Chapter 64: Are They Worthy?

After finding Paul, Selim led his guards to the imperial government.

Along the way, Selim has been thinking about a question.

From his mother's perspective, it seems that Selim, as a sultan, is not worthy of Sophia, as a British princess.

But is this really the case?

As far as Selim knows, there are only three crowns in the whole of Europe.

If you are more demanding, there are only the crown belonging to the Ottoman Empire and the two half crowns belonging to the Holy Roman Empire and the Russian Empire.

If it is strictly speaking from a legal point of view, Leopold II and Catherine II might as well tie themselves up and offer them to the city of Constantinia, in order to ask the great Eastern Roman Emperor Selim the Great to forgive their crime of claiming the throne.

After all, the crown of the Ottoman Empire was inherited from the Eastern Roman Empire.

The so-called Roman orthodoxy has been transferred to Constantinia since Constantine the Great built Constantinople, today's Constantinia, in 330 AD.

Later, Theodosius I divided the Roman Empire into two, but the orthodoxy of Rome remained in Constantinia forever.

Especially in 476 AD, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Rome was and would only be the Eastern Roman Empire.

But when the time came to the end of the eighth century AD, the Eastern Roman Empire at this time underwent a shocking change.

Queen Mother Irene dug out her son Constantine VI's eyes because he threatened her power. A few days later, Constantine VI died, and Irene was crowned as emperor.

But Irene was a scum with extremely limited ability. She was unable to protect the Roman Church in the West and unable to help it resist the attack of the Lombards.

In this situation, Charlemagne, who had conquered most of Western Europe through wars in the south and the north and thought he was enough to become an emperor, got together with the Roman Church, which just couldn't find a sucker to protect the Church. The two sides hit it off.

In this way, the Church was protected, and Charlemagne relied on the coronation of the Church to get a crown, a crown that was hard to convince people, and stole the title of the Roman emperor.

The Roman crown came from Augustus, and it was tainted with religious colors when Constantine I came to power, but why did the Roman emperor need someone else's coronation?

Even after Christianity was made the state religion of Rome, the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire was the supreme leader of God on earth, and the Patriarch of Constantinople was also below the emperor.

After Charlemagne spent his miserable life with a fake crown, his despicable successor did something even more despicable. Otto I, the shameless guy, actually forged a crown and proclaimed himself the emperor of the Romans.

As for the subsequent Frederick the Red Beard, this person is no different from a clown.

It is simply the greatest insult to Rome to add the word "holy" in front of Rome.

After Selim had been madly attacking the Holy Roman Empire, he thought of a more shameless country, the so-called "Third Rome".

Taking advantage of the opportunity to marry Sophia of Paleoleg, the niece of the last Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine XI, Ivan III, a Russian barbarian, presumptuously declared himself the Third Rome.

In terms of pure blood, the Rurik family is not as good as the Ottoman family who married several Eastern Roman princesses. As for the later Romanovs, they are not even as good as Rurik, a high-end imitation.

Rurik only dared to give himself the title of Tsar (Caesar in Latin, referring to the vice emperor, lower than Augustus), but Peter I, a shameless guy, upgraded himself to emperor in the name of the so-called Russian Senate. No wonder a number of European countries still only refer to Tsarist Russia.

From a historical perspective, almost no country is qualified to claim to be Roman orthodoxy in front of the Ottoman Empire, and no monarch is qualified to think that he is more suitable for the title of Roman emperor than Selim.

Of course, Selim does not care about shameless people such as Habsburg and Romanov.

It doesn't matter if you are arrogant now. When Selim the Great integrates the Ottoman Empire, he will pin you to the ground and give you a good beating.

After reaffirming his status as Roman orthodoxy in his heart, the Sultan happily went to the seat of the imperial government.

What Sultan is not worthy of the British princess? Looking through the history of Britain, there is not even a crown. Selim marrying Sophia is simply a British climb.

When he arrived at the gate of the imperial government, Selim did not show up directly, but hid in the dark and observed for a while.

The Sultan's mood gradually became solemn, and the Sipahi cavalry did not choose to make trouble.

They adopted the method of sit-in demonstration and pulled banners, which made the Ottoman government simply unable to find any reason to shoot at the other side.

The most effective trick in the world, "If you can't solve the problem, then solve the person who has the problem", is no longer effective here.

Selim was a little depressed. What happened? Gandhi traveled to the Ottoman Empire in the late 18th century and started a "non-violent non-cooperation" movement, right?

Look at this banner.

"I have been wounded for the empire, and I have shed blood for the empire."

"Thirty years of fighting on the battlefield, in return, I was abandoned by the empire."

"I didn't shed tears when I broke my arm on the battlefield, but I was sad when my children had no food at home."

"I worked so hard on the battlefield, and now I don't even have a broken house."

The Sultan was in tears when he saw it, and Selim felt sympathy when he saw it.

In general, if Selim were not the Sultan, he would be a little excited by now and want to rush out to help others wave the flag.

However, the butt determines the head, and Selim would never compromise on such a matter, although from a certain point of view, this matter was indeed the Sultan's fault.

After all, it was not the Sipaxi cavalry who really benefited from the military fiefdom system. After all, these people could not inherit the land, and most of the benefits were actually taken away by officials.

Even from a certain perspective, the Sipaxi Cavalry was actually an ally of the Sudan.

As one of the two main forces of the empire, the Sipaxi cavalry and the Guards have always been at odds with each other. However, because the Guards are in the center, the Sipaxi cavalry is actually at a disadvantage all year round.

Therefore, in the auspicious event of the original time and space (named because it happened near the Auspicious Gate), when the Guards rose up in rebellion again and planned to change the Sultan.

Seeing that Mahmoud II had been prepared, the Sipaxi cavalry directly stood on the side of the Sultan, and joined forces with the new army to force the Guards back into the camp. Then they washed the ground with artillery fire and sent the Guards directly to see Allah. .

Afterwards, Mahmud II allowed the Sipahi cavalry to enter the new army and served as the cavalry unit of the new army until the complete demise of the Ottoman Empire.

But the problem now is that Emperor Sai has won the success manually, and you, a theatergoer, have the nerve to join in the fun and want a piece of the pie.

There are no such good things in the world. What the Sultan gives you is yours. If the Sultan doesn't give it to you, you can't ask for it.

Here is another example where the Ottoman Empire was Roman orthodoxy.

Eastern Roman Empire, a central legion infantry, an iron armored paladin, a Vadarite archer, a Varangian guard, and a Praetorian Guard soldier made an appointment to go drinking, but the infantry was late.

He said: "His Majesty just ordered us to go back and hold on and then charge at full speed."

Paladin: "What is full speed?"

Vadaritai: "What is perseverance?"

Varangi: "What is an order?"

Praetorian Guard: "What is Your Majesty?"

How about it, doesn't it look like the Ottoman Guards?

Finally, I would like to ask for a follow-up reading. I am writing the third chapter. If it is not published today, it must be because I failed to evolve the third chapter beast.