In the palace of Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire, the young Emperor Suleiman looked a little sad. Suleiman was thin and slightly pale, but his eyes were bright, his neck was slightly long, he had a hooked nose, and his head was crowned high. Carrying a surprisingly large bag.
As the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, he is now facing many problems.
Unlike the historical prosperity of the Ottoman Empire, the current Ottoman Empire failed in two consecutive wars with the Ming Empire. Not only was it cut off a large amount of land, but it also faced heavy war indemnities, which greatly weakened the empire. the strength of the Ottoman Empire.
To the east, the Persian Empire, supported by the Ming Empire, became increasingly powerful under the governance of Yinsmayi I. The Mamluk dynasty of Egypt also became stronger thanks to the considerable profits brought by the Egyptian canal and the prosperous east-west trade.
These make the current Ottoman Empire far less powerful than it was in history and face many problems.
The internal economic pressure is high, the taxes are too heavy, and the tribal leaders are ambitious and ready to move. The Hungarians, Austrians, and Tatars in the western European border areas have been trying to invade the Ottoman Empire's lands, even though these lands originally belonged to them. .
Persia and Egypt in the east are also competing with the Ottoman Empire for the fertile Mesopotamia. It can be said that internal and external troubles put great pressure on them.
But this is not the biggest headache for him. What really gives him a headache is that as Ming merchants enter the Ottoman Empire to do business, they gradually tie the Ottoman Empire to the capitalist chariot of the Ming Empire.
The original handicraft industry of the Ottoman Empire was extremely developed, especially the textile industry. The cloth of the Ottoman Empire could not only meet its own needs, but could even be exported in large quantities to Europe, the Middle East, Persia and other places. The carpets of the Ottoman Empire were world-famous. .
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However, over the years, the dumping of cheap cloth from the Ming Empire had a devastating impact on the handicraft industry of the Ottoman Empire, and countless handicraftsmen lost their jobs.
This not only affected employment and taxation in the Ottoman Empire, but also made the economy of the Ottoman Empire more difficult. As a result, a large number of people lost an important source of livelihood and life became more difficult.
In addition, the continuous import of a large number of goods from the Ming Empire also caused a large amount of precious metals to drain out of the Ottoman Empire, resulting in increasingly serious deflation in the Ottoman Empire. From the Ottoman Sultan to ordinary people, there was increasingly no money available. .
There is no way. On the one hand, there is a large amount of war reparations, and a huge amount of wealth must be compensated to the Ming Empire every year; on the other hand, the products of the Ming Empire are too popular in the Ottoman Empire.
From traditional trading commodities such as silk, porcelain and tea, they slowly developed to cloth, cane sugar, and then to the current industrial products such as automobiles, motorcycles, clocks, bicycles and so on.
Various commodities of the Ming Empire are very popular in the Ottoman Empire. However, there are very few commodities that the Ottoman Empire can export to the Ming Empire. There seems to be no other commodities except slaves.
Naturally, a huge trade deficit will form, leading to the outflow of a large amount of precious metals, and gold and silver will be continuously imported into the Ming Empire.
Taking over such an empire, the young Emperor Suleiman faced many pressures and difficulties.
¡°We are absolutely not allowed to grow cotton on fields used for growing food!¡±
Emperor Suleiman could not help but get furious when he read a memorial written by the local governor.
It is clearly written above that now more and more lords and nobles are planting cotton and raising sheep on a large scale, because cotton and wool can be exported to the Ming Empire and can be exchanged for white money from the Ming people.
"If we grow food, we can't sell it at all. The Ming Dynasty people don't want it. The Ming Dynasty people have more food than they can eat. There is no need to import food from the Ottoman Empire.
This means that although these lords have a large amount of land in their hands, they cannot obtain any wealth from it. Food is really worthless now.
This year, the Ottoman Empire suffered a drought and its food production dropped sharply. However, thanks to the continuous import of cheap food from the Ming Empire, the price of food not only did not skyrocket, but was even lower than in previous normal years.
This made the nobles and lords of the Ottoman Empire clearly realize one thing. If they continue to grow food, the income from their territory will be minimal, while growing cotton and raising sheep will be quite good.sp; Ibrahim carefully reminded that this was obviously not a glorious thing. The key was that it was Suleiman's grandfather and father who did it. Both generations were placed in the hands of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
"Since the people of Ming Dynasty can use machines, why can't we use machines?"
"This time, the new emperor of the Ming Empire will hold a coronation ceremony. When the time comes, you will go to the Ming Empire and carefully examine all aspects of the Ming Empire. When you come back, we will learn from the people of the Ming Dynasty."
"They use machines, and we also use machines. I don't believe that we are any worse than the Ming people. If they can do it, we can do it too. One day we will take revenge!"
After Suleiman heard this, he immediately fell silent. This disgraceful incident caused the Ottoman Empire to bear a heavy burden and pressure. After thinking about it carefully, he said with a smile, determined to imitate the Ming Dynasty. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com