Shaojie provided Ali with a strategy to create conflicts in Tunisia. As long as the conflict is created, he can ask the Ottoman Empire for military reinforcements.

"If I want, will they give it?" Ali obviously didn't believe it.

"Yes, they will give it. Because Amar will advocate giving it." Shaojie answered confidently.

When it comes to Amal, Ali also has a headache. Amal is considered Ali's mentor. Although the two of them had been dirty before, it is undeniable that Amal played an important role in the process of Ali becoming a local tyrant. He constantly delivered the trained and armed Bedouin to Ali, and provided assistance to the best of his ability.

It was precisely with Amal's support that Ali integrated the local tribal armed forces in Tunisia, and his name as Pasha in Tunisia was also helped by Amal.

But Amal has never been his staunch supporter. Although Amal has mastered the two provinces of Egypt and Sinai for many years and is also a local tyrant, he is an absolute central faction and has always firmly supported the concentration of power in Istanbul.

Amar has more than once in the past few years

He wanted to find someone to replace Alibaba to prevent Alibaba from operating for a long time and separating the country. At the same time, among the powerful and generals in Tunisia, they kept trying to win over and divide. These made Alibaba a headache. However, Alibaba was also very smart and constantly bribed and enlisted, which made Tunisia a separatist regime with him as the core.

And Ali also understood that Shaojie's suggestion was to let him deliberately sell a flaw, so that Amal thought he had the opportunity to regain control of Tunisia, so he would naturally send troops to come.

Ali thought about it and seemed that this was also a good idea, because as long as the colonists threatened Egypt now, as long as a war broke out in Tunisia, it would definitely choose to ease in the direction of Egypt. Amal Pasha would definitely be willing to be in a safe and stable environment for Egypt in his own control. The outbreak of conflict in Tunisia would cause trouble to the west.

"Although Amal Pasha is a central faction, he has been in power for many years. His influence in Istanbul depends more on his family, and his family is happy to see war breaking out in Tunisia. However, he will not send the army under the central authority here. When that time comes, what army will come to Tunisia?" Shaojie asked on his own initiative.

Whether it is Ali or Amal, his eyes are still staring at the acre of three-point land under his feet, in Istanbul, he has to face a more strategic threat, that is, the Austrian Empire.

Since the Battle of Vienna, the Ottoman Empire has never launched a war to the outside world. Although it has participated in some local conflicts, it has never really launched a national war. For twenty-five years, the Ottoman Empire has been carrying out domestic reforms, which have gradually shifted to economic reforms and even political reforms.

Logically speaking, a country has experienced such a long period of reform and development and should have achieved development and its national strength has been enhanced.

But this is not the case. The Ottoman Empire did make progress, but it did not change fundamentally. It was still a feudal and closed country. This was mainly determined by its national composition. In the early days, the Kopruli family supported the reform very much and established a pure firearm army, introducing instructors and equipment from the empire, pushing the army's technical and tactical level to a higher level.

At one point, the Ottoman Empire had to choose to revenge against Russia or Austrian Empire, but the following reforms eliminated this ambition because the Kopruli family launched fiscal reforms to weaken local tyrants, establish a centralized system, and determine a new tax system. However, such reforms that are harmful to domestic vested interests are doomed to not be supported, and the vigorous reforms eventually declared failure.

The result was that Egypt and Sinai established modern legal, tax and economic systems in the form of special administrative regions, but other lands under the Ottoman Empire were still closed and backward. The struggle within the Kopruri family also caused the reform to stop for a while, and then it could no longer be promoted.

The reason is that the reform promoted by the Koplulu family was to enrich the country and strengthen the army, but it was found that the so-called reform did not bring about enriching the country and strengthen the army. Although the country became more and more open, nationalism rose, the localities became more and more divided, and the local tendency to divide and independent tendencies became more and more obvious.

This is the premise that the empire strives to maintain relations with the Ottoman Empire. If the empire takes the initiative to initiate colonization of the Ottoman Empire, the environment in this country will be even worse.

But that is, the empire did not challenge the Ottomans. For the Austrian Empire and other European countries, the Ottoman Empire was indeed an eternal enemy and target.

After the war of inheriting the throne in Spain, the Ottoman Empire found a new entry point again, that is, to cooperate with Spain to fight against the Austrian Empire.

This is also a helpless choice, because the three Western European countries not only colonized North Africa, the Ottoman Empire, but also wooed the Austrian Empire in order to fight against the empire. Their relations with Russia were also heating up, and the result was that the Ottoman Empire could not support it. After the Spanish Kingdom emerged from the financial crisis and began to establish a modern navy, the Ottoman Empire took the initiative to submit an olive branch to seek cooperation.

Although the two sides have not yet formed an alliance, they have a strong willingness to cooperate.

This is also the problem of the European order. The four major European powers, Britain, France, Austria and Russia, are constantly approaching. Among them, Britain and France have established alliances, but have not established alliances with Austria and Russia. The reason for this is that Britain and France know that once the alliance of four countries is established, the empire will take the lead in establishing a six-nation alliance composed of the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Spain, the Federation of Ukraine, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Kingdom of Sweden.

Obviously, the four-nation alliance can only confront the six-nation alliance, so Britain and France have never dared to easily expand the scope of the alliance to avoid triggering a chain reaction.

In the eyes of the Ottoman Empire, the Austrian Empire was the number one opponent. In fact, the reason was very simple. The rise of the Ottoman Empire must have been pioneering in the direction of Europe. In the Holy Alliance War and the Russian-Turkish War, the Ottoman Empire lost too much land in the Balkans, and there was a strong desire for revenge in China.

Relatively speaking, except for Egypt, North Africa was originally just a sphere of influence and did not form an effective rule at all. However, Britain and France did not directly cut off the direct interests of the Ottoman Empire, but on the contrary, they could cooperate in some matters.

At this time, the strategic focus of the Ottoman Empire was completely aimed at the direction of Europe, and he was determined to seek breakthroughs from the Austrian Empire. This was not only in line with the geopolitical and strategic environment that the Ottoman Empire had, but also caused by internal political changes in the Ottoman Empire.

After the failure of the second Kopluir reform, the power of the Kopluir family was not affected, but was further expanded. That was because in the internal competition, Amal's father Fazo won a complete victory over his brother Hussein.

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But the problem is that Fazo is no longer young, especially in recent years, his spirit is getting worse than before, and he often gets sick. He has long planned to pass the throne, and the person who takes over his position must be Amal. As early as three years ago, he first saw the beginning of his career. Amal, who served as Pasha in Egypt and Sinai, became Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, in charge of diplomacy and economy. Logically speaking, a Vizier should work in the capital of the Ottoman Empire, but Amal did not, and he was still in Port Said.

Amal's intention was clear, and he wanted to ensure that the two important provinces of Egypt and Sinai were controlled by him, which was his basic position. It was obvious that Amal, who had shown good talent in politics for a long time, had always had problems in hiring people, and he did not have a person he really trusted.

Shaojie kept informing Ali of the situation facing the Ottoman Empire, and Ali quickly understood Shaojie's method.

When a conflict broke out in Tunisia, the Ottoman Empire would inevitably support the army. Under the involvement of Austria, the main force would not move, and could only use the private army loyal to Amal in the Egyptian province. Faced with European colonists, Amal either transferred the Egyptian New Army to support Tunisia, or retreated Ali's army to Egypt. As long as the war was fought and Amal knew nothing about military affairs could only rely on Ali. With the empire beating and drumming, Ali's possibility of gaining real power to the Egyptian New Army was quite high.

In fact, Amal also has another way, which is to launch an attack in Egypt, but this act of provoking war will obviously lead to criticism from the Ottoman government and opposition. This method is completely unoperable.

Through these, Ali also wanted to understand the purpose of Shaojie's trip. If he did not cause trouble, Amal went to Istanbul to take over the Ottoman Empire in order to gain control of Egypt, he would definitely make peace with the European colonists, which the empire would definitely not want to see.

And as long as you move, the empire's old goal will be achieved, that is, to use North Africa to bleed the European colonists.

Obviously, the empire didn't have to bear any risks, and he once again achieved a stable win. If there were really any risks, Shaojie's personal safety was the only one. And he still came here because he had neglected supervision of Alibaba, which caused the empire's interests to be damaged and he felt guilty.

After careful consideration, Ali asked: "What if I reject your proposal?"

"I may die here..." The long speech prepared by Shaojie was interrupted by Ali. Ali said: "No, Shaojie, you will not die here. I just arranged someone outside the door, but in fact, it was to catch you. If I catch you, I will contact Shen Jing quietly. I think His Highness Yu is willing to pay some ransom for you.

Killing you will only harm me, even if I only get a ransom of ten thousand imperial silver dollars, I will make it."

Shaojie spread his hands and said, "I won't thank you for this. And I'm not only worth ten thousand silver dollars.

Okay, let's talk about the topic. If you refuse, then I will leave. The Empire will cancel your support for you, and you will have to wait in the torture. One day, the adults in Istanbul will sell you. You said you would kill me just now, and now I want to tell you that if there is one day when you don't have a place to go, I can arrange your refuge and arrange a reasonable house for you in a subcontinent city that believes in the Tianfang Cult or is willing to accept the Tianfang Cult, so that you can enjoy your old age.

How about Goa?”

Ali didn't want to eventually fall to the point of refuge subcontinent, and he asked, "Why did Istanbul betray me?"

"A war will sooner or later break out between Austria and the Ottomans. In this war, the Ottoman Empire will not be able to have an advantage. In addition to attracting more allies for its own, it is to weaken its enemies as much as possible. If the Ottoman Empire's powerful people believe that they can get some concessions from Britain and France by sacrificing Tunisia, then they will do this without hesitation." Shaojie said.

Ali smiled and said, "You are exaggerating."

Shaojie hugged his hands with his chest and said in a relaxed and pleasant tone: "Dear Ali, Tunisia is just a small place. Even if you deal with the powerful people who disobey you and become the master of it, you are just a small person. North Africa is the frontier of the confrontation between great powers. You cannot keep it alone, and the power you control will not be respected by the great powers. Sooner or later, you will lose everything, and even if you don't, your son will come to that point."

Ali raised his eyebrows: "Even if I am a chess piece, I am a heavyweight piece!"

Shaojie shook his head: "Tunisia is not a chess piece, it is a chessboard!"

"Is that true? I don't think so." Ali said toughly.

Shaojie didn't care: "I've said that, and I don't want to say it anymore. Anyway, I've said everything I should say. Now I'm going to rest. When you want to kill me or let me go, come and find me again."

Ali snorted coldly, and Shaojie shrugged and left. At this time, the side door opened and a young man walked in, holding a revolver in one hand and a scimitar with an unsheathed scimitar in the other. He looked a bit like Ali, Tusong, the son of Ali. He had been at the side door and had never left, so he finished listening to the conversation between the two.

"Do you want to kill him, father?" Tusong said.

Ali shook his head: "Don't kill him no matter what. He is the subordinate of Prince Yu. If he offended the Chinese prince, you, my father and son will never have peace in their lives."

Ali poured Tusong a glass of wine, Tusong put down his weapon, sat in front of Ali, and said, "So should we do what he wants?"

Ali asked: "It's generally the case, but we still have our own affairs. Tusong, I ask you, who do you think except the empire represented by Shaojie, is willing to support me in the position of Pasha, Egypt."
Chapter completed!