"Okay! I agree, but how can you send so many weapons and ammunition to Port Said? You know how difficult the Arabs' roads are...!" Joseph stopped talking halfway through, and he saw the sky.

Huge airship.

The shadow cast by the airship even blocked the sun. God, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty was so extravagant? He actually used an airship to block the harsh Indian sunshine?

"Joseph, how about we talk about another business now?" Li Xiao looked at Joseph with a smile.

"Are you going to...!" Joseph looked at Li Xiao, and it was not a good thing to see Li Xiao's smile.

"Airships are by no means the most powerful means of transportation in war. As far as I know, the British had already mastered this technology before we captured Bombay. Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, airships will appear on the European battlefield.

maybe.

Joseph, are you sure that your French army can deal with this kind of weapon that can fly in the sky? It can hit you, but you can't hit it?" Li Xiao pointed at the airship, took a big sip of his cigar, and looked like he was sure of Joseph's success.

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Joseph gritted his teeth, Li Xiao was sure to kill him.

It was almost impossible to hit something like an airship floating in the sky with weapons on the ground. When he thought of this thing dropping bombs or shooting at it with machine guns, Joseph closed his eyes and felt the scene of a river of blood coming towards his face.

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With such a thing in the war, France cannot win the war. If it loses the war, it will lose everything. Now everything of the Bonaparte family is staked on this war. They cannot afford to lose, and they cannot lose.

"Okay! How much profit do you need?" Joseph closed his eyes, looking like he was just letting the meat fall.

"Not much! Add another six percent." Li Xiao stretched out his hand and made a sign with the word six.

"Six percent!" Joseph was so angry that his face was livid. France had completed 80 percent of the project. If Ming had not caused trouble, it would have been completed in another half a year.

Now, as long as Daming completes the remaining 20% ​​of the workload, he can obtain 51% of the shares. In other words, Daming is the major shareholder and controlling party of the Suez Canal!

But what can he do? There is no other way! Losing the war with the Anti-French Alliance means losing everything.

Taking a deep breath, Joseph made up his mind and finally said: "Okay, I promise you."

The pale-faced Joseph never expected that this negotiation would actually lead to such a result. Daming finally obtained 51% of the shares of the Suez Canal!

Okay! In order to win this war, admit it!

Li Xiao looked at Joseph with a smile. He couldn't refuse the conditions offered by Li Xiao. Because to him, the war with the Anti-French Alliance meant everything. If Li Xiao got all the shares of the Suez Canal, it didn't seem impossible.

But Li Xiao is not so shameless? After all, the French completed 80% of the work of the Suez Canal.

The agreement was quickly initialed and divided into three agreements. The first agreement? was the agreement to complete the remaining 20 percent of the project.

The second agreement is for France to purchase Ming weapons, including bonus ammunition, plus transportation to Port Said.

The third agreement is more interesting? The agreement between the Ming Volunteer Army to voluntarily help the French people.

The agreement stipulates that the Ming Volunteers voluntarily participated in this war. They were not appointed by the Ming Empire. They were not under the jurisdiction of the Ming Empire. Anything they did in France was not subject to the Ming Empire's jurisdiction.

Joseph gritted his teeth and signed three agreements. Of course, the rights to the Suez Canal also shrunk by 51%.

"Your Majesty, Generalissimo, I wonder when we will implement this agreement?" Joseph wanted to put the weapons in place as soon as possible. After all, the anti-French alliance may launch an attack at any time.

"Tomorrow, we'll start in the early hours of tomorrow. Look out the window!"

Li Xiao's residence is in Wu Sangui's former Governor's Palace. Through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, you can directly see Mumbai Port.

Are there huge ships parked in the port? They are all steamships. Their full load displacement reaches more than 80,000 tons.

"Such a cargo ship can take away 60,000 tons of cargo in one go. What weapons do you have? These three ships can transport them to the Port of Suez in about a month. The airship will do the rest.

Will we dispatch fifty airships to help you transport to Port Said around the clock?

What you have to do is to prepare the ship in Port Said. After the airship lands in Port Said, we will not take care of the rest." Li Xiao told Joseph very clearly that the affairs of the Mediterranean section do not belong to the Ming Dynasty.

Tube.

"This is no problem. Can the airship take me to Port Said now? I need time to make arrangements in advance!" Joseph no longer cares about the Suez Canal. It is best to transport the weapons back to France in time to fight against the anti-French alliance.

Important things.

"Huzi! Please arrange it. Joseph is also your old friend." Of course Li Xiao would not arrange such a small thing personally. He raised the glass to Joseph and drank the red wine in the glass.

Li Hu smiled and pulled Joseph away. He still had his own matters to discuss with Joseph.

"Tell the remaining cargo ships to start shipping immediately. Send all the Indian workers to Suez and tell Queen Zhangxi that even if you use a hand digger, I will have to dig through the Suez Canal within three months.

Damn it, this time I want to play a black tiger to take out my heart. I ordered Li Dingguo to ensure the safety of the Suez Canal no matter what. In addition, Zuo Liangyu’s Second Marine Division was also sent to Suez. The Ming Dynasty wanted to attack the entire Suez Canal.

The border will be monitored and anyone who dares to sabotage the canal project will be shot immediately without trial." Li Xiao issued orders to Sun Xing one after another.

"No!" Sun Xing repeated, and then went out to deliver the order.

He knew what Li Xiao was going to do. The Ottoman Empire had gone too far this time. Without teaching them a lesson, the Ming Dynasty would not be able to stand firm in the Middle East. But he didn't know what the commander meant when he said the black tiger took out the heart. He probably had something to do with it.

The Suez Canal has something to do with it. Otherwise, the commander-in-chief would not be so anxious to take over the Suez Canal.

At this moment, Suleiman II, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire in distant Constantinople, was receiving a wise man from the East.

"Dorgon, you said you were born in the far east, and your father was a great king. So, how did you go to India, and how did you come to me?" Suleiman II looked at the man in front of him.

A handsome oriental man with dark eyes that flicker on and off, looking very shrewd.

"Dear Your Majesty the Sultan, I was indeed born in the far east. At that time, my people were bullied by the Ming Dynasty. In order to resist the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty, our ancestors rose up and resisted. In the end, we defeated the Ming Dynasty and established our own kingdom.

." Dorgon talked eloquently.

"Then why did you live in our Ottoman Empire?" Prime Minister Ahmed looked at Dorgon with interest.

"The Ming Dynasty is too huge. My tribe only has 300,000 people in total. The population of the Ming Dynasty in Shandong Province alone exceeds 20 million. To us, the Ming Dynasty is a giant.

My people put up the most brutal resistance, but were helplessly swallowed up by the Ming Dynasty's sea of ​​​​people. Later, I was recruited by Sir Wu Sangui, the Governor-General of India in the British Empire, and I helped him make plans in India.

It is a pity that the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the internal conflicts of the Indians and successfully divided and disintegrated the Indians, which ultimately led to the failure of the British Empire in India."

"Oh! What contradiction did the Ming Dynasty take advantage of among the Indians?" As a multi-ethnic country, Suleiman II was very sensitive to this issue.

Dorgon lowered his head with a smile on his lips. He just said these words to arouse the interest of Suleiman II.

"For Indians, the English are outsiders. They tax the native Indian people too high, but this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is the kings of the small states in India. They were tempted by the Ming Dynasty.

Ming Dynasty has given them many benefits. These people only look at the immediate benefits and will naturally help Ming Dynasty.

As a result, everyone has seen that today's India is no longer a unified and powerful country. They have split into many small states. The Indian nation will never be strong again, never again." In Dorgon's words

With endless sadness, it made Suleiman II feel very sad.

The Ottoman Empire was also a multi-ethnic country, and the problems that existed in India also existed in the Ottoman Empire. Not only did they have Turks, but also Arabs and Persians under their rule. There were also two feuding factions, Sunnis and Shia, which caused religious conflicts and ethnic conflicts.

The contradictions are a mess. If you want to sort them out, you need to have the ability of a prophet.

Maybe someone with the ability of a prophet would not be able to sort out such a complicated issue.

"Oh! You mean, it's not the Indians who don't listen to the British governor, but the kings of the Indian states who don't listen to the governor." Thinking about it again, Ahmed realized something.

The Arabs and Persians under the Ottoman Empire also belonged to the tribal system. The chiefs of those small tribes were actually no different from the kings of the small states in India.

In this case, the problems that have occurred in India are likely to appear on the territory of the Ottoman Empire. Moreover, due to religious issues, the situation in the Ottoman Empire is more complicated than that of the Indians.

"Yes! Locally, the kings of those small states have great power. The British governor cannot deal with so many kings of small states at the same time!"

Suleiman II and Ahmed looked at each other and saw uneasiness in each other's eyes.

"Your Majesty the Sultan, Dorgon did not come empty-handed. He brought a large number of Indian drawings for making weapons, and he also brought some craftsmen. If we follow his drawings, we will make weapons as sophisticated as the Indians.

." General Kuopulu was not interested in those policy matters. The only thing he was interested in was the application of new weapons. It was he who introduced Dorgon to the Sultan!

"Oh!" Suleiman II was very interested. Indian weapons have always had a good reputation in the West. The Ottoman Empire once purchased a batch of rifles, and the army was full of praise after using them. Now the Ottoman Empire will also have the ability to manufacture such weapons.

, Suleiman II was very excited.

"Your Majesty the Sultan, this is a weapon called a rocket launcher. They are usually fired together. The explosive power of this rocket is amazing, and it is very suitable for dealing with enemies fighting in large groups.

The most important thing is that this kind of weapon is simple to make and powerful. The disadvantage is that it is not accurate, but we can increase the number of rockets to achieve the effect of instantly destroying enemy troops on a large scale.

This is a drawing of a rifle. I remember that General Kuopulu once purchased this kind of rifle, and I still held the line in the middle.

This type is called a cannon, which is the best artillery for destroying fixed formulas. This type is called a heavy machine gun, and it is a product imitating the Ming Dynasty. This type...!"

Dorgon took the drawings one after another from Jirharang and showed them to Suleiman II.

Suleiman II looked at these drawings and felt excited. If he had these weapons, he would definitely be able to expand the territory of the Ottoman Empire in the future.

There is no longer any need to fear the Hungarians and the Holy Roman Empire in the north, nor the resistance of the Slavs in the Balkans. There is even less need to fear the Russians, who have frequent conflicts with themselves in the Caucasus.

"Okay! Ahmed, Dorgon will be handed over to you. Entertain them well and turn the weapons on the drawings into real objects as soon as possible. Kuopulu, you stay, we will have something to discuss later. Dorgon

Gun, please go out first."

"Thank you, Your Majesty the Sultan!" Dorgon bowed to Suleiman II and then withdrew.

"The problem of the Indians is also bothering us. If those Arab tribes and Persian tribes rebel, what can we do?" Suleiman II looked at the two of them very worriedly.

"Dear Your Majesty the Sultan, I don't think the Arab tribes or Persian tribes are a big problem. Because their tribes are very fragmented. Although they seem to be independent kingdoms, their small population is really limited.

Moreover, although they have different sects from us, they ultimately belong to the same religion, and many of their habits are very similar.

What I am most worried about are the Armenians. After they were conquered by them, they have been collaborating with the Russians. They believe in Orthodox Christianity, which is the same as the Russians. If I were a general of the Ming Dynasty and wanted to divide and disintegrate, the first thing I would consider

Armenians." Ahmed expressed his concerns.
To be continued...