Outside the tents, the roar of steam engines played all night long, and the sprawling construction site worked day and night.

After coming to Tianfang for more than a month, Huang Dingyou is now accustomed to this loud noise. It is also in the midst of this boiling noise that in a short period of time, in the Tehama area on the Red Sea of the Tianfang Peninsula, a super-large farm called 'Xinxing' in Chinese has risen little by little in the place where the rainfall has taken the most on the Tianfang Peninsula.

The sound of the steam engine today is that an aqueduct that has just been excavated for about ten years is draining water from the outside.

Strange to say, although the rainfall in the Thehamel area is not insignificant, it is mostly concentrated in the summer of the year, and in the autumn it becomes scarce. But not long ago, it rained heavily on the land of Nova Farm.

Because the ground within the farm area is leveled, and the lowest part of the ground is the horizontal and vertical aqueduct, so the newly excavated aqueduct is suddenly filled with rainwater. So much so that the rainwater, which was extremely precious to many residents of the Tianfang Peninsula, became waste at this moment.

Fortunately, while the aqueduct was being excavated, the construction of the reservoir was also underway, so the rainwater would not be completely wasted.

Outside, the steam pump on the farm was ringing all night.

Although in China, steam engines are increasingly appearing in various factories, but in agricultural development and production, the role of steam engines is really not much except for lifting water.

Tonight is the second night, and a month and a half ago, after thousands of Chinese came to this place, the work of cutting down trees, clearing barren grass, leveling the land, and digging ditches has been going on here. Huang Dingyou has been here for half a month, and he is no longer interested in Nova Farm, a place that provides food security for the canal project, in the definition of a new star farm. He found the Egyptian battlefield to the south more interesting.

The reason why Huang Dingyou, who is still thinking about it, is willing to come to the heavens to 'wander' this time is because the Yangtze River Publishing House, a subsidiary of the Yangtze River Group, is preparing to open a new magazine, which is a new thing in China, but has been intermittently in Europe for more than 100 years. The publishing house to which Zhongyuan Newspaper belongs published China four years ago, which can be said to be the first magazine publication in China. In four years, it was published every half a month, and today it has a circulation of more than 2 million copies.

Not only is the benefit huge, but the impact is not ordinarily huge.

The follow-up speed of the Yangtze River Group is no longer even comparable to that of the second batch of teams. However, the development of the Yangtze River Publishing House has been very smooth in recent years, and it is good to enjoy the shade with its back against the big tree, and this new magazine will not be bad. Huang Dingyou has been designated as the president + editor-in-chief of the magazine. I can't come out of this even if I want to come out in the future. Taking advantage of the last opportunity, he personally led a team to the heavenly side to observe the impact of the war in Egypt on the heavenly world up close, and also listened to the opinions of the local natives on the Suez Canal.

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Since the Ottoman army failed to counterattack Alexandria, suffered a great loss at Damanhur, and was killed and captured by Napoleon and annihilated nearly 10,000 people, Hussein, like a defeated rooster, could no longer see the invincible arrogance, and the rest of his army was completely taken over by Ilam, at least until the end of the French invasion, these soldiers were controlled by Ilam. Therefore, the strength in the hands of the latter is really not only not declining because of this fiasco, but increasing instead of falling.

Of course, there was a certain drop in the morale of the army.

The British blockade of Alexandria lasted for two months, and Bruyers, though not a famous admiral, was a brave man. Taking advantage of the French fleet's proximity to Alexandria, the advantage of the French army to repair the warships faster and better, and the advantage of the fleet's sailors being more stable and better, he led the fleet out of port again to confront Nelson's fleet on the tenth day after the defeat and return to Alexandria.

Naturally, the French fleet did not please much, but Bruyers was able to ensure that the main ships of the French army were not killed, and after returning to Alexandria, the French army began major repairs again and again. The first thing the French Navy did after losing every exit was to go home to replenish its blood.

In order to repair the battleship conveniently and quickly, Bryès even directly dismantled the French transport ship.

In this way, although the French fleet was generally at a disadvantage, they had both "losses" and "supplements" compared with the British who blockaded the mouth of the Nile. No more than their enemy, the Nelson fleet, only losses and no big addition.

The repair of the battleship or something, of course, can be carried out at sea. However, many things cannot be completed by the little material stored in the battleship itself, just as a merchant ship does not put a mast in its own hold, and there is no material in the belly of a battleship to repair the entire hull, otherwise there is a special repair shop.

Nelson had been out there for two months, and he couldn't hold on any longer.

In the Eastern Mediterranean, a fleet with heavy losses is too insecure. Who knows if the French and Spaniards will send their own combined navy.

So Nelson patted his ass and left Alexandria, but after this news reached London, Dong Huan, Lu Zhiqiang, Chen Zhan and others felt that Nelson must have received some news, otherwise, just three days after the British left, the Spanish Mediterranean Fleet escorted a group of transport ships to Alexandria.

I don't know what Barras thinks, it should not be reluctant to Napoleon, but reluctant to the French Mediterranean fleet. Either way, the siege of Alexandria was lifted.

The material brought by the convoy also helped Napoleon to a certain extent, but only two months had passed, which was far from enough time to empty Napoleon's family.

When the French expeditionary force left for Egypt, it took more than 100 transport ships with it.

After defeating the Ottoman-Egyptian army led by Hussein in Damanhur, Napoleon did not continue his march to Cairo.

He has heeded the warnings of the Chinese side that Elam will set aside a large area of open space for the French army to 'occupy', and although Lower Egypt is not large, the number of French troops is not too large.

It was the main grain producing area in Egypt - Lower Egypt was the Nile Delta, and Napoleon did not need to worry about this within three or five months of ensuring the food supply of the French army and the replenishment of ammunition. Napoleon's primary aim now was to take the fortress of Mansoura. It was the main point of land communication between the Ottomans and Egypt, and if the French took it, the Ottoman Empire's connection with Egypt would be broken.

That is, China allowed Napoleon to march to the north without 'harassing' Cairo.

Later generations of Mansoura women were the whitest and most beautiful women in all of Egypt. Mansoura's girls are all high-nosed, deep-eyed, with clear facial contours, and a completely European style. It is said that it was the French who infused their own blood into the blood of the locals.

Without Chen Ming knowing these things, Napoleon was guided by the Chinese to a path similar to history. Perhaps two hundred years later, Egyptians will also be deeply envied by the people around them because they have a girlfriend of Mansura.

The current war situation in Egypt is so strange, the Ilam troops in Cairo, it cannot be said that Napoleon was allowed to occupy most of the Nile Delta little by little, but even if the French did not have the arrival of backup materials, they would have a comfortable life before the large amount of ammunition reserves were exhausted.

When there were no outsiders, though, he would yell at those closest to him, "The Directory is full of bastards!" They hate me and wish I could die here. Moreover, you see how dissatisfied the whole army is, and no one wants to stay. ”

But for the outside, for the entire French expeditionary force, Napoleon's job was to lift the spirits of his troops and dispel pessimism. He encouraged his subordinates

He said, "So we are cut off from the land of Egypt." This is good. We have to survive the rough seas, and the sea will calm down. Perhaps fate is destined to change the face of heaven. We must stay here and accomplish great deeds here as the ancients did. ”

"Egypt used to be a powerful empire. What a superior position it had in the offensive war against the British! ”

"We're going to have to create a big empire. …… The ocean separates us from our motherland, but no ocean can separate us from Africa, nor can it separate us from Asia. We have a lot of people, we will not lack manpower to replenish our ranks, and we will not be short of ammunition. ”

While preaching encouragement to his soldiers, Napoleon was also clearly aware that he had to organize Egypt quickly and effectively, and that he had to gain a foothold in Egypt, because the French army would have to stay there for a long time.

Napoleon's nimble, thoughtful mind seemed to have an endless supply of inspiration, and war, defence, taxation, government, court institutions, trade, art, and science, all drew other attention.

The 'reforms' that Elam had been unable to accomplish after so many years of operation in Egypt were easily achieved by Napoleon with his own swords and guns. Without hesitation, he issued one order after another in order to prevent defeat and imminent danger. Even Napoleon established the Egyptian Academy of Sciences on the model of the French Academy of Sciences, with the mathematician Gaspar Monges as president and Napoleon as vice-president. The mission of the Academy of Sciences is to "promote the progress and spread culture of Egypt".

Archaeologists, geologists, and historians examine the remains of the ancient kingdom from the Nile to Aswan Falls.

Scientists and engineers study the fight against infectious diseases and design irrigation projects. Under the leadership of Chief Engineer and architect Le Per, they were leveling the Suez Isthmus and digging a canal linking the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.

The news that China was going to build a canal in Egypt connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea could not be concealed from Napoleon. This news report to Europe can also cause a big stir.

Much of the machinery and equipment that the transport fleet brought to Egypt was prepared for this purpose. It is also not clear whether the French have heard about the Suez Canal for a long time, and they have prepared a lot of things.

Napoleon even asked the Egyptians in the area under his control to expand the area under his control to cultivate grain and build large ovens and bakeries to solve the problem of food supply; They set out to build breweries to brew beer to meet the needs of the troops; Foundries and gunpowder factories were also indispensable......

All this was done so that the French army did not need to rely on the European rear to survive.

In the afternoon of the next day, Huang Dingyou and his team bid farewell to Nova Farm, and then continued west, heading up along the Red Sea, towards the next destination, which is also a Chinese farm on the Red Sea coast.

In the Tehamad region, the Red Sea coast of the Tianfang Peninsula, China has six super-large farms, each with 50,000 acres of fertile land, and the grain harvested here and the livestock are enough to feed 50,000 people for a year.

It is still unknown how much labor will be needed for the Suez Canal project. It is quite likely that this number will exceed 50,000 people, so a large part of the food and materials needed for the entire project will still have to be taken on the spot. The importance of political stability in Egypt can be seen.

Although China supported Napoleon's 'abandonment' of Cairo, it turned north to Mansoura and then to Syria.

But this is China's pretense of generosity. On the Chinese side, [Tianfang and the Office in Europe] did not believe that the army led by Napoleon would do much. If Napoleon did invade Syria, how many men would he need to guard the Nile Delta first?

Fort Arish, Gaza, Jaffa, Aker Citadel in Palestine, these levels, no one believed that Napoleon could break through!

Huang Dingyou now hopes to enter Egypt as soon as possible and take a good look at the impact of the French invasion on Egypt.