"General Kornar, the Suez Canal Company is going to recruit 100,000 Egyptian laborers to carry out this great plan - to build a great route to shorten the journey of at least 5,000 kilometers for East-West trade. The recruitment of labor requires your help."

Several Chinese businessmen who led the Suez Canal Company found the Venetian General who controlled Cairo and Lower Egypt.

During the First Mediterranean War, Sun Chuanting led a coalition of six countries to expedition to Egypt, plundering Cairo's city, and at the same time divided the Lower Egypt area where Cairo was located to the Venetians.

During the Second Mediterranean War, Chu Yun forced the Ottoman Turkish Empire to sign the Treaty of Constantinople, allowing the Ottoman Empire to officially recognize the rule of Lower Egypt by Venice.

The Venetians obtained the colony of Lower Egypt, and in return, they stood on the side of China in the affairs of the Mediterranean world, and at the same time gave Chinese merchants help in the digging of the Suez Canal, and recognized all China's power over the Suez Canal.

After a long period of preparation, China finally formed the Suez Canal Company, using large sailboats to transport directors, staff, technical workers and machines to Egypt through the Indian Ocean, preparing to officially dig the Suez Canal.

After the Suez Canal Company conducted power exploration, a blueprint of artificial rivers that were vertical to the north and south appeared on paper.

Everything is ready. In an era when the machines were not yet developed, digging the Grand Canal required a large number of cheap labor. The Suez Canal Company immediately found the Venetians who ruled Egypt.

Recruiting a large number of Egyptian laborers also requires the help of Venetians.

"Hiss... Will the number of 100,000 workers be too large? 100,000 people eat and drink is a huge amount of money." Governor Kornal, of Cairo, was shocked by their big deal when he saw that the Chinese merchants demanded 100,000 Egyptian workers in one bite.

"I heard that the pharaoh who ruled Egypt thousands of years ago ordered hundreds of thousands of people to build pyramids. Since it was able to build a pyramid hundreds of meters high thousands of years ago, there was no problem in recruiting 100,000 workers to dig the Suez Canal. The northern section of the canal is basically a salt-alkali land, and the middle section is a desert. To complete the construction of the Suez Canal within 10 years, I think it is not enough to only 100,000 workers. In the future, new laborers will be recruited according to the needs of the project." said the Chinese businessman.

"I understand what you mean. What price do you plan to hire laborers who dig the Suez Canal?" asked Governor Corner.

"There are many free people in Egypt who are poor and unable to afford to eat, and there are many people who have become slaves. As long as we can give them a bite of food, what else can they complain about?" said the Chinese businessman.

When Kornal heard the other party say this, he understands that the other party wants to recruit the poorest group of workers in Egypt, basically just paying for food and not wanting to pay for it.

No wonder the other party sent merchants to be responsible for the construction of the Suez Canal. No one's abacus would be more savvy than the merchants. They would find ways to build the Suez Canal at the lowest cost.

The length of the Suez Canal is expected to be hundreds of kilometers. With the help of some machines, it still takes 100,000 people to build it for 10 years, and the number of workers may be increased by 100,000.

Even if the average number of 100,000 workers is maintained for 10 years, if each worker needs to pay 10 taels of silver, then the entire project will only pay 10 million taels of silver.

In order to reduce costs, merchants will definitely try to cut off the costs paid to workers and try every means to reduce the costs of projects.

"General Kornar, we have signed an agreement with the Parliament of the Republic of Venice that when we dig the Suez Canal, Venice should give us generous assistance. The Lower Egypt region you ruled accounts for the majority of Egypt's population. The Egyptian region except the Mamluk nobles is very poor. It should be no problem to take out 100,000 cheap laborers for us to build the Suez Canal, right?" asked the Chinese businessman.

"Of course there is no problem. I will ask some Mamluk nobles to recruit enough labor in their jurisdiction to bring you. There should be someone who will help you with your work for a meal, and there are still a lot of them." Konal said.

"So I'm sorry, I'll accept this wish." The Chinese businessman put the heavy bag on Corner's table.

Conal opened the bag in front of him, revealing the golden little yellow croaker, and quickly closed it again: "How did this make it?"

"How can't I do it? The matter of replenishing labor will fall on you in the future." said the Chinese businessman.

"In this way... I will arrange it as soon as possible and I will definitely recruit the labor you want." Kornal was short of staff, and the two sides signed a treaty, so he would definitely help the Suez Canal company recruit 100,000 Egyptian laborers.

The Venetian rulers in Lower Egypt quickly ordered the Mamluk nobles from all over the country to send some of their laborers to participate in the construction of the Suez Canal.

"Canal Company recruits workers. As long as you have the energy, you can eat a bite. You homeless people sign up quickly and don't have to be hungry all day long."

"Criminals can also go to dig the soil and get a reduced sentence!"

The Lower Egypt area caused a lot of controversy over the large-scale recruitment of laborers. Homeless people, criminals and slaves with low status were the first to be recruited.

These people had a meal or not, especially criminals. The Venetians who ruled here were also very smart. They did not want to spend money to provide food to criminals, but drove them to continue the Suez Canal, which could not only allow Chinese merchants to provide them with food, but also sell them to Chinese merchants to have a favor.

In order to prepare meals for 100,000 workers, food transportation is also a big problem. The northern section is a saline-alkali land and the middle section is a desert. To provide 100,000 workers with food in the harsh terrain, the food of these canal workers is destined to be very good, and they can only barely be able to feed.

On the one hand, the Suez Canal Company asked the Venetian rulers to provide 100,000 laborers, and on the other hand, it found local Egyptian food suppliers to prepare them to provide water and food for this mobile "city".

Many Egyptian merchants bid for this huge and lasting food supply project, and they were tragic.

Fresh water and food for 100,000 workers in a ten-year period, was a business worth millions of taels of silver. If they were to take this business, they might be one of Egypt's few grain merchants.

"Our decision to supply our food to three merchants. If any of them is short of weight in the middle, we will stop working with the merchant forever." The Chinese merchant finally announced the winning bid for the Egyptian merchant.
Chapter completed!