Bright Spring

"Are you okay?" Gao Xu asked kindly.

Miao Jin looked sideways slightly, facing him with dark glasses, and said weakly: "It's natural to be calm when the heart is calm."

Gao Xu seems to have said this sentence many times.

Finally, a "Shanhu" brand off-road vehicle made in the Ming Dynasty came over. When I called before, the hotel said that the person who picked me up from the airport was driving a Shanhu off-road vehicle.Sure enough, a sign protruded from the car window, with Liu Gang written in Chinese characters on it.

The two walked over immediately.

A middle-aged man from the Ming Dynasty, about 50 to [-] years old, got out of the car. His face was tanned and wrinkled, but his face was resolute and his body was strong. He was wearing a gray Ming Army uniform without an insignia.

"Yang Kui." The middle-aged man stretched out his hand and said simply.

Gao Xu shook hands with him: "Liu Gang."

The middle-aged man looked at Miao Jin again and nodded, "Sorry, the parking lot is too far away, so I couldn't go into the airport to pick you up."

"It's okay, I'll come out after a few steps." Gao Xu said.

At this moment, a strange young woman came over and asked in Mandarin with a dialect accent: "Are you from Daming?"

"Yes." Yang Kui replied.

The young woman took out a few small Ming coins, and said anxiously: "Can I trouble you to take me to the city? The hotel said there was a traffic jam. I've been waiting here for almost an hour."

Yang Kui looked at Gao Xu, and Gao Xu said, "Why don't you take her for a ride?"

"Get in the car." Yang Kui said.

The four got into the car one after another, and Yang Kui drove away, but he didn't collect the money, claiming that he had already received the reward.

The woman's mood seemed to improve, and she said in the car: "I read the guide, and I dare not take a taxi here alone. I will definitely be touched in the car, but I am more afraid of something serious. I had an appointment with a companion. , but she won’t go temporarily, I want to see the pyramids and temples, so I have to come here alone.”

Gao Xu asked casually: "Can a regular taxi do this?"

Miaojin's voice next to him said: "It's better than India|India."

While driving, Yang Kui echoed: "Yes, usually it's just touching and watching. The most common thing is to ask for more money, and there are not many vicious crimes. The local people don't think it's right to harass women. This has its essence. the difference."

Gao Xu asked: "When we were waiting for the bus just now, we saw a white woman getting into the taxi alone."

Yang Kui said with a smile: "Some women come here just to have an affair. The local handsome young guys are not picky. How should I put it, because of customs and culture and other factors, they are a bit depressed in that respect. And some of them are from southern Europe. The immigrants from Greece are more in line with the tastes of Western women."

"Master Yang has been here for a long time?" Gao Xu asked again.

Yang Kui sighed and said, "It's been almost 20 years. I first served in the Suez Canal Barracks. After retiring, I applied to work as a security guard in the embassy. Later, the owner of Mingzi Hotel poached me and paid a good salary. I switched to this job again. The wife and children are also here, but the son has returned to China after he became an adult."

When he said this, he turned his head and looked at Gao Xu more, with scrutiny in his eyes, "I received this order from the staff of the embassy."

Gao Xu also knew that the Wei family had contacted acquaintances in the embassy.

The hotel is located in a wealthy area in the southeast of Cairo, but the woman who hitchhiked was going to the city center, so the car detoured around the city center first.Then it stuck there.

Many people were marching on the street, and the signs they held were written in Arabic letters, and Gao Xu couldn't understand them, so he didn't know why they were demonstrating.He looked out of the car window, seeing a large expanse of earthy yellow and gray, as if everything was shrouded in one color, and the air was filled with dust.The streets and roads are full of rubbish, the difference is that the debris on the roadside is piled up.There are many unfinished buildings, just like areas where war has just occurred.

This is the "Great Rule" that Mr. Pan said.Gao Xu suddenly suspected that that guy had never been here.

Of course, Gao Xu didn't say it out. When he went to other countries, it would be impolite to dislike things casually.Although there were no locals in the car, he didn't say much, and so did Miao Jin.There was a dull moment in the car.

The woman in the car said: "I don't feel much in China. I thought the city should be like that. When I came out to see, I realized how clean and tidy the streets of Daming are."

Yang Kui smiled and said: "I often hear this kind of thing. Last time, a buddy who was traveling said something. If you want to be patriotic, you should go abroad. However, there are good people and bad people everywhere. Be careful, most of the locals It’s still very good, especially friendly to Ming people.”

The woman said: "I just want to see the pyramids and temples, they are amazing and mysterious."

"Why are there so many unfinished buildings in the city center?" Gao Xu asked.

Yang Kui said: "It is intentionally not repaired. The local law has a real estate tax, but there is a loophole. The unfinished house cannot be taxed."

The woman asked, "Can't the law be changed?"

Yang Kui turned his head and said, "Sister, do you think that all government offices are as efficient and clean as Daming? Multiple forces will fight with each other, and it's not easy to solve one thing. Let me tell you, in some places there is only a backlog of criminal cases." It will take half a century for the case to be settled, dare you imagine?"

"The process of chaotic games may produce a rule of law with perfect checks and balances, or it may become stagnant water." Gao Xu said casually.

No one could answer his words, only Miao Jin glanced sideways at Gao Xu.

Various vehicles with different numbers of wheels were congested for a long time. Yang Kui found an alley, then drove into the narrow and messy alley, and began to detour.Gao Xu immediately had a little more confidence in this man, it seemed that Yang Kui was very familiar with the situation.

After tossing and tossing for a long time, the passengers were finally brought to the entrance of a hotel, and the three of them drove towards the southeast suburbs of the city.When they arrived at the hotel, Gao Xu suddenly felt as if he had come to another world, like an oasis in the desert, with the beautiful modern and Arabic-style buildings.But the same place is still hot, maybe not [-] degrees outside, but it must be more than [-] degrees.

Yang Kui asked, "You have the Pyramid of Khufu on your itinerary. Do you want to invite a professional tour guide?"

"Let's talk later." Gao Xu said.Probably because Gao Xu was more cautious when he was away from home than when he was in China. He used to be that the people around him should not be partisans.So he didn't want the tour guide recommended by Yang Kui.

Gao Xu pinched a stack of banknotes from his pocket, folded them lightly, put his thumb in his palm, and stretched out his hand, "Thank you for today."

When shaking hands, Yang Kui was stunned for a moment, and said politely: "It should be, it should be."

Mingzi Hotel is in good condition. The main guest room building is very high, it should be the tallest building nearby.Gao Xu and Miaojin's suite was on the sixteenth floor, and a waiter helped them unscrew their big bags and suitcases up.Chinese people's business follows the domestic habit, the floors with six and eight are the most expensive.

The facilities in the suite are complete, including utensils for making local black tea, as well as tools for making coffee and tea.Gao Xu turned on the air conditioner, made a pot of tea, and half-lyed on the sofa with Miao Jin to rest.

After he poured the tea, he walked to the side of the glass and looked at the large yellow-gray urban area in the distance.

Gao Xu was a little disappointed and said: "It has been 400 years since the Ming army defeated the Mamluk forces and entered. I thought the local area could be governed well."

Miao Jin's voice said: "It's not too bad now. The local government should not be blamed for the situation. The population here is 9000 to [-] million, and the arable land is too small. It needs foreign exchange to buy food and products, and there is no decent industry. Excessive oil exports are a drop in the bucket. There is a saying that a smart woman can't live without rice."

"The ownership of the Suez Canal seems to have been returned to the government?" Gao Xu said.

Miao Jin nodded and said, "The income has already been returned to the country."

She leaned on the sofa, drank tea and said slowly: "Da Ming has never directly ruled|ruled here. Back then, what you did was to garrison troops to build rivers and support the local people to be kings. It was the same when the Ming emperors came to the throne. Until the first day World War I broke out, and Ming Dynasty was in the midst of a civil war. There was only one fortress left in Yiji, and for a period of time it completely lost control of Yiji. The French (French) and English forces once came.

After World War I, the Ming army regained this place, and after World War II, a revolution broke out in the area.Daming then gave up direct intervention in Yiji, leaving only the ownership of the Suez Canal.Later, through negotiations and the signing of a treaty, they gave up the ownership of the Suez Canal; instead, through the International Peace Alliance, they obtained some powers including the pricing of tolls on the grounds of the safety of public waterways.

After all, we were the ones who built the canal, and now the Suez Canal’s revenue is owned by the government, so it is only natural for Ming to retain some power.In addition to ensuring the smooth passage of the East and West, Daming did not directly plunder | wealth from the local area. "

Gao Xu asked: "During World War I, what happened overseas? I read that many books are very general."

Miao Jin smiled and said, "Aren't we going to the Donggang Fortress site? Let's talk slowly along the way."

Gao Xu nodded: "That's fine."

After that, she took out an instrument from her backpack and started testing in the bathroom and everywhere.Gao Xu said curiously: "Mingzi enterprises seem to be quite standardized, aren't they so bad?"

Miaojin didn't respond, she tested it once, and then went to take a shower and change clothes.