723 God's gift
Algeria happens to be a French colony, and Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia in North Africa are all French North African colonies. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The French had also drilled oil wells in Algeria, and their geologists believed that there might be a lot of oil in the area.
But unfortunately it was never very successful.
As early as 1892, the French drilled the first shallow well here, discovering a small amount of heavy oil, and in the following 20 years, 12 more shallow wells were drilled in the basin, and a 2-3 meter Miocene oil-bearing sand layer was discovered. One of the shallow wells blew itself, producing 15 tons of crude oil per day, and the cumulative oil production until now is only 15,000 tons, equivalent to more than 1 million barrels.
This amount of production is too much for the French to be interested in, and very few oil merchants have invested in the area, and the national oil company formed by the French has little hope for it.
But Yang Chao knows that the location of their drilling is wrong, and the drilling technology needs to be improved, and the oil resources here are still very exciting.
So he told Dala first that the other party was very happy to transfer the oil exploitation rights in Algeria to Yangzi Petroleum Company at a high price, but for the sake of safety, they asked the French Petroleum Company to retain 30% of the proportion, and the oil wells developed by Yangzi Petroleum Company could be 30% owned by the French Petroleum Company.
The French matter is solved, and the Italian problem is more troublesome.
Libya is now an Italian colony, with the current relationship between China and Italy, Mussolini will never let Yangzi Oil Company go to Libya to extract oil, after all, on the issue of Ethiopia, China has always opposed Italy's occupation here, and the emperor of Ethiopia is now in exile in China, and it is just a fantasy to expect Mussolini to agree to Yangzi Oil Company to extract oil in Ethiopia.
Therefore, Yang Chao only sent the manager of Yangzi Bank in Paris to Rome to apply to the Italian government for authorization to extract oil in Libya, but the Italians refused, but they were very interested in the Libyan oil fields and hoped to buy the Libyan oil field distribution map from Yangzi Oil Company at a high price.
$100 million, Mussolini was quite painful, more than he gave to the Spaniards, but for this strategic resource, he was determined to get, and he couldn't afford to wait, and it was impossible for him to send someone to find it slowly.
But Mussolini cleverly said they would only be willing to pay the money until they had found the oil field and proved that the information was in order.
The manager of Yangzi Bank told Mussolini that Yangzi Bank was a big business, and there was no need to bargain on this kind of thing, so he directly gave Mussolini the distribution map, and only received a deposit of 5 million US dollars and a paper agreement.
Libya is rich in oil resources, and the oil fields are geographically located, the resources are relatively concentrated, and they are relatively close to the coast, so they can be easily exported.
In later generations, it could reach a daily output of 1.6 million barrels, and Mussolinin's efforts to mine hundreds of millions of barrels a year were unrealistic, but it was still easy to mine tens of millions of barrels.
Yang Chao left France on the third day, and now that he had done what he had to do, it was time to return to China.
The daughter was overjoyed and overjoyed on the airship.
Yang Chao pointed to the ground and kept explaining one country to another.
From geography to history to culture, compatibility is combined.
There is only one purpose: "You see, the world is very big, and only by accepting it with an open mind can we be accepted by it." ”
Yang Chao wants to use the richness of the world to arouse his daughter's enthusiasm for the world.
But apparently she is like an arrow, and has no intention of enjoying the scenery.
It is not possible to fly directly from France to China, but it is still possible to get from Paris to Moscow, and after refueling here, it is only after flying back to China.
didn't go to the Baikal Palace, Yang Chao didn't want to go back there for a short time, and he wouldn't consider going back until his daughter forgot about it.
I didn't even dare to live in the big stone house, because it was also deep and not a good place.
Therefore, Yang Chao chose the lively Qingdao and stayed at the Prince William Hotel.
There are many place names named after Prince William in Qingdao, including Prince William Street, Prince William Hotel, Prince William School, etc.
Let people take their daughters and wives to visit Qingdao, Yang Chao has his own conspiracy.
soon called Zhang Zuolin, and then told him about his actions in Europe.
First, let Zhang Zuolin expand the arms smuggling channels from France as soon as possible, and he did not dare to open up this road before, because money laundering is the biggest goal, and laundering money to the Spaniards is equivalent to supporting them, but now it is not possible, and the situation in the Spanish Republic is not optimistic.
Although with the support of Yang Chao, their situation is better than in history, but Germany and Italy also interfered in Spain more deeply than in history, and Soviet Russia, as in history, immediately cried out after seeing that the price was too high, and they did not want to involve the great Soviet Russia because of Spain.
In Stalin's eyes, the workers and workers' organizations of all other countries of the world should give everything for the great cause of Soviet Russia. Therefore, let the Spaniards sacrifice first, and when the great cause of Soviet Russia is completed, they will definitely come to liberate the Spaniards.
As a result, the rebels won the Northern Campaign last year, capturing the Basque capital of Bilbao, and then the Russians withdrew their military advisers.
The Spanish Republic was hit hard by this and moved its capital from Valencia to Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, in response to the rebel Catalan offensive.
In the original history, the Spanish Civil War had ended, 250,000 Spanish People's Army entered France through the border, was disarmed by the French, and a few months later France declared war on Germany, these people immediately turned into anti-fascist fighters, and participated in all the subsequent battles in France, until France surrendered, they fled to England with the British, and became freedom fighters under the command of Charles de Gaulle to resolutely resist Germany.
On the contrary, it was the French themselves who surrendered.
Of course, this is a later story, it is France's behavior, which is even more despicable, not only did they not help the Spanish government, which was also the Popular Front, but together with Britain, they constantly manipulated the League of Nations to put pressure on the Spanish government, demanding that Spain disband the international column, after the end of the Northern Campaign, the Spanish government was under pressure, and at the same time hoped that the League of Nations could persuade Germany and Italy to stop interfering, so they disbanded the international column.
But the Spanish government kept an eye on it, and they disbanded the international column, but did not let these people leave Spain, but gave them Spanish citizenship and let them join the Spanish government army.
This is really shameful, Italy 37 years, Mussolini announced his withdrawal from the League of Nations, Germany earlier, Adolf announced his withdrawal from the League of Nations, but Spain is a member of the League of Nations, the League of Nations not only does not protect its allies, but on the contrary, it has been suppressing him, allowing two non-member countries to bully member states, which kind of alliance is this.
With the British and French as they are, it is no wonder that they will lose everything, because they have long lost their responsibilities.
Britain and France did not take responsibility, but Yang Chao had to take responsibility for them, because he really played a big game of chess in Spain.
Zhang Zuolin's actions were still so fast, his people quickly contacted some French arms companies, and this time it was the Chinese who went directly to cover up, and did not use White Russia to cover people's eyes, because this matter does not need to cover people's eyes, Yang Chao is not afraid that others will know that he supports the Spanish Republic, because the Nazis will be marked as a pillar of shame in the future, and he stands on the opposite side of the Nazis, that is, righteous.
In addition, it is safer to use Chinese, because Yang Chao has already found Dala for the first time, and since Dala has released people once, he will not arrest them again, otherwise it will be too boring.
And don't think that the French are so fond of catching people, before Yang Chao told Daladier that the French engage in racial discrimination, this is not his nonsense, but the truth.
The French border is indeed blocked, but it is people who block the border, and there are loopholes in people, so many smugglers of arms are not caught, but a few Chinese who sell food and clothing are arrested, isn't it just to show France's adherence to neutrality, isn't it just for show, but the show is done by Chinese, and the French chicken boy is really picking the wrong target.
After Yang Chao intervened, he said that Yang Chao was concerned about this matter, met with Daladier, solved the matter, Daladier would no longer make small moves, and if he wanted to do it, he would probably find trouble with the Jews, not with the Chinese, otherwise it would be a direct declaration of war with Yang Chao, needless to say, Yang Chao would definitely launch a boycott of France.
Therefore, at this time, let the Chinese participate in smuggling, not only can you make a sum of money, but basically will not be caught.
After all, anyone who can do smuggling business is not a good bird, and if you don't get tired of the border guards, you won't believe in ghosts.
I only hope that the Spaniards will hold out for half a year, and in half a year, the Nazis will attack Poland, and then they will not be the only ones fighting the war, and after France declares war on the Nazis, they will definitely not tolerate the Spanish government being eliminated by Franco, and the British will definitely not be at ease in handing over Spain to Franco's Falangist organization.
Then with the support of Britain and France, the Spanish government will definitely be able to defeat Franco, followed by a large-scale purge, and when the Nazis defeat the French and go to England every day to drop bombs, the Spaniards will be unlucky again, Franco will come back again, and then launch a counter-purge.
In the original World War II, Franco cleverly remained neutral, so that Spain escaped, but this time they could not avoid it, after the Nazi army helped Franco come to power, the iron hoof will definitely not stop, and then it is to capture or surrender pro-British Portugal, occupy the Strait of Gibraltar, and lock the British access to the Mediterranean.
The Mediterranean became an inland lake for the Nazis, and then they expanded in Africa, using Africa's resources to launch more ambitious military operations, such as the Soviet-German war.
In short, allowing the fascist bloc to obtain a safe passage to Africa, and at the same time blocking Britain's access to the Mediterranean, will make this last great war of mankind even more unprecedented in scale, and make the flowers of war more vivid than in history, which are all stained with the blood of Europeans, and the bloodshed will weaken their hard power and make their civilization decline.
With the oil information given by the Yangzi Bank, Mussolini was very efficient, and within a month he sent a team of experts to the vicinity of the Jialu Oasis indicated by the data, which is the location of the Amal oil field in later generations, with oil reserves of more than 500 million tons and an annual output of 3.5 million tons, a barrel of 7.3 barrels, equivalent to more than 25 million barrels, enough for the fascist forces to use for a while.
With this oil field, the Nazis would have preferred to blockade Britain through the Spanish peninsula, take complete control of the Mediterranean passage, and then engage Britain in a more protracted war on the vast African continent, and even the occupation of Egypt is not out of the question.
When the Nazis invaded Egypt and threatened the Middle East and India, the British Empire would not care about selling bases such as Singapore to China.
Mussolini's team, brought in from Romania and had a lot of experience, quickly drilled the first well, and quickly estimated the production of the field, which was in the billions of barrels.
Mussolini was overjoyed by this news, and the scarcity of oil resources has always been a major constraint for the Italian army, so he couldn't help but shout that this was a gift from God to Italy.
Was this a gift from God?
This was sent by Yang Chao!
So soon Yang Chao sent someone to the door to ask for the account. (To be continued.) )