Wilhelm II had agreed to the construction of the Basra port, let the northwest build it casually, and leave it alone, but when this proposal came to Wilhelm II's hands for the third time, he didn't know whether to cry or laugh, because the northwest did not have the ability to build a seaport independently, and inevitably needed the help of Germany, Germany is not a complete maritime country, but there are many ports near Germany, and the Kiel Canal was built to expand the ports of Germany, along the side of the Kiel Canal, a series of ports, although most of them are not large.

The seaport with an annual throughput capacity of 13 million tons, although it is not the strongest in the world, in Europe, the port of London and the port of Amsterdam, because of the advantage of location, far above him, but other ports, including the port of Hamburg in Germany, are just similar to this, in the Middle East, the construction of such a huge port, has such a large throughput capacity, the throughput capacity of the Baghdad railway, I'm afraid it can only digest half of it, what next? It's hard to digest in the Middle East. Can the Middle East, built on a desert and full of tribes, absorb millions of tons of resources?

Wilhelm II was not obliged to direct the northwest, and the Germans were only paying for the high skilled personnel, whether it was labor or all kinds of materials, they were carried out by the northwest, and they were willing to invest, so they put it in.

The report was sent directly to various design institutes in Germany, and the bidding work also began, even if it is not very recognized, Germany is still strictly in accordance with the regulations, bidding and selection, the character of the German stereotyped machinery, here is undoubtedly shown, from 3 million tons of annual throughput, one more than 1, which is equivalent to more than 4 times the tonnage, whether it is the berth, loading and unloading capacity, transportation capacity and shipping, will pose a new challenge, the cost of funds, is at least 10 times the previous one.

The construction of a huge port with a throughput of 10 million tons in a short period of time consumes huge resources, tens of millions of tons, at least 5-8 berths of about 10,000 tons, or even more than 10,000 tons, and dozens of other berths of various tons, such as 7,000 tons, 5,000 tons, 3,000 tons and 1,000 tons or less, which have a fixed model in the construction of the port.

There are a series of facilities such as shelters, anchorages, etc., the investment is very huge, the area is also quite huge, a 10,000-ton cargo ship, the length will be more than 130 meters, the berth must be large, five or six berths, it needs more than one kilometer of coastline, not on the coastline, every place is suitable as a berth, must be processed and constructed according to the actual situation, plus other berths, the facilities of this harbor are quite large, and may even be tens of square kilometers.

In Iraq, there is such a big place, along Basra, although near the coast, there are a lot of wetlands, not suitable for the construction of cities and seaports, but more places, is suitable for the construction of this seaport, and there are quite a lot of them, because it is closer to the sea, saving part of the voyage, it is a favorable place, as for the Basra, what is the northwest is good at, dozens or even hundreds of kilometers of railways, and even directly connected to the Baghdad railway, this is easier to solve.

The total investment may exceed 50 million US dollars, which may be a very small number in later generations, in this era of 20.6 US dollars to huàn an ounce of gold, 50 million US dollars, equivalent to almost 2.5 million ounces of gold, 70 tons of gold, in this world, it is definitely a huge purchasing power.

Such a huge bidding, design costs and engineering guidance costs, are followed by the total investment, when Harpy, under the guidance of Yang Yuanzhao, deposited a part of the foreign exchange into the German bank, almost the entire Germany, the design firm about the harbor design, participated in the bidding.

Of course, everything is secret, in this time when the war clouds in Europe, ordinary infrastructure investment bidding, can not attract the attention of other countries, in the quiet, the German industrial alliance obtained the design of this seaport construction, they used 2 million US dollars, won the tender, will according to the current situation in Basra, to help the northwest design a huge seaport with 10 tons of berths and 128 other tons of berths, when the funds are in place, Peter Behrens, chief designer of the German Industrial Confederation, and other designers, together with temporary recruits, 172 people, took a cruise ship to the Middle East, because there was no direct Basra, which would turn to the Persian Gulf after the Guò Suez Canal.

Such a large operation did not attract the attention of the British, and they arrived in Basra by the way, and after studying the original hydrological data and maps of Germany through Guò, and surveying them on the spot, and obtaining a large amount of first-hand information, Behrens personally designed three plans and provided them to the northwest.

The three schemes, in fact, are in two places, one of them, there are two design schemes, one is larger, and it is even possible to expand to a 3,000-ton harbor, and the other is only 1,500 tons of extreme capacity, but the environment there is excellent, the investment is small, and the area next to it can even be used as a military port.

After using the destroyer to help send things to the northwest, Yang Yuanzhao thought about it for a while, and directly decided to take the 30 million tons as the main port, and by the way, he also asked the design institute to complete the design of 15 million tons, because the two locations are not far apart, only about 12 kilometers, and the Middle East in the future is a busy place, even if it is for World War I, it needs to be reserved, otherwise, when the total amount of goods rises to an unimaginable distance, the capacity of the railway can be increased, but the seaport cannot be changed.

Both had to be designed, for which the Northwest paid an additional $500,000 in funds, one sheep was also driven, and two sheep were also, Behrens did not refuse, but only carried out according to the design, and even made a partial reservation at the request of the Northwest.

Yang Yuanzhao does not understand the seaport, but he has seen the seaport, the seaport of later generations has popularized the container terminal, the container with a more convenient and fast way, has become the mainstream of the world, but the qualified era, or the ordinary bulk and manpower machinery combined method, a small number of places use tower cranes, but there is no such huge gantry crane in later generations.

The location of the gantry crane and the container yard is reserved, so that as long as the northwest masters the construction of the seaport, it will definitely be easier to improve the container terminal in the future, and when the time comes, this may be expanded to 30 million tons, or even 45 million tons of wharf, maybe it can turn over, even if Germany needs more resources, close to the level of 100 million tons, it is enough to make Germany's strength be greatly strengthened.

The design of the wharf is in full swing, Behrens even gave a partial list, made some earthwork and personnel requirements, some basic facilities, it needs to be concentrated in the Middle East, the Middle East in order to build the Baghdad Railway, has concentrated hundreds of thousands of people and a large number of machinery, but road construction machinery and the construction of the seaport, these are two different things, although it will be universal, but Yang Yuanzhao would rather all be transported from the country, the port and the railway, in his opinion, are two in one, can not relax.

In the northwest, there was another large-scale concentration of men and machinery, even faster than the last, and after the concentration, once again on German ships, to the Middle East.

Secrets are not always so easy to hide, especially for a long time, since the Baghdad railway was put on the agenda, whether in China, or in Europe, Britain has been staring at Germany's movements, Mummer went to the northwest and didn't know what to do, and Best went to the Middle East and was not discovered, but there are many clues, especially the German Industrial Alliance is so obvious that it is measured in Basra, this kind of thing, after a long time, will always get noticed.

When all kinds of intelligence converged to Britain, the final analysis result was that Germany cooperated with the Chinese, actually spent a lot of money to build a port, almost did not laugh, the port is so easy to build, Basra became a modern port, on the one hand, it is the original foundation, on the other hand, it is not a long years of improvement, there is no huge amount of money and a lot of manpower investment, especially the latter, it is impossible to complete, or tens of millions of tons, just kidding, the whole of Europe, tens of millions of tons of throughput of the port is only how much.

The best option is that the port will hold the Germans for a year or two, and then the British will be fully prepared, and Germany will fall into the huge investment in the port, and it will be very perfect.

More and more information gathered, Britain did not expect that China actually brought another 100,000 people, these people have already boarded the ship in Shanghai, specially used to build the port, as for the construction of the Basra railway materials and logistics materials, direct money to open the way, more and more information shows that the Germans on the Baghdad railway, did not invest a penny and a little manpower, just sent a few liaison officers and technicians, as for the port a little more, there may be hundreds or thousands, but in terms of funds, there is no investment at all.

The British thought of a possibility, but no one believed that it was true, after all, in this world, there are really such people who serve others wholeheartedly, but more and more information is gathered, and there are even some information on the circulation of funds in the northwest through the bank, especially Harpy, the German and American foreign banks are the focus of British monitoring, just in the first two months, Germany and the United States have deposited 50 million US dollars into the account designated by the Bundesbank, and more are Chinese materials and personnel.

The fact that the North-West advanced funds, and even independently invested in the construction of the Baghdad Railway and the new port of Basra, was almost unmistakably placed in front of the British, much to the astonishment of all the British. R1152