Chapter 1362: The Old Man Who Refuses to Die Is a Thief (Part 2)

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"You are dreaming! This is impossible!"

Mohammed Ali roared, but a weak old man could not scare the envoy of the Suez Canal Supervisory Committee.

"Sorry, this is a notice, not a request. You and your government can only choose to execute or be forced to execute."

"I will kill you! Believe it or not!"

Mohammed Ali acted like a hooligan again. He knew that Europeans were very timid and cowardly.

The messenger unbuttoned his shirt unhurriedly, revealing a full bundle of explosives around his waist.

"I believe you won't do this."

The messenger took off his hat and saluted respectfully, and the guards in the Manio Palace stepped back unconsciously.

Mohammed Ali could only watch the other party leave. Of course, he could order the whole city to be under martial law and kill the team of the Canal Supervisory Committee, but in that case, Egypt and his family would no longer exist.

Faced with this obvious overlord clause, Muhammad Ali clenched his fists, and suddenly his nose began to bleed. The maids and waiters around him tried to stop the bleeding, but it was all in vain. Soon he drowned in his own blood.

A generation of heroes fell, and no one in Egypt could hinder the construction of the Suez Canal. The exaggerated debts incurred during the construction of the canal also sentenced the country to death.

Killing Egypt has become a consensus among all the powers. After all, Muhammad Ali has had many previous convictions, and it is easy for the powers to reach a consensus.

As long as they can see the benefits of getting rid of Muhammad Ali, first of all, they don’t have to worry about being cheated by this old bastard, and secondly, Egypt will become an area that the powers can freely compete for.

The most important thing is that from now on, Egypt’s resources, population, and everything can be taken by the powers as they please, which will not only save a lot of costs, but also make a lot of money.

This time Franz will completely kill Muhammad Ali, and the latter will not be able to turn over even if he has great ability.

Muhammad Ali died, and his grandson Abbas I had no time to grieve before he had to inherit the position of Pasha of Egypt and the debts owed by his grandfather.

In fact, Abbas I himself did not feel sad, he hated the founder of the Egyptian dynasty very much. Muhammad Ali's funeral was so shabby that it surprised the envoys of European countries. After all, in their minds, the funeral of such a founder of a dynasty should be very grand.

However, Abbas I was an arrogant, conceited and conservative fool. He had been waiting for this day to come. He cancelled most of the reforms formulated by Muhammad Ali during his lifetime the day after his death.

Schools and factories were all closed and auctioned, which made the members of the committee very interested.

Abbas I hated Egyptians who went to Europe to study, but none of the twenty servants he trusted most were completely loyal to him.

Almost all the people around Abbas I were pawns placed by European countries around him, and he also thought about resisting.

But this time the powers did not want to play games with him, so Abbas I could only obey his orders.

Twenty thousand laborers were nothing to Egypt, after all, there were more than twenty thousand slaves in Egypt at that time.

But Abbas I's policy divided a newly formed country, and more than a dozen ethnic groups and countless national elites began to fight for their own survival.

Abbas I knew nothing about economics. In his eyes, cotton and tobacco made money, so all the farmland was planted with cotton and tobacco.

This time the change was more thorough, and any farmer who refused to plant cash crops would be sent to the canal construction team.

As for the food problem, the food from the Austrian Empire's Tanzania Governorate could just solve this problem.

If the food from the Austrian Empire's Tanzania Governorate had to be transported back to the country through the Cape of Good Hope, the cost-effectiveness was too low, so Franz's initial positioning was Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, Oman, India and other countries.

The freight from Tanzania to the Red Sea port of Safaje was much cheaper, at least at this time it seemed to be a win-win situation.

Of course, as a food supplier, the Austrian Empire would not lose money no matter what, and the problem it faced in the short term was nothing more than who to sell the food to.

When the Suez Canal opens in the future, the Austrian Empire will no longer have a food crisis.

In fact, there are a group of people who are more looking forward to the opening of the Suez Canal than Franz, that is, the merchants in Venice, who have been making plans for the canal.

In addition, the Venetian merchants are also fans of Suez Canal Company stocks, and they will buy some regularly as if they believe in it.

It doesn't matter to Franz. Although he is determined to win the Suez Canal, he doesn't necessarily have to use force and conspiracy.

However, in the eyes of the British, this is a conspiracy: the Austrians want to control the Suez Canal Co., Ltd.

The British government naturally cannot sit idly by and watch this happen, so they can only keep increasing their stakes.

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This is what Franz is willing to see. He hopes that the Suez Canal will be built wider and wider, and it would be better if it can be completed faster.

Compared with the Suez Canal issue, the attention paid to the European Monetary Union is much lower.

Although the European Monetary Union has been established, each country has raised trade barriers and introduced corresponding monetary defense policies in order to prevent other countries' goods from invading their own countries.

What these countries didn't expect was that although the goods were blocked, the people and currency themselves could not be blocked.

The wealthy businessmen and talents of small countries inevitably flowed to big countries, and the financial industry of big countries easily penetrated into small countries.

The Austrian Empire was the biggest beneficiary of the entire system at this time. After all, it had two major customs unions, Germany and Apennines, and was also a trading partner of Spain and Russia.

Franz also felt the benefits of Austria as the hegemon of Central Europe for the first time.

Unknowingly, the economic influence of the Austrian Empire had caught up with Britain and France, and actually controlled more areas.

It's just that the gold and silver dual standard currency system must change, otherwise every discovery of a new mineral vein would be a shock to the alliance, especially the Austrian Empire, which had the largest total amount of precious metals.

The trade volume between the big countries is also increasing, but the gap will not disappear. On the contrary, trade frictions are also increasing due to the increase in trade volume.

The governments of Britain, France and Austria are almost all promoting that the workers of the other two countries have robbed the jobs of their own country's workers, affecting the prices of their own goods and the profits of enterprises.

Franz did not like this childish game, but in the face of such rude accusations, silence would only make the other party think that you acquiesced or were easy to bully.

So the Austrian Empire had to participate in this endless propaganda war. Fortunately, the Austrian Empire had a very developed papermaking and photography industry.

After tasting the sweetness of the monetary union, Franz decided to promote it in the colonies.