Whether it was for the sake of the jade pendant, or for the sake of the endless supply of silver in the future, or simply for himself and the Ottoman Empire, Suleiman felt that he should promote the opening of the Suez Canal.

Judging from the current contact with the Ming people, they are very elegant, very polite, and generous, and they don't care much about silver coins and money.

And the information that their officials inadvertently revealed is even more indicative.

The Fushou ointment, which was popular among the Western aristocracy and sold expensively, should have come from the hands of the Ming people and was made a lot of money by the Dutch.

If they had now agreed to their offer to contract the canal, the money would have been made by the Ottomans, not by the greedy Dutch.

After coming up with a lot of reasons, Suleiman found that all the reasons were not as perfect as the one reason for Fushou paste - the upper echelons of the Ottoman Empire had already begun to smoke this thing.

Although the entire Ottoman Empire is still forbidden to smoke, alcohol, and pleasure, how to calculate the longevity ointment? It's not tobacco – although it needs to be smoked as well.

When the upper echelons of the empire began to smoke the Fushou cream, they could still resist the temptation to obtain the Fushou paste without having to change hands through the Dutch?

The answer is yes, they must not be able to help themselves, they will definitely help themselves to speak, and then push the Ming people from the bottom up to contract the Suez Canal.

After writing, and when the paper had dried, Suleiman hastily put the letter away, slept on the couch, and waited for the next day.

As soon as the sky dawned, Li Chengyan couldn't wait to pull Suleiman to continue along the canal, and the officials of the Ministry of Industry kept holding binoculars to watch along the way, and Li Chengyan had a fight with Suleiman along the way.

After walking slowly for several days, seeing that he was about to reach the end of the northern end of the Suez Canal, Li Chengyan said with a smile: "How is it?" How sure are you of things? ”

I have to admit that Li Chengyan was born to be a diplomat - a few days have passed, and the relationship between him and Suleiman has grown by leaps and bounds, and he almost slept under a blanket with his shoulders on his back.

Suleiman's mood was not as good as that of Li Chengyan, and he was even a little worried: "I hope that the true god will bless us and let us make this business a success—to tell you the truth, I have already spent a lot of silver coins on this matter, and if I don't succeed, I am afraid that I will lose all my money." ”

Li Chengyan said disapprerovingly: "What's so rare about silver coins?" As long as the thing is successful, I will give you double as much as you spend!

Even if I don't succeed, I'll still bear the cost of this credit, and I'm guaranteed to be a lot more, isn't that interesting? ”

After a thumbs up, Suleiman said, "Interesting! ”

The dialogue between the two people, the whole process did not use the interpreter, which made the interpreter a little depressed - these two geeks, the speed of learning the language is too fast, although there is no way to communicate fluently in such a short period of time, but there is no problem with such a stumbling conversation.

In this world, there is indeed a genius, but unfortunately it is not himself......

The two of them were working on nonsense, and Song Yunxian had already returned with a group of officials from the Ministry of Industry, but his face was a little ugly: "If the Suez Canal wants to be rebuilt, it's not impossible, but the cost is too great, I really don't know if this choice is right or wrong?" ”

Li Chengyan snorted and said: "What's the big deal about this, your brother only needs to explore, and the rest will naturally be worried about by others." ”

Song Yunxian nodded and said, "Yes, the old man just takes people to explore." ”

Li Chengyan said to Suleiman with a smile: "Now that our people have finished exploring, all that remains is to wait for your good news?" ”

Suleiman nodded and said, "This rest assured, whether it is from the friendship between you and me, or from the benefit of the country, these are what I, the governor, should do." ”

After the group returned to the starting point at the southern end of the Suez Canal, Li Chengyan arched his hand and said, "I'll leave first?" ”

Suleiman smiled and said, "Wait, I still have something I want to discuss with you." ”

Li Chengyan nodded and said, "Please speak?" ”

Suleiman said: "I have received information before, saying that the fleet sent to you is extremely powerful, so I thought, can I buy a few warships from you?" ”

Li Chengyan said: "I can't guarantee you about this, but I can ask." ”

Seeing Suleiman's face overjoyed, Li Chengyan hurriedly poured a basin of cold water: "Governor Suleiman, don't be too happy, I'm just asking, but there's no way to promise you that it will be done." ”

Suleiman's expression immediately darkened.

Suleiman had not seen with his own eyes how fierce the warships of the Ming people were, but judging from the reports of Abu Mahad and others, the artillery equipment alone was enough of a headache.

In fact, it was a huge hull that was enough to give all the warships in the world a headache - they couldn't move!

It's hard to say what the speed is, but do the warships of the Ming Kingdom need to rely on speed?

Even if it's fast and powerful, what can it do? Facing those guns of the Ming warships, can you get closer? Can you win?

Even if it runs away, the warships of the Ming Kingdom can't catch up, but slowly hanging behind it is enough to scare people to death!

However, Ming Guoli did not promise himself that he would be able to get this kind of warship, which made Suleiman feel very sad.

Li Chengyan said: "I wonder if Governor Suleiman knows anything about the Dutch and those Francis? ”

Suleiman nodded, "I guess I have some understanding, although not much." ”

Li Chengyan said: "How about their three-masted warship? If you want, I can sell you two. If there is more, it will need to be found otherwise. ”

Suleiman couldn't help but be overjoyed.

The Dutch ships were a real good thing, the three-masted galleons were basically the main force of the Dutch navy, and Suleiman had long coveted the benefits - those pirates in North Africa, the so-called Ottoman Navy, saw the Dutch three-masted galleons walking around.

Ming Guo Li said that he could call the shots himself and sell himself two ships?

Two ships are a lot, and if there are more, Cairo will not be able to support them at all - whether it is the cost of procurement, or the allocation of naval personnel, or logistics and supplies, there is a feeling of inadequacy.

Moreover, Cairo only procured two warships, which would not make the Devan and Askaris within the empire oppose it, and could afford the corresponding expenses.

Overjoyed, Suleiman simply decided to abandon the idea of buying two Ming warships.

Cairo could only afford one of such a large warship, the materials and personnel needed, but after replacing it with a Dutchman's three-masted warship, it could support two.

Seeing that Suleiman once again agreed, Li Chengyan smiled and said: "Since this is the case, then we will say goodbye first, and after half a month, will we still come back, or will we meet online in this place?" ”

Suleiman said pointedly: "We're all working together, it's good for both of us, and it's good for our country, isn't it?" ”

Li Chengyan laughed and said: "Of course, if you don't earn the silver with white flowers, if you change it to anyone, his conscience will feel pain!" ”

Suleiman pointed to his heart and smiled at Li Chengyan as well: "Look, my conscience has begun to cry out now!" ”

……

After returning all the way back to the place where Emperor Chongzhen was, Li Chengyan and Song Yunxian, the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, handed over the materials that had been prepared to Emperor Chongzhen, including Li Chengyan's recital.

Stretched out his finger and knocked on the table, and Emperor Chongzhen said: "Li Aiqing played, I already know, let me discuss it later."

As for the results of Song Aiqing's exploration, it is actually similar to what I expected in my heart, and it can be chiseled through. ”

Song Yunxian bowed down and said: "Your Majesty's candle shines thousands of miles, and Weichen admires it."

It's not enough to just confirm the problem of being able to dig, I still have to move the people and military households here to guard the border. ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "In other words, in fact, most of the problems are no longer a problem now, including that Cairo Governor Suleiman is also willing to cooperate with my Daming?" ”

Li Chengyan bowed and said, "That's right. There are two things that Suleiman is most concerned about right now.

One is about the three-masted galleon, and the other is whether they will allow the reopening of the Suez Canal in their country. ”

Emperor Chongzhen said with a smile: "The matter of the three-masted sailing ship, Aiqing looks at it, and there is no need to report everything to me."

But Suleiman, he didn't ask you for benefits? ”

Without waiting for the somewhat confused Li Chengyan to answer, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "Since you have mentioned the matter of Fushou Paste to him, why don't you give him more, so that he can take it to give favors?" ”

Li Chengyan suddenly felt a little weak.

It's not that I don't know what this thing is, and I've seen what people who have been smoking this thing for a long time are like-only not like a normal person.

Giving Suleiman some more Fushou Paste was clearly intended to allow him to get more Ottoman officials into the water through Fushou Ointment, and eventually facilitate the reopening of the canal.

Emperor Chongzhen nodded, and ordered the two to retreat.

After returning to the resting tent, Emperor Chongzhen Li Chengyan's recital was thrown to the eldest prince Zhu Cixie: "Look, what are the doorways here?" ”

Zhu Cixiao carefully looked at the recital several times before he said cautiously: "What does the father mean?" Do you plan to continue fighting, or do you want to take a temporary truce? ”

Emperor Chongzhen said: "Now I am testing you, but I am not asking you to test me, what I want to know is what is your opinion?" Should the canal be restarted or not? ”

Zhu Cixiao said: "Enlighten the emperor, the son thinks that the canal should be restarted." ”

Emperor Chongzhen smiled: "Tell me your reason? ”

Zhu Cixiao simply bowed down and said: "Father, my son thinks that what Master Li said in his recital is extremely true, but there are these problems in front of my Daming, and I can't be anxious for a while."

It is precisely for this reason that this canal should be built all the more - not for anything else, but also to attract and force the people to move over, and more importantly, so that I can attack England and conquer the Ottomans in the future. ”

With a snap, Emperor Chongzhen's big hand slapped the head of the eldest prince Zhu Cixie: "Just your heart!" Still thinking about conquering this and conquering that?

Do you know what will happen to the land that has been beaten down if there are not enough people to settle in Shibian?

The things that Li Chengyan said in the recital are also true, and all of them have not caused any problems, and it is also because of more reasons for me.

In addition to the reasons of the people, it is also necessary to consider the problem of the officials - if there are not enough officials, even if the people are willing to do so, what can they do? Do you still need a marching law? ”

Zhu Cixiao, who was slapped on the head, didn't take it too seriously, but just smiled faintly: "What my father said is not wrong, it is indeed possible to rule it by military law." ”

Emperor Chongzhen glared at Zhu Cixiao and said, "You're smart!" ”

This is a different way of looking at the problem.

Zhu Cixiao's perspective on the problem is more like what a battle-hardened veteran can say, but it is not what a qualified prince should say.

Is it just a matter of talking about immigrants?

Do you know that Guo Yunhou, whose eyes have begun to redden, is about to go crazy?

The two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, plus those large and small prefectures and counties, how many people will need to be relocated?

As the weather cools down, shouldn't these people wear some clothes? Do you want them to come directly? How many will die on the road?

These are all white silver, and they need to be allocated by the household department, which is equivalent to slowly cutting the flesh of Guo Yunhou's body with a blunt knife!

Not to mention the ammunition and supplies that the East China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet need to consume every day.

There is also artificial.

If you want to rebuild the Suez Canal, it is simply impossible to do without tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of laborers.

In addition, this labor force of tens of thousands of people must be equipped with supervisors, as well as non-commissioned officers to "guard" the safety of workers.

Then, there is also the supply of these people, the supply method and the cycle, and the things to be prepared, which are simply busy for a day or two!

It is simply impossible for the two sides to discuss and negotiate these things well.

After teaching Zhu Cixie, Emperor Chongzhen returned to the big tent again and stood in front of the huge map.

Who is Di Xin's unlucky bastard, Emperor Chongzhen still knows - his martial arts are really awesome, and fighting anyone is like fighting five scum, but he never thought that it would be his own family that had problems first.

And now, the only thing that is stronger than Di Xin is that he doesn't have to worry about rebellion when he is alive, and the rest may not be able to compare to Di Xin at all.

After a long sigh, Emperor Chongzhen finally made up his mind and made a difficult decision.

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