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- "Yes!"
"With your leadership and guidance, the great Sultan, our Ottoman Empire will surely become as powerful as the Ming Empire!"
When Ibrahim heard this, he quickly flattered him.
"Ha ha!"
"I hope so too, but there is still a long way to go."
¡°The gap between us and the people of Ming Dynasty is really too big, and we have never seriously faced this matter and learned from the people of Ming Dynasty, so we missed the golden catch-up period for a long time.¡±
When Su Laiman heard this, he immediately laughed.
The whole person was also filled with emotion.
Only by truly understanding the Ming Empire can you know how powerful and terrifying the Ming Empire is!
This is an unprecedentedly powerful empire!
With an unprecedentedly large territory, an incomparably huge population, terrifying military strength, and powerful technological and industrial capabilities, such a powerful empire will only make you despair when you truly understand it comprehensively.
To be honest, Su Laiman didn't understand where his grandfather had the courage to take the initiative to attack the Hezhong area of ??the Ming Dynasty, thus provoking this terrible enemy.
In the end, the 200,000 troops of the Ming Empire swept in from east to west, slaughtered hundreds of cities in the Ottoman Empire, took away the Caucasus, bombarded the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and forced the Ottoman Empire to sign an unequal treaty that was humiliating and humiliating.
¡°In the final analysis, I didn¡¯t really understand this huge empire at the beginning.
It is different from any other country around it, and it is not something the Ottoman Empire should mess with at all.
"It would be understandable to say that my grandfather did not know or understand the power of the Ming Empire at that time, so he provoked the Ming people.
¡°Then his father, Su Laiman, couldn¡¯t understand. After being severely punished by the Ming people, he should have understood how powerful the Ming Empire was.
It happened to provoke the Ming Dynasty again. In a big war, the Ottoman Empire was defeated by the Ming Dynasty again, and lost a large number of islands in the Aegean Sea. The previous war reparations were not paid off and there were new war reparations.
Until now, I am still paying for the mistakes and stupidity of my grandfather and father.
Suleiman fully realized the power of the Ming Empire, and was determined to learn from the Ming Empire. He also found one of the roots of the Ming Empire's strength: industrialization. Suleiman has been doing this since he came to power. Make preparations in all aspects.
We introduced textile factories, cement factories, and steel factories from the Ming Empire in order to initially establish the industrial foundation of the Ottoman Empire.
¡°The great Sultan!¡±
"I believe that under your leadership, we will become stronger!"
Ibrahim flattered him again.
"Ha ha!"
After Su Laiman heard this, he immediately laughed happily, never flattering anyone.
"By the way, have you investigated clearly when you went to the Danube area this time?"
Soon, Suleiman also asked Ibrahim about going to the Danube River Basin to investigate the decline in grain production over the years.
¡°The great Sultan!¡±
"What's going on is that almost no one grows food in the Danube River Basin, so we can't collect food at all in these places."
Ibrahim also quickly reported in detail.
"Since everyone doesn't farm, should they raise sheep?"
"What do you want to eat?"
Su Laiman frowned after listening.
This Danube River Basin area is the large granary of the Ottoman Empire. Now no one is growing food. If this continues, what will the Ottoman Empire have to eat?
¡°All the food everyone eats is imported from the Ming Empire.¡±
"The food of the Ming Dynasty is very cheap. Even if it is shipped to our Ottoman Empire, the price is still very cheap. It is cheaper than the food we grow ourselves, and the quality is also higher than our food."
"The income from farming is very small, and raising sheep is more cost-effective, so everyone is raising sheep, shearing the sheep and selling them to the Ming Dynasty people, and then exchanging them for grain in the hands of the Ming Dynasty people, and they can make a fortune from it."
"The nobles and lords in Constantinople and other areas are now making a lot of money from raising sheep and shearing sheep. It is much better than farming before. This is the reason why no one is farming."
Ibrahim continued.
"But if the Ming people don't sell food to us, won't we starve to death?"
 ?Those who built a power plant and used electric lights to light up Instanbul still had no money and couldn't build it. Now they say they have no money to build a grain reserve.
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¡°The great Sultan!¡±
"The textile factory in front of us, as well as the cement factory and steel factory under construction, are squandering our money. We really don't have much money left."
Ibrahim nodded helplessly and said.
The Ottoman Empire was originally very wealthy, but it lost two consecutive wars to the Ming Empire and paid a large amount of war reparations. It is still a heavy burden on the Ottoman Empire to this day.
In addition, there are perennial wars with Europe, Persia, and Egypt, which also seriously drag down the finances of the Ottoman Empire, leaving the Ottoman Empire always without money.
If slaves could not be continuously plundered and sold in Europe to subsidize the Ming Dynasty, the Ottoman Empire would have gone bankrupt long ago and could not survive.
But over the years, an agreement has been reached with Europe, and the two sides have basically maintained peace. This also means that a large number of sources of slave income have been lost, and the situation has become even worse.
"What about this side of the Mesopotamia?"
"Didn't you say that a large amount of oil was discovered somewhere?"
¡°Where is the silver for this oil?¡±
When Suleiman heard this, he thought about it and asked about the oil in the Mesopotamia.
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