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Chapter 1818 One Hundred Thousand Laborers
During the mission's visit to Port Said in the northern section of the Suez Canal, they suddenly heard loud shouts outside, and there were quite a few of them.

"Governor Liu, why are there noises in the port?" Chu Lingyun asked.

As the governor of Port Said, Liu Zhong's face changed slightly, as if he was disturbed by the sudden incident in Port Said when the envoys arrived.

This group of envoys will return to the capital soon, and if news of what happened under his rule as the Governor of Port Said is reported to the capital, then his reputation may be discredited.

But what exactly happened, he really didn't know.It stands to reason that nothing major has happened in Port Said recently.

Seeing the suspicious expressions of the members of the envoy, he said to the envoy in order to show that there is no problem with the Port Said he managed, "Let's go out together to see what happened."

Chu Lingyun and his party followed Liu Zhong, the governor of Port Said, out of the fortress of the port, and found a group of ragged civilians shouting. There were thousands of people. No wonder the noise outside could be heard even inside the house.Many of these people were holding wooden signs, and they didn't know what was written on them.

As the governor of Port Said, Egypt, Liu Zhong can understand Egyptian characters. He was relieved to see the words on these wooden signs and the demands of thousands of civilians.

"Why did they gather in Port Said?" Chu Lingyun and other envoys asked Liu Zhong.

"Oh, this group of people is part of the laborers who dug the Suez Canal." Liu Zhong said.

Everyone was surprised: "The laborers of the Suez Canal? It stands to reason that they will be dismissed after the opening of the Suez Canal. Why did they appear in Port Said?"

"These laborers conscripted to build the Suez Canal are almost all tramps, bankrupts, slaves and even prisoners living at the bottom of Egyptian society. They have nothing and are regarded as moths by the Mamluk nobles of Egypt. Their lives and worthless What a difference. During the 11 years when we built the Suez Canal, although many people died of the plague, we can at least give them a bite to eat. Now that the Suez Canal is completed, they have no 'jobs'. There is no food." Liu Zhong said.

Chu Lingyun understood what was going on.

According to what Liu Zhong told them before, in order to excavate the Suez Canal, the entire project needs to maintain more than 10 workers all year round, and there have been several large-scale supplements in the middle, because several plagues broke out in the middle, and the number of workers who died each time Laborers number in the thousands.

After 11 years, tens of thousands or even 10 workers may have fallen along the Suez Canal!
Even so, these local people at the bottom are still rushing to join in the construction of the Suez Canal, adding bricks and tiles to this large project that cost tens of millions of taels of silver.

The reason is simple, they just want to get a bite of food to eat.

Even if the Suez Canal Company provides them with blackened bagels and flatbreads, for them, this is food that can keep them alive.Occasionally, I can get a little wages to support my family.

After the completion of the Suez Canal, these coolie laborers were not relieved, but lost their jobs and sources of food and wages.

Egypt, with a population of several million, suddenly has an extra 10 unemployed people, which will cause a huge burden on the local society!
Some laborers approached Port Said, which is managed by the Suez Canal Company, and begged the Suez Canal Company to give them jobs again generously.

They need jobs to support themselves and their families!
When a large-scale labor protest broke out in Port Said, a Venetian official from Cairo came to Port Said: "Mr. Liu, the laborers from the Suez Canal were making trouble in Cairo. Can you appease these laborers? If they still make trouble Go on, maybe it will cause a large-scale rebellion!"

Liu Zhong looked solemn: "How come there are laborers protesting in Cairo... Now that the Suez Canal has been dug, there is no place to accommodate 11 laborers, and you may need to solve it yourself. We have helped you feed the laborers in the past 10 years." [-] people."

"Mr. Liu, you Suez Canal Company can't stand by like this. When you needed labor, we helped you find the cheapest group of people from all over the country. They were scattered all over the place to fend for themselves, and we didn't plan to feed them. Now they are gathered together, and because they have been working in the Suez Canal all year round, many of them know each other and form a force. If they are not appeased in time, Egypt may fall into turmoil in the future, and it may even affect you in Suez. The safety of the canal." The Venice official said anxiously.

They might not have the stamina to help 10 workers find jobs, but China might be able to.

Only projects organized by a country with a population of over [-] million can easily absorb such a large amount of labor.

For example, the Suez Canal project was able to feed 10 laborers for 11 years.

"Maybe I have a way to digest these 10 people." Chu Lingyun interrupted at this time.

"Who are you? Do you really have a way to help us get rid of [-] laborers in Venice?" Venice officials saw that Chu Lingyun was still young, and wondered if they should trust him to solve the labor crisis.

"Young Master Chu, this is not a child's play. This is a total of [-] laborers. I don't think we need to solve the employment problem of [-] laborers." Liu Zhong persuaded.

"The Ministry of Industry and the Tsarist Russian Empire finalized the construction of the Siberian Railway a year ago. A large railway from the capital to Moscow is under investigation. The labor problem has not been well resolved, because neither country is willing to consume its own resources. Citizens go to the cold Siberian plains to build a large railway...Siberia is barren, and it is freezing in winter. The difficulty of the large railway in Siberia is no lower than that of the Suez Canal, and even more people may die...So, if these 10 If unemployed laborers are willing to go to Siberia to build the railway, they may be able to give them food and wages. Of course, the premise is that the capital is willing to hire them to go to Siberia to build the railway." Chu Lingyun said another big project.

Projects that can accommodate 10 people are nothing more than infrastructure such as water conservancy, canals, and roads.

"It is indeed a solution to transport them to Siberia to build a railway in a galleon," Liu Zhong said.

Chu Lingyun and the others simply calculated the cost of transporting Egyptian laborers to Siberia to build the railway, and then formed a report to report to the capital.

Few people thought that tens of thousands of Egyptian laborers would be transported to Siberia by galleons. It would take 10000 years for the 25-kilometer railway to be repaired, which is longer than the 11 years for the Suez Canal.

(End of this chapter)