This decision is very amazing, when Wu Lei heard Li Hao's plan, he was shocked, and the others were also shocked, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, the shortest route is about four hundred miles, that is to say, to dig a canal, then at least four hundred miles must be dug, and it is not an ordinary river, it is a canal, according to Li Hao's requirements, it is a hundred zhang wide and seven zhang deep, just listening to it makes people gasp, what a big project.

However, Li Hao is the supreme leader, no one can question his decision, he said to do this, then it must be done, in three days, Li Hao drew a road map for the canal project, and then handed over the task to Wu Lei, recruited a large number of Egyptians, and began to dig the Suez Canal, time limit, ten months.

After Wu Lei heard this time limit, he wanted to cry a little, he wanted to dig out a canal with a length of four hundred miles in ten months, how could this be possible, Li Hao patted him on the shoulder at that time, and said a word: "Xiao Wu, you must have confidence, if you have money, you can make a ghost grind." ”

Then Li Hao took his family and thousands of cavalry off the boat to travel to Egypt, after all, Egypt is also one of the four ancient civilizations, he has never seen the Egyptian pyramids in his life, and now that he has arrived in Egypt, he will travel by the way.

In Li Hao's impression, Egypt has been a country of many disasters since ancient times, and it is even more troubled than China, after all, China has been strong several times, while Egypt has always been bullied and enslaved.

Egypt in the true sense of the word, in fact, is ancient Egypt, the civilization of ancient Egypt appeared very early, in 3100 BC there was a unified slave state, but in the 11th century BC to the 7th century BC, intermittently conquered by Assyria, Persian, Macedonian and Roman empires. In the 4th-7th centuries AD, it was incorporated into the Eastern Roman Empire, and the ancient Egyptian civilization perished. In the mid-7th century, the Arabs invaded and established the Arab Empire. In 1249 it began to be ruled by the commander of the Mamluk legion. It was conquered by the Turks in 1517. Became a province of the Ottoman Empire. It was occupied by Napoleon in 1798~1801. It was occupied by British troops in 1882.

It is now 658 A.D., the ancient Egyptian kingdom has collapsed under the repeated impact of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Abbasids, and now Egypt has no unified country, but the slavery system is allowed to continue, and the country is in a state of chaos, similar to the warlord melee, the powerful people in this land, that is, the existence of kings, and these powerful slave owners, will also conflict with each other for interests.

Walking on the land of this ancient civilization, looking at the mess in his eyes, rebelling on the Nile, the cradle of life, he will always see the corpse drifting by, but Li Hao is very calm, because he has seen too much, and he also knows the cruelty of history, our Chinese nation has even experienced a more tragic experience, the decline of the country, not worthy of sympathy, the only thing that can be done is self-improvement, on the world stage, the weak can only be bullied and slaughtered, which is why Li Hao is bent on revitalizing China.

Li Hao walked in Egypt with thousands of men and horses, and the momentum was huge, and the warlords in Egypt didn't dare to provoke him at all, because Li Hao's soldiers and horses were so awesome and imposing that they couldn't compare with them at all.

Li Hao finally took his family to see the Pyramid of Khufu and the Sphinx, which is a symbol of ancient Egyptian civilization, because in the future world, ancient Egyptian civilization has long since fallen, and these two iconic buildings are the biggest proof that ancient Egyptian civilization once existed.

On the way back, he has been thinking about a question, the four ancient civilizations appeared earlier than any country, but in the future world, either perishing or weakening, only the Chinese nation can still stand proudly above the world and emerge, the future world has such a sentence: can shine on the stage of history from ancient times to the present, only our Chinese nation!

That's right, the Chinese nation is an exception among the ancient civilizations, this is because our Chinese nation has a great man at an extremely dangerous moment, he not only saved the Chinese nation, but also pointed us in the direction of progress, otherwise we will eventually follow in the footsteps of the other three ancient countries, either perish, or from now on, be annihilated by history.

Li Hao vaguely guessed the reason for the decline of the ancient civilization, and he guessed many years ago that the ancient civilization was too constrained by people's thoughts, as if putting shackles on people's thoughts, this is a kind of spiritual slavery, whether it is a slavery system or a feudal system, its root is slavery, this is the greatest sorrow of ancient civilizations, and it is also the fundamental reason why the four ancient civilizations are self-contained, and from this strange circle, only our Chinese nation, the great man broke the old and established the new, and the means were extremely tough, and even many years later, some people regretted it, said that this ruined how many good things left by our ancestors, but the great man knew that the ideas left by the feudal dynasty for thousands of years had been deeply rooted, and he had to take the strongest means to awaken people's minds, break the spiritual shackles, and finally, our nation stood up! The sleeping lion of the East is gradually waking up!

When Li Hao returned to the ship, it was already two months later, and he personally went to inspect the excavation project of the Suez Canal, which was really huge, and countless Egyptians who had been tanned were digging the canal there, and they were in full swing, but their remuneration was pitifully low, taking care of two meals a day.

Wu Lei also has an understanding of Egypt's national conditions, only to offer such a reward, Egypt is currently in a state of chaos, Egyptians can't even fill their stomachs, in this case, taking care of food is the most wonderful reward in the world for them, although it is very hard to do hard work, but at least there is no need to starve.

According to Wu Lei, when he accepted the first batch of people, he accepted more than 50,000 people, and later posted notices everywhere, and recruited another 100,000 people in a month, and now, there are 300,000 people in total.

The ration of 300,000 people is not a small amount, the food on Li Hao's ship is the foundation of their voyage, naturally it is impossible to give these people food, Wu Lei of course has his own way, he sent people to trade with the slave owners in Egypt, no gold and silver, as long as food, the more the merrier.

Datang's goods have never been sold overseas, even if they are expensive, they are also quite sought after, most of the slave owners in Egypt are dirt buns, they have never seen much of the world, and when they see Datang's goods, they can't resist the temptation at all, and they send a lot of grain to Wu Lei.

This time, Li Hao went to sea, and he brought 30 large trucks on the sea boat, which he brought with him at the beginning, in order to transport his private military after landing, but now they are used to transport grain.

Wu Lei's trading point is open 24 hours a day, and the grain he bought is continuously sent to the granary at the excavation point of the Suez Canal, which is heavily guarded.

The matter of the Tang fleet's bombardment of the Yemeni Tik seaport has long been reported to the national capital by the nearby people, and Abbas is shocked by the whole country, because in their eyes, it is a heavenly thunder, and the Tang people used the heavenly thunder to destroy the Yementian Tik seaport, and the radius of twenty miles was razed to the ground, and they didn't even know which Tang army this was, and why they could invite the heavenly thunder.

Li Hao dug the canal, and the Abbasids naturally came, but when they saw the huge fleet in the Red Sea, they were so frightened that they didn't dare to approach, and they camped fifty miles away, sending scouts to investigate.

However, Li Hao also sent a large number of scouts to defend the surrounding thirty miles, and as long as the Abbasid scouts approached, they would be killed immediately, so the Abbasids didn't even know what the Tang fleet was doing there.

Osman was very annoyed after receiving this news, under his leadership, the territory of the Abbasids has been expanded repeatedly, the national strength is strong, except for the Tang Dynasty, he has almost no opponents, when did he suffer such a nest, he did not believe that the matter of the thunder was true, and immediately sent an army of 100,000 to see what the Tang people were doing, there was their Abbasid territory!

The Abbasids' army of 100,000 soon arrived, and they saw with their own eyes that the Tang people were digging a huge river, which had been dug for more than 60 miles, 100 zhang wide and 7 zhang deep, because the canal had not yet been filled with water, and it looked like a huge canyon, and the canyon was densely packed with people, some were digging the earth, some were carrying burdens, and some were priing stones, and the project was so vast that they were amazed.

The forcible intrusion of the Abbasid army naturally annoyed Li Hao, although it was far away from the Red Sea and could not be hit by artillery fire, but Li Hao still had 100,000 private troops, and these 100,000 private troops, even compared with the Tiance Mansion of the Tang Dynasty, were slightly inferior.

As soon as the Abbasid army saw the canal, 50,000 swarthy iron horsemen gathered from all directions like dark clouds, rushed towards them, the two sides started a war, so that the Abbasids were shocked, only one confrontation, their 100,000 troops were rushed to pieces by the opponent's 50,000 iron horses, and then, almost unilaterally slaughtered, the general who led the army was so frightened that he quickly withdrew his troops and fled, fortunately the other party did not chase and kill, and the 100,000 army also lost more than 30,000 people, and in just ten minutes, he lost more than 30,000 people, he could hardly believe that this was true.

Li Hao sent people to warn the leading generals of the Abbasids, saying that they were Tang people, and they came here to dig a canal, and they would leave after the canal was opened.

The leading general went back and told the Ottomans the original words, although the Osmans were annoyed, but they really didn't dare to harass anymore, a confrontation killed more than 30,000 of his troops, and it was more than a few hits, such a combat power, he really couldn't believe it, and according to the general's report, the Tang people did just dig the canal, and did not do anything else, although the canal increased a lot of trouble for them to enslave Egypt in the future, but he didn't look down on the land of Egypt at all, his eyes were on the persistent Persia and the Tang Dynasty! So he forcibly endured this breath, and sent heavy troops to guard the territory within fifty miles around the Suez Canal, in order to prevent the Tang people from cheating, if the Tang people only dug the canal, then they would go, if the Tang people dared to attack and disturb, he tried his best to fight back.

After defeating the Abbasid army, Li Hao handed over the power of soldiers and horses to Li Guocheng and Wu Lei, and then took 10,000 private troops and 30 warships and sailed first.

After coming out of the Red Sea, he sailed all the way south along the edge of the African continent, through Somalia, to the Strait of Mozambique, and then to the west, around the Cape of Good Hope, and then to the north, landing once every thousand miles, staying no more than three days each time, and roughly understanding the local conditions and customs, after all, Africa is not the home of the Age of Discovery, and there are no countries on the land here, many of them are still very primitive indigenous tribes, very backward.

Sailing around Africa, the voyage is not short, it took five months to reach Spain, which already belongs to Europe, Europe is one of the home fields of the Age of Navigation, Li Hao naturally wants to know more, promote the Tang civilization to them, show the wealth of the Tang Dynasty, encourage them to go to the Tang Dynasty to trade, if they sincerely go to trade, the Tang Dynasty welcomes, if they go to the Tang Dynasty to fight the autumn wind, Li Hao believes that they will go and have no return.

Li Hao landed in Spain to understand the local conditions, and learned that Spain during this period was ruled by the Visigoths, and carried out some trade in Spain, which took seven days, and then entered the Mediterranean Sea through the Strait of Gibraltar, and after entering the Mediterranean, he landed in Franks, Greece and other places to understand the local cultural customs, and Li Tu recorded everything he saw in detail.

The most impressive thing for Li Hao is Greece, he went to visit the Parthenon, not the ruins of the future world, it is the intact Parthenon, but unfortunately, the current Parthenon has been changed into a church, and Greece has now embraced Christianity.

In Greece, Li Hao also met a mathematician named Amati. Speed Latin, Speed Latin just came back from Datang less than a year, very interested in Datang's science, learned that Li Hao also knows mathematics, so he took Li Hao to the observatory, and Li Hao studied mathematics, and Pei Miao learned astronomy, Li Hao's mathematical knowledge made Speed Latin worship, Pei Miao's stargazing also made Speed Latin admire, even called Datang is really a brilliant person, Li Hao also rarely revealed his true identity, in fact, he is the initiator of Datang science, Speed Latin was shocked, there is a feeling of worshipping God every day and finally seeing the true God.

Although the voyage in Europe was short, it was mostly delayed ashore, so it took him more than three months from the beginning of the entry into the Mediterranean Sea to the western end of the Suez Canal.

At this moment, the Suez Canal has just been completed, from September last year to August this year, which lasted 11 months, and the peak period used as many as 450,000 people, which is really a huge project!

Li Hao's ship entered the Red Sea directly through the Suez Canal, and Wu Lei would meet them, and they were shocked to see Li Hao's ship actually return from the west, but when Li Hao showed them the drawn chart, everyone was relieved, it turned out that in the past eight months, Li Hao actually sailed around such a huge continent. It was precisely after seeing the whole picture of the African continent that Wu Lei learned the true intention of Li Hao to dig the Suez Canal, this canal actually saved nearly a year of voyage, and what does a year's voyage mean, a year's time, at sea, how many winds and waves will be encountered, how many pirates will be encountered, and a Suez Canal, the impact on the age of navigation is huge.

Next, Li Hao asked to cast a statue at the east end of the Suez Canal, erect a monument at the west end, and give the Suez Canal a Tang name - Li Tang Canal.

Digging a four-hundred-mile-long canal on the land of Africa and Europe, and using Li Tang as the name, is really very arrogant, but what's wrong with arrogance, you have the ability to dig it yourself!

After Li Hao's instructions were issued, craftsmen immediately went out to build a huge statue at the east end of the Suez Canal, because in a hurry, there was no need for stone carving, but directly erected the mold with reinforced concrete, and then slightly polished and carved, and engraved on the base to tell Li Hao's great achievements, and in a month's time, the monument in the west section and the statue at the east end were all completed.

Li Hao's fleet sailed into the canal, slowly to the west, Li Hao looked at the statue on the north bank, the statue was very handsome, carved is Li Hao, only to see the statue Li Hao pressed his waist with his left hand, and pointed to the east with his right hand, full of spirit.

And at this moment, around the statue, standing full of people, dense group, stretching for more than 20 miles on the north bank of the canal, black oppression, like dark clouds, this group of Egyptians standing there is not as high as the base of the stone statue, they are all involved in the canal excavation project, this year's time, although hard, but it is the most well-fed year in their lives, sometimes they really hope that this canal can be dug for a lifetime, but they know that it is impossible, now the Tang people's fleet is gone, they can only stand on the shore and watch the Tang people leave, Worry about later life.

Li Hao held the side of the boat, looked at the dense Egyptians on the north shore, frowned, although he pitied this group of Egyptians, but he would not help them, he is not a philanthropist, the decline of your country is their own responsibility, the crisis of Datang has not been lifted, how can Li Hao have the heart to care about the affairs of other countries, after a long time, Li Hao slowly clenched his fists, and said with a resolute face: "Ancient civilization, since ancient times, there have been many disasters and difficulties, although the rise and fall of the nation is a natural principle, but I want to let Datang revitalize infinitely, even if it declines, it will not fall into such a situation, This group of Egyptians is a reminder to me. ”

The next day, Li Hao's fleet arrived at the western end of the Suez Canal, ready to enter the Mediterranean Sea, on the north bank, there is a huge stone stele, not so much a stone stele, but a stone pier, three zhang long, two zhang wide, and one zhang high, with huge four characters engraved on it - Li Tang Canal! Even if you are two hundred meters away, you can clearly see these four big characters, but the small characters below are not clear.

Those small characters describe in detail the excavation process of this canal, who initiated it, how much manpower and material resources were used, how much time was spent, etc., such a huge project naturally should be recorded for future generations to know.

Entering the Mediterranean, Li Hao landed in some European countries to trade and replenish his supplies, which took two months, and then passed through the Strait of Gibraltar and entered the Atlantic, Li Hao knew that the next step would be a long journey away from land, because what they were going to next was the American continent, which had not yet been discovered by the world.

Just when Li Hao's fleet passed through the Strait of Gibraltar and sailed into the Atlantic Ocean, there was a huge change in Chang'an City, above the court.

First of all, Li Zhi fell ill, bedridden every day, and has been in a coma, it has been several months, and daily physiological things need to be taken care of, and from this moment on, Wu Meiniang rarely visits Li Zhi, because he knows that Li Zhi is basically like this, after all, it was she who poisoned her, although she has stopped poisoning Li Zhi now, but even she has no antidote to this poison, and Li Zhi has absolutely no possibility of recovery.

Wu Meiniang gave Li Zhi a chronic poison, and the dosage is very small, poisoned every few days, even if it is the head of the hospital, it cannot be diagnosed and treated, since July this year, Li Zhi suddenly fainted, and then became half-dead, and the hospital was helpless.

The king of a country looks like this, and the crown prince Li Xian is only two years old, he has just been weaned, he is still babbling, and he can't handle the government, and the court and the central government are suddenly in chaos.

At this time, as the first person in the court, the eldest grandson Wuji was naturally going to come out, convened the ministers, and proposed to set up the crown prince Li Xian as the supervisor of the country, and his eldest grandson Wuji as the auxiliary minister, assisting the prince and handling the government affairs.

If this is the case, he will naturally be in power. But this decision aroused the opposition of many ministers, and the initiator of the opposition turned out to be the former henchman of the eldest grandson Wuji, Xu Jingzong.

Xu Jingzong is Wu Meiniang's person, after all these years of crawling, plus Wu Meiniang secretly worked hard, finally entered the phase, the official Zhishang Shu right servant shot, he is the eldest grandson Wuji's henchmen on the surface, in fact, Yang Feng Yin is violated, and it is reasonable to oppose the eldest grandson Wuji, but other ministers also responded to Xu Jingzong's call and opposed the eldest grandson Wuji in power, why is this?

Because Xu Jingzong said a word, he said that the eldest grandson Wuji wanted to emulate the Han rebellion, and his relatives were chaotic.

The ministers are not fools, throughout history, especially in the Han Dynasty, is there still less things about the chaos of foreign relatives, the standard routine of the chaos of foreign relatives is that the first emperor died early, the young prince succeeded to the throne, the young prince did not understand political affairs, and the queen mother naturally assisted in the management of the government, and the queen mother is a woman's family, the ancient woman is not talented is virtuous, and does not understand political affairs, the queen mother handed over the political affairs to her brother or father to take care of, the queen mother's brother or father, that is, the relatives, in this way, the relatives are in power, and there is a situation of the relatives in disorder.

The eldest grandson Wuji's sister is the eldest grandson Empress Wende, he is an authentic relative, Xu Jingzong grasped the identity of the eldest grandson Wuji, fanned the flames above the court, pointed at Sang and scolded Huai, and used the past to satirize the present, the ministers were secretly frightened when they heard it, and naturally opposed the eldest grandson Wuji to grasp the power, and there was a lot of trouble in the court.

The eldest grandson Wuji was also so angry, he had always trusted Xu Jingzong, but he didn't expect that at this critical moment, Xu Jingzong suddenly turned against him and beat him back, so that his good deeds failed, can he not be angry.

At this time, Xu Jingzong suddenly proposed that it was not impossible for the eldest grandson Wuji to serve as an auxiliary minister, and it was necessary to let the Empress Wu also participate in the governance, and the two of them assisted the prince in handling the government at the same time until the prince became an adult.

Xu Jingzong's sudden concession made the eldest grandson Wuji happy, but after the joy, he realized that something was wrong, he finally knew that Xu Jingzong was just a horse boy, and the real mastermind behind the scenes was Wu Meiniang, this woman also wanted to be in power.

The eldest grandson Wuji realized at this time, it turned out that this Wu Meiniang was not small in ambition and wanted to be in power, but he couldn't help but sneer, what is the use of being in power in a woman's family, can you still turn the sky upside down?

Xu Jingzong's eloquence is really good, and he constantly lobbied among the ministers, telling the way of checks and balances, to put it bluntly, it is to use Wu Meiniang and the eldest grandson Wuji to check and balance each other.

The ministers immediately felt that this idea was good, they didn't have a good impression of Wu Meiniang, and now the ambitious eldest grandson Wuji also had to be extra vigilant, for fear that he would hold power, so let the two of them check and balance each other.

This proposal was quickly passed among the ministers, so a new pattern appeared in the court, Li Zhi, the emperor, was lying on the hospital bed in a semi-coma all day, and the crown prince Li Xian was still learning to speak.

Although it is said that the eldest grandson Wuji and Wu Meiniang jointly assisted the prince in dealing with the government, but there is a general dignity and humility, needless to say, it is naturally Wu Meiniang, the eldest grandson is humble and humble, since ancient times, there is a difference between monarchs and ministers, the emperor's wife and children are royal people, and any official must salute when he sees it, which is the difference between monarchs and ministers.

Any advice put forward by the eldest grandson Wuji, as long as Wu Meiniang does not nod, it will not pass, and after Wu Meiniang took power, she immediately manipulated the appointment and dismissal of officials, and carried out a big change of blood in the court, his nephew Wu Chengsi actually became the head of the household department, Xu Jingzong did the left servant of the book, and Wu Sansi became the provincial servant of the door, in addition, Wu Meiniang and Xu Jingzong secretly colluded with the court officials in these years were all promoted and held important positions.

And the eldest grandson Wuji was deprived of all his positions, and only participated in political affairs, and he participated in political affairs, Wu Meiniang didn't care about it at all, which made the eldest grandson Wuji angry, even Li Shimin and Li Zhi didn't dare to do this to him.

That's right, Wu Meiniang is like this, he is not Li Shimin, nor is he Li Zhi, because she is not the emperor, and she doesn't want to be a Ming Jun, she doesn't have too much psychological burden, you bite me!

The eldest grandson Wuji was angry, and began to encircle the ministers, saying that Wu Meiniang didn't understand political affairs at all, it was just nonsense, if it went on like this, Datang would be in chaos, and she must be pulled down......

However, at this moment, Wu Meiniang's henchmen have occupied a quarter of the court, and a quarter is Li Hao's people, and the rest are the henchmen of the eldest grandson Wuji and some pedantic civil officials, but these people are no longer in important positions.

The eldest grandson Wuji wanted to pull Wu Meiniang off the horse several times, and even invited Qin Qiong and Ma Zhou to them, but Qin Qiong and Ma Zhou had already received Cheng Yanjin's instructions, closed the door to thank the guests, and did not even go to the court, during this time, Li Hao's friends can be said to be the quietest.

The eldest grandson Wuji has been busy for more than a month, with no results, and he has tired himself from illness, Wu Meiniang is really in power now, coupled with her tough methods, for several months, she has severely punished more than a dozen officials who disobey her.

The eldest grandson Wuji was lying on the hospital bed, and finally sadly found that he was a fool, a super fool, stealing chickens and rice, and making wedding dresses for others.