Chapter 564: Ottoman crisis

Compared with the ancestors who ravaged Eurasia, Africa, and three continents, Abdul-Aziz I was a good baby. Since his succession, he has been good to his neighbors. He has been cautious in diplomacy to avoid conflicts with European powers as much as possible.
Except for the Russians being killed in the Russian-Prussian war, Abdul-Aziz I did not initiate a war. It can be said that there are few pacifists in Sudan in the past.
Moreover, the last war was also full of inside information. If it was not for the powers to secretly encourage it, Abdul Aziz I would most likely choose to be a spectator.
Of course, he is not a voluntarist. It is completely because the enemies around it are too powerful. They can only choose peace if they cannot win.
When you come out, you always have to pay back. When the Ottoman Empire was strong, you set up enemies everywhere, and now you have to pay the price.
You can't just let you bully people and not let others retaliate? This is not the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Austria and Russia have come to take revenge. If it is not for the strength, Persia next door will probably intervene.
Now Persia and the Ottoman Empire are bad brothers and brothers, and they are both declining. Because of its geographical location, the Ottoman Empire was a neighbor of two great powers at the same time, so the tragedy was earlier.
In contrast, the Persians in the east are much better, just need to face the British. Anyway, there is hope for victory, and the Persians smashed a British invasion more than a decade ago.
"Hum" with a cold drink, Abdul Aziz I tore the battle report in his hands to pieces. There is no doubt the bad news, these days Abdul Aziz I is going crazy.
"Yesterday, the Austrians just besieged Jerusalem, and today the Bosporus is again under siege. Isn't the Lianyin Dardanelles lost in a few days, waiting for the enemy to parade in Ankara?"
Everyone bowed their heads and said nothing. It was not that the Ottoman army did not work hard. The Russians were not blindly fighting. In the month after the outbreak of the war, the Russian army landed from five ports.
Before the reinforcements sent by the Sudanese government passed, the landing Russian troops had already evacuated and the port continued to attack.
It seems that not much has been achieved, but in fact the damage to the Ottoman Empire is not small. A scorched earth policy was implemented all the way, and a large number of people in the coastal areas were forced to migrate to inland areas.
While fighting the enemy, the Sudanese government also has to shoulder the heavy task of locating war refugees. Don't look at the fierce clamor of Abdul Aziz I. If all the people and enemies are to die to the end, this is not the case in practice.
After the Russians conquered a place, they started to destroy it at the first time, such as destroying farmland, burning houses, smashing iconic buildings, and expelling local people into the inland areas.
The coastline of the Ottoman Empire was too long to be fully focused on defense, and areas with weak troops let the enemy penetrate.
Every time the Russian army makes a successful landing, the Ottoman Empire will have tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of war refugees. The law does not blame the public in the Ottoman Empire, and the Sudanese government cannot hold so many people responsible for fleeing.
People always have to eat, and within a short time hundreds of thousands of refugees appeared in the Ottoman Empire. To relieve so many victims, the Sudanese government, which had not prepared in advance, was in a hurry.
All other supplies are just fine. The Ottoman people are not demanding, just stuttering is enough. The simplest request made the Sudanese government embarrassed.
Seeing that the stock of food was dwindling, Abdul Aziz I was watching and anxious. The fall of the Bosphorus now means that war refugees will increase again.
It can hold up two days a day. If the war lasts one year or two, the Ottoman government will not have so much grain reserves.
The Minister of War, Elmold, replied: "Your Majesty, the enemy has a sea advantage and is going up and down the battlefield. Before our reinforcements arrive, they evacuate early, and they will not fight against us at all."
This explanation obviously does not satisfy Abdul-Aziz I: "There are indeed some of these problems in other regions, but the Bosphorus was hit by the Russian army. Don't tell me, you don't have time to mobilize reinforcements? "
The number of Ottoman troops stationed in the Bosphorus area exceeded 200,000, while the offensive Russian troops were only about 100,000. On the surface, the Ottoman troops had absolute strength, but unfortunately they were defeated.
War can't just look at the quantity, but more depends on the deployment of troops. It seems that the number of Ottoman troops is larger, but in fact they have to be stationed in various places, and when fighting the Russian army, their strength is not dominant.
Elmed explained hastily: "His Majesty, although the Bosphorus fell, it also severely damaged the Russian army. The Russian army that landed in a short period of time has lost its ability to continue the war.
We are mobilizing heavy troops and preparing to drive them to the sea.
Now that the Russian-Polish war breaks out, the Tsarist government should no longer send more troops. This battle, on the surface, we lost, but strategically the situation is developing in our favourable direction. "
This explanation, it is enough to flicker Abdul Aziz I who failed military capabilities. Subconsciously, Abdul Aziz wanted to hear the good news.
As for whether the counter-offensive plan can be realized, it is no longer important. The battlefield is ever-changing, and a little accident can't be more normal.
Seeing the problem, the Minister of the Interior Muhammad frowned, and gave a light glance at Sudan's face, and he decisively chose to act stupid.
After hesitating for a while, it may be that the conscience is disturbed, or that the Ottoman Empire is sinking, and everyone is finished.
Muhammad reminded vaguely: "As of now, domestic war refugees have exceeded the 750,000 mark. This number is very dangerous.
If we continue to increase it, we will not have so much food relief, and it will probably cause a big mess. "
It is not possible to cause chaos, but it is bound to cause chaos. The Ottoman Empire has just over 16 million people, and the number of refugees already accounts for 4.7% of the total population.
With so many people losing their livelihoods, there are simply not so many job placements in the country and they can only rely on government relief to live.
If the battlefield continues to fail, the number of refugees will continue to rise. The Ottoman Empire was not a big food-producing country, overseas trade was blocked again, and refugees continued to increase. The outbreak of the food crisis was almost an inevitable result.
The actual situation will be even worse. With so many people doing nothing every day, waiting for government relief, law and order is a big problem.
These words fall into different people's ears, and naturally have different interpretations. It was meant to put pressure on the military, but Abdul-Aziz I heard it changed.
"In order to save food, the refugees will be treated differently in the future, giving priority to their blessings, and let the rest live on their own!
The concentration of refugees is also a problem, and the government is trying to find ways to decentralize them. If you can't figure it out, let the pagans make room. "
After hearing the words of the Sudan, Muhammad burst into cold sweat. Is this too chaotic in China? If another person said it, he would think that he had been bought by the enemy, and ran to the cholera Ottoman Empire.
Originally, the ethnic and religious contradictions of the Ottoman Empire were serious. Isn't this so different now that you are forcing people to rebel?
The two idioms have emerged in Muhammeda's mind, and he hastily persuaded: "Your Majesty, no!
It is now in the war period, and nothing can be out of the country. Now if the conflict is intensified, the heretics will likely collude with the enemy, and the empire will be in danger by then. "
It's a pity that Abdul Aziz I is no longer just the successor, the ambitious sultan, but the brain-smashed sultan who was defeated by reality and broken.
Before 1872, Abdul-Aziz I's performance could still be called a wise king. Rest in peace with the people, establish universities, establish codes, and carry out secular reforms of the Ottoman Empire.
Under the strong backlash of the conservatives, the reform of the Ottoman Empire in 1872 failed, and Abdul Aziz I fell, and it was no longer possible to be a hero.
Doing things more and more radically, he could not listen to persuasion at all. In the face of religious problems and nations, we do not want to solve the problem from the root and directly use force to suppress it.
The original time and space of Abdul Aziz I was tortured and overthrown by the people in 1876, and finally ended in depression.
If you follow the instructions of Abdul Aziz I, maybe you don't have to wait two years, maybe you will have to change hosts here in two months.
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