It seems that summer is gone, and it is not a good choice. Gao Xu and Miao Jin got off the plane and were waiting for the bus outside Cairo Airport. He immediately felt that he was in a big steamer and sweat was immediately emerging.

The person he admired the most at this time was Miao Jin around her. She was wearing tight clothes, lace-up leather shoes, canvas trousers, a wide cotton long-sleeved shirt, a sun hat, sunglasses, and a mask. She almost didn't show any skin except her hands.

"Are you okay?" Gao Xu asked kindly.

Miao Jin looked slightly, looked at him in sunglasses, and said weakly: "The heart is calm and naturally cool."

Gao Xu seems to have said this sentence many times.

Finally, a Ming-Chinese "Shanhu" brand off-road vehicle came over. When I was contacting me by phone, the hotel said that the person who picked up the aircraft was driving a Shanhu off-road vehicle. Sure enough, a sign was extended in the window, with Liu Gang written in Chinese characters on it.

The two of them immediately walked over.

A middle-aged Ming Dynasty man in his forties or fifties walked out of the car. His face was dark and yellow and his wrinkles were obvious, but his facial lines were firm and his body was very strong. He was wearing a gray Ming army uniform without a badge.

"Yang Kui." The middle-aged man reached out and said simply.

Gao Xu shook hands with him: "Liu Gang."

The middle-aged man looked at Miao Jin again, "Sorry, the parking lot is too far from here, so I couldn't get into the airport to pick you up."

"It's okay, I'll come out after taking a few steps." Gao Xu said.

At this moment, a strange young woman came over and asked in a dialect accent, "Are you from the Ming Dynasty?"

"Yes." Yang Kui replied.

The young woman took out a few small amounts of Mingguo money and said anxiously: "Can you please take me to the city? The hotel said that traffic jams are in, and I'll wait for almost an hour here."

Yang Kui looked at Gao Xu, and Gao Xu said, "Why do you take her for a ride?"

"Get into the car." Yang Kui said.

The four of them got into the car one after another, and Yang Kui drove away, but did not collect the money, claiming that he had received the reward.

The woman seemed to have improved and said in the car: "I read the guide and didn't dare to take the taxi here alone. I must be touched in the car, but I was even more afraid of something serious. I had made an appointment with my companion, but she didn't go there for the time being. I wanted to see the pyramids and temples, so I had to come alone."

Gao Xu asked casually: "Can regular taxis be like this?"

Miao Jin's voice next to him said, "It's a little better than Yindu."

While driving, Yang Kui echoed: "Yes, it's usually just touching and looking. The most common thing is to ask for more money. There are still not many crimes. Locals will not think that harassing women is right, and there are essential differences."

Gao Xu asked, "When we were waiting for the car just now, we saw a white woman getting into the taxi alone."

Yang Kui smiled and said, "Some women come here just to meet the beauty. The local young handsome guys are not picky about food. How to say it, because of customs and culture, they are a bit depressed in that aspect. And some of them are immigrants from southern Europe and Greece, which is more in line with the taste of Western women."

"Master Yang has been here for a long time?" Gao Xu asked again.

Yang Kui sighed, "It's almost twenty years. At first I served in the Suez Canal Military Camp, and after I retired, I applied for a security guard at the embassy. Later, the owner of the Mingzi Hotel poached me and had a good salary. I changed my career to do this again. My wife and children are here, but my son has returned to China after he became an adult."

He said this, turned his head and looked at Gao Xu more, with a look in his eyes, "I received this business from the embassy staff."

Gao Xu also knew that the Wei family had contacted an acquaintance in the embassy.

The hotel is located in the wealthy area southeast of Cairo, but the woman who took the ride had to go to the city center, so the car first took a detour and then got stuck there.

There were many people walking on the street. The signs they were holding were Arabic letters. Gao Xu couldn't understand them, and he didn't know why they were demonstrating. He saw from the car window, and his eyes were covered with a large piece of yellowish gray, as if everything was shrouded in a color, and the sky was filled with dust. The streets and roads were full of garbage, the difference was that the debris on the roadside were piled up. Many unfinished buildings were like areas where war had just happened.

This is what Mr. Pan said. Gao Xu immediately suspected that the guy had never been here.

Of course, Gao Xu didn't say it. When he went to other countries, he would seem impolite if he was casually disliked everything. Although there were no locals in the car, he hadn't said much, so was Miaojin. It was very boring for a while in the car.

The woman who took the car said, "I don't feel anything in China. I thought the city should be like that. I went out and saw how clean and tidy the streets in Daming were."

Yang Kui smiled and said, "I often hear this. Last time, a traveler said, "If you want to be patriotic, go abroad more often. However, there are good people and bad people in every place. Be careful. Most of the locals are still very good, especially to Ming people."

The woman said, "I just want to see the pyramids and temples, which are very magical and mysterious."

"Why are there so many unfinished buildings in the city center?" Gao Xu asked.

Yang Kui said: "It is intentionally not repaired. Local laws have property taxes, but there is a loophole. Houses that have not been repaired cannot be taxed."

The woman asked, “Can’t the law be revised?”

Yang Kui turned his head and said, "Sister thinks that all the principal governments are as efficient and honest as the Ming Dynasty? Multiple forces will compete with each other, and it is not easy to solve one thing. Let me tell you, in some places, it will take half a century to deal with criminal cases. How dare you imagine it?"

"The process of chaotic game may lead to a perfect rule of law with checks and balances, or it may become a stagnant water." Gao Xu said casually.

No one could take his words, only Miao Jin looked at Gao Xu sideways.

There were many kinds of vehicles with different wheel counts and congestion for a long time. Yang Kui found an alley, drove in from the narrow and messy alley, and began to detour. Gao Xu suddenly became more confident in this man, and it seemed that Yang Kui was very familiar with the situation.

After a long struggle, he finally took the passengers to the entrance of a hotel. The three of them drove towards the southeast suburbs of the city. When they arrived at the hotel, the beautiful modern and Arabic buildings made Gao Xu feel as if he had come to another world, like an oasis in the desert. However, the same place is still hot. Maybe there are not fifty degrees outdoors, but it is definitely time to reach forty degrees.

Yang Kui asked: "There is a pyramid of Khufu on your itinerary. Do you want to hire a professional tour guide?"

"Let's talk about it later." Gao Xu said. Perhaps because he was away, Gao Xu was more cautious than when he was in China. He was used to it back then that the people around him could not be a party member. So he didn't want the tour guide recommended by Yang Kui.

Gao Xu pinched a stack of banknotes from his pocket, folded it gently and pressed it into the palm of his hand with his thumb, stretched out his hand and said, "Thank you today."

When shaking hands, Yang Kui was stunned for a moment and said politely: "It should be, it should be."

The Mingzi Hotel has good conditions, and the main building of the guest rooms is very high, which should be the tallest building nearby. Gao Xu and Miaojin's suites are on the 16th floor, and a waiter helps them with big bags and suitcases. The Chinese business adheres to domestic customs, and the floors with six and eight are the most expensive.

The suite is equipped with utensils for making local black tea and tools for making coffee and tea. Gao Xu blew the air conditioner and made a pot of tea, and half-lying on the sofa with Miaojin to rest.

After pouring the tea, he walked to the glass and looked at a large yellow-gray urban area in the distance.

Gao Xu said a little disappointedly: "The Ming army defeated the Mamuliuk forces and entered for four hundred years. I thought the local area could be well managed."

Miao Jin's voice said: "It's not too bad now. The situation should not be blamed entirely on the local government. The population here is 80 to 90 million, the area of ​​arable land is too small, and foreign exchange is needed to purchase grain and products. There is no decent industry. The small export of oil is also a drop in the bucket. There is a saying that it is hard to cook without rice."

"The ownership of the Suez Canal seems to have been returned to the government?" Gao Xu said.

Miao Jin nodded and said, "The income has been returned to the country long ago."

She sat on the sofa and drank tea and said slowly: "The Ming Dynasty has never directly ruled here. When you were to garrison the troops to build rivers and support the locals to be kings. Later, the same was true for the Emperors of the Ming Dynasty ascended the throne. When the First World War broke out, the Ming Dynasty was in the midst of internal war, and there was only one fortress left in Yiji. For a period of time, it completely lost control of Yiji's country. Franji (France) and the British forces had come.

After World War I, the Ming army recovered this place, and after World War II, a revolution broke out in the area. The Ming Dynasty then gave up its direct intervention against Yiji and left only the ownership of the Suez Canal. Later, through negotiations and signing treaties, it gave up its ownership of the Suez Canal; instead, through the form of an international peace alliance, it obtained some power including toll pricing on the grounds of public waterway safety.

After all, the canal was built by us. Now the revenue of the Suez Canal is owned by the main palace. It is natural for the Ming Dynasty to retain some of its power. In addition to ensuring the smooth flow of the East and West, the Ming Dynasty did not directly plunder and seize wealth from the local area."

Gao Xu asked: "What happened overseas during World War I? I read a lot of books that were written in a very general way."

Miao Jin smiled and said, "Aren't we going to the Donggang Fortress ruins? Let's talk slowly along the way."

Gao Xu nodded: "That's OK."

After saying that, she took out an instrument from her backpack and started testing in the bathroom and everywhere. Gao Xu said curiously: "The Ming-funded enterprises seem to be quite standardized, not that bad, right?"

Miao Jin did not respond, so she checked it and then went to take a shower and change her clothes.
Chapter completed!