Chapter 22 The End of Sunset Barbary (7)
The French arrived very quickly, and it arrived in another three days.
Said had no choice but to know that in order to preserve the family's status in the Algier Pasha area, he could only cooperate with the French, an allies of the Truchens.
Finally, with the mediation of the Truchens, the three parties reached a secret agreement.
The main content of the secret agreement is:
First, the French occupied thirty miles of Port Oran and its surroundings;
Second, the French became tax holders in the entire Algiers' jurisdiction and managed the newly established customs instead of the Algiers;
Third, Truchen boats in Port Algiers and Port Oran can dock freely without declaration and enjoy preferential supply prices.
Fourth, the Said family continued to control the entire Pasha territory in the name of the Sultan and officially announced their separation from the Ottoman Empire.
As for whether the Truchens received the legendary pirate wealth, it is a secret in the whole world. After decades, a scene was depicted in a novel that turned from a soldier to a writer, which seemed to confirm that Truchen did indeed obtain treasure.
This is how the novel is written:
"Originally, the location of this small fort was very abrupt. Unlike other small forts, it was a highland and was surrounded by a desert, which was invisible to other places on the shore."
"This small fort is only one mile away from Algiers Bay, but when the soldiers of the engineering battalion dug the underground, they were filled with sand"
"Obviously, this is an artificial desert. Perhaps the entire coast was originally a desert, but later generations continued to divert water and irrigate, slowly turning it into an oasis, but only this place was preserved"
"However, when the soldiers opened the basement, the first thing that caught their eyes was a pile of coffins. This was originally a temple, and it seemed that it was the place where scholars burying the Aibad school were buried. Everyone was disappointed when they arrived here. In order not to disturb the rest of the deceased, everyone was ready to quit"
"It seems that His Royal Highness is indeed destined to be destined to go out. When he also looked disappointed, he fell accidentally"
"It was this fall that exposed the content below. It turned out that there was a layer of sand under the coffin, and it was all around it. It was dry sand that would probably be easier to preserve the coffin. However, for some reason, Your Highness stepped on the thinnest part of the sand layer"
"So the wooden board below exposed"
"Everyone was overjoyed and immediately started to open the wooden board, and immediately exposed a very well-preserved wooden boat."
"This is a big ship about forty meters long. Except for the lack of masts, the rest of the sailboat should have something. It is wrapped in a dry pile of sand. If it weren't for the fact that half of the mast was exposed outside, I would have thought it was a pile of sand here."
"After cleaning up the sand on the ship, all the ships will be exposed"
"This is a Calavere sailing boat, well preserved, with only one cabin, and we were stunned when we opened the cabin door"
"First of all, a large area of dazzling gold came out of the cabin. It was still dawn and it was underground, very dark, but this gold color immediately illuminated the entire room"
"It was filled with all kinds of gold coins. Later I found out that the years when these gold coins were produced were actually two hundred years apart, including gold pots, gold basins, gold bowls, gold plates, gold candlesticks, gold saddles, gold crosses, gold spoons, gold knives, etc. Anyway, you can think of all kinds of daily necessities here"
"But they are all made of gold, which is dazzling"
"Before the arrival of the French, our country blocked the place. Since there was no outsider outside the city, the outer city and the inner city were controlled by our army. At that time, no one knew that we were digging for treasures. On the next night, we moved the things on the boat to a Tengis overnight"
"Looking back later, this is a large Calavere sailboat that can carry 200 tons. In this case, this batch of gold is roughly the same. Nowadays, European gold is precious and silver is cheap, which can be equivalent to at least 10 million Truqin silver coins"
"No wonder our country suddenly seemed to be gaining more in those years. Not only did it accelerate the pace of immigration, but it also launched several major projects, including a new ironclad fleet built in a very short time."
"And our second ironclad fleet took three years to complete"
However, Zahatai is worthy of being the son of Qitad, and the news has not been said until his death.
However, with the situation in North Africa changing drastically, the three Barbary kingdoms declared independence one after another, Egypt was divided into two forces, and Truchen's army was still approaching the border of the Ottomans. In the autumn of that year, Ottoman and Truchen finally reached an agreement under the mediation of the French who were friendly to both sides.
The main content of the agreement is:
First, the Ottoman Empire agreed to Egypt (except the Kingdom of Solomon), Tripoli, Tunisia, and Algiers continue to remain in the imperial administrative system in the name of Pasha without paying any taxes to the empire.
This was actually done by the French to take care of the Sudan's face. In fact, they are all independent kingdoms and they also have the title of independence.
Second, the Ottoman Empire recognized the Kingdom of Solomon, but the Port of Arishi, which originally belonged to the jurisdiction of Pasha in Egypt, was not within its scope. Bourton finally agreed to this point. The Port of Arishi was hanging on the edge of the desert, and it was really difficult to defend.
Third, at the advice of the French, the Ottoman Empire finally rarely came to Sipasi, Jeniceri,
The Tatar mercenary nobles and religious nobles reached an agreement, and they had the permission to establish a new type of army and navy with the assistance of the French. Of course, this was later secretly reached by the French and the Ottomans.
In the past, the French were also assisting them in establishing new troops, but they were all small-scale fights. Now it is different. The Sudan can use the national treasury instead of its own small treasury to build a new army dominated by some of the Islamists in Europe under its jurisdiction. The number is naturally incomparable to the previous one.
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Fourth, in France, Truchen can freely pass through the Ottoman Strait. If any attack on the ships of both countries is considered to declare war on the other side, such clauses are obviously against the Truchen people. The current Ottoman Empire has become extremely weak, and it is impossible to have an enemy like France.
Half a year later, news came to Truchen.
"Your Majesty, Algiers just held a funeral, which is quite grand in scale, according to the arrangement of our country.
The secret agent there learned the news, and finally confirmed that the person was Gazi”
"It is said that after Gazi secretly returned to the mountain city from outside, he immediately went to the Castle of Kifan to pray. Of course, he went there secretly, but he fell ill that day and then he had been ill for half a year, most of which he died of depression."
"Said became the real sultan, but with the help of the French, he established a complete system of business and taxation, and his financial situation was better than before. He was also forming a new army like the Ottomans"
"Later, the ministry finally understood one thing, because shortly after His Highness left, the French fought a battle with the Spaniards because of the incident in Port Oran, and in the end, the French, who were well prepared, won the victory"
"You must know that the French kings and Spanish kings belong to the Bourbon family and are all relatives. They used to advance and retreat together in European affairs, but they actually fought for Port Oran. It seems that the interests of Port Oran and Algiers behind them are already higher than those of relatives."
"But Said's rule was not strong. After Pasha Ali Hussein in Tunisia declared independence, he obviously received help from the Mysterious Society. They continued to attack Algiers westward, causing the Said family, whose prestige just fell, were also dangerous."
"In the end, I survived the difficulties with the help of the French. After that, the Knights of Malta occupied the port of Calais in Tunisia. It seems that some kind of agreement was reached with the Mysterious Society"
"The Kingdom of Sardinia, the Kingdom of Sicily, and the Kingdom of Naples are standing behind the Knights of Malta, and there is not a small force."
By the end of the year, the Truchen Kingdom sent a surveying and mapping team to Egypt and officially began to measure the planned Ayuchi Canal.
In this world, although the level of mathematics and physics in Europe is already very high, it is still a little worse than Truchen. Perhaps the most profound mathematical knowledge is almost the same as that of the two sides, but it is far behind at the level of regular engineers.
Later generations Napoleon also wanted to build the Suez Canal after occupying Egypt, but gave up because he was inaccurate in measuring the altitude of the sea at both ends of the canal.
But this matter is not too difficult for Truchen.
Since there are several saltwater lakes in the middle of the canal, the measurement will be completely completed by the end of the year.
According to Qitad's plan, once the black slaves of the Egyptian Sultanate Mohammed are in place, construction can be started.
Such things were achieved by the engineers of the Kingdom and the Ulihan Brigade located there, so he didn't have to worry about them at all.
Just as he was preparing to hold the annual meeting for the new year, new news came again.
"Your Majesty, there are two more critical things"
"First, because Peter III was in Taritzin, Voronesh set up an elite standing army, the Cossack Pugachev and the Bashkir Asnalin's rebel army were soon defeated, and the rebel army can only retreat to the Ural Mountains"
"The Russians have weak defense there, and the rebels captured the Russian iron smelting base located in the mountains, and the Troytskak Fortress in Shandong, and encouraged a large number of local Xiaoyuz Kazakhs to join them."
"Originally, these people couldn't hold on for long, but something happened at this time"
"Suvolov, the commander of the Eastern Ukrainian Legion, crossed the Dnieper River to encircle and suppress the rebellious Polish nobles. This time he brought the troops of a division. If it were in the past, Suvolov would have swept away the fallen leaves, but this time he encountered a nail."
"Zavusky concentrated all the regular troops of the six brigades trained by our country near Bar City, and then used winged cavalry to register the Cossacks to attract Suvorov to advance. Finally, the six brigades suddenly appeared and caught Suvorov off guard"
"In the end, Suvorov lost half of his men and retreated from the forest north of Kiev to the east bank"
Chapter completed!