Chapter Thirty-Eight: Things about the Energy Base
Chen Xiru's first stop was the Youhe River Basin in Syria, because here, there is a small base of 500 armed men of the Zhongyong Army. The base protects the Youhe River Basin, a light oil field belonging to the British Bartholdi Energy Company.
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At that time, in order to obtain the development rights of this place, we also went through a lot of twists and turns.
Since Zhou Yu didn't know the detailed location, he bought the mining rights for a large area, including parts of the Ottoman Empire.
This immediately alarmed the two largest oil companies in the Ottoman Empire, the Deterdin Oil Company and the Ottoman Oil Company.
After coordination with many parties, it was just purchased for one million pounds. The entire mining rights in the area had been negotiated with the local government for 180,000 pounds. Due to the interference of two oil companies,
The British Bartholdi Energy Company spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on extra costs, which made Bartholdi furious.
In those days, even most countries could not reach the annual fiscal revenue of one million pounds.
After Zhou Yu heard this, he laughed it off, because Zhou Yu knew: the oil quality in this place is very good, with at least a mining capacity of more than 5 billion barrels, and it is easy to mine and refine. It costs hundreds of thousands of pounds.
What does it matter?
When he arrived at the base, he was received by Lu Bing, the resident military chief of the base. Lu Bing told Chen Xiru: The oil field is now producing oil. It is conservatively estimated that it can produce about 150,000 barrels of high-quality oil every year, and the Zhongyong Army can get 100,000 barrels.
Basically, after being refined, it will be enough for the Zhongyong Army to reserve for long-term use.
Chen Xiru checked the data report recorded by the Zhongyong Army and felt deeply pleased. Zhou Yu repeatedly requested that no matter how much the quantity is, as long as it is high-quality oil, all oil should be sent to various bases of the Zhongyong Army.
Although Chen Xiru didn't understand the meaning of Zhou Yu's actions, he still faithfully fulfilled Zhou Yu's instructions, so that now Zhongyongjun cannot get any dividends from the oil company, but has to supplement part of it with the company.
the difference fee.
Originally, dividends from oil companies were used to support people's livelihood, but now they can only be used to subsidize other projects.
Judging from the current international energy market, energy companies are a big gold mine, an industry that makes huge profits and makes money. But now he has not created wealth for Zhou Yu, so he feels great pressure.
However, Zhou Yu told him that after his diesel trucks and gasoline Mercedes-Benz cars were mass-produced, he could sit at home and count money. Afterwards, it was proved that what Zhou Yu said was as accurate as a prophet.
Then, Chen Xiru asked about the training situation of Lu Bing's troops.
Please rest assured, Mr. Chen, our training has been synchronized with the headquarters. Some advanced and confidential weapons, equipment, etc. can only be operated at night when no one is around. Also, the brothers feel a little lonely and homesick. Lu Bing
A report with a helpless expression.
Then you can consider: regular exchanges between the troops and the Vietnam headquarters, so that the brothers can go home and have a look. Wouldn't it be great! I will be responsible for applying for you.
Okay! Thank you, Mr. Chen! Lu Bing still looked a little embarrassed.
Do you miss your wife too? Haha! I heard that your wife is a beautiful woman! Chen Xiru took the opportunity to tease Lu Bing.
Who are you listening to? There is nothing wrong with this. Am I not reporting the situation on behalf of my brothers? Lu Bing made a big blush.
Yo! You are still shy. If you have it, you have it. What are you afraid of? Although our principal is very strict in governing the army, he is still quite concerned about everyone's life.
Really not! Otherwise I would just stay here. Lu Bing's expression became even more awkward.
Hahaha! Chen Xiru laughed happily, I was joking with you, now let’s get down to business! Take me to see everywhere!
Well, okay! Chen Xiru stopped making trouble with him, and Lu Bing immediately returned to normal and led Chen Xiru to investigate various places.
Along the way, Chen Xiru discovered that the situation in the base and oil fields was similar to what Lu Bing reported. After having a comprehensive understanding of all aspects, Chen Xiru said goodbye to Lu Bing and rushed to his next stop, Kirkuk, Iraq.
In the Kirkuk area, Bartholdi Energy Company owns several oil and gas fields, and Zhou Yu conservatively estimates that their reserves are more than 20 billion barrels. Therefore, in the Kirkuk area, the Zhongyong Army not only has energy company security personnel,
There is also a military base with 5,000 people to ensure the security of this area and the stability of the company...
Because Kirkuk is relatively chaotic now, there is no effective local government, and some are relatively small tribal and family forces.
From a macro perspective, the various European and American empires in the entire Middle East, led by Britain and France, have developed their power here.
In order to compete for the colonization of the Middle East, even the negotiations held in London between the heads of government of Britain and France did not actually solve any problems. After a series of protracted mutual sarcasm and fierce negotiations, the United Kingdom used its power to achieve victory.
Most of the colonies in the Middle East, and Bartholdi Energy Company, followed the development pace of the United Kingdom and penetrated deeply into the Middle East, becoming the largest energy company in this region.
The total number of Zhongyong Army in the Middle East is more than 10,000. I remember one time Chen Xiru curiously asked Zhou Yu: Why send so many troops? Zhou Yu told him with a smile that in the future, the Middle East will have more troops than all other regions now.
Development potential, this is to seize the market.
In fact, Zhou Yu did not tell Chen Xiru that in the future First World War, the Middle East would be a special channel for Zhou Yu to make a lot of war fortune. Zhou Yu had supported several local armed forces in the Middle East, forming an invisible force.
The dark forces are also of great help to the Zhongyong Army.
He didn't feel much in the Youhe River Basin of Syria. However, when Chen Xiru arrived at the Kirkuk base in Iraq, Chen Xiru felt that the conditions here were worse than he imagined. The temperature here was extremely high and the wind and sand were strong.
Even if you wear clothes and hats to block the wind and sand in advance, you will still end up with your face and mouth full of yellow sand.
He sincerely admired the officers and soldiers of the Zhongyong Army stationed here. This is a place where people live! Chen Xiru spit out the sand in his mouth and muttered. The person who came to pick him up was Wu, the supreme commander-in-chief of the Zhongyong Army stationed in the Middle East.
Mr. Tong.
Wu Tong chuckled: You have been waiting here for a long time and you know how to protect yourself. Now, we are all used to it. I think we were not used to it when we first came here.
So what do you do with your usual supplies?
We regularly report the situation here to the headquarters through radio transmitters, and we have also trained some local armed forces in the local area, and their power is relatively large.
We gave them most of the captured French weapons, which strengthened their strength.
You know that French weapons are not in line with our configuration. To us, they are just rubbish, but to the armed personnel here, they are the most advanced weapons.
Mainly because the equipment of heavy weapons is more troublesome. In order to ensure the concealment of daily training, we usually choose to establish military bases in relatively remote and sparsely populated places. Just like our headquarters in the Middle East, it occupies a relatively large area. However, because of its concealment
We have good security, so the outside world doesn’t know the specific situation of our base.
These are what the principal has repeatedly told us. We have also trained special forces of various colors and races in the base, specially used to carry out assassinations and secret missions. These are reliable personnel developed by the Huang Feihong Intelligence Agency.
They all swore to join the Kuomintang and became peripheral intelligence personnel of the Intelligence Department.
In addition to learning firearms, special skills, reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance and other military skills in the base, they also have to be politically brainwashed by the political instructors in the base and indoctrinate them into "fighting for the jihad for the only God".
The family members were also transferred to Hawaii, which solved their worries.
These are all arranged by our principal. Not to mention, the training designed by these people for their national beliefs is really effective. You just let them tie bombs to their bodies and die with the target. They all smile.
Among them, the Arabs are the most crazy, they can sacrifice everything for their beliefs.
Sometimes, I don't understand how our principal knows so much knowledge and has an extremely perfect grasp of the minds of these people. The principal told us: "That's called spiritual opium, spiritual belief suggestion method."
In fact, as long as people on earth in later generations know that some of the world-famous terrorist bombers may only be about 10 years old, Zhou Yu used the tricks of later generations, which is of course shocking!
Along the way, Chen Xiru acted as a loyal listener, listening to Wu Tong talk about the things about their base, but he also listened with interest, and was also upset by Zhou Yu's weird ideas.
When he arrived at the base, Chen Xiru was shocked: This is a base! Is this simply the United Nations?
There are people of all races inside, and the base covers a very large area and is heavily guarded. Inside, Chen Xiru unexpectedly saw a large number of single-barreled 40 times caliber 152mm rapid-fire cannons, single-barreled 76mm rapid-fire cannons, and 37mm rapid-fire cannons.
Cannon etc.
As for the 1814 type 20mm large-caliber fully automatic gas-operated machine gun, let alone it. Chen Xiru secretly muttered in his heart: The principal is going to fight! Build the base like a fortress.
Chen Xiru also found that the majority of the officers and soldiers here were in good spirits, and none of the soldiers had any strange emotions.
Wu Tong told him: Arab beauties provided by local armed forces regularly provide services to them. Although they have to pay for their services, compared to these soldiers, their wages are quite high and they can still afford to waste it.
Many people even married Arab concubines because of this, and they simply couldn't bear to miss Shu.
Despite this, Chen Xiru still carefully inspected the base and oil and gas field construction sites, filed some information, and reported some major situations to the headquarters at the base, including the situation in Syria.
After it was over, he said goodbye to Wu Tong and others and went to continue his inspection work.
Unlike the external recruitment of young children studying in the United States, the Zhongyong Army, led by Tan Sitong and Ye Long, cultivates talents internally, which is more suitable for the rapid development of the Zhongyong Army.