Section 1074 Engine Retreat (II)

There is no need for big theories, no need to beg for shame, fair exchange, and there will be gains.

On the surface, the South-Eastern countries paid a lot of money for this, but in fact completely eliminated the influence of the Turks in Egypt.

You must know that the Turks' attack on Africa is inseparable from the support of Egypt, especially Cairo, and once the hearts of the people in Cairo change, Turkey's desire to restore its rule in Africa will become a flash in the pan.

Put the people of Cairo on the chariots of the Chinese, and they can't get off!

Then came the crazy work, where the officials of the city council went out to verify the previously registered land and building assets, re-register them, ask the owners to sign them, and then make the certificates.

The people packed up their possessions, the officials organized them, and the common people set up a group head for every hundred households, and the municipal council sent people to manage the affairs related to the relocation, he was responsible for the people's food, drink, and sala, and signed a letter of responsibility, and the more people were brought to Massawa, there was a reward, otherwise he was punished!

There are detailed rules on the rewards and punishments given, for example, each household is calculated according to the capitation fee of one silver dollar, and one hundred households is one hundred silver dollars, which is really not low, and there are rewards, if one hundred households arrive successfully, there will be a commission of fifty silver dollars!

On the contrary, the corresponding deduction will be made, and the number of people who die will be reduced by ten silver dollars, and the number of people who die too much will be deducted more, so as to ensure that the group leaders work hard and do not slack off.

For the wealthy, the municipal committee intimately gave a "VIP" treatment, they can have a special car, a special boat, comfortable treatment, of course, to give a little money.

The things that others take away are weight-controlled--- useful things in the hands of the people, such as grain and livestock, are all bought by the Southeast Army at market prices, so that the people can go into battle lightly.

The rich are able to take more things with them, many of the people are crammed into a carriage, like meat in a can, and the rich are wider and more comfortable, the departure time is daytime, go with you, arrive at Suez City, eat better, take the ship closest to the deck, and have super VIP cabins on the deck.

At that time, people were divided, and everyone understood it very well, and there were not many complaints.

At the time of departure, at the station marked "Cairo", each person holds a hard card with registration information indicating their identity, and the other is taken by the municipal council on file.

After each person checks the ticket, each household is issued a satchel and a kettle according to the person, the surface of the bag is printed with the mark of the southeast country, and the bag contains several packs of compressed biscuits, beef jerky, paper, hand towels, small packets of tea bricks, salt, sugar and candy, there are portions, especially the biscuits are very heavy, the kettle is to fill water for everyone to drink, before leaving is full of water, the group leader warned everyone to control the amount of water to drink before reaching the water supply point.

Tens of thousands of households are tens of thousands of servings, more people in the family give more, don't underestimate these things, at that time showed the productivity of a country, only these 120,000 kettles, the local garrison said to send it, which shocked the economic strength of the Chinese!

This is equivalent to giving everyone a kettle, many people do not necessarily have this metal thing, most of them are leather bags of water, but the water in leather bags will deteriorate at high temperatures,

Salt, candy and tea, are not cheap, not popular, even tea bricks, outside of China is rare, southeast domestic salt and sugar fine white, is the best quality in the world!

Jumping deer candy is a famous product of the Chinese, sweet and delicious, used to please children, Chinese people do not believe that these foreign children who grew up in Chinese candy, can not collect their hearts?

The people boarded the train in turn, which was the kind of horse-drawn open-top carriage, which was a light railway, and the Chinese mobilized tens of thousands of people to complete the double-track railway in a very short time, one time and again.

The rails are 0.7 meters wide, pulled by horses, the body is wooden, each section is nailed together by wooden boards, and four cast iron wheels are installed in the front and rear, without carriages, all of which are open-top in order to save weight.

Each car body can carry about 8 tons, 4 cars for a car, 30 tons of load, pulled by 12 horses, or 2 cars for a car, pulled by 12 donkeys.

Its people and goods are transported twice, people can sit together, a car body to transport 60 people is no problem, when squeezed up 80 people.

There are 130 kilometers from Suez City to Cairo New City, 20 miles that is, 10 kilometers with a station, the horses and donkeys will be replaced after one stop, and the other horses and donkeys will be pulled, and they will be fed with bean cakes and peanut cakes, and they will rest for a period of time, and then come to the next trip, and turn back and forth.

The driver shouted, the horses galloped, and the donkeys struggled to carry the wagons.

It was the first time for many people to sit in this kind of carriage, and they felt very strange and couldn't help but look around.

They drank tea, whether it was adults and children chewing fragrant candy, and they were elated, as if they were celebrating a holiday, it didn't look like they were uprooting their hometown!

Horses and donkeys move forward, constantly changing speeds

When I arrived at Suez City, I didn't enter the city, and there were a large number of ships on the side of the yards.

The boat can't be said to be very comfortable, but at least everyone has a bunk to settle into.

The wharf was bustling and bustling, the sea journey from Suez City to Massawa was very busy, the ships were constantly flowing, and the Chinese crew were active and caring for the passengers.

As soon as I asked, it turned out that the military of the Southeast Army signed a contract with the ship, gave a reasonable remuneration, and gave a little reward, that is, the fewer people who "drifted" halfway, the more rewards were given.

The people of Cairo on board the ship had a different feeling, and when they were under the jurisdiction of the Turks in the past, even the brothers of the same religion felt that the Turks were arrogant and arrogant.

Now the Chinese obviously regard the people of Cairo as human beings, and they are very concerned about their safety.

The people of Cairo don't have to worry about food on the way, they eat flatbread and tea!

Of course, flatbread is not as delicious as pizza, but it also needs flour, and the agricultural productivity of the southeastern country is vigorously developed, and the food produced can supply 100,000 people, and the key is to have sea transportation!

If you transport 100,000 people's grain by land, thousands of miles, it will definitely be costly, and more than 100,000 migrant workers will be required to do the transportation work.

However, the cost of shipping is much less, and a few thousand crew members can do it, and it also depends on which country it is, the southeast country is based on the sea, there are a large number of sea ships and crews, and the transportation capacity is leveraged.

In addition to food, there are also doctors and nurses on the way, who treat diseases when they are sick and focus on hygiene and cleanliness when they are not sick, which effectively protects the health of the people.

With the help of the group leader, very few people in Cairo died in the middle of the process.

Under the conditions at the time, it was a miracle!

In other words, if any force is going to carry out a large-scale migration of 100,000 people, it is not surprising that two or three out of ten will die halfway, and even half of them are possible.

The people of Cairo reached Massawa, which was originally a dependency of the Ottoman Empire and was under the jurisdiction of the subordinate governor of Egypt, and after the Chinese seized it, according to the agreement with the White Skins, the Chinese power was not allowed to operate in Africa.

However, Massawa was located on the Red Sea, which was so important that the Chinese were reluctant to give up and quarrel with the white skins, so they relocated the people of Cairo here to prevaricate the white skins.

See, Massawa is not our Chinese territory, it is run by Cairoes.

Even better, it was originally the territory of the Ottoman Governor of Egypt, and the Cairoites had no problem getting here!

It's a relatively backward place, a barren mountain range, and there is almost nothing.

10,000 Chinese laborers arrived first, and they were busy here, they built simple houses that could be used to settle the people, they cultivated farmland and canals, and they did the work of doing the first work, and at a rapid pace, there were houses, wells, canals, sanitation facilities and fields, and there was a large settlement for 120,000 people!

"Everyone!" Abdullah Faisal, the former mayor of Cairo and now the chief executive of the Massawa district, told the people of Cairo: "The Chinese have done a lot for us, but don't expect bread to grow out of the ground without farming, if you want to live a good life, you need our efforts!" ”

"Understood!" The people spoke in unison.