Chapter 593: Moral Abduction
Chapter 580 Moral Kidnapping
After hundreds of years of everyone’s efforts, the Ottoman Empire’s folk image in Europe is equivalent to the devil, the hate value is far ahead of those who came later, dominating the top of the list for hundreds of years without faltering.
After the outbreak of the Near East War, the Vienna government also publicized a wave of their ancestors’ great achievements, which directly led to the Ottoman Empire’s reputation in the civil society is even better. Every now and then there are people to the Ottoman Embassy door activities.
There is no touching the black, the history of the Ottoman Empire itself is black enough. Just find some information out, can attract a wave of hate value.
With the support of public opinion, Minister Hummel was able to make a strong case at the London Conference. Governments condemned the Russian invasion of Poland, but no one condemned the Austrian invasion of the Ottoman Empire.
This is the importance of propaganda. In this era of continental Europe, the black Ottoman Empire itself was politically correct, and a little guidance was enough.
In the Russian-Turkish War in the original time and space, the Tsarist government was still being sprayed with blood. In addition to the tsarist government did not do a good job of propaganda, there is also their own image, not much better than the Ottoman Empire.
Of course, the recovery of Jerusalem was also a political plus. Immediately after the outbreak of the Near East War, the Austrian army launched a war to recover the Holy Land, which blocked the mouths of many people.
Franz already had the title of King of Jerusalem, which was recognized by the European community. It was now perfectly legitimate to take back his own territory without any moral pressure, not even an invasion.
But what determines the political direction is still the interests, Austria has enough reasons for war, beat up the Ottoman Empire that no problem.
But to destroy the Ottoman Empire is a different story. European society is very afraid of destroying a country. Especially for many small European countries, this kind of destruction of the country makes them feel insecure.
If there is no one to take the lead, these countries, even if they are dissatisfied, they can only choose to hold back.
In the Near East War, Austria and the Russians beat up the Ottomans, and they did not have the capital to participate. Now that the British were willing to take the lead, everyone was naturally happy to support them.
As soon as the mediation meeting began, Hummel noticed this change. Although the words of the representatives of the various countries were very subtle, he still clearly felt the meaning of favoring the Ottoman Empire.
The general meaning was to persuade: for the sake of world peace, it is better to use negotiations to resolve conflicts and end the Near East war as soon as possible ……
One person doesn’t matter, a group says that’s different. If you’re not strong enough inside, you’ll be easily led astray.
Hummel waved his hand, “Gentlemen, the responsibility for the war is not on us. It involves historical issues, I believe everyone knows what’s going on, and there’s no need for me to popularize it here.
Now we are just driving out the invaders and reclaiming our homeland, shouldn’t we?”
This is a bad debt, and history simply cannot be pulled out. Hundreds of years have passed, and it is impossible to do any checking if you want to.
Besides, people have added a lot of information over the years to blacken the Ottomans.
It’s nothing in normal times, but if we continue this topic now, the Austrians will surely use this artfully processed information as a reason to lash out at Ottoman.
What’s more troublesome is that a lot of these materials, many of which have been endorsed by the old ancestors, have gained wide recognition in European society. For the sake of political correctness, they can’t jump to disprove it either.
Seeing that the atmosphere had become awkward, the British Foreign Minister, Marquis Maclean, took over the topic, “Your Excellency the Minister, history has passed.
What should have happened, what shouldn’t have happened, has already happened. There is no point in pursuing it any further, now we should focus on the future.
This Near East war has already resulted in 800,000 deaths, more than three million homeless, dozens of cities in ruins, and countless economic losses.
No matter what the Ottoman Empire had done back then, this punishment was enough. If it continued, it would only lead to more broken families.
Children without fathers, wives without husbands, old men without sons, these human tragedies are unfolding every day.
Maybe you don’t know, now the Ottoman Empire is already starving, tens of thousands of people fall down every day, and even in some places there are easy to eat.
For God’s sake, for the sake of these innocent people, end this war as soon as possible!”
When saying this, the Marquis of Maclean, who was completely into the drama, seemed as if he was not a British foreign minister, but a loving priest.
The crowd present understood that the British were trying to play moral abduction. Think about it is also consistent with John Bull’s style, the current international situation simply can not interfere by force, the British and want to keep the Ottoman Empire, naturally can only find another way.
Hummel was disgusted, anyone can talk about “mercy”, only the British are not qualified to talk about.
As the world’s first colonial empire, ruled by four or five hundred million people, every year by the exploitation and oppression of the death of more than this number.
After all, Hummel still controlled his emotions: “Mr. Minister, you should say this to the Ottomans.
A large number of people are homeless, freezing and starving, and this is due to the incompetence of the Sudanese government. You feel sorry for them, then how about you look at these pictures again?
This is a record of an Armenian village that was massacred by these poor people, with the participation of the soldiers of the Government of the Sudan.
And then there are these photos that document that they killed the priest and destroyed the church ……”
These photos were obtained by intelligence organizations at great expense, never mind that the Near East War had broken out and there were still quite a few British and French who stayed in the Ottoman Empire.
No matter how chaotic it is, it can’t affect them, these “big shots” who are high up in the hierarchy. With the Sultan’s government’s tightest protection, as long as they are not killed by bombs in the sky, they are safe.
This is a special product of the times, even the London street punks, to the Ottoman Empire is not to be messed with the “big man”.
If the intelligence organization is willing to spend money, someone will be able to provide photos. Anyway, they are a privileged class in the Ottoman Empire, and the Sudanese government would not dare to touch them if they were caught.
If there are professionals present, they will find that many of the photos are not freshly taken, but are old photos that have been stored for several years.
But it didn’t matter, the photos proved that these atrocities had really happened, and that was enough.
Marquis McLean had a headache, he could already imagine how sensational these photos would appear in tomorrow’s London newspapers.
“Your Excellency the Minister, the photos this above, I think the Ottoman Empire will give everyone an explanation, and all of these abusers will be punished by God.
The cause of these tragedies is actually still the war that led to the destruction of social order and the government’s loss of control over the country.
I propose that when the war is over, we all form a joint delegation into the Ottoman Empire and specialize in apprehending the thugs up here.”
In order to preserve the Ottoman Empire, Marquis McLean also put up a fight. This made the Ottoman Foreign Minister Albiach, who was not far away, very embarrassed, deciding before even asking my opinion?
After seeing what was on the photo, all of Albiach’s dissatisfaction disappeared. In normal times these things do not count for much, but now that they have been brought to the table to say, it is completely different.
Immediately taking a stand, he said, “Everyone please rest assured that the thugs on this will all be held accountable. The Ottoman Empire is a country with freedom of religion, there is absolutely no religious persecution, and we will not let these thugs get away with it.”
After a pause, Albiacci brought back the topic that had taken him off course, “I feel very ashamed that this tragedy has happened.
Because of the war, the government put all its energy into the battlefield and neglected the local management, which caused the tragedy to happen.
In order to make up for the regret and not let similar things continue to happen, I hope to end this war as soon as possible. For the sake of world peace, the Ottoman Empire is willing to do its part.”
In his heart, Albiach had already cursed away, he really couldn’t imagine that there were actually stupid people who were capable of being so irredeemably stupid.
Cameras in this day and age were big, and the motion of setting up a photo shoot was not small, so it was hard not to be noticed. This meant that when the pictures were being taken, these parties were not stopped at all.
Ignorance is fearless, the camera is still new, more than eighty percent of the Ottomans have never seen this thing, not to mention do not know the role of the camera, which is the cause of all this happened.
After brainstorming, Albiaqi still decided to go back to the sultan to suggest, strengthen the control of the camera. There were too many things in the Ottoman Empire that were not allowed to see the light of day to not be careful.
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(End of chapter)