As the saying goes, people fight for a breath, Buddha fights for a stick of incense. Many things are like sailing against the current. If you don’t advance, you will retreat. The battle for national destiny is a real zero-sum game. The winner can have everything, while the loser can only be the one.

Slaughter.

The Ming Dynasty now leads other countries on the small break ball, but other countries have not completely given up their pursuit of the Ming Dynasty.

Even France, known as the most loyal ally of the Ming Dynasty, never gave up on industrial research. It was just that the investment in many aspects was less than before, far from being able to survive completely without the Ming Dynasty.

However, other countries did not reduce their investment like France. Instead, they continued to increase their investment in scientific research. After the Habsburg family and the Ottomans were sanctioned by the Ming Dynasty's steam engines and muskets, many countries have realized the importance of scientific and technological research and development.

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Although other countries invested far less manpower and material resources than the Ming Dynasty, this is still not a good signal for the Ming Dynasty.

If we want to continue to maintain the Ming Dynasty's leading advantage over other countries, even if the Ming Dynasty does not increase its investment, it must at least maintain the existing investment scale.

Then there is the consumption of 100 million taels of silver every year, which is often the kind that cannot even hear a sound.

But Liu Huaiwen also knew in his heart that what Zhu Jinsong said was correct. The competition between the Ming Dynasty and other countries was like a heavy car going uphill, and there was no chance to stop and take a breath.

Liu Huaiwen also made a ruthless move and said gritting his teeth: "This time I will recruit more students from the Ottoman and Habsburg family to see how much oil can be scraped off the Ottoman and Habsburg family, and then the treasury will collect it.

All of them were all all to the Royal Academy!”

Zeng Cheng looked at Liu Huaiwen in surprise and said, "I didn't expect that you, Mr. Liu, would have such a generous time?"

Liu Huaiwen snorted and ignored Zeng Cheng.

However, Zhu Jinsong smiled and waved his hand, saying, "It is true that the Ming Dynasty wants to increase its investment in the Royal Academy, but it has not reached this level. Many times, it is not necessary to cheat people without real money and silver.

As long as you can drag them into the quagmire."

Zeng Cheng was stunned at first, and after he realized it, he stroked his beard and said, "I'm going to ask the colleagues of the Royal Academy to take time to write a few more articles in the "Da Ming newspaper".

Liu Huaiwen and others first looked at Zeng Cheng, then looked at Zhu Jinsong who also nodded and smiled, but they didn't understand what the monarch and minister were fighting.

Zhu Jinsong smiled slightly and said to Zeng Cheng: "Zeng Qing can tell me in detail."

Zeng Cheng bowed and said to Liu Huaiwen and others: "For example, steam engines, we all know now that sealing has a great impact on steam engines. Even if all other parts are exactly the same, as long as the seal is slightly worse, then

In a slightest bit, the performance of this steam engine will be different by thousands of miles."

"Now, all countries are working hard to study steam engines, among which our Ming Dynasty is the best. If we don't talk about the impact of sealing properties on the performance of steam engines, we only talk about the impact of fuels used on the steam engine, and the size of the boiler will be on the steam engine.

What impact does it have? You guess what will other countries do?"

"If this kind of thing is only nine out of ten articles that can really win their trust, that fake article is enough to drag other countries into the wrong direction."

"In this way, their R&D speed will slow down, and if they slow down, it is actually equivalent to our Ming Dynasty getting faster."

"Isn't it easier to achieve the goal in just a few articles than to spend money on the Royal Academy crazy?"

After hearing Zeng Cheng say this, Liu Huaiwen, who was just looking like he was sacrificing his life, suddenly became happy and said, "This is good, this is good, it can save money and cheat the barbarians. This trick is good."

Zhu Jinsong also smiled and nodded, saying, "Since you want to cheat, you have to do all the tricks."

"Your Ministry of Revenue will send someone to the Royal Academy to see the manpower and material resources that the Royal Academy is expected to invest in the next few years, and will be lenient to the calculation."

"The Ministry of Works also needs to send someone to the Royal Academy to see if there are any places nearby that are more suitable for expanding the Academy."

"And the Ottoman side, the ones that should be pitted are still pitted."

"Zeng Qing remembers to send someone to contact the special envoy sent by Ottoman to discuss the matters of the concession with him."

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Selim III has been in a bad mood recently.

Ottoman was actually quite unlucky recently like an old dog lying on the roadside, neither biting nor barking, but inexplicably kicked and almost skinned and eaten.

Meat.

Where can I make sense when I step on it?

In fact, Selim also knew in his heart that the reason why Ottoman was almost killed was mainly because Ottoman had begun to go downhill now. If he was not strong enough, he would naturally be remembered. The only difference is that it is

He was killed by Ming or by those countries in Europe.

The only way to avoid being peeled and eaten is to make the Ottoman stronger, and there is no other way.

But everyone understands the truth, but not everyone can do it when it really needs to be executed on paper.

For example, Selim wanted to change the Ottoman military system and wanted to build an Ottoman army from scratch, based on the Ming army or the French army of England, but the noble forces of all sizes in the Ottoman country disagreed.

at this point.

There is nothing else, interests are affected.

The aristocratic forces whose interests were affected opposed the military reforms proposed by Selim III, and then extended the other reform plans proposed by Selim III. Later, they probably opposed it simply for the sake of opposition.

Just like the Lord Donglin during the Tianqi and Chongzhen periods.

Whether it is for the Ottoman is not important, nor is it beneficial or disadvantageous to the Ottoman. What is important is that Selim III must never successfully carry out military system reform.

And Selim III was not like his ancestors.

Since Ahmed I abolished the "Classic Order", the princes of Ottoman Sudan no longer faced the bloody battle for the throne, and their mentality inevitably relaxed.

However, Ahmed I did not just abolish the "parent killing order", he also established a new Sudan inheritance system: before Lao Sudan passed away, his children would no longer bear the responsibility of governing the country.

To put it bluntly, in most cases, as long as it is not the turn of Lao Sudan's children to inherit the throne, they don't even have the opportunity to go outside the Yinstanbul Palace.

This policy had a devastating impact on the Ottoman royal family, which made Lao Sudan's children become prisoners locked in palaces. They had neither experience in governing the country nor understood people's livelihood and politics.

In this way, Sudan, the newly promoted Sudan, has been developed by women in the deep palace since childhood. Apart from the pleasant palace life, she basically doesn't care much about everything else, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she is a wine bag.

Selim III was probably similar to the Guangxu, the Qing Dynasty who wanted to carry out reforms. He wanted to change the world for the Ottoman Empire, but he could not deal with the Ottoman nobles, big and small.

With the Ming Dynasty announcing the opening of the Ottoman Empire and taking practical actions, the Ottoman has now lost several oil production areas, and is an oil production area that is particularly close to the sea outlet.

In other words, although the Ottoman still has a large number of oil fields, the oil in these oil fields has no channel to sell.

Europa?

The most powerful England and France on Europa were the lackeys planted by the Ming Empire in Europa!

Habsburg family?

The Habsburg family is now in a fortunate position!

Besides, the only country in the entire small break ball now is only needed by Ming. Other countries have not much demand for oil. Even if the Ottomans can sell oil, they don’t know who to sell it.

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Selim III was very upset.

What's even more terrible is that the Ottoman Empire has shown signs of instability. Selim III wanted to reform the Ottoman Empire's military system, which aroused the dissatisfaction of a large number of nobles, who are now secretly contacting Mustafa.

Mustafa was the son of Selim III's uncle Abdul Hamid III.

From a blood relationship, since Selim III was able to inherit the position of Sudan by Abdul Hamid III in the form of her uncle and nephew, then Abdul Hamid I's own son Muss

Tafa naturally also has the qualifications to inherit Sudan's position.

Selim III also knew very well that if he offended those traditional nobles, he would definitely attract crazy counterattacks from those nobles, but he didn't know when they would launch them.

If you want to avoid being imprisoned, the best way is to kill the nobles before they launch a counterattack.

Then the question returned to its original origin.

The Ottoman Empire implemented the Timoluo system and the Guram system. The Timoluo system is probably equivalent to the reserve army system, and the Guram system is probably equivalent to the elite standing army system.

However, the army under these two systems, especially the Kapkuru Guards cavalry under the Guram system, were the main bodies of the traditional nobles who happened to be the objects that Selim III wanted to reform.

If Selim III wants to kill the traditional nobles, he has to rely on the Kapukuru guard cavalry under the Gulam system, and the members of the Kapukuru guard cavalry are all the targets that Selim III wants to kill.

As for the Ottoman Sudan guard...

Although the name of this army contains the word "Person Guard" and is indeed loyal to Ottoman Sudan, this army also happens to be on the list of troops that Selim III wants to reform.

This is a dead cycle.

Of course, Selim III has no other way to go. Selim III can first establish a new army that follows the Ming army or the French and English army. After training a certain amount of combat effectiveness, use this army to kill it.

Those nobles who objected to themselves.

The question is how long will those nobles give themselves preparation time?

Put your heart in mind. No one can hold the knife around your neck. It is impossible for someone to slowly wait for someone to sharpen the knife, right? The reason why those traditional nobles have not yet started it is mainly because the Ming army is still there.

Attack the Ottomans, once the Ming army stopped the offensive...

So, Selim III had a headache.

What made Selim III even more troubled was that the plenipotentiary sent to the Ming Dynasty had not yet come back according to the information Selim III learned, before and after the small pot-breaking meeting held in the Ming Dynasty.

It only took half a month to go, and the special envoy I sent should have come back long ago.

But now, the envoy has not come back, and even a reliable news has not been sent back!

If you think about it better, perhaps Ming Guo allowed Ottoman to join the small pot and was discussing the process with the special envoy?

But if you think about it badly, is the special envoy you sent to have been destroyed by the Emperor of Ming?

It would be better if it was the former, and it would be better if it was the latter...
To be continued...