In fact, Amal did not have ulterior motives, but just because he figured it out.

In the early days of the Suez Canal Plan, the footprints of imperial merchants appeared in Suez City. At that time, Suez was just a small harbor. Several broken ships of the Ottoman Red Sea Fleet and some smuggled ships were moored in the port. The first batch of imperial merchants appeared in the Ottoman Empire as smugglers.

After the Suez Canal Plan was implemented, a large number of imperial people immigrated to the Sinai province, or passed through the Sinai province. Before the canal was opened, the empire immigrated to the Xijin area passed through the Sinai province. The Suez Canal Plan first passed through three stages: roads and irrigation canals, Suez Railway and Suez Canal, and the empire immigrated more and more.

Of course, in Amal's definition, imperial immigrants are classified as Eastern immigrants, and Suez's eastern Confucians are mainly Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese.

When Amal was in charge of Sinai, he maintained a welcome attitude towards immigrants from the empire. Because at that time, he completely regarded the Sinai province as a special administrative region of the Ottoman Empire. Of course, it is better to say the special economic zone than the special administrative region. All the policies and laws of Sinai serve investment promotion.

Immigrants from the empire had both capital and technology, and were the best immigrants. These immigrants made great contributions to the prosperity of the Sinai province, allowing the three cities of Sinai to have the most developed industries in the Ottoman Empire. They once made Sinai's tax revenue exceed that of Egypt's provinces. It was later that Egypt's cotton industry exploded and it turned over again.

But Amal soon discovered that Chinese immigrants were too group. In just over a decade, they almost had the entire city of Suez. There was a time when Amal was regarded as a threat to the Ottoman Empire by the Eastern Immigration of Suez, believing that the racial structure and civilized traditions there were incompatible with the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, Amal has similar views because he has experience studying abroad in the empire, because in the empire's overseas governance policies, the policy of the empire's nationality having an absolute dominant population has never changed. However, Amal has not taken any excessive reactions, but has tightened some overly broad policies.

On the contrary, the top leaders of the Ottoman Empire didn't care at all, because the Ottoman itself was a multi-ethnic country. Its sultan was a descendant of the Turks. Because of the early system, the Ottoman officials were filled with Slavic or other ethnic groups from the Balkan Peninsula. The Arabs were distributed in every corner of the country, and even the empire could not even determine which ethnic group was the Ottoman Empire.

In the eyes of the Ottoman senior officials, these immigrants from the East only need to pay taxes and not rebel, and they are even extremely welcome to immigrants from the East, because Sinai's business was very developed, cities expanded rapidly, and industries also improved. On average, the tax provided by each person in Sinai to the Ottoman Empire was several times that of poor farmers in closed and backward areas.

The top leaders of the Ottoman Empire were only wary of one thing, that is, whether the imperial government had powers that did not belong to them in the province of Sinai.

The answer is no. The empire headed by Shaojie is stationed in Suez, the Consulate General of the Arab region is stationed in Suez, and has a paramilitary force. This army is very small. Moreover, even in Suez City, the government does not allow Eastern immigrants. The underworld organization composed of only some Eastern people seems to have some influence, but obviously has no fighting spirit in confronting the Ottoman Empire.

In fact, not only the oriental issue of Suez, but also the Port of Said also has a large number of immigrants from Europe, and their composition is more complex. Relatively speaking, the local indigenous peoples, the Bedouin Horse Bandits, have never been completely cleaned up. The various Arab ethnic groups from the Arab Peninsula and Egyptian provinces are originally ignorant and uncivilized, but they account for three-fifths of the population of Sinai Province, which is the greatest threat to the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

After several years of inner pain, Amar now has completely taken the so-called Eastern immigration issue. In his opinion, even if these immigrants are twice as many, as long as they are limited to the Sinai province, they will be safe.

Amar has already seen the hard work and wisdom of Eastern immigrants. They mix the manure of camels and cattle and horses with sand to mix them into soil that can grow fruits and vegetables, and open up one after another in the city of Suez. But even so, these farmlands provide some fruits and vegetables for Suez, and the main local food supply still needs to be imported from abroad.

The Chinese can use wisdom to turn barren land into fertile fields, but they cannot create water sources out of thin air. There are indeed many wells in the province of Sinai, but even one-tenth of the water used in the province of Sinai cannot meet the water consumption of one-tenth of the province of Sinai. The main water use is still from the Nile River in Egypt. The water diversion canal is outside Cairo. In Amar's view, assuming that the Eastern immigrants in the province of Sinai really have to do something, as long as they cut the water diversion canal, they can only surrender or escape in scattered places.

They hold their lifeline in their hands and are worried about how many immigrants do. The more immigrants, the more taxes they provide. Why do people who shear sheep should dislike the number of sheep?

But this truth was only understood by Amal recently. In the past few years, he has been worried about it, so whenever Shaojie fights for rights for local Chinese, he is always petty. Therefore, this time, Shaojie is a little unbelievable.

"Is there anything else?" Amal asked.

Shaojie shook his head, but Amal smiled and asked, "Do you want to plan a piece of land for Eastern immigration?"

"Oh, no, no, it's enough to have those communities." Shaojie shook his head.

After calming down a little, Shaojie said, "Amal, thank you for your generosity. Let's talk about the issue of Egypt."

"Of course, I am also Pasha of Egypt, right?" Amal said with a smile, but did not raise a topic, because what he wanted to talk about the situation in the Cyrangani region most. He had received information that the first group came from France and the newly expanded colonial army had arrived in Cyrangani, which was obviously targeted at Egypt.

Whenever relations with European colonists were tense, Amal always wanted to get the support of the empire at the first time, but Amal even knew that there was no free lunch in Shaojie.

However, Shaojie had a long plan for the Egyptian issue. Shaojie said: "Can the Southern Railway be supported before you leave?"

"Actually, you know, it depends on the share allocation and investment cost of this railway, and whether it is technically feasible." Amal lit a cigarette for himself, very satisfied with the current situation. Shaojie made a request that he could lower the price, which was much better than asking for the other side to lower the price.

The so-called Southern Railway is the railway from Suez to Cairo, which is part of the Ottoman Railway Plan. According to the railway plan of the Ottoman Empire, a railway will start from Istanbul, then pass through the Syrian province, the Palestinian province, and the Port of Said to Cairo.

However, this railway was implemented very slowly due to corruption and other problems. At least in the Ottoman Empire, it has been proved that completely nationalizing the railway was a failure. The intervention of various powerful people and local tyrants made it difficult to accomplish anything.

Therefore, in recent years, Amal has used his plan to dominate the two provinces of Sinai and Egypt to promote the privatization of railways in these two provinces, but it is not completely private, and there are still some state-owned shares. This plan has achieved certain success, and the railway from Said Port to Cairo has been completely completed.

In fact, after the railway started, the central and southern lines were also put on the agenda, from Cairo to the Midway City and Suez City.

However, these two lines were not smooth from the beginning. After the construction of the Central Line Railway began, it was soon announced to fail. The reason is very simple. Most of these two railway lines are desert Gobi. With the railway technology at that time, it was impossible to build and operate railways in the desert.

However, in recent years, the empire's Eurasian Continental Bridge railway line has been almost completed. The geographical environment along Gansu to Hami is basically similar to that in Egypt. If the Eurasian Continental Bridge is successful, then it can be successful here.

"I still hope to win enough shares for investors from the Empire." Shaojie said with a smile.

After the technical solution, it depends on the equity distribution. The Ottoman Empire must invest in land and eat a ready-made part. The local nobles and officials in the two provinces of Sinai and Egypt also have to eat part of it, and the merchants and citizens in Suez City must also have a part of it.

Obviously, this cake is not enough for so many people to share.

"How much do you plan to ask for?"

"40%!" Shaojie said without hesitation.

Amal shook his head: "Your appetite is too big, I can't do this."

"I just need your consent. As long as you agree, I will talk about the rest of the aspects. It depends on my own luck, and it has nothing to do with you." Shaojie said.

Amal thought for a while and nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, anyway, I will go to Istanbul in a while, so no flies will disturb me."

Amal actually didn't want to give Shaojie so much, but he was very satisfied with Shaojie's attitude. Most of this southern railway is in Egypt. If an empire invested in the railway in Egypt, it would be related to the local interests. In dealing with the issue of European colonists, the imperial government would be more proactive and would be more biased towards the Ottoman Empire. Once a problem occurs, the support will be much greater.

However, what Amal didn't know was that Shaojie asked so much to make Amal think so. He discussed with Ali the matter of seizing the real power of Pasha in Egypt, which was the ultimate of Shaojie's plan. As for the interests of some investors, Shaojie regarded it as marginal interests.

For the core interests, when it comes to critical moments, giving up some marginal interests is nothing.

"But I think it doesn't seem to be a suitable time to open the Southern Railway now. Now the two provinces of Sinai and Egypt are spreading the news that Europeans are going to invade," said Amal.

Shaojie nodded: "Indeed, the security situation in Egypt is deteriorating. I went to Xijin this time, and His Highness Rong was also worried about this."

"What does Your Highness say?" Obviously, compared to Shaojie, Amar cares more about the views of an imperial prince.

Shaojie said: "His Royal Highness Rong, Egypt and Sinai are all due to the contribution of His Highness Fazo and Lord Amar. He imagined what changes would happen once Lord Amar left the two provinces. His Highness Amar, do you know the Dinghai Sword Needle?"

"Don't know."

"It's the golden cudgel in Sun Wukong's hand." Shaojie explained, but obviously Amal knew very little about those Chinese novels.

Shaojie said helplessly: "In our legend, a rod made of gold can be inserted into the sea, so that there will be no waves on the ocean. This treasure that can stabilize the ocean is called the Dinghai Shen Needle. In the eyes of His Highness Rong, you are the Dinghai Shen Needle in the two provinces of Sinai and Egypt."

Amal nodded slightly, obviously benefiting from this kind of flattery, which is also one of his shortcomings. He likes to be flattered.

Shaojie continued: "At present, the imperial judgment is that Britain and France should not conduct armed invasions, and the possibility of deterrence is greater."

"This is also my judgment." Amal said.

Shaojie nodded: "But the problem is that we cannot pretend to be invisible to the real military threats, and we must be prepared for any eventuality. So the question is, if you go to Istanbul and the colonial armies of Britain and France launched an invasion of Egypt, then do your subordinates here have the ability to deal with it independently?

Another question is, do you have enough trust and confidence in your subordinates?”

"We have many advantages, with several times the enemy's strength, as well as advanced artillery..." Amar said.

Shaojie interrupted him: "A soldier will be a nest. Apart from you, I don't think any officials or generals in Egypt can take on this responsibility."

"Someone suggested calling Ali from Tunisia." Amal looked at Shaojie and asked.
Chapter completed!