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Chapter six hundred and thirty seventh distressed Li Ke

Egypt is the oldest ancient civilization in the world. It had a unified country more than 3,000 BC. However, unfortunately, after more than two thousand years of existence, Egypt was first destroyed by Persia, and then conquered by Greece and Rome respectively. Moreover, with the rise of Christianity, Egypt became the most important Christian country at that time.

It was also the rule of Persia, Greece and Rome that lasted for about a thousand years. During these thousand years, immigrants from the three countries moved to Egypt from time to time, which also changed the structure of Egypt's race. The original ancient Egyptians were originally yellow people, but after a thousand years, the Egyptians and the migrant white people were compatible with each other, causing the domestic race to gradually become the Mediterranean type of Europa, and the appearance did not look much different from the Romans.

In 640 AD, Egypt, which originally belonged to Rome, was once again occupied by the cannibals. In this era, Islam still held a relatively mild way in preaching and did not force the people under their rule to change their beliefs. However, these non-Islamic people need to pay an extra tax. If they do not pay, they must convert to Islam, otherwise they will be regarded as rebellion.

Although the above method seems gentle, it is actually very domineering, especially the extra tax, which makes many ordinary people overwhelmed and eventually has to change their original beliefs. After all, although faith is important, it cannot be used as a food. People are very realistic. It is impossible for everyone to live a life because of an illusory belief.

However, ordinary people can change their beliefs. Some people who originally benefited from religion are unwilling to lose their original status and wealth. Therefore, they try their best to fight against the religious invasion of the cannibals. Many even launched an uprising, and this situation is the most serious in Egypt.

After nearly a thousand years of rule by Greece and Rome, Christianity has already penetrated into all aspects of Egypt. In addition, although the Eastern Roman Empire could not defeat the Great Food on the battlefield, it at least had the power to protect itself, and was not almost destroyed like Persia. Therefore, the Eastern Roman Empire began to concentrate forces outside the battlefield and attack the Great Food's rule from all aspects.

It was also under this situation that some religious nobles in Egypt united and provoked large-scale uprisings in Egypt several times in the name of religion. Unfortunately, even the regular army of the Eastern Roman Empire was no match for the Dashi Army, let alone those who were temporarily organized, only had fanatical believers.

However, Dashi did not kill any arbitrary killings for these defeated uprisings. Because they discovered early on that the Tang Dynasty and Taiwan needed slaves very much, and even went to Africa to capture black slaves. This allowed Dashi merchants, who have always been known for their shrewdness, to see a way of wealth. In addition, Islam is a very favorable way for merchants, which has made many merchants have considerable influence on the Dashi government, so the prisoners of war captured by the army during the war will be sold to these merchants. Then these merchants sold them to the slave-catching team of Dashi.

It was precisely the practice of the Dashi merchants that not only saved many slave hunting teams a lot of effort, but also among the prisoners they provided, there were naturally the most white slaves in Egypt and other places.

"Pa~pa~" On a port along the Red Sea coast, a team of naked Egyptian slaves were driven to the dock, beside them. There were several supervisors holding whips and ferocious faces. These supervisors were whipping the slaves who were walking slowly from time to time, but the slaves did not dare to make a sound of missions. Otherwise, they would be even more cruel torture.

Next to these slaves and supervisors, a big food merchant and a Han merchant were talking fiercely. It seemed that they were talking about prices. The big food merchant also pulled a slave from time to time and smashed his fist at the other party's chest to prove how strong his slave was. Unfortunately, the Han merchant was also very smart. He shook his head from time to time to deny the other party's pricing.

The two of them quarreled for a long time, and finally finally negotiated the price. Then the Han merchants carried silver coins and copper coins from their ships. All of these were minted by the Qi Palace. However, even in the Red Sea area thousands of miles away, they were still hard currency in the shopping malls. No matter which country merchants were from, they were very welcome to trade with this kind of coins.

Looking at the transactions on the dock and the slaves who were staggering to the boat, Li Ke, who was standing on the bow of the boat, had a calm expression. Since they entered the Red Sea, this situation has been seen many times. In one transaction, the slaves actually rioted and killed several supervisors. However, soon the Dashi army stationed on the dock rushed over and slaughtered all the rioters of the slave envoys. The whole process was extremely bloody and cruel.

"Liu Lang said that this Egypt was also a powerful ancient country before, with a long history still above the Central Plains. Unfortunately, thousands of years later, not only the country was gone, but even the people would be ruled and oppressed by foreign races. Is there really no country in the world that will last forever?" Li Ke sighed at last.

"Your Highness is too worried. Now the Tang Dynasty is the root of our Han people, and its power is extremely strong. The King of Qi, King Jiang, and King Yue are the stems and leaves of our Han people. The business has also begun to sweep the world. Now, with Your Highness, I believe that the whole world will be ruled by our Han people in the future. Who can shake it?" Hearing Li Ke's sigh, Cen Changqian next to him retorted, his face full of confidence.

After hearing this, Li Ke thought seriously, and finally smiled and said, "It's still Changqian, you can see the general trend of Qing Dynasty. The whole world is only so big. My Tang Dynasty is in the center. Liulang now annexes the Southeast Asian and Australia. The two major Americas are also under his tiger's mouth. The seventh and eighth brothers also emerged in India, threatening West Asia and Africa. There are not many places left in the world. As long as I work harder, what else can threaten the foundation of our Han people in the future?"

However, after hearing this, Cen Changqian showed a wry smile and said, "Your Highness, King Qi and King Jiang, King Yue has expanded too quickly. Now the only ones for your highness to choose are America and Africa. Moreover, America is the first to discover that you cannot bear to take over the love of Your Highness of the King of Qi, and Africa is too close to King Jiang and King Yue, so you will inevitably become dirty with India in the future. This makes your Highness really difficult to choose."

Cui Changqian's words also made Li Ke smile bitterly. He definitely wouldn't want Australia, because Li Yan has invested too much effort in Australia and he doesn't want to take advantage of Li Yan. In addition, although America is big, Li Ke often heard Li Yan say a few years ago that he knew that it was the place Li Yan wanted the most, so if he chose America, he would definitely feel like he had snatched his brother's beloved things.

It is precisely because of this that Li Ke placed his last fair in Africa. However, after arriving in India, he suddenly realized that Africa was too close to India. If he had gained a foothold in Africa, although he could get help from Li Zhen and Li Yun in the early stage, the area of ​​India was not large. When Li Zhen and Li Yun annexed India, they would likely turn their fingers to Africa. At that time, their brothers would likely have friction, which Li Ke would not want to see.

"There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. Liulang said that America is extremely vast. With his current strength, it cannot be completely occupied without hundreds of years. If this is true, I might as well occupy a small area in the Americas and develop slowly." Li Ke finally sighed again.

Seeing Li Ke’s distressed look, Cen Changqian shook her head helplessly, then changed the topic and said: “I wonder how Brother Wang and his fleet are doing. Will those big cannibals release those warships?”

This time when Li Ke and his friends went to the Mediterranean, they divided the fleet into two parts. Among them, Lu Wan's fleet plus some ordinary ships in Li Ke's hands were in front of them. Each ship was filled with various cargo, which looked no different from ordinary Han merchant ships, while Li Ke disguised himself as an ordinary merchant and mixed in the fleet.

In addition, Li Ke also borrowed four warships from Li Yan without authorization, as well as some supply ships, etc. It is obviously not easy for these warships to pass through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. However, Cen Changqian came up with a solution, which was to make people impersonate Li Yan's envoy to visit Eastern Rome, and then escorted by four warships. As for the candidates who impersonate the envoy, Wang Fangyi was finally acting as the ones. Now this envoy fleet is a hundred miles behind Li Ke and the others.

"Don't worry about this. Dashi is now being suppressed by Datang and Liulang, and he dare not make things difficult for the envoy sent by Liulang. Besides, Fang Yi is also a calm person. He will definitely not have any problems if he pretends to be an envoy." Li Ke said without any worries.

Cen Changqian naturally knew that Dashi didn't dare to make things difficult for the envoy of the Qi Prince's Mansion. He just wanted to divert Li Ke's attention. Now that his goal has been achieved, he just chatted a few times to make Li Ke no longer think about those troubles.

"Your Highness, this is the last part of the Red Sea. Today we will rest in a harbor for one night and we will enter the Suez Canal tomorrow." While Li Ke and Cen Changqian were chatting, Lu Wan from the captain's room came out and smiled.

"Oh, it's great. I've heard that the Suez Canal is important and has been opened thousands of years ago. The project volume is comparable to the Grand Canal in the Central Plains. You must see it carefully this time!" Li Ke said happily after hearing this.

"In fact, the length of the Suez Canal is only one-small part of the Grand Canal. However, because this canal connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, huge sea ships need to pass through it. Therefore, this canal is much wider and deeper than the Grand Canal in the Central Plains. After calculation, the project volume is still not as good as the Grand Canal in the Central Plains!" Lu Wan smiled.

In fact, Lu Wan originally wanted to say that the Grand Canal in the Central Plains led to the demise of the former Sui Dynasty, but the Egyptians built this canal more peacefully. However, thinking that Li Ke was the grandson of Emperor Yang, he did not say it out loud, but instead praised the Grand Canal.
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