My life skills in Daming Liver

After Feng Bao left, Huang Jin crawled back to his bed tremblingly, and suddenly heard shouts in the main hall of Yuxi Palace.

"Huang Jin, Huang Jin!"

Huang Jin immediately climbed out of bed and walked quickly towards Yuxi Palace.

Jiajing, who was lying in the warmth, closed his eyes tightly and let out a hurried cry. Big beads of sweat fell from his forehead. Huang Jin immediately stepped forward and grabbed the old emperor's hand and said:

"Your Majesty, your servants are here!"

Jiajing opened his cloudy eyes and saw Huang Jin beside him, and then closed his eyes again, but he stopped shouting.

Huang Jin put the old emperor's hand back into the quilt and then staggered back to his bed.

"Why."

Huang Jin has been in the palace for many years and knows what a dying person looks like.

The Emperor is afraid that it will be difficult for him to survive this year.

Huang Jin thought about his future career as a mausoleum guard. If the southeast attacked, could he still guard the emperor's mausoleum?

Just when Huang Jin was thinking wildly, an emperor in the west also entered his twilight years and was seriously ill.

Suleiman the Magnificent, the emperor who brought the Ottoman Empire to its peak, has reached the age of 72.

This age is very rare in both the East and the West, especially since Suleiman the Magnificent was an emperor who had been fighting for his whole life.

However, Emperor Suleiman was already very ill. His beard was completely white and his body was swollen. However, he was still sitting on his throne at this time, listening to his grand vizier report to him the latest news. diplomatic results.

"Sir Sokuru, you said that the Western pagans are going to extend their hands into the Balkans again?"

Sokuru Pasha was the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, a position equivalent to the Prime Minister of the Eastern Empire.

Facing this unpredictable emperor, Sokulu lowered his head very much. He nodded and said:

"Yes, Your Majesty, the Roman Emperor Maximilian went to war against the empire. He led his troops to seize several fortresses controlled by the Ottoman Empire."

Suleiman the Magnificent showed enough anger that the Holy Roman Empire could be said to be the feud of the Ottoman Empire.

Maximilian, a member of the Habsburg family, can be said to be one of the most powerful people in Europe today, and more importantly, his family, the Habsburg family.

He once served as ruler in Spain, and the Spanish king was also a member of the Habsburg family.

He was elected King of Bohemia, which was a very valuable throne because the King of Bohemia was one of the electors of the Holy Roman Empire.

The so-called electors are monarchs in the Holy Roman region who have the right to be elected. The Holy Roman Empire is a loose alliance of kingdoms in the German region, and its emperor also has considerable rights.

The emperor of the Holy Roman Empire could only be elected from seven electors.

Maximilian was then elected King of Hungary, a great and powerful state in Germany, and then the Holy Roman Emperor the year before.

In this way, a huge kingdom spanning the German region emerged.

And with Maximilian taking control of power, the Hungarians once again reached out to the Balkans.

This was something the Ottoman Empire could not tolerate.

"I want to conquer it myself!"

Emperor Suleiman shouted, and Grand Vizier Sokuru Pasha lowered his head even further.

This powerful emperor became even more unpredictable in his old age.

You might be beheaded by him because you lost a war, or you might be suddenly promoted by him because you won a war.

The Grand Vizier is a hot position. Before Sokulu Pasha became the Grand Vizier, the average term of ministers in this position was less than two years.

Sokullu Pasha's predecessor was executed on the order of Suleiman the Magnificent, and Sokullu had stayed in this position for two years.

"Have you read the military manual brought by Dongfang?"

Emperor Suleiman asked his grand vizier after getting angry.

Sokulu lowered his head and said: "I have read the news brought by the merchants. It is really surprising that this country called Southeast can defeat the ancient Ming Empire."

Ottoman merchants have begun to go to Guangzhou to do business, and they will naturally bring the latest news from the East.

However, the sea journey is far away, and the situation that Suleiman the Magnificent received was already half a year ago.

Even so, Suleiman the Magnificent was also surprised by the rapid expansion of the southeast.

As an imperial emperor, Suleiman the Magnificent hated the so-called "sovereignty lies with the people".

Without Suleiman's achievements, could these ordinary people have brought the empire to such a glorious moment?

These ordinary people are mediocre people. Suleiman glanced at his Grand Vizier.

The guy in front of him is equally stupid, but Suleiman the Magnificent uses his loyalty, and wisdom only needs to be possessed by himself.

Although he scorned the idea of ​​​​the Southeast, Suleiman the Magnificent still valued the battle reports of the Eastern War brought back by the merchants.

Especially the rapid development of firearms in the East and the corresponding firearms training practices and military technology.

The Ottomans had a long tradition of forging cannons and using firearms.

Within a hundred years, the Ottomans used the cannon cast by the Hungarian craftsman Urban, that is, the Urban cannon, to capture Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

The giant cannon blasted open the walls of this thousand-year-old city, and the Byzantine Empire fell.

The Ottomans moved their capital here and renamed it Istanbul.

The fall of Constantinople under Urban's cannon greatly shocked the European countries, and also allowed firearms to enter the stage of history among the European countries.

However, during the past hundred years, the firearms technology of the European countries developed rapidly, while the cannon-casting technology of the Ottoman Empire was somewhat stagnant.

Suleiman the Magnificent had spent his whole life fighting and was naturally very keen on the development of military technology.

Although he was seventy-two years old, he was still very interested in the latest military technological developments in the Eastern battlefield. He ordered merchants to collect the latest military intelligence from the far East and asked the merchants to bring this intelligence back to the Ottoman Empire.

The unpredictable emperor's orders were unquestionable, and Sokulu retired to prepare for the expedition.

Regarding the emperor's concern for the military technology in the southeast, Grand Vizier Sokuru Pasha had some difficulty in handling it.

Sokulu Pasha was not a mediocre person, on the contrary, he was also an excellent general.

The current problem is not that the emperor's guards are not elite enough. The official name of the Ottoman Guards is "Jeniceli", which literally translates to "New Army".

This army is not actually the personal bodyguard responsible for the safety of the emperor, but the most powerful standing army of the Ottoman Empire.

The soldiers of this army are all from the Balkans.

Jenichery selected some of the strongest boys from conquered Balkan Slav families to convert to Islam and learn Turkish.

Receive military training and form a force called the New Army, the empire's first standing army, with members regularly selected and reviewed.

They are the most combat-effective soldiers of the Turkish Empire. The first choices are mainly Greeks, Bulgarians, Albanians, Serbs and Bosnians.

In addition to having soldiers from the Balkans, this Janissary is also required to believe in the Bektash order, which is a minority sect of Islam.

The reason for this was to prevent the army from colluding with the clergy of the Ottoman Empire, that is, the civil servants of the Ottoman Empire, and to keep the army completely under the control of the emperor.

Although the Yenicherries of later generations also degenerated and were called the Eight Banners Soldiers of the West, in this era, the Yenicherries were still very elite troops in the world today.

Sokuru Pasha was worried that Suleiman the Magnificent was too anxious.

This great emperor has ruled this powerful country for too long. He has held power for too long. Those who displeased him have either been sent to God by him or have been called away by God.

Whatever he wanted to do, he would be satisfied in the end, which made Suleiman the Magnificent increasingly impatient.

Just like this expedition to Hungary, Maximilian was just a small provocation, and Suleiman the Magnificent was furious. Not only did he want to bring out the best from the country, but he also wanted to conquer it himself.

But all the ministers did not dare to persuade the emperor.

The same goes for new military technology in the Southeast.

The Ottomans' firearms were not lagging behind, and they also developed a corresponding set of firearms tactics. The European military attachés at the time were amazed by the elites of Jenichery.

Through hearsay from some businessmen, the specious training methods and military formations would have to change the tactics that Yenicherry had practiced for a long time. Sokulu Pasha always felt that this was very inappropriate.

But he didn't dare to dissuade Suleiman, just like he didn't dare to dissuade Suleiman not to go to war personally.

The sad-looking Sokulu Pasha returned to his mansion and began to promote Yanichery's military reforms.

Spain.

Philip II did not know the huge defeat of his fleet, which was wiped out in Manila.

What he was worried about now was not the distant east.

Spain today is a vast empire.

Philip II was not only the King of Spain, but also the protector of many regions, and he also had many inherited territories.

The most serious commotion now is in the Netherlands under the rule of Philip II.

The Netherlands was originally a key area for the spread of Protestantism.

In 1550, Spain issued the "Bloody Edict", which stipulated that it was prohibited to copy, preserve, distribute, and trade the collected works of reformers such as Luther or Calvin. All of them would be persecuted by the Inquisition, and men would be beheaded and women buried alive.

After Philip II succeeded to the throne, in order to deal with the Spanish royal family's increasingly poor finances, he continued to increase taxes on the Dutch.

He squeezed out the power of the Dutch nobles, abolished the privileges of merchants to trade directly with the Spanish colonies, and refused to repay the national debt, causing the Dutch bankers to suffer huge losses; then he increased the tax on wool purchased in Spain, causing the Dutch bankers to suffer huge losses. Wool imports were reduced by forty percent.

At this time, the Southeast's idea of ​​"sovereignty lies with the people" was introduced to the European continent through trade.

The Netherlands was the first to translate Su Ze's "New Meanings of the Three Classics". They were not interested in the Eastern meanings, but were very interested in the anti-monarchy part.

Philip II looked at the report of the Inquisition and couldn't help cursing:

"It's all Dongfang's fault!"