Just as Joseph was offering Polina's terms, Sultan Selim III of Turkey summoned the French envoy Saint-Melan again.

This time, however, Sultan Selim III did not receive Saint-Meyran in the glittering Topkapi Palace, but invited him to hunt with him on a royal estate in the suburbs.

Sultan Selim III rode a snow-white Arabian horse, and Saint-Meran followed on a maroon Arabian horse.

"Monsieur Saint-Melant, you are having a good time in my country these days." Sultan Selim III stopped on a hill with some shrubs and asked St. Meylang with a smile.

"Your Majesty, I am very grateful for your hospitality." Saint-Melan placed his right hand on his chest and bowed slightly on his horse.

"Ah, that's good." Sultan Selim III jumped off his horse and handed the reins to one of the guards who was following him.

Saint-Meran also jumped off his horse, and one of the guards came after him and took his horse away.

"Monsieur Saint-Melang, let's go over there." Sultan Selim III pointed to a grassy passage over there. There are several flat stones there.

"Yes, Your Majesty, if you wish." Saint-Melan said.

Sultan Selim III walked in that direction, followed by Saint-Meyran and another Turkish officer.

Sultan Selim III stopped beside a large bluestone, tapped it lightly with his horsewhip, then turned to Saint-Meyran and said, "Monsieur Saint-Meyrang, I introduce to you that this is my most loyal general, my Grand Vizier, Arandhar Mustafa Pasha. Well, there are a few things he doesn't quite understand about what you mentioned last time that I need to know from you. ”

"I am more than willing to accept the advice of Your Majesty and His Excellency the Grand Vizier." Saint-Melan replied.

"We've heard that your country will become an empire after this Olympics?" Arundar Mustafa Pasha asked.

"This legend is inaccurate." Saint-Melan replied, "There is no doubt that our country will always be a republic." Of course, I have also heard that the Holy See intends to entrust the crown of Western Rome to His Excellency the First Consul of our country, but this is the crown of the Romans, not the crown of France. France is a republic, and the leader of France is still the first consul. ”

"It's just that His Excellency the First Consul is also the Emperor of Rome?" Arandar Mustafa Pasha asked again.

"Your Excellency the Grand Vizier, it's inconvenient for me to have too much speculation about what hasn't happened yet." Saint-Melan replied.

Sultan Selim III and Arandar Mustafa Pasha looked at each other, and they knew that this guess was probably reliable.

"And how many troops does Your Excellency the First Consul plan to commit to help us regain our land?" Arundar Mustafa Pasha asked.

"Recovering the land?" Saint-Melan couldn't help but sneer in his heart, to be honest, although the Barbary countries all hung the Turkish brand and claimed to be the Pasha of Turkey, the land they ruled was really not fought by the Turks. That was originally Hayreddin with his pirate brothers, but in order to facilitate the supply, it was just attached to the name of the Ottoman Turkish Company, and this asset, it was really brought down by those One Piece kings themselves.

"Your Majesty, Your Excellency the Grand Vizier, our country will use mainly naval forces. As for how much to use, it depends on the needs of your country, as far as our country is concerned, it costs money to use the fleet, and if you can use one less, you can save one...... "Saint-Merand said.

Sainte-Melant's words already had a clear sense of bargaining. That means that if you Turks are very good at themselves, then we will make less effort and divide the spoils in the future, no, when it is time to divide the account, we will share less. If you don't do it yourself, you can't take down those pirates, and you need more tactical guidance, then when it's time to divide the spoils, we'll have to share a little more.

So the three of them got together and had a discussion on the principle of dividing the spoils. In the end, everyone finally reached an agreement on a few of the most critical issues.

"First of all, we, the French army, went to fight in North Africa to overthrow tyranny and achieve freedom and peace, so slavery in the Barbary countries must be abolished, and all slaves, whether white or black, Christian or green, will be free."

"This one does." Arandhar Mustafa Pasha nodded. Although these slaves were actually very valuable, they were not his, and considering the efforts of the French, this request was not too much. Moreover, most of the slaves of the Barbary nations, especially Christian slaves, were raided by them during the centuries of piracy.

"Are you going to take these slaves back to France?" Sultan Selim III asked.

"When they are free, they are free people. But you need a French passport to go to France. Some of them, we're going to send them to America, and the other part, mainly the Greens, I think it's more convenient for you to take care of them. Saint-Melan replied.

One of the above arrangements for these slaves is that they should not be infidels.

This arrangement also made the Turks very satisfied, after all, getting one more person, even if it is a free person, it also means one more person who can collect taxes, right? It's a pity that those who remain are Greens, and if the Christians are good, they can be taxed more.

In fact, the Turkish Empire was not particularly keen on converting pagans to the Green religion in the conquered territories because of the fact that the Shari'ah stipulated that there were many tax incentives for the Green Cultists, because for every pagan who went on the right path, the empire lost a penny of taxes.

"In addition, about the lease of ports, the construction of railways and the development of mines......"

North Africa is rich in mineral resources, with large quantities of oil and natural gas, (both of which are not needed for the time being) and large reserves of shale oil (which will not be needed for the foreseeable period of time), as well as large quantities of phosphate rock, which can be used to make fertilizer, as well as copper and iron ore. Although the scale of the iron ore here is not large, the quality of the ore is much better than that of the local area, and of course it is not as good as that of Northern Europe.

While Saint-Meyran was negotiating with the Turks, in his villa, Polina was also negotiating with her new love, Beldon. Because of the time difference, it is already a sunny morning in Istanbul, and it is just the early morning in Paris.

Polina poked her hair into Beldon's nose, waking him up, and the two of them did another exercise together. Then Polina leaned against the head of the bed, took out a pipe, lit it with a lighter herself, and began to think habitually about life. And Beldon, who was a little tired from the strenuous exercise, lay down beside her, put one hand on her abdomen, and dozed off again.

"Eh, wake up." Polina gave Beldon a gentle kick.

"Huh? What's the matter? ”

"I have something important to inform you." Polina spat out a round smoke ring and said.