The Crescent of the Sultan

The instructors and weapons sent by Peter's British Secretary of War had not had much effect before the Bedouins, who were attacked from three sides, were driven out of their lair.

However, what surprised Emperor Sai was that almost none of the oasis was completely destroyed by the Drameyer Emirate.

“Wahhabis sending out kindness?”

Emperor Sade simply felt like he had turned into Louis XVI, and he couldn't figure it out at all.

There were no major issues to deal with anyway, so the Sultan directly left these minor matters to the Ottoman government under Haji Pasha and the spies led by Justinian.

The former's task is to negotiate with the Bedouins who were oppressed during Wahhabi rule and to provide follow-up management of the place.

In order to resettle the Arabs and provide them with promotion opportunities, Haji Pasha will personally bring these Bedouin lords to Constantiniya to discuss relevant arrangements with them.

There are many such policies.

The first is education, including but not limited to providing student loans, scholarships, extra-point policies, admission discounts, and reduced-point admissions.

The second is financial subsidies, through housing subsidies and land grants, to attract Bedouins to migrate to the Balkan Peninsula and the southern coast of the Persian Gulf.

Then there is "Operation Oasis", which encourages the Bedouin to participate in environmental restoration work in the two river basins, as well as Syria and Palestine, and attract them to leave the Arabian Peninsula.

However, the following policies are actually implemented based on education policies.

All Bedouin who can truly leave the Arabian Peninsula and settle elsewhere must accept the brainwashing policy of Emperor Cyril.

These people must actually and cognitively identify with the Ottoman Sultan as their ruler, and all these believers in God recognize the authority of the Caliph.

These people spoke Arabic but thought it was Ottoman.

These people are Bedouin, but they feel that they are no different from the Turks who also believe in Sunni Islam. If you give them a name, they are Desert Turks.

These people inherited Arab culture and understood Arab history, but they also recognized that the Ottoman Empire was the successor of the Arab Empire. The relationship between the two was closer than that of Rome and Greece, and they simply came from the same origin.

These people had heard stories about Arab national heroes, but they were equally excited when Muhammad II captured Constantiniya, when the Ottoman Empire twice surrounded Vienna, and when they completed the unfinished business of the Arab Empire.

These people would also resent the caliphs in the late Arab Empire for their lack of talent and strategy, so that the great Arab Empire was destroyed by the Mongols, just as they resented the weak and incompetent sultans of the Ottoman Empire since Suleiman the Magnificent.

These people will also be grateful that the Ottoman Empire once again united the Islamic world and allowed them to demonstrate the majesty of God in front of Western Europeans.

They will truly consider themselves to be members of the Ottoman Empire, wholeheartedly rejoicing at the strength of this country and saddened by its decline. They will spontaneously spread the word to their tribesmen who have not yet understood these truths. would be the pioneer that the Sultan hoped for.

This is what the Sultan arranged for the Bedouins who went out.

As for the Bedouin who stayed in the Arabian Peninsula, another method can be used at this time.

In the history of a large eastern country, the Central Plains farming dynasty defeated the grassland nomadic regime more than once.

However, before the Manchu Qing Dynasty, no Central Plains dynasty established effective rule on the grasslands.

Before the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Central Plains dynasty had no more than three policies towards the grasslands:

First, pull one faction to fight another to maintain a balance. This was the case in the early Sui and Tang Dynasties and other times when the Central Plains dynasty was strong.

Second, limited low-intensity war, establishing buffer zones at the border, and controlling the other side through military deterrence and economic trade. This was true in the Song Dynasty and the late Ming Dynasty.

Third, use all the material resources in the world to accomplish all your efforts in one battle. To create peace for decades, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty both thought so.

The problem is that these three strategies all require the Central Plains Dynasty to be able to control the situation.

Even the Southern Song Dynasty, which was in the worst position, achieved a strategic stalemate with the Jin Dynasty after stabilizing its position.

During the periods of Taizong and Gaozong, the Tang Dynasty also had very strong control over the grassland. Tujue, Tuqishi, Xue Yantuo... The leeks in the grassland were cut one after another, and they would beat whoever came out first, but so what?

The population on the grassland is endless, and they are constantly raising Gu in the midst of mutual migration and vendetta. After killing off one wave, another wave will be raised. No matter how fast the sickle of the Tang Dynasty is, there will be times when it is blunt. When Wu Zetian came to power, all the poisons were purged. After the wave of famous generals, the Turks really made a comeback.

In the context of Inner Asia, the power vacuum in pastoral areas will not last long, and new power centers will always emerge spontaneously.

For example, the Han Dynasty destroyed the Xiongnu, and the Xianbei prospered; the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Turks, and the Uighurs rose.

Even if one nomadic regime can be eradicated, it is likely that a new opponent will emerge within a decade.

These three strategies are still based on distinguishing between "the enemy and ourselves". Using skills to control people must appear to be in harmony with the spirit.

A powerful fist can conquer someone for a while, but not forever.

If it is impossible to completely drive away the indigenous people, then if you want to truly surrender, you need to blur the concept of "enemy and friend" so that both sides can have other thoughts besides "I can't beat you, so I'll beg you for some favors for the time being." Can have ideological and cultural identity.

The Manchus and Qing Dynasties did quite well. There were many so-called "sowing yellow religion to stabilize Mongolia", "Manchu-Mongolia peace", and "Manchu-Mongolia family". These can only be regarded as auxiliary, and they can truly solve Mongolia completely and play a final role. The most important is the creative system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty - the alliance flag system.

The vitality of the grassland lies in migration and the cruel conflicts in the continuous large-scale population movement. The strong men born between blood and fire have also gained the ability to compete with the Central Plains dynasties.

The alliance flag system precisely limits the nomadic scope of herdsmen and changes nomadic herding to animal husbandry.

The Qing Dynasty resettled the surrendered Mongolian tribes according to the alliance-banner principle until all Mongolian tribes were included in the alliance-banner system.

Among them, the flag is the basic administrative unit of the Qing government in Mongolia. Legally, it is the hereditary territory granted to the flag owner by the Qing emperor (that is, the Mongolian Khan, privately). The flag was formed by weaving the collar, settling the subjects, allocating pasture land, demarcating the flag boundaries, and appointing zasak (consul).

The alliance is a union organization of flags, which is formed by combining several flags. Each alliance has one chief and one deputy leader, who will be sent by the Qing Emperor to take photos.

The main task of the alliance leader is to serve as the convener of the alliance meeting every three years, and perform duties such as bidding, training troops, checking Qiangu, hearing major criminal cases, and supervising subordinate banners, but he does not have the power to send troops.

At the same time, the Qing Dynasty strictly restricted nomadic herding, farming, travel, and marriage under the Minyue Banner.

Under the alliance banner system, the economic basis of the Mongolian tribes has essentially transformed from nomadic to animal husbandry, achieving a close integration of population and land, making it easier for the Qing court to rule.

At the same time, this policy of fixed range grazing and stable strongholds also made it possible to build a stacked bureaucracy.

So this means that the unique extensive management advantages of the grassland peoples are gone, and the few resources on the grassland have to be allocated to support the bureaucrats of the League Banner, and the power of these bureaucrats comes from the central government. This turned the regional contradiction between the Central Plains and the grasslands into a class contradiction within the alliance banner.

In this way, the Mongols were castrated both physically and mentally by the Manchus.

The Arabs are also nomadic, but their innate environment is much worse than that of the Mongolian grasslands. This means that their overall threat is not too great, and it is difficult to give birth to a regime that poses a great threat.

After all, Muhammad Ali's fight against the Emirates in the original time and space was like fighting a dog. This is enough to show the level of this land to this day, although Muhammad Ali is indeed very strong.

Even so, Emperor Sai will naturally adopt this method, and those who can be brainwashed will be brainwashed out.

As for staying in the Arabian Peninsula, those who cannot be brainwashed should adopt the Ottoman version of the alliance flag system, coupled with a governor, win over the Bedouin chiefs, and make the residents of the Arabian Peninsula the most loyal allies of the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, it is not necessary to use religion to reduce Ding like the Manchus did.

After all, Emperor Sai could try to lay out the train during his lifetime.

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