Chapter 120 About Fashion

"Your Majesty, I have to say that your wisdom is simply...

Suleiman is also a smart man. He has seen that the Sultan is very satisfied with everyone's current dress, so why comment on it? Just start taking pictures of the Sultan's horses.

It is easy for the person who says it, and it is also useful for the listener. Isn't it beautiful?

Selim listened to Suleiman's compliments and thought about the so-called fashion issues.

In fact, talking about fashion in the Ottoman Empire is actually a rather nonsense topic.

Although the clothes of the upper class gentlemen have different styles and materials, and the colors and patterns are also more diverse.

But except for the vast territory of the Ottoman Empire outside the Balkans, you can roughly divide these clothes into robes and headscarves.

It must be said that it is simply a classic among classics. No matter who invades the land of this religion, , whoever rules, only changes the style of the robe and turban, but it is difficult to shake his core.

Persian style, Arabic style, Egyptian style, Anatolian style, material, pattern, these are just details, and their changes are not fashionable.

So Selim made more detailed regulations on the requirements for wedding dresses this time, basically referring to the costumes of the Ottoman Empire after the Tanzimat Reform in the 19th century. Black and red are the mainstream colors, and the overall style has a strong German aesthetic color or the style of the French News Agency.

Of course, this is not the only choice. The talent introduction plan discussed with Yusuf Pasha before has achieved relatively significant results at this time.

Mahand Surest, as well as the great mathematician Legendre and astronomer Meshuni who came with him, and many French officers, they also brought a lot of French and British fashion colors.

Among these three people, Legendre is the real boss.

He was born into a wealthy family and studied at the Mazarin College in Paris. He received scientific education, especially higher education in mathematics.

In 1770, when Legendre was 18 years old, he passed the graduation thesis defense in mathematics and physics under the auspices of Abbe.

Not only that, he was also a mathematics teacher at the Paris Army Officer School, teaching artillery mathematics at the time. It is worth mentioning that the high quality of the French artillery is inseparable from their advanced mathematics.

This person is also a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of London, and has had contact with bigwigs such as Laplace and Lagrange.

According to common sense, he should have gone to Prussia for refuge , but Kalman Pasha and the Ottoman ambassador in Paris did a good job in propaganda.

Legendre considered his economic conditions and family environment (he had no children, so he didn't have to worry about faith and education), and finally followed Mahand here.

After all, who could offer such high conditions like the Sultan, a big villa, servants of all kinds, and a high annual salary.

Prussia's economy had to support a large army, and coupled with the xenophobia of the nobles, in addition to the issue of faith, the Ottoman Empire was indeed the best choice for Legendre.

As for faith, it can actually be ignored. There are differences between Prussian Protestantism and French Catholicism.

It has to be said that Selim drew an SSR card for himself from the French Revolution, which is quite cost-effective.

And Mahand himself is not only a superb military strategist, but also one of the authoritative figures in bourgeois jurisprudence.

Cooperating with the Grand Mufti and the Ulemas of the Ottoman Empire, a "Constitution" was just made for Selim.

It has been almost a year since the promulgation of the Imperial Edict, but the Ottoman Empire still has no Constitution and still uses the ancient religious law, which is obviously not conducive to the reform of the empire.

However, the time is almost right. Taking advantage of this wedding, many targeted things must be finalized, including religion, customs, culture, and ideas.

Before this, Selim had made great concessions, from allowing religious groups to participate in the civil service examination on a large scale to Anna's conversion, which were the top bargaining chips on the negotiation table between him and the Grand Mufti.

After all, in this game, the Grand Mufti actually has no initiative.

First, the Grand Mufti's sword to interfere with the Sultan in the past - the Guards, has been broken by Emperor Selim.

Second, Emperor Selim used the civil service examination to divide the control of the ulema represented by the Grand Mufti over the judiciary.

Third, Emperor Selim is both a sultan and a caliph, and has an innate advantage, which is difficult for the Grand Mufti to achieve.

In other words, things that should have been taken for granted, such as allowing the religious orders to take exams and Anna's conversion, have now become a political concession and compromise.

At this point, the Grand Mufti has taken too many benefits and it is time to give something back to the Sultan.

The first is the issue of clothing this time. Although the upper class generally plays more colorfully regardless of where they are or what religion they are in, it is one thing to play with them privately and another to wear them outside.

If there is no Grand Mufti's endorsement, there will not be so many people changing clothes just based on the Sultan's monogram.

As for how the Grand Mufti endorses, almost every invitation is sent by the local religious orders or ulema, and this is what Selim asked for. Everyone works together, I help you promote, and you help me endorse, isn't this reasonable? .

While Selim was happily scanning the guests below, he suddenly found a guy who was not so sociable. Anta-Kozan was looking at the guests around him angrily at this time, so that no one wanted to get close to him.

Of course, even if he didn't do this, no one would want to get close to him. After all, he was the only one in the crowd who wore a robe and a turban. For Anta-Kozan, this was his protest against the Sultan.

You know, the Kozan family did a lot for the Sultan. The previous Guards riot was the Kozan family guarding the southern gate of Anatolia and restraining the Syrian nobles.

But how did the Sultan repay the Kozan family? Just because he didn't distribute land to a few people, the Sultan's envoy executed his son-in-law. It was simply ungrateful.

What's more, in his opinion, this group of people who changed into foreign clothes were simply betraying Allah. He was powerless to stop it, so he lit the lamp.

But Anta-Kozan seemed to have forgotten one thing. This is no longer the era in the past when the central government needed to negotiate with local forces like them. Since Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire has once again clarified the relationship between the monarch and the minister.

And Selim is the monarch, and he, Anta-Kozan, is the minister.

"So, Suleiman, what's going on?"

Selim squinted at Anta-Kozan and pointed in another direction. He said coldly.

"Others can do it, but he can't, right?"

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