In the port of Istanbul, Ottoman Prince Muhammad was leading a large number of people to board the Tang Dynasty steamship docked at the pier.
Before setting off, he had already had an in-depth conversation with his father, King Murad III. He knew very well what his trip to East Africa meant and what it meant for the future.
He is going to the new territory of East Africa to build a new home, a home belonging to the royal family!
In this Ottoman turmoil, the biggest threat was actually not the Tatars, but several other pashas and several brothers of Muhammad who were completely rebellious. It was precisely because of their existence that the current situation of the Six Ottoman Nations evolved.
For the royal family, this is actually more tragic than the entire kingdom being captured by the Tatars!
Even if the Tatars captured the entire Ottoman Kingdom, they would not be able to kill all the Ottomans. Therefore, the Ottoman royal family is still valuable, and the worst they can do is go to East Africa to get a new territory.
But now, this new territory will be divided into six pieces!
Their royal family can only live in one of them temporarily!
However, the Ottoman royal family was keenly aware of the loopholes in the Tang Dynasty's agreement, or guessed what the Tang Dynasty was concerned about.
The people of the Tang Dynasty actually don't care about the internal affairs of the Ottomans. It doesn't make any difference to the people of the Tang Dynasty whether it is one country or six countries. Anyway, the territory given to the Ottomans is so large. You can do whatever you like. There are six countries.
Then it will be divided into six pieces. If there are 60 families, then it will be divided into sixty pieces.
As for these six Ottoman families, I am afraid there will be a lot of disputes after they arrive in Africa, especially when the Tang Dynasty divided their territories again, they were very haphazard, and the officials in charge were all blind and did not consider reasonable distribution at all.
And so on, which will inevitably lead to many contradictions.
So after they migrate to Africa, it is estimated that the war between the Ottoman countries will break out again.
But when they actually arrive in Africa, I'm afraid they won't face the internal conflicts among the six Ottoman families. There will also be threats from African indigenous people here, and there will also be twelve Central African countries to the south.
In particular, the twelve Central African countries have been based on the eastern coast of Central Africa for many years and have already taken deep roots there.
Among them, the Central African Kingdom relied on its good relationship with the Tang Dynasty to vigorously develop trade with the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, they used their armies to act as mercenaries for other countries in their early years. After a multi-pronged approach, they obtained a large amount of
Foreign exchange was used to build their new territory.
The current Central African Kingdom has become the number one powerful country among the twelve Central African countries. It is so powerful that it even vaguely controls the two neighboring kingdoms as puppets.
Today's Africa is no longer a peaceful place. With the immigration of the twelve Central African countries, the Kingdom of Denmark, and the six current Ottoman countries, as well as the African indigenous people, the African region has become very lively.
The most direct impact is that the number of indigenous people in Africa is declining sharply!
The twenty Central African countries and the Kingdom of Denmark are not kind-hearted characters. They have been continuing to push inland. In the process of pushing inland, they will inevitably come into contact with African indigenous people. In order to seize land and resources,
In addition to personally fighting with the African natives, they also instigated and supported wars among the African native tribes.
And their behavior of seizing land and resources is not a colonial behavior, so the process of their march into the inland is very cruel. Sometimes even the people of the Tang Dynasty feel unbearable when they see it. Sometimes there will be
The arms dealers of the Tang Dynasty found those indigenous tribes and sold them smoothbore guns and cannons to help them have a certain ability to protect themselves.
After the Ottoman Kingdom moves to Africa, I am afraid it will further aggravate the turmoil in Africa.
But this has nothing to do with the Tang Empire, and the people of the Tang Dynasty don’t care much!
Since the Tang Dynasty has already arranged a foothold for the six Ottoman countries, the Tang Dynasty is too lazy to worry about what they will do next.
Now the Tang Dynasty is busy taking over large areas of the Ottoman Kingdom.
Large areas from the coast of the West Sea (Caspian Sea) to the Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor and the Balkans will become the new territory of the empire.
After the Ottomans moved away, the Tang Dynasty needed to gradually take over this area, just like it had taken over Eastern Europe from the Tatars.
This kind of takeover is huge, takes a long time, and requires thorough preparations from the empire.
Originally, military control areas were set up, but several previous military control areas in Eastern Europe seemed to have always had some problems. In particular, the imperial civil service system had always been very opposed to the military's involvement in local government affairs, even if the place was far away from the mainland.
Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity to take over the Ottoman region, the civil service system headed by Chen Lifu once again petitioned to abolish the military-controlled areas in Eastern Europe and establish affairs yamen for jurisdiction.
In fact, even the military itself does not like this kind of military-controlled areas. It seems that military-controlled areas are under the jurisdiction of the military, but in fact, the separation of military and political affairs in the empire is politically correct. Even in military-controlled areas, those who are actually responsible for civil affairs
Still civil servants, not the military.
How should I put it? The military still has no practical civilian power in the military-controlled areas. Instead, it has to bear this kind of infamy and pressure. More importantly, the local military-controlled areas turn to the military to solve all kinds of troubles and problems.
, which annoyed the military very much.
Nowadays, the civil servants proposed to set up affairs offices in Eastern Europe and abolish the military-controlled areas, and the military followed suit and agreed. Of course, the military also got a lot of benefits from Chen Lifu and others.
When the cabinet and the military reached this tacit agreement, the Holy Emperor Li Xuan also followed suit and abolished several military-controlled areas in Eastern Europe, and then established the Eastern European Affairs Yamen and the Nordic Affairs Yamen to govern large areas in the south and north respectively.
The military, on the other hand, has returned to its previous pure garrison status.
In the Ottoman region, the Holy Emperor Li Xuan also established an affairs office to take over many areas formerly controlled by the Ottomans.
The Caucasus Affairs Office was established to take over the Caucasus region, not only the Caucasus region controlled by the Ottomans, but also the Caucasus region now controlled by the Tang Dynasty, including Baku, which has been partially localized.
The Black Sea Affairs Office was established to prepare to take over the Asia Minor Peninsula and the Balkans.
The parts of the West Asian Peninsula that were taken over from the Ottomans were placed under the jurisdiction of the Red Sea Affairs Office.
From this, the Eurasian continent and Africa formed the Indian Affairs Yamen, the West Asian Affairs Yamen, the Caucasus Affairs Yamen, the Eastern European Affairs Yamen, the Nordic Affairs Yamen, the Black Sea Affairs Yamen, the Red Sea Affairs Yamen, the European Affairs Yamen, and the South African Affairs Yamen, a total of nine major affairs.
The structure of the yamen.
At the same time, these nine major affairs yamen do not have the same rights of diplomacy and declaration of war as the earlier affairs yamen. Instead, they are just a purely civil affairs local agency like the provincial highways in the mainland, North America and other regions.
Of course, it is still somewhat different from provincial roads in nature.