Li An personally came, this is a big face, Osman naturally needs to greet in person, the growth of his power is inseparable from Li An's help, no matter from what point of view, he must come out to greet in person, otherwise, he will be uneasy in his heart.

Located in the lower reaches of the Nile, the northern Egyptian town near the Mediterranean Sea is not very far from the mouth of the Nile, and there are great benefits to having its capital here.

First of all, it is very convenient in terms of transportation, the lower reaches of the Nile are very wide, and it is not stressful to build a good port by the river, and from the port by the river, you can go to both the Mediterranean Sea in the north and the upper reaches of the Nile, which is very convenient.

Secondly, the security is also very good, if the capital is built directly on the Mediterranean coast in the north, once the foreign enemy comes from the sea, the soldiers of the capital do not even have time to warn, and this is obviously very disadvantageous, and it is much safer in the slightly further position, and it is also more conducive to ruling the southern territory, so as not to let the southern territory fall into the situation of the mountain high emperor.

Of course, the more important reason is that this is originally a large city, and it is most convenient to use it directly as the capital, and if you build a temporary city by the sea, it will be too labor-intensive and material-intensive.

In short, the Ottoman capital city is well chosen, and this location is the most suitable for the capital city from any point of view, and it is a good place.

Li An stood on the roof of the ironclad car, stared at the city in front of him, and felt the huge size of this city, but it was only very huge in this area, if it was to Chang'an and Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty, it would be too small, and it would not be a grade at all.

The walls were built with sand and earth made of local materials, just for the sake of beauty and solidity, so the outermost layer was built with a layer of stone bricks, which immediately looked like it was up a notch.

"Big brother, this is the capital of the Ottomans! It looks pretty good, compared to our state cities in Datang, it's not much worse, at least, it's much taller than many of our county towns in Datang. ”

Li Feiyu joked with a smile.

Li An nodded, saw a large group of people coming, and knew that there must be Osman among them, so he got off the roof of the car and prepared to meet Osman.

When he was in Aden City, Ang Lee had met Osman, so he naturally knew what Osman looked like, so he saw Osman from a long distance and greeted him with his soldiers.

"Li Shilang, I haven't seen you for many days, but you are still so heroic!"

Ottoman opened his mouth as a compliment.

Li An smiled and said, "The Ottoman general is also very strong, no, it should be called the Ottoman Sultan now, it's time to change his words." ”

After taking full control of Egypt, Osman announced the establishment of Egypt and sat on the throne of Sultan himself, so it is not appropriate for Ang Lee to call him a general, and it should be called Sultan to be in line with Ottoman's current status.

"It's okay, it's just a title, Li Shilang's arrival is a blessing for us in Egypt, we must stay longer."

Osman said politely.

Li An nodded and said, "Of course, I will definitely stay longer, and the Ottoman Sultan should not be afraid to disturb!" ”

"No, how could it be? Li Shilang, please. ”

Very kind invitation from Osman.

Li An nodded, led his subordinates and many soldiers and horses, and drove into the city, because the area of the city is limited, in order not to interfere with the normal life in the city, Li An only led a thousand men and horses into the city, and the remaining two thousand soldiers and horses were all camped outside the city, and a few soldiers entered the city to buy daily needs.

Although only a thousand soldiers and horses entered the city, there were not many weapons and combat vehicles, and they were fully capable of ensuring Ang Lee's absolute safety, and even overthrow the Ottoman court.

Of course, Ang Lee would not do this, unless it was very necessary, Ang Lee would not use his troops and horses at will, so as not to bring some unnecessary trouble to the Tang Dynasty.

Ottoman is of course very clear about the strength of the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses, and it is dangerous to put the elite Tang soldiers and horses into the city, but he does not dare to refuse, after all, the strength of the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses is too strong, if the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses are unhappy, even if the capital has a city as a backing, it is difficult to resist the elite Tang soldiers and horses, so it is better to obediently let the Tang soldiers and horses enter the city to show his friendship with the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses.

The population in the city is not much, only 30,000 or 50,000 people, in fact, such a population is already a lot, it is considered a super city in this area, but it is far in front of Chang'an City, which has a population of one million.

After entering the city, almost all the people and officials in the city greeted them on both sides of the road, which was specially arranged by Osman, in order to reflect his personal importance to Datang and his respect for Ang Lee.

However, the Datang people did not disappoint the people in the city, they were originally just standing on the street to complete the task and waiting, but when they waited until the moment the Datang soldiers and horses appeared, they felt that they were not waiting in vain, because they saw a lot of fresh guys that they had never seen in their lives.

Most of them have never seen Datang's cars and ironclad cars, only some knowledgeable people have heard others talk about it, but they have not seen it with their own eyes, they can only understand and guess by imagination, and only when they see it with their own eyes at this moment, they know what is going on.

Li Ang is very familiar with this kind of scene, every time he has to look at the curious and surprised eyes of these dirt buns, Li Ang is limited and numb, and he doesn't even feel excited, but he feels that these guys are too pitiful, they actually live in a backward area in such a backward era, and their knowledge is too pitiful.

After entering the city, Li An was arranged in an independent residence, which was very large, with two or three hundred houses alone, and a larger courtyard that could be used to set up tents, and there was enough space outside the house to park cars and various armored vehicles.

For the first time, of course, you can't directly explain your intentions, you have to adapt to them first, and then slowly explain your intentions, giving both parties a process of adaptation.

After welcoming Ang Lee into the city, Osman returned to the palace he had just built, and frowned and thought about Ang Lee's intention, because he had to figure out Ang Lee's intention before he could prescribe the right medicine, although Ang Lee sent someone over in advance and clearly told Osman that he was going to travel to Egypt, but Osman was not a fool, so he didn't believe that Ang Lee was just here to travel? After all, he only rejected Datang's labor request a few days ago, and now that Li An is here, will there be some kind of connection between the two, will it be that Li An came to Xingshi to ask for guilt, and wants to use force himself to hand over the labor.

But he had already made it very clear that the army would soon conquer Spain, and it would require a lot of labor to provide support, and he would not be able to spare too much manpower to support Datang's canal plan, and he could only help him, didn't Li An understand his difficulties.

The Ottoman subordinates were all guessing about this matter, feeling that Li Ang did not have the support of labor, and they were unhappy and were going to find trouble, and the purpose of looking for trouble was to force the Ottoman group to provide enough labor for Datang to support Datang's canal plan.

"Sultan, Datang wants to build a canal connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea in the east of our country, I heard that Artik has promised to provide 100,000 laborers, but this is far from enough, Datang also needs us to provide the same labor, so that Datang's canal plan can be realized faster."

"Sultan, Datang is determined to build the canal, it seems that it will not stop if it does not achieve its goal, if Datang strongly asks us to provide labor, we should support some of it, we can't give none of it! After all, Datang also helped us. ”

Several subordinates said.

Osman said dissatisfiedly: "Datang's construction of the canal is Datang's own business, why do we have to provide labor, of course, if we really have enough manpower in our hands, just give it to him, give as much as you want, but at the moment we are also very short of people, young and strong have joined the army, and it also takes a lot of labor to transport baggage for the army, and we are now short of labor, I still want Datang to give me 30,000 or 50,000 young people?" Where can I still make up labor for Datang. ”

Obviously, Osman also has a hard time, he attacks from all sides, and the consumption of human resources is extremely large, that is to say, the manpower is not enough at all, and there is already a gap, so how to provide labor for Datang, it is good not to ask Datang for labor.

But in this case, he can only complain in front of his subordinates, and if he is in front of Li An, he will not dare to mention a word.

He originally thought that as long as he politely refused, this matter would pass, but he didn't expect Li An to come, and what surprised him even more was that Li An not only came by himself, but also brought three thousand elite Tang soldiers and horses, a powerful force enough to destroy him, what is this for? Although Ang Lee was still pleasant, Osman really felt the pressure, and he felt that Ang Lee had brought so many troops to come, which was a kind of demonstration, to force himself to comply, and this obviously made him very unhappy.

"The Sultan doesn't have to worry, Li Shilang has just arrived, and he doesn't know our actual situation yet, as long as we explain our difficulties in detail, I believe he won't be too difficult for us."

"That's right, in addition to being reasonable, we also have to send more Jinzhu beauties, as long as Li Shilang is happy, all problems will be solved."

"Sultan, there is a new beauty in the city recently, her body is naturally fragrant, and she has been admitted to the Sultan's palace, if you can dedicate it to Li Shilang, maybe he will not let us call us laborers as soon as he is happy."

"Yes, yes, if you can exchange a beauty for peace in the world, it is also worth it."

The subordinates said, clearly telling Osman that it is better to bear the pain and cut love!

When Osman heard this, he was very depressed, this little beauty was beautiful and fragrant, and he fell in love with him just when he came to the royal city, so he was admitted to the palace, and he didn't have time to be pampered, if he gave it to Li An like this, he should have no face, and he also wanted to enjoy the warmth of the beauty, he was really reluctant to give such a good beauty to Li An, but if he didn't give it back, what could he do to impress Li An's heart? Gold, silver and jewelry, these vulgar things, Ang Lee is definitely not lacking, these things can only be the icing on the cake, and only beauties can really impress Ang Lee, after all, Osman has always paid attention to Ang Lee, knows what Ang Lee has been doing in the last month or two, and of course understands Ang Lee's amorous nature, so, what can be better than the effect of beauty?

Thinking that the mouth-watering fragrant beauty was going to be given to Ang Lee to enjoy, Osman really felt a little bad in his heart, but for the sake of his own great cause, he had to endure the pain of cutting his love, who made him not want to provoke Ang Lee?

"When do you think it's more appropriate for the beauty and the gold bead to be sent over?"

Osman asked, looking at several of his subordinates.

Seeing that Osman had relented to give the beauty, several subordinates were relieved, anyway, they couldn't enjoy this beauty, but it was better to use it to solve the dilemma they encountered in front of them, and by the way, they could also take care of Osman's body, which can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone.

"Sultan, of course the sooner the better, my subordinates have just seen it, Li Shilang didn't bring a woman with him on this trip, there really isn't one, this is not in line with his style, it seems to be a hint, it is better to send it tonight, along with the gold beads."

One of the subordinates spoke.

Another subordinate hurriedly echoed: "Yes, this kind of thing should be done sooner rather than later, naturally the sooner the better, what Li Shilang lacks, we should send, right now, what Li Shilang lacks the most is women, we can't be wrong to send it tonight." ”

"Sultan, it's too abrupt to send it directly, it's better to have a banquet for Li Shilang tonight, let the beauty dance a song, as long as Li Shilang is satisfied, just take it away, so it's even more natural, not abrupt at all."

Another subordinate offered a plan.

When Osman heard this, he nodded with great satisfaction and said, "Okay, that's it!" Tonight, I will invite Li Shilang to the banquet, let the beauty dance, and leave the banquet to you, and I will do it myself. ”

After Osman finished speaking, he personally walked to the palace where he placed the beauty, wanting to say a final goodbye to the beauty, if he could have a parting cannon, it would be even more perfect.

"Beauty, beauty, beauty?"

Osman grinned and walked in, finding the looted beauty hiding behind the cabinet, so he pulled it out.

"Why is the beauty hiding, is Ben Sultan so terrible?"

Osman was very dissatisfied, there was a slight fierce light in his eyes, it is no wonder that this woman was a free and easy performer, and she was happy to wander in the rivers and lakes, but when she entered Egypt to sell her art, she was actually robbed by Ottoman, which made her very unhappy, but she was forced by Osman's obscenity, and had to bend to meet her, but her heart was indeed extremely reluctant, after all, Osman's appearance made people dare not compliment, and it was difficult to win the heart of a woman.