The woman with a white gauze covering her face and riding a lightning-fast horse is called Ikram. She is the sister of the indigenous nobleman in Suez Port who holds the lamp. She is a well-educated woman. Her maid is a spy who broke into the canal company. Dinan and the others never imagined that a poor indigenous maid could understand French. [No pop-up novel website]
Canal companies generally have two criteria for recruiting local employees. Those who understand English and French are managers and are generally responsible for specific work.
As for the waiters and maids responsible for housekeeping, they are all local aborigines who do not understand foreign languages. The main consideration is confidentiality. As for daily communication, they can use simple Arabic to communicate, or temporarily teach a few French words.
It was precisely because of such strict security measures that Ferdinand and the others dared to talk about their plans unscrupulously at the banquet. In the final analysis, it was arrogance that caused the trouble. At the end of the 19th century, Europe's colonial rule of the world had entered a stable period. Those who could be suppressed were suppressed, and those who dared to resist were almost killed.
The colonial people's attitude towards the colonists, from the earliest resistance to the final compromise, has become numb to the habit. India is a good example. The princes and people there are completely accustomed to the colonial rule, and they even think that this rule is natural.
Once colonization entered the Stabilizer, Europeans' arrogance was greatly fueled. Perhaps in the minds of Ferdinand and others, the natives were a group of uncivilized beasts, only a little stronger than animals, so there was no need to worry too much. their threats.
Because of this, they did not expect that the Egyptian natives had begun to adulterate their food and drinking water with private goods, nor did they expect that a maid who could understand French had brought out their conspiracy.
After Ikram learned of the French conspiracy, he left a letter without discussing with his brother, snatched his brother's fast horse, and set off alone to chase the combined fleet.
And his little maid began to plot against Ferdinand under the order of the lady. The French consul had no idea that his favorite iced black tea had been secretly mixed with contaminated water.
The kind-hearted Ikram has a strong sense of right and wrong. When she knew that these benefactors from the East were about to be surrounded by the French, she could no longer sit still. She was so bold that she actually left home at night.
The desert in the Middle East is not a kind place. Many tribes were herdsmen when they were grazing, but they turned into bandits when they saw a caravan. It was very dangerous for a single girl to walk alone at night.
Fortunately, two brave private soldiers in the family discovered what the young lady was doing, and hurriedly chased her to take her home. However, the owner's lightning BMW was not comparable to their war horses, and even after running all night, they still could not catch the young lady.
"Stop chasing me... either protect me to see my benefactor in the east, or you go back! Ungrateful people will be punished by Allah!"
The two warriors scratched their heads anxiously, thinking what would happen if we didn't agree, and they couldn't catch up with the lady's lightning BMW. In the end, they had no choice but to chase behind and protect her like ghosts in hanging boots.
Ikram had not drank water all night, her lips were chapped and her heart was burning inside.
"Stop moving forward. The French have ambushed a lot of cannons at the fifth station! They also hired Bedouin bandits to fire at you..."
"As soon as the guns are fired, these French people will have an excuse to intervene. By then, all the north and south rivers of the Great Bitter Lake will be blocked, and so many of your warships will be trapped in the Great Bitter Lake!"
"The warship is trapped in the desert. Can you still survive? The French consul also said that he would take this opportunity to unite many countries in Europe to declare war on you. The period when you are trapped is an opportunity for the French to engage in diplomatic mediation! "
"Don't leave, don't give the French any excuses, withdraw immediately, and retreat to the Red Sea... Even if you take a long detour to the Cape of Good Hope, it's better to waste time than to die trapped!"
Ikram was indeed an educated and talented woman. She actually knew about the Cape of Good Hope and the most basic knowledge of geography. This was really not simple in that era.
There is really some trouble in the Great Bitter Lake. After two merchant ships were scrapped, another merchant ship malfunction occurred in the northern river. It is said that a steam paddle steamer suffered a boiler failure and lost power. Now it is blocked in the river and cannot go ahead.
The canal company is organizing tugboats to pull out the paddle steamer, and the river is temporarily unusable during this period. Now the combined fleet could only slow down again, and the merchant ships of the hostile countries started to curse after their slowdown. For those merchants, every day of delay was a waste of money.
The fifth stop of the town is just ten kilometers north of the Zhiyuan. This is the entrance of the Great Bitter Lake into the north channel of the canal. The town has accumulated a large amount of food, fresh water and coal. Many ships have to make their last replenishment here. .
The canal company has a management agency here and coordinates the passage of canal ships every day. The French ambush is behind a sand dune near the mouth of the river in the north of the town.
The two French spies lying on the sand dunes looked quietly at the busy river in the distance. The ticking pocket watch was placed on the sand, and the hands already pointed to 1:30 in the afternoon.
After a while, there was a sound of sand behind the two of them, and the leader of the Bedouin mercenaries crept over quietly, "Two gentlemen, there are only six hours left before the attack begins. Should we make a second payment?" Is it gold?”
"My men have been eating salty pancakes in the desert for a week. If I don't have money again, I can't guarantee my fighting power for a while!"
The scar-faced mercenary forced out a smile that was uglier than crying. The two Frenchmen looked at him with disgust, "Back off! The gold that should be given to you will naturally be given to you. I paid you one-third of it before." I’ll give you another third of the gold before the war begins, and I’ll settle the final payment after the work is done…”
"This promise has always worked. We will not miss you a single gold coin!"
"But, it's already half past one in the afternoon. Our attack will begin when it gets dark. My brothers can't wait! Jinzi, we must let them see Jinzi, otherwise we will not sacrifice our lives!"
"Greedy vipers... Well, I'll give you gold, No. 2. You go to the fifth station and get the one-third of the gold, so that he doesn't scream like a fly in my ears!"
Scarface was not angry at all. When he heard that there was gold, he didn't care about the other party's abuse at all. "Hahaha, as long as you have gold, it will be fine. If you have gold, you will have the strength to work hard, hahaha..."
But when he left the sand dunes and returned to the bottom of the valley where his men were resting, he cursed in a low voice with a sullen face, "How dare you call me a poisonous snake? You guys who set up ambush are the poisonous snakes! They sent troops to overthrow the Chinese country, but failed. Just kill him secretly, it’s despicable and shameless, bah!”
"I'm only here for the sake of gold. Without gold, I would have thrown you two into the desert to dry your corpses!"
