Chapter 250: The Bedouins' Good Son

The western part of the Arabian Peninsula is higher and the terrain slopes from west to east,.. the western part is the Hijaz (Hejaz) - Asir Plateau; The Hijaz Mountains in the southern section are about 3,000 meters above sea level; the central part is the Najd (Najd) Plateau; To the east is the plains. The southwest corner of the peninsula is fertile and suitable for farming. Yemen is known as the "Arabian Paradise" due to its pleasant climate, abundant products and developed agriculture. The plains and part of the plateaus within the peninsula are covered with gravel, and the desert accounts for about 1/3 of the total area. There are no perennial rivers, and during the rainy season and flash floods, the valleys become rivers of water, and on sunny days, they dry up without water. The peninsula is located in the tropics and subtropics, with a subtropical Mediterranean climate in the western plateau and a Savannah climate (savannah climate) in the southeastern coastal areas. Other vast areas are tropical desert climate, generally hot and dry, the four seasons climate and the temperature difference between day and night is significant, the highest temperature during the day in summer reaches about 60 degrees, the scorching heat, the heat wave is rolling, and the heat is unbearable. The precipitation is less, the average annual precipitation in the western coastal areas and mountainous areas is 500~1000 mm, the average precipitation in the northwest is 25-400 mm, the average annual precipitation in the Arabian Plateau is less than 100 mm, and the precipitation in the coastal areas is between October and May of the following year. In most areas, there are dry and hot winds in winter. The wind source comes from the tropical air masses in southern West Asia and North Africa, which often cause the temperature to rise by more than 20 degrees Celsius in a few hours, bringing serious harm to the growth of crops and the lives of residents. Groundwater is the main source of irrigation for farmland and drinking water for residents.

The Arabian Peninsula is close to Asia and Africa, and is a key point of transportation. Strategic location is important. Yemen, southwest of the peninsula, was once a hub of maritime trade between the East and the West. The Red Sea and Gulf on both sides of the peninsula connect Egypt with the Fertile Crescent, forming an important natural corridor for east-west traffic. In order to better control this future oil kingdom and strategic location. The Travelers took a fancy to the indigenous Bedouins who had been in a poor tribal state and had not established a reading state.

Throughout Arab history, even during the period of foreign rule, the rest of society was dominated by armed free tribesmen, whether nomadic or oasis-dwellers, farmers who settled in the highlands, or sailors, merchants, and pirates who made their living by the sea. The Sultan, the Emir, and the Shah were selected from the tribes, and they had to treat the tribesmen well to gain their support. However, the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad, Sa'id and Sharif, were above all others in the social hierarchy. They sometimes exercise theocratic rule as spiritual leaders.

The Bedouins are the indigenous people of Arabia and are a general term for nomadic tribesmen who are different from their wealthy urban settlement relatives, and belong to a branch of the Semitic people, who share the same ancestry as the Jews. Bedouins generally live in deserts, moors, hills, and on the edge of agricultural areas. The Bedouins make a living by raising camels. They move regularly according to the seasons and fixed routes. The distance of each nomadic herding is often more than 1,000 kilometers. Spend the hottest and driest seasons on the fringes of agricultural areas. Participate in the bazaar, sell livestock products or gather spices, and buy back dates, food, handicrafts and other necessities. Whenever the rainy season arrives and the desert aquatic plants grow, they head deeper into the desert.

Najd was the only piece of terra nullius in Asia at this time on the world map except for North Asia. This terra nullius is the primitive tribal territory and no man's land that is not effectively ruled by a sovereign state. Since ancient times in the settlement of the inhabitants (al-hadar). There is antagonism between the nomadic or herdsic tribes known as the Bedouin, although there is also a part of the sedentary tribe that leads a nomadic life. In Yemen, where more than one third of the peninsula's population is inhabited by fertile land in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, there is also hostility between urban dwellers and the armed tribes (qabilis) who live mostly in villages. Except for the area around Medina and Mecca ruled by Fatima, which was from the northern shore of the Gulf of Aden to 25 degrees north latitude (and the border of the Kingdom of Solomon), all other parts of the Arabian Peninsula belonged to the Chinese Empire.

The Kingdom of Solomon was a state of joy and industry that was single-handedly established by the Chinese Empire, occupying the land west of the Suez Canal under construction, and taking almost one-third of the land of Fatimid Egypt, nominally the United Kingdom established by the Crusaders. In fact, it is similar to Israel's relationship with the United States.

The Seljuk Empire, the giant of the Persian Plateau and West Asia, also relied on the trade of the Chinese Empire to continue its life in crisis. Abu. Fatah. Marrick Shaw. Hassan. Root. Alb. Arslang (Malikshaw) and Hassan. Root. Ali. Root. Ishihag. Tutsi (Nizam. Mullek was the transliteration of the kingdom's Ji Gang, famous in the political circles of the time) after his death. Succeeded by Loknouddin. Abu. Muzaffar. Bolkea Rog. Root. Malikshaw, the fourth Seljuk monarch, had no imperial vibes, and it was only with the support of the Chinese Empire that he was able to suppress the ambitions of careerists and other princes across the country.

Therefore, in addition to the negligible factor that can be ignored in the defeat of Fatimid Egypt, the kingdom of Solomon that was supported by the crossing people, the biggest uncontrollable factor is the Bedouin's own opinion of the Chinese Empire. The Bedouins love freedom and unfettered life, and heroic behavior is the highest standard of morality for each person in the nomadic tribe. The Arabic word "Muru" means extremely brave, righteous, and brave to charge into battle for the interests of the clan, even at the cost of his life. Perseverance, hardship, enthusiasm, freedom, and unrestrainedness are the characteristics of Bedouin surnames. In order to enjoy maximum freedom, the Bedouins preferred to live a harsh nomadic life rather than a settled city life.

The Bedouins do not recognize any laws other than tribal traditions, are not subject to any regime other than the chiefs of their own tribes, do not recognize any political system, have no concept of discipline and authority, and do not have the political organization of a settled society. They followed the custom of their predecessors, and were temperated by tribal conventions, as long as what was publicly approved was lawful. The society in which they live is called "a society without political axes", and the clans that are related by blood are the basis of their society. By blood, they united their families into clans; Combine clans into tribes. For the need to strengthen the power. and united the tribes into a tribal confederation.

Ibn Saud in the old time and space established his rule by force and marriage to bring hundreds of tribal chieftains into obedience (in the long course of his rule, mainly during the founding of the country, in order to encircle the various tribes. Ibn . Saudi Arabia has been widely married to various tribes, and has married more than 300 brides in total. He had 43 sons, and at the time of his death there were more than 160 children and grandchildren. Today's Saudi royal family has more than 5,000 male members, making it the largest royal family in the world, and it is widely distributed in all important departments of the country. Of course, if the Ming Empire still exists, it's a joke).

One of the founding kings of the Bedouins became Ibn Saud, who traveled through a new time and space that was needed by all. Among the children of the enlightened tribal chiefs sent by dozens of local agents from Arabia, Li Ji and others chose the youngest and smartest one named Mustafa. Burkel's students, as evidenced by his political history majors, differed from his fellow countrymen who took military and business majors.

In the spring of 1972 in the republican calendar. This one was renamed Muhammad. Harry's son is already a warlord with more than 10,000 troops in control of the Qatar Peninsula, and the unification of the Bedouin tribes by force is an imperative and an important part of the global layout of the Chinese Empire. For the sake of oil and smooth trade, the integration of instability and the robbery of Bedouin tribes is the art of relying on politics.

Harry, who had been given high-class goods through the private and private affairs, directly swept away the tribes on the fringes of the agricultural areas that had not yet entered the interior due to the seasons and rains with weapons and camel cavalry legions, and in just four months of dry season, he circled the peninsula and subdued more than 400 Bedouin tribes, large and small. He also married the daughters of more than 200 tribal chiefs.

Hari, who became the co-ruler of the Bedouin tribes, was canonized as sultan in Baghdad by the caliph al-Mustalhid in Baghdad with an increasing number of wives and concubines along the way. Its status was the same as that of the two sultanates of Fatimid Egypt and the Seljuk Turks. Later, on the day before the grand Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, a ceremony was held to celebrate the founding of the country, with the capital of Qatar (Doha), the name of the kingdom of Saracen, and the establishment of diplomatic relations with other countries (all countries that had diplomatic relations with the Chinese Empire announced the establishment of diplomatic relations with this new country within three days). In order to produce large quantities of natural gas and oil, the wealthy country soon sold large amounts of land to the Chinese Empire to repay the arms loans before the founding of the People's Republic of China and the construction loans after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The many nomadic Bedouin tribes, who had to rely on robbery and collecting tolls for caravans and pilgrimages, quickly surrendered to the new sultan, who had received economic aid from the Chinese Empire. Instead of collecting taxes and levying military service, the new state distributed various household items and food and cloth to each tribe. The Bedouin Sultanate and Fatima, with a total population of less than a million people (not counting young children and women), have no comparable surnames and are unlikely to develop irrigated agriculture and other large-scale projects that require a large amount of labour, but they own land that is worth more than a hundred Nile Deltas.

In the eyes of the traversers, it is not cost-effective to spend a little money to occupy this oil field, in case one day the oil field land of the ruler of the Saracen Kingdom is sold cheaply. Demanding that it be withdrawn is also troublesome and very detrimental to the maintenance of regional stability and peace. It doesn't matter how oil prices rise or fall, and you can't use the money you make from selling oil, so you can only buy my treasury bonds and funds, and there is no difference between borrowing me at low interest rates and using what I earn, and I have to pay fees (I have to pay interest for borrowing, and I have to pay wages for hard work and hard work for my own development), and the joint venture to develop oil can reduce the cost of regional order, so why not? How much can you spend on more than a million people? Each person is worth 1,000 dragon dollars a year enough to live a fairy-like life, and these oil fields are sold to the traversal no matter how much money is cost-effective, anyway, Harry and the Bedouins are all earned for nothing, and the 20% equity allocated to them also brings a steady stream of income, and win-win cooperation is the lasting way.

Camels were the largest possession of the Bedouins, but the equity in the oil fields distributed to each Bedouin tribe soon replaced camels, because camels could not be exchanged for dragon dollars in the annual dividends of equity dividends for various imported consumer goods and tools.

In almost ten months, various nomadic tribes settled in the various agricultural areas and fixed pastures established by Harry, and with the help of the powerful well-drilling team of the Chinese Empire, Hari built countless oil and water wells in his territory. Underground cisterns have been established to store water during the rainy season in areas where water is scarce and aquifer-deficient areas, and most of the Buraku have switched from pastoralists to farmers and builders. The obedient tribe soon received grants and various material and technical assistance from Harry, and soon grew. The only way to disobey is to be gradually declining by trade sanctions.

In addition to receiving all kinds of materials brought back to villages and towns by these people on a monthly basis, the main job of the residents of villages and towns (the tribes that have settled down is the permanent settlements, so the location and the names of the villages and towns should be marked on the map) is to participate in the construction of villages and towns and the cause of agricultural reclamation. Gone are the days of being hungry for a full meal. The main agricultural products grown are dates, corn, vegetables, lemons, **, etc. Dependent on food imports from India. There were 589 fishing boats and 2,856 fishermen. Soon, fishery products and dates will be able to meet domestic demand. The livestock sector is large-scale, and major meat products are exported in large quantities. The government adopted a policy of encouraging agriculture, providing free seeds, fertilizers, and interest-free loans to farmers, and implementing the purchase and underwriting of all agricultural products to ensure the income of farmers, and the kingdom's agriculture developed rapidly.

After the problems of food, clothing, housing and transportation were completely solved, the number of mosques in various cities gradually increased. After satisfying their material needs, the Bedouins began to pursue spirituality, taking advantage of the opportunity to establish a large number of newspapers and schools, and to hire teacher training students from Islamic religious universities in China to spread the word about himself and the emerging sects supported by the Chinese Empire. The power of interpretation of the Qur'an was concentrated in the hands of Hari. He advocated an extremely strict monotheism. After the occupation of the Hejaz, in order to ease the contradictions between the Hejaz and the agricultural and commercial areas of Najd, Hari proposed the enlightened Wahhabi theory that any new technology should not contradict the spirit of Islam. Even if it is not explicitly stated in the Qur'an. Also acceptable. His aim was to both make use of Chinese technology while maintaining Islamic principles.

Telephones and radios are regarded as the invention of the devil by Bedouin nomads and conservative religious scholars. In some places, when the truck first appeared, people rushed up and burned it. He had the Qur'an recited by telephone and radio, and the Hajj pilgrims transported by car, finally making these modern devices acceptable.

But ultra-conservative domestic organizations are opposed to all this. They accuse Harry of bringing telegrams, telephones and cars into Islamic soil, of dealing with Chinese infidels and of tolerating music from pilgrims. Their grievances turned into large-scale upheaval. and eventually became an armed rebellion. Faced with a dire situation, Harry decisively decided to use the latest arrivals of armored vehicles and radio liaison equipment. The fanatical internal conservative groups believed that only the sword and the camel were the only weapons that were in accordance with Islam. In the decisive battle of September 1979, armored vehicles armed with machine guns gave Harry a resounding victory and the complete collapse of the opposition group. Harry, who swept away all obstacles, took power to become a true monarch with decision-making power and theocracy.

With the help of many of his fellow clansmen and special advisors who had returned from studying in the Chinese Empire, Harry led the Bedouins from primitive tribal society all the way to the stage of a centralized state, skipping tribal alliances, alliance states, slave societies, and feudal societies. The leap in the political system and social structure has further ensured the leap in the economic structure and the industrial structure. In just three years, the nomadic population has dropped from more than 90 percent before the founding of the People's Republic of China to less than 3 percent, and the agricultural population has increased from less than 5 percent to 40 percent. In the industrial and commercial sectors, the construction and oil industry chains are the main force of employment. In less than two years after the founding of the country, the Saracen kingdom, which has few people and more land, surpassed Fatimid Egypt, a land of fish and rice, an agricultural country that occupies the Nile Delta. Five years later, it surpassed the per capita income of the Seljuks, which had suffered from internal turmoil and was severely lagging behind in oil development and struggling to develop the Fertile Crescent oil fields.

Large-scale urbanization and oil field construction not only boosted employment and foreign exchange earnings from exports, but also allowed the Chinese Empire to penetrate into every corner of the Saracen Kingdom in all directions. The industry standards and institutional frameworks of various modern societies have all been copied, and various important occupations and positions are filled with consultants and aid engineers from China.

To use an old word of time and space, the development of Bedouin society is the Dubai Speed. On the fifth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, after the Saracen Kingdom and the Chinese Empire signed the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (Note 1) treaty system, a large number of people greatly promoted the speed of resource flow and economic and trade exchanges between the two countries, and the completion of the construction of a large number of public facilities allowed the Bedouins to live a modern life, and entered the happy era of upstairs and downstairs television and telephone earlier than the Seljuks and Fatima.

Note 1: According to the closeness of diplomatic relations, the Chinese Empire has classified its relations with countries with diplomatic relations since 1950 in the Republican calendar, and the relationship between the Chinese Empire and the countries that have diplomatic relations has been classified from lowest to highest: simple diplomatic relations, good neighborliness, partnership, traditional friendship and cooperation, and blood alliance. Among them, the partnership is divided into: partners, construction partners, comprehensive partners, strategic partners, strategic partners, and comprehensive strategic partnerships. "Strategy" means to jointly discuss world economic issues and cooperate in the military, strategic and international arenas. "Strategic cooperation" means that in addition to the content of strategic cooperation, the two sides will cooperate and assist each other in the military, strategic, and technological fields. "Comprehensive Strategic Partnership": Cooperation in all aspects of the strategy. "Cooperation" mainly refers to cooperation in certain aspects of the economy; "Comprehensive cooperation" refers to comprehensive cooperation in all areas of the economy; "Partnership" means not antagonizing each other, abiding by the principle of "seeking common ground while reserving differences", and not attacking a particular third country. Countries or organizations that have a partnership with the Chinese Empire are usually neighbors of the Chinese Empire or have some influence in the international community. "Building a surname" or "creating a surname" partnership means: the two sides are originally hostile camps, but hope to increase mutual trust and win-win through cooperation and communication, and build a real partnership. )q