When the Zhiyuan is slowly moving in the canal with the lowest navigation, people can feel the narrowness of this canal, and it can only be navigable in one direction, because the average width of the Suez Canal at this time is only fifty or sixty meters, and the narrowest point is only more than thirty meters. lā

Historically, after the completion of the Suez Canal in 1869, it has undergone many dredging and expansion projects, and by the 1st century the average width of the canal was only more than 1 meter. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the 19th century, human beings could not rely on the power of machinery, and the canal could only be dug by manpower, and the narrow scale of the canal also buried the lives of 120,000 Egyptian people.

The huge Zhiyuan sailed in the river, looking like it was driving on 6 places from a distance, the whole river was almost crowded, and the left and right sides were very close to the shore, and people could see every rivet on the battleship up close.

The color is getting darker and darker, only a red glow is left on the western horizon, but the people on both sides of the strait are enthusiastic, when a large number of gas lamps on the Zhiyuan began to ignite, the orange lights in the dark night outline a beautiful battleship, looking like a dream from afar.

"The first historical event that changed this land was finally born, and in the future this will be the place where human blood is shed......"

"What, what are you ......?" Wang Huaiyuan asked while standing on the sidelines, puzzled.

"I am here, the whole Central Asian region, about to be awakened from the same life, the Suez Canal connects Europe and Asia, which is a good thing for the world, but it is the beginning of a nightmare for the Central and East Asian regions!"

Wang Huaiyuan didn't understand: "Do you mean a conflict of interest? There will be people vying for control of this canal in the future?"

Xiao Le smiled faintly and did not speak, he knew very well that the concept of the Middle East in the modern sense was completely because of the excavation of the canal and the emergence of oil resources.

Before the canal was dug, the Middle East was completely part of the territory of the Ottoman Empire, and most of the current Israel, Palestine, Egypt, and Iran, as well as the two river basins, including the southern shore of the Mediterranean, were all Ottoman territory.

The rest of the Arab region is still largely a loose tribal confederation of the Middle Ages, with no international status at all.

In the 18th century, the influence of the Ottoman Empire gradually declined, and Europe increased its power through maritime trade and industrialization, and the technological generation gap also increased.

The Ottoman legions, which had once fought the whole of Europe, were forced into the defensive phase, and by the end of the nineteenth century, the religious empire needed the help of Britain and France to resist the invasion of Tsarist Russia in the north.

In the Middle East now, those *** tribal nobles are not the same thing as the Middle Eastern tyrants of later generations, the society is backward, the people are extremely poor, and the culture is cut off...... The existence of the so-called state is maintained only by the bond of religious beliefs.

Xiao Le pointed to the lonely waterway and said, "The information they brought back is very important, the current indigenous people of the Middle East have been gradually colonized, and 120,000 migrant workers died in the eleventh year of the project, but the people have not hoarded a lot of hatred, do you know why?"

Wang Huaiyuan was stunned for a moment, "Hatred! Yes, I also have such a question in my heart, but I have never been able to understand it...... Now as soon as you remind me, I suddenly realize, this is really a very strange thing, the French have killed so many local Egyptian migrant workers, why is there no hatred?"

"When it was white, those locals in the port of Suez accepted the money of the French as if they didn't care, and then they were cruel to us, although they were all teenagers, but they couldn't be so arrogant without the connivance of adults, right?"

Xiao Le lit a cigarette for himself, looked at the bright cigarette butts flickering in the night wind, and said coldly: "Do you remember the civilization I lived by, and the concept was severed? The root cause is here......

"Egyptian civilization has been broken, at the moment it is completely crushed by European civilization, in the future their history will be written by Europeans, their textbooks will be compiled by foreign races, and there is a lack of a large number of intellectuals among the people to retain the memory of their own people, then this phenomenon will appear...... Forget the hatred!"

"Hey...... More than 100,000 people were slaughtered by one nation, but there was no voice of resistance among the people, which is simply unimaginable in China!"

"When the Qing army entered the customs, more than 200 years had passed since the massacres, but there were still countless people among the people who remembered it clearly, and that kind of bitter hatred has always existed in the people, although it was suppressed, it was never forgotten...... It is precisely because of these memories of hatred that there will be continuous anti-Qing activities!"

"And here! The canal was opened to traffic this year, and the brutal oppression and killing of the workers had only ceased for a few months, but if you look at these people, they are still working for the little profit of the colonizers, as if they didn't know!

"Of the four ancient civilizations, only the Chinese civilization in China is continuous, and it is precisely because the vitality of our own civilization is so strong that we can be revived in the invasions of foreign races again and again without being destroyed!"

"Remember, we must remember that hatred itself is the driving force for the survival of a nation! If all the Han people in the Qing Dynasty forget the Three Massacres in Jiading and the Ten Days in Yangzhou, then the anti-Qing forces will naturally disappear!"

"We have not forgotten how miserable the Wuhu Rebellion was! We have not forgotten the slaughter of the Mongol cavalry in the Central Plains! We have also remembered the destruction of the Central Plains civilization by the Manchu Qing Dynasty even more clearly! Because with these painful memories, we know what happiness is!"

"Where is the influence of the Chinese people? It's not that I Xiao Le has magic, but I understand where the strong vitality of our Chinese civilization is, there is a power that exists in the people, although it is temporarily dormant, but as long as you give a little thunder, it will sprout immediately!"

"I, Xiao Le, actually didn't do very well, and the Chinese were not very perfect! But I at least achieved a sense of disparity, compared with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, we Chinese have a sense of disparity, and compared with the colonized natives of the world, we Chinese still have a sense of disparity!"

"If the people want to know that they are happy, they must see with their own eyes how sinister the outside world is! And the people must be able to experience the happiness and tranquility in front of them from thousands of years of suffering!"

"Yes, this is my philosophy of governance, I never promise to make all the people rich, I just tell them what history is like, what the world is like, let them compare it personally, and let them find the happiness of China from their hearts!"

Xiao Le stretched out his hand and pointed to the banks of the Suez Canal sadly, "Don't be the same as the ancient Egyptian civilization, don't be the same as the civilization of the two rivers...... The roots have been cut off, and the hatred of exterminating the clan has been forgotten!"

"Their civilization is no longer connected, and it has been completely broken by Westerners......"