82_82988 In the chaotic situation of West Asia, occasionally some joy is revealed from the suffocating air of gloom. I'll tell you that the fastest update of the novel is the eye. Hurry?

The small city of Suez, this day is full of lights, the light gray fortress walls are hung with jubilant red lanterns, and the merchants who usually pick out the water one by one are also willing to take out the candy, delicious snacks, dried meat and other rare snacks in West Asia this time, and distribute them whenever they meet people.

It is rare that the Fujian sailors who have the same face as the dead on weekdays also have a lot of smiles, the towering gate of the Governor's Palace, a large string of firecrackers is hanging high, as the soldiers ignited the fuse below, the firecrackers crackled and exploded, with the firecrackers, the three teams of lion dancers at the gate of the Governor's Mansion jumped together, pushing the lively atmosphere to the extreme.

The Suez Canal, which had been so lively, for nothing else, was finally completely opened by 30,000 sailors, tens of thousands of laborers of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and tens of thousands of black slaves, who had worked hard under the scorching sun for more than four years.

This waterway communicates the Mediterranean Sea from the Red Sea, breaking the situation that the sea is not connected for hundreds of years, in this era, no one has yet developed a route through the Cape of Good Hope to reach the Strait of Gibraltar through Africa, and the opening of the canal is equivalent to opening a thoroughfare for the merchant ships of Fujian from the land.

In the future, the goods of Fujian could pass through here and directly reach Constantinople, thus avoiding the protracted overland transportation and the layers of Arabic checkpoints.

This is of great significance.

At the end of the Red Sea, in front of the Suez Canal, a large number of fleets are also hanging big red flowers in the harbor, and the sea breeze gusts, if it is not for the heavy anchor to grasp the bottom of the water, it seems that these thirty-meter Sea Soul class ships can't help but embark on an exciting adventure.

"Lord Liu, congratulations, such a project has been completed, not to mention the merits of the adults who went back to seal the prince, but all the businessmen who have not passed through here must also be grateful for the hard work of the adults, Liu Xianggong is famous through the ages!"

The turbans of the sea breeze were hula-la, and the boat standing at the bow of the ship crunched, and the two Wu brothers couldn't help but have a smile on their old faces, and congratulated with a smile.

"Everywhere, everything is done under the leadership and support of the prince of Min, and the subordinates only make a little effort."

Saying this, Liu Renliang's heart is still full of pride, and he has contributed more than a little bit.

From the war in Mesopotamia was still in full swing, when the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Fujian and Umayyad dynasties were still galloping on the steppe, he had been sent to supervise the construction of the canal, during which he experienced the betrayal of the Arabs, the fiasco, the great retreat, the stoppage caused by the withdrawal of Egyptian laborers to Egypt, and found another way to contact some big Egyptian traders, buy slaves and dig the canal again.

This canal was almost supported by Liu Renliang himself, and it can be said that every part of the canal for hundreds of miles is impregnated with Liu Renliang's painstaking efforts.

Now that this canal has finally become, looking at the river from afar, Liu Renliang is like seeing his own child.

Greeting the two brothers Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang, the herald boat below also returned from the Great Kushui Lake in the canal, and the flag was waved from a distance, and there was no difference in front, whether the first navigation was carried out?

"Liu Xianggong, please!"

Knowingly getting out of the way, Wu Yuanqing gestured with a smile on his face, nodded with the same smile, and Liu Renliang personally walked on the bow of the boat and waved the big herald flag downward.

"Navigation!"

On the shore, there were 10,000 or 20,000 people cheering, and almost all the people in the small city of Suez in Fujian came out, playing gongs and drums and following the fleet endlessly, a joyful scene.

This voyage is very important, if the voyage is completed, you can report the success to the Beijing Division, to the Fujian State, if not, but also into a protracted project, maybe a new excavation of the river, so, the bow of the ship through the red silk tied with a big red flower, around the belly can support the boat Prime Minister Liu Ren rail, the heart is also mentioned.

Fortunately, even the spiky bottom of the boat was pressed into the canal without the slightest stumble, so that Liu Renliang also sincerely spit out a breath of turbidity, and stroked his beard with a smile.

Successfully passed the first checkpoint, the sailors on the fleet were also jubilant, lying on the side of the ship one by one, showing off desperately and waving hands with the people on both sides of the strait, even the serious boatswain on weekdays this time was watching with a smile on the side, without obstruction, until the two brothers Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang were also lying on the side of the ship with great interest, and when a flagship began to tilt to the right, the cheers had to stop.

The two martial artists were invited back to the center of the ship.

There were more than 30 ships in the first voyage, but unfortunately, none of them were the magnificent 100-meter Neptune ships of Fujian, and most of them were 30-40-meter small boats.

It is no wonder that when the French organized the construction of the Suez Canal in later generations, it mobilized 100,000 Egyptian laborers and it took 18 years to build it, and the Suez Canal in later generations was prepared for the million-ton giant ship in the industrial age, the river width was two or three hundred meters, and the water depth was dozens of meters, and Liu Renliang only dug it for more than four years without support before it was navigable, and the river width was only less than 100 meters, and the depth was only more than 10 meters.

Fortunately, this level of canal is enough for this era, under the gentle flow of water, there is no sense of stagnation in the boat, not to mention the Dafu boat, which has entered the canal from the entrance for more than ten miles, even if Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang stand on the bow of the big boat creaking, they did not see the trend of running aground.

The flowing canal also brought a lot of brisk coolness to the dry desert, and after the initial worries were removed, Liu Renliang also began to enjoy the journey, placing refreshments on the bow of the boat, and beckoning the literati and merchants to chant poems against them.

From here to the Mediterranean, it takes about a day and a night to sail, and the canal is surrounded by desert, standing on the bow of the boat, it is like sailing in the desert, looking at the endless yellow sand in the distance, and the spectacle is even more poetic.

A pleasant afternoon was spent in the elegance of your sentence and my sentence.

In fact, the goal of this fleet is not far away, after arriving in the Mediterranean, it will send grain from the sea and land to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, a vassal state of Fujian.

Venice, ******, Florence, Pisa and other port republics are still mostly small fishing villages, and the closest trade with Fujian on the trade route in the past was Byzantium, but now Byzantium has also betrayed the alliance with Fujian, and the route to Constantinople cannot be opened for the time being.

The specific way to carry out trade still needs to be explored by the adventurous maritime merchants of Fujian State.

The next morning, early in the morning, Liu Renliang climbed on the bow of the ship again, after all, he was the prime minister of Fujian, after the opening of the Suez Canal, a series of problems arose, and he needed to think carefully, such as stationing immigrants, how to effectively manage the Suez area, and setting up military forts along the coast.

There is still half a day to open the canal, but at this time, Liu Renliang's mind is no longer on the canal itself, but instead on the grand strategy of the entire West Asia and North Africa, but when Liu Renliang's mind is not on the canal, the canal is still in trouble.

"Stop the boat !!"

The cavalry rode camels from the northwest of the canal, and in the panicked roar, one after another Fujian merchant ships hurriedly lowered their sails and dropped anchor, and in the panic, there were even bows and sterns colliding together, but fortunately there were no casualties.

Around this, it was enough to make Liu Renliang, who was born in the navy, blush, and jumped off the boat from the descending handrail staircase in great annoyance, and Liu Renliang led the guards to directly drag down the cavalry who was still shouting on camels.

"What the hell is going on?"

Seeing that his top boss, Admiral Liu Renliang, had a black face as if it was going to rain, the Fujian herald cavalry was almost frightened, and hurriedly kowtowed to the ground, and replied in a hurry: "Back to the Admiral, at the mouth of the Outer Sea Canal, about three Fanbang ships ran aground, blocking the shipping route, and Lord Lieutenant ordered me to inform the fleet to stop advancing."

"Are you pigs? Why did Fanbang's ship rush into the canal of Fujian! After more than ten years of fighting sea power, let others block the door, Liu Renliang was almost aggrieved, which made the herald cavalry even more aggrieved, and explained sadly.

"Admiral, we don't have a ship!"

Liu Renliang was also confused, the canal had just been opened, and the Mediterranean side had not yet had time to deploy a fleet for protection, and a group of infantry on horseback and archery on land was strange if they could stop the sea ships.

Fortunately, just when Liu Renliang himself was embarrassed and didn't know how to break the siege, the two brothers Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang also licked their big bellies and got off the boat, and shouted and asked, "Liu Xianggong, what's wrong?"

Finally relieved of the embarrassment, Liu Renliang took the opportunity to drop the hapless herald and turned around and smiled bitterly: "There is something wrong with the entrance to the sea, and the governor has no way to dispatch it, but it makes the two of them laugh."

The left and right are the land of the Arabs, and they have to be defended, so the navigable fleet also transported war horses and cavalry, Liu Renliang shouted, and thousands of cavalry unloaded from the ship, trampled all the way to the smoke, and ran wildly towards the sea.

In less than half an hour, the endless Mediterranean Sea and several Fanbang ships of the culprit have come into view.

It is very similar to the Rodman battleship modeled on Byzantium by the Arabs, with a sharp bow, a small square sail in the front and a large square sail in the back, and the oars like centipede legs sticking out on both sides, and the more than ten heels of the last boat have broken in unison, losing power and blocking the other two boats.

And the military government guarding the river, which knew that it was in trouble, had already thrown aside the welcome colored banner, and all the armed forces pressed it......