Although the Egyptian region is not the traditional territory of the Ottoman Empire, they are actually attacking the Egyptian region they just conquered decades ago.
Not just Egypt, but actually many territories of the Ottoman Empire were conquered in the last hundred years.
This is mainly because in the early 16th century, the Ottoman Empire had a relatively powerful monarch, Suleiman I. This man was also an expansionist. In his decades of reign, he transformed the Ottoman Empire from a medium-sized country.
It expanded into a large empire spanning Asia, Europe and Africa, establishing the huge territory of the Ottoman Empire.
After this man died, although the Ottoman Empire continued to expand, the rate of expansion had slowed down.
In the past ten years, when Murad III came to power, the Ottoman Empire had entered a period of comprehensive decline.
This is mainly due to the full westward expansion of the Tatars!
The Tatars marched westward and fought with the Ottoman Empire in the Caucasus, then fought with the Ottoman Empire in the Ukrainian plains along the northern Black Sea coast, and finally entered the Balkans to fight with the Ottoman Empire.
In a series of wars with the Tatars, the Ottoman Empire lost more than it won. So far, it has lost all the areas in the northern Caucasus Mountains and all the Ukrainian plains along the northern coast of the Black Sea, including Crimea. It has also lost the Balkans.
The large territory on the peninsula, and the above-mentioned lost areas, are almost all plain areas.
For example, in the Balkan Peninsula, they lost a large area north of the Danube River. In fact, they completely lost the rich area of the lower Danube plain, and in the end they had to retreat to the mountains of Bulgaria.
The war with the Tatars not only caused them to lose a lot of territory, but more importantly, it was the financial pressure caused by the long war.
Fighting costs money, even if their armies use cold weapons and smoothbore guns. The cost of fighting is very low in the eyes of the Tang Dynasty people, but for indigenous countries like the Ottoman Empire, it is still very huge.
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Not to mention the large number of casualties caused by the long war. During the war, the soldiers who were directly killed or injured were all young men. For the agricultural empire, these young men were precious wealth. If there were too many casualties, no one would farm.
And another very important point is that the Tatars like to plunder people.
Of course, this does not mean that the Tatars become human traffickers or slave owners, but they take people back and give them land for farming.
What the Tatars need is not slaves, but farmers and craftsmen!
Because when the Tatar Kingdom was founded, its military and political system almost completely imitated the Tang Empire and was a very standard Eastern feudal imperial dynasty.
It is not comparable to the systems of those messy countries in Europe or Central and Western Asia.
Such a Tatar Kingdom is a scourge for the nobles of contemporary European countries and West Asian countries, because when the Tatar Kingdom's troops attack there, they will kill all the local nobles and liberate local slaves and serfs.
, and distribute land at the same time. When the Tatar Kingdom entered Europe in the early years, it once shouted the slogan of killing nobles to distribute land.
But ordinary people in Europe, especially the people at the bottom, are on the other extreme. The new peasant class under the Tatar Kingdom, that is, the serfs of the original nobles, after receiving the free land allocated by the Tatars, many
They are all staunch supporters of the Golden Kingdom of Tatar.
If we look at it from a historical perspective, the benefits brought by the Tatars' westward expansion to the local European region are very obvious. It can be said that it brought the glory of civilization to the European region.
However, the noble lords of various countries in Europe were all ruthless towards the Tatars.
The conflict between them is not a territorial dispute, or even a battle of interests, but a battle of systems. The European aristocrats want to continue to maintain the current aristocratic system, but the Tatars want to kill them all and turn those serfs into
They became farmers and craftsmen and established Eastern-style monarchy dynasties throughout Europe.
If there were not such huge contradictions between the two sides, the countries in Europe would not work together to fight against the Tatars.
Of course, the hard work of the Tang Empire is also indispensable behind this!
The Tang Empire provided money and strength to help and coerce these European countries to fight against the Tatars.
The war between the Ottoman Empire and the Tatars lasted for more than ten years under this complicated background, and the national strength of the war was increasingly declining.
The Ottoman Empire was already in decline. Faced with the Tang Dynasty's request to purchase areas of Egypt to establish a military buffer zone, they had no way to refuse.
In the end, the powerful people of the Ottoman Empire convinced themselves that these places were not theirs anyway, but were conquered decades ago, and it didn't matter if they were sold to the Tang Dynasty now.
Once the two parties have reached an agreement on this aspect, the rest will be easy to negotiate.
On the third day of May in the 39th year of Xuanping, the negotiation delegations from both parties formally signed the agreement.
The agreement contained many clauses, the most important of which was that the Ottoman Empire ceded the Egyptian region to the Tang Empire to establish a military buffer zone. This was said to be a military buffer zone, but in fact it was ceding the entire Egyptian region to the Tang Empire.
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However, the reason why the Ottoman Empire finally agreed is also related to another policy of the Tang Dynasty, that is, the Tang Dynasty has always wanted land but not people.
Population is a precious asset for any country. I haven't seen the Tatars going out to fight and plunder the population every two days.
But the Tang Dynasty did not want any natives in Egypt, whether they were Ottomans or natives, they did not want them all.
Not just the population, but everything in the Ottoman Empire could be packed away.
In addition to land, the people of the Tang Dynasty said they wanted nothing.
The Ottoman Empire could move all the people in the above-mentioned areas back to their territory. Of course, given the national strength of the Ottoman Empire, it was impossible to organize a large-scale migration of millions of people.
To this end, the Tang Empire stated that it would provide free ships to and from the Mediterranean to help the Ottoman Empire transport its population.
In addition to the Egyptian area, there is also a provision for temporary additional negotiations, which is the terms for the Tang Empire to purchase the West Asian Peninsula and some coastal areas in the northern part of the Persian Gulf from the Ottoman Empire.
The detailed terms of the purchase are similar to those in Egypt. As long as the land is not occupied by people, the Ottoman Empire can move away all the people and anything in the above-mentioned areas.
Of course, the actual operation is only limited to some cities in the coastal areas, because the Ottoman Empire itself cannot actually control many places. There are too many local tribes. The Ottoman Empire said that the coastal areas we have controlled can be handed over to you.
You can also evacuate our people, but the locals will have to do it yourself.
In the end, the entire agreement was put together. In fact, the Tang Empire invested 2.3 million Tang Yuan to purchase the entire Egypt and the West Asian Peninsula from the Ottoman Empire, including some coastal areas in the northern part of the Persian Gulf.
This condition is actually very harsh, and normal countries would not choose to agree to it if they had other options.
But under the threat of naval guns, the Ottoman Empire had no choice. What's more, the Tang Dynasty also gave Murad III another promise, and finally Murad III agreed.
What promise made Murad III agree?
Because Datang promised Murad III to help him train a new army!
Note that we are not helping the Ottoman Empire, but helping Murad III. There is a huge difference here.
Datang will help Murad III train a new army of about 15,000 people, equipped with Datang's latest export weapons, including percussion muskets and new smoothbore field guns. They will only be loyal to Murad.
De III's one-man army.
Behind this help in training the army, the Tang Dynasty gave Murad III the endorsement: We support you to continue to be the boss of the Ottoman Empire!
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This is what Murad III wants most, or even the only condition he wants!