The current Kuwait City obviously does not meet Roark’s positioning of Kuwait, so as the Umbrella Company arrived in Kuwait City, the transformation of Kuwait City began immediately.
However, this work is not easy. Kuwait is located in a desert area, and there are almost no materials available around it. David and Carl Fox are not in the mood to destroy the few trees around the port. All building materials must be imported from the south.
It came all the way from Africa, but David and Carl Fox still have a lot of work to do before building materials and construction workers arrive in Kuwait City.
It's mainly David's job. Carl Fox wants to explore for oil. He doesn't have the time or the right to deal with these things. Logistics and security work all fall within David's scope of work.
Sitting in the office that originally belonged to the Sheriff, David immediately issued a series of orders.
First, all the buildings around the port must be demolished. Now these residents in Kuwait City must be transferred to other areas for resettlement. However, before that, they must first work for the umbrella company in exchange for the opportunity to settle in other areas.
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"How many people are there in Kuwait now?" David is still concerned about how many people are available.
"Kuwait City has about three thousand, or four thousand, and the whole of Kuwait - ten thousand, or twenty thousand, who knows, no one counts the number of ants in a nest, and the chief here will not cooperate with the investigation.
If we want to check the population, they will think we are going to levy a population tax-" The tax official looked up and replied in the middle of his busy schedule. Carl Fox was diligently persuading people to drink, and the sheriff was munching. God knows how long it had been since they had had a real meal.
Western food.
Chief——
Probably the future royal family.
If you use the word "royal" to describe the chief of Kuwait, it is estimated that members of the British royal family would not agree.
When the British expanded their colonies around the world, they killed countless chiefs. Tribes with thousands of people like Kuwait were used as slaves in Africa. Whether they were chiefs or tribe members, there was basically no difference in the eyes of white people.
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That is to say, Kuwait had no interests at all during this period, so these tribes could survive until oil was discovered.
However, in Rock's plan, there was no room for the existence of these chiefs. The British had to use the colonial natives to develop the colonies, so there was only one sheriff and one tax collector in the entire Kuwait City.
There is no shortage of people in Nyasaland. There are more and more Chinese in southern Africa. If you need labor, just hire them directly from southern Africa. If that doesn't work, there are still Gurkhas who can be used. Then it will be a tragedy for these tribes in Kuwait. They probably don't have
An opportunity to live a luxurious and extravagant life in another time and space.
According to Rock's plan, after Umbrella Company moves its base in Nepal to Kuwait City, the tribes in Kuwait will be sent directly to Nepal for resettlement by Umbrella Company.
This exchange may not sound fair, but considering the current specific situation in Kuwait, I am afraid that the indigenous tribe members here will be very happy. After all, a place that cannot even guarantee basic survival water cannot arouse such a strong feeling for homeland.
Love.
However, this is just Roque's plan. When it is implemented, it will also depend on the situation. For example, the Umbrella Company wants to transform Kuwait. At this stage, it cannot do without the help of local indigenous people.
While David and Carl Fox were entertaining the Sheriff and the Tax Collector, the Umbrella Company's mercenaries had already made contact with the local residents of Kuwait City.
"Want to have a full meal? Then come work at the Umbrella Company. There are fresh fruits, clean water, and delicious food. Have you seen this? This is called an apple. It's delicious. Come and have one. I
Guaranteed you will fall in love with apples——" The interpreter of the Umbrella Company held an apple to seduce the surrounding residents.
This may seem a bit funny, but the reality is that these local indigenous people may have never seen apples as a fruit until now. Even for the chiefs here, apples are a luxury product for them.
Think about when white people just landed in Africa and America, a cheap glass ball could be directly exchanged for gold and gems. That scene is even more ridiculous, but it is history that does exist.
Compared with the ragged and haggard locals, the neatly dressed and armed mercenaries are the standard image of imperialism.
As soon as the mercenaries landed, there were many local indigenous people watching around the port. David and Carl Fox went to the Sheriff's Office. There were still a lot of supplies to be unloaded on the ship, so the translator tempted these residents with apples.
Forget about money, even if you give money, you probably won’t be able to buy anything good in a place like Kuwait City.
The power of the apple is still very great, and the surrounding residents immediately swarmed in, and the translator was immediately in a hurry.
"Don't be anxious, line up and come one by one -" the translator's voice was obviously too weak, but the whip in the hand of the mercenary was better, and the order at the scene was finally stabilized.
Of course, the next step is not to hand out apples, but to work first, and then you can get paid after completing the work.
With the help of these local residents, the unloading work was greatly accelerated, and various supplies soon piled up in the open space near the simple dock.
Looking at the lively scene in front of him, the sheriff kindly reminded David: "You need to send someone to guard it, otherwise these people will surprise you early tomorrow morning."
"Haha, I will give them a surprise first -" David didn't waste any time. In an open space not far from the port, a simple temporary camp was rising from the ground, with tents that could be set up quickly and fences around the camp.
As well as heavy machine gun positions piled with sandbags, they are all under construction. Starting tomorrow, David will clean up the buildings around the port until the entire Kuwait City is demolished. By then, Kuwait will be a Kuwait that belongs entirely to the Umbrella Company. That's right, Roque bought Kuwait not in the name of Southern Africa, but in the name of an umbrella company. In this way, Kuwait certainly belongs to the umbrella company and has nothing to do with the Southern African federal government.
As for whether the umbrella company can protect its interests in Kuwait, Roque has never worried about this issue.
During this period, Kuwait was still theoretically part of the Ottoman Empire, but the Ottoman Empire, with a total area of 5.5 million square kilometers, obviously did not pay much attention to Kuwait. In recent years, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, and France were at loggerheads over their North African colonies, and France invaded and occupied it.
Algeria and Tunisia, while Italy is pursuing Tripolitania and Cyrene. Starting from 1880, Italy began to actively immigrate to Tripolitania and Cyrene. Businessmen continued to purchase land, and naval officers
He put on fisherman's clothes and conducted coastal surveys in the name of fishing for sponges off the coast of Tripolitania, while the Catholic priest went deep into the interior to collect intelligence in the name of missionary work.
Therefore, the current actual situation of the Ottoman Empire does not allow the Ottoman Empire to launch war at will.
The Russo-Turkish War that lasted for more than 200 years greatly consumed the strength of the Ottoman Empire. The Russian Empire continued to expand its territory during the war, while the Ottoman Empire was retreating steadily and had to unite the forces of Britain and France to fight against Russia.
This also caused great losses to the interests of the Ottoman Empire in North Africa. It was under this premise that Algeria and Egypt were occupied by France and Britain respectively.
Like Kuwait, although Algeria and Egypt are still nominally territories of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Empire has given up its interests in these two areas in exchange for the support of Britain and France in the Russo-Turkish War.
Southern Africa is still a Commonwealth country, and it is very common for umbrella companies to directly purchase land in this era, so Rock has not worried about whether the Ottoman Empire will interfere after buying Kuwait.
In the eyes of others, the Ottoman Empire is still one of the top powers in the world, but to Britain, the Ottoman Empire is just an old and dying giant.
In Europe, the Ottoman Empire is nicknamed the "Sick Man of Europe", so you can understand the status of the Ottoman Empire in the world by yourself.
The next day, the sheriff and tax collector left Kuwait by boat, and David and Carl Fox immediately got to work.
Carl Fox's main responsibility is to explore for oil, and David's main responsibility is to transform Kuwait City and do logistics and security work for subsequent oil exploration and oil development.
The transformation of Kuwait City started with the chief mentioned by the tax officer.
Similar to the African tribal chiefs in David's impression, the chief who appeared in front of David also had dark skin and ragged clothes, and looked no different from other indigenous people.
David didn't waste any time and made his request directly to the chief.
"Demolish the entire Kuwait City?" The chief probably did not expect that David would make such a request.
"Yes, demolish the entire Kuwait. If you cooperate with my work, then I will give you a sum of money to settle in any country in the world; if you don't cooperate -" David said nothing and took out his pistol.
Start wiping.
The chief immediately made the right choice.
It was impossible not to cooperate. While David was coercing the chief, the interpreters of the Umbrella Company were busy using various small favors to win over the indigenous residents of Kuwait City. Even if the chief did not agree, with the temptation of various foods, the Umbrella Company also
It can completely distract the chief.
By then, it doesn't really matter whether there is a chief or not.
Just as David began to transform Kuwait City, two cargo ships filled with various supplies were slowly sailing out of Port Edward. At the same time, the second batch of 1,500 mercenaries from Nepal also landed in Kolkata, India.
