China's first overseas territory, Basra Port, has undergone several expansions, is now the largest port in the Middle East, with an annual throughput of more than 1.8 billion tons, is already the world's largest port, and now this port is a transit point for Chinese materials and oil from Germany. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Baku oil obtained by Germany was transported by the 3B railway, which was simply stored in Basra, some of which was pyrolysis by petrochemical companies and consumed, and the other part was loaded onto ships and shipped to China. The German occupation of Baku was a strategic victory in World War I, and even the Allies did not realize how this battle would affect the situation of the war in the future.

Baku, an oil field that has been exploited for more than 80 years, has always occupied an important position in the world, you know, the Soviet Union in honor of Baku, the oil fields in the Urals are called the second Baku, and the Tyumen oil fields are called the third Baku. China's strength in materials and oil exploitation technology, especially the strength of secondary development, in other countries in the world, is still only staying in the first development of oil fields, after all, this is only the initial stage of oil utilization, most of the oil fields have not been exploited, even if there is, no one will focus on his above, the vast world, there are countless new oil fields that need to be exploited, rather than spending effort on these old, not much production oil fields, it is better to develop new ones.

From China's point of view, this is not equal, the production of old oil fields is declining, there is no way, as long as there is a suitable filler, let the oil erupt resume, the production will not be lower than the best time, so the increase in oil production in a short period of time is very amazing.

Baku is a historical oil field, the history of development can be traced back to hundreds of years, even a thousand years ago, even in Russia's development time, more than 40 years, in the long era, even if Russia has oil production technology is relatively backward, there are a large number of oil wells have been exploited, to put it bluntly, of which the real mining is very small, most of them are excavated partially, the pressure is reduced, after the oil production is less, it is abandoned, now, China after controlling the oil exploitation in Baku, through records, visits, Even the investigation, to find out such a field of oil fields, some re-exploration and development, in the vicinity of the wells, the successful exploitation of oil wells with enough industrial flow, some of the secondary exploitation, with some heavier than oil filler, into the well, with pressure to restore the ability of the oil well to erupt, generally speaking, a production of oil, at most can only extract about 50 percent, and more than half of the oil, still exist in the well, through secondary, even tertiary exploitation, to be able to extract most of the oil.

This method has allowed Baku to increase production at the same time, in a short period of time, hundreds of new oil wells have been added, and Baku's production has begun to surge, from the first few million tons, tens of millions of tons, immediately surged to hundreds of millions of tons, an increase of more than 10 times, of course, such a mining method, Baku must not be like later generations, mining for more than 80 years, some mining methods, even destructive.

This is not a Chinese thing, and even when the war is over, whether it is controlled in his hands is also a problem, as much as possible to extract as much as possible, as for the future, there is no point, so after stabilizing production, China began to further tap the strength of Baku, it is expected that in 1916, Baku's oil production, It will exceed 120 million tons, and by 1917, it may rise to 17,000 tons, and the total output may increase by 50 million tons.

Only Baku is so foundational, can have such a production, those super-large oil fields in later generations, including China's largest Daqing oilfield as an example, there is no way to make the output more than 80 million tons, this is based on the oil reserves to decide, Daqing oilfield is China's largest oilfield, but it is really not a world-class oilfield, reserves and Baku, compared with Saudi Arabia's large oilfield, there is a significant difference.

China does not care about this destructive development of Baku, Germany at this time for Baku, there is no sense of belonging, or in other words, even if there is a certain sense of belonging, thinking about distress, under the persecution of the war, Germany can have more things in exchange for money, China's thirst for oil, almost unlimited, Whether it is 120 million tons or 170 million tons, you can next, on the price, or according to the original price, 50 million tons, which is almost the annual income of the country of 2 billion US dollars, which is a shot in the arm for Germany at this time.

This money will be used to further arm Germany, in 1917, Germany is ready to arm 80 divisions, and, start the construction of 6 Bavaria-class, the 8 Bavarian class ordered in China has come to an end, the German officials in charge of supervising the construction are very satisfied with the Bavarian class, they ordered 12 more when the government has money, according to China's high speed, by the end of 1917, Germany will add 18 Bavaria-class, will make the number of German battleships, Reaching a limit height, the future world naval battles will become more and more intense, the previous 30 battleships of the duel, can already be called tragic, about 10 ships, is already considered a major war, but from 1917, without 50, it can not be regarded as a large-scale war, and even in 1917, a total of 80 battleships broke out of a tragic duel, and finally sank more than 40 capital ships.

Whether it is from China to the Middle East, or from the Middle East to China, it must pass through the Strait of Malacca, which is also the importance of the Strait of Malacca, but now, if you choose to pass through the Kra Canal, you can save 1200 kilometers one way, which may be one-fifteenth or one-tenth of the route from China to the Middle East, which is of great significance, which means that under the premise of the same ship, China's capacity to the Middle East has actually increased by about 10%. China has now become the world's first merchant shipping power, China is too big, if according to this, the annual transportation volume of more than 1.5 billion tons can easily increase by 100 million tons, not to mention economic benefits, but the cost of this time, this canal is worth considering, it has extremely high economic value.

The Kra Canal only has economic benefits, not exactly, the Chinese Navy has just taken shape, divided into the north and the south and the Lanfang fleet, the Lanfang fleet, due to the location of the strait, may have to shrink into the Chinese waters, the emergence of the Kra Canal, once it encounters something, in the Indian Ocean, it will get a direct outlet.

In the waters of Malacca, it can also appear, but at that time the international waterway, anyone can enter and exit it, on the contrary, this canal, completely controlled by the Chinese, if a military base is established in Thailand Bend, under good protection, it will become the kind that all fleets react the fastest, or the other side can not fight back, the mainland will resist the opponent's navy, and land-based aviation will become a barrier to block the opponent.

After carefully reading this report, Yang Yuanzhao fell into a long period of contemplation, in his heart, he had decided to start the plan of the Kra Canal, Wang Rongmin's plan was quite clear, from the cost, time, to economic benefits, it was written very clearly, but for Yang Yuanzhao, this is not only this, the military value of this canal is far higher than the economic value, and even aside from the military value, just the economic value is enough for him to start construction. This is a canal of profound significance to China, and to a certain extent, it is better to build it later than to build it early.

For this canal, the only thing to consider is time, how to get the canal built before the end of the war, the more advanced, the better it will be for the canal. The war has been going on for 4 years now, and it is not much better than the first war in history, in history, at this time, Germany has been in decline, although on two fronts, suppressing Russia and Britain and France, but at home, all aspects of the deterioration are extremely serious, industry, agriculture, have declined to varying degrees, and even unceremoniously said that the only way to go is surrender.

The United States saw this, only in the final stage to join the war, and then the United States as if to go to Xunyou, participated in several battles in Europe, highlighting the arrival of the Americans, the war ended, a country with the strongest army in Europe, just like that, the United States in the First World War, when it made enough money, went to Europe for an armed parade, did not pay too much price, became the winner, and after that, had the right to sit on an equal footing with Britain.

But this era, it is different, Germany has the support of China, domestic stability, the output value of industry and agriculture, has not been greatly reduced, and even the loss of personnel, year-on-year has decreased, and on the other hand, the Entente side has suffered heavy losses, in the current 4 years, in the European continent, in the Bordeaux meat grinder, the total loss of the Entente has exceeded 14 million, even if the Entente has the world's largest mobilization capacity, it is also a bit painful.

However, in terms of war potential and the total population that can be mobilized, the Entente countries are much more than the Central Powers, of course, this does not include China, if China is taken into account, and only Britain has mobilized all the British Commonwealth and colonies can be compared with it, and I don't know how much worse it is in terms of quality.

In this case, the war will not produce significant changes within a year or two, which is also the key to establishing the construction of the canal, but if there is a deviation, the war will end when the canal is still under construction, which is a huge blow to the plan of the canal, and even affects Wang Rongmin. (To be continued.) )