The Kingdom of Oman is a typical Arab tribal kingdom, and King Stat-bin Saeed is one of the most powerful tribes in Oman, with a population of more than 77,000.

King Stat bin Said maintained his rule by marriage by taking the women of the 27 tribes of the Kingdom of Oman.

Sir Teo Zhicheng also had a daughter married to the Omani royal family, but not the aged Stad bin Said, but his seventh prince, Ali Khan bin Said.

Out of the appeal of his own interests, Sir Zhang Zhicheng is of course willing to support his son-in-law to ascend to the throne, so he has always maintained an armed force of more than 1,000 people in his hands, which is enough to influence the situation in the country.

In the entire Kingdom of Oman

The official army consisted only of the Omani Kingdom Court Guards, numbering more than 1,500 from the Sayyid tribe, who were also the main military force guarding Muscat.

The rest is a few scattered tribal armies.

In this day and age

Gone are the glory days of cavalry dominating the battlefield, and the old notion that tribal men are soldiers on horses, bows and sabers should have been swept into the garbage heap.

In the face of advanced bolt-action rifles, these tribal warriors armed with cold weapons are live targets.

Richard and his entourage are officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Tang Empire, and they went to Europe to perform their duties, and traveled all the way to investigate local customs and customs, which is also very common.

Every colonial power did not raise troops rashly, but cast a wide net around the world, and expeditions, expeditions, sailors, priests or officials were the source of information for the colonial powers.

This was true of England, France, the Tang Kingdom, and now the emerging European power of Germany, with expeditions and expeditions of all kinds throughout Africa and the Americas, as well as German priests who spread the teachings.

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So I think it's very important that the Imperial Colonial Ministry should include the entire Arabian Peninsula in the zone of special interests.

In this way, from Kuwait to Amman, from here to Yemen, and from Yemen along the Red Sea to Jeddah, a complete belt of interests around the Arabian Sea will be formed.

60% of the neighboring territories of the entire Arabian Peninsula will all belong to our Tang Empire, which can ensure the military and commercial interests of the empire. ”

At this moment, Sir Zhang Zhicheng talked eloquently, trying his best to sell his views to Richard and his party.

Richard listened very carefully, and exchanged two sentences from time to time, which made Sir Zhang Zhicheng even more interested, and he spoke with more energy.

At this moment, Sir Zhang Zhicheng, how can he still have the local tyrant atmosphere of a hillbilly nouveau riche, he is completely a general who scolds Fang Xuan, and he is the first to say it.

It is no wonder that he was originally a retired imperial captain officer, who had participated in the battles in Yemen and Suez City, and had a complete military training resume.

After retirement

In the barren desert and Gobi desert of the Arabian Peninsula, Sir Zhang Zhicheng led mercenaries to fight dozens of battles, large and small, in order to conquer Arab tribes, plunder people, camels and other large livestock.

Some of them were for the purpose of opening up trade routes, and some of them were for smuggling, and they were no strangers to fighting.

In the process of the Zhang family's fortune, it was full of blood, oppression and conquest by force, just like those big smuggling families in Kuwait City today, all of them relied on the rifles in their hands to break into the prestige.

Now that he has gone ashore, he is still the stuff of a local warlord in his bones.

Richard said;

"Your proposal is indeed very attractive, and we can forward it to the Colonial Ministries from official sources, depending on the official opinion.

But have you thought about the difficulties?

The entire Arabian Peninsula, including Egypt's Sinai Peninsula in the north, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Jerusalem, Kuwait, as well as Jeddah in the middle, Yemen, Oman, Abu Dhabi, Doha and other countries and regions in the south, most of them have been places where European powers have continued to penetrate for hundreds of years, and they have attracted great attention.

The vast majority of these regions now belonged to the Ottoman Empire, and the Anglo-French-Russian alliance continued to show goodwill towards the Ottoman Empire, drawing it together against the German, Italian, and Austrian camps.

This is the main pattern of the world

It will dominate the basic situation in the next two or three decades, and it is refreshing to rashly move on the Arabian Peninsula and cut interests, but can the consequences be bearable?

Britain and France have more than 160,000 troops stationed in the Suez Canal Zone, and the Arabian Peninsula is regarded by them as their backyard.

Relative to the Far East and the Southwest Pacific, political sensitivity is higher here.

Have you considered all these factors? ”

Richard's words were like a basin of cold water poured on Sir Zhang Zhicheng's head, extinguishing his blazing ambition.

After thinking about it carefully

Sir Zhang Zhicheng frowned and shook his head, and said with a somewhat gloomy expression;

"To the laughter of Lord Jazz, the grass people do not understand politics, and only from the perspective of military and commercial interests, it seems that there are still many difficulties hidden behind this.

It is easy to occupy militarily, it is easy to change course, but it seems that it is not easy to deal with the ensuing world powers.

The British are very active in Oman and Yemen, and there are still French and Germans here and there, but there are not many of these whites in general, and the grass people selectively ignore them.

Now it seems that it is still not well thought out. ”

Speaking of which

He added a sentence a little unwillingly, saying; "Venerable Lord Sir, can't my dignified Tang Empire take this land into my pocket?"

"Yes, yes, but patience." Richard has a good impression of Zhang Zhicheng, a local snake.

From the fact that he knew that he used small favors to buy local Arabs and subtly influence those children, he knew that this was a person with a lot of ideas and ambitions.

Richard liked this kind of ambition, but he looked down on those who were submissive and cautious.

For this extremely influential land snake in the Kingdom of Oman, Richard did not hesitate to give a few words of guidance.

He picked up a grape and put it in his mouth, chewing the juice overflowing, and said as he ate;

"The Tang Empire's colonial expansion in any region was not a sudden interest, but the result of long-term planning.

There are first, there are secondary, there are main and secondary, according to the different changes in the international situation.

I would like to say that in the Middle East, dominated by the Arabian Peninsula, the Tang Empire's policy of expansion and penetration in the region has been implemented for several decades and has achieved remarkable results.

What you see now in Yunzhong Province, Yemen, Oman, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Kuwait and other regions is the result of 10 years of policy implementation.

Drops of water are not a day's work.

in the above-mentioned areas

The Chinese have already occupied the dominant force in society, and the next step is to extensively carry out basic education in the Chinese language, promote the splendid Chinese civilization, and promote the pan-Chinese transformation of the region with soft and hard measures.

Promoting national integration has a subtle influence on ideology and culture, and quantitative change has become qualitative change.

Looking at the next one or two decades or more, there will always be a day when the melon will ripen.

When the ripe fruit falls into one's hand, is there any reason to discard it and not take it? ”

These words were very thorough, which made Sir Zhang Zhicheng nod his head frequently, and he felt that he had seen through the fog in an instant, and his heart suddenly brightened.

He solemnly clasped his hands into fists and bowed deeply, saying; "Listening to your words, Zhang Mou's mouth suddenly opened, thank you Sir for the point."

Richard waved his hand lightly and said; "You and I have a very good conversation, we are both people who care about the prosperity and power of the Tang Empire, and our humble opinions are nothing."

"Lord Sir has a high level of ambition, and he must be an extraordinary person." Sir Zhang Zhicheng still has the heart to be tempted.

He didn't expect that the person in front of him would be His Majesty the Holy Ancestor Emperor, because his face was too young to be possible.

But the Tang royal family has 81 princes and hundreds of royal grandchildren, and the Li Yi family is also the surname of the most nobles in the Tang Empire, maybe this one in front of him is one of them?

At this time

Xu Jinxun, who was sitting next to him, took over the words, patted Zhang Zhicheng on the shoulder and said; "Hey, you're a rich country man? It is your honour to entertain Your Excellency Sir Sir and don't ask if you don't know, just keep your duty. ”

Sir Zhang Zhicheng, who said this, was red-faced and red-eared, and he was punished again and again.

The ensuing hospitality was more attentive, and in the evening, several carefully selected beauties were sent into the room to accompany the nobles to sleep.

Richard did not refuse, during this period of time running around on the desert Gobi Desert, the wind and sand did not eat less, but the mood was also more cheerful.

This kind of free and easy life has ignited a long-lost fire in his heart, and he has been holding it for many days.

Now I don't have to be restricted, I calmly accepted two bright and moving beauties back to the room, which is naturally a lot of wind and frost and rain, and I don't need to describe them one by one.

This time, I lived in Muscat for more than 10 days, and I was surrounded by beautiful women every day, and I felt uncomfortable listening to songs and dances.

King Stat bin Said of Oman heard that Sir Zhang had come to the palace with an imperial dignitary, and personally sent an envoy to invite him to the palace.

Richard ignored him completely, and didn't care about the little earth king.

Xu Jinxun went to the palace on behalf of him, and the superficial etiquette was done sufficiently, so he coped with it.

The old king is 67 years old, and when Xu Jinxun saw him, he couldn't walk on the trembling road, he couldn't speak, and his brain was not good.

Looking at it this way, there is not much life left.

Sure enough

Having lived in Muscat for some time, Richard was a little tired of the daily wine pond meat forest and was about to leave to continue the next part of his journey.

At this time, the shocking news came from the royal palace of Oman that the old king Stat bin Said had died.

Before dying

King Stat-bin Said passed the throne to his third son, Almhan, causing tension in the city of Muscat.

In order for his son-in-law to ascend to the throne, Sir Zhang Zhicheng could no longer hide it, and immediately launched an armed mutiny, and took control of the entire city of Muscat in just half a day.

Shortly thereafter

The Chinese rebels led by the seventh prince Ali Khan bin Said executed Almahan and more than 100 of his personal guards, and bloodied the palace guards.

In the days that followed, heavily armed Chinese cavalry roared and carried out a bloody liquidation of some tribal chieftains and ministers who were close to the former king, and all men were put to death and all women were sold.

The turmoil lasted for more than ten days, and it did not end until Ali Khan bin Saeed officially ascended to the throne.

How could Richard miss this good scene?

Therefore, he stayed in Muscat for half a month, admired the whole process of the coup d'état with relish, and came up with a bad idea, almost sweeping away the former high-ranking of the Kingdom of Oman.

King Ali Khan bin Said relied on the Chinese father-in-law Zhang Zhicheng to ascend to the throne, and his mixed-race son naturally became the crown prince, and the rule of the Omani kingdom was more dependent on the Chinese army.

This forced the Kingdom of Oman to cling to the thighs of the Tang Empire in order to maintain its rule.

(End of chapter)