1825 My New Daming

Chapter 199 An Old Friend of the Arab People! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

"Master, do we really want France to control the Mediterranean in the future?"

The two Louis left happily, but Zhuge Weixue quietly appeared behind Zhuge Weijiu and asked softly.

The great military strategist Zhuge Wei sat on a sofa facing the window for a long time, leaning on his walking stick with both hands, enjoying the sunshine shining on his body through the glass, when he heard Zhuge Weixue's question, he just smiled and said: "Tell me Your opinion."

"Yes, Great Military Advisor," Zhuge Weixue said, "my brother believes that Suez guards the busiest shipping route in the world and is the most important canal in the world. Whoever controls this canal will control the flow of trade between the East and the West." Throat. So it should be firmly in our hands, not controlled by France."

Zhuge Weijiu smiled and said: "Your brother will definitely not have such a view. Although the Suez Canal is important, there are more wealth worthy of our possession under the feet of the Arabs! So we don't need to control the Suez Canal, but should control the Suez Canal. It goes to the French.

In this way, in the future, the Suez Canal will become a huge dispute between France and the Arab Empire.It is impossible for France, which regards the Mediterranean Sea as its own backyard, to hand over the canal to the Arab Empire!

And how could the Arab Empire tolerate the canals in their homes being firmly controlled by Catholics?At that time, Arabs and Europeans will definitely break out conflicts over the Suez Canal, and the Arab Empire will most likely not be able to defeat France. In addition, Algeria will be colonized and assimilated by France, and the contradictions between Arabs and French will eventually be difficult to reconcile!

As long as the war between the Arabs and the French never ends, we can profit from it and get everything we want! "

everything?
Zhuge Weixue didn't know what to say, what other valuable things could the Arab Empire have besides the Suez Canal?Have it?Is it an Arabian horse?

Zhuge Weijiu knew Zhuge Weixue's thoughts, so he smiled and said: "This is a secret, don't let it out, brother 88, I have always valued you very much, and there is no change now! And we Zhuge family members want to be Being a dragon and phoenix is ​​never the only way to become a military adviser. The consul general that I arranged for you to help Alexandria is a broad road to a successful career!"

It turned out that Zhuge Weixue had finally been promoted, and what he got was a position of consul general that was more important than most ambassadors stationed in foreign countries—the Consul General of Alexandria in Egypt.

Since Ali Pasha of Egypt was only the nominal governor of the Turkish Empire, he was actually no different from the king.The reason why he still pretends to be the governor of the Turkish Empire instead of the king of Egypt is actually to embezzle more land in the name of the civil war of the Turkish Empire in order to establish his own Arab Empire in the future.

The Ming Empire is almost the only powerful country that "sincerely" supports Ali Pasha - after all, other powerful countries in the world have great interests in the Mediterranean, and they either want to maintain the status quo and maintain the Turkish Empire.Either they want to take away the most valuable part of the Turkish Empire, and then smash the rest, and never want to see a newly rising empire inherit the legacy of the Turkish Empire.
Only the distant Ming Empire did not value the Mediterranean coastline owned by the Arab Empire and the sovereignty over the Suez Canal. What the Ming Empire valued was only those dark things under the sands of the Arabian Peninsula.

But Zhuge Weixue didn't know that there were treasures under the sands of the Arabian Peninsula, so he was still a little confused about his true mission.

"Master, what exactly is my brother going to do with Ali Pasha?"

After hearing this question, Zhuge Weijiu smiled and said, "Brother 88, you have only one task, which is to encourage and help Ali Pasha to borrow money from us...the more the better!"

"The more the better?" Zhuge Wei asked, "What if he still doesn't come out?"

"You don't need to think about it." Zhuge Weijiu said, "You just need to encourage him to borrow more... There is not much time left for him and us. He must arm Egypt as soon as possible, and he needs to train more soldiers." army."

"I understand!" Zhuge Weixue said, "The Great Army Master means that once the war starts in the future, Ali Pasha will send troops to cut off the Suez Canal!"

Zhuge Weijiu smiled: "Brother 88, from now on, you will be my senior diplomat of Ming Dynasty... You must act according to the instructions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, don't just make your own claims, and don't try to change the country's foreign policy. I The only things I can tell you are making friends with Ali Pasha and helping him borrow more money."

Zhuge Weixue nodded heavily: "Understood, my younger brother understands!"

Zhuge Weijiu smiled and said, "Then help the old man with the last thing, drafting a telegram for Beijing..."

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"Brother [-], it seems that the business of selling boats is not as easy as we imagined!"

Daming, Beijing, Admiralty Building, small meeting room.

Zhuge Weidao, who had just returned to Beijing from Shanghai, was attending an armaments conference of the Ministry of the Navy.

At the beginning of the meeting, Zhuge Weiyi let everyone read the telegram sent by Zhuge Weijiu from France.

Zhuge Weiyong read the telegram for a while, then snorted and said, "Louis XVII has settled down in a dilapidated household, yet he still doesn't like our hero... and wants a customized version, and the price is so low!"

Zhuge Weidao said with a smile: "The price is not low, and I gave 1088 million yuan...and the Mediterranean custom version should be a low-speed heavy artillery iron turtle, and the cost is not high.

Zhuge thought for a while, and said: "I think we can build a hero-class follow-up ship.

How about a standard displacement of 2.5 tons, a main engine of 2.6 horsepower, and a five-turret layout? "

"Okay, we can do it!" Zhuge Weiyong nodded, frowning and said: "But the delivery of this ship is late... What about the dozen heroes who are already on the berth?
By the way, Daozi, can the big order of Nicholas I be signed? "

It was the first time for Zhuge Weiyi and Zhuge Weiyong to sell warships, so they didn't have much confidence.

"Yes, of course I can." Zhuge Weidao still looked confident, and smiled, "There will be Marshal Louis of the French Navy with black hair, and the bitch Grand Duchess Natalie, and there may be another Grand Duke Mikhail, how could it be impossible?
And the hero-level lines in our hands are either already built, or they can be delivered soon.

For Nicholas I, who was eager to open up the situation in the direction of the Balkans, it was tantamount to sending charcoal in a timely manner.How is it possible not to?Even without Natalie and the others, most of the business can be negotiated. "

While Zhuge Weidao spoke confidently, he was still frowning.

Guan Tianpei, who was quite familiar with him, asked, "Daozi, do you think something is wrong?"

"This...is a little bit." Zhuge Weidao said, "The British are still taking too big a step. Is there anything weird about it? Besides, their strategy of uniting Western countries to build ships and exclude us is useless at all. No. On the contrary, they have exposed their cards! Wellington and Nelson are not only at this level, are they?"

"Daozi, don't think about it so much." Zhuge Weiyi said with a smile, "There is a black-haired Louis watching over us in France...the British can't play tricks."

Zhuge Weiyong also said: "That's right! This is a global battle, the situation is so big, a little bit of tricks and tricks are useless. Everyone is playing Yangmou, and they are playing bright cards.

And we are not without secret trump cards.

Daozi, when can the plane go to the sky?I heard you talk about this before the Spring Festival this year. "

"Soon, soon." Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "It's been bad these two days, it's always raining... When the weather is good, choose a sunny day, let's watch the plane take to the sky together!"

(End of this chapter)