Ottoman-Chinese War

In 1802, The Ottoman Empire declared war on Ming.

The Chinese are a very powerful nation, besides that, they lack the resources to wage such an expensive war.

The Turks were a bit close to China, but there was a problem, the part that they were barely had an army of their own. They needed help from another power, so they sent some emissaries to England. But the Brits were on a war with'em, so the Ottoman Empire proposed that they could get a bit of South China, something wished by European colonizators like Portugal and the Netherlands.

The Brits were willing to make a deal, and the war broke out.

The Chinese got notified about this by an anonymous spy, who had been living in a well in the streets of Guangzhou and sending messages to the Emperor of the Forbidden City in Nanjing. The Chinese moved a strong part of its army to South China, but this would be terrible to its Sudwest borders, which the Turric hordes were taking control of. To make things worse, the British seized the Island of Hong Kong, which is also near Guangzhou, one of China's most important cities.

The army, strong in the same city I've just mentioned, wouldn't let this pass. The British sold the Emperor of China alcohol and other drugs to become addicted in order to open up a market for their own product. Besides that, the Emperor of China wasn't that dumb and didn't accepted this marbelous proposal.

Near to Tibet, there were a lots of rebels living in the area, this would help the Ottomans.

Speaking of Rebels, some people in Xinjiang were really Pro-Ottoman and wanted independence from the emperor. The government was trying to get them, but it was a lost cause, since many of them lived in the mountains and outside the control of the Emperor.

Russia decided to join the war on China's side while the Ottomans also had the help of Portugal. The Portuguese travelled to South China and got a bit of it, they called the land Macao and made peace with the Chinese. The British, having finally lost control of the Island of Hong Kong, were forced to abandon it.

Meanwhile, in West China, lots of protests were happening in Tibet and Xinjiang, some peasants were even doing sabotage against the government buildings and railroads.

The war was quite expensive for both sides, and in the 19th century, it wasn't a good thing to be poor.

Since the Chinese had nothing to do with the South (Except for the Macanese colony, but they didn't wanted to start another war), its main army migrated to the rebels' area of China.

This was a terrible move, the loyalist armies got stronger and stronger, but the loyalists also smaller and smaller, so quite literally, it was a lose-lose situation.

The Ottoman Empire promised freeing Tibet and Xinjiang in case they letted they pass to the middle of the country. The problem is, they couldn't afford to do it. So, the Ottomans started to be Capitalists.

They started accepting (And demanding) payment to let any merchant to pass the borders. The problem with that is, you can't get anything for your money in a time where nothing is readily available.

France joined the Chinese sidebecause they hated the UK. The British decided they've had enough of losing HK, and sent a huge expeditionary force to retake the mainland of China. The Hong Kong battle started between UK and China.

The forces of the civilized West were greatly outmatched by the (still) barbaric Middle East and South Asia, but they wouldn't be stopped.

A third side joined the war: It was India. They were sick of the UK taking its lands and China threating them.

They sent a massive army, to take both China and the rest of the British Empire's territory.

The British got Hong Kong and also Guangzhou from China. In the west, the British defeated the Indians and took over their city of Mumbai in all of a few week, but Delhi was still standing.

Meanwhile, the Russians were still fighting with the Chinese in the Far East. Their losses had been heavy, but they wouldn't give up.

Delhi was needing allies fast, because the British were pushing them back to wall-to-wall city which was still in use.

The US was the only country that really had any sort of relationship with the Indians. But there was a thing: The Americans and Brits were friends. If the Indians sent over an expeditionary force to help one side in the war, there would be no help given to the other. The only thing Delhi could think was surrendering the city to the mercy of the advancing British army and hope they didn't massacre the population. The UK, for their luck, didn't massacred them, they just took it over, like a week after the siege.

In October 26 1807, a bomb exploded near to the Chinese's Palace. It was probably the Indian side, but who knew? Either way, there were many casualties and this would be the first of many bombs that would explode in the city.

Capitalism in the Turkish land was good, after 16 months of hard work, they could afford the South Rebels' demands.

They were allowed passage through the borders. The first to arrive was a merchant transport with brand new muskets, powder and shot, many other weapons as well. The Turks arrived in Sichuan with their new weapons. They got a huge welcome, and everyone got themself a weapon. There were other things too: Food, fuel, mining equipment, textiles, cloth and tools.

The Chinese didn't liked that and asked Persia if they could fight them in the Middle East, but the Persians didn't wanted to be bothered, they said the War was lost anyway and that the borders were going to be redrawn there anyway. China didn't gived up, it offered the rights of having 80% of its weapons being also avaibled in Iran. Persia couldn't deny this oportunity, in November 30 1810, they declared war at the Ottoman Empire. Persia was running to the West where they could get more land in the Middle East. The first attack of the Persians was on the holy city of Mashhad, this made the Turks angry.

Sichuan was at a bad situation, while the Turks were doing good things to them, China was threating them a lot, which was scary. At the start of 1811: India got its Independence at January 14. This day is now called Bhaarat Divas, which means "India Day" in Hindi.

The Chinese army was getting ready for a massacre in Chengdu. The only way to stop it was to surrender. This caused lots of people to protest on the province. But still, a surrender was better than a massacre. SIchuanese people had another alternative: Becoming independent and having neutral relationships with both Turkey and China.

Most of the population think that surrendering to the enemy is not an option, but if the population was evenly split on it, then there was a small pro-sabotage group. SIchuan basically a no-no province. But at that point, if the province could avoid being completely destroyed, most people would choose it.

The Ottomans then decided to go to another province, but they forgot one thing: Persia.

The first to be attacked was the small port city of Bandar Delam. The Turks decided to make most of its army go to the Middle East because hate/fear on Turkish people was strong on most of China because they didn't wanted to end like Chengdu did, when the troops attacked the province. The first attack wasn't succesful, but it got angry and pissed off people. This was good for The Ottomans, they could fight em back. Persia was slowly getting annexed by Turkey.

A poll was open to people from Sichuan vote about the province's future. It ran from April 15 to May 15.

The options were:

Joining the Ottomans

Staying in China

Independence

More autonomy for the province

Most people choose the first option, but not the second one (staying in China). The population of the province decided to join the Ottoman Empire.

China didn't liked that and flooded its army of them, considered a war crime against democracy.

Their main targets were the Pashtun people. This was called the Pashtun Genocide. Denied till this day by Modern China, despite the fact that many records exist about it. Most of the Pashtun population fled from the province and are today's refugees in Pakistan.

This caused the South Rebels to be angrier about China, also, Russia decided to quit the war as the Chinese act was such an atrocious and coward move to wage a war in that way.

The war wasn't long after the genocide, Tibet and Xinjiang got freed, no longer under the rule of the Empire. Persia got annexed by the Ottomans. The British annexed the Maldives and Ceylon.

The war was finished, the Ottomans won.

China lost 3 provinces (Sichuan, XInjiang and Tibet). Persia got annexed, Hong Kong was given to the UK, Macao was given to Portugal, France and China had to pay the equivalent of 600 million dolars to the UK, Portugal, Turkey and the new 3 countries that were provinces.

The leader of France, Luis XVIII, later written a book named "Regarding the Pashto Genocide", defending the massacre and China, Luis didn't only got his book banned from Sichuan, he could no longer go to the country forever.

The book is now avaible on the Library of Alexandria.