On September 1, 1649, Captain Jiwen and others left Abbas Port in depression and opened all the steam power, and then headed west along the coast of the Arabian Peninsula, trying to avoid the surging currents and unfavorable wind directions. After going through a lot of hardships, they arrived at the Port of Suez at the northern end of the Red Sea.

The Port of Suez was originally just a small fishing village in the Ottoman Empire. Even though it was the base of their Red Sea Fleet, it did not make this drought-heating port much richer. The rolling yellow sand, the drought-hungry land, the dark herders and the thin and dirty flocks of sheep constituted the unchanging scenery of Suez Port for thousands of years, just like the hundreds of years since the Mamluk ruled the Egyptian land in the past. Now the foundation of the Ottoman rule in Egypt is still Mamluk, without any change.

The scenery outside the port is so monotonous. Except for a few places you can see a touch of green, most places are desolate and lonely, and there is no trace of vitality. The situation inside the port is similar, with low and dilapidated adobe houses, roofs, streets, and squares everywhere, all of which are gray, which makes people feel bored.

"This is a forgotten corner." Lieutenant Jiwen got off the boat, greeted the Ottoman officials who came to check, and said his sigh in Chinese: "The sun is so hot that it is unbearable, and the air is filled with a burning and hot smell. It is hard for such a place to arouse my interest for the second time, isn't it, Sergeant Esposito?"

"As you said, sir, this ghost place is not pleasing." Esposito wiped his sweat with a towel and frowned, "But we have to come, and I see that there are many ships from New China in this pitiful port. They must be transporting people and traders."

The ships referred to by Esposito were moored in deep water at this time. There were six ships, four flute-shaped transport ships built by the New China Shipyard, and two fast cruise ships of the Second Navy Fleet seemed to be escorting. In recent years, with the inclination of national policies, the scale of trade with the Ottoman Empire from the Indian Ocean has gradually expanded. However, due to the port conditions of the Port of Suez, Egypt's sparse population and high costs of long-distance transportation require the transportation of goods from Suez to Alexandria or Syria by camel fleets. The scale of this business has been very limited.

The New China Development Team of the East Coast Republic, which undertakes the main trading functions, sends five or six ships to the Port of Suez before October every year. After the transaction with the Ottomans, they take the sudden north wind back to Xinhua Port in the southern hemisphere with the sudden north wind. The goods involved are mainly some easy-to-transport and easy-to-sale cotton cloth, medicine, dyed leather goods, metal utensils and other commodities, while the imported goods of the East Coast people are mainly two types: slaves are mainly female slaves and livestock, mainly horses and camels.

The scale of these businesses is not large, and the big men in the Ottoman country are not interested in getting involved, so they are usually their agents, descendants of Mamluk, the descendants of the Egyptian Lake. In fact, these feudal military aristocratic leaders are mostly suffering. They are very enthusiastic about developing trade with the East Coast people to make profits. Some of them, who are very short of money, will occasionally lead troops to rob the Bedouin and Persians to capture slaves and sell them to the East Coast people. The relationship between the two sides has always been quite harmonious.

Starting a few years ago, Shi Qinjie, the captain of the New China Development Team, took into account the future of the plantation economy on the island and began to advocate expanding Indian Ocean trade, whether it was with the Ottoman Empire or the Persian Safavi Dynasty. After listening to the opinions of the New China Development Team, he decided to formally increase investment in this regard, considering that the route safety will be used to route the Ottoman Empire as a backup route for trade between the two countries and expand market demand.

It is also in this context that the expansion and transformation project of Suez Port, which was supported by the East Coast, was included in the work plan of the Ottoman government. However, civil strife broke out in the country later. After the army took power, the plan was temporarily frozen due to lack of sufficient funds. In addition, the East Coast expedition fleet successfully sailed for the Port of Abbas in Persia and submitted a letter of state to Abbas II of the Safavi Dynasty, which also marked the determination and will of the government of the East Coast Republic to explore the Indian Ocean market.

In short, the New China Colony on the east coast now has a strong impulse to expand trade with the Ottomans due to the demands of developing their own economy. However, their funds and connections are very limited, and the Ottomans are also very chaotic at this time. Therefore, many of their plans seem to be completely invisible to see the future in such a hot season in the summer of 1949.

"There is not even enough deep-water dock berths here." Captain Jiwen looked at the flute-shaped transport ships that were anchored in the deep-water area and then rely on small barges to transfer personnel and supplies, and sighed, "This is why Xinhua Port was furious after learning that the Ottomans gave up the expansion of Suez Port. They wanted to expand trade, but there were not even enough dock berths here. Isn't it ridiculous?"

The two stood by the dock and joked. At this moment, some Arabs were already rowing boats in the bay and leaning towards the two east coast boats. Their boats were filled with fruits, vegetables and fresh meat. Whenever they saw an east coast sailor, they raised their thumbs up and said in broken Chinese: "East coast country, the first!", and then looked at these seemingly rich exotic sailors with hope, hoping that they would take care of their business in a good mood.

The two were not interested in staying on the dock anymore, so with the assistance of Ottoman Customs officials, they soon found the staff of the East African Transportation Company that was setting up a rest and the new China Special Commissioner Kyle Kyle and Jiwen, who were in charge of immigration affairs, and they were old friends. They were both students of the first class of the Navigation School, but one of them later continued to make a living at sea and the other served as colonial officials. In general, they both had successful careers.

Kyle and others had just arrived at Suez Port. This time, he followed several ships from the East African Transportation Company to Suez Port. His main task was to supervise a group of special prisoners of war immigrants. Yes, yes, they were Polish soldiers sold by the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainian Cossacks.

The number of these people is not that different from the several defeats of the Polish Kingdom in 1648 ruined at least 560,000 of them, among which there were many captured. Therefore, if the East Coast people were willing to buy openly, they might be able to buy at least 20,000 slaves, which is even more than the number of Polish women they purchased.

In fact, with the Tatars' conduct, it's not a big deal to buy how many people you want. Haven't you seen that in 1648 they were once driven to Crimea by the Cossacks. The reason was that these lawless grassland men did not distinguish whether you were Poles or Ukrainians when they robbed them. They plundered 200,000 people in the area west of the Dnieper River in a few months, most of them Ukrainians. This aroused the dissatisfaction of the Cossacks, so they were driven away. Of course, Khmelnikki invited the Tatars again before the Second Battle with Poland.

According to Mo San's arrangement in the Ottoman Empire, Polish women unified the French transport ships they hired to transport, and returned to the land with the East Coast escort fleet through the Mediterranean Atlantic route. As for those men, the arrangements were too many. The first batch of 6,000 German mercenaries prisoners of war in the Battle of Korsson, a total of 8,500 Polish soldiers were captured, most of which were German mercenaries had begun to transport them to the Port of Suez on the coast of the Red Sea through water and land transport.

These Germans were scattered in many houses inside and outside Suez City, and the guard costs of soldiers sent by local Mamluk feudal lords were paid by the East Coast people. These German mercenaries were prisoners of war, but now they have been resold and their morale is extremely low. At this moment, in the hot place of Suez Port, they are like they are burning with leaves, and they cannot cheer up.

These people are old veterans. Many people have left the countryside of Hessen since childhood and fought in most Europe for a meal. It can be said that they are everywhere there, and this time, the Ukrainian Cossacks, which served the Polish king to suppress the uprising, were actually just a "normal business" for them. However, now they are defeated and captured and sold to a distant desert area, and it seems that this is not the final destination, which makes them feel a little worried about their destiny.

What they worry about is not that they will never go to their hometown again. In fact, they don’t care about this at all. German mercenaries are everywhere. They go wherever they can survive. It would be even better if they can settle there. Even if that place is the terrible East Indies, it doesn’t matter that they are mainly worried about their status. They are afraid that they will be trafficked to some ignorant and backward barbarian chiefs of the Old Continent and then treated as slaves. Such an end must be very tragic and they are unwilling to face it.

The East Coast people could not control the little ones in the hearts of these Germans. They bought these German mercenaries mainly for the Far East battlefield. These German prisoners of war have been fighting for many years, have been hard-working, have rich experience, are familiar with the methods of firearms fighting, and will also form a Spanish formation, which is very ideal candidate for cannon fodder combat. Therefore, it is naturally a very good deal to bring these people to the Far East and expand territory for the East Coast people to fight the Tartars.

Kyle introduced to Jiwen and others that all German mercenaries would be sent to the Far East. As for the other Polish prisoners of war, some of them were sent to the New China region to act as contract slaves. The relatively reliable development of tropical land for the East Coast Republic was reorganized and attacked native villages in the inland areas to expand the rule of the East Coast people. Finally, some of the most unreliable Poles, mainly military officers and nobles, would be sent to the local area and handed over to the South Railway Company for disposal. The consequences were probably to carry out labor reform on the railway construction site.

In short, these prisoners of war can be called "cheap and good quality". Now we are waiting for the people to arrive. When the northeast wind suddenly blows in late October, we will board the ship to Xinhua Port together.

According to Mo San's arrangement in the Ottoman Empire, Polish women unified the French transport ships they hired to transport, and returned to the land with the East Coast escort fleet through the Mediterranean Atlantic route. As for those men, the arrangements were too many. The first batch of 6,000 German mercenaries prisoners of war in the Battle of Korsson, a total of 8,500 Polish soldiers were captured, most of which were German mercenaries had begun to transport them to the Port of Suez on the coast of the Red Sea through water and land transport.

These Germans were scattered in many houses inside and outside Suez City, and the guard costs of soldiers sent by local Mamluk feudal lords were paid by the East Coast people. These German mercenaries were prisoners of war, but now they have been resold and their morale is extremely low. At this moment, in the hot place of Suez Port, they are like they are burning with leaves, and they cannot cheer up.

These people are old veterans. Many people have left the countryside of Hessen since childhood and fought in most Europe for a meal. It can be said that they are everywhere there, and this time, the Ukrainian Cossacks, which served the Polish king to suppress the uprising, were actually just a "normal business" for them. However, now they are defeated and captured and sold to a distant desert area, and it seems that this is not the final destination, which makes them feel a little worried about their destiny.

What they worry about is not that they will never go to their hometown again. In fact, they don’t care about this at all. German mercenaries are everywhere. They go wherever they can survive. It would be even better if they can settle there. Even if that place is the terrible East Indies, it doesn’t matter that they are mainly worried about their status. They are afraid that they will be trafficked to some ignorant and backward barbarian chiefs of the Old Continent and then treated as slaves. Such an end must be very tragic and they are unwilling to face it.

The East Coast people could not control the little ones in the hearts of these Germans. They bought these German mercenaries mainly for the Far East battlefield. These German prisoners of war have been fighting for many years, have been hard-working, have rich experience, are familiar with the methods of firearms fighting, and will also form a Spanish formation, which is very ideal candidate for cannon fodder combat. Therefore, it is naturally a very good deal to bring these people to the Far East and expand territory for the East Coast people to fight the Tartars.

Kyle introduced to Jiwen and others that all German mercenaries would be sent to the Far East. As for the other Polish prisoners of war, some of them were sent to the New China region to act as contract slaves. The relatively reliable development of tropical land for the East Coast Republic was reorganized and attacked native villages in the inland areas to expand the rule of the East Coast people. Finally, some of the most unreliable Poles, mainly military officers and nobles, would be sent to the local area and handed over to the South Railway Company for disposal. The consequences were probably to carry out labor reform on the railway construction site.

In short, these prisoners of war can be called "cheap and good quality". Now we are waiting for the people to arrive. When the northeast wind suddenly blows in late October, we will board the ship together to Xinhua Port. To be continued.
Chapter completed!