The domestic situation is changing, but Ouyang Shuo has no time to pay attention. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the post station was built, the Black Snake Guard sorted out the major events that had happened in the country recently and reported them to Ouyang Shuo for reading. Ouyang Shuo read it and didn't give any instructions.

Even if the dispute over Yizhou Island was still ongoing, Ouyang Shuo had no intention of intervening in it. Since Shanhai City decided to recuperate, it was natural to be silent to the end.

"Let them handle the affairs of their allies on their own!" Ouyang Shuo sighed.

It was Zhang Yi's letter that made Ouyang Shuo a little interested.

In the matter of dividing the four major city-states, in addition to conventional means such as money bribery, planting bribes, and sowing discord, Honglu Temple also skillfully used the good card of the four seas money village.

Sihai Money Bank is on the right track, and the savings have already exceeded the 50 million gold coin mark. Such a huge amount of money naturally has to be lent out, and in addition to the internal digestion of the alliance, the money bank has been officially opened to other lords.

It is even said that if the guilds, chambers of commerce and other organizations are temporarily short of money, if they have a good reputation, they can get a loan from the Four Seas Money Bank.

There are in and out, deposits and loans, and the four seas money has earned huge profits.

The main force of borrowing is still the lord.

But for an ambitious lord, the territory funds will never be enough. How could the lords of the four city-states be an exception? They also need borrowed funds.

Zhang Yi took advantage of this and fought in it.

is worthy of being the coquettish son of the family, Zhang Yi's keen eyes are unsurpassed.

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10 July, Friendship City, State of Somalia.

After more than half a month of construction, the desolate valley has completely changed. Along the foot of the hill, the outline of the city wall, made of locally mined boulders, is clearly visible and undulating.

The port of the brave to the north has also been renovated, and the wharves on the east and west sides have been completed, and the merchant ships no longer have to dock at the harbor in a chaotic manner, and everything has become orderly.

Inside the valley, there are tents.

It was already very hot in Somalia in July, and the craftsmen and coolies did not need to live in special houses, but could cope with the use of a few rags to set up a simple tent.

In the center of the tent are temporary canteens. In order to ensure the progress of the construction of the project, Ouyang Shuo specially told the officials who were in charge of food and lodging that they must do their best in terms of food.

Not only to be full, but also to pay attention to nutritional matching.

"There's meat in the pause!" It is the greatest happiness of the craftsmen.

With such a generous treatment, how could the craftsmen not have to work. The overall progress of the project was four or five days ahead of Ouyang Shuo's expectations.

The construction of the fiefdom is completely on the right track.

Officials, skilled personnel, and immigrants from the territory are sailing across the Indian Ocean and are expected to arrive in Friendship City in ten days.

Ouyang Shuo was not ready to wait.

Seeing that Gaia's three years have passed halfway, Ouyang Shuo must hurry up to complete this ocean voyage.

Before leaving, Ouyang Shuo did three things.

The first thing to do is to form the Friendship City City Guard Brigade. After the military camp was built, Ouyang Shuo selected a group of strong warriors from the coolies who settled in Friendship City and transferred them to sword and shield soldiers.

Ouyang Shuo then selected a group of officers from the sailor and shield soldiers and joined the city guard brigade to serve as the team leader and battalion leader. As for the brigade commander of the City Guard Brigade, it was served by a squad leader of the Shenwu Guard.

In this way, the city defense force of Friendship City is considered to have been formed.

Combined with the successive recruitment of artisans and coolies, including merchants and skilled personnel from other places, the population of Friendship City has not yet exceeded the 100,000 mark.

At present, a city guard brigade is enough to deter Xiaoxiao.

The second thing is to finalize the overall plan of the friendship city. Ouyang Shuo compiled his planning ideas for the Friendship City into a document and left it for the design team that was coming.

The positioning of the Friendship City is very clear, it is a pure commercial capital.

Port of the Brave is not the best port in the Asian-African shipping lane, or even the best port in the Gulf of Aden. However, the Friendship City will be the most open, well-equipped and preferential business capital in this area.

Ouyang Shuo's planned Friendship City has only two urban districts, east and west, separated by a central street in the middle. Dongcheng District is positioned as a business district, with wharves, bulk cargo distribution centers, logistics centers, settlement centers, labor markets, money banks and bulk cargo trading centers all built in the business district.

All in all, all the facilities in the zone are designed around ocean trade, with the aim of making ocean trade more convenient, efficient and safe in the friendship city.

Xicheng District is positioned as a service area. In addition to taking out a part of the land for the construction of residential areas, the rest of the land will be used for the construction of commercial buildings such as taverns, inns, green buildings, gambling houses, night markets, restaurants, and auction houses.

All kinds 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 Xicheng District will be a paradise for merchants and sailors.

As long as you have money and are willing to spend it, you are the real God in Xicheng District.

In addition, a large number of shops and warehouses will be built in Xicheng District, mainly selling materials related to fleet replenishment, such as fresh water, grain, meat, medicine, etc.

Ouyang Shuo's slogan is that all the supplies of the fleet can be solved in one stop in Friendship City.

"There's only what you can't think of, there's nothing you can't buy!"

It can be said that the entire city was built around ocean trade, and if it is really completed, it will be a veritable commercial capital.

To this end, Ouyang Shuo set aside 500,000 gold coins to fill the finances of the Friendship City.

Roughly calculated, Ouyang Shuo's investment in Friendship City has reached a huge amount of millions of gold coins. Now we have to wait and see if Friendship City can create a business miracle.

The third thing Ouyang Shuo did was to let the ocean-going fleet send out a hundred guns and leave them for Friendship City. The 100 guns were all placed on the northern wall, and the muzzles were aimed at the port.

Friendship City is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the only way to connect with the outside world is the Port of the Brave. There is a formed battalion of sailors in the military port, plus the deterrence of a hundred guns, which is enough to suppress all the young people.

In this way, Ouyang Shuo can leave with confidence.

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On 11 July, the ocean-going fleet set off again.

Ouyang Shuo didn't notify anyone when he set off, and left quietly to start a new journey. I don't know what kind of challenges await this fleet destined to go down in history on the future voyage.

The fleet passed through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and went directly into the Red Sea.

Located between northeastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, the Red Sea is elongated and narrow, connected to the Mediterranean Sea by the Suez Canal to the northwest and the Gulf of Aden to the south by the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

At the same time, the Red Sea is also the highest salinity sea in the world and is an important oil transportation route in the world.

The Middle East Gulf is actually known as the world's oil depot, with oil reserves accounting for two-thirds of the world's total reserves, and the game also continues this setting, with rich oil reserves.

At this time, oil was only called fierce fire oil in China, and it only existed as an auxiliary war material.

Even Britain, the cradle of the Industrial Revolution, was still in the embryonic stage of the first industrial revolution. The iconic invention of the steam engine has only just been born.

The first industrial revolution gave rise to the steel industry and the textile industry.

It was the second industrial revolution that really made oil shine, with the invention of the internal combustion engine and the electrification of industry, automobiles and airplanes will appear on the stage of history.

Only then will there be a large demand for oil.

Ouyang Shuo has to wonder if he can advance to the second industrial revolution based on the ten-year cycle of the game. At least five years ago, even the steam engine was not yet widely available worldwide.

Therefore, for the time being, the use of oil is very low and the demand is not large. This is not good news for the countries of the Middle East.

Of course, the Mediterranean countries have more than just oil. They also have a long history, with ancient Babylon and ancient Egypt all around the Mediterranean.

Not to mention, the Roman, Macedonian, Persian and Arab empires in history have all intersected with the countries surrounding the Mediterranean.

Cairo in Egypt, Athens in Greece and Rome in Italy each have a long history, and deep inside the royal palace lived an ancient emperor who was not born.

Darius I, Alexander the Great, and Gavis Octavian Augustus, each of whom was well-known and comparable to the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty.

In Earth Online, history is synonymous with heritage. In this way, the lords of these countries will try to restore the glory of the historical empire.

They are all active figures on the global stage.

Therefore, for Mediterranean countries, Ouyang Shuo has no ambitions for the time being. His goal was to trade with these countries in the oceans, and not to think about anything else.

It is precisely because of this that Ouyang Shuo chose to lay a foundation in Somalia early.

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The Red Sea is not red, but blue.

The fleet crossed the Red Sea, passed through the Gulf of Suez, and arrived at the Suez Canal.

The Suez Canal has been around for a long time, but of course, it was only in 1869 that it was actually built and opened to traffic. It is a sea-level waterway that runs through the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt, connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, and provides the closest route from Europe to the Indian Ocean and the nearby lands of the western Pacific Ocean, and is in reality one of the most frequently used routes in the world.

At the same time, the Suez Canal is also the border between Asia and Africa, and is the main passage between Asia, Africa and Europe. The canal runs from Port Said in the north to Suez City in the south, with a total length of 190 kilometers, and is dug in the north of Port Said into the Mediterranean Sea to the south of Suez.

With the completion of the Suez Canal, the African peninsula became the African continent, Egypt crossed Asia and Africa, and trade in Southwest Asia, Northeast Africa and Southern Europe became busier.