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The imperial military has always been very willing to expand its territory. If the expansion can bring major benefits to the empire, then the military is even more enthusiastic.

The Suez Canal area in Egypt is clearly one such place.

In fact, in the early days of this place, it was rumored that the Suez Canal existed in the thirteenth century BC, and it was also briefly excavated and navigable during a certain period of time during the Roman Empire and the Saracen Empire.

However, the Suez Canal in ancient times was at most the level of a small ditch. It was roughly the same as the Great Lakes Canal currently being built by the Tang Dynasty in the Americas, with a water depth of only one or two meters or even shallower.

However, the canal that the Empire wants to dig in Suez is intended to allow large-tonnage warships and merchant ships to be navigable, and the navigable depth must be at least twelve meters.

Only at this depth can the latest battleships or large merchant ships of Datang be navigable!

At present, the latest battleship of the Datang Navy has a draft depth of almost nine meters when fully loaded. This is still the current draft of battleships. If it is a larger battleship in the future, the draft will definitely be deeper. The water depth of ten meters is close in front of you.

Taking into account the future development, it is also necessary to leave a certain excess water depth.

After all, not only warships, but also merchant ships have to be considered. The draught of private merchant ships is also very deep. For example, the New Pacific, which is known as the most advanced, huge and luxurious luxury passenger ship in modern times, its draught is not much less than that of battleships!

At the same time, the Imperial Oil Company is already preparing to build a large oil tanker with a larger tonnage, exceeding the 10,000-ton level, and the draft will not be shallow.

At the same time, several large domestic shipping companies are trying their best to build larger ships, even if there are only 10,000 tons of ships, but many shipping companies actually already have 15,000 tons. Even the reserve design scheme for large luxury passenger ships of 20,000 tons was made.

Even without considering the development of warships, considering that the tonnage of ordinary transport ships is getting bigger and bigger and the draft is getting deeper and deeper, if the water depth of the Suez Canal is not 12 meters, it will be difficult to meet future needs.

The empire is not willing to open the canal dug with great difficulty for a decade or two and then expand the depth of the canal.

Again, this is not just the case with the scheduled Suez Canal. The Imperial Navy is also considering digging a canal in Central America to shorten the voyage between the Pacific and the Atlantic, while avoiding the dangerous Tierra del Fuego Strait. , This predetermined canal is estimated to have a minimum depth of twelve meters.

However, the reason why the reservation was 12 meters and no higher was due to the difficulty of construction and geography. After all, when digging a canal, one meter deep will greatly increase the amount and difficulty of construction.

Of course, both the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal in Central America are still on paper.

Because the above two places are not in the hands of the empire, Egypt, where Suez is located, is now in the hands of the Ottomans, while Central America, where Panama is located, is in the hands of the Spanish.

However, people in the military have never been hindered by suffering, let alone this is not difficult, it is just Egypt and Panama.

The military has already reminded the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to use diplomatic means as much as possible to obtain the Panama area from Spain. Anyway, the broken area is actually useless in the hands of Spain, but it will be more useful if it is given to the empire.

If there is any hope of obtaining Panama from Spain through diplomacy or purchase, then there is no hope for Egypt.

After all, the Panama area is worthless now, and it is not an important area, but Egypt is different. This place is still very good. The Ottomans fought many wars before occupying this place. Naturally, it will not be handed over easily. .

But the military will not give up easily. Recently, the navy has been trying to find trouble in the Egyptian area, just to find a more suitable excuse to do it, no matter whether it is through diplomatic means or war, in short, to swallow Egypt.

Swallowing Egypt is not the purpose. The military does not look down on this broken place. The main purpose of the military is to dig the Suez Canal and connect the red and black and the Mediterranean!

Once the canal is dug, the voyage will be greatly shortened, and the European region will not be able to escape the palm of the empire.

Just considering the war between the Tatars and the Ottomans, the empire is also unwilling to get too stiff with the Ottomans. In recent years, the Tatars have been trying to win over the Ottomans to jointly fight against the Western expedition of the Tang Dynasty.

The goodwill of the Tatars was accepted by the Ottomans.

Because since the Datang Empire occupied Central Asia, turned the entire Caspian Sea into the territorial waters of the empire, and occupied Baku in a rogue way, although Osman was very upset, he did not have the courage to resist, but he was upset for sure.

And also to prevent the empire from continuing to expand in the Caucasus.

In the early years, the Ottomans were worried about the Tatars entering the Caucasus, and now they are worried about the Tang Dynasty entering the Caucasus.

In the face of the goodwill of the Tatars, the Ottomans did not accept it on the surface~www.wuxiaspot.com~, but actually accepted it.

In the past two years, they have not fought a large-scale war with the Tatars in the Caucasus region or even in the Balkans. Although the state of war has not ended, it has stopped large-scale war behavior, at most it is a confrontation.

These changes are also in the eyes of the empire. In addition to continuing to exert pressure on the Ottomans, the empire is not prepared to give the Ottomans too much stimulation in the near future.

At least, before occupying Eastern Europe, the empire is not going to gnaw the Caucasus.

Of course, the future must be fought, but not now!

If it is across the Caspian Sea to fight the Caucasus, it is better to kill the Mughal or Safi dynasty nearby.

Well, that's right, these two traditional allies of the Tang Empire are now also included in the future expansion goals by the top management of the empire.

This is not a question of hostility or preference, who made them on the edge of the empire.

In the early years, the Goryeo Peninsula, Fusang, Tatars, and even the countries of the Nanyang Peninsula have already proven what it is like to be a neighbor for an empire!

The countries of the Southeast Asian Peninsula are a little bit better. The Empire is going to help them move to Africa, so there is no danger of extinction.

But even so, it was enough to make the remaining neighbors of the Tang Empire vigilant.

The Mughal Dynasty and the Safi Dynasty seem to be very hostile recently, but in fact both sides are very tacit understanding, both are developing armaments, and regard the Tang Dynasty as the potential biggest enemy.

Even if they don't want to do it, they have to.

Because they know very well that Datang will not give them peace!

Throughout the history of the Tang Dynasty in just over 30 years, it is the history of war and expansion.

If you zoom in to the history of China for thousands of years, it is actually the history of war and expansion.