Chapter 69 Ibn•Saudi Arabia's helplessness

Muhammad founded Islam in Mecca in 610. His successors unified the Arabian Peninsula and gradually established an Arab empire across Europe, Asia and Africa. In the 16th century, the Hetzhi region in the western part of the Arabian Peninsula was occupied by Turkey and became a province of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey.

Around 1446, the ancestors of the Saudi family left Katif in the eastern part of the peninsula and settled near the Wadi-Mulaga Valley in the Nej region, and named the place Derye. From the end of the 17th century to the beginning of the 18th century, the Saudi family became one of the three most powerful families in the Neizhi region. In the first half of the 18th century, a Protestant Oahhabi sect of Islam appeared in the Neji region. As an ideological weapon to achieve political unity, the Wahabi faction was fully accepted by the Saudi family and played a role in determining the surname in the process of the establishment of a centralized state by the Saudi family.

In 1750, Mohammed, the chief of Bedouin? Ibn? Saudi Arabia established a emirate in Del Ie. After that, the Saudi family took the lead and conquered Neji, occupied Riyadh, attacked Kuwait and Karbala, annexed Hassa, captured Mecca and Medina, seized the whole Khanzhi from the Turks, and established the first Wahabi dynasty ruled by the Saudi family in 1811. Seven years later, the Egyptian army sent by Sudan, Turkey, flattened the capital of the Saudi emirate, Del Iye.

The Saudi family was forced to flee to the coastal towns of Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. In 1824, Turki, the grandson of Muhammad, captured Riyadh and established a second Saudi emirate. In 1834, Turqui's eldest son, Faisal, succeeded to the throne. He was captured in a battle with the Turks and exiled to Egypt. In 1843, Faisal fled from Egypt, regrouped, and resumed his rule over the middle of the peninsula in 1845.

In 1865, after Faisal's death, the civil war continued due to the struggle for power of his sons. Muhammad, the chief of the Chamal tribe in the northern region? Ben? Rashid took the opportunity to invade and occupied Riyadh in 1891. The second Saudi emirate was destroyed. Faisal's youngest son, Abdu? Rahman led the rest of the Saudi family to Kuwait.

1902, Abdul? Rahman's son, Ibn? Saudi Arabia grew up in Kuwait. Mubarak, the chief of Kuwait? With the support of Sabah, 21-year-old Ibn? Saudi Arabia led more than 40 warriors, riding camels, to attack Riyadh, recaptured Riyadh and established a third Saudi emirate.

In 1904, Turkey was forced to recognize Abdul? Aziz's rule in Neji. Before the European war, the two major alliances of the Allies led by Britain and France and the Allies led by Germany and Austria-Hungary fought on both sides in Europe. There was an urgent need for someone to contain the military forces of the Ottoman Empire to disintegrate and reduce the military pressure on the Allies. So in 1913, with the support of the British, Ibn? Saudi Arabia fought against the Ottoman Empire and attacked the Kazakh region to seize the Kazakh region, thus obtaining access to the sea.

So, Ibn? The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia forms a tripartite with the Hanzhi Kingdom of the Hashim family in the western part of the peninsula and the Rashid family in the north. But Ibn, who tried to restore the territory and glory of his ancestors? Saudi Arabia was not satisfied with this, but when he tried to further expand the territory of the Kingdom of Nej, he accidentally collided with China, which suddenly broke into the Arabian Peninsula.

Riyadh, the capital of the Kingdom of Neji, the building here is an Arabic-style brick house with the same color as the desert. There is a building in the middle of the city that looks no different from other buildings, and this is the palace of the Kingdom of Neji, although this palace In the eyes of outsiders, it is so simple.

"The Chinese people ask us to withdraw from the Hassa region and the Naft region in the north!"

In the hall, listen to Abdullah's story, Ibn? Saudi Arabia was silent. On the surface, the Chinese ultimatum was to make Nezhi responsible for his "mistakes", but in fact, it was to seize Arab land.

"Those infidels just want to seize our land!"

Ibn? Saudi Arabia snorted, but at the same time, he could clearly realize that Neizhi had no capital to fight against China at all.

Although the Saudi family has the support of the British, and although Ihwan's soldiers are brave and good at fighting, Ihwan soldiers with only rifles and a small number of machine guns can't stop the Chinese with aircraft cannons and a continuous army.

"If the Chinese want, they can mobilize tens of millions of troops..."

Hux's British consultant's words were once again in Ibn? Saudi Arabia's ears sounded, and because of this, when the Chinese attacked the Hasan region, he chose to be silent. From the day the [***] team entered the Arabian Peninsula, he hoped to avoid their sharp edges, and even alienated the relationship with the British to some extent, and at the same time took the initiative to send people on an expedition with China. Military contact was quite successful at that time, and the Chinese even provided him with thousands of rifles.

When the relationship between the two countries became closer and closer, an "attack" provoked by someone changed everything. In just a few days, the Chinese team destroyed dozens of Ihwan agricultural reclamation areas in the eastern region and expelled thousands of Bedouins who were used to agricultural life.

"Maybe we should fight a jihad with the Chinese together with the Turks!"

"Holy War? Now the [***] team has reached Iraq, and the Turks can't protect themselves. Fighting jihad with them will only destroy the whole inner ambition!"

Ibn? Saudi Arabia's uncle Abdullah interrupted Ali and said.

"Ibn, whether it is Hassa or the desert in the east, is not the territory of Neji or the glory of the ancestors. You have restored the glory and history of the Saudi family. Now if the Chinese want it, give it to them, didn't you say? When our strength is not as good as that of the enemy, then we will meet the requirements of the enemy. When we are strong and the enemy becomes weak, we will take back everything that belongs to us.

"However, if we choose to compromise, who knows whether the Chinese will be greedy and want to annex the whole Arab world like Turkey!"

While talking, Ibn? Saudi Arabia turned his attention to his adviser, Hax, a lawyer in British Yemen. Over the years, his contact with Britain was through him.

"If they did that, they would not send anyone to contact the Rashid family. China is different from Turkey. Like the British, they just try to gain a foothold in Arabia, and all they have are only two deserts. They want to establish a port there and send troops there, just like the British. A few years ago, they had friction with Britain because of Persian oil. Although no war broke out between the two countries, for the Chinese, if they want to keep their oil fields in Persia, they must have their own ports and troops in the Persian Gulf!"

When explaining to these Bedouin people who had just turned from desert nomadic life and settled down, Harris was worried about the current British influence in the Near East. When Britain was still hesitating to send troops to the Near East, However, a steady stream of Chinese troops were sent to the Near East.

Their troops continue to attack the hinterland of Baghdad Province, the richest crescent region of the Near East. Even if they stop attacking now, Britain's influence in the Near East will still be weakened to the bottom in the future. On the surface, they occupy a barren desert, but for the Chinese, in the Persian Gulf, all they need is a piece of land, whether it is a desert or an agricultural area. All they need is land and ports, and through this war, they get everything they need.

But once the Chinese have a port and troops are stationed in the Persian Gulf, China will only exert more and more influence in the Near East. As an Englishman, Harris must take into account the interests of Britain. It is out of the interests of Britain that he hopes that Neizhi will not be destroyed by China's ultimatum. Once. Once.

Neji must continue to exist. Only in the future, the existence of British influence in the Near East will be ensured through British support for Neji, while the Chinese ultimatum will also make the country hostile to them from top to bottom.

So - Naizhi's territory must be ceded!

"Isn't that, even if they refuse the Chinese people's demands, the Chinese people will still take everything they need?"

Ibn? There was a strong anger in Saudi Arabia's tone, but it was more helplessness from the bottom of his heart.

"At that time, they will not only seize all this, but even occupy the whole Neizhi by supporting the Rashid family. The Chinese will only take what they need, and the rest will be given to the Rashid family as a reward, with the Rashid family as its spokesperson in the Near East!"

Harris, who knows the feud between the Saudi family and the Rashid family, naturally knows how to make Ibn? Saudi Arabia made a choice, and as soon as his voice fell, Ibn? Saudi's eyebrows were locked into a ball. After a moment of meditation, he looked at his uncle, then looked at Ali, and finally sighed heavily.

"Contact the Chinese people! Give them everything they want!"

He stood up, and his seemingly burly shoulder suddenly collapsed. For the young man who had led more than 40 people to seize the city and rebuilt the Kingdom of Neizhi and restored all the honor and glory of the Saudi family, he seemed to have lost all his fighting spirit.

The helplessness of the head of a small country and a weak country, Ibn? Saudi Arabia will experience it vividly. Although he is extremely reluctant, he clearly knows that he has no choice at all.

"Your Majesty, please believe that Britain will not abandon its friends at any time!"

Won't abandon?

Ibn who turned around and left? After hearing Harris's words, Saudi Arabia sighed in his heart. Didn't the British abandon it? Haven't you abandoned him now? But he knows that the only thing he can rely on now is the British

(to be continued)