In the Middle East, the construction of a port in the middle of the oily soil, this is not only extremely beneficial to the First World War two years later, the northwest-supported Germany, through a certain control and influence, so that the first war to fight a longer strategy, has a very in-depth promotion effect, but also China's footsteps, infiltrated into the Middle East, maybe this strategy in a short time, even one or two decades may not be able to see the effect, after all, the current Middle East is a barren land, but after that, what will happen in the future, that is the Middle East, The powder keg of the 21st century, a hundred years from now, or even more than a hundred years from now, will be a place where peace is the mainstream in the world, and there will still be a place where the flames of war will remain.

Yang Yuanzhao is extremely clear about what kind of land the Middle East is in the future, it is a land full of wealth myths, an ordinary Saudi Arabian feels that he has no one to care about, and when he releases it on Werther, there are countless rich people who come to offer love, and some people don't care about medical expenses, and some even directly throw down tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, making him suddenly change from a dick to a rich and handsome.

The Middle East, which occupies most of the world's major oil reserves, controls the world energy market, and if OPEC sneezes down, the whole world's finance will be turbulent. Now it seems to be a pie in the sky, if the Northwest has the opportunity to start, it will be an opportunity not to be missed for Yang Yuanzhao and for the Northwest.

Without thanking the two citizens who had just inspired him, Yang Yuanzhao quickly got into the car, and when he got into the car, he only said one sentence: "Go back to the office and gather all the staff!" ”

Naturally, there are people to recruit. At the same time as Yang Yuanzhao returned to the company, most of the personnel had already entered the conference room, and these are almost the current controllers in the northwest, and each of them has a huge influence on the northwest.

What exactly is the meeting? In fact, everyone knows that when Yang Yuanzhao is thinking about a solution, he is qualified to know that most of the high-level leaders of the Northwest Plan are thinking about it, but most of the people are buying it with money, and Yang Yuanzhao proposed such a unique method. It seems to be very feasible, and it may divert trade with Germany in the future, and some things that are not suitable for long-term storage and need timeliness can be unloaded here. Direct access to Germany through the Guò fast railway, the journey will save a little, the freight is slightly higher, land transportation, will be higher than the price of sea transportation, but the time will be saved too much, ocean cargo ships through the Guò Suez Canal, the Mediterranean. Entering the Atlantic Ocean to get to Germany, you will take a little detour, with the Guò-Baghdad Railway and the Orient Express. It is equivalent to going directly from Basra to Berlin, Germany, all the way is smooth and fast.

This is a good way, the investment is slightly large, and the various shareholders have more or less some complaints, especially after Yang Yuanzhao can afford the construction cost of the port, there is no problem. A port may require a huge investment in future generations. Such as building infrastructure, but in this day and age. The proportion of investment will be greatly reduced, the dollar or something, is still quite valuable, Yang Yuanzhao has a lot of money on hand, in addition to not using reserve metals such as gold, just a small part of the dividend is enough to bear.

Under the premise that Baotou has the strength to produce most of the basic resources, the port will be a good development direction. The northwest does not understand how to build the port, Germany understands, what is the most powerful in the northwest, is the construction capacity, you don't see, a huge northwest, that is, in the Chinese spent 4 years, the construction was completed, from the early stage of Baotou's development, is large-scale construction to promote, Baotou from a small town of 50,000 people, in just a few years, developed into a large city with a population of several million, the development is fierce and fast, from another side shows that the construction capacity is the best in the world, this is definitely not a joke.

Baghdad Railway, is the northwest to export a construction, with this as a specimen, the northwest can take over any railway construction in the world, as for the port, is the latter, the world's shipping tonnage is increasing, shipping industry is a quite profitable industry, with shipping is inseparable from the port, more and more countries began to pay attention, some areas that have no development potential, because of a port and development, and a natural deep-water port, will even make a barren land, into a fertile soil for investment. If we can learn from Germany the ability to build ports, not only the whole of China, but also the huge coastline can build a large number of ports, and the northwest can even organize the export of labor services, and expand the engineering processing capacity of the northwest to the whole world.

Because they all understand this, the high-level leaders of the entire Northwest have gathered together to study together, how to negotiate with Germany, the port is different from the railway, it has the right to belong, if the Northwest is just a construction party, just to solve the problem and build a port, and finally to hand it over to Germany, Germany may not even think about it will agree, this is equivalent to making a wedding dress for others in vain, the Baghdad Railway is like this, that is impossible for the Northwest to control, but the port will be like this, this is what the Northwest does not want to see.

For most of the shareholders, the Baghdad Railway was forcibly promoted by Yang Yuanzhao, and it was necessary to use money to open the way to solve the problem in a short period of time, but after a long time, when the investment geometry rose, most of the shareholders who did not understand the important role of the Baghdad Railway would give up the contract to a limited extent, and it was also acceptable to give up the construction of the Baghdad Railway.

It should be possible to convince Germany, many shareholders have discussed for a long time, and finally formed a unified opinion, Germany must make certain concessions, sovereignty or something, of course not, capital can also pay some, just take part of the funds of the Baghdad railway to offset, which is now Germany, it should be acceptable, and some agreements can be signed, such as concessions on tolls and tolls. It seems to be a lot, but there is not much to sell, the toll fee is not the focus of Yang Yuanzhao's attention, the passage quota, under the premise of fully supporting Germany, this quota must be given, and it may even be the full amount.

After discussing for a whole day, Yang Yuanzhao even used the telegraph secret language to discuss with Harpy, who was far away in Germany, and extravagantly used the telegraph as a conference call to share his understanding of Germany, weigh some key points, and finally, put a letter of intent in front of Bordo and Mumo.

Bordeaux and Mulmer are very different, they have more or less heard about the Middle East, especially Bordo, he is one of the promoters of this plan, after the plan was promoted, he was left in China, responsible for coordinating the German order in the northwest, and they are very concerned about the Middle East issue.

Now the Northwest has put forward such a solution, within the scope of Germany's influence, to find a place, to build a port, this seems to be a good solution, at least it seems so, the conditions put forward by the Northwest, the attitude is quite low, in addition to taking advantage of a little Germany, the rest is to help solve the problem.

As for the territorial question, whether it is domestic or overseas, no one has the ability to govern, after Mulmer repeatedly established that there is no problem, such a solution to the current situation of the Baghdad railway through guò diplomacy, in the case of Murmer and Bordo, handed to the German government, since Basra Germany has little control ability, then open another channel, in the Middle East, another port is good, maybe a Qiē will suddenly become clear.

The issue of the Baghdad railway, after the prime minister expounded from an economic point of view and the General Staff Headquarters from a military point of view, the top level of Germany has basically formed a unified consensus, that is, it is necessary to implement the Baghdad railway plan, this important railway plan, almost immediately, on the desk of the German emperor, Germany from the actions of Britain, France and Russia, Germany has found something, maybe war is already unavoidable, so from 1911 to 1914, in order to prepare for the big war, Germany began a considerable expansion of the army, and the total military expenditure increased from 220 million US dollars to 430 million US dollars in two years, almost doubled, while France in the same period, but only increased by about one-third, and by 1914 it did not exceed 200 million US dollars.

Later, before the First World War, Germany may not have paid special attention to the Baghdad Railway, which is also the fundamental reason why the Baghdad Railway did not make much progress until the outbreak of the war in 1914, but this time, there is Yang Yuanzhao's plan, especially some analysis, through the relationship between Guò Bordo, and unexpectedly went up to Little Moltke, Little Moltke's strategic vision is there, and he quickly saw opportunities and changes from this, and directly found the German Emperor.

Since the heavens have listened, coupled with the reasonable, and even the guò is still on paper, a series of advantages and advantages have been analyzed, plus such a butterfly in the northwest, which may be the largest industrial production partner that Germany can find in addition to the United States, the importance of the Baghdad railway has begun to rise to a strategic height, therefore, Germany attaches great importance to the transportation of personnel and materials in the northwest, Germany has drawn a lot of strength, 400,000 tons of transportation, the northwest will give freight, However, the impact will definitely not be small, which will affect many German shipping companies.

The British made small moves, they were also very concerned, in the face of provocations, they actually directly created zào friction, it was to take advantage of the fire to strike, seeing that Russia suffered huge losses, and was dragged in the Far East by the Northwest Army, and did not dare to fight on two fronts, but it was also at a certain risk, in case there was really an uncontrollable result, and it really started, Germany was not fully prepared.

The British retreated, but they didn't retreat, they didn't choose the hard way, but they chose the means of not entering the stream, such a means, it looks simple, but it is difficult to crack, when they were about to see what to do in the northwest, the northwest actually kicked the ball to this side, they came up with a solution, the plan is very simple, since the port of Basra is inconvenient, and the control is also low, then look for a place in the Middle East and build another port. (To be continued) R580