If it were in East Asia or Europe, the hundreds of thousands of troops would not even be able to stir up a wave, but in the yellow sand everywhere and the sparsely populated people (before the discovery of oil, relying on that oasis really could not support many people, and the population around Basra was larger. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info), which is already a military force to be reckoned with. If it weren't for the permission of the country, the Ma family would have been able to dominate the Persian Gulf long ago. Of course, the Ma family is so obedient, not because they will have any loyalty to the new government that drove them out of their homeland, but because they know how powerful China is today, and more importantly, neither the British Empire nor the Ottoman Turkish Empire can support them, because it is more convenient to use locals, and only the Chinese Republic, which had no foundation here, can use them as outsiders who have some connection with themselves.

The news of the outbreak of the revolution in the Ottoman Turkish Empire made Ma Lin see the opportunity to take advantage of the fire, but he did not have the slightest confidence in whether the country would agree to take a piece of the pie, because although the current Huaxia Republic is much stronger than before the Three Kingdoms War, he does not know if it has expanded too quickly, and it is more low-key to the outside world, frequently advocating "resolving disputes by non-military means". But what Ma Lin didn't expect was that the telegram sent back from China was short and short, but the content was exciting......

Although it is not allowed to expand its territory too much in China (first, it does not want to overstimulate the British, and second, it prevents Ma Jiajun from becoming disobedient after his power is too strong. But just sending troops to occupy the southern shore of the Persian Gulf (in fact, the entire Persian Gulf region except Iran) and openly establishing a state was enough to make Ma Jiajun extremely excited. If this is the case, the foundation of the Ma family will really take root in this foreign land, and its independence will be greatly strengthened, so that it will not be ridiculed as the "China Middle East Security Company" as often as before......

After being allowed to recruit troops on a large scale, Ma Lin completely let go of his hands and feet, and it didn't take long to recruit 100,000 troops from the Chinese immigrants in the three places, but Kemal was completely unprepared for this, plus every time Turkey "recovered" a claimed territory, a part of the army was bound, and when it reached the vicinity of Basra, the troops were already only tens of thousands, and they were very tired, and they were defeated by Ma Lin's 80,000 troops who were waiting for work, and more than 20,000 people were captured prisoners alone, and the whole world was shocked after the news reached Europe.

Old Chamberlain was even more happy and worried, happy that this army currently has the same enemy as himself, which will help Britain for the time being, and worrying about the fact that the Chinese Republic, which has always been low-key and introverted, and even the Three Kingdoms War was a self-defense counterattack, has changed its usual approach. Will they begin a complete change in foreign policy as a result? What impact did this have on the British Empire and the Western world that dominated it? The more old Chamberlain thought about these problems, the more he thought about them, the more frightened he was.

In fact, it is not so complicated to say, the reason why Li Hui agreed with Ma Jiajun to expand the territory and build the country is that it is a pity to see the rare opportunity and let it go, and second, even if the only three small British colonies that can be immigrated have large facilities such as oil fields and ports and rapidly developing cities, the immigrant population that they can accommodate is still close to the limit, and the attitude of the British has also begun to change subtly, and it is difficult to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people who have not moved out of the country. The sudden surge in demand for oil has further increased the importance of the Persian Gulf to China.

And the most important thing is that now that the strength of the Huaxia Republic has been further enhanced, and the vitality of the West has been greatly depleted after the war against the Soviet Union has been in the third year, the Chinese government has completely ignored the attitude of the Western powers in its future actions, and even if the entire West unites to wage war against China, China has nothing to fear......

In fact, this attitude was already perceived by smart people in the West as early as this year when the Chinese government released China's economic data for 1910. In the past, China's strength was always mysterious and never announced to the public, even if it was a Chinese citizen, only important ministers such as Li Hui and Sangong Jiuqing knew accurate economic data, and even how much steel production a year was, the West could only extrapolate backwards based on the output of some finished products that it had finally investigated.

But it wasn't until the Chinese government released the economic data that the Western powers finally understood that they were completely trying to do the opposite, and that Momen was actually afraid of scaring them and causing them to react inappropriately......

Although in 1910 China could still only rank fourth in the world if the total industrial output value was calculated according to the official exchange rate, China, due to the pressure of national defense and the strategy of giving priority to the development of heavy industry, had a much higher degree of development in those industrial sectors closely related to the military field than the level of the industry as a whole, and those in the know knew what this meant......

In 1910, China not only broke through the 20 million tons mark as scheduled, but also overfulfilled the task, with an annual output of 21.85 million tons of crude steel, which was more than the total crude steel output of Britain and the colonies.

What makes the bosses of Western steel mills jealous and jealous is that China's steel industry has developed so rapidly, but it has not encountered the crisis of surplus at all, but is still worried about the lack of steel......

In 1910, the total length of railways in China reached 154872 kilometers, second only to the United States (Note 1) and second in the world, but Li Hui was not satisfied at all, and planned to make persistent efforts to further increase the total length of railways to 200,000 kilometers, so that more than a dozen provinces with particularly harsh terrain and climate could also be connected to railways.

Note 1: The United States exceeded 200,000 kilometers in 1890, and even exceeded 400,000 kilometers in 1916, which is unprecedented in human history. It can only be said that the flat, open terrain of the eastern United States is too conducive to the construction of railroads, and the capitalists are always enthusiastic about profitable projects......