Chapter 0760. Port of Suez

More than half of the Arab Empire on the battlefield was occupied by Fujian, hundreds of thousands of Arabs died under the steel crossbow of Fujian, more than 300,000 Fujian* teams were also slaughtered by Arabs, and more than 100,000 expatriates were beaten into slavery. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.] 'Fun' 'Novel'し

But in fact, the two countries not only have contacts, but also have close contacts.

Even the port of Suez, the port of Fujian, still stands on the land of the Arabs, and dozens of ships of Tang goods land on the land of Islam every day, silk, tea, tobacco, porcelain, the most of which is grain, and the official ships of Fujian are full of rice transported here, and in a few days, they will be snapped up by the Arab lords and merchants who flock to it.

Similarly, many Arab specialties such as Persian carpets, dates, perfumes, exquisite Persian gold and silver wine utensils, leather, etc., are also gathered here as purchased equivalents.

Especially the thriving trade, the slave trade!

In the fierce war, the Persian craftsmen had to sell themselves into slavery, hoping to go to Fujian to seek a chance of survival, as well as the tall and sturdy white slaves captured by the Arab cavalry in the Caucasus, the bewitching and beautiful Greek slaves obtained in Byzantium, and even the wild and untamable Celtic, Germanic, and Frankish women in the Rhine Valley were bought and sold here, full of sadomasochistic taste and were chained and stuffed into wooden cages and loaded onto ships.

The appearance can be seen by the Orientals who have always been picky, generally at least the wife and daughter of the chieftain level, this kind of wild woman is by no means different from any race of women in Fujian, not civilized, strong and even not inferior to men, but many rich men with quirks in Fujian like this kind of conquest of beasts.

So as far away as Western Europe, a few hundred years later, it may be England, France, Germany, a certain king, marquis, the noble ancestor of the noble girl was sent to the East and became the sexual pet plaything of a rich man.

Nowadays, the Min people are doing the same as the Western Europeans who exhibited in Paris and London hundreds of years later women of a strange race from the New World and Africa.

These European women also have a unique style, they are so strictly detained, and they still fiercely grasp the chains and scold, their golden hair, strong muscles, and huge snow-white, exposing half of their breasts when they pass by, Li Que is also quite jealous glances.

There are also a large number of Byzantine army captives with shabby clothes and armor were directly transported, but the largest slave trade is still black slaves, the Numibian tribes in the upper reaches of the Nile are still in a backward primitive society, not to mention the simple tribal warriors can not resist the Arab sturdy nomadic cavalry, just the annual internecine internecine between the captives obtained is enough for Arab merchants to buy for a while, these slave Arab nobles can not digest it at all, thousands of black slaves were escorted to the dock.

I am used to seeing black people in Nanyang in Borneo, and I didn't really arouse Li Que's interest in these black people with broad noses and shiny black bodies, as for the Arab businessmen with turbans and white robes and big bellies on the side, and the Fujian merchants who are also pot-bellied and covered in silk and satin, Liu Renliang is even more tired of looking at them. Ignoring the owner of the ship who came to talk to him, after a few words of greeting, he led Li Que and his party, and Liu Renliang walked to the governor's palace in the center of the port with a smile.

Even if it is the port of the Tang people, but it still can't get rid of the local materials, Suez is a desert steppe, not to mention trees within a hundred miles, even low shrubs are scarce, to transport timber, either to Fujian thousands of miles away, or to go to the Caucasus mountains, that road is high and dangerous, and the cost of transportation alone has exceeded the value of timber more than ten times.

The traditional wooden building was blown away, and as a last resort, Liu Renliang had to take the officers and soldiers of the headquarters to learn the construction methods of the locals, only a small number of beams and timbers were used to support the skeleton, and then imitated the method of drying clay into square bricks during the western expedition of the Fujian Kingdom, and the method of smearing river mud on the outside built the house.

There is no city wall protection in the whole port, so the Governor's Mansion that Li Que wants to go to is the most important place in the whole port, the entire Governor's Mansion is abnormal, almost two square kilometers, and the surrounding circle is eight meters high, three meters thick city wall, all of which are made of local hard bluestone polished square plus cement, and there are many battlements and arrow towers on it, and the Fujian army is still staring at the hot sun meticulously inspecting, and the defense is amazing.

There were even bronze cannons dismantled from the ships poking their heads out of the city walls, glinting with a cold glow.

Entering the city wall, a stone castle more than 30 meters high against the city wall appeared in front of you again, the towering building of the square stone castle and the northern city wall fit together, the city height was directly raised by 20 meters, and assumed a more powerful defense, in the era when there was no artillery, such a castle was simply a nightmare for the attackers.

When people think of castles, the first thing that comes to mind is the aristocratic castles of Europe, or the stone fortresses built in the Middle East during the Crusades, in fact, such forts did not appear until the 9th century AD, and the technology developed in the 10th century.

It is only the sixth century A.D., and the Germanic Franks who call themselves civilized people in later generations in Europe are still using simple wooden forts and living a primitive tribal alliance politics, so from the time line, the drawings from the palace of the king of Fujian, the Suez stone fort of Fujian is definitely the first in this era.

The port of Suez is still a military fortress and a commercial port, more than 20,000 people live here, most of them are naval soldiers and a small number of their families, and only a few hundred merchants live here directly, so in addition to a few commercial inns in the port, the small town is as strict as a military camp.

There is a well in the courtyard of the Governor's Palace, and there is a high platform road more than 100 meters long in the east of the city wall that extends to the Red Sea, which is already extremely narrow on the opposite side of the Red Sea, and a fortress smaller than the Governor's Palace also stands in the hot land of Arabia, and the two forts form horns against each other, governing the Red Sea bay and the Isthmus of Suez.

If a foreign enemy came to attack, the bell of the governor's palace would ring, and all the inhabitants would be ordered to retreat, as long as all the inhabitants were gathered in two castles, and the fleet that was still patrolling the sea would be supplied, and with more than 10,000 defenders and 20,000 fleets, it would not be a problem to rely on the strong stone fortress for a few years.

The construction of the castle is also Liu Renliang's helpless move, he only has about 30,000 sailors in his hands, from here to the north, there are Arabs everywhere, and now Liu Renliang has two-thirds of the troops in his hands are gathered at sea at any time, and he does not dare to land, but looking at Li Que's appreciative eyes along the way, Liu Renliang is still quite complacent.

Entering the stone fortress, the unbearable heat outside suddenly melted a lot, and the furnishings in the building were also in line with the identity of the Orientals.

Liu Renliang's own office is on the highest floor of the castle, standing here, the small port is in full view, and in the distance, a more spectacular scene is also seen by Li Que and Wu Yuanshuang, and they grow their mouths in surprise.

Under the scorching sun of the Middle East, hundreds of thousands of craftsmen bare their tops, ants come and go, busy, and a visible waterway has been widened in the narrow Suez Isthmus, and now extends dozens of miles into the desert.

The two banks were fixed with boulders and cement, and looking at the wide river, the 80-meter-level Qi boat of Fujian could also pass smoothly.

In such a harsh environment, it is absolutely a miracle that such a feat can be achieved.

When he first hit the Mesopotamian plain, Li Jie immediately thought of this canal, which would become the backbone of Egypt's economy in the future, so he sent the temporarily useless navy, Liu Renliang, to this position to occupy the small city of Suez on the Red Sea coast, where he attacked Egypt, plundered laborers from nearby, and dug this canal.

No one expected that Fujian's glorious Central Asian grand hegemony would become a thing of the past in a blink of an eye, and Liu Renliang's navy would become Li Jie's only life-saving straw, and it was here that 58,000 Fujian officers and men returned to Fujian on a navy ship and escaped.

"In the past, there were canals built by the Egyptian Empire and the Roman Empire, but they were silted, and the Pontus Governor just cleaned up the ancient rivers, and then communicated the Great Bitter Lake, the Little Bitter Lake and several natural water systems, it won't take long, and there will be more than a year here to communicate the Mediterranean, when the time comes, the merchant ships of the Fujian Kingdom can directly cross here and arrive at Constantinople, Rome, and when the time comes, the Fujian Kingdom will be a little more prosperous!"

After all, it is a great cause created by himself, looking at Li Que and the others, Liu Renqing stroked his beard proudly, in the end, it was a businessman, Wu Yuanqing's eyes lit up at the first time, but unfortunately before he could ask, Li Que withdrew his eyes, and arched his hand at Liu Renliang and asked.

"Governor, Your Highness has sent us to Arabia on a secret business, and I dare to ask the Governor, what is the situation in the Arab Empire now?"

His expression tightened, remembering his purpose for coming to this hot and barren place, Wu Yuanshuang also wiped his sweat and came over: "Yes, Liu Dudu, is there any news of my brother Ying Bo Wu Yuanqing?"

Leng Buding Li Que shifted the topic to the political situation, which made Liu Renliang also pause, and then his smile turned into a bitter smile, and he shook his head in annoyance.

"In this situation, how can there be a mess of words?"

As he spoke, Liu Renliang paced to his big bookcase, and a map was pulled out of the bookcase by him, and then the sunlight from the window fell in front of Li Que and the others, looking at the chaotic arrows drawn on it, both Li Que and Wu Yuanshuang couldn't help but gasp......