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Chapter 1364 Ottoman

It is generally considered a bad thing for the harem to interfere in politics, but there is a prerequisite for the harem to interfere in politics.

First of all, the emperor must be weak, and secondly, the political cadres must be capable and powerful.

The mother of Murad III, Nurbanu Sutan, is also no exception. Her real name is Cecilia Venia Baffo. blood relation.

At the age of nine, he was taken captive by the Ottomans to Junbao during the war. He was deeply loved by Selim II and gave birth to Murad III.

After the death of Selim II, Nurbanu kept his funeral in secret until his son Murad rushed back from Manisa to Junbao to succeed him.

After that, she began the era of monopolizing power with Prime Minister Sokuru Muhammad Pasha. The prime minister handled the affairs of state, while she managed foreign affairs, using pro-Venice strategies, and always maintained correspondence with the Queen Mother of France, Catherine.

The sacrilege alliance was created by these two queen mothers.

Correspondingly, Nurbanu was clear about the Ming army's landing in Bordeaux and the alliance with Spain in Yemen, so when the Ming army approached her, she always responded with great caution.

But the funny thing is that Nurbanu took a lot of effort to connect the Ming army in the south with the Ming ships visiting in the west.

According to her long observation of the Western military government, the Western military government is safe. They strongly advocate trade at sea and protect the waterway with Chinese warships. As long as no one is killed, they usually do not go to war.

But there are also many myths and legends about Daming.

The Portuguese would say, for example, that the emperor went to war with the Spaniard who looked the same because he stole a few cows by a little mistake.

The Turkic Mongols of the Mughals would also say that the emperor went to war with the Mughals after killing a few monks because of a small misunderstanding.

What happened to the French was even more strange. Catherine always believed that she did not offend Da Ming, as if some people went to sea as pirates and robbed Da Ming's ship, and they landed in Bordeaux in the end.

Nurbanu summed up a set of experience in dealing with the Ming army during the day-to-day communication.

In her eyes, Da Ming is like a giant with nowhere to use his strength, walking around the world with a purpose that no one but himself can understand, if anyone accidentally provokes him, he will release hundreds of thousands The person who can prevent children from crying at night.

Nurbanu's experience is just one, don't care what Daming wants to do, just eat and drink if it suits you;

There is nothing terrible about offending them.

Once you offend them, don't hesitate to apologize directly. The written information starts from the general running around in the Western Army Mansion and traces upwards. Apology letters are written to him ten or eight times. To the cabinet ministers and the emperor.

In this way, not only are they safe and sound, but sometimes they can use the power of this giant to do their own things.

Nurbanu needs Daming’s strength very much. She is fighting for victory in a war. They are fighting Persia. Stalemate makes people unable to see the hope of victory.

To her, maintaining the current situation is a victory, and there is one easiest way to win, a compliment to Daming.

Daming is dealing with two countries at the same time, so she has to compliment him well and take a step back and say that as long as Daming and Ming don't help each other, Osman will win.

Going forward, if Daming helps out, the battle will be won more smoothly.

But it is not easy for five thousand Ming troops to make excuses.

Because there is no other way to go, if you want the troops of the Western Army to go north, you must enter the Black Sea through Constantinople, and Osman has to prepare a ship to send them to the land of the Crimean Khanate.

How many troops does Constantinople have?

There are 220 recruits in the army, and [-] apprentice boys in the reserve.

Not to mention just this few people, the 30 Ming Dynasty's Beijing army can allow [-] troops from other countries to borrow the capital?

Everyone has the problem of redundant soldiers. The Nine Frontiers of the Ming Dynasty used to account for [-]% of the tax revenue, and Ottoman was even more peculiar.

Their currency is called Akche, and 84 Akche is equivalent to one ducat and one gold coin.

Last year, the total income was 490 million akce, which was equivalent to 160 million ducats and 16 taels in gold, while the expenditure for all recruits in the army was 470 million akce.

Osman's entire country's fiscal revenue is only one-tenth or even less than that of Ming Dynasty, not because Osman is poor, on the contrary, this thing is rich in thieves, but it's just that the high family is poor, that is, the Sutan poor who stays in the gate of the cannon.

The Pasha they led went out to fight for four years, sold more than 3000 soldiers, and received bribes equivalent to Ottoman's one-year finances.

Taxation is essentially a business for the country, and the problem is how to collect the most tax at the least cost.

Like Daming's tax collection method, some difficulties are absolutely unavoidable.

Did the magistrate conceal the population, the output, the disaster situation, and did the prosecutors sent by the court communicate with the magistrate?
Except for Daming who didn't lie about the disaster, the other three did.

The local officials of the Central Plains Dynasty have always concealed the population. A county with a population of 10 reported to the court that the local population was [-]. This happened too much.

The Ming Dynasty was a prefecture close to the water transport, and it paid five taels of business tax a year, and there were countless things like this.

But the starting point of many officials is not to be greedy for money, as if there is no false report of the disaster situation, because one official cannot deceive others in this kind of thing, and it takes all officials to unite to deceive the court.

If he has nothing to do to talk about disasters, then he must not be a good official. No one is willing to do this in order to pay for his political achievements.

But a county with 10 people collects 1 people's tax. The imperial court's tax is one price, and he collects another price in the county. He exempts the people from tax. What do the people say about him?The magistrate is a good official.

The lands of the Ming Dynasty were connected together, the power of the central dynasty was concentrated, and the local officials were deceiving at best.

Ottoman is different. His land circles more than half of the Mediterranean Sea, and there are governors everywhere. Sultan itself means something like a governor.

If the tax law like that of Ming Dynasty is implemented, it may not even be able to collect 16 taels of gold a year.

It was true that he was pocketed by the local governor.

Sotan, who lived in King's Castle, looked more like a Khan than an Emperor, like the King of France.

The so-called new army is basically becoming the taxpayer class of Junbao, and Su Tan has the final say on everything.

No one would agree to the request for five thousand Ming troops to go north through Constantinople.

Nurbanu thought and thought in the court, and finally decided to meet Chen Ju first, and then talk about what Qi Jimei asked.

To be honest, any request that can be made is difficult to handle.

For her, it was also a reluctant thing to call all the envoys sent by Su Tan to have a meeting with Chen Mu.

　good afternoon!

　　I'm really sorry, the alarm clock didn't go off, and I slept for more than ten hours.

　　Chapter 2 will be released at night.

　　
　
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