Chapter 993: Li Bai, that's Chinese!
The news of Napoleon's proclamation to the emperor reached Chen Ming's ears in the late spring of the following year. I said a little ◆
For Emperor Chen, this is a very normal thing, he will not be as excited as Beethoven and tear up all the pieces he has worked so hard to compose. In Chen Ming's view, this is just the inevitability of history, and it is also the powerful inertia of history.
Why did Napoleon become emperor? In fact, it is a very simple question, combine the current situation in France with the social situation in Europe in this era, and you can know why Napoleon was emperor. And you must know that although Napoleon has become a new generation of emperors, his nature as an emperor is completely different from that of the previous one. Napoleon represents the bourgeoisie, and this is what is needed in this great era, which is completely different from the previous feudal emperors, so Napoleon's degree can be supported by the French bourgeoisie.
Napoleon's coronation was born for many reasons, and Napoleon, in addition to protecting his own rights and interests, also conformed to the river of history. Perhaps, the bourgeoisie in France, which has just turned over, also needs a kind of 'nobility' to show their inequality with the common class.
When the aristocracy, which oppressed the commoners, was beaten, money became a measure of social status. Napoleon's proclamation of the emperor was precisely the consolidation of this criterion.
However, the whole world has obviously changed so much, but Napoleon still became emperor in 1804, and even the time of becoming emperor is similar to the difference between the original time and space, which has to make Chen Ming feel the extreme correctiveness of history.
In addition to this 'lace news', the news from the Ottoman Empire also confirmed the imminent convergence of Vienna and St. Petersburg with London. The Third Anti-French Coalition may have begun at this time, and a major war on the European continent is once again on the verge of breaking out. So will the Battle of Trafalgar, which completely destroyed the French Navy and the Spanish Navy, also break out as scheduled?
Wernav was not a suitable naval commander, and as commander-in-chief of the combined Franco-Spanish fleet he was incompetent. But Emperor Chen was only able to help Napoleon by asking the European Office to deliver the message to Napoleon, after Napoleon had rejected the paddle steamer with a hybrid sail.
Napoleon's path still has to be walked by himself, whether he can win the battle of Austerlitz in the future, whether he will lose the Battle of Trafalgar, whether he will break with Spain driven by desire, form a large army to expedition to Russia, and finally be imprisoned in 1814, these are his own paths, everything has to be 'walked' by himself!
At a time when Chen Ming was concerned about the changes in the situation in Europe, the war situation in Central Asia also had a new development, and Russia was already determined to get involved in the war against France, and a large amount of military supplies were inclined to the western region of the country, and the support for the three southern khanates in Central Asia was inevitably weakened. This has a significant impact on the situation in Central Asia.
According to the strength of the three khans of Central Asia, rifled guns may still be somewhat productive, and the hexagonal cannons and cannonballs required by cannons are difficult for them. Now without the support of Russia, the situation of the Southern Three Khanates, which was already at a disadvantage on the battlefield, was even worse.
Ten khanates fought in the dark, and countless people died.
The greatest casualties in the war were the civilian class, especially the Southern Three Khanates, who made them the defenders, and the battlefield was mainly within their borders?
Chen Min, who was sitting on Lake Balkhash, spared no effort to support the Seven Khanates, and he knew that this battle would be his last moment.
As the big boss of the logistics department, Chen Min is in a high position again, and he will also grow old one day. Compared with Chen Cong's experience of being forced to withdraw from politics before he is old, Chen Min, who is in his early seventies, is very, very lucky.
It has been 31 years since Chen Cong left politics. What a terrible time it is? A generation has grown up, and the Song Palace, which was famous in the political arena in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, has now become an ordinary wealthy brother. No matter how capable Chen Jiqing and Chen Jigong are, their position will not reach half of Chen Cong's original weight!
Chen Min went to Xinjiang, and the overall situation of the logistics department was in charge of the left and right servants, and Chen Min was making room for future generations.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Southern Three Khanates also sent envoys to Istanbul for help, and in terms of faith, the Southern Three Khanates were the same as the Ottomans, so they asked the Ottomans for help, not from Persia, which was closer.
They are well aware of the close relationship between Istanbul and Nanjing, so they naturally do not expect Istanbul to send troops to help them, they just hope that Istanbul can be a bridge and build a communication channel between the Three Khanates of the South and Nanjing.
Bottom line: they want to negotiate.
But Istanbul is not so easy to fool. The Southern Three Khanates didn't dick Istanbul for hundreds of years before, and now they don't know how to hug their thighs when their lives are not guaranteed? What did you do before?
The Southern Three Khanates are eye-to-eye with Russia, and Istanbul doesn't know it?
The latter knew better that Russia was about to intervene in the war in Europe.
In other words, Russia's support for the Southern Three Khanates will decline rapidly, and Tsarist Russia, a powerful enemy, will abandon the Southern Three Khanates. These three shameless countries, when they were mixed with Tsarist Russia before, did not think that the noble Ottoman Sultan, the noble caliph, and Russia were mortal enemies?
Selim III was not a fool and would be easily fooled by the Southern Three Khanates.
A few traitors who mingled with their enemies against their friends, after being abandoned by their enemies, planned to hug their thighs so that they could 'make peace' with their friends, what a big face!
Soon after Chen Ming received the news of Napoleon's proclamation as emperor, the main force of the 20,000 new army of Zhongyuzi converged with the 10,000 horses of Xiaoyuzi, together with the 20,000 or 30,000 militia of the two countries, plus the 30,000 new troops and more than 20,000 cavalry put together by the four Mongolian khanates, a total of 1120,000 troops, with the main general of Turhut Khan Wubasi as the main general, and the septuagenarian Sheleng as the deputy general, known as the 200,000 army, burned and looted all the way into the territory of the Bukhara Khanate. The Bukhara side had nothing to do, so it had to wait for the main army on the Kokand battlefield to return as soon as possible, and on the other hand, the troops were divided into two routes to hold Samarkand and Bukhara. And the large territory outside the two cities can only be ravaged by the northern coalition forces.
Worbasy is sixty-three years old, and he has not participated in the show for many years, but it turns out that the labor insurance is not old. The allied forces under his command reached the outskirts of Samarkand in May.
Samarkand is one of the oldest cities in Central Asia, dating back to 500 BC. The city was the most important commercial town of the Bukhara Khanate, and the Bukharans also completed the fortressization. It was obviously not a good idea to storm and attack, and the method of Wobasil was to dig trenches and besiege the city, and organize a large army to surround the whole of Samarkand.
Then twice the rescue of the Bukharans was defeated, and in particular, the second time, gave the Bukharans heavy wounds. Tens of thousands of captives were captured!
Then the time went on until the beginning of spring of the following year, and the siege of Samarkand lasted for ten months. The city of Samarkand ran out of food and grass, but the besieging army outside the city remained unmoved, and the final result was that the hearts of the people inside the city collapsed on their own.
At the end of March of the 32nd year of Chengtian, a white flag was hoisted over the city of Samarkand, and 14,000 Bukhara soldiers walked out of the fortified fortress and voluntarily entered the prisoner of war camp of the Northern Coalition Army.
The largest city of the Bukhara, larger than the capital city of Bukhara, Samarkand fell.
The fall of this city divided the entire Southern Three Khanates into two halves, because Hemohe, as an important commercial city in Central Asia, was itself an important transportation hub, just like the later Zhengzhou and China railway networks, a transportation hub was captured, and the destruction was definitely not the fall of a prosperous commercial city as seen on the surface.
Moreover, when the army surrounded Samarkand, the cavalry of the northern coalition army had already swept away all the towns and villages within two or three hundred miles of Samarkand.
A large number of captured people and cattle and sheep wealth were swept back to the northern khanates, and these things could be sold to Chen Han, whether it was cattle and sheep jewelry, or population, Chen Han did not refuse. It's just that the old man doesn't want it!
The women and children were sent back to the mainland by the Chinese, while many young and strong were sent directly to the mines, and some were transported to the western Caspian coast, then loaded onto ships to the West Sea on the opposite shore, and then through the Caucasus to the Ottoman Black Sea.
In the Ottoman Empire, where slaves were allowed, the human trade was a long-standing hot business, and now the Ottoman Empire is struggling with labor in the Suez Canal.
With the Elam, the Egyptians could not have been tricked into a construction site at a very low price, as they had been in the history of the original plane, and then thousands of people died. There are only a few people in the whole of Egypt, and it is impossible for Elam to see more than 100,000 Egyptians in the Suez Canal.
It was the Greeks who played the role of the Egyptians.
Victory in the Sixth War against Russia gave the Ottomans a precious respite and time to put the Ottoman Empire in order to rectify the interior, starting with Greece. The two million Greeks were reduced to only 16,700,000 after a 'purge'.
Of the reduced one-sixth of the population, some died in war, some were slaughtered by the Ottoman army, some fled to the Balkans, and the last were trafficked.
The Greeks were Caucasians, men could be sold to Suez Canal construction sites, and young women were sold in large quantities to Chinese. At one time, the price of white slaves in the Chinese population market has become volatile.
But the Suez Canal is a bottomless pit that swallows the lives of tens of thousands of Greeks, and they still open their mouths wide and yearn for more lives. Now the prisoners of war of the Southern Three Khanates have become the best substitute!
In the summer of 1806, with the fall of Andijan, Muhammad Umar committed suicide, Arimu Khan surrendered, and the Bukhara and Khiva Khanate came to their final moments.
Irtuzel of the Khiva Khanate died of illness, and Muhammad Rahim Khan, who hastily succeeded him, fled to Russia; Haidar Tula Khan of the Bukhara Khanate surrendered.
The war in Central Asia, which had been going on for many years, came to an end, and a threat on the Chen-Han border was lifted.
In the history of the original time and space, the Kokand Khanate had a 'non-dividing thought' for southern Xinjiang. The sad thing is that the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the original time and space made concessions and cowardice to the British and French powers, and even made concessions to the small countries of Kokand.
For example, the Zhanggar Rebellion, knowing that it was Kokand who was behind the scenes, Emperor Daoguang was 'swallowing his anger', and there was no opium war at that time. It's really depressing to think about!
Now these three khanates have been completely swept away, and not only Kokand is finished, but also Bukhara and Khiva. Their lands would be divided between the Kazakh Khanates, and the Kazakh Khanates would cede some of their lands to the Mongol Khanates.
China, on the other hand, would take all of the Pamirs, and then cross its borders westward into the Ferghana Basin to include the Bishkek region in the north. Bishkek is a node of the Chu River and is geographically crucial. And it is in the west of Tokmak Fortress, and the Broken Leaf City in the Tang Dynasty is in the area of Tokmak!
Broken Leaf City is said to be Li Bai's birthplace.
Then China in this time and space will never again have the question of 'whether Li Bai is Chinese'.
This question in his previous life made Chen Ming, who first heard this question, stunned, and now he wants all this to become meaningless and unquestionable!
Although no one realizes it. Many people still thought that Emperor Chen planned to take back all the Chu River valley areas in the future, so that Lake Balkhash and the Green Mountains would be completely connected......