Indeed, the fires in London could not have been more terrible. Because the Great Fire of London in 1666 may have been larger in terms of burned area, the Great Fire of London had a single starting point, and although the fire could not be controlled, the speed of expansion was not fast, so most people had time to flee the fire. Although the Great Fire of London destroyed tens of thousands of buildings, it is said that only five people were burned to death. (Personally, I was very skeptical of this number, and the statistical power of that era was not worth trusting.) However, it should still be certain that there are no large number of deaths)

But the fire set by the French was different, the shell landing point set by the initial shelling was mainly considered how to quickly block the escape route, and the subsequent shelling was aimed at making the fire burn as quickly as possible. In such a situation, there will naturally be more people burned to death. There are many people who are close to the coast who can jump into the sea to escape, although jumping into the sea will also be beaten by the Turks who collude with the infidels to fight the whacks, but there is still a chance of survival. Besides, even if you are shot to death, it is better than being burned to death.

As for those who did not have time to jump into the sea, there was naturally only a dead end in such a fire. So the Tripoli fire, although smaller in scale than the London fire, caused tens of thousands of casualties. Because the fire in Tripoli also burned down the municipal institutions, resulting in the burning of all kinds of materials. So how many people there was in Tripoli at that time became a confused account, and no one could say.

Therefore, there are only various speculations about how many people died in this fire, but among the various guesses, the minimum number is more than 10,000.

In the aftermath of the fire, Tripoli's defenses collapsed completely. It's just that the fire is still burning, so the Turks can't land right away. The fire burned for a whole day and a night before it was gradually extinguished, and the Turks waited another two hours before bringing some of the soldiers ashore in small boats.

The soldiers met no more resistance, and they quickly took up several commanding heights in the city along the ash-strewn road. After that, more Turkish soldiers landed in the harbor, and after a little regrouping, they marched towards the palace of the Pasha in Tripoli under the command of a general.

The palace of the Pasha in Tripoli was located far from the port area, so it was not affected by the fire. But after the fire at the port, Yusuf Pasha looked at the fire on the other side of the port and knew that most of his army had been buried in the fire, and that his power could no longer compete with the invading Turks and French.

Yusuf Pasha was also a man who could afford to put it down, and seeing that he could not do anything, he immediately gathered his guards, brought with him all the possessions he could carry, and then set a fire to the palace himself, and went to Tunisia with the remnants of his men.

Because the port was still in ruins, and all kinds of dock facilities were burned down, the Turkish fleet could not dock in the port, but could only send a group of people ashore in small boats, which was considered to occupy the ruins.

However, Tayyip Pasha didn't really care much about this level of destruction - anyway, according to the agreement between the two sides, the port was supposed to be handed over to the French, and if it was burned, it would be burned, and there was nothing to feel sorry for.

None of the Turkish warships could dock, and the French warships naturally did not think about it. However, the French also sent a group of soldiers ashore in small boats. These soldiers had two tasks, one was to cooperate with the Turks and take control of the nearby area as quickly as possible. The other was to free the Christian slaves in the neighborhood.

Tripoli is a good place, even without considering the port conditions, with a mild climate and quite good conditions. So near the city, there are also quite a few farms. Many Christian slaves, as well as black slaves, worked on these farms.

Napoleon attached great importance to the emancipation of these Christian slaves, because the liberation of these people would provide more legitimacy to the operation. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution in China, the output of various commodities has been growing steadily, and now the European market has more or less a feeling of insufficient demand. Opening up a new dumping market for commodities seemed to Joseph to be urgent. The sick man of Africa and West Asia is the market that the French have recently eyed.

Because of the hurry, Yusuf Pasha did not have much time to take care of the affairs of the farms outside the city, and the local farmers were unlikely to escape with Yusuf Pasha - after all, their property was here. And as far as they know, what they are calling now is not infidels, but teams that also hold the banner of the stars and the moon and believe in the true gods. Even if this team is the leader and protector of the Cult, why should they have to run? At most, it's just a little bribe for those soldiers, and then they can pay taxes and live as before.

However, to their surprise, in addition to the warriors who believed in the true gods, there was suddenly a group of pagan soldiers. Then they were told that their Christian slaves were now free. This meant that the farmers had lost their slaves, and slaves were also a part of the property, even a significant part. Of course they are dissatisfied, of course they want to protest.

But the Turkish soldiers, who believed in the true God as they were, stood firmly on the side of the infidels, and immediately drew their swords and threatened the pious farmers, declaring that they suspected that the farmers were all rebellious comrades, and that they suspected that there were rebels in their houses, so they would enter their houses and search them.

Such an act, of course, is impossible in France, at least legally. Because if you enter someone's house and search something, you theoretically need a search warrant. (But in fact, when the law enforcer believes that there is an urgent need to avoid the danger of destruction of evidence, etc., he or she can also search without a warrant, and only need to add one after the fact.) But with the Turks, there is no need for even this formality, I see that you are suspicious and I suspect that you have rebellious gold hidden in your house, so I can search you and confiscate the rebellious gold, and there is no need to issue a ticket.

So the Turkish soldiers broke into the homes of these farmers and searched all their valuables on the grounds of "treacherous hidden wealth". Some unknown farmers tried to resist, and then their heads were cut off as proof of their military exploits, and their wives and children, if nothing else, soon appeared as commodities in Istanbul's markets.

Of course, there are not many farmers who dare to resist Wang Shi. So for the time being, they only lost slaves and gold coins, at least the things that could not be moved, the land, the houses were still in their hands. However, worse news awaited them: Turkish officials soon landed ashore.

As the saying goes, "thieves come like combs, soldiers come like grates, and officials come like shaves", one of the most important tasks of these officials who came ashore was to get enough land to commend their loyalty to the meritorious men of this war. Of course, this can also be said to be more crowning, that is, to identify and punish rebellious supporters and sympathizers.

Before going ashore, the officials had been told: "If the farmer escapes, there can be no doubt that they are openly and unabashedly rebellious fellow citizens, and all their wealth, including land, dwellings, and everything, should be confiscated." If they remain in their farms, then you must be even more vigilant. Because it means that they are those rebellious hidden, hidden supporters. We must of course crack down on such vipers, who should be sent to prison and tried by a judge – of course, we will not wronged a good person, but we cannot spare a rebellious ......."

As a result, almost all the farmers in the vicinity of Tripoli, except for those who had escaped or had their heads cut off before, were arrested and sent to the makeshift prisons set up by the Turks, and then the officials began to try these cases with astonishing speed, and then cut off the heads of the farmers at the same speed as the revolutionary tribunal of Robespierre, and sold their wives and children to the slave trader called Erdo, who came with them.

Now, the most valuable land in the entire suburbs of Tripoli has become precious terra nullius, and you say how good that is. With these precious lands, how much loyalty should Sultan Selim III reap?

Of course, not all of this land could be awarded to Sultan Selim III, as some of it had to be distributed to Christian slaves as compensation for their abduction here.

In fact, most of these Christian slaves were descendants of the Christians who had actually been plundered. In the last hundred years, the Barbary pirates and rarely on the northern shores of the Mediterranean (except France) have plundered the coastal population, as they did hundreds of years ago. Of course, there were new Christian slaves, but most of them came from the raids of the seas.

There are very few Christians who have recently been enslaved. They could, of course, go back to Europe after getting a little compensation. But for most of the Christian slaves, their ties with Europe had been completely severed, and even their way of life and habits other than Catholicism had become more like that of North African pagans.

So they can only stay in North Africa, and France also needs them to stay in North Africa, because they are naturally supporters of France. And in order for them to continue living in North Africa, France had to secure a piece of land for them to feed their families.