Constantinople is synonymous with a great city abroad.

During the era of Constantine the Great, the Roman Empire moved its capital to Constantinople, and later it went into division, and finally it finally split into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire.

The Eastern Empire experienced the rise and fall of 1,000 years later and gradually weakened. Finally, Constantinople was looted by the Crusaders and entered the Latin Empire period.

When the true Byzantine (analect of Eastern Rome) royal family took power again, the empire had become a small country.

At this time, the Ottoman Turkish Empire emerged. In 1453 AD, the Turkish army captured Constantinople and renamed the city to Istanbul. The Eastern Roman Empire was destroyed.

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At that time, the Eastern Roman face had already declined and was occupied by the Ottoman Empire.

In 1453, the territory was only left with the capital Constantinople and its surrounding areas, as well as part of the Greek Peloponnese Peninsula.

The reasons for its decline are:

1. Economically hindered by Venice. After losing customs income, the empire's monopoly position in business was gradually lost.

2. During several Crusades, soldiers from Western Europe ravaged the cities and villages, causing significant economic losses.

3. The Turks rose and eroded whales and swallowed the territory.

4. The king behind is very deceiving.

So much so that Caesar's glory, Roman inheritance, gold's trade route, burning sky fire, God's city walls, Christ's orthodox eagle, a thousand-year-old empire.

All of this will eventually lead to destruction!

Does it feel like it was a bit similar to when the Ming Dynasty was destroyed? Except that it was not affected by the Little Ice Age here.

Among the many ancient civilizations in human history, which one is enough to compete with the great Chinese civilization, or even even more... If you count it carefully, it is probably only the existence of the Roman Empire, which is definitely one of them!

Roman civilization and Chinese civilization happen to be located at the east and west ends of the Eurasian continent, and can be described as two brothers symmetrical on the left and right.

During its heyday, even the territory of these two empires was almost the same as their population.

Now, the Ottoman Empire, which publicly believed that it had accepted everything from the Roman Empire, has also ushered in the scene of his declining weather.

This is like an amazing cycle of reincarnation!

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Although this empire has not yet declined, it is desperate to end its end.

However, becoming a king of this country is almost no better than traveling to Emperor Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty.

The territory of the empire was once so vast and infinite. It can range from North Africa with yellow sand and scorching sun to humid and foggy Britain, and from the pyramids on the Nile River to the black forest on the Rhine River.

It took more than a year to get from one end of the empire to the other end of the empire.

However, the pace of history has slowly reached the present. It seems that the Ottoman Empire also showed signs of the collapse of the Roman Empire in the late period.

The empire's territory can only be described in five words now: a super mess!

The national treasury is like washing, and the rats can starve to death. Poverty and weak, strong enemies are surrounded by them, and the road is at the end. Internal power struggles continue to fight... It may fall apart due to the struggle between powerful ministers and the Presbyterian Church at any time.

Crossing the Bosphorus, you can often see the expeditionary forces of some enemy countries in Europe again, but they are unable to attack.

As the emperor of this empire, the poor king could only cry and pretend not to understand.

Although thanks to Constantinople's unique geographical transportation location, the trade market at the terminal is still prosperous. However, the oil and water are basically all bad debts, all of which are used as military expenses, or they are in the pockets of corrupt officials.

Especially a while ago, when I was worried that the bacterial disaster in Europe would spread here, it was closed for more than half a year and it was not available for use.

The Genoese and Venetians have been completely controlled by the business path. If you want to use force, you have to see if the church army and European countries that are standing behind them will ignore it.

There are only a little taxes in the country in business and service industries, which can be used by the emperor to barely maintain the country's operation.

To be honest, being the top leader in the late Ming Dynasty may not be as good as the emperors in the late Ming Dynasty.

At least Emperor Chongzhen inherited a wealth of property when he ascended the throne. He was just a little stupid, so he gave it all to the Donglin Party.

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Under such circumstances, besides the Presbyterian Council and the military that was in charge of the war, there were many royal brothers who secretly coveted the throne. I really don’t know why this empire became so unbearable.

"Oh... God! Could it be that I want to be a king of a devastated country in advance? What should I do? The news from Egypt recently broke the balance between the military and the Presbyterian Church. It seems that civil wars may also be in conflict. But I can only sit back and watch!"

In the palace of Constant X Castle, the Ottoman Emperor was extremely distressed and sighed desperately to the sky.

The current situation is on the verge of losing control.

He was originally a person who forced himself to be promoted to the throne of the emperor. If he counted the history of the emperor's reign in detail, it was obviously a dangerous and high-risk profession. Because the imperial emperor who could die safely and die was less than one-third of the time!

Not only did he not have much say, he basically had few people, and he was very pitiful. He was like a puppet!

Even if I know that something bad is going to happen, I don’t dare to do anything.

Otherwise, there will be basically no success, but once it fails, I am afraid that afterwards, this life will die early and will also affect many relatives and friends!

"...Forget it, it's useless to sit here and think about it. Why don't you plan to run away? If it really doesn't work, go to the church. The pope should be willing to raise an emperor who can eat idle food... After all, my requirements are not high."

Under the moonlight, the voice of the Ottoman emperor in the palace was floating faintly.

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At the same time, Zhu Zilong prepared food and grass in the Americas, and had already boarded a fleet of ships and headed towards Egypt.

In the Nanyang direction, a new batch of Japanese cannon fodder soldiers in history have been the largest number of Japanese supporters, sitting on semi-military ships and semi-Ming merchant ships, in order to open up a new continent.

First escort the merchants of the Ming Dynasty to go to the New World to make money and explore territory.

After being sent to the local area, their Japanese troops will obey Zhu Zilong's orders and drive to Egypt with all their might.

Not only that, Liu Feng also received a new order from Zhu Zilong in the European Church.

That night, they called their confidants to hold a mysterious meeting together.

One of their work centers is to do their best to travel to the courts of European countries, and to ensure that when the Ottoman Empire is in great trouble in the future, they cannot bring reinforcements from all European countries, especially friendly countries.

The church cannot give them too positive help, and at most it can only give certain waste paper promises.

In addition, you have to start putting some pressure on Venice. Put the dog chain in your hand!

It is necessary to let them, at important moments, pinch them to the throat passage from Constantinople to the Black Sea grain-producing area, and give them economic loading.

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Chapter completed!