China needs to reach an agreement with the Ottoman Empire first, and China cannot and cannot take the benefits of oil alone. The Ottoman Empire, as the host, had to enjoy a portion of the benefits, and the proportion must not be small. It is also necessary to allocate a part of the benefits to the countries of Western Europe, especially Britain and France, the two robber countries, which is the guarantee for maintaining world peace and creating a 'harmonious society'. Otherwise, the Europeans will flip the table!

The great benefits would certainly make the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Kingdom stronger, and the biggest problem of these two countries at the moment is not the internal independence and the Gömmin, but the financial crisis of their countries. There is no money in the treasury, and even the power and rule cannot be operated, and they are still talking about the ghost cooking Ge Ming. No matter how much the country cooks, it will be doomed in this situation. So giving them money is the first priority.

When they are strong, they can share more pressure for China...... anyway, Liu Xian is not worried that the heavenly world will merge with Western powers such as Britain and France. Monotheism and the Green Cult can't pee in the same pot at all. Not to mention that Britain and France were encroaching on Ottoman interests in the south and the Mediterranean, while Austria-Hungary was encroaching on the Ottoman foundations in the Balkans.

Wasn't the historical Ottoman Empire on the side of the Allies without hesitation during World War I because the British were too deceitful and had a deep enmity with Russia and their blood enmity?

Now that Russia has fallen, Austria-Hungary is still there, and the contradictions between the Ottomans and the Europeans have not weakened much. And they also have China as a big backer. It's hard to imagine that the Ottomans would have merged with Britain and France!

The same is true of the Kingdom of Persia. Having hit the greedy polar bear of Tsarist Russia, China's reputation in the heavenly world is not ordinarily good. The previous filth caused by Liu Xian's expedition to Agubai and the sweep of Xinjiang was swept away. Even when the Wehrmacht went south to the South Seas and cleared many sultanates and chieftains such as Malaya and Sumatra, the many dissent generated in the heavenly world were cleared away, and the slightest murmur could no longer be heard.

The huge oil interests will only lure Europeans to covet the Middle East even more greedily. Both the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Persia faced great crises of opportunity and danger. In this great crisis, the only external force they can rely on is China!

"Your Majesty. Is there oil in the Middle East? Everyone in the East Pavilion was shocked. They had never heard of oil in the Middle East, so why did the emperor say it so firmly?

"Of course there is oil in the Middle East." The old god Liu Xian is here. As for why, they opened their mouths and sprayed geology and biology, and they also climbed into the evolution of land and sea and environmental variation. But these nonsense words, everyone in the East Pavilion, including Liu Xian himself, couldn't understand it, and the cabinet ministers and Li Hongzhang looked at his Emperor His Majesty with admiration. It's not easy to really TM, at such an old age, you can still keep pace with the times to learn geology and biology. But then Liu Sian lifted ancient Egypt, ancient Babylon, India, China and other ancient civilizations to collect natural asphalt for construction, embalming, bonding, decoration, medicine, and the ancient Egyptians could even estimate the amount of oil seeping out of the oil seedlings. Archaeological cuneiform also contains records of the collection of natural oil along the coast of the Dead Sea. "It bonded the high walls of Jericho and Babylon, and Noah's Ark and Moses' baskets were probably waterproofed with asphalt joints, as was customary at the time."

In the 5th century A.D., oil wells dug by hand appeared near Susa, the capital of the Persian Empire. The first use of oil for warfare was also in the Middle East. Homer's famous book The Iliad describes that "the Trojans kept throwing fire on the clipper, and the ship suddenly rose into flames that could not be extinguished", most likely oil. When the Persian king Cyrus was preparing to seize Babylon. He was reminded of the possibility of street fighting among the Babylonians. Cyrus said that it could be attacked with fire. "We have a lot of asphalt and crumbs that can quickly direct the fire around, and those on the roof will either leave quickly or be consumed by the fire." These are all examples.

And that famous Roman fire!

These are real-life examples of oil in the Middle East.

Of course, Liu Xian is also prepared to find an oil field in a year or two. Besides, today's drilling equipment is far from comparable to that of a hundred years from now. Didn't the little Japan of the original time and space not find oil in the Tohoku period! Although this is because the little devil believed in the marine oil theory at that time, and according to this theory, the later Daqing and Songliao and other places were excluded in the exploration process, but the backward technology of the little devil is also a major reason. But the little devils in the 30s of the 20th century are backward in drilling technology. It won't lag behind the current era, right?

In the time and space before Liu Siam, oil was not first discovered in the Middle East until 1908. In that year, the Suleiman oil field in Muscat was discovered in Iran, becoming the first oil producer in the Middle East. In 1927, oil was produced from the Kirkuk oil field in Iraq, which was the first major oil field discovered in the Middle East. In the 30s, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Gulf countries discovered oil one after another. The treasure trove of oil, the title of the world's oil valve, has officially been called in the whole world.

Therefore, the risk of losing money in the early stage is still very large. Liu Xian is ready for more drilling experts and a more capable drilling team. Nor can it be avoided. But he undoubtedly persuaded everyone in the East Pavilion.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs quickly responded to the Kingdom of Persia and the Ottoman Empire. Just when Liu Xian was holding his grandson for the New Year, news came from the Middle East that the Ottoman Empire had 'transferred' the Sabah family of Kuwait to the Yemen region. Root. Sabah was weeping at this time, with his clansmen and the armed forces loyal to the Sabah family. Rush to Yemen. The Emirate of Kuwait was directly incorporated by the Ottoman Empire into the Sultanate.

Yemen is also one of the cradles of ancient civilizations in the Celestial World. It has a written history of more than 3,000 years. From the 14th century to 525 CE, the Yemeni region established three dynasties, Main, Saba and Hermiyar.

It became part of the Arab Empire in the 7th century.

The Portuguese invaded in the early 16th century, and in 1789 the British occupied the Yemeni island of Perin, and in 1839 they occupied Aden. From 1863 to 1882, the British successively annexed more than 30 chieftaindoms including Hadaramau to form the "Aden Protectorate", dividing most of the territory in southern Yemen. And in September of that year, he established a colony here. Britain has also established a buffer zone around Aden in the form of a loose alliance.

The Al-Sabahs have a lot of influence at the end of the Persian Gulf, but in chaotic Yemen, the Sabah family is nothing but the crowd. At least they are not beyond the Yemeni royal family. Even this royal family is left with an empty title.

In the first month of the following year, in 1898 and in the 22nd year of the new Qin, China and the Ottoman Empire, and China and the Kingdom of Persia, submitted loan agreements successively. Kuwait at the end of the Persian Gulf, an emirate cleared by the Ottoman Sultan with the brute force of 50,000 new troops, became China's first leased territory in the Middle East.

A large number of Chinese-flagged ships, laden with goods and employees, sailed towards the Persian Gulf under the escort of the Chinese fleet.

At the same time, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Persia also recruited oil drillers from all over the world. It is clear that both countries have a lot of trust in China's 'opinion'. Besides, all these costs are entirely paid for by China. As long as they don't do the wrongs, all the costs will be paid by China!

China's interaction with the Celestial World immediately caused an uproar throughout the world.

Too sudden, too secretive. Britain and France and other Western powers had deep connections in the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Persia, and they did not even hear any news beforehand. It is conceivable that both of these transactions were definitely carried out by the most loyal descendants of the two monarchs. Only in this way can no news be spread at all. Ironically, the group in Whitehall is still surprised by the changes in the Sabah family and the Emirate of Kuwait, which turned out to be purely to make room for the Chinese.

It's really a slap in the face!

This is also the first time that China has intervened in foreign affairs since the end of the North American War, and it can be said that it is the first time to intervene in international affairs with a new image.

"Why did China choose Kuwait?" -- The Times

"The impact of the Middle East on the world!" -- The Washington Post

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China has proven its influence. One move, directly attracted the attention of the world. In the limelight, the boiling rumors that Dalian had previously hyped up that 'there is oil in the Middle East' have been suppressed.

It can only be said that in the last war, China left too deep an impression on the Western world.

The whole Western world is watching closely what China is doing, the Chinese have come to the Middle East, to the midpoint of the old world, will they 'return to Africa'? It's all a matter of strategy.

Just two days later, the EDO sent a telegram back to Beijing. The Germans have made a formal inquiry to the European Office - is China going to return to Africa?

After Liu asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to contact the Ottomans and Persia, and after the three countries exchanged views, the Chinese Foreign Ministry held a press conference declaring that China only believed that there were rich oil reserves buried under the soil of the Middle East, and that it had never had any interest in Africa in a legitimate sense.

As for whether foreigners believe it or not, China believes it anyway.

China's political status and power no longer need to answer questions about Europe. Everything depends on oil exploration in the Middle East. As long as you can drill a big oil well and find a super big oil field, everything will be solved. Then China can use a lot of development rights to reap the interests of Britain, France and other Western European powers.

Naturally, the 'rumors' that "there is oil in the Middle East" are once again on the rise. This 'rumor' is not even a rumor anymore, because it is endorsed by the superpower of China, and by the personal name of the Chinese emperor. What the Western world has set off is no longer ridiculing and attacking the absurdity of rumors, but really discussing whether there will be super oil fields in this part of the Middle East, and how likely is it that all the blood investment of Chinese will be lost? How likely is it to make a lot of money? (To be continued......)