The Chinese used troops against Egypt on such a large scale, attacking the Ottoman Empire, a powerful country at that time, so naturally you have to pay attention to a division that is famous, otherwise you have nothing to do when you are full, and if you go to provoke the strong neighbor next door, your family will not support you.

So in the history books of the southeast country, this maritime China, an interesting thing that happened at that time was recorded, that is, the "Great God Statue Incident".

Just the year before the war, three months before the Chinese New Year the following year, the Persian Gulf, the Turkish-controlled port city of Faw, was in a busy state.

The mast is like a forest, the ship comes like a carp, the people in the city come and go, there are endless streams, there are enough eight wharves here, the goods on the wharf are piled up like a mountain, busy during the day, and do not stop at night, and even erect a tall reflective lighthouse like the Chinese, use lamp oil to light up, use the mirror to reflect the light, shine on the wharf to facilitate the people to get on and off, and load the goods.

At that time---, the ship Gothenburg of the Swedish East India Company set sail from Gothenburg to trade in the distant East, overcoming the stormy seas of the Cape of Good Hope, repelling the murderous pirates, returning to Gothenburg with a full load from the East, only to sink unexpectedly as it sailed into the harbor!

Even if you arrive at the port in the middle of the night, let the personnel go ashore as much as possible, the goods are safe, do not stay on the ship, and the land is always safer than the ship.

Personnel up and down, goods unloaded, loaded and unloaded, endlessly, day and night, the noise makes the port city lively like a giant beehive, even in the deepest night, some of the docks are still popular, brightly lit, there are three night docks, almost all year round.

The city is more bustling than one can imagine!

The port of Faou is so important!

It is located at the northwest end of the Persian Gulf, the southeast side of the Faw Peninsula and the south bank of the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab, and is a strategically located port city in the Persian Gulf region, becoming the throat of the Ottoman Empire to the Persian Gulf.

The Shatt al-Arab --- formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq, which, of course, did not yet have an Iraqi state, which was under the jurisdiction of the Ottoman Empire and was the grain depot of the empire!

Water was extremely important to the Ottoman Empire, which controlled a vast territory on three continents, Asia, Europe and Africa.

In the areas under the jurisdiction of Europe, it is not good to hear, and the war with Hongmao Fan for many years has caused the people there to live poorly, and the people have to serve in the military and labor hard, and the land has been abandoned and there is no harvest.

In Asia, Turkey is mountainous, the Persian Plateau is a trouble as soon as you hear the name, and the Caucasus is also famous for its mountainous terrain, which can only be used in Syria and the valley of the two rivers.

Egypt and Iraq are qualified to become the granaries of the empire precisely because they have rivers, among them, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers can realize river-sea combined transport, and the goods transported by sea ships can be distributed to all parts of the empire through the river transportation system of the Tigris and Euphrates, and the origin of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is Turkey!

Shipping can beat land transportation at a low price, transporting grain for thousands of miles, leaving no one in ten, most of the grain is eaten up by the transporter, while shipping can keep most of the grain.

The annual trade volume of the port of Fau exceeded 10 million silver dollars, so the Ottoman Empire set up a customs office in the port of Faou to collect a generous trade tax.

A large number of goods, especially Chinese goods, are taxed here, and then replaced by river boats, going up the river, transshipment to various places, and some smaller sea boats can even drive to the upper reaches of the two rivers.

There are various types of ships in the world, including Western-style soft sailing boats, Chinese-style hard sailing boats, as well as Arab dhows and a large number of river boats, which are dual-purpose oars.

In addition to the authentic Turks, there are also a large number of Arabs, Persians, and subdivisions, even if they are of the same religion, wear the same clothes, and people who speak different languages abound, as well as Chinese, Hongmaofan, Indians, blacks, and Chinese small followers of the maritime merchants of eight countries, etc.

The most respected are the Chinese, who are treated as guests wherever they go.

There's no way to disrespect them, they're the God of Wealth, the God of Wealth with knives!

Yan Changwu, the leader of the two Chinas, encouraged the people to make a fortune, greatly promoted the foreign trade of the Chinese, the Chinese goods were large in quantity, high quality and low price, they beat away the control of the Indian Ocean sea trade after the red hair fan, and the Ottoman Empire direct trade, now even some of the Ottoman Empire passable classes of people have white sugar to drink tea, even the poor people can drink inferior tea!

The Red Hair Fan and the Turks are not good at stubble, the Red Hair Fan is a pirate, and the Turks preach with swords, those who believe in me go to heaven, and those who do not believe in me will go to hell, if the Chinese are a little weak, there are no gunboats cruising in the Persian Gulf all year round, the Chinese will be harvested by the Turks like cutting leeks!

For example, if the Chinese in Luzon had not had Yan Changwu's gunboats, there should have been many massacres of Chinese in Spain......

During the sail period, the people on the beach had the urge to work part-time pirates, after all, they were pirates, had no business, and killed people and set fire to the gold belt.

No seaside country will be an exception, Hongmao Fan is a pirate, there are many pirates in West Asia, don't look at the black people, there are also pirates, even the Indians who believe in the great gods There are pirates, as for the Chinese, now the leader of China on the sea Yan Changwu is the leader of the group, and his most important prime minister, Chen Xinji, is an old qualified pirate, holding a white paper fan in the group, and is called "Mr".

The sea route from Southeast Asia to West Asia became a golden waterway, and there were countless people who got up and down their hands, and there were licensed robbers--- who were Ottoman officials, and they reached out to ask for money on behalf of the country, well, do you want your goods to go ashore early? In addition to the national taxes, spend a small fee, and you are satisfied!

Turkish officials expertly rub their thumbs together with their index and middle fingers, an international gesture that everyone understands.

If you don't give?

OK, then please be patient, we will arrange Di, this time, whether it is long or not, whether it is short or not, when is it? I don't know!

Although the Chinese are strong at sea, when they go to other people's land, they have to pay the moisturizing fee correctly, which is used to bribe officials and open up joints.

There were also illegal pirates, Ottoman officials were nominally landlords, but in those days, leaving the city gates was barren mountains and mountains, and God knows how many pirates!

The Turks just collect taxes, they are neither educated nor governed--- the standard of governance is that you don't rebel.

Therefore, on the land of West Asia, the Turks are dominant, and the Chinese are in charge at sea, the Chinese are armed to escort the ships, and the gunboats are often dispatched to escort the merchant fleet, and the lonely Chinese ships are not allowed to be bullied.

The Chinese government is in charge of the land and the people, and the sea ships can't save money, so they have to have a "seaworthiness certificate" when they sail, and there are many clauses, such as fire prevention measures, anti-piracy measures, etc., which must be done sufficiently.

In this way, the people of the Persian Gulf sometimes exchanged fire with the Chinese, and the Chinese even chased and killed them ashore, either directly or using outlaws, and after completing the matter, the staunch patriots among the Turkish officials who received the money were responsible for settling the matter.

Whoever provokes the Chinese or even the Chinese little followers, the Chinese are welcome!

Speaking of which, the Chinese follow the golden mean, and they often like to spend money to buy peace when they encounter problems and disputes.

But the Chinese leader Yan Changwu can't allow such a thing to happen, it's about his face, how can he have the most powerful maritime weapons in the world, and his people have to pay tolls to pirates?

Don't even think about it!

It's just a corrupt official in Turkey, after all, warships can't go ashore, but in the sea, we Chinese have the final say!

In the Franco-Australian Port City, the Chinese are respected because they are rich and powerful, but not everyone likes the Chinese, even if they have money to spend, those people are the grandsons of those who have to collect money and pay the money, and they are the masters, compared to the officials who collect money from people in the Franco-Australian Port City to eliminate disasters for others, it is even more despicable.

The problem is that those people have power in their hands, no, under their operation, Istanbul --- the capital of the Tuji country, and sent a high-level inspection team to the port city of France and Australia to inspect those illegal activities, which made the Sanjak Bey Lord Faris in the port fall into a deep depression!