Li Hu had never been on a boat for such a long time. When he got ashore, he even felt a little dizzy. He was walking with one foot deep and one foot shallow. If the people beside him weren't supporting him, he would be in danger of falling.

"It's nothing, it's just like that on the sea. I was not as good as you when I was running on the sea." Joseph comforted with a smile.

"What kind of place is this? We don't need to take a boat anymore." Li Hu still has lingering fears about taking a boat. The tonnage of a sailboat is too small and is far less stable than a steam engine ship.

"We can reach the Mediterranean by marching forward for two or three days. However, it is better to take a boat to Alexandria. After all, we have so much cargo, we will be in trouble if we go by land."

"What about Egypt? Isn't it your brother who has the final say?" Li Hu looked at Joseph suspiciously. The two had been together for two months. Li Hu was learning French every day. In two months, he could already do the simplest things in French.

comminicate.

"My brother is the French commander in Egypt. Of course he has the final say in Egypt's affairs. But the Middle East is not only our French territory, the British have also supported many forces here. Moreover, the British have been secretly involved in the past two years.

Fund the resistance forces in Egypt. If their main energy was not attracted by the Ming Dynasty, they might directly send troops to Egypt.

But it would be great to have you here. With your joining, I believe we will soon break into a world in the Middle East! Look, walking hundreds of miles from the northeast is the land flowing with milk and honey as mentioned in the Quran.

Land. Where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers intersect, there is a mountain of grain output every year." Joseph pointed his finger to the northeast.

"According to our agreement, that is my land." Li Hu had long heard Joseph talk about the wealth there, and he also heard about the Tigris and Euphrates rivers from the conversation between his eldest brother and his second brother.

Since it was the place that the elder brother mentioned, it must be a good place. Li Hu firmly believed in this. Although he didn't know how the elder brother knew this, he never missed it.

"No problem, once you meet my brother, France will send troops to help you. Of course, you have to find a way to help France get more arms. It's best...! It's best to sell us a production line.

” Joseph tentatively brought up the idea that had been lingering in his mind for a long time.

If there could be a rifle production line, the orders from Europe alone would make the Bonaparte family a huge fortune.

Li Hu glanced at the greedy Joseph and said with a smile: "As long as you let me occupy that place, I will try my best to convince my elder brother. You know, in Daming, no one would dare to do this kind of thing without my elder brother nodding. Even so.

It’s useless no matter how much money you pay!

Sell ​​out national intelligence and spend the money with your life." Of course Li Hu knew that Li Xiao would never let him sell the production line. But in order to get the French to help, he didn't mind deceiving the cunning French. This is what the eldest brother said

...foolish!

"No problem! There is an army supported by the British. We are willing to send troops to help you. But not in the name of the French army. Mercenaries may be better."

"It doesn't matter! After you capture those places, you can arrest as many people as you like within ten days. These people are the rewards I pay you. You can take these people to Ming Dynasty to exchange for money, and then you can buy the weapons produced by our Ming Dynasty.

Don’t worry! I will stay under Ming Dynasty and will send you the best quality and latest guns and ammunition. I will never be like that profiteer Ai Husheng who fooled you with outdated things. Those revolvers and rifles are from our Ming Dynasty.

Only used by garrison divisions." Li Hu pointed to the revolver held by the French soldier. This was the weapon given to Li Xiu in exchange for the Egyptian laborers.

"But Ai Shangshu is only willing to give this, everything from now on will depend on you." Joseph's face was full of ridicule.

The Middle East is not full of deserts. Many places are full of farmland. Not far away, there are shepherds grazing sheep. According to Joseph, walking northeast from here, there is a city called Jerusalem. That city is the center of three religions

This holy land has been subject to constant wars for thousands of years. However, it is also very prosperous!

If he hadn't been in a hurry, Li Hu would have wanted to see what Jerusalem looked like. Because his eldest brother mentioned this place more than once. It is said that the people of several religions who died for this city are higher than the mountains.

Along the way I saw a lot of sights I had never seen before!

Most of the men here wear loose robes and headscarves. The adult men have big beards, and the women wear black gauze scarves. Some of them have their eyes exposed, and the big watery eyes are very beautiful. It makes people think a lot.

Lift the gauze and see what's underneath.

But there are also some places where women's faces are covered with gauze scarves that even block their eyes. In the hot weather, it is very strange to see such a group of people walking on the road, wrapped up tightly from inside to outside. Li Hu feels that this is more...

Living in mourning is even more terrifying!

The way women carry things is also very special. They like to use their heads to carry things. But Li Hu has also seen it in North Korean women, so he is not surprised.

The skin of older people is almost black, and there are ravines everywhere, making them look much older than the old people in the Central Plains. These old guys sit under the wall all day long and talk nonsense. Joseph said that most of them can't even travel within ten miles.

Having never been out before, Li Hu didn't understand what these bastards were talking about all day long.

The place where the Arabs live can be described as a dirty and messy demonstration base, with flies flying "buzzing" and "buzzing" everywhere. Li Hu suspected that the women wore veils to prevent these flies.

The flies here are very big and have black heads. They fly with great force and it hurts when they hit their face.

I saw Arabs cooking, and when the lid of the pot was lifted, a large number of flies were smoked and fell into the pot. From then on, Li Hu refused to eat any food sold by Arabs. Especially the kind of bread called naan.

, Li Hu found fly wings or thighs inside more than once.

Everything looks the same as the familiar Ming Dynasty, and it’s not even the same as Singapore. Except for the tall coconut trees and palm trees!

Dates are good, they are very sweet when eaten in the mouth. Many old Arabs smoke hookahs, some of which are like the hookahs smoked by the Miao people in Hunan, but they are not the same. Arabs say that you can smoke hookahs in a day

Enjoying the cool air is the greatest enjoyment in life.

But they are people who like to change their minds. When Li Hu's men gave them the Chinese cigarettes produced in the Ming Dynasty, these people threw away the hookah and started smoking like the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Hu thought they would be surprised by the matches, but he was a little disappointed. Those shrewd merchants of the Ming Dynasty had long sold matches everywhere. There were even many imitation workshops near Jeddah Port.

. Even the box where the matches were packed was printed with Chinese characters. The seller couldn’t speak a word of Chinese and couldn’t understand whether he had eaten or had a bowel movement. He couldn’t say that he was an authentic Chinese Miao. Li Hu was so angry that he almost lost his temper.

Kill that old Arab bastard with a gun!

In short, Li Hu had a terrible impression of this place! Twenty years ago, the Ming Dynasty, which was in constant war, was stronger than this place.

Li Hu brought so much stuff that he requisitioned almost all the camels around Jeddah Port before he could barely carry it away.

The road conditions are very bad, and there are no cars. Camels are used to transport things here, because to go from Jeddah Port, you have to cross a barren and exhausting desert area. There are no roads at all. You can only use this quilt

It is carried by animals called the boat of the vast sea!

After riding the smelly camel for two days, Li Hu decisively bought a tall Arabian horse. Although it was expensive, Li Hu insisted on replacing it. The camel smelled too damn bad. Li Hu sat on it for two days,

I feel like I have almost the same smell as those Arabs.

Joseph did not deceive Li Hu. As expected, he walked for three days and arrived at a place called Gaza. Li Hu had to change boats here because it was said that there was a very uneven road from Gaza to Cairo.

In fact, in the past three days, someone has been spying on this huge team. There is nothing they can do about it. They have requisitioned all the camels around Jeddah Port. The famous Arab gangsters will definitely not let this go.

A fat sheep.

There were two sniper rifles in Li Hu's team. While eating roasted whole lamb with Joseph, Li Hu discovered that a few people on horseback were looking at the place very far away, about three to four hundred meters away.

Joseph said that these people are Arabian horse bandits. It is said that they are very powerful in combat and hide in the desert all year round. They are elusive and elusive, so Li Hu should be careful.

Li Hu picked up a sniper rifle and adjusted the scale. The shot pierced the chest of the leading Arab man in black robes. The powerful kinetic energy of the bullet directly knocked the man off his horse. The people around him ran away without any hesitation.

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At night, you can always hear explosions.

These were landmines planted by Li Hu, all on the path that the Arabs must pass. Those Arabs came closer at night, one foot deeper than the other, and they stepped on the landmines.

They don't know what landmines are, and they think it's because God, the great God, doesn't allow them to attack these people.

In three days, even if I slept in the desert, I was not attacked by anyone. Landmines played a huge role.

As for the confused guy in the morning who forgot where the mine was buried and failed to dig it out and take it away, Li Hu had no interest in taking care of it.

Gaza Port is as prosperous as Jeddah Port, except that Jeddah Port is unloading cargo most of the time. Here it is loading cargo most of the time!

Various industrial products from the Ming Dynasty were unloaded from the Ming Dynasty at Jeddah Port, and then loaded onto ships in Gaza. Merchant ships would deliver these goods to every corner of Europe along the Mediterranean Sea.

I don’t know what method Joseph used, but there were actually four warships waiting for him in Gaza Port. Although these warships were despised by Li Hu as sampans, to France, they were definitely first-class main warships.

All warships must be iron-clad, and those made of wood are also called warships? This is the reason why Li Hu despises French warships. Joseph was very unhappy after hearing this, but he could not refute. The Ming Dynasty iron-clad warship he saw in Singapore was really impressive to him.

Deep.

Of course! Li Hu's purpose is not to offend Joseph, but just to dampen the arrogance of the French. With the few broken guns in his hands and the few broken ships he controls, don't pretend to be awesome like me.

The cargo was unloaded from the camel's back, and when the cargo was counted, more than twenty Arab porters were shot.

These guys are used to petty theft. As long as they don't steal something they see, it's considered lost.

The sound of gunfire attracted the troops of the local chief. Li Hu could not understand what they were calling. The listener said that they seemed to be kidnapped and handed over to some chief for justice.

He didn't know if there was anything he could do. Li Hu only knew that he had the latest Aka 47 rifle in his hand.

Adjust it into a burst and shoot it at the Arab soldiers. In Joseph's nervous eyes, the Arab soldiers fled in all directions. There were more than a dozen corpses lying on the ground, some of which were still twitching.

The retaliation came very quickly. That afternoon, the chief sent a hundred sheep. The people said that their people had been asking when Li Hu would leave Gaza.

This is bullying the weak and fearing the strong. Li Hu liked the chief's attitude very much. He decided not to cause trouble to others. After eating the sheep and leaving a pile of sheep bones, he and Joseph boarded a French warship and headed for Alexandria.

While walking, Li Hu suddenly discovered a problem.

"Joseph! Since it is only a short three-day journey from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, why not find a place to dig a canal. With this canal, there will be no need to unload and load goods from the east to the west. The transportation speed will also be much faster!

"Li Hu was confused. If this had happened in the Ming Dynasty, such a canal would have been born long ago.

More than a thousand years ago, our ancestors knew how to build a Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to connect the north and south of the Ming Dynasty. It is said that maritime trade routes have lasted for thousands of years, so why has no one thought of building a canal?

"Everyone knows that building such a canal will make a fortune. If the canal is deep enough, those merchant ships will no longer have to go around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. The navigation time will be shortened by several months!

But this is basically impossible. The land along the way belongs to various chiefs. These chiefs all belong to several large tribal alliances. Once the canal is built to conquer their land, these people will rise up and resist.

Although we are not afraid of them, it would be a big trouble if they really make a fuss. So...!" Joseph licked his lips.

"Hmph! I just want to build such a canal. After it is built, I will sit here and collect money. Once a ship passes through the canal and collect money once, this is a fucking huge profit." Li Hu suddenly discovered that in the

It doesn't seem to be difficult to make a fortune here.
Chapter completed!