The First Warlord of the Republic of China

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In Tehran, the Persian King Mohammad Shah personally welcomed Jiang Yu into the city, and then entered the Persian palace. What the two sides said, the outside world learned

I only know that Jiang Yu stayed in the palace for a day, and then, accompanied by King Shah, visited some places of interest in Persia

In general, Jiang Yu's visit this time did not fully achieve his goal [

The Shah did have the idea of ​​defecting to China, but the Shah did not want to rectify the religious power in Persia, which made Jiang Yu not very cold

There is a Worship religion in Persia, that is, Zoroastrianism, but this religion is relatively weak, but Islam occupies an absolute position in Persia

This kind of religion is not officially supported in China, and there are methods of suppression both openly and secretly

It is equivalent to saying that if Persia wants to become a vassal state of China, there is no problem!But your religion can’t be fanatical, you can believe in Buddhism or something, but the Islamic world is not easy for China to accept

This thing is like a virus, you accidentally get it on your body

What Jiang Yu meant was to help the Shah establish a royal country and completely abolish the Persian theocracy. However, although the Shah has the ambition in this regard, he does not have enough courage

Under such circumstances, Jiang Yu can only assure the Shah that Britain will not replace his ruling position, and China only needs Persia to open up the investment market and China to develop Persian oil together with the Shah

Because the situation in Persia is uncertain, it is more dangerous to keep the theocracy. Even if you support the Shah to form a puppet government, it may be overthrown by the theocracy at any time. Therefore, Jiang Yu decided to reduce the scale of oil exploration in Persia.

"If the scale is too large, once the Persian revolution occurs, then our oil will be completely ruined, so we can't make too many things go to Persia. We put the oil in the frontline area of ​​Central Asia to extract a batch, and the oil sold to the world first Exploitation on Sakhalin Island" Jiang Yu immediately decided that he visited Persia this time mainly to confirm the meaning of Persia before adjusting his own oil policy

After all, China is actually not short of oil at all, and there is no problem in not exploiting Persia's oil. There is no need to hang on the tree of Persia

It's urgent, let's develop the oil head office on the Arabian Peninsula, shall we?

It's just that Jiang Yu doesn't want to make the Arabian Peninsula so conspicuous for the time being, and the water resources in the Arabian Peninsula are relatively scarce, so there is no rush to develop it.

After all, China is a super oil country with 730 billion tons of oil reserves at this time, and the amount of oil has long surpassed that of any other country

Just exploiting the oil on China's original territory, plus Sakhalin and Central Asia, there is also nearly 200 billion tons of oil. China's oil industry at this time has undergone technological innovation and vigorous construction. In addition, large oil fields such as Shengli Oilfield The discovery of China's oil production has increased to 6000 million tons. During the First World War, China and the United States experienced fierce confrontation in the world market.

At this time, under the competition of China Petroleum, the oil production of the United States is only 4000 million tons, which is 1000 million tons less than the history.

This is mainly because more than 1000 million tons of Russian oil production was abolished during the First World War, and Russian oil could not be exported, and these international markets were seized by American oil.

China Petroleum took the opportunity to seize the world's supermarkets and the United States came to an equal share

In addition, the number of automobiles, agricultural machinery and aircraft in China has greatly surpassed that of the United States. Stimulated by strong internal demand, oil production has increased to 6000 million tons

U.S. oil production cannot increase at the stage of 4000 million tons, because the international market and the U.S. internal market can only digest the 4000 million tons of oil[

"Now that Persia is unwilling to reform, then our strategy in Persia will not be easy to carry out." Jiang Fang sighed, and said: "Otherwise we will support another person to overturn the Qajar Dynasty."

"Well, it's good to let Persia eat and die," Jiang Yu said, "At least the Qajar dynasty is a pro-China force. If they are unwilling to reform, we will not help them develop, but only help them maintain their rule. Persia is currently in power." regime, it is impossible to develop"

"Eating and waiting to die..."

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Jiang Yu and others visited Persia for a few days, and then came to the Arabian Peninsula by train. At this time, this place has become China's "Middle East Province"

The first stop was Kuwait, which has become a busy port city at this time

The railway from Xinjiang passes through Persia all the way to Kuwait. At the same time, Chinese merchant ships transport goods to Kuwait and then to the allies

Kuwait has built another railway to Central Europe. This railway has been completed, and goods can go directly to the Allies from the railway.

If it was the natural law that Russia occupied Central Asia in the past, military supplies are not allowed to pass through

But with China's occupation of Central Asia, military supplies have been able to be transported by rail directly to Kuwait and then to Germany by rail

Kuwait is also the largest city in the Middle East province, and Saudi Arabia is gone, and those oases are currently inhabited

In the Oman region, there are some herdsmen who immigrated from China, and each herdsman has a huge pasture

The Chinese garrisons are mainly distributed in the two regions of Kuwait and Oman. At this time, the Chinese garrison in the Middle East Province is three divisions, with a total of about 6 people.

China has never developed any industry here, because it is very short of water, but the underground ratio is rich in black gold oil, so Jiang Yu attaches great importance to the occupation of this place

Jiang Yu inspected the barracks and various military facilities here

After looking at it, I found that the military facilities in the Middle East Province still need to be improved, and the conditions and facilities of the barracks are not very good. It seems that the military facilities in the Middle East Province must be strengthened after the end of the First World War.

In the Middle East, Shi Jiangyu also investigated the water resource issue in detail. After some investigation, I felt that the Arabian Peninsula was indeed short of water.

"Since the investment environment in Persia is not safe, then we can only develop oil in the Arabian Peninsula." Jiang Yu thought to himself. Originally, he wanted to explore oil in Persia, but the religious issues in Persia made Jiang Yu very worried, so he had given up in his heart. The idea of ​​massive oil extraction in Persia

If Persian oil is not exploited, then only oil from the Arabian Peninsula can be exploited

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Jiang Yu walked around in Central Asia, and then flew back to China

It's safe to fly

In just ten hours, Jiang Yu returned to Xinjiang, and then flew back to northern Jiangsu by plane

After returning home, Zhou Ziyue rushed over quickly

"This visit to Persia did not achieve the expected results. Most of the oil investment in Persia has to be cancelled," Jiang Yu said to Zhou Ziyue

"We already have a lot of oil, and there is no need to dig Persian oil." Zhou Ziyue shrugged and said, Jiang Yu shook his head with a smile, "I mainly don't want our Middle East province to become so dazzling."

"The tree is big but attracts the wind, but with our current military strength, who is not afraid of death and dares to touch our Middle Eastern soldiers?" Zhou Ziyue said with an arrogant face. so"

Indeed, the Europeans have been choking for several years, and their strength has dropped significantly. The European powers of the past are no longer enough in front of the Republic of China.

The only threat is the United States, but the United States is far away from the Middle East

Although the Chinese Navy is not fully developed, the Chinese Air Force is not a vegetarian either. If the Middle East Province is in your mouth, don’t let China spit it out again.

"Then let's develop the oil in the Middle East~!" Jiang Yu nodded and said that this era is rich in oil resources. Now is not the time to think about digging out other people's oil, but to find a way to put our own oil industry at an absolute advantage state to squeeze oil output from other countries

Because in this day and age, oil represents the potential for war

Without the oil industry, ships, automobiles, trains, airplanes, chariots, etc. cannot be driven

As for the matter of digging other people's oil, in fact, it can only be done when China becomes the absolute world hegemony, and it cannot be done absolutely.

After all, the world economy needs circulation. At that time, China can control those oil fields, and then give some of the benefits to those countries. Then China exports high-end goods, and they export oil. Through this kind of attraction, the economy will form a cycle.

"Let's plan the distribution of the oil industry first!" Jiang Yu took out a map and said to Zhou Ziyue

"Now our oil production capacity is mainly in the Guannei area. The Guannei area is mainly the Shaanxi-Gansu area in northeast Shandong, as well as the Xinjiang area. The oil fields here are generally not very large, and many of them are difficult to exploit. The main oil production area is the Shandong oil field. Oil production is 3000 million tons, accounting for almost half of the oil production. The other 4000 million tons of production capacity are distributed in Northeast Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi and Hebei. billion tons, according to the current mining speed, it will be mined for 15 years," Zhou Ziyue said

"In the newly occupied area, it is generally divided into four major oil areas. The first oil area is Sakhalin Island in Beihe Administrative District. The oil reserves here are at least 50 billion tons, and it is high-quality oil. The exploitation and refining are very good. The second convenient oil region is the Nanyang region, Borneo, those archipelagoes in the east of Java Island, and the Vietnam region, with oil reserves of about 20 billion tons. If Malaysia and Brunei can be captured and occupied by Malaysia, the oil reserves in the Nanyang oil region will increase. Rising to 40 billion tons, the third oil region is Central Asia, where there are more than 60 billion tons of oil reserves. The fourth largest oil region is the Middle East oil region, where the oil reserves are 626 billion tons of oil reserves." Zhou Ziyue summarized, " If the oil in the Middle East is not developed, it can only develop the other three major oil regions.”

"The local 60 billion tons of oil, the Sakhalin Island 50 billion tons of oil, the 40 billion tons of oil in Southeast Asia are also ours, and the 60 billion tons of oil in Central Asia, adding up to about 250 billion tons." Jiang Yu looked at the map and held a pen Draw a circle on the map, "Here in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, we can have one south and one north, mainly used to supply the oil needs of the eastern and central regions of China"

"The oil in Central Asia is used to supply the military expansion in the west, and the oil needed in the Northwest is mainly used for export in the Middle East Province, and here we can export oil from the Persian Gulf to East Africa, India and Australia To pull a pipeline, you can take the Suez Canal, or directly pull the oil pipeline to the Mediterranean port, export from the Mediterranean to European countries, and at the same time go through the Cape of Good Hope, export oil to the west coast of Africa and the east coast of South America.”

"Well! The world's oil importing countries are mainly Europe. We export oil from the Middle East to Europe, which is closer than the United States to Europe, and the oil fields in the Middle East are larger, which is more convenient for production. In addition, other backward countries, mainly It is a consumer kerosene product, and we also have a great cost advantage in this regard," Zhou Ziyue nodded and said

At this time, electric lights are not so popular in all countries in the world, and people still use kerosene for lighting at night. In many areas of China, kerosene is still used at night.

However, as China's internal large-scale construction begins, the power network begins to spread rapidly, and the status quo of kerosene for lighting will soon become history

Of course, China's current development policy is urbanization, so popularizing electricity is still very simple, after all, the population has begun to concentrate in cities

The population in those remote mountainous areas migrated to the cities as much as possible, and many rural areas have also pulled the wires. In the more remote areas where there are people moving, generators, small hydropower stations and the like are being popularized.

The four major oil regions are just like the four corners guarding the Republic of China, and the 60 billion tons of oil in the hinterland of the Republic of China are enough to support the oil supply and export of the Republic of China

"The only problem now is the water use in the Middle East Province. If the Middle East Province wants to develop the oil refining industry, it must have workers, and the workers must have water to drink," Zhou Ziyue said.

"Then let's develop seawater desalination! Anyway, the Middle East has a lot of energy." Jiang Yu has long thought of a solution, and seawater desalination technology is not too difficult.

There are many desalination technologies, the simplest one is distillation, and another technology called reverse osmosis is also very practical.

Distillation has been used since ancient times, but the desalination method of drinking water on board is relatively energy-intensive. It will be vigorously developed in later generations, that is, countries with inexhaustible energy in the Middle East.

The efficiency of the reverse osmosis method is relatively high, and the energy consumption is relatively small. The reverse osmosis membrane is used to filter the seawater, just like welding and drinking seawater. spit out a mouthful of sea water

However, although the seawater desalinated by reverse osmosis technology can meet the reference standard, it is not completely desalinated, and still has a slight salty taste

The reverse osmosis technology needs to be studied for a while, and the flash evaporation technology of the distillation method is very simple, as long as the production equipment is made large enough.

Therefore, it is not a problem to develop the oil refining industry in the Middle East Province. As for the pollution problem, it doesn’t matter if the Middle East Province is polluted. The place itself is a desert

"In Northeast Asia, we can first transport oil to Japan for refining, and then transport it back to China. In Southeast Asia, the oil refining industry can be concentrated on several islands, and only those small islands will be polluted." Jiang Yu continue to say

After discussions between the two, the distribution of the oil industry in the Republic of China was determined in this way.

The Persian issue was put on hold, but the Republic of China’s commercial investment in Persia was still partly carried out, and the first thing to do was to receive the part of Russia’s interests

At the same time, the Republic of China gave up some of Russia's privileges in Persia, mainly to avoid national hatred in the Persian region. These privileges themselves did not represent much interest and helped the Persian King Shah establish a 15 guards

Jiang Yu also didn't know whether Shah could not support the wall with mud

However, it can be seen from the historical development process that the Qajar dynasty is indeed a bit exhausted. If Jiang Yu’s suggestion is not used for thorough reforms, the Persian Qajar dynasty will be easily overthrown.

Of course, Jiang Yu is now a dead cake plus dynasty

An awakened Persia is definitely not as easy to get along with as this muddle-headed Persia

Just like the Manchu Qing government in the past and the current Republic of China government, the Westerners chose to abandon the Manchu Qing government and support the Republic of China, which brought China into a period of awakening in the century

A feudal dynasty can enable China to gain more benefits in Persia. Reza Shah, who overthrew the Qajar dynasty in history, is actually an independent government and does not want to obey the British who supported his rise

Because Persia itself is a country with dragon veins, it is impossible for a country with dragon veins to be as obedient as India

So Jiang Yu decided that even if the Qajar Dynasty is a mass of mud, they should be supported against the wall. At this time, China definitely has the ability to do so.

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A few days after Jiang Yu returned to Jiangsu, he learned that the ambassadors of the Allied Powers were hastily negotiating with China on the issue of arms imports.

Duan Qirui and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs like to play it perfunctory these days

Knowing that Jiang Yu was back, Duan Qirui rushed to Jiangsu, and Jiang Yu immediately held a high-level military meeting

"They now want planes, tanks, and submachine guns. Germany's offensive on the western front is extremely fierce, and it is almost reaching the city of Paris. Now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is still perfunctory by saying that the Republic of China has reduced arms production." Duan Qi Rui said to Jiang Yu

"What price are they asking?" Jiang Yu asked Duan Qirui

"The price is very high. The profit of a chariot is more than 400. They are also willing to raise the price of aircraft, but they need to export advanced aircraft to them." Duan Qirui said: "If this order is completed, we can get a lot of money." high profit”

Jiang Yu nodded, looked at the map and thought for a while, and then said: "Although we can get a lot of profits from exporting these arms, in the long run, it is in our best interest to prolong the war as much as possible. Everyone is at war, the labor force is choking each other on the battlefield, there is no energy to engage in production and we are not caught in a large-scale rivalry, domestic production continues, and if we delay it for another year, we can reduce a lot of gaps. If the war is over, then Both sides are developing, although our development speed is definitely faster than that of Europe and the United States, but it is even more difficult to quickly surpass them.”

"So, if we export arms to the Allies, our main goal is to delay the war. Those immediate interests can be discarded. If we export these arms to the Allies, can Germany survive?" Jiang Yu asked Jiang Fangzhen.

Although China is a traveler, the situation has changed a lot at this time, and the calculation task still depends on the staff