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Rabaha's words touched Fedile greatly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Maybe it's time to do something.
That was the only answer that crossed Fedil's mind after hearing Rabaha's words.
"Go to Turkey - will the Turks accept us?" Fertille involuntarily substituted for the word "we".
"Definitely, after all, we were all Ottomans before, the Turks only welcomed us, we will get a piece of land without an owner, maybe we can plant something on it, or raise a flock of sheep, either way, at least we don't have to worry about someone in Turkey breaking into my house and forcing me to go to church to worship." Rabaha is realistic.
The current world is not the world of the 20 th century, and the population problem is still a big problem, but the problem arises not because there is too much population and there is not enough room for survival, but because the population is too small and the national strength is not strong enough.
Look at the world now, even France is trying to increase its population, and the French are now even hungry, even if Africans apply for French nationality, as long as they meet the conditions of France.
Before that, the French had never looked directly at Africans.
The same is true of Turkey, which lost most of its territory and most of its population as the rightful heir of the Ottoman Empire after the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire.
If you want to revive the country, you can't do without the prosperity of people, and it is possible to have talents, so the Turks have always welcomed all Persians to Turkey.
It's the same for the British, the British occupy colonies all over the world, to put it bluntly, in order to find a market for British products, the British don't pay attention to the Middle East, because the people here have no spending power, and they don't have much creative power, if the Middle East is replaced by the Republic of China, do you think the British will give up easily?
It is estimated that the British will pay more attention to the Middle East than to their own eyeballs.
"Go to Turkey - well, we're going to Turkey too." Fedile made his decision without much effort.
Nomads are like that, don't expect them to have much loyalty to the country, tribes like "El Fasher", they don't have much sense of identity with Iraq at all, for them, Iraq and Turkey are the same, whichever side of the living environment will be better, they will see themselves as nationals.
Throughout the month of May, "El Fasher"-like situations have been playing out throughout Iraq, and they are intensifying.
Lanfang does not force people to change their beliefs as the British say, but Lanfang also has its own religious policy, the core of Lanfang's religious policy is "religious freedom", there is the freedom to believe in a certain religion, and there is also the freedom not to believe in a certain religion, which is actually a universal value, but for the Persians, this regulation is really a big rebellion.
There is a traditional custom of Persianism, regarding the belief in Persianism, whether it is Persian or not, as long as they choose to believe in Persianism, they must always serve their gods, and once they change their faith, then they are "heretics" and are the enemies of all Persian believers.
It is estimated that the founder of Persianism had little confidence in the inheritance of Persianism, so the founder of Persianism stipulated that no matter who he was, no matter what his previous beliefs were, as long as someone in a certain family believed in Persianism, then he or her other half must also believe in Persianism, and their children must also believe in Persianism, and the same is true for their grandchildren.
Of course, many Persians who believe in Persianism do not think that it is their understanding of the doctrine that is wrong, but that Lanfang's policy is wrong.
Whatever went wrong, this was a choice that the Persians had to answer.
Either accept Lanfang's religious policy and become a citizen of Lanfang, or not accept it and leave Lanfang's notification area.
This is a multiple-choice question, with only one answer, and don't think about it, because, as Fedile said, it is the Catholic priest who oversees the implementation of religious policy.
Lan Fang has a really good relationship with Catholicism, these priests treat Persian believers like prisoners, and Catholic priests have strong beliefs, they can determine whether a person is honest or not by feeling alone, so don't try to deceive them.
Among the Persians, Persianism is still very marketable, but Lan Fang's strength is here, and there is no other choice to find another way, so there are very few Persians who are still under Lan Fang's rule, including the Western Province and Iraq, and the total number is less than 500,000.
Most of these people are old, weak, sick and disabled, and basically have no ability to travel long distances, and if they do, it is estimated that there are not even these people left.
If it is British or French, it is estimated that they will burst into tears when they see such a western province, but for Lan Fang, this situation is the best, no one cares, hundreds of thousands or even millions can be moved from Lan Fang casually, and the territory will be occupied first.
While the team was working hard, Yang Deshan and the others also began to implement the practice of clearing the wilderness.
The reason why there are no quotation marks is because Yang Deshan is really clearing the wilderness.
After talking to Qin Haoge, Yang Deshan returned to the station and began to mobilize the locals to clear the wilderness. Compared with the British, Yang Deshan's propaganda of Lanfang is more excessive, in Yang Deshan's mouth, the Lanfang people have become the blue-faced and fanged devils who came out of hell, the Lanfang people did not come to the Middle East to help the French, nor to find an awkward relationship with the British, the Lanfang people are coming to exterminate the Persians, just in the current western province and the Lanfang occupation area in Iraq, the Lanfang people are massacring the Persians, and the Persians in the Lanfang-controlled area are either burned or buried alive, Or they were sent to the gas chamber en masse and thrown into the incinerator, anyway, how miserable it is.
The common people in these years are still relatively simple, whether they are Chinese or Persians, the common people do not have too many news channels to know the truth, basically what Yang Deshan says, the Persians believe.
So when Yang Deshan and they retreated, all the Persians fled, the original houses were burned, the fields were destroyed, and the wells were not blocked, but they were all "poisoned" inside.
Yang Deshan's fortified walls and clear fields did bring certain difficulties to the advance of Lan Fang's army, but this in turn also helped Qin Haoge a lot, after passing Baghdad, as long as Lan Fang's soldiers could see people on the way forward, basically all of them were enemies, so there was no need to worry about accidental injuries.
From Baghdad, head southeast, passing through Shira, Kutimara, Amara and then to Basra.
In Basra, Lan Fang's forces finally met with organized resistance.
In fact, when we arrived in Basra, it was already very close to Kuwait City, less than 100 kilometers in a straight line.
Kuwait is not yet a country, in the 17th century, the Sabah family once established an emirate of Kuwait, but it was soon annexed by the Ottoman Empire, and in 1871, Kuwait became a county in Basra Province of the Ottoman Empire, and in 1899, the British forced Kuwait to sign a secret agreement, and Britain officially became the suzerainty of Kuwait.
So far, Kuwait is not a country, Kuwait City is the seat of the British Governor General in the Middle East, and Angus Wollaston is in Kuwait City.
After Angus Wollaston arrived in Kuwait, the situation in Iraq had actually collapsed, even if Angus Wollaston personally went to Baghdad, it was impossible to stabilize the defense line to withstand the attack of Lanfang's army, so Angus Wollaston simply gave up Iraq, focused his work on Basra, and prepared to establish a strong defense line in Basra to resist Lanfang's attack and wait for the arrival of follow-up reinforcements.
It is estimated that Angus Wollaston did not know that the British Parliament had decided not to send reinforcements to the Middle East, so Angus Wollaston's wait was destined to be a flash in the pan.
In fact, Angus Wollaston is now also a clever woman who has no rice to cook, the Iraqi National Guard Force has been continuously attacked by the Lanfang army, and most of the troops have been dispersed, and even if someone can escape to Basra, they are already frightened birds and have little combat effectiveness.
What Angus Wollaston can rely on now is the 11th Division of the Iraqi National Guard, which is Yang Deshan's troops, and if Angus Wollaston puts all his hopes on this force, it is estimated that Angus Wollaston will not know how he died.
Fortunately, Angus Wollaston still had hole cards in his hand, and after discovering that the Iraqi army was useless, Angus Wollaston immediately turned his mind to the Saudis.
Saudi Arabia is also in turmoil at present, the war between the Aziz family and the Rashid family has come to an end, the Aziz family has now almost unified the entire territory of Saudi Arabia, the Rashid family control area is only the Hejaz (Hijaz), if nothing else, within 1923, Aziz can unify the whole of Saudi Arabia.
It was clear that the Saudi army, which had been fighting for a long time, was better prepared than the Iraqi forces, which had not yet been fully trained, and Angus Wollaston wanted to hire a group of soldiers from Saudi Arabia to defend Basra, following the example of France.
Not knowing what conditions Angus Wollaston promised Abdul Aziz, Abdul Aziz agreed to Angus's request and sent one infantry division and two cavalry divisions into Iraq to assist the 11th Division of the Iraqi National Guard in the defense of Basra.
In the face of the Saudis, Qin Haoge immediately issued a war threat: If the Saudis dare to get involved in the Syrian-Iraqi war, then Saudi Arabia will be the next Iraq.
That's right, it's still the Syrian-Iraqi war, and there's nothing to do without Lan Fang.