Turkey's eyes are basically focused on Europe, in this era, Europe is the center of the world, not to mention the world's several powers, basically all in Europe, even if it is a second-rate country in Europe, they can go out and claim hegemony. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, there is no way to interfere in the Balkans, and Russia will not accept it, so he can only go in the direction of Asia, but with such a vote, Turkey's top brass can't help but light up, this is a number one target.

Turkey's east is nothing else, it is Persia, Persia in history, is not inferior to Turkey's huge empire, at its peak, almost cut off China and the Western Regions, and Europe The Silk Road, was the great enemy of the Ottoman Turkish Empire at that time, and even at the limit, Turkey was compressed.

With the Renaissance in Europe, science and technology surpassed China and became the world's first, Persia, which is relatively close to India and relatively large and wealthy, was targeted by the British and Russia, and finally the two sides formed a compromise, Russia controlled the north of Persia, and Britain controlled the south, in fact, in this era, all Asian countries, except for Japan, Russia's territory in Asia is not counted, basically it is like this, the limit is India, completely reduced to a British colony, Even the national language has become English, which is the most thorough change, Persia and China are considered semi-feudal and semi-colonial, the difference is that Persia belongs to the competition between the two powers, the strength of Russia, if Britain retreats, China is purely because it is too big, even if it is the sphere of influence of various countries, it is only based on cities, places with developed transportation, some remote places, or the original life.

Turkey was the first to see Persia, Persia is a good place, close to the Persian Gulf, next to the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea, there are relatively good alluvial plains, it is a more developed agricultural area, there are also a lot of deserts, the overall situation is better than the Arabian Peninsula in all aspects, and Turkey needs the most oil.

Iran is oil, since the discovery of oil in Persia in 1908, from time to time there is news of oil fields, in a sense, Persian oil, the prospect is greater, and even some experts have said that Persian oil may surpass Baku in the future.

If Yang Yuanzhao is here, he will definitely say that it is not possible, it is certain, Iran in the future will be the third in the world in terms of total output, Saudi Arabia is the indisputable first, the United States is the second, and even the United States has covered a lot, it is said that the United States is the first in the world, but among the various rankings, the third must be Iran, such a piece of land, of course, Yang Yuanzhao also looks forward to it, but Iran's huge national problems, plus China has occupied the Arabian Peninsula and has the world's largest oil reserves. If you reach out to Iran again, you may get into trouble.

When will resources and land come to an end? On land, it occupies the Arabian Peninsula, which has the richest oil reserves, as well as the South China Sea and Southeast Asian waters, all of which are oil-rich places, not to mention Arabia, Saudi Arabia, a country with the highest oil reserves in the world, as well as Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, the most oil-rich countries in the Gulf region, just say that China's South China Sea is a place rich in oil on the continental shelf, and there are a lot of oil reserves in Southeast Asia.

Although Iran has a lot of oil, Iran can be said to be one of the most religiously complex countries in the world, and since the beginning of the 20th century, or even earlier, a series of religious issues, political changes, for China, this is not a good place.

In the case of the Arabian Peninsula, no resources have been found at present, all of them are desert places, as long as these natives are expelled, anyway, there are not many people in the entire Arabian Peninsula, but Iran is different, as the successor of the Persian Empire, his population is very large, such a country, far away from China's mainland, plus the people expelled from the Arabian Peninsula are also nearby, it is simply the source of trouble, not to mention oil, even if it is similar to Australia, it has several world-class mineral deposits, The city that is called on the top of the minecart will never be touched by China.

China won't do it, it doesn't mean that Turkey doesn't want to, oil is a wealth, black gold is really not an exaggeration, before, maybe Turkey will not value oil so much, but from the beginning of China's control of the Middle East, through the construction of the 3B railway, the oil produced from Baku was eaten by China, and with the increase in the price of oil, the purchase price is also rising, and the increase is higher than the world price.

In fact, the unit price of oil is not very high, a barrel is about 10 US dollars, and it only rose to 13 US dollars in 1917, and the price of a ton is more than 50 US dollars.

On the contrary, although gold is expensive, but the distribution of nature is very scarce, natural gold, dog's head gold, with the development of the world, human footprints all over the world, has become more and more rare, although every year there are some dog's head gold is found, but in the end it turns out that most of them are fake.

As for those world-class gold mines, along with the mining of gold, the total amount of minerals continues to decrease, to the 21st century, a total reserve of 1200 tons of gold mines, has been counted as a world-class gold mine, in fact, the content is very small, is among the many ores, gradually selected by grading, unlike oil, because of the generation of environmental reasons, may be a small mining area, is tens of thousands of tons, or even more, the unit price of the unit is small, but can not stand the total amount of huge ah.

Baku is hundreds of millions of tons, when the annual exploitation can reach tens of millions of tons, the huge extent of this wealth is shocking, although the Persian side, the oil discovered, the reserves are not large, but the number of discoveries, the total reserves are far ahead, even above Baku, in this sense, occupy Persia, just oil, can make Turkey very rich.

Oil is different from gold, even if it is hundreds of millions of gold, there is not much together, but oil is different, for oil, China built a huge port in Basra, and extended the 3B railway to Baku, and even in the later period, also built a large-scale oil pipeline, which can easily and quickly send these oils to Basra, and then load them on ships and transport them to China.

The seaport is the first thing that Turkey thought of, Persia is located in the Persian Gulf, of course he has access to the sea, this outlet is too close to India, you know, now, in India, there are still the remnants of the British fleet, even if there are only a few cruisers, so to speak, so that the entire British power in Asia, reduced to a minimum, these can not deal with the Chinese, it is no problem for Turkey, Turkey's Black Sea Fleet, is with 1 battleship, but this battleship, there are many Black Sea Fleet subsidiary fleets, Enough to deal with the remnants of the British fleet in Asia.

But there is no way, Turkey is in the same situation as Russia in the past, Turkey straddles Europe and Asia, and the fleet in the Black Sea must exist, because it is necessary to guard against Russia, unless the entire Black Sea falls into the hands of Turkey.

Now that Russia is suppressed, it is unlikely that it will pass through the Black Sea and raid Turkey, but if the Turkish fleet wants to move from the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf, it is impossible to complete, because the entire Suez Canal is controlled by the British, as well as the Strait of Gibraltar, which basically cuts off Turkey's idea of going to the Mediterranean Sea to carry out activities, maybe it's okay, but nothing else is possible.

Unless Turkey is to station its fleet in both the Black Sea and the Persian Gulf, as Russia has done, it is unlikely that the small country of Turkey will at least until oil revenues are made.

You can rely on China all, the British at this moment, do not dare to deal with China, they are also afraid of being attacked by China to India, because the Indochina Peninsula, Tibet is in the hands of the Chinese, in fact, for India, is a semi-encircled situation, in this case, Britain does not dare to do anything, build a port, for Turkey, very difficult, almost impossible to succeed, if you want to hand over to the Chinese, it is no problem, give the port to China, even transportation to China, security is guaranteed.

But after Turkey thought carefully, to let China control this port, must pay a huge price, Turkey also knows that the Chinese will not ask more, but will let the interests weaken, can there be other ways, at this time the actual situation of the 3B railway, let Turkey think of a better way, how about using railway transportation.

Unlike Germany, which is far away from China, Turkey is actually standing on the island at the junction of Europe, Asia and Africa, even if it has shrunk to the current Turkey, it is a veritable country across three continents, but this country across three continents is a little small.

From Germany to Turkey, there is more than 2,000 kilometers of travel, if you are in China, it is very far away, let alone tens of thousands of kilometers, but from Turkey, along Persia, Central Asia, linked to China's Xinjiang, which is not far away, the straight-line distance will not exceed 3,000 kilometers, for other countries, such as Xinjiang such a border place, it is unlikely to be a railway, even if it is through, it will not be a trunk railway, can not bear the heavy responsibility of the Eurasian land bridge.

China is different, from the very beginning, the railway was an important tool, when the first railway in Baotou was built, or even before the first railway, the concrete road alone was enough to facilitate, mutual and commercial exchanges.

In 1914, China's total railway mileage has surpassed the United States, becoming the world's first, and in the following years, China's railways have not slowed down, the original place of China's homeland, the density of the railway, has reached a limit, in the hometown is only repaired, other places have become the mainstream, Indochina Peninsula, Southeast Asia, Australia, and even Hawaii, have also built a railway around the island.

This point, as an ally, Turkey is very clear, a simple calculation of the distance from Persia to China, not too far, if this railway through, selling Persian oil to China or secondary, a 3B railway, will give way to Turkey in the middle of the earth-shaking changes, if the Eurasian land bridge is really opened, what will be a concept.

This is not a simple solution to the problem of oil transportation, but also to make Turkey's importance to a higher level, the simple 3B railway, limited by the throughput of Basra, that is, the throughput of Basra, represents the carrying capacity of the 3B railway, some of China's better railway control methods, can not be applied here, because there is no need, according to what they know, as long as it is modified according to China's domestic railway schedule, the transportation volume of the 3B railway, can also be doubled.

More than doubling the volume of transportation, coupled with the trade between Turkey and China, will make Turkey's income rise to a higher level, which is very beneficial to the Turkish country. However, it is not easy to convince China, and after thinking about it for a while, Turkey felt that it had sent an official letter directly to China, proposing its intention to build a Eurasian land bridge.

China was really shocked after receiving the official letter from Turkey, this is a pioneering idea, using land to connect Europe and Asia, this is a shortcut, can save a lot of distance, from China to the 3B railway, as long as this artery is completed, not only Germany, will get more benefits, Turkey can also directly benefit.

Just like the Pacific Railroad in the United States, the most convenient passage between the East and the West is the Pacific Railroad, and the Panama Canal is only used to transport supplies cheaper by sea, and of course, there is also a part of the navy to move back and forth.

Yang Yuanzhao was first taken aback, the Eurasian Land Bridge, isn't it the Longhai Railway from Lianyungang to the railway in Hamburg, Germany, although Turkey's plan is very different from that one, in the European part, directly incorporated into the 3B railway, in China, into China's railway network, which is equivalent to just an intermediate link process, but after this railway is through, the impact is far-reaching.

Such a railway, for China is of great help, first, do not have to continue to dig deep into the port potential of Basra, you can classify the priority of goods, some are more anxious, or the value is greater, you can choose to use the railway, some less important, or less time-sensitive, you can use sea, more choices, but the efficiency will also be improved, at the juncture of the European war, China can sell more goods, from Europe to transport back more oil and basic mineral deposits, for China, which has a huge industry, It's also a huge plus.

But after thinking about it from a deep level, Yang Yuanzhao did not directly agree, Turkey's requirements this time were very low, but it was precisely because of the low level that China was a little embarrassed, because Turkey's requirements exceeded the current China's development outline, which was made by Yang Yuanzhao with forward-looking vision and many think tanks at the same time.