It took a few years, China barely gained a foothold in the Arabian Peninsula, basically formed 20 cities, more than 10 million immigrants, these people will steadily continue, it will become a huge support for this region, from the ancient road to the present, may be in the Arabian Peninsula, has not carried so many people, basically self-sufficient, and can create a certain industrial value, after all, under the conditions of mechanization, agriculture uses a small population, even in the Middle East, using a large number of root canal systems, plus fine management, On average, the use of manpower per 1,000 mu is at least 50% more than that of China's hinterland, but this figure is still relatively small among the total population of the Middle East. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

China immigrated to the Middle East more than 10 million people, but not let him idle, must design some industries, the most important is the petrochemical industry, for the oil transported from Baku, can be processed on the spot, after the production of suitable products, and then sold back to Europe, has begun to take shape, there is a part of the processing, reasonable overall planning, has made the industry here began to take shape, the output is gradually rising, the total economic volume is not as good as the developed areas in China, but also compared with some new areas, there are certain advantages.

In Yang Yuanzhao's view, the Arab region is a desert on the surface, but it is the most resource-rich place, relative to Iraq and Kuwait, Saudi Arabia is the real oil kingdom, the world's largest oil reserves, that is, in the first decade of the 21st century, with a sharp rise in oil prices, as well as a breakthrough in the development of oil shale technology, With a significant reduction in development costs, oil shale was included in the oil reserves, and the United States replaced Saudi Arabia as the country with the highest oil reserves.

From the beginning of the construction of the Middle East, a large number of railways have also been built in the Arabian Peninsula, but the speed is very slow, at present, in addition to the 3B railway in the Mesopotamian plain in addition to the various branches, from Baghdad as the core, as well as Basra as the core, to the desert area extended a total of three railways, one from Baghdad as the starting point, to the Red Sea coast port of Durbar, one from Baghdad to Jeddah, one from Basra to Wadihara, these three are across the Saudi desert railway, at present are not through, One was only repaired to El El, the other to Qasumai, and the last was basically not opened, but a railway was built less than 100 kilometers in the Mesopotamian plain to connect the cities on the plain.

The reason for this is very simple, from China to the Middle East, most of the tonnage of merchant ships is occupied by all kinds of materials transported to the allies, and a very small part of the remaining is occupied by necessities and materials, after the 3b railway is through, and then some railways are built, there is no subjective movement, after all, these are a desert, there are no materials transported in and out, and the construction of railways is equivalent to waste, China is at present, in all aspects, it needs a huge capacity, and the demand for railways is also very large, It is impossible to squeeze out enough shares.

Yang Yuanzhao is just a suggestion, he can't completely violate the objective law, unless he intends to develop the oil buried under the desert, which is almost impossible, China has not shown enough strength, so that the world has no way to oppose him, as long as he moves Saudi oil, it can only be one result, the war in Europe may end, the whole of Europe plus the United States, together to fight China, when Germany has gained enough benefits in Baku's oil, Knowing a treasure with a total reserve of more than a hundred times that of Baku makes people crazy about wealth.

This is what China and Yang Yuanzhao do not want to see, take a serious inventory of China's capabilities, China has the qualifications to challenge the whole world, but there is a smoother road, why take that rugged road, the European war is still in full swing, as long as it continues to fight, even if it is only 2 years, the weakening of the entire Western society will be amazing, China has just won enough territory, is in the process of integration and development, only 5-10 years, digest and absorb all this, It's time to start the oil in the Middle East.

For the Middle East, Yang Yuanzhao has no way to directly use administrative orders to promote, after all, this is a big blow to local finances, the railway is to make money, if the railway loses money, it is a huge pressure on the local finance, fortunately he has capital, his foundation, which controls a huge amount of capital, can be changed by investment.

In the middle of Baghdad and Basra, a large steel complex of at least 12 million tons or more will be built, there is no coal and iron ore in the Arabian Peninsula, but Australia's mineral deposits solve this problem, if all are exported, some can be solved, with self-produced rails, first through the important cities near the Mesopotamian plain, and then march to the desert, with 2 years, to form a railway system across the Middle East, The smooth flow of transportation and railways on this side of the Middle East is guaranteed, laying a good foundation for the future.

As long as the railway is completed and the traffic is convenient, Yang Yuanzhao will secretly dispatch forces to survey the oil pipelines, he only has a general understanding of several huge oil fields, which is still to the Middle East to participate in the rally, was invited to visit, in the future, when China has the ability to develop Saudi Arabia's oil, these will not need to be explored.

Before the railroad was completed, off-road vehicles and armoured vehicles had been crisscrossing the Arabian desert, and many settlements had been built in some of the traditional oasis settlements, and some soldiers had been stationed to prevent some exploration teams from entering the area, according to the requirements of the central government.

In this era, because of the relationship between Iran and Baku, some people set their sights on the Arabian Peninsula, but the desert is too bad, and the Arabian Peninsula is too big, and there is no direct guidance, and if you want to find an oil field, in addition to the professional one, it is a huge luck, just like the legend of Texas, a person spent a lot of money to find oil on a piece of land of hundreds of square kilometers, and it took three years to find it, and finally the funds ran out and went bankruptBut in less than 3 months after his son sold the land and left Texas, another group of people successfully found a large-scale oil field here, which was no more than 700 meters away from his nearest detection.

This can be seen as a joke, but it is also the time when prospecting is underdeveloped, this is a fact, one step away, it may be the time in the sky and the earth, so when in the Middle East, mainly Iran, was discovered before and after World War I, but the oil wells in the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other places were only discovered around 1930.

Of course, there is also a theory that Britain has discovered these oils, even some shallow oil wells, but Britain is in various ways and has been pressed down.

In fact, as far as the intelligence in China's possession is concerned, this is unlikely, although before the war, the price of oil was not expensive, but the million-ton level is limited, and it is also a wealth of hundreds of millions of dollars, which is not small even on the side of the British government. Especially now, after Baku is occupied, Britain can only import refined oil from the United States, otherwise, the huge fleet can not be started, all of which prove that Britain has not mastered this information at all, and now occupies nearly half of the world's oil, at least tens of billions, or even hundreds of billions of tons, and is still lying on the Arabian Peninsula, except for China, the rest of the world, has not yet interested in the important role of private ownership, that is, the German and British navy, after they have fully replaced the oil-fired boilers, they have a part of the reserves, But in addition, there is not much effect, kerosene lamps are a little more, and there are a small number of cars, these for the application of oil, but in the most basic stage, the consumption of oil is very small, and the price of oil has been hovering at a low level for a long time.

There is a very simple example, in the history of World War I, the number of German trucks was only more than 1,000, even if all of them were running, the daily consumption of oil resources is quite limited, if there is no time and space China's involvement, the world's major countries, until World War II, will not take oil as a strategic resource.

During the First World War, infantry, machine guns, trenches, barbed wire, artillery, these were the mainstream of the battlefield, but in the Second World War, when tanks, warships, and aircraft became the mainstream of the battlefield, almost every key weapon of the war needed the support of oil, when the speed of the battleship climbed to more than 28 knots, the oil consumed was also geometrically improved, compared with the cruise ship and the merchant ship before the First World War, when the speed was doubled, the fuel consumption increased by 8 times, and the premise of comprehensive evaluation of the same distance, It is more than 4 times.

The battleship itself is a big oil eater, after the speed increases, the cost has also increased greatly, and the tanks, aircraft, especially the latter two, in the First World War, basically the same existence as soy sauce, but during World War II, it became necessary to preserve, the Soviet Union's armored torrent, why can it overwhelm Germany, on the one hand, because the Soviet Union can mobilize more resources, on the other hand, it is not that the Soviet Union produces 30 million tons of oil a year, while Germany only has more than 10 million tons, and it really has the capacity to build so many tanks without oil, just like a rifle without bullets, not much stronger than a burning stick.

This era, and the history of the First World War, there is a clear difference, along with China's advance of the automobile industry, around 1910, has produced a modern sense of the car, European countries, and even Germany car ownership, and the history has a huge difference, but also reflected in the logistics of transportation, which is also Germany is equipped with much more technical equipment than Britain and France, but still at ease the fundamental reason. (To be continued.) )