The snowstorm has completely annexed the north, and it is about to enter November, but Chen Ming still did not wait for the good news to come. The Russians gritted their teeth and refused to admit defeat, and Chen Ming could understand with his toes that the British must have given Russia a big blood transfusion behind their backs. At the same time, the Ottoman chaos had not yet subsided, and the Ottoman army was frequently retreating along the western coastline of the Black Sea.

However, in China itself, few people cared about the military coup d'état thousands of miles away, and in October, a number of roads and railways broke ground in South China, the most important of which was the Chengdu-Kunming Highway, which was completely the attention of the people.

Chengkun Highway, connecting Xishu and Yunnan, runs through Qianzhou, stretches for thousands of miles, that is a huge project.

From the beginning of the preparation of this project to the determination of the construction group, it is all in Chen Ming's attention. It's not that he doesn't want to do it in one step and directly complete the Chengdu-Kunming Railway, but isn't it that he doesn't have that technical level.

The rugged mountain road in the southwest, with Chen Han's current technical level, is really not capable of rushing the railway. It might be easier in a few decades.

For such a huge project, the project budget is 150 million yuan, the state allocates 50 million, and the remaining 100 million yuan needs to be raised by the provincial governments of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces. It is not difficult for the three provinces to gather enough funds of 100 million, not to mention a big province like Xishu, even in a poor place like Yungui, you can make up 50 or 60 million by gritting your teeth.

Maybe for other provinces, Yungui is a notoriously poor place, where did they get this money?

But for the officials and businessmen of these two provinces, this is an opportunity that must be seized, although the road is not as good as the railway, but it can still communicate the lifeblood of the country's economy. For a country, each traffic artery is a major artery that can continuously grow blood.

No matter how hard and tired the two provinces are, they can easily scrape together enough money.

Besides, if they are really short of money, they still have the National Engineering Construction Fund to ask for help. Although in the eyes of many people, this project construction fund is completely a 'road fee' for a new skin, but it does solve the problem of tight construction funds for many provinces and localities. If Yunnan and Guizhou provinces lack construction funds, they can apply to them to compensate for tolls after the completion and opening to traffic, and only need to give up certain decision-making power, and the project construction fund can cover all the costs required for the project.

Now the shareholders of this engineering construction fund have just changed a group of new people, and many old shareholders have sold their shares, because they urgently need money to build their own land.

This is the best opportunity for Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. The new shareholders have not fully adapted to their positions, and the waist board is not as hard as the old shareholders, and their appetite will naturally shrink.

Chen Han seems to be about to set off a wave of construction in China, but for countries such as Japan and Siam, they are most concerned about China's victory in the war against Russia. Because of the gossip circulating, the emperor is abdicating. By the time of 15 years, Emperor Chen would abdicate to the crown prince.

And before this abdication, His Majesty the Great Emperor was ready to redouble his efforts to launch a new round of war in the Americas and India.

The target of the War of the Americas was the United States of America in North America, and the main target of the War of India was the indigenous princes of India other than the Marathas.

Japan, Siam, Gurkha and other countries do not envy the good luck of the Seven Khanates, because as long as the Americas and India are at war, they can definitely get in and intervene, so for Siam and Japan, of course, they can't get direct territory, but Nanjing has already said that as long as Japan has the ability, the whole Falklands are his; As long as Siam has the ability, India can have a second Buddha country.

Yes, Siam, which is a popular Buddhist, hopes that it will be able to revive Buddhism in the birthplace of Buddhism. This obsession is no less than the fanatical desire of the Japanese to devour the land.

Although the spread of this news was very small, limited to the top level of the vassal states, this news made Chen Ding's heart flutter, and at the same time, it also reassured Japan and the four most important vassal states of Siam, Gurkha, and Mysore.

In the war between India and the Americas, Japan and Siam can intervene, and the main forces of the Indian war, Gurkha and Mysore, will inevitably be able to bite off a piece of the boss's fat. The Sikh kingdom has already eaten its stomach, and this war they will more divert the attention of the Marathas than enter the war and share the spoils.

Of course, Chen Ming's mood was not so good, and he received a request for help from the Ottomans.

As mentioned earlier, there was a coup d'état in Ottoman Istanbul, Selim III was killed by the Janisseri legion and some Ottoman nobles, and then Mustafa, the son of Abdul Hamid I, succeeded to the throne as sultan, which was Mustafa IV.

But the Ottoman reformist leader, Arandhar Mustafa Pasha, did not recognize the status of Mustafa IV, since Selim III's eldest son, Abdul-Mejid, was in Mustafa Pasha's army group in the Rhine. Mustafa did not desperately draw troops from the front, but led only 50,000 soldiers to Istanbul.

The Yenisiri legions are a bunch of junk snacks, and the few private soldiers that the nobles still have are not as good as junk snacks.

Mustafa Pasha's army won successive battles, and Mustafa IV saw that the momentum was not right, so he hurriedly sent someone to secretly sue Mustafa Pasha for peace, and even tempted him with the position of Grand Vizier. Because he has already sat on the throne of the Sultan, he is not willing to give up his position at all.

As a result, Arandar Mustafa was very loyal to the original Selim III, refused to be wooed by Mustafa IV, and easily invaded Istanbul in response to the Ottoman Grand Vizier.

After a modest confrontation, the entire palace was taken over by the new army led by Arandar Mustafa, who was crushed into prison and, if lucky, would spend the rest of his life in prison. And if he is unlucky, a glass of poisoned wine will be his final fate.

Abdul Majid ascended to the throne of Sultan and became Abdul Majid I.

The first order of this guy to come to power was a general reckoning, and the soldiers of the Janisseri Legion and their families, as well as the nobles involved in the military coup, were all purged. The Yenisiri Legion was abolished outright.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians were arrested, but there was no bloody massacre, and they didn't want to do what the Yenisseri Army did after taking control of Istanbul. Because for Abd al-Mejid I, it all meant money. These people will all be sold as sinners to the Chinese.

A few months of turmoil, from the initial Istanbul military mutiny to the later purges of Abdul Mejid I, the total time was only 100 days, but in these three months, the situation of the Ottoman army has changed greatly.

The Russians, with the close cooperation of the Austrian army, kept retreating from the Ottoman army, which had been in a bullish state before, and Abdul-Mejid I, who had just assumed the throne of the sultan, sent a message to Russia and Austria to discuss the matter of peace, but the recovery was to ask the Ottomans to completely spit out all the land they had eaten, and also to cede half of the Crimean Peninsula they had previously controlled to Russia.

As for Russia and Austria, Russia would naturally cede a part of its Polish possessions to Austria.

The two countries had already agreed on the Ottoman matter, and the Austrian navy in the Adriatic Sea suddenly rose up and began to rush out of the Strait of Otranto and began to attack Greece and the Aegean Sea, and the Austrians also supported the resistance groups among the Greeks, and the Ottomans were a little helpless for a while.

- The Habsburgs controlled what would become Slovenia and Croatia, as well as a part of Albania's western seafront territory, which was the only territory in the Austrian Empire near the sea.

Austria's naval power was very weak, and until the middle of the 18th century, Austria did not have a formal navy. Although Austria developed a water force to fight on the Danube River in its long rivalry with the Ottoman Empire, a great empire that spanned Europe, Asia and Africa, and warships to protect the merchant fleet in the Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgium), there was no naval structure in the army, nor was there a unified command.

Until the morale of the Seven Years' War, Austrian merchant ships suffered from privateers because they had no naval protection. So Austria began to form its own navy, which was mainly based on frigates. In 1797, France signed the Treaty of Campo Formio with Austria. The treaty decided that Austria ceded several territories to France, such as the Austrian Netherlands (i.e., Belgium), and the Republic of Venice was divided between France and Austria, with Venice, the Istrian Peninsula, and Dalmatia (the coastal area of present-day Croatia) going to Austria. The maritime forces and facilities of the Republic of Venice were then vested in Austria and became the basis of the Austrian Mediterranean Navy.

More than a decade has passed, and the Austrian Mediterranean fleet has been confined to the Adriatic Sea, with no sense of existence. But this doesn't mean that people don't have combat effectiveness at all, and the Ottoman navy is also very choking.

In any case, the turmoil in Greece, and the attacks around the Aegean Sea, left Abdel-Mejid I, who had just ascended the throne, a little at a loss.

The Ottomans, of course, were not willing to vomit out the vast tract of land they had swallowed into their stomachs, and they would certainly resist with all their might; But at the same time, asking China for help is also good news for Istanbul, which has just stabilized from chaos and blood.

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The icy Ukrainian battlefield. The Russian army, which has been reinforced, is preparing for an attack, and the Black Sea on the left hand side is screaming angrily. In winter, the Black Sea often rolls up waves more than ten meters high, especially in the waters of Ukraine near the northwest, where the winter prevails northerly winds, and the cold polar air constantly hits, setting off huge waves in the Black Sea, the scene is very spectacular.

The colonel who led the attack was mobilizing:

"Warriors of the Empire, it is time for us to wash away our shame. Mother Russia is looking forward to our victory; His Majesty the Tsar longs for our victory; The people of Russia are waiting for our victory.

Victory, victory, victory!

Let's clench our rifles and rush into the panicked positions of the Ottomans with our bayonets—"

Grigory Sokolov personally stood in front of the assault troops, making an adrenaline-pumping mobilization. "Come with me to take the victory we are about to win......"

The last sentence is very important, which shows that Sokolov is not just a coward who just talks about it, he is a brave and fearless officer, and he will personally lead the soldiers in the charge.