In Basra's four months, Canglong has spent more than 10 billion US dollars, from Basra reconstruction, hydropower development, and agricultural and industrial recovery, basically all of them are run with Canglong's own private money, and the construction of these things is for long-term consideration.

If you want to get benefits, I'm afraid you will have to wait 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 doesn't have much capital, and most of the money is spent on domestic expansion, which is still an advance on the dividends of Hamulet, a shareholder, although Hamullet doesn't care much about it now.

But the $10 billion is not unworthy, at least everything is on track in Basra, in the field of aviation, several neighboring countries have been re-established, and trade in the port is beginning to recover, all of which have been done at great cost.

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

If Basra is going to face a war one day, this money will definitely not be enough, the Americans fought the war in Iraq, but it cost nearly 700 billion US dollars, and in the 10 years of occupation, the cumulative total cost is about 2 trillion US dollars, so high the price for the United States to 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 he might as well give up directly with such a chicken rib.

The only thing that can solve this problem is the oil of Basra, and Canglong will certainly not waste so much effort here, he is not a philanthropist, and now is the time to make profits. The next day, the Basra provincial government suddenly announced that it would auction off the North Rumaila oil field and Zubayr oil field centered on Rumaila, and the exploitation service rights of the two super oil fields, as well as some small oil fields in Basra, which will also be opened one after another.

The Basra provincial government gives a profit of $2 per barrel of oil, which means that if one million barrels of oil are developed every day, the service provider can earn about two million dollars, which is not a problem 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, Chiram, has also deliberately lowered the extraction tax, taking only one-tenth of the service tax on the profits from each barrel of oil extraction, and exempting all other taxes.

As for the other super oil field in Basra, as well as several other medium-sized oil fields, they are not open for the time being.

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

Of course, the surprise is also because Basra is now only a province, although after asking for autonomy, the central government has cut off all financial supplies in Basra, and even caused a famine in Basra, and the world's major mainstream media portrayed that Basra's prophetic army may break away from the central government.

This conjecture is of course justified, first of all, the Prophet's army staged a coup d'état and occupied Basra, although it is said that the name of the province is still used, but the central government of Iraq is unable to form a constraint on Basra, in fact, it is already an independent kingdom, which is not only financially independent, but also military and diplomat.

The central government has even made it clear that the Basra provincial government cannot use the Basra oil fields to seek profits, and that belongs to the whole of Iraq, and that the current high-profile and open bidding by the Basra provincial government is bound to cause a backlash from the central government.

But this news has once again focused the world's attention on Basra, the second time that the world has focused on this Iraqi province after the scandal that broke out in Qada prison.

However, no one expected that the international airport in Basra had already been opened, and when reporters came to the city to prepare for an interview in Basra, the first thing they were surprised was to be surprised.

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

From state-of-the-art airports, to modern cities, and the restoration of transportation, the restoration of school-based schools and production plants.

In the streets of Basra, reporters even saw busy people drinking coffee in small shops and chatting with smiles on their faces.

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

"Is this still Basra?" When Musharraf arrived, he felt that his eyes had been delusional, thinking that he had seen a mirage common in the desert.

Because just a few months ago, it was full of potholes, streets and corners full of gangsters, looting and car bombs, and the whole city was in a depression.

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

The same was true of the journalists from other countries who traveled with him, who were surprised and surprised until they came to the provincial government, and to their surprise, they found officials from both Shia and Sunni factions in coalition government.

As a special correspondent, Musharraf was personally greeted by senior officials of the provincial government, and although other reporters were also courteous, they were not able to meet directly with the governor and vice governor like Musharraf.

Under the arrangement of the officials of the provincial government, all the reporters took a break and came to the venue of the press conference, which was the scene of the provincial government's press conference.

As the reporters prepared their cameras and radios, they were in a state of disbelief, after all, before they came, they had imagined Basra to be in a depression, the provincial government on the brink of collapse, and desperately in need of oil to restore the subsidies to subsidize their families.

Even they were prepared for the provincial government to block the news, they were prepared for secret interviews, they didn't expect the provincial government to hold a press conference, but now they know that they are all wrong.

When the Minister of Administration of Basra appeared with the Governor and Deputy Governor, they were overjoyed, and the questions they had prepared before they came had 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 all of you. ”

As she spoke, 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, 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 couldn't imagine that this beautiful minister of administration would make such a move, but as reporters, they think that what can really be tapped is not that local officials pretend to be kind and tell some lies to fool the world, but field investigation and shooting.

Although they were somewhat unresponsive, the provincial government seems to have made arrangements for the vehicles to be prepared outside, and Deputy Governor Assad will accompany them.

In the car, Musharraf asked curiously: "Why don't you send police to protect us?" ”

This seems to be the question of other reporters, who went to other cities in Iraq to investigate, and the local officials were eager to surround them in the middle and protect them from the inside and outside of the three layers, but Basra's approach was completely different, not a single policeman, not even the deputy governor Assad himself, did not bring bodyguards, but only two assistants.

Assad opened his squinted eyes, smiled and said: "With the blessing of the Prophet, we do not need the police to protect us, you will feel not only the blessing of the Prophet, but also the goodwill of the people of Basra." ”

This makes the reporters look bad, such a unique religious discourse is almost the same as fooling the people, how can you fool them?

So they were all scared all the way, afraid that a car would explode when it came out of the roadside, 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.

They thought to themselves that the city had already been arranged by the Prophet's army, and now that they had left the city, they did not believe that the Prophet's army would not send people to protect it, even Musharraf.

But soon they 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 in the distance they could see large machines dredging the river and diverting water into the cultivated land for irrigation.

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

Assad took them to interview most of Basra governorate, with a focus on the countryside, where they saw new canals, farmland that almost surrounded cities, hydroelectric power plants under construction, and children playing on their way home from school.

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

If prosperity can be faked, then the hope and satisfaction that looks on the face of everyone in this city cannot be faked.

"The Prophet has blessed us." Back at the arranged hotel, Musharraf made a closing remark on his day's trip.

The other reporters didn't say it, but their surprise kept them awake all night, and even though everyone in the city believed in a man named the Prophet, whether he was confusing the people or something, at least he had turned Basra into a city of miracles.

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