the territory is conditional. In addition to being called up to participate in the war, they also provide a certain number of cavalry based on the income of their territory. Usually, one horse is provided for every 3,000 to 5,000 Akche.  , weapons, food, etc. are usually supplied by the lord.Living in the territory, in addition to self-operating a certain amount of farmland, they also supervise the use of the land and the farmers' payment of rent and taxes.  The state exercises strict supervision over their territory.  The lord should allocate most of the territory to the peasants for hereditary cultivation and shall not confiscate it at will; the land managed by the lord himself cannot exceed the peasants' allotment; the territory cannot be hereditary except for a strictly prescribed small part; whether the taxes levied by the lord are  The legality and size of the tax are subject to the supervision of the qadi (judge).  These regulations not only restricted the unrestricted expansion of lords¡¯ land and made it possible for the state to frequently take back part of the land for redistribution, but also adjusted the relationship between farmers and feudal lords to a certain extent.  In the early days, the Ottomans continued to expand externally, and the lords mainly relied on booty to get rich, and did not regard real estate as the main source of income.  They usually limited themselves to collecting land rent and acted as political lords.  But now, as the Ottoman national power gradually weakens and its military capabilities continue to shrink, the Timar lords everywhere can no longer live a prosperous life based on spoils of war and can only rely on taxes.  However, the amount of taxation was strictly supervised by the government officials, and domestic prices in the Ottoman Empire continued to rise, and Lord Timar's cost of raising troops increased sharply.  Many lords went bankrupt.  The Sultan has already stipulated that any Timar lord who has insufficient troops for three consecutive years or lacks adequate food and grass preparations will have their fiefdoms taken back.  Many Sipaxi cavalry lords could not continue to operate, so they went to the border to rebel. Therefore, there have been endless rebellions in the Ottoman Empire over the years.  If our DPRK can formulate some targeted strategies and support some Timar lords to rebel in the Suez region, one or two small countries will be formed in the future. With these small countries as barriers, our DPRK will not have to worry about repeated attacks by the Ottoman army after seizing the Suez region.  Attacked.  ¡± The Suez region is one of the key areas controlled by the Ottomans. Without the support of external forces, it would be difficult for the Sipaxi cavalry lords who were forced to rebel to gain a foothold in this area. It is worth mentioning that the Ottoman Empire was not  There are only cavalry who use cold weapons. Their history of using firearms is similar to that of Europeans. The seventh generation of the Ottoman monarch Muhammad II (-) used a large number of artillery in the battle to conquer Byzantine Constantinople.  The artillery is called the Urban Cannon. It is 9 meters long and has a caliber of 30 inches. It is enough to easily stuff a big man into the barrel. The shells fired can reach a range of more than 1.6 kilometers.  A total of fifty or sixty artillery pieces, large and small, were built in the world and used to attack Constantinople before they captured this European bridgehead. Now the Ottoman firearms technology is not much worse than that of European countries, so it can be used as a country.  , fighting against most of Europe. But like most European countries, the Ottoman soldiers now use smoothbore guns and smoothbore cannons, which are incomparable to the rifled guns and rifled cannons used by the Qin army to the Suez area.  The idea of ??supporting the local Sipaxi cavalry lords to rebel and dismantle the Ottoman Empire's rule in the Suez region was very much in line with Qin Mu's wishes. What Da Qin wanted was not to occupy much land locally, but just to control this important passage.  . Spend some money to let the local lords fight to the death with Osman. This is very cost-effective! Qin Mu thought for a while and said: "Let Hai Rufeng do this. If you do it well, you will get a reward."  No, there is no need for him, the admiral of the ocean fleet, to do so.  " He Liang, Di Zhongxing and others looked at each other. It seems that the emperor has always been worried about Hai Rufeng's plan to give up his son because of a woman! *******************  ***** ps: I read it today and someone fucked me. Dear friends, please vote for me! Please support! (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and faster!
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