Chapter 986
Suez City.
After the hustle and bustle of the day, when the morning sun shines on the earth again, when Alexander opened the door, he accidentally discovered that soldiers were everywhere on the street.
What's going on?
Is it the same as yesterday?
Yesterday they drove away the Chinese, who are they going to drive away today?
As a "Coptic", that is, an Egyptian who believes in Christianity, Alexander certainly had the consciousness of being a "five-class person". He hurriedly closed the door and then called his wife and children to hide.
Just as Alexander and such "five-class people" were hiding, Ahmed looked at the pools of blood on the ground and said to Ilya in Pasha's official residence.
"How are everyone's emotions?"
"Don't worry, no one is different."
He nodded and stared at the blood on the ground. It was the blood of several officials. They were unwilling to "rebellion" with him, Ahmed ordered.
"By the way, release all the pulp hands and give them weapons."
No sauna is left without sauna. In the Ottoman Empire, almost all saunana were slaves and captured Christians. Not only that, there were many children who were selected for "blood tribute" because they were not selected or because the army had no quota, they were thrown on saunanana to become saunana. They served their whole life of hard labor on the ship that was not seen in the light of day. Compared with those slaves, they did not need to wear shackles at most. But in fact, they were not much better than those slaves.
Serid, who was twenty years old, was the oarsman on the boat. He did not sleep in a dark cell like those Christian slaves, wearing shackles, but that was the case. He also had no freedom to enter and exit. For the guards, even if he had the name of the Green Church, what could he do?
There is no point in it.
Many people here are like him, taking away by Turkish officials in the "Blood Tribute", and then "voluntarily" trained and working on the farm. But in the end, they did not even take up the weapons given by the empire to fight, but were thrown into the dim cabin of the darkness and sunlight. For them, what is their only privilege compared to those slaves?
There is no need to eat pork.
In fact, they are just slaves...
Lying in the dark cell, Seyed recalled the past from time to time in his mind. His past had no place to remember. His memory was vague. The clearest part in his memory was the memory on the farm of the Anatolian man. It was there that he gave up the faith of Christ, converted to the Green Church, and became a Green Church, praying with them every day.
Then what?
Then he was thrown into this ghost place.
Just as he was recalling the past, suddenly, the door was pushed open, and a soldier shouted to him and the people in the room.
"You all come out. From today on, you are Lord Pasha's soldiers. You can get weapons, food, clothes, and you are free!"
Free!
Faced with such a reality, whether it was Seyed or the Christian slaves from Ukraine or Central and Southern Europe, they all looked at each other in shock. The sudden news made them even a little at a loss.
"Big, sir, are we free?"
"Yes, from now on, you are the soldiers of Ahmed Pasha!"
Weapons, clothing, food...
When all this was placed in front of these slaves, they didn't even know what to do. When thousands of sailboat slaves were released and became Ahmed's soldiers, Du Yuanwei and others were staring at the city they had just left yesterday with a surprised look on the two Ming cruisers.
"Is there any movement in the city?"
Du Yuanwei asked.
"Nothing mess!"
Li Yubai shook his head.
"It seems very calm. Neither the soldiers nor the people seem to think that there is anything wrong with Pasha doing this."
No one thinks there is anything wrong with rebellion!
This answer made Du Yuanwei stunned for a long time, and at this moment he heard Xu Fulin say.
"The general doesn't know that in the Ottomans, rebellion is the most common thing. If there were no one rebelling in that era, that would be unusual. Christians would rebel, the Greens would rebel, the people would rebel, and Pasha would rebel..."
Because he has been doing business in Ottoman for many years, Xu Fulin is very familiar with the situation here.
"The reason why everyone rebelled was that in Turkey, except for the noble Turks or descendants of the Prophets, the others were inferior "Turks". As for the inferior "Turks", they were not humans at all. These "people" were called "reaya" by the ruling class by the Ottoman Empire, and they were not even humans. The Ottomans did not hide anything about this. The inferior "Turks" were not humans, and they wanted the other party to be Turks?"
Xu Fulin's remarks made everyone feel silenced. The Ottomans' exploitation of all ethnic groups under their rule reached the point of "summit".
Why did the Ottoman rule for six hundred years not allow most Greeks to convert? To put it bluntly, it was because of exploitation that this empire was famous for its cruelty, because the bottom of the Green and Christian religions were all cattle and sheep, and they were all exploited by pain, which was nothing more than the difference between the fourth and fifth grades.
"Of course, it's even worse than a human being. It's not as good as a livestock. Naturally, you just want to kill and squeeze it if you want..."
Xu Fulin's words made Du Yuanwei and the others open their eyes wide. Perhaps they had witnessed the greed and tyranny of the Turks in Suez, but they would not treat the people as human beings, nor would they be so blatantly not treat the people as human beings.
Even the official documents do not call them "people", which simply subverts their imagination. Can there be such an official government in the world? In fact, they do not know that if history has not changed, similar fate will come to the Han people. In the eyes of those Qing Dynasty powerful people, the Han people are not human beings, and they also exert the Han people to the extreme.
Why did the Ottomans, Qing Dynasty and India become semi-colonial countries in modern times, while the latter was directly annexed, and the local princes who believed in the Green Church surrendered to Britain in order to maintain their own rule?
To put it bluntly, as colonists, they have never considered whether the country is strong or not, but their own rule and their own privilege. In this regard, all "colonists" throughout history have the same motivation.
This does not even require collusion or learning. It is a natural instinct. Only by doing all our efforts to weaken and exploit the ruled nation can we maintain our own rule.
"Aren't they afraid of the people's rebellion?"
"So, rebellion is common!"
Xu Fulin smiled.
"So, the Ottomans often mobilized Christian troops to massacre Anatolian Turks, and then mobilized Anatolian Turks to suppress Christian unrest in the Balkans, Greece, Armenia and other places. This is how they provoke conflicts and create conflicts, and then their rule can continue, you see..."
Pointing to Ahmed and others who had arrived at the port, Xu Fulin said.
"The troops commanded by Pasha, except for a few guards, are all Christians. Why is this happening? Because this is Egypt, the locals believe in the green religion. If Pasha rebelled, the Egyptians would not support them. If the Egyptians rioted, Pasha's army would be merciless when suppressing..."
This is the art of rulers!
It has to be admitted that as the few authors, the Turks have developed a set of dominance with fewer servants over the past few hundred years, and their dominance has proved to be successful. They may not be able to successfully keep the country strong, but at least they can successfully maintain their rule. They consolidate their rule here in an extremely cruel way, so that they can enjoy the privileges of the rulers.
However, now, all this is not important. In the past, Pasha's rebellion was difficult to win the support of the locals under the deliberate Turks, but now, Ahmed has the power that those people do not have, and he has the support of the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!