The Turkish Empire...is coming to an end!
When the summer of 1829 in the Western calendar was approaching, almost everyone who cared about current affairs believed that the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which had been in power for 530 years and occupied the castle for 376 years, had come to an end.
Among them, even Mahmud II, the Sultan of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, was very convinced that he was the last Sultan of the Ottoman Turkish Empire - how could he not be the last? After entering Rumelia, that group of barbaric Rakshasa people transformed into Romans who came back to restore their country!
The Sultan had received an urgent report from Hussein Pasha who was stationed on the front line of Edirne (Adriaple), and learned that the Rakshasa people had impatiently launched the Roman eagle banner they had prepared long ago. The Tsar He began to call himself Caesar of the Roman Empire, and also awarded the 22 Rakshasa infantry and cavalry divisions he led with the legion designation of the Roman Empire.
Under Nicholas I's saucy maneuvers, the Orthodox Christians in Greece and Rumelia were all excited... They really thought that it was not the bear but the Roman king they had been waiting for day and night. They The Roman motherland will soon regain its glory.
Of course, this view cannot be said to be wrong. Rome, it's very Roman for a barbarian commander to become the emperor! Wasn't Nicholas I just a barbarian general who loved Rome, believed in the Orthodox Church, and theoretically inherited part of the legal traditions of the Palaeolian dynasty?
As long as he can regain Constantinople, which fell in 376 years, then he will undoubtedly be the new Roman emperor!
So after Nicholas I's "Roman Barbarian Legion" entered the northern part of Rumelia Province (Bulgaria), they were welcomed by the local "Roman remnants" who still adhered to the Orthodox faith. People held salt and bread, shed tears and sang the song "You Will Return Like Lightning" in memory of Constantine XI. There were also many passionate young people who directly joined the "Roman Barbarian Legion"... ..Hardly any Orthodox subject of the Turkish Empire was aware that their Turkish motherland was being invaded by the Rakshasa!
But the Turkish officials and Tianfang believers in this place suffered. They were either killed by the fanatical Orthodox Christians, or they greased their feet, left behind the properties they had managed to buy, and fled back to Constantiniya, bringing with them one after another. A sad news that directly hits people's hearts.
When the news of the "Return of Rome" came to the capital of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, most residents of the city felt deep despair. Because most of the residents in this city are neither the Fanars, the remnants of Rome, nor the low-class Christian Armenians from Asia Minor, nor even the serious Turks, but the ethnic group that has been suppressed and suppressed by the Sudan. The disbanded Guards, descendants and family members of the officers and soldiers of the Janissary Regiment.
The early members of the Janissary Legion were boys from Christian families in the Balkans ruled by Turkey. They were forcibly conscripted to Constantiniya, grew up in the barracks of the Yenicheri Legion, and received the influence of Tianfang religion and strict military training. Of course, they also had to learn culture. When they grew up to be qualified Yenicheri warriors, they were required to make the military camp their home and the Sultan their father. They were not allowed to get married and have children before retiring from the army. And when they reached the age when they had to retire from the legion, they were already elderly, had lived in Constantiniya for half their lives, and no longer had anything to do with their original families. Moreover, they still have their careers and circles in Constantinople - they are not old beggars with nothing, they are people who are quite close to the power circle of the empire and can easily obtain official positions. Therefore, most of them have the conditions to get married, have children, and leave descendants.
And as more and more descendants of the Jenichery Legion... Constantiniya gradually became a city for the legion's families and descendants, even with the promotion of these legion's families and descendants , the "Scout system" of the Yenicherry Legion and the tradition of "not marrying a wife or having children" before retiring were also completely lost. So the legion instituted a hereditary military service system, and the descendants of the Nayeniceri legion began to join the army for generations, and obtained official positions through the army. In this way, they evolved into the Ottoman version of the "Eight Banners Nobles" entrenched in Constantinople. "Yes. The reason why the previous reforms of the Ottoman Turkish Empire were difficult was also because of their existence.
Even if Sultan Mahmud II suppressed the Yenicherry Army, he couldn't massacre all the residents and bureaucrats of his capital, right?
And to a certain extent, the Sultan himself, like Constantiniya's "Eight Banners", his Turkic blood has been so thin that it is not decent - there are no Turkic women in the Sultan's harem, they are all snatched Or bought white European beauties. Moreover, the Sultan did not trust the "Kings of the Valley" (Ottoman nobles) living in Asia Minor very much. What he trusted was Constantiniya's "own people".
Therefore, Sultan Mahmoud's suppression of the Yenicheri Legion was actually an internal strife among the Constantinians... But no matter how the internal strife was, everyone was a grasshopper on a rope.
For them, the empire was big, but all they really owned was Constantiniya!
If they lose Constantinople, they will have nothing and nowhere to go, and the new Romans will not allow them to continue to exist - that is the bear version of Rome, so cruel!
In the early morning of May 5th, the Sultan, who had just completed the morning ritual, had already put on a Western-style military uniform and his own little red hat. Surrounded by a group of pashas and new army officers, he boarded the gate of Topkapi Palace. building. The nine-horse-tail station flag, which symbolizes the Sultan's personal conquest, and the green holy flag of the Tianfang religion, which symbolizes the authority of the Caliphate, are also slowly raised on the tower at the main entrance of Topkapi Palace.
The square outside the palace gate seemed a bit noisy and chaotic at this time, and it was also crowded with people. There were probably 200,000 to 300,000 people crowded there. There were onlookers "Constantinyers" in the square - all women, children and elderly people; there were also young men wearing new army uniforms, little red hats on their heads, and carrying new British Bess rifles.
This city in despair has been fully mobilized!
When people in the square saw Sultan Mahmoud II, whom they hated but had to support, they all stopped talking and became quiet.
The Sultan looked at these people in the square who were almost bringing down the Ottoman Empire's national destiny. His nose felt sore and tears were about to fall. He managed to hold back from crying. Then he walked to a loudspeaker and spoke loudly. He opened his throat and started his mobilization speech loudly: "Compatriots... Although the Turkish Empire is large, we only have Constantiniya! Constantiniya is not only our home for generations, It’s also everything to us! If we lose Constantinople, we will all have nothing! You must have known that our enemies have already raised the flag of Rome... This means that there will be no relationship between us and them. There is no longer any compromise, there is no longer any kindness, there is no longer the possibility of coexistence. There is only life and death! Every Ottoman in Constantinople who believes in the true God now has only one choice, and that is to fight. Either die gloriously or win!
And I, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, the Caliph of the Celestial Sect, Mahmoud II, the shadow of the true God on earth, will go out with you to the front line of Edinel, where we will fight together and win together... ....I would rather die than take a step back! If we are destined to lose our lives in this battle to defend Constantiniya, then my soul will carry with me the souls of every warrior who fought and died with me... to God's Heaven! "
As soon as the Sultan finished speaking, the square of Topkapi Palace suddenly boiled with cheers, like a tsunami, rushing towards Sultan Mahmoud II. The Sultan closed his tears and listened to the last cheers of his people. .
"Long live the Sultan! Long live the Caliph! Long live the Ottoman Empire...!"
