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Chapter 1362
"Are you planning to leave Egypt?" asked Conal, the commander of Venice.

After the Egyptian expeditionary force captured Cairo, they looted almost half of Cairo and obtained a large amount of gold and silver treasures.

The mess of Cairo was handed over to the Venetians.The Venetians tried to hold Cairo against the counterattack of the Ottoman Empire and Mamluk cavalry, and operated it as their colony in North Africa.

With the fall of Egypt, the majesty of the Ottoman Empire in North Africa collapsed before the emperor even had time to react.

The Barbary pirates found that the empire's fleet could not stop the combined fleet that broke into the Mediterranean Sea, and their fear of Constantinople weakened.Since the empire can no longer support them, do they still need to respect the empire?
Some Mamluk cavalry nobles fled to the Sinai Peninsula with the Egyptian Pasha to avoid the advance of the expeditionary army.

Controlling Cairo is equivalent to controlling Egypt, and it seems meaningless to continue other operations. The expeditionary army wants to escort the looted gold and silver treasures to leave Egypt and go back home.

"Our goal of the expedition to Egypt has been achieved. Fortunately, our losses were not too heavy." Sun Chuanting led a war horse and said goodbye to Konar.

Behind Sun Chuanting, a group of soldiers from Huaxia were also ready to retreat.

Their purpose was to defeat the Egyptian legion who refused to pay the protection fee for the sake of wealth. It is estimated that the towns along the Levant coast would fear the power of the coalition forces and obediently pay the protection fee that Sun Chuanting and the others demanded.

In the next move to deter the Levant region, Sun Chuanting and others do not want to bring Venice, the Papal States, and Sicily with them, so as not to share the protection fee of the Levant region with them.

Being able to do it alone is definitely more profitable, so why give others a piece of the action?
"This time we worked together to capture Cairo, and the cooperation went very smoothly. I hope we can continue to cooperate in the future," said Corner.

"If you can't defend Egypt, just ask for help when you need help in the future." Sun Chuanting said.

"Haha, let's talk about it later." Conal said.

"Then we're off everyone!"

Sun Chuanting returned with a full load. The gold and silver treasures they robbed needed to be carried by Arabian horses and camels. It is estimated that the treasures robbed by the entire coalition army were more than the 150 million taels they demanded from the Egyptian province. There are a lot of spices and gold coins that are more valuable than silver. , silk, antiques.

The people of the Papal States and Sicily were so remorseful that their intestines were green. They wished to bring more people to Egypt, otherwise they could go back with more spoils.

"Our governor of Sicily thought this was a meaningless crusade, and didn't envisage being able to capture Cairo. It seems that we made a mistake." The only Spanish infantry major complained to Ludowig, the general of the Papal State.

The spoils they robbed this time were beyond his imagination. After all, Egypt had a much larger population than their Kingdom of Sicily, and it was located at the junction of Asia, Africa and Europe, and had accumulated a lot of wealth.Looting the capital of a province made many of their soldiers participating in the expedition rich overnight. As the commander of the Sicilian army, he was even more well fed.

"Our city-states of the Papal State jointly funded and hired me as the general of this expedition. The city-state owners are estimated to be able to earn a lot from this expedition this time. I am afraid that they will start to despise the Ottoman Empire after tasting a little bit of sweetness. I still want to carry out such an expedition in the future... Our anti-Ottoman alliance this time is just for plundering wealth. The Ottoman Empire is still the most powerful country in the Mediterranean, and the loss of North Africa has little impact on them. The most important part of the Ottoman Empire The territory is the Balkan Peninsula, Asia Minor, Levant, and Greece." Ludowig from the Papal State feared that the Pope and the city-state masters of the Papal State would really start fighting the Ottoman Empire because of the victory in the expedition to Egypt.

In his opinion, the reason why the battle under the pyramid was easily won was because of luck and the help of the mysterious eastern power.

The Papal States, Venice and others did not have such smooth battles with the Ottoman Empire before.

The Ottoman Empire adopted an eastern-style centralized system, coupled with a terrible population, it was like a lunatic in the Mediterranean, exporting troops continuously.

What's more, even if the territory of the Ottoman Empire in North Africa is smashed, it has not yet shaken the foundation of the Ottoman Empire.

Zheng Zhihu sat on a camel and said to Sun Chuanting: "You should try this thing, it's much more interesting than riding a horse."

"That's just because you feel fresh."

"Come up and try it."

"No, war horses are more in line with the temperament of our professional officers."

Sun Chuanting flatly rejected Zheng Zhibao.

After a few minutes, Sun Chuanting rode on another camel, completely lost his confidence just now: "This thing is really interesting."

"You said that the Venetians only have more than 6000 people. How did they defend Egypt under the counterattack of the Ottoman Empire and Mamluk cavalry?" Zheng Zhibao asked.

"Mostly it's a strategy of checks and balances."

"You mean they will appoint a group of local Mamluk nobles to fight against the Ottoman Empire?"

"Yes, as long as they have money and give up part of their power to the local dignitaries, the dignitaries will be on their side. For the Egyptian dignitaries, it's just a change of people at the top, and the nobles below continue to enjoy the glory Wealthy. Isn’t the property we looted from Cairo this time the big families with a long history? Although the Venetians are small in number, they had a huge influence in the Mediterranean hundreds of years ago, which shows that they have great influence on this kind of The means to check and balance, win over and control the colonies are superb. The British said that the Venetians had negotiated with the Mamluk nobles to open the Grand Canal before the Ottoman Empire ruled Egypt..."

"It turns out that this is the case. It seems that we can't underestimate them. The matter of the Grand Canal will still fall on them in the future. It is better to encourage them to start building the Grand Canal and use labor from Egypt instead of requiring us to find them from the mainland. Workers come here. I estimate that the Grand Canal will cost at least 1000 million silver."

Zheng Zhibao and Sun Chuanting were thinking about how to cheat Venetian in the future.The number of people they brought to the West was not large, let alone Egypt, even places like Algiers, they were powerless to control.As long as the Fourth Fleet leaves the Mediterranean, the Turkish Fleet will make a comeback.So they simply ceded Egypt to the Venetians, who clashed with the Ottomans over ownership of Egypt.It is still very difficult for the Venetians to firmly control Egypt.

(End of this chapter)