Iron Dynasty

Zou Xingwen is watching nervously at the part connecting the Suez Canal and the Red Sea.

Now the construction workers are placing explosives at the bottom of the canal. Once the explosives explode, the remaining soil between the canal and the Mediterranean will be blown up. From then on, the Suez Canal will be officially opened, which means that the imperial warships will no longer have to go around Europe, and can go directly from The Red Sea enters the Mediterranean through a canal, reducing the voyage by 10,000 kilometers.

Moreover, there are many European countries along the Mediterranean coast, Portugal, Spain, France, Austria, Greece, the Ottoman Empire.

Once the empire controls the canal, it controls the Mediterranean Sea, and European countries must look at the face of the empire if they want to pass through this canal.

Zou Shilang, all the explosives have been placed, and they can be blasted at any time. When Zou Xingwen was thinking, a general in a military uniform walked towards him.

This time, the blasting army provided a lot of explosives, and the low-level construction personnel also came from the army.

Thank you Master Lu for your help this time. After the canal is opened, I will definitely ask the emperor for your credit on behalf of the Ministry of Industry. Zou Xingwen said with a smile.

Zou Shilang is very polite. You and I are all for the empire. Why do you say thank you? If you want to say thank you, we should thank you. Now that the canal is connected, the army of the empire can save a lot of travel. Lu Jun said.

After Persia assigned the Suez Canal and the surrounding 100 miles of land to the Empire, he was ordered to lead 10,000 soldiers under his command into Suez to protect the smooth progress of the construction of the Canal.

After all, although Ottoman lost the land to Persia, there are still many people on this land who miss the Ottoman Empire.

During the implementation of the project, many robbers tried to sabotage the implementation of the project, but were thwarted by his soldiers.

Although the canal is now complete, he understands that the task they will face in the future will be even more severe.

Now that the order from the Empire has come down, the Empire will set up military bases along the Suez Canal to protect its interests overseas.

Master Lu is really righteous. Zou Xingwen said with a smile, his sense of Lu Jun was very good, and he was a conscientious soldier.

After putting high hats on each other, Zou Xingwen said, Since the explosives have been placed, please order Master Lu!

Lu Jun nodded, and he immediately let the excavators and construction workers in the canal evacuated. Once the blasting was carried out, the seawater from the Mediterranean Sea would be directly poured into the canal, where it would meet the seawater of the Red Sea in the middle of the canal.

After all the personnel were evacuated, Lu Jun gave an order to the soldiers. With a shocking sound, the soil layer was lifted into the air by the explosives, and the last barrier blocking the seawater of the Mediterranean collapsed. At this moment, the seawater of the Mediterranean poured in fiercely. the galaxy.

Zou Xingwen's eyes were wet. When the canal was built, he was sent here by the Ministry of Industry. After more than a year of hard construction, they covered 175 kilometers, using thousands of excavators, nearly 80,000 Workers from the Empire and the region finally dug the artificial canal.

Now he finally no longer has to worry about progress, no longer worry about being attacked by the local tribe, but a deep feeling of reluctance rose in his heart at this time.

Lu Jun is also very emotional, and has won military victories in empires all over the world, but here, the victory of imperial engineering is equally great.

For him, the passage of the canal was as important as winning a war, and even more important, since the time it took to reach Europe from the Empire would be cut by almost half...

A month later, the news of the Suez Canal arrived in Qingzhou, and the news was published in the newspapers, which immediately caused a shock across the empire.

Businessmen with a keen sense of smell naturally knew the significance of this canal, and soon there were calls for the empire to dump industrial products into Europe.

With steamships and the passage of the Suez Canal, the imperial fleet would arrive in Europe in just forty days.

For the merchants of the empire, such a short voyage represented a huge opportunity.

Your Majesty, the merchants are very excited. It is imminent to open the European market. After all, Europe is the largest market in the world for the Empire.

After the Suez Canal was completed, it was not Pang Yukun nor Cui Shangan but Li Kaiyuan who first came to him.

Merchants have packed his office, all asking about trade with Europe.

What's the hurry, now is not the time, Europe is fighting hotly, and it is not the time to intervene. Xiao Ming said lightly.

He naturally knows that Europe is the biggest market today. After all, European countries have colonized the world for more than 200 years and have plundered a lot of wealth from all over the world.

These wealth have greatly improved the living standards of Europeans, which are not comparable to countries such as Japan and Korea.

Because of this, in contemporary history Europe and the West can recover quickly no matter how tragic the wars they have experienced.

Because no matter how much they fight, the wealth they grabbed is still in Europe.

So, now he is trying his best to transfer gold, silver and all kinds of valuable wealth from Europe to the empire.

The pact he got the British to sign was to extract wealth from Europe.

Wait? Li Kaiyuan was a little disappointed, How long do you have to wait?

Xiao Ming pondered for a while, and spent three months inspecting important military industrial bases in the country, and had a detailed understanding of the construction progress of each base.

He said: Three years, as long as three years, I will be able to establish a European expeditionary force, this expedition force can fight like Europe once conquered South America. Europeans can't find the north.

Li Kaiyuan nodded, With the words of the emperor, the empire will be at ease, just waiting for this day to come.

Xiao Ming smiled and said: Even if you are not in a hurry, I am in a hurry. The high welfare benefits of the empire are waiting to rob Europe? Otherwise, where will I get the money to provide universal education and free medical care.

Li Kaiyuan was even more excited when he heard it. He said sincerely: It is a blessing for the emperor to have an emperor, and it is also a blessing for the people. The name of the emperor will be forever in the annals of history.

Xiao Ming shook his head lightly. He didn't care what his name was left in the annals of history. As the owner of the technology spar, it was his ultimate goal to make the empire achieve eternity with the help of technology.

Okay, after so many years, you still can't change your flattering skills. Go back and send all those businessmen away, and tell them that the empire has something to eat, so naturally they have something to eat. If the empire doesn't give them, they are just courting death! Speaking of the last sentence, Xiao Ming's tone became severe.

His meaning is very clear, if anyone dares to smuggle, sell materials, and re-sell technology to Europe during this time, don't blame him for being rude.