Middle East, Al-Hassa District, Dhahran Fishing Port in Dammam City.
A fisherman in white clothes who had just finished catching fish and returned to the port with a full load was surrounded by a group of people in yellow clothes holding sticks.
"Jim, who allowed you to go fishing privately? Did you pay a deposit?" A strong man holding an umbrella walked over and said to the fishermen arrogantly as if he didn't recognize his relatives.
"Hello, Uncle Hussein, this is our tribute today." Jim, the head fisherman, nodded and bowed, and in a flattering tone, he took out a 2-yuan Middle Eastern note from his pocket and handed it over respectfully.
"Why is it only two yuan?"
A bill collector took the money away unceremoniously and found that it was only two yuan. He was immediately dissatisfied.
"Jim, you bitch, you didn't pay one dollar of filial piety fee before leaving the ship, but you have to pay two dollars when you return. Are you the same as me treating our kind boss Hussein?"
"It's only two yuan, Jim, you are very ignorant!"
After hearing what the bill collector said, Hussein was very unhappy when he discovered that Jim only paid two yuan in protection and filial piety fees.
"Before leaving the ship, you pay one yuan, and you pay one yuan after you come back from the ship. This is such a fair and just rule.
You went out to sea this morning without paying. This is a bad rule. Can you just come back and pay?
Am I usually too kind to you? I have only charged you two yuan in protection fees. Is there anyone in the five areas of this fish port who is more conscientious than me?
Jim, in this fishing port, the protection fee I charge is the lowest. For a good person like me, you are playing tricks on me. You are really a white-eyed wolf. "
"No, Boss Hussein, when I went out of the boat, I wanted to find you to pay the fee, but I didn't find your people. It's not that I was evading and didn't want to pay."
"How dare you talk back!" A younger brother stood up and slapped Jim hard.
"You bitch, the boss's rule is that you are not allowed to go out on the boat without paying the money. You didn't see anyone, why did you go out on the boat? Who allowed you to go out on the boat privately?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I won't dare next time." Jim lowered his head and quickly admitted his mistake.
"As long as you know you are wrong. If you are wrong, admit it. If you are beaten, stand upright."
Hussein looked like a good man, and said to Jim with a smile in order to ignore the past grudges and show a lot of gestures.
"We are late for a reason. The evil Saddam in the east wants to keep harming you. Today he took action. It took us a long time to drive them away.
We came late because we were protecting you, but you went out of the boat privately. This is breaking the rules and it makes me very chilled.
You take two yuan and pay for one morning's sailing fee. Doesn't this make sense? I have a good heart, but if there are no rules, then I will give you small punishments and large punishments.
The boat fee for departure today is five yuan. Also, today’s fish harvest has increased from one level to two levels. "
As everyone knows, the Green Forest Religion, like Christianity, has multiple sects, including Sunni, Shia, Druze, Wahabi...
Among the sects large and small, the two major sects, the Sunni Sect and the Shiye Sect, are the mainstream branches of the Green Forest Sect.
The Portuguese Middle East colony consists of three regions: Qatar, Bahrain, and Hassan. In later generations, it will be Qatar, Bahrain, and the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia.
In this era, the three regions under the Portuguese Middle East were all remote areas. That is to say, it is covered with yellow sand, lacking in natural products, and has no special religious or historical value. Neither the European colonial powers nor the Ottoman Turks, the overlord of the Middle East, looked down upon this place.
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The only two things of high value here are dates and Persian Gulf pearls. Others, such as camels and fisheries, are not worth mentioning.
Tang Ning came from a later generation, so he naturally knew that this place was a treasure land of resources. Oil and natural gas reserves were among the highest in the world. Although the three regions were only part of the Persian Gulf, their shares were not small.
Under the guise of needing a large amount of dates and pearls, Braganza successively obtained the legal governance of these three areas at a very low cost.
The right to rule is obtained, but how the people above solve it is a problem.
Now Europe is what I call a civilized world. The violent colonial behavior in the past needs to be restrained and behaved in a civilized manner. This makes it difficult for the Braganza family to do something that is done once and for all but with bad means in the colonies.
Fortunately, the combined population of the three colonies is not large. After all, the climate here is harsh, there are many deserts, and there are few oases. This saves Braganza a lot of trouble.
According to statistics from later generations, in 2020, the combined population of Qatar, Bahrain, and the Hassan region on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia was close to five million. Although the population is 5 million, there are not many native Ala people, accounting for less than 20% of the population.
Take Qatar as an example. In 2021, Qatar had a permanent population of 2.64 million, of which Qatari citizens accounted for about 15%. Foreigners mainly come from India, Pakistan and Southeast Asian countries.
In this era, Qatar, Bahrain, and Al-Khasa together have a population of less than 500,000. Among them, Qatar, Bahrain, and a peninsula are very convenient for people to live in. Under Tang Ning's instructions, there is not a single green forest, and they are all immigrants. .
There are no big problems in Qatar and Bahrain, but there are big problems in the Hassan region.
This is a long, narrow coastal area with plenty of room to come and go. The previous actions in Qatar and Bahrain united the Arab people, and it was difficult to carry out that kind of deportation again. The first deportation occurred, which directly triggered rebellion.
In order to quell the chaos in the Hassan area as soon as possible without wasting money and establishing stable rule, after the basic rebellion in Pingxi, we promised the locals not to carry out any expulsion actions.
In the Hassan area after peace, there were more than 300,000 Ara people according to the census. Although this population was not large, it was still too many for the colonial power of Braganza, which only had 60,000 troops and immigrants. .
Faced with five times the number of Ala people, Tang Ning also thought about expelling people in breach of contract and burning bridges, but after some consideration, she gave up.
Let’s not talk about breaking a contract and breaking a promise. This kind of thing is too harmful to your character. No one will believe you after doing this kind of thing. Besides, it is not that easy to expel for breach of contract. The Hassan area is not like Qatar and Bahrain. It is a long and narrow area. , has full contact with the Ala Peninsula, and the temporary expulsion is of no use. Sooner or later, they will be killed by the hateful Ala people. Then they will be suppressed repeatedly and a complete blood feud will be formed. This is a big trouble.
Fortunately, there is no unity in religious beliefs in the Hassan region. Although the Ara Peninsula is dominated by Sunni sects, this does not mean that there are no other Green Forest sects.
In the coastal area of Hasan, the Sunni sect happens not to be the only one, and the Shiye sect also has a large influence here.
In later generations, Iran engaged in exporting revolution. In the direction of the Arabian Peninsula, in addition to exporting to Yemen, the Hassan region, Qatar and Bahrain were also among them, especially Bahrain. The Green religion in Bahrain is the mainstream. The Sunni royal family in Bahrain was in danger for a time. Fortunately, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates sent heavy troops to deter the situation.
Divide and rule the colonies is a method that a qualified colonist must learn.
The conflicts between Shia and Sunni in the Hassan area are not small, and the sparse Wa Habis are also involved, which provides natural room for maneuver.
Although she couldn't use force to expel them, Tang Ning could naturally divide and win over them, fight one faction over another, and establish a stable rule.
In order to quell the rebellion before, the envoy actually did a great job. He went out of his way to pamper and harass him, and recruited several small tribes to supplement his force. The effect was pretty good.
For Sunni, Wa Habi, and Shiye soldiers, they had no concept of national unity. They directly attacked with heavy blows and used methods even more cruel than the colonists.
After the rebellion subsided, the situation was stabilized. These Shiye soldiers were more hateful than the colonial soldiers. Sunni and Wahabi wanted Shiye to go to hell more than the colonists.
After Tang Ning's suggestion, the Governor of the Middle East, Edward, understood. During the colonial rule, emphasis was placed on caring for and using the Shiye Ala people. As for the Sunni and Wahabi Ala people, except for a small number of people who were reused to check and balance the Shiye, the rest were ignored and allowed to be managed by the Shiye sect.
