Chapter 1009: The Ottoman Empire's Desperate Situation

"The Ming Dynasty is too powerful, the ocean is thousands of miles away to attack France, only 30,000 soldiers can defeat France, if one day the Ming Dynasty invades Europe with all its might, will the countries be able to resist it?" This was the voice of all the kings of Europe, including the King of France. Nature

The Ming army is gone, but the haze and fear left behind are not less at all.

In terms of the great strength shown by the Ming Dynasty, none of the European countries has the confidence to contend with the Ming Dynasty, even if the countries are united, they do not have the confidence to confront the Ming Dynasty, and it is precisely because of this that the fear brought by it is the most terrifying.

In particular, Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Portugal and other five major sea powers that once colonized the world, except for France itself, even if it is a traditional European power, almost all relied on those overseas colonies to rise.

They had slaughtered the natives of the colony and enslaved the natives of the colony, and they knew all too well how miserable the fate of the colonies would be.

They are afraid that one day, the Ming Dynasty will attack the European 6 with all its might, and turn the European 6 into a colony of the Ming Dynasty, although the current Ming Dynasty has not exposed such a momentum, but in the end, there is this possibility, as long as they think about this possibility, they can make them tremble with fear.

The gloom in their hearts forced them to fear the Ming Dynasty.

An unprecedented sense of urgency drove European countries to work hard, at least so that after the countries could unite, they would be able to maintain their own strength under the attack of the Ming Dynasty.

Major European powers such as Britain, Spain, France, Portugal, Holy Rome, and Austria began to increase their military strength at all costs, and the vast majority of these resources were focused on developing new weapons.

Because all countries know that the gap between them and the Ming is in terms of advanced weapons, and only when the weapons reach the same level as the Ming can they have the initial strength to compete with the Ming.

In order to obtain advanced weapon technology, it is impossible to send people to steal from the Ming Dynasty, it is too dangerous, it is easy to attract the retaliation of the Ming Dynasty, and no country wants to follow in the footsteps of France.

Because the Ming army had ravaged France, captured Paris, and pursued the French emperor.

Some of the bullet casings left over from the war have become the target of research in various countries, and some people have even found many intact bullets that have not been fired out lost by Ming soldiers, and various countries have preliminarily determined the weapon principle of the Ming guns through these bullet casings and intact bullets.

Hammer rifles and cannons, new gunpowder, and so on, began to be no longer a secret.

In fact, as early as when the Ming Dynasty captured the Americas 6, European countries had the opportunity to obtain some bullet shells and finished bullets of the Ming army, but all countries were defeated in the battlefield of the Americas 6, and the places where they fought were not their turn to clean up, so even if the Americas 6 had hundreds of battles, but no soldiers of any country could pick up the bullet shells or finished bullets lost on the battlefield and so on.

After knowing the principle, European countries have a key research direction, that is, the new gunpowder in the bullet casing and the primer that ignites the gunpowder in the bullet casing, and all countries firmly believe that as long as these two things are developed, they can also make weapons as advanced as the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the research and development of new gunpowder and primer, various countries also aimed at the research and development of steam engines, among which England was the most, and England even ranked the importance of steam engine research above new gunpowder and primer.

Some Britons, mainly Eisener, once dismantled the steam-powered locomotive of the Ming Dynasty, although they did not see the core thing, but the principle of steam is not profound, so England's research on steam engines far exceeds that of other European countries.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty's attack on France completely woke up European countries and made European countries crazy to research new technologies, but the research cycle of new technologies is continuous, even if countries can't wait for the return of international students, they can't succeed without ten years of work.

Ten years later, Daming's science and technology will not stay at the present, Daming has also advanced for ten years, and even if all countries develop all the advanced technologies of Daming, they will still inevitably lag behind Daming for decades.

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Europe and the Ming Dynasty have entered a period of calm and steady development.

Middle East side.

Since the Battle of Damascus, the Ottoman Empire was defeated by the Manchus, and after the Manchus captured most of the territory, the Ottoman Empire completely fell, and it lost the strength of a great power, let alone the territory of a great power.

On the other hand, after conquering the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa, the Manchus swelled to 14 million square kilometers.

At the same time, taking advantage of the weakness of the Ottoman Empire, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, etc., which had just broken away from the Ottoman Empire, were also attacked by the Qing army and soon occupied by the Qing army and became part of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, the Ottoman Empire and the Manchus were unable to resist the Qing invasion after several months of see-saw in Asia Minor, and Asia Minor was gradually occupied by the Manchus.

The predecessor of the Ottomans was the Tus, after the Tang Dynasty moved westward, they took root in Asia Minor, and after hundreds of years, the Tusmen slowly occupied Asia Minor, and then crossed the Strait of Constantine, destroyed the Byzantine Empire and rose.

It can be said that the Ottoman Empire and the Manchu Qing Dynasty both moved westward from the north of the Central Plains, and the two sides shared the same disease, but now Asia Minor has also been occupied by the Manchus, and the situation of the Ottoman Empire is worse than that of the Byzantine Empire back then.

However, the Strait of Constantine is not wide, even if the strait is tightly guarded, the Ottoman Empire will not last long, as long as the Qing army builds a sufficient number of warships, it may be the day of complete fall of the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman emperor and the Ottoman Manchu officials were as frightened as ants on a hot pot.

"Your Majesty, the Qing people are building ships on a large scale, and once their ships are built to a certain number, the empire will not be able to resist!" An old Ottoman minister said sadly.

The Ottoman Empire used to be a powerful overlord, with a certain sea power, even if Damascus and many other 6 places were defeated, the Ottoman Empire's national strength was exhausted, but the sea power was still intact, although there were dozens of backward gunboats, and thousands of large and small ships, the comprehensive maritime strength was not much weaker than the British, Spanish, Dutch, French and Portuguese ones, but the Ottoman Empire's national strength was exhausted, these warships sank one less one, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty currently has a vast territory and a large population, and the warships will be built more and more, one day, All the Ottoman Empire's maritime power was also exhausted, and it was the day of the end of the Ottoman Empire!

Of course the Ottoman Emperor knew this, but what could he do, and who could save his Ottoman Empire?

Asking for help from European countries? It is simply impossible, because the two sides have been feuding for hundreds of years, and Austria, Poland, and Tsarist Russia are even taking advantage of the fire to loot, how can they help their Ottoman Empire against the Qing army.

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