Chapter 36 Turf Grabbing
"Mr. Yang, what did you buy this place for?" Holland was stunned and said that in his opinion, the land had no value, and although Kuwait City was an important port on the Persian Gulf coast, it was actually a seaside town by European standards.
"How can I say it, you also know that my circle of friends is full of nobles, even princes and princesses or something, and I am still only a commoner, because I am unwilling to give up my Chinese nationality, so although the British and Swedish royal families are willing, they are subject to the law and cannot give me a noble status, but in the Ottoman Empire there is not so much trouble, if I spend hundreds of thousands of pounds to buy this land, His Majesty the Emperor should be able to give me at least a Pasha title, right?" Boss Yang said with a wistful expression.
"If you want to buy somewhere else, there is absolutely no problem, but if you want to buy Kuwait, this one is very troublesome, because although it belongs to the Ottoman Empire, it is a self-governing territory, and this land is ruled by the sheikh of the Al-Sabah family, even if His Majesty the Emperor agrees to sell or even make you the governor of Kuwait, I am afraid that the Sabah family will not be able to give it up." Holland shook his head and said.
"As long as His Majesty the Emperor settles the legal formalities for my ownership of this land, I will handle the rest of the matters myself, and if the Sabah family does not give up Kuwait, then I will use a cannon to ask him to let it out." Yang Feng said with a cruel smile that his armored cruiser will be available soon, and when the time comes, drive the cruiser over, and then get thousands of mercenaries, not to mention robbing a Kuwait City, it is estimated that it is almost enough to conquer the Arabian Peninsula, of course, this premise is that his actions must be legal.
If the Ottoman emperor had given himself this place as a territory, then the land grabbing would be completely legal, and the British would have the final say in this area anyway, and they would not be embarrassed to object to the city's surname Yang.
Holland shrugged his shoulders, he found that his boss was too evil, but it was indeed very operable to talk about it, first of all, Kuwait City only joined the Ottoman Empire twenty years ago, but it was not conquered, but the Sabah family succumbed to pressure and took the initiative to surrender, which also ensured their right to rule this land, you must know that if they are conquered, it is estimated that they will only be driven to the desert to eat sand.
But Kuwait's semi-duli state means that it is a land of no real value to the Ottoman emperor, and he will be very happy to add hundreds of thousands of pounds of wealth to his treasury with such a piece of land, as for other matters concerning him, he only needs to make Yang Feng the governor of Kuwait, and if the Sabah family does not give up the place, then you Yang Feng is unlucky, anyway, the money will definitely not be returned, you will grab it if you have the ability, and if you don't have the ability, you will go back to London with the title of governor of Kuwait to cheat.
As for whether Yang Feng could grab Kuwait, looking at the mercenaries behind him who were armed to the teeth, Holland seemed to see the scene of the women of the Sabah family crying under these guys.
"I don't think it's difficult, and when I find the oil field, I'll go to Istanbul." The guy said immediately.
Boss Yang nodded with satisfaction, and then in Kuwait they paid a visit to the chief of the Sabah family, the respected Sheikh Abdullah II did not know that he had led the wolf into the house, this respected elder welcomed the distinguished guests from London with great enthusiasm, in fact, these little chiefs are not having a good time now, on the one hand, they have to carefully serve the emperor of Istanbul, on the other hand, they have to coax the British to be happy, and they have to be wary of the rebellion of their subordinates, so to speak, dancing on three eggs.
Enjoying a banquet and singing and dancing full of Bedouin style, Yang Daboss's brigade left Kuwait with satisfaction under the farewell of Abdullah II, and the huge team of nearly 1,000 people marched through the Ottoman Basra province into Persia, and then arrived at the destination of the trip under the guidance of a local guide. The cargo took two little maids and walked around the province of Khuzestan under the escort of the bodyguards.
You must know that 90% of Iran's oil in later generations will come from this province, and he has to roughly determine the location of all the oil fields he can remember, so that the oil exploration team can drill slowly, and when he returns to Masjid Suleiman after more than half a month outside, two oil wells have been drilled here, and at a glance, he knows that they are definitely high-yield wells, and the daily output of 1,000 tons is easy, which makes Holland happy to speak very neatly.
"Yang, Mr. Yang, it's a miracle, we all thought that when the drilling failed, the oil suddenly spewed out in front of us, and my whole body was poured black at that time, and I still have the smell of oil on my body." The old profiteer smelled the stinking coaxing on his body with happiness.
"Then drilling, this oil field is very big, what are these two oil wells? You'll get twenty, or even two hundred oil wells. Boss Yang said proudly that he didn't know exactly how many oil wells there would be here, and he could still attract PetroChina after more than 100 years of mining, and it was estimated that there would be hundreds of them.
The next step of successful drilling is the official development of this oil field, which is a complex set of projects, mining, transportation and a lot of things need to be solved, of course, these do not need to be supervised by the big boss himself, and how can he stay in this kind of wasteland where birds don't as Yang Feng, and hand it over to the oil workers, so he returned to Kuwait and then sailed east to China.
He has to make adequate preparations for the armed seizure of Kuwait in the future, first of all, there must be a private army of more than 3,000 people, the main body of this army must be Chinese, the officers can use ghosts, and not all overseas Chinese in the United States, those guys dare not guarantee it, so he will personally go to China to recruit at least 2,000 recruits, and at the same time recruit 500 mercenaries in the United States and Europe, and then add the security guards of Western Australia and the oil fields, you can make up more than 3,000 people, and then cooperate with an armored cruiser, That's enough to conquer Kuwait.
Abdullah II didn't have a real army in his hands, at most a few guards, they were all playing all the soldiers, and all the adult men of the tribe went into battle when they fought, riding horses, wielding Arabic scimitars or holding single-shot carbines, screaming and rushing upwards, and a dozen Makqin on the shelves could basically be killed in seconds.
The only castle is Kuwait, in front of large-caliber naval guns, this is also a scum-like storage zài, and when I go back to recruit soldiers and send them to Western Australia for training for half a year, at this time the cruiser is also completed, and Miss Seventy-Five of Bofors has also been built, plus mortars, Lifield rifles, and automatic pistols can just take Kuwait for a large-scale arms show.
It was a long voyage from Kuwait to China, and the Nautilus's cruising range was 28 knots and 6,000 kilometers, and to run down this 10,000-kilometer journey, he had to refuel at least once on the way.
The weird black trimaran cleaves the waves in the vast Indian Ocean, and in the ups and downs of the waves, Boss Yang is also up and down on his little maid, and the sister in Caiyi knows her fate from the day she was made a maid by Yang Fengshou, but this is undoubtedly the best ending in her dreams for her who grew up in poverty and wandering, to be a concubine to a master who loves her, and to follow a Chinese worker who is also poor, it is obvious that the former is the best choice.
At the end of four days of the 4,000-kilometer voyage, with the afterglow of the setting sun, the Nautilus, greeted by two cruisers of the Royal Navy, slowly sailed into Colombo, the capital of British Ceylon, and then was invited by the Governor of Ceylon to the Governor's Palace.
"Your Excellency the Governor, you also know that the sea is not very safe now, piracy is very rampant, although there is the protection of the Royal Navy, but just in case, there may be one or two armed merchant ships in the fleet of the Yang Shipping, I think you and the generals of the navy should not mind this, right?" At the dinner, Yang Feng said to His Excellency the Governor with a smile.
"Of course I don't mind, if something happens to a noble person like yours at sea, it will become a huge loss for the whole world, and some necessary protection must be indispensable." Governor Havelock said with a smile.
"Thank you then!" Boss Yang nodded with satisfaction, he had to solve the problem of supplying the fleet in the future, and build a special wharf in Colombo, Singapore, and Hong Kong, so that the intercontinental combat of mercenaries would not be a problem in the future.
After a short stop in Ceylon to replenish fuel and various supplies, the Nautilus then set off for the next stop, because the next step was to pass Guò Malacca, so in Colombo Yang Feng loaded the double 37 anti-aircraft guns that had been prepared long ago into the reserved six gun emplacements, but these things did not come in handy, and before entering Malacca, two British cruisers came out of Singapore to escort him through the dangerous sea area of Guò.
Yang Feng is now very important to the Royal Navy, and the destroyer Viper, which is being built at the Armstrong shipyard, is vital to their future, and as the sole engine supplier, no amount of protection is overdone.