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Chapter 97 Journey to the Far East (3)

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The crude oil terminal also built a new oil depot, but the capacity is not large, with a capacity of only 2 million barrels. Tott said that another 5 million barrels of reservoir area is under construction and will be completed at the end of 1929. By then, Tripoli will be able to store about 1 million tons of crude oil, which is almost equivalent to 45 days of oil production. He believes that this scale is basically enough.

Following Tott's instruction pointing, everyone also saw the factory area. Tripoli has recently built several new factories, all of which were organized by United Group: one is a power plant with an installed capacity of 450,000 kilowatts, which can supply the required power in the nearby area. The special feature of this power plant is a natural gas and oil-fired boiler. This is also the first thermal power plant in the world to use this energy to generate electricity. It is not that United Group has money to use it, but Libya has discovered a large amount of natural gas during oil extraction. These natural gases are not only Chinese labor.

In addition to the use of part of the street lights in Gonghe lighting, everything else was wasted. In order to effectively utilize and reduce costs, natural gas was used as the main energy source. However, the current regulation capacity of natural gas is not strong. In order to ensure the combustion intensity, some crude oil was introduced, and Libya did not produce coal. Forcibly used coal and needed to import it, so crude oil was simply used directly. Of course, there are also phase 2 and phase 3 projects in the power plant. The installed capacity will be expanded to more than 1.2 million kilowatts in the future. It doesn’t sound very good, but it is actually consistent with the electricity consumption in Italy 10 years ago.

One is an aluminum processing plant under construction, which is used to produce aluminum ingots, with an annual design capacity of 40,000 tons of aluminum. However, the preparation process is still underway. The factory has been basically completed and the electrolytic aluminum equipment is in place;

Another one that only begins to take shape is the refining plant. Currently, Italy has built new refining plants in three cities, Genoa, Venice and Naples. The fastest Genoa refinery can be produced externally, but the output is very low, with an annual refining capacity of only 1.6 million tons, and the other three cities are only 5 million tons. Contini believes that it should be refining nearby and plans to set up a medium-sized refinery in Benghazi and Tripoli, with a scale of approximately 1.5-2 million tons. Due to the limitations of construction capacity, the factory will not be completed until at least 1931.

In addition to several key large factories, there are also some small supporting factories, such as brick and tile factories, repair factories, machinery factories, etc., which are all paving the way for subsequent construction.

Angnes laughed: "That's because Monica is so beautiful. They are really worried about you. If you don't believe that you can change to an ugly secretary, see if they will still do this."

"But the ugly secretary is inefficient in work. Your son is a businessman for hundreds of thousands of lira every minute. Who should he look for if he is inefficient?"

"You tell them about this and don't tell me. Anyway, I don't care about this... Whether you have one more or one less, I don't care!"

"Your attitude is wrong..." Contini laughed, "What is this implying?"

"I think Monica is pretty good. They have worked hard to serve you, and they have to give you some appropriate benefits." Angnes said, "She knows your situation. If such a person is not controlled by his side and is finally obtained by others, tell me what dangerous things will happen? She is a woman, and I am a woman. This matter must be understood by each other. Her heart is all in you now. Even if you let her die, she will be willing to do it. But the other way around, what if one day she gives up and her mind is not on you but on others, what should I do? Would you like to die?"

Contini was speechless. Then he remembered that among these people, his mother and Monica were the most similar: they could not help but be ambitious and various means. It seemed that Monica accompanied him to choose clothes, go shopping and other occasions to please Angnes. Otherwise, how could such a strange thing happen to mothers help the secretary speak?

"Is this a matter difficult to arrange? Something will happen if the grape rack collapses..."

"So you have to give some sweetness... Is it impossible for a man to please women when he gets married?" Angnes said in a desperate situation, "You can't give shares to you. You can't give a little bit of jewelry? Although her salary is very high, her job is worthy of this salary. Now there is an extra thing to compensate for your feelings. House jewelry can solve some problems, and other problems can also be solved appropriately. Of course, it cannot be solved in the way Vivian and Adriana. You can do it yourself, and I'm for your own good!"

Contini understood, and walked obediently behind Angnes, rubbing his mother's shoulders, and said, "You have to say this... You have to state the pros and cons to others. I always feel like I'm making excuses for stealing food. What should I do if the grape rack is overturned and I can't pick it up."

He had just rubbed a few times, and Angnes screamed with a grinning mouth: "Okay, okay, don't rub it, you can't even keep up with your father's level, let alone compare with Monica."

"I understand. It turns out that she still has the ability to rub her shoulders. When can she let him rub her for me?"

"It's OK at any time, but you have to wait until after the engagement! The engagement is definitely the time when the little girl is most disappointed. I'll come forward to say it..." Angnes said, "Now you just have a word to say to me, do you have any ideas? Do you have any feelings?"

"How do I answer your words? You said yes, it seems like I'm a little bit... I'm not saying it, it seems that I'm too inhumane."

"Don't be frowning anymore. Isn't it just a secretary? What should I do if I do? No, what are the beautiful secretary of the big consortium doing?"

On September 27, Contini, as the Italian special envoy, visited the Far East in a formation with the flagship of Earl Cafur. In addition to this battleship, the formation also included the newly commissioned heavy cruiser Riast and the light cruiser Babiano. Due to the original funding of the United Group, these warships started construction earlier than the same period in history. They were completed and served one after another from June to July 1927, which happened to be a process of carrying out long-distance zippers. This time, we went to the Far East for a diplomatic visit.

As usual, North Africa: 7 days ago, new news came out of Libyan oilfield exploration, and the prospect of exploitation increased by 30%. This suddenly pushed the valuation of Libyan oilfields upwards, and even pushed the stock price of United Bank to rise. Now everyone knows that if Italy develops any new project, its first choice is to find United Bank to raise funds. After opening up its branches in New York, the US dollar deposits absorbed by United Bank expanded like a balloon.

In the last foreign exchange war, Contini received 100 million US dollars with stocks and crude oil shares, and then United Bank's US branch provided the remaining 100 million US dollars. The two sides were in a prosperous relationship.

So far, the extremely family members of Chinese workers working in Libya have exceeded 150,000, and Huang Xinguo's education has also flourished. Not to mention primary schools, even junior high schools have been established. In order to show that they are in line with Italy, both primary and secondary schools have offered Italian courses, which must be mastered as compulsory courses. At the same time, it imitates the tradition of Contini's national education and promotes military national education in all Chinese workers' children's schools in North Africa. The Boy Scouts are required to obey commands, respect teachers and love leaders. Who is the leader? Huang Xinguo naturally dares not put himself in the position of leader. The leader he introduced is Contini.

He believes that the President is not only a good friend of the Chinese people, but also a spiritual leader of all Chinese workers in North Africa and the boss! Of course, he arranged a new role for himself: the president's Chinese assistant and the principal of the North African Chinese Workers' School for Children.

Given that he was very effective in managing Chinese workers, and was familiar with the situation in Italy, and was even more a sincere member of the Youth League, Contini also recognized this fait accompli and arranged a new position for him: Representative of the General Office of China Chinese Workers in North Africa.

Therefore, Huang Xinguo now has two names: Niluzi called him Mr. Huang, and intellectuals with some culture are called him General Representative.

The general representative is still very cautious and dare not form a political party. He only dares to mobilize among the intellectuals in North Africa to establish the "Research and Study Association for Important Thoughts on Three Flags", emphasizing the need to spread fascist and nationalist ideas to the country. However, there are not many people, and there are only 26 people who can calculate it. However, they are all intellectuals, and they are all intellectuals who teach. The first and most valuable consensus they reached is to prepare to implement this idea in a subtle way in the classroom.

Mud legs and workers may not learn what "three flags" are, but these growing students will definitely understand it in the future. Huang Xinguo has made a promise from Contini that as long as Chinese workers are competent, some technical positions in factories, docks and ports in Libya in the future can allow Chinese people to act as president. He even said that after a certain period of time, he could issue special policies and issue "green cards" to recognize that those Chinese workers who meet the conditions can live in Libya. Huang Xinguo does not understand what green cards are, but he understands the overseas residence. This shows that Italy is ready to recognize the residence rights of Chinese workers in a conditional manner, which is an amazing achievement.

Contini was also shocked, because Chinese workers actually planted vegetables in potted plants in the African oasis in Libya. The soil inside was all silt dug from the port dredged silt, and they were not planted with big road goods such as potatoes. They were pure green vegetables, and the scene was not small, with traces of large-scale spread. This ability is said to scare the Italians, and Tott appreciated it very much, thinking it was simply a "miracle on earth". He expressed that the Engineering Office collected as much as the vegetables Italians ate were shipped from the local, Soviet Union and Turkey. Not to mention the high price, it often deteriorated in summer, so how good is it to harvest now.
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