After arriving in Baghdad, Lin Youde toured Baghdad to the fullest, and then traveled north to inspect the preparations for the railway to Istanbul, Turkey.

While he did so, the water storage pellets he brought with him were transported to the test area that had already been selected for release.

Subsequently, Lin Youde returned from northern Iraq to inspect the construction of oil extraction facilities and large refineries along the Persian Gulf coast.

The Persian Gulf now has more oil production capacity than Borneo, so many oil tankers can already be seen in the ports along the Persian Gulf coast. However, with the current shipbuilding technology, it is not possible to build a super-large oil tanker in another time and space, and the sea transportation of oil may not be able to keep up with the oil development in the Persian Gulf.

Lin Youde knows very well that only when the production capacity of oil is built, can the paper mark have enough energy to seize the international settlement - as long as most of the oil output in the Persian Gulf is settled in paper marks, then other countries will have to prepare some paper marks at any time even if they are unwilling, and all countries holding paper marks will naturally make more capitalists choose paper marks as the settlement currency.

In another time and space, before Lin Youde traveled to China, China was negotiating with oil-exporting countries to settle oil trade in RMB, and this negotiation made the United States very nervous because of the impact that oil trade settlement can bring.

However, in another time and space, China, as the world's factory, can actually export a large number of industrial products that can actually become the backing of the renminbi. For example, if a country is constantly importing large quantities of goods from China, and China suddenly asks the country to settle these goods only in renminbi, the country will be very passive if it does not hold the renminbi - especially when the domestic prices are basically dependent on Chinese goods.

It is precisely in order to avoid this risk that such a country must have the renminbi in hand. As of Lin Youde's crossing, many countries in that time and space have actually fallen into such a situation, such as the United Kingdom, once it is unable to import sufficient industrial products from China for one reason or another, the British people will suddenly find that their cost of living has doubled or even several times, because a considerable part of the industrial products imported by Britain from China are daily necessities.

Some people may say that Britain can import from other countries, but unfortunately, in that time and space, no country has such a scale of production as China, so no country has the same advantages as China in terms of production costs, when China does not provide certain products to the UK, it is impossible for the UK to buy substitutes at the same price, so the cost of living for the common people will increase exponentially.

Therefore, although the RMB settlement of oil has been blocked by the United States, the pace of internationalization of the RMB has never stopped.

All in all, in order to control the settlement of international trade, you must have one or more kinds of goods in your own hands that account for the majority of international trade.

Now, for Lin Youde, this thing is oil, and he doesn't expect Germany's population to become a gigafactory like China in another time and space.

After inspecting the oil production facilities, Lin Youde once again boarded the resupply cruise ship and set off for Australia - this cruise was originally scheduled to sail around the world.

When crossing the Indian Ocean, a cruise ship crossed the equator for the first time, and as is customary, the celebration of crossing the equator was held on board the cruise ship.

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"What are your uncles doing?" Xiaolu looked curiously at the sailors gathered on the open back deck of the cruise ship.

"It was a tug-of-war, a part of the celebration of crossing the equator." Lin Youde, dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and big shorts, held an ice-cold drink in his hand, and explained to his daughter as he drank it.

"Is tug-of-war delicious?" Xiaolu really asked.

Lin Youde, who had been prepared, explained the rules of tug-of-war to his daughter, and Xiaolu immediately became interested: "I want to play too!" I'm confident in my strength! ”

"Oh, yes, no problem." Lin Youde nodded, because Xiaolu's voice was very loud, so the crew heard what Xiaolu was going to play, so the game that was about to start stopped like this, and both teams looked at Xiaolu and Lin Youde.

Lin Youde's interest was also very high, he thought about it, and said to the sailors: "In this way, Xiaolu is alone, and you pick out the twenty people with the most strength to pull her." ”

Lin Youde's statement made the sailors look at each other, and one of them shouted: "This is too bullying for the eldest lady, right?" ”

"Hmph, I have a lot of strength." Xiaolu, who had already jumped on the deck, waved his claws like a windmill, "I can lift all twenty of you!" ”

Xiaolu's fighting spirit made the sailors excited, so soon twenty strong men with big shoulders and round waists were selected, and Xiaolu stood at both ends of the field and picked up the rope.

The starter glanced at Lin Youde, and after getting a nod of agreement, he blew the whistle.

Then Xiaolu was dragged across the line that represented the victory and defeat.

Xiaolu looked inexplicable, she looked at her paws, then looked up at Lin Youde, and asked loudly, "Why?" ”

Lin Youde was also stunned.

At this time, Sophie raised her head from the book and said slowly, "Dad, are you stupid?" Tug-of-war is not about the strength of the arms. In tug-of-war, the forces on both sides are the same, because they just form a system of balanced forces. It's useless for Xiaolu to have a lot of strength, and the important thing in the tug-of-war competition is the maintenance of the posture of the contestants and the friction with the ground. Xiaolu herself has a lot of muscle strength, so there is no problem with maintaining her posture, but her weight is very light, and the friction coefficient of her shoes is not particularly high, so the friction is low, and of course she will be dragged over at once. Dad, you're really a liberal arts head. ”

Lin Youde scratched the back of his head, Xiaolu was obviously unhappy to lose here, so he followed his sister and shouted: "Dad is stupid!" A sucker! ”

"Come, Xiaolu, my sister will teach you how to win." Sophie also jumped from the pool deck on the second floor to the aft deck, and then whispered a few words in Xiaolu's ear.

"Good!" Xiaolu responded loudly, "I understand! Again! ”

The unhappiness just now disappeared all at once.

The second game began immediately, as soon as the whistle sounded, Xiaolu's feet were directly inserted into the iron ring used to hold the cargo on the deck, and then the iron ring was used as a fulcrum to pull the rope hard, so the twenty strong men all fell forward, and fell into a stack of dominoes at once.

"Hahaha, I won!" Xiaolu waved the thick rope in her hand and laughed.

Viola didn't know when she appeared next to Lin Youde, and whispered: "This is a foul, use the ring of the deck or something." ”

"Xiaolu, you've fouled!" Lin Youde shouted, "And Sophie, don't teach Xiaolu this kind of foul play." ”

"Does foul play delicious?" Xiaolu asked loudly.

Sophie glanced up at Lin Youde, and at this time the sailors also began to coax.

So Sophie whispered a few more words in Xiaolu's ear, but this time Xiaolu frowned and said in embarrassment: "Why am I crying?" ”

"Sophie, what are you teaching Xiaolu!" Lin Youde shouted loudly, "Don't teach my daughter badly." ”

"I'm just teaching Xiaolu to use her strengths." Sophie said disapprehantly, "But since I can't break the rules, and I can't pretend to be pitiful, then I'm out of line." ”

At this moment, someone among the sailors said, "I think it's actually quite fair for Miss Xiaolu to use the lower hoop, after all, there are so many of us." ”

"Yes, although she is a god, Miss Xiaolu is less than two years old after all."

"It's better to say that it's uncomfortable for us to win her like this."

The sailors, who had been coaxing just now, agreed with the original man's statement.

"That's good," Xia Li appeared on the other side of Lin Youde, her bikini dress made many sailors whistle, and the French girl seemed to enjoy the feeling of being whistled, especially in a charming pose, before continuing, "How about lengthening the rope, doubling the number of people you guys, and comparing with Xiaolu with her feet on the iron hoop on the deck?" That's fair, right? ”

Xia Li's construction was immediately agreed by everyone, and the third tug-of-war began.

At this time, the news that the little princess was tug-of-war with the sailors had spread throughout the cruise ship, and all the crew members who had no work came to watch - in addition to Lin Youde's family, there were more than 1,000 people on this ship, and there were more than 300 people who came at this time, and the deck was almost full.

After the whistle blew, the situation turned out to be deadlocked - it seemed that even the powerful Xiaolu could not easily pull forty adult males.

Xiaolu blushed, the blood vessels on her big claws throbbing suddenly, and the sailors were in a similar situation, but they were trying to maintain a backward tilt posture.

"Now it's a race of endurance." Viola whispered, "Whoever can't hold it first loses." ”

At this time, some of the sailors were no longer dead.

The red flag on the rope was slowly moving towards Xiaolu.

Xiaolu even began to slowly pull the rope back, and it was obvious that the little guy who was a god was still superior in pure strength.

Finally, the sailors' ranks could no longer be maintained, and everyone fell forward.

"Win!" Xiaolu threw away the rope and clapped vigorously, with a smile on her face, "I won, Dad!" ”

"Well, this time to win the dignified, good!" Lin Youde gave Xiaolu a thumbs up, and then didn't forget to warn, "You can't be as opportunistic as your sister Sophie!" ”

"Yes, yes, I'm the opposite textbook this time." Sophie didn't seem to care, she climbed up the stairs to the second deck, returned to the pool and sat down, and continued to read her book.

Then Xiaolu jumped up to the second floor at once, trotted to Sophie's side, kissed Sophie's cheek gently, and said softly: "Sister thank you, sister is the smartest." ”

"Of course." Sophie should arrive and give Xiaolu a thumbs up.

"Hahahaha," Viola arched Lin Youde's waist with her elbow, "Stinky Dad was defeated by Sister Tao." ”R1148