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- "Is this possible?"
Redding couldn¡¯t help but be slightly dumbfounded, even though the matter of digging canals is nothing new in Egypt.
Historically, the Egyptians dug canals to connect the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
The earliest history of excavation can be traced back to the 12th Dynasty of Egypt, when Pharaoh Senusert III ordered the digging of an east-west canal to connect the Red Sea and the Nile in order to carry out direct trade through land-based flat boats. It is still there today. There are some remains of this canal, which is said to have been used until the time of Ramses II before it fell into disuse.
By 600 BC, another pharaoh wanted to dig a canal, but in the end it was not completed due to the huge amount of work on the canal.
Then in the following thousand years, the rulers who ruled Egypt had repeatedly wanted to dig, improve, destroy, and rebuild on the original basis of the canal Unicom and the Red Sea.
It was completely abandoned until the time of Caliph Al-Mansur during the Arab Empire.
There have been many people who wanted to dig canals in history, but so far no one has been able to actually dig a usable canal.
The main reason for this is that the amount of canal excavation work is too large.
The closest distance between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea is less than two hundred miles. In the eyes of later generations, the distance of two hundred miles is simply insignificant. With large-scale construction machinery, it can be easily dug through at any time.
But this was in ancient times. There were no construction machinery. Everything had to be excavated by manpower, and the amount of work would be very large.
And Egypt, despite its great reputation and ancient civilization, has a special geographical climate. Except for the oases in the Nile River Basin where people live, most of the places are deserts and sparsely populated.
In the surrounding area, the situation in the Middle East to the east is similar, not much better. To the west, North Africa is the vast Sahara Desert, which is also a desert.
This means that Egypt¡¯s population is very small, which means there is no way to easily recruit hundreds of thousands of people to carry out major projects like the big countries in the east.
Because if hundreds of thousands of people don't farm and produce, the entire country may have big problems, and a large number of people will starve to death. Moreover, there are deserts everywhere here, and drinking water is a big problem.
This is also an important reason why Egypt has been unable to build a canal in ancient times. In comparison, the distance from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea is simply trivial to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
"It is more than two hundred miles from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. How many people and how many years of digging will it take to dig it out?"
"The amount of the project is too large, and the funds required are too huge."
Redding couldn¡¯t help but shake his head as he spoke.
"What's two hundred miles?"
¡°Our Ming Dynasty¡¯s Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is more than three thousand miles long, running through the north and south of our Ming Dynasty. We Ming people can dig through it. This mere two hundred miles is nothing at all.¡±
When Liu Yangzheng heard this, he immediately laughed.
It¡¯s only two hundred miles, so what¡¯s the big deal? The Ming Dynasty dug more than three thousand miles of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, so two hundred miles is nothing.
To be honest, this is not a wild idea, but he really feels that if a canal can be dug here, he can collect money in the future.
In Liu Yangzheng¡¯s opinion, the distance of two hundred miles is very close. It only takes a few years of digging with 100,000 people to dig through it.
After this is dug, the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea will be connected. I don¡¯t know how many ships will pass through here. Each ship will collect a toll of 100 taels of silver. How much money can it collect this year?
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Hearing Liu Yangzheng¡¯s words, Reding was immediately speechless.
He also knows a lot about the Ming Dynasty and knows about the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
The three-thousand-mile Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was once the most important river transportation waterway in the Ming Dynasty. It is said that it was built from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, when Egypt was still in the Arab Empire.
Thinking about it carefully, the people of Ming Dynasty could even build the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which is three thousand miles away. This canal, which is only two hundred miles away, seems to be really not difficult for them.
¡°If this canal can really be built, then we can really make money in the future.¡±
"It's just thatIt¡¯s just that this deal is so big that Lei Ding can only act as a liaison in it and cannot sit on an equal footing with Liu Yangzheng.
There is no way. Firstly, he does not have huge funds, and secondly, he doesn't care when he comes to Egypt. If he can act as an errand, it would be good to hold a part of the shares in this canal in the future. At least, he can still pass on the news. It goes on, and it can be said to be a hugely profitable deal.
Once the canal is built, our children and grandchildren will be able to live a good life collecting money.
"Okay, let's settle the matter like this for now. I will write to Liu Gong, the Minister of Civil Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, immediately after I return, and you will also visit your Sultan."
"I will stay here for a few days. If he is interested, we will discuss it carefully at that time."
"After Daming replies, I will come to your country again to handle this matter." (Remember this site's website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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