"Mr. Yang, why did you buy this place?" Holland said in shock. In his opinion, this land has no value. Although Kuwait City is also an important port on the Persian Gulf coast, in fact, according to European standards,
It's just a seaside town.
"How should I put it? You also know that my circle of friends are all nobles, even princes and princesses, and so far I am only a civilian because I am unwilling to give up my Chinese nationality, so although the British and Swedish royal families are willing,
But the law cannot give me a noble status, but in the Ottoman Empire there is not so much trouble. If I spend hundreds of thousands of pounds to buy this land, His Majesty the Emperor should at least give me the title of pasha, right?"
Boss Yang said with longing.
"If you want to buy somewhere else, there is absolutely no problem, but if you want to buy Kuwait, it will be very troublesome, because although it belongs to the Ottoman Empire, it is an autonomous territory, and this land is controlled by Sabah
The family's chief rule, even if His Majesty the Emperor agrees to sell it or even makes you the governor of Kuwait, I'm afraid the Sabah family will not be able to give it up." Holland shook his head and said.
"As long as His Majesty the Emperor resolves the legal procedures for me to own this land, I will handle the rest by myself. If the Sabah family does not give up Kuwait, then I will use cannons to ask them to give up." Yang Feng said with a grin,
His armored cruiser will be available soon. When the time comes, he will bring the cruiser over and recruit thousands of mercenaries. Let alone rob Kuwait City, it will probably be enough to conquer the Arabian Peninsula. Of course, this premise is his own
Behavior must be legal.
If the Ottoman emperor sealed this place as his territory, then the land grab would be completely legal. Anyway, this area is actually the British who have the final say, and they would not be embarrassed to object to the city's surname Yang.
Holland shrugged. He found that his boss was too evil, but it was indeed very feasible. First of all, Kuwait City only joined the Ottoman Empire twenty years ago, but it was not conquered.
It was the Sabah family who succumbed to pressure and voluntarily surrendered, which ensured their right to rule this land. If they were conquered, they would probably be driven out to the desert to eat sand.
But Kuwait's semi-duli status means that it is a piece of land without any real value to the Ottoman emperor. He would be very happy to use such a piece of land to add hundreds of thousands of pounds to his treasury. As for the rest,
It's none of his business, he just needs to make Yang Feng the governor of Kuwait. If the Sabah family doesn't give up the place, it's bad luck for you, Yang Feng. Anyway, the money will definitely not be refunded. If you have the ability, grab it.
I decided to go back to London and pretend to be the Governor of Kuwait.
As for whether Yang Feng could capture Kuwait, looking at the mercenaries behind him who were armed to the teeth, Holland seemed to see the women of the Sabah family crying under these guys.
"I think this is not difficult. After I find the oil field, I will go to Istanbul." The guy said immediately.
Boss Yang nodded with satisfaction, and then they paid a visit in Kuwait. At this time, the chief of the Sabah family, the respected Sheikh Abdullah II, did not know that he had lured the wolf into the house. The respected elder used a huge
They warmly welcomed the distinguished guests from London. In fact, these little chiefs are having a hard time now. On the one hand, they have to carefully serve His Majesty the Emperor of Istanbul, on the other hand, they have to make the British happy, and they have to be wary of rebellion among their subordinates.
It can be said to be dancing on three eggs.
After enjoying a Bedouin-style banquet and singing and dancing, Boss Yang's large team left Kuwait contentedly under the farewell of Abdullah II. The huge team of nearly a thousand people marched through the Ottoman Empire.
Basra Province entered Persia, and then arrived at the destination of the trip under the guidance of a local guide. Comparing his own memory, Yang Feng quickly roughly determined the location of the oil field. The rest was drilling. He did not need to take care of this kind of work.
This guy was wandering around Khuzestan Province with his two little maids, protected by a large bodyguard.
To know that 90% of Iran's oil in later generations came from this province, he had to roughly determine the locations of the oil fields that he could remember so that the oil exploration team could slowly drill them.
When I returned to Masjid Suleiman in May, two oil wells had been drilled here, and it was obvious at a glance that they were definitely high-yield wells, with a daily production of thousands of tons. This made Holland so happy that he could not speak very fluently.
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"Yang, Mr. Yang, it was simply a miracle. When we all thought the drilling failed, oil suddenly spurted out in front of us. At that time, my whole body was turned black, and I still smell of oil."
The old profiteer smelled the stinky smell on his body with happiness.
"Continue drilling. This oil field is very big. What are these two oil wells? You will get twenty or even two hundred oil wells." Boss Yang said with pride. He asked how many oil wells there would be here.
It’s not very clear, but just because it has been mining for more than a hundred years and can still attract PetroChina, it is estimated that there will be hundreds of people.
After the drilling is successful, the next step is the official development of the oil field. This is a complex project, mining, and transportation. A lot of things need to be solved. Of course, these do not require the personal supervision of the big boss. Besides, as Yang Feng, in this kind of
How could he stay in this barren wasteland? He left it to the oil workers, so he returned to Kuwait and took a boat eastward to China.
He must make adequate preparations for the armed capture of Kuwait in the future. First of all, he must have a private army of more than 3,000 people. The main body of this army must be Chinese. The officers can be ghost guys, but they cannot all be overseas Chinese in the United States.
We can't guarantee the composition of those guys, so he has to go to China to recruit at least two thousand recruits, and at the same time recruit 500 mercenaries in the United States and Europe, and then add in the security guards from Western Australia and the oil fields, he can make up more than
Three thousand men, coupled with an armored cruiser, is enough to conquer Kuwait.
Abdullah II did not have a real army in his hands, only a few guards at most. These guys were all playing the game of "universal soldiers". Once the war started, all the adult men of the tribe would go into battle, riding horses and wielding Arabian scimitars or holding single-shot weapons.
Carbine guns roared and rushed upward in a swarm. A dozen Maxims mounted on them could basically kill them instantly.
The only castle is Kuwait. In front of large-caliber naval guns, this is a scum-like existence. When I go back to recruit troops and send them to Western Australia for training for half a year, the cruiser will be completed. Bofors's 75
The lady has also built it, and with the addition of mortars, Liefeld rifles, and automatic pistols, it can be used to create a large-scale arms show in Kuwait.
It is a long voyage from Kuwait to China. The Nautilus's cruising range is 28 knots and 6,000 kilometers. To cover more than 10,000 kilometers, he has to refuel at least once in the middle. In fact, in order to ensure safety,
Before that, he had notified Jinyuan Company and sent people to establish oil storage depots in Colombo, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, specifically to store diesel produced by Sweden's Young's Refinery.
The strange-looking black trimaran cuts through the waves in the vast Indian Ocean. In the ups and downs of the waves, Boss Yang is also ups and downs in his little maid. Sister Caiyi has known herself since the day she was adopted by Yang Feng as a maid.
However, for her who grew up in poverty and wandering, this is undoubtedly the best ending in her dream. Being a concubine to a doting master and living with an equally poor Chinese laborer is obviously the former.
is the best choice.
The four-day voyage of 4,000 kilometers ended. With the afterglow of the setting sun, the Nautilus was greeted by two cruisers of the Royal Navy and slowly sailed into Colombo, the capital of British Ceylon. Then it was invited by the Governor of Ceylon to the Government House.
Havelock, the Governor of Ceylon, was very humble towards this big shot in Europe. As for the fact that Yang Shipping would build a special terminal here, this was a trivial matter not worth mentioning.
"Your Excellency Governor, you also know that the sea is not very safe now, and pirates are very rampant. Although there is protection from the Royal Navy, just in case, there may be one or two armed merchant ships in the Yang Shipping fleet.
I think you and the navy generals won't mind this, right?" Yang Feng said to the Governor with a smile during the dinner.
"Of course I won't mind. If someone with such a distinguished status as you encounters any accident at sea, it will cause huge losses to the entire world. Some necessary protection is definitely indispensable." Governor Havelock said with a smile.
"Thank you then!" Boss Yang nodded with satisfaction. He had to solve the supply problem of the fleet in the future and build a dedicated dock in Colombo, Singapore and Hong Kong. In the future, intercontinental operations by mercenaries would not be a problem.
After a short stop in Ceylon to replenish fuel and various supplies, the Nautilus then set off for the next stop. Because it had to pass through Malacca next, Yang Feng loaded the double 37 anti-aircraft guns that had been prepared in Colombo.
He boarded the six reserved gun emplacements, but these things were not put to use. Before entering Malacca, two British cruisers came out from Singapore to escort him through this dangerous sea area.
Yang Feng is now very important to the Royal Navy. The destroyer Viper being built at Armstrong Shipyard is related to their future. As the only engine supplier, no amount of protection is excessive.