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Chapter 338 Peace Sincerity (18)

On the National Day of the 340th year of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Guanjia issued three major announcements. The first is to implement the new calendar. The new calendar is called the "Gregorian calendar". The New Year's Day of the lunar calendar in the first year of the Song Dynasty is the New Year's Day. The 12 months are redrawn according to the 365 days of the year, one leap year, and a multiple of 4 years, and a 366 day year. The five months, 1, 5, 7, 9, and 12 months are fixed for 31 days, February 31 days of the leap year, and 30 days of other months. The old calendar is called the lunar calendar, and the festivals all come from the lunar calendar. The calendar writes the lunar calendar in large characters, and the small characters next to it writes the lunar calendar as a distinction.

The Song Dynasty was vast. The sun had not yet set in the westernmost European province of Corsica, and the rising sun in the easternmost northern Fusangzhou was rising slowly. Therefore, the meridian line through the Kaifeng Guantiantai is the prime meridian line, which is twelve hours a day and twenty-four hours. Different regions set working hours based on the day and night of the region. Kaifeng time is the standard time on all territories of the Song Dynasty.

The second thing is to abolish the "road" in administrative units and replace them with provinces. Provincial provincial units are fully realized. In the late Song Dynasty, the 15th road was abolished in the late Song Dynasty. According to the current territory of the Song Dynasty, a total of 32 provinces and 4 provinces were built. The four provinces include the Europa Province, the Afiliga Province, the Northern Fusang Province, and the Southern Fusang Province. It is collectively known as 36 provinces. While establishing provincial provincial units, it also established the status of the school society in the Song Dynasty court and the government.

The third thing is to officialize the Song Dynasty's most common private consultation model and establish the People's Court based on population proportion.

Such news reached the Eastern Mediterranean Alliance. Damascus Mongolian Khan Hao Kang immediately wrote a letter to the Song Dynasty court, reporting to the Song Dynasty court that Mongolia under Hao Kang would adopt the same calendar as the Song Dynasty.

These changes have a great impact in the Song Dynasty, and have a much smaller impact on the Europa Province. Everyone is concerned about whether the art programs prepared for the 60th birthday of the government can satisfy the government. The real power of 36 provinces has created a large number of new positions. Everyone wants to gain a higher position for themselves in this major adjustment. Some people will also talk about the obedience shown by Hao Kang after dinner.

Hao Kang, who was used as a topic of conversation, didn't care about these things. With the new administrative division, he got the new map of the Song Dynasty. Officials from the Damascus court studied the map of the Song Dynasty with Hao Kang and didn't have much more, and they all agreed with Hao Kang's statement to the Song Dynasty.

The ministers didn't say anything, Hao Kangde said. He expressed his expectations, "Kublai Khan once went on an expedition to Japan, and the Song Dynasty had no plans for this. I hope that Mongolia will be treated the same as in the future."

The ministers sincerely agreed with such pragmatic expectations. At this time, Mongolia had set a future goal, which was to unify Mongolia and return to the Baghdad Golden Entrance. To achieve such a goal, one would need to obtain the approval and acquiescence of the Song Dynasty. If that naiveness really came, everyone would consider the status of Mongolia. If the Song Dynasty was willing to continue to exist, submitting to the Song Dynasty was probably a necessary condition. Instead of talking about it at that time, it would be better to resolve it early now.

Seeing that everyone was not opposed, Hao Kang simply told the group of confidants who followed him some details, "I have told the Song Dynasty that they are willing to accept the enthronement of the Song Dynasty. In the future, the children of the Mongolian Khan will go to the Song Dynasty to study." Hao Kang said some words, but Hao Kang didn't dare to say some words. He even hoped that his descendants would marry the women of the Song Dynasty like his father Hao Ren and his wife. Whether it was his mother Bao Xiruo or his wife Mu, they made Hao Kang very confident in this. But it was useless to think about this. It is unknown who the children will like in the future. Forcibly ordering them will often backfire. It can only be fate.

After talking about foreign policy, Hao Kang talked about the things that his ministers were more concerned about. "In the future, Egyptian provinces will export as much lint cotton as possible. This matter is related to our Mongolian finances and cannot be lost."

Since the previous year, the Song Dynasty has tried to grow long-limit cotton in Egypt, and has achieved considerable success, and the planting area has expanded rapidly. Cotton cloth was originally transported from the Song Dynasty to the Eastern Mediterranean, but now Egypt can produce long-limit cotton. Of course, Hao Kang hopes that Mongolia can produce cotton cloth itself. This aspect has great benefits, and if done well, it can completely reverse the unfavorable situation of Mongolia's finances.

After some discussion, the personnel of the Egyptian provinces were determined. Before the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, Damascus Mongolia had established four provinces on its current territory, namely the Damascus Province, Jerusalem Province, Egypt Province and North Africa Province in the western part of the Egyptian province. The head of each province was the "Terminal Director", and other organizational structures were the same as those of the Great Song Dynasty. The assessment also took the path of the Great Song Dynasty.

Not only did the Song Dynasty carry out administrative reforms, but Damascus Mongolia carried out a lot of reforms with the help of Mu in recent years. The Yuan Dynasty took the path of comprehensive sinicization, but now Damascus Mongolia took the path of comprehensive sinicization, especially the administrative system. Although the degree of professionalism and personnel quality are worrying, Damascus Mongolia insisted on institutional construction and forced the framework and theory to be integrated. Although the Egyptian provincial general manager is a poor person, he also bears huge responsibilities. He will be re-elected once every three years and will be re-elected for one term. After the term of office, he will be adjusted. As for whether he is promoted or demoted or used, it depends on the term of assessment and performance.

After arranging these, it was naturally the turn of the discussion. Hao Kang did not want to live his life on the territory of the four provinces. He hoped to defeat the slave dynasty, resolve the Mongolian princes, and restore the grand occasion of Baghdad and Mongolia. In recent years, he has devoted himself to Damascus to slept with his brain and tasted gall. After a lot of preparations, he has rebuilt a flag army of 50,000 people. In addition, the 30,000 Eastern Roman Allied forces have been in place. It is imperative to launch an attack across the desert area between Damascus and Baghdad.

Starting from October 340 of the Song Dynasty, the capital of the slave dynasty received news that the vanguard of the Mongolian army of Damascus continued to launch various attacks westward. These news made the Sultan of the slave dynasty very unhappy, and even the joy of visiting the holy land in person was greatly affected. After conquering Baghdad, the road from the slave dynasty to the holy land was no longer hindered. According to the scriptures of the True God, every devout believer of the True God must arrive at the Holy Land to pilgrimage in his lifetime to determine his status in heaven. The Sultan had led his important ministers and nobles to arrive at the Holy Land to pilgrimage. After the steps of detour and throwing stones, they determined their quota for heaven. These noble believers completely let go of their worries about the future. Nothing can question the final destination of their souls.

Eliminate the troubles of the spiritual world, but the real world does not allow the Sultan and the minister to calm down. His Majesty Sultan convened a royal meeting. He himself hopes to reach an agreement with the remnants of Mongolia, and both sides will re-draw the border with the current controlled areas. The minister said, "Your Majesty Sultan, let us move the capital to Baghdad."

This made His Majesty the expression of His Majesty the Sultan's expression become gloomy. In the past two years, the slave dynasty's court was divided into two factions. One faction believed that it would be better to ensure the access to the holy land and maintain the current situation. The other faction was much more radical. The Abbasid Caliph Mustansuir gave robes and canonization to the Sultans of the then slave dynasty in 1229. The Abbasid Dynasty was the orthodox successor of the Arab Empire, and this canonization established the legal status of the Sultans of the slave dynasty. The Abbasid Dynasty was destroyed, and other sultans were also destroyed one by one by Mongolia. Although there were still some sultans in the world of the True God Cult, the slave dynasty had irrefutable orthodox compared to them.

Looking at His Majesty Sultan's expression, the radical ministers made a generous speech, "Please ask His Majesty Sultan to succeed to the throne, establish the capital of Baghdad, and continue the Arab Empire's mantle. This is the expectation of the brothers of the True God Cult."

Hearing the suggestion of the successor caliph, His Majesty's expression was a little shaken. In the history of the True God Cult, the word Sultan was originally an official position similar to the governor. The word was originally an abstract noun in Arabic "power", "governance", "ruling power", and "ruling power". Later, it became power and rule. Finally, it became the title of a special ruler. Any place where such a sultan ruled generally claimed to have independent sovereignty or complete sovereignty over the outside world. Slave dynasties are such countries. However, the sultan usually does not claim to be a caliph, nor does it mean that he is actually ruled by the caliph. Where the sultan ruled, both dynasties and countries can be referred to as a "sultanate".

The Caliph originated from the Arab term "inheritance", which means "ruler", "agent" or "successor". The True God religion has a scripture that "I will set up an agent on the earth." The prophet and his previous prophets were considered as agents and rulers of the True God on the earth. After the death of the prophet, "caliph" was used to refer to the heirs of the prophet, that is, the leader of the believers of the True God religion. Later, it became the title of political and religious leader of the Arab Empire of the True God religion.

From a local governor to a leader of the Arab Empire, from a religious master to a religious leader, his Majesty the Sultan of the slave dynasty was also greatly shaken at this time. He had carefully considered this situation when he was in a peaceful mood, and the result was not to do so. There was a big problem involved. The slave dynasty was a Turkic person, and the caliphs of all generations were Arabs. Of course, the Arabs could recognize a Turkic sultan, but they might not accept the caliphs of the Turkic people.

Baghdad is located in a critical junction with water and land. It is of course the most suitable capital in the era when the Arab Empire controlled the entire Mesopotamian basin and the Arabian Peninsula. At this time, the surrounding strong enemies were surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it was difficult to defend compared to the terrain of slave dynasties that were easy to defend and difficult to attack. If the capital was not moved to Baghdad, the believers of the True God Cult in the Mesopotamian Basin would not agree with the Turkic Caliphs on the distant "frontier".

But the title of Caliph is so glorious that the orthodox successors of the Arab Empire have been destroyed, and the slave dynasty has captured Baghdad again. This temptation has always been torment for His Majesty Sultan. Just as he was thinking, the ministers have already shouted, "Please follow the guidance of the True God to succeed the Caliph to lead the brothers of the True God Cult." "If Your Majesty does not succeed to the throne, will the Caliph be cut off?" "The True God Cult is immortal, and the Caliph will last forever!"

"You..." His Majesty Sultan raised his hand to calm the ministers, and he said with difficulty: "You are quiet first, let me think about it."

"Your Majesty should be the Caliph! Why do you need to think too much about this?" The minister said unyieldingly.

His Majesty Sultan could still control his position at this time, and ascending the throne of the Caliph meant he had to bear huge responsibilities and responsibility for the entire True God world. Moreover, after the destruction of the Abbasid Dynasty, the Caliphs were at least independent in the famous city of the Arab Empire. Delhi was the territory of the Aryans before, and the True God did not think that Brahmins were the same as them.

The current slave dynasty Sultans did not know that the Aryans in later generations refer to very differently from the Aryans. The Aryans were originally an ancient nation on the grasslands in the southern Ural Mountains in Russia, and one of the three ancient nomadic peoples in the world. Later, ** distorted the concept of Aryans and defined the blonde and blue-eyed Germanic people in the five Nordic countries and Scandinavian Peninsula as the typical traits of the Aryans. In fact, the two had nothing to do with each other and were far apart.

**It is believed that the typical traits of ancient Aryans should be: long skulls, narrow faces, blonde hair and blue eyes, small distances between eyes, outstanding intelligence, excellent physique, and the most noble race in the world. In fact, the typical traits of ancient Aryans should be: black hair and brown eyes. Those Arabs are descendants of the Semitic tribe, black hair and dark eyes. A clear distinction can be made from the representation alone.

In the past month, many leaders of the True God diocese from Persia and Arabia came. After seeing the Sultan, they all told the gratitude and respect of the believers in their diocese for the liberation of the Sultan, and then asked the Sultan to succeed to the Caliph and become the leader and guardian of the True God world.

Since these people were able to arrive in Delhi, they were naturally arranged. According to the habits of these people, since they could make such a decision under the coercion and temptation of the upper class of the slave dynasty, they naturally didn't care about having any connection with the Song Dynasty. So the news quickly reached Kaifeng. Zhao Jiaren laughed again after hearing this, making Zhao Qian unable to figure out what could make his father so happy again.

Of course, Zhao Qian did not know the relationship between the Turks and the Caliph. In 1258 AD, the Mongols destroyed the Arab Empire and the Abbas Dynasty was destroyed. However, the Caliph of the Abbas family rebuilt the Cairo caliph system in Cairo under the protection of the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt. However, the Caliph had actually become a tool for the Mamluk sultans. Except for appearing symbolically at the sultans' succession ceremony, they almost never leave their homes at other times.

In 1516, the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which was born in the Turks, destroyed the Egyptian Mamluk dynasty and deposed the Egyptian puppet caliph. Only then did the Abbas caliph completely disappear. Later, although many people called the ninth Sultan Selim (reigned from 1512 to 1520) the caliph, he himself never used it.

In the 18th century, the Ottoman Empire was invaded and divided by Western colonialists. In order to unite the country to deal with the common enemy and show that it enjoys the highest authority in the world, the Ottoman Emperor began to use the title of Caliphate according to the old concept (i.e., to have control over the entire country) and appeared in formal diplomatic documents. This action caused great controversy among Arab countries, and both supporters and opponents were very active.
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