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Chapter 40 Crimea! (6) Bakhchisarai Khan Palace (Part 1)

 A Khanate with Ottoman outside, two major Russian forces oppressed, and internally chaotic.

God always favors great people.

In this life, Wobaxi had no feat of leading his tribe back to the East, but it did not prevent him from still being an outstanding Turkut.

The Khanate of Crimean, the Khan is always selected by the Ottoman Sultan, and at the same time, the Khan's adult son will be used as a qualitative person in Istanbul.

It is completely understandable to let people familiar with Ottoman culture serve as Khan of the vassal state, but this practice has caused the Grey family to be in chaos of internal struggle for hundreds of years.

The Khan of the Grey family rarely served for more than ten years. After entering the 18th century, under the strong pressure of the Tsarist Russian Empire, the Ottomans strictly monitored the Crimean Khanate. The Khan would change it for various reasons if he was not satisfied.

The usual practice of the Ottoman Sultan is to let the Khan, who was dissatisfied, come to Istanbul to live and then appoint another one. If the successor is still unsatisfied, the former Khan who lives in Istanbul will come back to replace him at any time.

This made every Khan King who came to power was trembling.

But since the beginning of Haji Grey, the Grey family has been a huge family since they have reproduced, and there are many people who are qualified to serve as the Khan.

After the last Russian-Turkish war, few Khans of the Crimean Khanate served for more than three years.

This year, it happens to be the third year of the current Khan Karim Grey.

Karim had to get nervous.

Bakhchisarai Khan Palace, a palace built in the Krim Valley.

It was dusk, the sunset was setting, and the sunset was full of sunset. It was a beautiful time, but in the eyes of the people in the Khan Palace, it was a bleak cloud.

The bright red clouds above the Khan Palace built on the high ground in the river valley seemed to perfectly match the bloody smell in the Khan Palace.

Dead silence.

No one dares to speak casually.

Except for the crying of a young woman.

Fifty-year-old Karim is already in a state of madness. Not long ago, he killed all his newly-adult sons in extreme anxiety!

These include two sons who have just returned from Istanbul, and the chief minister of the Khanate who came with his two sons. The Ottoman Alshir did not say that the Sultan would let one of them succeed to the Khan King, but only said that they would serve as members of the Divine Society of the Khanate aristocratic meeting.

But Karim still killed them in a mad manner.

Alshir is the man who dedicated Yesk to the Truchen Khanate in accordance with the will of the Ottoman Sultan. He was the secretary of the former Sultan Mahmoud, but he was able to serve as the chief minister of the Crimean Khanate. This shows the degree of control of the Ottomans over the Crimean people.

The moment his two sons entered the Khan Palace, Karim went crazy. Today was his fifty birthday. All the adult sons gave him gifts, but in his opinion, they were all aggressive punters, and he had hallucinations after drinking a few glasses of wine.

So there was a bloody scene.

Like those discussed by Diderot and Vobasi, it is too far away for secular people. All this happens in Khan's palace is the truth on earth.

Not only the Crimean Khanate, the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire, France, Britain, the Netherlands, Russia, and even the Prussia that claims to be the most enlightened one is not the case?

For those in power, it is enough to have religion and hereditary aristocrats. Too clever ideas are too dangerous and too far away.

The suppression of secularity was presented in any country in the 18th century. Most European and Middle Eastern countries were disrespectful to God, religion, and Qing countries in the far east were under the name of race and writing.

There is another person who can walk calmly in the Khan Palace, so it is naturally Alshire.

He is an Ottoman or a confidant of the Sultan. Even if Karim is crazy, he dare not offend him. The tradition of the Crimean Khan appointed by the Ottoman Sultan has become the highest principle of the Khanate.

Karim doesn't want to, and it's impossible to break it.

But why are there still women who dare to cry?

Karim adhered to the rules of the Islamic Church and married four concubines, namely the Xilin, the Mahesur family of the Tatars on the Peninsula, and the Yedishan and the Yedikule tribe of the Nogai people on the outside.

Of course, as the Khan King, he could marry more concubines.

However, although Karim, as the Khan king, has cruel and unkind, he has the feeling of women in the future. A woman he doesn't feel is not as beautiful as she is.

It feels like this thing is wonderful, but it is a bit incredible when a Khan in the 18th century happened.

Not all the Khans of the Grey family are like him. The Khan Palace in Bakhāchsarai cannot only accommodate four Khan concubines. The first Khan Haji Grey has eighteen concubines, which means that there are at least eighteen palaces for them to live in.

The most favored concubine of Hajigle comes from Poland, as beautiful as a fairy. The palace where this concubine lives is named "Ayi Palace" by Haji. Ayi, the Turkic word moon means that the beauty of this concubine makes the bright moon pale.

The world has changed, and the name of the harem is constantly changing, but this Ayi Palace has been preserved because Haji was buried with this concubine after his death.

Some people say that the subsequent Khan is the descendant of this concubine, and some people say that Haji issued the will of not allowing others to occupy the palace during his lifetime. Anyway, Ayi Palace has been idle for hundreds of years.

But the crying just now came from Ayi Palace!

Although no one has lived in Ayi Palace, the Khan Kings of all dynasties have carefully sorted out and redecorated it every ten years. Now she is still magnificent.

Fahd, a thirty-year-old black eunuch, was standing in front of Ayi Palace tremblingly and moving without even daring to move.

The three major countries of Ottoman, Persia and Crimea are now very similar in politics, including royal families, military power, landlords and nobles, and eunuchs.

Aga of Persia has made his mark. In the Crimean Khanate, the eunuch is also called Aga, and is also a member of the Diwan noble parliament. Fahd is one of them, and he is also the chief manager of the Khan Palace.

For the Khalachi, Mirzan, Baiyi nobles, and the Khan who often change their status, just like the ancient Chinese emperors, he would not believe anyone, but only eunuchs.

And it is a black eunuch who has no relatives, no connections, and a black face that cannot be accepted by the majority of nobles.

Even if Karim is crazy, he will not kill Fahd.

The night soon came, and four huge red candles were lit on the crystal lantern of Ayi Palace, and the red candles were flowing, like Jiliya's tears.

Jiliya is the name of this woman who rarely enters Ayi Palace.

Jilia, a daughter from a Romanian family who still believes in Christian aristocratic family, was holding a wedding in Galaz at the time. She was seen by Karim's eldest son who passed by, and after seeing it, she became interested.

He killed the groom on the spot and then snatched Tillia away.

This is a true portrayal of the current Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate. In the eyes of the Islamic nobles, they tolerate the existence of Christian nobles, which is that they are magnanimous, but they cannot truly grasp their own destiny.

Once they encounter a great nobleman like the members of the Grey family, their fate will not be much better than that of the serfs.

However, Karim's eldest son did not want to take Jiliya for himself, but to please Karim. He knew very well about the current situation of the Khanate's inheritance system. Once he returned to Bakhchisaray, he would not be Karim's own son, but the enemy!

But the Sultan let him go back, and he did not dare to disobey the Sultan's will, so he started doing this.

If he hadn't offered this woman, maybe Karim would let him go, but Karim was shocked as soon as he saw this woman.

Jiliya obviously has Turkic bloodline, with long black and shiny hair, fair skin that can be broken, and dizzy and beautiful eyes.

Of course, as the Khan of the Crimean Khanate, I have seen many beauties, from Europe, the Middle East, and the Caucasians. There are only those you can't imagine, and there are no ones you can't see. There are many slave markets.

What attracted Karim was the pitiful big eyes, the big eyes with light green and endless resentment.

Such eyes were possessed by the owner of Ayi Palace hundreds of years ago!

There is a painting on the wall of Ayi Palace, which is depicted by Karim's grandmother!

Maybe it's because of this, or maybe it's because Karim has had a true love, and he hasn't been crazy for a year and suddenly went crazy.

He suddenly killed all his adult sons, and then solemnly held a ceremony to accept concubines in Khan Palace, and allowed Jiliya to live in Ayi Palace!

One sadness and one joy, two major events happened to him at the same time, and on the same day, which was very strange and uncomfortable for outsiders, but it was common for Karim.

Jilia, that is the pronunciation of the Turks. If it is in Romania, it is Maria!

Wrapped in a thick green turban, wearing a gorgeous silk robe and bearded Karim sat upright on the exquisite carpet he bought from Persia for a thousand silver coins not long ago.

There seemed to be no expression on his face, not like a person who had just killed his biological son. He stared at Jiliya without moving, admiring Jiliya's crying with affection.

He has been sitting here for a long time, but he has no tired or tired expression at all. He seems to hope that Jiliya will cry forever.

"Dadada..."

There was a sound of clogs coming into contact with the marble floor outside the palace, which immediately changed Karim's expression.

He knows who is here.

In addition to Jiliya, there is another woman in Khan Palace who dare not provoke casually.

As mentioned earlier, he once married four women, but the women of the Xilin family died of illness not long after, and then the Ottoman Sultan married his sister to him.

This woman is thirty years old and has not given birth to any children for Karim, but Karim just dares not provoke her and respectfully makes her the princess.

Zalma is the name of this woman.

Only Zalma dares to walk in a palace covered with marble floors.

"Oh..."
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