In a village in Kuwait's governorate, some people are busy with their own homes.

It's just that the appearance of these people seems to be a little strange, after all, almost all of these people in front of them are yellow people, which can be said to be very different from the image of Kuwaitis, and they are completely two appearances.

And if you look around, you can see that almost all the people in the entire village are yellow. Similarly, the architectural style of this village is completely different from the local architectural style of Kosovo, but more like the architectural style of Chinese mainland―――――― so that it is not full of oriental architectural style, but full of modernity. This is also a mainstream architectural style in China, in fact, in later generations, people have evaluated shirts and other clothing and architectural styles as Westernized, which is somewhat incorrect, because this should be called modernization.

After all, in later generations, the inventions that had a great impact on people's lives at that time were not only limited to the West, but also contributed a lot from Asia―――――― such as Japan and South Korea, and as for China, after all, it started late, but gradually began to contribute.

In addition, the so-called West actually refers to Europe and North America plus Oceania, and the Middle East, the South Asian subcontinent, and South America, although they are actually similar in race, are actually excluded. It is precisely because of this relationship that in later generations, countries like Turkey, usually in organizations like NATO, are treated as outsiders...

And in this era, due to the early rise of China. And the Chinese have no racial disadvantage at all. Therefore, there are a large number of inventions closely related to life, all of which were invented by Chinese, especially in the last two years.

Soon many of the buildings in the country had a modern feel. This is true even in some rural areas. Especially those landlords who have a little money in their hands, they have replaced their original 'dilapidated' homes with brand new small villas.

In addition to the landlords, the so-called kulaks also put their new homes in the style recommended by the construction companies.

Of course, this trend is not limited to the country, but has also spread to other regions, such as in some new provinces such as the Middle East and Siberia. Of course. Due to geographical and climatic problems, there are still great differences in architectural styles in these regions, after all, one is from a cold region. One is from a hot area, and the difference is naturally very large.

At the same time, due to the continuous relocation of the people of the country to the newly occupied areas by the national government, these villages and even towns with new architectural styles are constantly emerging.

This situation would not have been possible three or five years ago. However, at this moment this situation is in the province of Kuwait. Even a few provinces in the Middle East can be said to be an increasingly common phenomenon.

This is not surprising, given that a large number of people now migrate from the country to several new provinces almost every year. Among them, even if it is a province with the smallest number of migrations, there will be at least more than 10,000 people in a year, let alone a few provinces with better conditions?

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Some clarification needs to be made here, although the standard of living of the people of the country has improved considerably under the current rule of the national government. But this does not mean that all social contradictions have been properly resolved, at least in China at present.

In fact, there are still many social contradictions waiting to be resolved by the Nationalist government in China today. One of the contradictions. It's a matter of land.

In the past, the Anhui military government led by Yan Shao was able to gain the support of the people. In the final analysis, the exemption from agricultural taxes played a large part in the victory of the war against the Beiyang government.

It was precisely because of Yan Shao's exemption from agricultural taxes that the peasants, who made up the vast majority of China's population, began to support Yan Shao, because Yan Shao brought them change and hope.

After the abolition of agricultural taxes and a large number of exorbitant taxes, the lives of the common people gradually improved.

It's just that...

Despite this, the problem has not been completely solved.

After the promulgation of the policy of exempting agricultural taxes, the government of the state government once set up local landlords to reduce the rent as much as possible, from almost 50% of the rent to about 30 percent...

After all, the exemption of agricultural tax only benefits those landlords and peasants who own land, as for those peasants who need to rely on planting other people's land for a living, they cannot be benefited by this policy for the time being―――――― but in spite of this, these people are still very supportive of the national government, after all, even so, the series of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes reduced by the national government still benefit the local people very well.

However, although the Commune government proposed such a suggestion, and was full of hope that the landlords would heed the suggestion of the Commune government. Even if you don't listen, under the pressure of the township commentary, you will at least make some concessions, after all, where are there so many local tyrants and inferior gentry in this world...

It's just that there is no doubt that in the end, Yan Shao still underestimated the greed of human nature.

Although Yan Shao felt that after the agricultural tax was exempted, it was not too much to let those landlords reduce the rent from 50% to 30%. Even after taking into account the exemption from agricultural taxes, these landlords made some money.

Who would have thought...

Although it is true that there are some conscientious landlords who obey the construction of the national government, there are also a number of landlords who are finally forced to give in under the pressure of the township review. But there are still a considerable number of landlords who refuse to give in!

Not only that, but even the landlords in some places actually united to ensure that no one became a 'traitor'.

Because these people had a relatively large influence at the local level, and the Nationalist government was in the middle of World War I, it needed domestic stability, especially when it moved west to the north. So the matter was delayed.

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Many people should know that the largest number of people in China are farmers, even in today's industrialization. The peasants still occupy the vast majority, and the number of landless peasants among them will only increase―――――― at the end of any dynasty, there will be a large number of social contradictions, which naturally include land contradictions.

In this regard, the national government has not much to do, after all, there are a large number of vested interests within the national government. Similarly, the international and domestic forms at that time could not make Yan Shao take tough measures. At least at the time...

This is also the reason why a large number of people will eventually choose to move overseas.

After all, if you can't survive at home, you can only go abroad. And the government of the National Society is very good, as long as you move, you will give away land for free, and even your home will help you build something for free...

And so it goes. Naturally, a large number of people moved to the new territory. Of course. This also aroused the anger of a large number of landlords in the country, after all, in this era, when faced with a famine, the peasants always had to borrow some grain from the owner to survive the famine.

At first, it seemed that there was nothing, but then it was accumulated, so the interest became another source of profit for those landlords―――――― the so-called rent reduction and interest reduction came from this.

If it was a few years earlier. In order to repay these interest, many farmers even had to sell their children. But in this day and age, things are clearly somewhat different. Even if someone dares to sell, no one may dare to buy it―――――― because those who dare to buy it are usually arrested by the police station and sent directly to prison.

In fact, after the establishment of the Communist government, there were a large number of disabled soldiers who had been discharged from the army, and these would hold certain positions in their respective villages or townships. When these soldiers were in the army, most of them received a certain amount of education and understood some things, and the most important thing seems that most of them admired Yan Shao very much and supported the laws promulgated by the government.

If anyone dares to buy or sell children or whatever, they are the ones who report it first.

In fact, not only these, but also places such as green houses and gambling houses have also been affected by strict laws. After all, in the gambling house, the most common thing gamblers who can't afford to pay back is to ruin their families?!

As for the Qinglou, if someone sells their children and daughters, then the Qinglou is undoubtedly the best place to go.

Wasn't it because of this that Lu Ying was almost sent to the Qinglou and finally rescued by Yan Shao. And the reason why she was almost sent to the Qinglou was because she had such a gambler father...

Fortunately, she ran into Yan Shao before she entered the door, otherwise the fate of both of them might be changed.

However, due to the strict laws of the national government, I dare not say that this situation has been banned, but at least it has been much less, at least it is very rare. Although the business of the Qinglou and the gambling house has been affected as a result, at least more families have been protected.

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In any case, because many landlords in the country refused to reduce the relationship between rent and interest, a large number of people began to 'flee'. Although the landlords were very angry about this, under Yan Shao's hints, these angers did not affect the flight of the people.

Merely...

After all, the people who are willing to leave their homes are a minority, and for the vast majority of the people, as long as their lives are still passable, they will never choose the road of leaving their hometowns. Moreover, the number of landless peasants is undoubtedly much higher than the number of those who have left the country...

Therefore, a large number of people are still in a state of oppression...

In the past, this situation was somewhat out of the government's control because it needed domestic stability, but now, with the signing of the Washington Treaty, both international and domestic forms have changed dramatically.

Something seems to be about to change?

At least Yan Shao doesn't feel that he needs to accommodate those hellish landlords in his life.

Although in later generations, Yan Shao also felt that this world may not be really full of local tyrants and inferior gentry, but the facts have proved it. There are too few people who can maintain their conscience in the face of interests. Greed is the original sin of human beings.

Although for these people. They only need to pay a small part of the benefits, can make many people's lives much less stressful, and even live a much better life than if ―――――― is especially important, after the exemption of agricultural taxes, even if the rent is reduced, they still have a lot of profits, but greedy human nature only makes them feel that this is a better way to accumulate capital...

It can only be said. Yan Shao is still too naïve...

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Kuwait...

Although the area of Kuwait as a whole is not very large on the map, it seems to be at least a very small one. But in fact, the whole area of Kuwait has reached 17,818 square kilometers (including the northeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula and its nearby islands such as Bubiyan and Felaikai). It is located in the northeast of the Arabian Peninsula in western Asia, on the northwest coast of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the west and north, and Saudi Arabia to the south. It is bordered by the Persian Gulf to the east. It is across the sea from Iran. The water area is 5,625 square kilometers.

Like other countries in the Middle East, Kuwait has very little water. There are no rivers and lakes with water all year round in the whole country. Groundwater is abundant, but freshwater is scarce. In later generations, Kuwait's water resources mainly came from Iraq and desalination, but in this era, desalination is no longer to be counted on, and the only thing that can be counted on is freshwater resources from Iraq.

Despite this, Kuwait is a real treasure land, because Kuwait has one of the most valuable resources in the past 100 years―――――― oil!

Kuwait has abundant oil and gas reserves. In 2013, the proven oil reserves were 14 billion tons, accounting for 10.8% of the world's reserves. Ranked fourth in the world. The Bulgan oil field in the south is one of the largest in the world. Natural gas reserves are 1.78 trillion cubic meters, accounting for 1.1% of the world's reserves.

In later generations, oil was the main source of Kuwait's fiscal revenue and the backbone of the national economy, and more than 90% of the fiscal revenue came from oil. Its output value accounts for 40% of GDP and 95% of foreign exchange earnings from exports.

In fact, this is similar to all countries in the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia, which is called a developed country, and the oil and petrochemical industries are the lifeblood of Saudi Arabia's economy. In 2009, the average daily output of crude oil was 9.2 million barrels, and the oil export revenue was 134.7 billion US dollars, accounting for about 86% of the fiscal revenue.

Naturally, in the eyes of the world during this period, both Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were just a wasteland.

But in the eyes of others, this is not the case.

Not very far from the previous village, there is a seemingly large exploration base, located between the sands...

This is the largest exploration base of the Ministry of Energy in Kuwait. At the same time, it is also the first oil exploration base in the Middle East―――――― no way, Kuwait is too small, but the oil resources are very rich, so it is easy to find oil resources, at least compared to Iraq and several other regions.

It's just that after finding the oil resources, while the members of the base were excited, they were ordered not to reveal any information while continuing the exploration work.

And almost three years have passed since they started their exploration work in Kuwait...

During this period, according to the orders of the upper echelons of the government, they carried out a lot of exploration work in Kuwait, and found many places where there might be oil. But there's such a thing as oil, it's not like you think you have it, you have to drill it first, and then you can really understand what's going on down there...

Therefore, although they have found many places in Kuwait that may have oil, how many of them are likely to have oil, I am afraid that even the people in charge of exploration do not know very well...

It's just that, as much as they want to drill and see what is actually going on, they simply can't do it without an order...

And it is precisely because of this that although the staff in the base are still carrying out their work according to the government's orders, in fact, the entire base is inevitably a little more lifeless. After all, no matter who you change, you will feel unusually depressed when you have results but can't release them...

It's just clear that they're finally happy today...

Inside the base, while most of the members were doing their own things as usual, lifelessly, they saw a section chief in charge of communications waving a telegram in his hand and running into the director's office like a madman.

Just when the others were still wondering what was going on, they heard a burst of creepy laughter coming from the director's office!

In the afternoon of the same day, the "Far East Peace Treaty" had just been signed, and the "Washington Conference," which had attracted much attention from the world, could be concluded with only a closing ceremony. The Chinese government announced the discovery of large quantities of oil in the newly occupied Kuwaiti province...

After this news came out, it immediately shocked the whole world, especially at the Washington meeting, I don't know how many people couldn't help but look at the British government representatives after getting the news.

At the same time, because of the discovery of a large amount of oil in Kuwait, international oil prices can also be said to have fallen. (To be continued......)