For the Qin family of Tianfanghou, digging the canal is a gamble, a gamble that invests millions of lives in Tianfanghou, all of them, and only seeks the future.

Otherwise, the Qin family would not see the future.

That's why the Qin family was so anxious in the Mengzhou Incident.

Since Tianfanghou was fiefdomed to Tianfang, for decades, he deeply felt the barrenness of this place, what kind of place is Tianfang, only a few places in the southernmost part of the entire peninsula can be cultivated, and most of the others are endless deserts, this is not the afterlife, everyone in later generations knows that Tianfang lives on oil.

But at this time, what is the use of oil being opened.

The entire Heavenly Formula is not even enough for millions of people to eat. In addition, it is difficult to establish a decent handicraft industry with the quality of Tianfang people. The Qin family pays attention to commerce and trade, and it is also a last resort.

How can you survive in this land without relying on business? Occupying the transportation artery of commerce between the East and the West, the Qin family of course wants to maximize the maximum value of this trade route, just like the Tianfang people in history, and use all their efforts to prosper commerce.

It's their only option.

Therefore, the eldest princess of Tianzhu agreed to open up the canal, which was a charcoal in the snow for Tianke, originally the old marquis of Qin was prepared that even if Tianzhu did not support it, he would have to work hard to open this river, but in that case, I am afraid that this canal will really have to be operated by the Qin family for three generations before it can finally be opened.

It's like now, looking at the way it looks now, I'm afraid that Old Man Qin will be able to see the opening of this canal during his lifetime.

This is really a great favor for the Qin Domain, of course the old Marquis of Qin knows who this kindness is from, and the Marquis of Qin and the Li family of the Baron's Mansion are now well-known political allies in the Mengzhou Mansion.

With the full support of the Qin family and Li Zhe and his family, the canal plan is in full swing, occupying Egypt, cleaning up bandits, and at least controlling the Nile Delta, which is the bottom line between the Metropolitan Governor's Office and the Qin Marquis.

These tasks have been temporarily completed by the Qin family's Flying Bear Army, starting from the beginning of spring this year, in the past six months, the minimum goal has been basically completed, the Qin family's Flying Bear Army has occupied the Nile Delta, Alexandria, Cairo and other ancient cities have been all included in the Flying Bear Army.

Port Said, the port at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal, is now stationed with a battalion of the Flying Bear Army, and part of the Qin family's only sailor division is also here, and the canal has not yet been dug up, so of course their ships can't pass. But with the future status of Port Said, there will inevitably be a sailor stationed here.

A huge dock is being built in the harbor against time, and the shipwrights who have come from Tianzhu to support them are building warships nearby.

The current commander of the Flying Bear Army, the first-class general Qin Fang is also here, and Qin Fang is the next Qin Marquis in the Heavenly Fang, the second son of the old Qin Marquis Qin Ming, who is in his forties this year, and is in the prime of life.

The old Marquis of Qin was even willing to send him to Egypt, which shows that the Qin family attaches great importance to this canal.

It's a pity that the eldest princess didn't agree to let the Qin family take the majority of the shares of the canal, Qin Fang himself sighed, that day in the Mengzhou Mansion on the negotiation of the canal shares, in the end it was King An who took the lion's share, and the Tianfang Marquis Qin Fan only took 20%, and this is still all this land is all down by the Qin Domain, that is, the canal will be dug successfully in the future, and the canal will still rely on the Qin Domain to maintain it after all, so it gave the Qin Domain these two percent.

Otherwise, depending on the situation at the time, I am afraid that it will be difficult to take these two CDs.

There are so many nobles in the court in Mengzhou Mansion, so many old and important ministers, there are several marquis alone, earls, viscounts, barons, and several civil officials of the imperial court, as well as those maritime merchants who mainly take out money, the Liu family, the Fang family, the Zhang family, and several dart shops and money houses with influence all over the Haijiang of the Great Song Dynasty...... Everyone wanted to get a bigger share, and Sihai Money Village alone took out 30 million yuan worth of money and manpower and material resources.

To dig the canal, these big merchants can not be offended, when the time comes, the manpower and material resources gathered from all over the world are not a few, without these money to find a way to transport, just rely on these relatives and nobles of the imperial court, how is it possible?

To put it bluntly, this canal, the imperial court is out of the land and rights, but this manpower and material resources, after all, still depends on the big businessmen.

The current Great Song Dynasty is not willing to forcibly recruit miscellaneous labor, no matter what you do in the Great Song Dynasty now, it will cost money!

So in the end, there was only so little that fell into the Qin family, and in Qin Fang's eyes, of course, it was too little. This is very different from when the Qin family plotted this canal, no matter how you look at it, the Qin family suffers, as the next head of the Qin family, Qin Fang is a little unhappy in his heart.

At this time, the guards below suddenly ran up, interrupting Qin Fang's thoughts,

"Well, what's going on?"

The guard panted and presented a secret letter to Qin Fang, Qin Fang opened it and took a look, oh? Is the Qin family's movements here already known even to Constantinople?

I don't know if those people can react, and if they react in time, what will they do?

Well, Qin Fang thought about it for a while, thinking about it, with the power of the Constantines, I am afraid that the most he can do is to send some meticulous spies or something, and come over to make trouble in secret, well, in addition, with the temperament of these people in Europe, I am afraid to send people to the upper reaches of the Nile to find some way to find those indigenous tribes that are still outside the control of the Flying Bear Army, and encourage them to come down here to make trouble.

But that's about it.

The rest, Ethiopia, has long been defeated by the Song army, and has suffered enough at the hands of the Song people. When the Song army went south, it was not the only decent country in East Africa that had not fought with it, it was the Weiyuan army that defeated the country as soon as it rushed down with a few large darts of privateer, and from now on recognized the Song people's right to explore Africa, and nominally under the protection of Tianzhu.

Yes, that's right, although Ethiopia is still a country, its national status has been reduced by several levels, from the empire to the grand duke, and it has become a protectorate under the rule of King Tianzhuan.

In such a situation, how dare the Grand Duke of Russia really rise up and confront the Song people.

As for the final option, the Byzantine Empire personally dispatched its navy and landed in Egypt?

Hum! It's not that Qin Fang underestimated him Manuel IV, but with the current situation, as long as the Song people have not really come to his Constantine, just Byzantium, they will never dare to start a war with him Qin Domain.