Although the Great Egyptian Empire, which dominated North Africa and looked at the continent, also developed from a United States (United States of Sinai). However, since the Komuning dynasty and the followers of the dynasty that ruled the Egyptian Empire were actually outsiders and faced many challenges in North Africa, they had to gradually strengthen the monarchy.

Moreover, the "Romans" who continued to emigrate to Egypt from Greece and Constantinople also dreamed of a powerful empire, so they could tolerate the power of the Komuning dynasty.

As for the local Coptics, Sarasen and Berbers in North Africa, they are more tolerant of power than foreign Romans.

It should be mentioned that the Coptics, Sarasen and Berbers in North Africa had different attitudes when facing the "Koming Conquest". They did not resist the Komuning Dynasty as the people of the united Mahaga Empire. Among them, the Coptics regarded the Komuning Dynasty as liberators and welcomed their arrival. The Sarasen did not firmly defend the rule of the Fatima dynasty because the Caliphate had long been in name only. Before the Komuning Dynasty conquered Egypt, the Mamuruk slave warriors who actually came from the Chincha grasslands ruled Egypt. Only the Murabit and Almohad dynasties of the Berbers carried out a firm and long-term resistance to the Komuning Dynasty.

However, facing the Komuning dynasty of Egypt, which could continuously profit from East-West trade and obtain advanced weapons produced by the Eastern Song and Northern Zhou dynasties, the Berbers' resistance ultimately failed.

During the "Berber War" for more than a hundred years, the centralization of the Komuning Dynasty was significantly strengthened.

Therefore, by the 14th century AD, Egypt was becoming more and more like an empire, and it might be more appropriate to call it the Third Roman Empire.

Moreover, the Third Roman Empire gained a lot from colonial activities against Black Africa and Europe, and domestic conflicts were relatively eased, so the royal power was naturally very stable.

Therefore, Wu Yuankai's father paid a huge price to make his son an Egyptian prince. The long-term low-interest bond of the Egyptian Empire alone bought more than 20 million taels (the liang is now also a unit of silver coins). Wu Yuankai himself also promised to invest in the Suez Canal project under preparation... This investment will become the property of the Komuning Dynasty in the future.

In addition, the republican journey controlled by the Wu family also promised to invest in a railway connecting Alexander and Cairo in Egypt.

Railways are now a rare thing. Only the Great Zhou Republic and the Eastern Song Dynasty have routes for trial operation. If this railway can be completed in the next 10 years, Egypt will become the fifth country in the world to own railways after the Great Zhou, Eastern Song, United States of North America, and the New Song Kingdom.

The significance of the Suez Canal to Egypt cannot be overstated.

After spending such a great price, the Wu family's goal is definitely not just to inject his own blood into the Egyptian royal family, the Egyptian Queen, which is not worth that much money.

Because the empresses in the history of the Egyptian Empire were very strong and could not be controlled by their royal husbands. Apart from the blood of the Wu family, but the eldest son or daughter of Komuning, it seems that it is difficult for the Wu family to get any reward from Egypt.

Zhao Mian, an official from the Western Song Dynasty, was very familiar with the traditions of the Egyptian Empire and the Komuning Dynasty. In fact, he also considered giving his son to Princess Anna. However, the Komuning Dynasty was too expensive and the Western Song Dynasty could not afford it at all...

"Your Majesty," said Yue Xuan, "As far as I know, the Wu family spends a lot of money for this marriage! It is likely to exceed 50 million!"

"50 million!?" Zhao Mian took a breath, "This is Zhou's country that is trying to win over Egypt! Do they want to... go to war with the Jiangnan thieves?"

Although the "benefactory" of 50 million taels was taken out by the Wu family, such a large amount of funds flowed to Egypt was obviously the national will of the Great Zhou Republic at work!

So this is not an ordinary marriage, but two countries form an alliance in this way.

The purpose of the alliance between the Great Zhou Republic and Egypt was definitely aimed at the Eastern Song Dynasty.

Because there is no second country in the world that deserves the Great Zhou Republic, which has never set sun and sunset, does so.

Zhao Mian shook his head, "But they and Jiangnan are all ally for two hundred years!"

"I wonder if Your Majesty has discovered it," Yue Xuan replied, "Since more than ten years ago, the battalion has been easily captured!"

"Yes!" Zhao Mian nodded, "The Great Mongolian Marshal (Shu Chi's descendants) broke many of our bastions during his lifetime..."

The era of invincible castle was broken by the Mongolian Prince Marshal Yue Bi in the late period of the Great Mongolian War. Yue Bi in the Shuchi Department was a top student at the Guangming University of Mengwubao, who was proficient in mathematics and architecture. After joining the Mongolian army, he gradually grew into an expert in building and siege.

He also wrote a book about the blind spots of the brink of the brink, systematically summarizing the weaknesses of the brink defense and the methods of breaking the brink.

At the same time, the advancement of firearm technology has also made the difficult-to-break bastion in the early years increasingly fragile.

The emergence and mature use of weapons with greater destructive power such as howitzers, mortars, flowering bullets and hand cannons (grenades), coupled with tunnel fortifications specifically targeting the blind corners of the bastion, has turned the bastion that originally had to be paid a huge price to occupy into a relatively easy target.

In this case, offensive and decisive battles in the field began to become the most effective ways for military strategists to win wars again.

Yue Xuan continued: "In addition, the thieves in Jiangnan have always been loose and weak, and their country relies on trade, and their exchanges with Zhou are too close. I am worried that once the thieves in Jiangnan are hit by a setback in naval battles and the trade routes will be cut off, it is very likely that they will surrender without fighting..."

The Western Song Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty had been fighting for more than 200 years, and they naturally had a very good understanding of the national conditions of the Eastern Song Dynasty. They knew that the weakness of the Eastern Song Dynasty country was its looseness and excessive reliance on trade.

Most of the current world trade system is under the control of Zhou State.

Once Wu Yuankai becomes the husband of the Egyptian Queen, the Great Zhou-Egypt alliance will be able to completely control the world trading system.

In this way, the country of the Eastern Song Dynasty will become the fish on the chopping board of the Great Zhou Republic.

"Yue Qing," Zhao Mian frowned, "It's not like this, right? The three-pointers in the world have been more than 200 years... will they be unified suddenly, right?"

"Your Majesty, the reason why the world can be divided into three parts for more than 200 years is entirely because the three countries are evenly matched and no one can defeat the other two countries. But now the three countries are equally strong and have broken down, and the population and financial resources of Zhou State exceed the sum of our country and the Jiangnan thieves! Moreover, the strength of the bastion has become a thing of the past, and the Three Kingdoms have a tendency to be united.

If our country cannot work hard, we are afraid that it will be in danger of destruction within twenty years!"

"Strive to work hard?" Zhao Mian's brows frowned even more.

He grew up listening to various stories of striving for strength, and then slowly grow old through various efforts of striving for strength.

But his Song Dynasty was undoubtedly weakening a little bit...

Innate deficiencies may not be able to be compensated for by acquired efforts!

"How to work hard?" Zhao Mian asked.

"I think..." Yue Xuan thought, "The only one who can compete with the violent Zhou Dynasty is the alliance of the two Song dynasties!"

"The two Song alliance? Do you want me to have the alliance with the Jiangnan thieves?"

"Your Majesty," Yue Xuan said, "Now our country has only 60 million people, and Jiangnan has more than 100 million people. Once Jiangnan enters Zhou, the Zhou Kingdom will have nearly 30 million people. With 60 million to resist 30 million... How can our Song Dynasty be immortal?"

After the Bastion Age was gone, the current war model was a mature version of the line-up and shooting, which was similar to the other moment in the mid-18th century to the early 19th world.

In this era, population size is combat effectiveness!

Of course, the premise is that the country has sufficient organizational capabilities to apply a large number of people to war.

As a bourgeois republic, the organizational ability of the Great Zhou republic is unquestionable.

If the Great Zhou Republic can amend the Citizenship Law and convert all civilians into citizens, then the country's mobilization capacity will reach the millions and tens of millions.

Moreover, the Great Zhou Republic, which had already begun the industrial revolution and had the wealth of America, had enough ability to arm the army of millions of people.

Therefore, once the Great Zhou entered a state of war, the two Song dynasties could not bear it, especially the Eastern Song Dynasty was still very dependent on the sea trade and the bird dropping provided by the Great Zhou...

Therefore, forming an alliance became the only means of survival for the Song Dynasty!

Some people know the same truth in Jiangning. Now the Emperor Zhao Hao of the Eastern Song Dynasty is also discussing countermeasures with Prime Minister Wen Daosheng.

What made them both headache was not the marriage between Wu Yuankai and Princess Anna, but the big problem with the supply of bird droppings.

"How come this happens? Why is it gone? It's always there, but why is it suddenly gone? Is it a question of price? The price is easy to negotiate... The court can give some subsidies!"

Zhao Hao was full of anxiety. He was now facing the biggest crisis in the 20 years since he ascended the throne!

The export of bird droppings in the Great Zhou Dynasty has always been a quota system, not everyone can buy them, but follows the policy of priority in China. Only the Eastern Song Dynasty and Western Song Dynasty are qualified to apply for purchases.

Of course, I would not buy it in the Western Song Dynasty because I don’t have money... Bird guano is not cheap. The quotation of one thousand jin is as high as twenty taels of silver. This is still the arrival price of Jiangnan ports. If we include the transfer costs of Jingjiang, Hanjiang, Chuanjiang and Xiangjiang River, the taxes to be paid along the way, and the profits of distributors in the Western Song Dynasty. One thousand jin of bird guano will cost at least fifty taels to be delivered to farmers.

And fifty taels of silver were a lot of money in the Western Song Dynasty, which lacked precious metals!

In the rural areas of the Western Song Dynasty, every year, a stone of white rice was worth half a piece of silver coins, and 50 pieces of silver coins could buy 100 pieces of white rice. Moreover, the white rice that can be sold at a price of half a piece of silver coins and one piece of stone only accounts for a very small part of the rice and grain produced in rural areas of the Western Song Dynasty.

Most of the rice and grain produced in rural areas of the Western Song Dynasty did not enter the market. They were either used to support people, to pay tenant taxes, or to exchange handicraft products directly.

It can be said that most of the farmers in the Western Song Dynasty never saw a tael of silver coins issued by the Dazhou Bank and the Dazhou Bank (East Song Central Bank) in their entire lives, and they never even saw the silver used for circulation!

Therefore, bird droppings and new agricultural tools used to increase agricultural output cannot be sold in the Western Song Dynasty...

However, these things are not a problem for the wealthy rural areas of the Eastern Song Dynasty. There are a large number of export products in the south of the Eastern Song Dynasty that can be exchanged for gold and silver, and there are also huge gold mines on the New Song continent.

Therefore, for more than a hundred years, the Eastern Song Dynasty courts have been buying large quantities of South American bird droppings and then selling them to farmers who farm at low prices to ensure high yields and low prices of grain.

At the same time, farmers in the Eastern Song Dynasty also had enough purchasing power to purchase bird droppings and advanced farm tools.

Because the current rural areas of the Dongsong Dynasty have long been no longer the path to the small peasant economy, but the rich peasant route mainly based on family farms of dozens of acres.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Revenue of the Eastern Song Dynasty, the local area of ​​the Eastern Song Dynasty owned nearly 400 million mu of arable land. The Eastern Song Dynasty households engaged in agricultural production were only over 10 million. The Eastern Song Dynasty has now entered the era of the industrial revolution, with a rapid increase in urbanization rate and an agricultural population accounting for less than 50%.

In other words, on average, one farmer in the Eastern Song Dynasty owns 40 acres of land, and most of them are paddy fields.

If a farmer owns all paddy fields and uses them to grow rice, according to the six stones per season, 40 mu of paddy fields can harvest 240 stones of rice, and 160-170 stones of rice will be made into white rice.

The rice price in the Eastern Song Dynasty was also high, and the purchase price of one stone of white rice in the countryside was at least one and a half silver coins. 160 stone of white rice could sell at least 240 silver coins. Therefore, most farmers have enough financial resources to purchase bird droppings, grain varieties and high-quality agricultural tools to increase production.

By the way, this imperialist agriculture of the Eastern Song Dynasty looked very glorious on the surface. The countryside was a comfortable pastoral style. There were not many big landlords who collected rents and loans, and the poor and lower-middle peasants were almost extinct. Most of them were rich peasants with dozens of acres each. Moreover, the agricultural tax was extremely low. A rich peasant could earn 200 taels of silver if he was young and relaxed. His life was much more comfortable than the proletariat in the city.

But there are actually crises under the surface of the scenery.

The crisis was that the rich peasants in the Eastern Song Dynasty were "too lazy" and rely too much on good varieties, bird droppings, high-quality agricultural tools and irrigation facilities. Why are there basically no one going to cultivate slopes that cannot be irrigated? How tired? And there are not so many labor. There are only 10 million farmers in total, with 20 million strong laborers at the top of the sky, and 400 million mu of land are planted barely, so how can I have the strength to open terraces?

But what should I do if there is not enough food?

There is a colony! Just import it, but it doesn't cost much money.

Moreover, farmers in the Eastern Song Dynasty only considered economic benefits in farming. For two seasons and three seasons, rice that were not delicious, were not delicious, and had no interest in farming. Who would you sell it to?

The white rice in the Eastern Song Dynasty was all season-long rice, and it was green food. The rice cooked was so fragrant! You could tell it was for imperialism to eat.

However, the food security of the Eastern Song Dynasty was completely based on the bird droppings provided by the Great Zhou Republic and the guarantee of maritime trade.
Chapter completed!