My Italian: Chapter 508 Benghazi

Benghazi in North Africa is an ancient historical city. As early as the 5th century BC, the Greeks built a city here, and it was called Bilinqi at that time.

It was later occupied by the Egyptians, Romans, Vandals, and Byzantines, and was ruled by the Turks for 300 years since the 16th century. Since ancient times, it has been a caravan trade market town leading to the inland of Africa. A large number of merchants have traded with southern Africa through the Sahara Desert.

Benghazi is currently the second largest city in Libya (with a smaller population than the capital, Tripoli) and the second largest port in Libya (with less port throughput than Sirte).

Although Benghazi is an ancient city, it will take a few years for Benghazi to really enter the fast lane of development. As Libya has successively discovered and developed oil in Halige and Kavat, as the nearest port city, Benghazi has also entered the fast lane of development.

Moreover, Benghazi is different from other cities in North Africa. There are few buildings in the city that reflect the Arabic style, and they are basically Italian style. The reason is also the previous Italian population relocation plan to the area.

In fact, not only Benghazi, but also other cities in Libya, and even Albania and Kosovo. The local aborigines were forcibly relocated by Italy, and now the people living in this place are all residents from the mainland of Italy, so the customs, language and culture of the place are also mainly native.

All of this is due to the forced relocation plan. Although it will temporarily cause chaos in the local area and increase a huge amount of public security funds, the effect is very good. It has changed the local folk customs in a short period of time, and also increased The centripetal force of the place towards Rome.

This is the situation in Benghazi at present. The city is basically full of Italians, and the folk customs are no different from those of the Apennine Peninsula. As the second largest city in Italy, it has 130,000 people, 30,000 of whom are engaged in oil-related industries. Some of them work directly for oil companies, some are responsible for transportation, and some are responsible for maintenance of pipelines or port work. Together with his family, eight layers of Benghazi's population depend on oil.

The thriving scene of Benghazi also made the new Mayor Treacy feel full of ambition. As the first batch of officials who set foot on Libya with Governor Georgie, Trish can be regarded as a Libyan expert. Over the years, he has worked hard all the way from an ordinary government worker to the mayor of the second largest city in Benghazi. Just looking at his face, which is already full of hair and slightly vicissitudes, you can tell that the hardships involved are beyond human experience.

Of course, being the mayor of Benghazi from an ordinary government employee is enough to show this person's ability.

And for Benghazi, the mayor of Treacy is also very familiar with

No, at the expanded pier of Benghazi port, the mayor of Treacy brought people from the government to inspect it.

"Your Excellency, the area you see now will be the main terminal for oil transportation in Benghazi in the future. In the future, through oil pipelines, Benghazi can deliver oil to up to five ships at the same time every day, and the maximum daily delivery volume will reach Fifty tons."

The project leader enthusiastically introduced the importance of the pier to Benghazi for the new mayor.

And Trish listened very seriously, and asked a few questions from time to time.

On one side of the pier, there are more than a dozen tall and huge oil storage tanks, each of which has a volume of tens of thousands of square meters, and the largest can reach 100,000 square meters. These oil storage tanks are connected to the oil pipeline, and the crude oil extracted from the oil field flows continuously through the oil pipeline and then through the pressure valve into these huge oil storage tanks. These oil storage facilities are the oil storage bases of Italian oil companies in Benghazi, which can store up to 300,000 tons of crude oil.

In addition to this oil storage base, there is also a small refinery in Benghazi, which refines refined oil for use throughout the Libyan province.

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Let me add one more thing here, currently the country with the highest utilization rate of internal combustion engines is the Libyan province that produces a large amount of crude oil. The province of Libya has the highest per capita car ownership and various internal combustion engines. Even a small amount of arable land is cultivated with tractors produced by the Naples Machinery Factory.

It can be said that it is precisely because of the trend of flooding with oil that Libya, a newly established province, is far ahead of other provinces in terms of the utilization rate of internal combustion engines.

Of course, in addition to the internal combustion engine, in terms of local fiscal revenue, the Libyan province, which has two major revenues from iron ore and oil, also ranks high among the Italian provinces. If it weren't for the fact that Libya's environment is not good and there is less arable land available, then the population must be more than the current 800,000.

Of course, if the per capita gross national product is counted, then Libya is definitely ranked first. The sparse population and good income have also allowed many Italians to travel across the ocean to earn a living.

In addition, one more thing, the electrification and public facilities penetration rate in Libya is also very high. Based on sufficient local finances and the large-scale use of fuel-fired generators, even remote desert towns in Libya can use electricity. But if electricity can be used, then electrified infrastructure such as electric lights and telegraphs.

When Mayor Treacy was inspecting the construction of the pier, there was also a group of people busy on the high **** on the side of the pier. However, compared with the basic construction workers on the pier, these people are engineers in military uniforms.

They are building military installations, coastal defense batteries in Benghazi.

As Italy's main oil export port, the importance of Benghazi has been further enhanced. In view of the importance of Benghazi, protecting the port of Benghazi has become one of the important tasks of the Italian military. For protection on land, an infantry regiment and a cavalry battalion of the Army are stationed on the outskirts of Benghazi.

As for the main threat at sea, in addition to relying on naval warships, coastal defense forts are also necessary, so the coastal defense forts in Benghazi must have them.

In fact, the Benghazi Coastal Defense Fort existed after Italy occupied Libya, but at that time Benghazi was not important, so only two 152mm coastal defense guns were installed. As Benghazi became more and more important, more and more coastal defense guns were installed. In addition to 152 mm, 254 mm coastal defense guns were also installed.

As for now, the naval engineering corps is installing the 305mm coastal defense gun with the largest caliber and the most powerful current navy coastal defense gun~www.mtlnovel.com~ The prototype of this coastal defense gun is 45 times the 305 mm that is currently equipped on dreadnought ships The caliber naval gun has been slightly improved.

It has a maximum range of 21 kilometers, which is enough to make enemy ships who want to enter the waters of Benghazi Port think twice. After all, unlike naval guns, coastal defense guns have a more relaxed environment, and their stability, accuracy, and range are not comparable to naval guns.

And this time the navy intends to install two 305mm coastal defense guns in Benghazi for its coastal defense. Regardless of the fact that there are only two doors, it is enough to suppress a squadron (3-4 ships) of battleships.

And Benghazi is currently the second city to install the gun (the first is Pontianak) besides the Apennine Peninsula, which also shows how much the navy attaches importance to it.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t pay attention to it. As the Italian Navy promotes the coal-to-oil conversion plan, the demand for oil is becoming more and more serious. It is very necessary to protect the importance of one’s own oil to the navy.

It was also driven by the navy that Benghazi became the second city in North Africa to be equipped with the new 305mm coastal defense gun (the first was Alexandria).

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