Mediterranean Hegemony Road

The news of the British military defeat in Southeast Asia was spread as quickly as possible with Ferdinand's selfless help.

Everyone's first reaction after stopping to this news was - impossible!

No matter how the British army is, it is not something that the rebels can bully, not to mention that even the battleship has been sunk, can it be more nonsense?

Believe it or not, as soon as this news spreads, the good days of the London government will come to an end. Countless British people have already taken to the streets, demanding the government to reveal the truth!

The sudden blow directly hit Stanley Baldwin's cabinet. Now it's a question of whether to hide it or not. The whole world knows the news, and they don't have time to react at all.

Before they could be held accountable, Mr. Churchill took the blame and resigned, and became ill, and went to America to recover.

All the mess has fallen into the hands of their cabinet, nothing else has to be done, let's focus on this mess first.

The opposition party has submitted an impeachment case to Congress. Fortunately, there are more Conservative MPs at this time, and this impeachment case was not passed.

There is nothing to do with the public opinion of the people. The facts are in front of us. If you lose, you will lose. There is no way to hide such a large number of casualties.

"If the British government is in trouble, the world will be at peace!"

The words that Ferdinand said casually at the beginning have also become the most widely circulated words in this era, and have been regarded as classics by politicians all over the world.

The reason is very simple. As a world hegemon, if you don't do things and prove your sense of existence, then who will take you seriously?

It's just that the British people's ability to do things is a little bit stronger. In later generations, the United States is catching small countries to bully and build a sense of existence. John Bull will do whoever is strong!

Therefore, after the First World War, the mainstream contradictions in the world have become: the contradiction between Britain and France, the contradiction between Britain and Japan, the contradiction between Britain and Japan, and the contradiction between Britain and Russia.

There are conflicts with so many countries, and they have not been jointly targeted. John Bull's diplomatic methods are indeed eye-catching.

For example, now that Ferdinand wants to form an alliance around the Mediterranean Sea, the French are waiting for the price, the Spaniards are not interested, and the rest of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is not a big deal!

"Your Majesty, it's very difficult to build an alliance around the Mediterranean now, but we have to dig the Aqaba Grand Canal, and they still support it.

It's just that due to the geographical location, the Spaniards do not have the guts to compete with the British, and the French have too much appetite, so we can't meet their demands. said Foreign Minister Metev

"Well, it's not that we want us to be the first bird to break the hegemony of the British in the Mediterranean.

This time they got their wish, and we have dug the Grand Canal in the Gulf of Aqaba!

Now the British have no time to talk to us for a while, this is our chance to complete the exploration work as quickly as possible, and then start! ' said Ferdinand angrily.

He is not really angry either. International politics is always based on interests, and the choice of the French is understandable. At most, it is a little short-sighted.

Now that the Circum-Mediterranean Alliance cannot be established, the Grand Canal in the Gulf of Aqaba can only be dug by Bulgaria alone, and the interests in its hands cannot be given up for no reason.

The Suez Canal is one of the dead spots for the British. Anyone who touches them will fight to the end. Now that the Bulgarians are digging the Grand Canal in the Gulf of Aqaba, there may be many British anti-war factions who will breathe a sigh of relief.

Once the new canal is completed, the contradiction between Britain and Bulgaria around the Suez Canal will become a simple conflict of commercial interests, which has nothing to do with the vast majority of British people.

And the biggest contradiction between the two countries no longer exists, and everyone has a lifeline, which seems to be a good choice.

"Your Majesty, according to our exploration results, the two routes we made at the beginning are theoretically feasible.

It's just that the cost of the first option, directly with Gaza, is too high, requiring at least an investment of more than 30 billion levs.

The second option,

It connects the Gulf of Aqaba to the Dead Sea, diverts the Red Sea into the Dead Sea area, then connects the Jordan River into the Great Bale Lake, and finally enters the Mediterranean Sea.

Economically speaking, the second option is much cheaper, with an initial budget of about 2 billion levs. ' explained Transport Secretary Beshear

Is such an obvious question still worth considering? The cost difference between the two options is fifteen times, so there is no choice at all.

"What about other factors?" Ferdinand asked with concern

Such a large project has never been excavated just because it wants to be excavated, and there are many factors to be considered.

"Your Majesty, because the Grand Canal is a colony, we have not considered a series of factors including politics, economy, culture, ecology, and people's livelihood.

At present, there are less than 300,000 immigrants in Palestine, and less than 50,000 immigrants in Jordan. Even if the impact of the excavation of the Grand Canal is great, it is still within the controllable range! ' explained Beshear

Ferdinand nodded, and he didn't care about the ecological impact of the Grand Canal on the local area. In terms of strategic value, these two areas combined are not as good as a Grand Canal.

Economic Value? In addition to mining some minerals in Palestine in this era, there is also a fart economy. Even if the impact of the Grand Canal is great, it will not interfere with mining?

The impact of freshwater resources is not in Ferdinand's consideration, and he has no plans to develop agriculture in the local area. Moreover, after the Grand Canal enters, the rainfall along the coast will increase greatly. This account is difficult to calculate clearly.

In order to save the Dead Sea in later generations, isn't it still preparing to introduce the water of the Red Sea? This is the amount of work for half of the Gulf of Aqaba Canal. If it weren't for the fact that the environmental protection organization's combat effectiveness was too strong, it would have been navigable before Ferdinand crossed it.

"Well, let's excavate according to the second set of plans, but we still need to reduce the ecological impact on the local area as much as possible. If nothing else, after the completion of the ten-year plan, the local area will also become a province of Bulgaria!

By the way, the navigation volume of the Aqaba Canal must also be large. I don't want to see one day our warships want to enter the Indian Ocean and have to go around in a big circle! ' Ferdinand thought for a while and said

"Your Majesty, the largest navigable ship we have designed so far is 250,000 tons. The minimum passage area of ​​the canal is 2,486.5 square meters and the draft is 15.8 meters. At present, the world's largest tonnage ship is only over 70,000 tons. There is no problem with the passage of warships at all! ' explained Beshear

"Under the current technical conditions, how much can this traffic area and draft be increased without greatly increasing the cost?" Ferdinand asked with concern.

As the world's largest oil tycoon, this problem cannot be avoided. If the navigation capacity of the Gulf of Aqaba Canal is limited, he will have to build a large number of oil pipelines in the future.

And everyone knows that it is easy to dig a canal, but it is difficult to widen the canal after digging through it.

Once the Gulf of Aqaba Canal is penetrated, it will be difficult to increase the draft.

"Your Majesty, on this basis, if the draft of the canal increases by one meter, the traffic area can be increased by 18%, and the cost will increase by 2.3%.

If it is increased by two meters, the traffic area can be increased by 34%, and the cost will also increase by 5.5%! "Besheer thought about it and said

"Well, then increase the draft to 20 meters. I don't want to dig the Grand Canal of the Gulf of Aqaba again in my lifetime!" Ferdinand said casually.

"Yes!" Beshear replied nervously

The boss's casual remark directly made him swallow all the objections. Anyway, the area where the Grand Canal of the Gulf of Aqaba passes through is not very high.

If you dig four more meters, you will dig four meters and hold back, which is not a big deal at all. Preliminary estimates of the future length of the Grand Canal in the Gulf of Aqaba are about 318 kilometers.

According to the narrowest width of 150 meters, even if all of them are dug down two meters, the amount of earthwork will be no more than 190 million cubic meters at most.

(Note: This width is the width of the bottom surface, and the width of the water surface should not be less than 300 meters.)

In fact, the added amount of earthwork will not exceed 100 million cubic meters, which is determined by the terrain. It is no longer an impossible task to have an excavator, and it will increase some costs.

Compared with the last century, the French organized the manual excavation of the Suez Canal, sacrificed 120,000 laborers, excavated 75 million cubic meters of earth, cost 16 million pounds, and took ten years to barely complete.

At this time, the excavation of the Gulf of Aqaba Canal has advanced machinery and equipment, excavators, automobiles and other series of tools, and the construction difficulty has been greatly reduced.

"Your Majesty, the Grand Canal of the Gulf of Aqaba is so important that our Ministry of Finance has decided to establish a canal management company to be responsible for the construction and operation of this canal.

For the required funds, we are going to mortgage the bank with the property right of the canal, which will be repaid by the navigation fees collected in the future! "Kennedy said calmly.

There is a precedent for the success of the Suez Canal. In the future, there will be no problem with the profitability of the Grand Canal in the Gulf of Aqaba. Even if only Bulgaria's own ships pass through, it will be profitable.

Funding is of course not a problem for this kind of business that can make a profit without losing money. Everyone knows that the volume of ocean transportation is increasing year by year, and the tonnage of ships is also increasing day by day.

Under Ferdinand's butterfly effect, the world's oil industry is developing at a much faster rate than the same period in history. Low oil prices are undoubtedly the best driving force for popularizing internal combustion engines.

In this context, oil transportation has also become the most important issue at present, and the tonnage of oil tankers has also risen again and again.

Taking Bulgaria as an example, the crude oil consumption in 1926 was 35.86 million tons, which was more than the total consumption of the major warring countries in the First World War.

And this consumption is still rising sharply. In this context, the tonnage requirements for oil tankers are also increasing.

If the previous 10,000-20,000-ton, or several thousand-ton oil tankers were used, wouldn't Bulgaria need thousands of tankers to run back and forth?

You must know that due to the technology of this era, there is no way for oil pipelines to climb peaks of hundreds of meters and kilometers to complete oil transportation.

Even though Bulgaria itself is an oil-producing country and there are oil pipelines in the country, in fact the main mode of transportation is still by oil tankers.

In this context, the tonnage of Bulgarian oil tankers began to expand continuously, from more than 5,000 tons at the beginning, to more than 50,000 tons now.

It is a pity that such a giant tanker cannot pass through the Suez Canal, so this giant can only run the Black Sea route to transport Romanian crude oil.

(Note: Historically, since 1956, the tonnage of oil tankers has only begun to skyrocket. The main reason is that the Suez Canal is impassable. It was opened to save costs. In more than ten years, the tonnage of oil tankers has increased tenfold.)

In fact, with the Bulgarian shipbuilding technology of this era, even a merchant ship of more than 100,000 tons can be built.

It’s just limited by the Suez Canal. If you want to make a big circle around the Cape of Good Hope, the journey will be increased several times and the economic value will be lost.

It can be said that the tonnage of merchant ships in European countries is not very large, and the factor of the Suez Canal is unquestionable.

Once the Grand Canal of the Gulf of Aqaba opens, in order to save transportation costs, these large-tonnage cargo ships will definitely spring up.

At that time, the British will find that they are in big trouble and want to widen the Suez Canal. With the technology of this era, it seems that the cost is much higher than the excavation of the canal.

If the Suez Canal is not widened, not only will business be taken away, but even the Royal Navy will have to go through the Gulf of Aqaba Canal to pass from both places. This is simply a loss of the British Empire.

"Yes, the government of the Gulf of Aqaba Grand Canal must be in its own hands, and the Ministry of Finance must implement the funds as soon as possible to ensure the smooth start of the Grand Canal!

The Ministry of Communications is now ready to start construction. The Grand Canal in the Gulf of Aqaba is so long, you can divide the project according to the actual situation, and then carry out the construction at multiple points at the same time. ' Ferdinand thought for a while and said

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Kennedy replied

"Your Majesty, our Ministry of Communications is going to build two more highways along the banks of the Grand Canal to make up for the shortage of our railway transportation. It will cost 8 million levs!" Beshear thought for a while and said

"Okay, count it in the canal funds, now you can start construction, Zengpu will connect the canal within three years!

The British will not give us too much time. Judging from the current situation, the Southeast Asian rebellion this year is powerless for the British.

Before the end of the rainy season, the London government was afraid to take major military action. Then their military operations should begin at the end of the year.

Now that the rebel army has grown, it is impossible for them to be wiped out in half a year. With this lesson, they did not dare to attack in the rainy season, and the war would drag on until 1929, or even 1930.

This is our chance. During this time, the London government must not have the energy to stimulate us. As long as we dig the canal before the British can react, there is nothing they can do! ' said Ferdinand cautiously.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Besheer replied earnestly

Although I don't know what kind of damage the British can do, it is better to dig through the Grand Canal as soon as possible because it is better to do less.

Otherwise, the British will block the Suez Canal, and Bulgaria will have a headache. If it is really transported by rail, this loss is enough to hurt the Bulgarian enterprises.

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