In ancient Egypt, the use of pyramids as tombs of pharaohs began with Imhotep building the first pyramid for King Djoser during the Third Dynasty, and continued until the Eighteenth Dynasty, during which time it went through fifteen dynasties and one hundred years.
For many pharaohs, the construction of the pyramids also lasted for more than a thousand years.
It was not until the 18th Dynasty that a large number of small pyramids were visited by tomb robbers. The pharaohs felt that the magnificent pyramids were no longer enough to protect their peace after death. Therefore, during the 18th Dynasty, the burial method of the pyramids was changed into mausoleums.
This is where the famous Valley of the Kings comes into being.
In the history of Chen Mo's original world, there have always been different opinions about the specific function of the pyramid. In relatively ancient times, there were even fallacious statements that the pyramid was an energy tower built by aliens.
But the more orthodox and unified view is that the pyramid is a tomb built by the Pharaoh for himself. It has the function of allowing the Pharaoh to ascend to heaven after his death, as a way to ascend to heaven, and as a monument.
In this world where gods exist, according to Immorton, the pyramid also has other functions.
It was a tool used by the pharaohs to maintain their rule in the underworld.
According to Immorton, every pharaoh will start building a pyramid while he is still alive, and the subjects who died during the pharaoh's reign will spontaneously gather together in the underworld. After the pharaoh's pyramid is completed and he himself is buried in it,
, Pharaoh will rule over his subjects again in the underworld.
The pyramid will protect the subjects in the underworld from all kinds of demons and monsters, and the dead subjects will build a city around the pyramid, which is the residence and city of the pharaoh in the underworld.
The cities of the pharaohs of the same dynasty will gather together to form a kingdom in the underworld, and there will be wars between different dynasties in the underworld, but as long as the pyramids of the pharaohs remain, the dynasties in the underworld will remain standing, even if they die in battle.
His subjects will also be resurrected under the protection of the Pharaoh's pyramid.
It can be said that for the ancient Egyptians in this world, the pyramids were a more important existence than in Chen Moyuan's world.
The pyramid construction method presented by Immorton is naturally the most orthodox and has reached the most perfect standard of pyramid construction after more than a thousand years of development.
After receiving the information presented by Immorton, Chen Mo made the decision to build the pyramid after careful study.
Of course, he also logically proposed that Immorton reverse the function of the pyramid so that it can play its role in the human world and resurrect the dead.
For Immorton, this is not a difficult task to complete, especially since Chen Mo also gave him a copy of the construction information of the Ziggurat.
However, the construction of the pyramid is not what Chen Mo needs to complete right now. It is just a mid- to long-term plan and one of the things that Chen Mo needs to do after taking control of Egypt.
There are a lot of things that need to be done when taking over a country, or a country where the capital has just been breached, all the top officials have been massacred, and the city is in chaos.
Even though the British put the city under military control as soon as they entered Cairo, there was still a lot of work to do in the chaotic city.
For Chen Mo, who had just taken over the rule of Egypt from the British, the first thing he had to do now was to build an administrative team for himself to fill the power vacuum created after killing the top officials.
This was actually not difficult to deal with. He asked Ada Wang to kill only senior officials from various Egyptian government departments. The lower-level officials who actually worked and the deputies of high-level officials were still there. All he had to do was promote these people.
With the cooperation of the British, these matters only need to be signed by Chen Mo to confirm the documents.
As for the loyalty of these people... Ada Wang is now appointed by Chen Mo as the director of Egypt's national intelligence agency, and there have been a lot of vampires under her command recently.
Although the British were very dissatisfied with his approach of turning people into vampires, they finally pinched their noses and admitted it. They just reminded Chen Mo not to go too far.
The warning from the British was naturally a bit harsh, but Chen Mo still took the good advice and did not make some things too shocking or make it obvious.
After all, he has just taken over this country, and the British are not yet powerful enough for him to confront head-on. If he wants to ignore the British, he must at least wait until his own strength develops to a certain level.
However, although the British appeared to not want Chen Mo to go too far, when Chen Mo proposed that the resurrected souls could be used to widen the Suez Canal, the British coyly said that the Suez Canal
It is an international waterway, so we need to pay attention to the impact. Then we turned around and talked with Chen Mo about the division of interests in the Suez Canal after widening the waterway.
The history of the Suez Canal can be traced back as far as the Twelfth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. In many subsequent dynasties, the canal was either abandoned or re-drugged. However, the Suez Canal in the modern sense was opened in 1869.
, built by the French.
In order to build this canal, a total of 120,000 Egyptian workers died, with an average of 738.5 deaths per kilometer.
Later, due to foreign debts, the Egyptian Pasha sold his shares in the canal to the British, and the British gained control of the Suez Canal.
The British established the Canal Company in Egypt to manage the Suez Canal, and also stationed a garrison of up to 80,000 people to control the Suez Canal.
The canal can generate considerable revenue every year, but only a very small amount of it will be distributed to the Egyptian government, and the vast majority of the revenue will fall into the pockets of the British.
As a traveler, Chen Mo certainly understands how important this canal is. It can be said that the reason why Egypt was able to maintain economic development in later generations relied largely on the benefits brought by the canal, so it is up to him to take back the Suez Canal.
In your hands, there are things that must be done.
But now that the British are powerful and a large number of troops are stationed in the canal zone, it is unrealistic to forcefully take it back.
Therefore, Chen Mocai proposed the expansion of the Suez Canal and used this to take back part of the shares of the canal from the British, thus gaining some benefits.
After weighing the proposal, the British chose to agree, but they were stingy and were only willing to give Chen Mo 10% of the canal shares.
This obviously could not satisfy Chen Mo's appetite, so after a "cordial and friendly conversation", the British "generously" increased the ratio to 35%.
Although this was still a figure that Chen Mo was not satisfied with, Chen Mo still agreed to the distribution plan after the British provided other compensation.
