"Kanon" Habits, the Ottoman Empire's Butcher-Brother System Magnificent Century Season 1 Muhteşem Yüzyıl 1. Sezon (2011)

The Ottoman Empire once spanned three continents, Asia, Europe and Africa, ruling a vast area from Central Asia to North Africa to Southeast Europe. At its peak, it destroyed Eastern Rome (the Byzantine Empire), occupied Constantinople, encroached on the Balkan Peninsula, garrisoned the Danube, and invaded Vienna, and the whole of Christian Europe was under the threat of this Muslim empire.

The Ottoman Empire, a country that was consistent with China's Ming and Qing dynasties, also implemented a strict succession system of father and son in the succession of monarchs. The supreme secular ruler is called the Sultan, similar to the emperor of China; and the Sultan also has a harem with a strict palace, with countless concubines, and even like China, there are large groups of eunuchs. The succession system, or family law, of the early Ottoman sultans was primarily an open-ended system of competition in which princes killed each other and survived to inherit the throne. Roughly speaking, the reigning sultan gave his sons a place for each of them to serve as military and political chiefs and learn the talents of governing the country. When the sultan died, the prince who arrived in the capital first, received the support of everyone, and became the new sultan.

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This system, of course, has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the princes are tempered in the experience of actually governing the localities, learning the management experience of military and civil affairs, open competition, survival of the fittest, and the ascension of the fittest, which can ensure the level of succession. But there are problems. The princes were far from the capital, and the distance was certainly fast; in order to get the news of the sultan's death, the princes also had to install an internal line in the imperial court to ventilate the news at any time; the old sultan sometimes had selfish intentions, assigning his favorite son to the nearest place. Wait a minute. In order to win, the princes do not hesitate to meet each other with swords and soldiers, and destroy the lives of the people, which is really the victory of the king and the defeat of the Kou, the law of the jungle.

　　Thus, a system or convention called Fracricide was established. This Fratricide, literally, is the killing of a brother or sister. But from Ottoman practice, not only brothers were killed, but sometimes nephews were killed, not only brothers and nephews, but sometimes their own sons. In short, this system is to kill brothers and slaughter brothers and children. That is to say, in order to ensure the stability of the regime or the country, it is necessary to eliminate the contenders and challenges of the regime, and the brothers and the sons of the brothers are of course the most powerful challengers and contenders, so once a sultan has been established, the first task is to kill the brothers immediately, leaving no one behind. It's like a farmer's seedling. The farmer sows seeds and grows a bush of grass seedlings, so he chooses a strong one, and in order to make it grow better, get enough nutrients and water and light, and pull out the other grass seedlings around it. The Ottoman Fratricide was one such system.

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