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- When Emperor Ming Dynasty sent a huge team of thousands of people, led by the Ministry of Industry and composed of many professors, teachers, and students from Daming College of Architecture and Engineering, to Nanjing to inspect, study, and demonstrate the feasibility of building the Yangtze River Bridge.
Thousands of miles away in Egypt, the excavation of the Egyptian canal has also reached the final stage.
Tong Yuan, who was wearing a Ming Dynasty official dress, was riding a tall horse to inspect the canal construction site. He looked at the huge and busy construction site in front of him. There were nearly 300,000 people participating in the construction of the Egyptian canal.
The last ten miles of road were full of busy and lively scenes.
On both sides of the canal construction site, there was originally a desert land with grass and spring light. However, with the excavation of the canal construction site, Tong Yuan considered the problem of water for a large number of workers, so he also dug a special diversion canal in advance. , diverting fresh water from the Nile River.
Wherever the freshwater passes, oases have sprung up. Coupled with the gathering of a large number of workers, an extremely huge market has emerged. At a glance, there are endless shantytowns on both sides of the canal.
You can see countless children playing carefree, women busy preparing meals, and various shops with very good business.
This time or*g .com Zhang Si. Riding a horse to a sand dune, looking far away, you can already see the sea in the distance and feel the breath of the sea.
"After more than four years, it is finally completed!"
Tong Yuan calculated the time. Excavation of the Egyptian Canal began in the 18th year of Hongzhi. It is now the 23rd year of Hongzhi. Calculating the time, in a few months, the canal will be almost completed and officially opened to ships.
It took less than four years to dig the Egyptian canal, which is quite a speed.
Of course, this is mainly because Egypt and the Ming Dynasty maintain good relations and cooperation. The Ming Dynasty provides money and technology, while Egypt provides people and land.
More than 300,000 farmers who have lost their farmland have become the cheapest labor force. As long as they are given food and some wages, they will work for you in a down-to-earth manner.
With sufficient funds and labor, and with many factors taken into consideration in advance, the progress will be extremely smooth.
Of course, this has a lot to do with the land here in Egypt. The land here is basically sandy soil, which is very soft, and it is very convenient and easy to dig.
That¡¯s why we were able to dig the Egyptian canal in less than four years, and it will soon be officially opened to navigation.
¡°Master Tong, it¡¯s finally finished.¡±
I don¡¯t know when, Kansu II came to Tong Yuan on horseback.
Compared to Tong Yuan who was impatient, Kansu II seemed to have a headache.
"Once the canal is completed, the hundreds of thousands of people in front of us will lose their livelihoods. Where can I find jobs for these more than 300,000 people?"
Although in the past few years, Kansu II has been working hard to crack down on the large landowners and feudal lords in Egypt, trying every means to get the land out of their hands and give it to the farmers.
However, he still underestimated the power of these big landowners, big feudal lords, and nobles in the country. Almost all his efforts ended in failure. The land was still firmly in the hands of these big landowners, big feudal lords, and nobles.
These feudal lords and nobles of the Mamluk Kingdom are the foundation of the rule of the Mamluk Kingdom, but now they are also shaking the foundation of the empire.
强牺 kenshufang.com 读牺。The land is too concentrated in a few nobles, In the hands of the lords, a large number of peasants lost the land they relied on for survival, and domestic conflicts were extremely acute.
If it weren¡¯t for luck, the Ming Dynasty would have spent huge sums of money to dig this canal, providing jobs for hundreds of thousands of people, which would have indirectly alleviated Egypt¡¯s internal conflicts to a great extent.
I am afraid that Egypt at this time has already changed dynasties or has been invaded by the Ottoman Empire, which has always been eyeing and coveting.
Now that the canal is finally about to be completed, and the good days of several years are about to end, Cansu II is not at all happy about the opening of the canal, but is full of sorrow.
¡° Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs and their source of livelihood at once, and big problems will inevitably arise by then.
He actually hopes that the canal can be dug for a few more years. If the canal is dug longer, he will have more time to rectify domestic affairs.
But he also knows that his domestic problems will be solved sooner or later."I know, to be honest, so do my new troops. The training has been completed, and I will prepare to expand to the upper reaches of the Nile River and to the Arabian Peninsula."
Kansu II nodded. He knew that Tong Yuan was reminding him as a friend, so he also told his plan.
"These big nobles, big feudal lords, and big landowners in the country cannot move. If they move, they may not be able to sit in their position securely.
Now we can only do the same as the Ming Dynasty, relying on external expansion and plunder to divert domestic conflicts.
There are only two directions for Egypt's expansion, one is to the south, to the upper reaches of the Nile River, and the other is to the east, to the Arabian Peninsula.
It is relatively easier to expand to the south, because there are no strong opponents to the south, but it goes deep into the interior of the African continent, and the natural conditions are not very ideal. Only the area along the Nile River is not bad.
Zhida org.com Zhixiao. To the east, there is a powerful Ottoman Empire blocking it, but the two river basins are very prosperous, and they were once the territory of the Arab Empire. They are considered a family with them, and they all belong to the Arab world
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