The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 1362: The old man who refuses to die is a thief (Part )

"You're dreaming! This is impossible!"

Mohammed Ali roared that a frail old man could not scare the envoy of the Suez Canal Supervisory Committee.

"Sorry, this is a notice, not a request. You and your government can only choose to comply or be forced to comply."

"I'll kill you! Believe it or not!"

Muhammad Ali acted like a hooligan again, because he knew that Europeans were timid and cowardly.

The messenger unbuttoned his shirt calmly, revealing a waist full of explosives.

"I'm sure you won't do that."

The messenger took off his hat and saluted respectfully, and the guards in the Manio Palace all stepped back unconsciously.

Muhammad Ali could only watch the other party leave. He could certainly order a city-wide curfew and kill the Canal Supervisory Committee team, but in that case Egypt and his family would no longer exist.

Faced with this obviously unfair clause, Muhammad Ali clenched his fists, and suddenly his nose began to bleed. The maids and waiters around him tried to help him stop the bleeding, but it was all in vain, and soon he drowned in his own blood.

A generation of heroes fell, and no one in Egypt could hinder the construction of the Suez Canal. The exaggerated debt incurred during the construction of the canal also sentenced the country to death.
Killing Egypt has become a consensus among all the great powers. After all, Muhammad Ali has a history of many crimes, so it is easy for the great powers to reach a consensus.

As long as they can see the benefits of getting rid of Muhammad Ali, first of all, they don't have to worry about being deceived by this old bastard again, and secondly, Egypt will become an area that the great powers can freely compete for.

The most important thing is that from now on Egypt’s resources, population and everything can be taken at will by the great powers. This will not only save a lot of costs, but also make a lot of money.

This time Franz is going to kill Muhammad Ali completely, and the latter will not be able to turn things around even if he has great abilities.

When Muhammad Ali died, his grandson Abbas I had no time to grieve before he had to inherit the position of Pasha of Egypt and the debts owed by his grandfather.

In fact, Abbas I himself did not feel sad, he hated the founder of the Egyptian dynasty. Muhammad Ali's funeral was so shabby that it surprised the envoys of European countries. After all, in their minds, the funeral of such a founder of a dynasty should be very grand.

However, Abbas I was an arrogant, conceited, and conservative fool who had been waiting for this day to come. The day after Muhammad Ali's death, he canceled most of the reforms that Muhammad Ali had made during his lifetime.

Schools and factories were all closed and auctioned off, which really interested the committee members.

Abbas I hated Egyptians who went to study in Europe, but none of his twenty most trusted servants were completely loyal to him.

Almost all the people around Abbas I were pawns placed by European countries, and he also thought about rebelling.

But this time the great powers didn't want to play games with him, so Abbas I had no choice but to obey.

Twenty thousand laborers were nothing to Egypt. After all, there were more than 20,000 slaves in Egypt at that time.

But Abbas I's policies divided a newly formed country, and more than a dozen ethnic groups and countless national elites began to fight for their survival.

Abbas I knew nothing about economics. In his eyes, cotton and tobacco were profitable, so all the farmland was converted to cotton and tobacco.

This time the change was more thorough, and any farmer who refused to grow cash crops would be sent to the canal construction team. As for the food problem, the food from the Austrian Empire's Tanzania Governorate could just solve this problem.

If the grain from the Austrian Empire's Tanzania Governorate was to be transported back to the country through the Cape of Good Hope, the cost-effectiveness would be too low, so Franz initially targeted countries such as Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, Oman, and India.

The freight cost of transporting grain from Tanzania to the Red Sea port of Safaj is much cheaper, which seems to be a win-win situation, at least at this time.

Of course, as a food supplier, the Austrian Empire would not lose money no matter what. The problem it faced in the short term was simply who to sell the food to.

After the Suez Canal is opened in the future, there will no longer be a food crisis in the Austrian Empire.

In fact, there was a group of people who were looking forward to the opening of the Suez Canal more than Franz, and they were the merchants in Venice, who had been making plans for this canal.

In addition, Venetian merchants were fans of Suez Canal Company stocks, and they would buy some regularly as if it were a belief.

It didn't matter to Franz. Although he was determined to obtain the Suez Canal, he didn't necessarily have to use force or conspiracy.

However, to the British this was a conspiracy: the Austrians wanted to control the Suez Canal Company.

The British government naturally cannot sit idly by and watch this happen, so they can only keep increasing the stakes.

This is something Franz would like to see. He hopes that the Suez Canal can be built wider and broader, and it would be best if it could be completed faster.

Compared with the Suez Canal issue, the European Monetary Union has received much less attention.

Although the European Monetary Union has been established, countries have raised trade barriers and introduced corresponding monetary defense policies in order to prevent other countries' goods from invading their countries.

What these countries didn’t expect was that although the goods could be blocked, the people and the currency themselves could not be blocked.

The wealthy businessmen and talents of small countries inevitably flow to big countries, while the financial industry of big countries easily penetrates into small countries.

The Austrian Empire was the biggest beneficiary of the entire system at this time. After all, it had two major customs alliances, Germany and the Apennines, and was also a trading partner of Spain and Russia.

Franz also felt for the first time the benefits of Austria as the hegemon of Central Europe.
Before anyone knew it, the Austrian Empire's economic influence had caught up with that of Britain and France, and it actually controlled more areas.

However, the dual standard monetary system of gold and silver had to change, otherwise every discovery of a new mineral vein would be a shock to the alliance, especially the Austrian Empire, which had the largest total amount of precious metals.

The trade volume between major countries is also increasing, but the barriers will not disappear. On the contrary, trade frictions are also increasing due to the increase in trade volume.

The governments of Britain, France and Austria are almost all claiming that it is the workers of the other two countries that have taken away jobs from workers in their own countries, affecting the prices of their own goods and the profits of their companies.

Franz didn't like this childish game. However, in the face of such rude accusations, silence would only make the other party think that you agreed or were easy to bully.

As a result, the Austrian Empire had to participate in this endless propaganda war. Fortunately, the Austrian Empire's papermaking and photography industries were very developed.

After tasting the benefits of the monetary union, Franz decided to promote it in the colonies.