The Crescent of the Sultan

Chapter 30 Public Resentment

Selim has always trusted his spies, after all, Justinian has never failed, just like this time.

Ali Pasha was hanged at the gate of the military camp by the guards. His wife and children were knocked unconscious by Justinian and placed in a teahouse. Several guards who were tasting spiced grape juice found them.

"Hey, Sato, come and see, there are a few drunk women here." A soldier pointed at Ali's wife and children and smiled at his companion.

"Let me see, oh, man, these two women are really beautiful, but there is a child."

The soldier named Sato immediately reached out to touch Ali's wife and daughter, and another soldier who looked like a squad leader hurried over and pushed the other's hand away.

"Sato, have you forgotten who is the captain? If there is something good, you should hand it over first, you know!"

Looking at the beautiful profiles of the two women, the squad leader wanted to pull off the other's burqa, and when he pulled it, he immediately brought down the child sitting next to him.

The pain of falling to the ground seemed to wake up the seven or eight-year-old child. Looking at the unfamiliar scene around him, he cried and shouted.

"Stop making so much noise, Sato, throw him out."

The soldier who was called out reluctantly pulled the child out, but was accidentally freed by the other party.

"My father is Ali Pasha, you lowly man, don't touch me!"

The three guards looked at each other in surprise.

"Captain, could these two be?"

"Shut up, Sato, I'll ask him."

"So it's Ali Pasha's son, I wonder who these two are?" The captain asked with a flattering face.

"Stupid, this is my mother and sister." The child replied disdainfully, but he didn't expect that a soldier had already reached his back.

The soldier picked up a stick and knocked the child unconscious.

"Well done, Sato, hurry up, let's take these three people to the barracks quickly. Aladdin Pasha has been looking for the family of that bastard Ali, but we didn't expect to run into them."

The three of them carried a sack each and rushed to the barracks quickly.

After narrowly avoiding the soldiers standing guard at the gate of the barracks, the group ran into another officer of the Guards.

"Stop, what are you three doing sneaking around? What are you carrying?"

Faced with the officer's questioning, the captain had to stop.

"Nothing, Pasha, just some small things."

"Open it and don't interrupt." The captain couldn't help but look bitter, and reluctantly opened the sack behind him with the two soldiers behind him.

"Oh! My God! How could Ali Pasha's wife and daughter, um, and his son be in your hands?" The Pasha was completely stunned, and the next second, he laughed again.

"You guys, take them to my place, hurry up." Pasha instructed several soldiers while imagining the other's face under the veil, and his whole mind became distracted.

"Pasha, this is the person Aladdin Pasha wants." The captain was naturally unwilling to hand over his own spoils, so he moved the banner of Aladdin Pasha.

However, the man in front of him did not buy it at all, and still asked the captain to do everything he said.

"Okay, my uncle is the deputy grand vizier, what is there to be afraid of Ali Pasha.

Don't be sad, soldiers. If you work actively, I can consider letting you be my personal guards."

The three guards soldiers were immediately excited. Such sincere conditions are rare.

However, the news that Ali Pasha's family came to the guards was still leaked, and Justinian easily passed the news to the ears of every guard soldier.

That night, this poor woman and her child suffered the most terrible thing in their lives. After a carnival, the guards took this poor family around Constantinie, forcibly opened the closed shops, woke up the residents from their sleep, and ruthlessly vented their animal desires.

The next morning, Selim was not surprised after hearing the news last night, but he made a note of the guards in his heart.

Justinian was a bit rough in this matter, so the Greeks are really unreliable. They were quite active when buying grape juice.

After complaining about his own spy, Selim decided to go out of the palace to take a walk and see whether the things Ali left for him before his death were true or false.

As soon as he walked not far from the gate of Topkapi Palace, he saw a group of people standing at the gate, seemingly waiting for the arrival of the Sultan.

Finding that the Sultan was a little puzzled, the guards beside him immediately walked to the Sultan and roughly explained the reason why the people gathered at the gate of Topkapi Palace.

"Interesting, you are worthy of being the Guards. Half of the residents of Constantiniya are related to you, but you can still create so many opponents. Your ability to attract hatred is unparalleled."

Selim walked to the palace gate, and the guards beside him followed the Sultan closely on both sides to prevent the citizens from getting too excited and attacking the Sultan's team.

"Your Majesty, the great Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, the reflection of God on earth, the Caliph of the Islamic world, the protector of the two holy places, please make a decision for your people and punish the brutal Guards!"

A lame man standing in front of the crowd knelt down on the ground when he saw the Sultan and begged Selim for help.

"Please, Your Majesty, save your people!" Behind the man, the people who came to petition shouted in unison.

Many of them had injuries on their bodies, which must have been the souvenirs left by the Guards last night. Many of them had already cried when they made the request.

Looking at the miserable state of the people in front of him, Selim, who had been calm, became angry again.

When these guards went crazy, they were no different from beasts.

But Selim couldn't turn against these beasts yet. There were only 5,000 new troops in the whole Constantinie. Although no one in Egypt could control the training of the new troops, it would take time.

Once the purge of the Guards was launched now, the only local supporters that could be guaranteed were the Chapan family, and perhaps Kara Osman, and other families would only choose to wait and see.

But compared with the local Guards' riots, Selim was more worried that these rebels in Edirne would join the Guards' camp. Selim in the original time and space was caught in this.

Selim's clenched fist loosened after a moment of silence, and he regained his usual calmness.

"People of the Empire, believe in your Sultan, I will let the Guards give you an explanation."

Due to the victory of the Russo-Turkish War, the masses chose to believe the Sultan's assurance, and the crowd gradually dispersed.

That afternoon, in the central square, the imperial government executed the "chief culprit" handed over by the Guards, but it is hard to say whether this group of "chief culprits" are soldiers of the Guards

Please read and collect, my family.

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