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Chapter 1747 Petroleum Development Plan

The four steamships Mei, Lan, Zhu, and Ju and other wooden sailing ships sank dozens of Persian ships and captured many Persian merchant ships in the Persian Gulf.

The black and gray steamship became a ghost wandering in the Persian Gulf, making Persian merchant ships frightened.

The Persian navy and the pirates in the Persian Gulf have never seen a strong steam ironclad ship. They are vulnerable to steam ironclad ships, and even traditional fire attacks are not effective.

By plundering ports and capturing Persian merchant ships, the fleet of the expeditionary force gained a lot of goods and wealth.

The blockade of the Persian Gulf by steamships and wooden galleons came to an end when the Persian Empire decided to cease fighting.

The expeditionary force gave the Persian Empire a face and did not capture their capital Isfahan. After receiving compensation worth 40 taels of silver, the expeditionary force returned the same way and returned to Bandar Abbas.

When the expeditionary army returned to the division, the local Persian troops along the way were full of fear and did not dare to hinder them. Instead, they hid far away, hoping that the opponent would go as fast as possible.

"You ended the war fairly quickly."

"There is no way. The higher-ups demand that all wars be resolved quickly, and they should be closed as soon as they are good. We cannot fall into the quagmire of war in one place. If we stay in Persia for a long time, we will be attacked by them who cannot guard against them."

The navy led by Deng Qianlong and Huang Degong's army converged in Bandar Abbas, and both sides received a lot of gold and silver treasures as compensation to make up for the losses caused by the war.

The expedition to Persia will end soon, and the future development will be the focus.

The expeditionary force built a simple fortress on Hormuz Island and Qeshm Island respectively.

Both islands are near Bandar Abbas, and they guard the Strait of Hormuz, the mouth of the Persian Gulf.

In the future, if oil is extracted from the Persian Gulf and transported by sea, any ship will have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.It can be said that controlling the Strait of Hormuz is equivalent to controlling half of the Persian Gulf.

"We will consider building a new castle later when we develop oil resources. We are still not sure where there are oil fields. Why is the military in such a hurry to need so much oil? Is oil really more precious than spices, gold and silver?"

"I don't know... The Persian Gulf is not just a force of the Persian Empire. The power of the Ottoman Empire has also penetrated into the Arabian Peninsula, and there are several sultans. If we want to completely conquer the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, we need to cooperate with more deal with power."

"Let's take a step at a time. The higher-ups should not be in a hurry to exploit the oil in the Persian Gulf. I heard that there are still large oil reserves in Nanyang."

Several high-ranking officers of the expeditionary army did not quite understand Chu Yun's intentions.

They can't understand how much human civilization will rely on oil in the future. Even if they now know that kerosene, gasoline and diesel can be extracted from crude oil, they can't imagine that these petroleum fuels will occupy an absolutely dominant position in the future transportation industry. The amount of oil consumed is calculated in billions of tons.

In this era, Chu Yun ordered the engine manufacturing plant to produce less than 1000 early cars, and many cars were not used very much. The petrochemical industry had just started, and the amount of crude oil consumed every year was only a handful.

At present, Huaxia has two major oil fields, one in Brunei and one in Sumatra. The oil produced in Nanyang alone is more than enough.

However, Chu Yun also has his own oil consumption plan—prioritizing the consumption of overseas oil and avoiding the exploitation of local oil resources as much as possible.

Although there are also a lot of oil resource reserves in the country, the non-renewable resource of oil is used a little less.

Although the price of crude oil extraction and transportation overseas is much more expensive than the price of direct extraction locally, Chu Yun still wants to exploit the oil in the Persian Gulf first, then the Southeast Asia, and finally the local area. The same is true for other resources.

The expeditionary force blatantly controlled the Strait of Hormuz, and could block the entrance and exit of the Persian Gulf at any time, laying out for China's future.

The East India Company actually had a trading station in Bandar Abbas, which stored Persian goods such as silk and carpets. This trading station is still in use and complements the fortresses on the two islands.

The Persians didn't have much aversion to the East India Company before, but now they are full of complex emotions of fear and hatred towards the East India Company that "helped the evildoers".

No matter what the Persians think, the most important resource endowed by God to this land has already been targeted by Chu Yun.

Soon there will be an oil company set up by the Huaxia government to explore the distribution of oil resources, build castles, and carry out mining activities...

As for other things in this land, including the population and territory, Chu Yun didn't have much interest and let them develop.And this time the battle against the Persian Empire brought the Persian Empire, which had no sense of existence, into China's sight.

The Persian Empire provided oil resources, and the Mughal Empire provided cheap labor, food and markets, and most of Asia was supporting its native land.

"We should go back."

This is the rare joint operation of Deng Qianlong, Qin Zuoming, Chen Bangyan and other officers who are active near the equator.

Teams of Tubang soldiers boarded the troop ships, horses were driven onto the ships, and even cattle and sheep were transported to the ships as trophies.

The number of captured cattle and sheep was too many, more than tens of thousands, and the expeditionary force did not intend to return them to the Persian Empire, but planned to transport all that could be transported back, so that the ships brought could not hold so many cattle and sheep at all. .

In addition to leaving a small team to guard the simple fortresses and commercial stations on the two islands, the main force of the expeditionary force retreated to India and Southeast Asia.

It will take a lot of work to transport supplies from India or Southeast Asia to Persia. Since they cannot obtain supplies by attacking towns and granaries in the Persian Empire after signing the treaty, they cannot stay in the Persian Empire for a long time. The Bengal region which is regarded as a granary.

After the Persian Empire was conquered, it was forced to promise to send an embassy to participate in the Universal Exposition when it began.

The ambassadors of the Ministry of Rites were not only active in the Persian Empire, they also began to invite other kingdoms in Asia to participate in the World Expo, including Central Asian countries such as the Kazakh Khanate, which were not closely related.

Of course, Central Asia also has a lot of oil, natural gas, and coal reserves, but the cost of transporting these materials by land is too high, unless there are railways and pipelines to reduce transportation costs.

Unlike making war excuses to compete for the oil resources of the Persian Empire, in some khanates in Central Asia, the ambassadors of the Ministry of Rites ignored them. They just informed them in place and did not use force to force them to come to the World Expo. Whether they will come or not It doesn't matter.After the construction of railways and pipelines, oil and gas resources in Central Asia will be exploited.

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