Volume 3: Confrontation! The Run of Civilization Chapter 453 Ottoman Officials
The time goes back to July 1620.
In the hot summer, the temperature of the entire Topka Palace is extremely strange.
Istanbul, or Constantinople, is a typical Mediterranean city with hot and dry summers. So the temperature in Topkapi Palace has already exceeded 30 degrees Celsius. However, what is happening in this palace where the Ottoman Sultan has lived for nearly two hundred years makes the nobles and servants in the palace feel cold and shivering.
"Ali Mohammed Koseim, you are now accused of corruption, adultery, drinking, conspiracy to depose the Sultan, disrespect for the current Sultan, and impiety to Allah. Do you plead guilty?"
"Humph! Ibrahim Sokoli, do you know what you are doing? This is not how politics is played! If you do this, the Sokoli family will definitely be exterminated in the future! Not to mention the men, I'm afraid even the women won't survive!"
"I'm asking you now whether you plead guilty or not. Answer my question!"
"Humph! These are all slanders! I will never plead guilty!"
"What does it matter if you don't plead guilty? There is so much evidence here." Yiplashin's mouth curved cruelly, and then he waved his hand: "Take him away and chop him off. Then, Hussein."
"Your sipahi is at your command, Pasha."
"Take an army, enter Kösem's palace in Istanbul, and kill all the men, regardless of age! As for the women, you can do whatever you want."
Although Hussein was called Sipasi, he was obviously an Arab in both name and appearance. When he heard Ibrahim's order, his eyes flashed with fanatical and greedy light: "Yes, my Pasha!"
Then he stood up, walked directly to Ali's side, quickly took out the big knife from his waist, and slapped Ali's face with the scabbard. In a scream, Ali spat out several teeth from his mouth, and his cheeks swelled up quickly - he could no longer say the vicious curse he had just made to Ibrahim.
In 1617, because of his outstanding military achievements in the Mesopotamian region, Ibrahim was appointed Governor-General of Transcaucasia by the then Sultan Ahmed I.
Ahmed I died in 1618. After his brother Mustafa briefly served as Sultan for a few months, Ahmed's son Osman became Sultan - this was Osman II.
In 1619, as Ibrahim's many factories in Tbilisi built up production capacity, especially after the steam engines gradually matured and were put into actual production, Tbilisi quickly became a black hole of wealth: the wealth of all provinces in the Ottoman Empire gathered there.
As a result, the factory in Tbilisi naturally attracted the covetousness of the Sultan's personal guard group, which had already controlled the Ottoman center at that time. Then they joined forces with the Kösem family and forced Osman II, who had just been cheated and lost his prestige in Poland, to issue an order to remove Ibrahim from his position as governor and let him return to Istanbul to serve as the imperial senator - a sinecure.
As a time traveler, Yiprahin finally had his own base, so how could he accept such an order? Of course, he found countless reasons to delay such an order: In short, I just won't leave.
The leaders of the personal guard group also sent several groups of people who took over as governors into Transcaucasus. However, due to the wealth of Transcaucasus and Ibrahim's fair distribution of the cake, the entire Transcaucasus had long been a solid block. Several groups of people who entered Transcaucasus with the mentality of picking peaches were all killed by local residents.
By 1620, seeing that the dispute could no longer be resolved, the leaders of the personal guard group finally decided to suppress it militarily.
Unfortunately, their opponents were time travelers. Before Istanbul decided to send troops, Ibrahim had already launched an astonishing public opinion offensive in the core area of the Ottoman Empire, the Anatolian Peninsula.
Modern people who have experienced the Internet age are fighting a war of public opinion with the indigenous people of the 17th century. As long as they have enough money and a certain number of guns, it will be difficult for them to lose.
In this large-scale propaganda, Ibrahim has three points: First, the Ottoman military power should not be controlled by the Slavs. As the conquered, the Slavs should only be the Sultan's sword, not the master to suppress the Sultan. But now it is obvious that because the power of the pro-war group from the Balkan Peninsula has expanded abnormally, the Slavs have already controlled the Sultan. Even the Ottomans, including the Sultan, are now oppressed by the Slavs.
Second, everyone now feels that the glory of the Ottoman Empire is fading. The empire has lost a lot of land in the east to the Persians. If it weren't for Ibrahim, an Ottoman, who rose up one day, I'm afraid that more would have been lost. In the west, the empire has been defeated by the Hungarians and Poles one after another. The expansion of the empire has been hindered, and the problem of domestic land annexation has become more and more serious. A large number of Ottomans have become increasingly poor, and the pure Sipahi knights can no longer protect their land... All these are caused by the Slavic Sultan's personal guard group!
Third, the Ottoman Empire was a multi-ethnic empire, but this empire must be dominated by the Ottomans, and all ethnic groups must live in equality under the leadership of the Ottomans. Therefore, now, the Sultan's personal guard group composed of Slavs who are parasitic on the body of the empire and have seriously threatened the survival of the empire must be eliminated!
In short, the domestic people have suffered from the Janissary Group for a long time! Many people want to kill them, and this idea has been around for a long time. Now, I, Yibrahim, will be the first to stand up and call on all Ottomans, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Kurds, Arabs... to unite! Defeat these corrupt guys of the Janissary Group, divide their property, and live a good life together!
It can be said that this public opinion offensive was very successful. In January 1620, when the Sultan's personal guard group organized an army of 60,000 to march to the Transcaucasus region, the army's supply points were often attacked and poisoned along the way, and it was extremely difficult to temporarily find nearby Sipasi manors or ordinary farmers to buy supplies. The morale of the Ottomans and Arabs in the army was also very low.
After more than a month of arduous march, they arrived at the Caucasus Mountains. Ibrahim, who had been well prepared, led his modern army in a charge and completely defeated the enemy.
The next step was a spring outing-like counterattack. The troops were dispatched in March, and Ibrahim entered Istanbul in June. In fact, if he had not been in contact with other governors and negotiated with them, and appeased the people along the way, the speed would have been even faster.
After Ali was pulled down, Ibrahim turned his attention to Bin Atif Haziz.
"Your Excellency Pasha, your merciful Ibrahim, our Haziz family has never coveted your foundation in Transcaucasia! We have always supported the Ottoman Sultan. How could we, as Ottomans, be so despicable as to kneel down and lick the rotten Slavs like the shameless Kosem family..."
"Hehe..." Standing up, the 20-year-old Ibrahim had fully grown up and reached a height of 1.85 meters. He walked in front of Ben and looked at him with contempt: "Over the years, although your Haziz family has always been at odds with the Kösem family, the Sultan's personal guard group can be so powerful today, isn't it because of your mutual fighting, and you compete to sell interests and official positions to the personal guard group in an attempt to win over the personal guard group and completely suppress the other party? If it weren't for the increasing weight given by you bastards, causing the Ottomans to turn from masters to dogs, how could this country be like this today?"
After saying this, he did not give the other party a chance to defend himself, but issued an order to his confidant: "Boris, although you are Russian, you have followed me for six years, from Mesopotamia to Transcaucasia, and your loyalty has been proven countless times. Now, can you do one thing for me?"
Boris, who was fair-skinned and two meters tall, knelt on one knee and said, "Most noble Pasha, your servant is at your service."
"Take this guy down and smash his penis with a sledgehammer. If he is not dead, he will be allowed to enter the Topkasha Palace and serve His Majesty the Sultan!"
"I'm very happy to help you."
The sturdy man immediately stood up, ignoring Ben Haziz's pleas, and directly grabbed the man by the collar and dragged him out.
"Well, next, Ivanov, please lead my guards to raid the Haziz family's manor."
"As you command, my Pasha."
After dealing with all this, Yiplash turned around with a devilish smile: "Sultan, next, please let your servants reshape the country for you, okay?"
