Chapter 7 Amihit (Part 1) Three White Bowls
The era of the Nogay people is over.
The northern coast of the Black Sea to the western coast of the Azov Sea, the three major tribes, the Bujak tribe, the Yedishan tribe, and the Yedikule tribe, were successively Bree. The Bujak tribe was finally divided into two. The real Noga returned to Truchen, and the Alan people, Mamulik people, and the Aval people who pretended to be Noga people continued to stay in Romania and Bulgaria where the Ottomans belonged.
However, there is another one that still surrenders to the Crimean Khanate.
The Jaboyruk tribe is nomadic on both sides of the Krim Mountains in the southern part of the peninsula.
In the past, at the southern end of Mount Krim, from Yalta to Kafa City, Kerch City was directly affiliated with the Ottoman Empire. Truchen has taken over these cities, but there is still an alien among them.
Arusta (Arushta later), where the tent of the Jaboyruk tribe is located, is an earth-rock castle built by the Genoese.
Duye, forty years old, is the chief of the Jaboyruk tribe.
Previously, Truchen suddenly declared war on Ottoman and sent three squadrons to cross the Bosphorus. The three squadrons wandered across the entire Mediterranean, constantly intercepting the troops and grain transport fleets from Algiers and Damascus, and transporting a regiment of marines directly to Egypt to support Qingis.
After the spring of 1770, Qingis had occupied all the castles in the Pasha area of Egypt except for the provincial capital Cairo, and surrounded the city of Cairo.
The Ottomans' defeat was decided.
However, it is not time to surrender completely.
Sudan was mobilizing urgently at home. In order to prevent Egypt from independent in the empire's granary, this time he spent a lot of money. He urgently pardoned 50,000 slaves and formed a large army to drive to Egypt by land.
Not long ago, Qitad received news that Ottoman Sultan Mustafa III was secretly contacting Khan Karim of the Crimean Khanate. Not only that, the Russians were also contacting him and all promised extremely generous conditions.
At this time, the Truchens had obviously set up a large number of spies in the Crimean capital Amicht (Simferopol), - the Kazakhs, Azerbaijanis, Armenians and Noges under the jurisdiction of Truchens were almost the same as those of the Crimeans, so it was not too easy to set up spies there.
Of course, according to the smell of Qitad, a later soldier, these spies were obviously just superficial.
In any case, Chitard received a promise from the Russians and the Ottomans.
"Your Majesty, what the Russians promised was that the Crimean Khanate would be permanently neutral, and that Russia would provide it with a division of weapons and equipment and financial support of 500,000 silver coins. If you swear allegiance to the Tsarist Empire, you can also obtain the title of the Tsar."
"The Ottoman promised to formally allow the independence of the Crimean Khanate, and there was no need to go to the Blue Temple in Istanbul every year to attend prayer ceremonies, and no longer interfere with the election of the Khan throne."
"Also, the Ottoman Sultan is known as the representative of Allah on earth, and he can give the title of deputy representative to Karim."
Obviously, the Russians played weapons cards and financial cards, while the Ottomans played religious cards and khan cards.
Qitad believed that based on his understanding of Karim, he obviously cared more about the latter.
However, Karim's measures were beyond everyone's expectations.
In theory, after losing the Nogae people, their strength has been greatly reduced. Now there is only 500,000 people on the peninsula, including half of the Crimean Tatars and half of the descendants of the white slave farmers. He should completely seize the Jaboyruk Noga people who are still in the Khanate.
If Qitad stood in his position, he would have now conferred Duye as deputy Khan as his favor.
But as a few brutal Khan who created the famous story of Tears (he did not complete it in this life due to Qitad's intervention), he did the opposite and directly took the Nogae people on the northern foot of the Krim Mountain to his own control!
This obviously angered Duye.
However, Karim was not completely brainless. Although he took away half of Duye's pastor, he allowed Duye to enter the Khanate's supreme meeting, Divan, and made him the deputy speaker.
Karim hadn't held the Diwan Conference for a long time. Faced with the encouraging of the two major countries, he finally held it reluctantly in the spring.
The current members of the Divan Conference of the Crimean Khanate are very different from before. In the past, the chairman of the conference was the Great Vizier appointed by the Ottomans, and the Great Khan controlled the Mahesur family at the western end of the peninsula, the Shilin family at the eastern end of the peninsula and the Grey family.
There are eight people in total, half of the members of the Grey family, and Vizier has a veto power. Therefore, in the past fifty years, the successive Crimean Khans have no Divine meeting to hold regular meetings in accordance with the requirements of the Ottomans.
Previously, after the Kalga Sultan stationed in Yedishan tribe withdrew to the peninsula, Karim allowed him to serve as Great Vizier and chairman of the conference, and the veto power changed from the former Great Vizier to himself.
After Duye joined the association, the members became nine, and in addition to the Grey family, there were also Mahesour and Xilin.
In the hall of the New Khan Palace in Amicht (Simferopol), there are magnificent chandeliers, magnificent murals, and thick Persian carpets. Nine people sit around.
Outside the conference room door, the eunuch Abdulah, who was standing in Karim.
In the past, as the person Karim trusted the most and the controller of the eunuchs guard of the Khan Palace, Abdulah would definitely listen to everything that happened in the conference room and then take necessary measures in advance.
But recently, he has not.
Abdulah was not a black slave from Ethiopia, but bought it in the market in the Tripoli area of the Ottoman Empire. He was a terror and tall man. Such black slaves were the favorites of the Islamic countries. They could serve as escorts in the harem and serve as escorts.
The Hausa people, the main ethnic group of Niger in later generations, were conquered and accepted Islamic religion by the Arabs who crossed the Sahara Desert very early. Therefore, they are the favorites of the Islamic religions in the Mediterranean.
The most famous country that uses black slaves is obviously the Kingdom of Morocco, whose black slave army accounts for more than 30% of the kingdom army.
The Crimean Khanate could not have obtained so many black slaves, but it was still possible to form a palace guard.
Due to Abdulah's relationship, most of Karim's guards were Haosas, and they were tall and strong. Because they could not have children, they naturally did not have the risk of coveting the Khan throne and became the most trusted force of Karim, who was afraid of the Khan throne all the time.
But this is just his opinion. In history, it is not uncommon for eunuchs in the Ottoman Empire and Persian Empire to cause chaos and cause chaos. Some of them inherited the throne of Khan (Aga Khan will soon be staged in the Persian Empire). However, Karim Khan, who is in the Crimean Peninsula, obviously would not know about these things.
By the way, Abdulah was also one of the members of the Diwan Council, but he represented the Grey family, so it had nothing to do with whether he was present, especially under the rule of Karim Khan.
Before Karim, the Ottomans, the Grey family, the Shilin family, and the Mahesur family had considerable say in the Diwan Club, but now it is obviously Karim Khan who has covered the sky with his own hands.
"Is this true?"
Abdulah obviously has Arab bloodline. According to the geographical classification of later generations, he should be a Nigerian and his skin color is not that dark.
The rainy season of the Black Sea winter and spring season is approaching. On a rare sunny day, Abdulah walked into the yard, looked up at the blue sky, and then sighed.
Although black slave eunuchs cannot have children, they also have adopted sons and daughters in the Khanate, and have formed a considerable strength. Although every newly appointed khan will appoint his own eunuchs, the eunuchs' chief eunuchs after taking office will also take care of the eunuchs in the Khanate, and it will not kill them all once the emperor is the emperor and every time he is a minister.
Therefore, Abdullah also has considerable strength behind him, not as simple as a black eunuch.
Although they had almost no say in the Diwan Club, they were still alongside the Grey family, Xilin family, and Mahesur family, and were called the four major families by history books.
Under the bright sunshine, a look of pain and hesitation appeared on Abdulah's face. After a while, he knelt down and crawled on the ground to pray.
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Conference room.
"That's it, start the vote now"
As the president of the Divan Society, Sultan of Kalga announced that just now, he had already told the matter between the Russians and the Ottomans and was about to enter the voting stage.
After experiencing the incident of the female slave Jilia, Karim Khan did not stop, but asked his subordinates to continue looking for young women who looked like Jilia in Moldova and Romania, and found some and took them all to the Khan Palace.
Unfortunately, once a famous tyrant in the history of the Crimean Khanate like Karim Khan became interested in a certain woman, he was really in love. So, all of these women were killed after being lucky and buried on the original site of the Forbidden City of Bakhākāsaray to accompany Jiliya.
He hopes to use this method to find the person who looks the most like Jiliya, but unfortunately he has never done it.
However, since he killed Zalma, a woman from the Ottoman Sultan family, he began to manage his figure. After so many years, he has become a ruler who has become old but has a tall and energetic figure.
The so-called vote was that every member of the parliamentary meeting put the black beans in their hands into a white ceramic bowl, with three bowls representing Russia, Ottoman and all opposed it.
Karim's meaning has long been privately communicated with everyone attending the meeting. He does indeed belong to the Ottoman. Although he is cruel, he is an extremely devout Islamic monk. The sacred temple in Istanbul is still very attractive to him.
Everyone stood up one after another and pinched the black beans and walked towards the three bowls. Without Karim's expectations, everyone, including Xilin, who had been rumored to be very close to the Truchens, also put the black beans in his hand into the bowl representing the Ottoman.
This incident immediately dispelled Karim's suspicion of Shilin.
“Allah is the greatest”
Karim murmured in his heart.
Only one person is left, Duye, the chief of Jaboyruk who has been newly elected to the Diwanhui.
Duye slowly stood up, then walked over with black beans.
Chapter completed!