The reason why the British agreed to Chen Mo's plan to use the dead to build the canal was naturally because they were greedy for the benefits that would come from the widening of the canal.
Who can refuse something that can make more money?
What's more, Britain has already had the idea of widening the canal and improving its navigation capacity.
It’s just that the British Empire was really weakened by the First World War, and the originally planned canal project had to be shelved. After all, the British Empire was forced to abandon the two-power principle, and it was really difficult to get Downing Street to spend the funds to widen the river channel.
Realistic things.
After all, Britain has declared Egypt's independence, and it is obviously impossible to exploit Egyptian labor like the French did.
If this was done, Britain might not even be able to save the canal zone, and the French also spent money back then.
They wanted benefits but were unwilling to pay. This mentality of the British made them reluctantly acquiesce to Chen Mo's proposal to use the dead to build the canal.
After all, when you have no money and want to do something, what is more satisfying than free labor?
Prostitution for free is a common feature of human beings. Who can refuse prostitution for free?
The only problem is that the laborers Chen Mo wants to use are undead, and the impact of this will be very bad.
But it was the Egyptians who used the undead, not the British. After Chen Mo added, "If you don't use the undead, the British will have to pay." The British recognized this and agreed to help cover up Chen Mo's use of the undead.
to widen the Suez Canal.
As compensation for Chen Mo's only 35% stake in the canal, the British agreed to help Egypt build another dam in the Aswan area, but of course the laborers were still Chen Mo's ghosts.
When it comes to the Aswan Dam, the high dam that people think of in later generations, one of the seven largest dams in the world, was built by the Soviets with aid to Egypt in 1970. Before that, the British had already built it in Aswan in 1902.
A dam was built in the area and raised from 1907 to 1912.
If nothing unexpected happens, the British will raise the dam again from 1929 to 1933 to cope with the annual flooding of the Nile River.
But even so, this dam was still in danger of overflowing several times during the subsequent flooding of the Nile River, so it was appropriate to build another dam upstream.
The construction of the Aswan Dam and the widening of the Suez Canal are crucial to the development of Egypt's economy, and they are what Chen Mo decided to do when he formulated his plan to take control of Egypt.
However, Chen Mo did not intend to build the dam in the same way as the Aswan Dam built by Egypt and the Soviet Union in 1970, because although it greatly promoted Egypt's economic development, it also destroyed the ecology of the entire Nile River.
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Not only did it cause the gradual salinization of downstream rivers and land, the shrinkage of the Nile Delta area, and the extinction of species at the mouth of the sea, it even turned Egypt, a grain-producing country that was originally self-sufficient in grain, into the world's largest wheat importer.
So if Chen Mo doesn't want to make the same mistake again, he needs to build a different dam.
This is not a problem for the British. After all, they built the first dam. Except for the fact that it was too short and the flood control effect was not effective, there were no problems in other aspects.
It not only restrains floods, but also ensures the regular flooding of the Nile River every year. It also allows the silt from the upper reaches to be smoothly carried downstream, fertilizing the soil and maintaining the ecology of the Nile River.
Perhaps the British did not consider so much when building dams, but the technology they used dealt with these problems very well. Dams that operate in a way of "storing clear water and draining muddy water" not only solve the problem of sedimentation, but also maintain the
the downstream ecological environment.
Of course, the British built water conservancy projects in Egypt not for charity and to help the Egyptians develop, but to promote cotton cultivation and turn Egypt into a cotton producing area for the UK.
Because of such motivation, the British would pay attention to the construction of water conservancy projects in Egypt. Otherwise, the British Empire would not be so kind-hearted to build dams.
Chen Mo now wants to build a dam for the same reason. With the regulation of the dam, the Nile River will become more stable, and water resources can be stored for use in the dry season, which will be beneficial to the agricultural development on both sides of the river.
Moreover, the dam itself is also an important power generation facility, and modern industrial development is inseparable from the supply of electricity.
Only with the stable power supply from the Aswan Dam can we have the foundation for large-scale industrial development. Otherwise, if the factory is built without a power plant, it will not be able to operate.
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All in all, in the first three months after Chen Mo gained actual control of Egypt, he was basically busy rebuilding the city of Cairo and taking over the entire Egyptian government.
The original royal family has been exterminated by him, so naturally no one will jump out to question his right to rule.
What the British announced to the outside world was that Cairo was attacked by local opposition tribal armed forces. They captured Cairo and brutally killed the Egyptian king and senior government officials. As a result, the British had to temporarily take over Cairo and Egypt. After the new government could
Only after fulfilling his duties will he return actual control of Egypt.
Of course, this was only an official article announced to the outside world. In fact, because there were still a large number of foreigners stranded in Alexandria at that time, they were not ignorant of what was happening in Cairo.
Therefore, the "truth" of the matter naturally spread like this, and Chen Mo had already taken back actual control of Egypt from the British and asked the British to return to the canal zone.
In various departments of the new government, after Ada Wang turned the most capable people and the first and second-in-command among them into vampires, no one could oppose Chen Mo. On the contrary, these loyalties were guaranteed.
Government workers achieved a work efficiency of 120%, allowing the post-war reconstruction work to proceed very smoothly.
However, as a price, Chen Mo had to find a way to raise a group of blood slaves to supply these staff members, so as to prevent them from having blood thirst and biting people all over the streets.
As for the Pharaoh Guards, they joined the new government under the persuasion of the curator and Adebe and became part of the army under the new government. They will be dispersed and reorganized together with the original Egyptian army. Chen Mo will
The black warriors who were transformed from the original parachute mercenaries were trained.
Originally, the British were very enthusiastic about providing military instructors and British-made ordnance, but Chen Mo directly rejected the British proposal.
He would rather build his own military factory to produce ordnance bit by bit than leave his country's important national defense lifeline in the hands of others, especially when he can come up with better ordnance and military technology.
