Port Bu Sudan is very prosperous, here facing the Mediterranean, can be directly along the two and two Cairo, only a day away from Cairo waterway, yes, due to the expansion of European trade, so that it has become a more prosperous port than Alexandria, at the river crossing, the governor of Abu Sultan Port Ayisun with the port officials are waiting patiently, according to the news from the Egyptian governor of Cairo, the strong allies and strong backing of the Ottoman Empire have sent an army to Egypt, and intend to visit Abu Sudan Port to investigate.

It seems to be about opening a grand canal to the Mediterranean, Aisun is naturally not an idiot, Abu Sudan Port is located in the Suez region, and here, it is also the mouth of the sea facing the Mediterranean, if the canal is dug from here, only a sea-level waterway, in Egypt through the Isthmus of Suez, connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, can provide the closest route from Europe to the Indian Ocean and the nearby land in the western Pacific. In fact, as the governor of Abu Sultan Harbor, Ayisun did not think about how much benefit he would gain if a canal was opened from here, but he also understood that if it was to be excavated, it would not only require technology, manpower and astronomical funds, but if it was in the heyday of the Ottoman Empire, it might have been able to do so, but now, I am afraid that it is impossible.

But why did the Han people come to excavate? Aisun was a little worried, in fact, no profit does not apply to the Han people, this is the code of conduct of all civilizations, the canal was dug out, this is the territory of the Ottoman Empire, can the Han people get any benefits? At most, it is to increase the trade of their merchants in the Atlantic, do the Han people want a piece of the pie here?

Aison shook his head, he was just a small nobleman, a governor of a port, what to do with so many things, these are naturally a headache for the Sultan and the governor of Egypt, he pursed his lips, and an official behind him had already shouted loudly: "Our guests are here." ”

On the river leading to Cairo, suddenly small and medium-sized ships appeared in Ayison's eyes, Aisong adjusted his mentality and immediately ordered the officials and wealthy businessmen who greeted him to come closer, and forbade them to whisper Small and medium-sized ships are sailing very slowly, this is not the sea after all, and it is impossible to use sail ships, so they can only use rocking boats to support the boats, and after waiting for a long time, the ships are approaching the ferry one by one, and then one by one the yellow people dressed strangely get down from the board.

Aisong hurriedly led the officials and wealthy businessmen to greet him, and a Han official who came over first was a Turkish-speaking Zhuze official, and then the Pingze official took out a piece of parchment and said to Aisong: "My lord, according to the treaty signed by His Majesty the Sultan and the Governor of Egypt, the Ottoman Empire did not have enough military strength to maintain peace and stability here due to the relaxation of the ban, and authorized the Egyptian sea area to enter the defense category of the Ming Western Naval Division, and from then on, Egypt will be protected by the Ming Western sailors, in return the Ottoman Empire will transfer Suez, the Saqa provinces to the Ming Dynasty, for the Western sailors to be stationed, here is the Egyptian Governor signed the document, please see. ”

After this incident, Aisong's face changed and he took the parchment and looked at it, and it was indeed signed by the governor of Egypt and proposed that the Ming had the obligation to patrol in the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and other seas to defend the coast of Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and other governorates, but in return, the Ottoman Empire ceded the two provinces of Suez and Gaza to the Ming Dynasty to garrison the water division.

Port Abu Sultan is part of the province of Suez, which means that Aizon may be unemployed, and the entire province of Suez and Gaza covers an area of 250,000 square kilometers during this period, and these two provinces are the gap between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, across the middle of Africa and the Arab region.

After all, the entire Red Sea and the land along the Mediterranean coast are no longer very important to the Ottoman Empire, the important thing is the struggle on the northern front, in order to deal with the two strong neighbors, almost all the military forces of the Ottoman Empire have been transferred to the northern front, and the south has not even had the military strength to suppress it, their army in the south not only can not resist foreign enemies, even suppress riots are overwhelmed, especially in recent years, due to the consumption of the war, the treasury is empty, the government can only impose all kinds of harsh taxes to invest in military spending, the more exorbitant taxes, the more riots will naturally increase, therefore, the Ottoman Empire simply made a handshake shopkeeper, Ge gave a small piece of land to the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty to assist in defense.

Although there is a lot of oil in the Arab region, after all, it is not the electric age, and the Ming Dynasty has two huge resource producing areas in Siberia and Australia, which is enough to use for hundreds of years, and the demand for resources is not strong, but this Suez region is the land where Zhu Jun must win, and once the Suez Canal is opened up in the future, then the commercial tax earned by this area, I'm afraid it can provide about one-tenth of the future commercial tax for the Ming Dynasty, passing by to keep money, geese plucking, the world's ocean trade must pay taxes to the Ming government, what is this scene?

Moreover, the Su's superior muscle area is also one of the most prosperous areas on the Mediterranean coast. The port along the coast is Romibu, and the port of Abu Sultan is much more prosperous than the once famous Alexandria.

Port Abu Sultan, formerly known as Port Brewster, was founded at the same time as Alexandria, which was founded by Alexander the Great around 3 BC.

Alexander's purpose here was to establish a Greek center in Egypt on the side of Naucratis, as a link between Greece and the rich Nile Valley. At that time, there was only one place in Egypt that offered the conditions for such a city: Alexandria, located on the island of the Pharaohs, unhindered by the silt of the Nile estuary. At that time, there was already a small Egyptian city in the area, which was mainly inhabited by Dan people and pirates. According to historians, there are also five scattered villages in this area.

Alexander went to his governor Cleome to continue the construction of the city, but today's archaeology seems to prove that the city was mainly completed by Ptolemy. Alexandria replaced the destroyed Tyre as the center of trade between Europe and Arabia and India. It was past Carthage in a century, and it was only smaller than the city of Rome for centuries. In Roman times Alexandrites. The Grand Harbour was nominally a free Greek city, and it had its own senate. Augustus abolished the judicial power of this senate, but Sheptimius Severus Junlai restored its judicial power.

Alexandria was not only a center of ancient Greek culture, it was also the largest Jewish city in the world at the time. It was there that the Septuagint was written. The beginning of the Ptolemaic rulers maintained the exhibition of the city and made its university the best in Greece. At the same time, these rulers divided their inhabitants into Greeks, Jews, and Egyptians. One of the early inhabitants of Alexandria was the mathematician Euclid. From Ptolemy IV onwards, the contradictions between the various peoples within the city began to intensify.

Alexandria is also famous for the Alexandria Lighthouse and the Library of Alexandria.

By the time of the Romans. But it had been under Roman influence for more than a hundred years. Caesar met with Cleopatra VII in Alexandria. It was here that Mark Antony met with Cleopatra. Octavian set up a royal governor in Alexandria.

At this time Alexander repeated the exuberance of his past, which controlled one of the most important granaries of the Roman Empire. This is also the reason why Octavian included it in the city under the direct administration of the emperor. The Roman Emperor Caracalla visited Alexandria. As some sarcasm of the townspeople angered the emperor, Caracalla ordered the execution of all teenagers who were able to wear weapons. His orders resulted in a full-scale massacre.

Alexandria was also a theological and administrative center of the nascent Christianity. The Arianism emerged in Alexandria where Athanasius established the Patriarch of Alexandria, who became the most influential figure in Christianity for two centuries.

As the local influence in the Nile Valley grew, Alexandria became more and more detached from its ties to Egypt proper, and peace within the Chiki Empire began to break down, and Alexandria's population and prosperity plummeted.

The persecution of believers of other religions by Christians reached its peak in the late Roman Empire, when many temples and statues were destroyed, pagan rituals were banned, and pagan rituals were punished by death. The library was closed. Concave thug in the year of the Roman Emperor Cho Odonius I ordered the destruction of all temples. It was probably at this time that the Alexandria Library was destroyed. According to historical records, Alexander also suffered a tsunami disaster during that century. In July, a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Mediterranean coast killed thousands of people in the port.

In 6 years the Persian king Kosloes II captured Alexandria. Although the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius reoccupied Alexandria for several years, the young Arab general Amruy bin As, who occupied Alexandria during the siege of Alexandria for fourteen months, did not receive any aid from Constantinople. Heracic died in the net, and the new successor, Constantine III, was only 2 years old. Eminem wrote to his master, Harimar ibn al-Khattab, that he had occupied a "place of recreation and other entertainment with the palace of Huli, the four baths, the oil merchant of Kouqu, the gardener of Kouqu, the Jews surnamed Gongnagong, and the Governor of Hezhi."

Soon after, the Greeks took advantage of Amr's departure with most of his army to recapture Alexandria. Amr heard the news that Jun Lixuan had returned and resumed his rule over Alexandria. Bjan Amr was removed from office by the new Hari-Osman ibn Afan. Amr was very popular in Egypt, so his removal led to a major riot in Egypt. The Byzantine Emperor immediately took advantage of this opportunity to reoccupy Alexandria.

Harry made a big mistake and immediately reinstated Amre. Amr returned to Egypt and besieged Alexandria again. It took a lot of effort for him to conquer Alexandria. This made him very angry, so he ordered the demolition of the walls of Alexandria, but he seemed to do everything in his power to save the lives of the city's inhabitants.

Alexandria fell dramatically. Mock the year of the founding of Cairo. The thug year of the Cape of Good Hope has almost completely crushed its economy. The canal that supplied it with water from the Nile was sealed. Although it remained an important port in Egypt, many Ile Ottoman men landed here. and occupied the congregation. In Austria": the city of national unity.

At the same time, Port Abu Sudan, which had been infamous, gradually prospered. It has become one of the largest ports in Egypt, as early as a few years ago, the Zhenfu Division sent spies to explore here with merchant ships, and after obtaining detailed map information, it was transmitted back to the ministry, and the Ministry of Industry discussed the excavation of the Suez Canal according to various data In fact, the Ming Dynasty was extremely determined to seize the Suez Canal If it could not be obtained from normal channels, then the Ming Dynasty even formulated a future military plan After the Dutch settled it, they would find an excuse to declare war on the Ottomans.

But now that the matter seems to have been settled, the Ottomans gave away this land without too much complaint, in fact, for the Ottomans, who had a lot of territory, this land was nothing, and the Ottoman emperor coveted the fat of Austria, and was not interested in the declining Egypt, and they obviously did not realize the value of this land.

Seeing that Aisong's face was not good, the official said: "According to the order of the Governor of the Western Naval Division, for the stability of the two major provinces, Daming has decided to hire your lord, we have checked your information, you are a good official, if you want We can consult with the Governor of Egypt, and leave you to continue to be the garrison officer of our Daming port." ”

"No, no, I think I have to go back to Brusha and report to His Majesty the Sultan." ”

The Turning Zeguan nodded: "We respect your decision Then, I'm afraid we still have some formalities to go through before leaving." ”

Aisong nodded At this time, one after another ships leaned on the ferry, and even blocked the entire ferry, and groups of Ming troops jumped from the boat to the dock and began to assemble, Aisong took a cursory look At least two thousand people went up and down, in addition, there were some scholars and craftsmen who got off the ship, and commanded the servants to carry boxes from the ship one by one, these people originally came with the Three Oceans Fleet, after leaving the Strait of Malacca, except for a part of the detachment that escorted them along the Indian Ocean to the north, The rest of the fleet continued westward, rounding the Cape of Good Hope and heading north along the west coast of Africa into the Atlantic.

The officials and wealthy businessmen behind Ayisong didn't know what was going on for a while, and Ayisong's face was not good, and they didn't dare to ask more, and then the group went to the local administrative building in a crowd, ready to start the handover procedures.

It was also at this time that several frightened Ottoman soldiers appeared in a panic in front of Tunzan and Ayison, and soon they learned that a Portuguese fleet was approaching the port, just forty nautical miles away from the port, and the merchants along the way saw so many warships and immediately became alert, and someone returned to the port to report the news, and the soldiers of the port heard about it and immediately came to report it.

Ayisun was shocked at first, and then thought of the agreement of the Ming Dynasty, he strongly disagreed with the decision of the Sultan to cede Suez and the province of Gaza, he understood the value of this land, and knew even more about what the Han people came here for, now this port is no longer the territory of the Ottoman Empire, the Portuguese came, what did he panic.

The turner frowned, seeing that Aisong did not look panicked, and immediately understood something, he was just a turner officer, and the real leader of this fleet was a guerrilla general of the sailor, but the guerrilla general did not understand Turkish, so he never showed up, but pushed the interpreter to the forefront.

"Your Excellency, you go in first, wait a minute, I'll go and inform the general immediately." This is not the profession of the translator, who must immediately pass on the news to the guerrilla general.

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The Portuguese fleet began to approach, and even they could already see the buildings of Abu Sultan Harbor, and the merchant ships that were about to leave the port immediately turned their rudder back to the port when they saw it, and a naval battle was coming, and the Ottoman soldiers at the port obviously did not know that their land had been returned to the Han Chinese, and they entered the defense to prepare to meet the enemy, and the whole port was in a mess, and this time the Portuguese action was really unexpected for them, the Ottomans had always believed that the Mediterranean Sea was a deterrent for the fleet of the Anti-Dutch Alliance, But the Portuguese actually crossed the Mediterranean and appeared directly in the ports of Egypt.

At the port, several tattered fleets of the Ottoman Empire gradually sailed away from the docks, and their mission was to go out to sea to meet the Portuguese, which they had to do, the Portuguese appeared too quickly and overwhelmed everyone, and the Ottomans along the coast were not prepared at all, and these few warships were used to delay time, and the approaching Portuguese had to be stopped before the Ottomans were ready.

These Ottoman warships can almost be visited in a military museum, they are still the product of a century ago, after all, Egypt is not the focus of the Ottoman defense, let alone the forward position, these long-obsolete warships may be okay against pirates, but in front of the Portuguese, almost like toys.

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