Therefore, after thinking about getting some money from the East Coast people and ensuring that Buenos Aires and other places will not be lost in a short period of time, considering the turmoil in the domestic situation and the heavy pressure from abroad, King Carlos and Prince Don Juan finally nodded to the East Coast people's request. At present, Gao Wengang has drawn up a text of the agreement with them, and plans to arrange ships next month to send the text of the agreement and some other important diplomatic letters back to the mainland through a sailing rapid contact ship, and handed over to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Executive Committee for review and approval.

After finishing the Spanish business, Gao Wengang, the plenipotentiary of the East Coast to Europe, who fell a big rock in his heart, spent a few days visiting Madrid and surrounding areas, and then rode all the way east, took a boat to sea in Barcelona, ​​heading east to the port of Smyrna in the Ottoman Empire, where he will stay there for a long time to handle some important matters.

On April 28, 1679, the ships that Gao Wengang and others took arrived at Smyrna, the largest port of the Ottoman Empire. As soon as they arrived, they received a report from the head of the local merchant station. The Ottoman Empire asked them to rush to Moldavia as soon as possible, and the orthodox army was led to a large army in Pika Kara Mustafaaga, who was stationed in Pika.

Originally, people with the status of Gao Wengang, even if they were Great Viziko Plulu of the Ottoman Empire, they had to be polite when they saw him. They would not be summoned by Qiu Ba. Especially now that the Ottoman Empire has been warring for years and the money shortage has reappeared (the country has experienced many money shortages in the past five years, and each time has brought huge difficulties to trade), the people of the East Coast have been in a downturn in business in this country and there is no motivation to move around. But who made Gao Wengang want to do something when he takes office? In addition, the commercial stations in Kafa, Haji and Burgas have not been visited many times, so he finally planned to go to the Black Sea.

While heading north to Moldavia, Gao Wengang also brought Malati, Ambassador to Istanbul, and asked them many questions along the way, mainly about the current situation in the Ottomans and the Black Sea.

"The economy of the Ottoman Empire is on the verge of collapse." Marathi has been working in the Ottoman for more than ten or twenty years. As soon as he opened his mouth, he was shocked by Gao Wengang. He only heard him say: "The expenditure of the 200,000 army is not a small amount. At present, it seems that only France, the Ottoman country with a population of more than 20 million and more than 30 million can be maintained. France has a developed handicraft industry and a population of 23 million. After so many years, it can't hold on. Although the Ottoman population has a weak industrial foundation, a large internal friction, and has a small government tax base. It has been fighting with Poland, Russia, and Ukrainian Cossacks for many years. It consumes a huge amount of money. Now it has shown a very serious fatigue."

"Why haven't you settled with Poland yet? Now the Russians' troops in Eastern Ukraine have been increasing again and again, from 40,000 to 70,000, right? No matter how many Ottoman soldiers there are, they can't stand the situation of being attacked from both sides. What do you think?" Gao Wengang was really helpless. Before he left Istanbul and went to Amsterdam to take office, Ottoman and Poland were fighting to death. After going there, he heard that the war had subsided, but why did it sound like it was not over yet?

"It has basically subsided, but the small-scale war has never stopped, because the Ottomans not only occupied the Potoria region of Poland, but also controlled most of Western Ukraine. These two places were originally Polish territory, so no one would have to worry, let alone an ambitious king like Sobesky." Marathi spread his hands and said helplessly: "Koplulu is too greedy. Potoria was seized by him personally, and the Poles also signed the treaty of cede land, which was his important achievement, so he would not do so.

Can let go. Doroshenko was the one who insisted on taking in and being named Gaitman of Western Ukraine. Now he is disheartened and the capital of Western Ukraine is occupied by Samoylovic. He can't ignore anything. So, you see, the Ottomans fight on both sides, and at the same time go to war with Poland and Russia in two directions. The Cossacks of Western Ukraine are actually not stable and are more hostile to the Ottomans. This can be seen from the fact that Khmelnikki can't recruit anyone."

By the way, the Cossacks of Western Ukraine are also Christians after all, and naturally they have extremely distrustful of the Ottomans. Although they are currently ruled by the Ottomans due to the situation, they do not have too many connections with Samoylovich of Eastern Ukraine in private. They have directly waterproofed several battles. The loss of its capital, Qijilin, without a war, is proof of this.

The Ottomans had no choice but to release Yuri Khmelnikki (son of Khmelnikki, the leader of the Cossack uprising), imprisoned by Doroshenko, from the prison, and then gave him some of his men and supplies, and granted him the title of "Little Ross and Duke of Ukraine", so that he could be a puppet of Western Ukraine and regain Qijilin.

However, it seems that the effect is still very limited. First of all, his appeal is not as strong as his father. Secondly, Western Ukraine was almost beaten to white land and suffered heavy losses. Even the temporary capital Nemirov city was a ruin. How can we support our army in this situation and how to counterattack and recover the lost territory? As a last resort, the Ottomans still had to go on the battlefield in person, and drew troops from the army stationed in Moldavia to defend the Poles into Ukraine. Together with the troops of Khmelnikki, they besieged the Cossacks and Russian troops of Samoylovich.

Throughout 1678 and 1679, the Ottoman army was fighting hard with the Russians, and finally recovered Qijilin, which had been razed to the ground last year. Although the Eastern Ukraine and the Russian army suffered heavy losses in this war, the Ottomans suffered no light at all. In the two-year tug-of-war, the Ottoman Empire killed and injured tens of thousands of soldiers, consumed countless money and materials. In addition, the domestic economic difficulties, the lost equipment could not be purchased and replenished in time, so they could only try to produce it themselves again. This was simply a vicious cycle.

Moreover, although Samoylovic in Eastern Ukraine was expelled from the West Bank, he has been sending people to sneak into the West Bank. With the support of the party leading the way, he has continuously easily captured one town after another, and then forced the population to the east, destroying local city blocks, fields and houses. The area near Kiev, which was once the essence, has become an uninhabited wilderness. He has not seen anyone for two days, which shows that Samoylovic acts ruthlessly and thoroughly.

Compared with this heroic leader of Eastern Ukraine, Khmelnikki, apart from constantly imposing heavy taxes on the few remaining people, he could only suppress rebellions everywhere. Moreover, this feeling of running and the ultimate suppression of the atmosphere also crushed the poor man's heart. He became irritable, sensitive, suspicious and impulsive. Not only did he lose the war, he also beat and scolded and punished his subordinates at all times. As a result, the entire Western Ukraine became even more disinterested. Almost every month, the leader of the Cossacks led his men across the river to the east to join Samoylovic.

"In this way, Western Ukraine is now a paper house, and it is entirely maintained by the Ottoman garrison. Once they withdraw, they may not need to use Duke Romodanovsky's Russian troops to dispatch. Just Samoilovic himself can probably unify the two sides of the Dnieper River." Gao Wengang slapped his thigh and said with regret.

Although he had a rough understanding of the current situation in Ukraine in some official documents, after a careful chat with Malati, he found that the situation was far more complicated and more serious than he thought. It can be said that the Ottomans are really trapped in this big pit, at least part of them, and have been dragged here for 40,000 or 50,000 elite troops all year round, and it is very difficult to do anything. You must know that although the Ottomans often dispatched 200,000 troops, at least more than half of them were making up for the numbers. These servants from the Arabian Peninsula, the Balkans, and the Caucasus area have different minds and can fight a smooth battle. If there is a disturbance in the war, it is probably not like the 800,000 troops of the Former Qin Dynasty Fu Jian in Chinese history, they will be dispersed in one go.

Therefore, the Ottoman Empire could fight not as many troops as expected, and there would not be more than 100,000 people in the country. As a result, half of them were trapped in Ukraine, and they also had to face pressure from the Poles. I believe that if the Austrians had not signed a treaty with them and had not expired, the coalition forces from Germany would have probably entered Serbia.

"We must help the Ottomans 'reduce the burden'," said Malati. "That is, first let them stop the war with the Poles, withdraw the troops stationed in Potoria and Moldavia, and then find a way to negotiate with the Russians. The two countries will each constrain the Cossacks and borders in their own territory. Speaking of which, the two countries have signed a treaty and are in peace, but Doroshenko and Samoylovic are too annoying. They have leveraged the situation and have all been involved in it. They have been involved in the three countries, and they have been involved in it for a whole number of years. What is this about? Is the country unified?"
Chapter completed!