Beijing City, the official residence of the first assistant.

Zhang Kexuan, the current Minister of China's First Auxiliary Minister, was leisurely looking at a newspaper that had just been delivered.

The small flower hall is next to the garden conservatory, the cold in winter can not stop the flowers in the conservatory, the flower hall is full of faint floral fragrance, sit in this quiet atmosphere, and put a cup of tea in front of you, it is a rare leisure. As the first and auxiliary minister of the country, Zhang Kexuan is so busy every day that his feet do not touch the ground, and this short leisure time is his most rare enjoyment.

Zhang Kexuan is not a member of the Wudi Zhang family, he is a native of Henan, 67 years old, 11 years old into the Liu manor, very talented in arithmetic, but also cautious and self-controlled, from the mayor of a town for 40 years to the central government, the current Minister of Civil Affairs, and then into the cabinet, and then won the election in the election of the first assistant with 83% of the support of the Congress.

Looking at Zhang Kexuan's roots, although he has not yet escaped the influence of the old emperor, he is the real leader of the second session. His election marked the retirement of famous ministers and generals from the political arena during the founding of the People's Republic of China. Huo Guangzheng has disappeared from the front of people for many years, and after the end of the two terms of first assistant, Huo Guangzheng completely withdrew from the political arena and did not even go to the National Assembly. The founding generals represented by him, as an era, ended.

Naturally, the headlines in the newspapers were about the current development of the Ottoman civil war, which yesterday was occupied by the combined forces of the Ninth Army and the Third Army, which had seized Iraq. It was the most important port on the peninsula of Asia Minor, and to control it was to control the movement of all kinds of goods in the western frontier of the Ottoman Empire. Under the guns of the combined-arms forces, the entire western garrison of the empire was silent.

The occupation of Izmir by the combined forces led by Mahmoud Shevkat Pasha and Nazmir Pasha gave great support to the Chief of Army Staff, Mohammad Tarakat Pasha, who remained in Istanbul. However, such a 'victory' is less 'glorious' than the capture of Albanian Vlora by Muhammad Talat Pasha, the governor of Macedonia and the commander-in-chief of the Front.

The Third Army fought a civil war with the Ninth Army. The Macedonian front, on the other hand, fought a national war, even though the Italians and French had already begun to retreat from Albania. Vlora's victory was also unusually dazzling.

And with the invasion of Izmir by the combined forces led by Mehmed Tarakat Pasha, Kemal Pasha of Ankara has gained more local support from Turkey. Don't look at Kemal Pasha's lineage, there are only two divisions, but one of these two divisions is an absolutely powerful mechanized infantry division, and the other is an even more powerful armored division, for the Ottoman Empire, the two divisions controlled by Kemal are absolutely powerful.

And with the northward movement of the combined forces, the Ottoman army near Ankara has successively surrendered to Kemal, and he has gathered two infantry brigades and a cavalry brigade, as well as some artillery, and some air force.

Apulpasha of Syria and the governors of Greater Lebanon [including Palestine, Jordan, etc.], the Hejaz region. Only waving flags and shouting on the side. Their strength is not weak, but compared to Muhammad Tarakat Pasha, who is in charge of the two main battle armies, and Muhammad Talat Pasha, who has always been the main force of the Macedonian army in the north of the empire, it is very weak.

If they really put up a fight and start a war, they may not even be able to beat Kemal. The only real power in the entire Ottoman Empire that has the strength to shake the foundations of the empire is Muhammad Tarakaat Pasha and Muhammad Talat Pasha, two masters whose names are only one word different from each other.

The Persian army had retreated home, and China had re-signed an oil deal with Persia, giving Persia a lot of benefits.

A large number of East Asian troops, such as the Southern Heavenly Kingdom, North and South Japan, and the Nguyen Dynasty, have now either withdrawn to the island of Cyprus or gathered on the peninsula. Both the Southern Heavenly Kingdom and Japan earned a lot of money in this war. Although it is a drop in the bucket compared to the rights and interests captured by China, it is very big for their own strength.

The Joseon and Nguyễn dynasties sent a considerable number of naval personnel and air force pilots, and without sacrificing, they obtained much worse rights and interests than the Southern Heavenly Kingdom and the North and South Japan. Especially Japan. Many islands in the South Sea are embraced, and this is not a colony, but a territory in the true sense of the word. Colonial China had Ceylon in store for them. This island nation, suspended off the Indian mainland, is known as the 'Gem Island' all over the world. It has been known for producing gemstones since ancient times. In modern times, there is a famous brand of black tea, Ceylon black tea and Darjeeling black tea in India. Before the British Empire lost its precious Indian continent, it had replaced Chinese black tea as the favorite tea drink of the British people.

Ceylon, which is one-fifth the size of Japan, has 4 million hectares of arable land, and can grow not only rice, but also cash crops such as tea, rubber, and coconut.

Even if the great liberation and independence movements of Asia and Africa come as scheduled, a few decades will be enough time for Japan to make a lot of money here.

In this war, both the North and the South paid heavy casualties and sacrifices, but China's return to them was also worth their efforts. One island after another, together with a total area of more than one-third of the Japanese mainland, not to mention Ceylon as a colony, and the Arabian Peninsula to share a share of the oil interests, the whole of Japan rejoiced, and few people expressed their dissatisfaction with this harvest.

Now that the Los Angeles Peace Conference is being prepared, the war between the East and the West has undoubtedly ended, so the civil war that broke out in the Ottoman Empire quickly attracted everyone's attention, and even the headlines in Chinese newspapers were occupied by the news of the Ottoman Civil War, and the Los Angeles Peace Conference was properly squeezed behind.

Muhammad Tarakat Pasha and Muhammad Tarat Pasha raised the slogan of 'political reform, social reform'. The army openly marched into the territory of Turkey, but Ahmet IV had no strength to stop their advance, especially in the north, Kemal in the south, but the Macedonian army in the north was not at all the power that Ahmet IV could resist and prevent.

Muhammad Talakaat Pasha and Muhammad Talat Pasha have now begun to preach political ideas and slogans, and the secularization of Arab society is a common view of the two powerful factions, followed by the British constitutional monarchy advocated by Muhammad Talat Pasha, and the more radical cabinet responsibility after the overthrow of the Sultan. For Ahmed IV, both systems were evil, and he did not agree with either one. But are Muhammad Talakaat Pasha and Muhammad Talat Pasha really what they preach? Are the two of them really the same political philosophy as they shout?

That's impossible.

According to the secret intelligence of the Military Intelligence Agency, Mohammad Tarakat Pasha and Mohammed Talat Pasha have been secretly communicating with Ahmed IV, and the things they are shouting are completely to scare Ahmed IV, the purpose is to make Ahmet IV acquiesce in the benefits that the two have achieved, and officially canonize the two as the emir of Iraq and the emir of Macedonia, which is a legitimate separatist party.

This is why Mohammed Talakat Pasha, who is supported by the 3rd and 9th main battle armies, is clamoring for the overthrow of the Sultan and the establishment of a government with an elected cabinet account, while Macedonian Mohammad Taratpasha, who is closer to Istanbul, is holding a British constitutional monarchy.

These Ottoman Pashas, they have a dish in their minds at all, and the old title of emir is what they want and pursue. Once the goal is achieved, look at what they do afterwards, and then look at today's political slogans, and you will feel that it is an extremely absurd farce.

In the entire Ottoman army, there was not no elite who wanted to secularize society, but there was only one person who controlled the real power of the army in their hands - Mustafa Kemal Atatük!

Ahmad IV was not a great lord, and from the fact that he watched Muhammad Tarakat jumping around under his nose, without even surveillance, knew that he was a man of no courage and no deterrent.

How much did Muhammad Tarakat have to look down on Ahmed IV before he shouted for the overthrow of the Sultan and the establishment of a constitution, while staying in Istanbul and living comfortably? Such a dogskin thing, if it is placed in China, see if Liu Sheng does not personally cut him with a knife!

But Ahmet IV didn't, and he still regarded him as the Empire's army chief of staff, as if he hadn't heard Tarakat's cries.

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An era is over.

The capture of Izmir marked the beginning of a new era, a day that will be remembered in Ottoman history as much as the day of Liu Xian's rebellion in Chinese history.

The Sultan of Istanbul faced the advance of the 3rd and 9th main battle corps, and the loss of the important town of Izmir and the unhindered local army of Turkey, all of which clearly showed everyone the weakness of the Ottoman Sultan. The Sultan's imperial power was completely trampled underfoot, and even a heavy place like Izmir was occupied by the third and ninth main battle corps without blood, and the Sultan was no longer a sultan.

The authority of the Ottoman Sultan, which Ahmet IV and his father had spent a lifetime rebuilding, was completely destroyed on this day.

If Tarakatpasha continues its march towards Istanbul, it is difficult to imagine whether Kemal will be able to stop them. But the whole Ottomans, the whole world, could see clearly that Ahmet IV himself could not stop the combined.

So, what else did Ahmet IV have besides an empty sultan? It will be inevitable that when the old order of a country no longer has the power to determine the fate of the entire country, the old order will be replaced by a new one. (To be continued.) )