The Crescent of the Sultan

Selim was watching the Polish battle report with relish.

It has to be said that Kosciuszko's idea is actually correct. According to ideal conditions, Poland can indeed repel the opponent this time.

It’s just that the ideal is an ideal, and the reality is reality. The Polish army does not have the ability to execute it, the Polish Sejm is indeed difficult to keep secret, and the Polish nobles cannot really lead it.

But at least Sai Dadi got what he wanted.

Heavy cavalry still has value in this era.

The cavalry of the new army can completely devote their energy to forming such a force.

Thinking of the new army, Selim began to consider whether Haji Pasha's tenure was too long.

After all, such a large army has been trained in the hands of the opponent all year round. Although Haji Pasha has always been loyal, Selim also arranged for Hassan to contain the opponent, but he is still a little worried.

The Sultan rubbed his eyebrows. According to this idea, in fact, Haji Pasha can be replaced by Yusuf Pasha after his retirement. However, as for Egypt, who should be responsible?

This place is too fertile, and it is a New Deal development zone set up by Selim. If the local government really has some evil intentions, it does have the ability to separatist rule.

It seems possible to release Ishaq to others, but if the leader of this faction is released, it is likely to cause an imbalance of power for a period of time.

However, Selim can use Haji Pasha as the Grand Vizier, which can effectively suppress the major factions. After all, the other party's prestige is sufficient.

While Sudan was busy with political affairs, several major events abroad also came to an end at the same time.

The war in Poland has become clear.

The Prussians had penetrated Poland's northwestern defense line, but the Poles could not spare a single unit to support them.

Kosciuszko lacked time. Although he had suppressed Franz, he needed more time to allow this unit to exert its combat effectiveness.

As for the Russian army, it was really pushed all the way.

After Poniatowski commanded the Polish army to retreat from the Bug River defense line, the two sides broke out in the Battle of Kazmien where the Lithuanian ambush failed, and the Battle of Brest where the defense failed to retreat outside Warsaw, ending in Marku. Battle of Souf.

The latter was the last battle of the entire war. Poniatowski defeated the Cossack regiment that attacked the Polish rear.

Just when the Polish soldiers were preparing to retreat to the Vistula River to build a defense line, they received shocking news. The king joined the Tagovica Alliance and ordered the Polish army to lay down their weapons. The war was over.

Stanislaw II announced that he would join the Tagovica League and ordered all Polish troops to lay down their weapons and stop resistance. This order caused an uproar in the army.

Because although they were retreating, the main force of the Polish army had not suffered a fatal blow. Their morale was high and supplies were sufficient, so they could still continue to fight.

Many generals, including the two commanders Joseph Poniatowski and Kosciuszko, opposed surrender. The two even unanimously envisioned launching a coup and holding the king hostage to continue the war.

But after more painful reflections, Joseph Poniatowski abandoned the idea and they accepted August's backup plan.

In the subsequent battles, Poniatowski became disheartened and wanted to commit suicide several times, but he still had a mission.

Kosciuszko suffered the heaviest blow because he had not lost a single battle since the beginning of the war.

August Kazimierzki had already discussed it with the two, and in the worst case scenario, they left a way out for Poland.

After receiving the news from the king, the two sent a small number of troops to stay behind, and then rushed towards the border between the Ottoman Empire and Poland with the army and a lot of treasures.

Since the king was unable to protect Poland, they must at least leave seeds for Poland.

August was unwilling to blame Kamil Chapotoreski and Enson Machovsky, whose behavior was undoubtedly much better than that of the traitor.

With Poland already hopeless, not everyone is willing to make this choice like him.

After the victory in the war, Catherine II ordered the Sejm deputies to go to Grodno to hold a new parliament to confirm the demands of the Russian Empire. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth will dissolve on its own, and the major parts of the Commonwealth will choose to join Prussia, Austria, and Russia.

Jacob Sivers became the new Russian ambassador to Poland. His mission was to manipulate the parliament into enforcing the treaty dissolving the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

What happened next seemed to be history repeating itself. Sivers continued to use tried and tested tactics, including military siege, financial inducement, coercion and intimidation. Anyone who resisted was warned, arrested or even beaten, and of course the most classic old Russian methods. ——Exile to Siberia.

Lawmakers are still making a last-ditch, desperate effort. They used all procedures to delay the meeting, and the result was that the Russians arrested seven more members and sent them into exile.

The session continued to be delayed, and a furious Sivers threatened all MPs that delaying the session would be seen as a provocation against the tsar.

Even so, some people still came forward. This may be the last roar of this former Eastern European lion.

"They want to exile us to Siberia!" said one influential patriot.

“Let them come, threats do not scare us.

He added to Stanislaw II who was present: “Your Majesty, if you must, please lead us to Siberia!

Let us leave this threatening place and go to that desolate wasteland! At least our virtues will keep those who seek to destroy our spirits busy. "

At this time, all the members were filled with grief and anger, crying bitterly: "Let us go to Siberia!"

Opposing these parliamentarians loyal to Poland was the Tagovica Union.

They played a pitiful and hateful role. The original idea of ​​these nobles was to use the Russians to destroy the new law that interfered with their own interests. They naively thought that the Russians would help them selflessly and that Catherine the Great would respect Poland. Unification and territorial integrity, it will be business as usual after the war.

However, the mockery of history soon befell them.

The Prussian army's high-profile invasion of the northwest territory was completely different from Catherine II's promise of just help.

The Tagovica League was furious. They accused Prussia of crimes to Catherine II, eager to get help from their master.

Catherine II finally took off her disguise as a protector of Poland and stated bluntly: "If you plan to resist the Prussians, you must face the Russian army."

As the saying goes, the Tagovica Alliance thought it was taking advantage of the Russians. However, from the beginning to the end, they were pawns of Catherine II, played by her with applause.

They tried their best to please the Russians and betrayed their motherland frantically. In the end, they got nothing. Instead, they were nailed to the pillar of shame in history forever and became the object of eternal contempt for the Polish nation.

In this way, the Tagovica League was duplicitous. Its leader, Chesny Potocki, fled to Vienna, and most of the remaining traitors surrendered to Tsarist Russia.

Stanislaw II knew that the partition of Poland was a foregone conclusion and that the MPs' resistance was pointless. In the end, the parliament compromised and passed the "Act on the Dissolution of the Polish-Lithuanian Federation" by a vote of 61 to 23.

But when the "Act on Self-Determination of the Regions of the Polish-Lithuanian Federation" was proposed, these MPs could not stand it anymore. They stood up one after another and tried to leave the parliament.

Sivers ordered the Russian troops to directly surround the parliament hall, use bright bayonets to drive back the members who tried to leave, forcing them to continue the meeting.

The Russian commanders broke into the parliament in full force, threatened and abused the members rudely and ordered them to approve the bill.

The Speaker asked three times whether he agreed to pass the bill, but the MPs responded with silence.

Sivers used all his strength. He read aloud the instructions of Catherine the Great and sternly ordered the parliamentarians to ratify the treaty.

There was dead silence in the parliament hall.

In desperation, Sivers claimed that the parliamentarians had acquiesced in the bill, and the "Act on Self-Determination of the Regions of the Polish-Lithuanian Federation" was forcibly passed, with the following provisions.

"Russia occupied most of eastern Poland, and also gained Lithuania and Ukraine west of the Dnieper River.

Prussia gained Warsaw and much of western Poland.

Austria gains the region of West Galicia (including Krakow). "

Prussia ultimately had 23% of the federal population and 140,000 square kilometers of territory, Austria had 32% of the population and 130,000 square kilometers of territory, and Russia had 45% of the population and 430,000 square kilometers of territory. .

This was a bloody feast between three black eagles and white eagles. They devoured each other clean, but Stanislaw II provided cover for the Polish seeds. He was not that unbearable, but it was just that it was over and there was nothing he could do about it. .

In despair, the frustrated King of Poland asked Catherine II to abdicate, and Catherine agreed.

He specially held a banquet and invited senior officials from Prussia, Austria and Russia. While the banquet was in full swing, several senior officials, such as Franz of Austria, Potemkin of Russia, and Friedrich of Prussia, Wilhelm von Sternberg joined the king in the middle of the dance floor.

At this moment, the bomb detonated. Friedrich saw God on the spot because he was closer to the king, while Franz and Potemkin saved their lives.

The deputies published a protest written by the king, denouncing the atrocities committed by Austria, Russia, and Prussia. In addition, he tiredly expressed his despair at his inability to save the country and his ardent expectations for his descendants. This was Poland's last elegy.

"I, the King of Poland, have grown old, and have been weakened physically and mentally by many disasters.

We, every member of Parliament, not even at the cost of our lives, can liberate our country from the prison of our oppressors.

We hereby commit this task to our posterity, trusting that in some happier age to come they may be able to find the means of liberating this country from oppression and slavery.

Unfortunately, such access and methods are not in the hands of our generation, and we have to leave it to fate. "

Due to the injured commander, the armies of the three countries did not pursue the fleeing Polish army for a while, which allowed them to reach the Ottoman Empire safely.

This king who had been trying to reform Poland but had never succeeded gave himself the best funeral. He took away his enemies, called his people, and left seeds for Poland. This is enough, no ?

It was already late at night when Selim received the news of the death of the Polish king. He did not speak, but silently thought about the reasons why Poland fell to this point.

At this time, the social structure of Poland was no different from that of hundreds of years ago. The aristocratic giants were extremely wealthy and powerful.

A large number of proletarian nobles are idle, the citizen bourgeoisie is weak, the small and medium-sized nobles are aware of worries but do not constitute a strong force, and the serf class, which accounts for 70% of the country's population, is in a state of "deaf and blind" at the political level. They have been occupied and exploited by the big nobles. For hundreds of years, this group almost fell into a state of complete numbness.

Under the control of the great nobles, they did not care about changes in national policies or international situations, and turned a deaf ear to the battles between reformers and conservatives.

The daily heavy drudgery constitutes the absolute protagonist in their lives. Even if there was a war, they had to continue working. The nobles were afraid that once they were armed, the serfs would break out in revolution or uprising.

Therefore, those who actually served as the main force of the army in the war were the small and medium-sized aristocrats. They had received a good education since childhood, paid close attention to the current situation of the country's crisis, and had abundant patriotic enthusiasm and willingness to reform.

So when the war broke out, they prepared their own weapons and actively joined the army. In addition, the citizens of big cities also constituted an important force in resisting the Russian army, but their number was limited and they alone were far from enough.

Faced with the encirclement and suppression of half of Europe, France could inspire the entire class to fight together and fight against the outside world. Therefore, France won the victory. Poland could not do this, and failure became inevitable.

This leads to another major shortcoming in Poland in the late period - the serf problem.

At the end of the 18th century, serfdom became a typical example of a backward system. As early as the 15th century, Western European countries had completely abandoned the serfdom system through reforms triggered by developed market economies and multiple uprisings.

Serfdom has become one of the biggest cancers in the deteriorating Polish system. Such a large number of classes are locked in the fields by large landowners and cannot further develop their productivity.

It can be said responsibly that in the middle and late reign of Stanislaw II, the fate of Polish serfs had changed.

He and his staff noticed the destructive nature of serfdom, but they could not abolish this ancient system that had existed for hundreds of years.

Therefore, they attempted to gently change many ills, including serfdom, which was in line with Poland's national conditions.

But others will not give you so much time. You are at the junction of three powerful countries and you lack the power to protect yourself. What do you expect to do?

The law of the jungle has always been a truth in the world.

This is also the reason why Selim wanted to reform. After all, in another time and space, how could the fate of the Ottoman Empire be better than that of Poland?

Thank you to P club players Ecstasy, Guo Mowei, Feifei Chi, Sky Writer, Lime Marshmallow, the big guy passing by, and all the book friends for their monthly passes. I am very busy today, so I am posting late.

It is recommended to eat it with "Poland Will Not Die" for a second time