Louis XIV listened attentively, and the French spies were now spread across the country and half of Europa, as well as England and Scotland, and part of the colonies - but these spies, whether wizards or not, could not penetrate the Ottoman Empire completely, not because they were deliberately slack, but because the Ottoman Empire was so special.

First of all, although the Sultan and Grand Vizier of Ottoman Turkey allowed different faiths to exist in the empire, just like Louis XIV imposed different degrees of taxation in the newly conquered Flanders and the Netherlands, Ottoman Turkey, although it was said to be a multi-faith empire, but to those Orthodox Christians, Catholics and Protestants, and even some Buddhists of different faiths, they were always inferior, not only had to bear heavier taxes than those who believed in the One True God, but also had to pay a "blood tax" - That is, to surrender their sons to become soldiers of the Sultan, who left their parents and their homeland at a very young age, and returned as out-and-out Ottoman Turks, who were inferior to the Christians of the One True God in law, business, and marriage.

Especially in some of the great cities that had been ruled by the Ottoman Turks for many years, such as Bosnia, which had been used as a theater by Monsieur Molière, who shamelessly and boldly deceived the envoys of Leopold I, who returned and said that almost all the people walking in that city were Turks - No, it should be said that it is everyone who dresses themselves according to their attire as much as possible, and anyone who is out of line will be watched by countless pairs of eyes, and even then, like those with strange faces, even if they are pretended to convert, will be spies of the Sultan...... Most of these men were soldiers and officers who had retired from the Janissaries (the Sultan's personal legions), where they were not allowed to marry and were educated to be faithful to their faith and to the monarch (Monsieur Molière gave Louis XIV a meaningful glance at him), so that even after he left, they would not abandon their duties.

So, every foreigner who appeared in the city of the Ottoman Turks, from innkeepers, spice merchants, café hostesses, and even a man who was in the business of renting camels and horses, was a noose around their necks.

As for the sorcerers and the inner world, it's a pity, maybe it existed there, but the Ottoman Turks were much more intense than the Roman Church- Although the process is not clear, they may have plundered a group of witches directly, killed their mothers after the birth of their children, and when the children grew up, they naturally became the most fanatical followers and executioners of the Order, and with this sharp knife, the Sultan and Grand Vizier of Ottoman Turkey drove the wizards out of their territory little by little, like a skilled peasant wielding a scythe to harvest wheat.

Yes, but as I have said before, the faith of the Ottoman Turks does not tolerate any fallacies or wavering, and they do not care about the clink of gold coins in the boxes of indulgences, as the Roman priests do, and they continue to expand their religious territory while purging those who are not very religious, which is quite fatal to the shamans.

Just like the islands of Gayola and the Rijila, the shamans will in fact still have contact with the outside world, a Catholic, a Protestant, a believer of whatever kind, they will hesitate when they see tangible benefits, they will pretend not to see, they will not hear, but the believers of the true God will not.

The inner world is not an additional space, it exists in the surface world, but it is very remote and unknown, and at the same time brews strange powers that promote the formation of magical creatures, and are more suitable for wizards, they are often a deep canyon, a lonely island, a dense jungle, a mist-shrouded swamp...... But if someone is suspicious, determined, and has enough manpower to investigate, they can still detect the error from maps and calculations.

The problem was that it would be difficult for the shamans to operate in the territory of the Ottoman Turks, and apart from the question of faith, they would be as conspicuous as ink spilled on white paper. To Louis XIV's surprise, however, Amon told him that while the Ottoman Turk Order could not tolerate witches, it could tolerate vampires and some magical creatures, and although they were all classified as demons, there were times when fallen believers were willing to make deals with them.

There was a clan of vampires roaming the Arab region, whom Amon called Asama, who roamed the darkness and hot sands, trading mercenaries and assassins, and asked Louis XIV if he would be interested in buying them, to which Louis refused without thinking. It was only after he came into contact with Theoderick of Van Zhuo and Prince Amon of Zmich that he read a lot of wizards' texts, and learned that the Bloods valued their ancestral lands very much— Generally speaking, the ancestral land of the Bloodline is where the second or third generation of vampires were born, and they may even have served as kings and lords, and for an extremely long time for the Bloodline, they carefully managed their territory, raised heirs, built armies, and even held trials to execute those who they thought might be a danger to the clan.

Tsmich is quite a powerful clan among the thirteen clans, but with a bad fate, they turned out to be the first blood clan to lose their ancestral land due to the change of human power and the change of land, which made the already somewhat crazy Prince Amun even more unscrupulous to do things, and at the same time, the Gangaro clan from Scandinavia was also embarrassed - this situation was not without a solution for them, that is, one clan completely destroyed the other, and then ruled two territories.

But Gangero did not dare to confront Tsmich......

Well, put that aside, the main thing is that Assameh has been wandering in the Arab region, and the Ottoman Empire at its largest had four core areas - the Nile Valley, the Two Rivers, Asia Minor and the Balkan Peninsula, where the Persian Empire, Alexander's Empire, the Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire, the Arab Empire were born - and the Ottoman Turkish Empire, so Arabia is only a part of the Ottoman Empire, what price does he have to pay to make this group of bloods give up their territory?

Moreover, the "devils" could not enter the Sultan's palace, and even the capital city was difficult to enter, and they could not provide any valuable information.

Louis XIV had information about Ottoman Turkey, most of which came from merchants, although the Venetians and the English had been secretly communicating with the Ottoman Turks, but when it came to intimacy, they could not be compared with France for the time being, and after Louis was in power, such as wine, spices, potatoes, chocolate, coffee, powdered fat, glass, Porcelain, colourful garments and newly-cut gemstones were sent to Istanbul in a steady stream, and the white and black governors of the Sultan were the biggest buyers, and although it was well known that these merchants often wore two hats, who kept the French merchants constantly coming up with fresh and good things.

But it is very difficult to find out what the real secrets are, "I only know that Mohammed IV has not been in power so far," Louis said a little helplessly: "His father Ibrahim I is said to be an arrogant madman, so he was forcibly deposed when Mohammed IV was six years old, and the current Queen Mother, she is a Venetian woman, and she has promoted the people of Corlüli to be the Grand Vizier." This is why although the Ottoman Turks seized Crete from the Venetians in 69, the Venetians still had a glimmer of hope, after all, the Ottoman Empire was under the control of the Queen Mother for 300 years, and they probably thought that this Venetian woman, the mother of Muhammad IV, would also become a female sulsul.

It is a pity that this lady was not destined to become the second Hurem (note 1), and although she had promoted Kobrilli, she unceremoniously demanded from her four privileges: first, that the executive power should not be interfered with, that he had the right to appoint and dismiss personnel, that all the recitals should be passed through him, and that fourth, that he should be completely trusted, and that he should not be questioned. These four demands were almost to completely separate the Sultan from his mother, and if it had been placed under Suleiman I, or even Sultan Xurem, he would have to say the first one, and the rest would have to be done without straining his tongue, for the Sultan would immediately order the eunuchs waiting by him to hang him with a longbow.

But it is astonishing that the mother of Mohammed IV actually agreed, of course, not everyone was willing to believe the Grand Vizier, so he ruled for five years, executed 35,000 people, 4,000 of whom were dignitaries, what is this concept - at that time there were only 300 officials in the Ottoman Turkish court - his axe made the members of the parliament hall of Topkapi Palace rotate at least ten times or more in five years.

During the years he ruled this vast empire, he reorganized the navy of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, lifted the Venetian blockade of Istanbul, and recaptured two important islands, he sent troops to exterminate the rebels in Asia Minor, and pushed the borders of the empire to the Don River, and the Volga generation— Directly against Russia, and then again to conquer Romania and restore its rule there.

If the Ottoman Empire was under the control of Ibrahim I, it was like a carriage dragged by a crazy horse and galloping at any time, and it could fall apart at any time, then Koppluli was the one who slowed down the carriage, and of course, he also raised his weapon to show that the Ottoman Turkish Empire still had fangs and sharp teeth, and he died in 61 and gave his position and power to his son.

"Do you know what he said to Mohammed IV on his deathbed?" said Louis, "still Shijo, never listen to women, never make ministers rich, always ensure that the treasury is full, never let the army be idle." ”

Ludwig I was stunned, "It seems that Mohammed IV did it, at least certainly did the last one," he savored: "No wonder you would say that he was a figure like Bishop Richelieu." ”

"And his son, Ahmet," Louis added, "and his father's ideas and ideas, as evidenced by this great war." ”

"How terrible," said Ludwig I, "just for the sake of one man, or the will of two." ”

"That's why people are chasing power. Louie said, "Do whatever it takes." ”

Ludwig I was not sure if Louis meant it, he shook his head, if Louis XIV was such a man, he was still the Prince of Condé, or even worse - just a puppet, like the previous King of Poland, "Then let me do the rest," he stood up: "Most of my intelligence comes from the military side, Your Majesty, this time we may have to face two hundred and fifty thousand enemies." ”

"Sounds terrible," Louis replied, "tell me about it." ”

"First of all, there is the Janissary legion that you have just mentioned, but it includes warriors and auxiliaries, and in this war, the Sultan and the Grand Vizier allowed all the Ottomans to join the army, so that the total number reached 170,000, including the cavalry of the Sipaci, and a large number of Azap (infantry), and their vassals, the Kurds of Asia Minor-Anatolia, the Rumilians of the Balkans, the servant armies of Transylvania, Moldavia, and Wallachia (the Romanian region), and the Crimean Tatars who served the Sultan, and the Hungarian Protestants, who probably had an innumerable supply of muskets, artillery, and ammunition, from Upper Hungary, which was occupied by the Grand Duke of Transylvania, to Transylvania, all the way down, were their fiefdoms, from which they could get supplies without having to carry too much baggage. ”

"And what about us?"

"You have thirty thousand men here," said Ludwig I, "and I have about fifteen thousand men here, and Austrians, Danes and Norwegians, Spaniards and Portuguese, and Switzerland...... Our total number can reach about 150,000 people, but Your Majesty, there is a problem here. ”

He stood up and walked to the window: "Please look out." ”

Note 1: Roxelana (1506 – April 15, 1558), known as Hürrem ("the one who pleases") in Turkish, Karima (?????? in Arabic , meaning "honorable one"), Empress Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire. Because of his great political power, he was known as Sultan Hurem in the history of the Ottoman Empire.