Chapter 458: A New God Replaces an Old God
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Just after Ahmet III agreed to abandon Palestine and allow Bulgaria to stand and Greece to stand up, the two sides quickly turned to peace talks, and both the Swedish bloc, the Austrian bloc, and the French-controlled crusader bloc stopped fighting with the Ottoman army, and the two sides turned into a state of standoff along the Line of Actual Control. They were actually gritting their teeth before, and the European countries that had just ended the War for the Spanish Throne and the Great Northern War had just taken a breath, and then immediately after they threw themselves into this big war, both financially and manpowered, and it was also beneficial for them to take it when they saw it.
As for the outcome of the peace talks, there is actually not much suspense, and Ahmed III has no room for bargaining.
A new European landscape is about to be established.
In fact, this pattern is very similar to the original history before the Balkan Wars.
Austria annexed Bosnia, Slovenia, Croatia, and this time Serbia more, before the Balkan War, Serbia was duli, but this time Austria has less Transylvania, more Moldova on the Black Sea coast, Wallachia is the predecessor of Romania, if Bulgaria is more than three more countries, and southern Ukraine and Crimea, which were supposed to be Russian territories, have become Swedish territories this time.
The Ottoman Empire still retained Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania, but Shkodra was returned to Montenegro, and Greece was established, before which the Ottoman Empire had lost Egypt, the Hejaz, and Algeria, Tripoli, and Cyrenaica in North Africa, and also ceded the territory of the Persian Gulf coast to the Ming Dynasty, a powerful empire that once spanned the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and was suppressed like a nightmare over the heads of Europe, making European monarchs tremble and even almost occupy Vienna, almost completely dismembered.
Ah, he still has to hand over Palestine.
He was also occupied by Russia over a large area north of the Caucasus.
He was also gnawed off a chunk by Persia.
What's more, Ahmet III also lost his original qualifications as the world boss of Muslin, he betrayed Jerusalem, he betrayed Mecca, he betrayed all his brothers who had fought side by side with him, such a person is certainly not worthy to be a caliph, the emir of the Hejaz, the guardian of the Holy Land, and the descendant of Saint Said II publicly declared Ahmad III an apostate in the Haram al-Haram.
The sultans of North Africa were equally unanimous in denouncing him for betraying the faith.
The Egyptian Elders' League denounced him for selling his soul.
However, no one in the Ottoman territory blamed him, even the most radical temple elders were silent, because they all knew very well that none of these clamoring guys could protect them, and only the protection of Ahmet III was really the most reliable, and they ignored the consequences of what he did, such as the truce between him and Louis was tantamount to pushing his brothers in North Africa into the fire pit, for example, the truce between him and Yang Feng was tantamount to putting the holy Mecca under the guns of the Ming army, for example......
"This is your faith!"
In Basra, on a wooden platform next to a temple, Gao Yang, commander of the 23rd Infantry Brigade of the Sixth Army of the Ming Army, pointed at the temple with a disdainful face and shouted.
At the moment when his words fell, four giant bulldozers spewed steam, like monsters snorting out, rumbling with a piercing sound, with the shock of steel tracks crushing the ground, with the huge bulldozer shovel in front of them suddenly hit the outer wall of the temple, the white wall of the rock wall collapsed like a building block, and then everything with the exquisite carvings above instantly smashed down, and then the four bulldozers continued to hit, and the entire temple became a ruin under the impact of the four steel monsters.
The surrounding Arabs shuddered.
"It's like a fragile sand castle!"
Gao Yang said disdainfully.
"This is your god!"
Then he pointed to the row of bound elders in front of him and yelled.
At the same moment when his words fell, behind those elders, a Ming soldier with a saber held high, slashed down mercilessly, and one by one his head fell to the yellow sand with the blood spurting out, and the Arabs watching around were still trembling, because there were countless Ming soldiers with rifles around them, and the muzzles of the black holes were all pointed at their bodies.
"Like a humble dead dog!"
Gao Yang continued his performance.
"This is your past!"
Then he pointed to the mountain of scriptures in front of him and shouted.
There several Ming soldiers were carrying kerosene barrels to pour kerosene on it, just as his words fell, these soldiers quickly retreated, one of them pulled out a grenade from his waist and pulled it, and then casually threw the grenade in the scriptures, with a not too big explosion, the bright sparks of white phosphorus burning exploded like fireworks, and fell like rain on the scriptures poured with kerosene, and the flames instantly rose into the air and swallowed all the scriptures at once.
"Everything to ashes!"
Gao Yang said with a cruel smile.
"And this is your future!"
Then he pointed to the road on the right and shouted.
There a steam car is slowly coming, on the flatbed trailer behind the car, a holy icon of Emperor Yang stands tall, this icon is completely modeled after the one in Brunei, in fact, this is also Emperor Yang's favorite standard statue, he is wearing the earliest Ming army uniform, wearing a helmet on his head, a cuirass on the outside, a cloak behind his back is slightly raised, and then one hand behind his back and the other hand is raised high to make a distant view......
Well, the main thing is that it makes Emperor Yang feel a little nostalgic, because it has the charm of a famous bronze statue in his original time and space.
Of course, the residents of Basra will not look at him with tears in their eyes, with great reverence, and lie at his feet with small brushes to brush the ground, in fact, at this time, the residents of Basra only have fear in their eyes when they see the bronze statue of the Eastern Demon King, but this is not a big deal, because fear is also very useful, and the bronze statue is also mixed with fear.
"Kneel, kneel!"
Gao Yang roared.
The Arabs looked at each other, some of them with hatred on their faces, and then suddenly the gunshots rang out, and they fell down one after another in a panicked scream, and the surrounding compatriots almost subconsciously fell to their knees, and some of the timid ones even cried and lay on the ground in the form of Hajj.
"Kneel, kneel!"
Gao Yang continued to roar.
The rest of the people who were still relatively strong looked at the rifles in the hands of the Ming army, and then at the corpses in the sound of them pulling the bolts, and finally they could not continue to be strong, and soon all the Arabs in the whole street knelt down towards Yang Feng's holy icon, and the steam car continued to move forward slowly. Among the countless heads that kowtowed to the ground, Emperor Yang raised his hands high, with a kind smile on his face, and slowly moved forward with the advance of the steam car, and in the direction of the harbor behind him, one giant battleship after another raised its muzzles, and the golden dragon on the bow of the battleships Dingyuan and Zhenyuan shimmered dazzlingly in the sunlight.
This is the takeover of Basra by the Ming army.
The most prosperous city on the coast of the Persian Gulf, the Venice of the East where the Tigris and the Euphrates meet, has now officially become the territory of the Ming Empire, but it is not directly affiliated to any province, but together with the other lands ceded by the Ottoman Empire this time, it is divided into the Imperial Garden District, and I don't know what kind of madness Emperor Yang smoked, and he actually wanted to set up an imperial garden in the Persian Gulf, can this ghost place be used to raise lizards and camels?
However, since the emperor said it, there is always a reason for him, so this new territory officially became the emperor's private property and was managed by the inner court rather than the cabinet.
Of course, people don't know that there is the world's largest oil-producing area beneath this Imperial Garden, and in the future, it is planned that Emperor Yang's Imperial Garden will continue to expand, and after Oman is killed, this Imperial Garden will also include the land of the United Arab Emirates floating on the oil sea, and then add the oil-producing area in the southwest corner of Persia. In this way, except for Kirkuk, all the important oil fields in the Persian Gulf region are covered by the Imperial Garden, this land is the private property of the royal family, even if the Ming Dynasty makes a constitutional government in the future, then the control of this land will become an important means for the royal family to control the country.
With a bank in one hand and oil in the other, the Ming economy will be completely controlled by the royal family.
As for the other industries, Yang Feng is ready to share them with his children, and they will continue to grow bigger and stronger if they have the ability in the future, and they will go out of business in the competition if they don't have the ability.
Since it has become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, of course, it will not allow the heretical Xie Sect to exist, cleaning up Lao Mu is the first job, the entire Sixth Army has been transferred, and the two rivers have also been set up to be fully responsible for the expansion of territory in the entire Persian Gulf region, of course, the main thing is to prepare for the attack on Persia later, after all, the army must first adapt to the environment. Gao Yang's work is just to pick up the grass and beat rabbits, not only him, but the other armies that landed in Basra are doing this kind of work, of course, by the way, it is also to get some benefits for themselves, the legend of the Seventh Army in Egypt has long been widely spread in the Ming army, and now all the armies are gearing up!
"My lord, the Khalid family swore to death."
In the former Basra governor's palace, an officer reported to Yan Hu, the envoy of the Two Rivers and commander of the Sixth Army, who was standing at the window to watch the scene.
"Then meet their requirements."
Yan Jingluo waved his hand very casually and said.
The officer immediately saluted and left.
A few minutes later, on a Ming cruiser outside Kuwait Harbor, a rear admiral waved his hand equally casually, and then the guns of the battleship under his feet pointed at Kuwait instantly erupted flames, and then behind this cruiser, the cannons on the remaining five cruisers also roared, and the shells that flew out immediately turned Kuwait into a sea of fire.
Just an hour later, the ruler of the small city, along with his people, got what he wanted.
Well, they've made it to the Gem Garden. (To be continued.) )