In an investigation report to the British government after McMahon, the Muscat Sultanate was divided internally, and all members of the royal family had been killed in the fighting, and the murderer was the rebel leader Selim Ebad.

In the subsequent attack on the Sultanate of Muscat by the Sultanate of Najd, Selim Abad was killed in battle, Muscat was also destroyed in the battle, the inhabitants died in large numbers, and the cost of rebuilding the city was estimated to be around 150,000 pounds.

What is embarrassing is that the British government can't even come up with 150,000 now.

In fact, it's not that it can't be taken out, but it doesn't want to be used to rebuild Muscat, after all, the Muscat Sultanate still needs British subsidies to maintain its rule, so even if it is to rebuild Muscat, it is a bottomless pit.

The only one who took the initiative to take over Muscat was the Umbrella Company, and although the Sultanate of Najd could also take over, the British government clearly distrusted Ali Rashid, who was a desert bandit before.

In the 18th century, it was once the famous "pirate coast", and many tribal chiefs appointed themselves emirs, established independent regimes, and plundered passing ships, so the British would rather pay money to maintain the existence of the Muscat Sultanate, in fact, the cost of maintaining the royal family of the Sultan of Muscat is the protection fee.

Compared to the Muscat Sultanate, the umbrella company is significantly better able to ensure the safety of the route between India and Egypt, and with the advancement of modern shipping technology, ships between India and Egypt do not need to call in Muscat, and Muscat is becoming less important, for the British government, this is the best opportunity to get rid of the burden of the Muscat Sultanate.

"What's next? Aden Protectorate? "Xiao Si is the one who knows Roque best.

"The Aden Protectorate cannot be moved." Roque also regretted that the Aden Protectorate controlled access to the Red Sea, and the British government would not allow any other force to intervene, not even the Umbrella Company.

In fact, it doesn't matter, the current Aden protectorate is the future Yemen, and Roque has thought about it for a long time and has not thought about what the economic pillars of Yemen are, it seems to be cotton and coffee.

It's really amazing that as a peninsular country, it doesn't produce oil or cotton, and it's obviously not doing its job.

"Locke, consider the northern shore of the Persian Gulf—" Smalls gave a new direction.

On the northern shore of the Persian Gulf was the Persian Empire, the future Iran.

The current Persia is a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, like the Qing Dynasty, and the whole of Persia is divided into two, the Persian Gulf coast in the south is the British sphere of influence, and the Caspian coast in the north is the Russian sphere of influence.

Of course, this division was not recognized by the Persian Empire, but Russia and Britain did not care whether the Persian Empire agreed or not, and the Qajar dynasty, which now ruled the Persian Empire, was on the verge of death like the Ottoman Empire, and was overthrown by Reza Khan after the end of the world war, and then Reza Khan established the Pahlavi dynasty.

"It seems that in your eyes, I will not do anything but expand externally." Roque was also very depressed, in South West Africa and Tanganykarok there was a nickname called the war maniac, and the Belgians and Portuguese thought so, but the Belgians and Portuguese did not dare to discuss Roque openly.

"Isn't it?" Xiao Si insisted and didn't give Roque a chance to refute.

Roque ignored Xiao Si, before the world war, Roque estimated that he would have to be honest for a while, otherwise it would cause dissatisfaction in Britain.

Britain can accept a moderate expansion in southern Africa, but not over-expansion, and now the Umbrella Company's expansion in the Middle East is a bit fast, fortunately, the Umbrella Company occupies desert areas that the Ottoman Empire and Britain do not look down on, otherwise the Umbrella Company will also become a public enemy of the Middle East.

Roque did not dare to go to the northern shore of the Persian Gulf, which did not mean that others did not dare to go, and after the fall of the Muscat Sultanate, Anglo-American oil companies finally gave up their search for oil on the peninsula and went to the northern shore of the Persian Gulf instead.

As a result, the mountains and rivers were in doubt, and the luck of the Anglo American oil company was also very good, the first drilling well found oil, and then the world's oil companies flocked to it.

William Knox Darcy's first sip in the Middle East was in Persia, and even William Knox Darcy's oil company was called Persian Oil Company.

Then there is the Adan company, although the Adan company is tight-lipped about the production of the Elizabeth oilfield, but from the port of Elizabeth to southern Africa and the United Kingdom oil tankers are endless, and the United Kingdom is precisely because of the replenishment of the port Elizabeth oil, so the recent period of attention to the Romanian oil field has been decreasing.

Now Anglo American oil companies have also succeeded in finding oil, and one or two good luck is acceptable, and it is not a matter of luck if three companies have succeeded in finding oil in a row, and all indications are that there may be a lot of oil on the Persian Gulf coast.

So during this time, the Persian Gulf was very lively, and the umbrella company was still very strong, and now everyone knows that without the permission of the umbrella company, any oil company on the peninsula is killing itself, so no one is looking for trouble with the umbrella company.

The Anglo-American oil company is more unlucky, the Adan company has the protection of the umbrella company, no one dares to trouble the Adan company, the southern part of the Persian Empire is the British sphere of influence, as long as it is a British company, they can come and go freely, so countless drilling teams flocked to it, hoping to find oil on the northern shore of the Persian Gulf.

Not hopefully, but definitely there.

Oil exploitation in this era is different from that of the 21st century, in which oil fields are monopolistic in nature, with large enterprises operating monopolies, and no one else being able to interfere.

In this era, the oil companies were very chaotic, and the Anglo-American oil company did not have the kind of anti-natural relationship as the Adan company, and they bought land at every turn to circle it and slowly pumped it themselves, so many oil companies that came to the Persian Gulf simply drilled next to the derrick of the Anglo-American oil company, and almost in just a dozen days, the derrick of the Anglo-American oil company was surrounded by the derrick, and the density was so great that it could be crossed in one step.

This situation made Richard Bloom, the managing director of Anglo American, anxious.

But the companies that can afford to extract oil from Persia have backgrounds, such as the British Royal Shell, and the Styva Romania company, which is controlled by Deutsche Bank, and these big companies Anglo-American oil companies cannot afford to offend.

What is especially unacceptable to Richard Bloom is that even the Adan Company, which exclusively owns Port Elizabeth, came to join in the fun, and was so wealthy that it drilled three wells around the derrick of Anglo American Petroleum in one go, which was a rhythm of not digging and not stopping.

The person in charge of the Adan company is called Ivanovich, and his name looks like a Russian, but in fact he is not, there are also many Slavs in the Ottoman Empire, and his name is either Go or driver.

"Ivan, can your umbrella still have a face!" Richard Bloom was smart enough to take the managers of several other large companies with him to find Ivanovic.

"It's your business! Get out of the way, don't mess with me! Ivanovich was grumpy, and before the scolding had ended, several workers around him had already picked up wrenches and shovels.

Don't be surprised, many oil wells in this period had to be dug raw with shovels, and machine drilling technology had just appeared and was expensive.

"You already have the Elizabethan oil fields, so you shouldn't come to the Persian Empire." Jeffrey Kiplin of Royal Shell was also not satisfied, and Royal Shell also wanted to cooperate with Umbrella Company, but was naturally refused.

"Phew! You Royal Shell also have oil fields in Romania, why did you come to the Persian Gulf? "Ivanovich is not afraid of being besieged, with a height of one meter nine and a weight of one hundred and nineteen, he does not suffer when he fights.

With such a dense drilling platform, it is normal to fight, there are people fighting every day these days, today it is Royal Shell and Styva, tomorrow it is Umbrella and Styva, and the day after tomorrow it will be replaced by Royal Shell and Umbrella, the so-called status of the rivers and lakes is fought by fists.

"The Persian Gulf is not your family, I can come if I want!" Jeffrey is also not stingy, the umbrella company not only dominates Port Elizabeth, other oil companies can't bypass Port Elizabeth to find oil, those desert robbers don't touch the umbrella at all, and the explorers of other oil companies just kill one by one, this kind of behavior has long caused the public anger of all oil companies.

"You can come if you want to, and Lao Tzu can come too!" Ivanovic jumped to his feet and cursed, under normal circumstances, what should be a scuffle next.

"Gentlemen, be sensible, if you still want to dig for oil, then be honest with me!" Finally, the steward came forward, and the southern part of the Persian Empire was the British sphere of influence, and these oil companies came to Persia to extract oil and paid money.

"Alex, help me, I'm besieged by this bunch of sluts-" Ivanovich howled at the top of his throat, and the umbrella company gave the most money in three wells in one breath.

Alex is McMahon's subordinate, and the relationship between the Umbrella Company and the Egyptian colonial government is very good, and the British only have that little army in Egypt, and if there is anything wrong, the Umbrella Company needs to help.

The huge annual public relations expenses of the umbrella are not spent in vain, an official of Alex's level can't get a lot of money, and there are a lot of small favors, and the oil tankers between Port Elizabeth and Southern Africa are full of oil when they go back, and they are very loose when they come over, and the bilge has to be filled with water ballast, and it is normal to carry something or something.

For example, motorcycles, although there are also in Europe, but motorcycles in southern Africa are very popular in the peninsula and Europe with advanced performance and cool styling, and the price of motorcycles in southern Africa is still very cheap, and you can make a lot of money in the middle.