The World Online Chapter 652: Empire Glory
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Domestic constant change of events, Ouyang Shuo have no time to pay attention.
When relay station is established, Black Snake Guard will organize the major domestic recent events and report it to Ouyang Shuo for review. Ouyang Shuo read it without giving any instructions.
Even with the ongoing Yizhou Island dispute, Ouyang Shuo has no intention of getting involved. Since Shanhai City decided to recuperate, it was natural to remain silent.
"Let them handle the affairs of their allies!" Ouyang Shuo sighed.
It was a letter from Zhang Yi that made Ouyang Shuo a little bit more interested.
On the four major City State issues, Vast Display Monastery has cleverly used Four Seas Depository and one good card in addition to conventional methods such as money bribery, planting mischief, and provoking divorce.
Four Seas Depository is on track, deposit gold has already broken the 50 million gold coin mark. Such a huge amount of money is naturally to be lent out. In addition to Alliance internal digestion, Depository has officially opened to other Lord.
Even if Guild, Chamber of Commerce and other organizations are temporarily short of money, if they are in good standing, they will be able to borrow a sum from Four Seas Depository.
There are advances and exits. On the occasion of deposit and loan, Four Seas Depository has already made a huge profit.
The main force of lending is still Lord.
Whenever ambitious Lord, territory funds will never be enough. Are there any exceptions to the Lord of the four major City States? They also need to borrow money.
Zhang Yi takes advantage of this, among them Welcomed In All Directions.
It is indeed the spoiled child in Diplomacy School of Thought. Zhang Yi has the keen eyes and is second to none.
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July 10, Nation of Somalia, Friendship City.
After half a month of construction, the desolate mountain valley is completely transformed. Along the foot of the mountain, the outline of the city wall made of megaliths excavated in situ is clearly visible and rolling.
The Brave's Port in the north has also been replaced with new equipment. The pier on the east and west sides have been completed. The merchant ship between them no longer has to stop at the sea surface of the harbour, everything becomes orderly.
mountain valley is filled with tents.
July's Somalia is very hot. Artisan and coolies don't need to live in a special house. They can set up a simple tent with a few rags to cope with the past.
The center of the tent is the temporary dining hall. In order to ensure the construction progress of Engineering, Ouyang Shuo specifically explained the officials responsible for food and accommodation, and must do the best on food.
Not only do you have a full meal, but also pay attention to nutritional matching.
"Mutual meat!" is the greatest happiness of Artisan.
How can Artisans work with such care? The overall progress of Engineering is 4~5 days ahead of expectations of Ouyang Shuo's.
The construction of conferred land is completely on track.
The officials, Skills talented people and immigrants supported by territory are sailing on Indian Ocean at this time. It is expected that arrive Friendship City will be available in ten days.
Ouyang Shuo is not ready to wait.
Seeing that Gaia Year 3 is more than halfway, Ouyang Shuo must seize the time to complete this ocean voyage.
Before leaving, Ouyang Shuo did three things.
The first thing is establish Friendship City City Guard Brigade. After the Army Camp was built, Ouyang Shuo selected a group of strong warriors from the hard labor settled in Friendship City, profession change was Blade-Shield Soldier.
Ouyang Shuo then selected a batch of Officer from Navy Blade-Shield Soldier and joined City Guard Brigade as team leader and Battalion Overseer. As for City Guard Brigade's Brigade Commander, a Little Captain from Divine Military Guard serves.
So, City Defense Force of Friendship City is regarded as establish.
Adding Artisan and coolies, including Merchant, Skills talented people, and Friendship City, who have come here from other places, have not yet broken the 100,000 mark.
At present, a City Guard Brigade is enough to deter evildoer.
The second thing is to finalize the overall plan of Friendship City. Ouyang Shuo compiled his planning ideas for Friendship City into a document and left it to the design team that was coming.
Friendship City's positioning is very clear, it is a pure Capital of Trade.
Brave's Port is not the best port for Asian-African waterways, not even the best port for Gulf of Aden. But Friendship City will be the Capital of Trade with the most open, most complete facilities and the most preferential policies in this area.
The Friendship City planned by Ouyang Shuo has only two City Regions, separated by a central street. East City Region is positioned as a business and trade area, with terminals, bulk goods Collection and Distribution Center, logistics centers, settlement centers, labor Market, Depository, and bulk goods trading centers all built in the business and trade area.
All in all, all the facilities in the business district are designed around ocean trade, the purpose of which is to make ocean trade more convenient, highly efficient and safe in Friendship City.
West City Region is positioned as a service area. Except for taking out a part of the land for the construction of Residential Region, the remaining places will be used to build Business buildings such as Tavern, Inn, Brothel, gambling houses, night markets, Restaurant, and auction houses.
A variety of entertainment venues will also cover high, medium and low grades to meet the consumption needs of different groups of people. There is no doubt that West City Region will be a paradise for Merchant and Sailor.
As long as you are rich and willing to spend money, you are the true God in West City Region.
In addition, West City Region will also build a large number of shops and warehouses, mainly selling materials related to Fleet replenishment, such as fresh water, food, meat, medicine and so on.
Ouyang Shuo's slogan is, Friendship City can solve all supplies of Fleet in one stop.
"Only you can't think of it, nothing you can't buy!"
It can be said that the entire city is built around ocean trade. If all construction is completed, it will be a veritable Capital of Trade.
To this end, Ouyang Shuo fully reserves 500,000 gold coin to fill the Friendship City finances.
Roughly calculated, Ouyang Shuo's investment in Friendship City has reached million gold coin. Now look forward to whether Friendship City can create a Business miracle.
The third thing Ouyang Shuo does is to make Distant Oceans Fleet even out 100 gate Artillery and leave it to Friendship City. The 100 gate Artillery will be fully placed on the city wall on the north side, with the muzzle pointed at the port.
Friendship City is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the only channel of China Unicom's external world is Brave's Port. There is a formed Navy Battalion town in the military port, plus the Deterrence of 100 gate Artillery, enough to calm all the evildoer generations.
So, Ouyang Shuo can leave with confidence.
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On July 11, Distant Oceans Fleet set off again.
When set out, Ouyang Shuo did not notify anyone and left quietly to start a new journey. I do not know what kind of challenges will be in the future voyage, waiting for this Fleet destined to be entered into the annals of history.
Fleet passes through Bab-el-Mandeb and directly enters Red Sea.
Red Sea is located between the northeast of Africa and the Arab peninsula. It has a narrow and long shape. Its northwest is connected to Mediterranean Sea through Suez Canal and the south is connected to Gulf of Aden through Bab-el-Mandeb.
Meanwhile, Red Sea is also the sea with the highest salinity in the world, and is an important oil transportation channel in the world.
China East Sea Bay is known as the world ’s oil depot in reality, with oil reserves accounting for two-thirds of the world ’s total reserves. This setting is also continued in the game, with rich oil reserves.
Petroleum oil at this time was only called fierce kerosene in China. It only existed as an auxiliary war material.
Even the Britain, which is the cradle of Industrial Revolution, is still in its infancy at first time Industrial Revolution at this time. The iconic invention of Steam Engine was just born.
first time Industrial Revolution, derived from Iron and Steel Industry and the textile industry.
What really makes oil shine is second time Industrial Revolution. With the invention of the internal combustion engine and industrial electrification, cars and airplanes will appear on the History stage.
Until then, countries will have a large demand for oil.
Ouyang Shuo must doubt whether it can be advanced to second time Industrial Revolution based on the ten-year cycle of the game. At least previous life for five years, even Steam Engine has not been universally popularized.
As a result, the use of oil is currently very low and the demand is not great. For Middle Eastern countries, this is really not good news.
Of course, Mediterranean Sea countries have more than just oil. They also have a long history of History. Among the four ancient countries of Civilization, Cuban Babylon and ancient Egypt are in the area around Mediterranean Sea.
Not to mention, Roman Empire of historical, Empire of Macedonia, Persian Empire and Arab Empire all have intersections with the surrounding countries of Mediterranean Sea.
Egypt's Cairo City, Greece's Athens City, and Italy's Rome City. Each Royal City has a long History, and there is an unborn ancient Emperor-King in the depths of Royal Palace.
Darius I, Alexander the Great, Gaius · Octavian · Augustus the Great, each Emperor-King is very popular, and it is comparable to Sovereign of Qin, Wu of Han.
In the game "Earth Online", the long history of History is equivalent to the profound knowledge. With this, Lords in these countries will try to restore the glory of historical Empire.
They are all active figures on the global stage.
Ouyang Shuo has no ambitions for Mediterranean Sea countries. His goal is simply to open ocean trade with these countries without any other thoughts.
It is exactly the same, Ouyang Shuo will choose to establish a foundation early in Somalia.
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Red Sea is not red, but blue.
Fleet passes through Red Sea, then passes through Gulf of Suez, which is arrive Suez Canal.
Suez Canal has existed since ancient times. Of course, the real navigation was built in 1869. This is a sea-level waterway that runs through the Suez Gap at Egypt, communicates Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea, and provides the nearest route from Europe to the land around Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Ocean. In reality, it is one of the most frequently used routes in the world.
At the same time, Suez Canal is also the boundary line between Asia and Africa, and is the main channel for Asia to communicate with Africa and Europe. The canal starts from Port Said in the north and reaches Suez City in the south, with a total length of 100 90 kilometers. Dig into the north of Port Said and enter Mediterranean Sea to the south of Suez.
The completion of Suez Canal makes the Africa Peninsula become Continent of Africa, Egypt crosses Asia and Africa, and the trade of West Southern Asia, East North Africa and Southern Europe is more busy.