1890 King of Southeast Asia

In May 1907, after two rounds of negotiations, Nanhua and all parties reached an agreement on the price.

Nanhua promised to use troops on the Mesopotamian plain under British supervision, and after the war, Nanhua's main force should withdraw to Southeast Asia.

Britain assisted Nanhua in establishing a new order in Mesopotamia and supported its agents, and Nanhua promised not to include Mesopotamia in its territory.

This is what Nanhua paid, and it sounds very unfair. Let's listen to the British offer.

First, the British reiterated Britain's attitude - recognizing that Nanhua has unique special interests in Mesopotamia, and prohibiting British society from assisting forces that resist Nanhua.

Secondly, in just a few days, through the atlas, Britain and Nanhua completed the demarcation of the border between Mesopotamia and Persia.

About the original control line, Britain gave up 100,000 square kilometers of land, and they retreated to areas that were easier to defend - this was understandable in the eyes of the British, anyway, these areas would be easy to lose in the war, so it would be better to concentrate on defense.

After all, Britain's Persian strategy is to serve India, and India is the core interest of the British Empire.

100,000 square kilometers, which is not worth much, but Nanhua agreed to the slightly excessive conditions, and the British thought it was worth it.

A mere 100,000 square kilometers, Canada with more than 9 million square kilometers, Australia with a monopoly of the continent, and southern Africa recently clamoring for autonomy, the British Empire lacks these 100,000?

So, does Nanhua lack these 100,000? This is also a question for many people.

"Don't doubt it, it was His Majesty who personally sent me a telegram to let me agree." Hu Xihua smiled helplessly.

"Is there any special value here? I think it looks like Britain threw it to us, anyway, they can't keep it." The assistant flipped through the information.

These 100,000 square kilometers are probably the entire Khuzestan Province in the future, a small part of Lorestan Province, and most of Ilam Province.

The terrain is flat and has abundant water resources (relative to the Middle East) in the southwest close to Mesopotamia, but the strategic location is not very important.

If either South China or Britain were Middle Eastern countries, this place would be very important, but it is not. Neither country makes money from wheat or fish grown here.

After Britain retreated, it could concentrate its forces to block possible attacks from South China in places that are easier to defend.

Britain has passed a new plan to build several fortresses in the Persian region to defend against "possible threats", and it goes without saying who they are targeting.

"We can grow wheat. Isn't there water here? There is also a port, where we can fish or do something else, so that we can immigrate here. There are too few Han people on this land..." Hu Xihua said worriedly.

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Even after years of cultivation, there are only a few hundred thousand Chinese people on this land, not counting the army, because the conditions are really bad and there is little arable land.

"You..." The assistant looked at Hu Xihua with a complicated expression - Hu Xihua is a Dutch-Chinese mixed race... In theory, he is not a Han Chinese.

"It's too small, isn't it? Han people are not a specific ethnic group. Or, I'll use Huaxia people instead. Don't limit yourself with bloodline. We can achieve today's achievements, which is inseparable from the breaking of bloodline theory thousands of years ago." Hu Xihua shook his head.

Bloodline theory has really been broken, but after experiencing war, privileges have shifted from bloodline to cultural knowledge. Although it has also been monopolized, it at least gives hope of breaking the class.

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"Are you ready to carry out large-scale immigration to Mesopotamia? It's not easy to find immigrants now. After changing the ruler, the Qing Empire has a lot of resistance." Xu Hui said puzzledly.

He didn't understand what Liu Yiming was up to. On the one hand, he said that he couldn't compromise with the British, but on the other hand, he agreed to let the British join in this matter.

Since there is an opportunity to intervene, Xu Hui doesn't believe that the British will not make trouble.

"It's okay to immigrate some." Liu Yiming nodded.

"Large-scale immigration is almost impossible in the short term, unless you spend money to buy it like before. The Qing Empire is constantly transferring population to the northeast, and it can't recruit many people." Xu Hui shook his head.

"Take it slow, then, the men of the Construction Corps, move some over, and give them wives when they go over." Liu Ming said shockingly.

"Give them wives?" Xu Hui was confused.

"Yes, those native women, Japanese women, and Arab women, all go there, and then carry out marriage reform and fully implement monogamy." Liu Ming was holding the teapot.

"We still have to do things one by one, and solve the things we agreed on first. This can be done slowly." Xu Hui said earnestly.

"This is the forecast given by the technical department, and the comprehensive forecast made by the intelligence department and social psychologists.

This is why I want to immigrate, and why I agree to the British offer." Liu Ming took out a stack of documents.

"This... How much oil is there in this world? Will there be a day when oil becomes worthless?" Xu Hui opened it and asked immediately.

"We want to establish this concept and control as much oil as possible. Isn't Britain fooled?" Liu Ming laughed very happily.

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company has been established and is working hard to dig holes in the Persian region - the first well will be dug next year.

Liu Ming kept the deep well drilling technology strictly confidential and claimed that the deepest oil well in the Arab region is no more than 350 meters.

Novel app——-,

Coupled with Nanhua's mature petrochemical system, Liu Ming made a bold decision - selling refined oil at a low price.

Internationally, a barrel of crude oil costs 2 US dollars. After being refined into refined oil, the price will rise a little. The current price of a barrel of gasoline is 8 US dollars, and a barrel is about 150 liters.

Liu Ming slashed the price crazily. A barrel of gasoline in China costs 4 yuan, and the landed price exported to Europe is only 5 yuan, while diesel is more expensive.

This price is not much money for private companies, because oil also has mining, transportation, and refining costs, and there are a lot of impurities, which is also a cost.

In this way, 10 barrels of crude oil can be refined into 4-6 barrels of gasoline, 1 barrel of diesel, 1 barrel of kerosene, and 2-4 barrels of asphalt and other mixtures.

The cost of crude oil is 20 US dollars, 6 barrels of gasoline is only 24 US dollars, and 1 barrel of diesel plus 1 barrel is also 20 US dollars.

But taking into account the initial investment, transportation, refining, manpower, warehousing and other costs, this is not profitable!

Nanhua's refined oil has forced many oil companies into a dead end, and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company has therefore stopped oil exploration - after all... the more oil companies sell now, the more they lose.

Britain did not fail to see the danger and protested to Liu 1ming.

Liu 1ming responded with one sentence: "This is an important decision made by Nanhua to develop the automobile industry. In order to allow more people to drive cars, Nanhua is willing to give up the profits from oil..."

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In fact, the profits of plastic products, lubricants and other materials are ten times that of fuel, and Liu 1ming is making a lot of money.

For example, lubricants, a bottle of 1 liter of lubricants Nanhua's offshore price is 6 yuan, which is equivalent to 200 liters of gasoline.

At present, Nanhua can refine about 80 liters of lubricants from one barrel of oil...

Not to mention the stimulating effect of low oil prices on the automobile industry. Anyway, Nanhua is not losing money, and those petrochemical technologies that are not up to standard are not something Nanhua should consider.

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company gave up mining after drilling 11 natural gas wells. However, the proven oil and gas reserves of this 100,000 square kilometers of land accounted for about 80% of the world's fourth largest oil producer and fourth largest oil reserve country.

It is oil and gas reserves, not just oil. There is a lot of oil in other places - about 25? ?

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