Chapter 549: German-Russian Friction

Basra, Iraq's largest port city, may be transformed into a sprawling seaport in a few decades, with oil ships plying every day, but for now, it's just an ordinary port.

Unlike the ports along the Suez Canal, just relying on the huge cargo ship flow brought by the Suez Canal is enough to make them completely full, here, on the other side, even less than Iran, after all, Iran has discovered oil, and only a small number of Arab products and some mineral products are exported.

But since a few months ago, this qiē has changed, because the construction of the Baghdad railway, the arrival of 150,000 Chinese construction workers, completely made the vast and sparsely populated Middle East, suddenly concentrated too many people, more and more Chinese, and constantly transported materials, making this small seaport busy.

A large number of materials and people come here every day, and in the harsh environment of the Middle East, I am afraid that even water must be transported on some way, otherwise, in the desert, people will die.

Germany's big move directly aroused the attention of the great powers, and when a large number of Chinese workers arrived in Iraq, Britain found out that Germany was actually playing for real.

Originally, the Baghdad Railway, which had always been obstructed, blocked the plans of German forces to enter the Middle East and even the Indian Ocean, and the Baghdad Railway was obtained from 1903 to 1912, that is, when Germany paid a lot of benefits.