Chapter 1632: Suez Canal News

The news of the alliance between Egypt and Persia was quickly passed back by Gutz through the pigeons. Gutz's pigeons flew to Italy, and then the information was sent back to the country by the Italian North Sea Intelligence Station.

After receiving the information, Marin was half happy and half depressed. Why depressed? Because the Egyptians compete with him for Persian warhorse!

Persian horses are not fake, but the customer in Egypt is in great demand. There are tens of thousands of Mamluk cavalry, and there is a great demand for horses. With a large number of purchases by the Egyptians, it would be difficult for Marin to buy Persian warhorse at a reduced price, and it would cost a lot of money.

Of course, this price must be much cheaper than the price of European war horses. You know, a good European knight warhorse, the price is as high as about 100 gold coins. This price is too expensive. Therefore, it is good to be a knight. Not to mention the knight's martial arts problem, that is to prepare the war horse and weapon armor, ordinary people have no conditions. You must have a manor as a backing to be able to raise a knight.

Right now, Marin can buy war horses in large quantities from the Crimean Khanate. But the Eastern European Mongolian horses of the Crimean Khanate (similar to later Hippo) are slightly smaller. Moreover, in addition to the advantages of Mongolian horses' endurance and hardship, other advantages are not outstanding.

But Persian horses are different. Do n’t look at later generations. Persian horses are not well-known. That is because the religious Persian severed contact with the outside world, which led to the fact that their horse breeds were not valued.

In fact, Persian horses are mixed not only with the bloodline of a large number of Arabian horses, but also with the bloodline of sweating horses of Central Asia. In terms of lineage, although Bosma confuses a bit, it is very good.

The mixed-breed horse of this bloodline, although it is also a medium-sized horse, is bigger than the Eastern European Mongolian horse. Moreover, from the advantages of Arabian horses, they are faster than Eastern Mongolian horses. After all, the Mongolian horse series is never good at speed, only endurance.

For Marin, the best horse option is actually the Arabian horse. However, the climate conditions of the pure Arabian horse producing area are very harsh, and the desert is everywhere, which is very unsuitable for the survival of livestock. Therefore, the number has not gone up. Even if Marin wants to buy, there are not so many.

Therefore, he can only retreat second, and buy a lot of Persian horses with more Arabian horse origin from Persia. Even Mawarima, a specialty of India, has a lot of Arabian horse ancestry. This is because the people in northwestern India are basically conquerors from Persia and Afghanistan. When they conquered India, they also brought the blood of Arabian horses to India.

Originally, Marin had the opportunity to slash prices. After all, no one ever bought a Persian horse. But with the addition of Egypt, a powerful agricultural country, it's tricky. If there are Egyptians making proofs there, Marin will not be able to lower prices. At least, it cannot be lower than the Egyptians ...

But Marin is not easy to say, because the Egyptian army is strong, Marin can only be happy. After all, if Turkey is allowed to annex Egypt, which has developed agriculture, it will be bad.

Don't look at Egypt, it is possible to engage in agriculture in a Nile river basin, and all other areas are deserts. But the land in the Nile River Basin is fertile and sunny. In later generations, Egypt relied on the agricultural area of ​​the Nile River Basin, which actually fed more than 100 million people, which was very scary. Of course, that's the Egyptian population exceeding the standard. However, under normal circumstances, it is not a problem to feed tens of millions of people in the agricultural areas of the Nile River basin in Egypt. Now, the population of Egypt is only about 4.5 million, far from reaching the upper limit. What's more, Egypt's Mamluk dynasty also controlled Syria, a traditional agricultural region in the Middle East.

It was precisely because of the annexation of a large number of agricultural areas in Egypt that the original history of Turkey opened an era of terror with hundreds of thousands of soldiers. There is no agricultural area in Egypt, and only a small amount of grain produced by European farmers in the Balkan peninsula, Turkey sent a maximum of 100,000 people. No matter how much, I can't afford it.

What's more, Egypt also controls Mecca in the Hanzhi area on the east coast of the Red Sea, and also controls the caliphate, the supreme leader of the Green Church. If Egypt is finished, Turkey can not only control Mecca, the holy city of green religion, but also win the caliphate and become the undisputed leader of the green religion. In the history of history, after taking over Cairo, the Turkish sultan took the title of the caliphate and became the leader of the green religion world.

How much influence does this have? In later generations, Turkey has become a hanging wire, and it still thinks that it is the leader of the green religion world. Even, they also supported the terrorist forces of East China, as if they were the leader of the green religion. And their theoretical basis is that the Turkish Sultan has been a caliph for hundreds of years. Therefore, they believe that green believers all over the world should listen to local chickens ...

Therefore, Marin did not want Turkey to occupy Egypt and the Hanzhi area where Mecca was located. If Turkey really came to Egypt, Marin even planned to send troops directly to rescue Egypt. Of course, this is in the case of danger in Egypt. If only losing Syria, Marin is too lazy to control. Almost forgot, Marin still had the title of "Duke of Egypt" on the Byzantine Empire ...

However, because Egypt and the North Sea are too far apart, Marin can't really take it into account. Otherwise, he wanted to win this region with developed agriculture and important geographical location.

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In Guz ’s letter, he mentioned not only the alliance between Egypt and Persia, but also the development of the Suez Canal.

At the beginning, in order to regain the right of India's spice trade, at the suggestion of Marin, the Venetians joined forces with the Egyptian Mamluk dynasty to start the excavation of the Suez Canal on the Sinai Peninsula.

But in the absence of construction machinery, how difficult is it to dig a canal that can pass large ships? Although the Sui Dynasty dug a Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal that shocked the world, it lost people's hearts and drained its finances. Then, this Grand Canal was cheaper in the Tang Dynasty, and created the prosperity of the later Tang and Song Dynasties.

In short, in this era when canal digging is purely artificial, the process of canal excavation is definitely not beautiful, but full of blood and brutality ...

To the best of Marin's knowledge, the Suez Canal was funded by the Venetians, and the Egyptian Mamluk dynasty dispatched manpower to dig a canal regardless of death or injury.

At present, the Suez Canal, 190 kilometers long, has been dug up about 100 kilometers. However, in order to dig the river, 100,000 workers have died in Egypt. On average, the number of deaths per kilometer is as high as thousands, which is higher than the original death rate during the 19th century excavation in history.

Because of the high mortality rate, the Egyptian people have been very resistant to participate in digging the canal. In some places, there have been armed riots that prevented people from being recruited to dig canals. Therefore, the current excavation of the Egyptian canal has been forced to suspend.

According to Guz, the Egyptian Mamluk dynasty was also stunned. One can't make it ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ may detonate the popular uprising.

Marin was reluctant to see Egypt because of civil strife, and gave Turkey a cheap opportunity to eliminate Egypt. Thinking about it, Marin finally decided to help the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt with an idea ...

What idea? Waging war to catch foreigners to dig canals ...

Egypt's own people refused to die, so they directly dispatched the Mamluk cavalry to plunder people around Egypt and arrest Zhuangding to dig the canal.

For example, the Tripoli area to the west, Libya, is a descendant. Although it has a small population, it can still return tens of thousands of soldiers by sending cavalry to clean it up. Moreover, they can take the opportunity to annex the land. Not to mention, it is no problem to get more war Malay. After all, it used to belong to the Arab Empire, and there are many Arabian horses. Although the local tribes also have cavalry, in the face of the powerful Mamluk cavalry, the opponent is bound to be vulnerable ...

If there are not enough people, you can also send troops to the Finge Kingdom to the south to catch people! The Kingdom of Finge is located in the later Republic of Sudan and belongs to the black country. The characteristic of black people is that they can live, and there must be a large population. Moreover, the Sudan area is located in the middle of the Nile River. The natural conditions are excellent, and the population must be more than Libya. After all, Libya is just a dry and hairless land, and the Egyptians disdain to seize it ...