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This is the consequence of the fall of power, even the king, in the face of power, without the slightest ability to resist.

In just three days, calm returned to Cairo, as if nothing had changed, as if everything had changed.

Although the British recognized the independence of Egypt, Egypt's military, diplomatic and other rights were in the hands of the British, Fouad I was nominally the king of Egypt, but like the previous sultans, there were still no rights, and the only internal affairs, economic and other rights were also in the hands of Congress, Fouad I was a complete puppet.

Yang Deshan - No, it should be Ibrahim I now!

After Yang Deshan came to power, the British still retained the rights of military and diplomatic, but Yang Deshan and Fouad I were different after all, Yang Deshan came to power through a military coup, and the people originally had an army in their hands, so the rabble of the brotherly alliance turned into the Egyptian Defense Force.

This is not the Wehrmacht in the hands of the British, but the Wehrmacht that is really under the control of Yang Deshan.

In this way, the British do have military rights in Egypt, but Egypt does not have no rights at all as before, at least Yang Deshan has the right to form an army.

This is a good sign.

After Yang Deshan became Ibrahim I, the Egyptian army developed rapidly, beyond the expectations of everyone, including the British, in just three days, the Egyptian Defense Force in Yang Deshan's hands had more than four divisions, although only the Praetorian Guard Division stationed in Cairo was full, and two divisions were just a showmanship, but Egypt unexpectedly had an armored division, which really impressed everyone, including the British.

This armored division is the armored force led by Rommel, in fact, it is not full, there are only four battalions of troops, which can barely be organized into regiments and battalions, but when the steel chariot drove into Cairo City with a huge roar, it still made the citizens of Cairo, including the members of the National Assembly, feel a little strange.

It doesn't look bad, at least the new king is not as powerless as the previous one, and there is a powerful man as the king, which makes many Egyptians feel a little more reassured.

It's not just the Egyptians who feel at ease, the British are even more sure-footed.

When Yang Deshan announced the establishment of Egypt and the first armored division in the entire Middle East, the British did feel a little uneasy, but immediately after, Yang Deshan announced that he would completely entrust the management of the Suez Canal to the British, which made the British completely relieved of Yang Deshan.

The importance of the Suez Canal to Egypt is undoubted, if you do not count Sudan, 95% of Egypt's land is desert or semi-desert, and no underground mineral deposits have been found, so naturally there is no industry, the income of the Suez Canal can be said to be the most important income for the Egyptian government, and the reason why the Egyptian government has been negotiating with the British is because of the management of the Suez Canal.

After Yang Deshan came to power, the first thing he did was to hand over the management of the Suez Canal to the British, which was tantamount to handing over his life to the British, and this attitude made the British government very satisfied.

Loyal hounds should be rewarded, and after Yang Deshan made overtures to the British, the British immediately reciprocated by announcing more than 200 million pounds in material aid and interest-free loans for the Egyptian government, and at the same time sharing half of the annual Suez Canal revenue to the Egyptian government.

If Fouad I knew that this was the result, I am afraid that Fouad I would be so angry that he jumped up from the tomb, the reason why Fouad I and the British were constantly at odds was because of the distribution of interests in the Suez Canal, if the British were so generous to Fouad I, why should Fouad I be a villain.

In fact, the British really don't care much about the benefits of the Suez Canal, what the British care about is the control of the canal, as long as the British control the Suez Canal, then it is equivalent to the British control the connecting channel between Asia and Europe, which is very important for the strategic layout of the United Kingdom.

The British approach to the Suez Canal also pleased Egyptian MPs.

Objectively speaking, even if the previous Egyptian government and the British fought for the Suez Canal, everyone knew that even if Egypt gained control of the canal, Egypt would not necessarily be able to keep it. Therefore, the main dispute is also over the income of the canal, the British can not care about the great business, but the poor Egypt cares, the Suez Canal receives the "toll" every year, which is the only stable source of income for the Egyptian government now, so the Egyptian government will insist so much on this issue.

In fact, it is not bad to hand it over to the British, at least under the management of the British, although corruption is still inevitable, but it is much better than under the control of the Egyptians, and it is still the same sentence, once the poor seize the opportunity, eat much worse than the rich.

If the handling of the Suez Canal is the first fire of Yang Deshan after he came to power, then the operation of the National Assembly is the second fire of Yang Deshan.

When Yang Deshan first gave a speech to the National Assembly, he was protested by some members of Congress, and Yang Deshan's response was simple and rude, and all the protesting lawmakers were sent to prison, and in the following two days, they were charged with various crimes, and then a series of "raids and beheadings".

To be honest, this "killing chickens and monkeys" is very effective, and the remaining congressmen are already mentally prepared to face the tyrant, but Yang Deshan's next move is surprising, Yang Deshan did not dissolve the parliament, nor did he intend to engage in dictatorship, Yang Deshan only needs a "one-vote veto", and then declares that everything is business as usual.

One vote or the right to do it, that is, no matter what decision the Congress makes, if it is not suitable in Yang Deshan's view, the Congress will reconsider, which of course takes away the maximum power that originally belonged to the Congress, but at the same time it also gives the Congress the greatest freedom, after all, Yang Deshan does not participate in the operation of the Congress.

The so-called "non-participation" is just a façade, but in fact, Yang Deshan can still exert influence on the Congress in his own way.

After Yang Deshan became king, although the speaker of the parliament, Abu Bakr, was appointed by the British, but the two deputy speakers were Yang Deshan's people, one was the patriarch of the Sayyid family, who first supported Yang Deshan as the king of Egypt, and the other was Madini, who followed Yang Deshan in Liab.

Not particularly good, but grudgingly acceptable.

According to the custom, the new official took office with three fires, and Yang Deshan burned the third fire to the sultan.

At this time, Sudan was not divided into Sudan and South Sudan, the two Sudans were one country, and then together with Egypt to form a huge country, Yang Deshan, the king of Egypt, the full name is "King of Egypt and Sudan".

This full title is the name of Fouad I during his reign, and when he arrived at Yang Deshan, Yang Deshan did not want to leave hidden dangers, and wanted to change "King of Egypt and Sultan" to a more pure "King of Egypt".

Such a change is not just as simple as changing the official title, but erasing the existence of "Sudan" de jure and de facto, which not only makes the British disagree, but also unacceptable to some Sudanese, and even some people in the parliament feel that Yang Deshan is doing this superfluously.

"Replacing 'King of Egypt and Sudan' with 'King of Egypt' will definitely hurt the feelings of some Sudanese and add more variables to the already unstable situation, if Your Majesty does have this intention, it is better to wait for a while, and then try it after the situation has stabilized, then it may reduce a lot of resistance." The Speaker of the National Assembly, Abu Bakr, performed his duty of persuasion and went directly to Yang Deshan to ask Yang Deshan to withdraw the decree.

Request!

It seems that Yang Deshan needs to do more work if he wants to completely control Egypt.

"Abu, whenever the Sudan is completely erased, it will hurt the feelings of the Sudanese, so the resistance can never be reduced, and there will never be the best time. In my opinion, now is the most opportune time, and since the Sultan can accept even a change of king, then any more changes are fine. "Yang Deshan is not prepared to withdraw the decree, if it is other issues, Yang Deshan may be able to consider the idea of the British, but this is not good.

Yang Deshan did not want to evaluate the British control methods for the colonies, but if you look at the national borders in Africa, you can see that many national borders are as straight as drawing with a ruler, which is simple and crude in itself.

Strictly speaking, Sudan should be a colony of Egypt, and Yang Deshan's attitude towards the colony is the same as that of Lan Fang, that is, to erase the traces of the original nation from the roots, so that even if the Sudanese people's resistance attitude is fierce at present, in the long run, the situation is still relatively satisfactory.

At the very least, there is no basis for national awakening, which will reduce a lot of trouble for Yang Deshan's work.

"Then you must be prepared for the Sudanese to resist." Abu Bakr's dissuasive attitude is not resolute, now is the honeymoon period between Yang Deshan and the British government, the British government also has to consider Yang Deshan's feelings, if Yang Deshan does not feel the pleasure of being in power, how to stimulate Yang Deshan's ambitions?

Like Lan Fang's National Security Bureau, the British intelligence work is also very meticulous, and Yang Deshan's fraternal alliance is from Djerba Island under the control of United Oil, and the British must know about it.

Since the background is there, Yang Deshan must have some kind of unknown relationship with Lan Fang.

The British are not very worried about this, people's ambitions will always swell with the improvement of status, even if Yang Deshan and Lan Fang have some kind of unknown connection, the British are confident that Yang Deshan's ambitions can not be controlled by Lan Fang.

Lan Fang is indeed strong in Asia, but in Africa, Britain has an advantage that Lan Fang does not have, at least Lan Fang will not give Yang Deshan the opportunity to serve as the king of Egypt.

"Hehe, no problem, it's normal to have resistance, it's best to expose all the problems, so that they can be solved together." Yang Deshan was confident that he was not afraid of the resistance of the Sudanese at all.

At this time, Africa was still quite backward, and many places still preserved a very primitive state of life, even if the Sudanese wanted to rebel against Yang Deshan's rule, Yang Deshan was confident that all those rebellions would be suppressed.

After all, the Sultans don't even have rifles, broadswords and spears are the main weapons of the Sultans, and Yang Deshan's army is already equipped with tanks, which is not an equivalence at all.

"Hehe, you'd better be cautious." Abu Bakr disagreed with Yang Deshan's decision, but he still had his duty as a human servant.

"Don't worry, don't worry about all the problems, if one person resists, then I will only arrest one person, but if there are a hundred people who resist, then I will punish all those who should be responsible." Yang Deshan was resolute, and would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of one.

This statement may be full of malice from the standpoint of the twenty-first century, but in the world of the early twentieth century, such practices were the norm. That's what Westerners did when they went to Africa and Asia, and then that mustache in Germany came to power and did more thoroughly with the Jews, and even in the East, a certain bald head was the same.

Of course, now it is estimated that the mustache in Germany has no chance to come to power, and even if he does, it is a puppet pushed by Wilhelm III. And the bald head of the East--

Well, he is almost finished, Zhang Yuting has now begun to build momentum, as long as Zhang Yuting succeeds in coming to power, the southern military government will definitely not be able to withstand the offensive of the Beiyang government, at least as far as Qin Zhiyuan knows, the reason why the civil war of the Republic of China has been fought until now has a lot to do with the lack of work of generals such as Zhang Yuting and Qin Yunpeng.

The relationship between Chinese society is very complicated, and almost everyone knows these allusions to the birds and bows, and the cunning rabbit and the dead lackeys, and Zhang Yuting and Qin Yunpeng are no exception. Only in troubled times can the value of soldiers be shown, if it is a peaceful era, it is the world of civilian officials like Xu Buwu, and military attaches must all stand aside and become a hated existence.

In order to prove their worth, in order to continue to retain the power in their hands, Zhang Yuting and Qin Yunpeng have enough reasons to let the southern military government continue to exist.

However, this "existence" is also symbolic, and Zhang Yuting and Qin Yunpeng do not dare to go too far, and they want to beat the southern military government to the point where it is dying, and if they add more strength, they can be completely killed, so as to facilitate follow-up operations.

At the beginning of August, the first batch of aid promised by the British arrived in Cairo, and as the supply of goods gradually increased, prices in Cairo stabilized and people's hearts began to stabilize.

Just as Abu Bakr said, after Yang Deshan announced that he would change the words "King of Egypt and Sudan" to "King of Egypt", it immediately caused a stir in Sudan, and a part of the Sudanese with strong national consciousness openly opposed Yang Deshan's policy.

Yang Deshan's reaction was fast, and at the first moment when the signs of rebellion appeared, Yang Deshan sent troops into the Sudan to prepare to quell the rebellion by force.