For Yang Yuanzhao, Australia is too important and is a fat meat at the mouth. If China wants to achieve great development, Australia must take it down. This is a country sitting on a mine truck. Almost 90% of the resources necessary for various industrial production can be found in Australia. Iron ore, copper, precious metals, non-ferrous metals, etc. Its reserves are basically counted in the world, especially iron ore, which determines the basis of the current national strength. The long-term reserves in Australia are more than 13 billion tons.

The average iron content of more than 50% represents more than 6 billion iron. In terms of China's current production of more than 400 million tons, Australia's iron ore can be simply supplied to China for more than 15 years. This is a huge and unimaginable quantity. Even if compared with the current output of the UK and Germany, they may have been able to produce for hundreds of years.

It is the ore that determines that China sends troops to Australia. Of course, there are other considerations. The 7 million square kilometers of land represents a huge output. At the same time, it is a newly occupied land. The indigenous people have basically been killed. The occupied land is also a group of outsiders. As long as China expels these white people, there will be no problems in the future. It will not be as in the Middle East as there are ethnic settlements. The problem of ******* will magnify countless times in the future, and it will even affect the western part of China. The western part of China is a settlement of ethnic minorities.

The huge China will usher in a larger ethnic problem than the later China. In order to be safe and have the experience of traveling through China before, Yang Yuanzhao will not set up ethnic minority settlements or other things. It is not to put ethnic issues together. Some people will burst into flames. Just like integrating foreigners, they will disperse all their personnel in densely populated areas along the southeast coast. They will not forcefully change their beliefs, but will suppress their possibility of spreading and expanding to a certain extent.

The central government's role from top to bottom is quite powerful, and some are subtle and can only influence it. The most important thing is actually very simple. Let all people live a good life. When everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, how many people will choose to resist? Occasionally, a little ripples will disappear without a trace under the tough attitude of the central government.

These are all very simple things. In addition, China's development is gradually improving. The average salary has increased many times compared to before 1908. More wages, better living conditions, and higher quality life. Who would object? The inconvenience caused by migration is soon replaced by crazy rising living conditions and tastes. Ethnic integration and immigration integration are in progress, and the current progress is quite good.

Australia can take it down, but there is no need to do anything left. The world is so big that it cannot occupy all the five continents and become China's territory. The land of more than 30 million square kilometers is absolutely enough for China. No matter how big it is, it is necessary to consider how to apply these land issues. This is not an easy problem for China at present. If it is not handled well, it will have the consequences of falling apart. Yang Yuanzhao will not be able to control it in the future. In his lifetime, when he can influence and control it, it will definitely push the country to develop to a closer range. Only a stable China can make rapid progress. Whether in terms of technology or economy, this is an unshakable direction.

The plan of the Eurasian Railway is a good plan, and even in the future, it can promote the construction of the railway in peacetime when the war ends. The railway to Xinjiang has been built, which is actually part of the Eurasian Railway planned in the future. However, Central Asia has been disconnected and is currently only serving China. Russia cannot cross it, and Central Asia does not occupy it. This railway cannot play an important role in connecting Eurasians. It is the best choice to transport materials to Germany or to go to sea from the Indian Ocean. Contact the Middle East is to be carried out at sea.

The Middle East Basra, a piece of overseas territory that China first acquired, was occupied by China before the war and formed one of the largest ports in the world. On the premise of actually controlling the entire Middle East, the Middle East is the first priority construction place. Not only large-scale immigration, but also a series of industrial transfers. The purpose is of course to stabilize immigration on the Arabian Peninsula. After all, tens of millions of immigrants, if there is no industry to raise them, they will have problems themselves. In a sense, it is an enclave far from China's borders.

Basra itself is a good city. It has developed well in the past few years. Now, with the intervention of the central government, a batch of production capacity has been moved. In the future, a new industrial zone with Basra and Baghdad as the core will undertake one percent of the entire China's industry, various light industries, and even some heavy industries, such as 2.5 million tons of steel projects, will fall behind here. Arabia, which has been hundreds of years behind, will usher in a new development opportunity. They will become the vanguard of China's foreign economy.

At present, this change has had considerable effect. Some simple light industries, such as cloth, food processing, and basic iron product processing, are all military orders. They need to be produced from China and traveled across the ocean for a month after they are produced from the sea. However, if they are produced locally, they only need to send the raw materials, and even solve some raw materials on the spot to produce them.

In addition, small chemical factories were built in Baghdad and Basra. Because they were overseas, the scale was not very large, but the problem was solved very well. From 1915 to 1916, under the premise that the scale of the fleet to the Middle East increased by 20%, the transportation of materials to Germany increased by 185%. This is the role played by the Middle East.

Overall, the economy and conditions in the Middle East are still harsh, and the desert itself is an unsuitable place to live. Even if oil in the Arab region is opened in later generations, there are not many people in the Middle East. Even if there are factories that purify seawater, the Arab region is still short of water, which is the most fundamental problem.

However, in the Middle East, another large-scale project has also begun to be built. The development of Baku has transformed it from a super giant oil field with an annual output of about 10 million tons to a world's number one oil field. Compared with this fourth generation, when all oil fields are basically developed, 100 million tons will occupy the entire 3b railway's transportation volume. According to 1 million tons per day, the annual transportation volume of the 3b railway is only 300 million tons. Of course, this is the theoretical result, and it is somewhat force majeure. Besides, according to the capacity of 1,000 tons per train, the daily transportation capacity of about 1,000 trains is already the limit of the 3b railway, but compared with the oil fields, it is still a bit insufficient.

In the future, there will be oil fields in the Middle East, which is the big one, several times the oil in Baku. In this way, underground oil pipelines will become the focus. Although this era is a little early, underground oil pipelines have given you no problems at the technical level. The key is that the difficulty of construction is already done in the early stages. All newly built oil fields and the original converted oil fields have been laid, especially those with a daily output of more than 1,000 tons. In this era, these can be considered large oil fields. They are transported to the train station through underground pipelines and then loaded into vehicles, which has saved the transportation capacity of the oil production area.

The construction of oil pipelines will not only not occupy the capacity of the 3b railway, but also reduce the loading process. As long as you load the ship directly through the pipeline at the port, the speed is much faster than the original one. On the train, you can use an oil tanker, but on the ship, it is impossible to send large oil storage tanks directly to the ship. This is not safe and not suitable for transportation. You can only load them into the oil depot and then load them on the ship according to the oil depot. In this case, a lot of time is wasted.

China has launched a cruise ship of 70,000 tons, which is the highest among merchant ships at present. This kind of freighter specially produced for transporting oil does not consider the problem of containers and bulk parts. It has at least dozens of pipelines that can inject and output oil, both loading and unloading, and uses the liquid flowability and at most some pressure, which is much more powerful than the back and forth transport of cranes.

A 70,000-ton oil tanker can transport 70,000 tons of oil. The daily output is 100 million tons per year, which is only more than 300,000 yuan per day. As long as there are six or seven ships per day, the things can be transported over. This greatly saves transportation capacity. Although China's merchant ship transportation has long reached the world's first level through the huge shipbuilding industry. China needs many places, the islands in the Pacific Ocean transport Japanese to Alaska, Australia, and with support for Germany, these are all provided by huge transportation capacity. It can be said without hesitation that it is really huge. In this sense, the fewer it is better.

Germany supports this oil pipeline, reducing costs, which is equivalent to increasing Germany's profits. Germany supports this very much, but Germany has no money and manpower, and everything is required by China. There is a lot of bargaining in the middle. A good foundation must be reached so that the two sides can reach an agreement. In the current situation, it is not bad, there are only some things in the last quarter. In the meantime, the Chinese took the opportunity to take out the ownership of the Middle East for discussion. This proposal was made by Yang Yuanzhao. The diplomats were looking for opportunities. Just in time, they proposed the plan for this oil pipeline. (To be continued.)

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