I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Can't beat you Mongols, can't you beat you?

Therefore, the Tsarist Russian government also decided to implement the strategy of making up for what was lost in the east.

That is to say, what was lost from Da Ming must be retrieved from Da Ming's allies himself!

However, Germany is too hard, Italy is too far away, tall and short, fat and thin, only Ottoman chicken is the most suitable!

So on the one hand, they resolutely opposed Britain and France to accept the Ottoman surrender, and on the other hand, they stepped up their attack on Istanbul.

At this time, the situation is already very dangerous. Akshan understands that if Abdul Hamid II wins the support of Britain and France and succeeds in ascending the throne, then his uncle who has deposed him one after another, his brother, will actually send him to the throne. The person on the throne is the best target for him to kill animals and sacrifice the flag to establish his legitimacy.

In order to save himself, Akshan finally contacted Tsarist Russia and opened the gate of Istanbul overnight before Abdul Hamid II ascended the throne.

On June 1875, 6, just 7 days after Abdul was imprisoned, the combined forces of the First and Sixth Armies of Tsarist Russia, the Caucasus Army, the Finnish Army, and the Orenburg Army totaled 6 people. Swing into Istanbul.

The crescent banner symbolizing the Ottoman imperial power slowly fell, and the double-headed eagle flag symbolizing Rome was raised high.

The pro-Western Abdul Hamid II and Prime Minister Midhat Pasha fled to Madrid with the help of British and French agents and the acquiescence of Tsarist Russia.

And Abdul, the former sultan, an old friend of Zhu Fugui and William, as one of the culprits who started the war, will be tried publicly.

In addition to the public trial, Tsarist Russia is also preparing to organize a grand celebration on that day to celebrate the Third Roman Empire's restoration of the King's Castle after 422 years and the restoration of the glory of Byzantium.

At that time, Tsar Alexander II Nikolaevich will be officially crowned as Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople with the highest ceremony of the Orthodox Church.

By that time, the title of Alexander II Nikolaevich will become:

The No.90 four emperors of the Byzantine Empire, the No.16 Tsar of the Romanov Dynasty, the No.20 monarch of the Russian Empire, and concurrently the "Liberator" of the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Finland!

His Majesty Zhu Fugui, who can compete with him in terms of name, is probably the only one who appeared in Washima newspapers.

And this grand ceremony will also invite the British Empire, the French Third Republic, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Greece (pseudo), the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Portugal, the Kingdom of Montenegro (pseudo), the Kingdom of Belgium (government-in-exile), the Empire of Brazil, the Republic of Chile (Government-in-exile), the Argentine Republic, the Eastern Coast Republic of Uruguay (Government-in-exile), and other Christian states sent senior officials or members of the royal family to participate.

Even pagan countries such as Persia (pseudo), Egypt (false), Kokand Khanate (government in exile), Bukhara Khanate (government in exile), and Khiva Khanate (government in exile) will send representatives to attend.

In addition to the trial of former Sultan Abdul and the coronation of Alexander II Nikolaevich, there will be a third event.

That is the only daughter of Alexander II, the sixth princess of the empire, 22-year-old Princess Maria Alexandrovna, will marry the second son of Queen Victoria of the British Empire, the 31-year-old Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Ulster and Earl of Kent. Prince Fred completes the wedding.

Princess Maria once participated in the first Olympic Games in Dewu seven years as a representative of Tsarist Russia.

Just one year before she went to Daming to get acquainted with the local conditions and customs of Ming Dynasty, that is, in 1868, Maria, who was only 15 years old at the time, met her former aunt, Princess Julia Hauke ​​of Battenberg, in Eugenheim. Prince Alfred who came to visit his sister Princess Alice.

Prince Alfred, then 24, was already as much a seasoned lover as his older brother.

Unlike his elder brother who just likes toying with the earl's wife and was turned against green in the end, Alfred prefers young girls.

Princess Maria became his target.

For a 15-year-old girl, Alfred easily won her heart.

Victoria believed that there had never been a precedent for a British prince to marry a member of the Romanov family, and that Maria's Orthodox beliefs and family background would bring a lot of trouble, so she opposed it.

As for the Tsar, he was also worried because the anti-British sentiment in the Russian Empire had not subsided after the Crimean War.

At the same time, Queen Maria (mother and daughter with the same name, the mother is the youngest daughter of the Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt) also thinks that the British customs are weird and the British are ruthless. She is convinced that her daughter will not be happy there. Thereby come forward to stop.

So the marriage was over.

But then the international situation turned around, and Britain and Russia changed from enemies fighting against each other around the world to allies who reported to each other for warmth, so the marriage between the only daughter of the tsar and the second son of the Queen of England became extremely valuable.

And through the celebration of the restoration of the King's Castle, Tsarist Russia hopes to allow its princess to complete the wedding in Tsarist Russia, or in other words, the land of the Eastern Roman Empire at this most glorious moment.

This will play a major role in spreading the glory of the empire and adjusting the soft power balance with Britain.

The date of the celebration was finally finalized on August 8th.

This day will surely be the ultimate carnival that attracts the attention of ancient civilizations and old rulers all over the world.

Chapter 748

Topkapi Palace, formerly the most important residence and official residence of the Sultan in Istanbul, was also a place for state ceremonies and royal entertainment, and is now used as the temporary headquarters of the Tsarist Russian Conquest Army.

"Topkapi" means "Gate of the Cannons" and gets its name from the fact that its walls are filled with cannons.

But the old brass cannons, inlaid with jewels, gold, and ivory, have now been dismantled by the gray cattle, ready to be smelted to cast a bronze statue of the real Roman Emperor Alexander II.

When Akshan walked out of the palace, a bright red five-fingerprint was clearly visible on his face.

Just now, the arrogant commander-in-chief of the Russian occupation army, Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich, the emperor's brother, mocked Akshan in person, called him a coward who betrayed the country, and gave him a big blow pocket.

"Nonsence!"

Just as Akshan was about to spit, he was glared at by the Russian sentinel at the door. He quickly swallowed the thick phlegm, and muttered in a low voice: "Uncivilized Slavic animals! Even the Tatars know that they should treat the pugs who come here kindly. The enemies of the enemy are my heroes, I don’t even know such a simple truth, a bunch of damn bumpkins!”

It's a pity that Akshan is not a time traveler. He doesn't know how a guy in later generations who personally landed the red flag over Moscow was kicked around by Anza Group as a mangy dog.

Compared with those pirate nations, even the Jianzhou Jurchen could be regarded as having some face.

Akshan sighed, turned around, raised his head and looked at the extremely solemn and luxurious palace in the past, but now it is full of desolation.

Once upon a time, when the Sultan snorted contemptuously here, all Europe would tremble.

But now, those Slavic farmers who can only grow potatoes on the banks of the Don River, wearing tattered leather boots, walk proudly on this ancient city wall.

For this, Akshan was very heartbroken.

Although he opened the city gate and brought in the Russian soldiers, in short, he was very heartbroken.

Of course, the main reason for the heartache was the predictable treachery of the Russians.

The Russians who originally promised to support the new sultan to come to power, and then let him serve as the auxiliary minister, have not expressed anything for a long time.

Akshan couldn't imagine, could it be that the tsar's mind was filled with things wiped by his left hand?

Crimea and the northern coast of the Black Sea are fine, but if Russia wants to annex the entire Ottomans and the Anatolian Peninsula, isn't this a fantasy?

As a veteran aristocrat of the Ottoman Empire, Akshan knew very well what a heavy price the empire had paid to completely rule the Christians and Shiites in the territory for hundreds of years.

But it is clear that the Christians in the Balkans and Greece today, and the Shiites on the banks of the Euphrates, are still alienated from the empire and are ready to betray at any time.

Hundreds of years of hard work can't even match the power of half a page of scriptures.

Of course, behind this is the Russians who are fueling the flames under the banner of "saving Christians under the oppression of the Turkish Empire" and "protecting the Slavic brothers", and there are also reasons for the Persian infiltration of Baghdad.

But the most important thing is that the natural division caused by different beliefs has been unable to be resolved by the exhaustive methods of successive sultans.

In the same situation as Ottoman, there is also Ottoman's old rival, the Austrian Empire.

They also face trouble, and must carefully maintain the domestic balance.

If the Russians wanted to annex the whole of Ottoman, with their crude art of governance, there is no doubt that it would explode!

It is precisely because of this understanding that Akshan, who believes that the Russians will definitely support himself as a puppet, just like the kings supported by Napoleon, opened the gate of Istanbul in spite of the world.

In the end, he betrayed his country with great difficulty, but the Russians made him lose so thoroughly.

After all, Akshan still underestimated Tsarist Russia's endless desire for land, and underestimated their obsession with restoring the King's Castle and recasting Rome, at least Eastern Rome.

If Akshan could have a better understanding of the Russian Empire, at least he could study it. In the past year, the best-selling books in Moscow and St. Petersburg other than the Bible would not have made such a misjudgment.

Because the best-selling book in Russia for the past year was actually an officially banned novel called "Your Empire".

If he can read it and take a look, he will understand that the Russians will never give up King Castle and Asia Minor, which was once controlled by Byzantium.

Unfortunately, there is no "if" in reality.

Now Akshan, who welcomed the Russians, has been abandoned like a shoe. Not only was he deprived of the command of the Sudanese Guards, even his residence was robbed by the Armenian militia.

Akshan vowed that if one day he could regain the power of the empire, he would kill all these damned Armenians!

"My lord, our carriage has been stolen!"

The coachman's body was covered with leather boot marks, and he cried, "Those Russians said that there are not enough carriages to transport food, and they want to requisition our carriages urgently!"

"damn it!"

Akshan jumped up angrily, "Is there still the king's law? Is there still a law? No one cares about it? The military discipline of these Russians is really bad, worse than our Ottomans!"

But obviously, no one will answer his question.

Except for the backbone troops of Tsarist Russia, most of the other troops are militias and Cossack cavalry from various places.

These people themselves were forcibly recruited by the tsar, and the military expenses they gave were pitifully small. If these guys have good military discipline, they will be damned.

Of course Akshan is aware of this. He went to Grand Duke Hail Nikolaevitch to complain about the robbery of his mansion before, and he was physically beaten in the face by the other party in public. Now that the carriage was robbed, he dared not go to anyone again. Wronged.

Incompetent and furious for a while, Akshan said to the coachman, "Go back by yourself, master, I will take the subway."

"But master...your safety..."

The coachman couldn't help persuading.

You know, there are more than 100 or [-] people in Istanbul who want to kill Akshan.

It is not too much to say that Akshan is a street mouse, and everyone gets it and punishes him.

However, Akshan saw it very clearly, and said: "It's okay, look at my current attire, sir, can anyone recognize me as Akshan Erkoo, the most loyal commander of the guards of His Majesty the Sultan? Besides, Those poor ghosts don't know how to take the subway, well, let's do it!"

After sending away the only coachman, Akshan took out more than a dozen Akche from his pocket, took out one, and put the rest close to his body.

Chapter 749

Akçe silver coins were the official currency of Ottoman Turkey, but were of very small quality.

An Akche silver coin is only 0.8 grams, which is approximately equal to 0.024 Ming Yuan, equivalent to RMB 6.

It is hard for outsiders to imagine that the ministers who had just deposed two sultans now only have these coins in their pockets.

In fact, Akshan certainly still has a lot of money.

In the previous cement corruption case alone, Akshan earned at least 30 yuan, equivalent to 7500 million yuan.

It can be said that the wealth owned by Akshan is definitely enough for an ordinary Ottoman shepherd to eat and wear for tens of thousands of lifetimes.

It's just that the money that was hidden at home was either stolen by the damned Armenians, or swept up by defected servants.

Fortunately, at least there is still a small amount of money, and Akshan has deposited it in the British Schroeder Bank and the Daming Royal Savings Bank in an anonymous manner.

In troubled times, hedging bets is a necessary cultivation for a veteran nobleman.

It’s just that the plan couldn’t keep up with the changes. Now that the Russians entered the city, the Istanbul branch of the Daming Royal Bank was ordered to close down, the vault was robbed, and the bank staff were also imprisoned together with the Daming Minister in Istanbul and other diplomatic personnel.

Together with Abdul and others, they will be tried by the Tsar himself on August 8.

This is obviously a flagrant violation of the international practice of not targeting diplomatic officials.

In ancient China, there was also a saying that the two armies fought without beheading.

In this regard, the British, who have always advertised as defenders of the international order, did not raise any objections.

In particular, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill angrily pointed out that his third son was serving as the Minister of the British Empire to the Qing Empire in Beijing, and was brutally sentenced to "linchi" by the Ming people.

It was the Ming people who first blatantly violated international norms and set a bad example.

However, the spokesperson of Daming Honglu Temple quickly pointed out that what Joseph Churchill did in Peking was extremely inconsistent with his status as a diplomat.

The Ming side has sufficient evidence to prove that he is related to several immoral cases and directly participated in the war between the British army and the Ming Dynasty. He is a clear war criminal, not a diplomat.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty also gave the heirs of Joseph Churchill preferential treatment, provided a lifetime employment contract, and enjoyed the establishment of civil servants.

The Minister of the Ming Dynasty in Istanbul was completely different from Joseph Churchill. He was just a peace-loving agent of fermented fruit juice, and he never did anything inconsistent with his diplomatic status.

Therefore, the sophistry of the British side is purely confusing right and wrong, pointing a deer into a horse, setting up two sets of standards, and putting on two faces.

The Ming Dynasty ordered the Tsarist Russian government to rein in the precipice, release the illegally detained non-military personnel of the Ming Dynasty, and compensate for mental damage, lost wages, and medical expenses, totaling 12 Ming Yuan.

Eventually, unsurprisingly, the matter turned into a war of words.

Therefore, it is impossible for Akshan to get money from Daming Royal Savings Bank in the short term.

As for the British bank, it is obvious that the office in Istanbul has been closed by Abdul for a long time, and it is impossible to reopen it in the short term.

So right now Akeshang has nothing to save, but he can't get any money at all.

In fact, even if he could take it, he didn't dare to take it.

Under the eyes of the Russians, no matter how much they take, they will be thrown into the sea, and there will be no return.

Akshan could only watch helplessly as his money denominated in British pounds depreciated wildly while he stored it in the British bank, while the money from Daming steadily appreciated at an annualized rate of 1.20.

Therefore, Akshan is now at the end of his rope, and even has to save money to pay his servants for subway tickets.

Akshan lowered his hat a little, and raised the collar of his woolen robe as much as possible.