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Compared with the British, who have been abandoned by the people of the Middle East, although Lan Fang has a bad reputation in the Middle East, there is no shortage of allies.

The relationship between Lanfang and France was originally good, during the Syrian-Iraq War, the Rashid family in Saudi Arabia successfully got in touch with Lanfang, thus defeating the Aziz family in one fell swoop and becoming the master of Saudi Arabia, and the relationship between Lanfang and Saudi Arabia is also in the honeymoon period.

As for Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates -

I'm sorry, but now there is no shadow in these countries.

When Gu Weijun came to Cairo, the most important task was to negotiate with Yemen.

Yemen is a wonderful country, with more than 3,000 years of written history and one of the ancient cradles of Persian civilization.

It sounds great, but Yemen does not have the power of a country comparable to history, in 1918, the world war was coming to an end, the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Yemen took the opportunity to become independent, and the full name of the country is now the Kingdom of Mutawakilia of Yemen.

Lan Fang established the Western Province in the Middle East, the British blockaded the Gulf of Aden, and Chen Kangjian landed in Yemen.

In the face of Chen Kangjian's army of tigers and wolves, the kingdom of Mutawakiliya has not the slightest ability to resist, and so far, the entire southern part of Yemen, from the port of Mukala to the island of Pilin in the Red Sea, this vast area has been occupied by Lan Fang.

What Gu Weijun wants to negotiate with the Yemeni government is the ownership of this vast area.

In fact, objectively speaking, this large and vast area occupied by Lan Fang, except for the land on both sides of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait that is of some use to Lan Fang, the other lands are basically of little value.

The geographical location of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait is very important, controlling the Bab el-Mandeb Strait is equivalent to controlling the Red Sea shipping lane, and with Djibouti on the other side of the Red Sea, Lanfang can break the British blockade of the Red Sea, which is very important to Lanfang, so Gu Weijun's bottom line is that Lanfang wants to control the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

Relatively speaking, the port of Mukala is not worthless, after all, Chen Kangjian built a huge airport in the port of Mukara, and after a few months of hard work, the port facilities of the port of Mukala are gradually complete, so Chen Kangjian is really a little unwilling to give it to the Yemenis.

For Muhammad Badr, the king of the kingdom of Mutawakiliya, he was even more unwilling.

Bai Der knew that Yemen's national strength was weak, so he didn't dare to get involved in the confrontation between Lan Fang and the United Kingdom, Chen Kangjian's invasion of Yemen, which was tantamount to a fire at the city gate and the pond fish, Bai Der didn't recruit anyone to provoke anyone, so he lost a large piece of land out of thin air, and the grievances in Bai Deer's heart really have nowhere to sue.

Gu Weijun's mood is very good, when he was in the Republic of China before, Gu Weijun, as a diplomat, can be said to have suffered a lot of grievances, "a weak country has no diplomacy" This sentence is not just talking, the country is poor and weak, so it really has no right to speak in international affairs, just like Yemen now, even if he is treated unfairly, he can only knock out his teeth and swallow tears and blood in his stomach, begging grandpa and grandma everywhere to find that illusory justice.

It wasn't until he arrived in Lanfang that Gu Weijun understood what it meant to be a "heavenly kingdom", not to mention anything else, the hateful eyes of Churchill and Charles Hughes, representatives of British and American countries, were enough to make Gu Weijun raise his eyebrows.

If you don't attract envy, it's a mediocrity, and it's the same when it comes to state relations, if you change to another country, dare to be so presumptuous in front of Britain and the United States, these old imperialists have already been beaten in the face, who has the kung fu to hate you?

can only know that the other party is hateful, but there is nothing to do with the other party, so he will choose to use the "eye killing" method of coping without hurting the muscles and bones.

Gu Weijun enjoyed this feeling very much.

It was only when facing Churchill and Charles Hughes that Gu Weijun could find the hatred in their eyes, and when he turned his head to face Saudi Arabia's Faris Rashid and Yemen's Wahid Badr, Gu Weijun could only see flattery and fear in their eyes.

This feeling made Gu Weijun even more satisfied.

As soon as Gu Weijun arrived in Cairo, Wahid Badr of Yemen took the initiative to find Gu Weijun.

In the face of the peace sued by the Mutawakiliya Kingdom, Gu Weijun brazenly put forward territorial claims to Yemen, including a vast area between the southern Yemeni city of Taiz and the port of Mukarla, covering an area of about 100,000 square kilometers.

This is basically the current Lanfang control area.

Vahid Baider will definitely not agree to this request, you must know that the entire territory of Yemen is only more than 500,000 square kilometers, Gu Weijun's opening is equivalent to cutting off one-fifth of Yemen's territory, if Wahid Baider agrees to this request, then Vahid Baider does not have to go back to Yemen, and it is more simple to wipe his neck in Cairo.

Gu Weijun is not worried that this condition will scare Wahid Baider to death, negotiating, asking for money on the spot, it is normal to have contacts and contacts.

Vahid Baider did not even dare to respond to Gu Weijun's request on the spot, and after contacting King Muhammad overnight, Vahid Baidel made conditions to Lan Fang under the mediation of Paul Renaud, who was still the representative of France at the time.

Yemen will not give up an inch of its territory, and all the Yemeni land currently occupied by Lanfang is illegally occupied, and Lanfang should withdraw from Yemen. In gratitude to Lan Fang for helping to "build" the port of Mukala, Yemen leased the port of Mukala and the island of Pilin to Lan Fang for a period of 99 years at a symbolic annual rent of one franc.

Gu Weijun rejected Wahid's request without thinking, on loan? No kidding, Lan Fang's bottom line is Pilin Island and Little Aden, and it is not a lease at all, but a forced cession.

What's more, the negotiations between Lanfang and Yemen, what happened to come up with a "one franc"?

Even if France wants to find a sense of existence, it is not such a way to find it.

In view of the large gap between the conditions between Lan Fang and Yemen, there was no progress in the negotiations for more than a month, and during this period, Chen Kangjian was not idle, and the dignified commander of the Western Military Region did not go to the Persian Gulf to take office, but stayed in Little Aden to command the troops to continue to attack Yemeni territory, which made the Mutawakilia Kingdom miserable.

Every day the negotiations dragged on, the land occupied by Lan Fang would expand by one point, and the kingdom of Mutawakilia became more and more passive at the negotiation table, although Vahid Baider knew this reality, but there was nothing he could do, because since Paul Renaud went to French Indochina, it was difficult for Vahid Baider to even meet Gu Weijun, and he didn't even give him a chance to bargain.

In mid-July, Wahid Bader approached the Americans, and with the mediation of Charles Hughes, negotiations between Lanfang and Yemen were reopened.

This time, Gu Weijun's conditions were even more harsh, and the land area that Lan Fang asked for was further expanded, from the original 100,000 square kilometers to 250,000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to half of Yemen's national territory.

"No, no, no, no—this is impossible, we will never agree to such a request, you have gone too far, what is the justice? Where is the justice? In the conference room of Gu Weijun's residence hotel, Wahid Baider exclaimed in surprise after listening to Gu Weijun's request.

Gu Weijun can understand Wahid Baidel's pathos, and Gu Weijun once questioned this, but as with the current result, there is no answer.

"Gu, in my opinion, it doesn't work for you to ask for these lands, these are all deserts, and the people who live on them are poor, they don't have the slightest purchasing power, and the deserts can't be cultivated, and you Lanfang will carry a heavy burden because of this, so be realistic, that is more conducive to solving the problem." Charles Hughes said from the side.

Gu Weijun and Charles Hughes are old acquaintances, Gu Weijun graduated from Columbia University in the United States, majored in international law and diplomacy during the school, obtained a doctorate, and later served as the ambassador of the Republic of China to the United States, and Charles Hughes was a justice of the United States Supreme Court at that time, so Charles Hughes and Gu Weijun are no strangers.

"Mr. Charles, in the eyes of us Chinese, the desert also has the use of the desert, and the poor cannot be poor forever, it is precisely because of the incompetence of the kingdom of Mutawakilia that Yemenis will fall into such a miserable situation, what we bring to Yemenis is not war and violence, but the hope of a prosperous life, isn't this worth encouraging?" Gu Weijun's ability to talk nonsense with his eyes open is also very strong.

Hearing Gu Weijun's words, Charles Hughes couldn't help but roll his eyes, but he couldn't find a way to respond.

Don't think that Gu Weijun said these are shameless, this is the common diplomatic rhetoric of all colonists in this era, the United States can openly annex Hawaii and occupy the Philippines, and it also relies on this set of rhetoric, so Charles Hughes can't find the right words to respond, if Charles Hughes denies Gu Weijun's words, it is tantamount to denying all colonial behaviors, including the United States.

"But we don't accept your so-called 'hope', in fact, what you have brought us is war and violence, we originally had no quarrel with the world, it is precisely because of your Lanfang's war and violence that we cannot live peacefully." Charles Hughes could not speak, but Wahid Badel could not.

That makes sense, and Vahid Badel has reason to say that.

"You can't speak for all Yemenis, and as to what we are brought, I suggest that Mr. Charles can go to Little Aden and Port Mukara to have a look, facts speak louder than words." Gu Weijun didn't look at Wahid Baidel at all when he spoke, and his attention was on Charles Hughes.

What Gu Weijun said is the truth, after Lan Fang occupied the port of Little Aden and Mukara, he immediately carried out large-scale construction in the port of Little Aden and Mukara, both of which had only one or two thousand people, and these people all found jobs on the construction site of Lan Fang, and their lives were indeed worlds apart from before.

Little Aden, this is a port in Yemen near the exit of the Red Sea, only 150 kilometers away from the mouth of the Red Sea, in terms of port conditions, Little Aden has more advantages than the port of Mukala, after Lan Fang occupied Little Aden, immediately carried out large-scale construction in Little Aden, Chen Kangjian is ready to build this place into the same military base as Djibouti, so that Little Aden and Djibouti will be horns of each other to control the Gulf of Aden.