In the main hall of Suez City Lord, Wen Shen sat on the chair of Master Zitan, glanced at Feng Ming and others opposite him, and asked: "How is the construction of the canal in the past two months?"

"Last month, an unidentified army came to attack us, but we were repelled by us. Now the city is in short supply. If you don't come, we plan to go out and grab the food!"

"When I left, I left you a lot of gold and silver, why didn't I buy some!" Wen Shen was stunned, feeling a little uninspiring.

"If you have money, you have to buy it. There is a desert within a hundred miles of this place. Only Ismailia, the city in the north, has a large amount of food sold. Then due to the war, and most of the labor force was pulled to build the canal, the grain planting was abandoned, and there is a shortage of food everywhere. Now, people among the prisoners of war starve to death every day."

Wenshen took out his tablet computer and carefully studied the Suez Canal data. He found that the city of Suez is indeed a place where birds do not shit, and it cannot maintain the supply of tens of thousands of adults.

Looking at Ismailia in the middle of the canal, he sighed in his heart: "It seems that Britain and France have placed the canal headquarters here and digging it to both sides from now on."

"Let's do it, tomorrow you clean up and take all the craftsmen and prisoners of war to Ismailia, and it might be better to dig south there."

...

The next day, two hundred soldiers and five hundred slaves were left to guard the city of Suez. The others carried prisoners of war, carried shovels, shovels and other tools, and headed north to Ismailia.

After two days of march, the team arrived in Ismailia. Wenshen summoned the craftsman heads brought from Yizhou and asked, "Along the way, you have learned everything about the situation here. Tell me, how to build it as fast as possible."

The leader was a middle-aged man about 35 years old. He stepped forward and replied: "From the port to the desert, it is basically a desert. If you want to build a canal here, you will have to use a large number of civilians. This supply is probably a problem, especially water."

Wenshen smiled and said, "You are talking about a key issue." Then, he hung a high-definition map for the soldiers to hang on the wall, "Come on, let's take a look." He pointed to the location of the Nile River, "This is a big river. I plan to build a canal from here to bring the water from the big river to here, and then build a water channel along the canal to Suez City in the south and Port Said in the north."

The man looked at the map and thought for a while and said, "Our family, this suggestion is good. From now on, we can build a water diversion canal by about two hundred miles from the river. I just don't know where people asked us to build a water diversion canal?"

Wen Shen waved his hand, "I'll solve this problem!"

"There are only 500 craftsmen with us. It is impossible for them to do everything yourself. The boss needs to provide more civilians in many things." The man bowed.

"I'll do this!"

In order to swear sovereignty, Wenshen named Dumyat as Xiguan City, Suez City as Xiaguan City, Said Port as Shangguan City, and Ismailia as Zhongzhou, managing the entire Middle Eastern territory. At the same time, some craftsmen were divided into Zhongzhou to build government offices, and their architectural style was completely Chinese-style architecture.

...

After dealing with the matter in Zhongzhou, Wenshen came to Xiguan City and saw the dense ships on the port and the bustling crowds of people. He was shocked and thought to himself: "I haven't come for two or three months, and the population has increased several times! Is it because the advertisement for recruiting labor at high prices working?"

When he came to the city lord's hall, he saw Zhang Long talking to a few white men, so he signaled to Zhang Long not to worry about him and continue working.

"General Zhang, I have more than 20 teams and more than 2,000 people, among which many skilled craftsmen can fully contract the construction of Said Port!" a white man said loudly.

"I have more men, faster construction speeds, and cheaper prices." Another white man said without showing any weakness.

Wen Shen smiled and thought to himself: "Isn't this a bidding? This guy Zhang Long can do it. You can even try this method."

Zhang Long looked at the white man who was verbally fighting and shouted: "Okay! There are so many projects here, and you don't know how to compete. However, the construction of Said Port is crucial, so you two will build it together."

When the two white men heard this, they immediately smiled happily and said in unison: "I don't know, how much is the price?"

"Tonight, you go back and make a quote for me and show me tomorrow." Zhang Long looked at the two of them coldly, "I would like to remind you that if I was cheated, you would die very ugly."

After driving away the white people, Zhang Long saluted and said, "You are here! You saw it just now. I annoy these white people every day."

Wen Shen smiled and said, "You did a good job just now. We saved a lot of trouble by giving them the project!"

"Isn't this a force yet? We have only a few people in total. We definitely can't do it ourselves. It's not enough to manage others to repair it. We can only hand it over to others in the form of contracting. In the end, we just need to accept the money."

"Tell me, how far has the project been progressing?"

Zhang Long scratched his scalp and said ashamedly: "The preparations have been underway during this period, but they have not really started yet. However, the preparations are almost done, and the construction will be started in ten days. Moreover, a large number of Western Europeans came here by boat, providing sufficient labor. The charm of this silver is really great."

"It's good that we lack anything but money. You spend it boldly. If you have no money, send me a telegram and I will send you as soon as possible."

Next, Wenshen briefly introduced the two ships "Laiyuan" and "Jingyuan" and the place name, and asked him to send someone to Zhongzhou to collect steel tools, hoping to speed up the progress of their project.

...

In order to strengthen the connections between the South and the West, Wenshen decided to open Xiaguan City to sail through Ading Port, Ceylon, Xingzhou, Cham City, Yaxian, Quanzhou to Yizhou. Each ship was escorted by two hundred soldiers.

Wenshen returned to Yizhou, took a hot bath, lay on the bed, and slept beautifully. After waking up, he saw the three girls sitting in front of the bed. Seeing him, he suddenly felt a sudden stern and thought to himself: "Why did you sleep like this this time? If the opponent sneaked in, you won't know how you died."

When the three girls saw Wen Shen's face change, they asked, "What's wrong with my husband? Are we disturbing you to sleep?"

Wen Shen thought for a moment and smiled in his heart: "Maybe it's because I'm too suspicious. One of the big reasons why I slept like this is because I feel safe here. If I'm not safe, I will definitely not sleep so hard."

Thinking of this, he smiled and stood up to hug one, "How could he bother me?" As he said that, he reached into Cecilia Cheung's arms and touched the two huge balls.

...

After finishing, Wenshen lay on the boat, remembering the events of the Song Dynasty, and felt that the development had already started to be on the right track and he could have a good rest.

"My husband, what are you thinking?" Wang Xiu asked softly, touching Wen Shen's white and tender chest.

"You and I have been with me for many years and haven't gone out to play for a while. I don't have much work next. Why don't you take you out to play?"

"Really?" The three girls were surprised.

The next day, after sending his three sons to the academy, Manshi took his three wives to Osaka Castle, Japan.

"Honey, why did you come here in the blink of an eye? Where is this?" Cecilia Cheung looked around with a puzzled look on her face and asked in confusion.

"This is a villa I built in Japan, how is it quite exquisite!"

When the four of them left the courtyard, they saw white cherry blossoms blooming on the bank of the moat, forming a white ocean, which looked extremely beautiful.

"So beautiful!" the three of them sighed at the same time.

Wenshen saw the crowds of people opposite the moat, and pointed at the cherry blossoms on the shore. It seemed that they were here to enjoy the cherry blossoms. The four of them walked and admired them, and soon they arrived at the bridge connecting the inner city and the outer city.

Tao Gongyun took a few people to stand on the bridge to prevent anyone from entering the inner city.

"National Master! When did you come?" He saw Wen Shen and hurried over and bowed.

"It didn't take long, the cherry blossoms were blooming well! By the way, why are there so many people in the outer city?"

"The national teacher doesn't know that since Osaka Castle was set up as a free port, a large number of merchants and Japanese have entered the outer city to buy land and build houses. I estimate that the population of the outer city is more than 30,000!"

Wen Shen touched his chin and said coldly: "I remember only giving you two hundred acres of indicators. How could you put so many people down?"

"The National Master, we sold 200 acres of land to 200 households, with a total of more than 2,000 people. The others built many houses outside the city and lived in it. During the day, they returned to the city to do business and business. So, no one dared to touch those in the city. In addition, 200 acres bought a total of 2 million taels of silver. Since you have never come and have not settled the wages for us, we will use this batch of silver for the time being, but don't worry, you can deduct this part from the wages." Tao Gongyun said carefully.
Chapter completed!