The DuPont family moved very quickly. Pierre Qianqiu and Chen Mo had reached a preliminary agreement on cooperation. The DuPont family sent a huge professional team from the United States to Egypt and approached the Egyptian business department.
They began to discuss specific cooperation matters.
Of course, the British do not want Americans to interfere in their sphere of influence, but the British do not have much binding force on the current Egyptian government, or on Chen Mo. In addition, the United States is not weaker than the United Kingdom in terms of comprehensive national strength. The British also have
There is no good way for the DuPont family to enter Egypt. They can only let British companies compete for this business.
But more than these, what the British are most concerned about is when Chen Mo will start building the canal.
After all, this is the matter most closely related to British interests. The sooner they can widen the canal, the sooner they can make more money from the canal.
This is true for the British, and it is also true for Chen Mo.
So after initially stabilizing the situation in Egypt and establishing his rule and control over Egypt, Chen Mo began to deal with this matter.
Naturally, a large number of laborers were needed to build the canal. When the French dug the canal, they even used more than one million people. In an era without modern large-scale construction machinery, the need to use such a huge manpower was a helpless necessity.
This is also the main reason why the British had the intention to widen the canal but were unable to complete it.
After all, if you mobilize millions of workers, even if you don't pay them, the food, drink and diarrhea of these people will always be a huge expense. Plus other administrative expenses required to manage the construction of millions of people, it can be said that this is a huge expense for the British Empire.
It is also a heavy burden.
But for Chen Mo, things are relatively simple because he uses undead labor.
Needless to say, the benefits of the undead are not only that they do not need to be paid, but also that they do not need to be provided with food, drink, and toilet services. There is no need to worry about them getting sick or being lazy, and they do not even need to rest. They can be said to be the best candidates for labor.
Of course, using undead labor is not an easy task.
The first and most important thing is of course to have so many corpses. Otherwise, undead laborers are not crops that grow in the ground. After all, corpses are needed to summon the undead, and they cannot be summoned out of thin air.
The second is the issue of control. The summoned undead workers belong to the lowest level of undead. They basically only have the most basic intelligence, no independent thinking ability, and no language communication ability. If no one controls it, it will almost be a fantasy adventure game.
Here, there are almost white skeletons or zombies specially designed to gain experience for novices.
Therefore, if you want to make good use of undead labor, how to control them becomes the key.
At this point, Chen Mo deliberately consulted his spell book and found a suitable plan.
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"What is that? Those Egyptians seem to be building a stone monument? Does this have any significance? Or is this an Egyptian tradition?" On the side of the canal, in the designated construction site area, a British engineer looked at some Egyptians
The people sent by the government were erecting a black obelisk and asked their companions in surprise.
"It seems to be an obelisk, a tradition of the Egyptians, and it seems to be in the nature of a monument." The companion glanced at it, and while explaining to the engineer, he flipped through the documents on the table beside him and added: "
Egyptian officials have notified this matter. They will erect such an obelisk every ten kilometers on both sides of the canal. This is written into the construction plan."
After hearing his companion's explanation, the engineer curled his lips contemptuously: "The Egyptians are really good at flattering themselves. We obviously built the canal, but they still have the nerve to build a monument? Without the assistance of the British Empire, they can do nothing.
It won’t work.”
"You can't say that. Without local Egyptian labor, the empire wouldn't be able to have the manpower to dig this canal. It's impossible to send people from the mainland, right?" The companion did not have the chauvinism of a great power that looks down on people like this engineer.
We can still understand the contribution of Egyptian labor in this matter.
However, his words were not approved by the engineer. Instead, the engineer looked even more disdainfully at the Egyptian workers who were lifting Senior Fang up, and asked his companions: "Then where are your so-called Egyptian workers? You can't tell.
These are the people, right? There are only a few dozen of them, and they can’t dig out the canal.”
Regarding this issue, the companion did not argue with the engineer. He just flipped through the construction plan in his hand, found an article about labor, and then read it out: "The Egyptian government will provide labor in an unusual way. All construction workers please see
Remain calm after meeting these workers, and please remember that you have all signed a confidentiality agreement and are not allowed to disclose any information related to the construction. Please be informed."
"What? What does this mean? We did sign a confidentiality agreement, but what is an unusual method? Why do we need to stay calm?" The engineer listened to his companion read the instructions on the construction plan, but felt confused: "Is it possible?
Will they send a group of slaves over? Are these barbarians really still using slaves?"
The engineer's words were full of discrimination and contempt. However, just as he was speaking nonsense, the Egyptians had already erected the obelisk, and several people in black robes were standing under the obelisk with their hands raised and doing something.
, looks like praying.
As these black-robed acolytes prayed, the words engraved on the obelisk lit up one after another, emitting green fluorescence and at the same time, an almost undetectable circle of light also radiated from the obelisk.
, swept across the entire construction site in an instant, and also swept through a camp that the Egyptians had prepared with the cooperation of the British army.
As the power of the obelisk swept across, the camp suddenly boiled.
One after another, dead bones and mummified corpses, as well as some still fresh corpses, walked out of the tent in the camp with a pair of green eyes.
"Wtf! What is this!" The tent where the engineer and his companions were located was very close to the undead camp, so he saw the undead emerging from the tent immediately, and he was so frightened that his pants got wet.
Rolling and crawling, he ran towards the British soldiers standing guard. The engineer hurriedly asked for help from the British soldiers, but to his surprise, the British soldiers were not at all nervous or even surprised.
"Okay, Mr. Engineer, I suggest you go back and change your pants first, and then drink a cup of black tea to calm down. These skeletons and corpses are the labor provided by the Egyptian government." Considering that the guy in front of him who was so scared that he peed his pants is
The British soldiers calmed down the engineer needed for the construction.
