In recent days, the eyes of the Parisian press, which had been a little dull because of the restrictions, have been focused on the Japanese.

One day in early September, a Japanese soldier was eating in a restaurant in Paris, and he actually touched the buttocks of the waitress, and then the waitress put the plate in her hand on the face of the waitress, and then the Paris police arrested the Japanese soldier and arrested three Japanese soldiers on suspicion of "obstructing official business".

The next day, some media revealed the identity of this Shaozuo, and the Shaozo named "Kiyomi" was actually a member of the royal family, which immediately caused an uproar in the French government and the opposition.

Look, even the Japanese imperial family is this virtue, which shows how unbearable the Japanese temperament is.

The unbearable is yet to come.

Another day, a patrol of the Foreign Legion captured three French men who had plotted against her, outside the chamberlain apartment where she had clashed with Her Highness Kiyomi.

The three French men later confessed that they had been hired to give the waitress "a little color."

Although the three French men could not prove who hired them, the point of the finger was very obvious, and the newspaper even bluntly stated that the mastermind was Genjiro Akashi, the commander of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, who was currently in Paris.

There were also voices in the media that pointed out that the incident was full of suspicions, and strongly proved that the Japanese could not have made such a low-level mistake at this sensitive moment, but they were immediately drowned out in an overwhelming amount of curses.

The French people at this moment are very sensitive, especially for the military, the French government and the opposition are fully vigilant, and any behavior of the military will be infinitely magnified.

For a while, the term "Japanese" was associated with a series of derogatory terms such as absurdity, barbarism, rudeness, frivolity, murder, and so on.

The Japanese government reacted quickly and immediately lodged a protest with the French government.

In order to preserve the alliance between the Entente powers, the French government once again imposed press restrictions.

But it was too late, and in just two days, the overwhelming news bombardment had already caused this matter to be known to everyone in France, and the French government's press control had become an attempt to cover up, which in turn made more people who did not pay attention to this matter before.

The Times made a front-page headline suggesting that the British government immediately terminate its cooperation with the Japanese, and drive back to their own countries those Japanese troops who could not fight and only harassed women, so as not to drag down the reputation of Her Majesty the Queen, who had always been "magnificent", to be dragged down by the "Emperor Majesty" who was said to be no taller than the Queen.

The British government will also regulate the press.

But again, it's too late.

What a terrible form of freedom of the press......

At the same time that the lace news about the Japanese royal family continued to ferment, there was also a rumor circulating in Parisian high society.

It is said that oil fields have been discovered in the Sahara Desert in Algeria, and if you want to make a lot of money, you should quickly go to the Black Swan Castle to find the new commander-in-chief of the Foreign Legion, Qin, and wait for the ......

All those who knew the news flocked to the Bois de Boulogne, but it was too late, Qin Zhiyuan had already left Paris, if you wanted to find Qin Zhiyuan, please go to Algeria.

There are really people who go to Algeria to find Qin Zhiyuan, but it is difficult for them to get their wish, because now Qin Zhiyuan has enough partners, and ordinary "upper-class people" have lost their qualifications to cooperate with Qin Zhiyuan.

Oran, Qin Zhiyuan and the new Governor of Algeria, Maxim Weygand, parted ways, Qin Zhiyuan went to the headquarters of the Foreign Legion in Sidi Belle Abbas, and Maxim went to Algiers to take over as governor.

In fact, it is more appropriate for Bastian to do this position, but France was at war during this time, and Bastian was a general who had made many achievements on the battlefield, so Raymond Poincaré chose Maxim Weygand.

After all, when he was in Reims, Maxim Weigang and Qin Zhiyuan worked very happily, and Raymond wanted to promote this cooperation model to Algeria.

Replacing a governor is no easy task, but it all became a natural fit when French President Raymond Poincaré became Qin's partner.

The elder Renault was already on his way to Gabès, who had already traveled to Tunis, where he was to build a team of construction workers to begin the construction of the oil pipeline from Gabès to Niubaku.

Niu Baku is Hasimesod, after the old Renault reminded, Qin Zhiyuan realized that because Hasimesoode has not yet discovered oil, it is now an endless desert, and there is no name at all, since this is the case, the old Renault called it: Niu Baku.

The Baku oil field is currently the largest known oil field in the world, and since the oil field found in the Sahara Desert is a super-large oil field, the old Renault wants to build this place into a second Baku, the new Baku.

If the Americans can establish a new Yorkshire in the United States, it is not impossible that the French will be able to establish a new Baku in North Africa.

In another time and space, the Hasimesoud oil field exported oil through an oil pipeline in the northern port of Algeria, and now the three North African countries are all French colonies, so the oil pipeline naturally does not matter where it leads, so at Qin Zhiyuan's suggestion, the oil pipeline leads to Gabes, the closest to New Baku.

Qin Zhiyuan's suggestion is actually harboring evil intentions.

In the other world, New Baku belongs to Algeria, but Gabès belongs to Tunisia, so that when the national consciousness of Algerians and Tunisians awakens and they want to fight for independence, they will find that there is a huge difference of interests between them......

Of course, in this world, because of the huge and indispensable interests that exist, it remains to be said whether France will allow Algeria to become independent.

Well, it should be noted that the old Renault and Qin Zhiyuan have purchased the entire 200,000 square kilometers of desert around New Baku from the French government, for which the old Renault paid the French government nearly 20 million francs, about 100 francs per square kilometer......

It's really that cheap, in fact, if there is no oil there, I'm afraid it's not even worth a raw carin, because now it's a no-man's land and no taxes are generated.

Even if the French government knew that there might be oil under this land, the French government would not have probed it.

Don't think that the French are stupid, they are not stupid at all, the cost of detecting oil, even if the state bears it, will feel painful, the French government instead of going to the haystack to find a needle, it is better not to spend a penny and only collect taxes in the later stage, which is more cost-effective for the French government.

For Qin Zhiyuan, the cost of exploration is not a problem, because there is a relatively precise geographical location, as long as you find a place to drill down, there will not be much additional cost, and perhaps New Baku will become the world's lowest-cost oil field.

At present, the entire Baku region nominally belongs to an oil company called "United Oil". The big bosses of this company are Qin Zhiyuan and Lao Renault, and the two of them together occupy more than seventy percent of the shares, and the remaining thirty percent of the shares belong to dozens of large and small shareholders.

These shareholders included Raymond Poincaré, the president of France at the time, and the rest were all current French powerful figures, or wealthy people with extraordinary economic power, who owned a part of the company's shares.

Of course, these shares are all paid, but some people pay more, and some pay less. Because of the different investment times, these transactions can also withstand the inspection of the Economic Committee, and although the price factor is eye-catching, the procedure is legal and there are no procedural loopholes.

Of course, these shares are non-transferable, and if they are to be transferred, they must be transferred to Qin Zhiyuan and Renault first, and when Qin Zhiyuan and Renault do not want to buy, shareholders can sell their shares to outsiders.

The chairman of the board of directors of the United Oil Company is naturally Qin Zhiyuan, and the executive director is the old Renault, and the entire board of directors is composed of six people, except for Qin Zhiyuan and the old Renault, the other four people are all representatives elected by the shareholders, and any of them have no more than five percent of the shares, Qin Zhiyuan and the old Renault completely control the operation of the United Oil Company, and the other shareholders only have the right to dividends, and have no right to interfere in the operation.

After separating from the elder Renault and Maxim, Qin Zhiyuan led a corps of officers to Sidi Belle Abbas in a car that arrived at Port Oran by steamer.

This officer corps was Qin Zhiyuan's guard, as well as reserve officers, who would later remain in Sidi Bel Abbas to train the soldiers recruited here.

Colonel Jean Marco of the headquarters of the Sidi Belle Abbas Foreign Legion went to Port Oran to greet Qin Zhiyuan, and on the car to the headquarters of the Foreign Legion, Colonel Marco introduced the situation of Sidi Belle Abbas to Qin Zhiyuan, and it was only at this time that Qin Zhiyuan had a general understanding of the Foreign Legion.

After the outbreak of the World War, the Foreign Legion consisted of three Algerian infantry regiments, as well as an infantry regiment composed of Algerians and Tunisians, which were the main force of the Foreign Legion.

In the battle sequence of the French army, the Foreign Legion has always been known for its courage and courage in battle. Most of the soldiers of these Foreign Legions were originally from Algerian origins, not Europeans who had moved to Algeria.

If you think about it, you can understand that the reason why Europeans moved to Algeria was originally to escape the war and did not want to join the strife on the European continent, so they were naturally unwilling to rejoin the army and shed blood for France across the Mediterranean.

And during the spring offensive in April, the soldiers of the Foreign Legion were in the month of Ramadan, and they did not eat all day, so naturally they did not have much combat effectiveness.

It was only at this time that Qin Zhiyuan knew that the vast majority of the original Foreign Legion were white, with only a small number of blacks, and these blacks were not recruited from the three countries of North Africa, but from West Africa and Equatorial Africa.

The blacks and the natives of the three North African countries were very discordant with each other because of differences in tradition, religion, etc., which greatly affected the combat effectiveness of the Foreign Legion. Since the occupation of Algeria, France has pursued a policy of assimilation towards Algeria in an attempt to turn Algeria into the French of Africa, but this policy has had little effect because of the strong resistance of the local population.

After Qin Zhiyuan learned about these situations, he immediately had his own new views on Algeria.

(To be continued.) )