The Port of Sultan is very prosperous. It faces the Mediterranean Sea, and can be directly along the Mediterranean Sea, and it can be directly along the 2, 2, 1, Cairo, and only one day away from Cairo. Therefore, due to the expansion of European trade, this place has become a more prosperous port than Alexandria. At the ferry of the inland river, Aysong, the Governor of the Port of Sultan, and the officials of the port were waiting patiently. According to the news from the Egyptian Governor of Cairo, the powerful allies and strong backing of the Ottoman Empire have sent an army to Egypt and are planning to visit the Port of Sultan.

It seems to be about developing a Grand Canal to the Mediterranean Sea. Aizon is naturally not an idiot. Abu Sultan Port is in the Suez region, and it is also a sea estuary facing the Mediterranean Sea. If a canal is dug from here, only a sea-level waterway is needed, connecting the Mediterranean Isthmus in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, can provide the closest route from Europe to the Indian Ocean and the land near the Western Pacific. In fact, as the governor of Abu Sultan Port, Aizon did not have thought about the benefits that would be gained if a canal was dug out from here, but he also understood that if it was dug, it would not only require technology, manpower and astronomical funds. If it were to be dug in the heyday of the Ottoman Empire, it might be impossible now.

But why did the Han people come to dig? Ai Song was quite worried. In fact, it was not applicable to the Han people without profit. This is the code of conduct of all civilizations. The canal was dug. This was the territory of the Ottoman Empire. Can the Han people get any benefits? At most, it would only increase their trade with the Atlantic Ocean. Do the Han people want to get a share of the pie here?

Aisong shook his head. He was just a little nobleman and a governor of the port. He thought about so many things to do. These were naturally troublesome things for the Sudan and the governor of Egypt. He pursed his lips and an official behind him had already shouted: "Our guest is here."

On the river leading to Cairo, a few small and medium-sized ships suddenly appeared in Ai Song's eyes. Ai Song adjusted his mind and immediately ordered the greeting officials and wealthy businessmen to come closer and prohibit them from whispering. The small and medium-sized ships sailed very slowly. After all, this place was not the sea, and it was even more impossible to use sailboats. They could only use shaking boats. After waiting for a long time, the boats were only close to the ferry, and then one by one, the strange-wearing yellow men came down from the board.

Ai Song hurriedly led the officials and wealthy businessmen to welcome them. The Han official who came first was a Turkish-speaking official. The two sides exchanged greetings and then the flirting official brought out a parchment and said to Ai Song: "Sir, according to the treaty signed by His Majesty the Sultan and the Governor of Egypt, the Egyptian Governor of the Ottoman Empire has not had enough military force to maintain peace and stability here. He has granted Egyptian waters to fight the defense scope of the Ming Atlantic Navy. From then on, Egypt will be protected by the Ming Atlantic Navy. In return, the Ottoman Empire will sell Suez and the Saga province will be assigned to the Ming Dynasty for the establishment of the Western Navy. This is a document signed by the Egyptian Governor of Egypt. Please check it out."

The next time this happened, Aisong's face turned calm and took the parchment and looked at it. It was indeed the signature of the Egyptian Governor and proposed that the Ming Dynasty had the obligation to cruise in the Red Sea, the Mediterranean and other seas to defend the coastal areas of the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and other governors. However, in return, the Ottoman Empire ceded Suez and Gaza to transfer the Ming Dynasty to the naval forces for the stationing of the navy.

The Port of Sultan of Abu is part of the Suez Province, which means that Aizon is probably going to be unemployed. During this period, the entire Suez and Gaza provinces cover an area of ​​250,000 square kilometers. These two provinces are the gap between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, spanning the middle part of Africa and the Arab region.

In this signing of the treaty, the Ottoman Empire did not have many complaints. They even felt that they had taken some advantage. After all, the land along the Mediterranean coast of the entire Red Sea and the Mediterranean was no longer very important to the Ottoman Empire. What is important is the struggle on the Northern Line. In order to deal with two strong neighbors, the Ottoman Empire almost all its military forces were transferred to the Northern Line, while in the south, there was not even the military force to suppress it. In the past two years, the riots in the region have occurred three times.

Every time it caused a headache for the Ottoman Empire. In fact, their army in the south was not only unable to resist foreign enemies, but even had difficulty suppressing riots. Especially in recent years, due to the consumption of war and the treasury was empty, the government could only impose various taxes and impose various taxes on military expenses. The more taxes were paid, the more riots, the more. Therefore, the Ottoman Empire simply became a hand-off manager and gave a small piece of land to the Ming Dynasty to assist in defense.

However, the Ming Dynasty did not need too much land. It was addicted to land and was full of deserts. Although there was a lot of oil in the Arab region, it was not the electrical era after all. In addition, the Ming Dynasty had two huge resource properties in Siberia and Australia, which was enough for hundreds of years. The demand for resources was not strong. However, this Suez region was a place that Zhu Jun must get. Once the Suez Canal was developed in the future, the commercial taxes earned in this region would probably provide the Ming Dynasty with about one-tenth of the future commercial tax. Passing by, keeping wealth, plucking hairs by geese, and the ocean trade around the world must pay taxes to the Ming government. What is this?

Moreover, the Su-Superior area is also the most prosperous area along the Mediterranean coast. The port along the coast is Rombu. The Port of Abu Sultan in front of you is much more prosperous than the once famous Alexandria.

The Port of Sultan of Abu Sultan was originally named Brewster Port and was established at the same time as Alexandria. Alexandria was established by Alexander the Great around the 3 years of Belgium.

The purpose of Alexander's city was to establish a Greek center in Egypt on the side of Naukratis as a link between Greece and the rich Nile Valley. At that time, there was only one place in Egypt to provide conditions for establishing such a city: Alexander was on the side of Pharaoh Island and was not hindered by the silt of the Nile estuary. At that time, there was already a small Egyptian town, which was mainly a residence of the Tammen and pirates. According to historians, there were five scattered villages in this town.

Alexander went on to Jung his governor Criomini to continue the construction of the city, but today's archaeology seems to prove that the city was mainly completed by Ptolemy. Alexander replaced the destroyed Tel as the center of trade between Europe and Arabia and India. Its scale had passed Carthage, and in the centuries it was only smaller than the city of Rome. In the Roman era, Alexander was nominally a free Greek city with its own senate. Augustus abolished the judicial power of this senate, but Sheptimius Shevlus Jonre restored its judicial power.

Alexandria was not only a center of ancient Greek culture, but also the largest Jewish city in the world at that time. The Septuagint was originally completed there. The Ptolemy rulers maintained the exhibition of the city and made its university the best university in Greece. At the same time, these rulers recommended that its residents be divided into Greeks, Jews and Egyptians. One of the early residents of Alexandria was the mathematician Euclid. Since Ptolemy IV, the contradictions between various ethnic groups in the city began to intensify.

Alexandria is also famous in Alexandria Lighthouse and the Alexandria Library.

It was the Roman period. But it had been influenced by Rome for more than a hundred years ago. In the previous year, Caesar and Cleopatra VII met in Alexandria. Junlai Mark Anthony also met Cleopatra here. Octavian established a royal governor in Alexandria.

At this time, Alexander repeated the luxuriance of his past, controlling one of the most important granaries of the Roman Empire. This was also the reason why Octavian included it in the city directly managed by the emperor. Induced Roman Emperor Caracala to visit Alexandria. Due to some sarcasm of the citizens angered the emperor, Caracala ordered the execution of all the teenagers who could wear weapons. His order caused a full-scale massacre.

Alexandria is also a center of divine theories and management of the new Christian religion. The Ariano Sect appeared in Alexandria. Athanasius established the Patriarch Alexandria here. In the past two centuries, this Patriarch became the most influential figure in Christianity.

As the locals' influence in the Nile Valley became stronger and stronger, Alexandria became increasingly disconnected from its relationship with Egypt. When peace within the Chiji Empire began to break down, the population and prosperity of Alexandria fell sharply.

In the late period, Christians persecuted believers of other religions to the peak. Many temples and statues in the Roman Empire were destroyed, pagan rituals were banned, and pagan rituals were even sentenced to death. The library was closed. The Roman emperor Qiu Odosi I ordered the destruction of all temples. The Alexandria library may have been destroyed at this time. According to historical records, Alexander suffered a tsunami disaster in that century. On July 2008, the tsunami caused by an earthquake along the Mediterranean coast caused thousands of people to die at this port.

In 6 years, the Persian king Kosloes II occupied Alexandria. Although the Byzantine Emperor Herakliu re-occupied Alexandria for several years, the young Arab general Amrui bin Ass was besieging Alexandria for fourteen months. During these fourteen months, Alexandria did not receive any assistance from Constantinople. Heracliu died, and the new successor Constantine III was only thug at 2 years old. Am wrote to his master Hariomar Ibn Khatab that he occupied a "Hungarian palace, four baths, kouqu oil merchants, four gardeners, Jews with the surname Gonggong and theatre or other entertainment venues

Soon after, the Greeks took advantage of Amuru's leadership of most of his troops out to occupy Alexandria again. After hearing the news, Jun Lixuan returned to restore his rule over Alexandria. In recent years, Amuru was dismissed by the new Harry Osman Ibn Afan. Amuru was very popular in Egypt, so his dismissal led to a great riot in Egypt. The Byzantine emperor immediately took advantage of this opportunity to occupy Alexandria again.

Harry found that he had made a big mistake, Jun immediately restored Amur's position. Amur returned to Egypt Jun and besieged Alexandria again. He took great effort to conquer Alexandria. This made him very angry, so he ordered the demolition of Alexandria walls, but he seemed to have done all his strength to preserve the lives of the residents in the city.

The land of Alexandria fell sharply. Cairo built a city. The thugs of the Cape of Good Hope almost completely defeated its economy. The canal that provided it with Nile water was sealed. Although it was still an important port in Egypt, many people from the Election Empire landed here and occupied many miles. In Austria, ": Guotong City."

At the same time, the Port of Sultan, which has always been unfamous, gradually flourished. It became one of the largest ports in Egypt. As early as a few years ago, the Punishment Department sent spies to explore here with merchant ships. After obtaining detailed maps and data, it was sent back to the Ministry. The Ministry of Works discussed the excavation of the Suez Canal based on various data. In fact, the Ming Dynasty had great determination to seize the Suez Canal. If it could not be obtained from normal channels, the Ming Dynasty even formulated a future military plan. After the Dutch resolved, they would find an excuse to declare war on the Ottoman.

However, now things seem to have been resolved. The Ottomans did not complain too much and sent out the land. In fact, for the Ottomans with extensive territory, this land is nothing. The Ottoman Emperor was begging for the fat piece of Austria and was not interested in the gradually declining Egypt. They obviously did not realize the value of this land.

Seeing that Ai Song's face was not good, the official said, "According to the order of the Western Navy Governor, for the sake of the stability of the two major provinces, the Ming Dynasty decided to hire the adults. We have checked your information. You are a good official. If you want, we can discuss with the Egyptian Governor and leave you to continue to be the garrison officer of our Ming port."

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

The official fenze nodded: "We respect your decision. Then, I'm afraid we still have some procedures to go through before we leave."

Ai Song nodded. At this time, ships leaned on the ferry and even blocked the entire ferry. Teams of Ming troops jumped onto the dock from the ship and began to gather. Ai Song looked roughly. There were at least two thousand people. In addition, some scholars and craftsmen got off the ship and commanded the people to carry boxes out of the ship. These people originally came with the three ocean fleets. After leaving the Strait of Malacca, except for some of the squadrons who escorted them to the north along the Indian Ocean, the rest of the fleet continued to sail westward, bypassing the Cape of Good Hope, and heading north along the west coast of Africa into the Atlantic Ocean.

The officials and wealthy businessmen behind Ai Song didn't know what happened for a while. Ai Song looked bad and they didn't dare to ask more questions. Then the group of people rushed to the local administrative building and prepared to start the handover procedures.

It was also at this time that several frightened Ottoman soldiers appeared in panic in front of Fanzeguan and Aisong. Soon, they learned a news that a Portuguese fleet was rushing towards the port. Just forty nautical miles away from the port, the merchants along the way saw so many warships and immediately became alert. Someone returned to the port to report the news. When the soldiers from the port heard that, they immediately came to report.

Aisong was startled at first, and then thought of the Ming Dynasty's agreement. He was extremely dissatisfied with the decision of Suez and Gaza provinces. He understood the value of this land and knew even more about the purpose of the Han people coming here. Now this port is no longer a territory of the Ottoman Empire. When the Portuguese came, he was panicked.

The fencer frowned. Seeing Ai Song didn't seem panicked, he immediately understood something. He was just a fencer. The real leader of this fleet was a guerrilla general of the navy. However, the guerrilla general did not understand Turkish and did not show up. Instead, he pushed the translator to the front desk.

"Sir, go in first, wait a moment, I will inform the general immediately." This kind of thing is not the specialty of the translator, he must immediately pass the message to the guerrilla general.

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The Portuguese fleet began to approach, and they could even see the buildings in the Port of Sultan. The merchant ships who were about to leave the port immediately turned back to the port when they saw it. A naval battle was approaching. The Ottoman soldiers at the port obviously did not know that their land had already been thug and returned to the Han people. They entered the defense and prepared to face the enemy. The entire port was in a mess. This time, the Portuguese's actions really came to their expectations. The Ottomans always believed that the Mediterranean was the deterrent range of the anti-Dutch alliance fleet, but these Portuguese actually crossed the Mediterranean and appeared directly at the port of Egypt.

At the port, several broken Ottoman fleets gradually sailed away from the dock. Their mission went out of the sea to fight the Portuguese. They had to do so. The Portuguese appeared too quickly and overwhelmed everyone. The Ottomans along the coast were not prepared at all. These warships were used to delay time and had to block the closer and closer Portuguese before the Ottomans were ready.
Chapter completed!