Chapter 844
There is an idiom in the Ming Dynasty called the disaster of the fish in the pond, which is about the fire at the city gate, but the unlucky thing is the fish in the fish pond at the city gate. Nor did Dorgon know that his views about the fall of British power in India would cause suffering to the Armenians.
There are simply too many reasons for the Ottoman Empire to dispose of the Armenians. The most irrefutable thing thing is that they are infidels.
Religion is mild, but the treatment of infidels is cruel.
In just three months, Armenians were slaughtered like rats. Their possessions were divided and emptied, and their children were turned into dried corpses in the dunes.
Thousands of Armenian girls were crucified and slowly tortured to death. Only a few Armenians who were close to Russia fled to Russia and became inseparable from the Ottoman Empire.
While the Ottoman Empire was busy cleaning up its interior, countless Indians were arriving at Suezburg on ships.
The land from Suezburg to the seaside is full of dilapidated tents. The Indians threw away the bones of the Arabs like garbage, which was a good thing for the 1st Marine Division. When it comes to cleaning up the battlefield, they have always been in charge of killing and not burying.
In order to accomplish the goal set by Li Xiao, Queen Zhangxi can only use her own people like cattle. Now she misses Wu Sangui a little, at least when Wu Sangui snatches people's harvest, she will leave a bite for everyone to eat, so that everyone can live.
In order to meet the deadline, countless Indians rushed around the construction site like ants. Every day they had to work for more than ten hours under the scorching Middle Eastern sun, drinking boiled seawater and eating almost moldy grain.
Some people were bitten to death by poisonous snakes, some were stoned to death, and some people accidentally fell into a ditch and were buried alive. The time to catch up with the deadline is chaotic, and all kinds of engineering accidents emerge one after another.
Li Xiao's orders were ruthless, three months, one hundred days. Dig through the last 20 percent of the project, or Queen Zhangxi will lose her head.
Queen Zhangxi had no doubt about Li Xiao's words, cut off her head, and there would be a new successor immediately. Li Xiao has long wanted to change to a more obedient person!
The Indians did not advance a day, and naturally did not lag behind a day. Exactly one hundred days later, Queen Zhangxi handed over her answer sheet. The Suez Canal is officially open!
It took almost two days to fill the entire canal. Li Xiao looked at this artificially dug canal, which was a miracle in this era. Compared with the famous Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it is a small ditch.
The tugboat sailed around from Suezburg to Port Said. It took almost three days to return to Suez from Port Said. As for large freighters, the estimated sailing time is even slower. But even at this speed? It's also much stronger than a detour to Africa.
Li Xiao decided? Let the large freighter go around. If an 80,000-ton freighter can pass, there will be no problems. An 80,000-ton freighter? It is currently the largest ship in the world.
Mountain-like boats sailed into the canal? Queen Zhangxi's heart rose to her throat. If the ship ran aground, she would have survived. Li Dingguo was watching her not far away? His men were loaded with guns, and even the machine guns were combined. A sword-wielding guard by your side? as a lamb in their eyes.
Li Xiao sitting on the ferry? Watch the 80,000-ton ship in front of you sail past the newly opened Suez Canal. The big ship sailed very slowly, dragged forward by tugboats. The ship was loaded with weapons and ammunition destined for the French, for which Joseph paid the price of two thousand Egyptian slaves, which was considered freight.
In the fear of Queen Zhangxi? The freighter slowly sailed into the depths of the Suez Canal. The most thrilling period has passed? Meaning there won't be major problems with the other parts.
Li Xiao didn't even look at the corpses of Indians being burned in the distance. He knew that this was Queen Zhangxi deliberately disgusting herself!
The rise of any empire has to step on corpses everywhere. This is something that cannot be helped, when the productivity does not meet the needs of society. Plunder, which became a good way to make a fortune. From human to material and financial resources? From the Roman Empire to the Mongols, they did it.
Thousands of years of Chinese history? It is not less like a leek and is cut one after another. Now it's your turn to cut the leeks, and of course it will be more thorough.
Soon? A message came back from the airship ahead. The freighter docked smoothly in Port Said, and they will wait for the ironclad ship behind? And under the escort of ironclads? Sail to Marseille, the final destination of the cargo.
Got to Marseille to unload the ship? After that, it has nothing to do with them.
During this time, Li Xiao lived in Egypt and saw the tall pyramids and the Sphinx that stood in the desert for thousands of years. Hearing about the legend of the Valley of the Kings, Li Xiao was eager to dig up Ramisis and Tutankhamen.
The legendary huge golden coffin was indeed very attractive, but thinking of Tuta Carmen's mysterious curse, Li Xiao still did not bother the dead soul. There are a lot of specious things in this world, and although I don't believe it very much, I don't want to be offended.
After all, coming into this world by yourself is something that is difficult to explain.
If there is anyone in this world who is very similar to the Indians, it has to be the Egyptians. These people also have white cloths wrapped around their heads, and they are tied like this when they die in the Ming Dynasty's family.
Then there is the kung fu of pulling cakes with three fingers, Li Xiao practiced for a while, but he didn't understand it.
The giant Nile crocodile is terrifying, and this largest reptile in Africa can grow up to six meters long. If there is no disease and no disaster, it is not a big problem to live for more than 100 years.
Li Xiao was also shocked when he saw such a behemoth for the first time. In comparison, the Yangtze crocodile entrenched in the Yangtze River is called Jiao, which is not worth mentioning.
A great business idea immediately came to mind, and I told Lao Ao about it, and it was immediately approved by Lao Ao. Unbeknownst to these behemoths, a man in power has taken a fancy to their crocodile skins.
Soon, these giant reptiles will be wiped out.
At the same time, this world will also give birth to a brand called crocodile. The logo is a crocodile with a big mouth, and this brand of leather shoes, bags, and suitcases will take the world by storm. It has become another growth point of Daming's economy!
The boiling waters of the Nile River have created a rich Nile Delta. Cairo sits right on the Nile Delta. The fertility of the land here shocked Li Xiao.
The Egyptian peasants, with the most primitive tools in their hands, had no idea what fertilization was. As long as there is no flooding, you can get a good harvest every year. The most terrible thing is that the yield of wheat per mu here has actually reached six or seven hundred catties.
This is basically impossible in the barren land. Even in Shandong, 300 catties of wheat per mu of real estate is good. In Daming, the best fields are more than 500 catties per mu.
Where there is a place like this, if you plant any kind of one, you will get a yield of six or seven hundred catties per mu. And there is not much difference in the yield per mu, the highest is more than 700 catties, and the lowest is more than 500 catties. It seems that in the Guanzhong generation, the yield per mu of a lot of land is more than 200 catties.
Li Xiao suddenly pondered and understood a question, a question about religion. It seems that all religions that originated in the Middle East have a fantasy paradise. There is milk and honey flowing in the river, and there is no end to food on the ground.
There is an even more sinister claim that there are ninety-nine women who are always virgins, and you can enjoy them as you please.
The Egyptians originated in the Nile Valley, and the Sumerians originated in the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. Indians are in the Ganges Valley, and the Chinese are in the Yellow River Valley.
It seems that civilization is nourished by water, and by water, there will naturally be some places where the land is fertile. Just like the Nile Delta, wheat grows on its own without even sowing seeds.
Primitive people are here, they don't have to do anything for a day, as long as they play Happy Valley stupidly, they have food and drink. The primitive people who lived here were happy and carefree. Perhaps in their eyes, the ground beneath their feet is heaven.
The more fun there is in Happy Valley, the more the population will naturally breed.
When the population grows, the land cannot support so many people. Naturally, some people will go far and wide, coming to relatively infertile land, where they have to work hard to get food.
These people are so tired that they are not as happy as their ancestors. They miss the heaven in the mouth of their ancestors, a guy called Jesus and Muhammad, and add their own thoughts, so there is heaven in the religious sense.
In contrast, the land in the Ganges and Yellow River basins is not so rich. It seems that ......, the religions born in the Yellow River valley and the Ganges valley have never heard of heaven.
Buddhism pays more attention to the practice of reincarnation, while Taoism is more mysterious, paying more attention to the development of the power of the body to the extreme, and finally contending with heaven and earth, and soaring into immortals in the daytime.
The five elements of heaven and earth are big, and the human body is small five elements! In ancient times, there were real people, who raised the heaven and the earth, grasped the yin and yang, exhaled **, independently guarded the gods, and the flesh and blood were one, so they could live the world......
This is what Li Xiao heard when he was in Longhu Mountain and listened to the old Taoist teachings of the Shangqing Palace of the Zhengyi Sect.
Religion also affects the national character, and religions that originated in the Middle East are more religious. I am afraid that I will not be able to go to heaven after I die.
Indians are more Buddhist, and they are more focused on practicing their virtues so that after reincarnation, they will be more perfect in the next reincarnation. When you practice to the extreme, you can become a Buddha.
Taoism in China has never heard of any rigid and insurmountable teachings, and Taoist priests use various methods to increase their own strength. From this, many factions such as the Inner Dan School, the Outer Dan School, and the Fu Gong School also developed.
Whether it is with the help of external forces or the development of their own potential, the ultimate goal of Taoist priests is to strengthen themselves.
Li Xiao felt that he had insight into the ultimate secret of religion, and it was so exciting.