Pei Yuanqi asked Zhao Mingde to prepare for the fleet and Marines in Penang, while he himself brought a capable mission to visit Madras and Goa, and received cordial reception from the Portuguese Governor of Goa and the British East India Company. Both the Portuguese and the British agreed to support the war, but Pei Yuanqi believed in the Portuguese more.

Now that the British East India Company is dominating the Persian Gulf, the trade of Chinese merchants is still at the smuggling level. In addition, Jews and Indians under the British system are the Jews and Indians. They definitely do not support China in their hearts to obtain the Port of Muscat, but they cannot refuse China's demands.

Different from the last failed raid, this time the Imperial Navy's offensive was completely upright. The Sino-Portuguese Joint Fleet punished from Goa directly blocked the Port of Muscat, and once again received support from the African Development Company and the Portuguese Governor of East Africa. The fleet was divided into two parts. The Indian Ocean Fleet broke into the Persian Gulf and swept across all the ports of the Omans in the Persian Gulf, while the African Company and the Portuguese Fleet were responsible for covering the Marine Corps to land on the siege.

African development companies are very experienced in fighting this scale. They chose a flat beach less than three miles from Port Muscat, allowing two dilapidated Garen ships to sit on the beach while the tide is high, using the eighteen-pound cannons on it as support firepower.

The first group of blacks landed were black regiments. They took a galley and rushed directly to the beach. They first sent a phalanx composed of flintlock spearmen and spearmen to the ashore. With the support of eighteen-pound cannons, they blocked the counter-strike of the Omani cavalry, defeated the horse cavalry and camel cavalry, and then directly removed the galley and built fortifications and temporary docks on the spot to block the impact of the enemy infantry.

By the time the heavy artillery was pushed in from Muscat, two battalions of a marine regiment under the Indian Ocean War Zone had successfully landed and formed a mixed army. Under the command of a major general, the attack was divided into two routes, expanding its depth, blocking the enemy artillery from the firing boundary. With the completion of the construction of the dock, more troops and artillery landed on ashore, forming a solid beachhead position.

After the main force completed its landing, it began to advance towards Muscat City step by step and began to build a siege artillery position. The Omani occupied Muscat for more than thirty years, but the defense was still left by the Portuguese. Many of the artillery targeted the port direction rather than the beach behind the side. More importantly, the artillery owned by the Omani was not strong. In order to ensure the safety of the city wall, they had to build fortifications outside the city in the landing direction, control larger areas, and avoid being completely besieged.

Although the Omani people had mercenaries from Portugal and professional Turkish officers, and the way they defended the city was very reasonable, they lacked the advantage of military strength. The regular army, colonial army, armed sailors and Portuguese allied forces had exceeded 18,000, and several fortresses were developed inland to block the city and block reinforcements from the inland areas outside the city.

The consequence was that in order to protect the city, the Omani had to put his troops outside the city, and the city became increasingly empty. After three months of siege, after witnessing the strength of the Imperial Navy and the firm determination to attack Muscat, the Jewish Business Association and the Gujarati community in Muscat City broke out in an armed uprising, killing the commander guarding the city, and detonating the gunpowder depot stored on the back slope of the city wall, exploding a long section of the city wall, which eventually led to the failure of the Omani.

Fazo smiled: "Unless you are going to the Nile River Basin and want to occupy the rich land there."

Pei Yuanqi raised his hand and shook his head: "No, no, no, there is no such intention. Our goal is to get a channel between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, oh, that is, what you call the White Sea," he said.

"Pharaoh Canal?" Fazo asked vigilantly.

Pei Yuanqi smiled: "That touch is too great. I believe you can't make a decision, and I believe that Beys don't want to see these."

Fazou was relieved. At least Pei Yuanqi's judgment proved that China was very sincere in this negotiation. In fact, the key to the negotiation was stalemate. In Istanbul, Zhao Mingde and Fazou had formed a good framework and made progress on the issue of Ottoman opening up to the empire.

The empire could enter five ports including Basra, Suez, Greece and other trade for trade, but they did not include Istanbul. The trade area was strictly restricted, ships were strictly controlled, and they could only trade with merchants holding legal documents. The Ottoman Empire officially had pricing power for seven kinds of goods such as guns, steel, etc. that the Ottoman Empire needed.

Of course, the Empire also opened the Black Sea coast and the South Ocean to the Ottomans, but considering that the Ottoman Sea traders were all aliens and the Imperial Harbor was already open, these terms were only used for political propaganda.

It can be said that the Ottoman Empire was only limited to open, but it was enough for merchants. In fact, most royal countries on the Indochina Peninsula and the subcontinent were like this. However, as long as a hole was opened, all the rules would slowly loosen, and no one could say no to gold and silver. This is the reality.

Pei Yuanqi said seriously: "Actually, we hope to obtain an immigration route to ensure that we can immigrate from Penang to the Black Sea coast. You know that our people are incompatible with the Egyptians, regardless of appearance, clothing, or belief language, so they are not suitable for appearing in the Nile River Basin."

Fazor nodded slightly and understood Pei Yuanqi's embarrassment. Fazor was positive about opening up trade between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. The reason was that Fazor carefully studied the empire's customs system, especially sent people to Penang and conducted a serious investigation. He believed that opening up was beneficial to the Ottoman.

The situation in Penang is actually similar to that in Egypt. There are two oceans between Penang and the other end of the peninsula, together with two seas, which is very similar to the relationship between Cairo and Suez. If the Egyptian region is opened like the Penang region, the already abandoned Alexandria can be revived again and can obtain a large amount of taxes for the Ottoman like Penang.

At the same time, if China is convenient, it can control China by relying on Egypt's right of way. At least it will not provoke other countries like the Turkish Strait, which is considered a bargaining chip for the Ottomando.

Therefore, the passage set by Fazo for China was the ancient Pharaoh Canal passage. It went ashore from Suez Port and went directly west into the Nile River. Then, it used the Nile River north to go to Egypt and exit Alexandria. This was the easiest road and passed through the most populous area. I believe the Chinese would be satisfied. However, Fazo did not consider that China had another need for this passage, which was to immigrate to the Black Sea area.

Obviously, the Nile passage does not meet this requirement. Unless it can really open up the Pharaoh Canal and allow immigrant ships to enter the Mediterranean directly from the Red Sea, it will definitely cause an uproar in the Nile Basin where Egyptians gather.

But it should be pointed out that if you pass through the Sinai Peninsula, the shortest road is more than 400 miles, and many of these places are desert Gobi areas, without even water. However, Pei Yuanqi's words made Fazo interested: "The Beys are all greedy. I believe you know better than anyone else. Our merchants have been smuggled in the Port of Suez over the years and are often harassed and robbed by the Beys, and the Jews are the same. Therefore, we need a trade route that can avoid the Beys. This road is not in the core area of ​​the Beys, so there is no need to share profits with them, right?"

After Fazo arrived in Cairo and proposed to the local Beys in Egypt to open the right of passage to China, the Beys responded very coldly. In their opinion, the key was how much benefit His Majesty Sultan could divide them. Fazo was originally planning to cut a piece of the Ottoman from this trade route by rebuilding Alexandria, but that's all.

If a new trade route is opened from the Sinai Peninsula, the result will be perfect. Digging wells and building stations in the desert is enough. Any merchant passing here must pay taxes, and the taxes should not be too high. It only needs to be less exploited than those of the Beys, which is enough.

"This is your idea. I need time to prove whether there is really such a way." Fazo said helplessly in the end. He thought for a while: "What if the final proof fails, and can't open the access to the Sinai Peninsula? Will our trade negotiations continue to be delayed?"

"No, no, no, as long as you agree, we must first stabilize the emotions of the Beys, so we should take the original Nile route." Pei Yuanqi said.

"Well, so, we can let the delegates talk about the details of trade and opening up, especially the two aspects of religion and law." Fazo breathed a sigh of relief.

When Pei Yuanqi was sent out of the room by Fazo, Zhao Mingde, who had not spoken, asked: "It is really difficult to cross the Sinai Peninsula. I have been to Istanbul and I took this path when I left. No one dared to do this except camels and a small number of indigenous people. It is even more difficult to immigrate with such a road."

Pei Yuanqi shook his head slightly: "This is what the Supreme Emperor means. We can first find a way to slowly explore the surrounding environment. The ultimate goal is to open up the canal, not the Pharaoh Canal, but directly run through the canal of the Sinai Peninsula. This way, the canal far away from the Nile River is truly under our control."

"But Ottoman won't sit still."
Chapter completed!