Ali was awakened by Dan Tai Yunfeng's words. In the current situation where the two giants of Coplulu are fighting each other, he does have the capital to allow Vizier Fazo to provide some assistance.

After seeing Ali off and ending the celebration banquet, Dan Tai Yunfeng came to the hotel terrace. Looking at the canal in the distance reflecting the moon's light, he picked up a glass of wine in a happy mood.

"Salute to you, General Zhao." Dan Tai Yunfeng said to Zhao Mingde.

Zhao Mingde smiled. Starting from the Suez irrigation canal, he worked hard for more than ten years for the Suez Canal project and suffered a lot of grievances. Now this plan has finally blossomed and it is time for him to leave. This does not mean that Zhao Mingde retired, but on the contrary, he will enter the cabinet, take charge of the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, and enter the core of the imperial administrative system.

Zhao Mingde said: "Mr. Dan Tai, that Ali is a poisonous snake, but be careful to bite it back."

Tan Tai Yunfeng said indifferently: "If you want to change the situation where the Ottoman Empire is dominant in the Suez region, you must support Egypt's independence, and Ali does have this potential. It is not easy for those with ability to control, and it is not easy for those who are easy to control."

Zhao Mingde asked, "Why are you suddenly so anxious?"

This is of course not only because the Suez Canal is opened, but also because the internal fight between Fazo and Hussein is even more chaotic than it seems.

As Amar was designated as Fazo's heir and served as Sinaipasha, the internal struggle between the two forces entered a new stage. In the 33rd year of the empire, the empire received temptations from two people one after another. Fazo hoped that the empire would help him eliminate Hussein's power, while Hussein hoped to support him to replace Fazo.

The difference is that Fazor found Dan Tai Yunfeng, while Hussein was looking for Pei Yuanqi, so the empire did not realize this.

Before coming to Suez to attend the canal opening ceremony, Dan Tai Yunfeng went to Xijin. When the two sides met, they realized that the internal struggle of the Koplulu family had reached this point and would be made public sooner or later.

When the two of them discuss, they must do the cloth in advance.

And choosing Alibaba is even more because this guy is really a talented person who plays with conspiracies.

When he failed to participate in the rebellion of the Imperial Guards, he sold his alliance with him. In order to avoid the bigwigs of the Kopruli family doubting their loyalty, Ali chose to disrupt the political arena in Istanbul and created a bigger conspiracy.

He used all his means to convince Fazo that Hussein might have participated in the rebellion of the Imperial Guards, which was Hussein's conspiracy to seize power. He also made Hussein believe that Fazo instructed this matter. The so-called rebellion of the Imperial Guards was the means by which Vizier Fazo eliminated dissidents.

As a result, the internal struggles of the Koplulu family were all catching big fish among the rebels and missing his little shrimp.

Of course, it is just for Ali, a chess piece that doesn't know when it will function. Dan Tai Yunfeng doesn't need to come here in person. In addition to participating in the opening ceremony of the Suez Canal, it is more important to reach an agreement with the Ottoman Empire on the issue of the Suez regional concession.

The first group of merchants who landed in Suez Port in the empire went back to a group of smuggling merchants fifty years ago. After King Yu's expedition to the west and was closely related to the Ottoman Empire, the Suez region began to gradually open to the empire.

In more than ten years, the Suez region has already had a considerable imperial population, and there are also a large number of immigrants from Southeast Asia and even Japan. These immigrants are protected by the empire in the Suez region. Because of cultural and living customs, they are more in harmony with the empire.

At the climax of the canal project and the immigration of Xijin, the size of the Eastern ethnic group in the Suez region exceeded 70,000. Now that the canal is opened, the next step of dredging and expansion plan does not require so many workers, resulting in many Eastern workers returning to China or going to other places to develop. In this case, the Eastern ethnic group in the Suez region also exceeded 55,000.

Among these people, at least 42,000 are distributed in Suez Port, with nearly 10,000 in the city halfway, and the rest are distributed in villages, towns, supply stations and other places along the way. The Said Port is the smallest, with only more than a thousand people, and most of them are merchants coming and going.

In the past, these people were either hired workers of the Suez Canal Company, merchants and immigrants, and the settlers lived in the Ottoman community chartered in the Ottoman Empire. Later, in Suez and Midway City, the empire had a concession. However, the scale was very small, and it was only used for living and living, and could not engage in industrial and agricultural production.

To be honest, the empire's concession policy was longer than the history of founding the country. The empire's first concession was established in Guangnan, and since then, it obtained extraterritorial legal power. Later, in India, the South Asian countries and Japan also obtained concessions one after another. Similarly, after the war with the Dutch East India Company ended, in order to give the Dutch people in South Asia a way to survive, the empire also gave the Dutch some time-limited concessions in Java.

The emergence of the concession protected the rights and interests of the people of the empire in other countries. Overall, it was beneficial to the empire, but it also brought some bad effects.

The reason why the concession is called a concession has two important powers. One is the extraterritorial legal power, that is, the law of the empire is exercised in the concession rather than the law of the country where it is located. This is necessary. After all, those countries are either feudal royal states or simply uncivilized tribes. Some have no laws, some are very extensive, and the laws of each country are very different from imperial laws and customs.

The second authority is administrative autonomy, that is, administrative affairs within the concession are not managed by the country where they are located.

These two powers were intended to protect the interests of the people of the empire, but they were also used by some people. Logically speaking, merchants had to abide by the imperial laws in the concession, but because the concession was administratively autonomous and was not under the jurisdiction of the imperial government, the result was that people in the concession neither abide by the imperial laws nor the laws of the country where they were located, and became a lawless place.

Brothels, casinos, tobacco shops and other industries that are explicitly prohibited by the Empire are open to the concession. Some things that have not been accepted by the concession countries, such as the storage of political prisoners, political dissidents, major criminal prisoners, traitors, and even arbitrarily granting merchants to the host country's businessmen and tax privileges, infringing on the major interests of the host country.

Many countries have expressed dissatisfaction with the form of concessions, among which Japan has the most fierce resistance. During the Japanese civil war, the Tokugawa shogunate gained an advantage and banned the concessions in Edo, Osaka and other places under its control, and arrested more than 400 illegal foreigners, most of whom were Chinese businessmen. Later, the empire redeemed these people after negotiations through diplomatic channels. However, whether the information provided by the shogunate or the report provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was shocking, the emperor directly stated at the State Council that the capitalists had corrupted China's fine morals for thousands of years.

But this does not mean that the concession will be improved as a result. The key is that the imperial government cannot manage the concession in terms of administrative autonomy. Otherwise, wouldn’t the concession become the territory of the empire? No country can accept other countries’ fingers on their own territory.

Administrative autonomy is the internal management of the concession. Because the concession is located in the port, there will be a municipal management agency, which is a very powerful institution, including municipal, taxation, police, transportation, health, education, etc. As long as it is the responsibility of the government, it will be fully possessed.

At the same time, even parliament or even courts can only have it. The management agencies of the concession are generally formed by elections or recommendations. Rich capitalists can easily gain real power and make the concession chaotic.

In the Suez region, the Empire had a concession in the Port of Suez and the city of Midway. The Ottomans have now noticed the concession and were cautious about this behavior. However, the Empire side wanted to expand the concession as much as possible. After all, the canal has been opened and trade is booming. Not only does it require a larger area to be used as residential areas and storage areas, but it also needs to open factories locally for commercial activities.

This is the contradiction. On the one hand, the Ottoman Empire wanted to tighten its concession policy, and on the other hand, the empire wanted to expand its concession.

Regarding the issue of the concession, the two countries had already started discussions as early as the Egyptian civil war, but at that time, the right to garrison was more important, so the issue of the concession was always shelved.

"The key at the moment is that Pasha of Sinai is Amar. He studied in the Empire and visited Ottoman. He has a very tough attitude towards the concession." Zhao Mingde was also a little helpless.

Systems like the concession were not created by the empire. There are many similar places in Europe, such as Poland has several independent autonomous cities, and foreign villages next to Moscow, etc., but they are relatively small in scale or have no interference with foreign races. As an Ottoman, Amar knew a lot about the history and politics of the empire. He knew what the essence of the concession was and also realized that the concession was a trampling on the Ottoman sovereignty.

But Amar was unable to ban the two concessions in the Suez region. The reason was very simple. Although these two concessions were small, they contributed considerable taxes to the Ottoman Empire. Moreover, the operation of the Suez Canal Company relied on the support of the concession, and Amar would not dig his own grave.

Regarding the concession issue, Tan Tai Yunfeng talked with Hussein. Pei Yuanqi went to Istanbul to find Fazo, and Zhao Mingde and Amal never stopped contacting him, but the result was not ideal. Amal directly refused to expand the concession. Fazo and Hussein both regarded the concession issue as bargaining chips, hoping to get more from the empire. If the asking price is not high, the empire can still agree, but the problem is that the asking price is too high.

"I have reported the concession issue through the Ministry of Overseas Affairs. I believe that the imperial meeting will provide a solution." Dan Tai Yunfeng said.

Four days later, midway city.

"Where are you going to take me?" Amal asked Tan Tai Yunfeng in the carriage.

"A garden." Dan Tai Yunfeng replied with a smile.

Amar smiled: "You have trouble, sir, but regarding the concession, I will not change my will because you gave me a garden."

"That's not a gift, it's just for you to enjoy it." Dan Tai Yunfeng's words made Amal feel that he was self-indulgent, but his next words satisfy Amal: "I heard that when you were in Penang, you visited a printing factory, and the same steam-powered printing press has been delivered to Said Port, which is specially customized for you in Turkish text templates."

Since the Copruil family once again took over the Ottomans, especially with close contacts with the empire, the cultural and living atmosphere within the Ottomans have also changed.

Eighty years ago, Sultan Murad IV and religious leader Kadzeid launched the Kadzeid movement, cracking down on ungreen behaviors such as coffee and alcohol, as well as organizations such as the Sophie Order, which made the Ottomans' lives more conservative, but now is a new era, especially after the armistice with major hostile countries, the Ottomans entered an era of peace, and consumerism and hedonism began to emerge.

Aristocrats like Amar who had studied abroad became the leader, but he was not only obsessed with enjoyment, but also intentionally cultivated the Ottoman culture. After serving as Sinai Pasha, he collected a large number of literary works from the Arab and Persian eras and prepared to translate and print them into Turkish characters and promote them throughout the Ottoman region. The new printing machine sent by Dan Tai Yunfeng was undoubtedly a great help.

The arrival of the new era has a very obvious feature, that is, the Ottoman nobles especially like flowers like tulips, and this garden in the middle of the city was carefully prepared to cater to the Ottoman nobles.

The beautiful flowerbed is presented in front of Amal, with tulips of various colors blooming. Dutch craftsmen traveling through it and carving more meticulously, which makes Amal, who loves tulips, feel particularly comfortable.

"If you like, these people can build a more beautiful garden for you in Said Port." Dan Tai Yunfeng said with a smile.

Amar smiled: "The premise is that I meet your needs on the concession issue, right?"

"Then you are wrong. In fact, I have received the official document from Shen Jing. In the official document, His Highness Yu and the Prime Minister severely criticized my persistence in the concession. There is no doubt that the concession is a rough insult to the sovereignty of a country. Some small or ignorant countries don't feel anything, but it is too unacceptable for a powerful country like the Ottoman standing between the East and the West.

Therefore, I will not mention the issue of the expansion of the concession again. His Highness Yu proposed a novel way of cooperation that makes both parties feel equal.

And I can assert that you, Amal Pasha, will win an unparalleled reputation in Istanbul because of this new way of cooperation, and will also make your name spread forever in the Ottoman history books." Dan Tai Yunfeng said in an exaggerated tone.
Chapter completed!