On the way back, he passed through the territory of the Manchu Empire, although there was no railway between China and the Manchus, the main reason was that the Manchus were very resistant to such a fast road to connect with China, to put it bluntly, unlike other countries, the reason why they cooperated with China was mainly because they were afraid and hated to be as far away from this country as possible.

After arriving in Kazakhstan, he changed horses and went south, and all the way to Shiraz without leaving the saddle. It was now the capital of the Manchus, and out of fear of China, the Manchu rulers always kept their capital as far away from China as possible. Of course, Shiraz was very suitable as the capital of an empire. The capital of the ancient Persian Empire was located here, and Darius moved to Persepolis, which was founded 51 kilometers northeast of Shiraz. Of the many dynasties that followed, Shiraz had the most capitals.

The reason why Shiraz can form an ancient capital phenomenon similar to China's Chang'an and Luoyang, of course, is because it has its own greatest advantage, on the Iranian plateau, Shiraz is located in a rare agricultural basin, the development of Iranian agriculture is extremely difficult, even if the Persians created a miraculous underground river irrigation system, but there must be an underground river, completely by digging underground tunnels, it will not work in modern times, let alone ancient times. Shiraz had these qualities, and as a result, he became the capital of Persia again and again.

After the Manchu Empire occupied Persia, Persia became the most densely populated area within the Manchu Empire, with five million of the more than 10 million Manchu citizens living on the Iranian plateau. The Manchu Qing Dynasty only successively moved 1 million Han Eight Banners to enrich the vicinity of Shiraz, and now the population of Persia has reached six million, and the population near Shiraz is prosperous, with half of the Han Eight Banners and the Eight Persian Banners.

Another reason for moving the capital here is that the Persian Empire built a system of post stations on a par with Rome and China, and after the Manchus restored and rebuilt these systems, Shiraz was able to control the whole country more conveniently. The ancient Persian Empire could still rule a large empire spanning Asia, Africa and Europe from Shiraz, and there was no reason why the Manchu Empire could not do so, because the Chinese dynasty they inherited was more sophisticated than the Persian Empire.

In Shiraz, Zhou Chenggong met the simple and civilized Daoguang, and both of them communicated about the situation in the Ottoman Empire.

Zhou Chenggong put forward his own proposal, hoping that the Manchu Empire would support the Ali dynasty of Egypt to inherit the Muslim caliphate.

The Manchu Empire showed little interest in this caliph, because Daoguang could not have obtained this title no matter how he looked at it.

However, this position had a great influence on the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which adopted policies such as bloody massacres and the Eight Banners system, which was similar to the armor protection system, in line with the Muslim ethnic groups in the Central Asian steppes, Afghanistan and Persia, and although it did not change the beliefs of these populations, it did change the religious power structure. Religious elders and patriarchs were no longer appointed by the caliphate or elected in the traditional way, but were uniformly appointed civil officials by the central Manchu dynasty. Although there has been no change in the beliefs and the scriptures followed, the change in the power structure has made Islam in the Manchu Qing Dynasty a de facto new religious culture. A religious culture that is politically consistent under a unified system.

In the past, when Afghanistan and Persia carried out the Eight Banners, they were not affected by the outside world, but when they arrived in the two river valleys, everything changed. Afghanistan and Persia have relatively closed terrain and were previously independent polities. However, the two river basins were open and connected with the Ottoman Empire, and as a result, in the process of implementing the Eight Banners in the two river basins, they were constantly interfered with by religious forces from the Ottoman Empire.

These religious forces were completely outside the control of the Ottoman sultans, and they called on their followers to crusade against the Manchus, so there were always small groups of fanatical believers who crossed the border to harass the Manchus; The ethnic groups of the Manchu Qing Dynasty responded to the call of the religious leaders on the other side of the river and fled across the river.

From the beginning of the founding of the country, the Manchus faced a dilemma, that is, their system was difficult to lock people up, so successive dynasties adhered to strict fugitive laws and imposed severe punishments on the fleeing people. In fact, this is also a worldwide problem, and the transition from nomadic and nomadic production to agricultural production is not easy to achieve. The reason why serfdom appeared in Europe was that it was difficult to firmly fix the people who worshiped the freedom of the nomadic culture to produce on the land. The most typical was Russia, where there was no shortage of land, and this was also true in early Europe, so that serfs who left the landlord's estate could easily find space elsewhere. Therefore, it is necessary to have laws and institutions to fix the population on the land, so as to be more conducive to agricultural production.

Serfdom in Russia was the last to appear and the last to end, because the Russian population had always had a realistic condition of detachment from the aristocratic estates. Europe began to break serfdom because of the relatively dense population, agriculture did not need to fix the population on the land, and labor could be obtained more conveniently. In economic terms, it is the free labor market that can replace this serf-like source of labor. The same can also explain the slavery in the United States, if the United States had liberated the slaves at the beginning of its independence, and those slaves moved freely, I am afraid that no one would want to stay on the landlord's estate for intensive labor, and the large wasteland in the western United States could provide them with living space.

Naturally, this restraint was met with resistance, and the Russian serfs fled to the ownerless south and became a group of yeoman farmers who paid equal attention to agriculture and pastoralism, which became the famous Cossacks. During the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there were always people who escaped, and most of these coats were people who had been captured in the northern provinces of China; Later, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, a large number of these coats fled back to their hometowns, during the Shunzhi period, Dolgon reprimanded the military department for "only a few months, tens of thousands of fugitives", just a few months after entering the customs, tens of thousands of fleeing coats, forcing the Manchus to introduce a strict "fugitive law", with the law to hunt down the fleeing coats.

The Treaty of Nebuchu signed with Russia during the Kangxi period also clearly stipulated that the two sides had the obligation to repatriate each other's fugitives.

The oldest farming people don't know when their own farming culture was born, and they have long adapted to agricultural production, such as China, where there is basically no phenomenon of population flight, and it is not the law, not the government, but the culture that restricts the peasants to the land. It is "parents are not far away", it is "chickens and dogs barking and smelling old and dead do not get along", and it is a kinship culture. The strength of this culture makes those who are forced to emigrate for their livelihood often return to their hometowns when they are old, giving birth to the culture of "falling leaves and returning to their roots", no one wants to leave the hometown where the ancestral tombs are located to wander outside, even after death, they will feel that they are lonely ghosts.

In the entire history of mankind, I am afraid that only two ethnic groups have formed a very strong sense of hometown, one is the Han nationality in China, the other is the Jewish nation, and the Chinese are to go home for burial after death, and the Jews are adrift for two thousand years and return to their hometown to establish a country.

The history of the Middle East has changed so dramatically that the indigenous people have long known how many waves have changed, so agricultural technology has remained, but agricultural culture has not, and it is unknown whether it was ever born. Therefore, after ruling half of the Lianghe River Valley, the Manchus had to face the dilemma of a large number of people fleeing.

In the face of the dilemma of winning the hearts and minds of the people in the world, the Manchu Empire did not take many methods, and the immigration was a traditional routine, and continued to forcibly relocate the Han Eight Banners, an agricultural group under their rule, to enrich the areas near the border in the two river basins, so that the blood of the Han Eight Banners became more and more mixed, and now among the third and fourth generations of the latest born in the Han Eight Banners, the blood of the Han people has dropped to less than one-third.

On the one hand, the Han Eight Banners were relocated from the Ferghana Basin and the Iranian Plateau to the two river basins, and on the other hand, the indigenous people were moved to the Iranian Plateau and Central Asia, but this caused more people to lose people, and more people ran to the other side of the Tigris River. The ruling ideology of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was still traditional, the national concept was not strong, and the Son of Heaven regarded the common people as his people, and a large population meant great power. Successive dynasties have attached great importance to the development of the population, and this kind of population loss is not only a kind of blood loss in terms of national strength and economy, but also a kind of failure in terms of governing morality.

Therefore, the Manchu Empire's war against the Ottomans was not only because of the Greek issue, but also because the alliance with Greece was just an opportunity for them to send troops. The aim is to seize the entire valley of the two rivers and to solve the problem of fugitives.

One of the reasons for the emergence of the problem of fugitives is the issue of religion. Therefore, Daoguang, who didn't care much about the title of caliph, proposed that as long as Egypt did not interfere with the Hui Eight Banners under the rule of the Qing Dynasty and was willing to repatriate the fugitives, they could support Egypt's Ali Pasha to become the next caliph.

After receiving an answer from the Manchus, Zhou Chenggong left Persia, crossed the Persian Gulf, and then crossed the Alaper Peninsula. The Alaper Peninsula was already part of Egyptian territory, and from here to Cairo, it was under Egyptian rule all the way. It only takes a dozen days to cross the oases with a pack caravan, which is faster than taking a boat.

In Cairo he met with Ali and expressed the support of the Manchus, who were indeed much more important than Greece, because the Manchus were home to millions of Muslims, and most importantly, the Manchus were a much more powerful country than Greece. With the support of the Manchus, Egypt's military might indeed have occupied Asia Minor or even Istanbul.

At the same time, European companies and African companies also expressed their support for Ali Dynasty, although the two companies said that they did not represent China, but these two companies could provide sufficient financial support for Ali, with their support, Ali's military strength was already stronger than the Ottoman Empire, so it was safe to win this war.

The only concern was the intervention of the European powers, who had also defeated the Ottoman Empire a few years earlier, but had not gained much because of the Russian intervention. So this time, is there still the intervention of the European powers?

Ali is a smart man, he can see the current situation, on the Greek issue, the European powers are divided into two groups, the Anglo-Austrian alliance against the Franco-Russian alliance, Zhou Chenggong directly invited the French consul to express support to Ali, so that Ali no longer cares, and finally agreed to send troops to the Ottoman Empire.

After getting the promise, Zhou Chenggong returned to Greece non-stop, he has been away for too long, the originally planned two-month trip has been delayed to three months, although the domestic situation is not bad, but there has been chaos at the top, Connie as a woman, although there is a staff team to help him plan everything, but her own image is really difficult to control the situation.

Zhou Chenggong must return to China immediately!