Chapter 399: ,occupied

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Indeed, the Great Fire in London was no more terrible than this. Although the Great Fire of London of 1666 may have a larger area of ​​fire, the fire point of the Great London Fire was single. Although the fire could not be controlled, the speed of expansion was not fast, so most people still had time to escape from the fire. Although the entire London fire destroyed tens of thousands of buildings, it is said that only five people died. (Individuals are very skeptical of this figure, and the statistical power of that era is not worthy of belief. However, it should be certain that there are not a large number of deaths)
But the fire set by the French was different. At the beginning of the shelling, the main consideration was how to quickly block the escape route. The subsequent shelling was to make the fire burn up at the fastest speed. . Under such circumstances, naturally more people will be burnt to death. There are many people who are close to the coast who can jump into the sea to escape. Although they will be beaten by the Turks who are in collusion with the infidels, they still have a chance to survive. Besides, even being shot to death is better than being burned to death.
As for those who have not had time to jump into the sea, there is naturally only a dead end in such a fire. Therefore, although the Tripoli fire was smaller in scale than the London fire, it caused thousands of casualties. Because the fire in Tripoli also destroyed the municipal institutions, causing all kinds of materials to be burned. So how many people there was in Tripoli at that time became a mess, and no one can tell.
Therefore, as to how many people died in this fire, there are only various guesses for each exact number, but among all kinds of guesses, the least number is more than 10,000.
After this fire, Tripoli's defenses completely collapsed. But the fire was still burning, so the Turks could not land immediately. The fire burned all day and night before it gradually went out, and the Turks waited for another two hours before sending some soldiers ashore in small boats.
These soldiers never encountered any resistance again. They quickly occupied several commanding heights in the city along the road full of ashes. After that, more Turkish soldiers boarded the port. They reorganized the team, and under the command of a general, they marched towards the palace of Tripoli Pasha.
The palace of Pasha in Tripoli is far from the port area, so it was not affected by the fire. But after the fire in the port, Yusuf Pasha looked at the fire in the port, knowing that most of his army was ruined in the fire, and his power could no longer compete with the invading Turks and French. Up.
Yusuf Pasha is also a man who can afford to let go. Seeing that he can't do anything, he immediately gathered his guards, took the belongings that could be carried, and set a fire on himself. After burning the palace, he took the remaining men and horses and went to Tunisia.
Because the port was still in a mess, and various terminal facilities were burned down, the Turks’ fleet could not dock at the port, but could only send a group of people ashore in small boats, which was considered to occupy the ruins.
However, Tayippasha didn't really care about this level of damage. Anyway, according to the agreement between the two parties, the port was originally to be handed over to the French, and it burned when it burned.
Turkish warships can't be docked, and the French warships can't even think about it. However, the French also sent a group of soldiers ashore in a small boat. These soldiers have two tasks. One is to cooperate with the Turks to control the nearby area as soon as possible. The other is to rescue Christian slaves in this neighborhood.
Tripoli is a good place even if the port conditions are not taken into consideration. The climate is mild and it is an oasis with very good conditions. So there are many farms near the city. Many Christian slaves, as well as black slaves, worked in these farms.
Napoleon attached great importance to the liberation of these slaves who believed in Christ, because freeing these people would provide more legitimacy for this action. Since the start of the domestic industrial revolution, the output of various commodities has been increasing, and now the European market has more or less the feeling of insufficient demand. In Joseph's opinion, opening up a new commodity dumping market is an urgent task. The sick man in Africa and West Asia is the market that the French have recently taken a fancy to.
Because of the rush, Yusuf Pasha did not have much time to manage the farms outside the city. The local farm owners were unlikely to follow Yusuf Pasha to escape-after all, their property was in Here. And as far as they know, it is not heresy who are calling now, but a team that also holds the banner of the stars and the moon and believes in the true god. Moreover, this team is still a team of leaders and patrons of the religion, so why do they have to run? At most, it is just to give those soldiers a little bribe, and then they can pay taxes and live their lives as before.
However, to their surprise, besides the soldiers who believed in the true god, there was suddenly a group of pagan soldiers who appeared in front of them. Then they were told that their Christian slaves were now free. This also means that those farmers have lost their slaves, and slaves are part of the property, even a very important part. Of course they are dissatisfied and of course they must protest.
But those Turkish soldiers who believed in the true as they did stood firmly on the side of the infidels. They immediately drew out their knives and threatened the pious farmers, claiming that they suspected that the farmers were all rebellious accomplices, and They also suspect that there are rebels in their house, so they have to enter their house and search.
This kind of behavior is certainly impossible in France, at least legally. Because entering someone else’s house for search or something, theoretically, a search warrant is needed. (But in fact, when the law enforcement officials believe that there is an urgent need and want to avoid the danger of destruction of evidence, they can also search without a search warrant and only need to add one afterwards.) But here in the Turks, You don’t even need to walk through the scene. I think you are suspicious. I suspect that there is rebellious gold hidden in your home. I can search you and confiscate the rebellious gold without issuing an invoice.
So Turkish soldiers broke into the homes of these farmers and searched all their valuables on the grounds of "rebellious hidden wealth". Some unfamiliar farmers tried to resist, and then their heads were chopped off and used as proof of leadership, and their wives and children, if nothing else, would soon appear on the Istanbul market as commodities .
Of course, there are not many farmers who are so strong that they dare to resist the king. So for the time being, they just lost their slaves and gold coins. At least those things that can't be moved, the land and houses are still in their hands. However, worse news awaited them shortly afterwards: Turkish officials soon landed ashore.
As the saying goes, "Thieves come like a comb, and officials come like a grate." One of the most important tasks for these officials who came ashore was to get enough to commend them. Land of loyalty. Of course, this can also be said to be a bit more crowning, that is, to check the rebellious supporters and sympathizers and to punish them.
Before they went ashore, these officials had been told: "If the farmers run away, there is no doubt that they are public and undisguised rebellious accomplices. All their wealth-including land, houses and all Everything should be confiscated. If they stay in their farm, then you have to be more vigilant. Because it means that they are those rebellious, hidden, hidden supporters. For such a poisonous snake, of course we are more To be severely cracked down, they should be sent to prison and be tried by a judge-of course, we will not wrong a good person, but we must not let go of a rebellion..."
As a result, the farmers near Tripoli, except for those who had escaped or had their heads chopped off before, were almost all arrested and sent to prisons temporarily constructed by the Turks. Then, the officials He began to hear these cases at an astonishing speed, and then cut off the heads of the farmers at the same speed as Robespierre’s Revolutionary Court, and sold their wives and children to follow them. The slave trader called Eldo.
Now, the most valuable land in the outskirts of Tripoli has become a precious land of no owner. How good do you think this is. With these precious lands, how much loyalty should the Sultan of Selim III be able to gain.
Of course, these lands cannot all be rewarded to the loyal ministers of the Sultan of Selim III~EbookFREE.me~ because part of the land will be distributed to the Christian slaves as compensation for their kidnapping here.
In fact, most of these Christian slaves are descendants of Christians who were truly looted back then. In the last one hundred years, Barbary pirates and seldom ascended the northern Mediterranean coast (except France) to plunder coastal residents as they did hundreds of years ago. Of course there are new Christian slaves, but most of them came from the sea.
Those Christians who have recently become slaves are actually quite few. Of course they can go back to Europe after getting a little compensation. But for most Christian slaves, the connection between them and Europe has been completely broken. In addition to Catholicism, their lifestyles and habits have become more like North African pagans. .
So they can only stay in North Africa, and France also needs them to stay in North Africa, because they are natural supporters of France. In order for them to continue living in North Africa, France must secure a piece of land for them that is enough to feed their family.
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