Visitors from all over the world who leave the pyramids will most likely continue south along the Nile, where there are several famous temples. Or head north to Alexandria, with its Hellenistic relics.

However, Gao Xu and his entourage abandoned the attractions of ancient times and went east to the Suez Canal, preparing to go south along the canal to the ruins of the "Donggang Fortress". It's a very unpopular route, because there's really not much mystery about it.

Along the way, Miaojin begins to tell the history before and after World War I, as well as stories about the canal. Gao Xu combined the information he usually read from books, and gradually understood all this systematically.

In the early days of the application of the steam engine, that is, in the late Wude year, Gao Xu was not dead (in the second half of the fifteenth century), and his half-century reign focused on the development of industrial technology for many years, and finally made the first generation of steam engines.

The Ming Dynasty built many "envoy cities" and "governor's palaces" in the coastal areas east of Yinji, and its power expanded westward to Yinji, and defeated the local ruler Mamluk forces. The Ming Dynasty began to gather local labor and build the Suez Canal, intending to open up the nearest route with Europe, but the canal was not completed by the end of the Gaoxu period.

The Ming fleet arrived in Australia south, because there was no country there, Gao Xu casually took the name of Australia, and migrated a small number of people to raise horses and engage in animal husbandry.

The fleet had discovered the North American continent across the Pacific Ocean to the east, initially named the "American Zone", and established a tunpu on the west coast called "Port of New Island", where people continued to move to establish themselves in the past. However, at that time, the speed of ships was very slow, and it was still not easy to cross the Pacific Ocean, compared with the vast American continent, the Han people used to be seriously underpopulated.

Given the high level of maritime activity, it is impossible to keep information secret for a long time, and it is easier for Europeans to find that continent from the Atlantic. The Ming court began to show goodwill to the natives of the United States, sending various gifts, and also went there to preach the land bridge theory everywhere, saying that the local natives were fellow villagers who migrated from the Ming Dynasty in ancient times, and also named them Yin people, in an attempt to "educate" the natives in order to expand the shortage of the Han population.

During the reign of Zhu Gaoxu and his grandson, there were no big problems with the Ming Dynasty. However, the later emperors and ministers were very worried that the overseas power would not be lost, and gradually stopped continuing to expand, but they did not dare to easily give up the "ancestral property" that they had occupied and invested in the huge harbor canal. The various forces in China that profit from the government-run factories and get rich in the sea trade are also not allowed.

There was no economic crisis for a long time, and the overseas market of the Ming Dynasty was really large, and the capital was in the market development period for a long time.

After the construction of the Suez Canal, the Ming Dynasty faced the pressure of expansion from the Ottoman Empire and began to make friends with European countries.

The imperial court allowed the Portuguese, who occupied Morocco, and the Austrians, who occupied Italy, to act as agents for the transit trade by water. Then the Ming army built the "East Port" on the Mediterranean coast and east of Alexandria, and stationed the navy and army; Sell large sums of obsolete arms to the Austrians and European mercenaries to arm these potential helpers.

The Spaniards sailed to South America, where the indigenous people suffered terrible suffering, European disease, guns, and the increasing number of unruly Spanish mixed-race children.

At this time, the Portuguese and the Spaniards signed a treaty, which meant that the west of the world belonged to Spain and the east belonged to Portugal. The Ming Dynasty, of course, was just a joke

and ignore it.

In the 16th century, there was a brief war between the Ming Dynasty and the Ottomans.

The Ottoman fleet was repulsed by the Ming steam gunboats, and the Ottoman army could not advance an inch on land and could not repeat the great feat of storming Constantinople. Although the total strength of the Governor's Palace at that time was only a few thousand, it withstood the military attack of the nearby great empires by virtue of the difference in weapons.

It was difficult for the Ming army to counterattack the huge Ottoman Empire by relying on the few people in the garrison, and the Ming court at that time had no intention of continuing to expand, so the two sides negotiated peace. The Ottomans paid reparations, but were given a portion of the transit trade opportunity.

After the Ottomans subsided, there was a general peace between the East and the West for a while. In the last two hundred years, everyone has found their livelihood.

The Spaniards dug silver in South America and then spent it all over the world, living quite well, and there were no problems in the early stage. The Portuguese and Italians, together with the Austrians, did the transit maritime trade, which was also very nourishing.

The Dutch and a small number of British, who were engaged in the business of maritime transportation and finance, were also fine.

Bankrupt peasants and prisoners from England and France fled to the western part of North America to pioneer the land, which was very fertile. The British king declared that the whole of North America belonged to Great Britain, and there was no problem, because the continent was very large, and it was up to each one to occupy as much as he could. It is normal for colonists to expel indigenous people from possession of land, to tell stories and slander local tribes as cannibals, and to justify the crusade and slaughter.

The Ming court in the east was also quite satisfied with the situation, when the tariffs were not high and the countries were poorly managed, and the Han people sold all kinds of industrial products. Even though the sea route is far away, the cost of steamship shipping is low, and everyone still makes a lot of money. Facing the huge population markets of European countries, including Eastern Europe, Russia, Ottomans and other places, as well as the vast markets of the traditional sphere of influence in the East, the upper echelons of the Ming Kingdom at that time had a good life for a period of time.

Britain, France, Prussia (Prussia) and other countries vigorously developed industry and commerce, and put forward the concept of mercantilism. Although Daming's industrial products are of high quality and low price, and the first-mover advantage is difficult to compete, Europeans still have many industries to do, such as the introduction of equipment to do the textile industry, the marketing of luxury handicrafts, the sale of agricultural and sideline products, the financial industry and so on. After all, the Spaniards dug up silver and were unwilling to produce goods, so they were very generous.

In the middle of the Dutch against the British, the British against the French, the Ottomans themselves coup d'état and civil wars, there were many small wars in many places, and there was no big problem. The Ming court had no intention of participating at all, and took the opportunity to sell obsolete arms, and sold them on both sides at the same time.

An uprising broke out in England, and the king was clicked from time to time, so that no one dared to ascend the throne for a while. Then there was the rise of Prussia, which defeated the French and took the opportunity to unify the Deyizhi Confederation by force, which made the French sad.

Prosperity is always short-lived, and the haze of war is brewing in the revelry of the upper classes.

The destruction and chaos between the East and the West finally exploded one after another.

This world war was protracted, and the intensity of the war in the early stage was not strong, and the fighting was stopped and stopped, and it only developed into a decisive battle in the end.

And at the beginning, the war between the East and the West was fought separately, and then it intensified. At that time, extreme nationalism emerged in various European countries, and then there was a revolution in France, in which the rebels first killed the king, and then the rebels themselves.

France, which originally intended to overthrow the king and establish a capitalist political system, succeeded in turning into a military dictatorship under the brewing of internal strife and nationalism. At this time, it was only possible to expand the "sense of honor" of nationalism, so the French first attacked the Spaniards. This rich and profligate empire, which had returned to poverty, was about to explode on the spot, and as soon as the French army came, it quickly fell apart.

The French army who easily took out Spain gained unprecedented self-confidence, and the next target was De Yizhi, who planned to be humiliated. Deyizhi Zhengfu was frightened half to death, and hurriedly formed alliances everywhere, and Austria-Hungary, Ottomans, Italy and others signed mutual assistance treaties with Deyizhi. However, the popularity of extreme nationalism and the nobility of Germanic blood in Germany were endless, so the old emperor was forced to prepare for war.

Coincidentally, the Ming Dynasty also accumulated many evils in the country, and finally resorted to force and began a civil war.

At that time, the problems of the Ming Kingdom were simply complicated, and it was not a simple contradiction between the two forces. The increasing mergers and monopolies of big capital have caused a large number of peasant households and workers to be destitute and have difficulties in making their livelihoods, the upper strata have appropriated astronomical assets and profits, and the disparity between the rich and the poor is enormous.

The contradiction between the emperor's centralization and the big capitalists expanded. The emperor wanted to levy taxes to cover the extravagant living expenses and government expenses, and the big capitalists and big landowners accused the emperor of leviing taxes too freely. It has become increasingly difficult for big capital to pass on tax revenues to the bottom, which is already destitute.

The Ming Emperor also wanted to recover the profits of the government-run company, which was obviously impossible. A large number of government-run companies, including energy and military factories, were controlled by civilian officials and nobles, and they were divided up a hundred years ago, nominally belonging to the public. If you want to take it back now, isn't it asking for someone else's life?

Capitalists are generally both big landlords and civil and military officials, and they are all rich and powerful figures. The contradictions between them were also irreconcilable, because they both wanted to expand their power and increase their influence on the imperial court, so as not to be suddenly deprived of their property or gradually encroached on their power.

Under the complex contradictions of sharpness, it is already a miracle that people still maintain the Ming Dynasty. Probably because since the Qin Dynasty, the concept of great unification has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and what people want is to kill their opponents and dominate themselves.

Then the operation of a cabinet chief assistant surnamed Zhou and a big capitalist landlord directly triggered the war.

After this person came to power, he co-opted a general of the Northern Defense Region (of course, these generals themselves are also rich), and Zhou Shoufu gave the local military, political and financial power to the general to "coordinate", and asked him to suppress the rebellion and suppress the uprising. The general raised himself and could not extinguish the uprising for a long time, and he continued to reach out for money and merge with the northern company.

Other forces in the imperial court tried to exert pressure on Shoufu to remove the general, so that the military group would not evolve into a warlord. But how could Zhou Shoufu be willing to give up such a large political capital?

After some infighting, the young emperor who had just ascended the throne originally wanted to make a big difference, but it turned out to be a mess, scolding the whole dynasty for being traitors, and the emperor was so angry that he pulled Zhou Shoufu outside the noon gate and beat him to death. The frightened border generals then raised the banner of rebellion.

The curtain of the civil war suddenly opened, and the smoke of gunpowder shrouded the vast imperial territory with the Pacific Ocean as the inland lake, and it was out of control.