sultan's crescent

Chapter 87
The carriage soon arrived at the Topkapi Palace, and it was already late at night when Selim returned to the Baghdad Palace, and the Grand Mufti was already waiting here.

"Your Majesty, regarding your exam questions, I have already greeted many churches and guilds.

They have all expressed great interest in this and are willing to come to take the exam in June. At that time, Your Majesty, you can meet them in person after you get married. "

Selim asked immediately.

"About the marriage, how do you plan to arrange it?"

The Grand Mufti gave a wry smile.

"Your Majesty, I personally think that it is best for Miss Anna to convert. After all, the main goal of the empire now is to shape religious identity in order to erase the unstable factors brought to the empire by national identity.

Although Your Majesty, you have taken a series of measures to address the issue of conversion, it is unacceptable for many Orthodox Christians to convert rashly.

They need someone to encourage them, and your marriage can do just that.

As long as you make a lot of publicity, if the daughter of the patriarch of the Orthodox Church is converted, will the rest of the people have any scruples?

After listening to the Grand Mufti's advice, Selim did not speak.

After seeing off the Grand Mufti, Selim lay down on the bed.

He didn't want to think about this issue for the time being, after all, the choice of civil servants was the top priority.

To be honest, he didn't really want the first batch of bureaucrats to be mixed with too many religious jurists and local wealthy forces, but such a balance was already the best result he could choose.

Don't you think this is the basic disk of Sudan?
This is where empiricism is wrong. Whether it is Austria next door, Tsarist Russia or even Britain on the island, their current situation is different from that of the Ottoman Empire.

Selim was in the process of suppressing the jurists and local tycoons, implementing the power of the sultan, and establishing a vertical management model similar to the East. He needed officials, but he had no choice.

If the Ottoman Empire could speak with martial arts in the past, regardless of its low literacy rate.

Now both sides are really struggling. In the past, they were able to go straight to the city of Vienna, but now, they were almost fucked by Maozi to the city of Konstantinier.

In terms of literacy rate, it was as stable as ever. Selim wanted to select a group of poor children who were only loyal to the sultan, but he couldn't find anyone. What's more, even if there were, his ideological qualifications might not be as good as those of jurists.

In this case, Emperor Sai's solution is to use the local tyrants to hedge against jurists, to play a balance, oriental traditional wisdom.

Considering that the local powerful families in the Balkans have not been particularly loyal, Selim deliberately killed only the main branch during the last Greek purge.And let the remote branch succeed.

During this period, don't underestimate the gap between the branch and the main branch. Don't you see the difference between the various houses of the Chinese family. If it weren't for Selim's big cleansing movement, these people would never have thought of living in this kind of life. kind of life.

It can be said that Selim has severely brushed up a wave of favorability in their hearts.

As for religious jurists, the previous dissatisfaction with Sudan because of Selim's attempt to open a grammar school for compulsory education has disappeared with the introduction of a series of policies to support conversion, and he has become Sudan's most loyal support. By

But this is not a reason to reassure the Sultan. The example of Khomeini in later generations of Iran has always given him a terrible sense of oppression. The Sultan is indeed the caliph of the Islamic world, but does it really work?

In the future, after initial industrialization, society will inevitably be impacted by capitalist ideology, and the Young Turks are a perfect example.

In a way, that's exactly what Selim wanted.

It's just that his requirements are more detailed. He needs to liberate the thoughts of the Ottoman Empire to a certain extent, but not too much.

In this case, will the sultan's standards conflict with those of the jurists, and will they conflict with those of the capitalists?

Whether the jurists will confront the sultan because of this, and whether the capitalists will set off a revolution, these are unpredictable by Selim.

He needs a force independent of religion and capital. Such a force is a bureaucratic group, a real bureaucratic group that can confront jurists.

When Sai the Great was alive, by virtue of his prestige, he could support the bureaucratic group against the jurists and at the same time suppress the bureaucratic group into obedience.

After the death of Emperor Sai the Great, the successors of later generations could also play a balance between the bureaucratic group and the jurists, relying on the natural uniqueness of the status of the Sultan.

Although this requires the monarch to have superb skills, it is the only achievable method that Selim can come up with. After all, this only requires good education.

As for secularization now, that is certainly unrealistic.

Historically, Kemal’s ability to complete secularization was also premised. From the Tulip Era reforms started by Ahmed III until the First World War, the influence of religion on the people has been weakened to a certain extent.

The First World War completely sent off the last conservative forces in the Ottoman Empire, but Kemal's glory still needs to be compared.

While Enver Pasha, the head of the three pashas of the Ottoman Empire, suffered a world-class defeat in the Battle of the Caucasus, Kemal reproduced the martial arts that the Ottoman Empire had lost for centuries in the Battle of Gallipoli.

The genius Churchill and his genius Dardanelle plan suffered a devastating blow in front of Kemal. The Allied Powers suffered as many as 14 casualties. In contrast, Turkey had only a little over 2 people.

It can be said that in this battle, Kemal saved the whole of Turkey, which is also one of the most important reasons for his success in secularization
But the key issue is that Kemal only has Turkey, and he has no theological baggage.

But Selim still has more than half of the Balkans, Egypt, Arabia, and Mesopotamia. He is still a caliph. If he becomes secular, how can he learn from Modi’s old fairy’s way of replacing national identity with religious identity.

Neither this nor that will work.

Selim deliberately designed a system relying on the original system of the Ottoman Empire.

The American separation of powers legislation can actually be said to be the core mechanism of power operation in modern democratic constitutional countries. As a monarch, Selim must not be able to engage in democratic constitutionalism.

You have crossed over, you have to sit upright with your buttocks.

The local judges have always been under the control of jurists, which cannot be changed, and Selim has no plans to change it, but such things as the Ministry of Supervision are new to the Ottoman Empire.

No matter how defiant the religious jurists were, Selim could rely on the checks and balances of the Ministry of Supervision, coupled with the legislative power in the hands of the sultan, and the executive power of a crowd.

Before the bureaucracy was formed, this was Selim's way of coping.

In Selim's view, as long as the balance is played well, he is sure to become a combination of Iran's Khomeiniga and Turkey's Ethiopian Sultan.

With expectations for the future, Selim lay down on the big bed in the Baghdad palace and took a rest.

He has work to do tomorrow.

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