Lantern was very cunning, and the areas he expanded were all deep in the desert, which was an area that the British and French colonists didn't pay attention to at all!
Abandoning the most fertile areas in the canal area, they turned to expand towards the Sinai Peninsula and the eastern desert of Egypt. In just one year, Ledeng had annexed more than forty tribes, large and small.
At present, La Deng has a population of more than 60,000, and has become the most powerful armed tribe around the Suez Canal!
Among the population of 60,000, there are only about 20,000 young and middle-aged people who can fight. No matter whether it is placed in Europe or Asia, an army of 20,000 people will be a small force no matter how small it is.
But in the chaotic Middle East, in that backward era controlled by the Ottoman Empire, such a force could already make trouble!
In the era without the support of the oil industry, the poor in the Middle East were slightly better than those in black Africa. The dual oppression of Ottoman Turkey and European colonists made the lives of these Arabs very difficult.
There is no industrialization at all, agriculture is only concentrated on limited river plains, and all remaining Arabs follow the nomadic customs that have been in place for thousands of years.
Camels, war horses, scimitars, bows and arrows are their only options for fighting. Modern weapons are only the private collections of the elders of the surplus tribes!
The sudden rise of La Deng is inseparable from Xiao Letian's secret financial and material support. More importantly, the Chinese dispatched a small army of officers to help these Bedouins conduct modern military training.
The sister holding the lantern has become a hostage and given to King Shangtai. She is currently exploring Egypt and North Africa. The cooperation between the two parties is close, and the Chinese have no resistance to their military reforms!
New weapons and new tactics became the two wings for the Bedouins to take off. The initial doubts disappeared after the first victory!
They swallowed forty nomadic tribes in a row, which officially gave this Chinese officer corps the reputation of the God of War!
Not only military penetration, but Chinese businessmen also began to quietly expand their business to the canal zone. They expanded their business in a low-key manner under the watchful eyes of the British and French colonists. They did receive a lot of difficulties at the beginning, but the smart Chinese businessmen quickly Just found the trick.
They began to contact the elders of many tribes through their connections, and gave these local snakes certain shares to make commercial investments in the canal zone in their names.
On the surface, the colonial government was the business of a group of indigenous tribal elders, but they never imagined that there were countless Chinese capital behind it!
The Bedouin warriors pulling the lamps and the Chinese business network in the canal zone became Xiao Letian's natural intelligence network. It would not be easy to intercept a French merchant ship here today.
La Deng had already received the order from the CIA. His scouts were now covering the entire canal, from the entrance of Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea to the exit of Port Suez on the Red Sea. La Deng's men were keeping a close watch 24 hours a day. Canal, what they are waiting for is the cargo ship Calais from France.
But neither the left nor the right came. These sentinels have been watching for ten days, but there is no sign of the Calais cargo ship at all.
Not only is there no trace of the Calais, but the number of French ships in the canal has also dropped by two-thirds compared to usual in the past ten days!
The French ship did not wait, but instead waited for a Chinese cargo ship from the east. This old-fashioned sailing cargo ship was loaded with tea, silk and porcelain. It looked unattractive, but as soon as it arrived at the Port of Suez, it immediately contacted the CIA branch. On.
Only then did people realize that the security level of this cargo ship was actually Tianzihao C! In other words, he is two levels shy of being on par with the head of state!
The CIA branch did not dare to neglect and immediately ordered Bedouin fighters to protect it along the way. Those Bedouin fighters disguised as dock workers quickly regarded the Hangzhou merchant ship as a key target.
The Hangzhou was repaired in Port Suez for two days. Many Bedouin warriors often saw several Chinese men with long braids performing some inexplicable moves on the deck.
Those slow moves made them anxious. Later, when they inquired about it, they found out that it was a traditional Chinese martial art called Tai Chi!
In the minds of the Bedouins, they must be forced to fight like this every day. Otherwise, why should the Chinese leader always have a sad face, as if everyone in the world owes him money?
I didn't see that man smiling for a minute, and he would even quarrel with the captain and sailors on the merchant ship from time to time, and the sailors told him not to argue with him.
"That's right, he was forced to do that kind of slow boxing... Look how suffocated he is, so he gets angry at the people around him..."
But no one thought that this man with a dark look on his face who was unhappy every day would help everyone find the missing Calais!
Just before the Hangzhou weighed anchor and entered the canal, and at the moment when he was waiting for the ships on the other side of the canal to queue up to sail out, the man on the deck who was punching in anger suddenly jumped up like crazy.
He pointed at a British-flagged merchant ship not far away and shouted. The Bedouin sentries on the dock didn't know what happened, but soon the translator told them shocking news.
"That ship is the missing Calais, and that ship is the French merchant ship... He hung the British flag in an attempt to deceive everyone..."
The stinky-faced man on the deck jumped up and shouted, "Emperor Bodhisattva! That ship must be the one used by the Emperor to transport treasures to the Qing Dynasty..."
"It must be... I am Zuo Chaofeng, the Ghost Eye of the Capital... If I can see the Forty Scenes of the Old Summer Palace wrongly... I, I, I... I will blind my eyes!"
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, Ancestors...the ones they dried on the deck were the Forty Scenes of the Old Summer Palace...the batch of paintings they stole..."
The first emperor of the capital, the most discerning old expert in Liulichang, Man Shun, the eunuch of the Forbidden City, had to learn from him to appraise literary and art works. This person is famous in the northern literary and art circles!
It's a pity that his experience has verified a truth. It's hard to explain why a scholar encounters a soldier!
Just at the beginning of the year, he had not recruited or provoked anyone in Liulichang, but he was approached by Chinese CIA officials.
Chinese officials hired him with a high salary to go abroad to appraise treasures, and even said they would give him a thousand taels of silver a month!
Is the person on the left side of my ghost eye short of those few thousand taels of silver? I won't go to the territory of foreign devils, I'm afraid the soles of my shoes will be dirty!
He righteously rejected the Chinese invitation, but he didn't expect that half a month later he would be attacked!
In the evening, I had a Dong Lai Shun hot pot meal and drank half a pound of wine. It was a beautiful day. However, on the way home, I was attacked by a gangster. I wore a sack and put a handkerchief in my mouth. Before I could even call out, I was handed over by the CIA. Taken away!
When he opened his eyes again, he was already lying on the canal boat leading to Tanggu, surrounded by Chinese CIA experts.
Along with himself and five other famous masters of cultural and art appraisal from the capital, these six gentlemen were all kidnapped by the Chinese and embarked on a journey to Europe that they had never imagined in their entire lives!
