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Chapter 36 The Sultan's Will

An active sultan who never delays, Selim approached Yusuf Pasha the next day and asked him to organize a diwan meeting.

The participants were Patriarch Nicholas, the administrator of the Orthodox Millet, the remnants of the Flach nobles from Romania, the representatives of the Fanars of Constantinier, and the Sultan and his Grand Vizier and Grand Mufu carry.

In fact, Selim is quite satisfied with the situation of the current meeting. Unlike the previous Sudan, he got the initiative this time.

For Yusuf Pasha and the Grand Mufti, the Muslim relocation plan is undoubtedly quite beneficial to the rule of the empire, and the two will definitely support the Sultan.

As the patriarch of the Orthodox Church, Nicholas has a high probability of choosing neutrality or supporting Selim. After all, the father-in-law doesn't look like he is afraid of being poked in the back.

However, John Paleoleg, the representative of the Vlach nobles, and Simon Ducasse, the representative of the Fanars, no longer had sufficient right to speak in this meeting as before.

In the last Russian-Turkish war, Selim gained not only prestige, but also directly abolished Romania with the help of the superb military discipline of the Russian army, and at the same time weakened the power of the Vlach nobles and the Fanars.

The former is a local old-fashioned aristocrat who is powerful and has enjoyed relatively high autonomy for a long time.

The latter, in the third Russo-Turkish war, the Romanian nobles betrayed the Ottoman Empire and joined Tsarist Russia.

After the war, the victorious Ottoman government severely punished the Romanian nobles.

The titles of the Grand Dukes of Wallachia and Moldavia, which had been selected among the nobles of Vlach, were transferred by the Ottoman government to the Fanars of Constantinian.

This group of mutant Greeks served as diplomats for the Ottoman Empire in the early years, as a bridge for the empire to communicate with other European countries. Not wrong.

Here comes the question, why didn't the Ottoman government choose to annex the two principalities? In fact, the imperial government had such an idea, but unfortunately not only failed, but the result was quite embarrassing.

Let us turn our attention back to the end of the sixteenth century, when the Ottoman Empire was not stable.

After finally getting rid of Selim II, an alcoholic who liked spiced grape juice, Sokolu Pasha once again met the wonderful Sultan——Murad III.

As a direct descendant of Mehmet II, Murad III was quite ancestral. As soon as Sokolu welcomed him as the sultan, he immediately killed his five younger brothers. He knew everything about the Ottoman succession law.

The second thing the sultan did was to limit Sokolu Pasha's power and secretly allow the grand vizier's political rivals to assassinate him.

The third thing is that Murad III is a sultan who likes to appreciate the aesthetics of the human body. He often fights one against three and stays in the harem all year round, ignoring the government.

As the saying goes, when a new official took office, Murad III was fierce as a tiger, and he directly turned the Ottoman Empire into an incompetent country, and rebellions within the country continued one after another.

Murad III didn't care about this. Considering that it would cost a lot of money to send troops to quell the chaos, the Sultan deliberately built seven towers and stored a large amount of gold coins in them to show his attitude.

After the death of Murad III, the successor Muhammad III looked at the situation and decided to solve it.

He chose Sardar Pasha as his grand vizier and arranged for him to put down the rebellion.

As a man with big ambitions, Sardar Pasha decided to go big.

In April 1595, the Ottoman Empire government planned to annex Moldavia and Wallachia completely, and this was the man behind it.

But just a few months before, the death of Murad III had already caused an earthquake in Ottoman's officialdom, which led to the instability of the internal power structure of the imperial government at this time.

The central power changed hands several times during the year, and the fierce internal strife caused the annexation plan to be delayed again and again. Even the candidate for the governor of Moldavia after the annexation changed hands again and again.

In the end, in order to gain the support of the Crimean Tatars, the Ottoman government appointed the nephew of Khan Ghazi II of Crimea, Ahmed, as the governor of Moldavia.

Unfortunately, not everyone supports the annexation plan.

It is not difficult to explain why.

Because maintaining the autonomy of Wallachia and Moldavia may not be of great benefit to the Ottoman Empire itself, but it can deliver a lot of benefits to the "ruling elite individuals" in the Ottoman court.

Therefore, part of the ruling elite took active actions based on the principle of "don't look at what I can do for the country, but look at what the country can do for me".

They volunteered to pass the information to the Grand Duke of Trasylvania, Sigismund Bathory, the Grand Duke of Wallachia "Mihai the Brave", and the Grand Duke of Moldavia "Aaron the Tyrant". .

By the way, the central government finally made a decision in April 1595, and the three families received the information in November 4, so they formed a secret alliance directly and made sufficient preparations for the war, and all of them were eager to try. The arrival of the Ottoman army was full of anticipation.

The performance of the Ottoman government was also expected. After crossing the Danube, the Ottoman army was defeated twice by "Mihai the Brave" in Wallachia.

At the same time, the Polish southern politicians who have been married to these Romanian nobles all year round, Crown Hetman, and Jan Zamoyski led private soldiers to intervene in Moldavia.

The Crimean Khan and Zamoyski's personal soldiers fought fiercely on the banks of the Prut River for two days, evenly divided.

So the two reached an agreement. Movila ceded nine villages in southeastern Moldavia to Crimea, and Poland added some annual tribute to Crimea in exchange for the Tatars giving up their ties to the Ottoman government. Support for annexation plans.

Since then, Gaomen's annexation plan has completely failed. However, because the Ottoman-Poland relationship was still relatively friendly during this period, Gaomen also temporarily acquiesced in the Movila family's rights to Moldavia and the Polish dignitaries' rights to the region. Influence.

But this is already in the past tense. Poland has been declining since Jan Sobieski. Selim calculated that the country can live for at most six years, if the Sudan's mathematics is not at the level of an imbecile.

With the external isolation and internal weakness, the two duchies of Wallachia and Moldavia, what Selim wants to put her in, the other party has to be like.

"I am very glad to meet you at today's meeting, regarding the post-war reconstruction in Romania and the resettlement of Muslims that have been raging before.

I mean relocating part of the landless people in the Greek region to Romania, and at the same time relocating part of the Muslims. "

Seeing the gloomy faces of John and Simon, Selim smiled happily: "This is the keynote of this meeting, and everything will revolve around it. After I finish my words, who agrees? Who objects?"

　Please follow up, please collect, family members.Don't keep books
　　Also, Gaomen refers to the Ottoman government

　　
　
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