Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1572, the opening of the canal, the daily income of ten thousand gold
More than a month later.

At the canal construction site near Port Said, the northernmost section of the Egyptian Canal, hundreds of thousands of workers participated in the construction of the Egyptian Canal gathered together. Many officials and nobles from the Mamluk Kingdom of Egypt also came to participate in the official opening ceremony of the Egyptian Canal.

The scene was full of flags, lanterns and festoons, and the brains were extraordinary.

At the same time, here in Port Said, hundreds of merchant ships preparing to go to the Red Sea through the canal have already been waiting. The opening of the Egyptian Canal means that the voyage from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean will be greatly reduced, and at the same time it will become safer. Word spread that a large number of ships chose to take this safe route.

Kansu II is wearing gorgeous clothes, with a bag on his head, inlaid with precious gemstones in the middle, and holding a scepter symbolizing power and status in his hand.

Today is a day recorded in the annals of history. The Egyptian canal was officially dug and opened to navigation. This is undoubtedly a big event for Egypt, and even for the entire human civilization.

Because of the opening of this canal, it greatly facilitated the trade between the east and the west. From then on, Europe went to the far east, no longer needed to detour through the dangerous Atlantic Ocean, and could go directly to the Indian Ocean and the rich east through the Mediterranean Sea.

Tong Yuan was wearing a crimson Daming official mansion, and represented Daming to participate in this navigation celebration.

"Dig through~"

With Kansu II's order, someone quickly started to ignite the fire, and with the burning of the fuse, it was soon here at the last little distance.

"Boom~"

There was a deafening explosion, and the last bit of sand blocking the sea was instantly blasted away. Amidst the billowing smoke and dust, the sea water of the Mediterranean Sea began to pour into the canal crazily, like a rushing river.

"Haha, finally dug through, finally dug through~"

Immediately, all the people participating in the celebration cheered, especially the hundreds of thousands of canal workers who participated in the excavation.

After several years of hard work, the canal was finally dug through. The sea water filled the canal in a blink of an eye, and a waterway appeared in this barren desert, and it continued to spread towards the south.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, this is definitely a moment worthy of being recorded in history!"

Tong Yuan smiled and sent blessings to Kansu II.

"Congratulations, congratulations~"

Kansu II is also full of smiles, the canal is finally opened, and from now on, you can sit and collect money. I don’t know how many ships come and go every year, and you can collect millions of taels a year casually. .

Being able to have such a huge income every year will make life much better in the future. At least, there is no need to worry about money anymore.

With money, many things can be done. If you want to build a strong army, build infrastructure, expand abroad, etc., there is no problem. If you have money, you can do things easily, but if you don’t have money, you can do everything. can not do this.

Tong Yuan and Kansu II were looking at the canal and chatting. On the other side, at the entrance of the canal and Port Said, ships preparing to pass through the canal also began to pay navigation fees, preparing to go to the Red Sea through the Egyptian canal.

The flags of the Ming Empire were basically hung on each of the ships, and many of them were hung with the flags of various colonies and vassal states. The most were slave ships, which transported slaves from the Mediterranean Sea to Daming for sale.

"Damn~ why don't you go grab the money, just cross the canal, and you want a thousand taels of silver!"

"Yes, yes, one thousand taels of silver, isn't that too expensive?"

"can it be cheaper?"

The captains looked at the posted notice. The notice was clearly written in both Arabic and Chinese. The single voyage fee for large ships was [-] taels of silver, for medium-sized ships it was [-] taels of silver, and for small ships it ranged from [-] to [-] taels of silver. .

Such an expensive navigation fee immediately made these captains scream one by one.

Especially the captain of the big sailing ship was very painful. It was just one thousand taels of silver to cross the canal once, which was really too expensive.

"If you think it's too expensive, don't go through here. In order to dig this canal, we spent more than [-] million taels of silver. Do you think we are here for charity?"

The Egyptian Canal Trading Company is responsible for the operation and management of the canal, and the management model of the Egyptian Canal Trading Company is based on the relatively mature business operation mode of Ming Dynasty.

The supervision, management, and operation are jointly carried out by the Ming people and the Egyptians. The most important part of the canal revenue is jointly supervised by both parties, and finally shared equally.

So the people sitting here collecting money are composed of Daming people and Egyptians, so arrogant, there is no doubt that they must be Daming people.

"Having said that, it's too expensive."

"One thousand taels of silver, we can't make much money even if we take a boat trip here."

"Yeah, yeah, it's cheaper, it's cheaper. For you, there is no cost or loss. The canal is dug and you just sit and collect money."

"I've loved it, but the price is right here. It's bad luck to meet you guys who are bargaining for this opening!"

The people of the Egyptian Canal Firm are naturally bullish.

The Egyptian Canal Trading Company is now one of the most valuable trading companies in Ming Dynasty. The shares of the trading company have been copied to more than [-] taels a share, and the market value is as high as more than [-] billion taels.

The people of the Egyptian Canal Trading Company are naturally full of bullshit.

"Yes, yes~ Of course I must."

"You guys at the Egyptian Canal Trading Company are really smart like ghosts. This fee is considered deadly, but we have to pay it."

There is no way, the captains of these ships can only pay for their money one after another.

Although the navigation fee is not cheap, large sailing ships cost one thousand taels of silver, but for sea-going ships like them, doing business at sea is extremely profitable, and one thousand taels of silver is nothing, it’s just casual If you can't make a big tens of thousands of taels for a trip, it will be considered a loss.

What's more, after the opening of the Egyptian Canal, it can greatly shorten the voyage and save time. For them, the time and distance saved are also money.

And if you take a detour, there are still great risks, especially if you go to the Cape of Good Hope, the wind and waves are very strong, and ships have accidents there every year.

They are very willing to take this safe, convenient and fast route, even if they have to pay a lot of tolls.

After paying the navigation fee one after another, the large ships received tens of thousands of taels of silver in just a short while, and a large box full of white Ming silver dollars filled the eyes of the Egyptian officials who supervised and managed it. It started to shine.

The feeling of sitting and collecting money is really cool, and the money comes too fast.

Think about your poor salary, think about the fields under your command, even if those farmers pay all the food to themselves, they can't sell it for a little money at all, how can they collect money as fast as they are now? , It's comfortable to come.

"Country bumpkin~"

Seeing the shining eyes of these Egyptians, the Daming people on the side couldn't help but despise them.

Isn't it just tens of thousands of taels of silver, just enough to buy hundreds of shares of the Egyptian Canal stock, what's so great about it, not to mention that half of it belongs to us Daming people.

Contempt is contempt, the feeling of sitting and collecting money is of course very good.

Looking at the people queuing up outside to apply for the same company, this mood is refreshing.

Here on the canal, the celebration is still going on.

On the built stage, singing and dancing, the beautiful Egyptian dancers twisted their graceful bodies, which made the Egyptian officials, nobles and Ming people present applaud continuously.

"Clang~clang~"

At this time, with the ringing of bells, the singing and dancing also stopped. Everyone looked at the mouth of the canal, and saw a large sailboat slowly sailing into the spacious canal, accompanied by the still rolling water. The sea water sailed towards the south of the canal.

"Tranquility~"

The flags of the Ming Empire and the Ning State were hoisted on the galleon, and looking at the large characters on the ship, everyone immediately knew that this ship was a slave ship belonging to the Ning State.

Everyone can even see that the deck of the "Tranquility" slave ship is full of unkempt slaves. These white slaves come from all over Europe. Big celebration.

Of course they didn't know what happened here, but their eyes were full of curiosity and doubts. They were just slaves, and it seemed that there was no need to greet them with such a formation.

"Oh~"

"It's sailing, it's sailing~"

On both sides of the canal, hundreds of thousands of people cheered continuously as they watched the "Silence" moving slowly.

This made the slaves on the ship even more confused. They didn't know why, and they didn't understand what happened.

Of course they don't know what all this means.

The historians and reporters from the Daming Newspaper who were recording this period of history at the side would not care about the slaves on the slave ship, nor would they use even a single word to record these slaves.

Only the three characters of "Tranquility" will be written into history along with Kansu II, Tong Yuan and so on.

(End of this chapter)