The domestic situation is changing, but Ouyang Shuo has no time to pay attention.

When the 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. After Ouyang Shuo read it, he did not give any instructions.

Even the Yizhou Island dispute was still ongoing, Ouyang Shuo had no intention of intervening. Since Shanhai City decided to rest and recuperate, it would naturally remain silent to the end.

"Let them deal with allies' affairs by themselves!" Ouyang Shuo sighed.

However, Zhang Yi's letter made Ouyang Shuo interested.

In terms of dividing the four major city-states, Honglu Temple also cleverly used the good card of Sihai Money House in addition to conventional means such as bribery, frame-up, and provoking discord.

Sihai Money House has already been on track, and its savings have long exceeded the 50 million gold coins. Such a huge amount of funds naturally need to be loaned out. In addition to the digestion within the alliance, the Money House has officially opened to other lords.

It is even said that if guilds, chambers of commerce and other organizations are temporarily short of money, if they have good reputations, they can get a loan from Sihai Money House.

There are both in and out, and when depositing and lending, Sihai Money House has made huge profits.

The main force of lending is still the lord.

Any ambitious lord will never have enough territorial funds. How can the lords of the four major city-states be exceptions? They also need to borrow funds.

It was precisely because Zhang Yi took advantage of this and made a big splash in it.

He is worthy of being a beautiful son in the family of Zongheng. Zhang Yi's eyes are so sharp that no one can surpass him.

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July 10th, Somalia, City of Friendship.

After more than half a month of construction, the desolate valley has completely changed. A circle along the foot of the mountain, the outline of the city wall made of huge stones is clearly visible and rolling.

The Brave Port in the north has also been replaced with new clothes. The docks on both sides of the east and west have been built. Merchant ships passing by no means need to dock on the harbor in a mess anymore, and everything has become orderly.

Inside the valley are tents.

Somalia is already very hot in July, and craftsmen and coolies don’t have to live in special houses. They can handle it by setting up a simple tent with a few pieces of rags.

In the center of the tent, there are temporary canteens. In order to ensure the progress of the project construction, Ouyang Shuo specially instructed officials who were responsible for food and accommodation to do the best in food.

Not only do you care about your fullness, but you also need to pay attention to nutritional matching.

"Every meal comes with meat!" is the greatest happiness of craftsmen.

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

The construction of fiefdom is completely on the right track.

The officials, skilled talents and immigrants who are supported by the territory are sailing on the Indian Ocean at this time, and it is expected that they will arrive at Friendship City in ten days.

Ouyang Shuo was not ready to wait.

Seeing that Gaia had been in half for three years, Ouyang Shuo must hurry up and complete the ocean voyage.

Before leaving, Ouyang Shuo did three things.

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

Ouyang Shuo then selected a group of officers from the Navy's sword and shield soldiers and joined the City Guard Brigade as the team commander and the camp commander. As for the brigade commander of the City Guard Brigade, a small team leader of the Shenwu Guard was appointed.

In this way, the city defense force of Friendship City has been established.

In addition to the craftsmen and coolies who have been recruiting one after another, including merchants, skilled talents, and the population of Friendship City has not yet exceeded the 100,000 mark.

At present, a city garrison is enough to shock the young man.

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

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

The Port of Brave is not the best port with Asian and African waterways, nor even the best port in the Gulf of Aden. However, Friendship City will be the most open, fully equipped and most favorable commercial capital in this area.

The Friendship City planned by Ouyang Shuo has only two urban areas, east and west, separated by a central street in the middle. Dongcheng District is positioned as a commercial area, a wharf, a bulk cargo distribution center, a logistics center, a settlement center, a labor market, a money shop and a bulk cargo trading center, and is all built in a commercial area.

In short, all facilities in the commercial area are designed around Ocean Trade, and the purpose is to make Ocean Trade more convenient, efficient and safe in Friendship City.

Xicheng District is positioned as a service area. In addition to taking out part of the land to build residential areas, the remaining places will be used to build commercial buildings such as taverns, inns, brothels, gambling shops, night markets, restaurants, auction houses and other commercial buildings.

Various entertainment venues will also cover high, medium and low levels 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 to enjoy.

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

In addition, Xicheng District will also build a large number of shops and warehouses, mainly selling materials related to fleet supply, such as freshwater, grain, meat, medicine, etc.

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

"Only what you can't imagine, nothing you can't buy!"

It can be said that the entire city is built around ocean trade. If it is completed, it will surely be a veritable commercial capital.

For this purpose, Ouyang Shuo reserved 500,000 gold coins to fill the finances of Friendship City.

After a rough calculation, Ouyang Shuo's investment in Friendship City has reached a huge amount of one million gold coins. Now we have to look forward to whether Friendship City can create a business miracle.

The third thing Ouyang Shuo did was to let the ocean fleet out a hundred cannons and leave them to Friendship City. These hundred cannons will be placed on the north wall and aimed at the port.

Friendship City is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the only way to connect the outside world is the Brave Port. There is a built-in naval camp in the military port, and the deterrence of one hundred artillery cannons is enough to calm all villains.

In this way, Ouyang Shuo can leave with confidence.

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On July 11, the Ocean Fleet set off again.

When he set out, Ouyang Shuo left quietly and embarked on a new journey. He didn't know what kind of challenges there would be on the future route, and was waiting for this fleet that was destined to be recorded in history.

The fleet crossed the Mande Strait and entered the Red Sea directly.

The Red Sea is located between the northeastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and is narrow and long. It is connected to the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal to the northwest and to the Gulf of Aden through the Mande Strait to the south.

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

The Middle East Gulf is known as the world's oil depot in reality, and its oil reserves account for two-thirds of the global total reserves. This setting is also continued in the game, with rich oil reserves.

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

Even Britain, which is the cradle of the industrial revolution, was still in the infancy of the first industrial revolution. The iconic invention of the steam engine has just been born.

The first industrial revolution led to the steel industry and textile industry.

What really made oil shine was the Second Industrial Revolution. With the invention of internal combustion engines, industrial electrification, automobiles and aircraft will appear on the stage of history.

Only then will countries have a large demand for oil.

Ouyang Shuo even doubted whether the second industrial revolution could be advanced based on the ten-year cycle of the game. At least five years of the previous life, even the steam engine had not been popularized around the world.

Therefore, for the moment, the utilization of oil is very low and the demand is not large. This is really not good news for Middle Eastern countries.

Of course, the Mediterranean countries have more than oil. They also have a long history. Among the four ancient civilizations, ancient Babylon and ancient Egypt are both in the surrounding areas of the Mediterranean.

Not to mention, the Roman Empire, Macedonian Empire, Persian Empire and Arab Empire in history all intersected with the countries around the Mediterranean.

Cairo in Egypt, Athens in Greece and Roman in Italy, each royal city has a long history, and a vast ancient emperor lives in the depths of the palace.

Darius I, Alexander the Great, Gaves Octavian Augustus, every emperor is popular and is an existence comparable to that of Qin Emperor and Han Wu.

In the game "Earth Online", a long history is equivalent to a profound foundation. In this way, the lords of these countries will try to restore the glory of the empire in history.

They are all active figures on the global stage.

Therefore, Ouyang Shuo has no ambitions for the Mediterranean countries for the time being. His goal is to carry out ocean trade with these countries without any other thoughts.

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

...

The Red Sea is not red, but a blue one.

The fleet crosses the Red Sea, then passes through the Gulf of Suez, and arrives at the Suez Canal.

The Suez Canal has existed in ancient times. Of course, it was actually built in 1869. It is a sea-level waterway that runs through the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt, connects the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and provides the closest route from Europe to the land near the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific. In reality, it is 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 channel for Asia and Africa and Europe. The canal starts from Port Said in the north and ends at Suez City in the south, with a total length of 190 kilometers. It is located on the north side of Port Said in the Mediterranean and to the south of Suez.
Chapter completed!