In front of Qin Kai, the most direct problem now, in addition to the national economy, is naturally the general strategy for China's development in the future, China has now become a decisive power, a powerful country in the Far East, but it is not a big country in the real sense, to become a real power, a war in the real sense is the final footnote.

And the imminent war frenzy in Europe is obviously an opportunity that Qin Kai cannot miss, not only an opportunity for development, but also an opportunity to establish the status of a great power......

Focusing on the interests of Europe, Qin Kai naturally understood that soon the world would turn to different camps, and he naturally knew the outcome of history, but to completely break the world circle established by whites for hundreds of years, this made him have to carefully consider the possibility of a qiē, and soon ...... New changes have sprouted!

In June, an uprising broke out against Hamid II in the Otmans Empire, and an organization called the Turkish Al-Shabaab expanded rapidly, quickly gathering strength within the First Army of Western Macedonia, and on the 21st led the mutiny of the First Army, with Colonel Nyazibeyi leading an army of nearly 5,000 soldiers and civilians to quickly take control of the Macedonian region.

Considering the limitations of the Macedonian region that were not conducive to attacking by land, Istanbul immediately requisitioned the Imperial Navy and the Marines, which had just been formed for less than four months, to prepare for an attack on Marmara, an important town of the rebel army, from the sea, while Hamid II ordered the Third Army Corps in the capital to prepare to advance westward to cut off the offensive line of the Macedonian Independence Army.

The scum of the Ottoman army was immediately exposed by the Macedonian military rebellion, and on 5 July, when the Third Army of the Ottoman capital, which had been ordered to march on Macedonia, arrived in Petritsch, a major city on the outskirts of Macedonia. The huge army of 25,000 men was bogged down by the inability to deliver supplies in time. General Alonde, who was in charge, had to pause for a moment and wait for the supply troops, which were still hundreds of kilometers away.

Just in the next two days. The Free Army under Colonel Nyazibey, taking full advantage of his familiarity with the Macedonian border, suddenly appeared on the flank of the Third Army and launched a surprise attack by taking advantage of the dark night attack of the day, and the Ottoman Third Army, which was unsuspecting and still fighting for supplies, held out for less than two hours, completely lost its organized resistance, and fled to the city of Salonica in the south under the leadership of General Alonde.

As a result, the Third Army Corps in the capital, which had high hopes for Hamid II, lost almost all of its formations in less than two days of fighting, and discarded most of its weapons and ammunition. Three days later, when General Arronde arrived at the port of Thessalonica with the remnants of his army, he was seized by an Ottoman army that had suddenly appeared there, and the defenders were under the command of Colonel Enver of the 1st Ottoman Marine Regiment.

The next day, the news of the total annihilation of the Third Army in the capital had been telegraphed to Istanbul, and Colonel Enver expressed his same attitude to Hamid II...... If the corrupt Hamid II does not announce the abolition of the dictatorship and the political reforms, he will lead the Macedonian army to the capital Istanbul.

The news that the newly formed Marines had quickly fallen to the Macedonian rebels, and that Colonel Enver of the Marine Corps had magically become the leader of the entire rebel army, had apparently caused an uproar in the Sultan's royal family, and the defeat of the Third Army had made the defense of Istanbul even more precarious. This time, the navy showed a wall-riding attitude in the rebellion, so that the Ottoman Empire lost the last chance to quickly quell the rebellion in the western provinces.

June 20th. The Muslim inhabitants of Manasti rebelled against the local army and declared that they would no longer accept the rule of Sultan Hamid II, and then the three-way rebels quickly set out and advanced to the capital Istanbul, and in just one week they almost bloodlessly took control of the transportation hub in the Kaysan area, which was less than 100 kilometers from Istanbul, and then Colonel Enver telegraphed to announce the restoration of the 1876 constitution and demanded that the constitution be restored within a time limit, otherwise he would lead the armies of the western provinces to attack Istanbul.

Abdulhamid II felt that the tide had turned, and was forced to announce the restoration of the constitution and the reopening of the parliament on the 24th, and Colonel Enver was nominated to become the new regime's supreme military governor in Istanbul, and the Young Turks quickly rose to become a real power capable of dominating the Ottoman Empire.

After the dazzling changes in Turkey's internal affairs, Colonel He Xiaohai was surprised to find the accuracy of Beijing's investment, and Colonel Enver quickly became a major military and political figure in the entire empire, and the constitutional monarchy reform led by the Turkish Al-Shabaab was implemented in this old empire!

And the crisis of the Ottoman Empire came suddenly...... The Austro-Hungarian Empire never gave up any opportunity for expansion, and the sudden civil strife of the Ottomans and the sudden arrival of Austrian troops in the neighboring Ottoman state of Bosnia were like a basin of ice water, which woke up the euphoric Turkish youth from the joy of taking power, and since the parliament had not yet passed the proposal to abolish Hamid II, the al-Shabaab in control of Istanbul found a big problem...... They had no control over the army through the means of the state, and the only thing they could mobilize was the Macedonian legion.

However, the departure of the Macedonian legion meant that Istanbul's control power was greatly weakened, and at the critical moment when the parliament moved to abolish the old sultan and establish a new sultan, this was obviously an unacceptable plan, just when Enver, who had been promoted to lieutenant general, was unable to resist the invasion of Austria-Hungary on the western side of the territory, He Xiaohai appeared in front of him again.

"Your country will use part of the rights and interests in West Asia as collateral to China, and we will agree to provide you with military assistance!" He Xiaohai spoke eloquently, and almost without hesitation, he threw out the seemingly wonderful conditions, "As long as China intervenes in your country's diplomatic assistance, it will inevitably make Austria consider the risk of annexing Bosnia, and we will give your country the most direct support!" ”

As the leader of the newly rising Turkish Al-Shabaab, Enver naturally understands that once the Bosnian region loses its possessions, it will put Al-Shabaab's ruling position in jeopardy, and at the same time, Austria-Hungary will directly put its military forces directly next door to Macedonia, where Al-Shabaab was born, and can even send troops at any time to annex Macedonia like Bosnia, and at that time, Al-Shabaab's ruling position may be completely lost.

China, as the only powerful country with no interests in the Balkans, is clearly very suitable to be the most important alliance of Enver and the Turkish Al-Shabaab, and after almost less than a day of secret negotiations, He Xiaohai obtained the right to jointly explore mineral resources with the Ottoman Empire in Kuwait on the coast of the Persian Gulf, and Enver was also very satisfied with this deal, because the Ottoman Empire will also receive 50% of the local mineral revenue, which is far more reasonable than trade with Britain.

In the same way, the Ottoman Empire could only obtain less than 10% of the profits from the exploration of the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea coast, and because the Ottoman Empire's control over the Middle East was weakening, even this 10% of the income became extremely unstable.

When the news came back to China, Zhou Ruidong immediately made an appointment with the German Minister to China Brück and the Austro-Crarian Minister to China Frings, and he was very worried that if a war broke out between Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans, it might affect the construction of the Berlin and Baghdad railways, which were closely related to the three countries, and the Chinese side did not want Austria-Hungary to meddle in Ottoman affairs, which would upset the balance of the entire Balkan Peninsula and eventually lead to unpredictable conflicts on a larger scale!

The conflict in the Balkans, which seemed to have been wounded by the Ottoman Empire for nearly half a century, immediately made the German minister Brück aware of the crisis, and Germany, and even the British Empire, did not hide their desire for Ottoman territory, but they were equally afraid of the more expansive Russian Empire in the north, so Germany, although it also continued to plunder the interests of the Ottoman Empire in North Africa, has always been a staunch supporter of the Ottoman Empire's interests in the Balkans.

The Ottoman Empire, although a little old, was the best way to curb the southward expansion of the Slavs, and the experience of the Bulgarian crisis has fully demonstrated the ambition of the Russian Empire to expand southward and seize access to the Mediterranean.

The collapse of any one of these points would directly affect the grand plans of the Berlin-Baghdad railway, and directly cause huge losses to the interests of the German-Austrian alliance in the Balkans, and could even provoke a full-scale war between Germany and Russia...... In this anticipation, the Germans immediately sided with China, urging Austria-Hungary to evacuate Bosnia and working with Germany to ensure the balance that had been so hard to be achieved in the Balkans.

On 20 July, the Austrian government suddenly announced that the Austro-Hungarian Fifth Infantry Division, which had entered Bosnia, had been requested by the Ottoman Empire to maintain stability on the ground, and that it had completed its mission and would be withdrawn within a month......

At this critical moment, the German Empire announced that it recognized the new Ottoman government and hoped that all countries would ensure the agreement of the Berlin Treaty, and on the 24th, the Chinese government also announced that it was willing to mediate the internal disputes of the Ottoman Empire to ensure that the Ottoman Empire was restored to stability. (To be continued......)