With four huge elephant birds and a large number of finger monkeys, His Majesty the Emperor left the port of Zhaonan and headed north along the African coastline to his next stop, Guiyi Province. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

That is, Yemen.

At this time, this land shrouded in the glory of the lord of Zhen, there is no trace of the past, Zhenwu, that is, the streets of the port of Aden are all pedestrians wearing Ming costumes speaking Chinese, and there are no longer women in black veils, but everywhere you can see scantily dressed Ji women unscrupulously soliciting guests, the same Arabic and temples are also completely extinct in the city, the colorful Chinese signs and the eye-catching sun and moon emblems on the top of the shrine make people feel as if they are in the Ming Dynasty.

"Man is a forgetful animal!"

His Majesty the Emperor stood on the street of Zhenwu City with his hands behind his back, looking at a few Chinese and Arab men who were chatting and laughing not far in front of him, and then looking at the Arab girl who was holding the arm of a garrison soldier like a bird walking by them, and then thinking about the scene of the mountain of dead bodies here a few years ago, he couldn't help but sigh.

It's only been a few years, and the assimilation of this land has been completed.

"It's all cheap bones, and the people who kill half of them are to let the rest of them eat pigs and water every day and have to eat with a smile."

Guo Hong said on the side.

This guy with his hands stained with the blood of the Arab people, with his army, killed at least a million people in the Hejaz, Najd, Yemen, Oman and other places, and at least half of the men in this land died at their hands, not counting the people who were captured as slaves, and the ratio of men to women here plummeted to one to four after the war, and it is clear that he is qualified to say such things. However, his work achievements are indeed remarkable, so far the two provinces of Guiyi and Tianfang under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Scripture have completely lost resistance, and even occasionally there are resistors who have slipped through the net to run to their compatriots, and they will be directly tied up by their compatriots to the local garrison, otherwise once discovered, not only the harborers will be executed by the whole family, but also the surrounding neighbors will be executed by the whole family.

Under this high pressure, there is basically no soil for resistance to survive.

"That's what I want."

Yang Feng patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction and said.

"Look at how harmonious it is here, although we have killed many of them, we have also given them a stable and peaceful life, those resistance elements are the sinners of their nation, if it were not for the ignorance of these people, they could have lived a happier life without shedding so much blood, we must let them really understand this."

Then he said with a solemn face.

With this solemnity, he left Zhenwu City and entered the Red Sea, and then headed north to Jeddah, a famous port on the Red Sea that has now been transformed into a small fishing village, where countless pilgrims once set foot on the docks of their holy land each year, when only a few small fishing boats floated, and some women and slaves were busy handling the fish and shrimp harvested. Jeddah is important because it is the gateway to Maja, but now that the latter has been completely destroyed, the port is naturally worthless, and in fact it is not uncommon for abandoned cities like Jeddah to be abandoned in the Arabian Peninsula at this time due to the sharp decline in population.

"The grass people knock to your majesty!"

After His Majesty the Emperor landed, he was greeted by twenty retired veterans.

"Get up, these are your families?"

Yang Feng looked at the more than four hundred women and children behind them and said, there must be one hundred and fifty or sixty women here, and they are not too old, dressed in colorful clothes, lying on the ground trembling and not daring to look up, there are dozens of black slaves behind these women, who are also trembling and lying there.

"Back to Your Majesty, yes!"

The veteran at the head said.

"You're having a good day!"

Yang Feng said.

"Thanks to Your Majesty Hongfu, the grass people are all veterans of the original expedition to the heavens, and after retiring from the army, they didn't go back and opened a factory here to make canned food, and they can be regarded as worry-free, these women are left behind by those xie sect members, and the grass people can't bear to see them starve to death, Your Majesty said that they want to do good deeds and accumulate virtues, so they simply took them all together, some of these small ones are grass people's seeds, and many of them are left by the previous xie sect members, although they have died in the previous generation. But there is nothing wrong with children! ”

The veteran said triumphantly.

"Okay, this is my Ming man's teachings!"

Yang Feng patted him on the shoulder and said.

Of course, there is no need to repeat how outrageous the description of this incident is from another angle, and then His Majesty the Emperor, led by these good veterans, went straight to the place where they had fought.

After driving on a simple road for more than an hour, a vast date palm forest appeared in a mountain valley, it was the ripe season, the date palm trees were like grapes, hung with bunches of red fruits, under these date palms, a few fat pigs hummed contentedly to pick up the fallen dates on the ground, completely full of life, only the remains of those buildings on the ground that have begun to weather, and the white bones exposed in the sand from time to time, showing that this was once a prosperous city, Once there was also a prominent name here.

"What do they eat when they don't have dates?"

Yang Feng suddenly asked suspiciously.

"Your Majesty, this place actually can't support them at all, except for dates, basically no other trees can live, and even grass on the ground is rare, but it is necessary to maintain the size of the pig herd here, so the governor Yamen has a special amount of money for the grass people, and the grass people are responsible for feeding them in the season when there is no food, so when there are no dates to eat, they all eat fish and eat grain, and a road is specially built for this purpose, and a few steam cars are equipped for the grass people, who come to feed them once a day."

Said the veteran who led the way.

"Well, then don't feed it, go back and kill these pigs yourself, and this forest will be given to you."

Yang Feng said speechlessly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The veteran said quickly.

Obviously, they don't like this work very much, after all, it is hundreds of miles from their house here, even if the steam car goes back and forth, it will take half a day, not to mention that they have to worry about the birth, old age, sickness and death of these pigs being eaten by wolves and so on.

Yang Feng took one last look at this lush date palm forest, raising pigs is just a little bad taste for him, and now there is no need to continue, special treatment can only continue to keep this place in people's memory, or let it really disappear into the dust of history, and then he turned around and left with a hint of embarrassment, and by the way, he also took a fat pig that was a specialty here for dinner, and after returning to Jeddah, he re-boarded the ship and sailed north to the port of Suez, two thousand miles away.

"Aiqing is flat!"

On the pier of the port of Suez, he lifted the Egyptian king Murad and said.

At this time, Egypt under the rule of His Royal Highness the King can be said to be politically harmonious, the people live and work in peace and contentment, especially the completion of the Aswan Dam has greatly reduced the flooding of the Nile, so that the people also really feel the benefits, the cotton planting industry here is thriving, coupled with the construction of the Suez Canal to bring about the income from the work, so that the life of the common people can be said to have changed qualitatively compared with the past, at this time the common people on the dock to His Majesty the Emperor can be said to be absolutely sincere.

"Your Majesty, please give Egypt a new name."

Murad said excitedly.

"In this way, let's call it Anhua! Stabilize and educate! ”

Yang Feng said.

This word is actually content with education, or simply to be obedient to the people, so you don't have to care.

"Thank you, Lord Ron!"

Murad hastened to bow down.

"Also, the edict gives the surname of King Anhua Yang!"

Yang Feng then said.

Mu, no, Yang Rad, hurry up and thank you again.

It is said that the respect of these vassal monarchs for Emperor Yang is also from the heart, although they have become Ming courtiers, but they no longer have to worry about being killed by others one day and then replaced, under the protection of Yang Feng, they can live a life of poverty and luxury as they like, no matter how they oppress their subjects, as long as they are loyal to Emperor Yang, then there is no need to worry about the people rebelling, because the Ming army will protect him, and the Ming Dynasty does not interfere in their internal affairs, except for various privileges and extraterritoriality in business, Da Ming almost doesn't interfere with anything with them, where can I find such a good backer?

"This canal needs to be accelerated!"

Yang Feng stood on the canal construction site, looked at the busy scene in front of him and said.

At this time, more than two-thirds of the Suez Canal has been completed, and it will be basically completed in three years at most, but this is still a little late, because next year the Daming railway will be able to build to Longcheng, and the official westward attack will also begin next year. The next will not be a separate war between the Ming Dynasty and the Central Asian countries, the Russian army has entered Central Asia, according to intelligence, the Ottomans, Persians and even European countries are ready to play the volunteer army, send troops to Central Asia in a big way, and turn Central Asia into a battlefield for a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty. Push the battle line eastward as much as possible to avoid the destruction of their own territory, anyway, even if Central Asia is white, it doesn't matter to them, so in Yang Feng's plan, it is simply to solve the problem with the Ottoman Empire, and take the whole of Central Asia and West Asia in one fell swoop to completely complete the unification of Asia.

So the Suez Canal is important.

At this time, the Ming army had actually completed its strategic deployment, and the north and south roads of Central Asia were facing the heavy troop assembly area from Tashkent to Samarkand, and the Ming army in the Persian Gulf swept north of Persia at any time, and what he still lacked was the road to Syria. Attacks from land were separated by large desert areas, and even the transportation capacity of the Ming army could not support many troops, so the best way was to land them by sea. Although Egypt's Ming Mediterranean Fleet had gained sea supremacy, its landing ships could not fly over land, and it was impossible for these small flat-bottomed transports to sail around the Cape of Good Hope for 20,000 kilometers to Egypt.

So it is necessary to wait for the Suez Canal to be navigable.

Once the Suez Canal is opened, his landing fleet can be loaded with soldiers and set sail from Egypt to any coast of the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean, and the same 10,000-ton ships loaded with various supplies from the Ming mainland can easily provide them with all the war materials they need, supporting them to sweep through Asia Minor, so that the east and the west will go together, and completely bring the whole of Asia into the territory of the Ming Empire.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, there is no shortage of laborers in the minister's Anhua country, and the minister will order one out of two to gather the strength of the whole country to ensure that our warships will sail on this canal by the end of next year."

Yang Rade patted his chest and said.

He certainly understood that this was the time to show his loyalty.

"Very good, pass on the decree, Jia'anhua King Xin'anhou!"

Yang Feng said.

Since His Royal Highness the King of Anhua is so loyal, then this canal will be handed over to him, anyway, Yang Feng only needs to be navigable at that time, he doesn't want to say that he will draw one out of two, even if he gets all the labor, it is not Yang Feng's business, in fact, in Yang Feng's opinion, the country of Egypt also needs to have a little plague, and after the Suez Canal is opened, maybe it is a good idea for them to break out of a large-scale cholera.

It is said that plagues have occurred frequently in various subject countries of the Ming Dynasty in recent years, and there was a large-scale outbreak of cholera in Myanmar last year.

Fortunately, His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the people of the Ming Dynasty helped to make the epidemic not spread on a larger scale, but it caused less than 300,000 deaths, of course, this is a natural disaster, this is irresistible by manpower, in other words, natural disasters like this are not returned to the Ming Dynasty and also occur frequently, not to say that after the Ming Dynasty is more frequent, there was no return to the Ming Dynasty when the plague can only wait for death, and now the Ming Dynasty has His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire and the government to rely on, and the people of those subject countries are extremely glad that they have caught up with the good times!

As for why plagues rarely occur in the Ming Dynasty......

This is primarily a matter of ethnicity.

Look at Goryeo, there are few plagues, that is because the Ming Dynasty people have improved the human race.

Emperor Yang then drove to Cairo and sighed at the once majestic pyramids on the outskirts of Cairo, when the pyramid of Khufu was torn apart, and several other pyramids did not escape the clutches, all of them were reduced to a pile of broken stones, and although the Aswan Dam had been built, the work was still going on. These boulders can not only be used to build dams, but also to build docks, under the base of the Mediterranean Fleet, all the boulders removed from the pyramids, and even some Ming merchants in Egypt like to use these boulders to build houses, and the building of the Egyptian branch of the Imperial Bank is used to lay the foundation.

As for the Sphinx......

"Your Majesty, that's the Sphinx."

Fan Hong pointed to a small mound-like thing in front of him and said cautiously.

"Uh, how did it get like this?"

Yang Feng said speechlessly.

"That, this thing is the shooting range of the local defense forces of the Anhua Kingdom, they have fired tens of thousands of shells at this thing over the years, hundreds of thousands of bullets, and then it became like this."

Fan Hong said.