The Undead Empire That Travels Through the Multiverse

The reason why the British agreed with Chen Mo's proposal to build the canal with dead souls was naturally that they were greedy for the benefits brought by the widening of the canal.

Who can refuse something that can make more money?

What's more, the UK already has the idea of ​​widening the canal and improving its navigability.

It's just that the British Empire really hurt its vitality in the first world war, so the canal project that originally had an idea can only be shelved. After all, the British Empire was forced to abandon the principle of two powers. It is really difficult to ask Downing Street to spend the funds to widen the river. Real things.

After all, the United Kingdom has declared the independence of Egypt, and it is obviously impossible to squeeze Egyptian laborers like the French did.

If you do this, the UK may not even be able to keep the Canal Zone, and the French also spent money back then.

Wanting benefits, but not willing to pay, the British people had to acquiesce to Chen Mo's proposal to use undead to build the canal.

After all, when you have no money and want to do something, what is more pleasing than labor without money?

It’s common for all human beings to prostitute for free. Who can refuse prostitution for free?

The only problem is that the labor Chen Mo will use is the undead, which will have a very bad impact.

But it was the Egyptians who used the undead, not the British. After Chen Mo added a sentence "without the undead, Britain will get the money", the British also recognized it and agreed to take the initiative to help cover up Chen Mo's use of the undead. to widen the Suez Canal.

As compensation for Chen Mo's only 35% stake in the canal, the British promised to help Egypt build another dam in the Aswan area. Of course, the laborers used Chen Mo's undead.

When it comes to the Aswan Dam, the high dam, one of the seven largest dams in the world that people think of later, was built by the Soviets in 1970 with assistance to Egypt. Before that, the British had already built it in Aswan in 1902. A dam was built in the area and raised from 1907-1912.

If there were no surprises, the British would raise the dams again in 1929-1933 to deal with the regular annual flooding of the Nile.

But even so, this dam was in danger of overrunning several times during the subsequent flooding of the Nile River, so it was reasonable to build another dam upstream.

The construction of the Aswan Dam and the widening of the Suez Canal are of vital importance to the development of Egypt's economy, and they are also what Chen Mo decided to do when he formulated his plan to control Egypt.

However, for the construction of the dam, Chen Mo did not intend to follow the way of the Aswan Dam built by Egypt and the Soviet Union in 1970, because although it greatly promoted the economic development of Egypt, it also destroyed the ecology of the entire Nile River. .

It not only caused the gradual salinization of the downstream rivers and land, the shrinking of the Nile delta area, and the extinction of species populations at the mouth of the sea, and even turned Egypt, a food-producing country that was originally self-sufficient in food, into the world's largest wheat importer.

So if Chen Mo doesn't want to repeat the same mistakes, he needs to build a different dam.

It is no problem to leave this to the British. After all, they built the first dam. Except that it was built too short and the flood control effect was not very good, there were no problems in other aspects.

It not only restrains the flood, but also ensures the regular flooding of the Nile River once a year. At the same time, it also allows the silt from the upstream to be smoothly carried to the downstream, which fertilizes the soil and maintains the ecology of the Nile River.

Maybe the British didn't think about it so much when they built the dam, but the technology they used has dealt with these problems very well. the downstream ecological environment.

Of course, the British did not build water conservancy projects in Egypt to do charity and help Egyptians develop, but to promote cotton cultivation and turn Egypt into a cotton producing area for the United Kingdom.

Because of such interests, the British would be careful about the construction of water conservancy projects in Egypt. Otherwise, the British Empire would not have the kindness to build dams.

Chen Mo now wants to build a dam for the same reason. With the regulation of the dam, the Nile River can become more stable, and at the same time, water resources can be stored for use in dry seasons, which is conducive to the development of agriculture on both sides of the river.

And the dam itself is also an important power generation facility, and the development of modern industry is inseparable from the supply of electricity.

Only with the stable power supply of the Aswan Dam can we have the foundation for large-scale industrial development. Otherwise, if the factory is built without a power plant, it will not be able to operate.

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All in all, in the first three months that Chen Mo gained actual control of Egypt, he was basically busy rebuilding the city of Cairo and taking over the entire Egyptian government.

The original royal family had already been killed by him, so naturally no one would come out and question his right to rule.

The British announced to the outside world that Cairo was attacked by the local opposition tribal armed forces~www.NovelMTL.com~ They captured Cairo and brutally killed the Egyptian king and high-ranking government officials, resulting in the British having to temporarily take over Cairo and Egypt will not return actual control of Egypt until the new government is able to perform its duties.

Of course, this is only an official article published to the public. In fact, because there were still a large number of foreigners staying in Alexandria at that time, they were not ignorant of what happened in Cairo.

So the "truth" of the matter naturally spread out like this, and Chen Mo had already taken back the actual control of Egypt from the British, and asked the British to return to the Canal Zone.

After the various departments of the new government, after Ida Wang turned the most capable among them and the first and second leaders into vampires, there is no one who can oppose Chen Mo. On the contrary, these loyalties are guaranteed. Government workers broke out at 120% work efficiency, allowing the post-war reconstruction work to proceed very smoothly.

However, as a price, Chen Mo had to find a way to keep a group of blood slaves in captivity to supply these workers, lest they thirst for blood and bite people all over the street.

As for the Pharaoh Guard, under the persuasion of the curator and Adebe, they joined the new government and became part of the army under the new government. They will be dispersed and reorganized together with the original Egyptian army. Those black warriors who were transformed from the original umbrella mercenaries were trained.

Originally, the British expressed enthusiasm that they could provide military instructors and imperial ordnance, but Chen Mo directly rejected the British proposal.

He would rather build his own arms factory to produce ordnance bit by bit, rather than handing over his country's important national defense lifeline to others, especially when he can come up with better ordnance and military technology.