Egypt is the richest region in all of Africa, with 500,000 Spanish or Chinese silver coins in silver in the treasury alone.

Katabor Pasha told Amin to take his warrant and go to empty the treasury, take a boat from the Nile, and leave tonight!

"And!" Katabor Pasha whispered to Amin: "Send someone to inform the Galata Salt Company, tell them that Cairo is going to give up, and tell them to pack up their belongings and salt at once, and go with you." I'll give you the boat! ”

The Galata Salt Company was the business of Katabo Pasha, and the salt of Cairo and even Egypt belonged to him, and no one could touch it.

Salt was a lucrative business in ancient times, and people could not drink tea or use Chinese porcelain, but they had to eat salt, and no one could run away, as long as they ate salt, they threw money into the governor's wallet.

Although Amin said that he had done a lot of bad things for the governor, he was dumbfounded, this governor looked like he was sworn to defend Cairo to the death, but he was ready to abandon Cairo in private, and he didn't tell everyone, is it considered a betrayal?

Abandoning Cairo is definitely a great sin for a feudal official like the governor, but if you use money to smash it, then the executioner's knife will also be cut off, especially for a rotten country like the Ottoman Empire, such a thing will not be a problem.

Seeing that Amin was in a daze for a while, Katabo Pasha blushed, the fat on his face trembled, staring at Amin speechless, and he couldn't find an excuse for the attack, but his lips trembled and he couldn't make a sound.

Ah Ming came to his senses, so he stood up and said, "Do it immediately." "Turn around and walk out.

He went out to gather his men, first sent men to the Galata Salt Company, informed the people there to prepare to retreat, and then he went to the silver vault of Cairo City, which was across the street from the governor's palace, sealed the silver vault, and packed the gold and silver inside, and was busy for an afternoon.

The bank warehouse put an end to internal and external traffic, and called fast food to eat inside.

After dark, Amin organized his men to carry the gold and silver chests onto horse-drawn wagons and transport them to the docks of the Nile in the city.

The marina is very lively!

The lights are bright, the ships are gathered, everyone is loading, and many people are disembarking, they are old and young, women and children, all richly dressed and extraordinary.

The magnates in the city are not stupid, as soon as the governor makes a move here, they will immediately follow and retreat their belongings and families!

As for Katabor Pasha's embezzlement of public money, everyone knows it, but now no one can pay attention to it.

If he hadn't gone to war before, even if Katabor Pasha had been the governor of Egypt, he wouldn't have dared to do so if he had been given ten heads.

Now that the war is going on, everyone can't control him, he does this, first, as a governor, he has the power of life and death when facing the enemy, and there was originally the Ottoman imperial court to restrain him, because he was surrounded and could not communicate with the outside world, he was temporarily invincible, and whoever he wanted to kill in the city could really kill; The two, when the two sides are in a big war, he has the opportunity to make accounts, or, when the city is lost, the public money drifts away--- such things are like this in ancient and modern China and abroad, such as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, the Qing army Zeng Guoquan broke Tianjing, Li Hongzhang broke the two big cities of Suzhou, it is said that there is nothing to be gained, and the court is helpless to help and make up for the gains from the broken city, hehe, everyone can imagine!

That night the fleet set sail, lit up with lights, and many ships sailed down the Nile like dragons.

The journey went smoothly, Amin thought that God blessed, but he didn't know that since his master didn't plan to defend the city, he wouldn't be able to carry out work, open up the joints, and negotiate with the Chinese!

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That night, after the vanguard of the Southeast Army was stationed outside the city, they were busy digging trenches and erecting protective walls on this side, and they were dispatched to attack and harass the city of Cairo.

The troops are not superior, there are no siege weapons and no heavy artillery, and the muskets are naturally ineffective in attacking the city, but the Southeast Army has bombs!

It was a good thing, and although it didn't touch the city of Cairo in the slightest, it was used to sow chaos and irritate the Egyptians.

As a result, the people of Cairo could not sleep under the continuous sound of explosions all night, and the Chinese scattered bombs all over the city, not only throwing bombs, but also lighting fires, making a lot of noise.

The people of Cairo were so annoyed that the next day they had a pair of panda eyes, and everyone yawned.

The Chinese are really hardworking, and the army pays attention to initiative, and it has been tossing and turning from last night until the city is broken.

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The soldiers and civilians of Cairo were busy repairing the city defenses, and outside the city, the Chinese army was constantly increasing!

Two days later, in the morning, the first reinforcements appeared, and in the afternoon, the second appeared.

On the third day, when the troops outside the city reached 30,000 men, they began to build a long siege, and the officers and men worked together to enclose the city of Cairo with trenches and earthen ramparts on the east bank of the Nile.

On the fifth day, the army outside the city reached 80,000 people, and at the same time, tens of thousands of people arrived, and there was an endless stream of people, horses, donkeys, cattle and sheep, and the dust on the road was flying all over the sky.

Li Laiheng's general flag was raised in the camp of the Chinese army, and the army chanted slogans, and the momentum was amazing!

It seemed that a big war was coming, and the people of Cairo were very panicked, and they were absentmindedly reinforcing the city defenses, worried to death, but!

Early in the morning of the sixth day, at the Abdullah family's mansion on the banks of the Nile, the young man Ghassani hurried to his grandfather's house of Abdullah Faisal and said excitedly: "Grandfather, Katabor Pasha and a group of others have crossed the river and left the city from the west of the city and fled!" ”

Under strong military pressure from the Chinese, Katabor Pasha had to abandon the city and flee.

"I know!" Abdullah Faisal is an understatement.

"How?" Ghassani said in surprise.

"Through me, he reached an agreement with the Chinese that Cairo would surrender peacefully, otherwise the jade would be burned and everyone would be destroyed, so the Chinese let him go and get out of the way for him to escape!" Abdullah Faisal said.

"I see!" Gasani was surprised and said, no wonder his grandfather dared to be at home so calmly, and he was not afraid that the governor would ask him!

"Prepare to welcome the Chinese into the city!" Abdullah Faisal stood up and said.

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In the midst of cheers, the gates of Cairo were opened, and the Chinese army entered the city!

Naturally, it was Abdullah Faisal's men who went to greet the Chinese army, and the rest of the city was nervous.

Team after team entered the city in an orderly manner.

After the Chinese army entered the city, Qiu did not commit any crimes, and they posted a notice declaring Cairo to be a peaceful city, which the Chinese respected.

The first is to show respect for religion, and first of all, to ask the Chinese army to respect religious believers and not to enter the temple without reason!

At the same time, there are three chapters of the law: the murderer shall be guilty, the wounder shall be guilty, and the thief shall also be condemned.

Then they forgave the officials of Cairo City, and used their original administrative organization to set up a puppet regime headed by Abdullah Faisal, that is, the municipal council, which was responsible for the municipal administration of Cairo.

This success in the smooth succession of rule also caused the stone to fall in the hearts of the people of Cairo.

The market in Cairo is calm and safe for the time being.

"It's a shame not to fight!" Hao Shaoqi said that he and Li Laiheng were using a little free time to visit the pyramids.

"It's not a pity, it's not a pity at all! The soldiers who surrender without a fight are for the sake of the superiors! Li Laiheng said with a smile: "There will be battles in the future, but you are still afraid that there will be no fight!" ”

"This pyramid and the Sphinx are just a pile of stones, and they don't look good at all!" As for the pyramids, Hao Shaoqi was disapproving.

"This is history, just like our Great Wall, it is history!" Li Laiheng waved his hand and said: "The pyramid is the history of the past, and the new history is written by us!" ”

They looked at the city of Cairo, where a large number of people had gone out to help the Chinese build a new city, a new city of Cairo!

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