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In 1622 Ottoman Sultan Osman II attempted to disband the Janissaries and replace them with a full time army of ethnic Turkish soldiers upon realizing that they had become just like the pretorians of old, doing far more harm than they did good. Upon trying to implement his reforms, the sultan was taken hostage by the Janissaries and assassinated later.

Now lets say Osman manages to avoid a few assassination attempts and get his idea for a new army off the ground and actually manages to disband the Janissaries. What's next?
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