In Basra, in the past four months, Canglong has spent more than 10 billion US dollars on rebuilding hydropower and agricultural industry from Basra, and basically running it with its own private money, and the construction of these things is for long-term consideration

If you want to get the benefits, I'm afraid it will take a few years, especially in the army, all the military expenses are also paid by Canglong, which is a huge expense, and Basra's own financial taxes are a drop in the bucket, in Vivien's words, she can't take a dime to spend on Canglong now

As for Orient International itself, it does not have much capital, and most of the funds are spent on domestic expansion, which is still an advance of the dividends of Hamulet, a shareholder, although Hamullet does not care much about it now

But the $10 billion is not unworthwhile, at least everything in Basra is on track, with several neighboring countries re-established in the aviation sector and port trade beginning to recover, all at great cost

But Canglong's own private money is not much, and now there are barely more than 20 billion US dollars, and most of the money is spent on the maintenance of the intelligence network

If Basra were to face a war one day, the money would certainly not be enough, and the Americans would have spent nearly $700 billion on the Iraq War, which had accumulated to nearly $2 trillion in the 10 years of occupation, and the price was so high that the United States could take root in Iraq

Canglong spent 10 billion to let him settle down here, which is already a very advantageous thing, but he must find a way to make money, at least in the future, he can't use his own money to maintain the operation of Basra, otherwise it is better to give up directly with such a chicken rib

The only solution to this problem is Basra's oil Canglong, of course, it will not be in vain to come here, he is not a philanthropist, and now is the time to make profits, and the next Basra province suddenly announced in a high-profile manner that it will auction off the exploitation service rights of the two super oil fields of North Rumaila and Zubayr oil fields centered on Rumaila, and some small oil fields in Basra will also be opened one after another

The profit from the development of oil in Basra Province is US$2 per barrel of oil, which means that if one million barrels of oil are developed per day, the service provider can earn about US$2 million, which is not a problem at all for a super oil field to develop one million barrels of oil per day, as long as it is operated properly

The governor of Basra, Chilam, has also deliberately reduced the extraction tax, taking only one-tenth of the profits from the extraction of oil per barrel, and exempting all other taxes

As for the other super oil field in Basra, as well as several other medium-sized oil fields, it is currently closed

But as soon as the news was released, it shook the world, first of all, Basra, and the service profits and service taxes were very substantial and reasonable, and any oil company that bid for the development of these wells would make a lot of money

Of course, the surprise is also because Basra is now only a province, although after claiming autonomy, zhōng yāngzhèng fǔ has cut off all financial supplies in Basra, and even caused a famine in Basra, all major mainstream media in the world have exaggerated that the prophetic army of Basra may break away from zhōng yāngzhèng fǔ

This conjecture is of course justified, first of all, the Prophet Army staged a coup d'état and occupied Basra, although it is said that the name of the province is still used, but the Iraqi zhōng yāngzhèng fǔ is powerless to form a constraint on Basra, in fact, it is already a dú lì kingdom, which is not only a financial dú lì, but also a military and diplomatic dú lì

It is even clearly stipulated that the Basra Province cannot use the oil fields in Basra to seek profits, and that it belongs to the whole of Iraq, and now the high-profile and open bidding in Basra Province is bound to cause a backlash, and it is difficult to say whether the bidding is legal or not

But the news has put the world's attention back on Basra, the second time the world has focused on the Iraqi province after the scandal in Qada prison

However, no one expected that the international airport in Basra had been opened, and when reporters came to the city to interview Basra, the first thing they were surprised was to do so

In just four months, there are almost no traces of war in Basra, and there are no homeless people in Basra from the airport to Basra, and what is even more jaw-dropping is that the Iraq War has been in place for ten years, and the British have occupied Basra for ten years, and Basra is still poor, but the Prophet Army has been here for four months, and Basra has undergone earth-shaking changes

From state-of-the-art airports to modern cities and restored transportation, restoring school schools and production plants

On the streets of Basra, reporters even saw people sipping coffee in small shops and chatting with smiles on their faces, a city that has experienced countless wars

Al Jazeera's correspondent Musharraf had become a world celebrity by this time, only because he was famous for his coverage of the inside story of Qatar prison

"Is this still Basra?" Musharraf felt like he had seen a mirage common in the desert when he arrived

Because just a few months ago, it was full of potholes, streets and corners full of homeless people, and every now and then there would be robberies and car bombs, and the whole city was in a depression

But now all that has changed, and although there is still a distance from the big cities of some of the great powers of the Middle East, he sees at least a peaceful Basra, a Basra full of hope

The same was true of the journalists from other countries who traveled with him, and their faces were not only surprised but surprised, until they came to the province, and to their even greater surprise, they actually found that officials from both Shia and Sunni factions were in coalition government

As a special correspondent, Musharraf was personally greeted by senior provincial officials, and although other reporters were also courteous, Musharraf did not have the direct access to the governor and vice governor

Under the arrangement of the provincial officials, all the reporters rested and came to the venue of the press conference

While the reporters were preparing their cameras and radios, they were still in a state of disbelief, after all, before they came here, they imagined Basra to be a depressed province, on the verge of collapse, in dire need of oil to recover to subsidize their families

Even they were ready to block the news, they were not expecting a press conference at all, but now they knew that they were all wrong

When the Minister of Administration of Basra appeared with all the Governors and Deputy Governors, they were ecstatic, and the questions they had prepared were now all changed, except that when they were about to ask questions, the beautiful Minister of Administration said: "Before you ask questions, I would like to say sorry to you."

Saying that, Vivian bowed down on the rostrum and apologized: "The reason why I apologize is because the press conference is outside, and we have specially prepared a field trip for you to shoot, I think this can answer the doubts in your hearts, after all, no matter how much I say in my mouth, it may not be credible in your eyes."

Hearing this, the reporters were stunned, obviously they didn't expect the beautiful minister of administration to make such a move, but as reporters, they thought that what could really be tapped was not the local officials pretending to be kind and telling some lies to fool the world, but field trips and filming

Although they were a little unresponsive, it seems that the province has already made arrangements, and vehicles are already ready outside, and Deputy Governor Assad will accompany them

In the car, Musharraf asked strangely: "Why don't you send jǐngcha to protect us?"

This seems to be the question of other reporters, who went to other cities in Iraq to inspect the local officials who were eager to surround them in the middle and protect them from the inside and outside three layers, but Basra's approach was completely different: there was no jǐng cha, and even the deputy governor Assad himself did not bring bodyguards, just two assistants to accompany him

Assad opened his squinted eyes and smiled, saying, "With the blessing of the prophet, we don't need jǐng cha to protect you, you will feel not only the blessing of the prophet, but also the kindness of the people of Basra"

This makes the reporters look bad, and such a unique religious sè color words fool the people, how can they fool them

So they were all scared that a car would explode on the side of the road, but for half an hour until their convoy left the city of Basra, they didn't see any cars rushing out, and they didn't even see any protests or demonstrations, and the people in Basra were all doing their own thing, curious and just looking at their convoy, and that's it

They thought to themselves that the city had already been arranged by the Prophet Army, and now after leaving the city, they did not believe that the Prophet Army would not send people to protect it, and even Musharraf thought so

But they soon found that there was no protection at all, not even the militia, and what they saw was that all the farmland that had been abandoned in the past had been planted with crops, and many farmers were working in the fields, and large machines could be seen in the distance dredging rivers and diverting water from the rivers into the farmland for irrigation

If the prosperity of the cities can be faked, then the villages and towns near Basra cannot, at least the smiles of the people will not deceive people, even if they can fool the lens of their camera, but not their eyes

Assad took them to most of Basra governorate, with a focus on rural areas, where they saw new canals, farmland that nearly surrounded the city, hydroelectric dams under construction, and children playing on the way home from school

When they returned to Basra in the evening, they thought it would be dark, but they found that they were wrong, and that Basra was brightly lit, and although it did not have the lights of a big city, it was a thriving Basra, which had the most attacks at night, and now there was a night market

Workers sit on the side of the street after leaving the factory, drinking beer and chatting about their work, and if prosperity can be faked, then the hope and satisfaction that appears on the face of everyone in this city cannot be faked

"The Prophet has blessed us," said Musharraf, who returned to the arranged hotel, to conclude his day's trip

While the other reporters didn't have such a myth, their surprise kept them awake all night, and although the city was believed by a man called the Prophet, whether he was confusing the people or whatever, at least he had turned Basra into a city of miracles

This is a conclusion shared by all Western journalists, and there is not even the slightest flaw to be found