Five hundred slave soldiers lined up in the school yard for Ali Rashid to review.

A half-new Lee Enfield, plus a common scimitar on the peninsula is the basic equipment of the cavalry, and in order to strengthen the firepower, Li De also equipped the cavalry with two general-purpose machine guns, which are now placed in front of the cavalry queue and are the only automatic weapons for the cavalry.

In fact, it is enough to equip to this extent, and the Nyasaland Arms Group sold nearly 10,000 Lee Enfield in Port Elizabeth, scattered throughout the peninsula, and the average is not much in the hands of each tribe.

Although the Lee Enfield used by these five hundred cavalry was eliminated by the mercenaries of the Umbrella Company, because of the good maintenance, at least it can be used, and it is difficult to say the Lee Enfield sold in Port Elizabeth.

In order to establish Ali Rashid's authority and inspect the troops, Li De did not come forward, and let Ali Rashid go by himself, Li De and Don sat in the shade under the tower corridor, and four Arab maidens wearing only light veils served beside them, these people were not robbed, but Ali Rashid gave them to Don N by them.

In the peninsula, the status of women is so casual, it is just the property of men, and it is commonplace to give it away casually, and these girls, or women, are also obedient, without the slightest sense of resistance, for them, it is just a change of master to serve.

Probably because Li De glanced at it twice, Tang En was very generous: "I like it, I like to give you two, and I will take it with me when I leave tomorrow." ”

Staying in this kind of environment is indeed very easy to degenerate.

Li De originally wanted to remind Don En to be careful of the secret police of the Ministry of Justice, but after thinking about it, he kept silent, the Ministry of Justice and the umbrella are almost the same, or the umbrella company is simply a peripheral unit of the Ministry of Justice, and Tang En is not in southern Africa, so the secret police of the Ministry of Justice will not care about Tang En's.

"No problem, right?" Li De didn't have a head or a brain.

Tang En nodded silently, and the two of them seemed to be playing a dumb riddle.

Li De is asking Don if he has mixed sand in Ali Rashid's men, since he wants to scatter Ali Rashid, then he must ensure the control of Ali Rashid, if Ali Rashid's performance does not meet the requirements of Li De and Don Den, then Li De and Don En will take back the power given to Ali Rashid at any time.

Of course, Don also knows the importance of this, Ali Rashid and his men have been training in the New Cape of Good Hope for several months, it is very easy to arrange a few people, these cavalry are all arriving at the New Cape of Good Hope in batches, before that, many of them did not know each other at all, in recent months, the tribes that have disappeared on the peninsula simply do not know how many, so God knows how many Donn's men are in these cavalry.

After the separation of the umbrella company and the Adan company, the umbrella company was mainly responsible for the action, and the Adan company was mainly responsible for the management, so Li De arranged for Don to mix sand into Ali Rashid's men, and then he didn't care how Tang En operated, and the two had a tacit understanding with different division of labor.

"Then send Ali Rashid out as soon as possible, the oil exploration team of the Persian Oil Company has been looking for oil in Basra recently, don't you need me to tell you what to do?" Li De did not want to see an oil exploration team other than Umbrella Company and Adan Company appear in the peninsula area.

The Persian Petroleum Company was the predecessor of the British Petroleum Company, and its founder was the Englishman William Knox Darcy.

William Knox Darcy had previously worked for the Morgan brothers, and in the mid-to-late last century, the West, led by the British, began geological exploration of the peninsula.

The results of the exploration suggest that the peninsula region may contain rich oil resources, especially in the basin of the two rivers between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.

But this may also mean uncertainty, maybe an oil well can go down, you can directly find a super-large oil field, and it is more likely that after paying high exploration fees, it is very likely to be in vain.

William Knox D'Arcy was in charge of oil exploration at the time, and after drilling several oil wells, William Knox D'Arcy found nothing, when the Morgan brothers ordered William Knox D'Arcy to stop prospecting, but William Knox D'Arcy did not stop, preferring to continue to search for oil at his own expense.

As a result, in 1908, William Knox D'Arcy finally found oil in the border area between Iraq and Iran.

Then in 1909, the Persian Oil Company was founded.

"The Persian Oil Company is a British enterprise—" Donn hesitated.

"So what? Again, it wasn't us who attacked the oil exploration team. "Li De doesn't care, what happened to the oil exploration team of the British, as long as it involves the interests of the umbrella company and the Adan company, they all deserve to die.

"Wait, let's terminate the contract first." Don was a little embarrassed.

Only then did Li De realize that it was the Umbrella Company that provided protection for the oil exploration team of the Persian Oil Company.

This is also understandable, after the discovery of oil in Port Elizabeth, the peninsula became more and more chaotic, and without the protection of the protection company, the oil exploration team of the Persian Oil Company probably did not dare to look for oil in a big way.

"Hurry up, after this batch of personnel training, the next batch of personnel will come over immediately, remember, everything is business as usual." Li De also thinks that the peninsula is not chaotic enough, and one Ali Rashid is not enough to guarantee the interests of the umbrella company and the Adan company.

A stable and unified peninsula is definitely not in the interest of Port Elizabeth, which is still under the control of the Ottoman Empire, at least until the outbreak of the world war, and the peninsula is in a state of chaos, so that it will be conducive to the expansion of Port Elizabeth in the world war.

Roque already has a preliminary plan, when the world war breaks out, Roque will mobilize the mercenaries of the Umbrella Company to expel the Ottoman Empire's influence on the peninsula, and then the Umbrella Company can successfully occupy the entire peninsula, as long as the British Empire does not object, then the peninsula will be under the management of the Umbrella Company for a long time in the future.

To do this, you can't find too much oil on the peninsula, the Persian oil company before, and now Port Elizabeth, can be seen as lucky, if more oil fields are discovered on the peninsula, then the importance of the peninsula will increase, and the British will certainly not agree to the Umbrella Company to occupy the peninsula.

In another time and space, the outbreak of world war in 1914, the occupation of Baghdad by British troops in 1917, then the establishment of the Kingdom of Iraq in 1921, and then the complete independence of the Kingdom of Iraq in 1932.

From this timeline, it can be seen that Britain really does not care about the ownership of the peninsula, even if the Persian oil company has found oil on the peninsula at that time, it has not affected Britain to abandon the peninsula.

Compared with India, Canada, Australia, and southern Africa, the peninsula is indeed a little smaller, and the British government did not realize how much oil there was underground on the peninsula, and it was not until 1938 that the scale of oil under the peninsula began to appear, but the British government at that time was facing a serious crisis that broke out in World War II, and was unable to take into account the interests of the peninsula, and then after World War II, the world officially entered the bipolar era, and the former glory of the British Empire was gone.

Roque knows how many mistakes the British government has made in the next few decades, compared with the peninsula in the fifties of the twentieth century, the peninsula is now sparsely populated and lacks resources, and the two river basins can still have some economic value, but that economic value is simply unbearable compared to Africa and the Americas, and Britain can even give up Canada, Australia and southern Africa, not to mention the two river basins with low economic value.

In Roque's plan, it is best to have a dozen more powerful forces on the peninsula to fight each other, so as to best serve the interests of Port Elizabeth, it is far from enough now, Ali Rashid is just an attempt, and in the future, Li De and Don will try more possibilities.

"No problem, it's what we do best, you want you to give me enough resources, and I can train them to be the best fighters." Don doesn't shirk, the mercenaries do this business, the base of the umbrella company in Nepal has been relocated to the New Cape of Good Hope, the scale of a few hundred people is really drizzle, no matter more, Don can also ensure "mass production".

And also quality and quantity.

"No problem, enough potatoes and bullet tubes." Li De is not stingy, if he can occupy the entire peninsula with some potatoes and bullets, then this business is simply too cost-effective.

While Lid and Don were chatting, Ali Rashid had finished his short speech, and then hundreds of horsemen drew their scimitars and roared, and the camels began to stir.

Li De doesn't care if Ali Rashid inspires these slave soldiers to fight bravely, for Li De, these slave soldiers are consumables, and if they die, they can be caught, anyway, there are countless nomads in the desert, and no one knows how many there are.

Later, Li De and Tang En hosted a banquet to see Ali Rashid off.

"Basra, Persian Oil Company, I remember—" Ali Rashid knew his mission, and the expression on his face was a little hesitant, but he didn't hesitate for long before Ali Rashid agreed.

Now he had no choice but to follow the established path, and as for whether there was a paradise with 72 virgins at the end of the road, or a hell with only endless fire, Ali Rashid was in no mood to consider this.

"Remember your mission and try not to hurt those people, but you must blow up all their tools, after which you retreat quickly, leaving nothing behind." Li De is quite sensible, even if it is for the sake of profit, he will not kill innocents indiscriminately, but he just let the Persian oil company retreat.

Of course, if the Persian Oil Company insists on going its own way, then Li De will not be polite.