In 1517, the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt was destroyed by the Ottoman Empire, and Egypt has been a border province in the Ottoman Empire for 355 years.

As the Ottoman Empire became increasingly erosive, Egypt had been de facto separated from the Ottoman Empire since the time of Muhammad Ali Pasha. It became a fully self-governing independent kingdom, but nominally still part of the Ottoman Empire.

For this reason, Egypt and the Ottoman Empire fought two more wars, both of which were won by luck.

Ismail Pasha was the true uncrowned king of Egypt, and when he heard Sir Lu Pingzhi's request, he immediately felt like five thunderbolts thundering on the top, and his heart was saddened by a knife.

No one wants to see their homes trampled on, but who is to blame?

Although Egypt was able to resist the enslavement of the Ottomans, the original suzerain, it could not stop the invasion of the world powers such as Britain and the Tang Dynasty, and the ancient land had long been the playground of the great powers and the exploration place of adventurers.

The weak are bullied, and this is the cruel law of survival.

After meeting with several high-level officials of the Suez Canal Company, Egypt had to admit defeat and formally issue a request for peace talks, with the British mediating in an attempt to reach a mutually acceptable peace agreement.

The expeditionary force's bloody suppression of the city at every turn really frightened the Egyptian Ismail Pasha, who was like a rich man who had never seen the world, and succumbed to the powerful armies of the world powers.

Suez City is only 130 kilometers from Cairo, and what happened here inevitably caused a great panic in Cairo, the largest city, and many wealthy officials and wealthy merchants moved their possessions to farther cities, and more and more soldiers deserted from their wives and families.

Rumors and speculation depict the Orientals as flesh-and-blood demons, and the various versions become more bizarre, which only exacerbates the panic in Cairo.

Eritrean region

Massawa

This is a well-conditioned encircled bay area on the shores of the Red Sea, with superior port conditions, and after surveying, it was determined to establish a colonial port in this area, thus setting off a vigorous large-scale construction campaign.

In the wide bay of Massawa, 10 huge cargo ships are moored, and they are transporting supplies to the shore in small boats for more than ten days.

The supplies on the shore were piled up like a raised hill, and on the large burned plains by the sea, one charred wood after another was knocked down and then transported to the lumber yard by tractor.

Over here

Disc saws, driven by diesel engines, cut huge pieces of wood into sections, divided into planks and squares, stacked in an open space on one side, waiting to be baked in a wood kiln for use in building houses or other facilities.

On the flattened plots, lines are drawn with quicklime, and the locations of streets, city center buildings, municipal buildings, temples, schools, residential areas and other buildings are reserved. Nowadays there is nothing but tent areas.

The busy bay is full of people at work, and many Arab slaves under the escort of soldiers are digging trenches that will build the city's main drainage channel, a round arch of masonry and cement.

By the sea

Many Arab and black slave prisoners were smashing huge logs into the sea, sharpening one end into the sea, and several people working together at the other end to lift the huge rocks and smash them into the mud of the shallow sea.

On the already smashed wooden piles, Chinese workers used two finger-thick iron bolts to connect one heavy I-beam after another to the logs, taking on a cross-shaped shape, to further consolidate the dock foundation.

With the efforts of thousands of people day and night, in just over 10 days, the pier has extended more than 70 meters into the sea, and the wooden trestle is expected to be completed in two months.

The piles, which are connected by I-beam beams, are laid with a huge 40-centimeter-thick wooden square, which is then poured with reinforced concrete to create a sturdy and durable pier.

Once the terminal is put into use, it will greatly speed up the construction process.

Instead of having to travel thousands of miles back the way they came, the ships and migrant ships that had finished transporting supplies would sail straight to the port of Suez, from where they would enter the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal, cross the Mediterranean, and then enter the Atlantic Ocean through the British-controlled Strait of Gibraltar, and then cross the Atlantic to reach North America.

These ships are ocean-going cargo ships or migrant ships owned by major shipping companies, and can carry returning cargo in Europe and Italians or Germans who wish to immigrate to North America, and start the operation of the Atlantic route.

This return route is much less than the 30,000-kilometer long voyage when it came, and it only takes 7,800 kilometers to reach Houston on the Gulf Coast, less than 4,500 kilometers to reach New York, and only more than 5,300 kilometers to Richmond.

In the case of the absolute military victory of the expeditionary force of the Tang Empire, there is no point in the British erecting obstacles, and the victors should not be blamed.

The construction of the bay was a lively scene, and suddenly there was a commotion in the distance, and people couldn't help but let out bursts of cheers when they looked at it.

It turned out that a troop of Imperial cavalry had returned from a clearing mission, wearing wide-brimmed cowboy hats to protect them from the scorching sun, escorting the long line of black slaves back to the seaside camp to bring new labor to the construction site.

The new city was built in a valley plain more than a dozen kilometers from the sea, surrounded by dense shrubs and forests that were charred black, the ground was thick with burning ashes, and the air was filled with a strong smell.

On the land after the land was set on fire, the blackened trees were cut down by the logging team, and the transport team drove tractors to drag the trees to the sawmill by the river for processing.

The Arabs or blacks in the forced labor camp had to dig out the roots of the trees one by one, and the transport team drove the tractor to transport them to a special place and stack them, and the operation was in an orderly manner.

After drying, it can be used as fuel for brick kilns and wood kilns, and the burned plant ash is mixed with human and animal urine and manure through fermentation and composting, which can fertilize the field.

After removing the tree roots and large stones, the leveling group drives a tractor to plow the whole piece of land, and then raises and compacts it in the sun for a period of time.

After this leveling, the land is marked with lime lines, and the foundation of the building is about half a meter of masonry with masonry, and the carpenter enters the field below, and begins to place logs on the foundation of the building, and build houses one after another.

In Massawa

There are about 7,000 hard labor prisoners and 12,300 Chinese immigrants, as well as a military force composed of more than 3,100 officers and soldiers of the Royal Marine Division's 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Divisional Guard Battalion, and Baggage Regiment, which are responsible for the construction and security of the Massawa colonial port.

The cavalry regiment and guard battalion of the army mainly searched and cleared the local black tribes, with a cavalry company as the basic combat unit, and took turns to sweep the surrounding areas in batches, clearing the local black tribes and capturing slave laborers.

The construction of every colonial port and city required a huge labor cost, which could only enslave the local black people.

Most of the Royal Marine Division remained on the other side of the Red Sea, around the city of Sana'a in Yemen, and was under colonial occupation of the area. And through cross-sea transportation, grain and fruits, chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, and Arab slaves were transported to Massawa, as well as Arab women.

This is to draw blood from the relatively developed and prosperous Yemen region to feed back to the new colonial areas of Eritrea.

Conditions on the Red Sea coast were limited, and it was impossible for the Imperial Expeditionary Force to draw help from distant homeland.

Before the European route is completely opened, it can only be built by making full use of the local resources along the Red Sea coast, mainly in Eritrea.

Now

The Imperial Expeditionary Force established two colony towns in Massawa and Asmara, about 175 kilometers inland from Massawafan on the Red Coast, but the latter had just begun large-scale burning, with only about 1,700 people involved in the construction of the towns.

Asmara is the capital of Eritrea in history, 1070 kilometers away from Addis Ababa, the capital of the Ethiopian Empire, located on the Hamarsen Plateau at an altitude of 2400 meters.

Because it is located on the plateau, the Tang Expeditionary Force named this new town "Cloud City", which means "City in the Clouds".

As the colonial governor of Eritrea, Colonel Liu Daqing did not have the energy to take care of the construction of Cloudsdale City for the time being, and the main resources and energy were focused on the Massawa area, especially the port.

Only when the initial results of the port construction are achieved, and the transport ships directly dock to unload the goods, instead of using small sampans to transport goods to the shore again and again, can the construction of Massawa town be accelerated in the next step, and some larger and heavier materials and equipment can be unloaded.

The empire has rich experience in the field of colonization, and Colonel Liu Daqing is surrounded by a group of capable officials sent by the sub-colonial department, as well as geographical experts who are proficient in surveying and mapping, so the colonial construction work can be carried out in an orderly manner.

Today, most of the city's drainage ditches have been excavated, and the six brick kilns planned to be built have been completed to make bricks from mud for construction.

The construction materials sent by the transport ships were consumed quickly, and this bulk material could not be imported from the outside world, so a series of facilities such as brick kilns, cement kilns, quarries, and sawmills could only be built locally for the construction of towns and docks.

The work of construction and conquest was complicated, and Colonel Liu Daqing was in charge of the overall situation, and he divided his subordinates into several parts: the planning group, the construction group, the logistics group, the material group, and the military task force, and solved the corresponding problems in different categories.

So

He will be able to find time to resolve the most important contradictions and steadily advance the construction of colonial towns and ports.

"Report to the chief, there are not enough building materials for cement and steel on the construction site of the city's sewer ditch. The ditch construction team wanted to use the cement and steel stored at the wharf, but the materials team refused, saying that they could not use it. ”

"How much is missing?"

"Roughly calculated, there is still a shortage of more than 120 tons of cement and 10 tons of steel bar. The follow-up building materials are still on the ship and have not been unloaded. ”

"The cement and steel hoarded at the wharf cannot be moved, and the construction of the wharf is a top priority. If the ditch construction team lacks materials, it will be suspended and the personnel will be transferred to other groups. That one...... Preparations for the cement plant can begin. Colonel Liu Daqing flipped through the documents for transporting supplies, took them in his hand and looked at them carefully, and ordered;

"The ditch construction team was assigned to site the site for the construction of the cement plant, and their labor force was also transferred to open the quarry, repair the road, and prepare for the construction of the cement plant. After the construction of the terminal is completed, the heavy cement plant equipment can be transferred down and immediately put into equipment installation work, saving additional time. ”

"Obedience, sir."

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