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In 1882, the Tatoy Manor of the Athens royal family was located on a hillside in the north of Athens, covering an area of ​​4,500 hectares. The manor had lush forests and green grass.

The quiet and quiet Tatoy Palace is the palace of the Greek royal family. In midsummer, the king and his family would come here to cool off.

Wang Lin sat on a wooden chair in the garden of Tatoy Palace and took a nap, thinking about his experiences over the years in his mind, giving people the absurd feeling of a fantasy.

Wang Lin was originally just a tourist visiting Athens, the capital of Greece, in the 21st century. When he was tired, he rested against a tree at the Tatoi Palace, the former site of the Kingdom of Hilla.

When he woke up, he found that he had become a baby. In the days that followed, Wang Lin gradually understood his situation and traveled through time.

His current identity is the son of King George I of Greece.

George I was the first monarch of the Greek dynasty of Schleswig-Holstein-Zonderburg-Glücksburg. After the Greek King Otto I was deposed in 1862, the British elected the then 18-year-old Danish Prince George came to Greece to be king.

The ancestor of George I's mother was Anna of Bohemia and Hungary (wife of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I). He was a descendant of the Komnenos dynasty of the Byzantine (later known as Eastern Rome) empire.

Through his paternal ancestor Amedeo VI, Count of Savoy, he was a descendant of the Palaeolian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire.

Her mother is Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, and Olga Konstantinovna’s grandfather is Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.

In the blink of an eye, Constantine has lived in Athens for fifteen years and has long been accustomed to the life here. However, whenever he thinks of his past experiences, he still can't help but lament how unpredictable the world is and how life seems like a dream.

The name Constantine was given at the request of the Greek people.

In 1571, Sophia Paleologe, the last princess of the Eastern Roman Empire and the niece of Constantine XI, the last emperor of Eastern Rome, married Grand Duke Ivan II of Russia. From then on, the Russian royal family owned the Roman royal family. Bloodline, claiming to be the successor of the Roman Empire, calling itself the Roman Third Empire.

George I succeeded to the throne, which meant that Constantine had the blood of the Roman royal family, and the blood of the Roman emperor flowed in his body.

The Greeks hoped that one day, the crown prince named Constantine, a king with the blood of the Roman emperor flowing in his body, could once again rule the great city with the same name as him, Constantinople.

And this city is now the capital of the Ottoman Turkish Empire!

Her name is now Istanbul, the largest city in the future Republic of Turkey!

Being a monarch in Europe is not as easy and comfortable as people imagine. Especially monarchs of small and weak countries often have to suffer from splints.

In 1830, the Greek people persisted and fought bravely and finally gained independence from Ottoman Turkey, which was known as the national prison.

When mentioning Greece, people's first impression is that it is an ancient civilization with a long history, the birthplace of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy. It gave birth to philosophers, famous scholars Aristotle and Socrates, developed commerce, and practiced democracy. The city-state Athens, Sparta, which was endowed with a strong martial spirit, and so on.

However, these things are already extremely distant history to the Greeks in the 19th century.

In 1881, in response to the strong demands of the Greek people, the Berlin Conference organized by Bismarck agreed to cede Thessaly of Ottoman Turkey to the Kingdom of Greece. The original territory of the Kingdom of Greece, together with Thessaly, did not exceed an area of ​​50,000 square kilometers.

In 1882, Greece was a thoroughly impoverished small country in Europe, located in the southern corner of the Balkan Peninsula. If you did not consider history, it was inconspicuous at all.

However, the Greeks had a great ideal, which was to restore their past glory.

Since the Greek region was conquered by the ancient Roman Empire, it has been under Roman rule until the decline of the Eastern Roman Empire, and continued until the demise of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) by the Ottoman Turkish Empire in 1453.

Eastern Rome was severely Hellenized in the middle and late period. Greek became the official language of the empire. Orthodox churches used Greek for missionary work. The title of the emperor was no longer the Roman Augustus or Caesar, but the Greek Basileus ( Greek title for king).

As remnants of the Roman Empire, the Greeks were ruled by the Ottoman Empire for 300 years and finally became independent.

Naturally, the Greeks, who have thousands of years of history and a long and splendid civilization, have a strong desire to regain their past glory.

The specific manifestation is to regain territory and recover those places where the Greek majority is still ruled by the Ottoman Empire.

Recovering the places still inhabited by Greeks under foreign rule meant restoring Greece to the territory it had been under the rule of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

This matter has become the public issue of greatest concern to the Greek people.

Greek nationalists in 1878 proposed land and population to realize their great ideals. They included:

First, the European part of Ottoman Türkiye, Thrace, with 90,000 people living in Thrace.

Second, Macedonia has 80,000 Greeks.

Third, Epirus, with 80,000 Greeks.

Fourth, Thessaly, 80,000 Greeks.

Fifth, there are many islands inhabited by Greeks in the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean, such as Crete, Kos, Cyprus, Mytilene, etc., with a total of 20,000 people.

Sixth, the Asian territories of the Ottoman Turks, Asia Minor had 80,000 Greeks, and Syria and Palestine had 150,000 Greeks.

All of this adds up to a total of 5 nights in Greece.

This is almost all the core territory of Ottoman Türkiye.

Thinking of this, Constantine couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly. He put his hand on his forehead and tried to control his emotions. He could only sigh in his heart: He is really ambitious.

This ideal is so lofty and great. Inspired by such an ideal, the Greek people's hearts are floating, restless, and heartily venting their national emotions.

However, no matter how far the gap between reality and ideals is, the pain of the Greeks will be profound.

As of 1882, the Kingdom of Greece included the newly recovered Thessaly, and there were only about 800,000 Greeks living in the territory! ! !

The Greek peninsula is mostly mountainous, and 80% of the territory is mountainous and hilly. Only about 16% of the land is suitable for farming. The land is barren and the harvest of food crops is not high.

Since independence, it has not even been able to supply itself with food, and has to import food on a large scale every year.

In order to survive, the ancient Greeks were forced to vigorously develop overseas trade. Because their land was not fertile, they could only grow grapes in large quantities, measure them into wine, and use wine and other handicrafts to exchange grain with other food-rich regions, such as Egypt.

It can be said that the land of Greece has been notoriously barren since ancient times.

The population of the Kingdom of Greece was already sparse. To make matters worse, the land was not suitable for farming and it also had a great ideal.

It was so hard.

If Greece can remain a small country in a down-to-earth manner and develop with peace of mind, Greece may not have a chance to realize its ideals.

This is an opportunity given by the background of the times, that is, the decline of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

At the end of the 19th century, Ottoman Turkey was known as the Sick Man of West Asia. It complemented the Manchus in the East and became brighter for a while.

It’s just that the fever of fanatical nationalism remains high, scratching the hearts of Greeks like a cat’s claws.

Constantine took a deep breath. He wanted to firmly sit on the throne of Greece and develop Greece. This level of difficulty was really the beginning of hell!

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