Chapter 1 The Beginning of Hell Difficulty

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In 1882, the Tatoi Manor of the Athens royal family was located on a hillside in the north of Athens, covering an area of ​​4,500 hectares. There were lush forests and green grass in the manor.

The quiet and peaceful Tatoi Palace is the palace of the Greek royal family. The king and his family would come here to cool off in midsummer.

Wang Lin took a nap on a wooden chair in the garden of Tatoi Palace, thinking about his experiences over the years, giving people a sense of absurdity of Arabian Nights.

Wang Lin was originally just a tourist who went to Athens, the capital of Greece, in the 21st century. When he was tired, he took a rest against a tree at Tatoi Palace, the former site of the Kingdom of Hera.

When he woke up, he found that he had turned into a baby. In the days that followed, Wang Lin gradually understood his situation and he traveled through time.

His current identity is the son of King George I of Greece.

George I was the first monarch of the Greek Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg dynasty. After the Greek King Otto I was deposed in 1862, the British selected the 18-year-old Danish Prince George to come to Greece as king.

George I's mother's ancestor was Anna of Bohemia and Hungary (the wife of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I). He was a descendant of the Komnenian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire (another name for the Eastern Roman Empire by later generations).

Through his father's ancestor, Count Amadeus VI of Savoy, he was a descendant of the Palaiologos dynasty of the Byzantine Empire.

His mother was Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia, and Olga Constantinovna's grandfather was Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.

In a blink of an eye, Constantine had lived in Athens for fifteen years and had long been accustomed to life here, but whenever he thought of his past experiences, he couldn't help but sigh that the world was unpredictable and life was like a dream.

The reason why Constantine was named was at the request of the Greek people.

In 1571, Sophia Paleologus, the last princess of the Eastern Roman Empire and the niece of the last Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine XI, married the Russian King Ivan II. Since then, the Russian royal family has the blood of the Roman royal family, and regards itself as the successor of the Roman Empire, calling itself the Third Roman Empire.

George I succeeded to the throne, which means that Constantine has the blood of the Roman royal family and the blood of the Roman emperor flows in his body.

The Greeks hope that one day, this crown prince named Constantine, the king with the blood of the Roman emperor flowing in his body, will be able to rule the great city with the same name as him, Constantinople, again.

And this city is now the capital of the Ottoman Empire!

Her name is now Istanbul, the largest city in the later Republic of Turkey!

Being a monarch in Europe is not as easy as people imagine, especially the monarchs of small and weak countries, who often have to suffer from the pinch.

In 1830, the Greek people persevered and fought bravely, and finally gained independence from the Ottoman Turkey, which was known as the national prison.

When people mention Greece, their first impression is that it is an ancient country with a long history, the birthplace of Western civilization, the origin of democracy, the birthplace of philosophers and famous scholars Aristotle and Socrates, the city-state of Athens with developed commerce and democracy, and Sparta with a strong martial spirit.

However, these things are already extremely distant history for the Greeks in the 19th century.

In 1881, at the strong request of the Greek people, the Berlin Conference organized by Bismarck agreed to cede Thessaly of the Ottoman Turkey to the Kingdom of Greece. The original territory of the Kingdom of Greece, together with Thessaly, did not exceed 50,000 square kilometers.

In 1882, Greece was a completely impoverished small country in Europe, located in a corner of the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula. If history is not considered, it is not at all impressive.

However, the Greeks have a great ideal, which is to restore their former glory.

Since the Greek region was conquered by the ancient Roman Empire, it has been under the rule of Rome until the decline of the Eastern Roman Empire, which lasted until the Ottoman Turkish Empire destroyed the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) in 1453.

In the middle and late Eastern Roman Empire, Greek became the official language of the empire. The Orthodox Church used Greek for missionary work, and the emperor was no longer called Augustus or Caesar in Roman style, but Basilius in Greek (the title of the king in Greek).

As the remnants of the Roman Empire, the Greeks were ruled by the Ottoman Empire for 300 years and finally became independent.

Naturally, the Greeks, who have thousands of years of history, splendid civilization and long-standing culture, have a strong desire to restore their past glory.

The specific manifestation is to recover the territory and take back those places where Greeks are the majority and are still ruled by the Ottoman Empire.

To recover the places where Greeks are still ruled by foreign countries, that is, to restore Greece to the territory of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

This matter has become the most concerned public issue for the Greek people.

The Greek nationalists in 1878 proposed the following lands and populations to realize their great ideals:

First, the European part of Ottoman Turkey, Thrace, with 90,000 inhabitants.

Second, Macedonia, with 80,000 Greeks.

Third, Epirus, with 80,000 Greeks.

Fourth, Thessaly, with 80,000 Greeks.

Fifth, the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean Sea are inhabited by many Greek islands, such as Crete, Kos, Cyprus, Mytilene, etc., with a total of 20,000 people.

Sixth, the Asian territories of Ottoman Turkey, Asia Minor has 80,000 Greeks, Syria and Palestine have 150,000 Greeks.

The above add up to a total of 50,000 Greeks.

This is almost all the core territories of Ottoman Turkey.

Thinking of this, Constantine couldn't help shaking his head and smiling bitterly, holding his forehead with his hand, trying to control his emotions, and could only sigh in his heart: What a great ambition.

This ideal is so lofty and great. Inspired by such an ideal, the Greeks are restless and restless, and they vent their national feelings heartily.

However, the greater the gap between reality and ideal, the deeper the pain of the Greeks.

As of 1882, the Kingdom of Greece, including the newly recovered Thessaly, had only about 800,000 Greeks living on the territory! ! !

The Greek peninsula is mostly mountainous, with 80% of the territory being mountainous and hilly. Only about 16% of the land is suitable for farming. The land is barren and the harvest of grain crops is not high.

Since independence, it has not even been able to be self-sufficient in food, and has to import large quantities of food every year.

In order to survive, the ancient Greeks were forced to vigorously develop overseas trade. Because their land was not fertile, they could only grow grapes in large quantities and make wine. They used wine and other handicrafts to exchange food with other grain-rich areas, such as Egypt.

It can be said that since ancient times, the land of Greece has been famous for its barrenness.

The population of the Kingdom of Greece was originally sparse, and to make matters worse, this land was not suitable for farming, and it also had a great ideal.

It was really too difficult.

If Greece had been a small country in a down-to-earth manner and developed peacefully, it might not have had no chance to realize its ideal.

This was an opportunity given by the background of the times, that is, the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

At the end of the 19th century, Ottoman Turkey was known as the sick man of West Asia, and it was in harmony with the Qing Dynasty in the East.

It's just that the fever of nationalism is still high, scratching the hearts of the Greeks like a cat's paw.

Constantine took a deep breath. He wanted to sit firmly on the throne of Greece and develop and expand Greece. This difficulty is really the beginning of hell!

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