Selim couldn't sleep that night.

He was thinking about the way out for the Ottoman Empire. If the Ottoman Empire does not regain its strength, sooner or later the Ottoman Empire will be arbitrarily slaughtered by foreign powers like the natives of We.

Think of Russia and Austria around the Ottomans, and the British and French eyeing the Ottoman territories of North Africa, each of which was a greedy devil. If the Ottoman Empire really fell to the point of being slaughtered by others one day, then the outcome of the Ottoman nation must be extremely tragic.

It is now 1779 in the Western calendar, and it has been more than four years since the last Russo-Turkish war ended. Perhaps in another decade, a new round of the Russian-Turkish war will begin again. Time is running out for the Ottomans.

Selim thought about how to make the Ottoman Empire strong in ten years' time.

This is not something that the Ottoman Empire could do by its own efforts alone. The Ottomans must have a reliable friend! Give the Ottomans the greatest help in the construction of the new army system, and pull the Ottomans, a huge giant, out of the deep pool of silt.

Selim, who had been the Ottoman ambassador to Russia, was personally involved in the negotiation of the agreement on the defeat of the Ottomans in the last Russo-Turkish war, and after such a thing happened once, he did not want to go through it a second time. That kind of psychological negative pressure can really drive a person crazy.

So under the prefix of the greatest interest, Selim doesn't care at all about what is not Wei Island, and Aceh is not Aceh. The heavenly world is full of believers in the true gods, and when the Ottoman Empire was strong, wasn't it the same as eating everything in a big gulp? At that time, I didn't see how much they cared for the gods in the occupied land.

When a country is strong, in places that its own hands and feet can't touch, the influence of the group of people with the same civilization as itself radiates in front of real interests, and that is a lump of soaring.

As a qualified diplomat, Selim was well aware of the power of the Ottoman Empire itself from the outset. The Janissa, as the main force of the battle, was corrupted, but the army held by the governor Pasha of some border provinces was still quite combative.

The current Ottoman Empire can still easily mobilize more than 100,000 firearms troops, purely speaking of military strength, it is still the first in the world, compared to the European powers, it is not worse there.

But war is money, and this firearms war now costs more than it used to be.

The Ottoman Empire, which had no friends, could only drain the last penny of its treasury once it went to war, while the two enemies of the Ottoman Empire, whether it was Russia or Austria, could issue bonds in the monotheistic world and borrow from countries that also belonged to Europe.

The strength of a country is complemented by military and economy, and the Ottoman Empire, which has no military superiority, has even worse economic strength.

When war broke out, the poor economy dragged down the military aspect, and eventually turned the Ottoman Empire, with its first-class military strength, into a second-rate country.

Selim clenched his fists in anger as he remembered the humiliation he had suffered in front of the Russians.

Therefore, he would not have any thoughts about what happened to the Heavenly Sect of Wei Island. Compared with the interests between China and Austria, this little thing here is a fart. Of course, Mirza was not the only one in the ranks who belonged to the Order and the Praetorian Guard, and these people would not let go of this topic. What happened here will be reported back to China as quickly as possible.

Selim doesn't care.

When he stood in the interests of the country and stripped Wei Dao of the cloak of heaven, everyone could naturally recognize the natural meaning of this matter.

If you don't have great strength, don't dream about your independence and freedom.

With China's current strength, isn't it reasonable to rub the tiny island of Wei?

In the Mughal Empire of India, Akbar the Great was also a faithful believer in the true God, but what about the current Mughal Emperor? You may say that the maharajas of India are more likely to be Hindu. What about this part of the South Seas?

Malacca and the East Indies, which were invaded and occupied by the Portuguese and the Dutch, were not the blood of the true God believers flowing before?

In a word, all anti-China in the Ottoman country is a simple reason.

That's not because of faith at all, but because of profit.

The entry of the Chinese touches their interests, and of course they will not want to. And the noise that was stirred up in Istanbul before is just an excuse.

How could Selim, who had seen the matter of faith clearly for a long time, be submissive because of the design of a few turtles on the island of Way?

Europeans still believe in God, so the different dog brains have come out?

If there is still a difference of faith in Britain, France, and Russia, then the struggle between Spain and Portugal, and the interests occupied by the French in Italy, are purely a faction.

A qualified diplomat must always sit on his ass at the level of national interests, and his beliefs and beliefs are all floating clouds. If you can't erase the clouds, and if you are swayed by faith in your diplomatic career, you are not a qualified diplomat.

The Ottoman fleet soon left the port of Sabang on the island of We, and by the time they arrived in Singapore, the events of the island had spread throughout the South Seas. At the same time, some more detailed information about China and the countries of the East is also well known to Selim.

As they traveled, they saw a westward Chinese fleet, and Selim wondered if the fleet was going to Banda Aceh to shock the Acehnese. Now he realized that he had thought too much, that fleet was there to greet the Acehnese, and it was to fight Burma.

With the support and assistance of China, Siam and Burma went to war.

Also declaring war on Myanmar were Luang Prabang and Vientiane, as well as Phnom Penh. But these three countries are completely uplifting, and only 10,000 infantry have been sent in total, and the equipment is still poor.

The troops of Siam were concentrated in the northwestern part of the country, on the line of Chiang Mai province. The border between the two countries is blind to the more than 1,000 miles away, because the dividing line between Siam and Burma is largely a natural dividing line along the mountains and rivers.

For example, the northern tip of the Malay Peninsula - the section of the Gulf of Siam, a very narrow section of the [Kra Isthmus], with a banner of only 150 or 60 miles wide, is divided between the two families, and neither can annex the other. That's because there was no way to use troops in that narrow area. There is a Tanah Salin mountain range stuck in it, which is rugged and difficult to navigate, and it is a natural dividing line between the two sides.

Neither Burma nor Siam could eat anyone.

And the bitter Siam, the narrowest banner between Thonburi and Songkhla is only twenty miles. But the mountains were dangerous, and the Siamese just had no way to expand further westward.

Therefore, the main force of Siam's army was concentrated in Chiang Mai, and the Chinese Nanyang Naval Division, which had an absolute advantage in surface warfare, began to mobilize troops to Jinghai, and settled on the Jeep Island, which was too much. Their main task was to raid and occupy the entire coastal area of Burma.

While Selim's fleet was still floating on the sea route to Laiwe Island in Ceylon, the Chinese naval fleet had already attacked the Burmese ports of Yangon, Mawlamyine, and other ports.

Selim was surprised when he heard the news, but he knew that the Chinese were still at war against the Spaniards. The Chinese have just formed a force of tens of thousands of people to expedition to North America, and now they have pulled Siam to fight Burma, which is really crazy.

Myanmar is a strong country no matter how it is said, and California, thousands of miles away, does not need to be said.

Selim drew a map of China by hand, and he dyed the entire west coast of North America red, then the entire East Indies, which would sooner or later be Chinese.

"And North Korea."

Deputy Envoy Mustafa Rester Mu Medji took Selim's pen and dyed North Korea red.

"This land will be completely swallowed by the Chinese in a few years. The majesty of the king of Joseon has been completely lost, hasn't it? Mustafa shook a newspaper in his hand, which was a Chinese newspaper he bought in Singapore, translated as a newspaper he read, and a message on the second page said that a certain part of the Korean state had killed the governor of the same city because of personal conflicts. This is another serious incident of military generals abusing power.

"Again" together, the word "again" is really well used.

Mustafa just wanted to laugh.

"In addition to the country of Annan. Here, here, and here......"

It is divided into four parts: Annam, the Ryukyus, Ceylon next to India, and most of Siberia.

Selim is not alone in thinking deeply about China, Mustafa is a direct representative of the Sultan himself, with close ties to the Sultan, and in his eyes, Selim's China is too conservative.

Siberia, half of the Kazakh steppe, and even the Chinese are likely to encroach on India. For Sikhs who oppose the exclusivity of Tianfang, advocate the elimination of the Hindu caste system, and advocate the equal distribution of all land to the peasants, the Chinese system is much stronger than that of the Mughals.

When the last stroke ends.

Mustafa stepped back to Selim's side, and the two of them looked at the Chinese 'range' on the map, and a sense of shock arose.

"It's a huge empire."

Even if the map of Nanmingzhou is not standard at all, it is only above Nanmingzhou, which is unimaginably huge.

The empire of the Romans was marked by the Mediterranean Sea as their inner lake, but the Chinese empire turned the entire ocean into their inner lake.

Because they have little understanding of the situation in the Americas, Selim and Mustafa do not dare to easily write on the map of North America, but everyone knows that the thin Rocky Mountains will definitely not stop the Chinese.

It's definitely a huge unimaginable empire.

And if this empire can become a loyal friend of the Ottomans, it will definitely help the Ottomans to rejuvenate themselves.

In Selim's eyes, the whole world is divided into three parts: Western civilization, celestial civilization, and Eastern civilization.

Looking at the development of the three civilizations, the Celestial Civilization is undoubtedly the weakest, and the Ottoman Empire, as the representative of the Celestial Civilization, can only match one of the great powers of Western civilization.

The representative of the Eastern civilization is, of course, China, and its strength is unimaginably strong. 20,000,000 people, that's an astronomical number that can't be imagined. However, in addition to one China in the entire East, there is no second or third country that can handle it.

Whether it is Siam, Annam, Japan, or North Korea, compared with Britain, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia, the five major powers of the West, they are all worse than countable.

And because of the traffic restrictions of this era, the Kazakh steppe is simply a moat that cannot be crossed.

China's sphere of influence enveloped the region east of the Caspian Sea at best, and did not threaten the interests of the Ottoman Empire, so the Ottoman Empire could be China's most perfect ally and become China's first line of defense against Western civilization.

Although it is a bit self-defeating to think in this way, the current Ottoman Empire really does not have greater capital to seek higher capital.

Selim was not at all surprised by the revolutionary transportation changes that would take place a few decades later. The overall outline of the brain is very clear.

As they learned more and more about the situation in the East, and as they got closer to Nanjing, Selim felt it compelled to come to an agreement with Mustafa and then work together to restrain the other lieutenant in the ranks, Bayezet Tusun Murad, who represented the interests of the sect and the Praetorian Guard.

There are two deputy envoys in a mission, if it is a dynasty with a grand central authority, it must be for a reason. But if it comes from a country like the Ottoman Empire, where imperial power is greatly restricted, it is definitely a helpless compromise after internal factional disputes and one party cannot completely overwhelm the opponent.

Selim was the official envoy of the Ottoman government, and the Order and the Janissaries were at a disadvantage on this issue, so Bayezid was relegated to the deputy, who was ahead of Mustafa. The latter is only the personal representative of the Sultan.

Now this is the boss teaming up with the third to curb the second.

Each of the three bigwigs has their own piece of the world in the mission. Mirza was Bayezet's general, and it is conceivable that after their group arrived in Nanjing, it would definitely not be peaceful.

While Selim and Mustafa were meeting, Bayezid was also holding his own small group in the conference hall of the other ship.

In the three or four months since the Xi'an incident, there has been a spate of extreme attacks on Chinese soil, many of which can be gleaned in Singapore.

Seriously, this kind of action is unacceptable to Bayezet himself. This is all the means of the Assassins!

Such extremely dangerous ideas must be resolutely suppressed even in Ottoman territory.

Seriously, Bayezid feels really good about the Chinese emperor. As soon as he was assassinated and threatened, he could immediately stand up and endorse the heavens. Regardless of whether this behavior was from the perspective of the rule of the Chinese emperor or not, it greatly won the favor of the followers of the heavenly side.

But in the face of factional interests, personal feelings are easily thrown aside.

"It's a show, a show. We cannot be fooled by the appearance of the Chinese emperor. We want to solemnly protest to the Chinese government and the emperor, to protest against their unfair treatment of the Heavenly Sect, and to protest against their severe suppression and suppression of the Heavenly Sect.

We must unite intimately with the celestial believers in China, waving the flag of the stars and moons, and under the guidance of the true God, we will obtain all the rights and benefits that believers should have......"

Bayezet shouted. (To be continued.) )