Chapter 269 The Situation and Turnaround in Western Asia

World prosperity is normal, but peace remains fragile. Data from the old time and space tells the people who travel through the world that in the 5,164 years from 3200 BC to 1964 AD, there were 14,513 wars in the world, and only 329 years were peaceful. These wars have caused great suffering to humanity, claiming the lives of 3.64 billion people. The lost wealth can be converted into gold to pave a belt of gold 150 kilometers wide and 10 meters thick that circles the earth.

In order to prevent the empire from getting involved in war, or from suffering casualties, it is necessary to prepare the same global rapid strike capability as the US imperialism to solve the problem at the first time.

The empire has a heavy presence in the Persian Gulf region of the Middle East, where the powder keg of the world is keg, and the Qatar peninsula is almost entirely Chinese, although partly to protect oil security, but this is not conducive to the modernization and national integration of the Bedouins. Although the Saracen Kingdom has become the highest-level ally of the empire, it is still a little short of the Blood Alliance. The empire has very little to say about this ally, but it is very crucial, and moving the capital is a big deal. The government of the Saracen Kingdom, which moved its capital to Abu Dhabi on the coast of the Persian Gulf, naturally gave the status of economic center, political center, cultural center, military center, religious center, most populous city, and largest port to the capital, while Fatimid Egypt, which also belongs to the Islamic country, is an alternative.

The largest city in Egypt was Alexandria, the capital was Cairo, the religious centers were Mecca and Medina, and the military center with heavy troops like the Guanning Iron Cavalry guarding the Shanhai Pass became Suez next to the Red Sea after the rise of the Solomon Kingdom. This polycentric pattern is not a deliberate postmodern layout, but a serious consequence of historical legacies. In the age of farming. This highly decentralized polycentric layout was a nightmare for feudal states, and once they encountered a strong enemy, they simply did not have time to concentrate resources and deploy troops to defend against the enemy.

After the founding of the Chinese Empire. The Fatimid dynasty began to decline, and power fell to the Armenian soldier Badr. In the hands of Jemali. Caliph al-Mustan Ishir died, and al-Badr's son Merek. Everdelle erected his youngest son, Musteri. After that, palace coups were frequent, military people were in power, young lords were frequent, the land controlled by the state was shrinking day by day, and the financial revenue was embarrassed.

The military and political power of the dynasty fell into the hands of ministers and officers of the Mamluk Praetorian Guard. The commander-in-chief of the army controls the power of the country. The bureaucracy developed into a hereditary system, and the caliphate was in a protected position. Governors were divided and tax revenues plummeted. The treasury is empty. The Ismailis were divided within themselves, with Persia, Iraq, and Central Asia severing ties with the Fatimids. Tunisia and Algeria broke away from dynastic control (into the hands of Italy).

For thirty years, most of Syria and Palestine were occupied by the Seljuk dynasty and the Crusader kingdom of Solomon. After the Crusaders invaded Egypt in the Old Time and Space, Sudan Nur al-Din of the Zanji Dynasty of West Asia was invited by the last caliph of the Fatimid Dynasty, Adid, to send his generals Shirku and his nephew Saladin to lead an army to help. But in this plane. The traversal stabilized the situation in Egypt in advance. Taking advantage of internal and external troubles, Egypt was forced to open up the country, and opened up famous cities such as Mecca, Medina, Cairo, and Alexandria as treaty ports, turning the country into a trading object of the Chinese Empire.

Had it not been for the intent of Solomon's kingdom to occupy the cities of Medina and Mecca, which were meaningless to Christianity and Judaism, Fatimid Egypt, the servant of the two holy places, would have lost its status as a great power across two continents. The situation on the brink of civil war is unfortunate, but the situation in which the sultan is overthrown by his military generals is not the result of two generations of sultans. In order to revive Egypt, the young new sultan sent many students to China to learn advanced systems and technologies, hoping to change the chaos in Egypt.

Egypt's largest warlord, the Mamluk Janissary Guard, was all hereditary in military rank, in the eyes of the young monarch Caliph Amir. These guys who monopolize high-ranking military positions are dangerous usurpers, but in reality these guys are the hope of the country. What these realist warlords like most is not the gain of honor such as military rank and sectarian position, but the income of wealth and money. Only when the money bag is full can the subordinates be armed, and the basis of power can be grasped - force. In order to achieve this, it was necessary to contact and trade with the merchants of the Chinese Empire. These warlords are the ones who know the world situation and the general trend best. Unlike the caliph Amir, who was immersed in idealism and the historical dogmas of the past, and could not clearly see the future, these warlords, who were not of noble blood, had no desire to confront the Chinese Empire at all, but instead sought to reach peace and compromise with the Solomon Kingdom, the agent of the Chinese Empire.

It is always much more attractive to have money to earn together than to suffer huge losses due to ideological conflicts. The caliph also had to agree to an unequal agreement with the Solomon Kingdom, which occupied the Sinai Peninsula, which had occupied Egypt, under strong external pressure. The border has also retreated from the Aqaba to Haifa line to the Suez to Port Said.

The later establishment of the Saracen kingdom also gave a strong support to the weakened Egypt. The Bedouins, who believed in Allah, also taught the invincible crusaders a lesson that stopped them on the edge of the desert. Surrounded by the Seljuk Turks, Saracen Bedouins, and Fatimid Egyptians, the Solomonic Crusaders halted their expansion and began what would later be called a miracle century-old building movement.

Marco Polo is not an idiot, and the close partner of the Chinese Empire is not so easy to be, and if he is not good, he will become a lackey to be cooked. A client state and puppet regime that was supposed to act as a nail and a hound, turned into a close ally? This dramatic shift has been grateful to countless Ichijo and Jewish immigrants who moved to Solomon's kingdom. The Jews who had been given a high allowance for permanent settlement had only learned the principle of perseverance for those who had permanent property since the ancient temple was demolished, but after receiving the olive branch of the Chinese Empire, they regained the lost things of their ancestors.

The core of a nation's strength is cohesion. Without the mainstay of the nation-state, the territory loses its cohesion, throughout the ages. Countless civilizations that have perished have completely disappeared after losing all of their land. With the support of the Chinese Empire, the Jews had the basis for the cohesion of the families of each and every one of the Jews. They can sacrifice everything to protect their land and that of their descendants.

The mandatory five-year compulsory military campaign for all people also made the emerging country quickly become a regional power. The United Kingdom soon became the exclusive state of Marco Polo (theoretically, the original European feudal lords of the independent Crusader states were all Papal States). But after the end of the Papal States, these European feudal lords were sent back to their hometowns with huge sums of money to continue to fight for power, and all the land was sold to Marco Polo, who raised a huge amount of money from the financing and issuance of treasury bonds from the Chinese Empire, and the United Kingdom, which had many lords and governments, became a unified sovereign state), and the sovereign debt rating was equivalent to the second place in the whole world after the Chinese Empire, so it was natural to borrow a lot of money.

With the shrewdness of the Jews, they borrowed money from China at low interest rates except from the Crusaders and the local Muslim landlords (after the establishment of the United Kingdom expanded the lands and did not kill the original landowners. Instead, the rule of law and governing power after the occupation of the settlements was adopted, replacing the original ruling class) bought large tracts of desolate land and transformed them into fertile land, and invested in profiteering international trade and finance (lending imperial dragon dollars or signing bills on behalf of merchants from various countries who needed to buy goods). In a short period of 20 years, even the first batch of huge national bonds (equivalent to the 90 years of financial revenue of the United Kingdom of Solomon in the year of the issuance of the bonds) was naturally instructed by the public. When this money came into the hands of the Jews, it was actually no different from that in the hands of the Wanderers, who had to spend the money to buy land and all kinds of equipment and products, and in fact the Muslim landlords and imperial exporters had to spend the money on all kinds of consumer goods produced in the empire to stimulate domestic demand in the empire. The rapid growth of GDP has also allowed fiscal revenues to grow extremely fast, very quickly. The old sovereign credit debt will be repaid by the fiscal surplus and new loans).

Sandwiched between these three Islamic powers in the Middle East, the Kingdom of Solomon, which is a Judah-based people, is indeed not well balanced. The new kingdom of Saracen is very vibrant. and the Chinese Empire engaged in oil-for-food and became the happiest country in the entire Middle East, like the sun at 8 or 9 o'clock. Although the Seljuks were defeated in front of the Solomonic kingdom and lost a large part of Syria and Lebanon, they were still an independent sovereign state, without the slightest tendency to split, and still dominated the peninsula of Asia Minor and the many city-states of Armenia and the Caucasus, like the sun at 3 or 4 o'clock. Fatimid Egypt, which was on the verge of civil war, would have been doomed if it weren't for Solomon, a foreign enemy, who was on the verge of civil war.

The kingdom of Solomon, with the very obvious support of the Empire, became the best dogleg of the Empire. Almost single-handedly confronted three deeply hostile belligerents. It may seem dangerous, but it's safe. The vigorous Saracen was vast and sparsely populated, and although brave it was, the standing army was insufficient; The Seljuks, with a large area and a large population, seem to be powerful, but the army is corrupt, and the combat effectiveness can only maintain a stalemate level in front of the Solomon kingdom that will not lose the land. Egypt, which was plagued by internal and external troubles, was even more powerless to resist the elite new army of the nascent Solomon Kingdom. Although the population and army of the three neighboring countries that believed in Allah were 100 times larger than Solomon, the army that could be used to engage Solomon was only 20 times. Coupled with the mediation and favoritism of the empire, Solomon was always able to turn defeat into victory at a critical moment, and gradually expanded his territory to the Crusader state, which could not have dreamed of 10,000 square kilometers Egypt was persecuted by the Solomonic Kingdom in the sky, which was the most serious of the three Islamic countries, and the gap in national strength between the rapidly developing Solomon Kingdom and Egypt was getting bigger and bigger. Owned by Everdler. The power, which would have been declining in the palace struggle, began to be more and more concentrated in the hands of the generals under the oppression of foreign enemies.

Melek, Egypt. Everdeler knew the best way to end up in power, and that was to usurp the throne and become the founding king. The temptation to become the true monarch of Egypt with a position higher in power and nominal status than the current caliph Amir is not something that anyone can resist. In order to surpass the enemy Solomon Kingdom in the key area that determines military power - siege artillery, it became the choice of the Mamluk feudal lord group to send spies to the most technologically advanced Chinese Empire to steal military technology, just like Peter the Great in the old time and space went to Western Europe to steal divisions. Egypt's talents and elites can actually develop their own technology, but the gap between basic industry and basic science and technology is too far, and it is difficult to catch up with it in a short period of time. (To be continued......)