Daming Military Empire

Chapter 428 Canal Excavation

Suyman's intention to curry favor with Ming Dynasty is obvious. With such a favorite as the internal support, the Ottoman Empire has been settled, and the conditions for the start of the Eurasian Canal are fully mature, so Zhu Cijiong decided to immediately organize manpower and related materials to prepare for excavation. !

This is a very large project. According to Xiao Jiuzheng's preliminary calculations, the shortest distance between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea is almost 20 miles. In order to allow large warships to pass safely, the depth of the canal must be at least 100 meters, and the width cannot Less than [-] meters, the workload can be imagined.

Historically, the Suez Canal Company established by the French consul in Egypt, Viscount Ferdinand de Lesseps, took a total of 11 years to dig through the entire canal. The difficulty of the project can be imagined.

Of course, the Suez Canal Company established by Viscount Ferdinand de Lesseps was only a private company with limited financial resources and strength. At that time, in order to save costs, Lesseps did not provide the local migrant workers with the necessary food and medicine. He didn't even bother to organize people to transport fresh water less than a hundred miles away, which directly caused nearly 12 people to die of starvation, thirst, and disease during the entire canal construction process!
Zhu Cijiong doesn't know much about this period of history, and he doesn't know how long it took. However, in his plan, the Eurasian Canal will be completed within half a year.

People dug for 11 years, but he only spent half a year. Is this a bit exaggerated?

In fact, this is not an exaggeration at all, because Lesseb is just an ordinary viscount with limited abilities, while Zhu Cijiong is the emperor of the Ming Empire, and the resources he can use are quite terrifying.

First of all, in terms of manpower, Lesseb can recruit tens of thousands of migrant workers at one time, recruiting again after death, and recruiting again after death, intermittently, which reduces efficiency; Zhu Cijiong is different, he prepared 50 at one time The captives, if counted by the number of people, the efficiency will be more than ten times higher immediately!
Then, the Ming Empire has strong financial resources, and there is absolutely enough food and medicine. As for water, just organize tens of thousands of people to pull it with a horse-drawn cart. Not to mention drinking, there is no problem taking a bath, so that it can ensure that the working people are always full. With more physical strength, the efficiency is more than doubled.

In the end, Daming also had an artifact called Dilong, and Zhu Cijiong specially prepared a hundred Dilong for the construction of the canal!
One ground-turning dragon is more than two meters wide, and fifty ground-turning dragons are more than 100 meters wide. One hundred ground-turning dragons are divided into two groups to turn back and forth on the ground. Just shovel the raised soil into the frame and pick it away. In this way, the efficiency has been improved many times.

Therefore, there is no way for an individual to compare with a huge country. It took Lesseps 11 years to dig the canal, and Zhu Cijiong didn't even need half a year to complete the canal!
Now that he decided to start work, Zhu Cijiong immediately issued a series of orders:

Ordered the Department of Dushuiqing of the Ministry of Industry to organize relevant officials to prepare to go to the canal site to guide the construction;

The Department of Household Affairs and Monan Cheng announced that the Department of Political Envoys would immediately purchase [-] horses from the Monan Grassland and transport them to Dongdaying for shipment;
Order other provinces to rent [-] flat carriages, and also transport them to Dongdaying for shipment;
Order the Tongzheng Envoy to unite with the Tai Hospital to recruit [-] physicians across the country, purchase all kinds of medicinal materials, and send them all to Dongdaying;
Order Daming Royal Machinery Group to transport [-] Dilongs to Dongdaying for shipment;
Order the North Sea Fleet to load all kinds of materials and personnel on board at Dongdaying, and prepare to send them to the canal construction site;

Order the South China Sea Fleet to rush to Goa, preparing to send the Dingliao Army and 50 captives to the canal construction site in batches.

He also sent people to Europe to inform Spain and Portugal to prepare food, and asked the Daming Xinglong Company to prepare to collect meat, vegetables and fruits to supply the canal construction site in Spain and Portugal.

Once the order was passed, all kinds of materials and personnel were in place in less than ten days. Even Suyman volunteered to board the flagship of the North Sea Fleet. He was going to accompany the officials of the Ming Empire to the canal construction site first. , because the Egyptian Governor Rest Pasha in charge over there is also an acquaintance with him, and if he goes to say hello, Daming can get a lot of convenience.

Everything was ready, and Zhu Cijiong personally rushed to Dongdaying to see him off. He especially told the accompanying ambassador of the Taiyuan Hospital to pay attention to the prevention and treatment of diseases, because there were too many epidemic diseases in that place. A large piece fell down!

Half a month later, the Beiyang Navy Fleet first felt the end of the Red Sea. This land is still a half-sand molded wasteland, and there is no human habitation at all. No wonder the Ottoman Empire only charged 100 million taels for this piece of thousands of square kilometers of land. Selling it to Daming, of course, was mainly because of buying Suyman and other cronies of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ottoman Empire.

Su Yiman first received Xiao Jiuzheng a large sum of money for benefits, and now he wanted to curry favor with the Ming Empire, so this time he was very active. As soon as he got off the boat, he brought the cronies of the envoys, Xiao Jiuzheng and other elite guards to fight straight to Cairo.

Fortunately, Cairo is less than three hundred miles away from here, and they arrived there after a day of running wildly.

Contrary to Xiao Jiuzheng's expectation, the Egyptian governor, Rest Pasha, was extremely enthusiastic about Suyman, as if he had met his old boss, and he was so attentive. What's going on?
In fact, it is not surprising that Suyman is a popular person in front of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ottoman Empire. Although Lester is also a pasha, his position is even higher than Suyman, but he is not as close to the emperor as Suyman. It can be said As long as Suyman gives him a few good words in front of the emperor, he will be able to flourish, if Suyman keeps advancing his slander in front of the emperor, he will die!

Therefore, as soon as he heard that Suyman had a particularly good relationship with the Ming Empire, he immediately showed extreme enthusiasm for the canal project. He even summoned the officials under him in front of Suyman and Xiao Jiuzheng, and issued a message An extremely ridiculous fate.

For example, what about the nearby garrison, it’s okay to transport water for people, what about the nearby officials, it’s okay to organize civilians to deliver some vegetables and fruits, what makes the Ming Empire wait for friends as if they are at home, etc., etc. Xiao Jiuzheng was stunned.

Not long after the North Sea Fleet arrived, the liaison officials from Spain and Portugal, the shopkeeper of the European branch of the Daming Royal Xinglong Company arrived one after another, and supplies such as food, meat, vegetables, and fruits were also slowly delivered. The Liao army and 50 prisoners were sent over in batches.

After all the personnel arrived, Qin Gongming discussed with the officials of the Ministry of Industry, and picked an auspicious day nearby, prepared three sacrifices, sacrificed to various gods, and then set off firecrackers, and the canal was officially dug!
At that scene, hundreds of earth-moving dragons drove tumbling, 50 million people followed behind and shoveled their shovels, and the convoy transporting food and fresh water stretched for dozens of miles, which provoked many local civilians not far away. Miles or even hundreds of miles ran to watch the fun.

Even the governor of Egypt, Restor Pasha, had to sigh after seeing it, the battle of the Ming Empire was simply astonishing!
(End of this chapter)