It is said that after Xiao Er and Wang Zheng returned from Madagascar Island, they went directly to Shandong to deliver goods.

They often met with Captain Bao Wei and the other brothers, and listened to them talk about the things on the battlefield, and they also listened to the anecdotes of the two of them overseas, so they didn't care about the things that surrounded the battle------ in short, they lived a very happy life.

The summer in Shandong is a little hotter, but it is much cooler than that of Liuqiu Island, and they want to load more slowly.

Captain Bao Wei didn't care about the national mourning period of the Great Song Dynasty at all, except for the so-called volunteers from the Great Song Dynasty who wore vegetarian food, almost no one in the people did that.

Their current work is very simple, continue to train troops, and then continue to build fortifications------ and all local civil affairs are handed over to a few Tai students sent by Zhang Island, which almost relieves most of the work of Captain Bao Wei and Captain Guo Beyu.

They are now more of a professional army.

Now it was the Tatar robbers who were in constant fear, and the insistence of the Liuqiu Guards might have frightened them even more, for the initiative of the war was entirely in their own hands.

However, a telegram from the owner of the island broke their comfortable life, and everyone began to get busy, searching everywhere for what kind of bliss grass------ they felt bad from the telegram of the island owner, because everyone had taken it during the party.

As a result, they seized nearly five tons of Bliss grass in Shandong and arrested hundreds of people.

Then, taking these things with them, they all returned to the island of Liuqiu.

This action fully demonstrated the execution of the houseboys------ what they didn't know was that the family of Zhang Daozhu and Wang Defa was secretly happy for a long time.

There are no talents cultivated in vain.

On the surface, the island master Zhang didn't pay attention to them, but just let the quiet master explain to them the dangers of the so-called Bliss Grass, and kicked them all to the sixth military camp, regardless of whether they were addicted or not, they all went to stay for a while.

Secretly, the owner of Zhang Island asked Captain Mu Mu to entertain them well and let them eat, drink and have fun.

Twenty house-brats enjoyed a reunion in the barracks that they hadn't had for years, which reminded them of their teenage days.

At the beginning, Commissioner Guo Ziren had the greatest reaction to breaking off addiction, with symptoms of dreams, night sweats, and trembling, but after persevering, he passed the most difficult period, but he was still a little stupid.

The houseboys played soccer in the barracks.

This kind of sport is different from the Keju that I played before, and a long time ago, under the intentional guidance of Zhang Daozhu, all the rules and playing styles have been similar to modern football.

This is a game that pays more attention to technical tactics and coordination, not just to show personal skills------ whether it is in the military camp on Liuqiu Island or in the military camp in Shandong, it has long become the favorite hobby of the players.

Among the domestic boys, the best skill is Yang Youxing, who often relies on his flexible body to repeatedly pass the defense of the sturdy Bao Wei and other military personnel, and passes a fatal kick, which attracts Guo Ziren who is watching to laugh stupidly.

Zhang Island Master went to the smoke shops everywhere in private, and sure enough, there was no Bliss Grass, he pretended to want to buy it secretly, which caused the shopkeeper to be shocked every time, and threatened to find the patrol police.

At this time, he was relieved, thinking that he had broken the bane of Bliss Grass.

After a few days of leisure, something happened again.

As mentioned earlier, New Oriental has become the most profitable joint-stock company because of its bold expansion and development.

They all dare to go to the Ilkhanate region to do business!

But here's the problem------

They dared to go to Baghdad and do business with Tabriz and Tatars, however, they did not dare to build their own commercial warehouses there.

The Navy of Liuqiu Island has its own naval base on the island of Hormuz, at the mouth of the eastern Persian Gulf, and the base was built there in order to curb the invasion of Persian pirates into the golden sea lanes of Liuqiu Island, and secondly, to become an advance base for the eventual development of the Middle East------ but the New Oriental Company did not dare to build there, for the simple reason that they never identified themselves as merchants of Liuqiu Island, but said that they were distant merchants of Yindian Island.

Picking and choosing, they chose the island of Bahrain in the southwestern part of the Persian Gulf.

Bahrain is an island with a history.

The Sumerians settled and built the city around 3000 BC, and the Phoenicians came to settle here in 1000 BC, making it an important trading center at that time.

From the 6th century BC onwards, it was occupied by the Persian Empire in Iran and then by the Sassanid Empire.

It became part of the province of Basra in the Arab Empire in the 7th century.

In 894 AD, the Kalmatites on the island of Bahrain revolted and established the Republic of Kalmat, an independent regime from the Arab Empire, until it was annexed by the Abbasids in 1077 and became a famous trading island.

After the Tatar robbers destroyed the Abbasid dynasty and established the Ilkhanate, the original trading island gradually declined, with a population of only 30,000------ Ilkhanate did not send officials to manage it, leaving him to fend for himself, and the island of Bahrain became an island of fishermen, some of whom lived by fishing and some by fishing for pearls.

It became an island of liberty with undetermined sovereignty.

The New Oriental Company took a fancy to it, so it built an independent trading station there.

With hot, humid summers and mild and pleasant winters, Bahrain is more habitable than a desert.

The people of the New Oriental Company approached the local elders and patriarchs, sent a batch of white cotton linen, some matches, and sugar, and bought a large piece of uninhabited land on a hillside on the island.

In order to build a good relationship with the locals, they were sold cotton linen, white sugar and canned fruit at low prices, and they could also be allowed to exchange fish and pearls for candy cubes.

The "industrious" Bahraini people basically sit in mud huts during the day, and in the afternoon, when they are hungry, they go to the sea to fish or eat a little date------ and the original bustling commercial activities have regressed into a small farmers' market for barter.

The arrival of New Oriental has added some life to the place.

The construction of the trading station could not be counted on by these "hard-working" Bahraini people, and the building materials and manpower required were brought by the New Oriental Company from Liuqiu Island.

When they built a three-storey trading station and warehouse, almost all the islanders watched.

New Oriental Company simply gave small gifts one by one, a piece of sugar, a comb and the like------ New Oriental Company was weak-hearted, and no one came to charge them anything, but I didn't expect that the people's concept of land here was really different from theirs.

Later, they learned that there was a mound forest on this island, and people who had died on the mainland would be brought casually, and buried in the northeast of Bahrain Island.

Water is scarce on the island of Bahrain, and everyone depends on fresh water springs in the sea for their livelihood.

It turns out that the groundwater resources here are very rich, and the secret lies in the fact that the Euphrates River formed a large area of fresh water after it entered the sea.

In addition, precipitation infiltrated from the desert flows from the high to the low waters of Bahrain and emerges from the seabed near the island of Bahrain, resulting in the abundance of water resources in Bahrain, and there are more than 200 freshwater springs in the sea of the entire island.

Of course, the people of New Oriental are like the islanders here and don't know about it.

When the tide is high, these springs are flooded, and at low tide they erupt from the sea, and Bahraini women use clay pots to fetch water for their homes, and at the same time, they can provide water for the passing boats.

This has been the case for thousands of years.

The people of New Oriental Company laughed when they saw this, seeing that they were stupid, they had to use clay pots to fill them a little bit!