The political problems in Greece are mainly due to the increasing complexity of the various forces. The diaspora from the Black Sea region and even from within the Ottoman Empire, while providing a certain amount of troops, also complicated the composition of the Greek army.

The number of Greek citizens is small, and it has been attracting immigrants for so many years, and it is now only more than 900,000, an increase of more than 100,000 from the 800,000 in the early days of Zhou Chenggong's rule, half of which are immigrants and half are natural population growth. But the number of Greek-speaking Greeks abroad is very large, many times greater than that of Greeks in Greece itself.

The history of the Greeks is very long, but the history of the Greek nation is actually very short.

The Greek nation was a modern concept that did not even exist before the Revolution of 1821. In fact, this has a lot in common with India and China. Before the advent of the modern concept of the Han nation, the Chinese character "clan" actually represented the meaning of clan. It can also be said that the history of the Han people is very long, dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but the history of the Han people is very short and is only a modern concept.

Unlike China, there were a lot of controversies between Greek and Greek civilizations, and between India and India, and some scholars believe that Greece is not the direct successor of the ancient Greeks, because the ancient Greeks have disappeared, and the blood composition of the modern Greeks is mainly composed of Slavs who have migrated from Eastern Europe. The dispute between India and ancient Indian civilization is that the core of ancient Indian civilization is in the upper Indus River region, and where it is basically Pakistani territory.

Chinese civilization is not much controversial because the living area of the Han people of later generations almost overlaps with the living area of the Chinese ethnic groups during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the Yellow River Valley, the birthplace of civilization, is still Chinese territory.

At this time, the modern Greek nation had just been born, and the concept of the Greeks had not yet been fixed, so the concept of those diasporas was very large.

Historically, ancient Greece has not formed a unified state, small and fragmented land divided by mountains, formed a city-state, after the development of these city-states was restricted, began to expand abroad, since then Greece has migrated along the Mediterranean, the founder of Rome is actually from Greece, Roman civilization can be seen as a continuation of Greek civilization.

It was not until the time of Alexander the Great that Greece was unified into a single state by Macedonians from the north. But the Macedonians were considered barbarians by the ancient Greek city-states at the time. Alexander's empire quickly collapsed, and the Greek region was ruled by one of Alexander's generals, also known as the Kingdom of Macedonia rather than the Kingdom of Greece.

The Macedonian kingdom was later conquered by Rome, and the Roman Empire itself was divided into Greek-speaking Eastern Rome and Latin-speaking Western Rome. When Eastern and Western Rome ruled Greece, it continued to expand abroad. On the basis of the colonies of the ancient Greek city-states, it continued to dominate the Mediterranean coast. Later, the Eastern Romans inherited these areas and incorporated them all into the territory of the Eastern Romans. At the height of the Eastern Roman Empire, the Black Sea coast was the territory of Eastern Rome. The ports around the peninsula of Asia Minor, the core area of the Ottoman Empire, were also Eastern Roman cities.

With the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire by the Ottoman Empire in 1453, most of the land of Eastern Rome was also incorporated into the Ottoman Empire, and the Ottoman Sultan even claimed to be the heir of the Eastern Roman Emperor, because their royal lineage can indeed be traced back to the royal family of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Under the Ottoman Empire, those who spoke Greek and professed Orthodox Christianity were called Greeks. Just as the Yuan Dynasty referred to the Chinese-speaking people living in the Southern Song Dynasty as Han Chinese, they did not deliberately distinguish between other ethnic groups that were Sinicized.

The Greek Peninsula had only been separated from the Ottoman Empire for a few years, and their identity with the Greeks in the Ottoman Empire was not much different. Therefore, the concept of Greeks is not only the Greek-speaking, Orthodox peoples of the Greek peninsula, but also the Black Sea coast, such as Romanians, Bulgarians, and even Serbs and Albanians in the lower Danube. Their linguistic differences are not very different, similar to the differences between Portuguese and French, both of which belong to different regional dialects of the same language family. It is actually far easier to communicate with each other than Shanxi people and Cantonese people.

In this case, the Greek diaspora is a very large group, with a million people in Greece and millions of Greeks abroad. It was the second largest ethnic group in the Ottoman Empire.

These overseas Greeks, because they had long been treated as Greeks by the Ottomans, actually regarded the Greeks on the Greek peninsula after independence as the same people as themselves. Those expatriates who had already given birth to the concept of a modern nation took the Kingdom of Greece as their homeland and enthusiastically returned to join the army to besiege Greece. Due to the huge population base, in just a few months after Zhou Chenggong's departure, these expatriate armies increased by another 10,000, and now the size of the Greek army gathered in the Athens area has reached 40,000, of which 20,000 are these expatriate volunteers.

This is the problem, these diaspora volunteers, mainly Russian Greeks, but also a considerable part of the Greeks of the Austrian and Ottoman territories. There were all kinds of contradictions between themselves, plus contradictions with the native Greeks, and all kinds of contradictions added up, and a queen could not suppress them.

In addition, these expatriate armies were not quite the same as the Greek kingdom itself.

Since Greece has gone through three historical stages: Ancient Greece, the Eastern Roman Empire, and Modern Greece, everyone's identification with modern Greece is also different. The Renaissance and Enlightenment in the West pushed ancient Greek culture to the peak, so the diaspora particularly admired ancient Greece, and the liberals born among the diaspora were formed by this link. But the Greek nativists, who identified much less with ancient Greece, considered themselves the successors of Eastern Rome under the influence of Ottoman culture.

Historically, the nativists are more in line with realism, mainly because their historical heritage has actually continued, while the liberals have gradually assimilated their culture into the West because they are abroad, and the Greek culture they have accepted is more through Western countries, which is more idealistic.

So the liberals, after coming to power, established their capital in Athens, and they declared that they were not that, that is, they insisted that they were not Rome, not Byzantium (Eastern Roman Empire), but Greece, and they were desperate to inherit the glory of ancient Greece, where European civilization originated. Politically, however, this is actually tantamount to giving up the territories that were expanded during the Eastern Roman Empire, and it is possible to restore those territories, because most of the people living in those territories were "Greeks" as defined by the Ottoman Empire.

Zhou Chenggong, out of political considerations, supported the nativists and the idea of unifying the entire Greek nation, and has been calling for the return of the Greeks in order to increase the population. But now too many expatriate volunteers have come to Greece, and the diaspora is the soil of liberals, and there is no shortage of liberal members among these diaspora.

Although these liberal organizations can hardly pose a threat to Zhou Chenggong's bureaucracy today, if Zhou Chenggong is not there, they may regain power through military force. Therefore, some diaspora political organizations began to operate in the volunteer army, they established groups of soldiers such as the ancient Greek legions, Spartan warriors, etc., and secretly operated against the regular officers sent by Zhou Chenggong.

A month ago, the Ottoman army attacked again, the diaspora was disorganized, the result was a series of defeats, several important places in the border area were captured, the Ottoman army had already invaded the Athens district, the entire Athens district, now only Athens and a few surrounding port cities remained, and the Ottoman army was rushing towards Athens.

Those ancient Greek officers, Spartan warriors and other groups, have begun to secretly attack, launched several small military coups, drove out their officers, occupied an area, asked to meet the king, it is rumored that the king is under house arrest, so they have not shown up for months, they ask the king to stand up and give them an explanation, otherwise they should invite back some heroes of the Greek revolutionary period to continue to lead Greece against aggression, relying on a queen is really not able to fight against a powerful enemy.

Zhou Chenggong rushed back to Athens in this crisis situation, and he secretly entered the palace after carefully understanding the current situation.

They sent their own representatives and invited the members of the Free Officer Corps who insisted on seeing the king, and these people came to the palace of Athens with a suspicious attitude, and they did see the king, and they were very surprised, they really believed that something must have happened to the king, because they did not show up for several months, even if the Ottoman army approached Athens, under pressure from all sides, the king still did not show up, and this must be an accident.

But now they found the king sitting in the palace in good health, and they were a little overwhelmed for a moment. They were at a loss, but the king was not idle and arrested them directly.

Then the king and his guards rushed to the volunteer army of expatriates and arrested all the members of the liberal groups who had surfaced. In his capacity as king, it was announced that these people were spies of the Ottoman Empire. Helping to stabilize the power of the Greek officers who were loyal to him, he then ordered his troops to march from Athens to the front.

These men were not required to be able to counterattack the Ottoman army, but only to build fortifications on the outskirts of Athens and defend them to the death.

The war was won not on the Greek battlefield, but on the Ottoman Empire itself.

Resistance was tough, and the Ottoman army was in full swing, winning all the time, and never met much opponent. Zhou Chenggong personally sat on the front line, supervised the guards to continuously execute the fleeing soldiers and officers, no matter how many executions, without any leniency, and finally at the cost of huge sacrifices, successfully blocked more than 80,000 Ottoman troops on the outskirts of Athens, without letting a single shell fall into the city of Athens.

Ten days later, the news that Zhou Chenggong had been waiting for finally reached Greece, and Egypt had launched an attack on the Ottoman Empire.

Zhou Chenggong quickly spread the news among his army to boost morale, telling the soldiers that a Greek army had invaded the territory of the Ottoman Empire, and although the Ottoman invading army was still in Greece proper, in fact, Greece had already started a counteroffensive from other directions!