The woman with the white veil and the lightning horse was called Ikram, she was the sister of the native nobleman of Port Suez, she was a well-educated woman, and her maid was a spy who had broken into the Canal Company, and Ferdinand could not have imagined that a poor native maid could understand French. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There are generally two criteria for the Canal Company to recruit local employees, and those who know English and French are managers, and they are generally out to take charge of specific tasks.

The waiters and maids in charge of housekeeping are all selected local natives who do not know foreign languages, and the main consideration is confidentiality, as for daily communication, they can communicate in simple Arabic, or teach a few words of French temporarily.

It was precisely because of such strict security measures that Ferdinand dared to talk about their plans unscrupulously at the banquet. At the end of the 19th century, European colonial rule over the world had entered a period of stability, and everything that could be suppressed was suppressed, and those who dared to resist were almost killed.

The attitude of the people of the colony towards the colonizers, from the earliest resistance to the final compromise, has now become numb to the habit. India is a good example of a place where the princely kings and populaces have become so accustomed to the rule of the colonizers that they even feel that such rule is justified.

Colonization has entered the stabilizer, and the arrogance of the Europeans has been greatly encouraged, and perhaps in the minds of Ferdinand and others, the natives are a group of uncivilized beasts, a little stronger than the animals, so there is no need to worry too much about their threat.

Because of this, they did not expect that the Egyptian natives had begun to mix their food and water with illicit goods, and that a maid who could understand French had already taken their plot out.

When Ikram learned of the conspiracy of the French, he left a letter without consulting his brother, and robbed his brother's fast horse and went on the road alone to chase the combined fleet.

And his little maid, under the order of the young lady, began to plot against Ferdinand, and the French consul did not know that his favorite iced black tea had been secretly mixed with polluted water.

The kind-hearted Ikram had a strong sense of right and wrong, and when she knew that these benefactors in the East were about to enter the encirclement of the French, she could no longer sit still, and she was so bold that she left home at night.

The deserts of the Middle East are not good places, many tribes are herders when they graze, and when they see caravans, they become bandits, and it is very dangerous for single girls to walk alone at night.

Fortunately, the two brave private soldiers at home found out about Miss's actions and hurriedly chased after her to take her home, but the master's lightning BMW was not comparable to their war horses, and the two still couldn't catch Miss after running all night.

"Don't chase after you...... Either protect me and go to the benefactors of the East, or you will go back! The ungrateful will let Allah punish them!"

The two samurai scratched their ears and cheeks anxiously, and said in their hearts that what if we didn't agree, and we couldn't catch up with Miss's lightning BMW, so in the end we could only chase after and protect like a ghost in hanging boots.

Ikram hadn't drunk water all night, her lips were chapped and her heart was burning.

"Don't go ahead, those French have ambushed a lot of cannons at the fifth station! they have hired Bedouin robbers to fire at you......"

"As soon as the cannon is fired, these French will have an excuse to intervene, and when the time comes, all the north and south rivers of the Great Bitter Lake will be blocked, and so many of your warships will have to be trapped in the Great Bitter Lake in the end!"

"The battleship is trapped in the desert, can it still live? The French consul also said that he would take this opportunity to declare war on you together with many countries in Europe, and the time you were trapped was an opportunity for the French to carry out diplomatic mediation!"

"Don't go, don't tell the truth to the French, withdraw at once, retreat to the Red Sea...... Even if you take a long detour to the Cape of Good Hope, wasting time is better than being sleepy!"

Ikram was indeed an educated and talented woman, who actually knew the Cape of Good Hope and knew the most basic knowledge of geography, which was really not easy in those days.

There is really a bit of trouble in the lake now, after the scraping incident between two merchant ships, there is another merchant ship failure in the northern river, and it is said that a steam paddle steamer has a boiler failure and loses power, and now it is blocked in the river and cannot move forward.

The Canal Company is organizing tugboats to tow the paddle steamer out, and the river is temporarily unusable during this period. Now the combined fleet can only slow down again, and the merchant ships of the hostile countries will start to curse the streets even more when they slow down, and every day of delay will be money for those merchants.

Just ten kilometers north of the Zhiyuan, the fifth station of the town, which is the entrance of the Great Bitter Lake into the northern channel of the canal, the town has stockpiled a lot of food, fresh water and coal, and many boats have to make the last replenishment here.

The canal company has a governing body here that coordinates the passage of canal ships on a daily basis, and the French ambush is just behind a sand dune in the north of the town near the mouth of the river.

The two French spies lying on the sand dunes quietly looked at the busy river in the distance, their ticking pocket watches resting on the sand, and the hands were already pointing to half past one in the afternoon.

After a while, the sound of sand sounded behind the two of them, and the leader of the Bedouin mercenaries quietly crawled over, "Two gentlemen, there are only six hours left before the attack begins, should we deliver the second gold?"

"My subordinates have been eating salty pastries in the desert for a week, and if I don't see the money again, I can't guarantee the combat effectiveness for a while!"

The Scarface mercenary barely managed to squeeze out a smile that was more ugly than crying, and the two Frenchmen looked at him in disgust, "Stand down! The gold that should be given to you will be given to you, I paid you one-third of the gold before, and I gave you another third before the war, and finally I will settle the ...... when the work is done."

"This promise has always worked, and we won't lose a single gold coin from you!"

"But, but it's already half past one in the afternoon, and when it gets dark is the beginning of our attack, my brother can't wait!

"Greedy vipers...... Okay, give you gold, number two, and you go to the fifth station and get the third of the gold, and save him from screaming like a fly in my ear!"

Scarface wasn't angry at all, and when he heard that there was gold, he didn't care about the other party's abuse at all, "Hahaha, as long as there is gold, if you have gold, you have the strength to sell your life, hahaha......"

However, after he left the sand dunes and returned to the bottom of the valley where his men were resting, he scolded in a gloomy face and in a low voice: "Dare to say that I am a poisonous snake? You group of ambushed villains are poisonous snakes! Send troops to subvert the Chinese country, and if you fail, you will secretly lay a knife, despicable and shameless, bah!"

"I'm just looking for the face of gold, without gold, I would have thrown you two into the desert to dry your corpses!"