18th century total war

Chapter 320 Ottoman's Entry

“Greece is a nation with a glorious historical and cultural heritage. We went through untold hardships to liberate ourselves from Ottoman slavery, and all participants are heroes of Greece.

You should get the rewards you deserve!
Therefore, as long as military and political officials from all over the country are willing to come to Athens to accept their work reports, they will be assigned reasonable positions.

Anyone who attempts to divide Greece with its own troops will be considered a traitor.

Will be a sinner in Greek history! "

After the Aristotle government signed an armistice peace treaty with the Holy Alliance, Aristotle took advantage of his popularity in Greece to soar again (this time the public opinion was the real will of the people), and he was very angry with the troops entrenched in various parts of Greece. send invitation'.

Of course, this is not a political trap. The Aristotle government even listed the ranks and powers of the officials in office based on factors such as the population, military strength, territory size, and wealth of the 'warlords' in various places.

The method adopted by Aristotle has a famous allusion in ancient Eastern countries - releasing military power over a glass of wine.

Aristotle intends to fully reorganize the warlords from all over Greece, instead of sweeping them out all at once, and those officials will make proper arrangements.

Among them, the powerful warlords can directly serve as senior officials in the central government of Athens, whether they are in the army or in politics, they can choose!

Those with weak power can serve as mid-level officials in the central government or as a leading official in the local government.

In fact, the conditions offered by Aristotle's government were already very good, especially when the Legion of Honor controlled by Aristotle had an absolute military advantage.

The most important thing is that after the announcement of this declaration, Aristotle's government immediately took on the status of justice.

A warlord does not only have a leader, but the emotions and minds of the officers and soldiers at all levels under his command need to be taken into consideration. If the hearts of the local warlords are not in harmony, the local warlords who are already at a disadvantage in the army will lose the ability to cause losses to the Legion of Honor...

The Aristotle government arranged not only those warlord leaders, but also officers at all levels under their command, and even arranged the whereabouts of the soldiers.

After the reorganization is over, qualified soldiers can enter the newly established Greek Defense Forces, which is the only regular field force in the Hellenic Republic cut and adapted from the Legion of Honor.

Unqualified soldiers will not be allowed to go home to farm unless they propose to retire!
The selected soldiers will become local garrisons (actually militia) and local police.

The police and garrison forces in Athens and its surrounding cities will naturally be served by soldiers who have been abolished from the Legion of Honor.

The Legion of Honor seems to be very large, but because of the rapid expansion, the army is uneven. Apart from age, there are problems in other places.

For example, there are many 'vagrants' mixed in!
These people have clearly become indicators of bad morals in the army.

Therefore, Aristotle also planned to conduct a major screening of the Legion of Honor.

Of course, the main reason for the disarmament of Aristotle's government was not the quality of soldiers, but financial issues.

How big is Greece, and how many people can it have?
Now the Greek army obviously exceeds the limit that the country's population can supply, because Aristotle brought a large number of minority soldiers and even their relatives to the Balkans!
In addition, there is nothing to do with Aristotle. They are just minorities oppressed by the Kingdom of Serbia. They drag their families into Greece like refugees, and they pour into the Legion of Honor for a meal. .

Moreover, as Aristotle became the president of the Hellenic Republic, the Legion of Honor came into contact with other troops of the Hellenic Republic, and dissatisfaction with his lack of military pay naturally appeared.

People's desires are endless. These poor people may initially think that it is good to have food and clothing in the Legion of Honor. But after they find out that they will receive military pay when they join the army and fight, they immediately feel unbalanced. If it weren't for Aristotle Germany's personal reputation in the Legion of Honor was too high, and the soldiers had already started to cause trouble.

Therefore, the Greek Defense Forces cut and adapted by the Legion of Honor must pay military salaries, just like other European countries.

Although the salaries of the European army in this era were very low, the number of soldiers and officers was still a huge expense.

Aristotle decided through various investigations that the Greek Defense Forces should be maintained at around [-], which is the best.

As for the militia and police responsible for protecting local areas, they are the responsibility of local finances and do not need to be borne by the central finance.

In this backward era, not all local taxes are turned over to the national treasury, and a part of the balance is often left.

In many countries, the taxes paid to the national treasury are even fixed, and any excess is cut off by local governments.

Of course, if local governments have the ability to collect more taxes, they deserve it.

If you don't have the ability to collect less taxes and don't pay enough to the national treasury, then the central government will vigorously hold them accountable!
Of course, the central government is not blind and deaf. The shrewd central government will conduct regular financial audits of local governments to judge their ability to pay taxes, and then adjust the taxes paid to the treasury at any time.

Those local governments that are really suffering from disasters will not force them to pay the tax amount according to previous years.

Forced tax payment will never starve the local government to death, or shrink the pockets of local government officials. These officials will only transfer the shortfall to the lower levels, and the people will suffer in the end!
In short, any exploitation of the local government by the central government will eventually be apportioned to the lowest civilian class. This is the essence of human society!

Even in many cases, the central government has good intentions in formulating rules. For example, it does not pay large salaries to officials and allows them to live like ordinary middle class people.

However, how could officials be willing to live like the middle class?

Their salaries are low, so they will try their best to earn gray income, and the result is that the phenomenon of corruption is further aggravated!
In the history of Li Wei's previous life, why couldn't corrupt officials be killed in the Ming Dynasty just founded by Zhu Yuanzhang?

It is because the salaries of officials ordered by the imperial court are too low!

Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor, felt that officials should be content with a living standard similar to that of the rich among the common people, but which official really didn't want to live the life of a top-notch rich man?

The result is that the salary becomes a kind of income cover...

Not to mention ancient times, even in the 21st century, just looking at the salaries of those officials, they are better than ordinary people, but they are all richer than the rich!

Where did the money come from?

However, the wisdom of corrupt officials is improving, and the wisdom of anti-corruption is also advancing with the times. If the central government cannot solve the greedy instinct in human hearts, it will start from other aspects.

Aren't you taking bribes and taking bribes just to open yourself up and spend money to enjoy yourself?

Well, let's start with your daily expenses!

It's not easy to check if you accept bribes, but you can always find out if you spend money.

If you dare to be greedy and dare not spend, what is the point of greedy so much money?
This should finally solve the corruption problem.

Thus, a large number of money laundering channels were born...

Then, corrupt officials began to misappropriate money to their relatives and friends, and even purchased a large amount of assets abroad!

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Sure enough, the "high justice" move of the Aristotle government immediately made many local warlords put down their resistance.

To put it bluntly, they don't really want to fight a vigorous civil war by supporting themselves. As a vested interest, who doesn't want to enjoy this wealth in peace and stability and pass it on to future generations?
If there were to be a fight, the Legion of Honor would have a good chance of winning no matter what!

Most of the people who can become the leaders of one side are not hot-headed idiots. Facing the political temptation of the British, they declined one after another and began to respond to the call of the Athens government.

Everyone has an official position, and Aristotle seems to be relatively kind. Why should we fight a civil war with a high probability of failure?

As long as the military power is handed over, no matter how bad the military leader is, he can at least become the chief of the local police station!

This is the boss of the police in a city!

After having the first military leader who laid down his military power and was properly arranged, other military leaders followed suit.

Those military leaders also began to enter the screening stage. The Aristotle government first conducted a survey on the soldiers' willingness to join the army. Those who were unwilling to join the army could go home immediately!

Weapons and equipment have to be turned in, and soldiers who turn in can receive a settling allowance to go back.

Everything was arranged in perfect order.

After seeing this scene, the London government had no choice but to give up doing things in Greece.

The London government did not have high hopes for sparking a civil war in Greece. The reason was simple: Aristotle's reputation in Greece was too high!

And Aristotle has no dark history!

If Li Wei uses this appeasement policy, those local warlords will guarantee that they will fight to the death to hold on to their military power and will never hand over their guns!
At this time, the importance of a leader's personal credibility is reflected. The personal credibility image that Aristotle has maintained since entering politics plays a vital role at this moment.

No one thought that Aristotle would turn his back on anyone and overturn his generous treatment.

For those local warlords who wanted to continue to lead the battle, Aristotle even assigned them positions in the newly established Greek Defense Forces, and their ranks were at the same level as their original ranks, without any downward adjustment!

This was truly a benevolent move, and was highly praised by the Greek military leaders.

However, Aristotle's government has always insisted on the integrity of the Greek Republic and prevented the emergence of mountainousism and separatism in the army, so it did not include all the old subordinates of the military leaders under their command.

The local military leaders in Greece did not have such extravagant hopes.

The fact that the Hellenic Republic was able to successfully complete military reform and recruit local warlords had a lot to do with the fact that the Hellenic Republic had not yet started a civil war.

Civil war is a very evil thing. If there is a first time, there will be countless times. If there is no first time, everyone can sit down and talk.

Aristotle's government was willing to share power with everyone, and it also had military advantages, so naturally no one wanted to continue the civil war.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the unfavorable international situation of the Hellenic Republic. Greece is a weak country in Europe. If a civil war breaks out at this time, either the Anti-French Alliance or the Holy Alliance may take advantage of the situation and invade Greece. Became a vassal again.

What convinced the Greek generals most about Aristotle was that he always insisted on the political principle that Greece was a sovereign country!

Of course, it is also possible that those Greek generals saw that the general trend had come. At this time, when the civil war started as a traitor, they would only be the first to be wiped out...

In just a few months, the Aristotle government incorporated all the local armed forces and reorganized [-] Greek Republic Defense Forces.

The [-]-strong Defense Force of the Hellenic Republic has hundreds of field artillery pieces of various types and nearly [-] cavalrymen of various types. It is considered a considerable force on the European continent.

And the [-] Greek Defense Forces are the limit that the Aristotle government can do. If there are more, Greece will fall into an economic crisis and even a food shortage (a large number of young and strong will leave the land and food production will decrease).

However, when everything was going according to plan, a bad news came to the emperor's office in Vienna.

In the middle of 1802, the Ottoman Empire, which had just quelled the Armenian rebellion, temporarily put aside its hatred with the Russian Empire under the instigation of the British and joined the fourth anti-French alliance!
At this moment, the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire became rare allies!
Two feuding countries can become allies. This shows how much pressure the expansion of the Holy Alliance established by Livy's government will put on the European countries!
Not only the London government, but all the national governments in Europe have a feeling that if the Livy government wins the Fourth Anti-French War again, I am afraid that the whole of Europe will sink under the shadow of Livy's conquest.

The countries of the Fourth Anti-French Alliance called this war a glorious war to save them from the tyrant!

The Ottoman Empire joined the fourth anti-French alliance, which made the holy alliance established by the Li Wei government worthy of its name.

Of course, at this time, under the desperate propaganda of the anti-French allies in Europe, Livy had become an apostate who held the Pope hostage and betrayed God. The Holy Alliance was not sacred at all in the eyes of the people of the anti-French alliance...

As for the Ottoman Empire joining the Fourth Anti-French Alliance and declaring war on the Holy Alliance countries, it was promoted as a territorial dispute by the countries of the Anti-French Alliance.

It comes down to the fact that the expansion of the tyrant Li Wei has reached the bottom line of the Ottoman Empire, so the Ottoman Empire began to fight with the tyrant Li Wei...

Most people still understand that the enemy of an enemy can be an ally.

What's more, as the situation in Europe has developed to this day, the influence of religion is far less than the government's propaganda efforts.

Why did medieval religions in Europe control the spiritual world of white people?

Because religion controls the right to education and public opinion!

However, these two powers have long been taken back by the powers of the continental powers, and universal compulsory education is almost a blow to the education rights monopolized by church schools!
The emergence of newspapers has allowed the government to directly intervene in the control of public opinion!
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