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Chapter 103 Universal Empire?

The first question is, which of the following countries do you think is closest to the official system of the empire?

A. Great Britain B. France C. Prussia D. Spain

The second question, please choose the one suitable for the empire from the following tax types.

For question No.20, please comment in detail on the promotion system of officials in the empire, and write a short paper of about [-] words on this topic, which requires a prominent focus, clear organization, and reasonable logic.

No.20 second question, please comment on the parliamentary system in Poland, and use this to analyze the reasons for Poland's decline.

No.20 three questions, please analyze the current situation in Poland and point out the way out.

No. 20 Question [-], please analyze the "Imperial Edict" in January, point out the benefits of this reform to the empire, and explain its superiority.

Looking at the paper in hand, Selim showed a satisfied smile. If you say that Emperor Sai Dadi is adulterated with private goods, then there must be some.

After all, on paper, no one would sing praises to Emperor Sai, why did Emperor Sai invite him in? He was too busy to panic, so he could give himself some strength to revive the empire, right?

Of course, except for the No.20 four questions, which are the final questions shared by all major exam papers, the rest of the questions change with different exams.

And the paper in Emperor Sai's hand is the required test paper for all candidates who want to serve in the central government, and it is also the paper that Leo, who is writing hard in the examination room at this time, made.

In the examination room, Leo had already solved the previous multiple-choice questions, and began to look at the big questions behind. Although the first three questions and the secret paper did not hit the questions, the core of thinking was similar.

As for the last question, Leo is almost sure that he can solve it, because he has done similar questions countless times on the secret volume.

The same question also appeared on Mihaier's test paper. For Mihaier, who couldn't even understand the questions in the whole test paper, he decisively chose to sleep.

After all, he thought he was a descendant of Rome, and he didn't look down on Ottoman at all, so he couldn't read the paper.

After going through the first round of compulsory examination papers, what awaits Leo is the second volume - the Qur'an.

This is also set by Selim. He has already figured it out. There is no possibility of success for the Universal Empire.

The Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Mughal Empire, including a certain dynasty that was ruling the East at this time.

They all tried to construct a new national identity to replace the original nationalities, but they all failed.

The deep-seated reason for their failure is that the success of nation-building means the demise of the nations that make up the nation.

Taking the Ottoman Empire as an example, the establishment of Ottomanism meant that Turkish Turks and Arabs, Greeks, Bulgarians, and Serbs had to give up their own cultural history and national identity.

It is better to replace the historical memory of all peoples with the establishment of Ottomans in 1299, rather than the Aegean civilization of 2000 BC.

After all, in the so-called national narrative, the history of the various ethnic groups before the founding of the country is unimportant.

If possible, Ottomanism would try its best to discredit the civilizations of ancient Greece, Rome, and Armenia, and describe them as the lewd and immoral city of Sodom.

In other words, although Greece, ancient Rome, and Armenia had brilliant civilizations, they had insurmountable internal defects, which were finally filled by the Turks.

In a word, the conquest of the Turks is inevitable and progressive.

But such a narrative has an inevitable flaw, the main reason is that if there are more advanced conquerors than Turkey, wouldn’t the Greeks and Armenians be able to abandon the Ottoman Empire and embrace new conquerors?
Anyway, they are all foreign conquerors, can't the Greeks choose a better one for themselves?
What's more important is that Ottomanism is just lip service. In reality, the sultans wanted the Greeks to fulfill their obligations as an Ottoman nation while refusing to grant them power. They didn't even abolish religious taxes and discrimination policies.

It's not as good as in the previous medieval era. At any rate, the Greeks just pay the money, and there is no compulsory conscription.

And this is also a characteristic of many universal empires, which always harm the interests of some nations to nourish others.

From the very beginning, Yugoslavia relied on harming the interests of the Serbs to win over other nationalities. The Soviet Union even treated the Russians as cows, continuously sucking blood to supply Central Asia and the Caucasus.

In addition, multi-ethnic countries often mean that there are more diverse national narratives, heroes of each other, enemies of mine.Many of the national heroes of the Greeks were known for their resistance to the Ottomans, as did Armenia and Bulgaria.

Under such circumstances, Selim forcibly used the Ottoman national hero to call on the Greeks to defend Ottoman. What would the Greeks think?
It's like belittling Yue Fei while elevating Jin Wushu, and calling on the Han people to defend Dajin like Jin Wushu.Are you sure you won't be schizophrenic?

In the Qing Dynasty, the Great Qingists used to like to brag about Hailing, the Manchu general during the Qing-British War, calling him a national hero, but when this guy arrived in Zhenjiang, the British slaughtered all the Han people in Zhenjiang before they saw him. .

During the war, they also tried their best to let the Han people die as cannon fodder, and even forced the Han people to commit suicide.

In such a comparison, the British have almost become kings.

The longer the history of a nation with a stable inheritance, the harder it is to change their historical memory. Forcing the so-called nationalism with administrative power and political correctness will only be counterproductive.

For example, how old are the Greeks?Is it 4000 years or 700 years?How old are the Han Chinese?Is it 5000 years or 300 years?

Just a historical memory makes it like this, not to mention the differential treatment of various ethnic groups in daily life.

In Selim's view, the identity of a nation is like a tree, which must have a trunk, and the others can be used as branches.

But many so-called universal countries often seem to have multiple backbones, but they are forcibly tied together with ropes.

The government may use administrative means and the stick of political correctness to bluff people, but the government cannot change the reality.

No matter what kind of universal empire, the final outcome is collapse, which is a matter of sooner or later.

Compared with Byzantium, the Mughal Empire and these countries.

The situation facing Selim was even more difficult. After all, the Ottoman Empire was a country with diverse ethnicities and religions.

Rather than forcibly creating a nondescript universal empire, Selim still agrees more with the methods of the old Indian fairy.

When the Greeks later became independent, they could forcibly form a restoration army based on religion. Why couldn't Selim combine Arabs, Egyptians, and Turks together?

Now that these Islamists have been integrated, why can't he make more efforts to increase the coverage of Islam?

This is why he made the "Quran" mandatory for civil service examinations. The empire used to rely on blood taxes to preach in the Balkans, but the efficiency was very low because the Sudan felt that everyone at the bottom was a cow and a horse.

But this time, Selim's choice is to brainwash the whole body, plus continue to use factories to drain the blood of Orthodox Christians in the Balkans, and at the same time migrate Muslims to fill their positions.

This was the solution that Sai the Great devised for the Ottoman Empire after abandoning the illusion of a universal empire.

At this time in the Ottoman Empire, Muslims were close to [-]%. The task of Emperor Sai the Great in terms of religion and ethnicity was to increase the proportion of Muslims to more than [-]%, while strengthening religious identity and weakening national identity.

If this is done, the Balkans will not be able to make waves.

　Thanks to Yi Nianhuayue Wei Lin Tiangai, Wuhe Xianxi, Dark Wolf Lonely King, Little John Kegan, and several book friends and readers for their monthly tickets, as well as the name of the first reader. I may have made a mistake, but I I can't make out the last few words.

　　
　
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