The usefulness of the Mamluk chieftains naturally lies in the area they now occupy.

The industrial base is now a big problem, so much so that Ding Yi has to solve some things through the power of the guò government.

If the Ming army were to conquer by force, there would be no need to mention the casualties of the soldiers, and the cost of ammunition alone would be a terrible figure. Up to now, Egypt has only established a small ordnance station, with a daily output of no more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, and all raw materials are basically transported from China or purchased from Western Europe.

Dingyi in eastern Aswan remembers that there is an iron ore of tens of millions of tons, but the current exploration methods are very backward, and only a few very poor and poor-grade mineral deposits have been found so far. Therefore, Li Jiangtou is extremely angry about this, Ding Yidu directly sent him and Du Mudu to Guinea, where there are iron ore and raw materials, even if it is only partially explored for the time being, and the mining is still in progress, but at least it can appease Li Jiangtou.

So on the Guinean side, Li Jiangtou and Du Mu went for a few months, the smelting workshop and workshop, has been set up, from the correspondence between Li Bing and the letters, Li Bing admired Li Jiangtou very much, saying that he had never seen such a craftsman working so hard to improve himself, but it was still the tone of the old-style literati who looked down on the craftsman, and finally turned the pen, saying that Ding Yi had a vision, and Du Mu, who had taught and read the book of sages, mentioned it on the side, so that there were the achievements of Li Jiangtou's group of craftsmen and so on.

"I don't know about Du's habits yet, right?" Ding Yi smiled bitterly and handed the letter to Liu Ji, Du Mu is capable, but this is good to hook up with the little daughter-in-law's goods, saying that he has read the sage book, so he has cultivation. It's just a matter of reason or something, this is really not ordinary.

Liu Ji endured a stomachache. Because in front of Ding Yi, he didn't dare to laugh insolently.

Abu came over quickly. Seeing Ding Yi, he was very conscious of a minion, and it was possible that he had learned from Cao Jixiang, kneeling and kowtowing, standing up and looking down at his toes, so deferential that he couldn't do it, but Ding Yi obviously didn't eat him.

"How powerful is your control?" Ding Yi asked him very directly, and seeing that Abu didn't quite understand, Ding Yi asked in detail. "Is Jerusalem under your control? And what about Damascus? I mean absolute control, that is, if you were to give the order to withdraw the Mamluks of Jerusalem to Damascus, would there be any problems? Will there be people who will not withdraw, or will Damascus refuse to accept it? ”

This is a very practical question, and it is also a question of testing the value of Abuk, in the end he is in Mamluk. Is it a puppet, or a real ruling leader! If he was just a puppet who had been elected, then it didn't mean much to Ding Yi.

Even if he is loyal. Even if he has the consciousness of a slave, even if he is more faithful than a dog.

There is no meaning at all, Ding Yi is definitely not short of characters who are willing to recommend themselves as slaves now.

"Back to His Highness's words. Whether Damascus will refuse to enter, Abu is not easy to say. But give them some benefits, which should be negotiable; But Mamluk, west of Jerusalem. Ab let them scatter, but there was no problem. Of course, Abu also knew that this was Ding Yi's estimating his value.

After all, even if you have a dog, you also expect to be able to take care of the home.

Ding nodded, this was similar to what he expected, it was unrealistic for a temporary leader to expect Abu to have much control over Mamluk east of Suez. It seems that this temporary leader should have been the governor of the Jerusalem area or something.

"Let your men, with Jerusalem as the boundary, scatter to the east, and don't be in a hurry, this side will send troops over, take over one place, evacuate one place, and get to this position." Ding pointed to a point on the map, the border line of Syria that he remembered, "You can get peace," this will be used to place some Jews, well, in five years, you can start attacking across this line. ”

"No, Ab will never ......"

Ding Yi waved his hand to stop Abu's words of loyalty: "I don't need to test you, understand? Five years, five years from now you can start attacking Jerusalem, and if you are strong enough to kill all the Jews in this area, the Ming army will not interfere. Of course, if there is any loss of the military facilities of the Ming Dynasty and the people of the Ming Dynasty, it is another matter. ”

Cao Jixiang was on the side, translating sentence by sentence into Egyptian so that Abu could understand it.

"Even, when you recover here, if you still have the strength to spare, you can also cross Suez and recover the whole of Egypt with the permission of the Governor of the Suez Canal in Daming, but it is not allowed to hurt Morena, because in addition to being the pharaoh of Egypt, she is also the king of Egypt canonized by the Great Tomorrow, and more importantly, she is my woman."

"Do you understand? Don't talk nonsense, if you don't understand, I don't mind disposing of all the Mamluks now. ”

Abu shuddered, not because Ding Yi killed his predecessor cleanly, not because Ding Yi made such a death threat, and not because Ding Yi still had a smile on his face when he told this story, as if he was talking about an extremely mundane thing, like talking about killing a disobedient dog.

None of this matters, being able to be the leader of Mamluk, cruel words, cruel things, Abu has heard too much, and he has seen too much.

He himself is an extremely ruthless person, so ruthless that he dares to use his own life and the lives of his subordinates to win Ding Yi's unbearable.

So those really don't matter.

There is only one thing that matters, and that is: Ding Yi can really live up to what he says.

It's not a threat, it's a statement.

Can't get it? It doesn't matter, then the Ming army will wipe out the remnants of Mamluk.

"Back to His Highness's words, I understood." Abu didn't dare to talk nonsense.

"Repeat it once."

Abu retold what Ding Yi had just said word by word.

Of course, it was in the local dialect, and his Daming official dialect was not as good as this kind of Cheng dù.

Cao Jixiang nodded in Ding Yi's inquiring eyes, indicating that Abu had indeed remembered.

"Go back, and in three days, troops will begin to cross the Suez Canal to receive them."

"Of course, when the Ming troops cross the canal, you can also attack."

Abu hurriedly knelt down and said with tears in his eyes: "Master, Mamluk would rather kill himself than draw his knife from his master!" ”

Ding Yi didn't say anything to him again, he didn't know why, he suddenly became irritable, just waved his hand, and taught Abu to retreat.

Because before Abu was summoned, Ding Yi received some letters, letters from Guangzhou Prefecture with supply ships.

There was a letter in it, Zhang Yu's words to him, and it did not mention anything that made him unhappy or annoyed.

Just looking at the letter, he had a sense of foreboding, about the end of the letter, not very good, written next to the swing frame in autumn, she watched the swallow go north, the lonely swing frame in the autumn, swaying with the wind.

It's really not outstanding, Zhang Yu's talent is not at this moment, Su Shi said that Qin Guan wrote a person riding a horse downstairs in fourteen characters, and she was in Ganzhou with eight sounds, which was simply ninety-seven characters to write a Yan to go north.

But Jiao Ding was bored, and he sighed, maybe it was homesickness?

Or did Morena's transformation make him a little lonely? And miss the beautiful woman who looks west in Huaxia?

"Teach Wan Xunji, Liu Youzhi, and Liu Zijian to come over." Ding Yi commanded the fat man like this.

He asked Cao Jixiang again: "Do you want to stay overseas, stay in one place or follow me?" Don't say nice things, if you are willing to stay overseas, the concessions of all parts of Egypt, all the military and civilian, are all by your governor, as long as it does not harm the interests of the Ming Dynasty, your words, here, are the law. ”

If it does not harm the interests of the Ming Dynasty, Cao Jixiang can understand it, that is, don't get involved in things like civil rebellions in the concessions everywhere.

And then let him bully men and women, or scrape three feet high, it doesn't matter.

Ding Yi is fulfilling the promise he made back then.

But Cao Jixiang thought about it, but bowed and saluted: "If the young master allows it, the old slave still wants to wait by the young master's side." ”

"Whatever you want, your son is bound in Mugudu, if he feels too restricted, you can also let him go to the Americas to fight an outpost first."

Cao Jixiang shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Forget it, he is already clothed and fed, to be honest, he is also beautiful in the concession now, so it's good." The old slave thought clearly, this child is afraid that he will not be able to bear any big things. Following Ding Yi, his horizons have also broadened a lot, and many of the original tangled feelings have also faded together.

"If you can be like the Three Treasure Eunuchs and become famous in future generations, the old slave will know enough." He began to think about the name behind him.

Ding Yi looked at him for a long time, and looked up: "Hehe, it seems that Lao Cao's realm is high, okay, then follow me, you go and prepare, it's stopped here, let's go back, I have some bad omens, I hope I'm wrong." ”

Born to go, Ding Yi assigned affairs, but it was not as gentle as before.

As soon as Wan An came over with Liu Ji and Liu Tie, Ding Yi said to Wan An very directly: "Wang Yue led the Rong 1st Division, Rong 1st Brigade, and Rong 2nd Brigade to Ceuta, you go to Suez to lead the Rong 4th Regiment of the Rong 3rd Brigade and the two black divisions that have completed the new training, and start preparing to land in South America, I don't have high requirements, first establish a stronghold, before consuming half a year's military rations, so that the troops can survive in the Americas, is there a problem?" ”

"Students will live up to the trust of Mr." Wan An has gone through so much, but he is really not timid.

Ding Yi said to Liu Tie again: "The two black divisions and Egyptian divisions that are still being trained in Cairo, you should pay attention to it, I will leave the Rong 5th Regiment of the 3rd Brigade for you, you train the troops well, and after sending Xunji to the Americas, the fleet will come back, and you will lead the remaining two black divisions and one Egyptian division to North America." ”

If Wang Yue is sent to do this kind of thing, it will make Ding Yi more at ease, but there must always be a reserve team and a person who can correctly judge the situation to make decisions and backup, and Ding Yi's choice is Wang Yue who is stationed in Ceuta. (To be continued......)