The Suez Canal was a sea-level waterway across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. It provided the shortest route from Europe to lands near the Indian Ocean and western Pacific.
Unfortunately, this vital waterway wouldn't be completed and opened to shipping until 1869.
So when Hao Shuai's Great Emperor arrived at Port Said, there was nowhere left for him to sail—unless he dug the canal himself.
Although that would've been as easy for Hao Shuai as firing a planet-busting cannon, he wasn't a charitable do-gooder. He certainly wasn't about to do something that benefited others but not himself.
Hao Shuai simply stored the Great Emperor in his space, then took the women with him and flew over the Sinai Peninsula to the Red Sea.
Hao Shuai had gone on his way, but he'd thrown all of Europe into chaos.
The Great Eagle Empire and French Empire, previously the most powerful nations, had suffered the heaviest losses. The other coastal nations had gotten off more lightly. Now those countries, long kept under the Great Eagle Empire's thumb, would have to reconsider how to divide up the territory.
Spain and Holland in particular, both of which had once suffered at the hands of the Great Eagle Empire, surely wouldn't pass up the chance to kick it while it was down.
And Russia, far away enough to escape Hao Shuai's pillaging, was likely to see Peter the Great, never one to sit idle, eager to make a difference in his twilight years by expanding Russia's territory.
It was easy to foresee that for a long time to come, Europe and the Americas would be in turmoil.
But as the saying went...
What did any of that have to do with Hao Shuai?!
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