Summer is gone, and it seems not a good choice.
Gao Xu and Miao Jin had just got off the plane and were waiting for the bus outside Cairo Airport. He immediately felt that he was in a big steamer and sweat was immediately emerging.
At this time, the person he admired the most was Miao Jin around him, and she was dressed tightly.
Lace-up leather shoes, canvas trousers, a wide cotton long-sleeved shirt, a sun hat, sunglasses, and mask, with almost no skin exposed except for hands.
Are you okay?Gao Xu asked kindly.
Miao Jin looked slightly, her sunglasses looked at him, and said weakly: My heart is calm and naturally cool.
Gao Xu seems to have said this sentence many times.
Finally, a Ming Dynasty Shanhu brand off-road vehicle came. When I contacted me by phone, the hotel said that the person who picked up the aircraft was driving a Shanhu off-road vehicle.
Sure enough, a sign stretched out from the car window, with Liu Gang written in Chinese characters on it.
The two of them walked over immediately.
A middle-aged Ming Dynasty man in his forties or fifties walked out of the car. His face was dark and yellow and his wrinkles were obvious, but his facial lines were firm and his body was strong. He was wearing a gray Ming army uniform without a badge.
Yang Kui.The middle-aged man reached out and said simply.
Gao Xu shook hands with him: Liu Gang.
The middle-aged man looked at Miaojin again, "Sorry, the parking lot is too far from here, so I couldn't get into the airport to pick you up."
It's okay, I'll come out after a few steps.Gao Xu said.
At this moment, a strange young woman came over and asked in a dialect accent: Are you from the Ming Dynasty?
yes.Yang Kui replied.
The young woman took out a few small amounts of Mingguo money and said anxiously: Can you please take me to the city?There is a traffic jam in the hotel, and I'll be waiting here for almost an hour.
Yang Kui looked at Gao Xu, and Gao Xu said: Why don’t you take her for a ride?
Get in the car.Yang Kui said.
The four of them got into the car one after another, and Yang Kui drove away, but did not collect the money, claiming that he had received the reward.
The woman seemed to have improved and said in the car: I read the guide and didn't dare to take the taxi here alone.I will definitely be touched in the car, but I am more afraid of something serious.I had made an appointment with my companion, but she didn't go there for the time being. I wanted to see the pyramids and temples, so I had to come here alone.
Gao Xu asked casually: Can regular taxis be the same?
Miao Jin's voice next to him said: It's a little better than India.
While driving, Yang Kui echoed: Yes, it’s usually just to touch and look. The most common thing is to ask for more money, but there are still not many vicious crimes.Locals will not think that it is right to harass women, and there is a fundamental difference.
Gao Xu asked: When we were waiting for the car just now, we saw a white woman getting into the taxi alone.
Yang Kui smiled and said: Some women come here just to have sex, and the local young and handsome guys are not picky about food.How to say it, because of customs and culture, they are a little depressed in that aspect.And some of them are immigrants from southern Europe and Greece, which is more in line with the taste of Western women.
Master Yang has been here for a long time?Gao Xu asked again.
Yang Kui sighed: It's almost twenty years.I initially served in the Suez Canal Military Camp, and after retiring, I applied for a security guard at the embassy. Later, the owner of the Mingzi Hotel poached me and had a good salary, so I changed my career to do this again.My wife and children are here, but my son has returned to China after he became an adult.
When he said this, he turned around and looked at Gao Xu more, with a look in his eyes. I received this business from the embassy staff.
Gao Xu also knew that the Wei family had contacted an acquaintance in the embassy.
The hotel is located in the wealthy area southeast of Cairo, but the woman who takes the ride has to go to the city center, so the car takes a detour to the city center first.Then it was blocked there.
There were many people marching on the street. The signs they were holding were Arabic letters. Gao Xu couldn't understand them, and he didn't know why they were demonstrating.
He saw through the car window, and his eyes were covered with a large piece of yellowish gray, as if everything was shrouded in a color, and dust filled the air.
The streets and roads are full of garbage, the difference is that the debris on the roadside are piled up.
Many unfinished buildings are like areas where wars have just happened.
This is what Mr. Pan said about Dazhi.Gao Xu immediately suspected that the guy had never been here.
Of course, Gao Xu didn't say it. When he went to other countries, he would feel disgusted with everything and would be impolite.
Although there were no locals on the car, he hadn't said much, and so was Miaojin.
It was very boring for a while in the car.
The woman who took the car said: I don’t feel anything in the country. I thought that the city should be like that.After looking out, I realized how clean and tidy the streets in Daming were.
Yang Kui smiled and said: I often hear such words. Last time a traveler said something, if you want to be patriotic, go abroad more often.However, there are good people and bad people in every place. Be careful. Most of the locals are still very good and are especially friendly to Ming people.
The woman said: I just want to see the pyramids and temples, which are very magical and mysterious.
Why are there so many unfinished buildings in the city center?Gao Xu asked.
Yang Kui said: I deliberately did not repair it.Local laws have property taxes, but there is a loophole. Unfinished houses cannot be taxed.
The woman asked: Can't the law be amended?
Yang Kui turned his head and said: Sister, do you think all the principal palaces are as efficient and honest as the Ming Dynasty?Multiple forces will compete with each other, and it is not easy to solve one thing.I tell you that in some places, it takes half a century to deal with the criminal cases alone. How dare you imagine it?
The process of chaotic game may lead to a perfect rule of law with checks and balances, or it may become a stagnant water.Gao Xu said casually.
No one could take his words, only Miao Jin looked at Gao Xu sideways.
All kinds of vehicles with different wheel counts were congested for a long time. Yang Kui found an alley, then drove in from the narrow and messy alley, and began to detour.
Gao Xu immediately became more confident in this man, and it seemed that Yang Kui was very familiar with the situation.
After a long struggle, the passengers finally took them to the door of a hotel, and the three of them drove towards the southeast suburbs of the city.
When they arrived at the hotel, the beautiful modern and Arabic buildings made Gao Xu feel as if he had come to another world, like an oasis in the desert.
However, the same place is still hot. Maybe there are not fifty degrees outdoors, but it is definitely a few degrees forty degrees.
Yang Kui asked: There is a pyramid of Khufu on your itinerary. Do you want to hire a professional tour guide?
Let’s talk about it later.Gao Xu said.
Perhaps because he was away, Gao Xu was more cautious than when he was at home. He was used to the fact that the people around him could not be a party member.
So he didn't want the tour guide Yang Kui recommended.
Gao Xu pinched a stack of banknotes from his pocket, folded it gently and pressed it into the palm of his hand, stretched out his hand and said: Thank you today.
When shaking hands, Yang Kui was stunned for a moment and said politely: It should be, it should be.
The conditions of Mingzi Hotel are good, and the main building of the guest rooms is very high, so it should be the tallest building nearby.
Gao Xu and Miaojin's suite was on the 16th floor, and a waiter helped them get on with big bags and suitcases.
The Chinese people's business adheres to domestic customs, and the floors with six and eight are the most expensive.
The suite is equipped with utensils for making local black tea, as well as tools for making coffee and tea.Gao Xu blew the air conditioner, brewed a pot of tea, and half-lying on the sofa with Miaojin to rest.
He poured the tea and walked to the glass and looked at a large yellow-gray urban area in the distance.
Gao Xu said a little disappointed: The Ming army defeated the Mamuliuke forces and has been in the process for four hundred years. I thought the local area could manage it well.
Miao Jin's voice said: It's not too bad now. The situation should not be entirely blamed on the local government.The population here is 80 to 90 million, and the arable land area is too small. Foreign exchange is needed to purchase grain and products. There is no decent industry, and the small amount of oil exports is also a drop in the bucket.There is a saying that a good woman can’t cook without rice.
The ownership of the Suez Canal seems to have been returned to the government?Gao Xu said.
Miao Jin nodded and said: The income has long been back to the country.
She leaned on the sofa, drank tea and said slowly: The Ming Dynasty had never ruled here directly. Your approach was to garrison the troops to build rivers and support the locals to be kings.Later, the same was true for the various Ming emperors ascended the throne.By the outbreak of World War I, the Ming Dynasty was in a civil war, and there was only one fortress left in Yiji. For a period of time, it completely lost control of Yiji's country.Franji (France) and the British forces have both come.
After World War I, the Ming army recovered this place, and after World War II, revolution broke out in the local area.
The Ming Dynasty then gave up its direct intervention, leaving only the ownership of the Suez Canal.
Later, through negotiations and signing treaties, he renounced the ownership of the Suez Canal; instead, through the International Peace Alliance, he obtained some powers including toll pricing on the grounds of public waterway safety.
After all, we built the canal. Now the revenue and all of the Suez Canal are owned by the main government. It is natural for the Ming Dynasty to retain some of its power.In addition to ensuring the smooth passages between the East and the West, the Ming Dynasty did not directly plunder wealth from the local area.
Gao Xu asked: What happened overseas during World War I?I read a lot of books and write them in a very general way.
Miao Jin smiled and said: Aren’t we going to the Donggang Fortress ruins?Let's talk slowly along the way.
Gao Xu nodded: That's OK.
After saying that, she took out an instrument from her backpack and started testing in the bathroom and everywhere.Gao Xu said curiously: Ming-funded enterprises seem to be quite standardized, not that bad, right?
Miao Jin did not respond, so she checked it and then went to take a shower and change her clothes.
It was already afternoon, and Gao Xu also washed his sweat all over, then took Miaojin downstairs and waited for dinner.
Gao Xu and Miao Jin had just got off the plane and were waiting for the bus outside Cairo Airport. He immediately felt that he was in a big steamer and sweat was immediately emerging.
At this time, the person he admired the most was Miao Jin around him, and she was dressed tightly.
Lace-up leather shoes, canvas trousers, a wide cotton long-sleeved shirt, a sun hat, sunglasses, and mask, with almost no skin exposed except for hands.
Are you okay?Gao Xu asked kindly.
Miao Jin looked slightly, her sunglasses looked at him, and said weakly: My heart is calm and naturally cool.
Gao Xu seems to have said this sentence many times.
Finally, a Ming Dynasty Shanhu brand off-road vehicle came. When I contacted me by phone, the hotel said that the person who picked up the aircraft was driving a Shanhu off-road vehicle.
Sure enough, a sign stretched out from the car window, with Liu Gang written in Chinese characters on it.
The two of them walked over immediately.
A middle-aged Ming Dynasty man in his forties or fifties walked out of the car. His face was dark and yellow and his wrinkles were obvious, but his facial lines were firm and his body was strong. He was wearing a gray Ming army uniform without a badge.
Yang Kui.The middle-aged man reached out and said simply.
Gao Xu shook hands with him: Liu Gang.
The middle-aged man looked at Miaojin again, "Sorry, the parking lot is too far from here, so I couldn't get into the airport to pick you up."
It's okay, I'll come out after a few steps.Gao Xu said.
At this moment, a strange young woman came over and asked in a dialect accent: Are you from the Ming Dynasty?
yes.Yang Kui replied.
The young woman took out a few small amounts of Mingguo money and said anxiously: Can you please take me to the city?There is a traffic jam in the hotel, and I'll be waiting here for almost an hour.
Yang Kui looked at Gao Xu, and Gao Xu said: Why don’t you take her for a ride?
Get in the car.Yang Kui said.
The four of them got into the car one after another, and Yang Kui drove away, but did not collect the money, claiming that he had received the reward.
The woman seemed to have improved and said in the car: I read the guide and didn't dare to take the taxi here alone.I will definitely be touched in the car, but I am more afraid of something serious.I had made an appointment with my companion, but she didn't go there for the time being. I wanted to see the pyramids and temples, so I had to come here alone.
Gao Xu asked casually: Can regular taxis be the same?
Miao Jin's voice next to him said: It's a little better than India.
While driving, Yang Kui echoed: Yes, it’s usually just to touch and look. The most common thing is to ask for more money, but there are still not many vicious crimes.Locals will not think that it is right to harass women, and there is a fundamental difference.
Gao Xu asked: When we were waiting for the car just now, we saw a white woman getting into the taxi alone.
Yang Kui smiled and said: Some women come here just to have sex, and the local young and handsome guys are not picky about food.How to say it, because of customs and culture, they are a little depressed in that aspect.And some of them are immigrants from southern Europe and Greece, which is more in line with the taste of Western women.
Master Yang has been here for a long time?Gao Xu asked again.
Yang Kui sighed: It's almost twenty years.I initially served in the Suez Canal Military Camp, and after retiring, I applied for a security guard at the embassy. Later, the owner of the Mingzi Hotel poached me and had a good salary, so I changed my career to do this again.My wife and children are here, but my son has returned to China after he became an adult.
When he said this, he turned around and looked at Gao Xu more, with a look in his eyes. I received this business from the embassy staff.
Gao Xu also knew that the Wei family had contacted an acquaintance in the embassy.
The hotel is located in the wealthy area southeast of Cairo, but the woman who takes the ride has to go to the city center, so the car takes a detour to the city center first.Then it was blocked there.
There were many people marching on the street. The signs they were holding were Arabic letters. Gao Xu couldn't understand them, and he didn't know why they were demonstrating.
He saw through the car window, and his eyes were covered with a large piece of yellowish gray, as if everything was shrouded in a color, and dust filled the air.
The streets and roads are full of garbage, the difference is that the debris on the roadside are piled up.
Many unfinished buildings are like areas where wars have just happened.
This is what Mr. Pan said about Dazhi.Gao Xu immediately suspected that the guy had never been here.
Of course, Gao Xu didn't say it. When he went to other countries, he would feel disgusted with everything and would be impolite.
Although there were no locals on the car, he hadn't said much, and so was Miaojin.
It was very boring for a while in the car.
The woman who took the car said: I don’t feel anything in the country. I thought that the city should be like that.After looking out, I realized how clean and tidy the streets in Daming were.
Yang Kui smiled and said: I often hear such words. Last time a traveler said something, if you want to be patriotic, go abroad more often.However, there are good people and bad people in every place. Be careful. Most of the locals are still very good and are especially friendly to Ming people.
The woman said: I just want to see the pyramids and temples, which are very magical and mysterious.
Why are there so many unfinished buildings in the city center?Gao Xu asked.
Yang Kui said: I deliberately did not repair it.Local laws have property taxes, but there is a loophole. Unfinished houses cannot be taxed.
The woman asked: Can't the law be amended?
Yang Kui turned his head and said: Sister, do you think all the principal palaces are as efficient and honest as the Ming Dynasty?Multiple forces will compete with each other, and it is not easy to solve one thing.I tell you that in some places, it takes half a century to deal with the criminal cases alone. How dare you imagine it?
The process of chaotic game may lead to a perfect rule of law with checks and balances, or it may become a stagnant water.Gao Xu said casually.
No one could take his words, only Miao Jin looked at Gao Xu sideways.
All kinds of vehicles with different wheel counts were congested for a long time. Yang Kui found an alley, then drove in from the narrow and messy alley, and began to detour.
Gao Xu immediately became more confident in this man, and it seemed that Yang Kui was very familiar with the situation.
After a long struggle, the passengers finally took them to the door of a hotel, and the three of them drove towards the southeast suburbs of the city.
When they arrived at the hotel, the beautiful modern and Arabic buildings made Gao Xu feel as if he had come to another world, like an oasis in the desert.
However, the same place is still hot. Maybe there are not fifty degrees outdoors, but it is definitely a few degrees forty degrees.
Yang Kui asked: There is a pyramid of Khufu on your itinerary. Do you want to hire a professional tour guide?
Let’s talk about it later.Gao Xu said.
Perhaps because he was away, Gao Xu was more cautious than when he was at home. He was used to the fact that the people around him could not be a party member.
So he didn't want the tour guide Yang Kui recommended.
Gao Xu pinched a stack of banknotes from his pocket, folded it gently and pressed it into the palm of his hand, stretched out his hand and said: Thank you today.
When shaking hands, Yang Kui was stunned for a moment and said politely: It should be, it should be.
The conditions of Mingzi Hotel are good, and the main building of the guest rooms is very high, so it should be the tallest building nearby.
Gao Xu and Miaojin's suite was on the 16th floor, and a waiter helped them get on with big bags and suitcases.
The Chinese people's business adheres to domestic customs, and the floors with six and eight are the most expensive.
The suite is equipped with utensils for making local black tea, as well as tools for making coffee and tea.Gao Xu blew the air conditioner, brewed a pot of tea, and half-lying on the sofa with Miaojin to rest.
He poured the tea and walked to the glass and looked at a large yellow-gray urban area in the distance.
Gao Xu said a little disappointed: The Ming army defeated the Mamuliuke forces and has been in the process for four hundred years. I thought the local area could manage it well.
Miao Jin's voice said: It's not too bad now. The situation should not be entirely blamed on the local government.The population here is 80 to 90 million, and the arable land area is too small. Foreign exchange is needed to purchase grain and products. There is no decent industry, and the small amount of oil exports is also a drop in the bucket.There is a saying that a good woman can’t cook without rice.
The ownership of the Suez Canal seems to have been returned to the government?Gao Xu said.
Miao Jin nodded and said: The income has long been back to the country.
She leaned on the sofa, drank tea and said slowly: The Ming Dynasty had never ruled here directly. Your approach was to garrison the troops to build rivers and support the locals to be kings.Later, the same was true for the various Ming emperors ascended the throne.By the outbreak of World War I, the Ming Dynasty was in a civil war, and there was only one fortress left in Yiji. For a period of time, it completely lost control of Yiji's country.Franji (France) and the British forces have both come.
After World War I, the Ming army recovered this place, and after World War II, revolution broke out in the local area.
The Ming Dynasty then gave up its direct intervention, leaving only the ownership of the Suez Canal.
Later, through negotiations and signing treaties, he renounced the ownership of the Suez Canal; instead, through the International Peace Alliance, he obtained some powers including toll pricing on the grounds of public waterway safety.
After all, we built the canal. Now the revenue and all of the Suez Canal are owned by the main government. It is natural for the Ming Dynasty to retain some of its power.In addition to ensuring the smooth passages between the East and the West, the Ming Dynasty did not directly plunder wealth from the local area.
Gao Xu asked: What happened overseas during World War I?I read a lot of books and write them in a very general way.
Miao Jin smiled and said: Aren’t we going to the Donggang Fortress ruins?Let's talk slowly along the way.
Gao Xu nodded: That's OK.
After saying that, she took out an instrument from her backpack and started testing in the bathroom and everywhere.Gao Xu said curiously: Ming-funded enterprises seem to be quite standardized, not that bad, right?
Miao Jin did not respond, so she checked it and then went to take a shower and change her clothes.
It was already afternoon, and Gao Xu also washed his sweat all over, then took Miaojin downstairs and waited for dinner.