Greece’s Roman Road

Seeing Constantine talking about their land issues, the representatives of several big landlords immediately tensed their hearts and looked at Constantine nervously.

These people were able to become big landowners because they had worked for the Ottomans for generations, were responsible for collecting taxes for the Ottoman government, or acted as officials, relying on the power in their hands to seize a large amount of Albanian land, so that by now, half of Albania's land is , in the hands of several large families.

Judging from the words of several people, it is obvious that these big landowners and Albanian nationalists have different demands due to their interests.

For these big landowners, whether it's Ottoman or Greece, it doesn't really matter who will rule Albania, as long as they don't think of their land.

Obviously, nationalists like Jamali disapprove of such a large class of landowners. They want to fight for the independence of Albania. Nearly half of a country's land is in the hands of several big families. This is unimaginable. matter.

In order to unite and win over more Albanians, nationalists like Jamali advocate certain land reforms, which is a sure thing.

Just imagine, if nothing has changed after Albania's independence, for the poor, who make up the majority of Albania's population, what does it mean to be independent?

After hearing what Metaxas said, these thoughts flashed through Constantine's mind one by one.

Farona watched Constantine remain silent, gritted his teeth, and said, "Your Highness, as long as you can guarantee that you will not carry out land reform in Albania, our Faroan family is willing to convert to Orthodoxy."

"We can send the young children of the family to the University of Athens, or even the Athens Army Academy, to receive the most orthodox Greek education."

As soon as his words came out, even the representatives of other landlords were stunned and sighed: The Farona family really can let go.

But think about it, now it is Greece, not the Ottomans, who rule Albania.

In a country like Greece where the Orthodox faith is the mainstream, the large landowners of the msl family, who control a large amount of land in Albania, seem to be too conspicuous, and will be cleaned up by the political forces of Greece sooner or later.

After conversion, he can better integrate into Greek society.

Thinking of this, the other three representatives of the landlords, Frioni, Toptani, and Verrachi, also nodded in agreement with Faroan's suggestion.

"His Royal Highness, as long as you can agree that the Albanian language can be used for education and publication, we can agree that the Albanian language can only be spelled in Greek letters in the future," Jamali said helplessly.

Such a compromise is also out of helplessness.

At first, the Albanians were not united, and now these big landowners have put aside the Albanian nationalist forces and have reached a separate deal with the Greek government.

Second, in the Russo-Turkish war of 1878, due to the misjudgment of the situation by the Albanian democrats at that time, they thought that the Ottoman Empire would inevitably be under the joint attack of Russia and its Slavic allies, Bulgaria and Serbia. They have a good chance for Albania to fight for independence.

So, when Russia and the Ottoman Empire fought fiercely, the Albanian nationalists took advantage of the Ottoman Empire's lack of time to care about Albania. Under the organization of the Prizren Alliance, the Albanian national armed forces began to attack the Ottoman Empire's government agencies in Afghanistan, refusing to pay taxes Wait for the uprising.

As a result, after the end of the war between Russia and Austria, at the Berlin Conference in 1881, the situation was reversed. Almost all countries sided with Russia and supported the Ottoman Empire.

After the Ottoman Empire freed its hands from the war, it was naturally unable to spare these guys who fell into trouble and stabbed in the back. After all, traitors are more hateful than enemies, and they **** suppressed Albania's independence activities.

The coalition formed by the Albanian democrats at that time, and also the main leader of this uprising, the Prizren Alliance, whose members were almost slaughtered by the Ottoman government, a total of two or three thousand people, were either killed directly, or He died in prison, and there are only some small fish and shrimp left, and it can't become a big climate.

In Albania, there are only 200,000 to 300,000 people in total.

The elite class was almost wiped out.

Thanks to the Ottomans, when Greece took over Albania, there was almost no resistance - all the thorns were wiped out.

The nationalists represented by Jamali, whose strength is at the lowest point, really don't have much leverage to trade with Constantine.

Looking at a few Albanian representatives who were soft-spoken, Constantine first agreed that he would not carry out land reform in Albania for the time being, on the condition that they converted and sent his family children to study in Greece.

As for the Albanian permission issue mentioned by Jamali, Constantine was a little hesitant.

In the Albanian region, it is natural to suppress the Albanian language and promote the Greek language from the Greek point of view.

However, Albania is a bit special. There are hundreds of thousands of Albanians living in southern Italy, and Kosovo is also a place where Albanians have an advantage. The Greek government strongly promotes Greek in Albania and abandons the Albanian language, which will not only anger Albanians living outside Albania. At the same time, it will also make the Albanians in Greece have a strong rebellious psychology, causing some troubles.

Thinking of this, Güstendin said to Jamali: "If it is based on the Greek alphabet and spelled Albanian, I can agree on behalf of the Greek government to allow such Albanian to be used for education and publication, but Greece is located in The government, office and administrative language of the Albanian region is still in Greek”

As for allowing the application of the Albanian language, will it become a hidden danger for Greece to rule Albania? Of course, there is a possibility, but it is not a big threat.

There are only about 300,000 Albanians in Greece~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and a considerable number of them are pro-Greek Orthodox Christians.

Secondly, a "small language" used by hundreds of thousands of people cannot threaten the orthodox status of Greek.

Moreover, the Albanian language is very immature. She doesn't even have words yet, which is far from enough to compete with the extremely mature Greek that has developed for two thousand years.

Such a language is fine for daily communication, but when it is used for scientific and cultural communication, it will encounter many difficulties.

What's more, Albanian is based on the Greek alphabet.

In Constantine's view, with the breakthrough and innovation of communication technology and transportation, the exchange of information between Greece and Albania, the flow of people, and the convenience of material movement, Greek will eventually defeat Albanian.

Albanian, based on the Greek alphabet, is more like a dialect of Greek.

For nationalists, this is also a huge improvement. During the Ottoman Empire, the Albanian language was allowed to be used in public education and publications alone. The Albanians struggled for decades and failed to achieve it.

Both sides took a step back, and both partially achieved their goals.

First, slow down the Albanians. When Greece has digested the newly acquired land, the initiative will still be in the hands of Greece.

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