As the "initiator" of the First World War, His Majesty the Emperor of Italy still took his dear Empress and dear naturalists to wander around over New Guinea, and at most he would suspend a day's travel when he was busy with official business.

During this period, in addition to bird watching, they also had extensive contact with the aborigines of New Guinea, many of whom were uncivilized, and when they saw the airship descending from the sky, they all thought that they were immortals, unless their language was in line with the two guides that Downing had found, and the guides came out to explain what "a gas lighter than air holds up the 'big fish'" and other popular explanations.

Naturalists make maps of New Guinea as they tour. With airships, the technology of cartography has changed dramatically. They do not need to follow the traditional way of measuring step by step, but in the shortest possible time from west to east with the tribes, mountains, valleys and rivers and other landmarks outlined, and when walking back, they can choose different routes, such as Fa bubble. In this way, the landmarks that flew over were almost marked, and whether it was military or commercial, there was a more reliable approximate direction. The 780,000 square kilometre green island is no longer an unfathomable wonderland, but an intimate human and natural travel route.

In this era of great colonization, every time a new place is planted with a flag, it is considered a colony, and His Majesty the Emperor is personally expanding the territory. Of course, he pioneered a different approach, like a tailor-made mail-order company for isolated Hawaii, and he also gave these extremely scattered and inaccessible tribes a huge logistical benefit, setting up a New Guinea mail-order company to collect market demand in populous tribal bazaars, and then trade with multiple tribes at once through guò airships.

Downing found this airship trade particularly interesting. Wherever the mail-order company opened, it was his "colony". And he wants to be a popular businessman, and don't force taxes on the local natives by force or something. Of course, the name of the company should be high-end, mail order is only the first step, and there will be various businesses in the future, including government management agencies, so it has to be as imposing as the East India Company, and it will be called the New Guinea Company. The company's logo is a bird of paradise drawn by Wallace.

Lovers of nature like to use the image of animals to endorse their careers, such as the original use of Indian flying foxes to represent the East India Company Navy, and the image of shells as the treasure of the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, what happened in New Guinea was not all good. They finally met the largest Aboriginal festival ever. During this grand festival, each aboriginal has at least 40 bird feathers on their heads, and according to preliminary statistics, at least 20 to 30 are birds of paradise.

There are no apes and birds of paradise for fruit, no squirrels for seeds, no cats and wolves on the ground to kill dancing dancers, but since humans arrived and fell in love with their beauty, heaven has slowly descended into hell.

According to preliminary estimates, at least 20,000 birds of paradise were slaughtered by the bird feather wearers who attended the gathering. Both men and women are dancing the same kind of dance, wearing cumbersome feathers and stomping their feet incessantly, which is very unaesthetic, and only makes naturalists feel the merciless slaughter of the bird of paradise by humans.

When Downing stared at the most beautiful indigenous girl who was dancing, the honeymoon bride was jealous: "That girl is so beautiful!" ”

Tang Ning sighed and said, "I'm thinking about how to dissuade them from killing the bird of paradise, the girl is beautiful, and it makes people hesitate, I'm still too soft-hearted, otherwise...... I'm going to use coercion to keep these guys from hunting in the mountains. ”

Sissi: "No way, this is a traditional habit of other people, maybe it has been like this for hundreds of years. ”

Tang Ning turned to the scholars around him again: "What do you think?" ”

Wallace said: "Buy the dominion of New Guinea from the Dutch and legislate to protect it!" Those who break the law are sent to the United States as slaves! I'm also in favor of slavery now, haha! ”

The feathers of the bird of paradise are other people's currency, and if you want to ban other people's "legal tender", even the most peaceful people will have to fight with you, I am afraid that you really have to ask the slave owners of the American South to clean up this uncivilized guy.

In any case, Downing loved this paradise-like island, and must have made a move, and not long after, he sent a telegram to the king of the Netherlands, asking for the purchase of New Guinea, and instructed the telegraph to announce that at least the eastern half of New Guinea was the territory of the British East India Company, "Merchants from all over the world are welcome to do business here, and New Guinea will implement the ultra-low tariff policy typical of the WTO." ”

The king of the Netherlands did not know that the British East India Company actually had absolute control over Downing, so he was a little dissatisfied with his partiality, why didn't the Dutch East India Company own the whole of New Guinea? Isn't that also owned by Downing?

Under normal circumstances, the Netherlands would not dare to disagree with the Windsor consortium, but now is the perfect time for the Windsor consortium to confront NATO, and they believe that Downing urgently needs more European allies at this time, so they have hardened their attitude. Downing's relations with the Netherlands were on the heels. As a punishment for the Dutch, when the Global Petroleum Exploration Company announced the discovery of oil in the Arabian Peninsula, it did not allow Dutch capital to participate in the investment of the Arab Oil Company, which made the Dutch even more angry.

Especially when they learned that the oil field was far more than the Pennsylvania oil field. This is still a very euphemistic statement, but in fact, this is the world's largest oil field: the Ghawar oil field, about 500 kilometers east of Riyadh, on the edge of the Persian Gulf. Everyone knows that the Persian Gulf region is the most famous oil-producing region in the world, and the Ghawar oil field alone accounts for 30% of the entire Persian Gulf reserves. If the exploration company had published the true number, the king of the Netherlands would have to vomit blood.

This is the result that Downing wants, without the large number of oil fields, he can survive this bite, because he will lead the world towards sustainable energy, so oil in the form of methanol as an energy supplement is just a supplement, and Ghawal's bite is enough.

At this time, Saudi Arabia was nominally part of the Ottoman Empire, but in reality the Ottomans had no control over the local government in the region, and the exploration company only reached an agreement with the Ottoman Empire to obtain non-exclusive rights to explore and exploit oil and gas in the Arabian Peninsula for 300,000 pounds. Only the Ottoman Empire benefited, and a conflict with the de facto rulers of the Emirate of Najd (Saudi) was inevitable.

This conflict was deliberately created by Downing in order to facilitate the declaration of war by the Emirate of Najd in order to effectively control the entire Arabian Peninsula in the conflict. It's up to the chiefs to have the guts.

The discovery of the Garhwal oil field caused a great sensation in the exploration and business circles, because it seemed to prove the paleogeological coastal theory of the Downing conjecture. This is the second time that mankind has consciously searched for oil and succeeded. The first time, of course, was when Downing found an oil field in Borneo with mediocre reserves.

Of course, not everyone has the ability to explore, like this Garhwal oil field, buried 2,000 meters deep, without high-precision gravitational anomalies and magnetic anomaly controllers, how can there be a chance to discover?

It turns out that the Persian Gulf has such potential, and it turns out that the Russian army, which was losing and retreating in the confrontation between Persia and the British East India Company, quickly transferred a large army from Central Asia after discovering this, and wanted to fight with it here. However, the female estimate is the Russians, the East India Company has been planning here for a long time, and has established a military port in a strategic location in the entire Persian Gulf region, and military resources can be deployed at will in the Persian Gulf, but the Russian army is in a hurry, and supplies are in question.

AOC will divide its shares into three parts, 30% held by the Bank of Zurich, 20% open to European capital markets, mainly the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Bavaria, Switzerland, Sweden, and the other 20% open to the capital markets of the six WTO member countries: China, Japan, India, Italy, Malaya, and the Federal States of America.

The last 30% will be held in trust by the Bank of Zurich and will eventually be given to the Lords of the Emirate of Chinai in the form of options, provided that they carry out institutional reforms and establish a democratic government consisting of Downing's favorite elite House of Lords and a civilian House. In Downing's personality, the elite House of Lords must be made up of an atheist elite of all walks of life, which is more difficult in the Arabian Peninsula than anywhere else.

Downing likes to promote the democratic process, but he doesn't have the time to care, anyway, as long as a certain emirate does not reform for a day, the Bank of Zurich alone has 60% of the oil interests, and is happy to survive. (http：／／.）。

The national capital markets that are good friends with the Windsor consortium are happy to buy stocks, especially in the southern capital market of the United States, where southerners have no habit of investing, but the legend that the sword of a god-level industrialist enterprise will not be empty when it is unsheathed makes them very happy to follow suit, and even many slave owners sell their slaves to exchange for stocks. Only the Dutch are so popular that they are considering becoming a NATO observer.

The Continental GT produced in Milan began to be sold worldwide, taking the high-end route, with high horsepower, high speed, long range, built-in air conditioning, LCD wireless telegraph and other fantastic equipment, but its price remained at 500 pounds a year, and gradually decreased year by year. As for the smart and, the price has been slashed significantly. The introduction of the GT means that the automobile has entered the methanol fuel era, and even small ships can use methanol fuel cells. In addition, methanol-fueled power stations have emerged in cities that are not suitable for wind power, solar thermal power generation, and hydroelectric power. The demand for oil is getting stronger and stronger, and the oil age has arrived.

The United States relied on Pennsylvania's oil to be destroyed in a few days, and President Lincoln continued to be depressed, and he was about to become depressed.