Chapter 57 Work Together!

In response to this situation, Selim decided to make some improvements to the original land system while establishing local administrative agencies.

The Sultan continued.

"Of course, the state will not take these lands for free.

According to the administrative divisions mentioned earlier, let's take the province (i.e. the district in the previous article), city, county, and township as an example.

Every family or individual who surrenders the right to collect taxes on land equivalent to a city can obtain the right to recommend county-level officials to the Sultan.

The rest, and so on, I won't say more.

As for serfdom, each family that owns slaves will count the number of slaves and the state will pay to redeem them. What do you think?"

As soon as the Sultan finished speaking, everyone immediately looked at Manuk Kara Osman, who was the largest serf owner in the empire, no one else.

Not only that, this person's army was also quite strong. In the unrest in the previous few months, it was this person who helped the Sultan stabilize the situation in eastern Anatolia and Mesopotamia.

It can be said that the Sultan can force anyone here to agree to his conditions. After all, everyone has something to do with Aladdin's rebellion, and they have no soldiers, so they naturally have no courage to fight hard.

But this one is different. As one of the meritorious officials, if the Sultan does things like killing the donkey after it has done its work, destroying the bridge after crossing the river, and abandoning the dog after the rabbit is dead, how can he be an emperor.

As long as the Sultan dares to do it, some people who have not been liquidated and have escaped the disaster will dare to contact Aladdin Pasha who fled to Russia to let the Sultan understand what the iron fist of internal and external cooperation is.

The Austrian and Russian intervention forces plus Kara Osman and the armies of the Syrian and Arab nobles are enough to cut off Egypt's support for Anatolia, and these Balkan wastes can only watch from the sidelines. Overthrowing the Sultan is just around the corner.

While the remnants were frantically thinking about it, Manuk Kara Osman made an answer that made everyone unbelievable.

"I will obey your will, Your Majesty. Your words are the creed of the Kara Osman family. Serfdom should have been abandoned by the times. Accepting the leadership of the Sultan is what every citizen of the empire should do."

A group of participants were all stunned by Manuk Kara Osman's speech. What's the situation? Are you pretending to be a saint? Everyone knows what kind of virtue your family has.

Blacks, whites, Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Circassians (a nation originating in Georgia, Muslims).

Calling the entire Kara Osman family a serf owner is simply an insult to your family. It's almost the same to say that they are big slave traders. There are all kinds of nationalities, just like a collector.

But everyone has no way, because the intelligence is asymmetric. They don't know what the Sultan used to win over the old man Manuk.

Even if they knew, it would be impossible to win Manuk's support in such a short time.

Looking at the faces of the officials, Selim felt a burst of laughter and waved his hand.

"Since there are no objections, let's move on to the next round.

About the reorganization of the empire's army.

I have a proposal."

Selim was halfway through his speech and was about to talk a lot, but he found that the venue was a little too quiet.

The Sultan looked down and saw that some of the participants had already started to slack off.

"Everyone, pay attention. This meeting is very important. We are all one of the helmsmen of the Ottoman Empire. We need to work together!"

The Sultan's voice was like a thunderclap, and many officials who had been distracted immediately turned their attention back to the meeting in front of them.

But everyone really didn't want to listen to the meeting. A Diwan meeting was no different from the Sultan's personal speech. What a stand-alone meeting, the online version was shut down, right?

Unfortunately, the Sultan didn't want to pay attention to everyone's reactions. He continued his personal speech with the mentality of "Although you are unhappy with me, you just can't get rid of me."

"Listen carefully, everyone. The traditional army is no longer competent to defend the empire, so I decided..."

While Selim was still holding his dictatorial meeting in the Topkapi Palace, France had already used its traditional ability - wrangling.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of Napoleon's capture of Louis XVI, Roland successfully overthrew the current leader of the Girondists, Brissot, and became the leader of the National Constituent Assembly.

Although Robespierre was attacked by Roland, he refused to admit it and instead accused Roland of knowing the news that the king had fled Paris.

With his tough political style and revolutionary attitude, Robespierre successfully drove the former chairman of the Jacobin Party out of office and became the left-wing leader of the National Constituent Assembly.

As for Count Mirabeau and General Lafayette, the former had despaired of Louis XVI. He committed suicide on the day Louis XVI was captured and brought back to Paris, leaving a message.

With my death, the last remnants of the monarchy will also die.

——Mirabeau said this to Talleyrand before his death

Talleyrand recorded on January 9, 1790: "The blood of the count dyed the bathroom red. It was the last struggle of a man who tried to keep the king and hoped for the happiness of the people during the revolution.

The mad dog from Provence died. He was neither assassinated nor committed suicide. He was just smashed to pieces in the face of the torrent of the times and could not escape."

As for Lafayette, when Napoleon welcomed the king back, he tried to take the king over and put him under his protection, but he failed.

After hearing Lafayette's request, the National Guard mutinied.

The loyalty cultivated by the Bourbon royal family for hundreds of years was destroyed in less than a few months in the French Revolution.

Lafayette was expelled from the country and went to England, waiting for the day to return.

At this point, the constitutional monarchy, which should have stepped down in 1792, left the game early with the suicide of Count Mirabeau and the expulsion of Lafayette.

The Girondists, representing the industrial and commercial bourgeoisie, controlled France. The victorious Roland was very happy. He awarded Napoleon the rank of major general and appointed the latter as the Paris governor.

Since the outbreak of the French Revolution, the brother of French Queen Marie Antoinette, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold, has been concerned about the safety of his sister and her family.

He became more and more worried, but was afraid that interfering in French state affairs would make their situation more dangerous.

However, after the disaster on the border and the great changes in Paris, Leopold felt it necessary to express his concerns.

Therefore, he invited King Frederick William II of Prussia and Count Artois, the brother of Louis XVI, to Pillnitz Castle outside Dresden.

On January 15, 1790, the three issued a joint statement here. The three parties who signed the statement declared that the plight of King Louis XVI of France had become "a matter of concern to all monarchs in Europe."

If other powers are willing to cooperate, they will be ready to restore the true monarchy in France.

Leopold knew that William Pitt's government in London would never support such an action, but he hoped that this statement would at least give a certain degree of comfort to his sister, brother-in-law and the French royalists in exile abroad.

Maybe he didn't think that doing so would have serious consequences, but who knows?

Some book friends felt that I didn't promote the plot in the last chapter. I thought about it and decided to publish a single chapter to explain this kind of popular science in the future.

Thank you for your understanding, and by the way, please read it.