Located on the west bank of the Shatt al-Arab at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Basra is the only hub connecting the Persian Gulf and inland river systems, and was once known as the "Venice of the East".

The Kunlun Mountain was anchored in a huge harbor, surrounded by heavily armed soldiers.

In the sky, there are even a few Stuka circling.

Almost all the Stuka produced by the Ming Dynasty were sent to the Russian front, and not many were sent to the Middle East.

It is estimated that these planes are already all the family resources in Sun Zhijie's hands.

For this time the handsome man went to Basra, Sun Zhijie made the security to the extreme.

On both sides of the ten-kilometre-long road from the port to the city of Basra, there are soldiers with loaded guns every two meters.

For the safety of the commander, Sun Zhijie sent his guard battalion out to stand guard.

"You don't need to be so excited!" Li Xiao in the jeep took a look at the battle and looked at Sun Zhijie beside him.

"Dashuai, your safety is related to the future of Daming, and you must not be sloppy.

You don't know, for your safety, Governor Sun has cleared out all the Arabs in Basra.

Now in Basra, even the dogs are purebred. Zhao Liangdong, who was sitting in the front row, said with a smile.

Dogs and Daming purebreds? Chinese Pastoral Dog?

Li Xiao glanced at Sun Zhijie helplessly, his caution was enough to show how distrustful the Ming was of the local Arabs.

"Chen Tingjing has been transferred to the governor of Xinjiapo, and this place in the Middle East can only be maintained by you, and the burden on your shoulders is heavy, so it is difficult for you."

"Dashuai, you don't know. These Arabs are really gluttonous, lazy, stupid and bad.

The imams of those religions are always against us, both openly and secretly. And because of their religion, they often collude with the Kurds.

In the first half of this year alone, we have uncovered more than a dozen cases of sabotage against the Basra oil fields.

Some people even kidnapped other people's children and let their parents carry explosives bags to blow up oil fields.

If you don't comply, you will cut off the arms and legs of other people's children. The cruelty of the methods is simply outrageous.

Our prospectors say that oil fields have also been found on the Qatar peninsula, but the oil layers are buried a little deeper than here.

Engineers have been asked and it seems that it can be mined with our current technology.

I've sent a team to try to drill oil wells there. ”

"Qatar is surrounded by the sea on three sides, but it also faces the coast on three sides. The place you need to defend is actually longer than on land.

If you want me to say, you still make good use of the Suez oil field. When the war is over, we will have a new policy. ”

Li Xiao looked at the city of Basra in the distance and said.

"New policy?" Sun Zhijie's eyes flashed with excitement.

"I've heard that in the Canal Zone, the chiefs charge half the rent they get?"

"Yes!

In Basra, too, the sheikhs were frightened by what had happened last time.

A lot of people are hiding in Morocco, Greece, those places, here are just sent stewards. At the end of the year, I will come back in a few days after collecting rent.

The subordinates also endured these people, and when the war was over, the subordinates decided to clean them up with heavy hands. ”

"Oh, how's it going?" Li Xiao looked at the Ming Middle East Governor with a smile.

"As long as I have enough troops, I will be able to ......!" Sun Zhijie was about to continue, but saw Li Xiao's expression that seemed to be smiling.

"Please give me a lecture!"

"I looked at the Canal Zone, where people work hard and have to hand over half of the harvest.

The chiefs made money in our name, and we took a bad reputation for nothing, but we only got a tenth.

Are these chiefs idiots for us?

The Marines will send you three divisions dedicated to the Canal Zone.

Starting this year, the harvest in the Canal Zone will only be handed over to the Ming Dynasty. Don't pay to anyone anymore! ”

"Sir, this will cause a backlash from the chiefs of the Canal Zone. This is ...... for the situation! Sun Zhijie knows very well how deeply rooted the chiefs who have been there for generations.

In the last war, it was because they were secretly agitating that they formed a spark to set the prairie on fire.

"Huh! To make it clear to the chiefs of the rest of the region, there are only two places in Daming, and that is Basra and the Canal Zone.

Elsewhere, I won't meddle and I won't care. On the ground, it's still up to them. ”

"Wonderful!

In this way, there will be no collective opposition from the chiefs of the entire Middle East. ”

"The war is still going on, so we can only break the status quo in a limited way.

When the war is over and we have plenty of strength. The first is to exterminate the Kurds and set an example for all in the Middle East.

The people who defy my Ming Dynasty and oppose my Ming Empire, from the eighty-year-old old man to the doll in the confinement period, cannot live in this world.

When the Kurds were slaughtered, they were to organize visits by the sheikhs. Let them know that the Ming Empire has today, and it is an endless pile of corpses and bones.

If they are stubborn, then they will become a stepping stone for the Ming Dynasty. ”

"No!" Sun Zhijie knew that the ruthlessness of the handsome man had come up again.

Since it is possible to systematically exterminate the Dzungar Mongols, it is possible to continue to systematically exterminate the Kurds.

Over the years, the Kurds have always been enemies of the Ming Dynasty, which has exhausted the patience of the marshal and their hope of survival.

"And after the war is over, you have to continue to stir up the Arabs against the sheikhs.

As long as they get rid of the stewards of the chiefs, and give us a hundred percent of the annual tax, we can live happily there.

The Ming will provide them with protection and will not allow anyone to harm them.

If so, let them end up with the Kurds.

Even if people are in Greece, Tunisia, and Libya, let the local people catch them and send them over.

It all starts with the Canal Zone. ”

When the jeep arrived in Basra, Li Xiao saw that the streets were fairly clean. It's clean, it's quiet.

Except for the Ming soldiers patrolling with loaded guns and ammunition, not even a stray dog can be seen.

The towers inside the Doge's Palace are so high that they could be used as watchtowers.

Surrounded by everyone, Li Xiao climbed the watchtower.

With a fixed high-powered telescope, you can see that there is a fence far away, and you can faintly see that there seem to be people patrolling it, and inside the fence are one oil extractor after another.

Now people call this thing a kowtow machine, and the crude oil used by Daming is pumped out of the ground in this way.

"A few years ago, it was only 10,000 barrels a day, and now it is 12,000 barrels a day.

Jisuke-sama always sent telegrams urging us to increase production.

But this production requires the drilling of one oil well at a time, and the current speed of oil well drilling really can't keep up with consumption. Sun Zhijie took the opportunity to complain to Li Xiao.

He, the governor of the Middle East, devoted almost all his energy to this oil field.

But no matter how much oil is pumped out of the ground, Daming is always noisy and not enough.

"There are more and more cars in the country, and the war in Russia is a huge sinkhole. There is definitely not enough oil!

China will continue to send people to help you drill oil wells, and the demand for crude oil in the future will be more and more. Perhaps, it is not enough that the entire Basra is full of oil wells.

The entire Persian Gulf must be filled with oil wells!

When did you build the high wall of the car, Daming didn't need the city wall, and you are still here to repair it? Li Xiao pointed to the high wall in the distance and said.

"No way, there's always someone who wants to blow up the oil extractor. Therefore, the only way to do this was to build a wall separating the city of Basra from the outside.

Even so, there are still people who climb the wall, even if the flesh and blood of the palm of the hand are blurred by iron thorns, they do not hesitate.

Now, there are still people digging tunnels. It's really hard to prevent! ”

"Oh, and such a thing? Let's go to the city walls and have a look! Li Xiaolai's interest, I didn't expect that the city wall that had been eliminated by the Ming Dynasty would be revived again in the Middle East.

Sun Zhijie must have been forced to have no choice, so he mobilized the people to build such a long city wall.

Sun Zhijie hesitated, but he couldn't stop Li Xiao.

The jeep drove for more than an hour before it came to the bottom of the city.

The walls are made entirely of reinforced concrete, with a base thickness of about fifteen or sixteen meters.

The stairs climb up to a height of three floors.

On one side of the wall, many iron spikes were buried in the cement. Exposed to the wind and sun all year round, these iron thorns have been severely corroded.

If this thing is stuck in the body, tetanus and infection can kill a person.

The walls are wide, and it is no problem to run two trucks side by side at the top of the city. In fact, there are two trucks on the city wall, which are used to load patrol soldiers and collect sentries on weekdays.

Every kilometre or so, there are three soldiers with guns on guard. There were also mobile patrols, leading wolfdogs to patrol the city walls.

Li Xiao walked on the wide city wall, and there was a feeling of walking on the Great Wall.

Sure enough, it is worthy of being an infrastructure madman who is full of attribute points.

"The walls surrounding Basra have been under construction for five years. Completed just last year, the city wall encompasses the city of Basra, including the port of Basra.

If you want to enter through the city walls, it is difficult to climb to the sky!

Even if the birds in the sky want to enter, they have to avoid the airships that patrol day and night. ”

This is simply the standard of a military base!

Looking into the distance, about three or four kilometers away, there was not even a single grass. The ground was full of yellow sand, and even if a mouse ran out, it could be seen clearly.

"These places are carefully sprinkled with herbicides. And it is sprinkled once a year to make sure that not even grass grows here. ”

Sun Zhijie proudly pointed to this artificial desert.

Li Xiao nodded, this kind of defense method is not bad.

"Ten kilometers outside the city, the Arabs are allowed to live or cultivate and graze.

If anyone dares to trespass, they will be shot by the patrol.

If it weren't for the fact that there are so many rough benzene jobs in Basra that have to be done by Arabs, I wouldn't even allow an Arab to show up in Basra. ”

"That's a good thing, and that's the only way we're going to do it at the moment.

This year, the country will send new graduates to work in Qatar. Strive to build Qatar's oil fields as soon as possible.

In fact, in the desert of the Arabian Peninsula, there are also many oil fields.

Recently, the Navy's exploration team also found oil fields in Libya.

The oil fields there are simply perfect, they are all light crude oils, and they can be used with a little refining.

Even without refining, it can be used as fuel for the Navy.

The navy is also asking for people. It is said that the Navy is going to extract oil in Libya! ”

"And such oil fields?" Sun Zhijie's jaw was about to fall to the ground.

I didn't understand it before, but the marshal sent so many people to Basra for Maoist.

It wasn't until the crude oil was dug up that I knew the wisdom of the big handsome.

I thought that oil would be enough for cattle. Once refined, it can be used to drive cars and airships.

But I didn't expect that there was something even more awesome, which could be used directly when pulled out of the ground. That's pretty good!

"There are a lot of oil fields all over the Middle East. It is enough for our Ming Dynasty to use for hundreds of years, as long as we stand firm in this place, our Ming Dynasty will control the world's industry.

Without the support of industrial production, no country in the world would be an opponent of the Ming Dynasty.

This place is the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, the purity, do you understand the burden on your shoulders? ”

"No! My subordinates understand that this is the foundation of my Ming life.

If any country does not obey in the future, simply cutting off the country's crude oil supply will collapse their industrial production.

And then, let their country collapse. ”

"It's good that you can understand this truth, so we can't hold such a large oil field.

If you want to rule this place for a long time, this wall is indispensable, and killing people is inevitable.

But this kind of wall and killing people alone will not do anything. ”

"Please give me a lecture!" Sun Zhijie bowed down to be taught, and the rest of the officials also bowed down.

"To use these Arabs and unite the majority of Arabs.

Those sheikhs are a minority, and we are going to pit a few sheikhs against the majority of Arabs.

Then we'll help most of the Arabs defeat the sheikhs!

In this way, the hearts of the Arabs here will be towards us.

As long as the hearts of the Arabs are towards us, it is much better than your large wall. ”

"My subordinates understood, I want to give the majority of Arabs a benefit. And this benefit can only be obtained by plundering those chieftains.

That is, to divide all the land of the chiefs among the poor Arab peasants. ”

"No, we're going to mobilize the Arab peasants to rob themselves.

We must cultivate a group of diehard Ming loyalists among the Arabs. Cultivate a group of Arabs who identify with our civilization and yearn for a Ming life.

Then it was up to them to incite the people here to attack the chiefs. For them, it's called rebellion against tyranny.

Only then can we turn the contradiction between us and the Arabs into a contradiction between the Arabs.

They will kill each other in rivers of blood, but it is not us who hate them. ”