Dominate the Country

How should Ge Er react to such a situation?

Should he quietly show his nameplate to others and spread the word that he was moving to Nanjing?

Or should he swallow the loss silently, and then the pockmarked man was not a pockmarked man but a big pit that directly killed him? Playing the pig to eat the tiger?

These are two very common solutions, but the upright Ge Er, a seventh-rank official, had no choice. He directly took his nameplate and slapped it hard on Lu Houchang's hateful fat face.

The whole Jizhou was shocked, and the whole Pingyang Prefecture was shocked. Assassin? This is one of the few officials with low status and power in the new dynasty. Just look at the name and you will know what it does, spying and secretly visiting, collecting the merits and demerits of officials. Ge Er is going to be rich.

And those national security personnel who secretly followed Ge Er were all shocked. This man is really fierce!

But they were not optimistic about Ge Er's future. How could such a character survive in Nanjing?

Once Ge Er's identity was exposed, the entire Jin Province was invisibly put in a golden hoop. Ge Er didn't need to start the things about his brother-in-law. His superiors had already promised Ge Er through various channels - next year, Ge Er's brother-in-law would apply again and he would definitely pass.

Not only would the fifth-level construction qualification in the county not be a problem, but the fourth-level construction qualification in the prefecture would also come naturally in the future.

Although Ge Er might be a little impulsive, he was not stupid after all. Two days after his information was transferred back to Chen Ming by the National Security Bureau, a report from him was also delivered to Chen Ming by pigeon.

The things that Chen Ming asked him to do were completely messed up.

Let's not talk about Ge Er, who looked miserable, and say that Chen Ming was convening the entire A-Weng class for talks in the first few days of the first month of the lunar year.

Now is not the end of the Qing Dynasty in history. The Northwest riots during the Tongzhi period have not yet occurred. The entire Guanzhong is not only left with the rubbing people in Xi'an City, but the rest are all gone. Many prefectures and counties in Guanzhong are now populated by ghats, and with ghats there are naturally Ah Om. Chen Ming not only "invited" the Ah Om who were arrested in Xi'an to come before him, but many Ah Om from other places also rushed to Xi'an in the severe cold and anxiety under the urging of local officials.

In just a few days, the news of the explosion in Xi'an on the first day of the first lunar month had spread to all directions.

I don't know how many people were shocked, and then turned around and hated the extremists.

Who among the Chinese doesn't hope to have a good parent official and a good emperor? Now it is a standard centralized system. When Emperor Zhang dies, it will not be Emperor Li's turn to take over, but only Emperor Zhang will take over. Everyone knows that the emperor's eldest son is not yet an adult, and who knows what kind of character this eldest son has? The risk of changing the emperor is too great.

It has been a way to bring disaster since ancient times for a young ruler to rule the country.

These extreme bastards are not just messing with the emperor, they are going to ruin everyone's life. Holy war, holy war!

The word "extremist" was then widely spread.

Even the Ah Oms who came to Xi'an City, I don't know how many people cursed those who should go to hell in their hearts. Didn't the war in the northwest a few years ago cause great losses? Just after a few days of peace, a group of confused guys are going to have wild ideas.

At the Ah Oms symposium held by the Religious Administration Bureau in Xi'an City, a deputy director who followed Chen Ming on a tour solemnly stated when talking about the next work focus of the China Muslim Association that the China Muslim Association is closely related to the interests of millions of Muslims across the country and plays a vital role in the country's social construction: Ah Oms are the bridge between the court and Muslims, and they should play a good role as a bridge and bond on weekdays. How to make Ah Oms play such a role well is the fundamental purpose of the China Muslim Association.

In the future, any religious staff must resolutely crack down on and eliminate extreme, incorrect, anti-sectarian and anti-humanitarian thoughts and behaviors such as the Xi'an incident. The Tian Association should strengthen its leadership and education of the Ah Oms, correctly guide the Ah Oms' thoughts, and pass on the spirit of loyalty to the court and loyalty to the country to the daily lives of the Muslims, so that the Ah Oms can better implement policies and better perform their duties and obligations.

Is it all nonsense? Countless Ah Oms cursed in their hearts, saying that this management bureau is a waste, and these words are not as meaningful as those said by Chen Ming.

"Loyalty to the court and loyalty to the country is the basic spirit of any Chinese. The people of the world are united and harmonious, and oppose the wrong ideas of extremism and violence. The Muslim religion is about peace, friendship, and harmony. The word "Muslim" itself is peace. A small group of extremists cannot represent the entire Muslim. I believe that the vast majority of Chinese Muslims support the court..."

When Chen Ming spoke, there were hundreds of Ah Oms sitting on the benches in front of him.

The words of the sect management bureau could not make them smile sincerely. If you think about what they said carefully, they all meant to add more restrictions to them and give themselves more power.

Haha, the common people who bowed to the emperor were bombed by extremists, which was to make wedding clothes for the officials and committee members of the management bureau who were full of fat intestines, right?

Strengthen the leadership and education of A-Om, and correctly guide the thoughts of A-Om...

All A-Om are dogs for you, and they only go east and not west. The management bureau is the happiest, right?

After all, the emperor's words are more pleasant.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoosh..." The whole hall burst into warm applause. A few Aum from Todaiji Temple sitting in the front row, whose hair and beards were all white, couldn't help but shed tears. This emperor is good.

The emperor was right.

Our Tianfang Sect is a sect that advocates peace, friendship, and harmony. Heaven itself is peace.

How can a small group of extremists, no, just a few extremists, represent the millions of Catholics in Tianfang? The vast majority of Chinese Tianfang Catholics enthusiastically and sincerely support the imperial court and the emperor!

"Long live the emperor! Long live the emperor!"

Seventy-six-year-old Ma Liangji A-Hong couldn't help shouting this slogan. His eyes were wide open and he tried his best not to let the tears fall in his eyes. But all the grievances in his heart seemed to have turned into emotion with the emperor's words.

He still felt aggrieved.

Unexpected disaster!

If you sit at home behind closed doors, disaster will come from heaven.

He could swear to the true God that he believed in devoutly. He really didn't know anything about this, and he didn't hear even a hint of it. Conscience of heaven and earth!

Ma Liangji, who has grown up in Xi'an since he was a child, and has been buried up to his neck in soil, actually has a very good feeling for Chen Han. Compared with the original Manchu Qing Dynasty, Chen Han at least achieved legal equality.

The court's judgment on disputes between Han and Han was relatively fair in accordance with the law. Unlike the Qing Dynasty, once armed fights occurred between Han and Han people, the Qing government took advantage of this contradiction and adopted a policy of using Han to control Han people, favoring the Han people in every aspect. Deepen the conflict between the two ethnic groups to facilitate their own rule.

The H people had their own beliefs to uphold, but they also pledged allegiance to the authority of the emperor and agreed with the Three Cardinal Guidelines of Confucianism (that is, the king is the guideline for the ministers, the father is the guideline for the son, and the husband is the guideline for the wife). Traditionally, Hu people seem to have received certain preferential treatment. Hui people can take the imperial examination; many people can also serve in both civil and military positions, although their positions are usually not very high. But this cannot cover up the strict laws enacted by the Manchus that discriminate against them. For example, people in Shaanxi and Gansu who committed theft and robbery had to be exiled to Yunnan and Guizhou, and were sometimes sentenced to life-long canings. This was much heavier than the light canings that other Chinese people received for similar cases.

Tianfang sect believers and orthodox believers are not allowed to kneel down and worship other gods or idols. In China, even the emperor couldn't bear it, but in many cases, Chinese officials not only kowtowed to the emperor, but also kowtowed to many superior officials with higher official positions than themselves. Especially for H people who are lucky and constantly promoted, when the emperor gives banquets or have banquets together, pork and spirits are not tabooed, and H people often cannot abide by the prohibition on meat and wine. The note in Tianfang's teaching of people not to eat pork in "Qing Bai Lei Chao" says: Anyone who serves as an official with h status and is recommended to the third rank must go out to teach. If he is rewarded and eats meat, he cannot refuse.

However, in Chen Han, Chen Han's official system had corresponding regulations in this regard, which gave them rare respect in the officialdom and military systems. On this point, Ma Liangji feels much better about Chen Han than towards Manchu Qing.

And now the favorability is even higher. Although he suffered a very unpleasant scene on the first day of the first lunar month, the emperor still endorsed Tianfang Sect to clear his name.

To be honest, this really touched Ma Liangji.

Emperor, the Nine-Five Supreme, the lord of the world who rules thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. Life is probably as important as rights to the emperor. Being assassinated, threatened, and even shouted to rebel is poking at the emperor's Achilles' heel.

When the emperor was angry, he laid down millions of corpses, bleeding and floating in the oars.

And the emperor could so quickly stand up and say good things to Tianfang, say fair things, he was very moved, extremely moved.

Among the hundred or so Aum present, Ma Liangji was not the only one who shed tears at this moment. But how could they know that His Majesty the Emperor, who was standing above them and speaking sanctimoniously for the Tianfang Sect, was the chief messenger of all this? How could they know that the main purpose of Chen Ming wasting so much energy and setting off a "horrifying" extreme bombing attack was not for them, the Tianfang Catholics in China?

Chen Ming's target was the Ottoman Empire's special envoy who was coming in a few months, and by the way, he suppressed Wu Xueli.

Because after Chen Han had national-level connections with the Ottoman Empire, after the initial sweetness, some contradictions and discomforts also emerged. Of course, these problems do not refer to China, but to the Ottoman Empire.

Chen Ming didn't know much about the Ottomans. His starting point was that at the national level, China and the Ottomans were completely natural allies.

But after China and Austria became closer, economic issues also became an aspect that had to be taken seriously.

More and more Chinese goods began to pour into the Ottoman Empire, and due to the distribution of many weapons, as an external factor, it caused an outbreak of internal conflicts in the Ottoman army.

For the Ottoman Janissaries, the city's economy was closely related to them.

In this semi-secular country, both the Order and the Praetorian Guard are forces that cannot be ignored. And now China's entry has violated the common interests of these two forces.

The latter two can be said to be the same force to a certain extent!

Since the 17th century, the Ottoman Guards, which were once a model for the entire European army, have fallen. They have a bad reputation, and are known as "amateurs in foreign wars, experts in civil wars". Because these guards have lived in Istanbul for generations, and because in 1591-1592, in order to celebrate the millennium of the Muslim religion, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire officially incorporated the elders of the Bektasi Order and eight dervishes into the guard system. As a result, the Bektasi Sufi Order and the Guards formed an alliance. Not long after that, these Ottoman Junwei troops in Istanbul learned various arts, crafts and manufacturing technologies under the close attention of the order. They were like the Tokyo Imperial Guards in the Northern Song Dynasty. The boundaries between them and the handicraft guilds in the city became increasingly blurred, which naturally weakened their unity and combat effectiveness, so there were many defeats. The guards stationed outside Istanbul often assimilated into the local society in the later period, such as in Syria, Iraq, and North Africa.

With the corruption and defeat of the Guards, especially the successive defeats in the war with Russia, the Ottoman Empire had to consider reforming its military affairs. Sultan Ahmed III handed over state affairs to Prime Minister Daoud Ibrahim Pasha. Daoud first attempted Westernization in the government and the military, introducing advanced technologies such as printing, firefighting, and shipbuilding from France, and reorganizing the imperial army according to the French model. But the Guards also had their own will. In 1730, a rebellion led by the Guards overthrew the rule of Sultan Ahmed III. In the middle and late Ottoman Empire, many sultans were deposed or killed while in office, and some were even killed. These were usually tragedies caused by the rebellion of the Guards and the chaos in the harem. It was also the attitude of the interest group of the Guards.

But after the death of one sultan, there is still a second sultan. The Ottoman Empire needs to solve its own military problem. If the Guards cannot show hope of surprising the Ottomans on this point, then the Ottoman Empire's military reform will never come to an end.

They hired foreign officers to train the Guards. But the Guards have been lax in discipline, have no fighting spirit, and find it difficult to adapt to new tactics. So the Ottoman government had to consider further reforms, that is, to rebuild a new army.

The olive branch handed by China is just an opportunity. When China and the Ottoman Empire signed and negotiated a series of treaties on new military instructors and the establishment of new military academies, the Guards once again felt the crisis and were hostile to China. Because after the establishment of new military academies, the government can completely retrain officers and soldiers and start a new business without the Guards.

In addition, the Chinese goods entering the Ottoman market also greatly encroached on the interests of handicraft guilds, so there was a force hostile to China in the Ottoman Empire.

When the news that China "oppressed" the Yogyakarta Sultanate reached Istanbul, a wave had already surged. When the news that the Muslim forces in Luzon were wiped out by China reached Istanbul again, the waves raised by the religious orders and the guards had risen from level 6 to level 8, 9, and 10.

This news was fed back to Chen Ming before the New Year. It can be imagined that the Ottoman delegation came to China with a certain degree of unfriendliness. Chen Ming would naturally not retreat half a step in front of the Ottoman storm.

Ottoman Guards? Haha.

An army mixed with a religious order with huge influence among the people, no wonder it was completely bloodbathed by the sultan who succeeded to the throne later.

The "Blood Tower" in Thessaloniki is one of the few impressions Chen Ming has of the Ottoman Empire.

The newly established Ottoman new army is really mighty and domineering, and it completely wiped out the entire guard system in one fell swoop. It's just a pity that after the successful suppression of the rebellion this time, this new army never performed well again, and eventually made the country become the "sick man of West Asia".

The Ottoman Sultan's swift and decisive action was mentioned in some article in the later generations together with the execution of Wei Bo Ya soldiers by Emperor Mingzong of the Later Tang Dynasty. Tang Mingzhong issued an edict to execute all his family members belonging to Weizhou, which made Chen Ming still remember it clearly. Even after traveling through time for more than ten years, he still remembered it.

So how to deal with the waves raised by the Ottoman Empire?

Chen Ming's approach was to treat the person in his own way, which also set off a huge wave of public opinion in the country. As an emperor who transcends everything, he can stand on the side of the Tianfang openly...

From the perspective of ruling a country, is it a completely correct choice for an emperor?

This is not a particularly smart way, but it is not good to insert the sect into the exchanges with the Ottoman country.

If the military cooperation between China and Austria had not just begun and the new Ottoman army had not yet seen the shadow, Chen Ming would really support the Ottoman Sultan to eradicate these tumors.

Moreover, in this way, while Chen Ming is working hard to increase the friendship with the Muslims in China, he can also provide an excuse for China to vigorously eliminate the influence of the Muslims in Southeast Asia.