The dramatic change in Tripoli shocked the naval officers who accompanied Contini's expedition, especially those who had never been to Tripoli for five years, and couldn't believe their eyes – was this still a deserted, dilapidated and bleak Libyan port? What a new port city! In terms of prosperity, they felt that even Genoa and Venice were on a par, and more importantly, the port planning and road construction made Tripoli look much more neat than Genoa or Venice.

After all, it is drawn on a blank sheet of paper, Tripoli is much easier to plan than Genoa, there are not so many vested interests, and the management system here is completely under the direct control of the United Group, which can build the entire port according to its own plan.

Toth continued to introduce to Contini: "This is the port area, all the dredging work has been completed, there are a total of 23 professional docks, including 4 passenger ferry terminals, 7 oil terminals, 12 other material terminals, in addition to the passenger ferry terminal, the rest of the docks can accommodate naval warships, there are a total of 4 docks here can accommodate 35,000 tons of ships, 10 docks can accommodate more than 15,000 tons of ships, and the rest are more than 5,000 tons of docks......"

At the time of Thoth's introduction, everyone could observe the bustling scene at the wharf: a shipload of Chinese laborers happened to arrive at the passenger ferry terminal, and the labor union here organized a fellow villager association to greet them, and after completing a series of affairs such as registration, quarantine, distribution, and license storage, they would be incorporated into the appropriate community; There are 3 oil tankers receiving cargo at the oil terminal, 2 Italian oil tankers, and 1 French flagged oil tanker, which is considered a French oil tanker to pick up the oil. In the last round of the oil war, France did not fall into the ground, but because of the tightening supply of crude oil from Britain and the United States, it increased its efforts to transport oil from Tripoli, not only taking all the crude oil that should have been taken at the beginning, but also taking away the follow-up and even advancing some of it, which is understandable. Now the French think that this way is not bad, no investment, no need to spend brains on construction, directly as soon as the ship to the port there will be rolling crude oil output, why not?

The crude oil terminal has also built a new oil depot, but the capacity is not large, only 2 million barrels, Toth said that another 5 million barrels are under construction, which will be completed by the end of 1929, and Tripoli will be able to store almost 1 million tons of crude oil, which is equivalent to 45 days of oil production, which he believes is basically enough.

Following Thoth's whip, everyone also saw the factory area, Tripoli has recently built several new factories, all of which were built under the auspices of the United Group: one is a power plant, with an installed capacity of 450,000 kilowatts, which can supply the electricity needed in the vicinity, and the special feature of the power plant is that it uses a natural gas and oil-fired boiler, which is also the world's first thermal power plant to use this energy source for power generation. In order to effectively use and reduce costs, natural gas is used as the main energy source, but the current natural gas regulation capacity is not strong, in order to ensure the intensity of combustion, and some crude oil has been introduced - Libya does not produce coal, and the forced use of coal also needs to be imported, simply use crude oil directly. Of course, there are also phase 2 and 3 projects in the power plant, and the installed capacity will be expanded to more than 1.2 million kilowatts in the future – a figure that does not sound like much, but it is actually the same as the electricity consumption of the whole of Italy 10 years ago.

One is an aluminum processing plant under construction, which is used for the production of aluminum ingots, with a design capacity of 40,000 tons of aluminum per year, but it is still in the process of preparation, and the plant has been basically completed, waiting for the electrolytic aluminum equipment to be in place;

The other is only beginning to take shape is the refinery, at present, Italy has built new refineries in Genoa, Venice, Naples three cities, the fastest Genoa refinery has been able to produce externally, but the output is very low, the annual refining capacity is only 1.6 million tons, plus the other three cities are only 5 million tons, Contini believes that it should be refinery nearby, intends to set up a medium-sized refinery in Benghazi and Tripoli, the scale is roughly 1.5 million to 2 million tons, due to the limitation of construction capacity, The plant would not be completed until at least 1931.

In addition to a few backbone large factories, there are also some small supporting factories, such as brick and tile factories, repair shops, machinery factories, etc., which are paving the way for subsequent construction.

In fact, you can perceive the busyness of this place when you see the full number of cranes and trucks shuttling back and forth, and it is worthy of Contini's pride that the trucks here are all trucks produced in Italy by GM United States in addition to the goods imported from the United States and Germany, with a rated load of 1.5 tons, and in fact, there is no problem with running 3 tons. What makes Contini even happier is that there are a total of 4,700 trucks and more than 6,000 drivers in Tripoli and Benghazi, including more than 2,000 drivers of Italian origin, more than 1,700 Germans (regardless of German, Swiss, Czech and Austrian nationality), more than 800 Jews, and nearly 1,500 of them have been replaced by Chinese laborers.

It is strange to unite the bloc in terms of employment, the first is of course Italians, the second is Germans, the third is Jews, and the fourth is Chinese laborers, and Contini would rather use Chinese laborers than Arabs or Slavs, Poles, Romanians, and other races that do blue-collar work in European traditions. The reason is nothing more than that the Chinese are tame and manageable, do not cause trouble, and have relatively low incomes.

So Toth's report is very interesting: in August, a total of 104 drivers left, 375 people were added, none of the people who left were Chinese, and 70% of the additional personnel were Chinese, and after more than 200 people were replenished, the monthly salary amount actually increased only a little - high-income resignation replaced by low-income personnel, he expects that by the end of this year, the number of drivers will exceed 9,000, and Chinese can account for at least one-third of them, maybe even more than Germans.

Because of the driver's addition, both Contini and Toth were very satisfied with Huang Xinguo's work, Huang Xinguo also established authority among Chinese workers, and he was very far-sighted - although there are also domestic intellectuals who believe that we should strive for equal pay for equal work, he resolutely refuses this and says bitterly: "The reason why the president and the company are willing to hire Chinese workers as skilled workers is nothing more than the low wages and obedience of Chinese workers, this is our advantage, we must firmly grasp it, if we urgently demand higher salaries now, Even if we ask to be the same as the Italians and Germans, then we will cut off the channel open to us for other technical positions in the future, and we should try our best to bring our compatriots over at home, so that they can live here peacefully and learn a skill. We are going to build a new China in the future, do you think it is better to simply make more money now, or to have more people who have mastered skills and broadened their horizons? ”

Everyone expressed their admiration, but some people were worried that the Chinese workers knew that they were going to make trouble.

"This requires us to do the work, to be honest, the president is good to the Chinese, not only did not discriminate against us, but also agreed that we run schools, run communities, organize autonomous groups, we put forward reasonable suggestions are absorbed, even we grow some food, Dr. Toth also paid for it, this is a delicate balance, everyone must carefully maintain, can not be broken at will." Although we will not give the president a longevity tablet like some people, and bless the president with a long life, we must be grateful, after all, this is the territory of the Italians, and we have such a place as a paradise, there is no chaos, there is no oppression by the rich government, how lucky is this? All the thorns who make trouble are black sheep, and they can't ask for any of them, so send them all away. Let me stress once again that the Bolsheviks and Socialist Party elements, in particular, are the people most hated by the president, and no matter what the reason, they will all be sent out of the country with gifts, and when they return to the country, they must follow the rules of Italy and the president, and they must not smear the Chinese. ”