In the dark night, lightning flashed and thundered, and heavy rain poured down.

Bustling Nanjing finally has a chance to cleanse itself, and the hustle and bustle of the city can be a little quieter, at least it seems.

Because of the thunder and lightning, the street lights were not allowed to be lit by the workers. In case a lightning strikes when the lamp is refueled, it will be lit up. The streets of the city were dark due to the lack of lighting, and only lightning flashes could barely see the ground.

In the palace, Chen Ming was doing push-ups with Liu Bangyun in his arms. A bolt of lightning shone through the window into the apse, where only the maids were left to serve, and the dimly lit hall was bright.

Chen Ming in sports is still full of energy, but his partner's expression seems to be insufficient.

Recently, good news has been coming, although Chen Ming sometimes works for three or five days in a row, and he does not stop. But once you exercise with a woman, you are always in high spirits.

When the clock struck 11 o'clock, Chen Ming finally fell asleep with Liu Wanyun, who had fallen asleep.

This awakening was the next day's dawn.

Very punctual biological clock. Liu Wanyun was still asleep, and Chen Ming had already gotten up. Dressed in civilian clothes, he strolled through the Imperial Garden, breathing in the fresh air after the morning rain and looking at the crystal dewdrops hanging on the branches and leaves of flowers and plants. Although he is the lord of a country and the respect of the Ninety-Five, he is also a person. During these days, happy things have been coming one after another, and Chen Ming is also refreshed.

North Korea, Myanmar, India, North America, Japan......

The good news is endless.

Even Nanming also has good news, and the second foothold on the east coast has been established, and that location is Sydney.

There are many good places on the continent, but there are not many places that make people feel perfect at first glance. There must be not only bays, but also sufficient fertile land and water, and such places are generally occupied by indigenous people. The East Coast, in particular, is much more densely populated than the West Coast.

It is said that this second settlement, that is, here in Sydney, is divided into three tribes with four or five thousand indigenous people.

Fortunately, China has no competitors in this inhospitable area, and can not only explore the coastline here little by little, but also continue to build on its strength little by little, and then 'upgrade civilization' to the indigenous people in one fell swoop.

The newly established settlement was in a bay, deep and like a stag's horn, which branched off to the left and right, and each extended inland, and sent out strange branches. There are many beaches along the line, the scenery is very beautiful, Chen Ming looks at the location, isn't it Sydney. There's no such harbor anywhere else.

The settlement faces the sea in the east and Arashi Mountain in the west, which is the name that Zheng Ji gave to the mountain. The name of the settlement is Gaoping, which is named after this mountain.

Unlike China's Three Mountains and Five Mountains, it has mountains but no peaks, and the so-called summit is actually just a plateau platform, which is also the origin of the name of the settlement. Standing on the platform on the top of the hill and looking into the distance, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, and the forest and sea in the valley are vast, and there are eucalyptus trees all over the place. When the eucalyptus leaves shine in the sun, they volatilize eucalyptus oil, forming a mist in the air, hence the name of Arashiyama.

Occupy Perth, occupy Melbourne, and occupy Sydney, this Australia is a start. Next, we only need to operate slowly, transport immigrants there four or five times a year, and lay a good foundation before we can seek explosive development.

There are many gold mines in Australia, and Melbourne is a gold mountain. As long as the foundation is laid there, and the news of the golden mountain is released outward, countless people will immediately flock in. This is like the ghost place in Xiangzhou, such a cold place, isn't there still a large number of people sharpening their heads and stabbing over there?

In the face of gold, distance and hardship are never obstacles.

Chen Ming thought about it yesterday, he took the memorandum of negotiation between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Selim, and compared the current China and the Ottomans, and felt that the latter was really in dire straits.

With evil neighbors around and Persia behind it, the Ottoman Empire was in a miserable situation. And the most tragic thing is that the Ottomans, the Turkic people, have been in Asia Minor for hundreds of years, but they seem to have not inherited the economic talent of the heavenly merchants at all, and their own domestic economic development has been a mess.

For hundreds of years, the main ethnic group of the Ottomans was mainly engaged in animal husbandry and agriculture, and the Heavenly believers did not occupy a dominant position in the industry and commerce of the cities. Pagans such as Greeks, Armenians, and Jews collectively dominated the city's main economic sphere. The Greeks and Armenians even controlled a considerable part of the interests in the countryside. For example, the Greeks played a role in cotton farming. In addition to the cotton industry, those who were active in the cultivation and operation of other important cash crops were laborers, if not Armenians, under the Miller system.

The Order is powerful, and it takes money from the wealthy ruling class not through legitimate business channels, but more like extortion and protection money. While the West made great progress due to the expansion of trade, the improvement of technology, the increase in production, and the inflow of silver from North and South America, the Ottoman Empire, which was subject to the conservative practices of the church and guilds, avoided and resisted this great change. The result of not keeping up with the times was that the Ottomans were subjected to the severe impact of the times. The increasing demand for raw materials in European countries led to a corresponding increase in their prices, which led to the massive export of Ottoman wool, copper, and precious metals to Europe. The guilds were limited to rigid price regulations and were unable to compete with European merchants in obtaining raw materials, and as a result, their production declined. The restrictions imposed on guilds have prevented them from investing in emerging industries. As a result, the Ottoman Empire had always had a large deficit in trade with the West, which not only devoured the raw materials and primitive industries of the empire, but also took away the coins on which the economy depended.

This made Chen Ming have to think of Song Liao in Chinese history.

European traders bought raw materials from the Ottomans, produced them in Europe, and sold the finished goods to the empire, effectively reducing the Ottomans to economic vassals of Europe.

As the economic superiority of the Westerners gradually turned into military superiority, starting with the Treaty of Karlovice in 1699, when the Ottomans lost the war with Austria and Russia, almost every peace treaty included the Ottoman agreement or guarantee of free trade within the empire of the victorious powers, and the right to interfere in religious affairs and establish consulates. Moreover, since the beginning of the new century, Western countries have also concluded a series of "consultation treaties" with the Ottomans, in which extraterritoriality and most-favored-nation treatment are particularly conspicuous.

Chen Ming saw that there was a sudden realization that the Europeans had already tried the treaties signed in the history of the Manchu Qing Dynasty on the Ottomans. No wonder the wrists are so skillful, and it is no wonder that China had the nickname of the sick man of East Asia at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and it turned out that there was already a predecessor in the west.

As far as the current Ottoman Empire is concerned, it is like China after a crow, which has fallen into a semi-colonial stage. Its geographical situation adjacent to Europe determines that it can only choose between innovation and decline, which is still because European countries have not yet completed the industrial revolution, and Western civilization has just reached the threshold of power transformation, rather than transforming into a butterfly, otherwise the Ottoman Empire would have been finished long ago.

This was the luck of the Ottomans and the great misfortune of the Ottomans.

Fortunately, even if the European countries that have not yet undergone qualitative changes in their strength win the Ottomans, they will not be able to open their bloody mouths and swallow them directly, so they can only cut the flesh with a small knife and absorb the vitality of the Ottomans little by little. This made Osman feel pain, but there was no instant panic in his heart. It's like boiling a frog in warm water.

China, on the other hand, is now holding the role of slaughtering others, which is qualitatively different from the Ottoman Empire.

Osman's status was lowered to another level in Chen Ming's eyes.

Although several important players were arguing with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nanjing, the entire Ottoman mission was not counted as an escort force, and there were nearly 100 people up and down.

These people have different roles, and in the past few days, they have not only visited the city of Nanjing, but also visited many private government-run factories and enterprises around Nanjing.

A private enterprise employing more than 1,000 people, which was unthinkable in the Ottomans. Although the Ottomans cultivated a large amount of cotton and sold it to the British, French, and Austrians, they also had to buy a large amount of cloth from the British and French every year.

The textile mills outside Nanjing are not the largest textile companies in China, but in the eyes of many Ottomans who visit, they are already a spectacular sight.

If the Ottomans wanted to carry out the 'New Deal Restoration' and buy those machines or something, Chen Ming could sell them generously. Including warships, heavy artillery, boring machines, steam engines and other national heavy weapons.

Because of the strong flavor of faith in the Ottoman country and the scattered rights of the Ottoman Empire, Chen Ming did not believe that the Ottomans could play any tricks.

Hold on, the future change of the Ottoman is a strengthened version of the 'I Daqing'. In 1894, I didn't give little Japan a tiger skin before I was in the Qing Dynasty. That's how the Ottomans are, at best!

The decline of every great empire is not due to force alone, but to the joint effect of political, economic, military, and people's livelihoods.

This was true of the Ottomans in history, and the same is true of the Ottomans of today.

The presence of Chen Ming, the presence of China, only gave the Ottomans a more convenient object to reach out and take what they wanted.

Chen Ming did not plan to train the next generation of sultans for the Ottomans, or send people to really change the Ottoman Empire, he just systematically replaced the original position of Britain, France and Prussia and became the supplier of the Ottomans.

In the past, this role was played by Britain, France, Prussia [Germany], and even Austria and Italy, but now a more reliable and credible ally, China, can go a long way to meet all the needs of the Ottomans' 'innovation'.

Munitions, instructors, equipment......

The Ottomans are now really like the Manchus in history, and they now largely feel that their decline is the inability of the Janissaries to fight, and many people's eyes are still simply on the military part, but do not see the whole situation, the whole society.

Selim's performance is not bad in Chen Ming's opinion, because in addition to the military, he also sees the economy, and to a certain extent, politics.

However, the Ottoman Empire's poor national policy and belief policy determined the irreconcilability of social contradictions. This is a manifestation of the poor ability of national and cultural integration, and the conflict between the fundamental interests of the main nation of the Ottoman Empire and the conquered nation.

The hidden conflicts between the Manchu rulers and the Han magnates in history were far less intense than those of the Ottoman Empire, because there was still a Confucian saint in China, and the Manchu practiced the Han system and followed Confucianism and Taoism in a certain sense.

But under such a major premise, neither the Qi nor the Han could stand on their own, and how could the Ottomans achieve more intense and complex national contradictions?

The decline of every empire has a 'fate' cause and effect, Chen Ming's 'stay out of the matter', the future of the Ottoman Empire is very worrying, but as long as the Ottoman Empire creates more trouble for Europeans than in history, Chen Ming cares about the life or death of the Ottomans?

Don't forget, in his vision, the western part of Central Asia to the Ural and Don valleys, that is, the vassal states established by the Mongols, is a green belt.

This people, who have been manipulated by Buddhist Tantra, should not touch a giant like the Ottoman Empire.

Besides, the future world will inevitably go through a period of oil era, if China dominates the Americas and the South Seas, and then wins the Tianfang world, then it will really control the whole world.

Turkestan and the Ottoman Empire are different concepts, and the former's political posture is more conducive to China's engulfment of the Persian Gulf in the future.

"Why do you eat this vinegared shredded potatoes again? You've been jealous lately. ”

As soon as Chen Ming walked back to the apse, he smelled a smell of sour vinegar. Liu Bangyun's taste has changed a lot. If the doctor hadn't seen her and was not diagnosed as pregnant, Chen Ming would have thought she was pregnant.

"I want to eat jealous cabbage, but there is no cabbage at this time." As he was talking, the palace maid who was waiting for the meal came up with a tray. There was a large bowl on the tray, and the mouth of the bowl was covered with a lid, but this couldn't help Chen Ming's nose. "Hot and sour soup!"

"Let's eat. There is bean curd for you. ”

Chen Ming likes to drink bean curd, as well as spicy soup, oil tea, and rice foam, which is a habit he developed in his previous life. Now that I'm rich, I can't change it back.

After eating and drinking, Chen Ming wiped his mouth and went to the Qianqing Palace comfortably. Today he was going to the Central Military Academy with Selim and the others.

"Niangniang, my uncle asked my wife to come in and urge. You are so ......," he said in front of the emperor while serving the emperor.

Liu Wanyun didn't even raise his eyelids, "What kind of ability do you ask for?" The emperor rewards the best. ”

"There is also a queen mother in this palace. The genuine Uncle Guo is also sitting in a wheelchair, and the Li family has not come out. What is Liu Jia anxious about? "Isn't the Li family in a hurry about the establishment of overseas feudal domains? Everyone wants to lay a foundation in Jiazhou now. (To be continued.) )