Chapter 167 "Direct Rule"

The instructors and weapons sent by Pitt's British Minister of War had not played much of a role before the Bedouins, who were attacked from three sides, were driven out of their nests.

However, what surprised Emperor Seychelles was that almost no oasis was completely destroyed by the Emirate of Delamay.

"Wahhabis are kind?"

Emperor Seychelles felt like he had become Louis XVI and was completely confused.

Anyway, there was nothing big to deal with, so the Sultan directly threw these small matters to the Ottoman government led by Haji Pasha and the spies led by Justinian.

The former's task was to negotiate with the Bedouins who were oppressed during the Wahhabi rule and do a good job of subsequent management of the local area.

In order to resettle the Arabs and provide them with a step forward, Haji Pasha will personally take these Bedouin masters to Constantiniya and discuss relevant arrangements with them.

There are many such policies.

The first is education, including but not limited to providing student loans, scholarships, bonus policies, admission benefits, and admission with reduced scores.

The second is financial subsidies, through housing subsidies and land distribution, to attract Bedouins to migrate to the Balkan Peninsula and the southern coast of the Persian Gulf.

Then there is the "Oasis Operation", which encourages Bedouins to participate in environmental restoration work in the Mesopotamian Basin, Syria, and Palestine, to attract them to leave the Arabian Peninsula.

However, the following policies are actually based on educational policies.

All Bedouins who can really leave the Arabian Peninsula and settle in other places must accept the brainwashing policy of Emperor Serbia.

These people must recognize that the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire is their ruler from a cognitive point of view, and all these believers of Allah recognize the authority of the Caliph.

These people speak Arabic, but they think it is Ottoman.

These people are Bedouins, but they think they are no different from the Turks who also believe in Sunni Islam. If they are given a name, they are Desert Turks.

These people inherit Arab culture and understand Arab history, but they also recognize that the Ottoman Empire is the successor of the Arab Empire. The relationship between the two is closer than that between Rome and Greece, and they are simply from the same source.

These people have heard the stories of Arab national heroes, but they are also excited about Muhammad II's capture of Constantinia, the Ottoman Empire's two sieges of Vienna, and the completion of the unfinished business of the Arab Empire.

These people will also be angry that the caliphs of the late Arab Empire had no ambition and strategy, so that the great Arab Empire was destroyed by the Mongols, just as they hate the weak and incompetent sultans of the Ottoman Empire since Suleiman the Magnificent.

These people will also be glad that it was the Ottoman Empire that once again united the Islamic world and allowed them to demonstrate the name of God in front of Western Europeans.

They will truly think of themselves as a member of the Ottoman Empire, wholeheartedly happy for the prosperity of this country, and sad for the decline of this country. They will spontaneously promote these truths to their own tribesmen who have not yet understood them, and they will become the forerunners that the Sultan hopes for.

This is the arrangement made by the Sultan for the Bedouins who went out.

As for the Bedouins who stayed in the Arabian Peninsula, another method can be used at this time.

In the history of a certain oriental great country, the Central Plains agricultural dynasty defeated the grassland nomadic regime more than once.

However, before the Qing Dynasty, no Central Plains dynasty established effective rule on the grassland.

Before the Qing Dynasty, the Central Plains dynasty's policies on the grassland were nothing more than three:

First, pull one faction to fight another faction to maintain balance, which was the case when the Central Plains dynasty was strong in the early Sui and Tang dynasties.

Second, limited low-intensity wars, set up buffer zones on the border, and control the other side through military deterrence and economic trade. This was the case in the Song Dynasty and the late Ming Dynasty.

Third, exhaust the world's material resources and achieve success in one battle. Emperor Wu of Han and Emperor Yang of Sui thought so, to fight for decades of peace.

The problem is that these three strategies all require the Central Plains dynasty to be able to calm the situation.

Even the most unbearable Southern Song Dynasty, after stabilizing its position, achieved a strategic stalemate with the Jin Dynasty.

During the reigns of Emperor Taizong and Emperor Gaozong, the Tang Dynasty also had a strong control over the grasslands. The Turks, the Turkic tribes, the Xueyantuo tribe, etc. were cut one after another. Whoever stood out would be beaten, but what could it do?

The population on the grasslands was endless, and they kept breeding poisons in mutual migration and feuds. After one wave was killed, another wave was raised. No matter how fast the sickle of the Tang Dynasty was, it would be blunt. When Wu Zetian came to power and purged a large number of famous generals, the Turks really revived.

In the context of Inner Asia, the power vacuum in pastoral areas will not last too long, and new power centers will always spontaneously emerge.

For example, when the Han Dynasty destroyed the Xiongnu, the Xianbei rose; when the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Turks, the Uighurs rose.

Even if a nomadic regime can be eradicated, it is likely that a new opponent will appear in less than ten years.

These three strategies still distinguish between "enemies and ourselves". Using tactics to control people will inevitably be superficial.

A big fist can suppress people for a while, but not for a lifetime.

If it is not possible to completely drive the indigenous people away, then if you want to truly subdue them, you need to blur the concept of "enemy and me" so that both sides can have ideological and cultural identification in addition to the idea of ​​"I can't beat you, so I'll pay my respects to you temporarily to get some benefits."

The Qing Dynasty did a pretty good job. There were many so-called "spreading the Yellow Sect to pacify Mongolia", "Manchu-Mongolian marriage", "Manchu-Mongolian family", etc., but these can only be regarded as auxiliary. The real solution to Mongolia was the creative system of the Qing Dynasty - the League Banner System.

The vitality of the grassland lies in migration, in the cruel conflicts in the continuous large-scale population movement, and the strong born between blood and fire also gained the ability to compete with the Central Plains dynasty.

The League Banner System is precisely to limit the nomadic range of herders and change nomadism to animal husbandry.

The Qing Dynasty resettled the Mongolian tribes that surrendered according to the League Banner principle until all Mongolian tribes were included in the League Banner system.

Among them, the Banner is the grassroots administrative unit set up by the Qing court in the Mongolian region. In legal terms, it is the hereditary territory granted to the Banner owner by the Qing emperor (that is, the Mongolian Khan, privately). The Banner was formed by weaving the Zuoling, settling the subjects, allocating pastures, demarcating the Banner boundaries, and appointing the Zhasak (Consul).

The league is a banner organization, composed of several banners. Each league has one chief and one deputy chief, who are appointed by the Qing emperor.

The main task of the chief is to serve as the convener of the three-year league meeting, perform duties such as recruiting soldiers, training soldiers, checking money and grain, hearing major criminal cases, and supervising the subordinate banners, but he has no right to dispatch troops.

At the same time, the Qing Dynasty strictly restricted the nomadic, farming, communication, and marriage of the people of each banner.

Under the league and banner system, the economic basis of the Mongolian tribes has essentially changed from nomadism to animal husbandry, realizing the close integration of population and land, which is convenient for the Qing court to rule.

At the same time, this policy of grazing in a fixed range and having a stable base also made it possible for the bureaucratic system to overlap.

Then this means that the unique extensive management advantage of the grassland people is gone, and the scarce resources on the grassland have to be divided to support the bureaucrats of the league and banner, and the power of these bureaucrats comes from the central government. In this way, the regional contradiction between the Central Plains and the grassland has become a class contradiction within the league and banner.

The Mongols were castrated both physically and spiritually by the Qing Dynasty.

The Arabs are also nomadic people, but their innate environment is much worse than that of the Mongolian grasslands, which makes their overall threat not too great, and it is difficult for them to give birth to a regime that poses too much threat.

After all, in the original time and space, Muhammad Ali beat the Emirate like beating a dog, which is enough to show what level this land has reached today, although Muhammad Ali is indeed very strong.

Even so, Emperor Sezani naturally had to adopt this method, and those who could be brainwashed would be brainwashed out.

As for those who stayed in the Arabian Peninsula, those who could not be brainwashed would adopt the Ottoman version of the alliance flag system, and then be equipped with a governor, win over the Bedouin chiefs, and make the residents of the Arabian Peninsula the most loyal allies of the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, it is still unnecessary to use religion to reduce the population like the Qing Dynasty.

After all, Emperor Sezani could try to lay the train over during his lifetime.

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